Hogwarts Stories: Malaya Cherry

by alexisgal

This is the first in a series. There will be five stories. They are all about girls Harry, Ron, and Hermione meet that have strange powers. Are these powers helpful and useful, or annoying and stupid? Read and find out...

2. Lockhart's Nasty Child?

Chapter 2:

Harry and Hermione walked toward the castle, followed by Ron. Ron kept falling down, and Harry and Hermione turned around. After the thirty-second time, Hermione said, "Honestly Ronald. Your shoe laces are tied together." He looked down. "Easy for you to say!" He tied them really quick. They walked into the castle.

The sorting hat was set up and there was the longest line of kids you've ever seen. Draco Malfoy's half-sister Tara-Anne was sorted and what a surprise – she went to Ravenclaw! Draco looked mad and Tara-Anne walked to the Ravenclaw table while her brother yelled at her. Malaya read his mind: "Thank goodness she's not in Slytherin! She would mess up everything!"

There were a few more people, such as Jessica Gently going to Hufflepuff, Quincy Drachmas went to Ravenclaw, Li Song went to Ravenclaw, Harley Escher to Griffindor, and Janice Fridley went to Slytherin. Then Professor McGonagall said, "Malaya Cherry." There was a lot of laughter and red-faced Malaya went to the sorting hat.

Malaya sat down. "Hmmm, I knew Lockhart would have such a nasty child." People gasped. Malaya looked stunned. Gilderoy Lockhart is my father? She thought. I was told that my father's name was Marvin Cherry! "Well," Said the Sorting Hat. "It better be, HUFFLEPUFF!" No one from Hufflepuff clapped – or, for that matter, no one from Slytherin, Griffindor, or Ravenclaw, either. Everyone was stunned. Malaya was the last to be sorted.

Malaya looked very embarrassed. People all knew that now her father was in the "Nuthouse" and that was embarrassing. All of a sudden, Professor Trelawney walked over. "Stay away from the rotten cheese." She said. Malaya turned around and saw Ron stuffing his face at the Griffindor table. Malaya tapped him on the shoulder. "What?" He said, his face half full of food. "Your brothers, Fred and George, put something in the Griffindor pie. You might want to stay away."

Sorry it's so short! I had writer's block! And the rotten cheese was something I heard last night. There's a library that has a program for kids aged 9-14. It was a Harry Potter program. I went and was put in Hufflepuff. "Professor Trelawney" was walking around the line of kids waiting to be sorted and said random fortunes. She came up to me, looked into the ball, and said, "Stay away from the rotten cheese." So that's where I came up with it and Malaya being in Hufflepuff!