The muted sound of metal hitting dry wall was what woke Jenny every morning at 7:01 precisely. Groaning she pulled her covers away and put her feet directly into the waiting slippers on the floor beside her bed. Stretching and running her fingers through her knotted hair Jenny made her way to the bathroom and locking the door behind her began getting ready for the day. Exactly 27 minutes later the handle on the door was violently being shaken and there was a pounding on the door.
"Jenny hurry up I'm gonna be late!" a male voice yelled through the door.
"Not my fault." Jenny yelled back. Jenny could hear her roommate grumbling and tapping his foot impatiently. She put away her hair straightener and Jenny smiled as she opened the bathroom door. "You know Eric if you got up when your alarm went off you wouldn't be late every day." Her room mate merely growled and pushed his way into the bathroom. Jenny laughed and made her way back to her room to change into her clothes.
After she finished dressing Jenny began to make breakfast as she watched her tall blonde roommate rush around trying to find the books he'd need for his classes. As he ran out of the apartment he yelled back to Jenny, "Coffee shop 4:30."
Both Jenny and Eric attended Oxford University. Jenny was pre-med while Eric was studying law. They had met in their freshman year seminar class, and become fast friends. They had recently moved off campus together unfortunately their schedules were both very busy and other than Eric's mad dash in the morning they hardly ever saw each other. They did however meet everyday for coffee to insure they never fell out of touch.
Jenny cleaned up her dishes gathered her things and headed off to classes. Unlike her roommate Jenny had no reason to rush since her classes were held in a building much closer to their apartment.
Jenny took her usual seat in her Drug Psychology class, and opened her note book and immediately began doodling, until the professor walked in.
"Alright so I have some good news and some bad news." The professor began, getting everyone's attention. " Do you want the good news or the bad news fist?" The class room erupted in a chorus of good that the professor quickly ended with a wave of his hand. "Alright the good first. I'll be heading off to a conference for the next 2 weeks." Once again the class erupted with noise that the professor once again put an end to. "Now for the bad news." Ignoring the groans the professor continued, "You will be working on a project with a partner while I'm gone." The professor sat back and watched as the students all began whispering to their friends attempting to make their own pairs. He let them dream for a bit before he continued. "And I will be picking your partners." These groans were much harder to ignore, but he did anyway and began reading off the list of pairs that he had ready.
Jenny sighed and turned to the girl sitting next to her "great, I'll probably get stuck with Richard."
The girl looked across the room at the boy sitting and attempting to balance a pencil in between his lips and nose and a flush of pity over took her"I'm sorry for you honey." She replied placing a hand on her shoulder. The two then turned their attention back to the professor who was rattling off names.
"…Martin and Chelsea, Kelly and Jane, Richard and.." Jenny closed her eyes and held her breath, "Lela…" The girl who had her hand on Jenny's shoulder dropped her hand and jaw. Jenny let out her breath and turned to Lela, "Sorry" she whispered before listening once again for her name. "Ben and Maria, Harry and Jenny." Jenny looked around not ever having heard Harry's name. She scanned the crowd and found a pair of green eyes doing the same. Jenny put on a slight smile and waved at her partner. "Alright go meet with your partner and I'll explain the project."
"You're late Mr. Abrax." The professor stated as a tall blonde boy tried to quietly sneak into the room.
"Sorry Professor." Eric said before taking his seat and slumping down embarrassed for what had to be the millionth time. For some reason he could just not make it to this class on time, and of coarse this was the only class where the teacher cared if you were late. Every other professor in the school could care less after all "it's your education therefore it's your choice to show up or not" but Professor Line didn't seem to have gotten that memo.
"Mate you've got to get up earlier," The brown haired boy he had sat next to whispered.
"You don't think I know that?" he whispered back while taking out his books.
"It's never a good thing when the professor knows you by name." the boy mumbled before turning his attention back to the professor. Eric had to keep from smiling at that statement. No matter how well the teacher might know his name it made no difference, after all it wasn't like it was his real name. Eric Abrax was a tall blonde haired, blue eyed muggle boy with full pink lips and a slightly large nose. His features were very soft and round and he was tan, even in the middle of the harsh English winters. He enjoyed football, painting and the occasional out of control party. He was also a figment of the imagination. Draco Malfoy was an average height blonde haired grey eyed wizard with pointed features and a small nose who couldn't tan if he painted himself brown. He did love football and painting and all but lived for the out of control parties that his hectic schedule forbid him from attending. No one had even once suspected that the two were in fact one in the same, which made life for both Eric and Draco very easy.
After the war in which Lord Voldemort had been vanquished by one Harry Potter, Draco was left with nothing. His father was given the Dementor's Kiss and his mother was imprisoned. Malfoy Manor had been turned to rubble during a battle and all of the Malfoy funds had been seized. Though Draco had no charges against him, and it would have been very easy to get his money back and build another home Draco no longer felt any want or need to be associated with the wizarding world. He had been put in hiding during the war itself, his father still concerned with keeping the Malfoy line going, so it had been very easy to place a glamour on himself and simply vanish. People had searched for him for two years but when he could not be found he was proclaimed a casualty of the war and even once had gone to see his own headstone. Without anyone looking for him Draco was free, he chose to keep his new identity, he had grown used to it over the years, he had a life built and he had no intention of leaving it.
'Eric' had three classes that day ending at 1:30. He grabbed a quick lunch in the dining hall and stopped back at the apartment to drop off his books and change for work. Not having gotten the Malfoy assets back 'Eric' was paying his own way through university by working in a small café and pawning a few of the things he had nicked from his home before leaving.
By no means did Eric actually enjoy working at the café, the customers were mostly nasty, he hated everyone he worked with, he spilled scalding hot coffee on himself at least once a day due to clumsiness, and most importantly it was work, and thanks to his previous life as one Draco Malfoy, Eric despised having to do anything so difficult as working. On the plus side working at the café had very flexible hours, gave Eric a free supply of coffee, a drink he was now addicted to, and the pay was surprisingly good, he also got fairly long breaks, which he used to sit and catch up with his roommate and best friend in the entire world. So Eric gritted his teeth and took the third degree burns and humiliation in stride.
Jenny saw Harry get up from his seat as soon as the professor told them to meet with their partners so she stayed in her seat and waved at Lela as she trudged over to meet with her partner. Laughing to herself at her friend's misfortune Jenny was a little surprised when a body occupied the seat next to her.
"Hi, I'm Harry Potter." The boy who had sat down next to her introduced himself holding out a hand for her to shake.
Jenny grabbed the hand, "Hi, Jenny Little." She said smiling just before turning her attention back to the professor who had begun describing the project.
"Now this is a fairly simple project, you will pick your absolute favorite drug, and write a research paper, about how it effects the brain and body and any medical conditions it could be used for, any side effects. Along with the paper you and your partner will turn in, you will also be building a model." The professor looked around at his students, who all had extremely confused faces on.
"What the hell kind of model could we be making?" Jenny asked in hushed tones glancing over at her new partner.
"I have no clue." He answered, never taking his eyes off the professor.
The professor continued. "Your model can be of anything you want, as long as it relates to your project. You will be defending your model to the class, who will then decide its relevance. Now, have fun." With this the professor walked out of the class room, ending class a good 45 minutes early.
"Oookay." Jenny said turning to Harry. "The guy's nuts I swear."
"'Eh he's not as bad as some professors I've had." Harry told her a slight smile on his face at the memory of some of his more eccentric professors. "So got a favorite drug?" he asked.
"Not particularly, you?"
"Actually, yeah, Wellbutrin." Harry answered.
"Cool, what's it for?" Jenny asked opening her notebook and writing down the name of the drug."
"Depression." Harry told her.
"Okay, so did you want to work on the project now or.." Jenny trailed off.
"Actually I have a few other things I have to do. Think we could work on it tonight?"
"Sure, my roommate's got night class tonight so we could work at my place." Jenny offered.
"Okay." Jenny wrote down her address and gave a few vauge directions to get to her apartment and her and her partner went off on their own ways.
Looking at her watch Jenny saw it was 4:00, having nothing better to do, she figured she'd be a little early to her date with Eric and headed to the coffee shop he worked at.
Harry Potter was a name known around the world, but not at this University. Harry Potter was a little shorter than most boys his age. He had ink black hair and dark green eyes. He loved football, and helping people and had once gotten away with murder. The man Harry Potter had murdered was known as the Dark Lord, He Who Must Not Be Named and Voldermort. Harry Potter was a wizard, he was in fact the most famous wizard of his age, and a complete nobody at Oxford University, and that was the way he liked it.
Harry had done his duty in the massive war that had taken over the wizarding world. He had won. After defeating the Dark Lord and completing his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry had had multiple offers to attend several of the most prominent Wizarding Universities in the world for free, or maintain high rankng positions in the ministry without having to work his way up the ladder, Harry however, decided that he would rather leave the wizarding world and attend University like the normal boy he had always wished he'd been, and it worked
While Harry still maintained some ties with the Wizarding world, namely his friends and family only, he preferred the annonimity that the muggle world gave him. Which is why when his project partner in his Drug Psychology course had not stared at him in disbelief or even made any notion of him being important, Harry sighed a sigh of relief.
After setting up a time with his partner to meet and begin their project Harry left the classroom quickly, having to begin his shift at the school bookstore where he worked.
The little bell over the door at A'latte café rang as Jenny walked in the door. Looking over to the counter she caught eyes with Eric and waved taking a seat at one of the tall two person tables in the corner. She pulled out one of her school books and a highlighter as she waited for Eric to start his break.
A half hour later a distinct thud from the chair next to her and a stained apron being thrown over her book alerted Jenny to the fact that Eric's break had finally started. Looking down at the apron she found a clear patch and drew a smiley face with her highlighter before looking up at her friend. "Having fun at work?" She asked.
Eric rolled his eyes, "tons, he replied. So, you got out of class early." He commented.
"Yeah, professor's on his way out of town so he gave us an assignment and left. Speaking of which you still got your class tonight?"
"Yeah, why? You bringing a guy home?" Eric asked smirking.
"Yeah jealous?" Jenny said winking at her friend.
"Oh so much." Eric rolled his eyes.
"We got a partner project assigned so my partner's coming over, to work on it." Jenny told him.
"I take it you're not working with Lela." Eric stated.
"Nope, some guy I didn't even know was in the class. His name's Harry."
"Is he cute?" Eirc asked.
Jenny thought about it for a moment before answering, "He's not bad. Kinda short, nice smile though."
"Nice, I'll make sure to walk home slowly." Jenny laughed at Eric. The two continued talking about the trivial things going on in their lives before Eric's manager yelled at him to get back to work. As Eric went back to work Jenny went back to their apartment to get the rest of her work done so that she could work on her Drug project without worry.