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A/N This story takes place during Harry and everyone's 5th year.

The Garden Of Eden

Professor McGonagall tried without success to quiet the Great Hall enough that she could be heard above the buzz of students. Finally she gave up and put two fingers to her lips and whistled shrilly. Everyone shut up immediately, and looked expectantly at the head of the Gryffindor House.

"We have a new student." She began."She is transferring here from the wizarding school in America, Merlin's Academy. She was one of the top students there, and we hope she'll do as well here."

Everyone watched as the new student stepped out from behind Prof. McGonagall. The jaw of every boy in the school hit the table. She was gorgeous. She hadn't changed into her robes yet and was still wearing Muggle cloths, a black knee length skirt, and a lilac tank top. Her dark purple socks were pulled up to her knees, and she was wearing clunky dress shoes, with two inch soles and four inch heels that anyone else would have broken their ankles trying to walk in. Her waist length wavy blonde hair was pulled away from her face with a glittery butterflies, except for one perfect ringlet right next to her face, which she kept wrapping around her finger. Her purple eyes were wide with awe, and her skin seemed pale, making her freckles stand out. Her smile seemed to light up the room. But, her smile wasn't the reason every guys jaw was scraping the table.

Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasly shared a 'Boys are pigs' Look over the top of Hermione's boyfriend Ron Weasley's head. "Stop staring at her chest Ron." Hermione said as she poked him with her wand. " You're drooling."

Ron turned bright red at this statement. " I wasn't s-s-staring at h-her chest." He stammered, making his sister and girlfriend laugh.

Prof. McGonagall introduced the girl once the hall had settled down again. " This is Eden Hueds. She's a fifth year." The professor was then handed a tattered old hat. She motioned for Eden to sit down on a small three-legged stool, and put the hat on her head. Everyone was quiet for about ten seconds as the hat decided what house Eden belonged in. At the shout of "GRYFFINDOR!" Everyone started to cheer; the Gryffindor boys of course were the loudest.

Eden walked quickly toward the Gryffindor table, her shoes clanking with every step. She sat down at the only seat left at the table, right next to Harry Potter.

"Hi. I'm Eden." Eden said to the people around her.

" I'm Harry. This is Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George. " He gestured toward each of the people as he introduced them.

The girl sitting on the other side of Harry cleared her throght. "Oh yeah. This is Cho."

Cho looked Eden strait in the eyes and very pointedly said "His girlfriend."

Eden just smiled.

Ginny almost gagged. She hated it when Cho pointed out the obvious. She knew that Cho's comment had been meant for her as much as Eden. It was a comment that Ginny heard practically every day. Why doesn't she just sit at the Ravenclaw table where she belongs? Thought Ginny. She sees Harry enough the rest of the day. Why can't she just leave him alone at dinner?

As if reading her thoughts Cho looked at Ginny and smiled her wicked smile that she reserved for Ginny alone. Ginny ignored her and started talking to Eden.

"So, Eden, why'd you move here? Didn't you like it in America?"

"Well, my parents were murdered."

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"So I had to come here and live with my only living relative, my great great great aunt Bertha."

George tried to laugh but ended up choking on the roll he had been eating. When he could breath again, he asked " You don't mean Bertha Treme do you? "

Eden nodded, and Fred, Ron and Ginny started laughing as hard as George.

" Isn't... she... that ... witch... who... lives... down the ...street...? Ron stuttered

" The... one ... with all those...cats?!" Ginny was trying not to spit her milk out her nose

Eden started laughing too. She tried to explain to Harry, Hermione and Cho, why this was so funny, but ended up spitting her water across the table. "I'll explain later" She finally managed to choke out.

Soon after that dinner ended and the students went back to their common rooms. Everyone wanted to talk to the new girl. As soon as she sat down, she got bombarded with the names of practically every Gryffindor. Everyone trying to talk to her at once was giving Eden a headache. Soon, she excused herself from the common room, claiming that she had to unpack.

Eden unpacked enough to find her nightclothes and her diary. After changing into her pajama's she sat down at the large desk and opened her diary to a blank page.

Diary, she wrote,

Today was absolutely wonderful. I made a lot of new friends, and everyone here is really nice. And, there's this one really cute guy here. He's in the same house I am ( Gryffindor ) and his family lives right down the street from aunt Bertha. He has red hair, and brown eyes, and he has more freckles than I do!

Eden fell asleep before she got a chance to write anything else. When the other girls came up to go to bed, they found her asleep on top of her diary. They gently magiced her into bed. Lavender picked up her diary, and because she was Lavender and could never resist reading someone's private thoughts, she read what Eden had written.

" Hermione? You'd better read this."

Hermione took the small book and read what was written. She calmly walked over to Eden's bed and threw the book onto of the sleeping girl. Then, just as calmly, she got into bed and fell asleep.