Author's note: I named the fanfic Mirror, Mirror because there's this song by M2M called Mirror, Mirror that really fits this fanfic. Every other chapter or so I'll start off the chapter with a line or two from the song. That will basically be the theme for the following chapters until a new line comes up… I've never done the whole 'song fic' thing before, so I'm trying it now. This fanfic is basically trying a whole bunch of new things. Please bear with me and I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything related to HP… I do own the main character of this fanfic and her family. And the title and song lyrics do not belong to me either. If all this stuff belonged to me, do you think I would be writing Fanfics?
Summary: It's the sixth year of Hogwarts. A normal Gryffindor girl, Juliana Montoya, finds herself getting a makeover from Ginny Weasley. Not too long after she expresses her feeling for Harry. But then an argument causes them to break up. Will Juliana ever say sorry? Can she save Harry from certain doom?
Mirror, Mirror
A Fanfic by Ravyn89
Why don't I like the girl I see, the one who's standing right in front of me…
It would be just another uneventful year at Hogwarts. Well for her it would be. For people like Harry Potter… well events always seemed to suck Harry in. But for someone as insignificant as Juliana Montoya it would be just the regular Hogwarts stuff. Classes, Quidditch games, tests, Slytherin taunts and most of all… just all around watching and worrying about Voldemort. Juli's parents almost didn't let her go to school this year because they finally believed that he was back. Plus they knew that he was after Harry and didn't want her anywhere near his influence. But Juli wanted nothing more than to pass through her last two years of Hogwarts quickly so she could either become a Healer at St. Mungo's or become Minister of Magic. She wasn't sure which one she really wanted to do yet, though.
Unfortunately that also meant another year of working harder than ever to pass all her classes and tests without any friends to help. Okay, so she hung out with Ginny Weasley often and was good friends with the Weasley twins… But Ginny was a year younger than her and Fred and George left Hogwarts last year.
Sighing heavily that morning, Juliana finally climbed out of bed an hour before anybody else in her dormitory would. Hermione Granger had her usual large book on her bedside table while Pavarti Patil and Lavender Brown had their curtains open so they could talk long into the night. At the foot of her bed, Juli rummaged around her extremely organized trunk and pulled out her robes. Unlike most other girls in Hogwarts she also pulled out the school uniform. It wasn't required, but she didn't feel like wearing anything else. Ginny had mentioned often (in a friendly way) that she had no fashion sense. So Juli ended up wearing her school uniform every single day, even during the summer.
Having dressed, she dragged her feet over to her bedside table and picked up her glasses. Everything around came into clear focus, so she could see exactly what the title of the book Hermione had been reading. Her glasses were one of the few things that people like Pavarti and Lavender found stylish about her. They were rectangular but fairly thin. At least, they were as thin as you could get them while fitting the bifocal in as well. They framed hazel eyes with a nice dark purplish frame. Her brown hair was fairly long and thin. Looking at herself in the mirror many of the Slytherin taunts echoed in her head: Geek; nerd; freak…
She, of course, wasn't a know it all because she didn't tend to memorize the text books like Hermione did. But Juli was well known for her novel size notes and spending much of her day studying. The one class she really excelled at almost without studying was potions. There was almost no way that Professor Snape could mark her down because she did everything perfectly.
Starting to get annoyed by her own reflection, Juli returned to her trunk and flung a few books in her book bag. She then continued on to grab some parchment, a couple of quills and her ink. With that she lugged her bag onto her shoulder and set out for breakfast. She was surprised to see people already sitting and eating. Mostly at the Gryffindor table were some seventh years, a couple of anxious first years, Ginny, Ron, Neville and Harry Potter. Juli hesitated in the door of the Great Hall but when the young red head girl glanced at her and waved, she walked timidly to an empty seat next to Ron.
"I don't think I've seen you around," said Neville, glancing at Juli's attire. "No, wait… You're the study freak."
"Hmmmm…"
"Harry, Neville, this is my friend, Juliana Montoya. Juli, I believe you know Harry Potter… this is Neville Longbottom," said Ginny, grinning.
"You own the toad, right?" said Juli, not looking at anybody but putting some marmalade on her toast.
"Well… er… yeah," said Neville, she could tell he was blushing slightly. "So, you already know Ron?"
"She comes over to my house every once and a while," shrugged Ron. "She's mostly friends with the twins and Ginny though."
"How are Fred and George doing, by the way?" asked Juli, taking a bite of her toast and looking up at Ron and Harry. "Apparently I can get a discount at their store."
"We have History of Magic first, right?" yawned Hermione, sitting down next to Ginny.
"That's what the schedule says," said Ron, rolling his eyes. "Did you forget to look, or something?"
Hermione chose to ignore this as she poured some milk in her oatmeal and took a bite. The silence in the group was almost deafening and Juli was about to grab a book when she felt something hit the back of her head. She turned around in her seat very slowly and started to reach down as if grabbing a book out of her bag. But when she did turn around she saw a paper airplane on the ground. Juli grabbed a book and looked up. Seeing Malfoy and his group of Slytherins laughing, as if paper airplanes hitting people in the back of the head was the funniest thing imaginable.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry, following her line of sight to the Slytherin table.
He seemed to understand and glared at Malfoy. Malfoy just pretended to look all shocked and scared, until the Slytherins started laughing again. He then joined in, unable to contain himself. Right then Hermione looked up.
"Oh, them again," she said, rolling her eyes. "Just ignore them."
"I do…" sighed Juli, turning back around and propping open her book. It was the new Defense Against the Dark Arts book, which they would have after lunch.
Ron stared at in disgust and pushed his food away as if another girl similar to Hermione was just too much. Harry, however, glanced up at the teachers table where the new Dark Arts teacher was sitting. Everybody else followed his gaze… except Juli.
"I have some Skiving Snack Boxes if she turns out to be another Umbridge," said Ginny, almost nastily.
"I'll take one after lunch…" muttered Ron, staring up at the woman.
"Personally I believe we should give her a chance before we start skipping classes," said Hermione, talking almost as if she felt like telling on them.
"We could start DA again," suggested Neville.
"DA?" said Juli, raising an eyebrow and looking up at Neville.
"I told you about it last year," said Ginny. "So did Fred and George. It was the secret Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons."
"Oh…" said Juli. "Well I don't think you'll need them this year. The teacher's my aunt."
"What?" said everybody in unison. They all exchanged looks. Hermione was the first to get a hold of herself.
"So, what are your aunt's qualifications?" she asked, with a slight cough.
"She's an ex Death Eater like Professor Snape," said Juli, turning a page. "You'll like her. Her classes will probably be a lot like Imposter Moody's… but she's nicer."
"But she was a Death Eater!" cried Ron indignantly.
"Who only ever wanted to murder somebody," said Juli exasperatedly. "She was hardly a part of You-Know-Who's circle. All she had to say was people were getting suspicious leave and nobody thought twice."
"So, she's not even playing spy?" said Ginny in disappointment.
"Well she probably wouldn't want to," said Juli. "And she wouldn't be able to get as much information as others would."
"You mean Snape," said Harry.
"For one, it's Professor Snape. And two, you really shouldn't be saying those things around so many people," said a voice from behind Juli.
Immediately Ron and Harry spun around in their seats. Juliana just sighed, took the last bite of her toast, closed her book and turned to look at her aunt, Elizabeth Langdon. Professor Langdon had curly black hair that Juli had always been jealous of and almost silver grey eyes. As Harry and Ron tried to think of something to say, Juli glanced at her watch and shoved her book back in her bag.
"Class starts soon," she announced, without actually expecting anybody to hear her. But Hermione looked at the boys disapprovingly and followed Juliana out of the Great Hall. Ginny followed suit.
"I have Transfiguration first," said Ginny, glancing at her schedule. "That's not too far from History of Magic."
"I guess," said Juli, glancing back at Harry who was looking far more relieved than when Professor Langdon had first showed up.
"You know," said Ginny, looking Juliana up and down. "What we need is to get you a new wardrobe."
"Excuse me?" said Juli in shock, wrenching her gaze away from Harry and rushing after the other two girls. "First you say I have a bad fashion sense and now you want to get me clothes?"
"As long as I'm there to help, it couldn't be too horrible!" shrugged Ginny.
"How are you going to get the clothes?" asked Hermione, stopping outside the Transfiguration Corridor.
"There are ways," said Ginny thoughtfully. "Anyways, talk to you later! Bye!"
With that the red headed girl ran off toward her class leaving Juli feeling very dazed. Hermione rolled her eyes as if expecting the worst out of Ginny. Finally she sighed and walked off to History of Magic with Juli trailing behind.