A New Girl
Disclaimer: Everything and anything to do with Harry Potter belongs to Joanne K. Rowling, the publishers and Warner Bros. What I do own, is the plot, Amyza Heidi and Heju. And again, I don't own Rukawa Kaede or Sakuragi Hanamichi, they are characters from the Slam Dunk anime.
A/n: Kumbanwa means 'Good evening' in Japanese.
Chapter two
"It's been so long since I've seen you, why did you leave Japan?" asked Draco and sat next to Amyza.
"My parents have to be diplomats at Britain's Ministry of Magic, they usually left me to my studies at Heju, but I don't know why they wanted to bring me to Britain," Amyza answered. "Why did YOU leave Japan?"
"Father wanted me to come back, you know that," Draco answered, missing Japan a lot.
"You've been to Japan, Malfoy?" asked Hermione.
"Amy and I were classmates in Heju when we were 10, she's the only witch in that place who speaks English and so, have to translate for me everything that the teachers and other students say, but father owled me four months after that, demanding me to return," Draco answered.
"You must teach me some Japanese, Amy," said Ginny excitedly.
Amyza smiled apologetically. "Even though I'm Japanese, Ginny, I'm not that fluent in my own language, well, I could, teach you a thing or two, but not a lot, Japanese is a very hard language and I myself couldn't master it, I stay in Heju for a while, and mingle with Muggles-"
Draco chortled, "Amy, you are a pureblood, why do you mingle with Muggles?"
"There's not a lot of wizard and witches in Japan, if you kindly remember, Draco," Amyza answered.
"But I only mingle with the Muggle basketball players,"
Draco, Ron and Ginny asked unisonly, "What's basketball?"
Harry grinned, remembering when Oliver Wood asked him the same question when Harry had his first Quidditch practice and Hermione answered, "It's a game where you shoot a ball through a hoop, just like Quidditch, you can't fly in basketball, and it's got a time limit,"
"It's quite fun, and sometimes you have the opportunity to dunk the ball," Amyza supplied.
"Dunk? You mean in liquid?" Ron asked.
"I don't know how to show it to you, I could show it to you, with the videos of Kaede and Hanamichi, two Muggle friends, dunking the ball, but I haven't bewitched my video player, and portable tv to let it play without electricity yet,"
"I know how to, show it to me when we reach the dormitories afterward, if you are made a Gryffindor, that is," Hermione answered.
"I do hope you are in Slytherin, so that you'll be with me," Draco interrupted. "But I think you are Gryffindor material,"
Hogwarts - the great hall
After the sorting of first years, Dumbledore stood up. A lot of attention had been given to Amyza, and whispers could be heard. "Who's that beautiful girl?" and "Wow, a Japanese, she's definitely one, really beautiful" from the boys, and "Who's that girl?" from the girls. For Harry, who heard some of these at the Gryffindor table, stared at Amyza for a while, when she wasn't looking, 'hmm, beautiful dark hair, not too long to the waist, nor too short to the shoulders, very dark blue almond shaped eyes, and great hourglass figure,' Harry thought.
"This year, we are very fortunate that one of our friends from Japan, who's a seventh year in our standards, but ninth to theirs, has come to transfer here, she had to move from the best wizarding school in Asia because her parents were transferred to Britain's Ministry of Magic, please give a warm welcome to Amyza Heidi," Dumbledore spoke. "There will be a special sorting ceremony for her,"
Boys gaped at the new girl, now already known to all by Amyza Heidi. Amy sat at the three legged stool that the first years sat just now, and placed the hat on her head.
'Aah, Heidi, Kumbanwa, you are really talented, but you don't care for rules, so you don't belong in Ravenclaws, you are nice and humble, but you don't belong in Hufflepuff either, because you've got brains, you are pureblooded, but you don't belong in Slytherin, they'll mock you for mingling with Muggles, in other words, GRYFFINDOR!"
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny clapped furiously, Draco clapped too, even though he wished that Amyza would be in Slytherin.
"Great, you are in Gryffindor, now you can show me how to dunk a ball," said Ron, when Hermione asked Amyza to sit next to her.
"And another thing, to Miss Virginia Weasley," Dumbledore said, eyeing Ginny. "I am pleased to inform you that you'll be joining the seventh years, and skipping your sixth year, this is due to your excellent OWLs,"
This is not surprising, since Ginny got 20 OWLs, the first person to do so in years. All other students and professors applauded, except the Slytherins, and Snape. But in the end, Snape applauded after remembering that Hermione didn't skip a year when she only got 18 OWLs.
"Wow, Ginny, you'll be in our classes!" exclaimed Amyza.
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Professor McGonogall went to the Gryffindor tower to talk with Amyza and show her to her dorm. Ginny meanwhile, moves into a new prefect's dorm, where she need someone to be with her. (Hermione is head girl, and have a room all to herself).
"Miss Heidi, I understand from your father that you are a prefect in Heju," Prof. McGonogall sternly said.
"Yes, Professor, that's right, I've been a prefect for three years," Amyza answered.
"Professor Dumbledore asked me to elect you as prefect, since your education and discipline records from Heju are better than Hogwart's standards, here's your prefect badge, and you may move in with Miss Weasley,"
*********
After the sorting of things in Ginny and Amyza's room...
"Nice room, quite big too," Ginny said. " I bet your room at Heju is much bigger,"
"Nope, it's quite small, I don't mind the small space, because at Heju, one room's for one person, so it's okay," Amyza answered.
A snowy owl swooped to Amyza.
"This owl looks just like Hedwig!" Ginny exclaimed. "Hedwig's Harry's owl,"
"This owl, belongs to me, her name is Haruko, actually I want to name her Ayako, but I changed my mind, oh, poor thing, I left my cat with Ayako, yes, she's another Muggle friend,"
"How come you have lots of Muggle friends?" Ginny asked.
"That's because Heju is in Tokyo, it's not hidden like Hogwarts, it's only known as Heju High School,"
Ginny nodded. Amyza continued explaining, "The Muggles came from Shohoku High, not far from Heju, the guys I told all of you about, Sakuragi, who looks like your brother, only a bit though, your brother's a bit pale, while Sakuragi's tanned from all the basketball matches, Rukawa, Kogure, and Akagi, they play basketball, while the Haruko and Ayako are the only Muggles I know who are girls,"
"You've certainly got a lot of books," Ginny observed, and picked one of them. "How do I pronounce this?"
"That's an anime, it's called Fushugi Yuugi, in English, Curious Play, I love reading it," Amyza answered.
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Amyza blended in Hogwarts easily, as a observer, she observed a lot of things than her new friends, Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione. For example, just this morning, she caught Draco staring at Ginny.
Things changed after people saw Ginny ran off from her boyfriend, Dean Thomas, and cried in her room.
"Ginny, are you okay?" Amyza asked, Ginny had missed the dinner, and Amyza's bringing it up to her.
"How can I be okay, Amy, Dean just broke up with me!" Ginny muffled.
"Ginny, don't cry over that git, there's a person out there who loves you you know, it's just that you never noticed him," Amyza answered. "Here's your dinner, I'm going to read you the anime that I told you about when I first arrived, c'mon, eat your dinner,"
"Thanks, Amy, can you start reading the story now?" Ginny asked, and straightened up.
Amyza opened the book, and started to read, "Miaka looked at the two men she had come to like and love. Tamahome, the boy who is born with the sign of the devil at his forehead, and Hotohori, the man, his imperial highness of Konan. The Maiden of Suzaku didn't know what to do, both men loved her. I love Tamahome, Miaka cried, but, what about Hotohori-"
"Hey, why'd you stop?" Ginny asked, she was enjoying the story, too bad she couldn't read Japanese, or she'll read it herself.
"Because my inner eye saw a person wanting to talk to you outside, I'm going outside, if it's okay with you,"
"Okay,"
Disclaimer: Everything and anything to do with Harry Potter belongs to Joanne K. Rowling, the publishers and Warner Bros. What I do own, is the plot, Amyza Heidi and Heju. And again, I don't own Rukawa Kaede or Sakuragi Hanamichi, they are characters from the Slam Dunk anime.
A/n: Kumbanwa means 'Good evening' in Japanese.
Chapter two
"It's been so long since I've seen you, why did you leave Japan?" asked Draco and sat next to Amyza.
"My parents have to be diplomats at Britain's Ministry of Magic, they usually left me to my studies at Heju, but I don't know why they wanted to bring me to Britain," Amyza answered. "Why did YOU leave Japan?"
"Father wanted me to come back, you know that," Draco answered, missing Japan a lot.
"You've been to Japan, Malfoy?" asked Hermione.
"Amy and I were classmates in Heju when we were 10, she's the only witch in that place who speaks English and so, have to translate for me everything that the teachers and other students say, but father owled me four months after that, demanding me to return," Draco answered.
"You must teach me some Japanese, Amy," said Ginny excitedly.
Amyza smiled apologetically. "Even though I'm Japanese, Ginny, I'm not that fluent in my own language, well, I could, teach you a thing or two, but not a lot, Japanese is a very hard language and I myself couldn't master it, I stay in Heju for a while, and mingle with Muggles-"
Draco chortled, "Amy, you are a pureblood, why do you mingle with Muggles?"
"There's not a lot of wizard and witches in Japan, if you kindly remember, Draco," Amyza answered.
"But I only mingle with the Muggle basketball players,"
Draco, Ron and Ginny asked unisonly, "What's basketball?"
Harry grinned, remembering when Oliver Wood asked him the same question when Harry had his first Quidditch practice and Hermione answered, "It's a game where you shoot a ball through a hoop, just like Quidditch, you can't fly in basketball, and it's got a time limit,"
"It's quite fun, and sometimes you have the opportunity to dunk the ball," Amyza supplied.
"Dunk? You mean in liquid?" Ron asked.
"I don't know how to show it to you, I could show it to you, with the videos of Kaede and Hanamichi, two Muggle friends, dunking the ball, but I haven't bewitched my video player, and portable tv to let it play without electricity yet,"
"I know how to, show it to me when we reach the dormitories afterward, if you are made a Gryffindor, that is," Hermione answered.
"I do hope you are in Slytherin, so that you'll be with me," Draco interrupted. "But I think you are Gryffindor material,"
Hogwarts - the great hall
After the sorting of first years, Dumbledore stood up. A lot of attention had been given to Amyza, and whispers could be heard. "Who's that beautiful girl?" and "Wow, a Japanese, she's definitely one, really beautiful" from the boys, and "Who's that girl?" from the girls. For Harry, who heard some of these at the Gryffindor table, stared at Amyza for a while, when she wasn't looking, 'hmm, beautiful dark hair, not too long to the waist, nor too short to the shoulders, very dark blue almond shaped eyes, and great hourglass figure,' Harry thought.
"This year, we are very fortunate that one of our friends from Japan, who's a seventh year in our standards, but ninth to theirs, has come to transfer here, she had to move from the best wizarding school in Asia because her parents were transferred to Britain's Ministry of Magic, please give a warm welcome to Amyza Heidi," Dumbledore spoke. "There will be a special sorting ceremony for her,"
Boys gaped at the new girl, now already known to all by Amyza Heidi. Amy sat at the three legged stool that the first years sat just now, and placed the hat on her head.
'Aah, Heidi, Kumbanwa, you are really talented, but you don't care for rules, so you don't belong in Ravenclaws, you are nice and humble, but you don't belong in Hufflepuff either, because you've got brains, you are pureblooded, but you don't belong in Slytherin, they'll mock you for mingling with Muggles, in other words, GRYFFINDOR!"
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny clapped furiously, Draco clapped too, even though he wished that Amyza would be in Slytherin.
"Great, you are in Gryffindor, now you can show me how to dunk a ball," said Ron, when Hermione asked Amyza to sit next to her.
"And another thing, to Miss Virginia Weasley," Dumbledore said, eyeing Ginny. "I am pleased to inform you that you'll be joining the seventh years, and skipping your sixth year, this is due to your excellent OWLs,"
This is not surprising, since Ginny got 20 OWLs, the first person to do so in years. All other students and professors applauded, except the Slytherins, and Snape. But in the end, Snape applauded after remembering that Hermione didn't skip a year when she only got 18 OWLs.
"Wow, Ginny, you'll be in our classes!" exclaimed Amyza.
*************
Professor McGonogall went to the Gryffindor tower to talk with Amyza and show her to her dorm. Ginny meanwhile, moves into a new prefect's dorm, where she need someone to be with her. (Hermione is head girl, and have a room all to herself).
"Miss Heidi, I understand from your father that you are a prefect in Heju," Prof. McGonogall sternly said.
"Yes, Professor, that's right, I've been a prefect for three years," Amyza answered.
"Professor Dumbledore asked me to elect you as prefect, since your education and discipline records from Heju are better than Hogwart's standards, here's your prefect badge, and you may move in with Miss Weasley,"
*********
After the sorting of things in Ginny and Amyza's room...
"Nice room, quite big too," Ginny said. " I bet your room at Heju is much bigger,"
"Nope, it's quite small, I don't mind the small space, because at Heju, one room's for one person, so it's okay," Amyza answered.
A snowy owl swooped to Amyza.
"This owl looks just like Hedwig!" Ginny exclaimed. "Hedwig's Harry's owl,"
"This owl, belongs to me, her name is Haruko, actually I want to name her Ayako, but I changed my mind, oh, poor thing, I left my cat with Ayako, yes, she's another Muggle friend,"
"How come you have lots of Muggle friends?" Ginny asked.
"That's because Heju is in Tokyo, it's not hidden like Hogwarts, it's only known as Heju High School,"
Ginny nodded. Amyza continued explaining, "The Muggles came from Shohoku High, not far from Heju, the guys I told all of you about, Sakuragi, who looks like your brother, only a bit though, your brother's a bit pale, while Sakuragi's tanned from all the basketball matches, Rukawa, Kogure, and Akagi, they play basketball, while the Haruko and Ayako are the only Muggles I know who are girls,"
"You've certainly got a lot of books," Ginny observed, and picked one of them. "How do I pronounce this?"
"That's an anime, it's called Fushugi Yuugi, in English, Curious Play, I love reading it," Amyza answered.
*************
Amyza blended in Hogwarts easily, as a observer, she observed a lot of things than her new friends, Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione. For example, just this morning, she caught Draco staring at Ginny.
Things changed after people saw Ginny ran off from her boyfriend, Dean Thomas, and cried in her room.
"Ginny, are you okay?" Amyza asked, Ginny had missed the dinner, and Amyza's bringing it up to her.
"How can I be okay, Amy, Dean just broke up with me!" Ginny muffled.
"Ginny, don't cry over that git, there's a person out there who loves you you know, it's just that you never noticed him," Amyza answered. "Here's your dinner, I'm going to read you the anime that I told you about when I first arrived, c'mon, eat your dinner,"
"Thanks, Amy, can you start reading the story now?" Ginny asked, and straightened up.
Amyza opened the book, and started to read, "Miaka looked at the two men she had come to like and love. Tamahome, the boy who is born with the sign of the devil at his forehead, and Hotohori, the man, his imperial highness of Konan. The Maiden of Suzaku didn't know what to do, both men loved her. I love Tamahome, Miaka cried, but, what about Hotohori-"
"Hey, why'd you stop?" Ginny asked, she was enjoying the story, too bad she couldn't read Japanese, or she'll read it herself.
"Because my inner eye saw a person wanting to talk to you outside, I'm going outside, if it's okay with you,"
"Okay,"