Aurora Pikeman

Aurora Pikeman is the main character of the TTBA HP Fanfiction.

Backstory
Aurora Star Pikeman was born on the 22nd of February 1979 in London, to Star and Sirius Pikeman, Her father was born to a pure-blood to a very prominent family, and her mother was from the House of Black, which was notorious for inbreeding and Blood-Purity. Several people who passed her in the streets would point this out when she was older, and she would blush to this. Although when she was three her parents were caught and Imprisoned in Azkaban, She was then sent under the care of her Aunt Cassiopeia. Although Cassopeia physically, psychologically and magically abused her niece since she was very young, often dragging her from her sleep in order to abuse her whenever the mood struck her. The abuse left several scars on her body, but they were magically healed later on. One memorable incident is when an eight-year-old Aurora, traumatised by the bullying, called her aunt an wicked evil woman and Cassiopeia magically blinded her, leaving her unable to see for over a week. None of this abuse was ever discovered by the authorities or reported by anyone, and Aurora became convinced that it was solely because of the Wizarding World's ignorance to the issues of the world. Aurora developed a bitter hatred towards this ignorance and trauma over time.

In order to keep Aurora apart from her for a considerable part of the day, Cassiopeia sent her to a Muggle primary school where she developed the facade of an introverted and unstable girl, in fact shown to be extremely intelligent for her age, learning independently to read and write and learning French and Spanish by the time she was nine years old. However, because of her facade, Aurora was bullied by the Muggle children at her primary school - not as severely as her Aunt did, but severe enough that it shook her. However, several of the children who bullied her later on ended up in horrible conditions of some sort, one of them continuously restrained to a flagpole by invisible hands, one developed a thrist to drink their own blood, two unable to stop trying to pry one another's eyes out with their bare hands. Thankfully, none were killed, and none of the evidence pointed back to Aurora. However, Cassiopeia knew, and this was the first time that Cassiopeia's hatred of her niece turned to fear, but it would be years before this fear ever increased. Another example of her Aunt's abuse was when Aurora made friends with a group of Muggle children across the road from them, and played with them several times. When her Aunt discovered, she cast a Body-Bind Curse on her niece and left her paralysed overnight out in the cold, disguised by an invisibility cloak.

First Year
Aurora attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991, and her aunt escorted her to the Hogwarts Express. When Harry first sees Aurora, he views her as pretty, but notices that she appears to be clinging on to her Aunt like she's desperate not to leave her - this is a part of her Aunt's insistence that Aurora give the illusion of being a loving Niece. When she leaves for the Hogwarts Express, she doesn't communicate much until she meets Nathara Prince-Slytherin, with whom Aurora develops a Friendship with and then Neville Longbottom, Who she starts to have a crush on. She's acquired a wand of Redwood and Unicorn Hair from Ollivander's, and a Toad she calls Mushroom. Aurora also acquired an eagle owl named Storm. When she arrived at Hogwarts, Aurora was sorted into Ravenclaw house, but the Sorting Hat voiced that he saw something of a sadness and a darkness inside her that barred her from joining Slytherin like her parents had, and very nearly put her in Slytherin. Her insistence was the only reason she ended up in Ravenclaw. She made friends with Hermione Granger when she was Sorted, as well as Cho Chang, and Padma Patil.

When she was first in her class at Transfiguration, she met with Professor Minerva McGonagall and the professor verbally remembers her mother and father, reminiscing that her mother was exceptionally sweet and, apparently, clever, which Aurora appears uncomfortable to hear, and voices her own wish that Star and Sirius could possibly be proud of her at least, a statement which Professor McGonagall doesn't see through. She begins to excel somewhat in class at Transfiguration, mastering several simple spells very easily. She continues to do well at that subject, also becoming rather good at Potions, Her and Nathara frequently being paired together. She made some friends, but remained introverted and unstable and she met Rival Skyler Falcon who frequently used Curses on her as well. Although Aurora make a Prank to scare Skyler. The one thing that plagued her mind was how Cassiopeia would react when she learned her Niece was learning spells that could counteract her abuse and even return it if the opportunity were presented. She excelled at History of Magic come November, Although she didn't particularly enjoy it.

At the end of the year, eventually Slytherin won the House Cup, but Aurora found that she didn't really care about winning that cup because it was a pointless ambition when one created Rivalry. Boarding the Hogwarts Express to go back, she spotted Neville and sought to approach him, but she procrastinated again because he was surrounded by people she knew. Looking back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she took solace in the fact that she would be going back very, very soon.

Second Year
Throughout the summer holidays, Aurora was met with the usual series of abusive attacks from Cassiopeia, but this time they became more severe with Cassiopeia challenging her niece to use her most powerful spell - Aurora attempted a Full Body-Bind Curse, but Cassiopeia outcursed her and left her with a savage bruise on her leg with the spell she used. Aurora's spell rebounded and paralysed herself, and for this her Aunt jinxed every item of crockery and cutlery in the room to attack Aurora, eventually causing her to be knocked out.

Such incidents occurred throughout the holidays, until Aurora went into the nearby woods where some Muggles were playing. Deciding to practise her magic, Aurora cast a Patronus Charm, but that was of course very weak at first. She then focused on Neville and cast again - to her amazement, a silver Stallion erupted from her wand. Unfortunately, one Muggle child spotted her and screamed for his parents, and Aurora was forced to escape - she unintentionally commanded her Patronus to flee, and it led the Muggles away from her before disappearing. Cassiopeia received a Howler from the Ministry about the incident, and Aurora was threatened with expulsion, but she was pardoned for unknown reasons. Hearing this, Aurora assaulted by her aunt ferociously, her Aunt started physically beating her until she apologised.

Hardened, Aurora immediately planned to continue her duelling lessons in order to spite her Aunt alone. This was one of her greater steps towards independence in her life, but and it most certainly wouldn't be her last one. However, while returning from her room she caught a falcon flying into the house through the window, before transforming into her Aunt - Cassiopeia was an Animagus! Aurora realised this was how Cassiopeia knew about the duelling lessons, because she'd been spying on her in the form of a bird that would easily go unnoticed. Aurora pretended not to know this, but knew that she would never be able to trust her own privacy again.

When she returned to Hogwarts School at the end of the Summer, She didn't speak to her Aunt at all throughout the journey to King's Cross Station, but could feel probing into her mind wit hintent of finding out what she was thinking. On the Hogwarts Express, Neville and Nathara shared her cabin much to her surprise and the two of them bonded, with Aurora discovering that he thought the same way as her and that they had one thing after another in common, becoming more convinced that they were meant for one another. In private, throughout the journey, she read through the methods of becoming an Animagus, deciding that the easiest way to stay ahead of her Aunt was to be in disguise half the time.

Throughout the first two months of her Second Year, Aurora continued to study Animagi theory and eventually discovered how to properly become one. She privately performed the experiment herself and at the last second was horrified by the possibility of what kind of animal she would become, before she transformed into an Fox. This overjoyed her because it made her feel absolutely free of any worry, and the sensation of moving so fluidly, was intoxicating for her. She rather cunningly used her Animagus form to get to class quicker, breaking curfews in order to explore the castle and continue to read in the library, and even stealing older students' notes to achieve good grades.

Although Nathara continued to pursue her ambition of mastering all types of magic by the time she was 20. Although her ambition was so strong she frequently ignored her friends, who were all worried about the path she was going down. Aurora then, with Severus's pleading, decided to talk to Nathara, and she agreed to tone down the learning. Thanks to this, her relationships with her friends improved. Eventually Aurora offered to teach Nathara some duelling spells using Dueler's Guide: A Textbook of Advanced Spells.

Aurora decided she'd teach Nathara all the spells from Pages 1 and 2. Although she purposely skipped Expelliarmus. Occasionally the two would head to the Library and read from dueling books. Aurora particularly was looking for books with interesting names, such as Diagla Duella and Offensive Jinxes and Hexes for Enemies and Pranks. When Professor McGonagall announced Study Clubs they both joined the Dueling Club. The two also brewed Healing Potions in their spare time.

Severus praised her and Nathara for their talent in magic and potions and soon, she became one of the top students in the whole school and became fairly popular, Although students from Gryffindor frequently called her a 'nerd' which make Aurora have flashbacks of her Aunt's abuse and her being bullying.

First Duel
On the 4th of March Aurora and Nathara faced off in a friendly duel. for the first time Nathara used her own spells against her friends, Although halfway through the duel, Aurora cast a powerful hex that knocked Nathara to the ground and blinded her for a few seconds. Although Nathara stayed strong, Casting a Banishing Charm that knocked Aurora backwards, Although when Aurora was about to cast a Savage Severing Charm, Filch caught the two duelling and sentenced them both to detention

She continued to excel at Transfiguration and even improved at Charms, hiding the fact that she had mastered the Patronus Charm. She mastered the Dancing Feet Spell easily and the Freezing Charm took a considerable amount of work but she became proficient in that. She impressed Professor Sprout in Herbology with her knowledge of Tentacular and how to overcome Bowtruckles. She continued to bond with Neville throughout the year, sharing textbooks and opinions on certain subjects - they both hated Divination and shared a fascination with the possibility of learning to duel in Defence Against the Dark Arts. However, it was to their misfortune, and that of the whole school, that this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, was horribly incompetent and they didn't essentially learn much at first. It led to the assumption by Aurora that she might as well teach the class, she knew much more than him.

Third Year
During the summer of her Third Year, Aurora is mystified by the fact that Cassiopeia was becoming extremely kind to her one day, even referring to as her niece as opposed to some infectious vermin that Aurora had been labelled throughout her life. She even allowed Aurora to leave the house one day with her friends, but the moment she got back home Cassiopeia was back as she was - she accosted Aurora for leaving the house, and Aurora knew that it was another sadistic trick by Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia resolves to put her niece under the Cruciatus Curse if she ever left to be with her friends in the summer ever again. As a result, as usual, Aurora officially was confined to the Manor during the summer. But whilst shopping for new supplies at Diagon Alley, Aurora formally met Harry Potter and his Friends. The reaction to meeting Harry the most suspenseful. However, Aurora circumvented this ban by transforming into an fox and leaving the house to explore the world around her. She went on multiple escapades over the holidays. Although one day, after secretly leaving the House, Aurora returned to find the Manor abandoned. With all the lights turn off Aurora secretly took time to Explore, Although she noticed the Hallways were different and that she couldn't find her bedroom. She then realizes she is actually in 'Briggs Manor' and quickly bounds toward Home in her Animagus Form. But as well something else brought her Joy, Her sister, Evelyn was finally going to Hogwarts. During her first Defence Against the Dark Arts class that year, Professor Lupin faced the students with a Boggart and Aurora's Boggart transformed into Cassiopeia, and Aurora cast a Boggart-Banishing Curse as instructed - Cassiopeia aged over seventy-five years and her skin wasted away, her hair turning pearl-white and shedding out, her voice cracking. When she tries to address Aurora, her jaw hangs loose and she is left with a gaping look on her face that makes her look like she is a woman wearing some old Muggle Halloween costume that had just been dragged out of the attick.

Aurora herself found it entertaining, but those onlooking were either entertained or horrified by the fact that it was her Aunt. Aurora herself couldn't figure out whether or not to smile at her own triumph, since it deeply disturbed her but at the same time elated her to, in some way, face her fear. Several people after the lesson hounded her for why her Aunt was her Boggart. Aurora continued to do well later on in Charms and Potions, casting Lumos Maxima so powerfully that she nearly blinded several other students in the class opposing her. She also became proficient in the Freezing Charm, so much that she froze the Mustache of Professor Flitwick.

Nathara and Aurora entered Hogsmeade for the first time, Amazed at the taste of Butterbeer the two went shopping. Aurora had barely been given any Galleons from her aunt that year, But Nathara sympathized and gave her 20 Galleons. The two went to Honeydukes and Zonkos, Buying their own choices of Candy and Pranks. Aurora mainly enjoying this trip. For Christmas Aurora sent Nathara a necklace with a Snake on it and Ashamed she had nothing for Aurora, Nathara slipped a fancy and complex book of spells into Aurora's book bag on Christmas break. Aurora discovered it when she and Nathara were studying in the Library for extra credit and that's when Nathara learned that Aurora was an Animagus. She asked Aurora to transform but Aurora replied that everyone was watching them and that she'd show Nathara in the Courtyard. Eventually Aurora showed her and to Nathara's excitement Skyler found them and Aurora transformed back, Jealous of Aurora's powers a duel started between Aurora and Skyler. Which left Aurora with a Headache and Skyler with a large bruise on her leg. Eventually Nathara and Aurora did a Bonding Ceremony with the Help of Neville Longbottom. They became Sisters in the Heart and Soul, Healing Aurora's injuries and Scars. Although Aurora's sister Evelyn was attending her first year at Hogwarts. The two Magical Prodigies moved on through their year with many good grades and ending with Slytherin winning the House Cup.

Afterwards, Aurora's DADA incident was reported to Professor Flitwick, who interviewed her about the incident in DADA where her Boggart became her Aunt, and she pretended that she didn't know exactly what had happened- she recounted that she is actually afraid of heights, and her Aunt is taller than her. This lie actually deceives Professor Flitwick, who asks her if she has ever heard of a Patronus Charm - Aurora responds by producing her wand, imagining the sight of her Aunt aging, and then casting her Stallion Patronus right in front of Professor Flitwick, awing him. He applauded her use of the Charm, and noted that to produce a corporeal Patronus at an early stage was extremely impressive. The half-goblin sympathised with this and began to instruct her on how to perform a Patronus to suit the situation of a Dementor's attack.

During a walk with Evelyn up to the Owlery to send a message home to Cassiopeia. Along the way, a Dementor senses them and breaks the boundaries of its agreement with Dumbledore, attacking the two sisters. Aurora throws Evelyn out of the way and moves to repel the Dementor, but it knocks her wand from her hand and she collapses, experiencing a violent flashback to the time she was blinded by her Aunt under the fear that is inflicted by the monster. Evelyn casts a Knockback Jinx at the Dementor, only causing it to turn to her and decide to give her its special attention - Aurora recovers her wand and casts a Patronus Charm, repelling the Dementor - Evelyn stares at her, speechless, before the Dementor returns with three more of its kin. Aurora tries to cast a Patronus, but the numbers alone are too much for her to handle and she collapses - Professor Dumbledore arrives and casts a fearsome phoenix Patronus, banishing the Dementors from the grounds and resulting in another vicious confrontation between Dumbledore and the Dementors about penetrating Hogwarts grounds.

Aurora quickly recovered from the flashback and was nursed briefly by Professor Flitwick, who dosed her with several potions to ensure that there were no lasting effects to being attacked by four Dementors at the same time. Evelyn approached her as she was leaving the Hospital, and gasped that she could cast a Patronus Charm - she notes that she's been able to do it for some time now, and only just is getting good. Evelyn asks how she learned, and Aurora shows her the book where she learned how to cast such a charm. Later that day, she practises duelling by herself, becoming increasingly skilled but less stable when it comes to predicting what to do next - this is partly due to her encounter with the Dementors, considering that the flashback has left her with a sense of instability. Although she was watching from afar when Sirius Black dragged Ron Weasley into the secret passageway in the Whomping Willow. After a few minutes passed and nobody remerged from the tree Aurora dashed through the passageway. Upon entering the Shrieking Shack, Aurora found the Trio with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

Fourth Year

 * ― Aurora to Flitwick after a Charms Lesson.
 * ― Aurora to Flitwick after a Charms Lesson.

Aurora was able to escape to the Weasleys, Who where going to the Final of the Quidditch World Cup that year. Joining Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, Aurora and her sister treated themselves to Firewhisky after the match, raucously laughing while observing one another's reactions to drinking the stuff and telling jokes to one another, taking advantage of the fact that their Aunt was home. Their celebration is abruptly severed when a fearsome explosion is heard and Aurora runs outside to investigate, only to be hit by an Incarcerous spell, which ivies around her legs and causes her to fall forward and see a troupe of Death Eaters rampaging through the camp, causing fires. Seeing several people running about, Aurora guessed that it was a curse aimed by someone else blindly at her. She manages to sever the ropes and turns, before dodging between several running strangers. She returns to the tent and drags her friends back out. Aurora leads them to the forest, where Evelyn is Stunned by one of the drunks who are fleeing the scene. Aurora furiously casts a curse without thinking, which becomes a Blasting Curse that smashes the drunk against a tree, breaking the tree and collapsing it on top of the man. Aurora hastily rescues the man from the wreck she created, before taking Evelyn and carrying her after the rest of her friends. They reach a safe grove in the forest and hide until dawn.

During Charms, Aurora casts a faultless Banishing Charm that nearly breaks a nearby desk. She is distraught to discover that, because of the Tournament, the Quidditch matches at Hogwarts have been cancelled for the whole year. She notes the hope that the Tasks are interesting and worth her attention, but at least it means she needn't try and fight for a spot on the team. Aurora enjoys Defence Against the Dark Arts, up until the point where she sees the Killing Curse being used - she has never seen this kind of magic used in front of her before, and the effect startles her but also reminds her of her parents. She studies the dead spider afterwards, realising that it has been completely wiped out by the curse - horrified and fascinated, she knows that Defence Against the Dark Arts will be drastically different. Although once the Yule Ball was announced, Aurora immediately thought of all the LGBTQ+ couples who would be there, and how she would be teased for being straight. Aurora decided she'd go with Neville, Hoping she wouldn't be teased. When the Yule Ball came everyone had noticed Aurora's bold black dress. She had a scare that some would tease her for it, but trying to keep calm the entire time.


 * When the Third Task comes along, Aurora watches from the audience, supporting Cedric Diggory. She watches the Champions enter the maze but quickly loses interest because not much of the Task is shown to the audience. However, she is jolted back into the Task when suddenly Harry Potter is transported back outside the Maze with Cedric Diggory's corpse, howling that Lord Voldemort has returned. She is very shocked, but quickly becomes fascinated by the sight of Cedric's body, pretending to mourn alongside most of the girls in her year. She accepts that Lord Voldemort has returned, on the basis that it is logically aligning with what she later heard about the Third Task. However, this was quickly cast aside when she begins to fixate on the fact that her aunt has been trying to conceal her Parents from her. This would become her obsession over the summer.

Fifth Year
Returning to Hogwarts, Aurora learns that the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is Professor Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry official and a renowned supremacist. She is silently enraged during Umbridge's speech, deducing how the Ministry is interfering with Hogwarts. Inevitably, Umbridge summons Aurora to her office and tries to offer her sympathy, when she reveals very quickly that she wants Aurora to be a spy for her in Ravenclaw House to find supporters of Harry Potter. Reluctant due to her dislike for the Ministry and a personal contempt for their stupidity surrounding how they easily fell into her deception, Aurora refuses, and Umbridge allows her to leave. She is further pressured by the fact that she will be incapable of practising practical Defence Against the Dark Arts under the new Ministry-approved curriculum. However, she begins to enjoy other subjects even more, triumphing in Charms by performing a perfect Silencing Charm and surprising Professor Flitwick by casting a faultless Banishing Charm, which she is of course already proficient in.

Although Nathara was mysteriously getting weaker and Aurora and Skyler were worried about their friend, and for once, they agreed to keep an eye on her to see if she got worse. One day, Aurora and Nathara were playing a game of Gobstones in the courtyard, when Nathara broke into a coughing fit. Aurora asked if she was alright, and Nathara replied that she felt dizzy. Before Aurora could say anything else, Nathara collapsed and fell unconscious. Aurora screamed and tried to find Severus, interrupting him in the middle of a Potions Class and Severus, worried about his daughter rushed to the scene while Aurora looked for Skyler. When Severus arrived at the courtyard, Nathara was lying on the ground unconscious. He tried to wake her up, and her hair turned as white as the full moon. She looked up at her mother with blue and brown eyes before falling unconscious again. Aurora immediatley got the attention of Skyler by lying that Nathara was on 'The Brink of Death' without response the two sprinted to the courtyard. It turned out that Aurora wasn't exactly wrong according to Severus, who was holding his unconscious daughter in a death grip. Skyler froze in shock at seeing the state Nathara was in and asked Severus if she was alright.

The young mother couldn't answer her; he picked Nathara up and carried her to the Hospital Wing. Eventually Aurora decided to preform one of the most complex healing spells in her book that Nathara had given her, Awaking Nathara for about an hour before she fell unconscious again. After a few hours of crying over Nathara's body, Skyler came to the hospital wing she told Aurora her idea of creating an extremely complex potion. Although Aurora, Who told her it was dangerous, Told her crush Neville Longbottom about this. Neville gathered ingredients from the Herbology Greenhouses while Aurora and Skyler began creating their potion. Aurora was very adept on this Potion making sure that everything was at the right scale, although Neville had accidentally brought Sugar Shrub leaves instead of Gurdyroot Stems, which the two did not realize. Eventually Aurora came to the thought of the dreaded Professor Umbridge and believed that Nathara was actually lucky.

Occasionally Aurora used the Cantatio medicus scriptor spell to keep Nathara up on the latest news. Since they couldn't cure her at the moment, Aurora decided that Nathara should be as comfortable as possible. Aurora kept visiting Nathara in the Hospital Wing; the poor girl was still unconscious and showed little to no signs of waking up. When she used the spell to tell Nathara about Umbridge, Nathara stared crying blood and broke into a coughing fit. Aurora immediately went to find Severus, who arrived with Marvolo hot on his heels. When they returned, Nathara's already pale skin had taken a greyish tinge, like a ghost, and blood started dribbling down her left cheek in a thin stream. Aurora looked for more Complex Healing spells due to the Failure of her Cantatio Medicus Scriptor, She decided to use the Absorbing Charm to stop the unknown source of blood, The Blood soon stopped and Aurora decided to check on Skyler to see if the Potion was working. In which it did, but then they realized that Neville grabbed a wrong ingredient. Because of this, they had to recreate the potion again. When they went to the Hospital Wing to check on Nathara, they saw her coughing violently with blood dribbling down her chin and blood stains on her blanket, hands, and the floor near her bed. Then, bloody tears started falling from her eyes as she gasped in pain. Aurora, thinking quickly used her two healing spells and gave her the newly re-brewed potion. Nathara quickly drank it and her hair turned to its regular color, Although a few hours later Nathara vomited from side effects.

Aurora was present during the DADA classes when Harry Potter voiced his opinion that Voldemort had returned, and was fuming at the sight of the former getting detention for it, in spite of the inevitable fact that it was true. Aurora was further incensed by the fact that Umbridge started developing a totalitarian control over Hogwarts, with so many restrictions that Aurora felt pressured into trying not to get into trouble. Aurora was one of the multiple students called to the Hog's Head for the announcement of Dumbledore's Army's initiation, which she was ecstatic about. She brought Evelyn there as well, Aurora was one of the first to sign up for Dumbledore's Army, and in the ensuing meetings when Harry would train them to perform several spells. Aurora easily mastered the Shield Charm and the Reductor Curse, and found herself doing a surprising number of the spells she hadn't mastered. She hugely enjoyed the meetings, and impressed Harry with her powers, Although Aurora decided she would create a smaller area, Just for duelling and duelling practise was what Dumbledore's Army did. Aurora founded 'The Dominion' to help with duelling, and especially if Death Eaters planned a Attack on Hogwarts. Aurora was now learning to Apparate one year earlier than usually, Although she would often get Splinches and need the help of Nathara's healing. At the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Aurora quickly made an Escape with Ron, Ginny and Luna when a group of Death Eaters attacked, Separating her from Neville. Eventually the two groups met in the Death Chamber, where Chaos ensued. After Sirius Black was murdered by Bellatrix Lestrange, Aurora and the others apparated by the help of Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks and Kingsley Shacklebolt. Eventually making it safely to Hogwarts. Although a week later Aurora's parents had broken out of Azkaban, She began her search for them at the beginning of the Summer Holidays.

Sixth Year

 * Aurora: "Nathara- Its hard but you'll manage through-"
 * Nathara: "No I won't!"
 * Aurora: "I know you will Nathara, Believe in yourself"
 * Nathara: "But I can't..."
 * — Aurora tries to help Nathara apparate for the first time

Aurora began her sixth year with learning how to apparate, She successfully apparated to the Hogwarts Grounds on October 3, 1996. Her overload of joy caused her to forget what she was actually searching for, Her parents will still on the run and being pursued by Aurors. Of course she knew they were safe if Voldemort was nearby, She didn't know how long that would be. The constant thought of her parents haunted her most of the time, Even with Nathara's help. Aurora tried to obliviate herself but was warned by Severus Prince-Slytherin that it could wipe out of all Aurora's memories. Aurora tried drinking a Memory Potion, Although she had brewed it wrong and abruptly threw up. Aurora, desperate on a way she could forget about her parents being freed tried to Obliviate herself, Heeding Prince-Slytherin's warning although she was again interrupted by McGonagall, who had found her doing the spell. With seemingly no way to get rid of the Thought of her Parents escape from Azkaban, Aurora found comfort in watching the Quidditch Matches, Something she never usually did. This helped Aurora was able not constantly think about her parents, Although when the Headmaster announced that a special Hogwarts Project was happened and they would have assigned groups Aurora felt worse than ever. Fortunatley Aurora was in the same group as Nathara and Neville, But their group had to study Magical Creatures, Usually Aurora did not like Care of Magical Creatures because it the Classroom spelled like Poop. Although this project was actually fun, Even if Aurora got tackled to the ground by 20 Nifflers. She eventually completed her Project with full marks.

Seventh Year

 * Aurora: "Professor Carrow, I am respecting my family's Purity. There is no need to use the Cruciatus Curse on me."
 * Alecto Carrow: "I am a Noble Servant to the Dark Lord."
 * Aurora: "And my parents are as well."
 * — Aurora clashes with Alecto Carrow

Aurora began her seventh year with Voldemort's takeover of the school, Of course some students who broke the rules were sentenced with Death or The Dementor's Kiss as a punishment. Aurora reluctantly obeyed the rules. Which forced her to toture Muggle-Borns and take Veritaserum for what they did at Night each morning. Although upon the return of supposedly dead Severus Prince-Slytherin, She betrayed the Death Eater and when Dementors surrounded him Aurora and Nathara both cast powerful Patronus charms, Much to the shock of the professors. Aurora, obviously relieved, noticed something in the corner of her eye, Voldemort was trying to break through Hogwarts's barriers, she told Nathara and Severus to get away from where they were. She guided them to take refuge in Ravenclaw tower, Where she told her already shocked housemates that Voldemort was coming and to hide. Thus she became a commander during the Battle for her friends. Halfway through the first part of the Battle, Aurora was cursed by an Unknown individual, Aurora became unconscious for about 20 minutes and immediately asked where Nathara was when she woke up. Eventually Aurora found Nathara duelling on the grounds with a another wizard. Aurora suddenly dived Infront of her and cast the Cruciatus Curse at her opponent. Nathara, shocked that Aurora cast an Unforgivable Curse and had saved her thanked her. Although when Fiendfyre broke out in the Room of Requirement, Aurora was nearly incinerated if she hadn't apparated at the last second. Aurora returned to Hogwarts later in the Battle despite Harry's warnings that she shouldn't come back for her own safety, Aurora pushed Harry out of the way, insisted she know where Nathara was. Aurora then found Nathara, She quickly protected her from some ongoing spells. They both hid in The Slytherin Common Room until the battle was nearly over, Then emerged as the Final Duel between Harry and Voldemort began.

8th Year

 * Neville Longbottom: "Aurora Star Pikeman, Daughter of Star and Siri-"
 * Aurora: "Sheesh. I know what your gonna do Neville, No need for a long speech."
 * Neville Longbottom: "Will you Marry me?"
 * Aurora: "Yes, Neville. I promise I will."
 * — Neville proposes to Aurora

After the Defeat of Dumbledore and Voldemort, The newly appointed Headmaster title was given to Severus Prince-Slytherin. Who decided to give them another year to make up for the lost education, Aurora discovered that Severus and his Husband had been able to convince the Ministry that Star and Sirius Pikeman were under the Imperius Curse. Even if they had lied to the Ministry, Aurora finally got to meet her parents safely, Although they did not like Aurora's choice of Marrying Neville Longbottom nut Aurora responded that they hadn't even been Engaged yet, Although only a few weeks later Neville proposed to Aurora. Giving her a Gold Ring imbedded with the colors of each Hogwarts House. Aurora knew this wasn't actually a real Engagement Ring but still admired it. A few weeks after their Engagement, Her best friend Nathara and her Former Rival Skyler Falcon got engaged as well. Ending their year and Hogwarts Studying with the promise that Aurora and Nathara would become Godmothers of their First Born Children.

Marriage and Birth of Sierra Pikeman
See Also: The Marriage of Neville Longbottom and Aurora Pikeman

On October 22nd, 2000, Aurora and Neville were married at Casa Romanței in Romania. Aurora was already Pregnant with her first born at the time and gave birth 6 Months Later to Sierra Pikeman. Aurora had dyed her hair to a Blonde Shade a month before the wedding, Although eventually it was returned to its natural brown color. Aurora was true to the promise of making Nathara the godmother of her first born and so did Nathara to hers.

Getting a Job
Aurora was having a hard time finding a job and she couldn't support paying for her Manor's taxes because her parents still held the Family Fortune. Although now she was getting a small pay for the taxes. She eventually took refuge at Slytherin Castle with her Family.