Harry Potter and the Gryffindor Wannabe

(AN: Set after Deathly Hallows. This is after Voldemort is dead and they go back to Hogwarts for their last year and every one has to repeat their last year there because they really didn't learn anything good.)

Disclaimer: I do own any of the Harry Potter Characters only the ones I made up in various houses. I only own Alyssa, Raven, Ivy, and whoever else I make up. J.K. Rowling owns the original characters of Harry Potter…I might have a character or two that have died alive in this dimension.

Chapter 4: The Train Ride, the Truth and True Friendship

The last week of their vacation past, and it was once again September 1st, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Alyssa were all packed and ready to go. They went to Kings Cross Station early as the boys didn't want any chance of the barrier closing again even though the first and only time that happened to them was…Dobby's doing… Harry went through the barrier first then Alyssa followed by Hermione, Ron, and Ginny. They put their bags away and found a compartment for them to sit in.

"I'll see you guys later."

"Bye Ginny." The four other Gryffindor's said as Ginny walked off and met with the friends in her year.

Ron turned to Alyssa who was sitting at the window watching as they were just taking off the Platform to start their journey to school, "So Alyssa what did you want to tell us?"

Aly sighed and looked at her friends then looked down at the floor, "I…uh…I-I found my real family…"

Harry smiled, "That's great!"

Alyssa nodded, "You guys remember that promise you made right?" They nodded to her before she continued, "My last name is Malfoy. Draco is my brother."

Ron grew red in the face and laughed, "Funny Aly! You got us now really who's your family?"

"I'm serious!"

Harry cut in, "Then how come you don't look like the Malfoys'?"

Alyssa sighed, "I have the ability to change the way I look. I'm a Metamorphmagus."

Ron smiled, "Prove it!"

Alyssa sighed then nodded curtly, right before their eyes her hair went from wavy and brown to blonde and strait. Her eyes went from a warm brown to a steely gray. She changed back and looked at the shocked faces of her friends.

"Get out!" Ron shouted at Alyssa.

She looked at him and was shocked, "Why?"

"Leave Malfoy!"

Aly had tears in her eyes and looked at Hermione. Hermione shook her head and glared at her. Alyssa looked at Harry but he wouldn't look at her, "H-Harry?" Her voice cracked a bit but he still didn't look at her.

"Just go A-Malfoy." Alyssa grabbed Cinder's carrier and her small messenger bag with her school uniform and walked out crying as a cause of her best friends sudden betrayal of her and their promise.

Ron slammed the door shut and sat down with his arms crossed, "The nerve of her! Trying to be our friends when she should be a cold hearted Slytherin. That-that Gryffindor Wannabe!"

Ginny came in a few moments later after Ron's small angry rant, "What did you guys do to Alyssa? She was hysterical crying when she practically ran past me!"

Harry looked out the window and Ron fumed silently.

"Well?"

Hermione spoke up, "She found out her who her birth parents are. She is Draco Malfoy's sister."

Ginny gasped before she got over the initial shock, she turned to look at her brother and Harry, "Then why is she crying? What happened?"

Harry spoke up this time, "Ron yelled at her to get out. We aren't friends with her anymore."

Ginny looked at them in disbelief, "How could you guys do that to her? Don't you remember the promise you guys made to her?"

Ron shrugged, "What promise?"

Ginny screamed in frustration, "Unlike you three I plan on keeping my promise!"

Ron look at his sister, "You will not be hanging out with a Malfoy!"

Ginny looked at her brother, "Watch me!" With that Ginny stormed out and went to look for Alyssa. When Ginny finally found her, she was in her school robes and the Head Girl badge on her collar and petting her cat.

Alyssa looked at Ginny then out the window and started to cry again, "Guess you want to forget your promise too."

Ginny shook her head, "No! Aly my brother is an arse and so is Harry and Hermione if they treat you like that."

Aly looked at her with a sad face, "I kind of expected that treatment from Ron but not Hermione let alone Harry." Alyssa cried a little harder and collapsed into the seat. She looked at her watch, "I have to go to the front car for the Heads boy…and girl and prefects meeting."

Ginny nodded, "I'll watch Cinder for you."

Aly nodded and smiled, "Okay. I'll be back in a few." Alyssa walked out of the compartment and bumped into Harry once she walked out.

Alyssa turned away from him and started walking to the first train car.

Ron and Hermione were behind Harry and Ron snarled, "Keep walking Malfoy."

She stopped abruptly and turned to glare at the three.

"Shut up Weasel-be leave my sister alone."

Ron gulped and Alyssa turned to see her brother coming to her aid, an odd first for the small group, "Draco! Lets just drop it!"

Draco looked at his sister then took her arm, "Let's go."

They walked away towards the first car. Aly looked over her shoulder at her three ex-friends then turned back around. Harry stared at the back of her head and felt a little guilty…but only a little.

A few minutes later Professor McGonagall greeted the Prefects and the two Heads, "Now the Heads Boy and Girl are to check up and down the train. The prefects will take the next few shifts. The first after the Heads are the Gryffindor prefects, then Ravenclaw prefects, the Hufflepuff prefects, and then the Slytherin prefects. Heads your shift begins in twenty minutes." With that said and done McGonagall walked out of the compartment.

Alyssa sat with the Slytherin prefects, one of them her brother Draco Malfoy. Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat with one another. The Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and other Slytherin prefect were confused.

The other Slytherin spoke up when Draco didn't, "Why are you sitting here mudblood?" The pug-faced girl smirked at her and before Alyssa (and Harry or Ron…Harry and Ron out of habit) could respond someone else did.

"Shut up Parkinson. Don't call her a mudblood! Don't say that word again," said Draco.

Pansy looked even more confused, "But why Draco? She's a Gryffindor and a muggleborn."

Alyssa turned, "For your information Parkinson I am a pureblood and Draco doesn't care that I am in Gryffindor."

Pansy laughed then fell silent when Draco gave her a death glare, "She's telling the truth?"

"Of course! So stop being a hag to my sister."

Pansy sputtered and stared along with the rest of the prefects except for the other three Gyrffindor's. "Your sister?"

"Yes my sister!"

Professor McGonagall came back in, "Mr. Potter and Miss Smith its time for you patrol shift."

Harry and Alyssa got up, "Professor my last name is Malfoy now. I was adopted when I was a baby."

Professor McGonagall nodded, "Yes, I know. Your father sent me a letter letting me know. I wasn't sure if you had told anyone yet."

Alyssa nodded and walked out with Harry in silence.

She sighed quietly to herself, He hates me! How could he just throw away our friendship and pretend like he never made a promise with me. Why do I still like him?

She looked at him from the corner of her eye, "Harry I—"

"I don't want to talk Malfoy." Harry looked at her and saw the hurt written across her face. She turned her head away from him and nodded once letting him know she understood.

He heard a sniffling sound and sighed, Nice going idiot! You made her cry. She doesn't deserve this type of treatment…No wait she does she's a Malfoy she can't be trusted. Yet you still like her. No I don't! Your right you love her. No! Keep telling yourself that. While Harry had an internal battle in his head about if he still liked Alyssa or not. They both walked in silence and before they knew it they were at the back of the train.

Alyssa turned around and walked in front of Harry. They walked all the way to the front car to let Ron and Hermione take their turn to patrol. After they walked out Aly left the compartment and went to the one Ginny was waiting in watching Cinder. Alyssa sat down across from her redheaded friend and stared out the window at the passing scenery. They sat there without saying a word to one another as Alyssa started to cry silently again.

"Alyssa what's wrong? What happened now?" Ginny pleaded with her friend as she got up to sit next to her.

"I tried talking to H-Harry and his exact words were 'I don't want to talk Malfoy.' It feels as if a Dementor's kiss would be less painful then that."

Ginny started rubbing Alyssa's back in soothing circles, "He's an arse! I'm here and I could care less if you are a Malfoy. I'm your friend, through and through."

Alyssa giggled as she started humming to herself. She wasn't really humming a particular tune just what she felt like. Music usually made Alyssa feel better no matter what kind of funk she was in. Alyssa smiled to Ginny, "Thanks Gin. I feel loads better now."

Ginny laugh, "See hanging around smart people makes one feel better about themselves."

"Your right Ginny. I should just make the best of it. I'm not getting resorted and my parents aren't going to disown me like my grandmother, Mrs. Black, did to my Uncle Sirius."

"Sirius Black? Harry Potter's Godfather Sirius?" Ginny asked confusedly.

"The very same," said Alyssa.

After that the compartment was silent. Ron and Hermione had finished their rounds, then the Ravenclaws did theirs quickly. After the Ravenclaws were the Hufflepuffs and when they were done then came the Slytherin Prefects, Draco and Pansy.

When Pansy saw Alyssa sitting in the compartment she sneered to the Gryffindor. Draco looked to her sister and nodded to her.

No sooner that the Slytherin's finished their rounds that the train arrived at the platform at the school. Alyssa left the compartment with Ginny and dropped Cinder off with the other animals and trunks. They got into an empty carriage and sat down as they watched the Threasals wait for others to get on.

Alyssa willed her hair to turn red and strait making her look like Ginny's older sister.

Ginny looked at Alyssa in amazement, "You can do what Tonks did?"

Alyssa nodded happily, "Yup."

Ginny smiled, "Wicked."

"That's why I don't look like—"

"Hey Ginny. Is it alright if we sit with you?"

Ginny glared at the ones who asked, Harry, Ron and Hermione, "No."

"Come on Ginny. Don't be that way."

"No is no, Ron."

Alyssa looked at Ginny with her now soft blue eyes, "Its alright Gin. I'll get on another carriage."

"No. I want to sit with my friend. Not with people who would treat someone they knew for eight years like she was nothing but scum on the bottom of their shoes."

Ron shook his head at his little sister, "Come off it Gin. She's a Malfoy, there is no way she can be trusted!"

Alyssa practically boiled over, "Just because I'm a Malfoy?"

Harry, Ron and Hermione turned to Ginny's redhead friend just as Ginny did, Ginny in surprise at the outburst, the others in shock that it was Alyssa.

"Just because my last name changed? How low can you three go?" Alyssa asked in masked calmness, "Well?"

Ron's anger quickly replaced his shock, "Shove off Malfoy."

Hermione grabbed his arm gently and started pulling him away although it looked as if she was hardly trying since Ron seemed to be rooted to his spot.

"I won't 'shove off' Ronald. I don't have to listen to you."

Harry had started pushing Ron away from the carriage as the freckled redhead shouted, "Just don't talk to us Malfoy."

"Like I want to Weasel," Alyssa yelled back. If he was going to start calling her names she had no qualms about doing the same, she gave a look to Ginny that said no offence and the redhead just smiled in response as she laughed at her idiot of a brother.

Ron was fuming while his friends pulled him away. The last thing he said, "Stay away from my sister Malfoy."

"Fat chance Ron!" Alyssa and Ginny exclaimed at the same time. A few seconds later they started to laugh together.

It didn't take look for the carriages to start moving towards the castle. Alyssa and Ginny sat in silence while they watched the castle loom closer with each step the threasals took. Alyssa looked like herself again with her wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes. She stared at the trees passing before she turned to Ginny when the younger girl started to speak.

"My brother is a snobby jerk. Just don't pay attention to the rubbish that spews out of his mouth."

"You mean like the those slugs in second year?" Alyssa said making Ginny laugh, "Don't worry Ginny. I won't."

"Well good. I don't care what any of them say. I'll be your friend no matter what," said Ginny, "I'll get Ron with a good bat-boogey hex for this."

Alyssa burst out laughing, "I can't wait to see that!"

Ginny and Alyssa laughed until they arrived at the castle. Alyssa smiled at Ginny as they walked through the big double doors leading to the Great Hall. They all walked in and sat down looking towards the front at the teachers desk waiting for McGonagall to go and bring the first years in to be sorted.

Professor McGonagall waited for the second years and up to sit, "Firstly I would like the Heads Boy and Girl to come up."

Alyssa stood up along with Harry, who was sitting farther down the table from her. Some of the students in Gryffindor and the other Houses were a bit confused as to why the two weren't sitting together. The hall was filled with hushed whispers as they headed towards Professor McGonagall.

"Yes, Professor?"

"You will be sharing your own tower. Since you both are from the same house the décor will be the same. Now you have unrestricted access to all four houses. The password for you common room is Eternus Vinculum. You also have a portrait leading into your room. You will choose your passwords of your own," They both nodded and McGonagall continued, "I'll show you to your common room and which room is yours. Now passwords to the other houses will be given to each house Prefects individually along with you… I will need the Gryffindor Prefects up here for a moment."

Ron and Hermione got up and started walking over. Alyssa almost laughed at the look on Ron's face, he must've thought that he was in trouble and going to be told off. He relaxed though what McGonagall started to speak.

"The password for Gryffindor House is Amicitia Animus. You will lead the first years to their houses after the welcome feast. You may sit now," McGonagall waited for them to be seated before calling up the Ravenclaw Prefects, "I trust you know how to get into Ravenclaw tower?" When the two Prefects nodded McGonagall smiled, "Good just answer the riddle correctly when you lead the first years up," The Ravenclaws sat down and the Hufflepuffs came up to them, "Now Mr. Macgregor, Ms. Windsnap. Your password is Fidelitas," They nodded before walking away while Draco and Pansy came up, "Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson the Slytherin password is Callidus. After the feast you shall lead the new first years to the Slytherin common room in the Dungeons. You all may sit now." When McGonagall finished the four nodded before walking back to their seats.

Alyssa sat down next to Ginny and everyone started to whisper and point at her, she didn't have to guess or read their lips to know they were talking about her being a Malfoy. Neville walked over and sat across from them. Both girls smiled to him politely.

"Hey Neville."

"Hi Ginny, Alyssa," He paused for a moment and looked a little nervous before continuing, "Alyssa is it true that you're Draco Malfoy's sister?"

Aly sighed before nodding her head, hearing the gasps of several Gryffindors around her, "Yes, I'm Draco's sister. I suppose you want to steer clear of me and not be my friend anymore like Hermione, Harry and Ron."

"No, I wouldn't do that. You're still the same person. Only your last name has changed is all," Neville said while shaking his head. "A name doesn't make the person."

Alyssa's smile came back to her face only brighter then before, "Thanks. I wish the others could see that."

An hour later all the first years were sorted into their houses and after a small speech for Professor McGonagall, who was now the Headmistress of the school, the feast began. Alyssa felt hundreds of eyes on her it felt as if their eyes were burning holes into her skin. The worst were coming from her three ex friends; Harry, Ron and Hermione. Alyssa tried to eat her dinner as if nothing was bothering her but couldn't bother to try and stomach it.

"You alright Alyssa?" Ginny asked when she looked to her friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just not that hungry," Aly looked up smiling weakly. She sat there for silently for a few moments before pushing the plate away and getting up, "I'll be back in a few minutes." Alyssa walked briskly out of the Great Hall and strait for the nearest bathroom.

Ron had gotten up the moment Alyssa walked past and went over to his sister, "What did I tell you about hanging out with her?"

"In case you haven't noticed Ron. I'm not your daughter and you can not make me do anything," Ginny said glaring at her brother.

It didn't take long before Ron's face matched his hair, "Wait till mum and dad hears your friends with a Malfoy."

"Well wait till mum hears you guys abandoned your friend because she's a Malfoy," Ginny snapped back to her brother.

"Come on. You're sitting with us and not Malfoy."

Neville who had been watching the back and forth between the two siblings finally spoke up, "How can you guys be so heartless to Alyssa? You're her friends; you should know she is the same person even if she is a Malfoy. Leave Ginny alone. She's only being a true friend, unlike you."

"Neville you can't be serious."

"I most certainly am Ron. Now got back and sit with your other backstabbing friends. You lot should've been in Slytherin not Gryffindor."

Ron glared at the comment Neville had made but instead of causing a fuss that would most likely lose Gryffindor House points that didn't need to be lost on the first night back. Ron turned and walked back over to his seat next to Hermione and fumed silently.

Alyssa had come back ten minutes later and sat back down. Ginny could see that her friend's eyes were a little red and puffy from crying and started to pat her back.

"Hey its okay. They aren't worth your tears."

"Thank Gin," said Alyssa quietly.

Neville smiled to the two girls across from him, "You should eat something. Its not good to keep yourself hungry."

Alyssa nodded before she ate a little of the, still warm, pulled pork and rice on her plate.

After dinner was over and everyone had their fill of dessert the Prefects led the new first years to their new homes for the school year. Alyssa said goodnight to Ginny and Neville as they left the Great Hall. Ginny and Neville heading for Gryffindor Tower and Alyssa followed McGonagall and Harry to the Heads common room. Professor McGonagall stopped in front of a portrait with the mascots of each house residing in it. The Lion looked to them as McGonagall spoke the password. The three walked in through the hidden passage when the portrait opened slowly.

Inside of the Head's Common room it looked like the one in Gryffindor tower but there was a hallway added on the side leading to their rooms instead of a staircase. They followed Professor McGonagall into the hall.

"Potter, your room is right here." McGonagall said pointing to a door, which was a portrait of a Knight sitting on his horse near a shoreline with a castle in the distance, "Ms. Malfoy this is the door to your room."

Alyssa saw a picture of a beautiful mermaid, unlike the ones in the Black Lake, sitting on a rock in the water near the beach; the same castle from Harry's portrait was in the distance.

"You can choose your own passwords to your doors. You both will be sharing a bathroom. I hope you find your rooms to your liking. Classes start in two days. I will leave you two to rest," with that said Professor McGonagall left through the portrait and walked to her quarters leaving the two Gryffindors alone.

Alyssa wasted no time in coming up with a password and stepped into her room quickly. Harry did the same with the knight and went into his dormitory.

Now that she was in the comfort of her own room she let all the extra tears she had been holding in while she was around Ginny out. She just couldn't get the events from today out of her head causing her to fall into an uneasy sleep.

Harry had heard Alyssa sob to herself before she fell asleep, even through the stone wall that separated his and Alyssa's room. He felt extremely guilty but tried to reason with himself, She's a Malfoy. Just like her brother. Don't let your feelings for her get in the way. Just get over them quickly, Harry soon fell into an uneasy sleep like Alyssa.

The memories of the day played and replayed in her dreams. Alyssa's eyes snapped open as she sat up trying to expel the memories from her mind while she took deep breaths. Getting out of bed she walked out into the common room and sat by the still crackling fire, as if it had known she was coming out the sit for a while. She curled into a ball on the loveseat next to the fire, quickly falling back into the dark abyss of sleep. This time around it wasn't a memory that kept playing on a loop but a nightmare of what she desperately hoped wasn't to come.

Alyssa sat in the Great Hall by herself at the Gryffindor table. It seems that Ginny and Neville had turned on her too, now they were sitting with Ron, Harry and Hermione. Each of them were glaring at her with hate in their eyes.

She couldn't take the silent stares anymore, "What?"

"How does it feel to have everyone hate you Malfoy?" Ron asked her, acid dripping from his words.

"Shove off Weasley," Alyssa said as she stood abruptly and walked out. After leaving the halls she stepped out to the grounds. On her way to sit by the Black Lake she passed by Draco and Pansy. As she walked by she heard Pansy make a crack at her.

"Look Draco. It's the Gryffindor Slut!"

Alyssa kept walking, the comment didn't really bother her much considering it came from a Slytherin, but when she heard her brother laughed instead of defend her she stopped and turned. She didn't expect that, "Draco!"

Draco looked at Aly and sneered, "What? Surprised I laughed? Good. I don't care about you. No one does. It's a laugh if you think they do. Your so-called friends hate you and they turned their backs on you."

She felt the tears spring to her eyes as she turned and ran. Changing course she went to the Dark Forest. Once she reached the edge she hid behind some of the trees and started to sob quietly repeating to herself over and over, "No! It can't be true."

Alyssa whimpered, loudly, in her sleep her head rolling from side to side. She couldn't stop herself from speaking in her sleep, "No…It can't be true…"

Harry, who had been woken up by the sounds of muffled cries in the common room, got up to see what was wrong with his ex-friend, "Alyssa?"

Alyssa carried on with crying and speaking as if she couldn't hear him, "It's not true. It can't be true, please. It can't be."

When Harry saw that she was crying in her sleep he sighed to himself, As if I didn't feel guilty enough. Walking over to her, he sat down and pulled her onto his lap before wrapping his arms around her. As he started rocking her back and forth Harry whispered soothingly into Alyssa's ear, "Sh. It's all right. It's not true. You know it in your heart that it isn't. You just need to fight your fears."

Alyssa calmed down slowly after she felt someone's arms close around her comfortingly. Almost as if those arms were trying to guard her from the feeling of loneliness the nightmare had brought on. Those arms felt right around her, to her they felt like home, a place where she belonged. When she heard the soothing words echo in her mind she calmed even further and fell into a more peaceful dream. Aly dreamt that it was Harry who was holding her and comforting her; little did she know it was Harry who was holding her, rocking her and whispering in her ear. She smiled slightly in her sleep before her face was in a neutral expression again. In her sleep she felt as though she was being picked up and moving, almost as if she were floating, as she was carried into another room and gently lowered into a bed.