My name is Lana Shannon Evans Potter. I am 15 years old. I attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am a Gryffindor and will be going into my fifth year there out of seven.
Admittedly, I haven't always been the best student. Well, scratch that. I actually know all the material and do the essays really well. Only, then I redo them to be of poor quality so that no one knows how smart I really am.
Hermione, after all, would kill me if she knew I was actually much smarter than she is. And Ronald would hate being inferior in yet something else. I'd say he has an inferiority complex. Once upon a time I would have said that. But not anymore. Not since I heard him, Hermione and Molly Weasley talking about how they and Dumbledore were fooling me and their awful plans for me.
Since then I'm trying to figure out who I can really trust. So far I'm pretty sure I can trust the twins, Neville and Luna. I met Luna last year while hiding from Ron and Hermione. I don't know who I can trust past that.
Right now I was in Diagon Alley. Everyone thought I was somewhere inside Grimmauld Place. I clearly wasn't. Instead I had headed to Gringotts to check into some things and withdraw money.
I had accomplished that, although I hadn't ended up bothering to actually withdraw money. Instead I got some Gringotts card that I didn't even want to begin to try to understand the magic behind and multiple titles that I won't bore you with. The plain and simple is that I was very rich, very powerful and had my magic very blocked. I had, of course, gotten that fixed.
In any event, I had made the decision not to hide my intelligence anymore. And I was on a mission. I was going to reinvent myself. I had already been to a magic optician and gotten my eyes fixed. I had gone and gotten my hair trimmed and styled. And I had gone and bought several books. And by several I probably mean at least a hundred or so. I wasn't paying much attention.
"Lana!" A voice called. It wasn't an extremely familiar voice. I whirled around to face whoever had found me. Only I didn't see anyone I expected to possibly see.
Instead, I saw Draco Malfoy with a few other Slytherins.