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Neville's Cousin
Just keep in mind that this takes place during the 4th book with the triwizard tournament and everything included!
Chapter 1:
Stepping onto campus the newly arrived 6th year looked up at the castle is amazement. It was huge with memorizing towers and large stonewalls but best of all were the greenhouses and gardens. Herbology had always been her favorite subject after all. Now to find the main office she thought to her self, you see she had been studying abroad in France for 5 years and was now transferring to Hogwarts because her grandmother who- basically ran the family- insisted she would get a better education there than at Beauxbatons. To her surprise she found the headmaster himself waiting for her on the front steps of the school, "Ah, you must be Clare Longbottom," he said in a rich voice that made all her nervousness melt away.
"Yes," she said holding out her hand for him to shake
"Since you are coming in for your sixth year I thought you might not want to be sorted in front of the school with the first years," he said with a chuckle as if he found the thought amusing
"No sir," the girls said her head bowed looking at the floor so that her long glossy black locks covered her face
"Call me Professor Dumbledore, Miss. Clare, now follow me to my office," he said and off they went down the hall and along many passages unit they came to one particular statue where Dumbledore said, "Chocolate Frogs," and the appeared stairs which they proceeded to climb
Once in the office Dumbledore motioned to a chair which Clare gingerly sat down in her long legs thankful for the rest, "Well lets see where did I put that silly old hat, ah here it is," and he pulled an old hat that seemed to be falling apart at the seems and placed it on her head.
"Lets see," the hat said, "Where should I put you…where should I put you? Oh I know GRYFFINDOR," it said and then Dumbledore pulled the hat off and put it back where he found it and then turned to Clare and said, "Congratulations on making the Gryffindor house I'm sure you'll be very happy there now go off to your dormitory it's the behind the picture of the fat lady the password is 'Mandrake' and a word of advice don't eat anything giving to you by a pair of red headed twins, named Fred and George Weasley,"
And he shuffled Clare out of his office mumbling something about being very busy, which left Clare to wonder who in the world Fred and George Weasley were.
It took our lovely heroine approximately 20 minutes to find the fat lady picture that Dumbledore had mentioned and another 5 to find the piece of paper she had written the password down on before she finally made it into the Gryffindor common room. And when she finally got inside she realized she had forgotten to ask for a map so that she could find her way to class the next day. So she went up to the first person she saw and asked, "Um…excuse me do you know where the 6th year dorm is?"
"Yes…oh you must be the new student Professor McGonagall told us about, I'm Hermione Granger, and this is my friend Ronald Weasley we are both 4th years," she said pointing to the red headed boy sitting beside her.
"Hello I'm Clare," she said holding out her hand deciding she wanted to surprise her cousin instead of him finding out that she was here from someone in his year.
"Hello," the boy said while his face turned a slight shade of red causing his freckles to stand out even more than they already were.
"So, why don't you just follow me up the stairs and I'll show you where your dorm is," Hermione said getting up and collecting her books which where scattered randomly across the table
Once in her dorm room Clare through herself onto the bed that she assumed was hers only because at the foot lay all of her unpacked thing, 'I'll meet my new roommates tomorrow,' was her last conscious thought before drifting off into sleep.
So how did you like it pleae read and review this was my first Harry Potter fic but flames are still welcomed!