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The Fourth Potter

By: Emerald May

Chapter 10

Harry watched his parents Disapparate to Hogwarts, where they would be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry hugged Sirius good-bye and watched him Disapparate as well. He grabbed his things and wheeled them through the barrier separating Harry from Platform 9 ¾. He saw the Hogwarts Express slowly trudge along the tracks. Oh no! He thought as he began to run faster.

Hermione looked out the window and shouted, "Hurry Harry!" Ron too began to shout encouraging words.

His friends grabbed his things and tried to grab their friend's hand, but the train had gained speed and Harry was falling farther and farther behind.

"Don't worry! I'll try to jump on near the back!" Harry grabbed the next pole that came flying his way. He pulled himself up and took a deep breath, filling his lungs with oxygen.

"Harry!" He looked up to see Hermione rush up to him, a smile on her face. Ron was behind her. "Hey Harry!" He pulled Harry's hand and dragged him to their compartment.

"Look who we found," he said excitedly. He shoved his friend into the compartment as the stranger stood up.

"Hi," Sakura said shyly, coming face-to-face with her biological brother.

Harry smiled at his sister, saying, "Hello." He paused. "So, um, where've you been all this time?" He asked, unsure of how to start a conversation with his sister.

"Oh, well, um, I lived at the Kinomoto residence for ten years," She said, fiddling with her pendant that hung around her neck. Harry noticed.

"What's that?" He asked, staring at the pendant, which had a light-pink band, encircling a golden star, hanging from a gold chain.

Sakura looked down. "Oh, this?" She said nervously. Just be careful of what you say, and your secret won't be revealed, Sakura calmed herself, her heart pounding at the thought of him finding out.

"Yeah."

"Oh, um, it's just a pendant that my mother-" Sakura stopped. "I mean my adoptive mother gave me before she passed away when I was three," Sakura lied.

Hermione, seeing that Harry and Ron were about to ask more questions, said, "I think it is pretty. May I see it?"

Sakura sent a grateful smile to her new-found friend. "Sure," Sakura said, pulling the pendant off her neck.

Ron and Harry gathered closer to see it. The gold chain glistened in the sunlight, tiny rays emitting from it. Hermione gently handed the necklace back to its respective owner.

Wow, Ron thought. It looks so simple, but yet it looks like it holds a lot of power…

Without warning, the door to their compartment opened with a bang. Sakura shrieked slightly, jumping back from the entrance. Draco Malfoy stood there, Crabbe and Goyle grinning stupidly close behind him.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" He sneered. "If it isn't the Potty gang." Draco turned to Ron and said in a taunting voice, "Well, Weasel. Where is your sister, Weasel Pipsqueak?" Crabbe and Goyle snickered.

"What are you doing here?" Sakura asked disgusted.

Draco noticed her presence. "What do you mean what am I doing here. What are you doing here?"

Sakura glared at the Slytherin. "I'm with my friends."

Draco sneered. "And so am I."

Harry had to laugh at this. "You call them your friends. They don't even have brains to match a slug!" Hermione chuckled at this.

Draco's eyes flashed. "You shut up Mudblood!" This ended Hermione's laugh and her eyes were filled with hurt and anger.

Sakura couldn't take it anymore. "You leave my friends alone, Ferret!"

"What did you just call me?" Draco said menacingly.

"You heard what I said," Sakura retorted through gritted teeth.

Draco advanced on the Clow Mistress. She didn't falter nor took a step back. Draco looked over her shoulder at her friends and brother as they had their wands drawn, prepared for a battle. He looked into Sakura's emerald orbs. "I would be careful of who I made friends with," He told her, his voice dangerously calm.

Sakura smirked. "I already have." She glanced at Crabbe and Goyle, who were yelling at the wall. "Maybe I should take that advice." Draco looked triumphant. "and say the same thing to you. I would be careful of who I made friends with." She looked pointingly over Draco's shoulder, her gaze on Crabbe and Goyle.

Draco glared at Sakura and the others before shouting at his so-called friends, who looked startled. "Get moving! And stop yelling at the bloody wall! It can't understand you!" This sent a fit of laughter in the 'Potter Compartment'. Draco stomped off, his actions warning that if anyone came near him, they were in danger of being slaughtered.

"Wow, Sakura!" Hermione exclaimed, her anger ceasing.

Ron nodded. "You showed Malfoy who the slimy git was!"

"Yeah. You're like the weapon to crushing Malfoy's insults," Harry said, waving a hand as if to present a sign, laughing with Ron and Hermione.

Sakura blushed slightly at the praise she was getting. You know, she thought to herself. Hogwarts looks like it'll be alright, now that I have already made two friends, one enemy, and another brother.

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A/N: So, how was it? Sorry if Harry and Sakura meeting each other was not as exciting as everyone was hoping it to be. I didn't really have anytime to write (thanks to my lovely teachers). I still hope everyone enjoyed it! I want to thank ALL the people who reviewed The Fourth Potter. **Okay!!! I'm gonna beg again!!! If you want this chapter to come out in a week, I need to have at least 100 reviews!! If I can't make it to that (although I'm sure everyone will review, hint hint) then you all have to wait for two weeks for the next chapter to come out!! (also I'm not really sure if I can post soon….I had a chapter finished, my computer freaked out, and you know the rest….IT GOT DELETED!!!!! ARG! Besides, thanks to my teachers, they decided to cram everything to cram everything in the last month. BUT DON'T WORRY, THIS STORY IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING FINISHED!!) Please! I feed on review [good ones that is J ] Without you guys, this story and this writer would cease to exist. J ]** And as another update, Sakura won't use the Sakura Cards until the very end when…… [not uh, not telling!!]. Well anyway, hope you liked that chapter of The Fourth Potter and please (ah, my favorite saying comes to play a part in this chapter) ReAd AnD ReViEw!!!!! Ciao! J