Hello all Storm here with a new chapter! Here we'll be kicking off Second Year with the Start-of-the-Year Feast and Sorting of the new First Years. Nothing much else to say other than hope you enjoy the story. So, without further ado.

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The station was just as crowded as the first time she arrived, with many older students exchanging farewells with their families. Delphini could also see many soon-to-be First Years giving tearful goodbyes. It reminded Delphini of when she found and reading her mother's journal over the summer. It really was an eye opener to learning about Bellatrix Black, rather than Bellatrix Lestrange.

I mean, there's no denying that even in her younger years her mother was dark, given the rather graphic and detailed ways she described killing someone that so much as looked at her funny when she attended Hogwarts. Though at most, she simply humiliated them publicly or just verbally tore them apart, some to the point of them running away in tears. Even her fellow Slytherins weren't safe from her anger, when they pissed her off.

The only positive entries were when she talked about her sisters, Narcissa and Andromeda, as well as when she thought of new ideas for spells.

It reminded Delphini somewhat of Naruko's own mom, Kushina Uzumaki. Except you know, much, much, much more violent.

Still, Delphini did enjoy learning about her mom, but it also made her sad that she'll most likely never get to meet her in person.

Shaking those thoughts for the time being, Delphini looked around, before smiling when she spotted Tracey, Hermione, Daphne, and Astoria.

"Hey girls! I don't suppose there's any chance that Lockhart has met an unfortunate accident?" Delphini asked, hoping that something, anything, had happened that prevented Lockhart from being their DADA Professor.

"Unfortunately, no, but look at it this way, we know for a fact he'll be gone by the end of the year." Daphne said, given the rumors of the DADA position being cursed.

Delphini nodded, taking a small comfort in that. Though Delphini then noticed Astoria looking at her with a rather icy expression.

"Hey Tori." Delphini greeted, while smiling at her unofficial girlfriend's sister.

"Delphini." Astoria said coldly, causing the silverette to frown slightly, while wondering what changed from their meeting in the Alley.

The five girls then boarded the train and found an empty compartment, luckily one of the larger ones to fit them all, with some room to spare. Daphne gave Delphini an apologetic look when Astoria had her sit next to her, rather than next to Delphini. The Riddle just nodded, while it upset her slightly, it didn't really bother her. Though Astoria's behavior still confused her, compared to their first meeting.

It wasn't long until the train departed the station, with the door to their compartment opening, revealing someone they recognized as the youngest Weasley from Diagon Alley.

"Hey uh, Ginny, right?" Delphini said, having remembered hearing her name at Diagon Alley.

"Y-Yeah, hello." Ginny said, while smiling hesitantly at them.

"What're you doing here? Wouldn't you be with your brothers and Harry." Hermione said, given she would have thought she'd be in the same compartment as her brothers and Harry.

"Percy has Prefect duties, while Fred and George went to hang out with their friends or plan some new pranks for the year, and I couldn't find Ron or Harry. Did any of you see them get on the train or pass by?" Ginny asked hopefully, since she hadn't been able to see if they had passed through the barrier or boarded the train.

Her words made the four older girls frown in confusion. They hadn't seen either boy at the station or in any of the compartments.

'Did they even get on the train?' They wondered.

Either that, or they simply didn't see them in the crowd of students and parents.

"No, we haven't seen them. But if you want, you can join us until either they arrive, or one of your other brothers comes and gets you." Delphini offered, with Ginny looking unsure that the offer, given the fact three of the girls were Slytherins, one was a Ravenclaw, and the last was a potential Slytherin, given her sister was in that House.

But at the same time, Delphini had helped buy her schoolbooks, showing that maybe not all Slytherins were evil or bad, like she's heard. Ultimately, Ginny decided to join since they were the only ones she knew, besides her brothers, on the train.

With that, the now six girls sat together, either making small talk or taking the time to read their books to see what they'll be going over in their classes.

It wasn't long until the announcement came that they were close to Hogwarts and they all changed into their robes.

Finally, they arrived at Hogwarts with Ginny and Astoria having to go with the other First Years to the boats. While Delphini, Daphne, Tracey, and Hermione would be taking the carriages.

But there proved to be a slight problem.

"Come on, Daphne." Astoria said, while trying to get her sister to go with her on the boat.

"Tori, I can't, the First Years take the boats, while the Second Years and above take the carriages. Come on, it'll be fine, I'll see you when the First Years getting sorted, I'll even save you a seat." Daphne said.

"But what if I'm not sorted into Slytherin and put in a different House, then we'll hardly get to see each other. Please~!" Astoria begged, wanting her sister to go with her, with Daphne finally putting her foot down.

"Tori, that's enough. Now go with the others and I'll see you at the castle." Daphne said sternly.

While she loved her sister, Daphne has noticed that ever since they went shopping at Diagon Alley, Astoria had been… clingy to say the least. And while she's happy to spend time with her, Daphne knew she had to draw some lines.

Astoria nodded sadly and headed for the boats, though not before shooting a dirty look at Delphini.

'Okay, seriously, what is her problem?' Delphini wondered as she frowned and started to get annoyed at how Astoria was acting.

The entire train ride, whenever she tried talking to Daphne, Astoria would always but in and distract Daphne with something or another. It really gotten on Delphini's nerves after a while, with the only reason she didn't say anything is because she'd prefer to not cause any problems for the sisters. That didn't mean she liked it, and she will say something if it kept up.

'Honestly, does she have a sister complex or something.' Thought Delphini, while shaking her head.

Oh, if only she knew.

Going to the carriages, Daphne, Tracey, and Hermione boarded one before seeing Delphini stopping short with a pale expression.

The reason Delphini stopped was because she had heard before that the carriages didn't have horses or anything pulling them, but from where she was standing, they were definitely being pulled by something.

They looked like horses, only skeletal in nature and pitch black, with reptilian-like faces, and large bat-like leathery wings. They were disturbing and seemed unnatural, but strangely enough, Delphini felt like they weren't a threat.

"Delphi, what's wrong? What're you looking at?" Tracey asked, while looking where Delphini was, but didn't see anything.

Delphini looked at them in surprise that they couldn't see the strange horses.

"You… you can't see them? Those things pulling the carriages." Delphini said, while motioning to the creatures, only getting confused looks in response.

"Delphini, nothing is pulling the carriages, just like they've always been." Hermione said slowly.

"I'm not crazy, they're right there!" Said Delphini, with Daphne narrowing her eyes at where Delphini was looking.

"What do they look like?" Daphne asked, both curiously and suspiciously.

"Like a cross between a horse, a bat, and a lizard, maybe some kind of demonic bird too." Delphini said, not sure if she could find the right words to describe the creatures.

This got wide eyes from Daphne and Tracey, realizing what she was seeing.

"Thestrals." Tracey stated, while turning a little pale.

"What are Thestrals?" Hermione asked, not having read about those before.

"They're a breed of winged horses that have a skeletal body and bat-like wings. They're also invisible to everyone, except those who have seen death." Daphne explained, with Hermione's eyes widening at that, and looked at Delphini.

"And, you can see them?" Asked Hermione, with Delphini nodding since it made sense, given she saw Quirrell die.

"And none of you can?" Delphini asked them but looked at Daphne in particular.

She would have thought Daphne would see them, given she definitely has seen death when she was Satsuki.

Daphne shook her head, she had thought she'd be able to see Thestrals, with her memories as Satsuki, but this proves she can't.

'I guess deaths in a past life don't count, not even your own.' Daphne thought.

Delphini climbed onto the carriage, never once taking her eyes off the Thestrals as she did.

Soon they arrived at the castle and went to the Great Hall, with Delphini, Daphne, and Tracey going to the Slytherin table, while Hermione went to the Ravenclaw table.

"Hey, I just wanted to apologize for Astoria's behavior on the ride here, along with her behavior when we arrived." Daphne said as she sat beside Delphini, having noticed her sisters attitude towards Delphini and wanted to apologize for it.

Delphini just smiled and waved it off, while also glad that Daphne had noticed Astoria's change in behavior towards her.

Once everyone was seated, the Sorting Ceremony began, with the four Second Years only paying attention to Ginny and Astoria's sorting, with the redhead being sorted into Gryffindor, while Astoria was sorted into Slytherin. Though one other First Year did catch their attention.

It was another girl with long dirty blonde hair, wide protuberant silvery eyes, and wearing the standard Hogwarts uniform with some…interesting addons. She had on a Butterbeer cork necklace, Dirigible plum earrings, and had her wand tucked in behind her left ear.

From McGonagall's call, the girls name was Luna Lovegood and she was sorted into Ravenclaw with Hermione.

'That girl, there's something about her.' Delphini thought, while looking at Luna with curious eyes.

Finally, the Sorting Ceremony was complete, and the feast began.

However, Delphini noticed one of her Housemates reading a copy Daily Prophet with a surprised and interested look on their face. It made Delphini curious of what could have happened this soon to warrant being put in the paper.

"Hey, can I see that?" Delphini asked, with the Slytherin nodding and handing it to Delphini.

"Yeah sure, front page. Can't believe anyone would be that reckless." They said, only serving to increase her interest.

Looking at the front page, Delphini immediately facepalmed and groaned at the picture she saw.

"What is it?" Tracey asked, Daphne also curious of what could get a reaction like that from her unofficial girlfriend.

"I found the two morons that weren't on the train." Answered Delphini, before showing them the paper.

Both girls had similar reactions to Delphini when they saw the picture of a flying Ford Anglia and they could just make out two kids in the driver and passenger seats, flying right over London.

"They didn't." Daphne muttered.

"They did." Stated a nodding Delphini.

She couldn't believe the stunt pulled by the youngest Weasley boy and someone who's basically her cousin, given she learned her first/third cousin once removed, Sirius Black, was Potter's Godfather, during her stay at Grimmauld Place.

"Okay, aside from doing something incredibly stupid, there must be a reason they felt the need to take a flying car here. Perhaps something was blocking them from getting to the station." Delphini said, after taking a moment to nurse her approaching headache and come to a reasonable explanation as to why they were in a flying car.

"If that's true, why didn't they just wait for Weasley's parents to come back through and fly them here." Tracey said, with Delphini shrugging not having an explanation for that part.

But she was sure Potter probably had the same fluctuating luck that she had when she was Naruko, always finding herself in life-threatening situations, while having the devils luck when it came to gambling. In fact, Delphini was sure that if she hadn't confronted her father last year, then Potter most likely would have.

"So, you think this time Potter will expelled?" Tracey asked.

"Doubtful." Daphne muttered.

While this was a much bigger incident than the broom one last year, she doubted the Golden Boy would be expelled.

"Well, given what happened last year, perhaps it's not from favoritism, but they simply can't." Delphini added lowly, with Daphne and Tracey nodding slow in understanding.

With the fact that her father was still alive, perhaps Dumbledore was hoping for another miracle of Potter defeating him again, while hoping that it's a permanent death this time.

It reminded Delphini too much of Naruko being the "Child of Prophecy" that'd either bring peace to the Ninja World or destroy it. Delphini personally hated prophecies with a passion, not willing to believe your entire life is already decided for you. If that was true, then she's already destined to become evil like her parents, but she made her own destiny.

If Dumbledore and the other teachers did see Potter as some prophecy child, or even worse, if there actually is a prophecy, then she knew big things were going to happen in the coming years.

The girls attention then turned to the Head Table and saw Snape being told something by a House Elf, before exiting the Great Hall with a dark expression. Not long after, McGonagall and Dumbledore left as well, neither of them looking pleased either.

"Well, while they may not be expelled, I don't think they're going to be getting away with this without at least a weeks' worth of detention, or worse." Delphini muttered, with Daphne and Tracey nodding in agreement.

So, what did you think, good. Yeah not much happened this chapter with only a few important parts to help set up the coming years, but only if you look closely, along Delphini taking notice of everyone's favorite quirky witch and knowing there's more to her than meets the eye. Not only that but now Delphini is suspicious of their being a prophecy surrounding both Harry and her father, along with her opinion of prophecies. So, review if you liked go away if you didn't.

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