Halyn
By: MIA202
Summary: Harri Potter is a twin, not to mention a girl. Her older twin brother is named boy-who-lived, while she is swept aside, letting her brother have all the fame and spotlight. Eventually sent to live with the Dursley's. Harri grows up very different from her brother, and anyone else in the wizarding world. What happens though, when it turns out Dumbledore made a mistake? What if Harri has already made herself into a new person and barely remembers her past? Will she be bothered to save a world that has never thought anything of her?
Warning: fem!Harry, child neglect and abuse, offensive language, some violence
Disclaimer: I do not own or have any rights to any Harry Potter character or plots or universe. I only create plots and put the Harry Potter universe into them.
A/N: Halyn has an entourage! This chapter isn't much development- just some background info on Halyn's friends and a few things to clue into. A bit short again.
Chapter 6
x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
Every morning I watch as Halyn enters the dinning hall at exactly eight o'clock and makes her way to a table in the far back corner where three boys are already sitting. Her seat is always the last one to be filled, in the corner, facing the room. Sometimes she doesn't show up to class, she skips at least half of the other meals, and it's almost impossible to find her during her free time at school, but this is the one thing she always does.
The largest boy sits across from her, blocking her from almost everyone's view. The table I decided to sit at on my first day at Durmstrang is thankfully one with a view of her. She eats the same breakfast every morning with a cup of coffee before she leaves, taking the three boys with her. I haven't spoken to her since my first day here, but I can't help but be intrigued by her actions and place in the school.
"Draco," my roommate Ezek calls, forcing me to break my train of thought, "what are you staring at? Not Halyn again? I told you she's not to be messed with."
I force my eyes off of her and to him. I know that I may be slowly beginning an obsession with her, but for the life of me I cannot help it.
"Who are those boys she's sitting with?" The two smaller ones look about the same age as her, so they must be younger by a year or two. It confuses me, but Halyn is smaller than most girls her age, though I've been told she's more dangerous than any male here.
"The large one is Andrey Ivanov. He transferred here two years ago, in our fifth year. He was home schooled in Russia until then, but after he scared off his tutors his father sent him here, hoping an institution like Durmstrang could handle him. I don't know what his father fed him to make him so big, but he's all muscle." Ezek says, biting into his breakfast. I thank Merlin one of the few friends I have already acquired here seems to be in the know of everything in this ice chunk of a school.
"He must be at least two meters tall," I comment lightly, "but why does he sit with Halyn?" It seems like an unlikely match or friendship or whatever it is to me, but then again, everything I've learned about her is nothing I would have expected.
"When he first showed up at school, he was scary as hell, threatening to fight everyone including the teachers. He is one of those people who think the strongest rule. He even tried to fight the headmaster. We, the student body that is, all backed out and tried to placate him, knowing we wouldn't win a physical fight, and after one of his fights with a professor, we could see that we might not stand a chance dueling magically either. So when he asked for someone to fight, we all pointed him to Halyn."
"What?" I choke out, happy I wasn't eating when listening, "She's only about one and a half meters tall now, I can't imagine how small she was then!"
"Yeah, well," Ezek rubs the back of his neck almost nervously, "at the time she was just as scary. Still is, but at least she's calm now. Something distasteful happened between her and Viktor at the end of our fourth year, and when she came back to school fifth she was still pissed, so if anyone got on her nerves, they eventually found themselves in the infirmary. The idiots who thought to tease her about the event found themselves stuck there for the first quarter of the year with promises of more pain if they didn't leave her alone. We all backed off quickly after that."
"She's friend's with Viktor Krum?" Another unlikely aspect I would never have guessed about the young woman. I remember Krum from the Tri-Wizard Tournament. He was getting all cuddly with Potter's mudblood friend if I recall correctly.
"She was, but not after that event we don't talk about, especially with her in plain sight. You never know what she can overhear. It's best you don't ask." He shivered, barely noticeable, "Back to Ivanov, he eventually found her after weeks of trying to track her down- we're all convinced she knows the school better than anyone else, so no one is ever safe from her wrath. Once he did, they took it outside. The next day, he was following her around like she was his master. The whole left side of his face was bruised and his arm in a splint, and that was after the nurse had seen to him. Halyn didn't have a scratch on her. No one was privy to seeing the fight though, so our imaginations have run a bit wild. We don't want to bother either by asking."
"Oh, I see." I am stunned by this information. "The other two?" I ask, hoping they're a bit more normal.
"The albino looking small blond to Ivanov's right is Flaviu Amanar." Ezek points discretely, "He's a year below us, but he didn't start here until his second year. He doesn't speak anything but Romanian. He understands Bulgarian and English just fine, but can't speak more than a word or two of either. He literally ran into Halyn after Potions class one day. I was there to see it. They both fell over and when getting up, he began speaking very quickly in Romanian. Once they were both up, she simply patted him on the head, which must have shocked him because he shut up. It shocked the hell out of me alright. Then she started speaking to him in Romanian. He's followed her around babbling in Romanian ever since. She translates for others when she's around, but it's not much help for the teachers because of the year difference. She does translate his homework though, from what I hear."
"She speaks Romanian?"
"Yeah, it's where she lives." Ezek says, as I watch the group of four getting ready to leave. "The last one is Cordell Lestrange. You can guess why he's avoided. Apparently his father is a cousin of the infamous Lestrange brothers in England, but the man was estranged from the family for having ideals outside what his parents dictated. So Cordell's father moved to Bulgaria, keeping the last name, as he was never disowned. So as soon as the Lestrange men back in England kick-the-bucket, Cordell becomes heir. Not that they know it- he's apparently a secret outside Bulgaria."
"And how did he become close to Halyn?" That was what I really want to know; how to become close to her. I do not want to fight her and I cannot speak Romanian, so this boy would be my last hope of gaining some insight.
"In first year they hated each other. He was one of the kids who lead a lot of the attacks on her. In our first year, we were all unhappy that a girl was to be our year mate and most of us took it out on her. She gave as good as she got though. After a while, we all pretty much stopped once we started to understand messing with her got us no where but hurt. Cordell was one of the few who kept it up, he even pushed her into the dragon's pit- third year I think it was."
"WHAT?"
"She was fine, it was amazing really. Here's this nasty Hungarian Horntail sitting in a pit for class, and she just has a conversation with it. But that's another story for another time. Moving on, for some reason, after the event that we don't talk about, he was backing her up in fights, some even saw him comforting her. Since then they've been really close. No one is too sure about what happened."
"Does she hang out with anyone else?" I ask after a moment, once we are up and heading to class. "No, not students at least. She sits and talks with the headmaster sometimes, and the librarian and nurse. I don't know what they talk about though."
I push the door to the classroom open and stop in my tracks; I forgot I had Charms with Halyn. Ezek runs into the back of me and continues to push me to our seats.
"Stop staring," he hisses under his breath and gestures to the seat next to Halyn, where Cordell is glaring icily at me. I contemplate glaring back, but I can't afford to be making enemies at this school. Instead, I turn my nose up and act like he doesn't matter. All through class my eyes kept stealing glances of Halyn.
I'm not going to be able to rest until I'm closer to her. She's just too intriguing.
TBC…