CHAPTER 1
"You're cousin? I didn't know you had relatives!" Harry exclaimed. Hermione had just told her best friends, Harry and Ron that her cousin, Scarlett Granger, was coming to Hogwarts because her parents couldn't deal with her anymore, she was always arguing with them, so they sent her to live with Hermione for a few years. Just as Hermione had predicted, Scarlett arrived about two hours after everyone else and looked nothing like herself.
She wore bright red converse on her feet, her uniform was reasonably acceptable (although it was clear she had tried to fix it with magic), and ther hair was a dark brown with some red in it, obviously having been dyed many many times before. She was one year younger than Hermione, so that put her in the fifth year at Hogwarts. She was also just as smart as her cousin. As she walked into the grounds, Hermione greeted her with a bright smile on her face.
"Scarlett! How are you?" she asked, meeting her at the gates. It was a rather cold night, but the sky was clear of clouds and the stars were out, shining brightly.
"Good thanks, and remember to call me by my preferred name." Scarlett replied sharply. Boy, was she going to change shortly being here, since Hogwarts didn't accept rude students, and neither did Gryffindor, the house she managed to get in.
"Sorry, Scar, um are you hungry?" Hermione said hurriedly. Now she came to think of it, she was pretty hungry. The welcome back feast had just started, and they would have missed the sorting already, and more if they didn't start moving straight away. They dumped Scarlett's luggage in the Entrance Hall and rushed to the Great Hall.
The doors were open thankfully, and they managed to sit down without attracting too much attention. Scarlett sat down opposite Hermione, who was in between Harry and Ron. She looked around the Hall, it was so much larger and older than hers at her old school, and it awed her.
Her gaze fell on the 8 sixth year students standing up in front of the teacher's table, proudly wearing their uniform and each one of them had a badge on their chest – prefects. She could only see one prefect, the one in the middle with platinum blonde hair, and couldn't pull her eyes off him. She finally managed to look at something else before anyone noticed her staring obtrusively at him.
"Who's the hottie?" she whispered to Hermione, nodding her head towards the guy. Hermione looked up the front, realising that her cousin had spotted Malfoy. Draco Malfoy was the school bully, and now, a prefect. He was one of the beaters on the Slytherin quidditch team and always got what he wanted. He loved to show other students that he was the best of the best, being a pure blood and all.
"Draco Malfoy." Hermione had gone a deep red and Scarlett wondered if her cousin was thinking the same thing as her. She continued talking.
"He is one of my enemies, as the same for Harry and Ron here. He is definitely not 'hot', and I suggest you stay away from him if you want to avoid the risk of being humiliated. He's unavailable, as he is currently dating Pansy Parkinson, another enemy of ours. She is, of course, a Slytherin. He also, doesn't go for Gryffindors. Our houses are rivals."
Scarlett developed an instant crush on him. A bad guy huh? That sounded perfect to her! They ate dinner soon after and went to the Gryffindor common room. Hermione introduced Scarlett to the other fifth years and soon they all went to bed.