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own my computer, as my beta just pointed out to me* (no, not my fish, I DO
have a beta fish, his name is Raoul *yay Tamora Pierce* but he didn't say
that)
AN: I am relentless!! Writing is kind of fun really. Thank you very much to my two beautiful reviewers (well it's only really one) Akutenchi and Friend of a friend. Look this chapter's longer just for you. To anyone who didn't review, I am going to send Friend of a friend over to your house to eat corn. (Watch Secret Window). By the by just so you know, when I put things in stars, they are thoughts. *like they couldn't figure that out! Stop it they'll hear you!! Come on, how will they know what's inside my head?*. Enough of me, on with the story! Oh!! I forgot, this story takes place in Harry's sixth year and includes most everything that occurred in Ootp unless otherwise contradicted by the story. *That made sense...*
Chapter 2 – The Many Faces at Hogwarts
Bethany wandered through Flourish and Blotts searching for the many books she would need for that school year. She had never been to school; her father and his friends had taught her most of what she knew. The Ministry insisted she attend school for her last two eligible years. She finished her shopping and returned to her room at the Leaky Cauldron.
The next day at 10:30am Bethany boarded the Hogwarts express. She selected a compartment and sat by herself waiting for the train to leave. With five minutes left before 11 o'clock the compartment door slid open to reveal a tall boy with slicked back blonde hair and steel-grey eyes. He seemed familiar, as did the girl who stood behind him. She was tall with black hair and blue eyes. Her hair was tied in a bun at the back of her head. Looming behind the two was a third boy, who was concealed by a large black hood.
*What do they want?* Bethany wondered. She got her answer immediately as the three students silently took the three seats opposite Bethany and returned stare for stare. The blond boy was the first to recover the shock of her glowing green eyes and long white-blond hair.
"Can I help you?" he asked in an icy tone "Or is staring just a peculiar habit of yours?"
"Draco!" said the other girl "Play nice with people you don't know" she turned to Bethany. "You're new" she stated
"Obviously" said an accented voice quietly from under the cloak.
"What of it?" Bethany asked. The other girl sneered.
"We'll see about her" she said. Then she turned and began what was to be a whispered conversation that lasted the rest of the train ride. After disembarking from the train, Bethany followed a train of young students into boats ready to bring them to the castle.
*How will this work?* she wondered. *I'm at least 5 years older than any of these students*. Her thoughts were interrupted by a large hand clamping down on her right shoulder. Bethany hissed and shrugged away from the touch.
"What are yeh doin' here?" Demanded the largest person Bethany had ever seen in a drawl she had difficulty understanding. "Yeh should be up with the carriages!! Not skulkin' around with the firs' years". Bethany eyed the man with distaste and wordlessly handed over her letter. The giant man read it and when he was finished he returned it to her. "Well then" he said "get in a boat with the rest o' them". Bethany did as he bade.
The first years were lined up and waiting to get into the Great Hall. A witch with her hair tied up in a knot at the back of her head introduced herself to the group
"Good evening to you all. I am Deputy-Headmistress Professor Mc Gonogall. You are about to be sorted into your respective houses at Hogwarts. Each of the four houses has its own distinct qualities and they are equally distinct in their own ways. Please follow me." She turned as the great oak doors swung open and admitted a buzz of noise as the witch swept into the great hall. Most of the chatter stopped as the first years followed Professor Mc Gonogall through the middle of the room and up to the front where a stool and a tattered hat stood. Bethany eyed the four long tables warily. *So many students*.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione watched as the first years filed in, but their hushed conversation was far from the subject of first years.
"So" Harry was saying "The Ministry didn't get the Malfoys or the Lestranges. They didn't get anyone who wasn't at the Manor".
"So what?" said Hermione with a shrug "They got the leader, the minions will fall into place". Ron nodded with an incoherent "yeah". The three turned to watch the sorting.
"Hey" said Hermione suddenly "look at that girl!" she pointed to a girl who was considerably taller than the rest with extremely long blonde hair. "She looks like she's our age!"
"Maybe she is, who cares, its not the first time there's been a transfer student" said Ron.
"That's true" she said.
"Maybe it's that girl they found with You Know Who!" said Ginny excitedly.
"Yeah!" said Harry "She's here at Hogwarts?" The group exchanged worried glances and turned to stare at the girl. Professor Mc Gonogall was saying
"Knight, Bethany" The tall girl stepped forward and sat daintily on the stool. Professor Mc Gonogall had the sorting hat about six inches away from the girl's head when it shouted "Slytherin!" The girl walked down and sat alone at the end of the table. Professore Mc Gonogall had continued with the sorting, but most of the eyes in the Great Hall had followed the girl and watched her sit.
"Well I guess that settles it" Ron announced as sinner appeared on the golden plates in front of them. "There's a new freaky Slytherin girl who's our age, who just got sorted. The whole bloody school's gone mad!! She's so obviously bad that..."
"Honestly Ron!" interrupted Hermione "Do you really think professor Dumbledore would allow a Death Eater at Hogwarts, even if she was an ex- Death Eater?"
"Snape" Harry coughed.
"Yes Mister Potter?" said a voice that issued frost behind them. Harry, Ron and Hermione froze. The potions master stood behind them, but he leaned forward and whispered "I think you three have earned yourselves detention. Tomorrow night, in the dungeon" Snape swept off with a swish of his cloak. Hermione had blanched and was muttering incoherently under her breath.
"Hermione?" Ron asked "What's up?"
"What's up!?!?! How can you even ask that?" whispered Hermione furiously "It's not even our first day and we have detention tomorrow!!!"
"Chillax Hermione" said Harry "It's just Snape being a bastard. There's nothing we can do about it. He'd have found another reason after what happened last year."
"Well the three of us will just have to work harder to do better this year" Hermione said demurely.
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Draco looked across the Great Hall and smirked as he watched the potions master hand out detentions to the aptly named "Brady Bunch". He turned to look at the girl who was sitting beside him. Her long black hair was in her face as she seemed to be staring out into space.
"Kathryn..." probed Draco "Kathryn... wake up" The girl started.
"What? I was thinking about something important"
"Well you can think later, you can only eat now" said a tall boy with black hair who was sitting across from Draco.
"Well Alec, some of us don't feel the need to eat every two hours. Some of us also have other things to think about than eating."
"Come on Kat" said another girl who was sitting beside her "You can't blame him, you were far away."
"Thanks Michiko, I know where I was" Kathryn retorted.
"Care to enlighten the rest of us?" asked Alec quietly.
"Only if you care to show a little aggression" replied Kathryn. "I was thinking about that girl we saw on the train, for your information. She's at the end of the table"
"Well, it's not like any of us should care" said yet another girl. "What's she to us?"
"Obviously Yukiko, you haven't been listening" her twin said sadly.
"Yeah, Michiko's right Yuki, you're spaced out too! What did they put in the pumpkin juice I wonder...?" Draco said thoughtfully.
"Shut up!" Kathryn whispered, not a little annoyed. "Here comes the Brady Bunch!"
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Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville approached the girl at the end of the Slytherin table.
"Hey you" said Harry in a quiet voice. The girl did not appear to hear him because she continued to pick at her food and did not move or make a sound. "Hey you!" said Harry a little more loudly and the girl tuned her head slowly. Glowing green eyes met Harry's for a second, before they fell to the floor.
"We were there that night" Ron began "We saw you there and we're not going to let you hurt anyone here. We're warning you now..."
"Any funny business" Harry continued.
"Any at all" chimed in Neville
"And we'll go straight to Dumbledore" finished Hermione. The girl flinched at the sound of Dumbledore's name, but there was no time for Harry to wonder why because he had been hit with a spell and was sprawled across the floor. An Asian girl Harry had never seen before was glaring down into his face with malice, her wand pointed at his chest, her Slytherin crest flashed before Harry's eyes.
"Well, well, well" said the girl "I'd never have expected the wonder trio and their little band of friends to just attack a student in the middle of..." but the girl was cut off as a hand was clamped around her shoulder and she was jerked to face the teacher who had grabbed her. A stiff-looking witch held the Slytherin by the wrist.
"Why" began the professor in a dry voice"Do I think that this is entirely your fault Miss. Tanaka?'
"Because professor Summers, you can't blame Potter because Dumbledore will sack you?" responded the girl in an innocent tone.
"Wrong answer" said an icy voice in a tone that Harry knew well. Severus Snape was standing not far behind the witch holding the apparent Miss. Tanaka. "You will join me in detention tomorrow Miss. Tanaka in the dungeons as well. 7 o'clock don't be late. As for the rest of you, another detention is in order. Wednesday night at 8 in the trophy room" Snape did not spare the girl still sitting at the table a glance. He would later regret that, but he turned and left and Professor Summers followed him. Hermione interjected
"But professor, she's new here, shouldn't she..." but Herimone was interrupted by a shrill protest,
"I am NOT new here Hermione Granger!!" yelled Tanaka "Just because I don't kiss up to Gryffindors or make a habit of attacking them, means I am ignored." Hermione made a few flustered noises but the girl just turned and took the unfortunate Bethany Knight by the arm and said, "Come on then you". The girl hesitated, but then got up and followed Tanaka out of the Great Hall.
"What the Hell was that?" Harry asked "They all totally ignored her at dinner, but when we bothered her..."
"The Slytherins" continued Ginny "They just..."
"That was weird" added Neville.
"Stop saying they" said a cold voice from behind them. The Gryffindors turned to see Draco Malfoy sneering at them. "We didn't do anything" he continued. "She decided that she wanted you to take your bile back where you came from"
"The rest of us" said a girl with long black hair "Don't care to talk to the stupid, so go back to your Tower and go have a drink with Dumbledore or something, leave the rest of us to clean up after you just like your parents" And with that the group of Slytherins swept by, and Harry thought he was a little more jostled by one of the boys than necessary. He also noticed several old faces missing from the group and that there were several faces he had not seen before; but all had seemed to know his group which meant that it wasn't their first year at the castle.
"Let's get back to the dormitory" said Ginny "We can talk there"
"Yeah" echoed Ron "Let's go" The five friends headed off in the direction of Gryffindor Tower.
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Bethany stared at the girl who had "rescued" her. *Why. Why would she do that?*. The girl turned abruptly and said,
"Well, what's your name?"
"Bethany" said Bethany quietly.
"I'm Michiko" said the girl simply. "Follow me to the common room" The girl led the way to a corridor with a dead end. She tapped a stone on the wall and muttered "Thuriaz". The stones opened to reveal stone steps that led down into a common room furnished in green with a fire burning low in the common room. Michiko strode forward and sat down on a couch beside the blond boy from the train, she motioned Bethany to sit beside her. The boy turned to sneer at her.
"Picking up strays, are you Michi?" he asked. Instead of replying, Michiko cuffed him across the back of the head.
"You should like her Draco" she shot back "She's a pureblood Slytherin" "Yeah, well so is Pansy" said the accented voice of the other boy that was on the train. "What makes her different?"
"She appears to have a brain in her head" said Michiko simply"and I'd hate to lose a mind to Pansy and her gang".
"Well" said a girl that looked exactly like Michiko "I hope you know what you're doing".
"Good" said Michiko, she turned to Bethany "This is Bethany guys, Bethany this is my twin sister Yukiko, and they're Kathryn, Alec and Draco." Each student nodded curtly in turn at Bethany.
"Hi" she said and it was barely over a whisper.
"Can it be?" said Alec with mock surprise "A quiet girl? I've never met one of them before..." He received three pillows in his face. "Jeez, all this violence"
"I'll show you violence" said Kathryn as she stood, but she never got to administer the curse she wanted because at that moment Professor Snape strode into the common room. As he passed the group he nodded to the group. Suddenly he stopped and turned.
"Bethany?" he asked.
AN Oh that was fun!! Well more reviews=more story you know. If you don't review because you want the story to stop, my psychic adviser will tell me so REVIEW!!!!!! Please?!?!? *gets down on knees* Pretty please?? Oh come on, the button is so pretty!! eeHe
AN: I am relentless!! Writing is kind of fun really. Thank you very much to my two beautiful reviewers (well it's only really one) Akutenchi and Friend of a friend. Look this chapter's longer just for you. To anyone who didn't review, I am going to send Friend of a friend over to your house to eat corn. (Watch Secret Window). By the by just so you know, when I put things in stars, they are thoughts. *like they couldn't figure that out! Stop it they'll hear you!! Come on, how will they know what's inside my head?*. Enough of me, on with the story! Oh!! I forgot, this story takes place in Harry's sixth year and includes most everything that occurred in Ootp unless otherwise contradicted by the story. *That made sense...*
Chapter 2 – The Many Faces at Hogwarts
Bethany wandered through Flourish and Blotts searching for the many books she would need for that school year. She had never been to school; her father and his friends had taught her most of what she knew. The Ministry insisted she attend school for her last two eligible years. She finished her shopping and returned to her room at the Leaky Cauldron.
The next day at 10:30am Bethany boarded the Hogwarts express. She selected a compartment and sat by herself waiting for the train to leave. With five minutes left before 11 o'clock the compartment door slid open to reveal a tall boy with slicked back blonde hair and steel-grey eyes. He seemed familiar, as did the girl who stood behind him. She was tall with black hair and blue eyes. Her hair was tied in a bun at the back of her head. Looming behind the two was a third boy, who was concealed by a large black hood.
*What do they want?* Bethany wondered. She got her answer immediately as the three students silently took the three seats opposite Bethany and returned stare for stare. The blond boy was the first to recover the shock of her glowing green eyes and long white-blond hair.
"Can I help you?" he asked in an icy tone "Or is staring just a peculiar habit of yours?"
"Draco!" said the other girl "Play nice with people you don't know" she turned to Bethany. "You're new" she stated
"Obviously" said an accented voice quietly from under the cloak.
"What of it?" Bethany asked. The other girl sneered.
"We'll see about her" she said. Then she turned and began what was to be a whispered conversation that lasted the rest of the train ride. After disembarking from the train, Bethany followed a train of young students into boats ready to bring them to the castle.
*How will this work?* she wondered. *I'm at least 5 years older than any of these students*. Her thoughts were interrupted by a large hand clamping down on her right shoulder. Bethany hissed and shrugged away from the touch.
"What are yeh doin' here?" Demanded the largest person Bethany had ever seen in a drawl she had difficulty understanding. "Yeh should be up with the carriages!! Not skulkin' around with the firs' years". Bethany eyed the man with distaste and wordlessly handed over her letter. The giant man read it and when he was finished he returned it to her. "Well then" he said "get in a boat with the rest o' them". Bethany did as he bade.
The first years were lined up and waiting to get into the Great Hall. A witch with her hair tied up in a knot at the back of her head introduced herself to the group
"Good evening to you all. I am Deputy-Headmistress Professor Mc Gonogall. You are about to be sorted into your respective houses at Hogwarts. Each of the four houses has its own distinct qualities and they are equally distinct in their own ways. Please follow me." She turned as the great oak doors swung open and admitted a buzz of noise as the witch swept into the great hall. Most of the chatter stopped as the first years followed Professor Mc Gonogall through the middle of the room and up to the front where a stool and a tattered hat stood. Bethany eyed the four long tables warily. *So many students*.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione watched as the first years filed in, but their hushed conversation was far from the subject of first years.
"So" Harry was saying "The Ministry didn't get the Malfoys or the Lestranges. They didn't get anyone who wasn't at the Manor".
"So what?" said Hermione with a shrug "They got the leader, the minions will fall into place". Ron nodded with an incoherent "yeah". The three turned to watch the sorting.
"Hey" said Hermione suddenly "look at that girl!" she pointed to a girl who was considerably taller than the rest with extremely long blonde hair. "She looks like she's our age!"
"Maybe she is, who cares, its not the first time there's been a transfer student" said Ron.
"That's true" she said.
"Maybe it's that girl they found with You Know Who!" said Ginny excitedly.
"Yeah!" said Harry "She's here at Hogwarts?" The group exchanged worried glances and turned to stare at the girl. Professor Mc Gonogall was saying
"Knight, Bethany" The tall girl stepped forward and sat daintily on the stool. Professor Mc Gonogall had the sorting hat about six inches away from the girl's head when it shouted "Slytherin!" The girl walked down and sat alone at the end of the table. Professore Mc Gonogall had continued with the sorting, but most of the eyes in the Great Hall had followed the girl and watched her sit.
"Well I guess that settles it" Ron announced as sinner appeared on the golden plates in front of them. "There's a new freaky Slytherin girl who's our age, who just got sorted. The whole bloody school's gone mad!! She's so obviously bad that..."
"Honestly Ron!" interrupted Hermione "Do you really think professor Dumbledore would allow a Death Eater at Hogwarts, even if she was an ex- Death Eater?"
"Snape" Harry coughed.
"Yes Mister Potter?" said a voice that issued frost behind them. Harry, Ron and Hermione froze. The potions master stood behind them, but he leaned forward and whispered "I think you three have earned yourselves detention. Tomorrow night, in the dungeon" Snape swept off with a swish of his cloak. Hermione had blanched and was muttering incoherently under her breath.
"Hermione?" Ron asked "What's up?"
"What's up!?!?! How can you even ask that?" whispered Hermione furiously "It's not even our first day and we have detention tomorrow!!!"
"Chillax Hermione" said Harry "It's just Snape being a bastard. There's nothing we can do about it. He'd have found another reason after what happened last year."
"Well the three of us will just have to work harder to do better this year" Hermione said demurely.
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Draco looked across the Great Hall and smirked as he watched the potions master hand out detentions to the aptly named "Brady Bunch". He turned to look at the girl who was sitting beside him. Her long black hair was in her face as she seemed to be staring out into space.
"Kathryn..." probed Draco "Kathryn... wake up" The girl started.
"What? I was thinking about something important"
"Well you can think later, you can only eat now" said a tall boy with black hair who was sitting across from Draco.
"Well Alec, some of us don't feel the need to eat every two hours. Some of us also have other things to think about than eating."
"Come on Kat" said another girl who was sitting beside her "You can't blame him, you were far away."
"Thanks Michiko, I know where I was" Kathryn retorted.
"Care to enlighten the rest of us?" asked Alec quietly.
"Only if you care to show a little aggression" replied Kathryn. "I was thinking about that girl we saw on the train, for your information. She's at the end of the table"
"Well, it's not like any of us should care" said yet another girl. "What's she to us?"
"Obviously Yukiko, you haven't been listening" her twin said sadly.
"Yeah, Michiko's right Yuki, you're spaced out too! What did they put in the pumpkin juice I wonder...?" Draco said thoughtfully.
"Shut up!" Kathryn whispered, not a little annoyed. "Here comes the Brady Bunch!"
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Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville approached the girl at the end of the Slytherin table.
"Hey you" said Harry in a quiet voice. The girl did not appear to hear him because she continued to pick at her food and did not move or make a sound. "Hey you!" said Harry a little more loudly and the girl tuned her head slowly. Glowing green eyes met Harry's for a second, before they fell to the floor.
"We were there that night" Ron began "We saw you there and we're not going to let you hurt anyone here. We're warning you now..."
"Any funny business" Harry continued.
"Any at all" chimed in Neville
"And we'll go straight to Dumbledore" finished Hermione. The girl flinched at the sound of Dumbledore's name, but there was no time for Harry to wonder why because he had been hit with a spell and was sprawled across the floor. An Asian girl Harry had never seen before was glaring down into his face with malice, her wand pointed at his chest, her Slytherin crest flashed before Harry's eyes.
"Well, well, well" said the girl "I'd never have expected the wonder trio and their little band of friends to just attack a student in the middle of..." but the girl was cut off as a hand was clamped around her shoulder and she was jerked to face the teacher who had grabbed her. A stiff-looking witch held the Slytherin by the wrist.
"Why" began the professor in a dry voice"Do I think that this is entirely your fault Miss. Tanaka?'
"Because professor Summers, you can't blame Potter because Dumbledore will sack you?" responded the girl in an innocent tone.
"Wrong answer" said an icy voice in a tone that Harry knew well. Severus Snape was standing not far behind the witch holding the apparent Miss. Tanaka. "You will join me in detention tomorrow Miss. Tanaka in the dungeons as well. 7 o'clock don't be late. As for the rest of you, another detention is in order. Wednesday night at 8 in the trophy room" Snape did not spare the girl still sitting at the table a glance. He would later regret that, but he turned and left and Professor Summers followed him. Hermione interjected
"But professor, she's new here, shouldn't she..." but Herimone was interrupted by a shrill protest,
"I am NOT new here Hermione Granger!!" yelled Tanaka "Just because I don't kiss up to Gryffindors or make a habit of attacking them, means I am ignored." Hermione made a few flustered noises but the girl just turned and took the unfortunate Bethany Knight by the arm and said, "Come on then you". The girl hesitated, but then got up and followed Tanaka out of the Great Hall.
"What the Hell was that?" Harry asked "They all totally ignored her at dinner, but when we bothered her..."
"The Slytherins" continued Ginny "They just..."
"That was weird" added Neville.
"Stop saying they" said a cold voice from behind them. The Gryffindors turned to see Draco Malfoy sneering at them. "We didn't do anything" he continued. "She decided that she wanted you to take your bile back where you came from"
"The rest of us" said a girl with long black hair "Don't care to talk to the stupid, so go back to your Tower and go have a drink with Dumbledore or something, leave the rest of us to clean up after you just like your parents" And with that the group of Slytherins swept by, and Harry thought he was a little more jostled by one of the boys than necessary. He also noticed several old faces missing from the group and that there were several faces he had not seen before; but all had seemed to know his group which meant that it wasn't their first year at the castle.
"Let's get back to the dormitory" said Ginny "We can talk there"
"Yeah" echoed Ron "Let's go" The five friends headed off in the direction of Gryffindor Tower.
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Bethany stared at the girl who had "rescued" her. *Why. Why would she do that?*. The girl turned abruptly and said,
"Well, what's your name?"
"Bethany" said Bethany quietly.
"I'm Michiko" said the girl simply. "Follow me to the common room" The girl led the way to a corridor with a dead end. She tapped a stone on the wall and muttered "Thuriaz". The stones opened to reveal stone steps that led down into a common room furnished in green with a fire burning low in the common room. Michiko strode forward and sat down on a couch beside the blond boy from the train, she motioned Bethany to sit beside her. The boy turned to sneer at her.
"Picking up strays, are you Michi?" he asked. Instead of replying, Michiko cuffed him across the back of the head.
"You should like her Draco" she shot back "She's a pureblood Slytherin" "Yeah, well so is Pansy" said the accented voice of the other boy that was on the train. "What makes her different?"
"She appears to have a brain in her head" said Michiko simply"and I'd hate to lose a mind to Pansy and her gang".
"Well" said a girl that looked exactly like Michiko "I hope you know what you're doing".
"Good" said Michiko, she turned to Bethany "This is Bethany guys, Bethany this is my twin sister Yukiko, and they're Kathryn, Alec and Draco." Each student nodded curtly in turn at Bethany.
"Hi" she said and it was barely over a whisper.
"Can it be?" said Alec with mock surprise "A quiet girl? I've never met one of them before..." He received three pillows in his face. "Jeez, all this violence"
"I'll show you violence" said Kathryn as she stood, but she never got to administer the curse she wanted because at that moment Professor Snape strode into the common room. As he passed the group he nodded to the group. Suddenly he stopped and turned.
"Bethany?" he asked.
AN Oh that was fun!! Well more reviews=more story you know. If you don't review because you want the story to stop, my psychic adviser will tell me so REVIEW!!!!!! Please?!?!? *gets down on knees* Pretty please?? Oh come on, the button is so pretty!! eeHe