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First-Year,
Well-Being
She laid awake in her bed, contemplating whether or not she wanted to return to Hogwarts. She never anticipated, having as many visions as she did, after talking with her Grammy, she had packed extra blank books to record her visions in. Then if she had any questions she could always show her once she returned home.
"Pheebs your not dressed yet?" Laura questioned
"I don't think I want to go back to Hogwarts,"
"No, you can't quit now, at least get the year over with, how am I going to survive Hogwarts without you," she smiled at her, "And who is going to knock some sense into Rhea,"
"Not me," Phoebe declared.
"Well, I'll need you for moral support," she argued, Phoebe chuckled, "Now come on, we don't want to miss the train,"
They hurried throughout the house, this time Ethan was entrusted to take them to the station. As they reached the platform she recognised some older students, that were in Ravenclaw House. Ethan immediately left them to go with his friends, she noted that they act awkwardly around each other, looking all around them.
"I wonder if they kissed, like in my vision,"
She hurried onto the train, she sat with Laura and Rhea for the majority of the train ride. That is until the twins asked to speak with Rhea, she left with them, Phoebe and Laura both looked at each other confused, there was no snarky comment, no smugness of any kind. They would need to quiz Rhea when she returned.
As the train pulled into the Hogsmeade station the students rode carriages, that moved all by themselves. She and Laura were surprised to see Fred, Rhea and George all walking together, her sister and one of them were laughing, something in the winter air must have enchanted their brains.
"Hi," Cedric said, greeting both girls with a hug, "did you have a good Christmas?"
"Yes, it was great, we got to see of Great-grandmother," Phoebe told him
"Great-grandmother?" he questioned, "I don't even know mine,"
"Yes, we don't have any grandparents," Laura said
"Neither of you?" he asked
"Well I think we have a grandmother that's alive," Phoebe said, unsure if she should tell him, "but she's in Azkaban,"
"Oh, what did she do?"
"I don't know my mum doesn't talk about her," she told him, "Laura might have grandparents," she added hoping to change the subject.
"Yeah, my mother was a muggle, so it's possible I have muggle grandparents out there somewhere,"
"You don't know them?" she shook her head,
"I'd like to, someday,"
"Maybe, we should ask mum, if she knows where they live?" Phoebe suggested, "that way we could visit them in the summer,"
"Ooh, I'd love that,"
***
The start-of-term feast wasn't something she enjoyed having to be seated at the Ravenclaw table. Her eyes wandered to the other tables, Gryffindor where her cousin laughed with his two friends, Percy and Oliver, and where her sister and her large group of friends talked loudly.
Hufflepuff's table was quieter, they knew how to talk without the entire of Hall listening, Laura talk with Cedric, they laughed at something another Hufflepuff boy said. She always faced away from the Slytherin table, not wanting to pick an argument with either of them.
Especially when one of them was known to bully her cousin Ethan, and his friend Penelope, muttering a word she never wanted to hear anyone be called. 'Mudblood.' The word made her blood run cold, she thought Lily Potter and Mary Cattermole, who and how they would have felt. It was probably the only time she had the courage to stand up to bullies.
"Hey, you okay?" she heard Rhea's voice through her ring
"Yeah, I didn't know you had a ring," she spoke back.
"Did you honestly believe Kreacher wouldn't make us all one,"
"I love Kreacher so much," she said, Rhea turned around and nodded at her agreeing with her statement.
She was glad to be back at Hogwarts, her number one goal was to get through the year, with as little interference from her visions as possible. Even if she had to suppress her own mind, if it meant getting to stay here with her family and friends, she wasn't going to let it get in her way.
Then she heard the words that her Grammy would tell her, 'if you believe someone is in true danger, then absolutely tell them' she was a person, not a walking Crystal Ball. If she had to lie to Rhea about her visions, in order to protect her own well-being then that's what she'd have to do.
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