Lialani\'s Story

disclaimer: yah, we all know that nothing belongs to me, only to Rowling, and may the goddesses and gods bless her for creating it in the first place!

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When Lialani reached the last compartment, she flung open the door, revealing Hermione and Ron.

\"Hi, I\'m Lialani! What\'s your name?\"

Hermione stared at the thin bubbly blonde, taking her in. She had on a black tank top, a pleated yellow mini-skirt, black socks that went up to her knees, and black and white sneakers. The tank top didn\'t quite reach the waistband of her skirt, and exposed her pierced belly button. On the ring was a crescent moon. Her blonde hair was pulled into two waist length pigtails. Her eyes were two differnt colors, one brown and one black, and her smile revealed blue teeth.

\"I\'m Hermione Granger. Is there any reason why your teeth are blue?\"

\"Yup. \'Weasley\'s Wheezes\'. Want some?\" She held out the candy, and Hermione plucked one out of her outstretched palm.

Lialani turned, holding the candy out to Ron.

\"I\'m Ron Weasley.\" And he took one too.

\"Your brothers are Fred and George, right?\"

Ron nodded.

\"Isn\'t their store awesome? I\'m gonna try and see if by the end of the year, I\'ve matched their record of detentions! And I love to pull pranks so I\'m going to pull off a bunch this year!\"

Hermione\'s eyes widened and Ron laughed. From behind Lialani, Harry laughed too.

\"What\'s so funny?\" she asked.

\"It\'s just that over the summer we were all thinking that school was going to be boring without Fred and George, but with you and your promise to pull praks, school\'s looking better already!\" Harry replied. \"Now do you think you could actually go into the compatrment?\"

Lialani grinned and gave her trunk a shove with her foot, pushing it into the compartment and under a seat. She sat on the same seat and put Midnight down beside her.

\"Nice owl. What\'s it\'s name?\" Ron asked.

\"Midnight. And IT\'S a girl,\" Lialani replied, pulling a bag of owl treats out of her trunk and giving one to Midnight. \"Anyone else have any pets, besides Harry\'s owl?\"

Hermione nodded and moved her cloak to reveal a ginger-colored furball.

\"His name is Crookshanks,\" Hermione said, stroking him fondly.

\"And this is Pig,\" Ron said, pulling the cage down and setting it beside him.

\"He looks like a ball of feathers!\" Lialani laughed.

\"Yeah, he does,\" Ron said, and laughed too.

Harry, who had sat down next to Midnight, turned to Lialani.

\"How come you dress like that? I\'ve never seen anyone dress like that, not even a Muggle,\" Harry said.

\"Well, I\'m half-Miggle, my mum\'s a witch and my dad\'s a Muggle. But this is just...me!\" Lialani replied. \"Why? Does it look bad?\"

She got up and twirled as if to show off her outfit. But as she spun, her skirt flared up and revealed her hot pink panties.

\"Ummm, Lialani, why dont you stop twirling!\" Harry put out an arm to stop her, and as she collided with it she stopped.

She stumbled around for a few seconds, dizzy from her spinning, and collapsed into her previous seat. Ron looked embarassed and Hermione\'s face was blank. Lialani shrugged, pushed Midnight a c a couple of seat and curled up on them. In a few minutes, the sounds of her deep breathing filled the compartment.

\"Well, you have to admit, she likes to flirt,\" Hermione said.

\"I don\'t think she meant for her skirt to go up like that,\" Harry protested.

\"Defending her already?\" Hermione asked.

\"Well, I don\'t think its fair for you to judge her when you just met her,\" Harry replied.

Hermione shrugged, and laying down across the seat, covering herself up with her claok, she fell asleep.

\"Put everyone to sleep, Potter?\" asked a snarky voice from the doorway.

Harry looked up, and hatred flashed in his brilliant green eyes. It was none other than Draco Malfoy.

\"What do you want, Malfoy?\" Ron snarled, making sure his wand was in easy reach.

\"Just checking to make sure my favorite person is still alive for another year of torture,\" Malfoy replied, looking around the compartment. His blue-gray eyes widened in interest as they settled on Lialani\'s blonde head, which was the only part of her not covered by her baby blanket.

\"Who\'s that?\" he asked, nodding his head at her sleeping form.

\"That\'s Lialani. Why?\" Harry narrowed his eyes, suspicious. \"Don\'t even think about bothering her, Malfoy.\"

\"And why not, Potter? Is she your girlfriend?\" Malfor spat.

\"No, but she is my friend, and you don\'t want to do anything to her, Malfoy.\"

\"Oooh, I\'m so scared!\" Malfoy whipped out his wand and pointed it at Lialani.

But before he could utter a single syllable, another voice shouted, \"Expelliarmus!\"

Malfoy\'s wand was tugged out of his hands by invisble strings and flew behind him, straight into the hand of Neville Longbottom.

\"Longbottom!\" Malfoy hissed, turning to face him.

\"Malfoy,\" Neville replied cooly, twirling Malfoy\'s wand in his fingers.

Malfoy put his hand out, waiting for his wand to be placed in it. But Neville looked past him and into the compartment at Harry.

\"Alright there, Harry?\" he asked.

\"Yeah. Good one, Neville,\" Harry replied, his shock obviou on his face.

\"Thanks,\" Neville slapped Malfoy\'s wand into his hand and walked away.

Lialani sat up, rubbing her eyes. Hermoine followed suit, Neville\'s shout having woken them both.

\"Who yelled?\" Hermione asked, angry at being woken so soon.

\"Neville. He got Malfoy\'s wand out of his hand before he could jinx Lialani,\" Ron answered.

At the sound of Malfoy\'s name both girl\'s heads snapped to the door.

\"Malfoy!\" Lialani spat, disgust spreading across her face. \"We meet in person.\"

\"You\'ve never even met him and you already hate him?\" Harry asked.

\"I\'ve heard a lot about him, and none of its good,\" she replied, unfolding her long legs from underneath her and standing up.

\"Well, I\'ve heard nothing about you. Except that you\'ve made Potter\'s acquaintance,\" Malfoy replied smugly.

\"Yes, I have. Got a problem with that?\" Lialani asked.

\"Actually, no. I did at first, but now that I know that you have the same attitude problem as Potty and Weasle, I want nothing to do with you,\" Malfoy answered.

\"Good. Then leave,\" Lialani hissed.

\"And if I decide not to?\"

\"We\'ll make you,\" Harry said, and he, Hermione, and Ron jumped up, wands pointing at Malfoy.

\"Hey, where\'s Crabbe and Goyle?\" Hermione asked, noticing something that Harry and Ron had chosen not ringring attention to.

\"They\'re up in the front compartment, stuffing themselves on food from the food trolley. I knew I\'d find you three here so I came to visit,\" Malfoy replied.

\"The visit\'s over,\" Harry snapped. He stepped forward and pushed Malfoy out the door, slamming it shut after him.

The four relaxed, falling back into their seats. Lialani checked her watch, and grabbed a snack out of her trunk. Before she could close the lid, Harry spotted somehting orange and grabbed the lid, preventing her from closing it.

\"What\'s that?\" Harry asked, pointing to the orange spot.

\"Oh, that\'s my Simba. You know, the little lion from the Muggle movie \'The Lion King\'?\" Lialani pulled him out, scattering socks and robes on the floor.

\"Oh, I love that movie!\" Hermione squealed delightedly. \"Who\'s your absolute favorite character?\"

\"Although my Simba might say that hes\'s my favorite character, he\'s not. My grandmother happened to get him for me. But my favorite character is Pumbaa and that hyena who can\'t talk,\" Lialani replied, hugging Simba to her tightly.

\"Okay, as much as fun as this, talking about a movie I\'ve never heard of, we should probably change into our school clothes and get Lialani\'s stuff back in her trunk because we should be pulling into the station in any minute,\" Harry said, pulling his own robes out of his trunk.

\"Right,\" Lialani pulled her robes out of the tangled mass on the floor. She put the rest of her things back in her trunk. \"Okay, evreyone turn around so you can only see the wall and on the count of three, change.\"

Everyone turned around.

\"One, two, three!\"

With a wave of her wand, Hermione\'s clothes vanished off her body and and her school unifirm replaced them. Her streets clothes flew into her trunk and the lid slammed close.

\"Is everyone dressed?\" she asked. Her answer was a chorus of \'no\'s\'.

\"Okay, my eyes are closed, and I want you to guys to close your eyes too, but I\'m going to turn around,\" she turned around, eyes tightly shut, and waved her wand. \"Okay, now everyone open your eyes.\"

Harry opened his eyes and looked down in amazement. He was completely dressed including the underclothes of his uniform and his Gryffindor scarf.

\"Is everyone dressed?\" Lialani asked, and at the sound of three \'yes\'s\' she turned around. Everyone looked at her. A Gryffindor scarf adorned her neck.

\"You\'re in Gryffindor?\" Ron asked, surprised.

\"Yup. In my sixth year, too,\" she replied.

\"How come I\'ve never seen you in the dormitory?\" Hermione asked.

\"I used to sleep with an invisibility charm around my ed and an invisibilty cloak on because I didn\'t want to be bothered. I hate to be bothered while I\'m sleeping, and I\'be hurt people for waking me up. So I figured that if you can\'t see me, you can\'t bother me. Dumbledore understood and said that I could put up an invisibility charm and sleep in my invisibility cloak and my house-elf from home would wake me up every morning,\" Lialani answered.

\"Used to?\" Harry looked a little wary.

\"Yeah, I saw a doctor over the summer and I\'m cured. I\'ve been sleeping like a normal person for the past month and I haven\'t hurt anyone.\"

\"That\'s good. And when Neville woke you up today, no one got jinxed so I guess you really are cured.\"

At that moment, the train shuddered to a stop. Lialani tightened her pigtails and straightened her skirt.

\"Ready or not guys, we gotta go to skool,\" Hermione said, and they all stepped out of the compartment.

A throng of students jamming the corridor was the sight that greeted them. Lialani grimaced and began to shove her way through the crowd. She reached the door first, and hopped out onto the platform. She saw the carriages and raced over to an empty one, grabbing the door, and waited for the other three.

She didn\'t have long to wait. She waved them over and climbed in. Harry climbed in after her, plopping down next to her. Ron got in next, followed by Hermione, snd they sat together on the opposite side. They rode in silence for a minute, but Harry broke it.

\"Lialani, can you see what\'s pulling the carriages?\" he asked.

\"The thestrals? Yeah, I can see them,\" she replied, sadness clouding her mismatched eyes. \"I was there when my great-grandfather passed away after being a human vegetable for a month because of a stroke.\"

\"I\'m so sorry,\" Harry said.

She brushed away the tears that were threatening to fall and said, \"Gods, I hate that! I hate when people say \'I\'m sorry\'. It\'s not like they had anything to do with it! But, Harry, I\'m fine, and I\'m sorry for that little outburst.\"

Harry nodded, and the carriage jerked to a stop.

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a/n: you have no idea how long it took me to write that! but, still, for those who read it, please review! i would be verry thankful.

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