Trip Through time

New Student

The hall was silent, or as silent as a Hogwarts hall would get, the old stool sat proudly at the front clearly displacing the old hat.

Confused whispers and shocked mumbles shot false explanations around while trying to get to the purpose of the strange leather.

McGonagall walked out front, her face calm despite the confusion she held herself. "Today, Hogwarts is gaining a new student. Treat her with respect and hospitality. Kate Brown, come and you shall be sorted."

Kate walked up confidentially, holding her head up high. Her newly cut hair went to just below her shoulders and blended into the black school robed. The sars that ran across her face stood out clearly, even from this far back we could see them. She sat on the stool, facing the number of students watching her and smiled.

Slowly, the hat was placed on her head. Silence followed.

After what felt like an eternity, the hat announced her house, "Gryffindor!"

She happily stood up and walked to our table, smiling at me before sitting with her year.

Afterwards, the feast began.

I didn't really talk, how could I?

Ron gave me worried looks but I ignored him. I hadn't talked to anyone since Kate woke up. She, Severus, Poppy and well everyone who knew me, tried to get me to speak.

There wasn't anything I wanted to say;so why would I say anything.

Deciding that I had enough to eat, I stood and left the hall walking towards the black lake.

I found this place oddly calming. I never really had good experiences with water but I found I didn't fear it like many of the other things in my life I feared because of him and that house.

I let out a shaky sigh as I relaxed fully.

"Are you going to tell me?"

I jumped from the sudden voice as Kate sat beside me, her purple and gold eyes stared through me, reading my annoyingly complex aura. "Or am I going to guess?" She joked causing me to sigh.

"I don't want to talk right now." I muttered quietly prefuring to keep my head down then looking at her.

"I can see that." Kate moved closer to me while trying to look in my eyes, speaking softly all the while. "You're worrying your friends and you're worrying me. Why won't you talk to me?"

"I don't want to break the rules," I mumbled quietly as Katye let out a booming laugh.

"Rules? Osu, this has never happened before!I don't care about the rules! I want to know what my amazing little brother does when he is not running around the forests with me. I want to meet your friends and great your teachers, and threaten whoever you get as a partner," She mumbled the last bit quietly to herself but I heard it clearly, "I want to see how you act here. I want to meet my little brother, don't you want me to meet you?" Kate asked me while lifting my chin to look at her.

"You already know me, you've met me." I pointed out as she laughed and collapsed by m,y side.

"No, I haven't. I've met Osupa, the scared little kid running away from Surrey, I want to meet Harry, the apparently brave, reckless Gryffindor who took down lord Voldemort and is becoming the youngest triwizard champion there has ever been!" Kate cheered while smiling brightly. "I want to meet Harry."

I let out an awkward laugh before standing up. "Well then, hi, I'm Harry Potter. I am in Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry but I spent most of my childhood as a muggle. I have a sister called Kate and I live with my Aunt and uncle who hate me. I am disabled in my right hand and I have a tendency to anger DADA teachers. I was forced into a competition which is likely going to kill me by the end of the year. Do you want to stay my sister?" I joked while holding my hand out for her.

"Hi, I'm Kate, I am in Gryffindor too, I spent most of my life in a pure blood family, I have a brother called Osupa and I live with my dad who hates me. I am not disable physically but all signs say I have PTSD and most teachers hate me cause I can't sit still. I avoided all competitions but will be worrying about you the whole way through and make sure you don't die. I would love to stay your sister." She mimicked while shaking my hand. "But, I'm still going to call you Osu."

I nodded happily as we sat back down. It was peaceful.

"Can I meet your friends now?" Kate asked suddenly as I nodded and got up leading Kate back to the hall as she hopped along my side.

I took a deep breath before sitting across from my friends. "Don't say anything until I'm done. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have blocked you out. I was scared and stupid and trying my best to not get you hurt further than I've already hurt you. I didn't want to risk changing your opinion of me and I didn't want you to leave me. I was an idiot and if I haven't annoyed you too much, you want to stay friends. I mean I'll completely understand if you don't, and-" I couldn't finish as Kate wacked me on the back of my head.

"What he's trying to say, is he's sorry." Kate stated while smirking at me.

Slowly I lowered my head and nodded, when I didn't hear anything from my friends, my heart started racing. Did they not accept it? Did they hate me? They have every right to hate me. I'm so stupid.

"Of course, we want to say friends, I'm just glad you've stopped freaking out." Ron laughed as I smiled at him.

Kate let out a fake cough causing me to laugh and roll my eyes. "Ron, Moine, meet Kate. Kate this is Ron and Hermione." I introduced as Kate held out her hand.

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you. I've heard so much about you." She joked before sitting down after Moine and Ron shook her hand.

Moine gave me a strange look as she watched us. "That's weird, Harry has avoided talking about you."

"Oh, really? And here I thought you weren't embarrassed by me," Kate sung teasingly.

"I'm not, most the time, but you're not meant to be here," I snapped back as she quickly throw her hands up in defence.

"Alright Osu, I see how it is, blame me for something Kuklaci did." Kate teased in fake horror.

"Kucklacy?" Ron asked, butchering the pronunciation, as I shook my head.

"No one important, we don't even know if they exist, it's just a theory." I answered before sending a quick glare to Kate. "Come on, we should get to class." I stood up quickly before Kate could object to our department.

"Well, bye then." Kate grumbled in annoyance.

"Yep, bye." I finished before grabbing Ron and Moine and dragging them away. "Listen, I'm going to warn you, don't get close to Kate." I stated the second we left the hall.

"What, why? She seems nice." Moine asked me as I shook my head.

"There is a reason I don't talk about her. She used to get me into a lot of trouble and I've almost died on many occasions because of her. She's trouble and we don't need more of that this year." I explained, doing my best to not let them know the truth.

"Harry, if she's that bad, why do you call her your sister? Why are you two still talking?" Ron asked me while taking my hand.

I hung my head, not wanting to tell them the truth but knowing I couldn't let them get close. "Because you two have a choice. Kate causes trouble but most the time, outside Hogwarts, she is the only person I have and I can't risk losing her. The consequences could lead to more than just her ignoring me. I may not like it, but we need each other or both our lives would be... unrecoverable." I tried to explain but I could tell I was just confusing them. "Just don't get close to her. You trust me right?" They nodded slowly. "Then don't get close to her."