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A/N: Don't forget to R&R this fic and the other one! Thank you so much to all my reviewers!
Kinz: Lol well really, if I don't get a lot of reviews it means like nobody likes it and there's no point in writing it. Duh! Lol. Yeah and I changed it because there were too many complications to her being in Slytherin. Like that one dream in the second or third chapter. It shows a girl hugging Harry and that's supposed to be in the Gryffindor common room. There are a lot more complications that I don't wanna go through with…and yes that means I'm lazy. Thank you so much for reviewing!
tenniStar514: Lol I almost made her a Slytherin. Truth be told, I'm glad she isn't a Slytherin either. Thanks for your review and betaing!
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Ok everyone, this is gonna be a lame chapter cuz I'm not in the writing mood but I gotta finish so please excuse it's horribleness. Anyway, on with the story!
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The Gryffindors clapped hard, especially the Golden Trio. Kelli slowly made her way over to the table and sat down between Hermione and Harry.
"I'm glad you made it into Gryffindor. Who knows what could've happened if you were in Slytherin," Harry said, giving her a small smile. His exotic green eyes entranced her as she muttered a thanks and flashed him her own dazzling smile.
The sixth years finished their dinner without delay and headed up to the dorms for a good night's sleep. Reaching the portrait of the fat lady, Hermione told her the password and the four of them entered, exhausted. They bid their good-nights and went up to bed.
The next morning, Kelli woke early to prepare for breakfast, and her first class, potions. Professor McGonagall had told her that she would be in the same class as the sixth years, but also taking extra classes during their electives to catch her up. She was relieved she didn't have to be in the same class as the first years.
"Where's Kelli?" Harry asked casually as he buttered his toast down in the Great Hall.
"No need to worry, Harry. She said she'd be down soon," Hermione replied, nose buried in a book as usual.
"How can you be reading already on the first day back?" Ron cried. He stared in disgust at Hermione.
Hermione looked at him. "I need to be prepared. Speaking of being prepared, you should be too," she said in her usual bossy learning voice.
Ron and Harry groaned. Luckily for them, they were saved by Kelli joining them at the table.
"Hey! What's up?" she asked in her American voice and accent. The three friends stared at her. "What? What'd I say?"
"Nothing. It's just that we're not used to an American accent," Hermione replied.
Kelli shrugged. "Ok. Fine with me. What class do you guys have first?"
"Potions," came from three voices.
"Awesome! We can walk down together!" Kelli exclaimed loudly. The students at the Slytherin table looked over and snickered. Kelli looked hurt.
"Forget them, Kelli," Harry comforted her, glaring at the Slytherins, especially Malfoy.
After breakfast, the four of them headed down to the dungeons to potions. When they arrived, Malfoy was blocking the entrance.
"Oh look, it's Potty, Weasel, and Mudblood," he sneered, ignoring Kelli.
"Get out of my way, Malfoy, unless you want me hexing you," Harry snarled, ready to pull his want out.
Malfoy just smirked and moved as Professor Snape strode down the stairs. "Potter, what are you doing? Planning to make some disturbance in class again? Five points from Gryffindor."
Harry groaned, along with the rest of the Gryffindors. Fortunately, he controlled his temper and held himself back from shouting a nasty comment back at Snape.
"Now, I see that everyone is here. Good. First, we'll start with brewing a simple potion many sixth years should know by now. Please retrieve the ingredients from the potions cupboard and follow the instructions on the board," he said as he waved his wand and words appeared on the chalkboard.
Hermione had no trouble getting the potion brewed, and Ron and Harry were doing fine as well. Neville, of course, had Hermione whispering instructions into his ear like always. Kelli was having a bit of trouble, with nobody helping her. What made it worse, was that Professor Snape came by and even seeing that she was in trouble, he glared at her and his voice was hard as steel.
"Ms. Matthews, can you see the board? Tell me what the first line says," Snape snapped at her.
Kelli's voice was quivering. "First put five quarts of water into your cauldron. Then boil it and wait five minutes before adding the next five ingredients."
"And how many minutes did you wait?" Professor Snape was about to blow. "Any infant would understand this, Ms. Matthews! Five points from Gryffindor for your stupidity."
Harry was aghast. She was new, and shouldn't be treated like this. "You can't take away points because she's never had a single lesson before in her life! That's not fair!" he exclaimed. Apparently, this was the wrong thing to do.
"Are you questioning my authorities, Potter? Make that fifty more points from Gryffindor for your cheek," Snape snarled, and then went away, leaving all the Gryffindors seething.
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"I can't believe he took fifty-five points away! Kelli didn't even know first year stuff! How can he do this?" Ron shouted after class was over. Kelli looked embarrassed.
"I'm sorry. It's my entire fault. I should have learned all I should know before coming here. Then maybe I'll know some 'first year stuff'," she said sarcastically and ran off, tears flowing freely.
"Ron you git!" Hermione cried. "How could you say that? It's enough that Snape had to make her feel bad, but you couldn't keep your big mouth shut, could you?"
Ron looked angry. He didn't mean to make her run off. It wasn't supposed to come out like that. "Well it's not my fault she took it that way. It wasn't meant to come out like that!"
"Come on, let's get to class. Then we'll look for Kelli after," Harry said, trying to prevent an argument between his two best friends.
Luckily, they didn't have to look for Kelli. She came to Herbology with Parvati and Lavender. What was puzzling was her attitude towards Harry, Hermione, and Ron.
"Kelli, can you please pass the brussel seeds?" Harry asked.
Kelli pushed the platter of seeds across to him so hard it fell to the floor. "Oops. Sorry Potter," she said, but didn't look sorry at all.
"Mr. Potter! Please do be careful with the seeds!" Professor Sprout cried.
"What's with her?" Harry asked Parvati.
"It's your friend," she said shortly, not looking at him. Harry was used to this with lots of people. Students from Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and even Gryffindor mostly ignored him. It was pretty peculiar. Six years ago he was their hero. Now Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic, was trying to make everyone think he was a liar. Harry knew that the Minister knew that Voldemort was alive. Fudge just didn't want to give up his power.
The rest of Herbology was miserable for Harry, just like any other class would be. Kelli was even worse to Ron than Harry. She ignored Hermione completely. After class, Harry watched her walk out of the greenhouse with Parvati and Lavender with a sad expression. She did glance back once, but turned away quickly when their eyes met.
"What's her problem? She's way too sensitive," Ron said, exasperated. He had an awful class, and was in a bad mood.
"It's you, in case you haven't noticed," Hermione said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "She's new, and she barely knows anything. Then you have to remind her after a disastrous potions class."
"So? Why are you so happy? She ignored you," he sulked. Ron was in a bad mood for the rest of the day.
A whole month passed by, and soon it was October. Kelli was still angry with Ron for what he did, and did something bad to Harry every class. She ignored Hermione as well. Harry noticed, however, that Draco Malfoy was having fun watching her torture them. He'd make his move pretty soon, Harry thought.
One October morning, everyone at breakfast was in for a treat. The Headmaster had announced that there was going to be a Halloween ball, and Muggle style too. Unfortunately for the younger students, only 4th years and older were aloud to attend. This was to take place on Halloween after the feast. They had permission to go to Hogsmeade to buy all the necessities and clothes for the ball that weekend.
For the next week, the school was buzzing about the upcoming ball, and who to ask. Harry and Ron were down. Harry didn't know who to ask, considering the whole school practically hated his guts. Ron wanted to ask Hermione, but she wasn't planning on going. She claimed she had to 'study'.
Kelli wasn't too excited about the ball either. Sure it seemed like a lot of fun, but she would have trouble getting a date. She wasn't as pretty as most of the girls at Hogwarts, and she wasn't smart either. Most of the guys didn't even know her! How she wished she wasn't fighting with Harry and Ron right now.
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Time passed and soon, it was a week until the ball. Harry still hadn't asked anyone, and Ron was too nervous to ask Hermione.
"Why don't you just ask her? I'm sure she likes you, and is afraid to admit it as well. Just go on and ask her," Harry said, pushing Ron towards his crush, who was reading a book intently.
"Hermione. Ron has something to say to you," Harry said, stressing each word as he pushed the struggling Ron towards his other best friend. Ginny, who was sitting next to Hermione, giggled.
"Come on Ron. This is going to be funny," she said, laughing at her older brother's face, which was turning red.
"H-hermione? Will you go to the ball with me?" he said, then turned around and crouched down, as if he were afraid of the answer.
"Of course," Hermione replied so casually that Ron did a double take. He stared, dumbfounded.
"W-what?" he managed to choke out. Harry and Ginny were watching, amused expressions on their faces.
"I said of course. Now would you mind going away so I can finish this book by tomorrow?" she said irritably. Ron stumbled back into the boy's dormitories with Harry at his heels.
"That wasn't so hard, now was it?" Harry asked, grinning at his best friend.
Ron shrugged. "Well, at least I have someone to go with. What about you?"
"Oh I'll find someone," Harry said in a hollow voice.
That night, Harry lay in bed, wondering if he was going to find someone. The whole school practically hated him, so why not just get killed by Voldemort and have everyone be panicking again? It would be so much easier.
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"Harry? I need to talk to you," a feminine voice came from behind Harry. He turned around and found Kelli's mystic blue eyes staring back at him.
"What? Come to make me feel even worse? I don't even get why you're mad at me. It was Ron who said it," he said, aggravated.
Kelli's eyes filled up with tears, then hatred took over. "I was just going to apologize. I guess you don't need it then," she said, then stomped off.
Harry banged his fist so hard that everyone in the Great Hall turned to look at him. "Why is everything my fault?" he shouted.
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"Kelli! Kelli! Wait up!" Harry called through the corridor, running to catch up with her.
Kelli turned around at the sound of her name. After seeing Harry, a hurt look entered her face and she walked faster, trying to get away.
"Kelli! Wait. I need to talk to you," Harry said, catching up with her.
"Why should I listen? Did you come to make me feel worse?" she said, tears threatening to flow.
"Listen Kelli. I'm sorry. I was just in a really bad mood this morning. I didn't mean to yell at you. And I'm sorry about what Ron said before. It wasn't really nice of him," Harry said sincerely.
Kelli studied him for a minute before answering, "Oh. Well, I guess it's all right. I mean, I was going to apologize before."
"So do you accept my sincerest apology?" Harry grinned.
"Only if you accept mine," Kelli said.
"Done," Harry replied. There was an awkward silence after that.
"So…do you have a date for the ball yet?" Kelli asked, breaking the stillness.
Harry blushed. He averted his eyes and said, "No."
"Oh. Well, I was wondering if you would like to go with me," she said shyly, grinning up at him.
Harry felt like his heart would explode right then. He felt so happy, so happy that they made up and now he had a date for the ball. He nodded, still smiling. Kelli smiled back at him and that moment became one of Harry's most treasured ones ever.
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A/N: Yeah I know, pretty bad chapter. I don't like it that much. The next one will be really good though, I promise. Please review!