Welcome To London
July 15th 1996
"Mum, I don't want to go to Britain, I like it here, I grew up here, its not fair!" an auburn haired girl yelled at her mum from the staircase, as her mum was carrying down trunks of her stuff, her mum wasn't focused on her daughter being mad at her, she just need to get back to Britain. "Mum why won't you listen to me, why do we need to go, you haven't told me anything but yet Todd knows everything! MUM!" she yelled, her mother just potted around her.
"Eleanor, maybe you should go pack, we need to go soon, it's almost 4, which means that the Weasleys will be expecting us soon, its almost 6pm there, we need to go" Todd said, Eleanor looked at him and huffed, she stomped her way up to her room.
When Eleanor got to her room she grabbed one of the two trunks her mother left for her in her room. she grabbed all of her clothes out of her cupboard, there isn't a lot, there never has been, Eleanor only comes home for Christmas and the new year and its summer then so she barely needs other clothes apart from summer ones.
'you'll need to go shopping in Britain though, its colder there and the weather is harsher,' her mother had reminded her a million times in the past week, the two used to have an easy flowing relationship but ever since her mother had decided they were going 'back' to Britain they started fighting every day, her mother had pulled her out of school, she was halfway through year 6 and now she had to start from the very beginning, she had been exceeding in potions and she's always been good at Charms, and they had started their NEWT studying, but now she had to restart all of it. She packed the rest of clothes, and she tried fitting as many books as possible into her trunk, there was still a lot of books left, but she didn't have a lot of things left to pack, there was her bedding, posters, CDs and the rest of her books, she didn't have a lot on display that hadn't already been taken from the moving wizards. She packed up her shelf of CDs, into the second trunk, she stacked them all so her books could surround it, she somehow fit all of her the rest of her stuff in the trunk and after she was just sitting there, in her empty bedroom, the room she had grown up in.
A soft meow came from Eleanors bedroom door as it creaked open and she smiled at the chestnut tabby that had just entered her bedroom, Bruno was a rare cat in Australia, brown cats are usually found in Europe and Bruno just so happened to find his way to Australia when he was only a baby, Eleanor bought him when they were looking for animals to take to school. Bruno was a perfect comfort animal, he just comes up and hops in your lap and goes to sleep, she stared at the cat that was sitting in front of her waiting to be pet, she giggled at his impatient eyes and started scratching his face, she heard her door open and she looked up to see Todd, he looked at her sitting on the ground and the trunks sitting on the ground, she had a cat carrier in his hand. He smiled softly at the purring cat and walked slowly over, "it's time to go" he said in a high pitched voice, as he picked up the cat sitting in front of Eleanor, he glanced down smiling once again but this time towards Eleanor and he held out his hand for her to take.
"your mother wants to talk to you, take your trunks when you go down there, I'll see you there," he shook his hand in front of her eyes, and she took his hand as he lifted her off the ground, he pulled her into a hug and they hugged for about 3 seconds before Isabelle started shouting at Todd to get going. As the two pulled away, she smiled at him, "I'm sorry, for getting mad over the fact that mum told you why we're going to England not me,"
"It's quite alright Ellie, I know why you're upset, you're leaving all your friends and everything you know behind, but trust me when I say you will be fine, you will get new friends and you'll become a well adjusted young witch, you're very smart I know that you'll be fine." He started walking off, but she ran and hugged him from the back, "thank you, Todd" he tapped her hands as a sign to let him go, "I'll see you soon" the red haired man said, walking out the door.
Eleanor grabbed her trunks and walked down the stairs and put her stuff with the rest of the trunks at the front door. A hand grabbed her arm roughly, Eleanor turned to see her mother, she looked worried, "hold tight" "mum why do I need to hol-" her sentence was interrupted with a movement that shook her skull, she was spinning for wait felt like a minute, she was felt like her body was getting ripped apart, but they landed so hard on their feet that they fell over, well Eleanor fell over, and then she vomited.
"Looking good there Ms Baker," Eleanor heard a British accent say, although it didn't come from in front or behind her it came from above, she shifted her head to see two red haired boys staring at her on the ground, she jumped up realising that she just vomited on their driveway.
"Fuck, sorry,"
"Look Georgie, she is Australian"
"Am I really, I thought I was American," Eleanor said sarcasm dripping off her entire body, the two boys landed and that's when Eleanor realised that they're identical twins, can't really tell when they are above you.
"C'mon," said one of them, "Mum's making dinner," he nodded towards the house, although it looked as if it would fall apart if everyone was on one side of the house, she had stared at the house in shock and also awe, she didn't realise that one of the two boys had already started heading towards the so called house. The other one grabbed her arm pulling her along, Eleanor looked around for her mother before realising that her mother must have gone inside already, "I'm George by the way, that's Fred, who are you Ms Baker," he grinned at her and she couldn't help but return it, "I'm Eleanor, but you can call me Ellie. What year at Hogwarts are you in?" she asked, hoping she would have someone there she could talk to.
"Oh, me and Freddie aren't in school anymore, we left last year, we own a store in Diagon Alley. You should come see it, what year are you in, I have a younger brother and a younger sister they might be your age,"
"I'm in year 6"
"My younger brother Ron is in year 6 too, my younger sister is year 5, they're both in Gryffindor, oh by the way, Ron is friends with Harry Potter," he opened the front door for her as she stepped through,"The Harry Potter, The boy who lived, The Chosen one, your brother Ron is friends with him,"
"yep," he led her through the house,"they're right here" he knocked on the wall and three kids turned around to face the two, "This is Eleanor, she is new this year,"
"Hi," a girl with brown curly hair spoke first, "I'm Hermione, that is Ron" she pointed at the red haired boy sitting with them, "and that's Harry"
"Hi" a gruff voice said, Eleanor thought she saw Rons mouth move but the hi that came out of his mouth sounded like a bull mooing at cows.
"Hi" another voice said, he actually enunciated his words, and he did a little wave, so Ellie did in return.
"What year are you in?" Hermione asked, smiling at her warmly, she thought maybe another girl could join the group and she wouldn't be stuck with just the two boys not understanding women. "We're all in year 6," she pointed to the two boys sitting across from her,
"I'm in year 6 too," the look she received from the trio made her want to laugh, they looked so shocked.
"Oh my god, you're Australian," Hermione said, "I've always wanted to go to Australia, is that why you're so tan, you're skin is so nice, is it nice there, did I say I've always wanted to go"
"I'm going to steal her, just so she can meet mum, and you know, live" George said, as he pulled her once again through the house, when they got to the kitchen they saw Isabelle and Molly Weasley talking quietly.
"Hey guys," George said, the two women turned and Molly started walking towards Eleanor.
"Oh dear, you've grown up so much, I haven't seen you since you were a little baby, almost 2 years old and your mother took you away from me" she said, as she gave Ellie a hug "My, my, you really are beautiful, I mean your mother said you were beautiful, but my god, you're gorgeous," she squeezed her cheek, like an overly friendly grand mother. "you look just like your mother, but your eyes look exactly like your fathers, you have the same bone structure as their whole family, as annoying as they were they had amazing bone structure, but my god you are beautiful, I just can't get over it, you look exactly like your mother but you look exactly like your father, you are so beautiful. Arthur isn't she gorgeous?" Eleanor had been covered in compliments that she didn't even realise that Molly's husband walked in.
"My god you look just like your mother, doesn't she Molly" he said, "that's what I said" Molly squeaked, pulling Ellie into another hug.
"Mum stop suffucating Eleanor," a voice rang out, Ellie looked behind her, she saw the second boy from before, the twin, Freddie wasn't it, "not before she meets Charlie and that will mean she'll have to survive till Christmas, so let the girl breathe"
Molly let Ellie go, scowling at her son, "George, will you go get Ron, Hermione and Harry for dinner," Molly said, "Eleanor, come sit, Fred come on, dinner is pork chops," she dragged the two teenagers towards the table, and basically shoved them into the chairs, there was plates floating towards the table. Eleanor turned towards Fred and before she could start talking he did.
"Charlie's our oldest brother, he works in Romania with dragons, he sometimes visits us on Holidays but now that the dark lord is back he comes any time he can and we have an-" Fred stopped after seeing the look on Ellies face. "Are you okay?"
"Fred, what did you say to her," George said, coming into the room, by then all of them were in there.
"I just said the dark lord was back and she went all frozen." he said, not knowing what the problem was.
"Mum, what the hell did he just say" Ellie said, turning towards her mum, "the dark lord is back, is that why we are here?" before her mother could answer, the front door slammed open, and a voice rung out, "Where is everyone"
"in here" Molly answered, quickly forgetting what was happening only mere seconds ago. Ellie and Isabelle looked at each other, before her mouthed 'lets talk about it later, please' Ellie nodded, but god she didn't want to.
"Honey," Isabelle said, walking to her husband, "Everyone, this is my husband Todd," Ellie smiled at Todd, after everyone greeted Todd, they sat down and had dinner.
"Anyways back to before, we have another brother, his name is Bill, he's pretty cool, he works for Gringotts wizarding bank, he works in egypt, he also visits as much as he can." Ellie wasn't really paying attention, until they mentioned their shop. "We own this shop in Diagon Alley, its a joke shop and we can take you tomorrow, you need to know where we are most of the time, since you'll be hanging out with us until school starts."
"Fred, who said she wants to be with you and George in that sweaty shop filled with a bunch of gross teenagers," a girl said, she wasn't Hermione, but she had red hair just like the rest of the Weasleys, "I'm Ginny by the way, do you really want to hang out with them all summer, I mean at least I go to your school, they are just gross and sweaty" there was a playful tone to her voice but also she seemed kinda of serious. Ellie just smiled and kept eating and all just kept on talking about random stuff, she even heard stuff about Quidditch, she's never played before, but follows it, she has posters in her room with them and she has the quidditch hand book, quidditch through the ages, history of quidditch, (She gets the new history of quidditch every year when there is another retirement or another update on who is the oldest living quidditch player, she's a very big nerd) but after dinner, Isabelle, Todd and Ellie all went to see their new house, Todd had been there before, hence why he was late to dinner, but as soon as they got inside Ellie went to go find her room prepared to unpack her sheets but when she walked in she found it exactly how it was before she left Australia, and Bruno was already sleeping at the foot of her bed. She opened the cupboard and saw a Hogwarts trunk and all the clothes hung up, even her socks and stuff were in drawers. She jumped into her bed and fell asleep, being jet lagged but also not jet lagged was messing with her brain and she needed sleep.
When she woke in the morning she had a shower and got dressed, when she went downstairs she saw the Weasley twins standing in the kitchen, drinking coffee and talking with her step father, she greeted the two boys and they said that they're taking her Diagon alley, before she could object they had apparrated to a unfamiliar place in London. Fred stood to her right and George stood to her left, George started walking towards a big George or Fred head, but before she could move Fred grabbed a piece of her hair and tucked it behind her ear before whispering in her ear.
"Welcome to London"