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Mrs. Weasley picks up a pot of the mantel. "You first, Harry, dear." She said, offering Harry the flowerpot, which on the bottom was a layer of very soft dust.

Harry and Nora shared a look of confusion before Ron spoke up, speaking to his mom. "But Harry and Nora never traveled by Floo powder before, Mum."

"Floo Powder?" Nora and Harry asked at the same time.

"It's creepy when they do that." Elena said.

"For real." Jeremy replied.

"Oh, well, you go first, Ron. So that they can see how it's done." Mrs. Weasley said as Ron walked forwards to the fireplace. "Yes. In you go. That's it."

Ron grabbed a handful of the Powder as Mrs. Weasley softly shoved everyone a bit backwards. "Diagon Alley." The weasley dropped the Floor Powder on the ground and disappeared in a burst of green flames.

"AWESOME!" Kol screamed.

"Don't take this as an offence but the people in your world become more crazy every second." Caroline said.

"Yeah who even thought about travelling through a fireplace?" Elena asked.

"Don't worry, Elijah. It's not gonna harm them." Lily said as she saw the worry on the father's face as he imaged his daughter travelling by Floo Powder.

While Harry looked rather horrified at the thought of travelling in fire, Nora was excited.

"Ooh, can I go next?"

"Of course she's excited." Finn mumbled.

"It's quite easy, dear. Come on. In you go." Mrs. Weasley said as Nora, like Ron, made her way over to the fireplace. "That's it. Mind your head." She warned the young girl, who's head almost collided with the wall above her.

Nora grabbed the Floo Powder with her right hand.

"Now, don't forget to speak very, very clearly." Mrs. Weasley said, warning the girl once more.

Nora smiled at her brother speaking very loudly. "Diagonally."

The girl also disappeared in the green flames.

"What did she say?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Diagonally." Fred answered, worriedly.

"I though she did."

Meanwhile Nora landed violently in a room, surrounded by black but strange and sinister items, breaking her glasses while dust covered her black Hogwarts robes.

"I don't think she's supposed to be there." Kol said, his excitment from the Floo Powder long forgotten.

"You think so Kol?" Rebekah asked her brother sarcastically. "Of course our niece is somewhere she isn't supposed to be. Sounds like something you would do." She said, ignoring the glare her brother send her.

Once she put the glasses back on her nose, she looked around the shop, mostly at the little heads that stood on a shelf, which became noticeable when she stood up.

Next to the heads was an ugly hand, but Nora made the mistake of touching the hand, because from the moment she touched it, the hand grabbed her own hand, but she manages to get herself free quickly enough.

Which was good, because she saw Draco Malfoy near the shop door.

"Oh, he's here." Klaus said, rolling his eyes.

She opened some sort of closest and stepped inside it, hoping that he had not seen her. She closed the door as she heard the door open and Draco entered, immediately showing curiosity in a statue close by him.

A man with extremely long (to long for Nora's opinion) blond hair walked in behind Draco. She didn't see what he did to Draco. All she saw was the boy withdraw his hand.

"He looks like a barbie." Stefan said.

"That's an offence to Barbie." Caroline stated, looking at the man with judgy eyes.

"Don't touch anything, Draco."

"Yes, Father."

The shop's owner, Nora assumed, stepped out behind the counter. "Ah, Mr. Malfoy, what a pleasure to see you again. And young Master Malfoy, too. Delighted. I must show you, just in today and very reasonably-" The man was cut off by the Blonde barbie.

"I'm not buying today, Borgin." He told the man. "I'm selling."

"Selling?" Borgin asked, his creepy smile slowly disappearing.

"Creepy is an understatement." Bonnie said.

"Draco."

Draco stopped looking around and joined his father at the counter and went directly back to looking at the objects.

"You are aware no doubt that the Ministry of Magic is conducting more raids on private houses. There's even rumors of a new Muggle Protection Act." Mr. Malfoy said, hatred in his eyes and voice.

"Pure wizard blood is counting for less everywhere, I'm afraid."

"Pure wizard blood?" Elijah asked.

"Pure-bloods are wizards and witches who have no Muggle blood, so Muggle-borns, or half-bloods at all in their family tree. There are not many families left who ate pure-blood." James explained.

"Not with me. Anyway, I brought a few items from home that might prove, uh, embarrassing if the Ministry were to call. Just poisons and the like." Lucius said as Mr. Borgin started to go though the box, when his eyes suddenly opened wide.

"Look at that!"

"That particular item is not for sale."

"I don't understand. It has unique qualities."

Nora couldn't see what it was that Borgin was holding up in his hand but she knew that she found it weird that Mister Malfoy brought an item to a store if it wasn't for sale anyway.

"One wouldn't want to see it falling into the wrong hands."

Draco walked over to the cabinet where Nora was hiding in, but luckily for her, she was not visible from the outside of it.

Lucius was accepting a pile of coins from Mr. Borgin. "You can keep the box." He said, making Borgin smile sinisterly.

Nora almost screamed when Lucius cane came on the cabinet, right next to the right hole she was looking through.

"What did I say?" He asked angrily.

"Touch nothing." The boy answered.

"Poor Draco." Elena said. Yes, Draco had been mean to Harry, Ron and Hermione but nobody deserved to have a parents who acts like this.

"Come, we're going." Lucius said, taking the money of the counter as Draco throws one last look at the cabinet.

"It's a pleasure to do business with you, Mr. Malfoy. Always a pleasure." Borgin said to the two Malfoy's who quickly left the store. This time without the box, which was now in Borgin's hands.

When Borgin finally left the room and nobody else was in sight, Nora opened the cabinet and headed out of the store, Borgin grabbed her arm, making Nora scream.

At moments like this, Elijah hated himself more than anyone for leaving his 'new' family behind.

But if he didn't leave them he was sure Klaus would've killed Jasmine like he did with Celeste.

"Looking for something?" He asked her, suspicious as to way she was in his shop.

"No, Sir, just in the wrong shop." She replied as the man let her go, she didn't hesitate to leave immediately.

To say she did not like where she was, would be an understatement.

From the moment she left the store, people started at her intensely and to be honest it scared her when she tried to get past a man, who did not move as he started.

Backing away from him, an elderly witched grabbed her. "Not lost, are you, my dear?"

"No, I'm fine, thank you." She withdraw her arm from the woman's grip and turned around just to be met with more creepy people.

"Come with us. We'll help you find your way back." A witch said, grabbing her shoulder.

"Oh, hell no, I don't think so." Nora said, shaking her hand off.

"See sister she takes after you, too." Kol said. "With her cursing."

"Nora!" A familiar voice said, scaring the wizards and witches away from her. "What d'you think doing down here? Come on!"

"Thank God for Hagrid." Stefan said.

Nora quickly ran over to Hagrid and the two left Knockturn Alley together.

"You're a mess, Nora."

Nora gasped as she looked up at the giant. "Is my hair okay?"

"You're hair is fine." Hagrid said, getting reminded by the Sirius flashbacks once again. "Skulking around Knockturn Alley? Dodgy place. Don't want no one to see you there. People'll think you up to no good."

"I was lost." Nora said, defending herself, but then she realized something as she turned to Hagrid. "Hang on, what were you doing down there then?"

"Me?" Hagrid asked. "Oh, I was, um, I was looking for a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent. They're ruining all the school cabbages.

A bit ahead of them, Hermione came out of a shop, directly making her way over to them. "Nora! Hagrid!" The Granger spoke as she hugged Nora.

The first thing Nora noticed was Hermione's hair. It was still bushy but less than the year before.

"Yeah that's true." Rebekah agreed.

"It's better like this." Caroline stated.

"Hello, Hermione." Hagrid greeted as well.

"Oh, it's so good to see you, Nora"

"Well, it's great to see you too, Mione."

"What did you do to your glasses?" Hermione asked, raising her wand. "Oculus Reparo."

Normally if someone pointed a wand at her head she would be scared but she trusted Hermione.

"I definitely need to remember that one."

"You'll be all right now then, Nora?" Nora nodded. "Right, I'll leave you to it." He said before leaving.

"Bye." The two girls said together.

"Come on, everyone's been so worried! You should've seen Harry." Hermione said as she remember the worry and frustration on the Older Potter's face while also taking Nora's hand and leading them over to Flourish and Blotts where everyone was waiting for them.

Before Harry could even ask if Nora was okay or where she was Mrs. Weasley was already speaking to her while brushing the dust of the girl's robes. "Oh Nora, thank goodness! We hoped you'd only gone one grate too far!"

"I'm thankful that they had Molly." Lily whispered to James, who nodded.

"Ladies and gentleman, Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart."

"Oh, there he is!" Mrs. Weasley said, clearly very excited as she fixed her hair a bit.

Nora saw Hermione and Ginny applaud together with the rest of the mostly female crown.

"Mom fancies him." Ron said to Nora and Harry, who looked confused from Mrs. Weasley to the man.

"Are we supposed to know him?" Nora asked Ron.

"He's nobody special." The redhead answered.

"Make way there, please! Let me by, madam, thank you." A photographer spoke as he shoved Hermione and her parents out of the way. "This is for The Daily Prophet."

The man made a photo of Lockhart but the 'famous' man's eye had fallen on the twins. "It can't be. Nora and Harry Potter."

Now the whole crowd was looking in their direction.

"Potters." The photographer said, taking their arms - even though he was smaller then both Nora and Harry- and shoving them towards Lockhart.

"Nice big smile, Nora, Harry." Lockhart said as he pulled both Nora and Harry to his side. Nora on his left, Harry on the man's right. "Together we rate the front page."

The twins don't answer or smile but the photographer took a photo of the tree anyway.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what an extraordinary moment this is!" Lockhart spoke, loudly. "When young Nora and Harry stepped into Flourish and Blotts this morning to purchase my autobiography Magical Me." The crowd applauded again excitedly, Ginny and Hermione too but Ron and Nora shared a look of bewilderness. "Which incidentally, is currently celebrating its twenty-seventh week atop the Daily Prophet bestseller list."

'Maybe the list is going from worst to best book, because I wouldn't read anything this man even recommends.' Nora thought.

"Yeah, me neither." Finn said. The man was clearly self-absorbed to much for anyone's well being.

"They had no idea that they would, in fact, be leaving with my entire collected works" He shoved a pile of books into both twins their arms. "free of charge."

The photographer snapped yet another picture and Nora and Harry both walked away from the crazy man as soon as they could.

Mrs. Weasley took Harry's pile and said. "Harry, now you give me those, and I'll get them signed. All of you wait outside."

Nora passed her books to Ginny. "You have these. I'll buy my own." She rather have that the Wealsey have these books than her, only holding on to The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 by Miranda Goshawk.

"That's sweet of her." Elijah said to his sister.

Ginny happily place the books in her cauldron. "Thank you."

Nora joined the twins as the other four tried to go outside but were stopped by Malfoy. "Bet you loved that, didn't you, Potter? Famous Harry Potter, can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page."

"Okay." Damon started. "I want to know why Malfoy's never attacking Nora."

"If we knew, we would tell you." James said but he and Lily had a small though they knew why.

Harry, Nora and the others all glared at him.

"Leave him alone." Ginny said, stepping forwards.

"Oh look Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend."

Suddenly the cane of his father, landed on his shoulder, pushing Draco aside. "Now, Draco, play nicely." He turned to the Potters. He extended his hand to Harry as they shook hands. "Lucius Malfoy, we meet at last. Forgive me." He pulled Harry closer and pushed away the boy's hair so that his scar became visible. "Your scars are legend, as, of course, is the wizard who gave it to you both." He said, finally also looking at Nora, the girl his wife was always talking about.

"Voldemort killed our parents." Harry said, stepping back from Lucius. "He was nothing more than a murderer."

"You must be very brave to mention his name. Or very foolish."

"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." Hermione said, loudly.

"And you must be Miss Granger. Yes, Draco's told me all about you and your parents." Hermione glaced like Lucius at her parents, who were in a conversation with Mr. Weasley. "Muggles, aren't they?"

Hermione didn't answer. She just glared at him.

Lucius turned to the Weasley children. "Let me see, red hair, vacant expressions." Ge took a book out of Ginny's cauldron. Not one of Lockhart's but a secondhand. "Tatty, secondhand book, you must be the Weasleys."

As he finished speaking Mr. Weasley walked over to them. "Children, it's mad in here. Let's go outside."

"Well, well, well, Weasley senior."

"Lucius."

"Busy time at the Ministry, Arthur, all those extra raids. I do hope they're paying you overtime, but judging by the state of this I'd say not." Lucius said, while holding up Ginny's secondhand book. "What's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"

"We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy."

"Clearly. Associating with Muggles "He placed two books back into Ginny's cauldron."

"Did he just put back two books?" Finn asked.

"Yeah I think he did." Elijah replied, also being suspicious of Lucius's actions.

"I'm sure that he also took two books." Rebekah said unsure, hoping she was right.

"No, he didn't." Klaus said.

"And I thought your family could sink no lower. I'll see you at work." Lucius said before leaving the shop.

"I'll see you at school." Draco said to peers before also leaving after his father.

"Let's just get on with the shopping." Mr. Weasley suggested after they all got their books.

Harry had also give his copies of Lockhart his books to Ron, so the twins had bought bought new ones for themselves with great displeasure seeing as they had to talk again to Lockhart to get them of the table.

"You all go ahead I still have to get some new Quidditch gloves." Nora said as they all walked out, remembering her poor gloves which Belle had her fun with while biting it to bits.

"You sure, love?" Fred asked, rather not excited to leave her alone in case the Malfoys return.

"These two better become a couple later." Rebekah said.

"Yes!" Caroline screamed. "They would be so adorable.

The Mikaelson men and James were happy that the redhead cared for Nora's safety but he should not come to close to the niece/ daughter.

"I don't think it's gonna happen if your brother have to say anything about it." Caroline said to Rebekah as the two blondes turned to the other Originals, who were all glaring at the screen.

"I'm sure, Freddie." Nora said, before turning around and entering Quality Quidditch Supplies and directly going over to the shelves with the gloves.

However when she had picked out her red gloves and was looking at them, she did notice the boys walking in front of her, making Nora collide with them and letting her books fall down the ground.

Before she could pick them up, someone else already did.

"Here." He said and Nora finally looked at him, not recognizing him.

What she did know was that she found him very pretty.

"Thanks. I'm Nora." She said, extending her hand.

"Theo Nott." He answered, shaking her hand.

When they let go of each others hand, Nora looked at the boy on his left. "Hey, aren't you friends with Draco Malfoy?"

"Yeah. Blaise Zabini."

"And I'm Enzo Berkshire." The last boy introduced himself.

"Nora."

"Oh great. More boys." Klaus spoke.

"Maybe we should scare them off?" Kol offered, not wanting his niece to get hurt by some boys. "Boys are always the reason a girl ended up hurt."

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LOVE TRIANGLE OR POLY???

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Sorry for the late update, the last week has been hectic.

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Posted: March 28, 2024

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