BEFORE YOU READ!:

You just need to know the distinction between wizards/witches, sorcerers/sorceress, and warlocks:

witch/wizard: human with magical abilities; needs wand, some wandless; needs to say incantation while preforming spells

sorcerer/sorceress: being with elvish magic (magic in its purest form); wandless; no incantation needed

warlock: wizard with a tiny bit of sorcery; wandless; needs incantation

Lucius looked up from his parchment as a girl wearing a Slytherin uniform walked into the classroom with the headmaster. Professor Slughorn walked over to the pair. The girl waited patiently as the two older men spoke in hushed tones. When Dumbledore left, Slughorn turned on his heel and looked around the room until he caught Lucius' eye. He motioned for the blonde to come join him and the girl.

"Mr. Malfoy, this is Aurora Saelrien, she'll be attending Hogwarts from now on and I'd like you to help her feel welcome and show her around. The sorting hat has placed her in Slytherin which is why I'd like you to do it."

"Yes Professor."

Aurora nodded in Lucius' direction and he in hers before he led her to the seat next to his.

"We're working on the Draught of Living Death," he said, "do you need me to give you the directions?"

she looked up and shook her head, "No, its fine."

Without even opening her textbook, Aurora set to work on the potion. As Lucius watched her he noticed her do a few things differently than the book said, like stirring the potion clockwise once after the seven counter-clockwise stirs. Her hands moved gracefully as she added the ingredients to her draught. He quickly finished his own potion and resumed watching her hands as they sliced, measured, and peeled. He became so entranced by her movements that he almost didn't realise Slughorn walking over to inspect his draught.

Lucius looked around as his potion was being tested. Everyone else's, including his own, had failed either by releasing steam that frizzed the closest girls hair, or by doing nothing at all.

Finally professor Slughorn came to a stop in front of Aurora, glancing curiously at her closed textbook. He dropped a small leaf into her cauldron and Lucius couldn't help but lean over to get a better look at it. At first, nothing happened. Then, to both Slughorn and Lucius' surprise the leaf began to disintegrate and after a few seconds it had been totally dissolved into the potion.

The two wizards were still staring at the cauldron, dumbfounded, when the bell rang. Since Lucius was going to be showing her around they shared the same schedule and classes. Lucius had a free period next and decided to show her around the grounds. He waited while she gathered her books, quills, and parchment into her unusually small bag. She must have seen him staring at the bag because she gave a little chuckle that caused him to look up at her.

"Expansion charm" she explained in a soft voice, giving him a little smile.

Lucius smirked, "Clever."

She smirked back, "Convenient," she countered as she stood up and walked to the door and waited for him.

"That too," Lucius muttered to himself as he followed her out the door. On his way out, he decided he might like Aurora.

Once they were in the hallway Aurora turned to him, "So, where to?"

"Well, I have a free period next so I figured I could show you the grounds."

She smiled, "Sounds great."

While they were walking Lucius actually looked at Aurora for the first time. The main thing that stood out was her hair. She had heavy fringe bangs that touched her lashes, the tips ended just below her waist, and it was jet black except for one thing: dark violet highlights running throughout her her hair. That detail had been lost to him while in the dimly lit classroom. There it had just looked like black waves, but in the sun the purple stood out prominently against the ebony tresses. The second thing he noticed were her eyes. They were golden brown, like firewhiskey, but when she was facing the sun little flecks of green and gold appeared. Her huge eyes were highlighted by heavy black eye-liner that made her olive toned skin appear paler. This was a little shocking to Lucius. Not a lot of thirteen-year-old girls wore make up in the late sixties, well, not that much anyway. Aside from the eye-liner and and a little gloss on her plump pink lips she didn't wear any more make up.

"So where are you from exactly?" he asked her when they got to the lake.

She hesitated, "Wales, near Cardiff. You?"

"Wiltshire."

"By Stonehenge?" she asked, her eyes lighting up excitedly.

"Precisely" Lucius replied with a nod.

"Aurora?" he asked a few minutes later.

"Hmm?"

"Why did you start Hogwarts now? I've never heard of someone starting so late and Slughorn didn't say anything about you being an exchange student."

She looked down, lost in thought for a moment. "Because I'm only half witch. My father is a sorcerer through and through. Because of that I didn't display uncontrollable magic until this last summer. Sure I had a few accidents when I was two, but after that I was able to control it. Over the summer my hormones started to interfere with my magic and the ministry told me that I had to start attending Hogwarts and using a wand."

"But I thought sorcerers only existed in the second realm."

"They do," Aurora said with a sigh, "I'm originally from the other realm but another war broke out and my father sent me here for protection."

"Oh, then why did you say you were from Wales?"

"I was living there with my twin brother Eoin, and my two uncles Lorcan and Bartholomew."

"Oh," was all he said. Then a question formed in his mind. "How did you make that draught? That's sixth year work, Slughorn was just seeing how well we could follow directions."

Aurora blushed a little, "My uncles are potions masters. Uncle Lorcan was a potions professor. They've been encouraging my brother and I to study potions for as long as I can remember. Plus, I've always been good at it, I even corrected a few potions books. You'd be surprised how inaccurate some of those instructions are."

Lucius gave a low chuckle. "So what are your plans for Christmas?"

"Christmas?" Aurora asked, clearly confused.

Lucius gaped at her before regaining his composure. "You've never heard about Christmas?"

Aurora gave him a wry smile, "I'm from another realm, remember?"

"O, right." he murmured, looking down.

"So, what is it?" she asked.

"Well," he said, "Its when families get together and give each other gifts."

"Sounds awful." she said.

This took Lucius by surprise, "What's better than families getting together and receiving gifts?"

"Well, for one I don't know about you but for me family get- togethers are miserable unless there's a bottle of cognac in your hand, which in the wrong hand, is the reason for the gathering being miserable in the first place." she stopped to compose her thoughts, "And two, sure you receive gifts, but the people who gave them to you did it out of custom, not because they wanted to."

"Huh, I never thought about it like that. So, is this your first time learning about Hogwarts?" Lucius asked, wanting to change the subject.

"Oh no, my mother came here when she was a child, she was in Slytherin as well."

"Who is she?" he asked, wondering if he had heard of the family.

"Her name was Ariana Rasmussen. She came from a prominent Icelandic family." She said, a bit proudly.

"So she's from this realm then."

"Was yes. She died when I was four." Aurora said plainly, as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I have heard of the Rasmussen family though, they're said to be extremely powerful.

"Yes, my uncles are proof of that."

"And you're not?"

"Well I'm half sorceress, of course I'm powerful." she said with a smirk.

Before Lucius could respond the bell rang indicating it was time to get to the next class. They walked back to the school and he showed her how to get to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom. On the way he humoured her with the story of the curse of the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching position.

As they talked Lucius they had a lot in common, including a dry sense of humour. She actually made him laugh, which is no small feat when it came to Malfoy men.

Lucius wasn't surprised at all when she excelled at the DADA lesson. That day they were duelling and when she got up against a Gryffindor boy she took him out in three simple spells. Lucius would never forget the look on his face when she put him in a full body bind. She had became a favourite of two professors in less than a day. Lucius Malfoy had also taken a liking to the little sorceress by the end of the day.

A/N

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