Eloise Malfoy finally escapes the prison that is Malfoy Manor as she embarks on her time in Hogwarts. Immediately hitting it off with pranksters James Potter and Sirius Black, things don't seem like they'll go as smoothly as Eloise would've hoped.
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The years had flown by and now Eloise, considerably taller, more tanned and four years older, stood with her best friend Lily Evans on Platform 9 ¾ at 10:55am on the morning of September 1st.
"You have 5 minutes to board the train, dears and I need my goodbye hugs." Lily's mother chuckled behind them with a loving hand on each of their shoulders. After a particularly heated argument with her father in her second year, Eloise Malfoy had been invited to live with the Evans' on Hogwarts holidays and she couldn't be happier with her new family. She was about to begin her Fifth Year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy and this was perhaps the most vital year of her schooling, the dreaded O.W.Ls loomed ever closer. She and Lily were both very gifted students but that didn't stop them from working as hard as ever and they had spent many hours in Lily's muggle home in Cokeworth, pouring over books on every wizard topic imaginable. They were often interrupted by Lily's muggle sister Petunia, who spent every waking hour talking about her new boyfriend
"Vernon" in her screeching voice, the girls didn't mind however because it took her attention away from them and they didn't hear the word "Freak" cross her lips half as much. Petunia refused to accompany her parents to see off Lily and Eloise, muttering something about
"A stupid magic barrier." Eloise knew she was referring to the time in their second year when Petunia had gained a rather nasty bruise on her forehead after running head first into the wall between platforms 9 and 10 (the barrier didn't seem to want to admit her). Lily had also spent a fair amount of time with Severus Snape, Eloise decided to stay at home after she met him in the first week of summer and he called her
"Potter and Black's blood traitor pet.", Lily claimed he just wasn't used to company but Eloise knew that Snape and the Marauders had a mutual loathing of one another and she wasn't too fussed about not being buddies with old Snivellus.
'The Marauders' was the name that James had given his group of friends (Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Eloise Malfoy and himself) after one of their most successful pranks in third year - let's just say it contained the Slytherin Quidditch robes and rather a lot of bright pink dye. James, Sirius and Eloise were all on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; James as a seeker, Sirius a beater and Eloise a chaser. Quidditch was one of the things Eloise was most excited for as on the Quidditch Pitch, clad in scarlet and gold robes with '04' on the back, was where she felt most alive.
Eloise turned and gave the warm woman who had become something of a mother to a her a hug,
"Have a lovely time, my love." Mrs Evans said thickly through tears,
"Don't cry, Mrs E, you'll see us before you know it." Eloise said pulling away and giving her a wink. Lily quickly hugged her mother as Eloise had her hair ruffled by Mr Evans,
"Don't get in too much trouble, Little E." Eloise gave him her famous smile,
"I never do, Big E." she said earning a laugh. After Lily and Eloise had been suitably fussed over they made their way onto the Hogwarts Express. Eloise holding her now fully grown cat Pura and Lily her small ginger kitten called Luto, a gift from Eloise on her 14th birthday. The girls found their usual compartment at the very back of the train and they could already hear deep laughter and shouting erupting from the seats. Eloise looked through the door and saw the rowdy boys she knew as her best friends. The four teenagers looked up as the two girls walked in and they each grinned brightly, Sirius Black, a boy with long, wavy black hair and a handsome face, gasped in surprise,
