"What?!" Ron and Hermione shrieked.
"Yeah! And- and she's part of the Order! Did any of you know who she was before now?!" Harry questioned the pair of them.
"Aurora? Aurora what?" Hermione asked.
"Aurora Whitehall."
Hermione shook her head in question, furrowing her eyebrows.
"Blimey, well if Hermione doesn't know then clearly this girl didn't exist before today, huh Harry?" Ron scoffed, sitting back, "Are you sure she was real?"
Harry looked at Ron in disbelief, "What, are you going join the 'Harry is delusional' club now?!"
"No no... well what else did she say?" Ron steered the conversation away from the comment he just made.
Harry stayed silent for a moment before saying, "She knows... and I don't know how. But when she healed my scar, she said something like 'love does wonders' or whatever. And then she looked at my scar! She knows about the love protection!"
Meanwhile, Aurora walked through the Slytherin doors and was displeased to find Draco making fun of Harry, especially after the night she just had. Draco looked up at Aurora, revelling that she returned.
"Aurora! Where have you been?" Draco walked away from the group he was entertaining and stood next to her.
"Spent the night at the tower again. Come here, I've got to tell you something," Aurora led Draco to a quiet corner of the common room and looked at him with great concern.
"So, I spent the night with Harry Potter..." Aurora started, and that alone was enough to leave Draco in shock.
"You slept with that loser?!" Draco gasped dramatically, and Aurora slapped his arm, not amused.
"Listen! No, I did not sleep with him. Well... we did sleep. Together. But not in the way you're saying! Anyway, and you've got to promise you won't tell anyone what I'm saying because I'm telling you this for a reason. You have to listen to me when I tell you to leave Harry alone this year," Aurora sternly looked at Draco, before he let out a laugh of disbelief. His laugh faded once he saw the look on her face.
"You're serious...?" Draco looked more interested in the conversation.
"You and I both know Umbridge is awful. Just because she's anti-Harry, doesn't mean that she's pro-everyone else. I know you've got your little advantage with the Ministry and all but- okay, right, listen... she's worse than I thought. And I can't tell you anything more than that, but please, for my sake just leave him alone."
Draco and Aurora looked into each other's eyes, as Draco thoroughly understood how serious she was.
"Right, fine. But don't expect us to be friends or whatever," said Draco, rolling his eyes.
"Thank you darling," Aurora hugged him. "And one more thing, please just tell everyone to call off that nonsense the lot of you plan to do at the Quidditch Matches."
The next time Harry and Aurora saw each other was the following Monday morning. Not at the Astronomy tower, but in the Great Hall.
Aurora was sat next to Draco and a group of Slytherins neither of them found any interest in, and Harry sat in his regular spot, across from Ron and Hermione. He looked up from his food to respond to something Ron had said, and then realised she was sitting at the Slytherin table.
"Bloody- guys, don't immediately turn around," Harry said, maintaining eye contact with Aurora, who had seen him as well. "Aurora is sat next to Draco. Look at her! She's real!"
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Invisible String
Fanfiction"Wouldn't it be great if after everything, we had a happy ending? What could possibly occur next, for us to have such a privilege?" It seemed as if it was a who, rather than a what. A fix-it fic about a rather mysterious and heartwarming individual...
