Never Say Never

Chapter One

Late July

I remember when I was young, I had one and only one true friend. He was a 'pretty' little boy who wanted to be exactly like his father. The way his well-kept platinum hair was slicked back had shown the way how his gray almost silver eyes twinkled when he talked about his father and his work. He was a proud boy just like his father.

I remember the way he spoke about his father being the best wizard to ever live. Those were the days when I would argue against him telling him my father was the best. The way his gray eyes would flash in anger and the way he turned his nose high in the air in great pride were what brought the rage out of myself. We would argue on end, whose father was the best.

Sadly, those days ended when the day my parents were demoted in their ranks in the ministry while his father had been promoted to a much higher rank. My father had been looked down the moment he had stood up for a 'mudblood' as they had disdainfully spoken. I still love my parents even though we were going through a tough time with money, to this day we still do.

I remember breaking down in tears when I was told I wasn't allowed to see the little boy who I had spent much of my childhood with. My parents had learned to despise the Malfoys while I had held a friendship deep inside my heart that was crushed the moment I had laid eyes on him when we were both eleven.

We were both young students of the age of eleven, first entering Hogwarts for the very first time. I remember feeling the nerves overpower what minimal social skills I had held, I was too afraid to speak to anyone.

I stood by the window, trying to peek out of it to see my parents slowly disappear in the distance as my mother was in tears. I saw my father try to comfort her as he simply wrapped an arm around her and whisper words of comfort in her ear. The sadness was overpowering as I felt tears fall from my eyes.

As soon as my parents were nothing more than a speck in the distance, I had finally wiped what tears had remained. I bit my lip to hold back anymore tears that had threatened to fall as I turned away from the vast landscape.

I looked around the corridor to find it mostly empty and had mentally decided to find an empty compartment. I wanted to hide from everyone and everything. I had never been so far from home or my parents. It hasn't even been an hour and I was already home sick.

Searching each compartment to only disappointedly find each and every one was crowded, I had hesitantly decided to join a compartment with two other girls. The moment I had slid the compartment door open, they had looked down at me with their narrowed expressions.

"What do you want?" The pug faced one had snapped as she glared at me.

I was taken back at her malicious behavior, but I had in response looked down at my toes. I had begun to study each and every detail on my shoes as I heard her huff.

"Whatever, as long as you is no mudblood you may stay here," She haughtily spoke.

With this I immediately took a seat. I had no clue what a mudblood was, but I'm sure it wasn't a good word or polite word, but I would take what I could get.

The two girls had immediately started to gossip as time passed, or rather the pug faced one was talking non-stop while the other(Who was a burly one) had been grunting in response. I tried my hardest to tune them out as I stared out the window to pass by time.

"Did you see him?" The pug faced one ecstatically asked. "Harry Potter is attending school with us!"

"Harry Potter?" The burly one had finally spoken. "It cannot be!"

"Oh of course, Draco has told me himself!" The pug-faced one had spoke proudly with her nose high in the air.

"Oh, if Draco says so Pansy," The burly one replied.

"You there," Pansy(I had assumed that was the pug-faced girl's name) sneered at me. "What do you think of Draco?"

I blinked in response; I had no clue who this Draco fellow was. In fact I had hardly known anyone let alone these two girls. I had only just recently found out her name.

"I don't know a Draco," I replied with a shrug of my shoulders.

However the name had sounded slightly familiar to me. I knew better than to say anything, if anything I was clueless of anyone.

"Good," Pansy now had a smirk on her face as she turned to the other girl. "Mulificent! Is it not wonderful? I plan to make Draco my boyfriend!"

I figured we were still quite young to be finding a boyfriend. At least that was what father had said. No boys until you turn 30 he said.

"Oh yes," Mulificent grunted (I had begun to wonder if she did anything other than grunt).

The compartment door had slid open as a young boy of eleven practically bobbled in with two other dull and burly looking boys behind him. I had immediately recognized him; he was the young boy who I had befriended when we were young.

"Parkinson! Bullstrode!" He called out as he plopped himself in the seat next to me.

The two other boys just stood at the door way, debating whether to stay where they stood or take a seat while the boy had simply ignored the two and continued to smirk.

" Yes Draco?" Pansy had responded while fluttering her lashes shyly as her cheeks began to become rosy.

Of course the name had sounded familiar, he was Draco Malfoy. The boy I had played with a lot when we were young.

"Can you believe it?" Draco spoke excitedly. "Harry Potter on this very train! Attending school with us!"

"Oh I cannot believe it either Draco!" Pansy had now started to gush.

"Think he will be friends with me?" Draco had excitedly asked.

"Of course! Who would not want to be friends with you Draco!" Pansy excitedly stated.

The other three burly figures nodded and grunted in response 'positively'.

"Now who are you?" Draco asked, looking down at me.

I was now looking down at my toes. He didn't remember me or at least he chose not to.

"Ginger? You must be a Weasley," He sneered; his eyes were narrowed as he scrunched his nose in disgust at the sight of me.

"Oh ignore her Draco, she's just some weird girl who just sat here," Pansy was now giggling.

"Right," Draco answered as they had continued their conversation without a single thought or word towards me.

This was the very moment that I had come to realize that Pansy Parkinson and Mulificent Bullstrode would be the bullies that would bring terror to my life, and Draco Malfoy had never once spoken a single word to me again.

Of course, he still to this day thinks I'm a Weasley, but I Marlene(Marley) Adelaide am the main character of this story.

This is the story of my life and how it all changed in one year.