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A week after Nora and Harry got to know they would be chaser and seeker for Gryffindor team, they received a package on their table by morning.
Only there weren't any other owl, only the twelve owls who were carrying the two long packages.
As the present dropped in front of them, Nora immediately wanted to open it, but Harry held her back, pointing to the not on it.
DO NOT OPEN THE PARCEL AT THE TABLE.
It contains your new Nimbus Two Thousand, but I don't want everybody knowing you've got a broomstick or they'll all want one. Oliver Wood will meet you tonight on the Quidditch field at seven o'clock for your first training session.
- Professor M. McGonagall
Harry's had the exact same note.
Nora looked over to the professor table and found McGonagall patting Hedgwid's head. The girl gave her professor a smile.
"It's very kind from Professor McGonagall to give them both a better broomstick." Elijah said.
"She hates losing from Slytherin. I think she really believes that Gryffindor can finally win again with my son and Nora."
"Of course they can." Kol said, he had full trust in his niece and nephew.
And as McGonagall had said, Wood made his way over to the twins at seven. The twins had been here for over an hour, seeing as Nora dragged Harry down the pitch with her, so she could practice.
"Quidditch is easy enough to understand. Each team has seven players. Three Chasers, one of them is you, Nora," Nora nodded happily. "Two Beaters, one Keeper and a Seeker. That's you Harry."
Wood went on. "There are three kinds of balls. This one's called the Quaffle." He passed the Quaffle to Nora, who looked at it very much interest. "Now, the Chasers handle the Quaffle and try to put it through one of those three hoops."
"Ten points as a Quaffle gets in, right?" Nora asked him, Harry looked at her weirdly wanting to know how she knew.
"What?" She asked. "I read about it." She wasn't going to come down here, unprepared?
"Right you are, Nora, ten points for each Quaffle." Wood smiled at her, seeing how excited she was to play the game he loved so dearly.
"The Keeper, that's me, defends the hoops. With me so far?"
"I think so." Harry answered before looking down at the trunk and pointing at the two balls inside of it. "What are those?"
Wood took a bat out of the box and handed it to Harry telling him to take it. He took it and Wood released the balls, who were making very weird noising before going to the air.
"Careful now, it's coming back." Wood warned Harry, who used the bat to get the Bludgers away from them.
And to say Wood was impressed was an understatement. "Not bad, Potter. You'd make a fair Beater." He paused watching the Bludger get back to them. "Oh, oh."
"I think my brain is breaking." Jeremy said.
Elena, Lily, his friends and the Mikaelsons all looked weirdly at him.
"What? It's too much information."
Oliver fell to the ground, catching the Bludger, struggeling to get it back to the trunk.
After a few seconds of more struggling, he pushed the ball back inside the box and closed the lids to keep it in the trunk.
"What was that?" Harry asked, eyes wide open.
"Bludger. Nasty little buggers." He pointed at Harry. "But you are a Seeker." He showed Harry the Snitch.
"The only thing I want you to worry about is this. The Golden Snitch." Oliver handed it to Harry. "I like this ball."
"You like it now. Just wait. It's wicked fast and damn near impossible to see."
"What do I do with it?"
"You catch it, Harold." Nora said. "Before the other team's Seeker."
"You catch this, the game's over. You catch this, Potter, and we win." Wood said before the Snitch spread its wings and flew up.
"I feel a friendship coming between Nora and Oliver." Caroline voiced her thoughts.
"I don't like to say this but I agree." Rebekah said.
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They saw the four of them sitting in the Charms classroom. Nora in between Harry and Hermione. Ron was sitting next to Hermione, much to his despleasure.
"One of the wizard's most rudimentary skills is levitation or the ability to make objects fly." Professor Flitwick spoke through the class. "Do you have your feathers?" He asked, making Hermione show him the feather that was laying of front of him.
"Good. Now, don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing. The swish and flick everyone." He said while moving his hand around, and every student who was sitting down copying his movements.
"The swish and flick." He said and everyone once again, did what the professor did. "Good. Oh, and enunciate. Wingardium Leviosa. Off you go, then."
While everyone was saying the spell over and over again, making the movements with their wands, with Nora it work immediately.
Everyone was just staring at her in awe, even the Slytherins. "Well done, Miss Potter."
Elijah was looking at the screen, feeling very proud of his daughter once again.
"No, stop, stop! You're going to take someone's eye out. Besides, you're saying it wrong. It's Leviosa, not Leviosar." Hermione said after pushing his wand down, so he won't heard anyone.
Nora had just been staring at his weird movements.
"You do it then, if you're so clever. Go on."
Hermione just said "Wingardium Leviosa" and the feather started to flow above them. Nora quickly gave her best friend a high five.
"Oh, well done, Miss Granger!"
Ron just rolled his eyes and rested his head on his arms, which were laying on the table by now.
While Flitwick kept complimenting the two girls, nobody had noticed Seamus Finnegan muttering the spell over and over again making it explode, right in his face. And then everybody looked at him.
"I think we're going to need another feather over here, Professor." Harry said, looking down at the burned feather.
"Really, Harold, I am sure the burned feather can still be used." Nora said to him, sarcastically, emphasizing on the word burned.
As the class ended the students walked out. First the four boys (Ron, Harry, Seamus and Dean) and the two girls walking a bit behind them, still close enough to hear their conversation.
They were talking how proud they were of each other for completing the spell, even if it were a simple one, the two were still excited. Both Nora and Hermione just wanted to learn as much as possible.
"I like that they're both so proud of each other" Elena said.
"I know, right?" Bonnie said after Elena.
"It's Leviosa, not Leviosar." Nora suddenly heard Ron say loudly. "She's a nightmare, honestly! No wonder she hasn't got any friends." The four boys were laughing at Ron's expression of Hermione.
Hermione had heard it too, the tears forming in her eyes. Walking past them, angrily pushing Ron out of her way.
"Oh my God. Why would he say that?" Rebekah asked, feeling sorry for the young girls who had walked away with tears.
"Indeed it was not a very clever thing to say." Lily agreed.
"I can guess why." Kol said, but only received a glare from Rebekah and Lily.
"I think she heard you." Harry said making Nora slap the back of his head after they stopped walking, watching Hermione walk away.
"You think?" Nora asked, sarcastically before turning to Ron. "You're gonna apologize to her. It's not just because you didn't do it that you have to take it out on Hermione. And by the way she has friends, you arrogant toerag." She send them one last dirty look before going after her friend.
"Arrogant toerag?" Stefan asked. "Now that's creative."
Lily was having flashbacks of herself and James.
"Hermione, wait up!" Nora yelled after her, making Hermione stop walking. After seeing Hermione's face, tears running all over it she spoke. "Come on, let's go to the bathroom, were they for sure can get in."
She linked her arms with Hermione's and as soon as the two girls walking into the bathroom, Hermione started speaking angrily about Ron.
"He is always so rude. He likes you, why does he hates me so much?"
"Oh, poor girl." Bonnie said.
"He doesn't hate you. He just hates that you're better than him. Which you obviously are. I gave him a piece of my mind."
Hermione smiled sadly at her best friend. "Yes, I've heard you calling him an arrogant toerag. Language, please, Nora."
The two looked at each other before bursting out in laughter. "But he is." They said at the same time.
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The screen changed from the two girls laughing in the bathroom to the dining halls, were pumkins were floating through the air. The table filled with tasty food and desserts. "Where's Nora and Hermione?" Harry asked, after the two girls still hadn't show up for the past ten minutes. They're gonna miss dinner. He thought.
"Parvati Patil said that they wouldn't come out of the girl's bathroom." Neville answered hearing Harry's question. Harry looked confused at him. "She said that one of them has been in there all afternoon, crying."
Neville returned back to his own conversation with Dean and Harry and Ron shared a look, Ron just shrugging. But before one of them could say something, Professor Quirrell ran in, screaming and scared. "Troll! In the dungeon! Troll! In the dungeon!"
"Your joking." Damon said. "He is joking right?" He asked Lily who just sat still on her chair.
Dumbledore and McGonnagall stood up quickly before Quirral said "Thought you ought to know." And then he fainted, making everyone stand up screaming, even Ron throw his food back at his plate. And they all started running towards the door.
"Silence!" Dumbledore's loud voice could be heard through the Great Hall. All students looked back at him. "Everyone will please not panic!" He spoke, calmly. "Now, prefects will lead their house back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons."
The Gryffindor students followed Percy fast, he who was walking in an incredibly fast. "Gryffindors, keep up, please, and stay alert.
"How could a troll get in?" Harry asked Ron.
"Not on its own." Ron started to explain. "Trolls are really stupid. Probably people playing jokes." Ron walked on but Harry pulled him back. "What?" He asked confused.
"Nora and Hermione! They don't know." Harry ran off, away from the other students and Ron followed him.
They ran until they were almost at the girls bathroom where the two girls would be. But they stopped once they saw a giant shadow moving in front of them.
"I think the troll's left the dungeon." Ron spoke as Harry pulled him behind a statue. "It's going into the girl's bathroom."
"No, no, no." Elijah muttered and he was not the only Mikaelson fearing something at the moment. They all were.
While Hermione and Nora, who were both sitting on the floor, looked up as soon as they saw the ugly feet of the troll. They stood up and walked into a bathroom stall. But the troll ruined the top of it by moving his bat through it, both girls scream loudly feeling the wood of the stalls fall on them.
Now Harry and Ron ran in. "Nora, Hermione, move!" Harry yelled at them, running to the troll, while Ron was looking at the troll in fear.
Nora and Hermione did exactly what he asked. But when they were in the next stall the rest got destroyed too.
The boys started throwing sticks at him, trying the distract his attention from the girl. "Hey, pea brain!" Ron yelled while hitting the troll in his head with one of the sticks, making the troll look confused. But this gave Hermione and Nora enough time to crawl away from it, hiding under the sink.
The tolls swung his bat at the sink next to them, breaking it. Harry hung on to the bat as the troll tried to hit him again. As he swung it Harry ended up sitting on his neck. As the troll wouldn't stop moving Harry stuck his wand up his nose.
Groans of disgust were heard all over the room.
"That's just lovely." Caroline said, sarcastically.
"Ugh, brother, that's disgusting." Nora yelled out.
The troll grabbed him by his feet and held him next to him, launcing his bat at the boy. Harry, by a second, dogded it. "Do something!" He yelled.
"Like what?" Ron asked looking around to see if he could find anything to help his friend.
"Anything! Hurry up!" He yelled again as he dogded yet another swing.
Ron aimed his wand at the trolls bat. "Swish and flick." Hermione said to him, while Nora was watching her brother.
"Windgardium Leviosa." He said. The bat went out of the trolls hands and floated in the air above him, when he looked up, it fell on its head.
Nora saw that the trolls was about to fall and yelled at Harry. "Harry, move!"
Harry just started moving in time, to get away from the troll, hoping not to land under it.
"Oh, thank God, they're okay." Rebekah said after Elijah had let out a shaky breath of relief.
"How did a troll even get into that school?" Finn asked and it seemed like everybody wanted to know that.
"You'll see."
Elijah and Klaus however were agreeing on something. They should find a way to break it to Nora that maybe it was better to go to a normal school, a muggle school as they say it in the wizarding world. Elijah just couldn't imagine having to watch his daughter's life with only things like this in it.
As the troll passed out the four went closer. "Is it dead?" Hermione asked.
"I don't think so. Just knocked out." He aswered while hugging his sister. "Are you okay?" She nodded.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes."
Nora smiled at him before moving her gaze back to the troll. Harry looked back at his wand, which was still stuck in the nose of the troll. He took it out and wanted to wipe it off on his clothes.
"Harold do not wipe troll bogies on your robes, it's disgusted." But Harry had already done so, making Nora and Hermione look at him, with disgusted looks.
The teachers rushed in. "Oh, my goodness! Explain yourselves, both of you!"
"Well, what it is-" Harry started but was cut off by Hermione.
"It's my fault, Professor McGonagall."
"HUH!" Jeremy, Kol and Damon said at the same time. Hermione was taking the blame?"
Harry and Ron switched looks with each other, not believing what Hermione was doing right now. Even Professor McGonagall looked a bit surprised. "Miss Granger?"
"I went looking for the troll. I'd read about them and thought I could handle it. But I was wrong. If Harry, Nora and Ron hadn't come and found me, I would probably be dead."
Harry looked towards the teachers and saw Snape covering his leg, which was full of blood.
Snape saw Harry looking and quickly covered his leg.
"Be that as it may, it was an extremely foolish thing to do. I would've expected more rational behavior on your part and I am very disappointed in you both." Hermione looked down in shame. "Five point will be taken from Gryffindor for serious lack of judgment."
Her head snapt to Harry, Ron and Nora. "As for you tree, I just hope you realize how fortunate you are. Not many first-years students could take on a full grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. Five points will be awarded to each of you for sheer dumb luck."
Hermione gave them a small smile.
Snape and McGonagall walked out. "Perhaps you ought to go. It might wake up." Quirrel said, but made a noise of fright when the trolls snorted.
The four of them walked back to their common room. "Good of you to get us out of trouble like that." Harry said.
"Mind you, we did save her life."
"Mind you, she might not have needed saving if you hadn't insulted her." Nora smiled at seeing Harry defend Hermione towards Ron.
"What are friends for?" Ron asked while looking at Hermione, who smiled at him.
"Good night." Nora said, kissing Harry's cheek, who in return kissed her head.
"Good night."
"I'm gonna keep saying this." Caroline said. "I love their sibling bond."
"Yeah me." Elena said, wishing that her bond with her younger brother could go back to the way it was before their parents died.
"Hey, Lily-" Rebekah started but cut herself off.
The red head was gone.
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Should I let Freya appear in the room so she can also watch Nora's life?
NOTE: Currently thinking of making Oliver and Nora Quidditch besties :)
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Posted: February 7, 2024
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x Kat