A/N: Here is the next chapter. I hope everyone likes it! Not that many
people are reading it. Thanks for the review Casey. At least somebody
likes me.
Disclaimer: Guess.
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Chapter Two: Weird People and Ice Cream
After Tiana went over the finer points of Quidditch and briefed Dean on the stats of the European teams, Dean brought the subject around to Hogwarts.
"Is there a big difference between Hogwarts and normal schools?" Dean asked.
"Well, I really don't know. I haven't even been to a wizarding school before, much less a muggle one. I know that some of the subjects we'll learn at Hogwarts are Transfiguration, Defense against the Dark Arts, and Charms. My uncle didn't want my cousin and I to go to Hogwarts. He wanted us to go to this school called Durmstrang." Tiana replied.
Dean's eyes went slightly wider at the knowledge that there were wizarding schools besides Hogwarts but quickly returned to normal. "Why didn't he want you to go to Hogwarts?"
"Well, he really wants Draco and I to follow in his footsteps," Tiana replied cautiously. She didn't want Dean to get the wrong impression of her and telling him that her uncle wanted she and Draco to learn the dark arts didn't seem like a good idea.
Dean seemed to mistake Tiana's carefulness for thinking and continued. "Why didn't you go?"
"My Aunt didn't want Draco to be so far from home. However, she would love to have me shipped off to the middle of the Sahara desert if she could." Tiana rolled her eyes and sighed, hoping that Dean would get the hint to get the subject off her family.
He didn't. "Why do you live with your Aunt and Uncle?" he prompted.
Tiana was about to explain her situation to Dean when her eyes were suddenly covered by what felt like hands. Never being one for guessing games, Tiana reached up, yanked the hands off her eyes and looked up.
"Millicent! How are you?" Tiana put a fake smile on her face and tried hard not to let her eyes reveal her true thoughts on the over-confident girl.
"As healthy and beautiful as ever." Millicent answered with one of those little gaspy-gigglely things stuck on the end.
Tiana had to try hard not to snort at this. Millicent had never been very healthy or even remotely pretty. Especially when she was wearing clothes like THAT. Tiana decided to just make a mental note that overweight girls and Maleficent's Low-cut, Clingy Robes do NOT go together. Tiana looked back up at Millicent (she was still standing directly behind Tiana) to see her staring at Dean.
She took in his t-shirt and jeans and spat out, "Are you a muggleborn?"
"Yes," Dean replied, slightly confused by her tone of voice.
Millicent looked back at Tiana with a grimace on her face that was not at all flattering. "Why are you hanging out with a mud-er-muggleborn? What would Luc-"
Millicent was cut off when a vaguely familiar pug-faced girl across the street called her name. Millicent looked over at her and held up one finger, then leaned down to whisper in Tiana's ear. "What would Lucius and Draco say? I don't think that they would be at all happy." And with a glare a Dean, she was heading across the street. Tiana could have sworn that she saw Millicent mouth 'mudblood' a couple of times before she and the puggy girl headed into the shop.
"Is she one of your friends?" Dean asked, breaking Tiana from her murderous thoughts. Having Millicent eaten by a dragon was too nice for her Tiana noted before turning back to Dean.
"Yes and no," Tiana replied. "She thinks so, I don't." Tiana waved her hand angrily to emphasize the last word, but accidentally hit Dean's hand and the ice cream in it. It went flying out of his hand and managed to get caught right in the middle of a banishing charm that a young witch at the next table had just preformed. It continued flying and landed right on an innocent person's face. Tiana jumped up and rushed over to the person and saw a boy about her age attempting to wipe the ice cream off of his face. Tiana pulled him over to the table she and Dean were at. She grabbed some napkins form the center of the table, than began to clean off the boys face.
"I am so sorry!" Tiana exclaimed. "It's all my fault!"
The boy reached up his hand and stopped her. "Don't worry about it. Accidents happen." He took the napkins from her and began cleaning his face off himself.
"There's still a bit on your forehead," Tiana chirped helpfully. As the boy was reaching up to wipe it off, Tiana noticed a scar on his forehead. A lightning shaped scar. She did a double take and was about to say something, but decided against it. After all, she wouldn't really like people jumping out at her everywhere she went just because she had killed some guy. Well, it was You-Know-Who, but that was beside the point.
Dean noticed the scar too. "How did you get that scar?" he asked. Tiana wanted to pound him into the ground for asking such a stupid question, then remembered that Dean didn't know very much about the wizarding world and calmed down.
"Umm." Harry began, "I got it the day my parents died."
"You're Harry Potter aren't you?" Tiana asked shyly. She just couldn't take it anymore.
"Yes, that's me." Harry shifted in his seat uncomfortably.
Tiana looked at him. 'Not exactly what I had expected, but close enough.' Tiana really didn't know what to think of him. Here was the only person, EVER, who had survived the killing curse, and from one of the most powerful wizards on top of that. Tiana didn't know whether to hate Harry because he had killed her Uncles, Aunts and Mothers Lord, or thank him for the same reason. Tiana settled on her last option. Forget about it and change the subject.
"Are you going to Hogwarts?" she asked Harry.
"Yes. I just finished getting all of my school stuff. Tiana looked over at a cart near where Harry had been standing before to see several bags, a cauldron and a beautiful snowy owl.
"Ohh! What did you name your owl?" Tiana asked. Come to think of it, she needed to get an animal to take to Hogwarts too.
"She doesn't have a name yet," Harry answered. "Have you gotten your wands? Mine is Phoenix tail feather."
Dean reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out his wand. "I got a unicorn tail hair," he said.
The boys turned to Tiana to see what she had. "I didn't get my wand yet."
"Let's go get you one then." Dean said as he stood up. "Would you like to come along Harry?"
"No, I have to meet Hagrid back at the Leaky Cauldron." Harry replied. "I don't think I got your names though."
Tiana flushed. "How rude of me! My name is Tiana, and this is-"
"Thomas, Dean Thomas," Dean said a deep voice. Harry smiled and Dean started laughing. Tiana looked clueless.
Dean turned to Tiana, noticing that she didn't understand what he had just done. "James Bond."
"Who?"
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A/N: I was going to make this longer, but it just seemed like a good place to stop the story at. I'll try to update soon, but it may be awhile.
Disclaimer: Guess.
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Chapter Two: Weird People and Ice Cream
After Tiana went over the finer points of Quidditch and briefed Dean on the stats of the European teams, Dean brought the subject around to Hogwarts.
"Is there a big difference between Hogwarts and normal schools?" Dean asked.
"Well, I really don't know. I haven't even been to a wizarding school before, much less a muggle one. I know that some of the subjects we'll learn at Hogwarts are Transfiguration, Defense against the Dark Arts, and Charms. My uncle didn't want my cousin and I to go to Hogwarts. He wanted us to go to this school called Durmstrang." Tiana replied.
Dean's eyes went slightly wider at the knowledge that there were wizarding schools besides Hogwarts but quickly returned to normal. "Why didn't he want you to go to Hogwarts?"
"Well, he really wants Draco and I to follow in his footsteps," Tiana replied cautiously. She didn't want Dean to get the wrong impression of her and telling him that her uncle wanted she and Draco to learn the dark arts didn't seem like a good idea.
Dean seemed to mistake Tiana's carefulness for thinking and continued. "Why didn't you go?"
"My Aunt didn't want Draco to be so far from home. However, she would love to have me shipped off to the middle of the Sahara desert if she could." Tiana rolled her eyes and sighed, hoping that Dean would get the hint to get the subject off her family.
He didn't. "Why do you live with your Aunt and Uncle?" he prompted.
Tiana was about to explain her situation to Dean when her eyes were suddenly covered by what felt like hands. Never being one for guessing games, Tiana reached up, yanked the hands off her eyes and looked up.
"Millicent! How are you?" Tiana put a fake smile on her face and tried hard not to let her eyes reveal her true thoughts on the over-confident girl.
"As healthy and beautiful as ever." Millicent answered with one of those little gaspy-gigglely things stuck on the end.
Tiana had to try hard not to snort at this. Millicent had never been very healthy or even remotely pretty. Especially when she was wearing clothes like THAT. Tiana decided to just make a mental note that overweight girls and Maleficent's Low-cut, Clingy Robes do NOT go together. Tiana looked back up at Millicent (she was still standing directly behind Tiana) to see her staring at Dean.
She took in his t-shirt and jeans and spat out, "Are you a muggleborn?"
"Yes," Dean replied, slightly confused by her tone of voice.
Millicent looked back at Tiana with a grimace on her face that was not at all flattering. "Why are you hanging out with a mud-er-muggleborn? What would Luc-"
Millicent was cut off when a vaguely familiar pug-faced girl across the street called her name. Millicent looked over at her and held up one finger, then leaned down to whisper in Tiana's ear. "What would Lucius and Draco say? I don't think that they would be at all happy." And with a glare a Dean, she was heading across the street. Tiana could have sworn that she saw Millicent mouth 'mudblood' a couple of times before she and the puggy girl headed into the shop.
"Is she one of your friends?" Dean asked, breaking Tiana from her murderous thoughts. Having Millicent eaten by a dragon was too nice for her Tiana noted before turning back to Dean.
"Yes and no," Tiana replied. "She thinks so, I don't." Tiana waved her hand angrily to emphasize the last word, but accidentally hit Dean's hand and the ice cream in it. It went flying out of his hand and managed to get caught right in the middle of a banishing charm that a young witch at the next table had just preformed. It continued flying and landed right on an innocent person's face. Tiana jumped up and rushed over to the person and saw a boy about her age attempting to wipe the ice cream off of his face. Tiana pulled him over to the table she and Dean were at. She grabbed some napkins form the center of the table, than began to clean off the boys face.
"I am so sorry!" Tiana exclaimed. "It's all my fault!"
The boy reached up his hand and stopped her. "Don't worry about it. Accidents happen." He took the napkins from her and began cleaning his face off himself.
"There's still a bit on your forehead," Tiana chirped helpfully. As the boy was reaching up to wipe it off, Tiana noticed a scar on his forehead. A lightning shaped scar. She did a double take and was about to say something, but decided against it. After all, she wouldn't really like people jumping out at her everywhere she went just because she had killed some guy. Well, it was You-Know-Who, but that was beside the point.
Dean noticed the scar too. "How did you get that scar?" he asked. Tiana wanted to pound him into the ground for asking such a stupid question, then remembered that Dean didn't know very much about the wizarding world and calmed down.
"Umm." Harry began, "I got it the day my parents died."
"You're Harry Potter aren't you?" Tiana asked shyly. She just couldn't take it anymore.
"Yes, that's me." Harry shifted in his seat uncomfortably.
Tiana looked at him. 'Not exactly what I had expected, but close enough.' Tiana really didn't know what to think of him. Here was the only person, EVER, who had survived the killing curse, and from one of the most powerful wizards on top of that. Tiana didn't know whether to hate Harry because he had killed her Uncles, Aunts and Mothers Lord, or thank him for the same reason. Tiana settled on her last option. Forget about it and change the subject.
"Are you going to Hogwarts?" she asked Harry.
"Yes. I just finished getting all of my school stuff. Tiana looked over at a cart near where Harry had been standing before to see several bags, a cauldron and a beautiful snowy owl.
"Ohh! What did you name your owl?" Tiana asked. Come to think of it, she needed to get an animal to take to Hogwarts too.
"She doesn't have a name yet," Harry answered. "Have you gotten your wands? Mine is Phoenix tail feather."
Dean reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out his wand. "I got a unicorn tail hair," he said.
The boys turned to Tiana to see what she had. "I didn't get my wand yet."
"Let's go get you one then." Dean said as he stood up. "Would you like to come along Harry?"
"No, I have to meet Hagrid back at the Leaky Cauldron." Harry replied. "I don't think I got your names though."
Tiana flushed. "How rude of me! My name is Tiana, and this is-"
"Thomas, Dean Thomas," Dean said a deep voice. Harry smiled and Dean started laughing. Tiana looked clueless.
Dean turned to Tiana, noticing that she didn't understand what he had just done. "James Bond."
"Who?"
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A/N: I was going to make this longer, but it just seemed like a good place to stop the story at. I'll try to update soon, but it may be awhile.
