Chapter 4

Ei-chan's sister- yeah, I know, blah blah blah, you haven't updated, blah blah blah. I apologize, because I got booted off my computer privileges a while back, and I'm writing a normal book. From now on, I will refer to myself as ray-chan96. Thank you.

Hermione trudged up the stairs, mumbling about curses and revenge. "Falafa Senyor," she said to the Fat Lady, and pushed herself through a gaggle of excited first-years. To her disgust, none other than Mary was sitting down on her bed tittering away in a musical laugh with Lavender and Parvati. "Hermione!" Mary said, without an air of surprise. "Hogwarts is such a cool school! I mean, sure, it's a lot smaller than my old school, but it has such old world charm!" Something inside Hermione told her to jump up and throttle her. "Yeah,' she grumbled instead, "where's Eloise?"

"Oh, she wanted to switch with Mary, and we're glad she did," Lavender giggled.

"Anyway, so, Mary, what did you and Ron walk of for?" Parvati asked. Suddenly she gasped. "Did you two kiss?" Now it was Parvati Hermione wanted to choke.

Mary broke out into another series of musical giggles. "Yes! We did! Right after I told him all about my life and he told me all about his. The poor boy has so many expectations to live up to, all his siblings are all better than him."

"Whatever," Hermione interrupted. "If you all don't mind, I'm going to sleep."

She couldn't take anymore of this. Hermione threw the covers over her head and grumbled in her mind. She couldn't help but overhearing every single detail about Mary's past, for Mary's melodic voice echoed under her sheets.

"So," Mary started. "My parents traveled the world and I went with them. When I was two years old, we went to England. There my parents got caught up in the first war. Voldemort-" Lavender and Parvati shuddered- "personally came to kill my parents, not only because they were so powerful and because my mother was part Veela, part mermaid and my father was part centaur, but because there was this prophecy that I would be the greatest being to ever cross the face of this earth. He tried to kidnap me but I escaped after five long years of living in a dungeon. With my parent's muggle money inheritance, I boarded a plane back to my home country, the U.S.A., where I stayed with my evil aunt until I was eleven. Then, I went to Doe-Ear. When I was thirteen, I bought a penthouse studio near the school…"

Hermione knew she would go on about her past so she cast a spell to block out the sound. It didn't work against Mary, because Hermione still heard her while she nodded off.

The next morning, Hermione sat far away from her friends at breakfast. She didn't speak until Harry asked what was wrong with her. "It's that wretched Sue down the table talking to everyone about absolutely nothing important."

"Actually," Harry said wisely, "she's talking about how she single-handedly convinced the house-elves to ask for wages." Hermione's knife cut straight through her orange. "But you know, there is something fishy about Mary Jaguar Amethyst Hunter Jewel Sakura Azure Rainbow Phoenix Boreal Kairi Goddess Sue."

Hermione stood up so quickly her pumpkin juice flew over into a harried seventh-year's lap. She pointed at Harry with a manic grimace on her face. "That's it! You and I are going to dig the dirt up on Sue!" She grabbed Harry's wrist and dragged him out of the Great Hall, but not before glancing at the puzzled look on Ron's face.