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~ 10 Minutes Earlier ~
"HA…HA…HA… I win again!" shouted Ron with glee as he won another hand of Exploding Snap. "Another game Harry?" Harry wasn't really into the game; he was staring out the window at the landscape passing.
"Harry!" Ron shouted and made Harry jump. "Stop daydreaming about Cho!"
"Ha Ha, I can't help it." That wasn't what he was thinking about. He was going over the last years events that brought him to where he was now. And as a matter for fact, Cho wasn't that girl he was thinking about, it was the girl he saw at the train station. She looked familiar but he didn't know from where. He started to look at the window again and Ron decided to talk to Hermione who was reading like usual.
Harry had grown a lot this past summer, well so did all of them. No longer the short, skinny, gangly boy of the past, Harry had grown to just under 6 feet, but still had a slender body now with more visible muscles he had obtained from training with the twins half the summer. Ron was no longer alone in the height department, which Harry now apart of, but his voice had changed into a deeper more adult voice. Hermione had changed the most, now a woman with womanly feature more pronounce, but still hidden under her school uniform. All of them were definitely on their way to adulthood.
As the three sat in their compartment (the boys talking about Quidditch, and Hermione still reading her spell book) some unexpected and unwelcome guest arrived. There were the people that had been their enemies since they arrived at Hogwarts.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Ron said in a tone of disgust, "Didn't you get enough on the train ride home last year." He was recalling the incident on the return trip at the end of their 4th year, when they all cursed Draco, Crab and Goyle.
"I'll have you know, Weasel, that I told my father what you did and…" he smirked "and you'll pay eventually," he said through slanted eyes.
"Oh, boo whoo, Malfoy, that's the song you always sing, 'I'm going to go tell daddy', it's starting to get pathetic." Hermione said.
"Oh, shut up Mudblood, you'll be dealt with too."
"I suggest you leave now, before we curse you again," Harry said standing up. Among all his changes, the most evident was his bravery; he figured after coming face to face with Voldemort again, Malfoy was nothing.
''Fine Potter, but watch your back this year," he said with a smirk as he left with his bodyguards.
''I wonder what he meant by that," Ron said stuffing another chocolate frog in his month, ''Maybe he knows something about 'you know who'. His father is in 'you know who's' inner circle." The others nodded and went back to what they were doing.
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"So you are the new students," a boy about Mia and Riley's ages said from the doorway of their compartment flanked by to very large and muscular boys. He had platinum blond hair that was slicked back and striking grey eyes that were squinting. "You're not that impressive," he said in a matter of fact tone.
Mia looked at her brother and in her eyes she was saying, 'Is this guy for real?"
The boy continued, "You look more like Mudbloods to me than anything." Mia's eyebrow went up and her mouth opened in surprise and irritation and she just shook her head.
"Damn boy, you really need to work on your people skills," she said in disgust. She thought, 'What gives him the right to try to insult us when he doesn't even know us. Damn what an asshole.'
"I don't need people skills; I am Draco Malfoy, I have Malfoy in my blood. So just tell me your family name so I can tell if you're worthy to talk to." By now people from other compartments were gathered outside the doorway trying to see what the commotion was all about. Harry, Ron, and Hermione could hear it perfectly from their compartment right next to Mia and Riley's.
Riley broke the silence by saying, "Mal-foy, huh?" he said in a questing tone to Mia.
"Yeah," she said while pretending to think of something "Isn't that when a guy gets sores on their you-know-what's down there." Her pen that was pointing up went down very fast. Laughter could be heard for outside the compartment.
Mia continued, "I heard it is incredibly painful and incurable. I guess that's why his face is like that." She turned to Draco, "It must be excruciating."
"I just hope it's not contagious," Riley made a face and inched closer to the opposite wall.
After a long silence, with extreme anger swelling inside him making him shake, Draco said in rage, "How dare you!!!" he and his bodyguards inched closer to Mia and Riley, who stood up against the window in a defense stance.
Mia said in red hot anger, her fists clenched, trying to control her emotions, they inched closer to the trio slowly, "Excuse me, Buddy, but you're the one who came into our compartment, calling us Mudbloods to our faces, when you don't even know us at all. And you honestly think we'll be your friends after that. If you do, you're obviously delusional. Now, why don't you and your little Goonies here go jack each other off somewhere? Buh-bye."
The trio backed out of the compartment seeing that the anger in their eyes was burning holes in their brains (figuratively speaking of course).
After they were long gone Riley turned to Mia and said, "Don't you think that last bit was a little much," He finished as he sat back down. They didn't notice that people still outside the compartment.
"Yeah, I guess," she sounded defeated even though she won.
"Mia, don't you understand what you just did, I mean, he's a …" he saw that people were still looking in so he walked to shut the door saying, "Do you mind?!"
Mia just gave him a dirty look as he continued.
"Remember what dad says about Malfoys, he says not to cross them, I mean they are a major wizarding family."
"So are we,'' she said simply. "You know he also says not to take their shit, and I didn't. So there." All Riley did was let out a deep sigh and stayed quiet because if this went any further things would start to blow up in their compartment.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity, they reached the Hogsmeade train station. Fully changed into their Hogwarts robes, they looked at each other.
"Nice huh, I mean get into the 21st century and let girls wear pants if they want to. I mean Wrightwing let us wear pants," Mia said in disgust as she looked down at her skirt, "and only our dress uniforms were skirts."
"Well, I think it looks great. You got that Catholic school girl thing goin' on. 'Hit me baby… one more time.'" He sang as he did some sort of move resembling Britney Spears.
"Ha ha, very funny, I mean, I don't mind wearing skirts sometimes, you know, when I feel like it, but not all the time." She said in a whining tone.
"Oh well, your going to have to live with it."
"Yeah," she agreed solemnly.
The train stopped and everyone began getting of the train. Hermione, as one of the new prefects of the year, directed the lower classmen where to go, as Hagrid called for the first years. As usual when Harry, Ron and Hermione got off the train they ran to say 'Hi' to the half giant. Their meeting was short because they had to get to the carriages.
"First years, and transfers, this way." Hagrid called. Mia and Riley had just gotten off the train when he said that so they rushed over to him.
"Hey Hagrid, long time no see buddy," Riley said.
"Ah, Mia, Riley, I herd ye two would be here this year. How ya been?" he said as he gave them a giant hug. "It's great to have yer here finally, we'll talk later." He said and walked away, calling 'Follow me,' to the group of first years.
They reached the small boats and were instructed to get in. Getting strange looks from the first years, Mia and Riley got a boat to themselves. The boats were magically steered so they didn't have to do anything. Mia was watching the water in hopes to see the Giant Squid.
"Mia," Riley whispered as the rounded a large stone in the water, which gave them their first glimpse of the castle, "look."
She looked up and her eyes meet the gigantic and beautiful Hogwarts Castle.
"We're home," she said, just above a whisper, with tears in her eyes. It was just as she remembered it. Beautiful and majestic with the hundreds if not thousands of lights glittering in the moonlight.
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"I wonder who the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher will be this year." Ron said as they entered the Great Hall and looked up at the Teachers table. Some of the teachers were already there and there were no new faces.
"I don't know, but wouldn't be great if Prof. Lupin came back. He was the best." Harry said.
"Yeah," Hermione said as the sat at the Gryffindor table, "but, I guess we'll just have to wait until Pro. Dumbledore give the announcement."
The rest of the Teachers entered sporadically over the next could of minutes including Prof. Snape, looking like his same oily self, Prof. Sprout, with a little dirt on her face, and Professor Dumbledore, winking at Harry as he passed.
Outside the Great Hall the new students were heading towards the Hall. The rest of the boat ride was uneventful with no one falling into the lake or being attacked by the giant squid.
At the door to the Great Hall, Deputy Headmistress McGonagall was there to give the new students the annual pre-sorting instructions.
"When you enter the hall you will be sorted into one of our four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin," she announced like every year. "Now, the first years will go first then," looking at Mia and Riley, "you two will go last. I will go see if they are ready for us." She finished and walked away.
The first years were taking amongst themselves and looking around nervously. One girl that was standing by Mia and Riley in the back asked them, "You don't look like first years."
Riley answered, "No we're transfer students."
"Oh," she replied, "I heard we have to wrestle a giant when we get sorted, is that true?"
"I don't know," they answered, shrugging.
A boy a little ways away turned with an annoyed look and said, "All they do is put a stupid hat on our head, that's it. No Giant, no dragon, just a hat!" the girl looked like she was about to cry.
Mia cleared her throat, which got the boy's attention and pointed behind him as Prof. McGonagall came up.
"They're ready. Follow me."
A Few Minutes Earlier, Great Hall
"Oh, here comes McGonagall," Hermione Said, as McGonagall walked up to Dumbledore to see if they were ready.
"I wonder where the two transfers are." Ron said, mostly wondering where the girl was.
"They're probably with the first years waiting to be sorted," she said in an irritated tone.
"Look here they come," Harry pointed out and they all looked.
"Well, here we go," Mia said feeling nervous standing in the back of the line.
As they passed through the large oak doors into the great hall, Mia and Riley were met by questioning stares and whispers. Obviously word had got around about them from the train.
Prof. McGonagall directed the first year to line up along the front but Mia and Riley stayed further back, the other student's stares burning them from all sides. The Professor brought out the raggedy sorting hat on a stool, placed it in front of the teachers table, stood back as it began to sing. Mia remembered seeing this before, but Rye was amazed at how the hat was sing. When it was finished and everyone gave it a round of applause, and the sorting began.
It was a long and tedious process and got longer by the minute so to pass the time Mia looked out at the teacher's table. She knew most of them, for they had been there when she was little. Her eyes first went to Hagrid who gave her a wink, then to Prof. Sprout and Prof. Hooch who smiled, and on and on down the line. Finally her eyes caught Prof. Snape's eyes as he was taking a drink from his goblet. He raised it slightly, gave a small smile, and nodded. Nobody really noticed this gesture besides Harry and Ron who were watching them.
"Hey, did you see that," Ron said to Harry.
"Yeah, she must know Snape. Weird, huh…" he replied.
Whispers kept floating around them while the sorting continued. Things like, "She told off Malfoy on the train" and "I think their Americans, I heard the accent." The girls would say, "Don't you think he's cute" and the guys said, "She's quite good looking too" lastly they heard, "They've got to be 6th or 7th years, they look old enough. I bet they're twins too."
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After all the first years were finished with the sorting process, Headmaster Dumbledore made a statement that would clear up all the whispers about the other two students standing in the middle of the room.
"As you all have noticed, there are a couple of extra students standing here, obviously looking very uncomfortable." 'Thanks,' they both thought, 'try stating the obvious why don't you,' they thought.
"They are transfer students and will be sorted into a house. Professor McGonagall, if you please." He said waving for her to start sorting them.
"Talon, Riley." He looked at his sister, who gave him an encouraging smile as be made his way to the stool. "Riley will be joining the 4th years." The professor added.
He sat down and the Sorting Hat was placed on his head. Mia was feeling a little awkward standing all by herself, with a thousand eyes staring at her in amusement.
"Aw, a Ravenclaw you are…" It said to Riley, "And a Ravenclaw you shall be." After this short statement, it announced, "RAVENCLAW!"
The Ravenclaw table gave a cheer as he stood from the stool. He looked at Mia and smiled congratulations and she clapped politely and proudly. Now it was just Mia.
"Talon, Amelia." Professor McGonagall called even though Mia was the only one standing there. "Amelia is our other transfer student and will be joining the 5th years this year." She announced. Mia looked at her for a second, looking confused. She as going to say something, but the look in the professor's eyes made her stop.
She walked up to the stool and sat down as she had seen all the first years students do, and as with all of them, Professor McGonagall put the hat on her head. Not sure of what she had to do, Mia sat there a little nervous as the hat began to whisper in her ear to her.
"Powerful, very powerful," it said in amusement, "I was expected you here a while ago. And here you are as powerful as ever, but without a thirst to prove yourself; quite the contrary to be exact. Therefore Slytherin would not be for you. Very smart, and brave I can see, and ah, a Ravenclaw." At this Mia's heart skipped a beat and began to pump faster.
"Very interesting," it continued. "Hmm…and I see again an extreme amount of power."
She let out an exasperated sigh. 'Gee, tell me something I don't know,' she thought sarcastically.
"Well, you have a great destiny and it starts here."
"What!?" she said aloud, causing everyone look at her more intently, obviously seeing that it the Sorting Hat was taking a long time to decide.
"I told you something you didn't know."
'Oh, okay. Well, if you don't mind, could you just put me in a house so I can eat please, I'm starving.'
"Well…."
'Here we go again.' She though.
"…a Ravenclaw you are…" She started to get even more nervous, because deep down in her subconscious, she didn't want to be in Ravenclaw, but she didn't know why. "…but a Gryffindor you will be. So I choose, GRYFFINDOR!!!" The hat shouted out the last word. But you already knew that.
Mia stood up feeling relieved and looked around as the teachers gave her a little nod, she couldn't help but smile.
She walked over to where the first year students were sitting and was about to sit down when a voice called out, "Over here." She looked up and saw the brown-bushy haired girl that was at the train station. She seemed around her age, waving at her, gesturing for her to come over.
"Hi." Mia said simply, as she sat down.
"I didn't think you would want to sit with the first year and seeing that you are in our year, I thought you could sit with us."
"Thanks," Mia said and sat down. They finished listening to Dumbledore's speech.
"As usual the Forbidden Forest is…well… forbidden. Also there is to be no magic in the corroders. Well, on to the important information. As a result of last years' events, there will be new curfew times and stronger punishments for students out of bed at night. We will also be holding a Board of Governors meeting in mid-October; we will inform all your parents if they would like to attend.
"Lastly, our new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, as you can see, has not arrived yet. Unfortunately she has a prior engagement to attend to and will not join us until spring term. Therefore an interim Defense teacher will be appointed and…" Harry, Ron and everyone else not in Slytherin hoped that he wouldn't say Snape was going to teach it, because he has been after the job of a long time. They looked at Snape who had a disgusted look on his face, so obviously he didn't get that job. Dumbledore continued, "… will arrive next week, so classes will be postponed until then." Everyone cheered at the news.
He finished saying, "Well, I think I've taken enough time, let's eat. Tonight we have a bit of variety in celebration of our American Transfer student, I hope you all enjoy." As the food appeared people all around glanced at Mia and Riley and were all whispering about them being Americans. The food appeared and Mia gave a laugh. Along with the regular food that was served, there was also pizza, tacos, egg rolls, hamburgers, soft drinks, and apple pie. In seeing the apple pie, Mia looked at Riley; he looked back and shouted, "Just like warm apple pie!" Mia gave another laugh and shook her head. Nobody really knew what they meant by that, maybe some of the muggle born older years did, but Mia didn't care. She turned to Hermione and her friends.
"Hi, well, I'm Mia, as you probably already know. I didn't know you all were wizards too. I thought you were muggles at the train station."
"So did we, you two look so much like muggles." Hermione said. "Oh, by the way, I'm Hermione, and this is Ginny." Mia recognized the red haired girl and smiled. "And he's Ginny's brother Ron Weasley," she pointed to the red headed boy across the table, he said 'hi' sheepishly, "and that is Harry Potter," she said in a final tone. Harry was expecting Mia to make a big deal over him, like everyone does when they meet him, but she smiled and said 'nice to meet you all' just as she did to Ron, then…
"Wait a minute, aren't you...umm…" she pointed in the boys direction, "oh, gosh, umm…name… man I'm usually good with names, but…"
Harry broke in saying in a disappointed tone, "the boy who lived?"
"Oh," Mia looked at him, "uh no… oh… yeah…you're a Weasley right?" Harry was a little taken back, in her reaction. Usually people make a big deal about him, but she didn't, he wondered why.
"Yeah" said Ron a little suspicious.
"So your Arthur and Molly's son right."
"Yeah, so are they" he said and pointed to twin boys with red hair, "why?"
"My parents know them real well," she said with a smile. "They're really nice."
"That's nice." He said turning red.
"Sorry didn't mean to make you blush." she replied but Hermione jumped in.
"Have you been here before, to Britain I mean?" she said.
"Oh, yeah, I was born here actually, but we moved to the US when I was about six."
"That's cool," Ron said, Harry was a still a little apprehensive.
"Yeah, my dad still lives here and we usually visit him here during the summer and holidays." She said while picking up a slice of pizza and an egg roll, because she was very hungry. The others followed suit.
"Are these good?" Ron said.
"Hella good, those are the best." They took a bit of the egg roll and their faces lit up. "Obviously you guys have never had Chinese food before." She stated.
"No not really."
"If you think this is good, you should try some from China Town. It's the best. We practically live on this stuff at home."
"Where in America are you from?"
"San Francisco, California. We live almost by china town. "
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The beginning of this chapter was a bit hard to write so I might make revisions on it.
I know I don't follow the time period (1991-1998) Oh well.
Also if you like the story or are at least a bit interested, please review and I'll put up the next chapter. I just want to know if anyone is reading this.
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~ 10 Minutes Earlier ~
"HA…HA…HA… I win again!" shouted Ron with glee as he won another hand of Exploding Snap. "Another game Harry?" Harry wasn't really into the game; he was staring out the window at the landscape passing.
"Harry!" Ron shouted and made Harry jump. "Stop daydreaming about Cho!"
"Ha Ha, I can't help it." That wasn't what he was thinking about. He was going over the last years events that brought him to where he was now. And as a matter for fact, Cho wasn't that girl he was thinking about, it was the girl he saw at the train station. She looked familiar but he didn't know from where. He started to look at the window again and Ron decided to talk to Hermione who was reading like usual.
Harry had grown a lot this past summer, well so did all of them. No longer the short, skinny, gangly boy of the past, Harry had grown to just under 6 feet, but still had a slender body now with more visible muscles he had obtained from training with the twins half the summer. Ron was no longer alone in the height department, which Harry now apart of, but his voice had changed into a deeper more adult voice. Hermione had changed the most, now a woman with womanly feature more pronounce, but still hidden under her school uniform. All of them were definitely on their way to adulthood.
As the three sat in their compartment (the boys talking about Quidditch, and Hermione still reading her spell book) some unexpected and unwelcome guest arrived. There were the people that had been their enemies since they arrived at Hogwarts.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Ron said in a tone of disgust, "Didn't you get enough on the train ride home last year." He was recalling the incident on the return trip at the end of their 4th year, when they all cursed Draco, Crab and Goyle.
"I'll have you know, Weasel, that I told my father what you did and…" he smirked "and you'll pay eventually," he said through slanted eyes.
"Oh, boo whoo, Malfoy, that's the song you always sing, 'I'm going to go tell daddy', it's starting to get pathetic." Hermione said.
"Oh, shut up Mudblood, you'll be dealt with too."
"I suggest you leave now, before we curse you again," Harry said standing up. Among all his changes, the most evident was his bravery; he figured after coming face to face with Voldemort again, Malfoy was nothing.
''Fine Potter, but watch your back this year," he said with a smirk as he left with his bodyguards.
''I wonder what he meant by that," Ron said stuffing another chocolate frog in his month, ''Maybe he knows something about 'you know who'. His father is in 'you know who's' inner circle." The others nodded and went back to what they were doing.
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"So you are the new students," a boy about Mia and Riley's ages said from the doorway of their compartment flanked by to very large and muscular boys. He had platinum blond hair that was slicked back and striking grey eyes that were squinting. "You're not that impressive," he said in a matter of fact tone.
Mia looked at her brother and in her eyes she was saying, 'Is this guy for real?"
The boy continued, "You look more like Mudbloods to me than anything." Mia's eyebrow went up and her mouth opened in surprise and irritation and she just shook her head.
"Damn boy, you really need to work on your people skills," she said in disgust. She thought, 'What gives him the right to try to insult us when he doesn't even know us. Damn what an asshole.'
"I don't need people skills; I am Draco Malfoy, I have Malfoy in my blood. So just tell me your family name so I can tell if you're worthy to talk to." By now people from other compartments were gathered outside the doorway trying to see what the commotion was all about. Harry, Ron, and Hermione could hear it perfectly from their compartment right next to Mia and Riley's.
Riley broke the silence by saying, "Mal-foy, huh?" he said in a questing tone to Mia.
"Yeah," she said while pretending to think of something "Isn't that when a guy gets sores on their you-know-what's down there." Her pen that was pointing up went down very fast. Laughter could be heard for outside the compartment.
Mia continued, "I heard it is incredibly painful and incurable. I guess that's why his face is like that." She turned to Draco, "It must be excruciating."
"I just hope it's not contagious," Riley made a face and inched closer to the opposite wall.
After a long silence, with extreme anger swelling inside him making him shake, Draco said in rage, "How dare you!!!" he and his bodyguards inched closer to Mia and Riley, who stood up against the window in a defense stance.
Mia said in red hot anger, her fists clenched, trying to control her emotions, they inched closer to the trio slowly, "Excuse me, Buddy, but you're the one who came into our compartment, calling us Mudbloods to our faces, when you don't even know us at all. And you honestly think we'll be your friends after that. If you do, you're obviously delusional. Now, why don't you and your little Goonies here go jack each other off somewhere? Buh-bye."
The trio backed out of the compartment seeing that the anger in their eyes was burning holes in their brains (figuratively speaking of course).
After they were long gone Riley turned to Mia and said, "Don't you think that last bit was a little much," He finished as he sat back down. They didn't notice that people still outside the compartment.
"Yeah, I guess," she sounded defeated even though she won.
"Mia, don't you understand what you just did, I mean, he's a …" he saw that people were still looking in so he walked to shut the door saying, "Do you mind?!"
Mia just gave him a dirty look as he continued.
"Remember what dad says about Malfoys, he says not to cross them, I mean they are a major wizarding family."
"So are we,'' she said simply. "You know he also says not to take their shit, and I didn't. So there." All Riley did was let out a deep sigh and stayed quiet because if this went any further things would start to blow up in their compartment.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity, they reached the Hogsmeade train station. Fully changed into their Hogwarts robes, they looked at each other.
"Nice huh, I mean get into the 21st century and let girls wear pants if they want to. I mean Wrightwing let us wear pants," Mia said in disgust as she looked down at her skirt, "and only our dress uniforms were skirts."
"Well, I think it looks great. You got that Catholic school girl thing goin' on. 'Hit me baby… one more time.'" He sang as he did some sort of move resembling Britney Spears.
"Ha ha, very funny, I mean, I don't mind wearing skirts sometimes, you know, when I feel like it, but not all the time." She said in a whining tone.
"Oh well, your going to have to live with it."
"Yeah," she agreed solemnly.
The train stopped and everyone began getting of the train. Hermione, as one of the new prefects of the year, directed the lower classmen where to go, as Hagrid called for the first years. As usual when Harry, Ron and Hermione got off the train they ran to say 'Hi' to the half giant. Their meeting was short because they had to get to the carriages.
"First years, and transfers, this way." Hagrid called. Mia and Riley had just gotten off the train when he said that so they rushed over to him.
"Hey Hagrid, long time no see buddy," Riley said.
"Ah, Mia, Riley, I herd ye two would be here this year. How ya been?" he said as he gave them a giant hug. "It's great to have yer here finally, we'll talk later." He said and walked away, calling 'Follow me,' to the group of first years.
They reached the small boats and were instructed to get in. Getting strange looks from the first years, Mia and Riley got a boat to themselves. The boats were magically steered so they didn't have to do anything. Mia was watching the water in hopes to see the Giant Squid.
"Mia," Riley whispered as the rounded a large stone in the water, which gave them their first glimpse of the castle, "look."
She looked up and her eyes meet the gigantic and beautiful Hogwarts Castle.
"We're home," she said, just above a whisper, with tears in her eyes. It was just as she remembered it. Beautiful and majestic with the hundreds if not thousands of lights glittering in the moonlight.
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"I wonder who the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher will be this year." Ron said as they entered the Great Hall and looked up at the Teachers table. Some of the teachers were already there and there were no new faces.
"I don't know, but wouldn't be great if Prof. Lupin came back. He was the best." Harry said.
"Yeah," Hermione said as the sat at the Gryffindor table, "but, I guess we'll just have to wait until Pro. Dumbledore give the announcement."
The rest of the Teachers entered sporadically over the next could of minutes including Prof. Snape, looking like his same oily self, Prof. Sprout, with a little dirt on her face, and Professor Dumbledore, winking at Harry as he passed.
Outside the Great Hall the new students were heading towards the Hall. The rest of the boat ride was uneventful with no one falling into the lake or being attacked by the giant squid.
At the door to the Great Hall, Deputy Headmistress McGonagall was there to give the new students the annual pre-sorting instructions.
"When you enter the hall you will be sorted into one of our four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin," she announced like every year. "Now, the first years will go first then," looking at Mia and Riley, "you two will go last. I will go see if they are ready for us." She finished and walked away.
The first years were taking amongst themselves and looking around nervously. One girl that was standing by Mia and Riley in the back asked them, "You don't look like first years."
Riley answered, "No we're transfer students."
"Oh," she replied, "I heard we have to wrestle a giant when we get sorted, is that true?"
"I don't know," they answered, shrugging.
A boy a little ways away turned with an annoyed look and said, "All they do is put a stupid hat on our head, that's it. No Giant, no dragon, just a hat!" the girl looked like she was about to cry.
Mia cleared her throat, which got the boy's attention and pointed behind him as Prof. McGonagall came up.
"They're ready. Follow me."
A Few Minutes Earlier, Great Hall
"Oh, here comes McGonagall," Hermione Said, as McGonagall walked up to Dumbledore to see if they were ready.
"I wonder where the two transfers are." Ron said, mostly wondering where the girl was.
"They're probably with the first years waiting to be sorted," she said in an irritated tone.
"Look here they come," Harry pointed out and they all looked.
"Well, here we go," Mia said feeling nervous standing in the back of the line.
As they passed through the large oak doors into the great hall, Mia and Riley were met by questioning stares and whispers. Obviously word had got around about them from the train.
Prof. McGonagall directed the first year to line up along the front but Mia and Riley stayed further back, the other student's stares burning them from all sides. The Professor brought out the raggedy sorting hat on a stool, placed it in front of the teachers table, stood back as it began to sing. Mia remembered seeing this before, but Rye was amazed at how the hat was sing. When it was finished and everyone gave it a round of applause, and the sorting began.
It was a long and tedious process and got longer by the minute so to pass the time Mia looked out at the teacher's table. She knew most of them, for they had been there when she was little. Her eyes first went to Hagrid who gave her a wink, then to Prof. Sprout and Prof. Hooch who smiled, and on and on down the line. Finally her eyes caught Prof. Snape's eyes as he was taking a drink from his goblet. He raised it slightly, gave a small smile, and nodded. Nobody really noticed this gesture besides Harry and Ron who were watching them.
"Hey, did you see that," Ron said to Harry.
"Yeah, she must know Snape. Weird, huh…" he replied.
Whispers kept floating around them while the sorting continued. Things like, "She told off Malfoy on the train" and "I think their Americans, I heard the accent." The girls would say, "Don't you think he's cute" and the guys said, "She's quite good looking too" lastly they heard, "They've got to be 6th or 7th years, they look old enough. I bet they're twins too."
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After all the first years were finished with the sorting process, Headmaster Dumbledore made a statement that would clear up all the whispers about the other two students standing in the middle of the room.
"As you all have noticed, there are a couple of extra students standing here, obviously looking very uncomfortable." 'Thanks,' they both thought, 'try stating the obvious why don't you,' they thought.
"They are transfer students and will be sorted into a house. Professor McGonagall, if you please." He said waving for her to start sorting them.
"Talon, Riley." He looked at his sister, who gave him an encouraging smile as be made his way to the stool. "Riley will be joining the 4th years." The professor added.
He sat down and the Sorting Hat was placed on his head. Mia was feeling a little awkward standing all by herself, with a thousand eyes staring at her in amusement.
"Aw, a Ravenclaw you are…" It said to Riley, "And a Ravenclaw you shall be." After this short statement, it announced, "RAVENCLAW!"
The Ravenclaw table gave a cheer as he stood from the stool. He looked at Mia and smiled congratulations and she clapped politely and proudly. Now it was just Mia.
"Talon, Amelia." Professor McGonagall called even though Mia was the only one standing there. "Amelia is our other transfer student and will be joining the 5th years this year." She announced. Mia looked at her for a second, looking confused. She as going to say something, but the look in the professor's eyes made her stop.
She walked up to the stool and sat down as she had seen all the first years students do, and as with all of them, Professor McGonagall put the hat on her head. Not sure of what she had to do, Mia sat there a little nervous as the hat began to whisper in her ear to her.
"Powerful, very powerful," it said in amusement, "I was expected you here a while ago. And here you are as powerful as ever, but without a thirst to prove yourself; quite the contrary to be exact. Therefore Slytherin would not be for you. Very smart, and brave I can see, and ah, a Ravenclaw." At this Mia's heart skipped a beat and began to pump faster.
"Very interesting," it continued. "Hmm…and I see again an extreme amount of power."
She let out an exasperated sigh. 'Gee, tell me something I don't know,' she thought sarcastically.
"Well, you have a great destiny and it starts here."
"What!?" she said aloud, causing everyone look at her more intently, obviously seeing that it the Sorting Hat was taking a long time to decide.
"I told you something you didn't know."
'Oh, okay. Well, if you don't mind, could you just put me in a house so I can eat please, I'm starving.'
"Well…."
'Here we go again.' She though.
"…a Ravenclaw you are…" She started to get even more nervous, because deep down in her subconscious, she didn't want to be in Ravenclaw, but she didn't know why. "…but a Gryffindor you will be. So I choose, GRYFFINDOR!!!" The hat shouted out the last word. But you already knew that.
Mia stood up feeling relieved and looked around as the teachers gave her a little nod, she couldn't help but smile.
She walked over to where the first year students were sitting and was about to sit down when a voice called out, "Over here." She looked up and saw the brown-bushy haired girl that was at the train station. She seemed around her age, waving at her, gesturing for her to come over.
"Hi." Mia said simply, as she sat down.
"I didn't think you would want to sit with the first year and seeing that you are in our year, I thought you could sit with us."
"Thanks," Mia said and sat down. They finished listening to Dumbledore's speech.
"As usual the Forbidden Forest is…well… forbidden. Also there is to be no magic in the corroders. Well, on to the important information. As a result of last years' events, there will be new curfew times and stronger punishments for students out of bed at night. We will also be holding a Board of Governors meeting in mid-October; we will inform all your parents if they would like to attend.
"Lastly, our new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, as you can see, has not arrived yet. Unfortunately she has a prior engagement to attend to and will not join us until spring term. Therefore an interim Defense teacher will be appointed and…" Harry, Ron and everyone else not in Slytherin hoped that he wouldn't say Snape was going to teach it, because he has been after the job of a long time. They looked at Snape who had a disgusted look on his face, so obviously he didn't get that job. Dumbledore continued, "… will arrive next week, so classes will be postponed until then." Everyone cheered at the news.
He finished saying, "Well, I think I've taken enough time, let's eat. Tonight we have a bit of variety in celebration of our American Transfer student, I hope you all enjoy." As the food appeared people all around glanced at Mia and Riley and were all whispering about them being Americans. The food appeared and Mia gave a laugh. Along with the regular food that was served, there was also pizza, tacos, egg rolls, hamburgers, soft drinks, and apple pie. In seeing the apple pie, Mia looked at Riley; he looked back and shouted, "Just like warm apple pie!" Mia gave another laugh and shook her head. Nobody really knew what they meant by that, maybe some of the muggle born older years did, but Mia didn't care. She turned to Hermione and her friends.
"Hi, well, I'm Mia, as you probably already know. I didn't know you all were wizards too. I thought you were muggles at the train station."
"So did we, you two look so much like muggles." Hermione said. "Oh, by the way, I'm Hermione, and this is Ginny." Mia recognized the red haired girl and smiled. "And he's Ginny's brother Ron Weasley," she pointed to the red headed boy across the table, he said 'hi' sheepishly, "and that is Harry Potter," she said in a final tone. Harry was expecting Mia to make a big deal over him, like everyone does when they meet him, but she smiled and said 'nice to meet you all' just as she did to Ron, then…
"Wait a minute, aren't you...umm…" she pointed in the boys direction, "oh, gosh, umm…name… man I'm usually good with names, but…"
Harry broke in saying in a disappointed tone, "the boy who lived?"
"Oh," Mia looked at him, "uh no… oh… yeah…you're a Weasley right?" Harry was a little taken back, in her reaction. Usually people make a big deal about him, but she didn't, he wondered why.
"Yeah" said Ron a little suspicious.
"So your Arthur and Molly's son right."
"Yeah, so are they" he said and pointed to twin boys with red hair, "why?"
"My parents know them real well," she said with a smile. "They're really nice."
"That's nice." He said turning red.
"Sorry didn't mean to make you blush." she replied but Hermione jumped in.
"Have you been here before, to Britain I mean?" she said.
"Oh, yeah, I was born here actually, but we moved to the US when I was about six."
"That's cool," Ron said, Harry was a still a little apprehensive.
"Yeah, my dad still lives here and we usually visit him here during the summer and holidays." She said while picking up a slice of pizza and an egg roll, because she was very hungry. The others followed suit.
"Are these good?" Ron said.
"Hella good, those are the best." They took a bit of the egg roll and their faces lit up. "Obviously you guys have never had Chinese food before." She stated.
"No not really."
"If you think this is good, you should try some from China Town. It's the best. We practically live on this stuff at home."
"Where in America are you from?"
"San Francisco, California. We live almost by china town. "
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The beginning of this chapter was a bit hard to write so I might make revisions on it.
I know I don't follow the time period (1991-1998) Oh well.
Also if you like the story or are at least a bit interested, please review and I'll put up the next chapter. I just want to know if anyone is reading this.
*thanks*
~Aurora Angel~
