THE GREAT HALL full of students eating and talking with each other.
There are green and silver banners with the Slytherin symbol above their heads, already indicating the house with the most points.
"TAKE THAT GRYFFIN-WHORES!" Exclaimed Barty and Evan, while Regulus pretended to not know them, as they were being glared at by the Gryffindor's.
Dumbledore gives a slight nod to professor McGonagall, who then clinks her spoon to her glass, to ask attention from the students. The crowd falls silent. Dumbledore stands up and speaks with his magically magnified voice.
"Another year, gone! Now, as I understand it, the house cup needs awarded and the points stand thus."
"In fourth place. Gryffindor, with 312 points!" There is a medium applause from the crowd.
"Atleast they tried...?" A Gryffindor said trying to lighten up their house's mood.
"In third place, Hufflepuff, with 352 points!" The applause for Hufflepuff is slightly louder than the clapping for Gryffindor.
"Good work!" The puffs smiled.
"Second, Ravenclaw, with 426 points!" Applause again, this time with a slight cheer from some students.
Before Barty can say anything, Regulus again slapped his hand over his mouth.
"In first place, with 472 points: Slytherin house!" A loud roar rises from the Slytherin table, as students stand up and clap for themselves.
Slytherins clapped, with a smug look.
Hermione scowls with her hand to her cheek, Snape applauds the students of his house.
The Slytherins turned to Ophiuchus, who raised his glass to them, making them cheer louder.
"Ophiuchus gives me proud dad vibes."
"When he us older he'll give daddy vibes-"
Ophelia couldn't believe it her first year at Hogwarts had passed by far too quickly for her liking.
Not much has happened after Yule.
She had no use for the invisibility cloak at the moment so she kept it tucked away.
"I thought the cloak went missing when you started Hogwarts." Euphemia said to James, as he spluttered and tried to make an excuse.
"You stole it, didn't you?" Fleamont asked his son.
"I didn't steal it, I just borrowed it." James said quite nervously.
"I thought I lost a thousand year old family heirloom, James. You would have gotten it anyways, it's always passed down to the first-born when they turn 11." Fleamont said, as many people looked shocked at how long it had been working for.
The rest of the year nothing major happen.
Expect that time when a large doberman bursting into the great hall during dinner once and started attacking Dumbledore.
Many laughed, and wished they could have seen that. "I love your Mortem!" Bella said.
Then Ophiuchus laughing before calling for the doberman, and that is how the rest if the school excluding the Slytherins, learned Ophiuchus smuggled in a doberman to Hogwarts.
"He really doesn't give a fuck does he?"
Excluding that, Snape along with bother her and Ophiuchus's back and forth bantering, all in all it was a good year for her.
Along with the fact she has completed going through her book of blood magic, and mastered most of it so far.
Before either James or Sirius, could say anything they were silenced by glares.
She would be sad to leave Hogwarts, even just the prospect of leaving over the summer holidays saddened her in a way she had never felt before. Hogwarts was her home, the first one she had ever had.
Many had to agree, they had the same feeling when they were younger, while feeling sorry for her a well.
So it was with a solemn heart that she boarded the Hogwarts Express the next day.
The outdoor train station. Students are walking around, getting in the train.
"Come on now, hurry up. You'll be late. Train's leaving. Go on. Go on. Come on. Hurry up." Hagrid said.
Ophelia hands Hedwig to a train man, and walks to an open door of the train with Hermione. Hermione waves to Hagrid, who waves back. Hermione gets in the train.
"Come on, Ophelia."
"One minute." She walks over to Hagrid.
Despite them not having much interactions, she liked the half giant.
Hagrid smiled at this.
"Thought you were leaving without saying good-bye, didja?" Hagrid takes a red album out of his coat pocket and hands it to Ophelia. "This is for you."
Ophelia opens the album and sees a picture, moving, of her as a baby with Lily and James. They are all smiling and waving. Ophelia smiled at this, slightly tearing up.
"Thank you, Hagrid." Lily said.
"Not a problem' Lily." He said to her.
"Thanks, Hagrid." She shakes Hagrid's hand, then hugs him tightly.
"Oh. Go on... on with you." Ophelia lets go.
"Oh, listen, Ophelia, if that dolt of a cousin of yours, Dudley, gives you any grief, you could always, um, threaten him with a nice pair of ears to go with that tail of his."
"Yes! Fuck him!"
"But Hagrid, we're not allowed to do magic away from Hogwarts. You know that."
"I do. But your cousin don't, do he? Eh?" Hagrid chuckle. "Off you go."
Ophelia walks away, back to the train door where Hermione and Ron are waiting.
"Feels strange to be going home, doesn't it?" Hermione asked.
"I'm not going home. Not really." Ophelia responded.
Lily wanted nothing more than to engulf Ophelia in a hug at the moment.
The train whistles and they climb aboard. As the train starts to leave and the camera pans up over the whole scene, Ophelia waves out the window to Hagrid, who waves back and then waves more to other students.
Before the screen shifted to Ophiuchus with his court, and Mortem, whom was being patted on the head by Theo.
Ophiuchus then tossed them each a portkey, as a cruel smile graced his face.
"I have a bad feeling..."
"This will take you to Lestrange Manor, this summer you will all be under going training. I don't care what you have to do to get your parents or guardian to allow you to go, but you have a week to get there or else." They didn't want to know what he meant by that, so they will be going.
"I was right."
Ophiuchus won't be training them.
"Who-?"
No, he is giving them to Elias to train.
"Oh shit nevermind."
May Merlin have mercy on them,
because Elias won't.
"They are going to die aren't they?"