Hogwarts Stories: Malaya Cherry, The Girl With A Secret

By alexisgal

Chapter 1:

Everyone was in a hurry to catch the Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter was no different. His friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, were already on. He looked forward and saw a girl, sort of half frozen. "Are you alright?" He asked. The girl spun around, and noticed his lightning bolt scar. "I was about to ask the same thing." She walked away.

Harry raced onto the train and quickly found his friends. He sat down. "Where were you?" Asked Ron, "We almost gave your seat away to her." He pointed across the aisle to a girl sitting all alone. It was the girl Harry ran into.

"Hermione," Ron asked, "What book are you reading now?" "Muggles Who Mind Read." Said Hermione, "I find it quite brilliant actually." She turned a page and read a name aloud. "Vernon Dursley," She said, "Harry, isn't that your uncle?" Harry nodded. Hermione read aloud some more.

"Vernon Dursley was 22 Muggle age, 154 dog years, before he finally found out that he read minds. He kept this secret from his wife Petunia, son Dudley, and magic world-famous nephew Harry Potter. He thought that if Harry, Dudley, or Petunia knew he read minds, they would laugh and call him names.

"He went to be the head of a firm called Grunnings, which he knew made drills. He also knew that working at Grunnings might give away his secret." Hermione stopped reading. "Fascinating, isn't it? I mean, you could learn about all these Muggles who can read your mind." Ron gasped, "Oh no!" He said, sarcastically, "A Muggle will know what I say! Oh PLEASE! A Witch or Wizard, maybe, but a MUGGLE? Come on Hermione, you know that's a big lie."

Harry looked up suddenly. He looked across the aisle. Four third years went up to the girl sitting alone. She glanced up. They were all from Slytherin, and Harry opened the compartment door. Hermione and Ron looked up.

"Get out of our spot, you moron," Said one of the Slytherin girls, Farina Dickson. "I'm sorry?" Asked the girl in the seat. "Hey, Farina gave you an order!" Yelled Darina, Farina's twin sister. Adrienne Hackles, another girl who was kind of quiet said, "Come on, get up. The loser's section is across the way." She pointed in front of Harry's compartment. The girl stood up. "Do you know who I am?" She asked. Darlene Foeman, the last girl said, "No, and neither do you. This is for third years only. First years have their own section – on the roof with dragons!" The girls laughed while Adrienne shoved the girl into the aisle.

Hermione gasped and Ron pulled up his sleeves, as if to fight the girls. Harry and Hermione each grabbed one of his arms. When Ron was sitting down again, Hermione stood up, went in the aisle, and took the girl – who was already wearing her uniform – into their compartment. She had wide eyes and said in a quiet voice, "Thank you. I'm glad I'm going to be in a different house." Everyone starred and said nothing and then she fell asleep later.

She woke up when the train suddenly came to a stop. She got off immediately. Harry and his friends kind of starred at her and got off. They got into the carriages that took them to Hogwarts. "One more person!" Yelled Hagrid, "One more person in this carriage!" The mysterious girl walked up and said, "Thank you." She sat down. She took out a ring.

Ron starred but Harry and Hermione knew what it was – a mood ring. The girl looked up and smiled. "I see your friend likes my ring. It's called a mood ring. It changes color when your mood changes. See? Purple means I'm happy. Black means mad, red means embarrassed, blue means I'm sad, and pink means I'm in love. Sometimes it changes to half one color, half another. That means I'm in two moods. Like once it was blue and black, just when we were on the train and those girls were mean to me."

Ron said, "Okay. I'm…" "Ron Weasley." The girl finished his sentence for him. Everyone starred. She held out her hand. "I'm Malaya Cherry." Ron snorted and no one took her hand (Hermione was probably too busy telling Ron not to laugh at people's names and Ron too busy ignoring Hermione). Malaya laughed. "I guess everyone's rather shy."

"I'm not." Said Harry. "Ah, Harry Potter isn't shy; good to know." Malaya said. "Hermione Granger, right?" "Yes," Hermione said, "But how do you know our names?" Malaya laughed. "Griffindors, funny!" "How do you know that we're in Griffindor?" Asked Ron. "Ron, are you REALLY that stupid? Your tie?" Hermione gestured to his tie, which were Griffindor colors.

"Now, back to the subject of your names: I'm a psychic mind reader." She sighed, and said, "It seems Hufflepuffs are smarter than Griffindors." They starred at her even more. "Don't you remember, I was sorted last night." They starred. "Oh, it must have been a vision." Ron turned to Hermione. The look on her face was I told you so.

"Hey!" Said Ron, "You told me there was…" "Muggle mind readers." Said Malaya. "And Hermione is going to say that I'm a Muggle." "Yes." Said Hermione. "How do you know she's a Muggle, Hermione?" Asked Harry. "Because," Said Hermione, "While you two were changing, Malaya and I talked about her parents. She said her parents were her age in a specific year – and no Ron, I am not going to tell you what year – arryHarryand I just so happened to have the Hogwarts yearbook from that year. I looked through it. She also told me that her mother's maiden name was Bliss. She was about to tell me her last name but she fell asleep. We just found out her name is Cherry. There's no one with the name of Cherry or Bliss, so she's a Muggle."
"Actually, I'm kind of a Mudblood." She paused, wiping a tear from the corner of her left eye. "That's part of the reason I was teased so much on the train." Hermione put her arm around Malaya's shoulder. "It's okay," She said, "I' a Mudblood too," The suddenly stopped. "Well," Said Malaya, "See you later." She went away with the first years.

Okay, this story was suppossed to be called Hogwarts Stories: Malaya Cherry, The Girl With A Secret. That title was too long. So this is a different title, of course. This is their third year at Hogwarts, so you know. Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!