It had been 4 years since she had first laid eyes on him, since she first seen his white-blonde hair, fair skin and so-blue-they-hinted-at-grey eyes.

She could still remember the sorting that first night at Hogwarts, when her new friends Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger stood by her until "Cole, Halley," was called. She could still remember the shocked and sad looks on their faces as she was placed into Slytherin (and of hat placing she still wonders why).

And she still remembers taking a quick glance in his direction to see his reaction, but his pale, cold features displayed no emotion. It was then that she moved on from Draco Malfoy.

Halley always been widely admired by her peers, despite the fact she was a Slytherin. She was friends with nearly everyone in her year, and many in other years as well. No one seem to mind her house placing, in fact, she was often asked why she was a Slytherin. To this she never voiced an answer. Truthfully, she was a closet manipulative bitch. She knew how to make it seem sweet, and how to get exactly what she needed, and while she knew this was wrong, she felt it had to be done. She'd take the feelings of power and guilt over being told what to do any day. She was always the object of affection from many boys. Was it her gorgeous blonde waves, her intense blue eyes, her smooth beige skin that drew them in? Yes, at first. But it was her spontaneous easy-going ways that continued to charm them. Eventually, a new boy would catch her eye, and she'd have no problem dropping the current one for a new admirer. The Weasley twins often played tricks on her, since she was such a good sport about it all, and they loved making her laugh, which never deemed a very hard task.

So why did it take him this long to notice her?