A/N: ok I might only write this one part if I don't get any reviews so this might be a one time only
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The New Girl
By: J.L.Rosenqueen
Jessica Houghton rolled over and slapped her palm on top of her alarm clock and sighed wearily. "6:00 time to get up!" her alarm clock rang at her happily. Today was the first day she started at a new school, in a new country! She rolled over to face her bedroom window as she sighed and greeted England's morning sun. Jessica rolled on her back and blinked at the ceiling.
"Jessie honey! Time to get up"" Her mother said warmly as she rapped silently on the door.
"I'm up mom!" Jess said as she got up and made her bed. Jess rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and pulled open her big wardrobe. Inside were a set of black robes. She looked at them funny then remembered that she was starting a "different" school, a magic school. She pulled them out and placed them in her open trunk that was already full of her spell books and potion kits. Jess looked to her dresser and stared in the mirror. Jessica was 15 years old and she had long shoulder length brown hair and fabulous green eyes (the only part she liked about herself). She wasn't pretty like a supermodel, but she had her own natural beauty which was hard to come by with most girls her age. She grabbed her hairbrush and stroked it through her hair. She tossed the brush into her trunk when she was done. She picked up a longish wooden stick and almost forgot what it was. Her wand! The part she was looking most forward to! She put that in her purse and threw it on the bed. She pulled on her favorite outfit: A white blouse and a pair of very dark blue jeans. She strung her belt through the loops and put on her silver hoop earrings. She grabbed her rings and her watch. Finally she slung her purse over her shoulder and pulled on a pair of socks and headed downstairs.
"Morning mom! Morning Dad!" Jessica said in her usual chipper morning mood. She kissed her father and hugged her mother. Where's Lissy?" She asked her father who was hidden behind the newspaper.
"Still sleeping, She has to get up later than you." He said in his morning voice. He put the paper down and smiled warmly at her. Her father was joining a new job at some sort of ministry and that's how he got Jess into her magic school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "I wonder why she would rather go to a regular secondary school then Hogwarts" He added, chuckling. Jess smiled. Her sister Lissy was 2 years younger then her, making her 13. She was one of those I-need-popularity-and-I-can't-risk-being-abnormal types. Lissy looked very different then Jessica indeed! Lissy had long back length blonde hair and pool blue eyes. Lissy always liked being with friends and she hated any kind of school. While Jess loved school and was a little anti-social. Jessica was a genius and Lissy well… was not. Jessica loved any kind of things were you could fix things electronically and she loved the computer. While Lissy hated to bother herself with that incase of breaking a nail and only used the computer to chat. Even though they were different they got along perfectly. Jessica just finished her orange juice and toast when her sister sauntered into the room, smiling.
"Good morning everyone" Lissy said in her usual superstar voice. Jessica smiled.
"Morning Lis!" she replied back at her. Just then a look of worry crossed Jess's face. "What if I don't make any friends? " Jessica thought "What if i'm not smart enough to make it in there? What if when they sort me couldn't be sorted! I'll just be sent on the train back home!"
"Well we don't want to be late Honey" Her mother, Michelle said nodding towards her father, Don. He nodded and went to go get her trunk. When he came back downstairs he had something behind his back. Jessica smiled. Her father brought out a Large gold cage and inside was a big tawny brown owl, hooting softly.
"awwwww! He's so cute!" She said cooing into the cage. The owl clicked back at her happily." I think ill name him Mickey" Jessica smiled happily as she took the cage and put it on top of her trunk. All of the sudden a few sniffles were heard in the kitchen. Her mother and her sister were crying.
"I can't believe I wont get to see you until Christmas!" Her sister and mother wailed hugging her.
"Its ok! I'll send you lots of owl's!" She said trying to shake them off. They blinked at her. "I mean letters" They smiled understanding. Her father placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Come on Jess! We'll be late!" He said, Steering her out of the kitchen into the car. Lissy and her mother followed.
"Don't worry I'll be fine!" Jess yelled from the car window. "I'll see you at Christmas" She added after he father was finished loading the trunk. Jessica smiled, somehow she knew this was going to be one interesting year.
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Molly Weasley was hurrying her 3 sons and her daughter out the door. "Harry!" She yelled up the stairs. Just then a boy came tumbling down the stairs pulling his shirt over his head and pushing his glasses onto his face.
"Sorry Mrs. Weasley" He replied sheepishly. He had slept in and was in a great rush to catch the Hogwarts Express. His things were already packed into the car. He shoved himself into the car between Ron and Fred. He looked back waving at Mrs. Weasley as they pulled out of the drive way and finally moving along the street. He sighed wishing he had more time for breakfast as his stomach rumbled loudly. Ron laughed and Harry laughed along with him. Talking and joking around waiting to get to the London station, Kings Cross. Finally they arrived and pulled out there trunks scraping them to the invisible barrier. They were pretending to lean against the barrier and talk while they slid through and platform 9 ¾ 's materialized in front of them. Harry's and Ron's friend, Hermione was waiting for them. She squealed when she saw them. She ran up top them and hugged them over joyed with excitement .
"Did you hear?" Hermione said happily.
"No but I have a feeling your going to tell us" Ron said jokingly.
"There's a new girl coming this year! She's 15 same as us and she'll be sorted tonight! She's supposed to be some sort of genius! She has a 3.6 grade average! Finally someone worthy to compete against" She said ignoring Ron's comment.
"Is she here yet?" Harry and Ron said together eagerly. Hermione rolled her eyes, knowing what was on the boys minds. She dragged them onto the train into an empty compartment and they started to talk about the new girl.
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Jessica unloaded her trunk and pulled out her ticket. After kissing her father good-bye she dragged her trunk to the barrier between platform 9 and 10. She looked very confused on what to do. Just then a boy with dark skin and dreadlocks came up to her seeing her owl.
"Hi I'm Lee!" he said to her. She smiled at him. "Looks like your new, huh? Well let me help you with that" He said kindly as he picked up the front end of her trunk and pulled her through the barrier. She stood there in amazement as she saw platform 9 ¾ 's in front of her face. She dropped her end of the trunk and Lee dropped his.
"Wow!" Jess breathed as she advanced towards Lee. She held out her hand to him. He took it and shook it. "My name is Jessica" she told him. "Nice to meet you" she added.
"I have to go" Lee told her smiling. "I hope we meet again Jess" he replied smiling at her, giving her an appraising look. Jessica picked up her trunk and dragged it to the very last compartment and sat alone thanking god it was empty. She took out her spell book and put Mickey's cage beside her. He had his head under his wing sleeping.
"I know how you feel" she murmured into the cage, Once again she picked up the spell book an and opened it, tucking her knee's behind the book and pushing her nose towards the page grabbing her reading glasses out of her purse and putting them on. Only her running shoes were visible from in front of the book owing to she was really short. An hour later the compartment door slid open when she was half way through the book. She couldn't hear it since she was so absorbed into the book.
"Lets find the new girl, shall we boys?" came a drawling voice from the door. Jessica peered meekly over the book. She saw a pale boy with sandy blonde hair and two larger stalkier boys on each side of him. He looked at her feet and tapped on the book. "Hey anyone home?" he said to her. He chuckled slightly and his cronies guffawed stupidly. She sighed and put her book down on her lap removing her glasses as her green eyes flashed embarrassedly. The boy and his cronies looked in shock at her. For some reason they thought she was pretty.
"Can I help you?" Jessica said the red tinge fading from her cheeks. She smiled at them.
" ummm yes" the pale boy said as he wiped a sweaty palm on his robes and offering to her." My name is Malfoy. Draco Malfoy." He said. She almost laughed out loud. She offered her hand to him and he took it and kissed it. " I didn't catch your name" He said looking into her eyes. Jessica removed her hand from his and said with a little bite in her voice "that's because I didn't throw it". Malfoy smiled, thinking she was playing hard to get. He grabbed his wand and held it behind his back muttering a few words. He brought his hand back and extended it towards her a blood red rose in it.
" I hope to see you in Slytherin" he said coyly. He and his friends retreated and she picked up the rose and smelled it. She placed it onto the table and put her glasses back on shaking her head.
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After a while Hermione got bored of listening to Harry and Ron talk about Quidditch so she decided she would make a stab at different conversation.
"hey what do you say we go and find the new girl?" Hermione said to them. Just as Harry was about to agree a voice came over the loudspeaker.
"We will be arriving shortly please leave your trunks and animals on the train and change into your robes." Everything was a hustle and bustle but finally they arrived at the train station.
"Firs' years o'er here" Called a big man. Hermione, Ron and Harry separated from the others and grabbed a carriage. Jessica walked up to the man looking kind of scared. She pulled the hem of his coat and said "excuse me." The giant man turned around and faced her. " hullo you must be Jessiker Houghton! The new 5th year" he said with a friendly smile.
"Yes I am...I'm sorry I don't know who you are." Jessica said stumbling over her words.
"Me? I am Rubes Hagrid! Groundskeeper at Hogwarts" He replied. "Get in the boat" he said helping her into the boat. After a chilly ride across the lake they came to a giant door. Hagrid knocked three times. A prim looking witch answered it.
"Here are the firs' years, Professor and miss Houghton." He said ushering the first years into an alphabetical line. "Hello future students of Hogwarts, My name is Professor McGonagall I am the transfiguration teacher, Head of the Gryffindor House and Vice Headmistress of this school." Some kids stared at her in awe "Miss Houghton" said McGonagall . "please stay at the end of the line"
Jessica nodded and went to the back. Soon they were lined up in front of the head table. The line was so long Jessica was right in the corner in the shadows. Finally after sorting all the first years Professor Dumbledore (the headmaster of the school) stood up. The students babble was cut short.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts new students. This year we are very fortunate to have a very special student" he said pausing " Transferred all the way from Ontario Canada. She is in 5th year and will be sorted tonight. She is very intelligent and some may learn from her" Dumbledore glanced over down the row of Weasley's and Harry. "She has a 3.6 grade average in normal studies as in muggle subjects and I hope she will have the same here" he said pausing again to chuckle" Maybe next year she will be teaching, but anyways enough about her would you please bring her out, Houghton Jessica." Dumbledore said clapping along with everyone else. Jessica took a deep breath and stepped into the light. Everyone stopped clapping and stared at her..
"I wonder why everyone keeps stopping and looking at me like I'm some kind of goddess" Jessica thought. She walked up to a three legged stool and sat on it placing the hat on her head,
"hmm you are a tricky one. You have qualities for each house my! This is interesting… lets see you should be a RAVEN-" whispered the hat in her ear. Everyone at the Ravneclaw table went wild then stopped, looking at the hat. "No no she should be a Slyth-" the same thing happened again like the Ravenclaws. "Wait wait she should be a… Huffle-" Again one of the tables went wild then stopped. "Yes! She should be a GRYFFINDOR!" the hat screamed a full name. Jessica removed the hat and placed it onto the stool. She took a seat at the end of the table and kept her head down through the whole dinner. Finally when she had finished her dinner and everyone else went to bed, Jessica stayed behind. She trotted out behind them quietly hearing the occasional "Did you see the new girl?" and " I can't believe that she's a MUGGLE!" Jessica followed Lee who was talking to her about Quidditch. When he was done he looked up at her and said "Which is your Quidditch team?"
"I'm sorry Lee…I don't know what Quidditch is" She replied sheepishly. He looked horrified and was off telling her about everything you would need to know about Quidditch. Finally they reached the portrait. "Ummm Lee where's our dormitories?"
She asked again shyly.
"Blimey I forgot how little you know!" He replied at her. "You see this is our portrait!" He pointed at a fat lady in a pink silk dress " You say the password and she opens up watch" He added. "Toadstools" he said to the fat lady. She opened up and emitted him and her into the common room. Jessica smiled as she said goodnight and thank you to Lee and went to the girls dorms. She found her stuff, still keeping her head down. After she had changed into her pajama's, she turned to her night stand and saw a shiny badge that had a "P" on it and a note. She picked it up and read the note. It read
"Dear miss Houghton: I have heard of your great achievements and I'm awarding you to be a prefect right away. I know you will fit right in and here is a list of your other prefect classmates in your house:
Hermione Granger Harry Potter Ronald Weasley Semus Finnagin Lavender BrownPlease feel free to ask them any questions you may have. Welcome to Hogwarts.
-Professor Dumbledore
Jessica smiled at the letter as she put the badge down. Beside her were two girls talking.
"Well Lavender we really have to work more on our studies now that were prefects and all.." The girl said.
"I know Hermione…but what about the new girl?" Lavender replied. Jessica looked back down. The girls got up and approached her.
"Hello, Jessica I'm Hermione and this is Lavender" Hermione said nicely. Jessica looked up and smiled
"You can call me Jess if you want to" She blushed a little. " I'm…I'm a prefect also and I was wondering what subjects would be best to take?" Jessica added slowly.
"well you have your basics then you can chose between Arithmacy or Divination" Lavender said.
"I like Arithmacy but I think ill go for Divination you know like a new challenge" Jessica said eagerly. She yawned after a while of talking to Hermione and Lavender.
"We'll introduce you to the rest of the Gryffindor's tomorrow." Lavender said. Then she added " You don't have a boyfriend do you?" Jessica blushed a little "No…I'm not good enough for the boys back at home" Jessica said a little sadly. Hermione looked her up and down and muttered a little something and 3 tiny figures of boys appeared by her on the bed. Jessica looked shocked. Lavender picked up a boy with sandy blonde hair "This is Semus Finnagin" she said tilting him into Jessica's hand. She put a thermometer in her other hand. Then almost instantly she took the thermometer out of her hand and inspected it.
"hmmm 56% not bad but we could do better" Lavender said. She clicked her fingers and he disappeared. Hermione picked up a boy with freckles and red hair. She tilted him into her hand and thermometer in the other again. Once again they took it out of her hand and looked at it. This time the thermometer read 85%
"Wow you and Ron must have something in common, but I still think we could do better" Hermione said as she plucked the boy out of her hand and made him disappear. Lavender picked up the last boy, he had jet black hair and a weird looking scar on his head. Lavender tilted him into her hand a put the thermometer in her other hand. All of the sudden the thermometer broke! Jessica spluttered
"What…What happened?" She said wiping the stuff off of her face. Lavender and Hermione was smiling broadly.
"Jessica my dear we have found your perfect match!" Lavender said as she high fived Hermione.
"What are you talking about?? And what was that you just did?" she inquired to the girls.
"Lavender and I are the Gryffindor matchmakers" Hermione said grinning.
"Oh no! You are not setting me up" Jessica said as she tucked herself under the blankets and turned off the lights. Hermione an Lavender did the same.
"Oh yes we are Jess…it's fate" mumbled Lavender. Jessica rolled her eyes and mumbled back "Whatever"
By: J.L.Rosenqueen
Look for the next part called "The first day"!!