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Today is the day.It’s the first day of your fourth year at Hogwarts. The past three years you have lived in the shadows, someone just trying to get through life.Today is the day for change. You were done trying to “just get through.” You were ready to begin living. You wanted to be like everyone else. You wanted friends, you wanted love, you wanted a year to remember.Ever since you came to Hogwarts you felt like you were in your brother’s shadow. Not because he has lots of academic or athletic achievements, but because the girls are crazy about him and that makes finding real friends hard. Girls would come to you offering friendship only to find out they just wanted to get close to Theodore.You and Theo had a rocky relationship, but it wasn’t always like that. As kids you two were inseparable. Especially after our mother’s death. Our father wasn’t there very often so aside from maids and nannies all we had was each other.It all went downhill when you were being sorted into your house, he was with Slytherin and of course you wanted to be Slytherin just like your elder brother, but no, the sorting hat had other plans. You were to be in Ravenclaw. Since that day you have been a victim to Slytherin ridicule, though not to a severe level. Your brother was thanks to that, he would never let them do too much to you.This will be your year.✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦You were in the middle of your thoughts when you heard the door to your area slide open. You turned your head and saw a familiar blonde.“Luna! It is so good to see you!” you say with a grin.Luna was one of your few friends. She was a fellow Ravenclaw and her bed was next to yours in your previous years. She was someone you could talk to without fear of being judged. She respected you as you respected her.“Y/N, you do not mind if I sit with you?” she asked, already taking a seat next to you.“Of course not, you’re more than welcome with me.” you smiled at her.This year was already going great. You and Luna continued to fluidly talk about each other’s summer and time flew by, before you knew it you were back at Hogwarts in a familiar dining hall.As always, you sat with your house and watched as the new first years were sorted into their respective houses.Everytime a first year was sorted into Slytherin you would find yourself taking a glance at your older brother, and then to who he was sitting next to. He was sitting beside one of whom you specifically avoided. Draco Malfoy. He was bad news, even Theodore knew this. He says he doesn’t care but you know he just wishes to fit in.You must have been staring at them for too long because suddenly you see Draco pointing at you and laughing with your brother. Shame filled your chest and you quickly turned away to eat your food, but now you had no appetite.Who would mock their own sister?You felt sick. You should be used to it by now, but you can’t help but feel embarrassed and hurt. This wasn’t anything new, you were never immune to Slytherin’s attacks, so why did it hurt now?Luna must’ve noticed your change in demeanor because she put her hand over yours. You look up and meet her eyes and she gives you a small smile. You smile back at her, her wordless comfort puts you at ease.✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦At the end of the sorting ceremony you exit the dining hall, pride having been broken but your hope for a happier year still as strong as ever. You weren’t gonna let your brother ruin this year for you.“Well if it isn’t little Miss Nott.” you heard an overly familiar voice call behind you. You picked up your walking pace but before you could get five steps away he called you again. “You sure liked staring at me earlier, so why do you refuse to face me now?”You stopped. Still facing away from him.How dare he mock you right now.You turned around and opened your mouth to respond to him, you didn’t know what you were going to say but surely anything is better than nothing.“I’ll have you know-” then you saw Draco’s two little lap dogs and your brother standing behind him. You made eye contact with Theo and shut your mouth. Before you opened your mouth again to continue, you were interrupted.“C’mon Draco let’s just go-” Theo said. He showed a bit of remorse in his face as he looked at you. “She’s not worth our time.”Your heart panged.“I guess you’re right, Theo.” Draco said, Crabbe and Goyle nodding along; so eager to please their master as always.Draco looked you up and down before going along his way, his puppies following closely behind. Your brother stayed standing there. His eyes were scrunched and his face was unreadable. You couldn’t decide if he hated you at that moment or if he was regretful.“Theodore.” you said, sturdiness in your tone. You won’t let them get under your skin, and even if they manage it you will never let it show.He sighed, “Look, you know I don’t mean to hurt you in any way, right?” he took a step closer to you and you stood your ground.“Is this your way of apologizing to your little sister?”“No, I just-”You cut him off, “Aside from our shitty father I am all the family you have left. Do you realize that? The past three years I have forgiven the bullying and mocking, but Theo-” you trailed off, trying to keep your calm “-but Theo, it needs to stop. Or I swear to you that I will just leave you behind, I do not need you.”“Y/N, you know as well as I do that I don’t mean harm. It’s just the way things work, okay? I make it up to you everytime.”“I am tired of you having to make it up to me, I just want you to do better!” you shouted at him through gritted teeth. “I miss having a good relationship with my brother. Friends will come and go, and family is supposed to be forever.”He nodded to that.“I know. I will do my best to do good by you. I swear to you, on our mother I will.” he looked down on you, a small smile on his face.“You can’t swear on a dead person, dummy” you playfully punched his arm.“So are we okay?” he asked hopefully.“I suppose, but you’re still on thin ice!” you said, smiling slightly.He went in for a hug after hearing that, “Good. Since I always make it up to you, Hogsmeade this Saturday, understand?”You returned the hug with a hum of approval. Whatever it is, it better be good.
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When your older brother said he would make it up to you by taking you out to Hogsmeade, this is not what you expected. You had not been expecting to see yourself surrounded by Draco’s gang.This whole trip consisted of you feeling like an outsider even though your brother tried endlessly to include you in their antics.“Right Y/N?” Theo would say after cracking a joke about someone or something. You would nod your head as a reply and continue searching for an excuse to leave. Theo better find a real way to make-it-up to you. Why would he think I would want to hang out with the same kids that bully anyone that breathes the same air as them, you included.While Draco’s gang of puppies were laughing at some poor kid far away, you saw your opportunity to leave when you saw Luna leaving Hogsmeade in the direction of Hogwarts. You cautiously fell behind the group and ran to the blonde girl.“Luna, wait up!” you shouted when you were in earshot distance. She must’ve heard you because her steps faltered and she turned to face you, she lifted her hand and offered a tiny wave. She waited for you to reach her before she spoke. “Y/N, what are you doing at Hogsmeade?”“Oh, I was just out with my brother and his friends.” you replied and turned to the direction you came from; that's when you made eye contact with Draco Malfoy. He squinted his eyes at you then turned his attention back to his crew.“Yeah, they aren’t the best to be around.” you awkwardly laughed and faced the blonde girl again. She gave you a knowing look. You looked to the ground and noticed the girl had no shoes. “Luna, why are you barefoot?”“Sadly, all my shoes have disappeared. I think it was the Nargles.”You hummed in response, and made a mental note to give her a pair of your extra shoes when you get back to Hogwarts.“Well, I was just here to buy some meat to feed some animals, if you would like to come along?” she said, beginning to walk again as if she already knew you would say yes.“Of course!” you answered, matching her steps. This wasn’t the first time you would go with her to feed animals, you enjoyed it as much as you enjoyed her company. Spending time with the animals was refreshing, like connecting with nature.✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦After walking for quite some time she stopped walking and grabbed a tiny piece of meat. She threw it on the ground.“Luna? There is nothing here?” you questioned her behavior. She ignored you and started taking a few steps and she started staring up, at nothing. You found a nearby log to sit on as Luna started caressing the air. Something had to be there, but you couldn’t see it.“Hello, Harry Potter.” the blonde said without turning around or stopping her ministrations to the air. That made you turn around and you saw the famous brunette boy. He offered you a smile and wave before approaching Luna.Honestly you were surprised he was allowed back to Hogwarts. Due to the incident with the Ministry and him saying you-know-who is back. To be frank, you didn’t know if you believed him or not. You didn’t want to believe it, you wanted to believe Cedric Diggory died in a horrific accident. Ignorance is bliss afterall.“Your feet. Aren’t they cold?” He asked when he was standing next to her. You breathed out a laugh.“A bit” She looked down to her feet then back up at the boy before continuing. “Unfortunately my shoes seem to have disappeared. I suspect the Nargles.”There was a moment of silence and you found yourself just watching the two of them. Harry seemed to be aware of the animal Luna had been petting.“What are they?” he asked her.“Thestrals, and they are quite gentle. People avoid them because they are-” she trailed off as she looked into the distance. As if she saw something.Harry saw it too and finished her sentence. “-Different.”The pair walked toward where Luna was looking.“But why can nobody else see them?” the boy asked.She answered quickly, as if she knew he were going to ask that. “Only people that have seen death can see them.”Does that mean that your elder brother can see them?The two were further away and you couldn’t listen to them talk anymore. When did they become close? You found yourself entranced in thought as Luna and Harry continued chatting and feeding the Thestrals.The school year has just begun but it already feels awful. Mainly due to a certain pink Ministry lady. When she first came you didn’t think anything of it. Didn’t even bat an eye at her, but now you’re questioning it.Her teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts made no sense and her punishment methods were downright medieval. You weren't a victim to her, but you have seen those who were.Though, you cannot complain too much about her class because you got to sit next to Dean Thomas who you fancied very much. He was kind to you and was very funny. He was also very attractive.The only downside with him is that you weren’t sure if he had a thing going on with Ginny Weasly or not. You didn’t want to get on her bad side after all. She was in your year and you thought she was lovely.So for now, he was off limits.“Y/N?” you heard Luna say your name, breaking you out of your train of thought.“Oh sorry, are you done?” you said, looking up at the older girl. Harry left a while ago but you stayed with the fellow Ravenclaw.“You looked like you were in deep thought, I am sorry if I disturbed you.” she smiled a bit then continued, “I was just gonna suggest we head back before it's too late.”You hummed in response and the two of you went on your way.
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When you and Luna got back to Hogwarts it was already time for dinner. The two of you quickly found your spots and sat down. You talked with your fellow Ravenclaw about classes and meaningless gossip. You cannot lie about how you found the gossip of Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson possibly dating very intriguing. They were perfect, she always followed his orders and he seemed to like that.You were intently listening to the gossip until someone suddenly grabbed your shoulder and forced you to turn around. When you looked up you saw your brother.“What the hell Theo!” you shouted, brushing his hand off of you. The kids around you stopped talking, all watching the scene before them unfold. The attention was on the two of you now.“Do you know how worried I was? I spent thirty minutes losing my shit looking for you before that blond asshole decided to tell me he saw you sneak away with Loony Lovegood!” he reprimanded.Who was he to scold you in front of your peers? To openly insult your only friend while she sat right next to you? Does he expect you to say that you’re sorry?“Her name is Luna and I don’t understand why you care so much! You seemed to be enjoying laughing at everyone that walked past you, but I’m not like you-.” before you could finish Theo cut you off. “Not like me? What is that supposed to mean? We’re the same flesh and blood.”“It means I’m not an asshole!” you seethed. The male hummed and nodded in response, jaw clenched as if he was stopping himself from saying something he might regret, then went back to his spot at the Slytherin table. You could tell he was upset.You felt guilty, you never meant to argue with him. He was just scared that he lost you, and you knew that. You only put up a fight because you were in front of your fellow classmates and he was openly scolding you.You didn’t want them to think you were some girl that’s older brother had to look after or keep in check. Because you weren’t. You were as responsible as him, if not more.You felt someone’s hand on yours, Luna. “Are you okay?“I’m fine. We argue all the time, he was just worried.” you paused and looked Luna in the eyes, “I’m so sorry about him calling you that. I’m sure he didn’t mean-.”“It’s alright, I’m used to it.” she smiled at you, in comfort. After Theo’s outburst there was silence and it was soon followed by nearby whispering. You knew they were talking about you and Theodore but you couldn’t bring yourself to care.Once you finished eating you promptly removed yourself from the tense atmosphere and returned to your bed. Sleep takes over your body as soon as you lay down, ready for another dreamless night.The following day you found yourself not wanting breakfast, opting to just stay in the Ravenclaw common room until it was time to go to your first class. If you could, you would lay in bed all day. The embarrassment from dinner last night finally sinking in.Reluctantly you got out of bed and changed into your school attire. You just prayed this day, and the upcoming ones will go smoothly.You had the same first hour as Theodore and you found yourself dragging your feet. As you walked into your Charms class you saw the older boy sitting next to his normal seatmate, some Slytherin girl you didn’t care to learn the name of.You took a deep breath in-and-out then approached him. When he notices you coming towards him, he looks at you suspiciously. Rightfully so.“Theodore.” you say in greeting.“Sister, have you come to apologize?” he smirked at you, but not in a mean way.“Well I-.”“Apology accepted, now go on, Professor Flitwick will be here any minute.” he said, hand motioning to your seat. You stared at him a little longer before reluctantly heading to your seat. Once you sat down, as if on cue, Professor Flitwick strode into class. Thus your school day officially starts.✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦A week has passed since you last spoke to your brother. You and him were on good terms but always seemed to have some sort of disagreement when together, so why ruin it?The week was a normal week, aside from the fact that the pink monster Umbridge seems to be taking over the school. Not only that but Luna came to you asking if you believed if Lord Voldemort was back. You couldn’t give her an answer. Despite that, she asked you to accompany her to Hogsmeade to meet with a few students.You agreed of course, it was the least you could do.So now you find yourself in a small room with a couple familiar faces. Cho Chang, Dean Thomas, and the Weasley twins being some of the ones you recognized.There looked to be around twenty people here.What kind of meeting is this?
When you heard the door open, you turned and saw Harry, Hermione, and Ron walk through together.“Um hello everyone-.” she started as she looked at everyone that was here “you all know why you are here-”No you do not.“We need a teacher. A proper teacher, one with real experience against the Dark Arts.”Oh. So that’s what this is about. They want to rebel against Umbridge. You could understand why, she is horrible, but rebelling? You support them but you cannot stand with them. She’s from the Ministry and messing with the Ministry and bad news. Not to mention your father is also with the Ministry, so wouldn’t rebelling the Ministry also be rebelling against your father? If Theo found out then surely your father would too.“Why?” asked some blond boy you’ve never seen before.“Why?!” repeated Ron “Because you-know-who’s back, you idiot.”The other kid argued back “Yeah, so he says” referring to Harry.“So Dumbledore says.” Hermione countered.You really didn’t want to hear this. He couldn’t be back, could he?Another kid you’ve never seen before joined in with the blond “If Potter would tell us more about Diggory’s death then..”Before he could finish, Harry stopped him. “I am not gonna talk about Cedric. If that’s why you’re here then you can leave.”Nobody moved. Harry looked as if he wanted to leave. This was a waste of time, but you couldn’t leave Luna here alone.Suddenly Luna spoke up, “Is it true you can produce a Patronus Charm?”Harry stared at the girl next to you, as Hermione answered for him “Yes.” Harry and Hermione looked at each other then back to Luna. “We’ve seen it.”Suddenly Dean Thomas spoke up “I didn’t know you could do that, Harry.”Did any of us?“He also killed a Basilisk with a sword from Dumbledore’s office!” Neville added.“It’s true, in our third year he fought off a hundred dementors at once.” came from Ron“And last year he really did fight you-know-who in the flesh.” Hermione finishedYet after hearing all of that, you still find yourself trying to deny it. Deny, deny deny. Ignorance is bliss.Harry suddenly spoke up “When you guys say it like that, it sounds great, but the truth is that I was just lucky. I didn’t know what I was doing most of the time and I almost always had help.”Before he could say more, Hermione interrupted, “He’s just being modest.”“No, Hemione, I’m not.” The dark haired boy looked around at everyone then said “Facing this stuff in real life is not like school, in school you can try again if you fail. In real life you only have one chance.” Harry sat down, and looked at the ground. “When you’re a second away from being murdered.. Or your friend- you don’t know what that’s like.”Hermione spoke up once again “You’re right Harry, that’s why we need you. If we want a chance of beating.. Voldemort..”Voldemort. You can’t bring yourself to deny it. You’re Ravenclaw, you should be wise.Finally you broke your silence. “So he is really back then?” You looked at Harry and he looked back at you. A silent yes. That was all you needed before you found yourself, and everyone else in that room signing a paper that was titled ‘Dumbledore’s Army.’
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Training with ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ has gone well to say the least. You trained every day, for weeks. You learn a lot every practice. You also felt closer to your peers. You started to hang out with people other than Luna, and you don’t mean that in a bad way. She’s nice and quirky and honest, but it’s nice to have other people to hang around with.On free days you would find yourself hanging out with Hermione, Ron and Harry when not with Luna. The three of them were a joy to be around and they made you feel included as best they could. It wasn’t when you were with Theo and his friends. Theodore forced you in, and the trio made you comfortable enough that you could come if you wanted; or didn’t want.It’s a shame that you would split up with them during Christmas break, you had to go home and they were going who-knows-where. You would much rather be with them or Luna over break, but that wasn’t an option for you. Your father made that very clear in the most recent letter he sent you.“..it is of utmost importance that you and I have a talk once you arrive at the manor.”It wouldn’t surprise you if your father had caught wind about your newfound friends and doesn’t approve. It was no secret your father loathes anyone who is not Slytherin, including you. When you were sorted into Ravenclaw it wasn’t only your brother who was disappointed, it was your father as well. After your first year he had threatened not to send you back. You had to plead with him to let you go back. Promising that you’ll prove yourself to him and keep your grades up, and you did.“Y/N.. you should visit us during break.” Ron said, breaking you from your thoughts. You started eating breakfast with the trio when Luna wasn’t there. Which was often.You looked at him with a sad smile, “I would love that.. but I’m not sure if my father would allow me to do that.. I’m sure you know how my family is.”“That’s true, Y/N, now thinking about it you’re different from the other pure-blood families..” Hermione said, before looking at Ron “ Uh, the death eater ones I mean.”You felt weird now.“My father.. Isn’t a death eater.”The air was tense. “But he was? Wasn’t he?” Hermione countered.“Well I mean.. Yeah, but that doesn’t define me.. Or my brother.”God, you need to get out of here.It was quiet until Harry finally spoke up, “Well yeah of course, not. Not you at least, but your brother-”You cut him off before he could finish. You abruptly stood from your spot. Whatever he was about to say you didn’t want to hear it. “Excuse me, I need to get ready to leave.”You’d be a liar to say you weren’t ashamed of your father’s past. It left a stain on you and your brother. Things are different now. Right?Just because your brother is Slytherin and one of Umbridge’s henchmen now doesn’t make him a bad guy. Just because he and Draco’s gang has tried countless times to catch ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ in the act, doesn’t make him a bad guy. Honestly, it's a wonder he hasn’t seen you yet. Those Weasley twin’s smoke bombs work wonders.Theo’s still the big brother that comforted you after mother’s death. Even though you should have been the one to comfort him. He was the one that saw it. He’s the one that defended you from father’s wrath after he heard you were put into Ravenclaw. He was so sweet, he could never follow down the wrong path like father once had. He’s different.When you were walking away from the table you heard Ron scold his two friends “Great going guys, she hates us now.”That was wrong. You didn’t hate them. You hated yourself. You hated Draco, who would snicker whenever you walked past. You hated that your parents had you at such an old age. You hated the whole pure-blood versus muggles and half-bloods thing. You hated the war and everything that came with it. You hated you-know-who.You hated how life was cruel.You hated that you should be grateful for your privilege. You just wish it was given to someone else.You found yourself sprinting to go collect your luggage from your shared bedroom, wanting to leave as soon as possible. You grabbed your stuff and quickly walked through the groups of kids that were wishing each other farewell. Eventually you found yourself in front of Hogwarts, looking for your brother. He was the only one you wanted to see right now. Then you saw him, he was standing by a train with his luggage on the ground next to him.He was standing with Draco and Blaise, no surprise there. You walked over to them and did something you couldn’t imagine yourself ever doing before. Lest it kill you from embarrassment.You embraced Theo in a hug, dropping your stuff on the ground next to you. You dug your head into his chest. After a few moments the boy wrapped his arms around you. You missed this, you missed him. You missed when life was easy.You didn’t care if the two other boys were giving you weird looks, or if they weren’t. You don’t care if everyone in the vicinity was watching you, or if they weren’t.“What’s wrong, Duckling?” he whispered, so that only you could hear. That was a name he hasn’t called you in years. It came to be because you would always follow him around the manor, like a lost duckling.You hugged him a little harder.“I missed this.”✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦
You didn’t sit by your brother on the train ride back. He had already told Draco, Blaise, and Pansy that he’d sit with them. You would rather die than sit with them. At first, you were alone but then the familiar trio found their way to you.“We’re really sorry about earlier.” Hermione said after knocking and opening the door to your car.“Yeah, we feel awful.” Harry added.You couldn’t bring yourself to feel anything negative towards them. Even if you had wanted to, which is good because you did not want to.“It’s okay, I think I overreacted anyway. I even went all the way to embarrass myself afterwards.” you felt yourself heat up, post-embarrassment finally sinking it. It honestly felt nice in the moment, but you wish you waited until you were back at the manor to do such a thing.Ron laughed, “The hug thing- yeah we caught sight of that, it was-”Hermione shut him up by smacking his shoulder.Harry cut in, “I thought it was sweet actually.”You awkwardly laughed. “Do you guys want to sit here?” you said while moving your belongings out of the way.“That would be nice, thank you.” Hermione said, as she came in. Ron and Harry followed suit.With them here, this ride will surely go by fast. “So, about your offer of visiting you guys during break..”“Offer still stands, we can even come get you ourselves.. and if we need to break you out, we can do that. Ask Harry!” Ron joked.“I’ll definitely let you know if I need an escape.” you laughed. “I would love to be with you guys, it’s so boring at my house and my father is so strict with me!”“Well it can’t be so bad, you seem like a family person.” Hermione chimed in.She wouldn’t know what it’s like to have a father you constantly have to prove yourself to.“I guess you might be right.” you laughed sadly.The rest of the ride consisted of the four of you laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Before you knew it you found yourself at the steps of the manor you grew up in. It was a four story brick building. It had bushes and trees that outlined the walkway.Your brother started walking to the door, and you followed closely behind.Why was there no one to greet you two? Usually there was a maid here to welcome you guys back home. Today there was nobody.When you finally walked through the door, you saw all the house elves working quickly to tidy up. You only saw them work this diligently when your father was going to be hosting a dinner with some other families.Suddenly one of the house elves noticed the two of you.“Welcome back, Young Master Nott and Lady Nott.”You knew the elf meant well, but you can’t help but bring yourself to hate when you are called ‘Lady Nott’ instead of ‘Miss Nott’ it is a sore reminder that your mother is dead, and you are the lady of this house; until Theodore marries someone that is.You were brought back to reality when Theodore asked where your father was.“He is in his room, Young Master Nott.”Theodore thanked the elf, before having him bring both of your luggages to your rooms.“I think father is having a.. work.. dinner. I’m sure we’re gonna be expected to be there, so take some time to rest.” he paused for a second, seemingly deciding what he was going to say next. “And.. we can talk about what’s bothering you later.”You gave him a slow nod, to acknowledge his words. You now greatly regret your actions earlier in the day. Your emotions definitely got the best of you.Quickly, you went up the stairs to find your room. It looked just as you left it. Minus the suitcase that is sitting next to your bed from the house elf.Your room was spacious to say the least. It had many windows and a king-sized bed. You wouldn’t say your room was boring, but it definitely wasn’t your personal taste.You decided to go to your desk, from a drawer you pulled out paper, ink, and a quill. It hasn’t even been two hours and you already wish for your new friends to come save you. This house was suffocating to say the least.Dear friends,Is that too formal? You scrunched that piece of paper up and threw it aside.Hello guys,That just sounds too.. weird. You scrunched that one up too, and threw it with the other.Save me asap. I beg you.Your friend, Y/NThat will have to do. It’s small but they won’t care. You folded the paper up and stamped it with the signature Nott family crest seal. You would have to wait to send it after your father’s dinner. If they showed up to get you before the dinner then your father would notice your absence and would surely punish you for it.You hadn’t even realized it but three hours had already passed. Dinner would be soon, usually your brother would come to escort you when it was time. You quickly dug through your wardrobe for an appropriate dress. You settled for an all black, knee-length, dress.Once, you showed up not dressed as “ Lady of the house” and your father lashed out at you after the dinner was over. Ever since then you did your best to live to the expectation he wants.You threw on a simple sterling necklace with a blue sapphire. A little reflection of your Hogwarts house.You quickly put your hair into an easy hairstyle. You would wear makeup, but your father despised it. When you were adding your final touches, you heard three melodic knocks at your door.Only your brother knocked at your door like that.Quickly you threw on a pair of heels and then opened the door. Your brother smiled and then offered you his arm. You wrapped your arm around his and the two started walking to the dining room.“I talked to Father..” he started. You looked up at him, urging him to continue. “..a few kids from school will be there tonight, but there is something else you need to-”You stopped him. “Who’s gonna be there?”“Pansy Parkinson, Balise Zabini, the Greengrass sisters, Draco Malfoy, and some others.”Parkinson, Zabini, Greengrass, Malfoy..Those are all names of pure-blood families. Death eater families nonetheless.Whatever tonight’s dinner was for, you didn’t think you wanted to know.