Heirs to Something Greater

3; Hogwarts Express

I was seated on the cushion of another train. Juliet and I were dragged into a compartment with the twins. I wasn't complaining too much. Where else would we have sat? Both of the boys sat across from Juliet and I on their own soft bench. We had been brought to Kings Cross Station around eleven this morning.

    Harry had been found by Hermione and Ron quickly, after they had ran back in after him with Arthur. During that time, the rest of us waited back at the portkey in mostly silence. The twins had made sure Ginny was okay. They were good big brothers to her. I had sat down on the grass in exhaustion as my legs were barely able to hold me up anymore. I wanted to rest them as much as I could before we had to walk through the dark to get back to the Burrow anyways. Once I had sat down, everyone took the opportunity to do the same, except for Amos who stayed standing.

    Clouds covered the once starry sky and a green skull appeared above us with a glowing snake. It was chilling to see. I was almost positive it had to do with the death eaters that attacked the celebration.

    Eventually, the trio came back to us with Arthur leading them. We went through the spinning of the portkey again with the beaming white light. Cedric had been positioned next to me this time in the circle and had grabbed my hand to keep me upright when we hit the ground. He hadn't floated down like he did last time- for some reason- deciding to fly through the air with the rest of us 'kids'.

    Those of us who had packed our wands, held them out into the darkness of the trees, whispering 'lumos' every time the light protruding from the tip of it started to dim out. Juliet and I both had our wands out and even though the light from it was showing the ground in front of me, I still had tripped multiple times.

    We had quietly parted ways with the Diggory's and I had wondered when I would see them again. Well, when I would see Cedric again.

    Juliet and I had been put into an extra bedroom across from Ginny's with two twin beds. I hadn't even bothered to change, I was so tired. Molly was beyond troubled to hear about our trip being cut short, but did her best to hide her fear and pushed us all off to bed to get some sleep. I didn't know about anyone else, but I slept like a rock.

    When I had woken up the next morning, I was in the same position I had fallen asleep in. The sun rays were coming in through the window above Juliet's bed.

We had the opportunity to take showers, which we both accepted. I had changed into another pair of clean, black jeans with a red sweater. The uniform that I was supposed to wear later that day was folded into my trunk. I hadn't gotten a house robe or tie yet, so I would have to get those another time with Juliet.

After having breakfast and packing up our things, we had left the comfortable Burrow and headed for the train station, leading us to a new school year.

We had been on the train for an hour already and there were about another eight dreadful hours to go. I wanted nothing more to listen to music to pass the time, but I was skeptical of pulling out my phone in front of the twins, so I decided to wait till a later time.

I had decided to read the book that was still in my backpack. Jules was lost in her thoughts and the twins across from us were writing down ideas that they were thinking of. I got too interested in listening to their conversation so I closed my book and set it down on the seat next to me. "What are you guys talking about?"

"Just planning out our pranks for the year."

"Pranks?"

"That's what we said."

"What kind of pranks?"

"The kind that are funny.

"Or just scare people so much that they tell on us and McGonagall takes a few points away from our house."