Unexpected Passion
by: Hufflepuff Student8

Disclaimer: Buwhahahaha, I don't own Harry Potter, sadly, this is true. But I do own the idea for this story and my own character, Brittan Arkin. Buwhaha
Dedication: Um… To those people that wish they could live in the wonderful world of Harry Potter instead for their ordinary every day to day lives.
Rating: PG13
Summary: A tomboy (a girl) From the USA has come to Hogwarts for her 6th year of schooling. She meets Harry, Hermione Ron and Draco right off of the bat. Will romance spark… will hate rage… read and find out!

A/N: Well, this is the revised first chapter of Unexpected Passion… I have gone through all of the chapters and edited them, considering that they were pretty bad. So here is the new version… not too much different, but grammatically it should make more sense.

!ENJOY!

Chapter One: Trains, Carriages, and Sorting

On a fine, sunny day, all of the Hogwarts Students started to gather at Platform 9 ¾ waiting to board the Hogwarts Express. It was an organized chaos. Students running to get their things onto the train, finding and saying goodbye to their parents for the year and others trying to find their friends. Familiar faces were seen and familiar voices were heard. Students rushed to their friends that they hadn't seen for months, and confusing chatter about everyone's 'busy' summers. Although one trio wasn't hard to find.

Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, walked through the entrance to Platform 9 ¾ together. The three of them with smiles on their faces looking forward to the year ahead of them, their 6th year.

They saw some of their other friends and chatted for awhile. When they finally got around to putting their things onto the train a half-hour later, when they loaded onto the train and found an empty compartment near the back, although it wasn't completely empty.

There was a boy sitting there looking out of the window. One that the three had never seen before. He sat there looking out the window with his chin resting on his right hand. He had long black eyelashes, thin lips and shoulder length brownish blonde hair pulled back into a tight ponytail. He was rather small for a guy, he
didn't look very built muscle wise.

Hermione opened the door to the compartment; "Hello… do you mind if the three of us join you?" she said smiling sweetly.

"Huh…?" The boy looked over to the three standing in the door. The three of them looked at the boy's face more closely. His face had a very feminine look to it. Slightly defined check bones, a slender jaw line and a the eyes. The eyes just screamed feminine. "Oh… go ahead!" and he looked back out of the window.

"Thanks!" the three of them said in unison as they sat down in the compartment.

Harry and Ron sat on the bench across from the boy and Hermione sat a good foot away from the boy on the same bench.

"So… who are you?" Ron asked looking at the boy.

The boy spun around and looked at the three. His eyes were a grayish, green with a hint of yellow around the pupil and dark green around the edge of the iris(A/N: the colored part of the eye). "Me?"

"Yeah you!" Harry said giving the boy an odd look. "We've never seen you before!"

"Oh," the boy rubbed the back of his head and started to go a little pink. "No one here knows me! I'm from a school in the USA."

"Where in the USA?" Hermione asked smiling as if she was interested.

"Alaska." the boy replied in a feminine voice.

"Oh… did you live in a igloo?" Hermione asked in a joking manner.

"No, all that stuff you hear about the igloos and dog teams is a bunch of bull!" the boy laughed as he spoke.

"You still haven't told us your name!" Harry said.

"Oh… my name," the boy looked at all of them and smiled. "My name is Brittan, Brittan Arkin…"

"Wait, isn't that a girls name?" Ron asked looking very stupid.

"Yes… why?" Brittan asked…

"But aren't you a boy?!" Hermione asked in shock.

Brittan laughed, "No… I'm a girl, all of the way!" she giggled.

"Holy shit! Sorry… I could have sworn you were a guy!" Ron said with a guilty look on his face.

"Don't worry… I get it a lot!" Brittan smiled weakly. "Anyway, enough about me. Who the hell are all of you?"

"Oh…" Hermione looked around the compartment. "I'm Hermione Granger!"

"My name is Ron Weasley!"

"And I am the one and only Harry Potter!" Harry said, putting on a cheesy look.

"Oh… Okay." Brittan gave off a weak smile.

Then there was a silence that lasted for quite some time. Brittan continued to look out the window and Harry, Hermione and Ron just looked at her. Still in shock that she was a girl. Her clothes said that she was a tomboy. She was wearing baggy black jeans that were slightly faded in the knees, torn and tattered at the bottom. She had a loose fitting long sleeve white shirt on it that had the number 8 on the front in blue. Her shoes were a pitch black and weren't tied. The lacing was stretched so there was no room to tie the laces together. She was wearing a silver ring on her middle finger on her left hand. She also had a blue beaded spiked necklace that had a dolphin pendant on it.

What was odd to Hermione was that she had no piercing(s) anywhere that she could see. It looked like she had tried to pierce her ears before but wasn't wearing any earrings.

Brittan shifted and pulled up her sleeves and then continued to look out the window. Hermione noticed that she had several scars up and down her arms and all over her hands, she was about to ask where she ad gotten them all when the door to the compartment flung open and Draco Malfoy was standing there. With his goons behind him. "So… Scar Head, Weasel and Mudblood together again!" Draco's eyes landed on Brittan. "And who is this?"

"Malfoy, just leave us the hell alone for once man!" Ron said standing up along with Harry and Hermione. Brittan just sat on the edge of the bench, not knowing what was happening.

"Why? What kind of fun would that bring me?" Draco threw the group one of his old fashions sneers. "So," Draco went into the compartment and sat down next to Brittan and put his arm on the top on the bench behind her. "What's your name girl?"

"Draco… I don't think that's a girl!" Crabbe said as Goyle nodded his head.

"Really?" Draco pulled Brittan's shirt back (causing her to squeal) making it so you could see the shape of her breasts. "Now do you think so?" Draco smiled
again.

Crabbe and Goyle nodded their heads and went very red, but nothing of a red compared to Brittan's face.

"What the hell are you doing?" Brittan said moving closer to the wall slapping at Draco's hands. "Get away from me!"

"Hey now… let's not hit. We've only just met!" Draco smiled and moved his eyebrows in a suggestive manner. "Anyway, tell me your name!"

"Malfoy, leave her alone!" Harry said.

"Why? Is she your girlfriend?"

"NO! I am not his girlfriend!" Brittan said looking very nervous. "And I'll tell you my name if you tell me yours first." she rose her eyebrow.

Draco rose his eyebrow. "My name is Draco Malfoy… and these two are Crabbe and Goyle." Draco said pointing to each of them. "Now… tell me who you are!"

"Brittan Arkin! Happy?" Brittan said standing up to get away from Draco.

"Sure… for now at least!" Draco said standing up as well.

"Okay, now that you're happy will you leave?" Brittan said with a flirty look upon her face. "Don't make me push."

Draco gave off a smile of pleasure. "Fine… see you later." and with that Draco and his goons left the compartment leaving the door open.

Hermione closed the door and the rest of the group sat back down. "That was really annoying!" Hermione sat down with the rest of the group in a huff.

"I swear I am going to beat Malfoy up one of these days! I will… I swear it!" Ron said clenching his fists together.

"And I'll gladly help you mate!" Harry said.

"Why do you guys hate him or whatever?" Brittan said . "I get the picture that you three obviously don't like him but, why?"

"Because he's a total ass hole… He thinks that because he's a pureblood that he can get away with anything. He's a big egoistic prat if you ask me!" Hermione said in an aggravated tone. "Did you not hear what he called all of us?"

"Yeah, I heard" Brittan looked at Hermione. "But you gotta learn to flirt!" The three of them all opened their mouths in protest. "No… you know… play back at them… play with their minds. Make them confused," Brittan smiled. "I used to do it all of the time. It never fails! You just gotta act like it doesn't faze you and come up with something to say that they totally aren't expecting!" The three of them just looked at her as if she were crazy. "I'll just show you sometime… it's hard to explain!"

"Whatever, I'm not going to flirt with Draco Malfoy, no way in hell is that going to ever happen!" Harry said.

"Yeah… same here! I don't want him to start to thinking that I'm gay!" Ron said.

"Arggg… Okay not flirting… just playing mind games with them, messing with their heads!" Brittan said trying to lessen the confusion in the compartment.

They continued to talk about the subject until there was an announcement that they were going to be arriving in Hogsmeade in thirty minutes. They all dug into their trunks and pulled out their robes.

Hermione, Harry and Ron's uniforms all had the Gryffindor colors on the brim of their robes and a badge of the Gryffindor lion on their breast pocket. Brittan's however looked very plain. It only had the Hogwarts badge on her breast pocket where Hermione, Harry and Ron had the Gryffindor seal.

Brittan however… wasn't wearing the girl's uniform. She was wearing the guys.

"Hey… isn't it against school rules to dress as the opposite gender?" Ron whispered to Hermione.

"I don't think so…"

They loaded off of the train and headed over to the horse-less carriages. Hermione, Harry and Ron were in front followed closely by Brittan.

"Brittan… I hope you make it into Gryffindor! That would be so cool!" Hermione said looking back at her. "Then maybe you and I could be room mates!"

"Yeah…" Brittan giggled. "That would be fun!" Brittan felt a cold hand grip her wrist and caused her to stop walking. She looked back and saw a blonde hair boy. His hair was slicked back, and he was at least a head taller than Brittan. It was the one and only Draco Malfoy that she had met on the train.

"Hey," Draco said with a twisted smile.

"Hello, and what might you be wanting?" Brittan asked looking down at Draco's hand that was gripping her wrist.

"I want you to come and sit with me!" Draco said as he started to walk to one of the carriages, still holding onto Brittan's wrist.

"Hey… what the hell… let me go!" Brittan said trying to stop Draco from pulling her forward. "Who ever said that I wanted to sit with you?"

"No one… just don't fuse girl." Draco's grip tightened.

When they reached a carriage, Draco climbed in first and pulled the unwillingly Brittan into it. There was no one else in the carriage but the two of them. The doors closed and the carriage started to move. Brittan and Draco fell into an uncomfortable silence. Draco kept staring at Brittan and she tried to avoid his eyes.

"So… where are you from?" Draco asked.

"Why does it matter?" Brittan said raising her eyebrow.

"Because I want to know!"

"I don't want you to know though!"

"Quit the foreplay girl and just tell me!" Draco said coolly.

"Four play?! Hold up… I am not moaning your name along with two other people, so I don't believe that there is any four play going on!" Brittan said sarcastically.

"So you like to play it that way do you?" Draco said sneering.

"Yeah… I like it rough!" Brittan winked at Draco.

Draco's face became covered with the look of confusion and surprise. He then grinned and said "You like it rough?! You mean-" Brittan threw Draco a glare that made him stop talking"Why did you want me to sit with you anyway?!" Brittan rose her eyebrow.

"Why?!" Draco asked. "Because… I wanted too… is there a problem with that!" Draco looked at Brittan with a smile of pleasure.

"Oh I see… you wanted to screw me in the carriage? Sorry but, I don't do one night stands!" Brittan said smiling.

Draco was speechless. He opened his mouth but couldn't find any words to say. Brittan just looked him in the eyes, mentally saying, "I got you good!" and smiled.

Before they knew it, the carriage stopped and the doors opened. Brittan got up and stepped out of the carriage but Draco grabbed her wrist again.

"What now?" she said but, Draco just stared into her eyes, opened his mouth again trying to think of something to say but, yet again words failed him. "If you every remember what it was that you were going to say, send me an owl!" Brittan said joking and shook off his hand and continued to walk up to the Great Hall.

When she got to the top of the stair case leading into the castle, she ran into someone. "Oomph…." she looked up to see an old tatter witch in green velvet robes. "Um… I'm sorry about that."

"It's alright, happens all of the time. I am Professor McGonagall." She smiled and pushed her glasses up on her nose. " And you're Brittan Arkin, correct?"

"Um… yes ma'am!" Brittan went slightly pink in the cheeks.

"Oh… then please come with me!"

Professor McGonagall led Brittan into an emptied hallway and then they saw two giant oak doors. They swung open by themselves and let the two in. Brittan looked around the enormous hall. There was a sea of black hats and different house colors.

Almost everyone in the hall starred at her and Professor McGonagall. Whispering started amongst the hundreds of students. Brittan looked around the hall to see if she could see Hermione, Harry, Ron or Draco. For those were the only people she knew so far.

Professor McGonagall walked Brittan down the middle of the hall and onto a landing in front of all of the students. There was also a stool and a ratty old hat on the landing.

Professor Dumbledore rose out of his seat and tapped his glass with his knife. A loud ringing noise pierced the chatter and caused silence. "Students… let me introduce to you, Brittan Arkin!" Dumbledore gestured his hand to Brittan. She just smiled and gave a small wave to the hundreds of students before her. Most of the students had a confused look upon their faces.

"This year we have the pleasure of having her attend our school" Dumbledore continued. "She is originally from a school in the United States of America, Alaska I think it was?" Dumbledore looked over to Brittan. She nodded her head yes. "Ah… my memory serves me right! So, lets give her a warm welcome!"

The hall rang with clapping and Brittan went scarlet.

"Now…" Dumbledore said breaking the applause. "Let her be sorted into her new house!"

Brittan looked very confused. She looked around to try and find an answer, her eyes only fell upon the stool and ratty hat. She rose her eyebrow and looked at Professor McGonagall for the real answer.

"Please sit on the stool and I will place the sorting hat on your head and he will sort you into your new house." McGonagall stated.

Brittan starred at the stool for a moment and the at hat that was on top of it. She slowly walked over to it and McGonagall picked the hat up and Brittan sat down. McGonagall placed the Hat on her head and it came to life.

"A ha… a new student… 6th year I see…" the hat began. Brittan jumped when it started to talk and a few students laughed. "Hmmm… a well developed mind… that you have… loyal… Hmmm… where should you go?"

Brittan went wide-eyed. "Um… I don't know?"

"Well… you're no help… but no matter… let me think some…" the hat went quiet for some time. The whole hall was silent waiting for the hat's decision. Brittan looked around the hall at all of the eyes that were so intent on her. Her eyes fell upon Draco at the Slytherin table. "I see you hold some interest for that boy." Brittan went red and turned away from Draco's stare. "But I cannot put you there…" Brittan continued to glance around the hall. Still very red from the statement the hat had just made. Her eyes found Harry, Ron and Hermione. They all smiled and she smiled back at them. "I see… you know people there… and you do hold many of their qualities. Yes… is see it now… GRYFFINDOR!" The Gryffindor table broke out into a roar of approval.

Brittan sighed in relief. It was over and now she didn't have to have very person in the hall stare at her. McGonagall took the hat off of her head. She stood up and walked over to the Gryffindor table at a half run.

"Congrats girl!" Hermione said making room for Brittan to sit next to her.

"Welcome to Gryffindor!" Ron said across the table from Hermione with Harry next to him.

"Thanks," Brittan said smiling and losing some of the redness from her face. Feeling more secure now that everyone wasn't staring at her.

"What was that whole thing with "I see you hold some interest for that boy." Hmmm… who were you looking at?" Harry asked in a sarcastic way.

"I… um… well…." Brittan looked at the three. "Draco…"

"WHAT?!" the three half yelled in unison.

"Draco?" Hermione repeated.

"That's who I was looking at… I think the hat was trying to embarrass me though… cause I have no interest for him!" Brittan half lied.

"Oh… really!?" Ron said.

"YES!" Brittan developed another red face.

"Oh well… it doesn't matter… what happened to you when we were going to the carriages? Where did you run off to?" Hermione stated, trying to change the subject.

"Um…" Brittan didn't want to tell them what had really happened but, thought that they should know no matter how mad they would get. "Well… I was grabbed by the wrist and I stopped… it was Draco and he pulled me into carriage. I couldn't really get away from him. He's quite strong you know."

"What?! Why would he do that?" Harry asked utterly confused.

"Isn't it obvious?" Hermione asked. The boys and Brittan looked extremely confused and shook their heads no. "He probably thinks you're cute or something Brittan."

"What?! Draco… me?" Brittan asked with a combination of a pleading and confused look upon her face.

Suddenly, a ringing noise filled the hall and all went quiet. Dumbledore was standing before the students again. "Let the feast… Begin!" and then food of all shapes and sizes filled the tables. Golden plates, goblets and silver-wear appeared as well.

The feast was wonderful and filled up all of the hungry wizards and witches. Before the feast was over, Brittan, Harry, Hermione and Ron finished.

"That was GREAT!" Ron said rubbing his stomach.

"Couldn't agree with you more, Ron!" Harry stretched his arms out and yawned. "Good food always makes me tired though!" he yawned again.

"You're right!" Hermione smiled. She looked over to Brittan. "Did you get enough to eat?"

"Yeah… plenty." Brittan smiled.

"Well… if it isn't a four some now?" said an all too familiar voice to the four.

Draco was standing behind Hermione and Brittan with his two goons behind him, Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe and Goyle had their arms crossed over their chest and they chuckled. Draco just stood there sneering.

"Draco isn't that a bit old. I mean… come on, none of us are moaning each others names, all sweaty and sticky… right? But if the three some you're in would like to continue… go right ahead. We were just leaving!" Brittan said in a smart alic tone.

"A—" Draco began. The four of the Gryffindors got up out of their seats and turned to walk out of the Great Hall. "Wait…" Draco said, but the four continued to walk. "I know you were looking at me when that hat said-"

"It doesn't mean anything Draco." Brittan said interrupting him. She smiles at him and turned and walked out of the Great Hall with Hermione, Harry and Ron.

When they were out of the Great Hall Hermione, Ron and Harry began to giggle. Brittan just smiled.

"Is that what you were trying to explain to us earlier?" Hermione asked trying to fight off her giggles.

"Yeah… it's really fun to do… especially to the opposite gender!" Brittan started to giggle along with her newfound friends.

They got to the portrait hole and uttered their new pass word, 'Gryphon' (A/N: some sort of beast from Alice in Wonderland.) and they were let into a beautiful room of Scarlet and Gold.

"Well… I'm really tired… so I am going up to bed!" Harry said as he yawned and set off for the stairs. "See you all in the morning!"

"Yeah… I think Harry has the right idea. I'll see you ladies in the morning." Ron said, following Harry.

"Well… do you want to go up to bed?" Hermione asked.

"Sure… you and I share the same dormitory right?" Brittan asked.

"I don't know… let's go and find out shall we?"

Both girls giggled and went up the stairs. They found the girls 6th year dorms and found theirs. This year there were only two to a room… and Brittan and Hermione were roommates.

"SWEET!" Hermione and Brittan said together.

Brittan saw her stuff already there and set up for her. Then they heard a squawk from a cage from Brittan's side of the room.

"What the hell was that?!" Hermione asked as she stepped back behind Brittan.

"Oh don't worry… it's my bat." Brittan went to the cage and pulled out a large fruit bat holding onto a cherry. "His name is Draco!" Hermione went wide-eyed. "Kidding… his actual name is Zuni." Brittan kissed Zuni on the top of his little head.

"But isn't that an Indian culture from New Mexico?" Hermione asked as she came closer to Brittan and Zuni. (A/N: That's what it says it is in the dictionary!)

"Yes… it is!" Brittan smiled. "You sure know a lot Hermione!" Brittan smiled and hugged Zuni.

Hermione rubbed the back of her head… "Well yeah I guess you could say that!" Hermione smiled weakly.

Brittan stood up and got something out of her trunk. It looked like a stand of some sort. She placed Zuni on it and placed Zuni and the perch by the window. "There you go… I hope you like to view!" Brittan smiled and Zuni gave a squawk of approval.

The two then heard a loud thump. They turned to see a massive cat sitting on Hermione's bed.

"Is it yours?"

"Yep… this is Crookshanks!" Hermione sat on her bad and started to stroke Crookshanks long ginger colored fur. Crookshanks started to purr furiously.

"Alright… does it chase after things like Zuni?" Brittan asked sitting on her bed.

"No… He doesn't chase birds or things that can fly!"

"Good!" Brittan sighed in relief.

The two went silent for a moment. Then they started to undress and get into their pajamas. Hermione had finished and was sitting on her bed. Brittan had her pajama pants on and was standing in front of her dresser with her bra on when they both heard a tapping noise on the window by Brittan's bed.

Brittan pulled a T-shirt over her head and walked to the window. She opened it and an eagle flew in with a letter attached to his leg.

"Hmmm… is it for me or you?" Brittan asked as the eagle landed on Brittan's dresser.

"Well let's see…" Hermione got up and walked over to the eagle and took the letter from its leg and patted it on the head. Brittan walked over and gave it a treat and looked over Hermione's shoulder at the letter.

"It says it's for you… but on the outside it doesn't say who it is from." Hermione said turning around to face Brittan and handed her the letter.

"Oh… okay…" Brittan took the letter and looked at the outside of the letter. The seal was that of a snake type creature. The writing was in Green ink and the paper was an off white parchment.

Hermione starred at the eagle for a moment, then it hit her. "That's Draco Malfoy's eagle!

A/N: So, what do you think of the revised chapter? Well, I am going to be revising the rest of the chapters and then I will hopefully post the sixth chapter. Anyway, I hope to hear from you, even if it is good or bad, mean or cruel, whatever… I just want some feed back!
Hufflepuff Student8

PS: Okay, it might be a little screwy, because i had to work around the system to upload this thing... so I'M SORRY!