Time To Be Me
Chapter 5
(Hermione's POV)
"Well, at least I don't have to guess who Diamond Nelson is." I said as we got into the muggle taxi. We were headed towards King Cross, in London. All of us could fit into one taxi for once. It was amazing because two years ago they had to take three taxis.
"She didn't seem too nice, though." Ginny said.
"But she did dis Malfoy, so that's a plus." Ron argued.
"I don't think that was very polite, especially for first impressions. I mean, Malfoy's father has been put in Azkaban, and the Malfoy Manor was taken by the Ministry." I said. "He has nothing. Oh, Ron, please put these into the trunk of the car, that way we can actually relax in the car." he was trying to put three backpacks into the backseat of the car.
It took twenty minutes to get to Kings Cross. When everyone was out of the taxi and (Mr. Weasley needed help yet again with the muggle money) through the barrier everyone set off to find an empty cabin. I noted that many of the muggles in the train station looked like Aurors, and some people from the Order of the Phoenix. Obviously here to protect Harry from any Death Eaters.
Wow, I thought. Ron sure is getting cuter each year… I just hope that we can have a lot of fun this year…
"Hey, Granger! Get over here!" someone yelled. It turned out to be Diamond Nelson.
"There you are, Diamond! It's nice to see you again." I said.
"Ya, ya… can you help me with my bags… I don't know where I'm sitting." She said. It was surprising to see her not in all black. She was wearing a purple tank top and blue jeans. She even had matching purple sunglasses. Diamond had about ten bags. All were filled up tight. She also had an instrument…
"What's this?" I asked as I picked up the instrument.
She grabbed it back quickly. "I'll take that, thanks, it's a guitar. You know, music."
"I know what it is, I am muggle born."
"Oh, that's nice." she started getting her stuff on the train.
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(Diamond's POV)
Geese! She got very nosy at times. In no time she'll realize who my father is! That's not good. I guess it means drastic measures. I'm going to have to be as mean as I can at this school. And there is no way she is going to stop me…
I opened a compartment and found that Malfoy kid and what looked like two oversized pigs. Oops, that's his friends. He suddenly got a smile on his face. That's not good.
"Hello there." He said.
"Pratt." I mumbled.
"What did you say?" He asked.
"Do you remember the last time you got on my nerves? Then don't start." I said.
"What happened?" Hermione asked as she came up behind me.
"Oh, he made fun of my muggle born mother so I punched him in the nose."
"You got me grounded for a week because of that!" Malfoy said.
"Boo Hoo. I get grounded every day. It doesn't bother me." I said. "Your just a wimp." he got this very angry look on his face. "Well, goodbye boys." I closed the compartment door on his face.
"Did you actually punch him?" Hermione asked. "I mean, Snape let you get away with that?"
"He wasn't looking. He was looking at what store we had to go into next. He just saw Malfoy on the ground. Malfoy didn't know what hit him." I said proudly.
Finally we got to the right compartment where Ron, Harry and two other kids were sitting. There was another red-haired kid, so I assumed that it was Ron's sister. But the little girl reading the magazine upside down scared me. She talked like she was in some dream land.
"So, you punched Malfoy? And Snape didn't do anything about it?" Ron asked when Hermione told him what happened. I just nodded. This kid was getting on my nerves too. "Wow, we are going to be best friends." he said.
"Um, I have one question." I said.
"Okay, what is it?" Harry asked.
"Why are you English people so nosy? I mean, they just can't mind their own business?" I asked.
"Well, we just want to get to know you better." Harry said.
"Okay, whatever."
They talked about quittich and who they thought would be bad competitors for the year. It was very confusing to understand this weird, as I would say, language. They kept talking about bulgers, snitches, keepers, chasers, beaters, quaffles, and seekers. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about.
"Harry, Ron, what the heck are you two talking about?" I asked.
"Well, you've never heard about Quittich? That's sad. Okay, there are four hoops in mid air. Okay?" I nodded. "The keeper, that's me for the Gryffindor's team, makes sure that the red ball, or quaffle, doesn't go through the hoops."
"The chasers try to get the quaffles through the other teams goal, okay?" Harry had interrupted Ron. I nodded. "The Beaters have clubs, or baseball bats is what I call them, and hit's the buldgers at people, trying to knock them off their brooms."
"That's evil! Why would you want to throw someone off their broom?" I asked.
"Well, they want to win, it's a bloody brilliant game if you ask me." Ron said.
"So, the Seeker, that's me," Harry said. "tries to find the snitch. The snitch is a little ball, about the size of a golf ball. Once the snitch is caught, the game is over, and the team that gets the snitch gets 150 points."
"Wow, that's awesome, that's what my, um, my aunt wants me to be." I caught myself in the process of telling them about my father. I would have to be careful. It was sad that I just found out about my father and I couldn't tell anyone about it.
"So, what's Gryffindor?" I asked.
"You have a lot to learn." Hermione said. "Especially if you have to go to all of the advanced classes with me."
"I'll manage." is all I said. I really don't know what I'm going to do… I don't even know one spell yet.
"Gryffindor is a house… Hogwarts has four houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin." Hermione started. "Gryffindor is for those brave at heart. Ravenclaw for the ready minds, and those of with and learning. Hufflepuff, well, for the loyal. And Slytherin for the cunning. Though, everyone in Slytherin are stuck-up and rude."
I was so tired of all of their talk that I decided to go out into the corridor to meet more people. I walked out and stopped into every compartment.
In the first one, I came upon a bunch of girls that were giggling about something.
"Can we help you?" one of them asked. She had black long hair. She was pretty, no wonder she was stuck up.
"Um, I'm just going about meeting new people." I said.
"Well, who are you?" She asked. "You obviously aren't from around here."
"Well, since you've probably never seen me around I would presume so. I'm Diamond Nelson. I'm the transfer student from America. Got a problem with that?" I asked.
"Well, I was wondering when I'd meet you. Hermione told me about you. Said you punched Draco Malfoy. Is it true?" she asked.
"So what if it is? He insulted my mother." I said.
"Is she muggle born?" She asked.
"Ya, are you going to make fun of that too?"
"Of course not. I'm not like Malfoy, I'm Cho Chang. I'm in Ravenclaw."
"Nice to meet you." I said, not knowing what to say.
"Wow, what's it like in America?" someone else asked.
"Are there cute boys?" another asked.
"How's the shopping?" yet another asked.
"Well, um, it's nice there. I lived on an Island, you might know of Hawaii?" they shook their heads. "Okay, well, it's like paradise. Always sunny. Um, the guys are really hot! Most of them on the island are surfers. So that was really fun. Shopping isn't that good on the island. You either go on the internet or have to go to the main land."
"Internet?" Cho asked.
"Um, it's computers that you can talk to each other through. Sorta like fireplaces, but you can do a lot more… it's a muggle thing." I said.
"Oh, that explains it. So do you live with both of your parents?" someone asked.
"Oh, no, I live with my aunt. You see, my mother died a few years ago." oh, no bad thoughts coming in my head.
"I'm sorry." She said. "Well, lets see. I'm Lavendor Brown. I'm a Gryffindor."
"Hannah Abbott, Hufflepuff."
"Susan Bones, Hufflepuff."
"Lisa Turpin, Ravenclaw."
"Pavarti Patil, Gryffindor."
"Well, it's nice to meet you all. I don't know what house I'm in yet, but anyone looks good so far, except Slytherin of course. I hope I'm not in that one."
"We hope your not in that one either! But if you are, then we'll still be your friends." Cho said.
"Thanks, your so kind. Well, girls, I think I'm going to go look around more and meet more people… I'll see you guys later." I said as I left.
I went into the next compartment where I found another bunch of girls. They were already in their school robes.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" one of them asked. She wasn't really pretty, but she seemed nice, at least compared to my old friends.
"Well, hi! I'm going to make this simple, since I've already gotten so many remarks on this one, I'm American."
"American? Is that your name?" one of the girls asked.
"No stupid, that's a country! What's your name?" the first girl asked.
"I'm Diamond Nelson, what about you?"
"Millicent Bulstrode, and this is Pansy Parkinson, Jessica Simonson, Hannah Perez and Chelsea Lee."
"Hey everyone." I said. I really didn't know what to say.
"So, America, what's it like?" Pansy asked.
"Well, very busy. And there's a lot of muggle tourists where I live. I live on an island called Hawaii." I said when they looked like I didn't know what I was talking about.
"So it's really hot there?" Jessica asked.
"Well, duh, she's wearing a tank top and jeans." Hannah snapped.
"So, what house do you think you'll be in?" Millicent asked.
"I really don't know… Truthfully I would like to be in any one. They all sound good to me." I said.
"We are all in Slytherin. Only pure bloods get in that house." Jessica said.
"Well, then I doubt I'll be in that one, because I'm only half. You see, my mother was a muggle-"
"Was?" Pansy asked in disgust.
"Did your father kill her because she was a muggle?" Hannah asked.
"Are you kidding me? My father loved my mother. The only reason he left us is because my mother found out that he was a wizard."
"That's sad. So who do you live with, your dad or someone else?" Pansy asked.
"Well, I lived with my mother until she died, then I moved in with my aunt. But now I'm moving in with my father." I said.
"Well, that's grand. We'll still hang out with you even though you're a mud blood. You sound pretty cool to me," Millicent said.
"Cool, well, girls, I'm going to go meet more people. I'll talk to you all later." as I left the room I heard Pansy whisper "Why would we be friends with a mud blood?"
I walked to the next compartment and there was a bunch of first years. I talked for a little while about which houses they wanted to be in and then I left.
In the next compartment I opened I found a bunch of boys, one of them being Malfoy.
"What's your problem?" one of the boys came up to me with his wand out.
"What do you mean?" I asked sweetly.
"Why did you punch Draco?"
"Draco? Who's that?" I really didn't know. This kid must be talking about---- "Oh, Malfoy, well, you see, he insulted my deceased mother. It's not like I could just let that slip by could I?"
"You got me grounded for a month!" Malfoy shouted.
"Sorry, but getting grounded isn't a bad thing. Especially since I get grounded every week for something I usually don't do."
"Your despicable!" the kid shouted.
"Who are you to call me despicable? You probably don't even know what it means!"
"I'm Blaise Zabibi, I'm a Slytherin." he said.
"Well, Blaise. No offence or anything, but you really stink." I said smugly.
"Do you want to start anything?" Blaise asked.
"Do you?" these guys thought they were tough stuff. It was pathetic.
"Are you afraid?" Malfoy asked. "You know Blaise, she may be cute, but she doesn't have the guts to fight all of us." he said as Grabe and Goyle stood up.
"You just can't fight without a wand!" I said. "You wouldn't be able to get into a real fight!"
"Do you want to make a bet?" Malfoy said. But before he could do anything about it the compartment opened up and Hermione came in.
"Hey Hermione, aren't you the head girl?" I asked casually.
"Well, yes, why?" she asked.
"Boys, you wouldn't want to threaten the head girl would you?" I asked.
"You just got luck. I'm head boy, and if you had hit me the I could have deducted points." Malfoy said.
"Well, um, you should understand that I am not in a house yet, so you should also understand that I don't really care. I was forced to go to this school." I said. Oops, I wasn't supposed to say this.
"Well, Diamond, we have to go get into your robes, Draco, I'll see you at the meeting tomorrow night." Hermione said.
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(Hermione's POV)
"Were you actually going to fight Malfoy again?" I asked.
"Why not?" Diamond asked. "I mean, he can't deduct points from me. I'm not even in a house!"
"But on the first day! That's insane. You don't even know that much of anything is in the magic world. Can I ask you something?" I really wanted to know what was going on.
"What?" Diamond asked.
"Did you even know about magic before you came here?" I asked.
"Well, ya, for about two days. My father, well, he never told me before. And I never had any magic powers until now. Well, actually until I got my wand." she said.
"What kind of wand was it?" I asked. Many wands have different purposes.
"Um, the hair of a veela. Whatever that is." she said.
That was interesting… something is going on here. She looks like someone I know, but I just can't understand where I've seen that face and hair before. But she couldn't be related. He didn't have any children, let alone a wife….. Or maybe so…….
A/N sorry it took so long…. And sorry to let you off so hard. I wrote everything on my computer, but I don't have internet on that one… and the only way to download it on my mom's laptop is to put it on a cd… but my computer won't do that, so I had to print it out and type it again… I'm moving to Utah, so I don't know when my next chapter is… Well, thanks to my only reader I'm updating this… thanks!!!! Well got to go… write more later!
Love always
Jewls1