The New Term Feast was well slept on and the first day of classes had begun. As Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger all stepped into their first Transfiguration class of the day and year, they knew that something had changed. There was a new and unfamiliar excitement in the room.
"What's going on?" Ron asked Seamus Finnigan, a fellow Gryffindor, as they passed by him.
"It's rumored that we are getting a new student from America!" Seamus said excitedly.
"Is that so…" Harry started before he was interrupted by a stern voice from the front of the room.
"Everyone sit down and eyes front!" the voice called out.
The voice belonged to an older, stern looking witch in green robes.
"I believe that you have heard that we are getting a new student here at Hogwarts." Professor McGonagall continued. "She was not here yesterday at the feast because her transportation was delayed. I would like to introduce u to Emily Portwater!"
Out of the corner of his eye, Harry saw Draco Malfoy whisper to his two idiots of pals as Emily walked out of the shadows of the classroom.
Emily was pretty. She had long, dirty blonde hair that had light blonde highlights in it. Her eyes were her most stunning feature. They were of the deepest blue almost like a dark blue sapphire. She was tall and held herself proudly almost like a queen.
"This is Emily Portwater," Professor McGonagall said.
"Hello," Emily said shyly to all of the people in the room.
"Hello!" everyone chorused loudly.
"What house are you in?" Ernie Macmillian asked hopefully.
"Gryffindor," she responded shortly.
The rest of the class proved to be very surprising. It seemed that Emily was as good as or better at Transfiguration than Hermione was for she was able to turn her goblet into a parrot on her first try and she won thirty-five points for Gryffindor.
When the bell rung, Emily and Hermione were deep in conversation about America, their classes (they were taking all of the same ones), life, and a lot of other things that Harry and Ron did not understand.
"So, you're taking all of the same classes as me? That's wonderful!" Hermione squealed excitedly.
"Yes! I'm really excited about this year! Just out of curiosity, how are your Care of Magical Creature classes?" Emily asked.
At this question, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all looked at each other.
"Well," Hermione started slowly. "We don't really deal with the most interesting creatures."
Emily sighed and shook her head sadly. The three looked at her in wonder.
"It's just that I really enjoy being around magical creatures!" Emily explained. Then she told them about her home and her family.
"At home, we take care of magical creatures. My dad's a trainer and breeder of them. At home there are many creatures such as owls (many rare and common ones), hippogriffs, cats, dogs, a phoenix, in a pond right by the house there are mermaids, and many other magical beasts. It's a lot of fun taking care of them for you learn how they react to different things and learn each ones personality."
At lunch that day, Emily was talking and meeting her fellow Gryffindors and anyone else who wondered by. She was talking so much that she hardly ate anything. She left the Great Hall, only after all of the questions had died down and she had gotten something to eat, and left with her new friend Ginny. When they had arrived at the fifth floor, a small group stopped them. Emily and Ginny pushed their way over to a redhead they knew well. Before they had time to ask a question, Ron said, "Malfoy's taunting Hermione again."
Emily nodded and pushed through the crowd and towards her friend. She waited near the front for the right moment to help Hermione.
"So, you seem to have a new match don't you mudblood? You won't be able to get all of the glory for Gryffindor now! Once that happens, what are you going to do? I bet you would…" Malfoy taunted until he saw that a wand was pointed at his neck.
"She would stay here and finish her schooling and then go on and live her life. There is always going to be someone better than you. You should know that by now Malfoy!" Emily snarled pushing Hermione towards Ron, Harry, and Ginny.
"Why do you protect the mudblood? Just because she's in Gryffindor with you? I know that you could have been in Slytherin! I know what you have done!" Malfoy jeered.
"That's enough of your talk! Get going or I'll hex you!"
Malfoy sneered and turned away from Emily who was still holding her wand up. Once Malfoy and the rest of his followers were out of sight, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all came up behind her.
Very slowly, Hermione asked, "How did you get him to leave?"
"Let's just say that I have a bit of an influence over him. And he knew it too," Emily responded casually.
Ginny raised an eyebrow.
"An influence? What do you mean by that?" she asked.
Emily only smiled.
Yay! I'm done with chapter 1! I'm so proud of myself! Pweez give me suggestions for this is my first fanfic. I really need advice! I won't be updating for a while because I'm going away to camp for two weeks! That will be fun…
I need to thank dogstar-ebony for helping me put my first chapter on Fanfiction! THANK-YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!
Next chapter coming up soon!