,✨Harry Potter ✨
Harry Potter watched as Nico di Angelo animatedly chatted with the Weasley twins about some muggle cards. Arms frailing and eyes twinkling he resembled greatly a firecracker about to burst.
Harry couldn't believe that it has only been three months since Nico di Angelo has joined their not-so-little Weasley clan. After the assurance from good ol' Dumbledore, all of them were quick to adapt to Nico living with them. Harry and Nico had even started a little club referring to themselves as the only black heads of the Weasley family. Harry had eventually taken a great liking to Nico (not only because of the black heads adopted by Molly Weasley club) but he found Nico's situation to be very similar to his own.
Nico like him was a wizard from the muggle world with seemingly little to no exposure to the Wizard World despite being a powerful wizard himself. Or maybe that was because of his Amnesia, but Nico to Mr Weasley's great happiness knew about rubber ducks, muggle cards and Cinderella rather than than (to Mrs Weasley's great disappointment he didn't knew about Gilderoy Lockhart, Chocolate frogs or tales from Beedle the Bard) but strangely he didn't seemed to be much familiar with the muggle technology. And it was not just in that, Harry thought they were similar, there was the thing of distant relations . Of course with his Amnesia Nico couldn't remember his family members but there was always an involuntary shudder whenever the topic was brought up. Harry didn't know if Nico himself realised this but he had stayed enough time with the Dursleys to be willing to bet on some galleons that Nico's wizarding family has a direct connection with Nico's Amnesia. Dumbledore's quick fondness of Nico and his insistence that Nico should stay with the Weasley family proved all their unspoken theory of Nico's own. He watched Nico giving open chess challenge to Ron and he happily agreed.
Ron and Nico's bond was another pleasant surprise (the only other person Nico bonded that instantly was with Sirius but that was after they made sure Nico was not Voldemort-infected). Since the day he arrived Nico had an instant liking to Ron after playing Wizard chess with him the first time. He had known all the rules of chess but when he saw the chess pieces move on their own for the first time, He jumped excitedly from his seat and exclaimed loudly that: "That's so Cool"(Harry was never so violently reminded of Colin Creevey until then). He had instantly demanded to play a round with Ron and even though (unsurprisingly)⁴ it was Of course Ron who had won but it had taken quite an amount of time that after the game Ron had exclaimed proudly that Nico had great strategies that it was actually quite hard for him sometimes to one up him. Nico had loved the praise and since then Nico hady demanded almost daily chess competitions where Nico would constantly try to defeat Ron. Ron said it was a bother as it interfered with Quidditch practices but Harry knew Ron secretly enjoyed them. Nico's hero worship on him made Ron react even more motherly and protective of him which Harry and Hermione secretly thought was adorable.
And for Harry, Growing up alone he had always wondered what it's like having siblings, He always envied Ron for having SO MUCH (but now that living with Ron he also realised the negative side effects too.) But with Nico whose life seems to be so similar to his own and whose relatives also seem to be awful, Nico was like a comrade in arms and as they warmed up to each other he kind of cannot help but think that this might be what having younger siblings be like. It felt like he finally got his long-awaited chance at being a big brother too.
Today Dumbledore (His lovely Head master who told everyone he knew to ignore him for the past couple months for his safety) showed up. Dumbledore was extremely found of Nico, Maybe equal to or even more than Harry himself, which should have made Harry jealous but it only fueled his sympathy for the boy because it's obvious Dumbledore knows Nico's past and his past was well not.... highly recommended by him
Just like his past, courtesy of Voldemort.
Dumbledore had an exciting news to share. He said Nico's name has been written in the book of acceptance making him eligible to go to Hogwarts.
which made Nico laugh in hysterical causing Sirius to ruffle his hair proudly which gave the twins and Ginny enough distractions to chant "Nico's getting in Hogwarts!" "Nico's getting in Hogwarts! " Until
"CALM DOWN EVERYONE!" Molly Weasley said.
"Yeah let the old man speak " Nico said hi-fing Sirius. After hearing about hogwarts. All Nico wanted was to join the school and everyone had agreed that going to Hogwarts might help Nico regain his memories They were ofcourse sceptical about bringing Nico to Hogwarts now that it's sure Voldemort is all up and plotting. But it is very hard to stay cautious about a 13 year old geeky boy who constantly gets hyper excited at every bit of magic that he can find.
Even for the constantly vigilant Mad-Eye Moody.
"Nico has some seriously undiagnosed ADHD"
Hermione was saying rolling her eyes at both Nico and the twins who were trying to set up a dungbomb under a poor unassuming Percy Weasley's chair.
Harry laughed at the chaos that then unfolded.
Certainly, Nico di Angelo had become an accidental but a very welcome part of the Weasley family.
Just like him.