Marly
Disclaimer: I only own Marly and the story, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Chapter One - A New Girl At Hogwarts
A girl with emerald-green eyes and a hair colour between red and brown was standing alone at the London train station.
Marly was looking for platform 9 3/4. She couldn't find it anywhere, but it had to be there because it was on the ticket she got.
Then she saw a boy disappear in the gate between platform 9 and 10. She stared open-mouthed at the place were the boy stood just 2 seconds ago.
Then she saw another boy running to the gate.
"No!" she thought, "He's gonna crash against the gate!"
But at the same time the boy would have hit the gate, he disappeared just like the other boy.
Marly looked around and saw another boy and girl with trunks just like hers standing at the place where the two boys came from.
She walked over and asked the mother: "Excuse me. Do you know how I can get to platform 9 3/4?"
The woman answered: "Going to Hogwarts? Do you see that gate? If you run through it you get there. You can go with Ginny here," she pointed her daughter, "Are you ready?"
Marly nodded.
"Here it goes."
Marly ran to the gate.
When she was almost there she thought: "Oh no! I'm going to hit it!"
She closed her eyes and waited for the shock... but nothing happened!
"You can open your eyes now," a voice said.
Marly opened them and saw Ginny smiling at her.
She asked: "Is this your first year? How old are you?"
"Yes, this is my first year, I'm 16."
"If you're 16, how can this be your first year?"
"That's because I went to school in America. This is gonna be my 6th year."
"Oh, then you're in the same year as Ron."
"Who's Ron?"
"That's my brother, he's in his 6th year too. In what house you think you're going to be in?"
"I don't know, I hope Gryffindor."
"Good, me too."
She walked to the train with Ginny and tried to get her trunk up.
Ginny said: "Wait, I'll get my brothers, they came to say goodbye, they've already finished Hogwarts. So when a redheaded boy comes to you and takes your trunk it's one of my brothers."
"Ok."
When Ginny left Marly stood there with her trunk. She watched all the others walk by, then finally she saw someone with red hear walking to her.
The boy was really tall, he was more than five inches taller than she was. But that could also be because she was very small.
The boy smiled.
"Hi! I'm Ron, you must be Marly?"
"Yes."
"So, you want me to help you with your trunk?"
"That would be great!"
Ron lifted the thing.
"This one isn't as heavy as Ginny's, I think she takes way too much stuff with her, but when you say something about she's like: 'You can't be serious Ron! I can't leave that! I might need it when I leave it here," he said using a high voice.
Marly laughed.
"Well, I'm going to get Ginny, see you later!" Ron said and walked away.
Marly waited there for Ginny to show up, but when she didn't she thought it would be a good idea to get a seat.
She dragged her trunk trough the train until she fell over something. She fell into a compartment right on somebody who was sitting there.
She looked up and saw a boy with friendly green eyes smiling at her.
She blushed and stood up.
"I-I'm sorry!" she said.
Before the boy could answer she heard someone laughing.
"Potter seems to have a new girlfriend!" a pale boy said.
"Buzz off, Malfoy!" the boy said angry, "You were the one that tripped her!"
"You don't talk to me like that!"
"Maybe you need to get your ears checked, I did."
"You'll regret this, Potter."
And with that the pale boy walked away.
The boy with the green eyes turned to her and said: "Don't worry about that, Malfoy's just a little creep. So are you new at Hogwarts?"
"Yes," Marly said, "I'm Marly. Nice to meet you."
"I'm Harry Potter, nice to meet you too."
Harry was surprised to see that Marly didn't make the usual glare at his scar.
"Which year are you in?" he asked.
"My 6th, what about you?"
"Me too, do you know which house you're gonna be in?"
"No, but I hope Gryffindor."
"Great, I'm in Gryffindor too."
Marly looked around and said: "I was looking for someone when I fell in here. She's about 3 inches taller than me and she has bright red hair, do you know her?"
"Ginny? Yeah, she's my friend's sisters."
"Oh, you mean Ron? Have you seen her?"
"No, but I think they will probably be here soon."
Two seconds later they walked in.
"Hi Harry!" Ron looked at Marly, "Oh, you met Marly? Good then we don't have to do the names stuff anymore."
"No," Harry said, "Maybe if you had brought her here we would have to do that, but since she fell in-"
"She what?"
"Fell in, she met Malfoy."
Ginny and Ron exchanged meaningful glares.
"Don't worry about him."
"I won't," Marly said turning to Harry, "Why does he hates you so much?"
"I don't know, but he just does, and I don't love him either, he probably learns this stuff at home, his dad is even worse."
"He doesn't seem very evil to me."
Ginny stared at her.
"He just tripped you for no good reason, you could have hurt yourself!"
"He's just trying to get some attention, I think he's lonely."
"Well, maybe he is, but if he was nicer he would have some friends!" Ginny said.
Marly was about to say something when a girl with cinnamon eyes and brown hair came in.
"Hi guys!"
"Hi Hermione," they all said in union.
"Hey! Who's this?" Hermione asked Harry.
Harry opened his mouth when Marly cut him off.
"I can speak for myself, thank you," she said, "I'm Marly, and who are you?"
"Hermione Granger. Why are you at Hogwarts now? This can't be your first year, right?"
"I went to school in America, but my.. uhm... parents moved to England, so I went with them."
"Oh," Hermione said and began talking to the others, "You guys did finish your homework, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Uhm.. no," this came from Ron.
"What?! You didn't finish it?"
"Well, I was busy."
And while Hermione was busy scolding on Ron, Marly sat quiet in a corner.
She dozed off.
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"Marly! Marly wake up! You have to put on your robe, we're almost there!"
Marly's eyes snapt open. It was Ginny.
"Oh, did I fall asleep? I'm sorry!"
"No need to be, just put on your robe, we'll be there in ten minutes."
When Marly had putted on her robe, she grabbed her trunk and followed Ginny to the door.
They both looked out the window and saw that the train was beginning to slow down. Finally it stopped and they stepped out.
Marly heard someone shouting: "First years! First year with me!"
She turned to see who it was and saw a man that was REALLY big! He looked pretty wild with his beard and dark eyes.
"Don't worry," Ginny said, "That's Hagrid, he's the groundskeeper at Hogwarts. He's really nice."
Marly looked at him again and saw that the dark eyes looked friendly at her and Ginny.
She walked over.
"Hi! I'm Hagrid. You must be new!"
"Yes, I'm Marly, nice to meet you!"
"Nice to meet you too," he saw Harry coming and said, "Hi Harry!"
"Hi! How are you?" he looked at Marly, "I see you already met Marly."
"Yeah, you have to come by some time with her, because I'm really busy right now, see you later."
"So," Harry said, "What do you think of him?"
"I like him, he's very nice. But is it just because I'm small or is he really that big?"
Harry laughed, "It's not just you, Hagrid's a half giant."
"Oh, that explains a lot!"
"Come, Ginny told me to get you, the rides are going so we have to get in one."
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After Marly arrived at Hogwarts, she got send to the Great Hall for the Sorting ceremony.
She was really nervous. She didn't ask anyone what she had to do at the ceremony. She saw Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione sitting at the Gryffindor table, they smiled at her when they saw her standing there with all the first years.
Finally professor McGonagall walked to them with a hat that she putted on a chair. And then told them that when their name was called they had to sit on the chair and put the hat on their head.
Then when McGonagall was finished, the hat suddenly began singing.
Marly mouth fell open. She was so surprised about the hat singing, that she didn't even hear what is said.
When the hat finished, McGonagall grabbed a scroll and began calling their names.
First a little girl, Rita Adams, got sorted in Hufflepuff and the table cheered for her as she walked down to them.
Indi, Kandi got sorted in Gryffindor. Then Lyng, Lisa got sorted in Slytherin.
And finally McGonagall said: "Miss... er... Marly, your next."
Everyone started talking with the one next to them, they all heard about the new American girl that would be in the 6th year but it was strange that she didn't seem to have a last name. Even McGonagall sounded a bit surprised.
Marly walked to the chair and put the hat on.
She waited and waited, but the hat seemed to be thinking.
She thought: "Please, let me be in Gryffindor!"
"Gryffindor, he?" she heard a voice near her ear, "I don't know what to do with you, you don't seem to have a clear past, but definitely a future. A very important one. Yes, I see it now. You belong in... GRYFFINDOR!" That last thing he screamed out loud.
Marly took the hat of and walked to the Gryffindor table that was cheering for her. She sat down between Ginny and Hermione.
After everyone got sorted she went up to the Gryffindor common room.
Hermione said: "Come, I'll show you your room."
They went up the stairs to the girls' dorms and walked in the room with "6th years" above it.
Marly looked around and saw four four-poster beds with red curtains.
Two girls came to her and Hermione.
"Hi! I'm Parvati Patil," said one of them.
"And I'm Lavender Brown," said the other one.
Marly opened her mouth to tell them who she was but Parvati cut her off by saying: "We already know who you are. You're Marly, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, we've got to go, see you later!"
Marly watched them walk away and then jumped on the bed with her trunk next to it.
"Come one, Hermione, this is fun! My old bed was much harder than this one!"
Hermione looked and said: "Wouldn't you be embarrassed if somebody saw you doing that?"
"Oh, come on Hermione! Lighten up! If I had to worry about being embarrassed with everything I do, there wouldn't be much fun, now would there?"
"I guess you're right."
Soon the both of them were jumping up and down and giggling.
"What are you guys doing?" Ginny asked, she just walked in the room.
"Come one, Ginny, join us, it's fun!" Marly said.
Ginny was surprised to see the serious Hermione giggling and jumping on a bed, but joined them anyway.
After a while they were tired and lied down on the bed.
Hermione looked at her watch.
"It's almost time for dinner, so we'd better get changed."
"Ok, see you later!" Ginny said and walked to her own room.
Marly opened her trunk to get another robe, but it was empty!
"Hermione! My trunk is empty! All my stuff is gone!"
"Look in that wardrobe over there."
"What?"
"Look in that wardrobe, your things are probably in there."
Marly opened one of the drawers and found her robes in it.
"But how..."
"One of the house-elves have put it in there."
"Oh, do they have house-elves at Hogwarts?"
"Yeah, lots of," Hermione sounded a bit angry, so Marly decided that is was better to not talk about that subject.
They got ready and waited for Ginny to show up, and then they went down to the common room where they met the boys again.
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While Marly was in her room, Harry and Ron were just talking about her.
"Don't you think it's weird that she doesn't seem to have a last name?"
"Yeah, but maybe it's like a double name, Marly Marly or something," Harry said.
"That sounds really stupid, like Ron Ron or Harry Harry," Ron said.
"Well, anyway, I think she's kinda cute, what about you?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, and she's very small too, just about your height," Ron said, who was much taller than Harry.
"Hey! Maybe she's an orphan and that's why she doesn't have a last name," Harry suggested.
"You were obviously more looking at her and than listening," Ron teased, "because else you would have heard that she moved to England with her parents."
Harry punched Ron and they both went downstairs laughing.
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Later that night when they all went to bed, Marly stared at the curtains of her bed and thought that Hogwarts was the best place she'd ever been and that she was going to have a lot of fun there.
End of Chapter One.
a/n: So, did you like the first chapter of my new series? I know this wasn't really interesting yet, but in a few chapters things will gonna get much more fun to read. But first I had to introduce you guys to Marly. I'm gonna write the next chapter (maybe chapters) in France, so it may take a while before I can post one. Please review,
Greetz and Kisses, Katie.
Disclaimer: I only own Marly and the story, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Chapter One - A New Girl At Hogwarts
A girl with emerald-green eyes and a hair colour between red and brown was standing alone at the London train station.
Marly was looking for platform 9 3/4. She couldn't find it anywhere, but it had to be there because it was on the ticket she got.
Then she saw a boy disappear in the gate between platform 9 and 10. She stared open-mouthed at the place were the boy stood just 2 seconds ago.
Then she saw another boy running to the gate.
"No!" she thought, "He's gonna crash against the gate!"
But at the same time the boy would have hit the gate, he disappeared just like the other boy.
Marly looked around and saw another boy and girl with trunks just like hers standing at the place where the two boys came from.
She walked over and asked the mother: "Excuse me. Do you know how I can get to platform 9 3/4?"
The woman answered: "Going to Hogwarts? Do you see that gate? If you run through it you get there. You can go with Ginny here," she pointed her daughter, "Are you ready?"
Marly nodded.
"Here it goes."
Marly ran to the gate.
When she was almost there she thought: "Oh no! I'm going to hit it!"
She closed her eyes and waited for the shock... but nothing happened!
"You can open your eyes now," a voice said.
Marly opened them and saw Ginny smiling at her.
She asked: "Is this your first year? How old are you?"
"Yes, this is my first year, I'm 16."
"If you're 16, how can this be your first year?"
"That's because I went to school in America. This is gonna be my 6th year."
"Oh, then you're in the same year as Ron."
"Who's Ron?"
"That's my brother, he's in his 6th year too. In what house you think you're going to be in?"
"I don't know, I hope Gryffindor."
"Good, me too."
She walked to the train with Ginny and tried to get her trunk up.
Ginny said: "Wait, I'll get my brothers, they came to say goodbye, they've already finished Hogwarts. So when a redheaded boy comes to you and takes your trunk it's one of my brothers."
"Ok."
When Ginny left Marly stood there with her trunk. She watched all the others walk by, then finally she saw someone with red hear walking to her.
The boy was really tall, he was more than five inches taller than she was. But that could also be because she was very small.
The boy smiled.
"Hi! I'm Ron, you must be Marly?"
"Yes."
"So, you want me to help you with your trunk?"
"That would be great!"
Ron lifted the thing.
"This one isn't as heavy as Ginny's, I think she takes way too much stuff with her, but when you say something about she's like: 'You can't be serious Ron! I can't leave that! I might need it when I leave it here," he said using a high voice.
Marly laughed.
"Well, I'm going to get Ginny, see you later!" Ron said and walked away.
Marly waited there for Ginny to show up, but when she didn't she thought it would be a good idea to get a seat.
She dragged her trunk trough the train until she fell over something. She fell into a compartment right on somebody who was sitting there.
She looked up and saw a boy with friendly green eyes smiling at her.
She blushed and stood up.
"I-I'm sorry!" she said.
Before the boy could answer she heard someone laughing.
"Potter seems to have a new girlfriend!" a pale boy said.
"Buzz off, Malfoy!" the boy said angry, "You were the one that tripped her!"
"You don't talk to me like that!"
"Maybe you need to get your ears checked, I did."
"You'll regret this, Potter."
And with that the pale boy walked away.
The boy with the green eyes turned to her and said: "Don't worry about that, Malfoy's just a little creep. So are you new at Hogwarts?"
"Yes," Marly said, "I'm Marly. Nice to meet you."
"I'm Harry Potter, nice to meet you too."
Harry was surprised to see that Marly didn't make the usual glare at his scar.
"Which year are you in?" he asked.
"My 6th, what about you?"
"Me too, do you know which house you're gonna be in?"
"No, but I hope Gryffindor."
"Great, I'm in Gryffindor too."
Marly looked around and said: "I was looking for someone when I fell in here. She's about 3 inches taller than me and she has bright red hair, do you know her?"
"Ginny? Yeah, she's my friend's sisters."
"Oh, you mean Ron? Have you seen her?"
"No, but I think they will probably be here soon."
Two seconds later they walked in.
"Hi Harry!" Ron looked at Marly, "Oh, you met Marly? Good then we don't have to do the names stuff anymore."
"No," Harry said, "Maybe if you had brought her here we would have to do that, but since she fell in-"
"She what?"
"Fell in, she met Malfoy."
Ginny and Ron exchanged meaningful glares.
"Don't worry about him."
"I won't," Marly said turning to Harry, "Why does he hates you so much?"
"I don't know, but he just does, and I don't love him either, he probably learns this stuff at home, his dad is even worse."
"He doesn't seem very evil to me."
Ginny stared at her.
"He just tripped you for no good reason, you could have hurt yourself!"
"He's just trying to get some attention, I think he's lonely."
"Well, maybe he is, but if he was nicer he would have some friends!" Ginny said.
Marly was about to say something when a girl with cinnamon eyes and brown hair came in.
"Hi guys!"
"Hi Hermione," they all said in union.
"Hey! Who's this?" Hermione asked Harry.
Harry opened his mouth when Marly cut him off.
"I can speak for myself, thank you," she said, "I'm Marly, and who are you?"
"Hermione Granger. Why are you at Hogwarts now? This can't be your first year, right?"
"I went to school in America, but my.. uhm... parents moved to England, so I went with them."
"Oh," Hermione said and began talking to the others, "You guys did finish your homework, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Uhm.. no," this came from Ron.
"What?! You didn't finish it?"
"Well, I was busy."
And while Hermione was busy scolding on Ron, Marly sat quiet in a corner.
She dozed off.
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"Marly! Marly wake up! You have to put on your robe, we're almost there!"
Marly's eyes snapt open. It was Ginny.
"Oh, did I fall asleep? I'm sorry!"
"No need to be, just put on your robe, we'll be there in ten minutes."
When Marly had putted on her robe, she grabbed her trunk and followed Ginny to the door.
They both looked out the window and saw that the train was beginning to slow down. Finally it stopped and they stepped out.
Marly heard someone shouting: "First years! First year with me!"
She turned to see who it was and saw a man that was REALLY big! He looked pretty wild with his beard and dark eyes.
"Don't worry," Ginny said, "That's Hagrid, he's the groundskeeper at Hogwarts. He's really nice."
Marly looked at him again and saw that the dark eyes looked friendly at her and Ginny.
She walked over.
"Hi! I'm Hagrid. You must be new!"
"Yes, I'm Marly, nice to meet you!"
"Nice to meet you too," he saw Harry coming and said, "Hi Harry!"
"Hi! How are you?" he looked at Marly, "I see you already met Marly."
"Yeah, you have to come by some time with her, because I'm really busy right now, see you later."
"So," Harry said, "What do you think of him?"
"I like him, he's very nice. But is it just because I'm small or is he really that big?"
Harry laughed, "It's not just you, Hagrid's a half giant."
"Oh, that explains a lot!"
"Come, Ginny told me to get you, the rides are going so we have to get in one."
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After Marly arrived at Hogwarts, she got send to the Great Hall for the Sorting ceremony.
She was really nervous. She didn't ask anyone what she had to do at the ceremony. She saw Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione sitting at the Gryffindor table, they smiled at her when they saw her standing there with all the first years.
Finally professor McGonagall walked to them with a hat that she putted on a chair. And then told them that when their name was called they had to sit on the chair and put the hat on their head.
Then when McGonagall was finished, the hat suddenly began singing.
Marly mouth fell open. She was so surprised about the hat singing, that she didn't even hear what is said.
When the hat finished, McGonagall grabbed a scroll and began calling their names.
First a little girl, Rita Adams, got sorted in Hufflepuff and the table cheered for her as she walked down to them.
Indi, Kandi got sorted in Gryffindor. Then Lyng, Lisa got sorted in Slytherin.
And finally McGonagall said: "Miss... er... Marly, your next."
Everyone started talking with the one next to them, they all heard about the new American girl that would be in the 6th year but it was strange that she didn't seem to have a last name. Even McGonagall sounded a bit surprised.
Marly walked to the chair and put the hat on.
She waited and waited, but the hat seemed to be thinking.
She thought: "Please, let me be in Gryffindor!"
"Gryffindor, he?" she heard a voice near her ear, "I don't know what to do with you, you don't seem to have a clear past, but definitely a future. A very important one. Yes, I see it now. You belong in... GRYFFINDOR!" That last thing he screamed out loud.
Marly took the hat of and walked to the Gryffindor table that was cheering for her. She sat down between Ginny and Hermione.
After everyone got sorted she went up to the Gryffindor common room.
Hermione said: "Come, I'll show you your room."
They went up the stairs to the girls' dorms and walked in the room with "6th years" above it.
Marly looked around and saw four four-poster beds with red curtains.
Two girls came to her and Hermione.
"Hi! I'm Parvati Patil," said one of them.
"And I'm Lavender Brown," said the other one.
Marly opened her mouth to tell them who she was but Parvati cut her off by saying: "We already know who you are. You're Marly, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, we've got to go, see you later!"
Marly watched them walk away and then jumped on the bed with her trunk next to it.
"Come one, Hermione, this is fun! My old bed was much harder than this one!"
Hermione looked and said: "Wouldn't you be embarrassed if somebody saw you doing that?"
"Oh, come on Hermione! Lighten up! If I had to worry about being embarrassed with everything I do, there wouldn't be much fun, now would there?"
"I guess you're right."
Soon the both of them were jumping up and down and giggling.
"What are you guys doing?" Ginny asked, she just walked in the room.
"Come one, Ginny, join us, it's fun!" Marly said.
Ginny was surprised to see the serious Hermione giggling and jumping on a bed, but joined them anyway.
After a while they were tired and lied down on the bed.
Hermione looked at her watch.
"It's almost time for dinner, so we'd better get changed."
"Ok, see you later!" Ginny said and walked to her own room.
Marly opened her trunk to get another robe, but it was empty!
"Hermione! My trunk is empty! All my stuff is gone!"
"Look in that wardrobe over there."
"What?"
"Look in that wardrobe, your things are probably in there."
Marly opened one of the drawers and found her robes in it.
"But how..."
"One of the house-elves have put it in there."
"Oh, do they have house-elves at Hogwarts?"
"Yeah, lots of," Hermione sounded a bit angry, so Marly decided that is was better to not talk about that subject.
They got ready and waited for Ginny to show up, and then they went down to the common room where they met the boys again.
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While Marly was in her room, Harry and Ron were just talking about her.
"Don't you think it's weird that she doesn't seem to have a last name?"
"Yeah, but maybe it's like a double name, Marly Marly or something," Harry said.
"That sounds really stupid, like Ron Ron or Harry Harry," Ron said.
"Well, anyway, I think she's kinda cute, what about you?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, and she's very small too, just about your height," Ron said, who was much taller than Harry.
"Hey! Maybe she's an orphan and that's why she doesn't have a last name," Harry suggested.
"You were obviously more looking at her and than listening," Ron teased, "because else you would have heard that she moved to England with her parents."
Harry punched Ron and they both went downstairs laughing.
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Later that night when they all went to bed, Marly stared at the curtains of her bed and thought that Hogwarts was the best place she'd ever been and that she was going to have a lot of fun there.
End of Chapter One.
a/n: So, did you like the first chapter of my new series? I know this wasn't really interesting yet, but in a few chapters things will gonna get much more fun to read. But first I had to introduce you guys to Marly. I'm gonna write the next chapter (maybe chapters) in France, so it may take a while before I can post one. Please review,
Greetz and Kisses, Katie.