Sarah put her head down on her desk and looked out the window not caring what Professor Flitwic had to say that day. She pulled out her quill and started scrawling her name on the desk. Her partner, Nevil Longbottom had been siting intently in his chair as if he had never heard anything about magic before.
Bang! Sarah jumped as her teacher made a book fly infront of her face distracting her from the window.
"If you don't mind, Miss. Hampton, I'm trying to teach my class." Sara smiled brightly. She still had to get used to the British ascent.
"Well carry on, I'm not stopping you." She was about to turn her head to look out the window again when a hand came out and tapped her on the back. A girl with brown eyes and bushy brown hair leaned forward.
"He means for you to listen as well as the rest of the class." She looked at Sarah with a 'anyone would know that' look.
"Duh," Sarah leaned back in her chair and finally looked to the front of the room watching the teacher sigh with frustration. He continued teaching and when it came time for the students to follow his instructions Sarah was gazing blankly at the wall behind him.
"Miss. Hampton!," He said in his squeaky voice, "I would appreciate it if you would participated." She shrugged her shoulders pulling out her wand from her pocket. She swung it around and nearly hit Neville in the head. She yelled "PARTEMIN!" nothing happened. She narrowed her eyes at the small apple in front of her. It was supposed to split in half. She yelled again only this time with more force, "PARATEMIN!" The apple split in half but the two halves flew across the room nearly hitting some Slytherins in the process, while it did hit Neville in the face who had to go to the infirmary.
"Oops." She smiled in a nervous way. Mr. Flitwik shook his head and told the class that they were all dismissed.
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When they were released Sarah went to the dormitory. She sat in one of the fluffy couches and watched the fire crackle. She wondered why the castle stayed so cold on hot fall days like this. It must have been from all of the ghosts. She sighed and looked into the fire watching the bright reds and white dance across the logs. She heard someone sit next to her on the couch making an almost human like fickle matter (fart, sorry Inside joke. You must hate that when writers do it.) noise. She looked up to see Harry Potter sitting there. He was looking uncomfortable because he had made the noise. She looked away from him back into the fire.
Harry could feel the blush in his cheeks. He looked at the girl who was ignoring him and admired her. She hadn't jumped up nervously and yelled, 'Oh my god! Harry Potter! I have to get a picture with you! Oh my god! This is like so cool! AHHHHHH! There's his scar! Oh, Oh, Can I touch it? Can I touch your scar?' You might smile but how gross would that be if someone walked up to you asking to touch you birthmark? (If you think that wasn't at least a little offending, ew) Harry put out his hand so that she could shake it.
"Hey, I'm Harry Potter." He said it with a smile and tried to cover up his scar as much as possible so as not to look too proud.
The new girl looked over at him and just stared for a moment and then shook his hand. "Yeah, who doesn't know who you are? I'm Sarah from America. I go to the school in Alaska, Viper high." She leaned back in the couch so that she would be able to face him.
Harry smiled at her and then looked up as his two best friends came into the common room. Ginny weasley was following them with a giddy smile on her face. Ron on the other hand looked almost horrified.
He came up to Harry and started complaining almost immediately. "Do you know what my sister has done? She's got a boyfriend! And if that isn't bad enough he's in Slytherin!" He almost spat at Harry and plopped down on the couch in front of the two that were sitting. "I don't believe this. I mean. My sister shouldn't be dating anyone unless I say she can! It's…. AHHHH!"
Harry having been Ron's best friend for 6 years was almost as close to Ginny as he was. He was also a little unnerved by the news. Why hadn't she told us before? Why couldn't she just have told us so we could give a background check on the guy? He started to become angrier as the moments passed. By the time anyone had said anything Hermione had a book propped against her knees and was reading it.
Sarah watched as the three other Gryffindor students sat down. She knew Hermione to be a real bookie and Ron not to do so well, but he was the brother of the owners to the biggest, newest joke shop around. She looked at them all and then decided to introduce herself.
"Hi I'm Sarah," Hermione looked up from her book and almost glared at her.
"Hello," she said quickly and slowly looked back down at her book.
"Hey," Ginny gave a wave and large smile while Ron, who still didn't look that happy, just gave a lopsided grin.
Harry looked up at Ginny and noticed her odd behavior. She would have talked back to her brother anytime yet she seemed happy and content to keep her mouth shut.
"Hey, Ginny, So who's this guy?" He was probably even more curious than Ron was but didn't want to show it too much.
Ginny gave a wide smile, "He's so adorable. His name is Crantsy," Ron gave a snort but she ignored it "And he is so sweet. I know that he's from Slytherin and he's not the best boyfriend material, but he asked me out so I said yes. It's not like I'm going to marry him or something." She hit her brother on the shoulder who still looked angry.
Sarah watched and wanted to put her word in, "Why don't you just let her go out with him? Anyway she'll always be under the watch of Dumbledor the great and he's in another house so he won't be able to come in here." Ron looked slightly happier at this Ginny just smiled as always, but noticing her brother her smile weakened a little.
"I was going to go out with him anyway. But… What RON!?" His smile had deepened even more.
"Well, you'll just have to find out wont you?" He smiled all the way up to the common room.
Harry heard the clock chime, 11:30, he had to get Sarah out of there.
"Um… Sarah… I was wondering if you could…. Um… go upstairs with Ginny! Um… she needs help with her homework." Harry knew that it wasn't convincing but she would get the clue that they wanted her to leave. Ginny on the other hand was glaring at him. She wanted to see him as much as Hermione and Ron did but not as much as Harry.
Sarah sighed knowing that that was the clue for her to leave. She stood up and started walking up the steps.
"I don't know how much help I'll be. I'm horrible at everything." She made the last word drone out as if someone had told her that and she didn't agree with it.
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After having Ginny help her with her homework. Sarah went to bed. She felt good. Being at Hogwarts was one of the best times she had had in years. Yawning and turning over she fell asleep dreaming of the next day and when she would have her favorite class. Potions.
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The next chapter will be the best there is if you have read the fifth book. I'm not going to say anything that would give the big thing away but you'll still be happy.
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