Chapter One, New School, New Friends.

Harry walked into the crowed night club. It was dark, loud, filled with women dressed scantily and men looking for fun. It all made him feel very uncomfortable. He suddenly wished he had taken Ron and Hermione up on their offer to hangout tonight, even if he would have been a third wheel.

It had been a year since they had all finished Hogwarts and tomorrow was their first day at a special Defense against the Dark art's school, called Horsehag. They were all 18 and starting at a new school the very next day.

Harry was excited, but nervous. He would finally be going to a school with people that had the same interests as him. Some of them would be studying to be teachers, other's wanted to be Auror's and still others wanted to be dangerous magical creature hunters.

Right now though, he wasn't focusing on school, he was planning on having some drinks with the blokes he met today at orientation. Harry spotted the guys at a table near the bar and wandered over.

"Hello fella's!" he smiled at the three men sitting at the table.

"Hey Harry!" smiled Daniel, the tallest of the three standing up and patting his back while the others made room for him at the table.

"Daniel, Adam and I have already got started, Harry, you're going to have to catch up!" laughed Nathan, a short, jolly looking guy.

"Ha-ha will do. I'll be right back." Harry smiled, making his way through the crowd to the bar.

"A pitcher, please, mate!" Harry yelled to the bartender over the noise of the room.

"A whole pitcher of beer for yourself?" asked an American voice beside him. He turned to his left and saw a pretty smiling blonde looking back at him. Well, pretty wouldn't have been the first word to come to mind, sexy, fit her better. She had long sandy waves and deep blue eyes. The dress she was wearing fit her perfect body, well, perfectly, it showed off her beautiful tanned skin and seemed to make her glow, but that could have been the lights.

"I was going to share it with my mates." Smiled Harry nodding in the direction of the table, "I'm Harry by the way." he said holding out his hand.

"I'm Cecilia." She smiled brighter shaking his hand. She sounded like she had already had a few drinks, but Harry found it charming.

"Nice to meet you, so, you're American then?" he asked.

"Me?" she chuckled, "No, I'm Canadian, I lived in Toronto, it has one of the biggest Wizarding communities in North America, but I better get back to my friends. Nice to meet you." She smiled taking her drink and disappearing into the crowd. Harry took the pitcher of beer back to his table and absent mindedly flattened his hair down.

"Who was the babe?" asked Nathan as Harry sat down, setting the beer on the table.

"Cecilia." Shrugged Harry, trying to act casual and pouring himself a beer.

"Nice." Chorused the guys.

A few hours later Harry had lost count of how many beers he had had. He was on the dance floor dancing with a girl to some loud muggle song about sex, when he spotted Cecilia dancing with a few of her girlfriends, with her hands over her head. But before he had a chance to go over to her Daniel and the guys where pulling him away to another bar.

The next few days were like a blur to Harry. He moved his things into his new dorm room, and had been to his first few classes. At the end of his second day of class he came back to his dorm, walked into his room and threw his things on his bed. At Horsehag the dorms were set up more like small apartments, with either two boys per room, or two girls. Harry's roommate was, of course, Ron, but he had yet to meet Hermione's roommate, but today Harry and Ron were going to go visit Hermione's dorm for Harry's first time (Ron had already been a few times).

"Harry, are you ready to go?" asked Ron popping his head into Harry's room.

"Yeah, I'm ready." Nodded Harry wiping some dirt from his glasses and following Ron out of the room.

"So have you met Hermione's roommate yet?" asked Harry as he and Ron made their way up the stairs towards Hermione's room.

"I haven't actually seen her," shrugged Ron, "But I've heard her, her and her boyfriend, are very, erm, loud.

Harry chuckled as he and Ron stood outside of room 3083, Hermione's new residence. Ron knocked on the door, and it quickly opened, as if Hermione had been waiting.

"Harry!" she smiled hugging him, "I haven't seen you since the summer!" she kissed Ron on the cheek and they all went inside. "Come in, sit down." She smiled motioning toward a small couch and some chairs in the small sitting nook. They all sat down.

"How are your classes going?" asked Harry, sitting in one of the chairs, as Ron and Hermione sat together on the couch.

"Brilliant, I love them, today I had a weapon's class and I learned all kinds of things!" Hermione gushed.

"Just don't use them on me alright love?" smiled Ron putting his arm around her, only to get an elbow to the ribs. "I was joking!" he laughed.

"So do you like your roommate?" asked Harry.

"She seems nice enough, I rarely see her, she's always in her room with her boyfriend, who I actually haven't met yet…" she trailed off as one of the bedroom doors opened and a very familiar blonde boy strode out, followed by Hermione's roommate.

"Potter? Weasely? Granger?"

"Malfoy?!"

"Harry!"

"Cecilia?!"

Everyone spoke at once.

"I'll see you later Cecilia." Waved Malfoy leaving as fast as possible.

"Draco Malfoy is your roommate's boyfriend?" asked Ron looking shocked.

"Oh, he's not my boyfriend." Blushed Cecilia.

"Harry, Ron, this is Cecilia. Cecilia, this is my boyfriend, Ron, and our friend Harry." Smiled Hermione trying to ignore the awkwardness.

"Nice to meet you." Smiled Ron his ears turning a little red when he realized he was staring.

"Nice to meet you too." She smiled, "Nice to see you again Harry." She nodded.

"You too." Smiled Harry. He was a mixture between happy and disappointed. He was happy that he got to see Cecilia again, but disappointed that she seemed to be spending a lot of time with one of his worst enemies.

"You two have met before?" asked Hermione looking confused.

"Yes, the other night when I went out with Daniel and the lads." Nodded Harry.

"Well that's nice." Smiled Hermione and they all drifted into an awkward silence.

"Well nice to meet you Ron, nice to see you again Harry, but I should be going. Night all." Smiled Cecilia grabbing her coat and bag and heading out the door.

"She seemed nice!" smiled Ron and everyone nodded.

The next day Harry wandered into his only class of the day, Myth studies, a class where he would learn about the different myths and legends that muggles believed. Harry figured it would be a breeze class because he had lived with muggles for most of his life. He set his books down at one of the empty seats and started thumbing through his books waiting for class to start. He only looked down when he heard people sitting down in front of him.

"Hi Harry." Smiled Cecilia as she took a seat in front of him. "Nice to see another friendly face in class."

"Ah Potter, I'm surprised you could even scrounge up the money to come here." Snarled Malfoy as he took a seat beside her.

"Draco…" frowned Cecilia, "Don't be so mean."

"Yeah Draco." Scowled Harry, "What are you even doing here Malfoy? Isn't your family one of the subjects here?"

"Not that it's any of your business Potter, but my father thought it would be a good idea for me." Shrugged Malfoy, turning around in his seat as the professor walked into.

During the class Harry tried to pay attention but he found himself staring blankly at the back of Cecilia's head. She really did have beautiful hair, Harry thought to himself, but he didn't understand her judgment. Being friendly with a Malfoy just didn't give a good impression of a person.