Okay, so, this is the 4th year, but I basically ignore the tri-wizard tournament for the most part.
Warning: its implied just a little bit that my OC's mom emotionally abuses her
(cause she does) but only a tad, and the rest is mostly comical.
Ch. 1 Background
Dumbledore was starting to get doubaly (I like making up words :D) concerned. Like most muggle-born student accepted to Hogwarts, they had sent a letter and then a teacher when the girl was 11. But her mother had point-blank shot down all attempts to let the girl attend Hogwarts.
So, for the first year, the girl was left at home with needed supplies (Olivander personally visited her house, and her mother liked him a little too much) and homework was sent via owl. All work was returned with okay results and she seemed to be understanding the majority of it through letters to and from teachers.
Dumbledore had sent McGonagall the second year to try and convenes the girl's mother to send her to the school and she was shot down. By, McGonagall being McGonagall, she noticed a few things. The family only consisted on the mother and the girl. The mother seemed friendly, though stern, and seemed to just show a lot of concern for her daughter going away. At first the teacher thought that the mother didn't want to be alone when her daughter left.
But that wasn't the case.
In cat form, McGonagall watched the house. It was a large fancy, rich house. At just before dark, the girl's mother sent her to go upstairs and do her homework. She demanded, very accusingly, that the girl touch or break nothing. Then a man showed up and the mother pranced off with him and didn't come back until almost noon the next day.
All was reported to Dumbledore, but they couldn't do anything.
Summer before 4th year
Last years attempt had also failed, and so Dumbledore was ready to pull out his harsh card. So he sent Snape.
First, the mother was friendly. Then she was WAY friendly, and TOTALLY trying to come onto him. The she got stern.
"I've told you people a thousand times, NO NO NO!" My daughter isn't going to some school out in the middle of nowhere." She said, starting to get angry. But this wasn't one of the teachers she had delt with before; this was Snape. "Listen, muggle. Your daughter needs to learn magic. Not just book work and essays, but real personally-taught, MAGIC."
In the doorway, a small girl peeked her head around the corner. She couldn't be more than 10 probably, and she was smaller than most fist-years. Snape turned to look at her and she flinched. "You have a second child?" he asked, toneless.
The mother snorted. "No." she said, sounding discusted. She got up to grab the girls arm and pull her into the room. "This is my only daughter." Snape would have been shocked if he had emotions. ( XD ) The girl who he had taken to be around 9 or 10, was really the 14 year old girl he had come for. Ari Token, 14, had blondish-brown hair, startled grey eyes, and the look of a child.
"Ari Token." He said, still toneless, ut more interested now. "Good, now we can ask her if she wants to go to school, and I can get on with my night." Her mother looked shocked at Snape's words. "You cant just let her DECIDE." She said as if he had said they were going to kill her. "Yes we can, and we ARE going to."
Both adults looked at the girl. "Decide." They both said, and the girl looked ready to cry. In fact, she did. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she also smiled. "I want to go." She said, quietly. Her mother just snapped. "You WORTHLESS girl! How do you think your going to SURVIVE anywhere but HERE? You're a CHILD, always messing things up and never speaking." Her mother sighed dramatically. "But at least you'll be out of my hair. So, fine."
As Ari ran up stairs to pack her stuff, Snape and her mother had a death-glare compotition. I think they tied for World Championship.
A few minutes later, they heard a loud thunk by the stairs and turned to see that the little girl had tripped over her luggage and fallen off the stairs. She had fallen stomach-first onto her suitcase, and didn't seem to be hurt.
Her mother sighed like it was the most annoying thing in the world and wwent to pull the girl to her feet. She handed Snape the bag, said "Try not to die." To her daughter, and then pushed them out the front door.
Snape put a hand on her shoulder and, without warning, diapperated to just outside the school boundry. Ari feel to her knees on impact, caught her breath, and then stood up without a word.
With a flick of his wand, Snape levitated the bags, and then they set off towards Hogwarts and Ari's 1st yet 4th (sooo confusing) year of Wizarding School.
