There aren't a lot of differences from the original, but the chapters are being merged and rearranged with a few new scenes.
Beta: SleepyMortuusAsh
Sure, Mira was smart, but she still forgot things.
A lot of things.
Her homework, her hair clip, her shoes, her socks, her backpack, her sweater, and all of the above...
If it was possible to forget it, she would.
Her parents knew this, so it didn't come as a surprise to them to hear that their daughter had forgotten to do her homework which was assigned last week and had been worked on in class.
So naturally, like any teacher dealing with a troublesome student, they sent Mira to detention...
Where she met the only other person like her.
Harry Potter, the neighbor's kid.
You see, Mira didn't know much about where she lived. In fact, she barely knew her way around her own house! She wasn't very popular, and she didn't know any gossip.
What she did know was that the Dursleys were an anomaly.
Four people live in the neat house next to Mira's house; Petunia, Vernon and their son, Dudley as well as Harry.
There were many strange things about them, even though they prided themselves on being "normal."
How impeccably neat their garden was when she never saw Petunia doing any yard work.
How their nephew had a different last name, Potter.
How they seemed to hate Harry when Mira saw nothing wrong with him.
How unnaturally large and chubby Vernon and Dudley were in comparison to Harry, who was small and skinny.
In addition, Harry never seemed to go outside to play, it was almost as if he's locked inside all the time.
Mira noticed that the other three people of the family went on vacations, while no one came to take care of Harry whatsoever.
She took her concerns to her parents, who called the authorities.
Nothing was done, of course.
So when she finally was with Harry, without Vernon or Dudley or Petunia nearby, she jumped at the chance to talk to him.
"Hey, you!"
Harry went silent, frozen in fear.
" Sorry for scaring you like that! I just haven't seen you around a lot. You're Harry, right?"
He nodded silently.
"Okay... so," Mira continued, getting a sharpened pencil and making a little sketch in her notebook, "what do you like to do? I like drawing, cuz I can kinda make my own little world."
Mira looked out of the corner of her eye, seeing her fellow classmate taking a breath, before she heard him speak.
"...I like reading."
Harry could've sworn the girl next to him had started glowing.
"Cool! Do you like fantasy and adventure stories? I think those are the best. Wait a minute! You don't know my name yet!"
Harry turned to glance at the excited girl next to him.
"I'm Mira!" the girl continued, looking proud of herself, "Let's be best friends forever!"
Harry
Harry didn't know what to say when he saw the girl from the other class sit down next to him. He didn't know what to say when she started asking questions.
But when she said they were going to be best friends forever, he had to say yes.
"Yeah!"
Mira, or at least that's what she had introduced herself as, smiled brightly, showing her missing tooth.
Soon, detention was over, and Mira had already had an idea of what her new friend was going to be doing this afternoon.
"Wanna walk home together? Your house is next to my house, I think."
Harry nodded, and Mira grabbed his arm, running across the schoolyard to a tall blonde.
"Alexxx! I made a new friend, see?"
'Alex' nodded along, grabbing his jacket and backpack.
"Why do you even wear jackets, anyway?" Mira asked him, "It's, like, 90 degrees out here!"
Harry looked at her in alarm, it felt that hot for her?
"She means Fahrenheit, so that'd be around 30 celcius," Alex said quickly, noticing how panicked Harry looked.
"Okay, enough science-y stuff, let's go home!" Mira shouted, grabbing the straps of her backpack as she ran out the gate. Seemingly used to her antics, Alex lightly grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him along with them, and they all reached the Roux house in no time.
"Alllrighty! Adios, mi amigo!" Mira sang, turning the knob on the door and pushing only for it to stay closed.
Mira gestured with her hand, "Gimmie da keys," she said, and Alex dropped a small silver key into her palm.
"Cya tomorrow at school!" Mira told Harry who was already walking away, waving over his shoulder.
Harry arrived at Number 4, Privet Drive just as Vernon was starting to get impatient.
"You! Where were you?" Vernon asked, "You kept us all waiting! Start weeding the front yard!"
Harry bowed his head and put his backpack away in his room, chuckling silently to himself, 'I mean, it could be worse. At least I don't have to sleep in the cupboard.'
Back downstairs, Vernon grabbed Harry and shoved him out the door, slamming it shut after a quick threat.
Unbeknownst to him, a certain redhead was watching him from her upstairs window, and seeing Vernon lock Harry outside, immediately ran downstairs, grabbing the house keys from the table where Alex was eating a snack and bursting out the door.
"Harry!" She yelled, "What the F(BEEP) was that?!"
Harry's head jerked up, and he looked over his shoulder to see a very angry redhead who was now scribbling in a notebook.
"Evidence: Pushing, threats. Claim: Vernon is a BUTT!" MIra finished, closing the notebook.
Harry continued weeding, snickering when he heard what Mira called his uncle.
"Want cookies?" Mira asked, excitedly.
"Okay?"
"Come on, then!" She said, grabbing his arm and dragging him down the sidewalk to her house.
Mira closed the door behind herself cheerfully after throwing Harry forwards into the living room.
"I'm backkk!" She yelled.
Alex sighed, "What happened?"
"Well, Harry's uncle was bein' a butt and tryna make 'im weed the garden, so I took 'em away! He's never goin' back!"
Alex looked unimpressed, "So you kidnapped him."
"That's just a technicality! No one likes technicalities," Mira said, grabbing a plate of cookies and putting them on the table, handing one cookie to Harry.
Lauren, Mira's mother, waved at Harry from the kitchen, used to Mira's antics.
"I'm home!" Andrew shouted, kicking open the door and throwing his bag on the floor.
"ELLO!" Mira yelled, leaping over the back of the couch and crashing full-speed into the new person.
"Hi, dad," Alex said absentmindedly from where he was sitting on the couch's armrest, typing an essay into his laptop, "Mira got a new friend."
Just as quickly as she left, Mira came back to sit next to Alex again, and Andrew sat down next to Mira, a unknown black-haired boy on his left-
Wait a minute, unknown black-haired boy?
Andrew didn't know any unknown black-haired boys!
So, he quickly glanced over to Alex, making sure that his son hadn't dyed his hair black and shrunk a foot while he was gone.
'Nope, Alex looks like Alex.'
The unknown boy- he should really stop calling him that- scooted away.
"Da'sh Harry," Mira said, voice muffled by the two cookies she was in the process of shoving into her mouth.
Harry stared at the huge blonde, and said huge blonde stared back.
"C'mon! I wanna show you my room!" Mira yelled, dragging Harry up the stairs after his awkward introduction to her father.
In what felt like a millisecond, the wood floors turned to a green fluffy carpet.
He looked to his left and saw a nightstand, covered in photos with green he looked to his right, a mini library with beanbag chairs and looked ahead, a big bed with green and white blankets and pillowcases.
A desk was behind him, with a computer and a blue and green swivel chair.
He saw a wardrobe- wait, it was painted blue?- near the bed and saw the twinkling fairy lights surrounding the room, like little stars.
Speaking of stars, he saw the ceiling was painted with millions of different shades of dark blues, grays, and black. The moon was painted in glow-in-the-dark paint, illuminating the room.
Windows let in some light by the mini-library.
He continued staring in awe, his room wasn't this cool!
"Wanna play cards?"
In the time that he'd been staring, Mira had gone ahead and gotten a deck of playing cards.
He'd mostly only ever seen Dudley play with them.
"Yeah! But I don't know any games..."
"Well, I'll teach you, dummy!"
She led him to a circular table in the mini library area and sat down in a beanbag chair, Harry did the same on the other side.
Mira picked up the entire deck, separating the cards into two piles.
"This game is real simple, I think it's called 'war'. Basically, you get your stack of cards," She demonstrated by picking up her half, "and flip them over so the backside is facing up. Then, you pick the one on the top and put it down, face up. Whoever gets the bigger card gets to keep both."
Harry did as she told, putting a card down, face up.
A king.
She did the same.
A queen.
"Since the queen is less than the king, you get to keep the cards," she pushed the cards toward him with an encouraging smile. He put them in the back of his deck.
This continued for around thirty minutes, the sounds of their laughter reverberating throughout the house.