(A/N: Yo, ppl! Sorry for da looong time taken to update. I've been seriously busy. For some reason, girl-Al is turning out to be like a mary-sue and I'm gonna refer to Al as Arina, his alter ego. Great. Enjoy.)

Chapter 4: Misjudged

"Arina, I'm Mrs Weasley, these are my sons," she pointed to each one in turn as she said, "Fred, George and Ronald, my other sons are at work. This is my daughter Ginny, this is Hermione, and finally, this is Harry. You'll be staying in the same room as Ginny and Hermione."

"Yes, Mrs Weasley," Arina bowed slightly to her, "Thank you for letting me stay here."

Mrs Weasley was surprised by the politeness and formality of Arina, but she didn't mind, the girl was such darling.

"Dear, you needn't be so polite," and hugged Arina. Arina blushed slightly and then froze. Only one word could explain this, cat. Crookshanks to be precise. Ginny rolled her eyes and whispered to Hermione, "She's probably gonna be scared of your cat and get sympathy from everyone, typical."

"I actually agree with you." But what Al did next surprised them.

"KITTY!" Arina borrowed Major Armstrongs sparkles and grabbed Crookshanks, hugging it tightly, shocking everybody. Ginny and Hermione had misjudged her.

"It's so cuuuute! What's its name?"

"Umm… Crookshanks."

"Hello, Crookshanks, you're just the cutest little cat aren't ya?"

"You actually think that that thing is cute? It's butt ugly, and fat. Anybody must be out of their mind to think, that is cute." Ron stated, with obvious disgust. Harry shook his head, his best friend would never learn to have any tact. Arina looked shocked and horrified at what Ron had said. She looked like she was going to cry.

"You're worse than brother!" she shouted and, crying, ran out the door. Everyone, including Ginny and Hermione, glared at Ron.

"What?" Ron asked. Harry sighed, he was wondering how Hermione and Ginny had learned to deal with Ron and his unintentional insults.

"I'll go find her." It was Hermione who spoke.

-Outside-

Arina ran and hid behind a nearby tree. She slumped down sobbing softly. She wasn't sad about the insult the cat anymore, now she was se she missed her brother. They had never been separated like this before, and she was already missing him. (A/N: Crap! I'm getting emotional.)

"Arina?" A hesitant voice was heard.

"Yes?" Arina replied meekly.

"It's me, Hermione. I'm sorry about what Ron said. That idiot has no absolutely no tact whatsoever."

"It's alright." Arina replied sadly, "I'm not really thinking about that anymore."

"Oh, I understand. The others are probably worried, so we should go back." Arina smiled at Hermione. "Thanks." Arina muttered sweetly and they went back.

They got back to the Burrow, where Arina was shown her room. She put down her stuff and looked around.

"This is a pretty room."

"Probably nothing compared to where you live." Ginny said sarcastically.

"Not at all. I live with brother in the dorms at the military headquarters he works at. We haven't had a proper home in a long time."

Ginny was shocked. Maybe she shouldn't be so mean to this girl. She just seemed a bit suspicious, but she seemed to be nice. Maybe she would give Arina a chance.

"This is your bed." Ginny said in a considerately nicer tone.

La dee da dee da.

-The next morning-

Arina woke up at dawn. She showered, changed and started making breakfast, enough for Ed and her (which is a lot, consideringhowmuch Ed ate), forgetting she was at the Burrow. She wore her girl clothes though. Soon, Mrs Weasley woke up and was surprised to find Arina making breakfast, the table set. (Al remembered, at some point, that she wasn't in the dorms anymore)

"Oh! Mrs Weasley, morning. Breakfast is ready, if you're hungry. I already ate." And with that, she went to her room and started reading one of the books she brought with her.

Hermione woke up to find Arina reading. She remembered that Arina probably wouldn't have studied the first 5 years worth of stuff.

"Arina, have you read the books for years 1-5?"

"N-no…"

"Then do you need to borrow mine?"

"That would be nice."

"Here you go then."

Arina started reading year 1 textbooks (well duh, did you think she would read year 3 or 4 first?)… like, 2 hours later, she was on year 3. Hermione had gone downstairs and Ginny had woken up and gone downstairs too. Like another hour later, Hermione came up and saw that Arina was halfway through the year 4 books. Hermione was shocked. Arina read fast. And blah dee da dee blah… day ends, and so on and so forth.

A/N: Lame chapter alert! I'm low in spirits 'cause a personality test my school made everyone take said that I'm not funny or active, it's just a 'mask' I put on. People, please review and tell me if I should make this Elricest. If not, I'll just leave it alone and there will be no pairings. Thx.)