Chapter 1 - The Golden Trio and The Letters
Tiffani and Dumbledore walked in Grimmauld Place and was met by a group of all sorts of people in the main foyer. Tiffani also noticed that the inside was as grim as the outside of the building. It remaindered her of Durmstrang but she would stay there if it was Dumbledore's wish.
"Hello everyone." Dumbledore said to gather everyone's attention. They all turned and immediately their eyes fell on Tiffani. Tiffani also noticed that some of the people were from Hogwarts that she recognized once from the Triwizard tournament. Dumbledore started to introduce.
"Hello everyone," Dumbledore said again "this is Tiffani Wells and she will be staying here for the remainder of the summer, then she will be attending Hogwarts for her seventh year."
He paused to let the sudden whispers calm. He turned towards Tiffani, and was actually surprised that she was as calm as ever. It seemed like she was used to whispers about herself.
"Okay, okay. Now Tiffani," Dumbledore said as he was still turned to her, " this is Molly and Arthur Weasley and their family. That is Fred, George, and Ginny."
Tiffani, then took the time to shake hands with Arthur and she was about to shake hands with Molly when much to her surprise, molly grabbed her into a massive hug.
"You are part of the family now dear." When she let Tiffani go, she saw Ginny's face go as red as a tomato or in the Weasleys case as red as their hair. Tiffani loved red hair because it was the color of her own but hers also had a tint a brown in it which made it less noticeable than the Weasleys. She smiled at Ginny, calming her down.
"Tiffani, this is Sirius Black and yes, he is a innocent man." Dumbledore said as Sirius shook Tiffani's hand.
"Nice to meet you." he said.
"Next we have Remus Lupin and Tonks."
"Pleasure meetin' ya." Tonks said as Tiffani shook hands with her and Lupin."
Suddenly Dumbledore turned to Ginny.
"Ginny, I'm sure Tiffani is very tired, so can you please show her the room she will be staying in?"
"Sure thing, professor." she said quickly and then in a instant she grabbed Tiffani's arm and dragged her up a bunch of stairs.
"Tiffani Wells huh? Wells sounds familiar. Oh yeah, I think I heard some Slytherins talking about the Wells family. What school did you go to before?"
"I'm sure. My father is quite popular. Um.. I don't speak to him often. it's a long story. I went to Durmstrang. So what is a Slytherin?"
It's a house at Hogwarts. You see, there is 4 house. There are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Did Dumbledore tell you what house you are in yet?"
"Oh, no he didn't. he said that it would be in my school letter." and at that time they ran into the golden trio.
"Hey guys, this is Tiffani Wells. She is going to Hogwarts for her seventh year. She went to Durmstrang. Tiffani this is Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and my brother Ron."
"Its nice to meet you all." Tiffani said as she examined the faces of her new friends. Hermione had a huge smile on and Tiffani felt that they were going to be best friends, Ron's jaw was dropped and would not stop staring at her, and finally Tiffani noticed that Harry kept a straight face. They all stared at each other in a very awkward silence, and to much of every one surprised, Tiffani busted up laughing. Hermione and Ginny joined in instantly and Harry and Ron thought it was girl thing. At that, they all knew that they could trust each other and that they would be the best of friends no matter what.
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It has been two weeks since Tiffani arrived, to what was the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Hermione and Tiffani did become best friends. Tiffani never had a best friend before and she liked the feeling.
They were sitting at the kitchen table with Ron when Molly walked in with a stack of letters. She handed one to the each of them and walked off mumbling something about finding Harry and Ginny. Tiffani shortly found out that these were their Hogwarts letters. She was nervous about opening it. She never gets nervous. So she waited till the others opened theirs first. Hermione looks a little sad and Ron had a big grin on his face.
"Why you so happy, Ronald?" Hermione asked him.
"I was made quidditch captain!" he practically screamed with excitement.
"Whoa, quidditch captain? I didn't know Hogwarts had quidditch." Tiffani said wide-eyed.
"You didn't think Durmstrang was the only one with quidditch."
'Well actually, Durmstrang didn't have quidditch for the school. I think the only reason they had a quidditch pitch was because Krum needed somewhere to practice during the school year, but I love quidditch."
"Do you play?"
"Yeah, but I was never on a team."
"What position?"
"Seeker, Viktor taught me. We were close. He said that I was like his baby sister and threaten a lot of boys like a over protective older brother. Dumbledore said that he could come visit me during the weekends at school." Tiffani said rolling her eyes. She actually needed him to bring her broom stick that she left at Durmstrang and he said that he could make it the second weekend after school starts.
"You know Viktor? Isn't he like 2 years older than us." Hermione asked , with a slight smile.
"Yes, he was the only person I trusted at Durmstrang. All my other "friends" only talked to me because of my father. I think we got so close because Karkaroff had a special interest in us. Him because he was famous and me because of my father."
"Oh, I see. Why haven't you open your letter? I bet you are in Gryffindor."
"I hope so." then she finally open hers. There were four letters and a pin. The first letter was the welcome letter, the next was the supply list. She had everything beside her robes. The next was the Head Girl letter with the pin.
"Your head girl?"
"Apparently so. I'm sorry. I know how much you wanted it."
"Its okay. I'm glad that it was you who made it, now I know that Hogwarts will have a amazing head girl this year. Did you have good grades before?"
"Well yes, all O's at Durmstrang all 6 years."
"Whoa, Hermione she is better than you." Ron was amazed. He thought no one could top Hermione's grade but obviously he was wrong. Hermione looked impressed and smiled. She was also was the one to notice that there was another letter in her envelope. They all knew that it was the personal letter from Dumbledore stating what house she was in. They all were confident that she will be in Gryffindor. Tiffani decided to read it out loud. It was read like this:
Dear Miss Wells,
I am pleased to inform you that you were sorted in the house of (Tiffani paused and started shaking her head but then continued) Slytherin. I'm sure you are disappointed that you are not in Gryffindor, but the teachers and myself have our reason for our decision. I also congratulate you for making the head girl position. Thank you.
Headmaster,
Albus Dumbledore
Tiffani was shocked and so was Ron and Hermione. Just then, Harry and Ginny walked in both with grins on, that turned into frowns when they saw the looks on their friend's faces. Tiffani was as pale as ever (she was a very pretty pale girl), Hermione's face was one of disapproval, and Ron looked pissed. It was him who spoke up.
"Why the hell would you do that to us!" He screamed at Tiffani. But before she could come out with her comeback, Hermione jumped in.
"Ronald, you know perfectly well that she didn't choose this upon herself, so don't blame her! Come on Tiffani." She grabbed Tiffani's arm and pulled her to her room. Ginny was the only one to follow them out. Both Hermione and Tiffani knew that Harry stay back to calm down Ron. Hermione told Ginny about Tiffani being in Slytherin. Ginny was the one to assure Tiffani that they all were still going to be friends no matter what.
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It has been three days since the whole Slytherin incident. Ron hasn't talk to Tiffani since then. Tiffani was depressed and Hermione decide that it was time to go get Tiffani her robes, since they leave to go to back to Hogwarts in the next three days.
"Come on Tiffani. Get off your lazy bum. We are going to go to Diagon alley to go get your robes."
Tiffani got up reluctantly, but she knew that it had to be done. They decide to take the floo network. And they landed somewhere where they didn't plan on.
