The Wrong House (HP Fanfic)

## Chapter 1

Reina Del Miller bounced in her cubicle. She was on a train! And not just any train, the train! The train to Hogwarts! Reina was about to begin her year of schooling there and was very excited. Her older brother, Percy, had always told her Hogwarts would be the best experience of her life. He was going into his fifth year at the school this year, and he was in a cubicle near Reina's with his friend Jace. Just looking at his happiness made Reina sure she herself would be happy at Hogwarts too. Percy was always recognizable in a crowd because of his light green eyes and shockingly gold blonde hair, which gave Reina comfort as she knew she'd find him if she ever got lost. He was a Hufflepuff, like most of the Miller family members. Most of them were either Hufflepuffs or Gryffindors, with three Ravenclaws and one Slytherin; the Slytherin had died not too long ago trying to get in a fight with a defenseless Muggle. Reina's dad, a Ravenclaw, and her mother, a married-in family member who was (luckily for the family status) a Hufflepuff, had always assured Reina that she would be in Hufflepuff too. And Reina didn't doubt it. With her light brown hair and curious-looking light green eyes, she almost looked like a girl who belonged in the Hufflepuff uniform. She was constantly told she was kind and loyal, even though she never thought her good deeds were that important. She couldn't wait to be made a Hufflepuff and bring honor to the family.

It was the Sorting Ceremony, and Reina still couldn't get over the look of the place. The school was so.. so pretty, and in all her eleven years she'd never seen anything better. However, she quickly realized she had to pay attention, so she'd be punctual when her name was called. As Reina waited, she was delighted to see that there were not many Hufflepuffs. She might be the first Hufflepuff of the night, and the thought excited her. She was about to collapse from excitement as Kiarah Lubrot was made a Ravenclaw, and Reina whose name was alphabetically next knew she had been called before she heard her name. Reina stood up and made her way to the hat. *Hi, hat!* She thought to the hat, knowing it could hear her. Reina looked at the smiling faces around her, including Percy's, her daydreams drowning out what the hat was muttering to itself about her traits. She looked back at her seat, where her wand was sitting, and saw a girl with ruddy black curls reaching out towards it. Reina hoped the girl tripped and fell. Heck, maybe she'd have to do it herself after the hat was done. After all, what kind of person would steal another person's wan-- "SLYTHERIN!" the hat announced, bringing Reina back to reality.

Percy's face fell. A few kids gave Reina sympathetic glances. "Slytherin??" Reina cried. "No.. it has to be a mistake! My family-- I'm in Hufflepuff! Please, let me do it again--" A teacher had to take the hat off of Reina because she wouldn't budge. Reina looked at the hat, praying it would let the faculty know there'd been an obvious mistake here, but the hat went quiet and stiff until he announced that the next kid alphabetically to get sorted, Namaari Nelson-Perseous, was a Hufflepuff.

## Chapter 2

Reina tossed and turned in her bed that night. The teachers hadn't listened to her pleas that she was supposed to be in Hufflepuff, and Percy had hardly even looked at her when she waved at him. He refused to acknowledge that he was even related to her. Reina was still in her arrival outfit. She had no intention of wearing a Slytherin uniform. She'd been waiting for the day when she'd proudly sport how proud she was to be in the loyalest house, and it was all for nothing. Tears glistened in her eyes. "Make her shut up," groused Agatha, her roommate, the one with the dark ruddy curls, to her pet spider, Ashton. Reina stopped. "Leave me alone!" she cried. "Why are you still up?" She thought she heard Agatha snort. "You've been sniffling and bumping around since you got in here. I can't sleep with all that bloody racket," Reina turned around, staring into Agatha's blue eyes. "Well, if you were put in a house with thieves and cretins you'd understand me. I belong in Hufflepuff, where the other people like me are, thankyouverymuch," Reina snapped, not feeling bad to snap at someone like Agatha. The black-haired Slytherin coiled back, hitting her tanned elbow on the wall, and Reina turned around, satisfied, before going back to her misery. However, she suddenly remembered her grandmother's dress, the one gifted to her by Helga Hufflepuff. She'd packed it along. Hmm.. maybe if she wore such an item, the teachers would realize she was a Hufflepuff?

The next morning, all the other Hogwarts students were just waking up, but Reina was already up. She hadn't slept a wink that night and now was wearing her grandmother's dress, running down towards the dungeon, eager to say goodbye to the racist Slytherins and nasty Agatha and disgracefulness. Kicking open the dungeon door and primping the yellow dress for her meeting with her true housemates, Reina breathed out loudly. She crept down to the Hufflepuff basement and a large door faced her. "Percy? Perce?" she called out. "It's me! Any teachers here? I'm Reina, and this is the house I really belong in--" Reina began, her loud breaths of exhaustion obscuring her words. She heard voices from upstairs, and picked apart a few words such as "a student down there?", "the delusional Slytherin, Rein..", "the dungeon door, it's open!" and Reina's heart stopped knowing they were talking about her. She heard a pitter-patter of feet go nearby and she banged on the door, yelling "PERCY!". The footsteps and voices got closer and Reina, gasping, shoved herself at the door--

Percy had opened the door for Reina, who'd been knocked out and, despite knowing that Reina's acceptance into Slytherin meant that.. *that*.. was going to happen to her, that she'd realize.. well, he'd told a lie, saying that he'd sleepwalked and spelled the dungeon door down when the teachers saw him and her there together. Reina had been changed into the Slytherin uniform, and Percy had said she was just there to wake him up, as she tended to do in skits using their grandmother's dress, and taken to Madame Pomfrey's. Now, Reina, unaware of all that, was dreaming a dream of floating through ink-black clouds. *Is this real?* Reina pondered. *Am I dead? Is this Limbo?* Reina sure felt real. The last thing she could remember was banging into the door, frightened of the teachers putting her in trouble and her having to life another day with dumb Slytherins. Reina hoped she wasn't dead, just sleeping. Suddenly she saw something in front of her. "There are no mistakes, Reina. You are a Slytherin, Reina." Reina couldn't speak, but she thought, *NO I'M NOT!* The thing, a shadow shaped like a girl, got closer to her. "I know why, Reina. I know why this is. Ever wonder why your father has light golden hair, your brother does, and your mother has red-blonde hair, and you have light brown hair?" Reina would have snortled if she could make noise. *Recessive genes. Duh.* The shadow-girl leaned closer to Reina, her eyes blazing red. "No, Reina. Silly, foolish girl." The shadow-girl leaned closer, and Reina could see that the shadow's face was eerily similar to her own-- Reina lurched forward, blood suddenly spilling from her mouth as the shadow's laughter got louder--

Reina sat up in her cot in Madame Pomfrey's office. A smiley girl in the Slytherin uniform with platinum blonde hair and silvery blue eyes with flecks of green in them was waiting near the door and, when she saw Reina wake up, smiled and told Reina that she was sent to help her. Reina couldn't believe a Slytherin would ever help someone, but she nodded anyway. The girl smiled. "That was a great stunt, by the way. You're possibly one of the best prankster Slytherins I've ever seen," she said. "Thanks," Reina squeezed out of her tightened lips. "But still, you will have to make up the work you're missing, you know?" the girl said. "But I'll help you. I'll gladly be your friend." Reina smiled and nodded, but she wasn't really listening. The shadow's red eyes still haunted her. She told herself it was just a freaky dream. and that it was still a mistake. *Just a freak dream. I'm definitely a Hufflepuff.* But she could still taste the blood.

## Chapter 3

The smiley light-blue-eyed and platinum-blonde-haired Slytherin girl was named Raysie Malfoy. She told Reina at lunch, and initially Reina didn't want to talk to her at all, but something about Raysie's kind eyes made Reina want to talk. Soon Reina and Raysie were friends. Raysie understood Reina far more than her family ever did, and Reina tried to understand Raysie. Soon the two were making up heists to get Reina in the right house: switching places with a Hufflepuff girl scared into submission by Reina; eavesdropping on the Hufflepuff classes; showing off Hufflepuff traits by being kind to even the most cretinous boys at school, with a smile to show the good deed had already been done by enduring their presence; dyeing Agatha's hair yellow for Hufflepuff; the list goes on. Even though the attempts failed miserably, it was still fun because Reina was with a friend, even though Reina did find it odd Raysie had her do many of the things herself. Reina on several occasions found herself wanting to stay in Slytherin simply because of Raysie. When she told Raysie this while they were in the audience during a Quiddich match --Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor-- Raysie had shook her head. "No, Reina. You're a Hufflepuff if I've ever known one, technically a Slytherpuff, or whatever. I myself was nearly put in Hufflepuff, but I belong in Slytherin. I'm a Malfoy, after all..." What Raysie said next was drowned out by the cheers, but to Reina it sounded something like "We'll still be friends, just in different houses". And Reina believed her. Behind her, she didn't see a teacher looking at the her oddly, hoping that talking to herself wasn't another one of her stunts..

Hours later, Reina and Raysie had kicked Agatha, whose hair was still hideously yellow, out of Reina's dorm. The incident made Reina feel good, oddly, and she and Raysie thus spent the night giggling and talking without Agatha as a bother. Reina drifted off to sleep after they had a tiring pillow fight. Raysie, meanwhile, watched Reina sleep. Raysie walked over to her bed. *Reina can't possibly believe she's a real Hufflepuff. No matter, she finds me a friend. But she hasn't got a clue. Soon enough, she'll know it's a lie.* Raysie smiled and looked out the window. For a moment, the moon was shrouded by clouds, and the lighting looked strange on Raysie. It made her look like she was identical to Reina and a little bit shadowy. Or maybe it wasn't the lighting, because shortly afterward, Raysie's eyes glowed unmistakably red.

## Chapter 4

Reina was in DADA, not paying attention at all to the teacher. Reina was so bored. Her thoughts turned back to her life dilemma. Percy still was looking away from her whenever he saw her, and she was still in the wrong house, the Hufflepuff dorm now had a guardian patronus that belonged to the house's Prefect just to keep out Reina and Raysie. Speaking of Raysie, Reina had begun to wonder about Raysie. After all, last night Agatha hadn't been able to see Raysie. The Hufflepuffs were even scared of Reina, as if she were a thing to be feared, and Raysie kept telling Reina to keep going, that their heists would work, and Reina had begun to wonder if they made her feel that good after all. And the headmaster frequently had been caught walking down the halls, checking on Reina to see what she was up to, while Raysie still egged Reina on. Reina decided to confront Raysie about all this, because it was getting too weird to ignore.

"Raysie?" Reina asked. Raysie was in the library, reading. It was lunchtime, and Reina had slinked away with the teacher's permission after she finished eating. Of course, the teachers had given her weary looks and had followed her to the library to make sure she wasn't just going to the Hufflepuff dorm, and were now watching from distance enough they couldn't hear her, or probably get a good look at who she was speaking to, which was good, so they wouldn't think the two were coming up with another plot. Reina actually couldn't remember seeing Raysie in class that morning. "Raysie, what's up with you?" Raysie looked up from her book. "What do you mean?" Reina groaned and continued. "Ugh. Raysie, I barely see you in class, you never get in trouble, most of the teachers don't notice you, and I even looked it up! I've never heard of a Raysie Malfoy before. I know it seemed last night like we were tight-- but this is getting weird! Yes, I almost feel bad for Agatha, in my heart of hearts I know it's wrong, which is probably why I'm supposed to be in Hufflepuff, but ANYWAY.. You never even care about when I get in trouble, you don't care about the bad impression I'm leaving on the teachers! You say you want to help me by getting me into the right house but the Hufflepuffs are scared of me! What good's that going to-- and why are you looking at me like that!" Raysie's face, which seconds earlier had been of pure emotionlessness, crinkled to sadness. "I'm sorry you feel that way, Reina. But I tried to be the best friend for you. The hat was right. You're way too mean to be a Hufflepuff." A tear trickled out of Raysie's eye and she walked away, sniffling.

Reina stood there, dumbfounded. She didn't know what to think, but knew a true Hufflepuff would do the right thing and be unafraid of it. But was that the right thing? Reina didn't know anymore. It kind of scared her, almost. Finally her whirling thoughts produced the words *I blew it! The only person who was civil to me and I found fault in her every move! Poor Raysie! I need to go apologize!* Reina ran after Raysie. But she wasn't there. Huh. *But she was just there, walking away. I swear on it.* "Raysie?" Reina said, walking in the direction she saw Raysie walk in. She suddenly tasted blood in her mouth. There was someone behind her. "I'm here, Reina, but I'm not Raysie. No, don't worry, it's me.. But my name isn't Raysie. It's Aelith, and you aren't a Miller. I know that because I'm your sister. Your name isn't even Reina. It's Selisa. They stole you from me, Selisa."

## Chapter 5

Reina-- no, Selisa, sat in a corner in the beautiful mansion. The fake parents, the filthy Millers, were murdered. They'd died brutally for kidnapping her away from her real sister and hoping they could 'fix' her inherent Slytherin evil. So why didn't Selisa feel whole? Maybe it was because she knew her and Rays-- er, Aelith, were half-dementor. Their family, the Gaunts, hadn't actually been dissolved; instead, they took on the family name Nevermore and for their crimes, each member of the family was cursed to have half-dementor children, and Selisa and Aelith were the results of this. Selisa ran her gaunt, bony hands, through her now-jagged-looking hair. Her appearance changed once she knew what she was capable of. She was glad she hadn't been fixed by the Millers. Aelith had been stolen away from her family too, and eventually found out her identity and their names on her own, as well as the fact that she could make herself invisible to anyone but other dementors, technically including Selisa. The two had went back, ditching Hogwarts for the mansion Aelith had killed her adoptive family in, and now Selisa had hidden away in the corner of her new, lavish room, to think upon it all. Selisa was thankful for her sister, but one thing never changed.
She needed a soul to eat. The hunger, the pent-up anger she'd been feeling, it was because she was hungry. Aelith had greedily sucked the souls from the dead Millers, which sort of annoyed Selisa, but now that she knew she needed them, she began to feel anxious, before remembering her sister, although annoying and sort of a liar, may be able to help her eat souls. The same sister knocked on Selisa's door at the moment. *Intuition*, Selisa marveled. "Selisa? You in there? I figured you may be--" Aelith started, but Selisa cut her off. "Yes, I'm hungry. Show me how to hunt humans down."

Aelith smirked at Selisa. "Come here.. it's like this." Selisa walked closer to her and she sucked a fly's soul up. "Now you try." Energy flooded through Selisa's body as she focused on a bluebird outside the window, and sucked its soul off. "Great. Now, we should go outside for more practice. Perhaps then you'll get your first human-- how about Agatha?" Aelith plotted. Selisa smiled maliciously and was off.

The End