Chapter 2: Friends Meet by Accident
Now we shall skip about 4 months into the wonderous year at Hogwarts. Its around Christmas time, and most of the students have gone away for the holidays. Jenny was forced to stay there, her parents had to go to America, for a business meeting. It was always like this, but Jenny didn't mind. Although she sometimes wished that her parents had made more time for her when she was a child.
"Oh well, so much for regrets." Jenny would often find herself saying. But she was right, what was the point of regreting at this point in her life.
"Jenny?!" a voice called on Christmas morning. "Jenny wake up! Its Christmas!" call the voice. Jen then realized that it was the voice of the 'famous' Harry Potter.
"Yes! I'm coming! Be down in a minute!" She shouted back and stretched. She then ran down the stairs in her pajamas, and saw the wonderful presents that were left for her under the tree. "Wow." she finally said.
She then sat down on the floor and Ron handed her a nice present wrapped in green paper and a red bow. She read the tag, and it said it was from 'Santa'. She snickered, thinking it funny that this person thought she stilled believed in Santa. When she had unwrapped the package it was a diary with fancy cover designs and matching pen.
"Nice!" Jenny exclaimed "I never saw a diary this nice." she explained to the boys. Harry then handed her another present and it said 'from Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.' She looked puzzled. "You guys got me a gift?" she asked confusely.
"Yeah, I mean you must be a very nice person, cause you hang with Hermione a lot." Admitted Ron.
"Besides that, you helped us when the troll got in and tried to hurt Hermione." Harry said and Jenny's eyes popped. Ron looked at her with a smile.
"You where the one when I doubted that I could save her, you shouted 'GO RON YOU CAN DO IT!" When Hermione said swish and flick." he explained and she nodded.
"Well... I just had a feeling that if i believed in you, you could do it." she explained.
" No need to explain, but this is just a thank you from us." said Harry and they both smiled. When she ripped the wrapping she found it was a thick sketch pad.
"Hermione said that you like to draw so..." said Ron. Jenny's face was filled with excitement.
"Thank you guys! I love it." she said ask she jumped up to hug them. When she did hug them they hugged her back.
"Glad you like it." they said in unison.
To Jenny that was a great Christmas. This was the first year someone gave her something she actually wanted. Usually her parents were away and sent gifts Jenny did find fasinating but not what she wanted. She loved to draw and the fact that someone was lsitening made Jenny so happy, deep from the bottom of her heart.
Just after Christmas she and the boys became close, she was the forth person in the "Group of Misfits" as Hagrid would call them. She even saved Harry from Snape's rath one night when he was sneaking around in the invisiblity cloak.
She followed him and when he got caught, Jenny said she just woke up from one of her sleepwalking spells. She explained she had them rarely but often, like not often enough to be a problem, but it happened every now and then. He grumbled but let them go back to the dormatory. Harry was grateful and Jenny was humble to this.
"I just didn't want to see you in trouble." Is what she always said and that was her story.
When Harry discovered the Mirror of Erised, he asked Jenny to tell him what she saw. He took her there the second trip to the mirror. She looked in the mirror and saw the friends she had lost and the friends she had now hanging together. When she told him that, he asked her what happened to her original friends, she told him that they had passed in a car accident and that they didn't leave. They haunted her and Harry was surprised.
"You are haunted by your friends, why can't we see them as like Hogwarts ghost.?" he asked her puzzled.
"Because their my haunts." She explained. "They only stayeed behind because if they left they thought I would be completely alone." She then frowned and thought it may had been true. Harry then hugged her.
" Your not alone cause from now, on I will be your friend." He said with a smile, and Jenny smiled back at him.
"Your right, you, Ron and Hermione are my best friends and I love you guys for that." She said with tears streaming from her eyes. She was crying tears of joy, now if her passed friends moved on she knew she wouldn't be alone.
That night, her friends did move on to the next life. Yes Jen was said but she was happy that she was apart of the group of misfits.