I know Rowan Blanchard loves Harry Potter just as much as I do, and the thought of having a GMW/HP story got stuck in my head and wouldn't leave me alone. I tried my best so that the story doesn't seem just like Harry Potter. I wanted to make it sound a little different so it didn't seem like I was just copy pasting from Harry Potter and changing the character names. Plus, then you'd know exactly what to expect, and that wouldn't be as fun. Also, I'm relatively new to fan fiction, so any feedback at all would be awesome. Thanks!
Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own Girl Meets World or Harry Potter.
The Girl Who Lived:
Chapter One
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford were proud to say that they were perfectly common, thank you very much. They asserted that they were a completely average, (well, maybe above average, according to them) upstanding family simply minding their own business.
Mr. Mason Bradford was a stocky, but unassuming man, with a mop of dark hair. who worked as an accountant at the local bank.
Mrs. Nebula Bradford, on the other hand, was a pharmacist at the nearby clinic. She was a petite, but uptight woman with curly, light brown hair that she always managed to tie into a sharp bun at the back of her head. If asked, she would always maintain that her legal middle name was actually Stefanie*, thank you very much.
The third member of the Bradford family was a tall, thin young girl with long brown hair by the name of Missy. Missy always spent her time gossiping with her friends and obsessing over the latest products.
But the Bradford's weren't as normal as they would like to think.
Take this morning, for example. Mr. and Mrs. Bradford were hurriedly getting ready for the day's work, while 12-year-old Missy was prattling on about the latest gossip, to no one in particular.
However, whilst getting lost in the hustle-and-bustle of the Bradford household, one might miss the sight of a young girl, with long dark brown hair, sitting on the staircase to the kitchen, her nose stuffed in a book.
Whilst Mr. and Mrs. Bradford rushed out of the household without so much as a glance in the young girls direction, Missy paused on her way out the doorway. "You know," she started with a wicked grin. "You can read those books of yours all you want, its not like anyone will ever notice you anyway!" she said as she skipped out the door.
The young girl simply closed her book and stood up, accustomed to Missy's taunts.
It's not like it mattered if she went to school or not, she thought. Like Missy said, it's not like anyone would care, least of all her Aunt and Uncle, who would rather pretend like she wasn't even there. No matter how hard she tried, they would rather ignore her and send her up into her room.
But she was who she was, and she still loved to go to school. It was better than feeling like she didn't exist. As long as Missy and her friends didn't catch her alone, she'd be fine. Or at least she hoped.
With a sigh, the young girl sighed as she followed Missy out the door, hoping she wouldn't once again leave her behind on the subway.
That girl was Riley Matthews, and she was the girl who lived.
*For those who haven't seen Boy Meets World, Nebula appeared as Topanga's older sister in one of the earlier episodes. Whether she is considered canon or not is still debatable, but she was never mentioned again afterwards, so her character is mostly just considered a continuity error by the writers. So I suppose her character doesn't exist in GMW, but nevertheless, I decided to use her for this story. Anyway, in the episode that Nebula was mentioned in, is also said that her middle name was "Stop-the-war", meaning that her full name was Nebula Stop-the-war Lawrence, haha. Anyway, that's what this sentence was referring to, since if she tried so hard to seem like part of a normal family, she wouldn't want to keep a middle name like Stop-the-war. Phew, I have no idea why that took so long to explain. I feel like this was have as long as the chapter itself, which actually makes me a little sad. Oh, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Please review and tell me what you thought of it!
