Magic in our Hearts

[BeautifullyxMad]

Reserved for Sasha Johnston

It wasn't an ordinary day at King's Cross station, not an ordinary day at all. It was the day that young witches and wizards were to board the Hogwarts Express on platform 9 and 3/4 to head off for school. However, one Emily Graves wasn't thrilled at all. Her summer had went to hell, her family was in danger, and there was a fierce burning on her left hip that she had to ignore. She was now a Death Eater Spy, and ahe didn't know how to handle it. Her family hung in the balance if she screwed up, and Emily wasn't sure she could handle that.

Still, her best friend, Angelina Johnson, pulles her into a compartment with a few.other seventh year Gryffindors, two of which were identical. Fred and George Weasley. Emily had come to know them in her time at Hogwarts, often being in detention with them. She offered a smile, trying her hardest to not show her inner struggle, and she looked to Angelina. "Emily, come on, tell them."

"What?"Emily asked, and Angelina gave a look.

"About you already being pickes by Moody for auror training."Angelina urged and Emily nodded. How could she have forgotten? Oh wait. Not long after she got turned into a Death Eater. "They don't believe me."

Emily chuckled. "Well, here's the letter mum and dad got."she said, handing the letter to Katie Bell who seemed to be the most skeptical.

"Wow, Em."she said.

"I don't know about it."Emily admitted, "He kind of scares me."

"Whatever."Angelina waves her hand about, and Emily looked over at the Weasley twins. They had a box in their lap and Emily smiled.

"What's in the box, boys?"she asked, trying to change the subject.

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Summer had been hell for Harry. No contact, vivid nightmares, and secrecy. The young Potter sidn't know if he could take it anymore. He had been cut off from the people he loved and cared about, and then he got to find oit about the Prophet printing bad things about he and Dumbledore. Was he angry? Yes. Who in their right mind wouldn't be?

With a sigh, Harry made his way along the platform 9 and 3/4 but stopped before boarding the train. There was Voldemort in a man there. Taunting him wildly. Now he could add hallucinations to his string of things that were making him out to be mad.

The train wasn't comforting either, with all the people pushing passed and whatnot, he was very glad when he got to sit down. "Harry, are you alright?"a familiar voice asked, and he looked up to see Neville Longbottom.

"Just fine. Got a headache is all."he answered before looking towards the window.

[Sorry its cruddy. My mind went blank when I started going.]

[Sasha Johnston]

George was whispering excitedly with his twin brother, Fred. In their laps were was a box and they had big plans for the contents within the box. George looked up when Emily stepped into the compartment and returned with a friendly smile. He turned his attention back to Fred, glancing at Emily when he heard her friend mentioned that Moody had wanted her to become an auror in training. He smirked to her as he was about to come up with a witty coment until Emily had asked about the box. He glanced towards Fred as they smiled at each other. Fred had snapped the box shut as they both turned their attention fully towards Emily. "We're going to start a buisness." George started. "Open a prank shop." Fred continued as they took turns speaking as they often do.

"It's going to be big." George said with a huge grin. "Only problem. We need to find test subjects to make sure they work." Fred said as he looked towards some of the new arrivals boarding the train with confused and excited faces. "Where better to find such subjects then at Hogwarts?" George finished as he continued to smile towards Emily and her friends. Just then Fred noticed Harry board the train as he quickly jumped up and chased after him "Ay Harry!" Fred called after him as he dissapeared into the ever growing crowd of students. George leaned back in his seat, holding the box securely in his lap. It wasn't often you didn't see George and Fred together, they were almost inseprable. "Wanna be a test subject? We'll pay ya." George asked Emily with a smile.

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Sasha stopped outside the train on the platform as she looked around the place with a dark glare. She frowned at a group of Grffindors as they quickly made their way onto the train. Everyone knew that the Slytherins and Griffindors never got along, but she especially hated them because that Potter kid was apart of their house. Both her father and mother were Death Eaters, apparently Voldmort is trying to grow his army and somehow got pulled into it. She didn't want to, but what other choice did she have. Her parents always expected her to become one, one day, but she wanted nothing to do with it. Sure she wasn't the biggest Potter fan, but she didn't hate the guy. She didn't even really know him. She rolled her eyes as she thought how the Slytherins would act if she was ever caught talking to Potter.

She let a soft sigh escape her lips as she rubbed her left shoulder. The annoying burning feeling was hard to ignore but she had to live with it. She couldn't go back now. Not if she wanted to live. She grabbed her large suitcase and began to board onto the train as she slowly went down the corridor. She frowned to herself as she continued to make her way down. Great, she waited too long outside the train. Just about everything was full. She passed by the compartment where her friends sat with Draco as they gave her an apologetic shrug. She just rolled her eyes as she continued on her way. She frowned when she finally reached an empty compartment, only Harry was sitting in it. She glanced down to where her friends were sitting, they were to busy talking with Draco as they listened to his rediculous stories. She then looked back at Harry as she cleared her throat. "Mind if I join you? It's full everywhere else." she asked him firmly, though she didn't even bother waiting for an answer. She needed somewhere to sit and there wasn't much choice. She stepped into the compartment as she put her trunk away before taking her seat diagonal of Harry.

She jumped when suddenly a tall, red head boy popped in the door way of the compartment, giving Harry a goofy ass grin. She intantly recognized him as one of the Weasly twins though she wasn't sure which one. Fred glanced at Sasha with an raised eyebrow before looking back towards Harry "Already mingling with the enemy, are we now Harry?" he asked. Sasha glared at the twin as she quickly looked away, it was a rather rude thing to say. What automatically made her the enemy? Sure, he was right seeing as how she was a Death Eater but no one knew that. Only her family and Voldmort knew that along with maybe some of the other Death Eaters. She huffed lightly as she remembered seeing some other young Death Eaters about her age. What kind of person was Voldmort to bring children into his plans, plans where they could get hurt or killed. But one could ask what kind of parents were hers for wanting their daughter to get caught up in those plans.

[BeautifullyxMad]

Emily gave a look to George when he asked about her being a test subject. He even offered pay. That could be a good gig, but she had so much on her shoulder at the moment, and she shook her head. “As tempting as that is, George, I don’t think that I want to have an anomaly of things put into my body and let them run whatever course you hope they take. Why not try the first years, I’m sure they would take little convincing. I’ll even help you round them up since I won’t be partaking in the group of test subjects.” she chuckled and Angelina rolled her eyes slightly.


“Emily, why do you egg them on?” she asked and Emily shot her a look.


“Because they’re fun. And they’re my detention buddies since I have this insatiable urge to make Snape mad. I can’t help that I feel the need to consult with the person to my left all the time.” she retorted and Angelina rolled her eyes. “Hey I’m not on the Quidditch team, so you can’t get onto me too bad.”


“I know, but what would-” she began and Emily shot her a look.


“Don’t bring them up, I am mad at my parents.” she waved her hands. “Besides, if they got their way I would be a Beauxbatons so boys weren’t a distraction.”


“Are they really that hung up on your thing with Roger last year?” she asked, and Emily nodded.


“It was just me getting help from someone who knew what they were doing.” she waved her hand a bit, and she turned her attention back to George. “So, are you going to take me up on my offer?”


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Harry turned to see the new form that had sat in their compartment. Sasha was what he wanted to say her name was, but he was far too lost in his own thoughts and in his own mind to pay any attention to the interaction between the others, but when Fred popped in he shot him a look. “She’s not half bad, when Hermione is busy helping Ron with homework, she helps me.” he defended her. He had no idea why he had, but he just felt the need to. She wasn’t like other Slytherins and that earned some respect with him.


However, it also earned him looks from his friends and he just shrugged it off, seeing Fred leave. He brought his head into his hands and closed his eyes. “Are you sure you’re alright, Harry?” Neville asked and he nodded slowly. He just wanted it to stop seemingly like everyone was screaming at him. He felt sick to his stomach already and the hallucinations weren’t helping him at all.


With a sigh, he brought his head up and turned to Sasha. “So, how are you?” he asked. It probably seemed highly out of character for him to do, but he was feeling oddly out of character today.

[Sasha Johnston]

George frowned for a moment when she denied becoming a test subject for his and his brothers new products. He shrugged lightly as he quickly returned the smile "Suit yourself." he said. As he watched the last few stragglers board the train, it should be taking off shortly as he wondered where Fred had ran off to. Harry already knew about some of the products and even gave them his winnings from last years tornament to help them start their shop. George looked towards Emily as his smile broadened as her perposal to helping them round up some first year test subjects. They would be the easiest. They had already had a reputation as school so not many other students who already knew them would be willing to become their testers.

George opened his mouth to reply to Emily when Fred suddenly popped back into the compartment, taking his seat back next to his brother. Fred looked at George as he leaned in towards him to speak softly "Ay, I think Harry's got a thing for that Sasha girl. The one from Slytherin. Something is up with the two. Just saw them in the same compartment and Harry stuck up for her." Fred whispered rather loudly. George completely forgot about Emily's propersion as he looked at Fred, raising his eyesbrows. "I've seen then together a couple of times. Odd to see a Griffindor and a Slytherin together." He said before glancing towards Emily, seeing that she was still waiting for his reply. "Oh yes. Fred, Emily has offered to help us gather some of the first years as test subject." George said with a sly smile. Fred smiled widely towards Emily "Alright, but we aren't paying you. We're only paying those who are willing to let us use their bodies." Fred added

A few moments later, the train doors closed and the train slowly began to make its way down the tracks, slowly picking up speed. George and Fred opened up their box of products once again as they began to talk quietly to each other. George pulled out what looked like to be a large two colored gum ball and examined it a bit. He pointed to the pink side of the ball "Do you think the antidote will be strong enough?" he asked his brother. Fred laughed lightly as he smirked at George "Only one way to find out." he said before the both of them laughed loudly together.

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Sasha blinked as she was snapped back away from her thoughts. They seemed to travel towards Voldmort and what she was going to do, though each time she seemed doomed. She was going to die for sure with whatever he was planning. She looked towards Harry as she nodded slightly. "I'm alright. Have a nice summer?" she asked. She already knew it was a stupid question. She knew he lived with the muggles during his summer vaction and he wasn't fond of them, just as they weren't fond of him. A couple of times she helped with his homework they made small talk, but it never really got far. She gave Harry a small smile "Thanks for what you said towards your friend. You really didn't have to." she added quickly. He didn't seem to be in too good of a mood today, though you would think he would be because he was getting away from the people he hated.

She looked at Harry for a moment as she tried to think of something to say. It would be a rather boring, long trip to Hogwarts just sitting awkwardly in the compartment. There was only one thing the two of them had in common, and that was the joy of flying. "Ready to play some Quidditch?" she asked Harry with a small smirk. "There you are Harry!" Hermione suddenly squealed, causing Sasha to jump. She watched as Harry's friends Hermione and Ron made their way into the compartment. Hermione gave Sasha a slight glare of suspision before she smiled towards Harry again. Sasha rolled her eyes, seeing her discuion with Harry was now going to be dificult. When Harry's little bushy, browned haired friend first saw her helping Harry, she had a little spat. Her and Hermione haven't gotten along since. Ron never said anything towards her, he was probably too scared to. "We have been looking everywhere for you." Hermione continued on as she took a seat next to Sasha, being the only seat left in the compartment. The two of them were like the north and south poles, trying to push as far apart from each other as possible. Sasha glared towards Hermione "Excuse me, but Potter and me were having a discussion." she hissed darkly. Hermione glared towards Sasha and the tension in the compartment suddenly grew as they glared at each other quietly.