A/N here's chapter 2 thank you for my very first review moromu!!
Professor Albus Dumbledore, eyes twinkling behind his half moon spectacles, stood up and called for attention.
"First I would like to welcome you all back for another year at Hogwarts. This year we will be joined by a foreign exchange student, please treat her with kindness and friendship," at this Dumbledore looked directly at Harry, Ron and Hermione and then continued with his pre-sorting speech.
"I hope she's cute," Ron whispered to Harry. Hermione looked at Ron and rolled her eyes
The door to the Great Hall opened and in walked a teenage girl. She looked to be in about fifth year, she was dressed in her black school robes, and held her pointed witches hat in one hand. She had long brown hair and was not very tall, but she walked in with her head held high daring any one to tell her that she didn't belong.
"Yeah, she's cute," Ron answered for himself. Hermione rolled her eyes in Ron's direction again.
Professor McGonagall took out a small slip of parchment, "Trelawney, Kassandra," she called. The girl stepped forward and sat on the stool.
"Kassandra Trelawney? Wasn't that Professor Trelawney's great, great grandmother or something?" asked Harry.
"I hope she's not as mental as Trelawney," muttered Ron.
"Gryffindor!" the hat yelled and Kassandra became the first new Gryffindor of the new school term.
Kassandra walked up on Harry's left side and asked in an accent clearly stating that she was a long way from home, "May I sit here?"
Harry's face whipped around, "Sure," he answered.
After the sorting the feast began. Harry and Ron dove right in devouring everything in their reach. Kassandra reached and carefully picked out a few things she recognized and ate. Then when dessert came she was completely lost. She just stared at everything looking very confused.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry.
"What is all this?" she asked.
"Dessert?" Ron supplied.
"No I mean specifically," Kassandra said.
"Where are you from?" asked Ron incredulously.
"America," she answered simply.
"Well Kassandra," Harry began but the American cut him off.
"Kassie," she said, "Call me Kassie. People only call me Kassandra when I'm in trouble," she grinned.
"Kassie," Harry grinned back. Anybody who saw this knew it was the beginning of an unstoppable friendship.
After picking a yummy bowl of ice cream Kassie began to tell them her story. "Yes I'm related to Professor Trelawney, she's my Aunt, and before you ask no she is not a fake, but she does get very carried away, and very lucky," The trio swapped stories with her as well and amazingly throughout the entire exchange no body asked if Kassie herself was a seer.
It was the first day of classes and Kassie and Hermione found that they had something in common they were both studious bookworms who loved to answer questions.
"It's wonderful to have some one who equals me academically, someone I can have intelligent conversations with and they don't look at me with blank stares when I say something," Kassie confided in Mione after Charms that day.
"Me too," confirmed Hermione as they walked arm in arm toward lunch.
By the end of lunch they had become best friends and they had made plans to visit the library after classes that day.
After lunch came Divination. "Sorry Mione but its kind of mandatory, seeing as she is my aunt and all, you know," Kassie told her after Mione had voiced a complaint.
"All right," Mione conceded and they went their separate ways.
Harry, Ron and Kassie made their way to the North Tower and up the spiral staircase into the dark, smelly divination class room. Trelawney was the same as ever as soon as every one was seated she gave Harry the first death prediction of the new term.
"Aunt Sybil death predictions still? Really, isn't it about time you moved on to a new subject?" came Kassie's voice from the shadows.
Trelawney looked in the direction of the voice. As soon as Kassie stepped out of the shadows Trelawney gave a loud shriek and leaped at her niece wrapping her in a smothering bear hug.
Professor Trelawney brought Kassie to the front of the class insisting on introducing her to every single one of the students, even the ones Kassie already knew!
After class Harry, Ron and Kassie walked down the spiral staircase (getting dizzier and dizzier and dizzier) on their way to meet Mione so they could walk together to the first DADA class with the new teacher.
The new teacher, it turned out, was more toad than teacher. "Professor Delores Jane Umbridge, Senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge," the toad introduced herself. "Welcome to Defense Against the Dark Arts fifth years," she simpered. When no one answered her in return, she tut tutted and said, "Lets try this again; when I say welcome you are to say 'Good morning Professor Umbridge.' The toad repeated herself.
The class gave a half hearted and clearly disgusted, "Good morning Professor Umbridge," while they twiddled with their wands.
To the classes utter astonishment they learned that they would not be using their wands at all this year! Harry, after hearing this announcement, began yelling at the teacher telling her about Voldemort rising to power again last summer and arguing that they must learn practical defense or they would all die. In the end Gryffindor lost fifty points and Harry got detention with the toad.
"Harry meet me in the common room tonight before you go to detention with the toad, I'll wait up for you okay. No arguments," Kassie instructed Harry.
Harry dutifully met Kassie in the common room before his detention. "What is it Kassie?" he asked upon his arrival.
"Hold out your hands," she told him. He did as instructed and Kassie pulled out her wand and waved over Harry's hands effectively making them numb.
"What did you do that for?" he asked.
"You'll see just go to detention, oh and don't tell Umbridge what I did to your hands," she told him.
Harry went to Umbridge's office where he learned he would be writing lines.
"You are to write 'I must not tell lies'" the toad ordered Harry.
"How many times?" asked Harry.
"As many times as it takes to sink in," she told him.
After being given a 'special' quill and told he would not need ink he began to write. The ink from the quill came out scarlet. It was not until Harry looked at his hand did he realize that he was in fact writing in his own blood. Harry was immediately grateful for the numbing charm.
Only after Umbridge examined his hand and gave Harry an evil toady smile was he released from her presence. Upon gaining his freedom Harry rushed up to the seventh floor and walked to Gryffindor Tower. Harry found only Kassie awake in the common room. Next to her on the table was a bowl of yellowish liquid. Harry walked over and sat in the chair across from her.
Kassie told Harry to put his hand in the bowl of liquid and she removed the spell from his hands. The potion immediately took affect soothing and disinfection the raw cuts. Harry took his hand out of the bowl and examined the new scars.
"You're not going to tell me how you knew what she was going to do to me are you?" Harry asked. Kassie shook her head in the negative.
So Harry didn't ask instead he said, "Thank you," and headed off to bed.
A/N here's chapter two I hope you like it! If you have any suggestions let me kno!
Sorry to everyone who thought chap 1 was this one! I still don't quite kno how this site works!