It was nighttime and another row with the Dursleys had started just because Harry had called Dudley a fat pig for playing with his Firebolt. And once again he found himself at the corner of Privet drive storming out of his uncle's house. A few minutes creep by before Harry finally flung his wand arm, the signal for the Knight Bus to come, and asked to go to the Leaky Cauldron.
A few days after his arrival, he came face to face with Draco Malfoy, who apparently was buying his school stuff.
"Got kick out from home again, Potter?" Malfoy ask with a sneer curling.
"So what if I have? At least I'm capable of living without servants" snapped Harry.
At this moment Malfoy was about to throw something back at him when the door from the Leaky Caldron burst open, and in came a very pretty girl that look no older that 15, her dark curly blond hair, that almost reach her waist, was shinning from the light of the sun that came in through the open door. Harry saw that her eyes were light honey brown as they flicked all around the pub.
Harry notice that Malfoy's had his mouth open, and that he was closely staring as the girl walked up to the bar tender Tom and said something in his hear as though not to be overheard. Harry took advantage of this to get rid of Malfoy.
"Oh, did the pretty girl put a jaw hex on you or something Malfoy?" Harry said grinning.
Harry's voice seemed to have brought Malfoy back to reality, because he looked around at Harry with a look of complete distraction, and he walked off.
Harry was quite glad when September 1st came, he knew Diagon Alley so well that it had actually become very boring, he was so ready to get back at Hogwarts that he called a regular muggle taxi to come and pick him up the a day before he actually had to go.
Once in the Hogwarts Express he found Ron, Hermione and Luna, who looked very pretty on her muggle clothing. It appeared that some of his thoughts had spread to his face because Hermione pushed Ron into a compartment leaving him and Luna to chat.
"Uh… Hello Luna", said Harry as he watch Ron and Hermione giggle inside the compartment, "Had a good summer?"
"Can't complain, I helped my dad with lots of new facts for his magazine", said Luna with that, so suddenly, pretty dreamy gaze.
"Shall we go into the compartment now?" Harry ask very annoyed as Hermione and Ron used each other as support for the never ending giggle fit they were having.
"Sure", she said as she opened the compartment door (Ron and Hermione stop giggling at once).
Time creep by as sped through the very dark forest and Ginny came over to chat. A longer while after a voice came through their open compartment door, it was unmistakably Malfoy's.
"I can't believe that the Ministry is allowing this! If only my father were here, nothing of this sort would ever be happening at Hogwarts! What do they think they're doing letting a muggle come to school as if we don't have enough with the mudbloods!"
Ginny stood up slowly and quietly and shut the door.
"A muggle is coming to Hogwarts?" said Hermione breaking the silence.
"But I thought muggles couldn't learn magic?" Ginny said in a low whisper, more to herself than the others.
"They can't possibly past through the anti-muggle protection around Hogwarts!" said Ron out loud.
"How in the world did a muggle found out about magic?" said Harry, leaving a dead silence that lasted the rest of the way.
As they all step down their carriages and into the Entrance Hall, Professor McGonagall was edging near the door as if waiting for someone. Then she suddenly lost her temper when Crabbe accidentally tripped over her robes.
"Do watch where you're going Mr. Crabbe!!" she shouted, "And all of you", she said toward the rest of the students that were just standing right before the doors to the Great Hall, "What are you all waiting for! Get a move on!"
Malfoy was one of them and ignored Professor McGonagall completely. She had started to close the great oak doors as the last remaining students just entered, a shout was heard from the distance outside. "WAIT!!" Everyone stop walking and looked around to the source of the voice. "DON'T CLOSE THE DOORS!! I'M COMING!"
Harry would have sworn that it could be Neville, as he was always last and it would come to no surprise if Neville had been left behind, but this voice was not from Neville, but from a hooded figure that was running at the top of its speed, stumbling in the front steps, screaming at the top of its lungs, it sounded as if it was a girl.
They heard McGonagall cry as the figure came into the castle, "Thank God! You made it!"
"I made it… I made it… I made it…" the figure was repeating in between the huge gasps she was taking trying to breathe.
Dumbledore and Snape now came out of the Great Hall. The figures legs seemed to give away and it stumble into the floor in all fours.
"Right on time!" exclaimed Dumbledore. "I would have never thought it possible", said Snape. All of the teachers (including Snape) had great smiles upon their faces.
"Hurry Severus", said Dumbledore, "Go fetch a strengthening potion", the figure didn't seem capable of standing up anymore, not even with McGonagall's and Dumbledore's help, it looked as if it had drained all of its energy when it stumble into the hall. Snape dashed back while opening a little bottle. Dumbledore and McGonagall pulled the figure so that it would face upward and Snape would be capable of pouring the potion on its trough, and as he did so, its hood fell off. Malfoy jaw had drooped again and was stupidly staring at her. It was the same light honey brown eyes' girl from the Leaky Cauldron two weeks ago.