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After the meeting between the wizard and earthbender, it was decided that only a selective few will know about Toph's origins and true power. It was also decided that she will not make herself known to anyone outside the group of individuals until she attends Hogwarts. This meant that only Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Minerva Mcgonagall, Tonks, Alastor Moody, and Severus Snape will know of her affiliation to the Order and who she really is. Toph will continue to stay inside 12 Grimmauld Place, but she will be hidden away from most of the members. That didn't bother the earthbender since she would rather sleep and watch what's going on. She needed some rest and time of her own.

The meeting between her and the selected members caused a bit of commotion. The adults (except for Dumbledore of course) argued that the girl was too young to be heavily involved within the Order. It took them by surprise of the concept of there being another world separated from their own and that Dumbledore had prior knowledge of the place. They didn't have too much of a problem with the girl being housed by them (maybe all except Moody), but for her to be a member of the Order was too much. Even after showing them some simple manipulation with her meteor bracelet, they still couldn't accept the girl into their ranks. Revealing that she was in fact blind made it even worse.

"How can she help us if she is blind? This isn't the place for her!" cried Snape.

"For once I agree with Snivellus," Snape scowled at him when he heard that name. "Dumbledore, we know you are good and all, but to involve the young lady who is blind-it wouldn't end well at all!"

The earthbender sighed. "Had it ever occurred to any of you that I am able to walk around this place without bumping into anything?" The adults quieted down. They did find it hard to believe at first that the girl was blind. "I see through earthbending. All of you, that book on the ground, and the five children Weasley children downstairs."

There was a sudden wind of silence in the room. The information and a bit of their recognition slowly sank in. It was then disturb when the Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts spoke.

"How is that possible?" questioned Mcgonagall. "How can you use earthbending to see?"

"Another thing you should notice is that you will always see me barefoot all the time. Literally. I use earthbending to feel the vibrations of the earth and detect what is around me," she explained. "You can say that I am seeing with my feet."

Moody groaned. "i still find this all fishy and hard to believe. You aren't on the dark side are you?" Toph could feel the old man's breath right in front of her. She shoved his face away and told him to stop being so creepy.

"Still...you are still young to be involved within the Order's meetings. You're fifteen, right? That's the same age as Harry." The auror named Tonks was obviously worried about the young girl.

"Like I explained in the beginning. She has already fought in a war from her world. In fact, if it weren't for her, the war would have been lost to the fire nation. She was the earthbending teacher to the Avatar," said Dumbledore trying to reassure them. "I know she is young and seems defenseless at first, but she has demonstrated some of her skills as a fighter to me and I can tell you that I was very impressed. Of course some of it would be due to me never meeting an earthbender before, but the piece of earthbending she demonstrated in the beginning is most likely not even considered a fraction of her real skills in battle.

"Another benefit to having her would be to report anything surrounding Harry, Miss Granger, and Ron Weasley. She is able to protect from behind and within the shadows if she is able to befriend him or the others."

"I will not argue with the supervision," spoke Lupin. "However I am still uneasy about all of this as do all of us in here are." A line of heads nodded.

"Don't worry yourself too much," said Toph. "This is an exchange. I can't slack off too much if I don't want to get back home, but if this is about me being capable I will have you all folks know that I was known as the Blind Bandit in my Earth Rumble days. Beat all the grown men down like it was nothing."

"Sounds to us you are just trying to gloat," muttered Snape.

"Heard that," she said. Her tone then changed into something that sounded stern and more reliable than her earlier words. "I don't care if you continue to look at me as something to take pity on or waste your time worrying. Go ahead. However, when the day comes where I am needed, trust me. I am able to do so much with earthbending and I am really good at what I do. Let me prove to all of you that I am not some weak little girl that needs constant protection. Let me prove to all of you my worth because I swear upon my life as an earthbender that you won't be disappointed."

This was just like before with her parents. They still can't see her true abilities as a fighter or her real self...yet. She wasn't going to let a bunch of wizards look down on her and have an imagine of her being some weakling.

"Does anyone have any objections to letting her stay?" asked Dumbledore. Surprisingly, no one raised their hand. The earthbender thought it was only so that they could observe her further. "Alright, then let us discuss what is needed for some of you in order for Miss Beifong to succeed in her role."

The current professor at Hogwarts, Remus Lupin, and Tonks were in charge with helping the earthbender catch up with the rest of the other students of her year. She was going to have to visit Diagon Alley to get the necessary supplies such as books, a wand, and other things she will need to help her. She asked Dumbledore why in the world she needed books of all things, he explained to her that it was for them to read aloud. He also added that if she excelled in charms or maybe potions somehow, she might find a way to get her to "read." McGonagall is in charge of her studies in Transfiguration, Snape with Potions, Lupin with Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Tonks will be in charge with Charms. Herbology would mainly be with Tonks as well, but when she is working as an auror one of the other instructors will take her place. The rest of the classes will be taught by all of them in different times.

The day after that, she went with Snape to get her supplies. She found the man to be stiff and thought he needed to loosen up. All of her attempts to start a conversation always led to him shutting them down. The earthbender could only sigh internally. After getting her books for the first five years, other supplies, and robes Toph went to get her wand. Ollivander was surprised to find a student needing a wand so very early before the start of school, but was happy nonetheless.

It was quite difficult finding her a wand that suited her and the wandmaker was having fun with the challenge while the young earthbender thought this was getting old. She did enjoy the explosions she made, but after a while all she wanted was a wand. After going through a few more wands, Toph sighed and said. "You know, why don't you just let me try that one over there?" She point to a box on a high shelf behind her without facing it.

"Well, if that's what you wish," Mr. Ollivander went up to get the box and handed it to her. The end result was another large explosion.

The wandmaker went over to the far back of his stacks of wands until he finally came back running with another box. "Cherry and dragon heartstring. Ten inches. Let's see if this one will do the trick."

Toph sighed and hoped doubted it would be the one. She held the wand with her right hand and gave it a good flick while preparing for another explosion. Surprisingly instead of another explosion she only heard the sounds of the sparks of green and gold fireworks that danced from the wand's tip. The earthbender was relieved for not only was it finally over, the wand itself felt right at home with her right hand.

"Hm...how interesting," he said to himself. "Curious indeed."

"Sure?"

"Hm…" Mr. Ollivander was deep in thought. "That will be eleven galleons."

Snape gave him the money and the pair went outside. "That took up some time," said Toph.

Snape only nodded. "We will be apparating so hold onto me." The earthbender groaned. The old man must have lied to her. There was no way she was getting used to not knowing where she was going. It was all too weird. They arrived back at 12 Grimmauld Place and made sure Toph wasn't spotted by anyone. She and Snape headed up to the meeting room from the other day. She started her Potions lessons first and next will be Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, Astronomy, and everything else. The schedule was complete hell and she made sure all the adults knew of it.

It was hard enough Toph couldn't actually read what's on the books, but listening to the adults who were reading the book to her was extremely boring. Her memory may be pretty good, but her attention span was another story. The only times she would actually stay fully awake were when applies her knowledge (that she remembers). Defence, Herbology and Charms were her strongest classes. This was especially true for Defence and Herbology. Defence Against the Dark Arts was similar to earthbending in the defence aspect. It gave her another way of fighting even if she found it a bit difficult to use the wand at first. Herbology was something that came to her more naturally compared to DADA. This may be because of how in tune she is with the earth and its surroundings. She can sense and feel the plants and its possible needs through earthbending. The adults were quite impressed with her in those two classes.

Her skills in charms improved through continuous practice that she forced herself on since it might help her in defending herself and an actual battle. The adults made sure she wasn't slacking off as Toph found it less interesting than actually plummeting someone to the ground. Transfiguration was rigorous for her at first. She only got better at Transfiguration after studying so much from the strict McGonagall and finding it somewhat similar to earthbending. The elder woman was right when saying that one needed decisiveness and a bit of creativity. She got the decisiveness part down easy. Her creativity slowly caught up after a while. McGonagall knows that her talent for the subject is almost nonexistent, but she acknowledges that she is getting better a step at a time. One step at a time meant several all-nighters.

The only subject that made her groan even more than Transfiguration was Potions. It was almost impossible to actually study without Snape which frustrated both her and her teacher. She obviously can't make a potion, but she was expected to memorize the instructions of a variety of potions and their properties. Toph is unable to pick out her own mistakes without the help of Snape or another available teacher. It was pure agony to be called boring. Her head always blows up every time Snape came. She could tell that the older man was getting impatient and a frustrated with the earthbender. This led to some arguments between them, but at least they manage to finish the lesson at a very late hour.

One day Snape came one evening quite tired. He was stricter and colder than usual. When the earthbender was having trouble with memorizing a potion, he finally snapped. "How am supposed to teach you potions if all you can do is try to memorize them and not apply your knowledge when you are blind?" Snape was now pinching the bridge of his nose and gritting his teeth.

"Hey, quit taking your anger out on me!" Toph snapped. "It's not my fault I'm blind or that I find this all boring! In fact, I wholeheartedly agree with you. What's the use in learning all this if I can't even make a single one of those potions? This is just stupid!" She pointed her third year potions book. She got this far because all she had to do was memorize and it was all a pain to do.

"I don't know what the Headmaster thinks you should learn this subject," he said. "It is absolutely useless."

Toph couldn't agree with Snape any more than this. She sighs. There were several times the earthbender tried to convince the Headmaster to not have her learn Potions, but she was flat out rejected every single time. "Is there another way you could teach Potions?"

"What are you going on…" The young earthbender cut him off before her could finish his sentence.

"What I mean is that is there another thing on potions I could do that will apply some of the junk I learned?" She could feel her teacher's head jerk when she said junk. "Making potions is out of the question, but maybe distinguishing the different types of potions using my earthbending. As long as the potion has remnants of the earth, rock, stone, or metal then I would be able to know through touching the liquid or bottle what potion it is. That way I can tell which one is used as poison and which one is for healing."

Silence filled the room and it stayed there for quite a while before Snape grabbed one of his own books and started flipping its pages. He then got out some ingredients and his caudron out and started making the potion. Toph just stood still, not knowing what to do. It was when he finished his first potion and started on another that the earthbender started to get an idea of what the potions professor was doing. He's going to test me, she thought. Her eyes widened at the sudden realization. "Woah are you actually taking some of my advice? Shocker." It really was and the thought made her lips form a grin. This was grand.

When he finished the potions and placed it into two identical vials, and held them in both hands. "You can identify a potion by the amount of earth or metal is in it correct?"

"That's right."

"Then you should know that poisons are the only types of potions that contain at least some percentage of metal," said Snape. "If you manage to identify which of the vials contains the poison and which one contains the cure...I'll talk to the Headmaster about changing your curriculum."

Toph nodded. She opened her right palm and extended her arm. Snape gave her the first vial. She tapped on the vial a couple of times in order to use her seismic sense. The earthbender kept silent and asked for the second vial. After several taps from the other bottle and several from the second, she found her answer. "Both of them are poisons," she answered. She gave him a smirk. "Nice try, but I could tell that the first one had metal, though I have to admit it took a few more taps to find it."

"I did make the first one a light poison. It's nothing that is life-threatening, but it does weaken the body a bit at a time," he admitted. "I must say that though your inability to make potions was a handful, I will admit that I am glad that all the things I taught you won't go to waste. Your ability to identify poisons will make yourself useful."

"Was that a compliment I hear?"

The Potions Master ignored her and began to clean up and pack his things. "That will be it for this lesson," he said. Snape headed towards the door, but he stopped right in front of it. "Since those poisons contain metal-something you can manipulate, there may be a chance you can use your bending to save lives or perhaps end them. Think about that until your next lesson." The young earthbender felt him leave the room. Tonight's potions lesson took an unexpected turn. The earthbender couldn't wait for her lessons to be changed and become more fun. In a way, she saw the Potions master in a new light. She was glad he took her idea into consideration for the things she learns next might be of some use in the future.

After that night, Potions did become more interesting for the earthbender. Unfortunately for her, the lessons became harder. She was required to identify and memorize not only the required Potions of all the first four years, but she had to be able to identify a the specific poisons through earthbending as well as their antidotes. Some were easy to identify, while others had around the same amount of metal in some of them. However, Toph liked how she's finally able to use her metalbending in one of her classes. The other adults were pleasantly surprised by the news of her using metalbending in potions, even Snape himself.

She continued to improve and get a hang of transfiguration which pleased McGonagall. As summer started to come to an end for the earthbender, she was about finished with most of the content (this was mostly thanks to her finishing the herbology and DADA content earlier). In order for her to finish the rest, Tonks had to purchase her fifth year supplies for Toph. She couldn't afford to waste even an hour on her work. Even after all of the people, including Harry Potter and his friends arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place arrived, Toph paid no attention to them and tried to avoid any confrontations. She needed every single minute and second to finish the hellish studying and memorizing. By the time it became the day before the school year starts, Toph was finally finished with everything she needed to learn.

"Finally!" she said. "Hell is finally over!" Tonks grinned and gave her a pat on the back while Lupin congratulated her with finishing. Professor McGonagall sighed, but didn't have her smile. Snape only nodded. After a day of rest, she can finally start working on finding a way back. Though it won't be a complete day of rest for there was a meeting that included her tonight. After a long nap, she went into their meeting room and took a seat as she waited for the rest to arrive. Once everyone was there, the meeting began with Dumbledore asking her a question.

"Miss Beifong," he called out to her. "Have I told you about the Sorting at Hogwarts."

She shook her head. "Nope."

"Then I should start from the beginning. Hogwarts was founded by four wizards and witches: Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. There are four houses in the school and each house represents one of the founder's traits and values. An example would be that Rowena Ravenclaw valued knowledge and wisdom, so students within that house tend to be intelligent and diligent when it comes to their studies." He went on to explain the other three houses. Gryffindors tend to be brave with leadership qualities, Hufflepuffs tend to be hardworking and loyal, and Slytherins tend to be resourceful and cunning. He went to explain that the Sorting Hat looks into a person's memories, past actions, and thoughts to determine one's house. He added that though the Hat will recommend a house for students, the Hat will also take into account what the student wants.

"Harry Potter is in the house of Gryffindor. We would prefer for you to also be in the same house, but I will give you the option to decide your house," he finished.

"I see…" was all Toph said.

"Is something wrong Toph?" asked Tonks.

"Besides the separation part being a bit idiotic, nope," she answered. Many frowns were formed from what she said. "I have a feeling that there is already a set of expectations made in each house. Don't get me wrong, I think the idea of there being four houses seems interesting and all, but the idea there being houses that represent certain traits and how people would expect of them...don't like that."

"You are correct about there being exceptions," Dumbledore finally said. "There are times we forget Hogwarts can only be Hogwarts with all four Houses. There are times people misunderstand those because of which House they got sorted into, but I am glad that you aren't so easily influenced by stereotypes."

He went on to informing her that she will be giving a monthly report on Harry and his friends-the same day she will have to renew the charm on the bracelet. If there is an emergency, she will find the nearest of them to report to. The old man also informed them that one of them will have to fill in on the meetings that are missed by her when one of them has a chance. She learned that Dumbledore and the other adults already created a cover story. She would be a transfer student from a wealthy family somewhere in Asia. She hasn't attended a wizarding school because of her her parents wished to be with her as much as possible since she is blind. It wasn't until recently that her parents allowed her to attend a school. Her family has the ability to do wandless magic when manipulating rock or any earthen substance, but she was able to use her ability to help her see. They chose Hogwarts instead of Mahoutokoro because her parents had known the Headmaster.

Toph had some influence on her cover story, so it would be easier for her to lie and work with.

Other than that, it was just a repeat of what she already knew.

After the meeting, Toph was the first to head out of the room to sleep some more before her dinner was given to her. The adults remained in their seats as they watched her leave the room.

"I have greatly underestimated that girl," said Sirius. "I sometimes forget she's blind."

"I know how you feel," said Remus with a nod. Tonks also nodded and gave them all a similar look of understanding.

"We all have," said McGonagall. "She was quite a handful in her lessons, but Miss Beifong works hard...when the subject interests her...I still find it quite remarkable she is able to do magic as if she can see."

"Well no one still knows about her besides us. She knows vigilance, and if not she would have been useless to us," gruffed Moody.

Dumbledore was also quite pleased with the young earthbender and he was glad the the others are starting to recognize her worth. He turned to Snape. "What do you think about the bender, Severus?"

"It is always draining whenever I teach her," sighed the Potions master. "However she is a lot better student than a certain other fifteen-year-old."-Sirius gave the man a warning glare-"Miss Beifong's memory is very good and her ability to differentiate between poisons quite remarkable."

The others except Dumbledore were quite surprised by the man's compliments to the young Toph Beifong. I have a feeling that something will change in Hogwarts, thought Dumbledore. How amusing.

Author's Note:

I had actually written until chapter three right now, but I find it best to submit a chapter when I have finished writing the latest one if that makes sense. This means that I'll submit the third chapter after writing the fourth one. Anyways I hope you enjoy.