The Weasley Eight

Second Year: Rons Sorting

Hermione;
Instead of spending the summer at the Burrow with the majority of my family, I spent the summer holiday in Romania with Charlie while he learned to tame Dragons. Mum tried her hardest to keep me home, with her and the others, because Bill was moving out and Charlie was moving countries away... but I'd managed to sweet talk my way to Romania- for the entire summer. "Dragonfly! Time to start packing, I know it's your birthday and you'd like to have a lie in but Mum will kill me if I don't have you home first thing tomorrow morning!" Charlie's voice reaches my ears and pulls me from my hammock in his cabin. "Coming, Char!" I shout, quickly dressing in the flame retardant robes I'd been given upon my arrival at the reserve. "Alright, I've got some exciting news for you today, my little Dragonfly! We're going to go play quidditch with the Bulgarian school while they're here on an educational outing with their Care of Magical Creatures class." I grin at my brother the moment he mentions getting on a broom and take off inside the cabin to retrieve me Nimbus 2001, a gift from Adrian, and my dragon hide boots, from Daphne.

"We're going to be late!" Charlie calls, having already mounted his broom. "I'm coming, ya big old baby!" I shout, mounting my broom inside the cabin and flying out and over Charlie's head. He shouts after me with a laugh and quickly catches up to me, leading me towards the massive, warded, quidditch pitch. "Listen here lads, you're about to get your arse's kicked by the Weasley duo!" Charlie's friend and fellow tamer in training, Cato, shouts out to what looks to be a bundle of fourth year Durmstrang students huddled around a tall scary man. Charlie touches down first and dismounts his broom, heading to shake hands with the scary man. "It's alright, Dragonfly! You can come down!" Charlie shouts to me after sharing a few words with the creepy dude. Flying out from my hiding place all eyes are instantly drawn to me, my red curls flying behind me in the wind with reckless abandon. I land a right next to Charlie and dismount, already not liking the way the Durmstrang boys are looking at me. "Dragonfly, say hello." Charlie prompts me, pushing me towards a tall dark haired boy.

"Hello." I say shortly, extending my hand for the older boy to shake. "Ello! I'm Viktor." He introduces himself, kissing the back of my hand sweetly. "This is Hermione, my baby sister. She'll be a second year at Hogwarts as of tomorrow-." "Gryffindor, I take it?" The creepy man, their teacher I assume, cuts Charlie off and asks about my house. "Slytherin, Actually." I say, stepping in front of him and offering my hand for him to shake. "I vike her. She's got Fire." The man says to Charlie, not shaking my hand or talking directly to me. Huffing in annoyance I roll my eyes at the man, and Charlie looks at me with narrowed eyes; He can tell my attitudes about to get the better of me. Ignoring my brothers warning look, I mount my broom and fly up- the back of my broom smacking the man in the face. Glancing over my shoulder I see Charlie rub his hand down his face and groan at my Slytherin coming through. "I think it's best if we play now before my little Dragonfly loses her head." Charlie says to the boys, choosing not to interact with the rude teacher anymore.

After a very eventful game, which resulted in Viktor Krum getting knocked off his broom by Charlie in a battle for the snitch, Charlie and I headed back to his cabin for a small birthday celebration for me- with Cato and his little brother Evandrus. Evandrus is my age, but is home schooled on the reserve because Cato is the only family he's got. "Why don't you and Evan go outside for a little while?" Charlie sends Evandrus and I out to the lake his cabin sits front and center on, and unfortunately Evan and I end up falling into the freezing water less than two minutes of being outside; The two of us laughing like we're insane when we go back into the cabin so our brothers can dry us off. "Dragonfly, say bye to Cato and Evan- Mum wrote me and says I need to have you home by ten." Pouting I give Cato and Evan goodbye hugs while Charlie rounds up my bag, Evan kissing me on the cheek and promising to write me this year while I'm at school. "I'll be back tomorrow, Cat, I'm going to get Dragonfly in the train and make sure Ron's okay in the morning."