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The British countryside was beautiful. I thought that, at the beginning of the day, I could stare out the window for hours... but that quickly wore off an hour into the trip. My mind began to wander far past the rolling fields that whipped by the window. I was so happy Adeline always let me sit on the inner seat, I liked to lean my head against the glass and daydream.

We were on the Hogwarts Express and it had been hours since we left King's Cross at 11. I was already starving but we still had a long time until dinner, I should have eaten an early lunch. We sat across from the twins who were discussing what seemed to be important tomfoolery. My mind drifted back to the night before, people seemed to move on so quickly after such massive events.

Harry was soon found after Ron, Hermione, and Arthur went back for him. He was a bit more shaken up than the others and I worriedly glanced at him a few times on the way back to the Burrow. Harry was an awkward boy, but I liked his kind smile. 

And I hoped I could speak more with him in the future. The portkey went exactly as last time for me, but Adeline got a little help from Cedric... I was just happy my hair didn't fall out again.

We walked through the dim forest back to the house in mostly silence. We had to use our wands and the Lumos spell to even see the path. Even still, Adeline tripped multiple times... I believed her mind was set on something, no someone, else.

 Of course, being the gentleman he is, Cedric attempted to keep Adeline steady most of the journey. It was a sweet gesture, even if Adeline barely even took notice of its meaning. I smiled at Cedric and Mr. Diggory as they returned home for the night once we reached the Burrow, and Cedric returned the gesture.

Everyone was silent for the rest of the night, whether from thoughts, fear, or pure exhaustion, I wasn't sure. Well, almost everyone. Molly had been jittery before we went to bed, she seemed worried that we had to even be touched by a situation like that. 

I knew my parents had or will probably hear about the attack on the celebration and be quite worried. So, despite my exhaustion, I began to write a letter, but Molly assured me that everything would be taken care of. She spoke soft, kind, and comforting things as people moved throughout the house for bed.

Adeline and I were put into two twin beds across from Ginny's room. A circle window allowed the moon to shine a blue beam onto the bedroom floor. When I had changed into some sweatpants and a soft shirt that was too wrinkled to be worn out in public anymore, I crawled into the nice bed. 

It felt amazing to be in one place for a while, and I almost fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I allowed myself to listen to the ticking of clocks around the house, before turning to see that Adeline was already asleep. Before long, I too was off into a dreamless sleep.

I had been woken up by a bright beam of the sun right in my eyes. It wasn't the most pleasant part of my day but at least I had slept amazingly well. After taking a shower, which was greatly appreciated, I changed into some new clothes. I put on a nice pair of jeans and a blush pink blouse from the muggle store down the street from my house back home. 

Since my hair had just been washed and I had been able to add some product to it, I decided to let my hair down for a while and hope it didn't frizz into a lion's mane on the way there. Adeline had decided that it was silly to wear the uniform before we got there since we didn't have our robes or our ties, so I followed her lead.

Adeline spoke to the twins for a bit until she said something that caught my ear, "Listen, okay so I hate to ask this, and I feel bad about it but I have to ask..."

All three of us looked at her quizzically, before I realized what she was about to ask, "Is there any way to tell you guys apart because I don't know who's who?"

"It's okay actually."

"Most people just refer to us as Weasley since they don't know the difference."

"Oh, uhm I'm sorry guys that sucks," Adeline said with a disappointed frown. I felt bad for them, they were always referred to as a pair... it had to have been quite damaging to their individuality. I paid close attention to what they said next, in hopes that I could use this information later on.

"Well you see here, Freddie has a freckle right here." The twin pointed to his brother next to him and placed his finger right above a brown freckle that was on the left side of his face below his eye and closer to his hairline.

"And you see here, Georgie has a more flatter nose, while I have a bump in mine." Adeline watched them closely. I squinted and leaned slightly closer to see a bit of a difference between them, although I'd still have to take a bit to tell who was who.

"Okay yeah definitely. I might stare at you guys for a bit when I walk down the halls to see which one of you I'm talking to, so don't be alarmed," Adeline said jokingly. The twins laughed a bright laugh and I smiled, I would most likely be doing the same thing.

"Well don't stare too long, Diggory might get jealous," They had cheeky grins on their faces. I let a loud laugh escape from my mouth as Adeline tried to hide her blush while staring at the ground. It was hilarious how Fred and George kept teasing her about the subject, they seemed to enjoy bringing it up.

"Seriously guys! I doubt he's even into me," Adeline muttered. I widened my eyes, was this girl blind? Deaf? Was she a quadriplegic with no feeling in her arms or legs? Because she was beginning to sound like it!

"You've got to be kidding me." I said dumbfounded, "Did you not see the way he was looking at you? Or how happy he seemed when he was talking to you? OR when he ran back into a BURNING CAMP just to find you!" I considered slapping her upside the head right there.

"Or the way he held your hand and made sure you were okay," George said? I squinted and leaned in before spotting the difference. Okay, it was George.

"Or the way he left the portkey early with the rest of us to make sure you didn't faceplant again?" Fred commented with a bit of an eyebrow wiggle. They were quite observant, those two.

Adeline seemed shocked, and I wanted to openly groan. This was like some sappy young adult chick-lit, which I adore deeply, where the girl was completely oblivious despite all the signs. Except worse. Her lips parted slightly and stared up at us in a bit of a shock. Yes, Adeline, it was that obvious.

"I get that you only just met him and all but clearly he wants to get to know you better. I wish I could get a guy to look at me the way Cedric looks at you. It's like he's infatuated and he only just met you!" I said with a bit more passion than I probably could have. Suddenly my mind crossed back to the boy we met last night.

The way he had grabbed the railing in that black suit he wore, how his jaw tightened at the sight of us, his blonde hair staying perfect despite the slight wind, and the way his eyes lingered on me when he left. And how his face scrunched lightly at his father's scolding and action. I also remembered the words he said and my jaw clenched slightly, what was it? "Red-haired freak", I believe. It was dumb how I could even think about him in any other way than disapproval, ESPECIALLY with what he said about the kind Weasleys who had given us so much. Merlin, what the hell is wrong with me? Such an ignorant, selfish person you are Juliet... so, so stupid.

"Okay, okay! This is all just new to me. I already have more friends now than I did the past three years of my life," Adeline said with a bit of a huff. We used to keep a small circle I suppose... I hadn't really thought about it until now but we didn't truly leave many memories behind that didn't just belong to both of us.

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Adeline had fallen asleep on my shoulders a few times on the way there. I didn't mind, I got to talk to the twins a bit more about their pranks and how well they did last year. I took a quick note to remember not to drink or buy anything from them. The boys could be quite loud, as they had laughed at something I said about first years and woke Adeline. And then laughed again when she bonked her head on the wall in a bit of a fright later on in the train ride.

"We're gonna be there in about an hour," George said after a few moments of silence. I remembered what side they were sitting on, so I didn't have to stare at them creepily.

"Might want to go change into your uniforms," Fred added with a raised eyebrow. They were already changed, and I wasn't sure why we hadn't changed earlier... it would have been way more convenient. Now we had to walk all the way to where the trunks were stored, we probably should have just kept them with us. We nodded at the boys and I smiled in thanks, they were sweet to remind us.

We walked down the hallway with intent. I felt cool while we walked down the moving train, it reminded me of that one scene in "Enola Holmes." It was also really nice to see some of the students on the train, all of them seemed nice and happy. One compartment had a runaway chocolate frog on the window, and another had paper airplanes flying throughout the room. 

We even passed by Ron, Harry, and Hermione at one point. They smiled at us and waved, I was sure that over the year we would become closer friends. Although it made me wonder where Ginny had sat, I hadn't seen her since breakfast this morning.

Finally, we reached the section where a lot of the trunks were stacked. The pile seemed to be quite big, and I figured we were going to have to find someone taller to help us. We should have brought one of the twins, or even Ron... although I was pretty sure Adeline would have liked it if Cedric was nearby to give a hand. I eventually spotted our trunks, and Adeline seemed to notice them as well... of course, they were at the absolute top.

"These are gonna be heavy to pull down. We should have just brought them into our compartment," Adeline groaned while throwing her head back slightly in annoyance. There was no possible way we were going to be able to bring them down without dropping them on our heads. Adeline slid one of the bottom trunks from its original position and aligned it in front of our own.

"What are you doing?" I asked, cocking my head slightly. It was a bit silly to be rearranging the other trunks, in my opinion.

"If I use this one as a step up then I can get the trunks easier," Adeline said without turning towards me.

"I don't know if that's a good idea. It seems a bit rude to use some random person's trunk."

"Oh but this isn't any random person's trunk," Adeline looked up at me with a huge smirk on her face, "This trunk says DM, and I'm willing to bet that DM stands for none other than that Draco Malfoy. If anything, he deserves it."

She continued to align the trunk against my better judgment. Draco already hated us and I doubted that stepping on his trunk would make him think otherwise. Maybe if I dusted off the footprints and put it back EXACTLY where it was before he wouldn't even notice. Adeline stepped up onto the trunk with confidence and grabbed my trunk, passing it to me with a grunt.

 These things were way too heavy for their good. When I set mine down Adeline left hers on the shelf and grabbed her pants, skirts, sweater, and button-up. She handed them to me and then went back to relatch her trunk. I quickly did the same when suddenly the sound of the car door sliding open made me turn around. Oh no.

"What are you two mudbloods doing in here?" The one and only Draco Malfoy spat. If I hadn't been so surprised and scared out of my wits I would have been offended. When his eyes saw what Adeline was standing on, I wanted to die, his face twisted in anger, "What the hell are you doing! You think you can use my stuff? Clearly, you don't know who your superiors are!"

I turned to Adeline and I could practically see the smoke coming out of her ears. I thought she was about to pummel him when she said, "Listen I don't know who you are, or who you think you are, but you have no right to talk to either of us that way."

She stepped towards him quite aggressively, and while he seemed taken aback, I grew more worried as I realized something. His wand stuck proudly from his pocket underneath his robes and ours were still in the compartment with the two boys... which could be an issue since the only spell I could do without it was making flowers come out of someone's ears. Draco began to open his mouth again when he was cut off by a familiar voice.

"What's going on in here?" I turned around to the other end of the train car to see Cedric walk in with another boy. They seemed to be doing the same thing as us because they were in their normal clothes. I was so thankful he showed up, I almost ran over and hugged him, I was worried we were about to bring fists to a wand fight.

"Nothing, just Malfoy being a pain in the a-"

"How dare you talk to me!" Draco spat. We weren't making this whole rivalry thing any better...but he didn't seem to be trying to fix things either.

"Just leave Malfoy. Come back later when we won't be here to 'dare to talk to you'," Cedric came to stand by Adeline with a serious, but bargaining face. I enjoyed how calm he was, it was a good change from the insults. Draco scoffed and turned out the door in a fit, I think it may have been because he was now outnumbered.

"Are you alright?" Cedric looked at Adeline with a concerned face... just Adeline. I was standing there too, Lover Boy!! Jiminy Christmas I might as well have been under an invisibility potion.

"I'm fine, but what's his deal? He's always got such an attitude." Adeline huffed and then stepped right back up onto Draco's trunk... I wonder what he had come in here for in the first place? Adeline grabbed my trunk and heaved it onto the rack, she must have been angry because its weight didn't even phase her.

"Why don't you step off of Malfoy's trunk and let me do that?" Cedric asked while taking a step towards her. Well thanks, Cedric, but it's already on the rack, I almost giggled. He looked as if he was going to try and stabilize her by grabbing her waist, but he quickly put his hands back down to his side. Adeline didn't notice it, but he stood quite close to her... I think he was worried about her falling.

"I'm fully capable, thanks," Adeline huffed again. She liked to be as independent as possible, a very Pukwudgie trait in my opinion! Even though she was a Wampus and the warrior house did fit her better. Independence isn't my forte, but the rest of Pukwudgie's traits fit me quite nicely at Ilvermorny. I wondered if they had the same ceremony, sleeping arrangements, and games as us at Hogwarts.

Adeline pulled down her sweater, that had ridden up sometime during the whole Draco exchange, and hopped off Malfoy's trunk. And then proceeded to shove the trunk sloppily underneath the other racks. Her dusty footprints still sat prominently on the expensive leather casing, D.M. in gold lettering sticking out as if it was taunting the wealth it held. I considered bending over and fixing it but Adeline seemed frustrated so I decided to just leave it be.

"Maybe next time, just ask someone for help? Or at least try not to get on Malfoys bad side." Cedric's voice was laced as more of a request than a question. He was being so kind and patient but it seemed as though Adeline was not having it, she turned around and grabbed her clothes from me.

"Okay, fine," Adeline said with an annoyed look on her face. She looked into Cedric's eyes and her face melted into a bit of a trance, I watched as they stared at each other for a minute. Cedric's eyes appreciatively raked over her features while Addy couldn't break away from his eyes. I made eye contact with his kinda cute friend (Of course. The question to ask in the UK was, "Who ISN'T cute here?"), but he seemed to be so lost. He looked at me as if to ask a question and I responded with a knowing smile countered with a shoulder shrug.

"Cedric we need to get our stuff too," He said with an awkward smirk. I was slightly grateful as it was getting a bit awkward for both of us, but annoyed at the same time. They were having a moment! Like in the "Notebook", when Noah and Allie were lying in the street about to get hit by cars!

"Uhm yeah, okay." We started to walk away from the boys because I didn't want to be stuck in another awkward situation. "I'll see you later Adeline?"

"Yeah, see you later Cedric," Adeline said with a lovestruck smile. How did he do that? Just a second ago she was getting ready to punch some pureblood meanie, and now she's practically dancing down the hallway! After walking a bit further, I found a girl's changing room and Adeline followed me through the doorway. No one was in there and I smiled, I preferred to change in as much privacy as possible and I was sure the bathrooms were too small to make that an option.

"Hey, are you okay? Malfoy's a jerk for saying that stuff," Adeline said while looking me into the eyes. She seemed very concerned, I smiled at her in return. She was always looking out for me, it was really sweet. I would have been worried for her also, but little did Malfoy know... she was a pureblood.

 She came from a very powerful family, one of the few that didn't discriminate against muggles and muggle-borns. It wasn't always that way, her family was once known to be the most hateful wizards and witches to exist... I wasn't too sure when that had changed or why they disliked muggles so much, but it wasn't entirely my business.

"I'm fine Adeline. I'm glad Cedric came in there though," I said, quickly trying to cover up the dumb insult... it may have hurt just a bit, but I didn't need Adeline to go on a murderous rampage towards the Malfoys. Adeline shot me a quick look, and I realized it sounded like I didn't think she could hold her own, "Not because of that, because I think you would have hit him or something if it was just us in there."

I began to undress along with Adeline, she seemed to agree with my statement all too much. I slid the whole uniform on easily, including the temporary robes... until we got to the tie. My face dropped into uneasiness as I realized that it was an actual tie. Not like the clip-on one I had at Ilvermorny, I turned to Adeline to complain when I saw her knot it perfectly onto her neck. 

I looked down onto the Hogwarts emblem that sat on the black tie, and took a deep breath. Ibrought it up to my neck and looped it a few times like I had seen in the movies only to get a mini noose. I threw my hands to my side in defeat, that was when Adeline laughed loudly.

"Look, I've never had to wear a tie before, a real tie I mean! There's no need to make fun!" I said with a pout, "How did you know how to do it?"

"What do you mean you didn't ever need to tie a real tie before? You wore them every day at Ilvermorny!" Adeline could barely talk, she was laughing so hard.

"Uh, no! They were clip-on, that was different!" I said in all seriousness. I must have looked silly with my messed up tie as I put my hands on my hips in an attempt to be serious because when Adeline looked at me again she doubled over in laughter. When she caught her breath slightly, she stood up slightly.

"You mean the one, you got as a first-year? When you first started because you were 12?"

"Yeah?" I said confused.

"You- you were supposed t-to switch over to real ties after that first Christmas break!" Adeline yelled between laughs. I let a huge laugh escape my mouth as I realized what she was saying, I had been wearing a children's tie for the past 4 years. 

We continued to laugh like insane people for the next few moments before we pulled ourselves together. Afterward, Adeline helped straighten out my tie, unable to stop giggling the whole time. I wasn't sure how she didn't notice over those few years, we were even in the same dorm!

Adeline turned from me after I was finished and looked at herself in the mirror, "Does this look alright?"

I motioned for her to twirl in a circle and she did, lifting her arms into the air at the same time, "As hot as ever. I could get used to these uniforms. They're comfier than our old ones."

I turned to see Adeline stifle a laugh, and I pushed her lightly, "Addy shove off!"

Adeline regained herself and then flipped her hair over her shoulder in a prissy way. She looked at me batting her eyelashes while pulling arms to her hips in a model stance, "Time to get all the boys to swoon over the new girls."

We started laughing again loudly but quickly regained ourselves as three girls pushed through the door. One girl, in the front, with black hair and bangs framing her forehead turned towards Adeline with a glare that could kill a centaur. Adeline threw a confused glance at her as we walked out of the bathroom. 

She seemed rude, and I had half a mind to storm back in there and tell her off. Adeline pushed through the door, and I followed close behind. My blouse almost fell out of my arms as I closed the door gently.

"What was that about?" Adeline looked at me with an eyebrow raised.

"Maybe she's just jealous of how good we look," I said with a smile and a wink. We both started laughing again, not paying attention to the people who stared as they shimmied by us. We'd be getting a lot of attention over the next few weeks, people hardly EVER transferred wizarding schools unless under dire circumstances. When we finally reached our compartment with huge smiles on our faces, the twins looked up in sync from their book.

"What are you two smiling about?" Fred said with a growing smile.

"Oh ya know, just us being us," Adeline said with a chuckle.

"Well, you got here just on time." They said. I looked out the window to see the train slowing into a station. It looked like our adventure was just about to begin.

A/N:

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