A/N: Hey guys, sorry it took me so long to update, but how great was my timing on this chapter right? Anyway, I may not be able to update more than once a week if even for a while. School's getting rough, but time to focus on updates. Fist of all, I finally got my first review so big shout out to Honest Lunar Raven, thank you so much. I'm going to answer your question at the top this time, but for any and all future Q&A, I will be answering at the bottom for the convenience of people who don't like to read that kind of stuff. I may not be able to answer all your questions btw if I get a lot of reviews, fingers crossed.
To answer your question, I chose to put Star with the Dursleys early on for convenience's sake. I figured things would be too awkward if Star showed up to Earth and went straight to Hogwarts without knowing anything about Earth. The reason King Buttefly chose the Dursleys was because of the servant he sent to find out stuff about Earth. The servant searched around after he got to Earth and stumbled upon the Dursleys' house. He saw Harry working in the yard and mistook him for a servant, assuming that the Dursleys must have been a rich Earth family. Hence King Butterfly's decision. I would have put this in a chapter or included it but I figured nobody would mind the minor details, and honestly didn't care enough to write it in. Now on to the chapter.
Star was quite upset without how things were going so far at Hogwarts. At first she had been all excited to finally start learning how to do magic, but the school wasn't quite as she expected. First of all, she had been separated from her first and only Earth friend at the moment, Harry. Also the boy who she thought was extremely cute, Draco. He had hair the same color as hers, and held himself with more esteem than all of the other kids she knew, which she found particularly fascinating.
Not only had she been separated from her friends, however, she also hadn't gotten to do ANY magic on the first day, none! Wasn't the entire purpose of going to magic school to learn magic?
Instead she got stuck in some weird plant class and a class that was teaching all about astronomy. That had been somewhat amusing, though as pretty much all that they had been taught on the first day in Astronomy was laughably wrong. She couldn't believe the humans actually believed that the stars were floating people in the sky called constellations. They had learned of the myth of Perseus, some old dude who apparently did a bunch of crazy hero stuff then died and floated up into the sky. Star had to hold back her laughter all class.
Despite her miserable introduction to the school, Star definitely found a home with the other Hufflepuffs. They seemed almost as whimsical as her, but of course nobody could ever take that title away. On the bright side she at least got to see Draco and Harry every now and then. She had double Herbology with Harry and the Gryffindors, as well as double history with the Slytherins. Draco seemed to be growing more and more cautious of Star, especially when she sat next to him, much to the dismay of some girl called Panties or something like that.
She also had double potions with that killjoy Hermione. Hermione hadn't gotten on Star's friend list in her opinion. The first time they met she had to go and ruin Star's fun calling her magic improper, then proceeding to show off in front of Draco and Harry, something about that girl peeved Star, but seeing as the girl had some sort of fascination with Harry, she had to live with it for now.
Star always found time to hang out with Harry after classes were over, and often found both Hermione and Draco there, fighting for his attention. She remembered Hagrid saying Harry was famous but she didn't expect this much attention, after all she was royalty and nobody was trying to kiss up to her.
Thinking about their behavior, Star recalled a scene at the Gryffindor table in the great hall on the first day:
"So is it true that you grew up with muggle parents?", Hermione asked flipping through pages of one of her books, this one titled, The Boy Who Lived With Muggles?
"Yes, but please can I eat now, that's like the tenth question you've asked me in all of two minutes. Besides why are you here instead of at the Ravenclaw table?"
Hermione ignored both questions and continued saying, "Is your blood type really O-?"
Harry banged his head into the table at Hermione's relentlessness.
Star began to tighten her grip on her fork with every question Hermione asked. Did this girl ever take a hint?
"Hey, Hermione, what did you think of the Ravenclaws?", Draco asked, sensing Harry and Star's growing frustration at Hermione's lack of understanding.
Hermione then began rambling about how amazing it was to learn about magic since she was muggle born. At the mention of her heritage, Draco's face noticeably darkened and he backed away a little. Luckily for Hermione, she was too busy explaining how nobody appreciated history of magic to pick up on his reaction.
"Hey, what's up?", Harry asked after seeing Draco react in such a way.
"Yeah, you got all funny looking when Hermione mentioned muggles.", Star whispered so Hermione wouldn't hear.
Draco had to make a decision on the spot. If he revealed his family's prejudice, they might be able to ditch the girl who was talking with the pace of an auctioneer, but Star and Harry may not agree with his views. After all Harry did grow up with muggles.
"Oh, nothing, it's just that I've never met a mud- I mean muggleborn before."
If anyone heard his slip of the tongue, they didn't point it out.
"Hey Star what's going on?", came the voice of Hannah Abbott, snapping Star back to reality.
"Oh, hi Hannah, I was just thinking about how stupid it is that they won't let us do magic at magic school."
Hannah, was the first person who welcomed Star into the Hufflepuff house. They were both first years, and Hannah absolutely adored Star's quirkiness.
"Oh, I'm sure it was a first day thing, Star.", Hannah replied. "What I'm really excited about is Quidditch, I've read all about it and we're finally going to learn how to ride a broom soon and I love the competition.", Hannah followed with fire in her speech.
"Really, we're going to ride brooms, and what's Quidditch?"
"Oh, it's this really awesome game where you ride on brooms, like sixty feet off the ground and try to throw a ball into the enemy hoops."
Star tried to picture such a game, as nothing really athletic happened in Mewny. She just shrugged and went back to her thinking as Hannah went off to the library.*
Star and Harry were talking in Herbology, tuning out Professor Sprout as she lectured about some weird looking Plant.
"Why don't you just tell her to leave you alone?", Star asked.
"Because that would be rude, besides, she's not that bad when she's helping me with homework instead of hounding me for details on my life. Honestly my life until now was so boring, I don't get why she's so interested."
"Harry Potter, can you please repeat the function of this particular plant species?", Professor Sprout said, noticing that him and Star weren't paying attention.
"Er, I don't know professor, sorry."
"Perhaps you could help him out Star?", she said as she chuckled at Harry's expense.
Star rocked back and forth on her feet and said, "Nope, sorry Sprouty."
"Five points from Gryffindor for not paying attention Potter and Ten from Hufflepuff for your cheek Miss Butterfly."
After a collective groan from the class and a few paper balls launched at the two, class continued.
Later that day, Star went out to take the first year broom lesson with the Ravenclaws. Hannah was bouncing up and down in anticipation while Madame Hooch walked onto the field.
"Okay class please step to the left of your broom stick."
Star did as instructed and looked down at a dusty broom that she couldn't begin to imagine would be able to fly.
"Good, now on my mark, hold your right hand over the broom and say with authority, the word 'up'."
After she blew her whistle, Star said, "Up!", and the broom slowly drifter up into her hand. Meanwhile other students were having varying degrees of success. Hannah's broom shot straight up into her hand, a few other students had their brooms float slowly up, similar to Star, and many were struggling to get their broom off the ground. Star had to stifle a laugh after seeing Hermione's broom go any direction other than up as it refused to obey her growing frustration. Eventually the students who couldn't get the broom just picked it up and waited for Hooch to continue.
"Now I want you all, on my mark, to mount your broom, kick off, and hover for five seconds, then touch down."
After the whistle, everyone lightly lifted off the ground and hovered for the first few seconds, until a scream could be heard from the Ravenclaw side.
Star looked up to see Hermione floating away on her broom, unable to control it.
"Miss Granger return to the ground at once!", Hooch said with outrage.
"I can't!", she said, then began screaming as the broom darted off toward the school.
Everyone watched in awe as the screaming Ravenclaw hurtled away at an incredible speed. A few of the kids thought Hermione was actually trying to show off and started throwing insults. That didn't last long as the broom began spiraling upward until it reached the top of the castle and began crashing into the side.
Madame Hooch dashed off following Hermione's path from the ground preparing to catch her from her eventual plummet. Star felt bad watching the girl who she didn't particularly like suffer from such misfortune. It was both extremely embarrassing and likely traumatizing.
After another twenty seconds of screaming and crashing, Hermione lost her grip and fell from the broom. Thankfully it had already descended to about half of its peak height.
It was at this point that Star realized, Madam Hooch didn't have a wand. Star watched in horror as Hermione fell to her death as Hooch couldn't possibly reach her in time, much less actually catch her.
By a sheer miracle, however, Hermione's robe caught on a protruding segment of the wall about fifteen feet off the ground. It slowed her fall just enough so as to drop her on the ground with what was just a minor crack.
"Ooooooh", came the collective gasp from the gathered crowd.
Hooch barreled over to the limp form of the girl, shouting at the students to give her space. She lifted Hermione from the ground and began to take off for the infirmary after addressing the class, threatening expulsion if they even so much as hovered off the ground.
At lunch, Star found Harry at the Gryffindor table yet again accompanied by a desperate Draco. The Slytherins began to take notice of Draco's continued refusal to sit with his housemates and instead sit with their arch rivals. He had quickly become the outcast of the house, but he didn't mind as long as he won the friendship of who would likely be the most famous and influential kid at the school. Besides him of course, nobody beat a Malfoy.
Harry asked "Where's twenty questions?", as he not-so-affectionately nick-named Hermione.
"In the infirmary, it's quite the story.", Star replied.
Harry and Draco shared a look at Star's sudden adaptation to British grammar. It may have just been a slip but it didn't go unnoticed. The minor shock was quickly replaced by the major shock of the news about Hermione.
"What happened to the mud-muggle born?", Draco said, nearly using the offensive slur yet again.
"We were at flying lessons and she lost control of her broom.", Star said, reenacting the scene with her food. After a long winded, and slightly exaggerated story, Star finished with, "And then she fell all the way from halfway up the castle, but was caught at the last second by the wall, but she still got knocked out when she landed."
"Wow, sounds rough, should we go see if she's ok?", Harry said, now feeling guilty about his earlier apprehension towards the clingy girl.
"She'll be fine, magic can heal pretty much anything.", Draco shrugged.
"I still think it's only right that we make sure she's not too hurt or shook up. She'll probably never want to go near a broom again."
The three of them seemed to come to a silent agreement at his statement, and after the meal was over, took off to the infirmary together.
Hermione really was much better than Star had led them to believe. She was also quite shocked that they had come to visit her in the hospital wing. They went off to their separate common rooms to begin on their mountain of Potions homework courtesy of Snape.
Things progressed pretty smoothly for the next month, the four of them had started to spend more time together and became fast friends. They sat together at every lunch, much to the disapproval of the other houses. They were scolded all the time for their behavior, but didn't seem to notice. As Halloween approached, everyone's mood steadily improved at the anticipation of the holiday. Every year the school went all out to celebrate it. Everyone was skipping around the school with joy on the 31st as Star took off for charms class with the Hufflepuffs. During the lesson, she sat with Zachariah Smith, earning herself a sneer from the notorious boy. She ignored the gesture and took out her stuff for class. She rather enjoyed charms, as it was one of the few classes where she could use her wand on a regular basis.
Today they were learning how to levitate objects. Star achieved success on the first try performing the "swish and flick". She noticed that Zach was struggling and jabbing his wand at the feather, muttering in anguish.
"You're supposed to swish and flick.", Star offered.
"Shut up Blondie, go hang with your Ravenclaw girlfriend if you want to bore everyone with your brain.", Zach snapped back
Star recoiled at the insult. "Sorry, just trying to help.", she returned with slight annoyance in her voice.
"Why don't you go back to whatever weird place you came from and stop bothering us, can't you see nobody wants you hear?", he said, pushing Star even further.
This seemed to strike a particular nerve, and Star ran off with tears threatening to escape. Everyone watched, and some snickered at the display.
News spread quickly of the scene in Charms class. After classes were over, and Harry still hadn't seen Star since hearing of the event, he found Hermione and Draco.
"Hey, have you guys seen Star?", he asked.
"No, but I heard she's crying her eyes out in the lavatory."
"Come on, she's been crying for hours, we should go make sure she's okay."
"But she's in the girl's loo!", Draco protested.
"Oh, honestly Draco, I'll go and you guys can stay outside the door.", Hermione shot back.
"Oh, ok, sure I guess we can go."
They found the bathroom and Hermione came out after a few minutes. "She refuses to come out."
"Oh well, let's go to dinner, we're probably missing out.", Draco said impatiently.
"You're so insensitive, but that is actually what she told me."
"Great minds think alike.", Draco finished, dragging them both by their robes toward the great hall.
They ate in silence, missing the whimsical nature of the girl who was bawling in the bathroom. Everyone was enjoying the dinner and conversing happily until the DADA professor charged through the doors screaming like a banshee.
"TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!", silence passed through the crowd at the proclamation. "Just thought you should know.", he finished before falling face first into the floor.
Not two seconds passed before the hall broke into chaos. Everyone panicked until the booming voice of the headmaster allayed their panic. "SILENCE!", he shouted, gaining the attention of every student in the hall. "Prefects, please escort your houses back to their common rooms immediately. The slytherin house is to join Hufflepuff temporarily. A groan of protest came from the badgers as Dumbledore turned and began conversing with the other teachers, seemingly giving out directions. Everyone began to shuffle out in masses, but Harry grabbed Hermione and Draco before they could run off.
"Star! She's still in the bathroom.", he shouted.
A look of understanding washed over their faces as they charged off together, departing from the mob.
Star finally ran out of tears, and decided that she couldn't stay in the bathroom for the rest of her life. She opened the stall and went to the sink. She began to splash water on her face to remove some of the signs of crying. She was still very red no matter how much she tried to hide it. She heard the door open behind her and said, "Go away.", turning her back to the entrance.
She expected to hear a mock, or maybe Hermione trying to coax her out again. Instead she received a confused grunt followed by the worst smell she could ever imagine. She turned around, ready to scold the person for their poor hygiene, but found herself staring at a twelve foot tall, green, lumpy monster. She screamed, ducking for the nearest stall. The troll swung its club toward her destroying some of the bathroom with his poor aim. After panicking for ten seconds that felt more like an hour, Star heard her footsteps running into the bathroom. Immediately she assumed the worst, and figured that the troll had called its buddies over to share the meal. Her heart jumped into her throat after she heard Harry's voice shouting at the troll.
"Hey ugly!", he shouted.
"What are you doing?", Draco squealed in fear
"Probably something really stupid.", Harry said, sending the first spell he could think of at the monster. It was nothing more than a minor stinging hex, and only seemed to make the troll more confused than it already was. It turned around to find the assailant but instead found three.
Draco cowered and Hermione froze at the site of the much larger foe. Even if all three of them stood on each other's shoulders, it would still tower over them. The troll seemed to lose interest, as it heard its initial victim scampering away behind it.
The troll turned and raised the club preparing to smash Star, who was cowering in the corner, after being caught trying to escape. Star prepared to be crushed, what a way to die, when Harry jumped on the troll's back after leaping off of a pile of rubble.
At this, Draco fainted and Hermione grew even more pale. Star watched in terror as her first friend clung to the back of the beast, which was now spinning in circles trying to get Harry off its back.
Finally, the troll managed to grab Harry in his free hand and brought him over its shoulder. Star half expected the troll to just pop him straight into its mouth, but instead it swung its club at Harry stupidly. Harry pulled up at the last second and shouted for help.
Hermione seemed to finally break out of her stupor and began sending spells at the troll. Nothing seemed to work, however, just bouncing off of its tough skin. Star watched the club swing up and down as the troll tried again and again to hit the target.
A thought struck her and she raised her wand, shouting "Wingardium Leviosa!"
The club froze in mid air, leaving the troll unarmed. It looked around dumbstruck at how its weapon had seemingly disappeared. Star maneuvered the club just over the troll's head, and released it, with a loud thud as it struck the beast's thick skull. The troll fell to the ground unconscious, dropping Harry, who quickly stood up and ran to Star. He helped her up just as three teachers stormed into the bathroom. Looks of Urgency were quickly replaced with shock, then anger, and finally relief. Mcgonagall was the first to speak, "What happened here?"
After explaining the story and receiving multiple scowls from Snape who seemed none too pleased that the one student from his house had passed out after witnessing the threat. Draco was carried to the hospital wing by Mcgonagall after she awarded them all points for "sheer dumb luck", as Snape turned with a swish of his robe to accompany Mcgonagall. Dumbledore then addressed the students saying, "Well done, quite the accomplishment for a group of first years. Come, I will take you to your common rooms." Quirrell and Filch arrived, and Dumbledore instructed them to return the creature to the wild after ensuring it was put under a strong sleeping drought. None of them slept well that night, except for Draco, who slept like an infant.