Hello there! I am Artemis615! This is my new fanfiction of Draco Malfoy and my OC, Gaia Starlight! I love this fanfic as much as I love all my other starlight fanfics! She is the descendant of one of the starlights I've written in my story. Not sure which one, but I will choose one suitable one and maybe add her into this story and made it a spin off or something. Alright?
Enjoy!
1 – Gaia
Snow fell.
It is winter time. The snowflakes fell through the grey skies like a slow motioned movie. Or maybe, it looks a little like those confetti or flower petals that people threw during wedding time. No… maybe not. It sounds too happy to be true. It was cold, and the wind is icy and freezing, almost to the point that it hurts to have it blew directly onto your skin.
But thankfully, those dark times were a past. Voldermort, or better known as You Know Who, is no more. Rumors said that he had died, and everyone is happy again. The Boy Who Lives, Harry Potter, is famous throughout the wizarding world for living past the most deadly curse, Avada Kedavra. But another rumor says that he will be back in the future. But that is a story for another time.
It is the year of 1993 into the Era. A few more years and it would be the 20th Century. Severus trudges through the snow in Hogsmed with his supplies of potion ingredients in a brown paper bag. His long cloak swished behind him like a bat, and he had pulled up his hood to cover his hair from the falling snow.
It is Harry Potter's 3rd year in Hogwarts. Severus, as usual, is displeased with the boy's very presence, and took his time and his every chance to taunt the boy. His sidekicks, Hermione and Ron, are flanked around him, and Severus sneered at the sight of the boy. But the boy didn't see him. I mean, how could anyone recognize anyone when they are shrouded in a dark cape?
And that is when Severus stopped.
He saw a girl wearing a bright red cloak. A magnificent bright red cloak, might he add it? Her hoods are down, and it reveals her bright blonde hair. Her bright, magnificent shade of blonde hair. It was possibly the most beautiful part of her; her hair. There were cream, gold, corn, silver, blonde, and possibly other colors that he couldn't put in her blonde hair. It is beautiful, and it shines with the radiance like a star.
He recognizes that girl. She is someone he is fond of in a way as a teacher is to a student. She is brilliant, and she is in his house.
She is Gaia Starlight, his best potion student.
She is in the same year with Harry, and she is a genius, possibly on par with that Granger girl. She held onto her white skating shoes on one hand and squatted down in front of a little poor beggar boy that looked no older than 8, dressed in rags and what appears to be a white and crisp oxford shirt once upon a time ago. The poor beggar boy is barefooted, and he kept shifting his foot from one foot to another, possibly from the cold.
Amused, he stood there and watched.
"Why are you here alone, boy?" she asks him gently, her voice carries a bell-like tinge to it. "Do you have a home to go back to? Where are your parents?" She smiles at him gently and patted his face, flushed due to the cold. The boy probably was too stunned to reply her, and shakes his head at her shyly.
Gaia smiles.
For once, Severus thought that she looked beautiful with a smile. Gaia, as far as he knew, is a quiet student. She has no friends, save for that Potter boy and the rest of his sidekicks. She is a Slytherin student, and her friends shunned her aside because she makes friends with the Gryffindors. She rarely smiles when she is alone, and would always hide her face behind her blonde mop of hair.
But today, she has them donned up in a braid of buns behind the nape of her neck. There are pearls weaved into her hair, and she is beautiful. Her bright red cloak draws attention from the cold white snow, and she took it off to put it on the boy's small shoulders, leaving herself to shiver in the cold winter wind with her thin cotton short princess dress. The boy beams up at her, and she is beautiful.
Stunningly so, if he may add.
There is a man standing behind her. He is a handsome man, with pale blonde hair and a soft gentle smile on his lips. Severus knew that man. He appears often on the papers. He is one of the most powerful men ever in the Wizarding World, being a Prime Minister and Archduke of Memphis himself. Even the Head Minister is nothing compared to him.
He is Peter Starlight.
Now that he noted, his student's surname, Gaia, is also Starlight. Could they be siblings?
Gaia patted the boy's head gently, and the boy warms up to her and opens up to her more. He begun to spill information's to her, and Gaia handed him a baked corn, fresh and hot from the charcoals.
Severus watches the boy wolfs down the corn quickly, as if afraid that this corn is a dream itself. He munches with his cheeks blown huge with corn, and Gaia smiles at him gently.
"Slowly, slowly, there's more if you wanted, alright?" Gaia said to the boy, and patted his small back. The boy had a mop of dark black hair the color of midnight skies, and it fell all over his eyes and his face in long gunk of what appears to be mud caked in his hair.
That boy is filthy, if he may add. He would have passed by without another thought at the boy if it were him in her place.
"What is your name, boy?" she asks him gently, and the boy looks up at her with corn in his mouth.
"E-Edmund, my lady…Edmund Fray… my parents died under You Know Who's hand…" the boy said to her softly. He is polite for a beggar boy of his age. Smiling at him, Gaia looks up to the man behind her and said to him.
"Brother, I am bringing him home…" she said to him, and the Prime Minister nods his head.
"I'll prepare the car then," he said to her, and looks at the butler standing not far away from the Prime Minister himself. The butler nodded his head, and Gaia stands up and held out a hand to the boy.
"Come home with me and my brother, Edmund. We will take care of you…" she said to him, and the boy reaches out with his small dirty hand to her. She held his small hand in hers tightly, and she walks with her brother to her car.
"I am the Duchess of Kiev here in the Wizarding World. This is my brother, Peter. He is the Prime Minister and also Archduke of Memphis…" Severus's eyes widens in surprise at the sound of her title. Duchess of Kiev!? She!? A mere student of his is a Duchess!?
The boy looks up at her with his wide little grey eyes. Gaia smiles at him gently. "You don't have to walk this life alone anymore… We will be with you by your side, and you can go to Hogwarts with me. I am a 3rd year student there myself…"
"Really?" the boy said to her innocently in his small voice. Gaia smiles at him.
"Yes. This is not a dream…" she said to him and patted his small head. They enter the car, and disappear down the road.
He stares on at the disappearing car. He marvels at her kind heart to take a poor beggar boy home. In the harsh world, no one wanted a beggar boy in their front door, much less than in their own home. What's more, she is a Slytherin, and a Slytherin are born sly and full of mischief and cunning clever thoughts.
But she is not.
Gaia Starlight is one of a kind Slytherin student. She is brave and stunningly clever, and often she would put him at a loss of words with her ability to brew perfect potions again and again, and she scored full marks in her potion exams. She is deviously charming to her teachers, but amongst her fellow Slytherin classmates, she is sly, often crafty in handling them who bullies her so.
And the very next day, Severus saw the very same boy standing in front of him in Albus's office.
With Gaia flanked at his side protectively.
The boy is shy, and he held onto her robes tightly with his small fist and hides behind her robes, looking up at Dumbledoor and Snape through his long lashes.
"Professor Dumbledoor, Professor Snape," Gaia greets them, and bids her little new brother to greet them as well. Her brother shyly moves forward and bows to them, and darted back to hide his face behind her robes. Gaia smiles. He had on new robes, and his hair is neat and newly cut. He is no longer the dirty little beggar boy. He is now clean and neat, and looked very much adorable as well.
"So I assume this is little Edmund Fray Starlight…?" Professor Dumbledoor asks her and stares at the boy through the top of his moon glasses. She nods her head.
"Yes, he is," she said to him. "He is 11 this year. I was planning to send him to Drumstrang, but seeing as Hogwarts is my Alma Meter and it is nearer to our home, and that the year has just started, he might as well study here."
"Are you sure he is 11?" Severus asks her in a drawling tone. Gaia nods her head at him.
"He is small for his age due to malnutrition…"
"Malnutrition?" Professor Dumbledoor asks her.
"Edmund is my new brother. My family adopted him yesterday…" Gaia said to Professor Dumbledoor.
"It is alright," Severus said to her. "I saw everything yesterday. That boy is the boy you picked up from the snow…"
Gaia's eyes bulged wide open.
"Y-you're there!?" Gaia exclaims with one hand pointing at him. Severus clicked his tongue distastefully. "You mean… Y-you heard everything!?"
Severus smirked. "It appears so…"
"Oh, dear god… Please Professor, don't tell anyone I am Duchess of Kiev! And please don't tell anyone my brother is Peter! It would be hell to pay if everyone knew I am the sister of the Prime Minister!" Gaia pleaded with them with an anxious look on her face.
She looks so different from yesterday. Her hair is braided in a braid, which trails down to the small of her back. Her front bangs hide most of the features of her face and eyes, while she herself wears an oversized old school spectacle.
Typical for someone who wants to hid their identity.
"I understand, Miss Starlight," Professor Dumbledoor said to her soothingly. "Now, as for little Edmund, he has been sorted into the Gryffindor house, and I will ask someone responsible to bring him around Hogwarts…"
"Oh, thank you Professor!" Gaia said to him and bows to him respectfully. Little Edmund didn't know what to do, so he follows what Gaia does and bows to him as well. Professor Dumbledoor chuckles heartily at the sight of the adorable boy.
Edmund is possibly one of the most adorable boys he had ever seen. He has pale skin, light flush on his cheeks and large grey eyes that seem to shine and sparkle with unknown talent and brilliantness. Professor Dumbledore could imagine that this boy would turn out to be one of his brightest students in Hogwarts in year's time…
A knock sounded on the door, and Professor Dumbledoor said with his booming voice, "Come in."
Harry trudges awkwardly into the study room of Professor Dumbledoor and balked at the sight of Severus. Severus sets his lips into a thin line at the sight of the boy.
"Harry," Professor Dumbledoor said to him. "This is Edmund Fray Starlight. Please bring him around Hogwarts and introduce him to your house member, as he will be your family starting from today."
"Yes, Professor. Oh, hi, Gaia!" Harry said to her, and Gaia grins at him widely.
"What's up, my man!?" Gaia said to him in an entirely different tone and slapped him playfully behind his back with a large grin on her face.
And Professor Dumbledoor and Professor Snape stare at them.
"Oh, sorry, Professors…" Gaia said to them with a bow after realizing where they are, and excuses herself out of the study room with Harry and her new little brother.
"She is a marvelous girl; don't you think so, Severus?" Professor Dumbledoor said to him. Severus scoffed and storms out of the study room. "I marvel at her abilities to make friends with the other houses despite being a Slytherin herself."
"Not without a price, though…" Severus said to him.
"However it is so, Severus? Pray tell…" Dumbledoor asks him and turns to look at the lanky haired professor.
"Her friends in the Slytherin house ignore her and seclude her out of everything just because she makes friends with the Potter boy…" Severus said to him.
"Oh dear…" Dumbledoor said to him. "I suppose she is fine with it?"
"For the last three years it seems, Professor…" Severus said to him, and the old professor signs.
"The world is a harsh place, Severus…" Dumbledoor said to him.
"Indeed it is…" Severus said, looking up into the window.
"So, you are Edmund eh?" Harry started once they are out of the Headmaster's office. "I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
Edmund's eyes bulged wide open. "H-Harry Potter?"
"Yeah," Harry said with a smile, and shakes hand with the little adorable Edmund. "You can call me Harry. I'm same year with Gaia here."
"He's my new little brother, Harry, so please take care of him well. He is shy. He's sensitive to his surroundings. But he'll open up to us soon…" Gaia said to him with a smile and patted little Edmund's head. Edmund beams up at her.
"He's your new little brother?" Harry asks curiously. "Adopted?"
"Yes…" Gaia said to him and walks down the corridor with him. "Just yesterday. I didn't expect he would end up in Gryffindor. I thought Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff suits him more…"
"Harry!" Hermione and Ron came and met up with Harry at the end of the corridor.
"Hermione! Ron!" Harry greeted them excitedly. "Here, let me introduce you. This is Edmund Fray Starlight. He will be with us in the Gryffindor as first year student."
"Oh, he is so adorable!" Hermione gushes at the boy and shakes hand with the boy. "Hello, Edmund… I'm Hermione Granger, and that is Ronald Weasley. You can call him Ron."
"Hello…" Edmund said shyly and darted behind Gaia to hide behind her robes. Hermione gushes happily.
"I'm sorry, Hermione," Gaia said to her. "He is a little shy, and he needs time to open up to us."
"Sure!" Hermione said to her. Hermione and Gaia are girl's besties despite them being in different houses, and they always hung out together at the library and shares knowledge. Gaia often invited Hermione to stay at her manor with her brother the Prime Minister, and all Harry and his friends knew she is Duchess of Kiev and the beloved sister of their famous Prime Minister, Peter Starlight.
Seeing as Gaia has more time on her schedules, she accompanies little Edmund and Harry and his friends to bring him along all over the grounds of Hogwarts. For days, they were together. And then they met Hagrid, the Hogwarts groundskeeper.
"Hey there, m'boy!" Hagrid said to Harry, and Harry went up to hug the huge half giant man.
"And who is this lil' chap?" Hagrid said to Harry, curious with the little boy hiding behind Gaia's robes. Gaia smiles.
"He's Edmund, Hagrid. He is my new little brother. He is a bit shy around strangers…" she said to him and patted his head. Over time, Hermione offers to hold his hand, and he places his hand shyly in hers. And Hermione would gush with delight.
"Oh, he really is a cute little thing!" Hermione said to Gaia, and Gaia would smile.
"Come here, you cute little thing," Hagrid said to the boy with a chuckle and offers him some rock bread. "I'll give ya somethin' to eat now, eh?"
Edmund wolfs down the bread heartily and the rest of them watch him eat the bread.
"He's… well…" Gaia started. "He's hungry most of the time…"
Hagrid is smitten with the boy immediately with his cute looks and his love for Rock bread that Hagrid made himself. He bids them goodbye and marvels at the kind hearted Gaia, a Slytherin at birth, but a Gryffindor heart deep down beneath.
"When the world needs more of a 'Gaia' here, they just don't…" Hagrid said to himself, and chuckles as he saw little Edmund stumbles onto his short little legs as he struggles to catch up to all those longer legged new friends of his.
And soon, they met up with the biggest jerk in Hogwarts.
Draco Malfoy.
"Well, well, well," Draco started, flanked around by his sidekicks, Goyle and Crabbe. He struts towards Gaia and said to her in a mocking tune. "If it isn't Gaia the traitor of Slytherin…"
"Come on, Malfoy," Gaia started with a frown. "It gets so old with you calling me that. Don't you have any more creative ideas? Oh, I forgot. You're dumb, so you don't have ideas…"
Hermione and Gaia laughed heartily, and Draco scowls at her.
Just then, Gaia's little brother held drinks in his hand and walks on his short little legs towards them. Draco saw the boy, and smirked. For once, a good one is coming his way.
He held out his leg and the boy tripped with the drinks flying everywhere. Hermione and Gaia quickly rush up to his rescue, but Draco beats them to it first.
He lifts up the boy by the back of his robe and the boy kicks his short legs in the air.
"What's this? A new little mudblood, eh?" Draco said to them, and Crabbe and Goyle laughs heartily.
"Shut it, Malfoy!" Gaia said to him. "This isn't funny!"
"Oh, I think it's plenty of funny," Malfoy said to her, and drops Edmund onto the grassy floor. Edmund begun to bawl, and Gaia came and sweep him into her arms.
"Why are you such an idiot, Malfoy?" Gaia sneered at him. "It's enough that you're the biggest prick and the biggest egghead around in Hogwarts, not to mention stupid as hell and dumb and mean and rude and manner less!"
Edmund bawls into her shoulder, and Gaia handed him to Hermione. Hermione patted the boy's back, and so does Harry.
"Don't cry now, Edmund…" Harry soothes the boy, and the boy's cry subsides to a light sob.
"Oh, what a little missy!" Draco mocked her with a sneer. "I do love to see you get angry. Give me your best now, my darling…"
Gaia swung her arm to the back of her head and brings it forward to slap Draco on the face. But he is too fast for her, and he caught her hand in his.
"Wow, spicy," Draco said mockingly and leans in to whisper to her face. "But too slow, my princess…"
Gaia's eyes fired up fierily and she smirks.
With a loud "AIYAAAA!" Gaia flung Draco, body, robes and all, off the ground and he is brought forward by the power of the momentum she has with her back supporting his weight. He fell to the ground in a heap, and he moans in pain.
"Serves you right, you dipshit…" Gaia said to him seething in anger, and went away with Harry and his friends and her brother.