Btw, the character Ecliese belongs to my friend InsanityDeductions, while Melanie belongs to me. I thank her for showing me how to make OCs, and I thank her for inspiring me to write stories. The moment I wrote this one, I wanted to write more. Thanks, EJ (Insanity)!
Chapter 2:
Melanie was lying in the hammock in the backyard of the orphanage. She was eight years old now, and her parents still hadn't come for her. She was starting to wonder if they even cared that she was gone. A couple of minutes later, the matron, Ms. Hartworth, walked out across the grass towards her.
"Melanie, there's someone here that wants to adopt and was wishing to look at all the girls," she said.
"But my parents are coming for me, you said they would," Melanie argued.
"Yes, dear, but it's been three years. They would have come for you a long time ago," said the matron.
"I miss them," said Melanie sadly.
"I know, but I think it would be good for you if you left this place and went somewhere else. This couple's names are Harold and Margaret Sommers and they are looking for an eight-year-old girl.
"Well, I guess I could see what they're like," Melanie agreed half-heartedly.
"Come along, I'll lead you to them."
In those three years that Melanie was at the orphanage, Ms. Hartworth had noticed some strange things about Melanie. Some of the children were astonished with Melanie because they say she could make things levitate with her mind, and could also make people forget what they were talking about. She was a very strange girl indeed, and this is what she told this couple before she went to get her. Strangely enough, this couple seemed even more interested in her after she told them this. But Ms. Hartworth didn't know that this couple were a witch and wizard, and were looking for signs of a child with magic, since they couldn't have children of their own.
When Melanie met these people, she didn't know they were magical until she agreed to go home with them. In the car, with her things from the orphanage in her lap, they asked her if she knew about wizardry. Mr. Sommers wasn't surprised when she told them that her parents were a witch and wizard, and that she had gotten lost and hadn't seen her parents since.
"Well, we also belong to the Wizarding World, and would love it if you stayed with us. If you're parents come for you, you are welcome to go back," invited Mrs. Sommers.
She thought for a minute. "Okay," Mel agreed.
She found out that she would be very happy living with the Sommers. Since they knew about magic, she didn't have to keep secrets. She loved her foster parents almost as much as she remembered loving her real parents. Pretty soon she had taken their last name as her own, Sommers, and around that time was when she received a letter.
Melanie was so excited when she was accepted into Hogwarts. She had gone to Diagon Alley and bought all of her needed school supplies, along with a gorgeous, smaller than normal snowy owl that she named Alaska. (Don't think I copied off of Harry's owl. It just so happens that she got a snowy owl.) Her wand was made from a maple tree and had a unicorn hair core.
September first finally came. Mel had read all of her books and had memorized all of the simple spells, just like her adopted mom taught her to do so she was prepared. She anticipated trying them on the train without her foster parents knowing. They didn't approve of her trying magic without her knowing anything yet.
She hugged and kissed them goodbye when they arrived at Kings Cross Station, and searched through the train, trying to find an open compartment. She spotted a girl sitting alone who looked her age who had black hair, pale skin, and green eyes.
"May I join you? There aren't any other empty seats," Melanie asked her.
"Sure. I was just waiting for someone to sit by me," said the strange girl. "What's your name? I'm Ecliese."
"Hi, I'm Melanie. Is this you're first year at Hogwarts?
"Yes. I don't know anything about magic, though," said the girl.
"This is my first year, too. Are both your parents a witch and wizard?" asked Melanie.
"I'm not sure. I never knew them. I was raised in an orphanage. I don't know what happened to my parents. It was too long ago."
"I was living in an orphanage, too. Well, for a couple of years, but my parents aren't dead. I just… got lost, and I never found them again," Melanie explained sadly. "I've been raised by foster parents ever since."
"I'm sorry. I hope you find them someday," sympathized Ecliese.
"Thanks. So, you don't know what happened to your parents?
"No. But I had a brother. He was killed at the orphanage while on a trip to the ocean. Dumbledore came around July and told me that I was a witch," Ecliese said to Melanie. "I always knew I was different, but I never knew that there were other people like me. I didn't know there was a school, too. I have no clue what on earth to do, or where everything is."
It was silent for a minute as the two girls awkwardly stared out the window.
"Do you know about Quidditch?" Melanie finally asked.
"Not really... But then again, I haven't heard very much about anything."
"Oh, Quidditch is the best game there is!" and she went off explaining the rules of the game and all about the positions and the different balls, what her foster parents taught her.
Soon the two girls became the best of friends, even when they were sorted into different houses after they arrived at the school. Melanie became a Ravenclaw, where she met a girl named Luna, who was slightly odd, but Melanie wasn't the kind of person to make fun of people.
Ecliese got sorted into Slytherin, which was all right with her, even though it had a bad reputation. The two girls still had some classes together and they spent all their free time together. It was like they had grown up their whole lives together. Everything was great, except for one strange thing.
Melanie's uncle, Harry, had told her the story when she was little about when he had defeated Lord Voldemort. But it sounded like he had resurrected somehow because Melanie had heard some people talking about how Harry Potter had defeated him when he was a baby, just a few years ago. Melanie was confused. Her uncle was currently 47! It hadn't been a few years. It had been several years!
The next day, she spotted a boy her age with dark, black hair and round glasses. He looked exactly like Harry when he was younger. She saw the boy walking around with two other kids her age. One of them had red hair and freckles, and the other had bushy brown hair. They looked exactly like her real parents. What on earth was going on? Everyone was pointing and whispering about the boy with Harry's looks and there was always some talk about Harry Potter and that he was at school. Melanie was so confused that she felt like her head would explode any moment. Soon, she gathered up the courage to walk up to the strange boy and ask him who he and his friends were.
"I'm Harry. And this is Ron, and Hermione," he said to her. It was strange talking to him, and when he told her this Melanie gaped. She saw the lightning scar on his forehead that she had seen on her uncle countless times.
"Bu-bu-but… you're not eleven! You're forty-seven! What is going on?!" Melanie said in frustration and exasperation.
Harry stared at her, confused. "Do I know you?" he asked her worriedly.
"Of course you know me! I'm your niece! And you're my mom and you're my dad!" she said, pointing at the other two companions. "Why are you all acting like I'm insane, and why are you so young?!"
"Um, I think you need to go to the hospital wing," suggested Hermione.
Ecliese was staring at Melanie the whole time, very bewildered at what was going on. "I'll take her. Come on, Mel."
"No, I'm fine! I just need to know what's going on! Let me go! I don't need the hospital!" Melanie screamed all the way. Then she started sobbing and sat down on the steps just outside the hospital wing door. Ecliese sat down beside her.
"Are you really okay, Mel?" Ecliese asked.
"No, I'm not!" sobbed Melanie. "I don't know what's going on, I just saw my parents, and they don't even know me!"
"What are you talking about? You haven't told me anything about this. You need to talk," Ecliese said.
"Well," Melanie wiped her tears, "it all started one day I wasn't listening to my mom, and two masked men in black cloaks came and knocked her unconscious. I was only five. Then they found me and sent me off to some strange place in the Ministry of Magic, and a man came and found me. He took me to my grandfather, who looked a lot younger and he didn't know who I was, either, and then brought me to the orphanage. I was lost, alone and confused," she admitted, "and I didn't know where I was or why nobody recognized me. My foster parents came and brought me to their house to live with them. Now I'm here and I just saw my parents and my Uncle Harry and they're all eleven years old, and I don't know what's happening! Everyone is talking about Harry Potter, my uncle, coming to school this year and about how he defeated Voldemort just a few years ago!"
Ecliese gasped, "You dare speak his name?"
"Yeah, what's so bad about it? He's dead!" Melanie questioned.
"No he's not! He disappeared, and no one knows where he is!" Ecliese said in confusion.
"See what I mean? Nothing makes any sense!" said the exasperated Melanie.
"Are you from the future or something?" Ecliese said in a sarcastic voice.
There was silence as Melanie paused. "That might explain it…"
"Explain what?"
"When I was in the Ministry of Magic, I was five years old and I faintly remember playing with an hourglass thing. I turned it over and over, then something happened that I can't explain."
"What?" Ecliese asked with curiosity.
"Everything spun, and people were walking backwards way too quickly around me, like you'd see in a movie that's being re-winded. Then it stopped, and the man I told you about found me. That's when I saw my grandfather, only younger. And now, I just saw my parents and uncle here at school, but younger! Voldemort's not dead yet, and my parents still haven't found me, because I'm in the past!"
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