Kendra was sitting in the Great Hall, waiting for the rest of the students. Dumbledore had felt that it would be total unnecessary for her to travel to London and back to Hogwarts with the Hogwarts express. Why would she have to, she had been at Hogwarts for half the summer already. So Kendra sat and waited for the rest of the students, which were due to, arrive any minute. She had already got to know all the teachers. Now it was the students that were on her mind. Would she get to see Harry Potter, her brother? Would he be just as fascinating as the girls from Beauxbatons had said? Dumbledore had said something about not getting too worked up over him, but he was a hero. How could anybody not get too worked up? Besides being a hero he was her only brother.
There they came. Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, Slytherins and Hufflepuffs. Dumbledore had told Kendra about the houses. She was going to be sorted after the first years had been. It seemed like to last for an eternity. Kendra was sitting in a small alcove where she could easily see the other students, but unless they looked very carefully they wouldn't be able to spot her.
Finally Professor McGonagall led the first years into the Great Hall. They were divided into the four houses, which cheered when they got new students. Kendra paid attention. "How awful," she mused. "To be the only one sitting left up there after all the other names have been called. A bit like being the only one left when you're choosing teams to play rugby, just because you're a girl."
After McGonagall had called out all the names, Dumbledore stood up. "Let's not put away the Sorting hat at once Minerva. Dear students. Today I have the pleasure of sorting another student. For various reasons she's transferring from Beauxbatons to Hogwarts. I have the pleasure of welcoming Kendra Nikita Evans to Hogwarts." Kendra hurried out of the alcove and towards the Sorting Hat.
She could hear the murmurings of the other students. Dumbledore had assured her that the hat would in no way harm her so she put it on without thinking much about it.
"Hmm. Well. Where are we going to put you?" Kendra was startled to actually hear a voice in the hat. "I don't really care where I go." The hat paused for a second. "That's a novelty. Usually I have people begging to get into the different houses. Your mother didn't know anything about the houses either. I put her into Gryffindor. But you're different. You could be in Gryffindor, you could be in Ravenclaw, you could be a Hufflepuff, or you could be a Slytherin. Are you sure you don't mind where you're going? Your brother was just the same. Twins are very often alike. The two of you have a devious streak, a courage that I've rarely seen the likes of…" Kendra interrupted the hat. "I don't care what you do, but decide soon. People are starting to stare at me." The hat chuckled in a manner that reminded her of Dumbledore. "Impatient for results? Well then, let's put you in SLYTHERIN." With that the hat was finished. Kendra took it off and walked against the Slytherin table.
Kendra Nikita Evans had become a Slytherin. All the other students looked shocked. She looked like such a nice girl. But when Kendra looked up at Dumbledore he simply winked at her. It didn't really shock her. There was only one available seat at the table. She didn't have any choice about where to sit. So she seated herself next to a boy approximately her own age and a girl that was looking like she was about to murder Kendra for sitting down at that very seat.
"My dear students, this year will be featuring the Quidditch Cup, like almost always before. The Forbidden forest is still forbidden to all of the students. Hogsmeade weekends will be available to all students from third year and up. Was that all of the information, Minerva? Oh, yes. I will speak with Harry Potter afterwards. Now, let's eat." Suddenly the tables were filled with food. Kendra who discovered that she'd been ravenous before threw herself over the food.
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After dinner Kendra followed the rest of the Slytherin down into the dungeons and into the common room of Slytherin. One of the prefects told her where she should sleep and she wandered in the direction where he pointed. Up some stairs and down a hallway, then she heard some voices from a door and assumed that that was where she was supposed to be. There weren't any other doors down that corridor, so she really didn't have much of a choice. She opened the door and went in.
It was a rather large chamber with five beds. There were four girls there already, Kendra recognized the girl who had been sending her hateful glances during dinner. Those glances didn't stop. But now one of the other girls decided to be merciful of her. "Hi, I'm Blaise Zambini. This is Pansy Parkinson, Melicent Bulstrode and Morag McDougal. You can take that bed over there." Blaise pointed at the bed closest to the door. 'If the rest of the year is going to be like the beginning I might as well have stayed at Beauxbatons. At least I had some friends there. Doesn't look too promising, even the only one who's talking to me doesn't seem overly friendly. Almost the only bright things so far are Dumbledore and the fact that my brother is here. Well, he doesn't know that he's my brother. Yet. I suppose that was what Dumbledore was going to talk to him about after dinner.'
Kendra had been standing absorbed in her own thoughts. Pansy obviously thought it was about time to settle some basic rules for her. She poked her finger hard into Kendra's shoulder. "Hey girl. We need to settle the rules around her. I am the boss, whatever I say goes. And I say stay away from Draco. He's mine." Kendra could feel her anger rising. She had never been very good at accepting orders from snobby girls who thought they owned the world. "Let me tell you something, Patsy was it? I don't take orders from you, or anyone else in this room. As for this Draco, who ever that might be, if you need everyone to know he belongs to you is there then a risk that he doesn't feel like he belongs to you?" She looked at Pansy. "I didn't come to Hogwarts to find myself a boyfriend. I had plenty of boys who were willing to be that at Beauxbatons, if that was all I wanted I could've stayed there. If I wanted to have snobs to command my actions I could've stayed there as well. Snobs exist in every country you know." Pansy muttered something like "Stupid mudblood."
Kendra got furious. She hadn't what was considered the "Slytherin attitude" towards Wizards with mixed or muggle blood, but she had been raised by Muggles and didn't like that Pansy dragged her grandparents down in the mud by insulting them. "I am not a mudblood. Both my parents were wizards, so there. I realize that Evans might not be a pureblood last name, but I really don't care." The other girls looked shocked that Kendra, a newcomer, would dare to speak that way to the Princess of Slytherin.
Only Blaise grinned some. It was going to be good having someone who didn't take crap from Pansy. Maybe Slytherin had acquired a new Princess with an attitude?
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"Harry. I have something to tell you. I realize this is to spring it on you, but recent events have made it so I have to do so." Harry had come to Dumbledore's office like he had told him to. Now he was sitting in a chair, petting Fawkes and looking expectantly at the Headmaster. "Well, there is no easy way to tell you this, so I'll just blurt it out. You have a sister." Harry's left hand, which he had been petting Fawkes with stopped. "I have a what?"
"You have a sister. Because it would be safer to separate the two of you after your parents' death we did. You were left with your aunt and uncle and she went to your grandparents. If they hadn't been killed last year she would still have been there. Now she's here at Hogwarts. The exchange student is your sister."
"A Slytherin is my sister? How can that be?" Harry would have ranted further if he hadn't remembered that the sorting hat wanted to put him into Slytherin as well. "Is she going to be in our year? If she is, are we twins then?" Dumbledore just nodded. "I will tell her that I've told you. She has known all along that you were her brother. It seems like the Quidditch genes run in your family, Kendra happens to be an excellent player." Harry almost groaned. A sister could be a great thing to have; a sister who was a Slytherin was also kind of ok. A sister who played Quidditch and was a Slytherin was worse.
"If you can excuse me, I think I need some time to think this whole situation over." Mumbled Harry and practically ran out of the Headmaster's office.
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"I know you all want what's best for Slytherin. So I wanted to inform you that there will be Quidditch tryouts for the team tomorrow." The guy she was sitting next to at dinner, who the girls told her was Draco Malfoy, was making an announcement. Apparently he was captain of the Quidditch team. They were all sitting in the Slytherin Common Room. "We're going to need several new players this year, so if you know how to master a broomstick tomorrow is tryout day"
Kendra sharpened her ears. Quidditch team? She was so there tomorrow at tryouts. She had to become a beater on the team. She had to prove her worth as a Slytherin. They all seemed to look at her like a goodie-two shoes. Well she wasn't. When it came to sports, any kind of sports she was more competitive than most.
When Harry and her had been walking around talking she had told him how much she enjoyed Quidditch and he had encouraged her to try out. "Even if you will be playing on the same team as Malfoy." Blaise, who had acted sort of like a friend towards her after the incident in the bedchamber, was sitting next to her in the sofa. "Are you still with me? Your eyes seemed to glaze over. Are you trying out for Quidditch or just lusting after Malfoy?"
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A while later Harry was standing outside the Slytherin House trying every word imaginable to get in to find Kendra. Finally the portrait opened and he breathed in relief. Unfortunately it only opened because of Malfoy going out.
"What do you want here, Potter?" Malfoy's voice showed some surprise at having Potter practically on his doorstep, but there were animosity there as well. Harry wasn't too sure about what he wanted, but his mouth seemed to know. "Could I see Kendra?"
Malfoy bent his head backwards and laughed. "Aren't the rest of the girls at this school good enough for you, Potter. Now you have to go to a Slytherin? Yeah, yeah. I'll go get her for you." He got back in and a while later the girl came out. Harry didn't think she looked much like his twin. Weren't twins supposed to be alike? What about Fred and George or Padma and Parvati? Kendra didn't look very much like him. Her hair was red and her eyes were blue. He had black hair and green eyes.
"What did you want?"
Harry held out his arm for her to hold on to. "Would you like to take a walk with me. I think we need to talk." Kendra waited for some seconds before she took it. "What do you want to talk about?"
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A/N: Well, this story is still written by me, Anastacy. Kayla's still my muse, with the basic idea for the story. Characters still belong to J.K. Rowling, except for Kendra, she's ours. Is there really much more to tell? Oh, yeah. Leave a review, it helps us improving our story.
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