70 Fourth Year beginning

The station was filled with people. Agustus and Dora had arrived early as always. The couple was sitting together in a compartment he had reserved for himself.

Twins and Cedric arrived a little later than usual.

"So, Puffy Boy, how was summer?" asked Agustus. Cedric promptly ignored the name, as he had grown tired of begging them to call him by his name. Nobody in his friend group calls him Cedric.

"Ya, it was boring. I wasn't allowed to go out much due to the breakout. Father was being paranoid a lot." Everyone knew how his father behaved when it came to him.

"Same. Mum didn't allow us to go to Diagon Alley to play. We were stuck too," said George.

"But we had fun. That spider prank on Ronikins was hilarious," joined Fred.

Poor guy. The twins had thrown spiders on his bed while he was sleeping. At midnight, he woke up and screamed at the top of his lungs. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley thought somebody had attacked their house and ran to his room with a wand to see Ron crying on the floor.

"I would've mixed poison in your food if you were my brothers," huffed Dora, though she had been laughing at Ron's misery.

"You're not our sister, but who says we can't prank you? Get ready, 'cause you've started a war," said George passionately.

Nodding, Fred joined in, "Absolutely right. You are an exceptionally handsome man. We will make this lady beg us for forgiveness."

Cedric and Agustus laughed at the twins' drama, as they knew a glare from her would shut them up. They had tried to prank her in the past, but due to her training, her instincts had been refined, and she hexed the twins for trying.

As we watched the twins, we heard a knock on the cabin doors.

[Agustus POV]

I opened the door to see Tori and Daphne. Clearly, the little girl was dragging her sister here. As she saw the door opening, she ran towards me, leaving her sister at the door.

She hugged my neck, and I could see Dora already not liking this. I patted her head. "I missed you," she said, shouting near my ears.

I broke the hug and sat her down beside me. "Alright, Tori. I missed you too. Daph, are you going to stand there or enter the cabin?"

She hesitated and sat beside Dora. Now the cabin was packed, and I could see curiosity oozing out of the twins and Cedric, so I introduced them to each other.

"You know Daphne Greengrass, everyone. Here we have Miss Astoria Greengrass, the little sister of Daph," I said while patting the girls. Daphne tried to avoid it but couldn't.

"Tori, the twins are Forge and Gred Weasley. The pale boy is Chidori."

"Hey!" shouted Cedric as he punched me on the shoulder, which I didn't avoid as I deserved it.

"My name is Cedric Diggory. Nice to meet you, Heir Greengrass and Miss Greengrass," he said in a noble manner, which disgusted the twins.

"Forge, is it just me, or does Chris look like a lost child of the Malfoys?"

"You're right, Gred. Looking closely, they have similar hair and pale faces, maybe we should punch his face to make sure it's not a Malfoy in disguise."

"Great Idea forge"

I tried controlling my laughter. I looked at Dora; she too was holding back.

Astoria thought for a moment and said, "Yes, Chidori looks like a vampire!"

We all burst out laughing, and even Daphne joined in. It was my first time seeing her like this She looked cute.

As the door was still open, I saw Luna carrying luggage. I levitated both her and the luggage. Instead of freaking out, she was smiling and enjoying it, sigh it's so easy for anyone to kidnap her. I put her down on a seat, much to her dissatisfaction as she pouted, but seeing us, her smile returned.

"Agustus! Dora!"

I chuckled and said, "Nice to see you again, Luna."

She understandingly nodded. She pointed at Cedric and said, "There are Nargles on your head; you should wear a carrot to protect yourself."

He looked confused and turned his head towards me. I looked at him and shrugged.

"I told him many times about that, miss, but he doesn't listen," said Fred.

George nodded. "Yes, but he's a vampire so they won't cause him much trouble. But pretty boy, you should thank her as she warned you about them."

This time a vein popped on his head as he glared towards the twins. As he was about to retort, Luna laughed and said, "This is the first time I saw a vampire. Nice to meet you, Mr. Vampire. I am Luna Lovegood. Have you seen Crumple-Horned Snorkacks anywhere?"

I laughed and introduced Luna to everyone. Astoria looked at Luna and hugged my left arm while introducing herself, and Luna didn't understand her actions but she tried to copy her as she hugged Daphne's left arm.

Our cabin was full when I saw Hermione Granger entering. This was going to be one hell of a ride, I thought, looking at the girls who looked at each other calculatingly. While Dora just glared at me. 'Why? Can't they find another guy? I'm gonna punish him,' thought Dora as she was thinking of writing a letter to her Aunt Bella.

I cast an extension charm so everyone could fit comfortably.

The ride was long but not boring. Hermione fought with Luna about magical creature knowledge and lost miserably. Poor girl was about to cry if I hadn't consoled her.

Seeing me patting Hermione, Tori growled at her. "You're a noble girl, act like one, Tori!" Yelled Daphne in her mind as she looked at her little sister.

Cedric fought with me and the twins. He pledged that he would make us say his name on this train ride, but he failed miserably. We also spread a rumor that his name is cursed, same as Voldemort; if we say his name, it will shorten one's lifespan. Little students were too afraid to look at him except Luna, who talked to him quite a bit.

It was going well until Ginny arrived, saying she hadn't seen Harry and Ron on the train.

'So, Malfoy did put the diary. Honestly, I thought he would have changed, but I was wrong, I guess. I would kill the basilisk, so no need to worry about that. What else could Tom do?' I thought about this year.

"Don't worry about it; maybe they missed the train. We can tell Professor McGonagall; she would help us," said Miss Know-it-all.

"But they came to the station with us!" panicked Ginny.

Astoria, who didn't care about Ron and Harry, wasn't focused on the conversation. She looked outside, but as she was looking at the sky, she saw something flying.

"Agustus! What's that?" I looked at Tori, who was pointing at a flying car.

Fred and George looked at each other and said, "I call dibs on the new room." Both already assumed their brother was dead.

Ginny and Hermione looked horrified. "Those idiots! Do they even know how to drive?"

"Calm down, Mione. Look, they are having fun," I said, looking at Harry, who was genuinely praying to God.

As we observed them, Neville Longbottom entered the compartment. Seeing everyone huddled together towards the window, he walked next to the twins and saw outside.

"My mom is going to kill me!" he shouted with fright and ran towards the prefects' compartment, meanwhile, we were enjoying the show.

After a while, the car disappeared, and everyone settled down in their seats again. Ginny left the compartment to find her friends, as she didn't want to be near the twins who would embarrass her.

We quickly arrived at the station. From there, Luna and Astoria had to go with Hagrid, while we took the carriage.

Entering the Great Hall, I saw teachers sitting in their respective seats. Snape was gloomy as usual. This year is not going to be great for him.

Daphne and I sat down at the Slytherin table, where most students were looking at me with hatred, anger, and some looked scared. My friends went to their own house tables.

Soon, the first years arrived, and the sorting started. Colin Creevey's brother went to Gryffindor.

"Astoria Greengrass!"

"Slytherin!"

She celebrated being in Slytherin by punching the air, much to the feline professor's amusement. She ran towards me and jumped on the table as I caught her.

"You could get hurt. Don't do that again. Okay?"

"But I knew you would catch me," she said, pouting. I sat her down on my left side and ignored all the looks people were giving me.

Ginny went to Gryffindor, Luna went to Ravenclaw. A part of me wished her to be in Slytherin, but she's way too innocent and pure to be in this house, seeing her eating Pudding with joy brought a smile to my face.

We began to eat as I fed Tori, a spoiled girl she is, I also fed Daph as she was looking at me the cold face but there were expectations in her eyes.

After finishing the food, Dumbledore gave his speech, and I saw one of the most important characters.

Gilderoy Lockhart. Dumbledore really did hire the faker. I looked around and saw only Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley giving him looks. Astoria and Daphne were too busy in an argument. Apparently, Tori wanted to sleep with me, and Daphne was convincing her how wrong that was.

After that, we reached the Slytherin common room. Tori had to reluctantly let go of me, and Daphne dragged her into her room.

I went into mine to see my bed frozen. Definitely, Dora would have told her to do that. I lay down on the bed as I destroyed the ice. This year was going to be busy.

[POV end]

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Shit. I forgot the last chapter was 69th, I missed a good opportunity there.

Seeya.