"Can I call you Tori? You know Tori, I'm a great friend."
"I don't get it, why are you being nice to me?"
"Maybe I don't want to see you friendless."
When Victoria Silvers, who comes from a long line of Slytherins, is sorted into Gryffindor her life...
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CONGRATULATIONS RON AND HERMIONE— NEW PREFECTS. Molly looked in a better mood than Tori had seen her all holiday when they finally came down for dinner later that night.
''I thought we'd have a little party, not a sit-down dinner," She told Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Tori, and Ginny as they entered the room. ''Your father and Bill are on their way, Ron. I've sent them both owls and they're thrilled," She added, beaming.
Fred rolled his eyes, causing Tori to nudge him with her elbow.
Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, and Kingsley Shacklebolt were already there and Mad-Eye Moody stumped in shortly after Tori had got herself a Butterbeer.
''Oh, Alastor, I am glad you're here," Molly said brightly, as Mad-Eye shrugged off his traveling cloak. "We've been wanting to ask you for ages — could you have a look in the writing desk in the drawing-room and tell us what's inside it? We haven't wanted to open it just in case it's something really nasty."
''No problem, Molly..."
Moody's electric-blue eye swiveled upwards and stared fixedly through the ceiling of the kitchen.
''Drawing room..." He growled as the pupil contracted. "Desk in the corner? Yeah, I see it... Yeah, it's a boggart... Want me to go up and get rid of it, Molly?"
''No, no, I'll do it myself later," beamed Molly, ''You have your drink. We're having a little bit of a celebration, actually..." She gestured at the scarlet banner. "Fourth Prefect in the family!" She said fondly, ruffling Ron's hair.
"Yippie," George muttered, taking a seat at the end of the table. "Oh don't be such a spoilsport." Tori rolled her eyes at the twins, taking a sip from her goblet.
Molly was in such a good mood she did not even complain that Arthur and Bill had brought Mundungus with them when they arrived. He was wearing a long overcoat that seemed oddly lumpy in unlikely places and declined the offer to remove it and put it with Moody's traveling cloak.
''Well, I think a toast is in order," said Arthur, when everyone had a drink. He raised his goblet. "To Ron and Hermione, the new Gryffindor prefects!"
Ron and Hermione beamed as everyone drank to them, and then applauded.
''I was never a prefect myself," Tonks was telling Tori and Ginny brightly as everybody moved towards the table to help themselves to food. Her hair was tomato red and waist-length today; she looked like Ginny's older sister. "My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities."
''Like what?" Ginny asked, who was choosing a baked potato.
''Like the ability to behave myself," Tonks replied.
Ginny and Tori laughed; Hermione looked as though she did not know whether to smile or not and compromised by taking an extra-large gulp of Butterbeer and choking on it.
