A/N: Not mine at all. All I own is the plot and Christina

In potions the next morning, Christina and David once again sat on the 'Slytherin' side. As he strode in, Snape commented, "Miss White, one word out of your mouth today, you will be leaving my classroom, either on your own accord, or, if I must, I will forcibly remove you. I guarantee you will regret the latter option if it comes to that."

"Whatever. It's not like I can't make a Shrinking Solution with my eyes closed," she retorted, rolling her eyes.

"Well Miss White, if you insist, you shall be blinded. You too, Johnson." With that, he cast a spell to create a barrier over their eyes. "You may all begin."

Everyone immediately retrieved their supplies.

Between their senses of smell, heat, feel and accurately counting, both American students were able to proficiently produce perfect Shrinking Solutions. One Draco Malfoy and one Hermione Granger were visibly upset at being out performed yet again.

The rest of the day went much like all others had been. David had to drag Christina to lunch. She grew increasingly depressed about being stuck at Hogwarts, and was verbally showing her displeasure as he pulled her into the Great Hall.

"David, no, I'm not going in! I'm not hungry. I can take care of myself. I'm a big girl."

"Christina, this is not good for you. I know you hate it here, and I do too, but we're stuck here, so let's just make the most of it.

"Do you seriously not realize how hard it is to sit here? To see him every day?" she replied as she motioned toward Harry. Harry was taken aback. He had no idea what he had to do with Christina not wanting to be here.

"Now look here," Harry said. "I only met you a few days ago, and I have not shown you any disrespect, even thought you deserve it. So please, tell me, what do you have against me?"

"Crap," Remus thought. "She knows more than I thought she knew. Well, I guess Harry is going to figure it out now."

After a deep breath, Christina was ready to answer Harry. The entire hall was looking on, curious what was going on. "Every time I look at you, Harry, I see your dad. Now, of course, I didn't know your dad, hell, I never even knew my dad, but… but see, I have this picture. It's of James and my dad, Chris. Sirius and Remus are there too." She looked up at Professor Lupin. "They were the best of friends, almost like a gang. Everything I have of my father's, well, it's mostly all of them together, happy. And I see you, and then I see James from the pictures, and then I think about my dad. And… I just… I can't do this anymore." She turned, and started crying into David's shoulder.

"Shh, it's ok. Just let it out." He just held her, trying to calm her down. This is something he had done a lot for her in the past year. She knew she was lucky to have David as such a good friend.

Once she realized what that she was in the middle of the hall, with everyone staring at her crying, she stopped, turned toward a smirking Draco, and started yelling again. "Think this is funny, do you? Fine, then let's murder your parents, and see how you feel!" That shut him up quickly. "Let's see if you all told Harry the truth, shall we? Let's see what parts you told him," she said angrily as she stared up at the head table, and made eye contact with McGonagall, Dumbledore, Snape and Lupin.

"Ok, let's start at the beginning. So, as you know, your parents, and a whole bunch of other people were against Voldemort." Everyone recoiled visibly, and she rolled her eyes. "Oh please people, it's just a name. Anyway, they had some intelligence that he was going to go after our parents. So your parents went into hiding using the Fidelus Charm, and mine moved to the US. I guess they thought they'd be safer." She paused. "Well, it didn't exactly work. Their cover was blown by their secret keeper, and they were murdered. Your mom tried to save you. Somehow, when he tried to kill you, it backfired. I assume you know all this? Well, you didn't actually kill him, just weakened him, though everyone thought he was gone. He'd really just left the country. He figured out where my parents were, and went to go after them. I was… well, I was only three weeks old. I don't know why I remember this, because scientifically, I was too young to remember anything, but I remember seeing a green light." Harry flinched. "I assume you remember this, too. I know you were sent to live with your mother's sister. I was sent to my dad's brother's family in Washington. I was treated pretty well. Not entirely like one of the family, but better than nothing, right? Well, that was up until last year. I left. Moved across the country, to Orlando. Found out a lot of shit really quickly. I got the 'You're a witch, come to our school' letter. On top of the 'You're the slayer, go hunt vampires' letter. So, pretty much, life sucks. I have no family, and I don't want to be here." Finished with her tirade, she gave one last glare to Dumbledore, turned toward Draco and said rebelliously, "What, no cunning comment about how I just want people to feel sorry for me? Well, news flash, I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks." She turned to storm out of the room, David on her heels.

Harry only sat still for another second, before leaving as well, with his friends following.

A/N: sorry this took forever to get out. I had a lot of papers due, and then my beta was on Vaca. I'll try to work faster. But reviews would be great! Also, do you have any ideas for events in this story? Let me know and I'll try to incorporate.