The Diagon Alley was as busy as ever when Juvia passed the Madam Malkin's shop and she stopped, took a few steps back and looked at the models on display and she sighed when she saw the price of a particularly beautiful dress she'd love to buy, but she looked down to the money she had and sighed, knowing that year she would, again, only buy the essentials.

Hogwarts was free of charge and provided her with enough material to last her the year, but even so she needed some things to herself, some essentials of her own and that beautiful dress didn't fall into that category.

With a sigh, she was about to say good-bye to the beautiful pink dress when the reflection of someone made her heart stopped.

Juvia looked over her shoulder and a smile bloomed in her lips when she recognized the person as being Gray Fullbuster. He was fishing something from his pocket and once he found it, she recognized as coins and he easily counted them before entering the old establishment of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour; she had been there the year before and the ice creams were wonderful.

She looked down to her purse and checked her own coins – she had just exchanged her own muggle money to the wizard's at Gringotts – and she bit her lower lip. She had been sewing dolls to her neighbors who wanted personalized dolls for their children and mending clothes the entire summer so she could have some money and so far she had been known her priorities regarding the money.

But one ice cream sure wouldn't make much of a difference.

Juvia checked herself in the mirror and she wished she had brought some lipstick with he. Her hair was loose, she was wearing her usual dark-blue coat that hid most of her chest and even if it was end of summer, she didn't mind wearing it at all. She also wore black leggings, dark brown boots and her side purse.

Since she couldn't use magic outside of Hogwarts until she turned seventeen, that was the best she could do.

The blunette crossed the street and entered Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour and even though it was a bit crowded, she had no problem finding Gray, he had become quite taller during the summer and he was the last one on the line to the register.

Nervous, but confident, she went to stand behind him at the line and with a burst of courage, she touched his shoulder and asked: "Gray-sama?"

It wasn't until she heard the word "-sama" coming out of her mouth that she blinked in surprised. She didn't even called Bora that.

Gray looked over his shoulders and spotted her. He seemed very surprised to see her there. "Wha-" He asked. "Juvia? What are you doing here?"

She smiled. "Juvia was just across the street at Madam Malkin's shop and she saw you get in; she thought an ice cream was a very good idea."

Surprise replaced by a smile, Gray answered. "They do have the best."

"That they do." She agreed. "So, how was your summer?"

"Same old, same old." Gray shrugged and took a step forward on the line and so did Juvia. "It seems my foster mother just waits for me and my brother to get home to make us fix things around the house. Without magic of course." Juvia chuckled. "Either that or she just breaks stuff the day before we arrive. She says fixing things with our bare hands creates character." He scoffed. "Right. How about your summer?"

"Oh, Juvia was sewing customized dolls to the people in her neighborhood, trying to get some money." She told him and they took another step on the line. "It's not much, but maybe she'll get more requests."

"That's a good idea, if you are good at it." Gray told her. "I have an allowance each begin of school year, but I have to ration that too." He shrugged. "My parents left me some money, but I can only have full access to it when I'm seventeen. I'm on a budget too."

"Not the best feeling in the world."

"Not really." He sighed. "But hey, just two years to go now."

"That's good." It felt so natural to talk to him, the butterflies inside her stomach were still at it, but calmer now. There was something about him... "Are you here on your own?"

"Oh no, Natsu, Lucy and Erza are here too." They took another step, Gray was the next. Erza was a year older than them. "They went to get some other stuff. I'll meet up with them af-" Gray, who was looking at Juvia, looked over her shoulders and his eyes widened.

She was about to turn around when she felt a spell hit her on the back and she was thrown to the side, hitting the counter, making her whole left side hurt.

Juvia was dizzy, trying to gather her thoughts, but if she learned one thing with Jose's little Dueling Club was to not lose her mind no matter what. At the same time she was trying to understand what was happening, she was reaching for her wand inside her jacket – it was never too far from her – and she was glad she was hit on her left side since she knew moving her arm would be difficult.

"You trying to pick a fight?" She heard a voice and it took her a moment to realize she knew it. Gray's. It was Gray-sama's voice.

"Gray Fullbuster if I'm not mistaken." A deeper voice she didn't recognized said. "Where's Erza?"

"What?" Gray asked and Juvia was certain she could move. She started to get up, clumsily, but confident she could at least stall the other man.

"Where is she?" The deeper voice asked again and only then Juvia looked to where the two of them, Gray and a very tall and large man were pointing their wands at each other.

"Who the hell are you?" Gray's question was between gritted teeth.

Juvia, then, with her own wand raised stepped between the two of them. She wasn't supposed to use magic outside school, but her life was being threatened, she was sure they would take that into consideration.

"Juvia won't let you lay a finger on Gray-sama." She told the tall man. "Juvia will be your opponent."

"Juvia..." She heard Gray from behind her.

"Go and find Erza-san." She told him without taking her eyes off their enemy. "She's in danger."

Before Gray could reply, the large man frowned, tilted his head and said to himself. "You've already found her? Oh, is that so? Then.... Mind if I tidy things up on my end?" Juvia's eyes got wide – that was not good.

And then the lights went off.

"Geminio!" She heard Gray say and then another time, and she felt his forearm on her chest, pushing her back behind the counter. She let herself be handled and felt him sit next to her behind the counter, where an old man was also hiding, and shaking.

They heard some havoc and then the door was opened then closed, the darkness gone and they could see.

After a few seconds of silence, Juvia slowly peeked over the counter, even when Gray tried to pull her down – but her gut was telling her the threat was gone. She couldn't see the man anymore and she breathed in relieve and she sat back on the floor next to Gray.

"He's gone." She told him and he sighed in relief, but both tensed when the door was opened again. Juvia looked at Gray and both of them nodded – they could fight if necessary. But then they heard a familiar voice.

"Gray!" It was Lucy Heartfilia's voice and she had screamed. "This can't be true! Hey! Snap out of it!"

With a frown, Juvia got up after Gray, not understanding why Lucy would scream like that until she saw a copy of their bodies on the floor and both her and Gray looked as if they were dead.

"Lucy, calm down!" Gray said and the blonde almost jumped in surprised to see him. "I had to make a duplicate, that guy was trying to kill us. Look, there's not even blood."

"Oh, thank Merlin." Lucy put a hand over her chest in relief and then she got her eyes wide. "They took Erza! We were together, then there was this man, they knew each other and then... they took her! I was tied up, but I could reach my wand and got free. But by then, they apparated."

"Dammit!" Gray cussed. "Where did they take her?"

"I don't know!" Lucy was almost crying at that point. "They talked about a Tower? And Jellal." At the name, Juvia saw Gray tense. "And a rare diamond for a powerful spell? I was trying to get to Erza and we still have to find Natsu-"

As if on cue, Natsu slammed the door opened, he was breathing hard and seemed a bit worse to wear, but other than that, unharmed. "That bastard!"

"Natsu, they took Erza!" Gray told him and the boy's eyes widened. "We don't know where to begin to look for her and the ministry will be here any second, since we are all underage so we need to be fast."

"Dammit!" Natsu punched the doorway.

Juvia, then, gasped. "Oh!" Everyone looked at her. "Juvia knows where they might be." Seeing everyone's eyes on her, she proceeded. "The Tower of London! They have an exhibition on the Crown Jewels, there are all types of gems there: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and of course, diamonds. Some of them are very rare."

Lucy's eyes widened. "That makes sense! They are going to the Tower!"

Gray seemed more uncertain, but nodded. "That's the best lead we have. Let's go before the ministry arrives and we can't look for her." Gray hesitated. "I... don't think we know how to get there by muggle transportation." He looked to Lucy and Natsu and both nodded, had been brought up by wizard families.

"Juvia knows how to get there." She nodded. "Come on."

#

Entering the Tower was relatively easy when done it by the Traitor's Gate and with being a wizard or a witch so they could blow up the first wall without being detected. After Juvia casted a Bubble-Head Charm that allowed each of them to breath underwater for thirty-minutes, they dived into the Thames and swam towards the tower.

Natsu was in charge of making a hole on the wall and being the best with explosive spells, he had done it quite alright. Once everyone was between the wall and the Gate, Lucy casted the Alohomorra spell and it opened effortless. Once they were inside, she closed it once again to not raise suspicions.

They slowly moved towards the stairs, trying to hear if any Beefeater was coming their way and when they saw none, they jumped the fence and Juvia undid the Bubble-Head Charm in all of them.

"That was amazing." Natsu whispered to Juvia. "Good job." Juvia gave him a small smile. "Who are you again?"

"Juvia Lockser, same year as you in Hogwarts." She was amused as she used a drying spell on her clothes and he did the same.

"Oh. Sorry, not too good with name or faces unless I see them all the time." He shrugged and then Gray and Lucy joined them, also already dry. "So, where to, now?"

Juvia was about to speak when some Beefeaters appeared, they seemed as if in a trance until they saw the four young wizards.

Without thinking twice, the four of them stupefied the Beefeaters before any alarms could be rang.

"They looked as if they were controlled by the way they looked." Natsu commented when they got near the fallen Beefeaters. "Right?"

"Imperius curse." Lucy whispered and her eyes got wide. "Maybe they all are under it."

"Bloody hell." Gray said. "Okay, where's the exhibition?" He asked Juvia.

She pointed to a tunnel directly in front of the Traitor's Gate. "If we go through here, we see the White Tower and then after we walk around it, there's a building with the exhibition."

"Wh-What are you guys doing here?" The heard from their side and when they looked that way, there was Erza and she looked baffled.

"Erza!" Lucy exclaimed in happiness while Juvia and Gray sighed in relief.

Natsu got angry, though. "What do you mean? We'd be disgracing Hogwarts if we just backed off and let them walk all over us! And there's no way I'm letting that bastard who took me off guard, go off easily!"

Erza finally noticed Juvia and looked surprised, while Juvia felt absolutely terrified – only a few people managed to make her feel that way, and she knew enough of Erza's dexterity with a wand to fear her. "Um... Juvia is here because... well..."

"Go back." The red-haired woman cut her off and everyone seemed surprised. "You guys shouldn't be here."

"But Erza..." Lucy tried.

"I don't care about this crap." Natsu said, running before anyone could catch him in the direction Juvia had told him to a few moments before.

"Natsu-san!" Juvia called him.

"Hey! Natsu!" Even Erza tried, but he didn't stop.

"That moron! Running off on his own!" Gray complained.

Lucy suggested: "Let's follow him!"

Erza stepped in front of them. "You can't. Go back."

"Erza!" Gray protests, but apparently the red haired woman would have none of it.

"I'll take care of Natsu and bring him back. You guys, get away from here right now."

"We can't do that!" Lucy yelled and Juvia admired the woman's guts for yelling at Erza Scarlet. They must've been pretty close. "We're not leaving without you!"

"This is my problem. I don't want you guys getting involved." Erza turned her back at them and her voice wasn't much louder than a whisper.

"We're already involved. You saw how Natsu was." Gray tried to sound nonchalant, but Erza said nothing.

"Erza... What is this tower? Who's this Jellal guy?" Lucy asked gently and Juvia watched, amazed. "Though is fine if you don't want to tell us..." Lucy's eyes focused on the ground. "I know you said those guys were your friends before, but we are your friends now. We'll always be here for you, Erza." Lucy smiled and Juvia had to fight the urge to just pull Erza towards her friends and run away from that place. Nothing good would come up from that night or whatever diamond they were looking for.

"G-go." Erza said, and Juvia saw she was shaking.

"This isn't like you, Erza. Why can't you just stop saying all this useless stuff and tell 'follow me' like you always do?" Gray asked. "We'll help you out. Even you are allowed to be sacred sometimes, you know?"

Juvia felt her own eyes get blurry with tears because it was as if Gray's words were also spoken to her. She remembered Professor Jose telling her to never be afraid, to always be in control of the situation. No one ever told her that it was okay to be scared once in a while. All she ever knew was to always be strong, always be the most powerful witch in the room otherwise she wasn't good enough.

She almost forgot she was human before she was a witch.

It came as no surprise when Erza turned around and she was crying. "In this fight, whether I win or lose, I'll probably die.."

"What?" Lucy asked, shocked.

"Wh-What do you mean?" Even Gray looked taken aback.

"This is an unavoidable future, so...." Erza gasped. "So, while I'm still here, I'll tell you everything I know." She took a breath. "After the War against You-Know-Who, there were many orphans. Most pure-blood like Natsu and half-blood like you, Gray, were placed in Wizard's Orphanages. Some of us were not so lucky." She sighed. "I never told anyone, but they took us to some place where they would run tests on us, tests of how long we would go under pressure until our magic defended us. It was painful, awful. Jellal was there." She smiled with the memory. "He was the one who protected us. Until they took him and put him under the Imperius Curse. His mind was shed into pieces with how much they have been messing with it. He's still being controlled."

"One day, I saw them bring a muggle-born. A boy, no older than seven and I swear to you, they were able to make him a muggle again." Juvia gasped, a hand on her mouth. "That's what they have been doing, trying to find the right ingredient to have more muggle-borns to never have magical abilities. They want to purify our race for You-Know-Who."

Juvia widened her eyes and she certainly got pale, hating to imagine a world where she wasn't a witch, her hand tightened around her wand even more, as if to assure it was still there.

"They found it."

"Yes." Erza looked away. "The Jubilee Diamond was transferred here for a few days. Its size will certainly be enough."

"How will they...?" Lucy tried to ask.

"I don't know." Erza shook her head. "I don't have all the answers. But... I must... I'll stop him, no matter what. In a way, I'll free him."

#

"Natsu!" Lucy yelled, followed by Juvia. They learned the Beefeaters were not wizards, so they'd be pretty easy to stupefy. "He should be able to hear us, these halls carry the sounds pretty well!"

"Now that I stop to think about it: why on earth is Juvia searching for Natsu-san together with Lucy-san?" Juvia asked herself aloud.

"Ignoring me, huh?" Lucy got annoyed. "Well, you are the one who pulled me when Gray told us to look for Natsu!"

"Well, Juvia could not disrespect Gray-sama's wishes; but putting me together with my rival in love" to which Lucy repeated it in a high-pitched voice "is he trying to cause a fight?"

"I'm really trying not to get involved in this whole thing, you know." Juvia eyed her with suspicion, she saw how Gray treated her. After the whole kidnapping thing and Juvia realizing she might have been falling in love with Gray Fullbuster, she had watched his interactions and his relationship with Lucy made the ugly green-eyed monster inside her howl in rage. She had never felt like that with Bora. "C-can't we just get along?" Lucy seemed to be frightened by Juvia, which was good. But something caught her attention and she turned to the blonde.

"What whole thing?" Juvia asked, curious."

Lucy blinked and turned around to speak to her and was suprised. "Your feelings towards Gray?"

Juvia's cheeks became so hot she was certain they were vermillion. "What?" Her voice was high-pitched.

"Don't worry, it's not that obvious for the boys because they are clueless," she rolled her brown eyes "but I can see the way you look at him. It's the same way I look to my clueless guy." Lucy sighed. "And you smile a lot around him, touch your hair... you know, all the tells."

Juvia didn't know what to feel about Lucy knowing. It wasn't as if she was ashamed, she was just... afraid. Not of loving him, because that felt pretty good. No, she was afraid of rejection, like she always have.

"Don't-" The blunette whispered. "Don't tell him."

"Never." Lucy smiled. "It's in the girl's code, I can't tell him until he figures it out."

"Girl's code?" She was unfamiliar with it, and she tried to remember a book in Hogwarts with that name.

"Oh, Juvia, we are going to have a long talk about the code now that we are friends." Lucy giggled. "I'll introduce you to the others, they will be glad to see you there."

Lucy took a few steps but Juvia stayed behind, eyes wide because of Lucy's words. Were they friends now? It took her months to be friends with Gajeel and he was her only friend. Could it really be that easy? Did Lucy... like her?

Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud guitar started to play in the wrong way, making it a terrible noise – at least to Lucy, Juvia seemed to like it. "Wh-What's that noise? A guitar?" Lucy yelled. "Argh, it's so loud!"

"Juvia thinks it's rather good, actually." The blunette shrugged.

"There's really something wrong with you!" Lucy said loud over the music and when she looked with wide eyes to a point behind Juvia. The blunette immediately turned around just to see a pale man with black long hair, tight leather pants and a guitar.

"Hey Yeah!" He yelled, looking like the crazy shit he probably was. "Fuckin' girls! This is my concert of hell." He showed his ridiculous long tongue all the while he played his guitar. "I'm from Skull Order. Hey! We're the skulls! Cool name, ain't it?" Juvia thought it was, but she was not going to let him know that. "Member of Trinity Raven, they call me Vithaldas Taka!" He sang his introduction and suddenly he yelled 'Expelliarmus'. Juvia shoved Lucy down to the floor and was out of the way when Vithaldas shot in her direction. She immediately yelled the same spell followed by 'Bombarda!' and he yelled 'Protego', nullifying the charm. "That's a sweet aim you got there, girlie! If I hadn't move, I'd be dead!"

"Good luck, Juvia! I can't handle him!" Lucy yelled from her place, hiding behind a wall, but with her wand in hand.

They dueled for a minute more before Juvia went to hide next to Lucy. She needed a moment to take a breath.

"My, my... we do have a couple of fine ladies here." Juvia could hear him taunt them

"Ahh, not this again!" Lucy whined.

"Wh-What do you mean?" Juvia asked.

The blonde looked at her. "Being cute only ever attracts trouble." And for a moment, they both smiled, until they heard his next words.

"Now-which-one-should-choose?" He sang and Juvia frowned when she imagine what he was doing. "Let's-leave-it-up-to-the-de-vil-in-hell!" Vithaldas laughed. "Well, that's that! You're gonna be my Succubus for today!" Juvia wondered who got picked and what he meant by Succubus. In her distraction, she failed to notice Vithaldas creeping in by the wall.

The next thing she knew was that she grabbed her right hand, took her wand away from her and dodged the punch she threw in his face with her left hand by reflex. Suddenly she saw his wand on the side of her head. "Imperius. Rock of Succubus, darling!"

It felt as if Juvia was floating, she was feeling so good when she bent over to get her wand, like she was told her to. And when the order to take off her coat came, she did it without hesitations, the fog in her mind making her feel amazing.

"Good girl." She heard him say. "Now kill her." Juvia tried to fight him off because she didn't want to, for some reason, she didn't want to- "I said kill her!"

"Yes." It felt as if her body didn't belong to her. Lucy was eyeing her with worry, her wand up in a protective manner. Juvia wanted to tell her to run, but nothing came out of her mouth.

"Juvia! Get a hold of yourself." Lucy's voice was damped by Vithaldas echoing 'fight her, kill her'.

"She's my succubus now. She'll only take orders from me!" He said and Juvia wanted to turn around and show him exactly whom she belonged to: herself, but she advanced towards Lucy – much slower than if she were in her normal state.

"Juvia! Are you serious?" Lucy was visibly scared when Juvia got too close and with the tiny bit control she had, which was almost nothing, instead of hitting Lucy on the face, Juvia decided to buy time and torn Lucy's blouse.

"Ohhhh Yeah! This is what I like to see!" His voice said and inside Juvia wanted to cry. She didn't want to do any of that. Lucy grabbed some of her shirt and covered herself.

Juvia pulled her up and gave her a headbutt, maybe trying to put herself unconscious so she couldn't fight anymore, but neither she nor Lucy lost consciousness.

"I know you are good! Stop attacking your own friends!" Lucy's words went ignored and Juvia slapped her on the face and then held her by the hair, pulling some of it before letting her go. She should have ran, Juvia thought. He wanted her dead and so far she had only used her body to attack her, not her wand. The moment she did...

"Hey yeah! Hair! Oh, I love it, Succubus. Keep it up!" Master said and Juvia reached for Lucy once again, grabbing her by the hair before spinning the blonde around and slapping Lucy's ass, while she cried out.

"This is sadism!" Lucy said when Juvia once again had released her, just like a cat playing with its food.

'This isn't Juvia. Not any of it.' Juvia thought, grabbing Lucy by the hair again and dragging her towards her Master and stopped halfway through, letting her go before kicking Lucy on her thighs. 'Juvia doesn't want to hurt her friend. It is presumptuous to call her that. She is Juvia's rival in love. Juvia has come to love you all. It seems so friendly, fun and warm. As though even if it's raining outside, in there the sun is always shining. Just when Juvia thought she was finally starting to get along with everyone... It seems Juvia can only bring sadness.'

Lucy was staring up to her, eyes wide and Juvia was having trouble seeing all of a sudden because her eyes were burning. Juvia threw Lucy away just as her master yelled: "Juvia-chan! It's time to finish her!"

Juvia raised her wand, hands shaking, trying to fight the curse the best she could while crying. She was afraid to open her mouth and some forbidden curse fall out of her lips. But she had to warn her, she had to warn Lucy she had to protect herself.

"Run." Juvia managed to say between gritted teeth. "Fast. Run." Seeing she was still resisting, Vithaldas' grip in her mind became tighter. "Run. Now." It was what she could say before she was under again.

After that, she lost control and yelled 'Avada Kedavra', but Lucy was quick, thankfully. And Juvia's tears were of joy.

Somehow, Lucy looked right into Juvia's eyes. "Someone who shed tears for the sake of her friends could never be rejected by any of us!"

"Juvia! Finish her off already!" Vithaldas yelled and Juvia launched herself towards Lucy, wand in hand, wishing the blonde could watch out.

"I would've been scared if the real Juvia were fighting me!" Lucy yelled, grabbing Juvia's wrist and using strength Juvia didn't know the blonde had, pushed her towards Vithaldas. "I'm not scared of you!"

Juvia didn't fight at all when Lucy grabbed the wand from her hand and yelled, while pointing at Vithaldas: "Expelliarmus!" His wand flew and then the blonde yelled: "Stupefy!" He flew back and his back hit the Tower's wall, making lose consciousness.

Suddenly, Juvia's world was right again, not foggy at all and she was mistress of her own mind again. Lucy, who was just in front of her, asked: "Juvia?" Her only answer was to sob and nod, Lucy wrapped her arms around her. "Oh, thank Merlin." She kissed the top of the blunette's head. "You are frightening to fight against! Let's never do this again!"

"Okay." Juvia laughed through her sobs and both girls stayed that way for a while until they had to let go of one another.

"Are you okay?" Lucy asked, gently.

"Juvia is the one who hit you." She answered, in shame.

"These?" She looked down. "A potion and it is resolved." Lucy shrugged. "But you... That was an Imperius Curse, Juvia. It leaves more scars in a mind than a few purple spots in a body."

"I'm fine." Juvia said and grabbed her wand from Lucy's hand, pointing at Vithaldas, whispering: "Incarcerous." Ropes appeared out thin air and wrapped themselves around his unconscious form.

Juvia was so exhausted, she fell to her knees not too far from there, Lucy by her side. Her mind was a mess. All she wanted was to sleep. "Maybe... Maybe we should rest for a bit."

"Maybe we should." Lucy agreed, gently putting Juvia's back against the wall and she sat next to the blunette, grabbing the hand between the bodies. "I hope the boys and Erza are okay."

"Me too." Juvia whispered, putting her wand on her pocket, before she slowly closed her eyes.

#

Juvia waited outside the room at the Ministry of Magic, where they would see if her actions that day had been good enough to have broken the law about not doing magic outside Hogwarts. So far she had seen Erza coming out free, Natsu too, Lucy came out of the room a few moments before, a man was talking to someone who seemed to be her father behind her – a pure-blood through and through, after four years in Hogwarts, she could spot one in miles – a blonde man in his early forties. Lucy had seen her and, to not contradict her father, probably, just offered a small smile and a discreet wave.

Feeling warm inside by having made another friend, Juvia repeated the gesture and even went for a smile. Lucy mouthed 'I'm gonna write you' and the blunette nodded.

It was a nice feeling.

But then, Lucy and her father left, she was alone and scared again. What if they expelled her? What if she was sent to Azkaban, just like Jellal and his minions had been sentenced to?

She was shaking so much, her heart was beating so fast she almost jumped when she felt someone sit by her side and when she found out who it was, her heart almost stopped.

"Hey." He greeted her. "Afraid?" No reason to lie, she just raised one hand and it was shaking so much Gray raised an eyebrow. "Alright, none of this now." He got the hand she had showed him and the other and put it between his. They were so warm. "We did what we had to do. They had kidnapped a friend, no one else would've believed in us if we had told them their plans so we had to act. They wanted to get rid of all muggle borns, we stopped it." He told her firmly. "We did what we had to do."

"Juvia knows." She whispered. "But if she is expelled... Hogwarts is all I have."

He frowned. "Well, you have a bunch of friends now too and we don't leave our friends behind. We will fight for you not to be expelled. Don't worry."

Juvia shook her head. "Juvia's a Slytherin, and all of you are..."

"People." Gray told her. "Houses shouldn't matter as much as it does. None of us think a House defines a person, and neither should you. We will not reject you because you are a Slytherin, and we hope you don't reject us because we are Gryffindors." She shook her head. "Good. Now, who's gonna speak for you today?"

"No one-"

"I will." They looked to the side and saw Makarov there, a smile on his lips. "Hello, Juvia-chan."

"Wh-" She was confused. The Headmaster of Hogwarts came all way down to the Ministry of Magic because of her?

"All my students are my children." He informed her and Juvia cried.

"Thank you." She sobbed.

"Okay, now go get ready, you are next. I'll have to go back to my mom." He pointed towards the end of the corridor where Juvia saw a woman with short dark hair speaking with some old man. "Don't cry. Things will work out."

"Thank you." She muttered and he let go of her hands, making her miss the warmth of it immediately, she noticed she wasn't shaking anymore.

He just shrugged. "See you at the train." He said with certainty before he said his good-byes to Makarov and went to his foster mother.

Makarov sat beside her. "Don't worry, my child. We will be in and out before you know it."

"Thank you again for coming." She smiled and he did the same. A few minutes later, her name was called and they entered the room

#

"Come on, Gajeel-kun!" Juvia said, excited as they walked the hall of the Hogwarts Express – just like Makarov and Gray had promised, she hadn't been expelled and Gajeel had been angry when he knew he missed one hell of a fight – and she was looking for the compartment with the Gryffindors.

Usually, the couple got their own compartment but this year she was changing things.

"They'll kick us out." Gajeel practically sang and Juvia rolled her eyes; he could be so childish sometimes.

"Just behave when we get there, okay?" She stopped, turned around and arranged his Slytherin tie and he slapped her hand away. "Gajeel-kun! First impressions count!"

"Too late for that." He snorted. "Remember? We kind of kidnapped and terrorized one of them? And there were duels and-"

"Waters under the bridge." She cut him off. "Now, really, behave. They are nice, strong people. You will like them."

"Hmph." He didn't sound too convincing but followed her until she found the compartment with Lucy, Natsu, Erza and Gray. Just seeing him made her stomach flutter, he was so handsome.

"Juvia!" Lucy exclaimed in delight once the blunette slid the door open and pulled her for a hug. "How have you been?"

"Alright." She smiled genuinely; as long as Lucy wasn't being too friendly with Gray, Juvia really liked her. It was fun to have someone to write to at that end of the summer. "Can we join you?"

"Of course." Her smile faltered when she saw Gajeel, but then smiled bright again. "I think no introductions are needed."

Gajeel snorted. "I would think so."

"What is he doing here?" Natsu asked, getting up from his seat.

"Juvia is one thing, but him..."

"It's not like I want to be here-" Gajeel snarled

"Shut it." Lucy was firm and all the boys shut up. "Both of you" she pointed at the Gryffindor boys "sit down. No one is asking for you to be BFFs. We are sharing the compartment, not the rest of our lives. "And you," she turned to Gajeel "no funny business or baiting the boys."

"There it goes my whole trip." He pretended to sigh.

Lucy rolled her eyes and sat next to Natsu and told him to lie down on her lap, since he was going to get sick in a few minutes, like always.

Since Natsu was occupying most of the seat once he lied down, Juvia sat next to Gray, nervous. She looked up to Lucy and the blonde winked at her, making Juvia blush.

"Natsu-san seems very ill." Juvia whispered to Gray a few moments later.

"He gets motion sickness." Gray told her, also quietly, so their faces were only inches apart. "That's the reason he never tried to get in the Quidditch team."

"Oh." Juvia nodded. "Gajeel-kun gets sick too." She looked over her shoulder and saw her friend by the end of the compartment, next to the door, eyes closed and very pale. "There's a potion for that."

"Yeah, sometime works, sometime doesn't." He shrugged.

"How was the rest of your Summer?" She asked and they talked the rest of the trip to Hogwarts, the rest of the group joining a few minutes later.

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Juvia sat with Gajeel at the Slytherin table, the Sorting Hat had just finished when Makarov stepped up and started his speech, welcoming them.

"As you know, Professor Porla is no longer with us. I'm sure all sort of gossip about it." He chuckled and many people did as well. "To take his place as both Transfiguration Teacher and Head of the Slytherin House, we welcome Professor Purehito Gaebolg also known as Hades, an old friend of mine. A round of applause, please." He started and the rest of the Great Hall followed.

An old man with a long white beard stood up, he had an eyepatch and long white hair and didn't even bothered to smile, just bow a bit to show his respect and then sat down.

"Juvia doesn't like him." He whispered to Gajeel. Her gut was telling her he was off somehow, but it could be her imagination.

"Something's off, right?" Gajeel whispered back and Juvia nodded. "Well, as long as he isn't as bad as Jose... I mean, how worse can that get?"

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AN: The End.

Lol, I'm kidding. HAHA

Haha, no, but really this is muuuuuuuch longer than what I planned. Let's see what happens. Thanks for all feedbacks! <3 You are lovely!