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The bell rang ring and Elijah opened the door to see the Mystic Falls gang. He let them in and they made there way to the living room in silence, which Bonnie broke after a few minutes of awkward sitting waiting for Lilly to return.

"I know that you don't trust us, but your daughter is just adorable, Elijah." Bonnie spoke to the noble vampire, who was very proud of his daughter. He nodded gratefully in return.

"Do you think they will use her to get rid of us?" Kol inquired, knowing the extent the Scooby-Doo crew would go to in order to permanently get rid of them.

"They won't have the chance." Elijah declared that he would stop at nothing to keep his little girl, he had yet to meet, safe.

"We'll protect her from them." Finn added before Lily's spirit came back. Greeting everyone before she started the memories of the kids their first classes.

"Made it." Nora heard Ron spoke, relief filled in his voice. "Can you imagine the look on old McGonagall's face if we were late?"

"Idiots." Nora muttered under her breath seeing Professor McGonagall transform back and seeing both Harry's and Ron's bewildered faces.

"That was bloody brilliant!" Ron spoke, amazed and Nora laughed at Harry, who had his mouth, hanging open from amazing.

"Thank you for tat assessment, Mr Weasley. Perhaps, it'd be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr. Potter and yourself into a pocket-watch. That way maybe, one of you might be on time."

"We got lost." Harry said quickly, not wanting to add more frustration to the elder woman.

"Clearly." Nora spoke to Hermione, who smiled at her.

"Then perhaps a map? I trust you don't need one to find your seats."

She walked away from them and both sat down quietly. Harry looked to his left and saw Nora sitting there with a look.

'Don't even try.' He mouted at her but she just stuck her tongue out at him.

"I love their relation, it's cute." Caroline spoke. Bonnie and Elena agreeing with her.

"Right, they have never fought in the time Lily showed us and the only thing they do is mocking and prank the other one."

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The screen turned black before showing another memory of Nora. This time she was sitting in the Potions classroom.

Suddenly the door opened and Snape busted in.

"Drama queen." Nora spoke to Harry who was seated on her right. He quickly nodded his head, agreeing.

"There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class." He turned to the class. "As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making." He paused again and looked at Malfoy, who looked back with a smirk.

"However, for those select few who possess the predisposition. I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory and even put a stopper in death."

He looked to Harry, who was busy writing everything down on his parchment. "Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention."

Harry still not noticing just kept writing until Ron nudged him and pointed his head at Snape.

"Mr. and Mrs. Potter, our new celebrities." He looked at Harry. "Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Hermione's hand quickly shot up.

"You don't know? Well, let's try again." Snape's voice could be heard, all over the classroom. "Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?"

Again, Hermione's hand raised up into the air.

"I don't know, Sir." He answered.

"And what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?"

"I don't know, Sir." He repeated once more.

"Pity. Clearly, fame isn't everything is it, Mr. Potter?" Nora heard a few laughed from the Slytherin's who quickly stopped laughing seeing her glare.

"Clearly, Hermione knows. Seems a pity not to ask her." Harry sassed at him, looking between Hermione and Snape. After a few more glares between Snape and Harry, the professor walked up to the row of tables where they were sitting at.

"Put your hand down, you silly girl!"

"For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Dead. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will safe you from most poisons. Maybe Mrs. Potter knows the last one?" Snape looked at her, not with a glare as hard as with Harry.

After all Nora looked exactly like her mother, Jasmine, who was friends with Lily and Severus back in school.

"Monkshood and Wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite." She had a proud smile on her face, knowing she was right and this man could clearly use the embarrassment.

Snape was surprised she knew this. "Well, why aren't you all copying this down?"

As everyone quickly started to write everything down, except for Nora, who had written down the answers when Snape had asked the questions, hoping that she could write fast enough and show them to Harry, so he wouldn't embarrass himself, her plan didn't work out as she hoped.

Snape saw this but walked back to the front of the classroom, sat down behind his desk and spoke. "And Gryffindors, note that ten points will be taken from your house for your classmate's cheek. Five points will be added for Mrs. Potter's answer."

Everyone in the classroom looked at Nora. Everyone knew how much Snape hated Gryffindors and would never ever give them points. Why now?

"Why does he hate Harry so much?" Rebekah asked.

"James. He and Snape weren't really friends back in school. Hated each other for a fact." Lily sighed. "And now he takes it out on Harry."

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A new memory came on the screen.

Nora was sitting in the Great Hall writing in her books. She was sitting between Hermione and Fred, on the opposite of Ron and Harry.

"Eye of rabbit, harp string hum. Turn this water into rum." Seamus spoke, waving his wand at the glass of water. Looking into the cup nothing changed he sat back down, repeating his words.

"What's Seamus trying to do to that glass of water?" Nora heard Harry asks Ron.

"Turn it into rum. Actually managed a weak tea yesterday, before-" Ron got cut of when they heard something explode.

Nora looked over to Seamus, whose face was covered in dirt from the explosion.

She smiled softly at him. "I'm sure you will do great with this spell once it works."

He nodded at her, thankful.

Suddenly Nora heard an owl hooting above them. "Mail's here." Ron spoke.

As the owls flew above them, dropping everyone's mail right in front of them, Ron got a letter and the Daily Propeth. Nora looked at it.

"Ron, can I borrow that?" She asked, getting a nod from Ron in affirmation. "Thank you." She thanked him while unrolling the paper. At that moment an owl dropped something right in front of her. She looked at Harry in confusion.

"Hey, look!" Dean Thomas spoke, making everyone around them look at him, only not Nora, who was busy reading the Daily Propeth. "Neville's got a Remembrall."

"I've read about those. When the smoke turns red, it means you've forgotten something." Hermione spoke at the exact time the Remembrall turned red.

"I need that." Came from all the side of the room in the Mikaelson mansion.

"But how do you know what you've forgotten?" Jeremy asked.

"The only problem is, I can't remember what I've forgotten."

"What is that?" Harry asked his twin as they all returned back to their own conversations.

"I don't know." She said while opening it and saw little chocolates. "Oh my god, we've got chocolate, Harry." She spoke, excitedly picked one and placing it in her mouth and moving the little box to Harry, who also ate one.

"Who is it from?" He asked her curiously.

"I don't know, the note just says 'share with your cousin, Nora.' "

Harry just shrugged while Nora gave her full attention to the newspaper.

"Hey, somebody broke into Gringotts. Listen. 'Believed to be the work of Dark Wizards or Witches unknown, Gringotts goblins while acknowledging the breach, insist nothing was taken. The vault in question, number 713, had, in fact, been emptied earlier that very same day.' Nora spoke reading the article to Harry, Hermione and Ron.

"That's odd." Harry started. "That's the vault we went to with Hagrid."

All four exchanged glaces at each other.

"I though that bank was a safe place." Elijah said, thinking what could've happened if she was there on the time they broke in. Which she nearly had been.

Lily just kept quiet, not knowing what to say to him, after all he was right to worry about his daughter. And so had she and James to worry about them.

She knew he would take good care of them, both Nora and Harry. Nora would never leave Harry for himself. Those who were a package deal. One always came with the other.

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They could see the first years, standing outside the school, all having a broom, laying down next to them on the grass.

"Good afternoon, class."

"Good afternoon, Madam Hooch." The class replied in union.

A happy Nora could be find, standing next to her new best friend, Hermione and her broom.

"Welcome to your first flying lesson." As nobody moved Madam Hooch started to speak again. "Well, what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick." Everyone went closer to the broomsticks. "Come on now, hurry up. Stick your right hand over the broom and say, 'up'. Hooch explained what they needed to do.

"You actually fly on these things?" Finn asked, worriedly for his niece. He knew he had missed a few things the past centuries, but people didn't actually fly broomsticks, did they?"

"Yeah."

"Is it dangerous?" Elijah asked, worried for his daughter safety.

"If you can do it, than no. Believe me, Elijah, never try to take her broom from her when you meet. It's her most priced possession. She takes after James with that. So does Harry."

"Up." Nora said, and her broomstick directly came flying in her hand. Harry having the same reaction with his broom.

Every student could be heard saying up multipule times.

"With feeling." At the moment Hooch spoke, Ron's broom flew up, hitting him right in the face. Nora and Harry laughed and they were not the only once, from the left of Ron they could hear Dean and Neville sniggering too.

Nora stopped laughing not soon after she started. It was funny to see the broom flying right in his face, but it probably hurts a lot. So now she was worried for her friend.

"You okay, Ron?" She asks him.

"See she asks if I'm okay, Harry." Ron said nodding at Nora and fake glaring at Harry, who was still laughing.

"It's sweet that she asks him if he's okay." Caroline comments. She thought Nora was on of the sweetest people she had ever met. Well, met, watched. She, in this situation, would've kept laughing and she was sure many others in the room did too.

Elijah was just smiling proudly at his daughter.

"Now, once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it." Nora swung her right leg over the broomstick. "And grip it tight, you don't wanna be sliding off the end." She held the broom more tightly then before. "When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your brooms steady, hover for a moment, then lean forward slightly and touch back down. On my whistle. Three, two-"

Before Hooch could finishing counting, Neville sets off his broom. "Mr. Longbottom."

He flew higher and higher, having no idea how to stop.

"Neville." Nora called out before turning to Hooch, "Bring him down please

"Professor." But Hooch just ignored her and looked at Neville flying and started yelling at him. "Come back down this instant!"

"He doesn't know what he is doing, Professor." Nora and Daisy yelled frustrated to the professor while watching Neville crash against the wall, multiple times.

His broom kept going, flying everywhere until his uniform got stuck on a statue. The uniform ripped and he fell down to the ground.

Daisy and Nora ran towards him directly. "Are you hurt somewhere, Neville?" His twin asked, worriedly.

Madame Hooch came to them. "Is he gonna be okay?" Nora asked her professor, who was checking up on him.

"Oh, dear, it's a broken wrist. Poor Boy. Come on now, up you get." She picked him up from the ground. "Everyone's to keep their feet firmly on the round while I take Mr. Longbottom to the hospital wing. No, Ms. Longbottem and Ms. Potter you both stay here." Hooch spoke the last part to Nora, seeing as she was ready to follow them.

"But she is his sister." Nora tried to reason so that Daisy at least could go with him, but the professor didn't seem to hear. Or she just ignored it.

"Understand? If I see a single broom in the air the one riding it will find themselves out of Hogwarts before they can say, Quidditch." The professor said to the class, before walking inside the castle with the injured boy.

"Did you see his face?" Nora heard Malfoy say so she turned to him. "Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to fall on his fat arse."

Nora walked closer to him, at the same time as Harry. "Give it here, Malfoy." They both said, while holding out their arms for Malfoy to put the Remembrall down in one of their hand palms.

Malfoy turned to Harry, not wanting to say anything against Nora. Remembering what his mother had told him for years about her. "No. I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find."

He stepped on the broom. "How about on the roof?" He asked while flying higher. "What's the matter, Potter? Bit beyond your reach?"

"Do not go up. He's just trying to get you into trouble." Elijah said, as if the twins could hear him though the memory.

"Honestly how mean can you be?" Bonnie asked, glaring at the blond. She did not like him.

Both Harry and Nora stepped on their brooms fast, only interrupted by Hermione. "Nora, Harry, no way! You heard what Madam Hooch said. Besides, you don't even know how to fly."

Harry just ignored him and flew up to Malfoy. "What an idiot."

"Sorry, Mione." Nora spoke to her before flying after her brother.

As she came next to him, Harry went forwards trying to catch the remembrall, but missed. "Have it your way, them." Malfoy said before throwing the remembrall away.

The Potters went after it quickly, Harry catched it while Nora smiled at him for cathing it. Both almost crashed against the wall for doing so. She was right behind him. They flew down, and saw everyone coming towards them. All congratulatinging both Nora and Harry. But the fun got spoiled quickly.

"Nora and Harry Potter! Follow me." McGonnagall spoke to them before leaving again, expecting the two Potters to walk after her.

As they were walking quickly the professor told them to wait while she walked away going to get Wood.

"Wood?" Elijah asked. What was this woman planning to do to his daughter and Harry?

"Are they in trouble?" Rebekah asked, not seeing why. They only took something back for their friend. She wished that she had friends like that.

"You'll see."

"But she only took something back from someone. It was not even Malfoy's."

"We're doomed." Nora spoke to Harry who nodded, both not wanting to know what was going to happen to them.

"Potters, this is Oliver Wood. Wood, I have found you a Seeker and a Chaser." The professor said, happily.

And Nora's eyes went wide. "Oh my Freaking God."

"Language, Miss Potter."

But the girl did not seem to care as she hugged the professor tightly. And this reminded her of Sirius once more. This is going to be seven long years if she was the copy of her father.

Only she did not know what she was in for.

Question started being asked.

"What's a chaser?"

"What's a seeker?"

"What do she mean with 'this is going to be seven long years if she was the copy of her father'?"

"What's going on?"

"So they're not in trouble?"

"As Nora puts it. 'The best thing that has ever happened in everybody's life, except for her being born." Lily smiled at them before returning to the next memory.

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Posted: January 31, 2024

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