Hey guys, ok you know the usual, I don't own any characters accept for my original character I made up, Sarah, a Ravenclaw. Anyway, there are the usual hookups here, Ginny/Harry, Ron/Hermione and my character and Draco. There's a little bit of Draco/Harry slash, but that's not important right now. Please be sure to R&R! Oh and I don't really like to use the term snogging, cause I think that it's really funny. LOL So I'll just use the American term. Thanx!

Vindicated

By: Stolen Ashes

CHAPTER 1 – THE DREAM

A light flicked on in the corner of the Ravenclaw common room, as a young girl of 16 lay awake in order to finish her History of Magic homework.

"Write an essay, no less than 4 pieces of Parchment, on why you think Voldemort tried to control the wizarding world. Be sure to include the reasons for his actions and how he met his downfall."

"This is going to take all night...and it's due tomorrow...great," she said.

"Sarah? Could you please turn out your light? We're trying to get some sleep." A voice called over.

"Uh, yeah, sure..." Sarah said. She turned off the bedside table lamp and carefully grabbed her parchment and History of Magic book and went downstairs into the Ravenclaw common room.

The Ravenclaw common room was almost solid blue, and the walls were very padded. It was unlike the other common rooms as it was spacious and cozy. There was a fireplace where only the embers at the bottom remained burning and above it, was a picture of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team of this year. Sarah played Keeper for the team. Captain was Cho Chang.

Sarah pushed her long brunette hair out of her face and sat down her parchment on the table in front of the fire, and opened her book in her lap. She looked down at the index and found The Dark Lord and turned to the page it said.

"The Dark Lord was particularly known for the curses that he used on muggles and wizards alike. He used the cruciatus curse on many people, leaving some unable to move. He was also known for the gigantic killing spree that he took with his Death Eaters. Perhaps his most famous aspect was when he met his downfall, one, Harold James Potter." She read. "Well, guess I better get started..."

She headed the top of the paper as "The Dark Lord" and began to write.

"Sarah? Sarah? You've got to wake up. You need to eat something, class starts in a half an hour." A voice rang.

"WHAT?!" she opened her eyes and sat up immediately. She must've fallen asleep the previous night while she was working on her essay.

She stood up, grabbed her book, quill and essay and ran up to the dormitory, changing at a lightning speed then running back down the stairs to meet the voice that told her to get up.

"Honestly, you need to get your act together, no wonder you're not doing as good as you could be."

"Yeah, well, we all can't be a Cho Chang now can we?" She said rather harsher than she intended to.

"I see, just because I get better grades than you, you feel the need to insult me." Cho said as they left through the portrait hole that was on the second floor and headed down the stairs to the Great Hall.

"Cho, I'm sorry, but I just feel like I don't fit in here in Ravenclaw Everyone seems to be getting better grades than me, and it feels like I don't belong." Sarah said as they entered the great hall and sat down at the Ravenclaw table.

Sarah sat down in-between Cho and Roger Davies, her only friends in her house. She had plenty of friends in Gryffindor. She was friends with Harry, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Seamus, Katie, Alicia and Hermione. Ginny was her best friend. She also talked occasionally to a certain Slytherin, named Draco Malfoy.

"Here Sarah. Try some of this it's really good." Said Roger, passing her a plate.

After breakfast Sarah headed off to History of Magic alone. When she reached the door to the classroom, she felt a hand reach out and touch her shoulder. It was Draco.

"Hello Draco." She said giving the blonde boy a smile.

"Sarah. How are you? Things going well?" he asked.

"Yes...things are good." She replied. It was very uncommon for Draco to be nice to people away from his own house, but Draco seemed to enjoy talking to Sarah, almost as much as she enjoyed talking to him.

"That's good. Um, listen, I wanted to know if maybe you would want to –" Draco started, but was cut off as his girlfriend, Pansy Parkinson approached.

"Yes?" Sarah said.

"Never mind, I've got to go, but I'll catch up with you later I guess." He said and turned the other way to go and visit Pansy.

"What was that about?" asked Hermione walking over.

"I'm not sure..." Sarah replied. Harry and Ron walked over, and Ron slid his arm around Hermione's waist.

"So, I was thinking..." he said.

"Wow, Ron was thinking, that's a first." Hermione said playfully.

"Very funny." He said as Sarah giggled. "I was thinking maybe later, you know, we could go sit by the lake...me and you, a nice comfy blanket and maybe a little music..."

Hermione giggled. "Well aren't you Mr. Romantic all of a sudden." She said.

"How long has it been now? Two months right?" Sarah asked.

"Nope. Three. We just celebrated our Third two days ago." Hermione said.

"Aw! Congratulations you guys!" Sarah said. "Honestly, you two are perfect for each other. It's so cute!"

"Thanks Sarah." Ron said, as they all decided to enter Professor Binns classroom.

Sarah took her usual seat behind Ron, and next to Dean. Sarah took out her essay and sat it on her desk, when something poked her in the side; it was Dean. He nodded his head to the left where Draco sat with Pansy. They were kissing. Pansy broke off and she began to stare at Draco with a big smile on her face. Draco looked over and saw Sarah staring, and that's when he moved away from her and rested his head on his desk.

Dean turned to Sarah. "Draco has been acting odd lately don't you think? He hasn't been bothering the Gryffindors at all, and he hasn't been insulting Harry. In fact, he's been a lot nicer lately."

"Yeah it seems odd..."

Pansy turned her pug face over in the direction of Sarah, and gave her a look of pure hatred, before resting her hand on Draco's back. Draco turned to look at her and then turned his head the other way.

Sarah rested her head on her desk too, and closed her eyes, as Professor Binns entered through the chalkboard and began his painfully boring lesson.

The next thing that Sarah knew, she was walking along down a corridor in school. There was no one else around, except for a figure moving up ahead. She could tell by the outline that it was a male, but she couldn't tell who it was. As she walked closer, she discovered that it was Draco Malfoy. He was squirming, trying to break free of chains that bound him to the wall. If only she could help him, but she didn't know how!

"Ah I see you've found Mr. Malfoy here..." a voice drawled from behind.

Sarah turned around to see the shadowy outline of Lucius Malfoy standing there.

"What's going on here? Why is Draco like this?" she said.

"Why? Because Draco is useless to me. I am a faithful servant of Voldemort, and Draco? Draco refuses to follow the same path that the rest of the family has chosen. He does not want to part of us. He is nothing to me any longer! CRUCIO!" Lucius shouted and pointed his wand at Draco.

Draco howled in pain as his body twisted in all sorts of directions.

"STOP IT! DON'T HURT HIM! DRACO!" Sarah shouted.

"Stay back, or else you'll be next. I don't know how you found us here, but I assure you, you won't be leaving anytime soon. There was a cold laugh and Sarah woke up screaming.