Lost in spells and shadows

Chapter 26: The bad start

September 1973

It was the day to leave for Hogwarts. Adelaide wore a spaghetti strapped baby blue dress with a blue cardigan. At first, it was a little but hot, but seeing how her collarbone popped, it was perhaps not the best time to let go of it. At first, she wanted to wear something dark, but her father forbade any one of them to wear dark clothes, citing their mother's wish for them to not wear mourning clothing anymore.
She wore a blue silk headband to match the colour of her cardigan, but her long and thick hair hung loosely. She wore black boots. Again, she pinched her cheeks to give herself some colour.

Adelaide went to the dinning room, she was hungry but she couldn't bring herself to really attempt to raise a spoon or fork. So with her hand she took a piece of bread and ate a piece of bacon. She stood up afterwards and went away, waiting for her family in the sitting room for them to finish their breakfast.

After half an hour, they joined her. Elizabeth was wearing a pink blouse with a flowing black pencil skirt that was longer than her knees. Her hair was pinned in her usual bun. Victoria wore a white pullover, with some red details and her jeans had white flowers and some red petals and her long hair was pulled in a ponytail. Helena was wearing a light green jumper with a light coloured jean skirt and under it a light pink shirt. Her hair was pinned with a silk light pink bow, and her curls were more prominent.

They went to the train station, and Adelaide was practically dragged to 9 and 3/4 since she wasn't really trying to reach it. But their father had paid attention to not going too soon, so that the girls wouldn't be stared and talked about what happened to them.

"I love you all. Try your best like always and good luck. Edmund and i will be fine." Their father hugged each and every one of them. Edmund wasn't that talkative that morning and looked a bit lost. His closest sister, Helena was leaving him behind and Adelaide her second closest sister was also going.

"Eddie, write me letters, now you can write, isn't it? So write. This year after my Hogsmeade trips i'll buy you some very tasty sweets and stuff. I promise." Adelaide hugged him tightly. "Don't pain father too much. I will also look after to our sisters, i will take care of Lena, so don't worry." Edmund nodded.

"You know, even though your talkative persona can be too much sometimes, I'd rather you talk my head off than just staring at the ground." Adelaide joked. "Bye Eddie. I'll see you at Christmas."

Then she saw Lily walking to her, with Severus in tow. Nope. That's not what i imagined my day. Adelaide was panicking about what to do. Both of them, especially Severus, had shot up and grew taller. Lily looked at her with a pained expression and came close to her.

"Dela, i- how could you pretend with us that everything was fine? We didn't know what happened until last week that i saw the girls. They thought i knew. Severus's father doesn't let them read wirzarding papers and i don't have any subscription to it, nor does Mary. We all learned about it last week. Why did you not tell us?" Lily was angry but seeing the state of her family, she didn't say anything else. She only hugged her. "We, the girls and i and Severus, were so worried for you. You didn't reply to us."

Adelaide just dumbly looked at her after the hug ended. "I'll see you inside. I need to settle Helena. It's her first year." That was everything that she said. She waked away and went back to her family.

Then she turned to her sisters, "i'll take care of Helena, you two can go and see your friends." They nodded and thanked her and went. Helena had bought a pet owl, who was still too tiny to send letters, and named her «Nova», she had its cage and a small bag in her hand, while Adelaide held her own bag and Midnight's box.

"Let's set you in? Hold on tight." Helena somehow managed to take her arm and they went to board the train.

When they board the train, she could already feel people's stares. She dragged Helena and the walked in the train with some first years or an empty one. Some of the first years were together in one compartment, but Helena didn't like or feel some of them so she told them to move on. They finally reached a compartment that a tiny girl, was sitting inside it. She was wearing a floral dress with a jumper on it. Her long light blonde hair reached her back and when she looked up to them, she had pretty icy blue eyes. She was reading a book on charms.