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Her Arrival- A Harry Potter FanFiction
Chapter Three

The Heat Wave

It had been a week since the night where Harry had passed out and since then he hadn't seen Natalie around and had only caught glimpses of strange new girl. A strange heat wave had unusually taken over Hogwarts it was only the middle of February but the weather matched that of mid summer. Most of the students had taken to staying inside the cool stone castle, only venturing outside for quidditch and some classes. The old stone castle was cool on the inside but on the outside the stone sizzled with the blistering heat.

Harry descended the stairs at a fast pace heading for the common room. Good thing it's the weekend tomorrow, he thought as he burst in to the common room where everyone had already gotten changed wearing as little as they could to try and cool down before evening lessons. Every window in the common room had been thrown wide open to catch the non exsistant breeze and more than one student had cherry red faces from the sun, suprisingly the cold Harry had been catching had disappeared as soon as it arrived and he was feeling better than ever.

Squeezing past everyone to get to his dorm and change too something caught his eye making him stop; the new girl. She was sat on the window still with the window open, dressed totally from head to toe in a long white flowing strapless dress. He had to admit, she looked stunning and it appeared he wasn't the only one who thought so as most of the other males in the room were glancing in her direction. But there was something wrong her face that he could see even in the shadow where she was sat, she looked even more paler than usual; almost ill , drained of all her energy. Strangely it reminded Harry of how he felt less than a week ago.

Before he could stop himself, he started to make his way across to her when she looked up to stare at him, she looked like someone had just burnt her with a lighter. The girl stood up and ran past him out of the room, almost crying out when she passed him as their skin nearly touched. Harry watched her go slightly shell shocked. What could he have done to make her hate him so much? He climbed the stairs to his dorm and changed, and was so lost in his thoughts he didn't hear someone come in.

"What's up mate? "Harry spun around to see Ron standing in the door way watching him.

"I just don't understand her Ron or what I have done to upset her so much that she runs out the common room when I walk in" Harry said shaking his head.

"You mean that new girl? I don't know mate she's a wierd one, keeps to herself mostly although some of Slytherins seem to know a bit more about her than anyone else does" Ron said thoughtfully "I wonder why..."

--

Later that day Harry and Ron where making their way down the dungeons steps for potions class when the voice of Draco Malfoy floated up to them. Harry stopped in mid stride causing Ron to smack into his back, before he could complain he motioned for him to be quiet with a wave of his hand making him freeze. Stood just a few feet away from them around the bend at the bottom of the steps was Draco and hooded figure meaning he couldn't see their face.

"I'm warning you Malfoy do not do something you will regret " the figure spoke with a girls voice that was hard and guarded like she was trying to hide her feelings from him.

"Your Highness, we are merely trying to understand you're doing here. I'm sure the Dark Lord wouldn't want you wandering around a place such as this unprotected unless it was something of the up most importance" Draco's voice was laced with respect which made Harry's breath stick to the back of his throat. More than that he was sure he had heard mention of Voldemort but it was hard to tell, they were whispering so quietly he was finding it hard to catch what they were saying. However by the gasp that escaped Ron's lips he too must have heard it; they leaned in closer trying to hear more of the conversation

"I assure you this mission is of the up most importance, one that only I can undertake. My birth is the key so don't question my presence. I shall tell you this only once Draco so listen up, my father will not be happy if you and the rest of the Slytherins make me fail this mission. I have once chance and one chance only to do this, it is vital that Potter doesn't know who I am," Rons eyes breifly darted to Harrys; he looked as worried as he felt. What the hell was going on?

"If you pests keep bothering me sooner or later he is going to find out isn't he?"

There was a hint of threat in the hooded girls voice that Malfoy seemed to notice as all the colour left his alread pale skin. They usually would have been pleased by the sight of Draco nearly wetting himself at a girl but her tone of voice even had them on edge.

"Now run along before I decide to tell the Dark Lord about this.... oh and Draco" she stopped him before he could scarper off, Harry could sense a smirk on her lips that made the hairs on his neck rise, "I don't need your concern. I can look after myself..."

They had never seen Draco look so scared; he backed off further down the corridor, proabably to go to their lesson. The girl paused then followed after a moment later, he shoes tapping out a march on the stone floor. Harry and Ron descended the steps after them quickly, eager to find out who the cloaked figure was but the hallway and beyond were empty.

"The classroom?" Ron suggested breathlessly. They vertually ran to Snapes door and flung it open. Harry ran in the room and looked around for the girl, but he couldn't match anyone of the Slytherins to the cloaked figures profile.

"I've never seen you two enter my room with so much enthusiasm" Snape commented from the front of the class, the seated students all turning in their stools to look at them like they were a freak show. "I'm sure there will be less of that by the end of the lesson. At least if I have anything to say about it. Now Potter and Weasley sit down before I take off 10 points from Gryiffindor out of shere annoyance."

The Syltherins sniggered openly and they blushed and hurried to their normal seats, Harry caught sight of Hermione shaking her head sadly from the other side of the class. The un-named girl, he noted, had sat alone on the empty table infront of theirs; she ignored alone ignored them.

Harry waited until Snape's back was turned before speaking to Ron.

"Who do you think that could have been? "he asked, but before Ron could open his mouth to reply Professor Snape's voice boomed over the class.

"Potter come up here and get your books" everyone looked around at Harry again, who looked down at the table infront of him which held all of his copies of the books he needed.

"Professor I have all my books "he replied assuming Snape had got it wrong.

"Not you Mr. Potter, I am well aware you have all of you copies. For your information I was speaking to our new addition to the class: Miss Potter if you would?" Professor Snapes gaze flowed over the class to rest of the new girl, who much to everyone's surprise slid gracefully out of her chair and crossed the room to where the pile of books sat waiting.

"Thank you Professor," she said before taking the books back to her seat to a chorus of whisperings, they were quickly silenced by a glare from Snape who then continued with the lesson. Almost immediatley Harrys attention slipped away from him and too the girl.
There has to be a simple explanation to this he told himself, he was an only child and as far as he knew, his father had no siblings either. They couldn't be related, he would have known. The only family he had were the Dursleys for goodness sake! Potter was quite a common surname, he reasoned, no harm in sharing it after all.

However he couldn't shake the feeling he had, it was a unsure feeling in the pit of his stomach and shivering that had nothing to do with the cold. He unsuccessfully tried to calm himself down for a large part of the lesson before actually writing anything in his notes. He hoped Snape wouldn't notice.

As soon as it was announced that they had run out of time for the lesson and the homework of a long list of essays to be completed were handed out Harry was out the door and heading to the grounds. He hoped Hermione would have gotten his essays for him, heat wave or no heat wave he need to be alone to think and there was no better place than alone in the grounds where no one would bother him; he hoped.

Description
Her Arrival- A Harry Potter FanFiction
Chapter Three

The Heat Wave

It had been a week since the night where Harry had passed out and since then he hadn't seen Natalie around and had only caught glimpses of strange new girl. A strange heat wave had unusually taken over Hogwarts it was only the middle of February but the weather matched that of mid summer. Most of the students had taken to staying inside the cool stone castle, only venturing outside for quidditch and some classes. The old stone castle was cool on the inside but on the outside the stone sizzled with the blistering heat.

Harry descended the stairs at a fast pace heading for the common room. Good thing it's the weekend tomorrow, he thought as he burst in to the common room where everyone had already gotten changed wearing as little as they could to try and cool down before evening lessons. Every window in the common room had been thrown wide open to catch the non exsistant breeze and more than one student had cherry red faces from the sun, suprisingly the cold Harry had been catching had disappeared as soon as it arrived and he was feeling better than ever.

Squeezing past everyone to get to his dorm and change too something caught his eye making him stop; the new girl. She was sat on the window still with the window open, dressed totally from head to toe in a long white flowing strapless dress. He had to admit, she looked stunning and it appeared he wasn't the only one who thought so as most of the other males in the room were glancing in her direction. But there was something wrong her face that he could see even in the shadow where she was sat, she looked even more paler than usual; almost ill , drained of all her energy. Strangely it reminded Harry of how he felt less than a week ago.

Before he could stop himself, he started to make his way across to her when she looked up to stare at him, she looked like someone had just burnt her with a lighter. The girl stood up and ran past him out of the room, almost crying out when she passed him as their skin nearly touched. Harry watched her go slightly shell shocked. What could he have done to make her hate him so much? He climbed the stairs to his dorm and changed, and was so lost in his thoughts he didn't hear someone come in.

"What's up mate? "Harry spun around to see Ron standing in the door way watching him.

"I just don't understand her Ron or what I have done to upset her so much that she runs out the common room when I walk in" Harry said shaking his head.

"You mean that new girl? I don't know mate she's a wierd one, keeps to herself mostly although some of Slytherins seem to know a bit more about her than anyone else does" Ron said thoughtfully "I wonder why..."

--

Later that day Harry and Ron where making their way down the dungeons steps for potions class when the voice of Draco Malfoy floated up to them. Harry stopped in mid stride causing Ron to smack into his back, before he could complain he motioned for him to be quiet with a wave of his hand making him freeze. Stood just a few feet away from them around the bend at the bottom of the steps was Draco and hooded figure meaning he couldn't see their face.

"I'm warning you Malfoy do not do something you will regret " the figure spoke with a girls voice that was hard and guarded like she was trying to hide her feelings from him.

"Your Highness, we are merely trying to understand you're doing here. I'm sure the Dark Lord wouldn't want you wandering around a place such as this unprotected unless it was something of the up most importance" Draco's voice was laced with respect which made Harry's breath stick to the back of his throat. More than that he was sure he had heard mention of Voldemort but it was hard to tell, they were whispering so quietly he was finding it hard to catch what they were saying. However by the gasp that escaped Ron's lips he too must have heard it; they leaned in closer trying to hear more of the conversation

"I assure you this mission is of the up most importance, one that only I can undertake. My birth is the key so don't question my presence. I shall tell you this only once Draco so listen up, my father will not be happy if you and the rest of the Slytherins make me fail this mission. I have once chance and one chance only to do this, it is vital that Potter doesn't know who I am," Rons eyes breifly darted to Harrys; he looked as worried as he felt. What the hell was going on?

"If you pests keep bothering me sooner or later he is going to find out isn't he?"

There was a hint of threat in the hooded girls voice that Malfoy seemed to notice as all the colour left his alread pale skin. They usually would have been pleased by the sight of Draco nearly wetting himself at a girl but her tone of voice even had them on edge.

"Now run along before I decide to tell the Dark Lord about this.... oh and Draco" she stopped him before he could scarper off, Harry could sense a smirk on her lips that made the hairs on his neck rise, "I don't need your concern. I can look after myself..."

They had never seen Draco look so scared; he backed off further down the corridor, proabably to go to their lesson. The girl paused then followed after a moment later, he shoes tapping out a march on the stone floor. Harry and Ron descended the steps after them quickly, eager to find out who the cloaked figure was but the hallway and beyond were empty.

"The classroom?" Ron suggested breathlessly. They vertually ran to Snapes door and flung it open. Harry ran in the room and looked around for the girl, but he couldn't match anyone of the Slytherins to the cloaked figures profile.

"I've never seen you two enter my room with so much enthusiasm" Snape commented from the front of the class, the seated students all turning in their stools to look at them like they were a freak show. "I'm sure there will be less of that by the end of the lesson. At least if I have anything to say about it. Now Potter and Weasley sit down before I take off 10 points from Gryiffindor out of shere annoyance."

The Syltherins sniggered openly and they blushed and hurried to their normal seats, Harry caught sight of Hermione shaking her head sadly from the other side of the class. The un-named girl, he noted, had sat alone on the empty table infront of theirs; she ignored alone ignored them.

Harry waited until Snape's back was turned before speaking to Ron.

"Who do you think that could have been? "he asked, but before Ron could open his mouth to reply Professor Snape's voice boomed over the class.

"Potter come up here and get your books" everyone looked around at Harry again, who looked down at the table infront of him which held all of his copies of the books he needed.

"Professor I have all my books "he replied assuming Snape had got it wrong.

"Not you Mr. Potter, I am well aware you have all of you copies. For your information I was speaking to our new addition to the class: Miss Potter if you would?" Professor Snapes gaze flowed over the class to rest of the new girl, who much to everyone's surprise slid gracefully out of her chair and crossed the room to where the pile of books sat waiting.

"Thank you Professor," she said before taking the books back to her seat to a chorus of whisperings, they were quickly silenced by a glare from Snape who then continued with the lesson. Almost immediatley Harrys attention slipped away from him and too the girl.
There has to be a simple explanation to this he told himself, he was an only child and as far as he knew, his father had no siblings either. They couldn't be related, he would have known. The only family he had were the Dursleys for goodness sake! Potter was quite a common surname, he reasoned, no harm in sharing it after all.

However he couldn't shake the feeling he had, it was a unsure feeling in the pit of his stomach and shivering that had nothing to do with the cold. He unsuccessfully tried to calm himself down for a large part of the lesson before actually writing anything in his notes. He hoped Snape wouldn't notice.

As soon as it was announced that they had run out of time for the lesson and the homework of a long list of essays to be completed were handed out Harry was out the door and heading to the grounds. He hoped Hermione would have gotten his essays for him, heat wave or no heat wave he need to be alone to think and there was no better place than alone in the grounds where no one would bother him; he hoped.