A/N: Valeria Dobre (the new girl) is show above as played by Sophie Turner. I only just came up with this new twist. She is my OC, just so everyone knows.
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Rowan's POV
LATE Monday night, me, Hermione, Harry and the Weasleys arrive back in the Gryffindor common room through the floo network. It's so late that the common room is empty, everyone has gone to bed for the night, needing a good night's sleep before courses start up tomorrow morning.
But then I notice that the common room isn't completely empty. There's one girl sitting by herself in the corner, her dark auburn hair falling in her face. I've never seen her before. I would know if there were other redheads in Gryffindor besides the Weasleys.
As if sensing our arrival, she lifts her head and looks over. Her eyes widen with excitement when she sees us and she barrels over to us. She's pretty, very pretty. Avada Kedavra level gorgeous in fact. At first I think she's excited to see the boy who lived standing before her. But instead she runs straight towards Fred, throwing herself into his arms. "Freddie!" she cries, wrapping her arms around him in a tight hug.
"Hey Valeria." Fred grins, hugging her back. Something strange twists in my gut as I watch them. Hermione raises an eyebrow at me, silently asking me if I know who she is. I just shrug in answer, letting her know that I don't know who she is. I have absolutely no idea who this girl clutching to my boyfriend is.
By the looks of everyone else's faces, I'm not the only one confused by who this girl is. It seems they don't know who she is either. Well, except for George who doesn't seem to be fazed at all by this.
After what feels like an eternity, Valeria pulls away from Fred. Finally, Fred decides to introduce us all.
"Everyone this is Valeria Dobre, I met her the summer after fifth year when we went to visit Charlie in Romania." Fred says.
"Nice to meet you all." She grins, and it's only now that she's spoken more than one word that I notice she has a slight Romanian accent.
"Valeria, you remember George obviously. And this is Ginny, my younger sister. Ron, my younger brother and his friends, Hermione and Harry. Finally this is my girlfriend Rowan." Fred continues.
Valeria's eyes land on mine and I notice her hands reach out to cling to Fred's arm, leaning against him. "Pleasure." She says, looking me up and down. I'm not sure what it is about her but something rubs me the wrong way. Before I can linger on it much longer, she refocuses her attention onto Harry.
"I can't believe I'm finally meeting the Harry Potter. I've heard so much about you. You're famous everywhere in the Wizarding World, not just in England." She smiles.
"So, what brings you to Hogwarts?" I ask before Harry can say anything. "I thought people in Romania attended Durmstrang."
"Oh." She giggles. "Usually yes, but I transferred."
"Transferred for the last two months of your wizarding education?" Fred asks her. So she's a seventh year like him, then.
"Well, I suppose transferred isn't the right word for it. More like I got expelled." She shrugs.
"Expelled?" George demands.
"Just a prank gone terribly wrong. I did learn from the best."
"Clearly you didn't learn very well if it went terribly wrong and you got caught." Fred grins, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "I guess George and I still have a few things to teach you." He says, leading her away from the group. George follows.
I'm left standing there with Ron, Hermione and Harry who look at me quizzically. "I'm going to bed." I announce, heading to my room as the strange twist in my gut tightens further.
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"YOU okay?" Ginny asks, her and Hermione coming into the room a few minutes later finding me curled up on my bed.
"I don't know." I shrug, sitting up. "Everything's been going amazingly well with Fred and then all of a sudden this random girl who he met almost two years ago, and he's off chatting with her. And it almost feels like he's going to forget all about me."
"Don't be silly, Rowan. They're just catching up. He'll be all over you again tomorrow." Hermione soothes, taking a seat beside me.
Ginny sits on the other side of me, stroking my back. "Hermione's right. Fred loves you. He's not just going to abandon you for some old fling."
I whip my head towards her, eyes wide. "Fling? I didn't know they had a fling. That makes me feel even worse." I huff, flopping back onto the bed.
"Relax, Rowan. I don't know if they hooked up for sure. I just know that when we were in Romania he was always going around with some girl and spending most of his time with her. But he never told us her name. Although based ont their reactions when they just saw each other, it probably was her."
"Ginny, you're digging yourself a hole here." Hermione warns.
"Right, sorry." She apologizes to me.
Hermione looks down at me, furrowing her brow. "Look, we don't want to jump to any conclusions. For now, we'll operate under the assumption that nothing happened between them and nothing will happen between them. He's with you but if anything were to happen, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
"Yeah, I'll beat his ass if he breaks your heart." Ginny pipes up. "We've got your back girl."
"Thanks guys." I say, sitting up. "But we should probably get to sleep now if we don't want to oversleep tomorrow morning and get detention for being late."
"Agreed." Hermione says.
"Good night, Rowan." Ginny says, heading for the door to her room with the other fourth year girls.
"Goodnight Ginny. Goodnight mione." I call out, snuggling into my bed.
I push all my rampant thoughts out of my head for the time being and focus on drifting off to sleep.
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A/N: Thoughts? Opinions? Anyone think Valeria is going to stir up some trouble?
P.S. This is for all you Weasley simps, the introduction chapters (a/n and playlist) of my new fanfic (Ron x reader) are now up, so add that to your library and reading lists to be notified when I release the first chapter. The support would be greatly appreciated. I love you all, xoxo.
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