Title: Coraline
An: Grande sœur and große schwester mean big sister in French and German respectively. Frère is brother in French.
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Coraline Jones the transfer from America.
She's an odd sort.
Appearance wise she's nice looking but seemingly ordinary enough with pale skin and a rather cute smattering of freckles.
But she's anything but ordinary.
She has the oddest blue hair, blue hair!
Spunky and inquisitive with a knack for exploration and ferreting out old forgotten places and secrets she knows the castle better than anyone even after only being there for a few weeks.
She stands out amongst the Hogwarts students and there isn't one of them who hasn't heard of or know about her.
The American girl's a favourite with the teachers and the ghosts like her. Why no one's sure, the ghosts are anyone's guests but the teachers like of her likely stems from her talent in their subject and the curiosity and joy she exhibits when immersing herself in the unseen eddies of magic as she works. Amazingly even Snape seems to approve of her and she's the only one he's ever failed to cow into submission with his ominous bat like presence and bitting commentary.
She's well behaved and doesn't cause trouble in his class which helps; her knack for potions helps more. The class nearly has a heart attack when he actually gives her points the first case anyone can remember for a non Slytherin.
When she's not wearing her school robes she likes to wear a deep blue sweater with stars on it, and whenever it's raining she dons her bright yellow gumboots and raincoat.
She has a familiar, familiar not pet. It's a big black cat, skeletal with big luminous blue eyes.
Her ever present companion is no ordinary cat just as she is no ordinary girl.
Ridiculously intelligent he resembles the Cheshire cat of legends in his ability to vanish and reappear at will. Coraline once explained it as walking the spaces in between.
No one's seen him open his mouth but they all swear they've heard him talk when no one is looking.
Odd instances like this are not uncommon. Sometimes people swear when they glance at the girl's reflection in a mirror or a window as she passes by her reflection has buttons in place of eyes.
Visitors to the castle are rare but Coraline is given special dispensation by Dumbledore and is visited by her'sœurs' and 'frères'.
She's grande sœur and große schwester to a many dead children. The sight of their tiny bodies brings a great sadness to those who chance upon them when they visit her. She dances and plays with them and they call to her in many languages while laughing and smiling. Their ghostly songs surround her in the voices of dead children singing for her.
The button eyed reflection, the there and not again cat, her connection with the ghosts. These odd phenomena that surround her sets her apart but she remains unbothered by it. Where others might shun the strangeness that she surrounds her she embraces it.
A kind girl who keeps unusual company and has a knack for exploration Coraline Jones is someone who invites curiosity.
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An: I would to write a longer fanfic for this, maybe when some of my longer stories have finished I can give it more attention. For now it's a oneshot until I write more for it. Don't expect coming additions to be frequent or regular or anytime too soon. I might make this a short series of three or so similar sort of chapters and then write a larger story for it separately.
