Hermione sat on the train watching the kids board the train beginning of 7th year. Suddenly the most unexpected thing happened. Draco Malfoy entered her compartment. He looked at her for a second then sat down on the opposite side. She wanted to ask what he was doing there but why bother.
"Why are you here" asked Hermione annoyed by his presence.
"I wanted to" said Draco.
"But why" said Hermione.
She hated of the idea of Draco near her, next to her, across from her, diagonal of her, behind her, and now in front of her. The train had started so there was no way of getting out now.
"Do you question everything" asked Draco.
Does she question everything…DOES SHE QUESTION EVERYTHING! Wait does she? No certainly not everything but at that moment why was he, Malfoy of all people questioning her.
"It's simple you're here" said Hermione.
"So I can't sit without question" said Draco.
"Not around me" said Hermione.
"Ok, I felt like it" said Draco with a satisfied smile.
'HE FELT LIKE IT! THE NEXT THING HE'LL FEEL IS MY FOOT CLASHING WITH HIS…'
The train came to a stop. Hermione got up and looked out the compartment.
"We've stopped" said Hermione.
"Thank you for stating the obvious" said a white cat that lay next to Draco.
"It's something she does Artemis" said Draco.
The white cat or Artemis shrugged and sat now in a cat sitting pose. The kind you would see in a painting. It began to get cold.
"D-d-dementors" Hermione shivered.
"Once again stating the obvious" said Artemis.
A dark figure stopped at the compartment door. It unlocked revealing a dementor. Draco moved towards the window. Artemis stood up. The dementor turned towards Draco. Hermione was confused dementors went after those with the least happy memories. The dementor moved towards Draco. Artemis jumped off the seat turning into a cougar and he let out a ferocious roar. A beam of light came from a locket around Artemis' neck. The dementor fled out of the compartment. The chill soon vanished.
"Good boy Artemis" said Draco.
Artemis turned back into a cat. And Draco gave the cat a soft pet Artemis seemed to enjoy. The cat laid his head back down and went to sleep.
"Everything ok" said a man in a white cloak.
"Yes Professor" said Draco once again petting the cat.
"Good work on your cats part Draco" said the man.
The man turned to Hermione.
"Hello there I am your new professor I am Professor Malfoy, technically I've never preferred my last name, so just call me Professor Gabriel. You'll probably end up calling me Professor Malfoy, there in which lies my problem, very well then have a good day" said Professor Gabriel.
The man exited the compartment. Gabriel had looked not much like a Malfoy she had seen but he seemed kind and considerate. It was incredible.
"My uncle…older then my dad…looks nothing like us…dad said he never really looked like his dad…but he does look like an older version of my dad…which I suppose it's supposed to be that way" said Draco.
Hermione never had seen Malfoy this way he seemed like a confused kid, but then returned to his normal self.
"How did your cat…" said Hermione not sure how to finish the sentence.
"Transfigure" asked Draco completing her sentence.
"Yes" said Hermione.
"He's a medieval cat, he can transform into a different type of animal while still being a cat" said Draco.
He looked at the cat for a second.
"See this locket here" continued Draco referring to the Slytherin crest locket around the little cats neck. "It allows him to transfigure, however that patronus charm he performed takes a lot of energy and it takes time for medieval cats like him to master" said Draco.
Hermione didn't understand the concept of medieval cats she had read the first page of a book on them except then fell asleep and found it a waste of time.
"Medieval cats only come from the pure-blood families not that you would know of that" said Draco smiling.
In fact Hermione did know, it is on the first page of the book. 'Medieval cats only consist in pure-blood families most come from the founders of Hogwarts School themselves or someone within their family'. Just one of the many things pure-bloods bragged about.
"Artemis was given to one of my family members by a descendent of Salazar Slytherin. He was also owned once by Salazar, Artemis has told my family about Salazar multiple times. He finds your kind a disgrace to pure-blood existence. He said that Salazar once told him that the only thing any of your people are useful for is to be below us. Father says he's probably right" said Draco.
"Since when do I care of what you think" said Hermione.
"Salazar knew your kind care of everything we think that's why you and everyone like you still have to try so hard to pass when it comes naturally to all the rest of us. Even your friend Potter has it come naturally to him. In one of our years I remember when you couldn't get your broom up in your hand as well as the rest of us. Weaslebee got his broom so magically up it smacked him in the face. The simplest people could do what you had to teach yourself multiple times. That levitating your feather was only a matter of wand enabled magic only pure-bloods and half-bloods can magic without wands" said Draco.
"You can't" said Hermione.
"Trust me Granger you don't want to do this you'll only embarrass yourself" said Draco.
"Show me then Malfoy" said Hermione.
"Ok" said Draco.
Draco moved his hand and levitated Hermione's bag which he placed on the ground in front of her.
"Simple lifting Malfoy" said Hermione.
"Go ahead Granger, put it back" said Draco.
Hermione focused on the bag and imagined it levitating and put her hand out and tried. The bag didn't move and inch it didn't even move up a little.
"Nothing" mocked Draco.
Hermione focused again and tried and failed. She repeated this seventeen times she was getting ready to try again when Malfoy stopped her.
"Granger as hilarious as it is to watch you try and fail I'll just put it back" said Draco.
She quit focusing and watched as Draco put back the bag in its original place.
"It doesn't…" said Hermione.
Hermione shook her head furiously he couldn't be right, he just couldn't she could do it with a wand but not without. Not possible it just couldn't be.
"Unexplainable isn't it" said Artemis.
She hadn't noticed the cats waking.
"How Draco could do it but not you" said Artemis.
"It can be explainable" said Hermione.
"There is only one explanation and you know it" said Draco with pride.
The train stopped and Hermione hurried to ride one of the carriages.
'It's unlikely Hermione, He couldn't be right' thought Hermione.
Denial isn't a good thing.
'Oh who asked you? Great I'm talking to myself'
"Granger something bothering you" said Talia Bryson.
"Oh no I'm fine" said Hermione.
Talia is a Gryffindor her sister Tina is a Slytherin it's really the one of the only ways you could tell them apart. That and Talia's hair is dark brown, but turns black and stays black like her sister Tina's hair in every other season. When there next to each other the two's house colors are the only things keeping them apart by name. The Bryson family had been in each and every house. The sister's brothers had left the school once they became 7th years with Hermione. There brother Herm was in Hufflepuff and Ray was in Ravenclaw.
They arrived at the castle shortly. Hermione sat to eat with Ginny and noticed that Talia was sitting next to Ginny. When Hermione arrived she found them in a conversation.
"Why are you changing again" asked Ginny.
"Mom preferred us to be in the same house as her" said Talia.
"When are you going" asked Ginny.
"Tomorrow" said Talia.
"And you couldn't tell me this in the letter you sent me" said Ginny.
"Mom was yelling at Ray for being late home" said Talia.
"You already have the robes" asked Ginny.
"Yeah mom wanted me to be prepared" said Talia.
"So who are you going to hang out with" asked Ginny.
"Tina actually wants me to hang out with her I mean for once in our live she actually wants me with her and her friends" said Talia.
"So you'll be hanging out with Perky Parkinson" said Ginny.
"Yes I'll be hanging out with Pain In The Neck Parkinson" said Talia.
Hermione began thinking about it again she noticed Pansy Parkinson and her friends looking at her. When she looked at them they looked away. Hermione finished her food and quickly began to walk into the Gryffindor rooms. In the halls until she noticed Malfoy's white cat.
"Hey…um" said Hermione trying to remember the white cats name.
"It's Artemis" said Artemis.
"Is it possible…I mean could it be true" asked Hermione.
"If your referring to what the young Malfoy said then no it's very unlikely" said Artemis.
"Wait so Malfoy lied" asked Hermione.
"Him and Lucius have the same out look on blood purity, I've never cared for it all really I much rather be Gabriel's son's cat" said Artemis.
"You don't like the Malfoys" said Hermione.
"No, I don't like a certain two Malfoys, Narcissa's part of the Black family, I like her. Hate to abandon her with those two idiots" said Artemis.
Hermione couldn't help but smile. She was also attempting to hold back a laugh. However she cleared her throat in time to ask Artemis her question.
"What do you mean they're idiots? I mean aren't you suppose to respect them" asked Hermione.
"I use to respect Lucius, but ever since the day he got that mark on his hand he changed, and now he ignores…everything that he…use to care about" said Artemis looking deeply upset.
"Are you alright" asked Hermione.
"I'll be fine" said Artemis in a quiet voice.
The cat then began to walk down the hall in the direction of the Slytherin Dungeons. Hermione went the other way to the Gryffindor house. She changed into her night clothes and lay there looking upward. Wondering what Artemis meant. After all Hermione had noticed how Malfoy's father and him watched a tournament together. But 'everything' what had he meant? Hermione eventually drifted into sleep. And her dream began.
She saw Artemis running around with a little kid it wasn't Draco she could tell. Along with that kid where two others a boy and a girl, the boy a little bit older then the young one and the girl younger then both of them. The three of them where running in a field. And there was a woman old enough to be their mother calling them inside. They went back into a house it covered in Slytherin colors. There was a man he began to yell at the three. The younger boy looked about ready to cry. The older boy began to yell at the man. The man began to shout.
"DON'T YOU DARE RAISE YOUR VOICE AT ME GABRIEL!" he yelled.
Gabriel, the new Hogwarts teacher but why is he here? Hermione remembered what Draco had said "older then my dad". The younger boy must be Lucius, Draco's father, but the girl since when did the Malfoys want a girl? Hermione returned to look at what was happening in the dream.
The man now pointed his wand at Gabriel. The man was threatening him. The lady from earlier was yelling something.
"Abraxas please!" she yelled.
The little girl began to cry and moved over near Gabriel and hugged him tightly. Draco's father looked scared as well. The man, known as Abraxas pushed away there mother.
"Get away from him" yelled Abraxas to the little girl.
She didn't move she only turned around and shook her head no, her eyes squeezed tightly to her face. Draco's father didn't move. Abraxas cast aa spell at the two. Draco's father pushed Abraxas backward and Abraxas fell surprised by the sneak attack.
"Don't you dare harm them" yelled Lucius.
Abraxas got back up and pointed his wand at Draco's father. He casted a spell, however Gabriel had somehow blocked it with his bare hand. It wasn't wandless or magic without a wand magic. It was something more powerful. Abraxas looked angry. Abraxas said something then the lady said something Hermione identified.
"You're a phoenix" the lady had said.
Suddenly Hermione was out of the dream. It was about time for breakfast on her way there she saw Artemis again.
"Artemis" whispered Hermione.
Hermione looked around for a second to see if anyone was around to listen.