No one had heard her name called from the list of students waiting to be sorted. But there

it was: Miakoda. She had been sorted into Gryffindor, for she was both brave and cunning,

wise and powerful, descended from the Bedonkohe and Nednai Apaches. Her name meant "power

of the moon" to her people. But here, at school, she was nothing, nobody. She was in line

to be the first female chief and medicine woman, but instead she had to go this school: Hogwarts.

She was also descended from the greatest Apache the world had ever seen: Geronimo.

Geronimo had had three children and one wife that he knew of, but there was a fourth child, his

first child, who had been born while he was a away at war. This child was Miakoda's great-grandmother.

Miakoda traveled between the Nednai tribe and the Bedonkohe tribe, but mostly stayed

with the Bedonkohes. The Nednais lived in Mexico, and the Bedonkohes lived in New Mexico.

She didn't want to go to an American wizarding school. She knew she was a wizard, because

both the Nedai tribe and the Bedonkohe tribe were wizards or witches. Americans were unkind

and unreliabe, so if she had to go anywhere, she wanted to go to a school where she knew she

would be accepted. But even here, at Hogwarts, she was not accepted, ecxept by two people:

Draco Malfoy and her cousin Takoda. So, she mostly went by her Apache ways. She could blend into

the shadows or the crowds, run fast for miles without losing her breath



Miakoda was the strongest, bravest, fastest, everything. She was on the Gryffindor Quidditch team

as a chaser, and in her spare time she helped Hagrid with his gamekeeping duties. But the only thing she

wanted was a friend, and she prayed that Usen would give her one.