Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts
"Take a deep breath in, you've done this before 2 times, " She reassured herself. The terrified 13 year old girl had a hard time going through the wall to get to platform 3/4 she would normally do it with-
"Hey cora-," a voice on her left whispers
"EEEK!" She screeches inhumanely before she takes a proper look at who it was.
"Oh god it's you," Cora scoffs playfully, looking away.
"Hah, well you should be grateful I took the time out of my day to scare you," George complains playfully.
"You should be grateful I didn't beat the hell out of you!" The dark haired girl scolds. "Any ways, where's the other half? Finally killed him off have you?" She smirked, leaning on her cart.
"Nope, you're not getting rid of me, this easy little sparrow," Cora turns around and sees Fred looking down at her.
"I wish it were," she whispers sarcastically, "And talk about getting rid of people, where's your mother?" She says as she looks in the distance trying to find her.
"Yeah, she's getting that git ready for his first year-" George gets cut off by you shoving him when you turned around.
"He's your little brother! Don't call him a git." She hissed "Now can you help me get through this barrier?" She asks politely, smiling at both of them.
"Fine i'll go in first with my cart and fred will help you with yours," As he does that Cora and Fred get ready to go in.
"Are you ready?"
"Nope,"
"Good lets go," Fred decided to grab onto her hand that was on her cart and pushed it towards the wall.
Cora slowly opened her eyes to see that she indeed did not crash into a wall.
"There ya go, 3rd times the charm" Fred grinned at Cora with her cheeks tinted pink and thank Merlin, Fred didn't notice.
She looks down to see him still holding her hand. The ginger haired boy noticed and took his hand off almost immediately.
"OI you two! Let's get on the train before they get the good compartments!" Fred shouts from a distance.
"What about your mum?" She mutters to Fred as you both push your carts towards the train
"Don't worry she can handle the three of 'em, She'd most likely be happy without us," He chuckles.
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Halfway there to Hogwarts and the trio has already done something stupid.
"Fred, you absolute IDIOT!" Cora yells harshly as she runs through the train with the twins following behind.
"You didn't say specifically when to throw the stink bomb!" He replies
"Quick in here!" George interrupted as he opened a random compartment door shoving them all in there. Fred pulls down the blinds just in case the 6th year they pranked sees them.
"Cora!?" A voice she recognised even after years. The exhausted girl turns around to see harry. It wasn't really a surprise to her since she knew he'll be at Hogwarts but she wasn't ready to see him now.
"Uhh hey Harry hello Ron.." she chuckles nervously. There was a girl but she didn't know her name so she just gave her a little smile and faced Harry. The twins were already sitting down catching their breath.
"Wait. You know Harry? The Harry potter?" George asks.
"It's a long story Don't worry-" she was interrupted by someone.
"All this time I thought you were just imaginary .." Harry mumbles.
"Yes about that.. I'm as real as the magic in this world. I wasn't even allowed to see you anyway." Cora chuckles as she sits down beside Fred.
"You think the 6th year is gone?" George says looking out the compartment door.
"Yeah we should get going now," Cora responds.
"But I have so many questions.." Harry mumbles.
"I wish I had the answers, Harry," she replies to him with a sad smile following behind Fred and shutting the compartment door. She wants to tell him everything though she cant risk letting anyone know what she knows. Why?
Let's just say, she isn't supposed to know these things.
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A recap on the past 3 years that Cora was in Hogwarts — she was hoping to get into Slytherin but luck wasn't on her side as she ended up in the house of Ravenclaw following in her mothers footsteps. Her potions teacher aka her uncle was not impressed when he found out. Everyday Cora is reminding him of his sister more and more and it's practically killing him. Elvira was everything to him. His baby sister, best friend, partners in crime. When he witnessed his sister and the love of his life dead in the same room he vowed to protect his niece till the day he dies.
Sirius black. Yes, Sirius black. The one thing that destroyed the strong relationship that Severus had with his sister. All he hoped was that it wouldn't be the same with Cora.
Lets ditch all the sad stuff and go over how Coralinen Black developed a friendship with the twins? It all started when Cora finally felt free. Free to do anything that she liked. Free to do some mischief. And the poor victims were surprisingly the Weasley twins. Due to the prank she pulled on them they were impressed and thought of taking her under their wing. Ever since that they were the mischief makers of the school and drove all the teachers crazy.
However, that didn't affect her learning. No, not at all. She was top in all her classes except herbology. She couldn't do even if her life depended on it.
Now back to the present.
Cora was sitting on the Ravenclaw table, bored with her head on her hand watching the first years get sorted.
"It's so boring watching from here although when you're up there it's the most exciting thing you could think of," a soft voice calls out from next to me. I've seen her around the hallways quite a lot.
"I'm Laurie stone. Nice to meet you," she smiles softly with dimples. Oh how Cora loves dimples.
"Im—" I was about to respond, shaking her hand.
"Oh I know who you are. Cora black." She laughed, putting her hand down. "Well everyone knows you, niece of professor Snape," she chuckles with Cora joining in.
Sometimes it would get very tiring spending time with two boys everyday although meeting Laurie had just solved all her problems. This was just the start of a wholesome friendship.