*＊✿❀ Chapter 1 ❀✿＊* "Norene Krisley Wesston! Grab your father's watch while you're up there and hurry!" Called Donna, Nora's mum. Nora stood in her room brushing her hair quickly in the mirror, she tossed the brush in her trunk and ran her fingers through her hair, trying to somehow make her hair look decent. She had slept in a bit late and so she didn't have enough time to tame it properly. Nora sighed in frustration and exhaustion before surrendering to her bed-head and tossing the last of her things in her open trunk on her bed. She latched it shut and heaved it out into the hallway, she scooped up her father's silver watch off his nightstand in her parents' room before taking the watch and her trunk down the stairs. Hadzi, Nora's younger sister who would be going into her second year at Hogwarts, was sitting at the dinner table, her perfectly straight blond hair tied back neatly into a ponytail and she wore her usual skirt with a sweater. "Oh dear, mother, have you seen-" Hadzi eyed Nora up and down when she entered, "-You can't get that mess under control, can you? I don't want to be seen in Kings Cross station with someone who looks like they woke up too late and had no time to....Well....Fix herself." Said Hadzi, with a disapproving raise of her eyebrow. It was true, Nora hadn't had any time to properly get ready, but she didn't want Hadzi to ruin her day, just as her hair and done. Sitting across from Hadzi was Denver, Nora's younger brother, he too had hair that wouldn't settle so easily, however, it was blond like Hadzi's, and the blond mess on top of his head contrasted well with the shade of green of green his face had become. Denver was starting his first year at Hogwarts, and he didn't look like he was ready to go, let alone stand. "Are you excited?" Nora asked in her usual slightly deeper, beautiful voice. Denver kept his eyes concentrated on a plate on the table that contained a few crumbs, he did a sort of nod but at the same time, shook his head. "Cheer up, you're about to go to Hogwarts. And look on the bright side, you haven't vomited yet, Ezeck vomited as soon as he woke up before we left for his first year." Nora said, Denver tore his eyes away from the plate to look at her with fear in his eyes. "NORENE-oh, you're here," Said the siblings' mother as she entered the kitchen. Norene wasn't her real name, it was Nora, she was named after her grate-aunt's ex-husband's sister's daughter Norene and Nora really hated it when her parents called her that, they only really knew them because they worked in the Ministry together. "I want all of you in the car, now, I'm late to work and I haven't any time to see you off. Your father will take you." Said their mother, she then gave each of them a kiss on the head, wished them a great year, told them to send owls every three days at least, and Apparated. Nora had expected this, last time she had seen them off was for Ezeck's final year at Hogwarts. "In the car kids!" Called their father through the open door as he loaded he last of the trunks. Denver stood up uneasily and Hadzi skipped to the car, Nora stayed back a bit to walk with Denver. Nora sat in the passenger seat next to her father, while Denver and Hadzi sat in the back row. "Why must we arrive like Muggles?" Hadzi asked. "Because Muggles have been very suspicious ever since the Peruvian Viper-Tooth sighting." It was true, the Daily Prophet wrote a whole article on it. Some construction workers spotted the Viper-Tooth while they were laying a roof, the Ministry has been very busy ever since, trying to track down and Obliviate the Muggles that had seen it, and trying to figure out why a single Peruvian Viper-Tooth chose to fly in sight of all of London.
When they arrived, Ezeckieal (their father), parked the car closest to the station so that Hadzi's tawny owl, Orvel, wouldn't look too suspicious to more Muggles than it needed to be. They all grabbed their own trunks except Hadzi, Ezeckieal carried hers for her so she could carry Orvel's cage. Nora had always been excited to go back to Hogwarts every year, though she never expressed her excitement. But this year would be different, she had received an owl from Professor Dumbledore that she would be a Slytherin Prefect this year. When her parents found out, they were overjoyed, Ezeck never was a Prefect or Head Boy, Nora would be the first Prefect. To celebrate, her parents took her to Diagon Alley a week after she had received to owl to buy her a new broom, she chose the Nimbus two-thousand, the newest broom. Nora heaved her trunk onto a trolley and helped Denver do the same while Hadzi and their father had loaded up her trolley. Nora ran through the barrier with Denver, Hadzi, and their father right behind her. It was just as brilliant as Nora had remembered. The scarlet engine train, the students, new faces and old. But someone in particular caught her eye, a short, skinny black-haired boy with oddly round glasses, surrounded by a red-headed family. Nora gasped, "Dad....Dad....Dad?" She said, not looking away, afraid to lose sight of the boy, but she had to due to no response. He was helping Hadzi and Denver load their trunks onto the train, Nora rushed over and tapped him frantically on the arm. "Dad, Dad, Dad-" "What?" He snapped, Nora pointed to the boy and her father's eyes widened. "Is that...?" "Yes, I think so," Nora said, but before they could introduce themselves, the scarlet steam engine had jerked to move. Nora hastily tossed her trunk onto the train and waved to her father until he disappeared out of sight.
