NA/ I know this is a boring chapter, but it will be needed for later, trust me!

A Sorting Hard Time

The teachers dragged the girl into a chamber close by, revealing her clothing. It looked as if she was wearing a Robbing Hood version of clothes fitted perfectly for a girl. A very long shirt that made up for both, the shirt and the skirt, a belt signifying her waist along with a small bag in the side, very high leather boots that surpassed her knees, and leather gloves that reached past her elbows but leaving bare her fingers. The skin that should be seen in her arms and legs was covered in what seemed white spandex.

As Snape and Dumbledore came out of the chamber they signal everyone to get into the Hall. Malfoy cheeks where slightly pink as if he had just blushed. Everyone sat down in his or her correspondent table.

"What do you reckon that was all about?" asked Ron to Harry and Hermione.

"I don't know, but I can't help to think it has something to do with what Malfoy said", Hermione said making sure Ginny was out of earshot.

"I don't think so", said Harry remembering the Leaky Caldron, "I saw that girl when I was staying in the Leaky Caldron, I don't think she could have just walked in there if she was a muggle, unless she had some connection with someone magical".

"She looks as if she just ran a marathon or som…" Hermione suddenly stop when she looked at the high table.

Dumbledore was on his feet, looking down at his students. Professor McGonagall came in carrying the three-legged stool with the Sorting Hat on top of it and a roll of parchment under her arm. She placed the Sorting Hat on the stool and waited (according to Harry) for no reason at all. Then Dumbledore started to speak.

"Before we start with the traditional sorting ceremony some else needs to be sorted before the first years. I would likefrom you all", he said beaming at his students, "that you do not show any trace prejudice to this student in particular. She has earned her way to this school in a way that most of you would have turned down. I expect that in which ever house she is sorted in, she will be treated with respect and I will also beg that her future sixth year fellows will show her our ways and that they will help in her studies during the time that it takes for her to catch up with the past years, I will look this task to the past prefects as their achievement is the most noticeable".

Professor McGonagall read out of her parchment, "Alexia Moonshire". The doors opened and in came the girl, but now she was dressed in her Hogwarts' robes, she walked up, sat on the stool and put the sorting hat on. They waited for like about a minute until rip of a mouth from the sorting hat opened and shouted, "GRYFFINDOR!"

All of the teachers clapped hard with huge smiles upon their faces, unlike the rest of the Gryffindors that somehow clapped, everyone, obviously, still had the shock of her arrival. Alexia appeared not to mind at all, she was heading toward the table now. Harry realized that she would be sitting next to Hermione since there was still one empty spot beside her. Hermione immediately said hi, Ron and Harry fallowed.

Harry could see her a lot better now. Her skin milky-white, her hair was wavy and she had a very delicate face as if she was a perfect carved wood doll. She brought her hands from under the table in order to shake their hands. McGonagall was now calling out the names of the first years.

"I can't believe that I'm finally coming to learn magic, I've dreaming about it for quite sometime now, call me Moonie", she said in a very sweet note of voice.

"Why Moonie?", Ron blurted out.

"The truth is, I don't like my name and I have a tendency of not living in this little place everyone likes to calls 'Earth', I like to write fantasy stories you see". Moonie explained as if she had done it a thousand times before.

"I'm Hermione Granger, and this Ron Weasley and Harry Potter"

"Nice to meet you all", at this moment the food appeared in the table and all over the hall people were talking cheerfully, which meant everyone had gotten over Moonie's sudden appearance.

"Wouldn't any of you, by any chance, didn't throw all of the past years notes?" Moonie ask with an air of asking a near miracle.

"Don't worry about those, I have them in my house. All I have to do is write home and tell my parents to send them to me", said Hermione quickly knowing that Harry and Ron would have 99.9 of chances of having them thrown out.

"Great! I have to get started right away if want to catch up, and that's not mentioning that I have to do my O.W.L.S. this year".

Harry knew what Hermione was thinking just by looking at the smile on her face, she had finally found someone that took studies as serious as she did. As the feast went on Harry notice Malfoy staring at Moonie several times, only taking his eyes away when someone talked to him. When the feast was finish Harry noticed him eying her as they walked out together. They showed her through the passages and into the Gryffindor common room, Hermione took her into the girl's dormitories talking about next day's lessons and on how much Moonie seemed interested in arithmancy.

Next morning Harry knew no Gryffindor had a problem with Moonie, they went to Herbology with the Hufflepuffs who all seemed very keen on helping her, but Hermione took charge. As they went back to the castle Harry spotted Luna walking along her Ravenclaw fifth year fellows towards Herbology, he didn't know why, but now any sight of Luna made him blushed. She caught his eye for a moment; her cheeks when pink and Harry's went even pinker.

Potions was the first time they will have to see the Slytherins and Harry had to admit that not only him, but Hermione and Ron too, where getting a bit nervous. How would the Slytherins treat her, knowing she's a muggle? At this moment Harry couldn't help thinking how in the world was Moonie going to be able to do magic.

As they reached Snape's class the Slytherins were eying them closely. Malfoy's cheeks went pink at the sight of Moonie.

"I don't like filthy muggles!" snapped Pansy Parkinson in Moonie's face. Harry, Ron and Hermione made to step in front at once, but Moonie put up a hand to stop them.

"And I don't like stupid xenophobic purebloods!" snapped Moonie even closer to Pansy's face.

"Who are you calling stupid xenofloblic muggle?!"

"Well, I do not see any other stupid xenophobic pureblood around here do you?", Pansy looked enraged, "how much anyone wanna bet that you don't even know what xenophobic means! You cannot even say it right!"

Both girls were glaring at each other, "Back me up Draco!", ordered Pansy without taking her eyes of Moonie's. At this point Malfoy's face went red and worried, Harry could tell from miles away that Malfoy didn't want to insult Moonie, he was starting to believe that Malfoy had a crush on Moonie ever since the Leaky Cauldron. When Malfoy staid quiet Pansy's face look crest fallen.

Moonie's lip curl into a smirk, "I thought so", she said in low whisper towards Pansy that unmistakably carried all through out the dungeon. Then Snape came out of the class.

"Having trouble?", Snape ask eying Pansy and Moonie that were still in front of each others faces, Pansy was a lot much taller that Moonie.

"Just solving an insignificant problem professor" said Moonie without a single trace of fear or guilt. Malfoy's stare now turned misty.

"Perfect. Now we can start the class", Snape motion for the class to get it and then turned to Moonie, "I expect for you to do well in this class Miss Moonshire, as it's the easiest kind of magic that you'll do".

"I've been expecting this class with great anticipation professor", and she walked in towards Hermione, Ron and Harry. Malfoy had an expression in his face that resembled a harmless puppy, he made to sit besides her.

They were now sitting Malfoy, Moonie, Hermione, Ron and Harry in that order on the table. "You don't have to worry about potions that much Moonie", said Hermione breaking the silence, since Malfoy was staring at Moonie open mouthed, and Moonie was feeling a bit uncomfortable.

Snape put on a really difficult potion this time, Harry had the feeling the Snape was testing Moonie for he passed by many times eying her potion, but he smile when Moonie finished it even before Hermione. Harry also suspected that Malfoy was doing his best to impress Moonie with the good outcome of his potion. But unlike Hermione, Moonie or Draco, Ron's and Harry's potion wasn't coming along that good, instead of turning light yellow it turned mucky brown.

"That was fun wasn't?", said Moonie with her face shimmering from the mist that came from her cauldron.

"To tell you the truth I expected something worse", said Hermione with her face just like Moonie's.

"Yeah, me too, but I'm glad its over, at least now I know that I'm able to do all the potions below this year"

"Too true, if this was easy for you, the others will be a piece of cake"

"You guys know something?", said Ron suddenly, "Both of you are NOT helping!", very frustrated, both, Hermione and Moonie chuckle.

"You're very good at it", said a small voice to their left, they all looked around and saw Malfoy looking as red as they had never seen him.

"Thank you", said Moonie with a cute small smile as she filled in her flask to hand in at the end of the lesson.

The rest of the Slytherins gawp at Malfoy, at this site Malfoy shut up and continue with his potion. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other, all of them were thinking the exact same thing: Malfoy was crazy for Moonie.