Introduction: Average
Cady Smith is a true average girl.
Everything about her is plain and regular.
Her hair and eyes are brown, her skin fair with the occasional break-out,
Her height and weight average for a girl her age.
Even her last name, Smith, is as common as it gets.
At her school, Hogwarts, she was in Slytherin, with fairly decent grades in most classes.
As for her social life, she had none. Practically no one in the school knew her. She was never particularly cruel to anyone, as would be expected from a Slytherin, hence she was neither notorious in other houses nor famous in her own.
As soon as she was cleared a pureblood in her first year, Cady was never bothered.
But there is, never the less, a reason why Cady Smith was placed in the house of
Salazar Slytherin.
Cady Smith is cunning and ambitious.
Cady Smith has an agenda.
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Our story begins in Cady's fourth year, Harry Potter's fourth.
She did not find the Triwizard Tournament very interesting at all, neither was she swept away with the excitement over the Yule Ball.
Never the less, she attended the challenges, like everybody else. The first two were fairly uneventful. At least from where Cady stood. What happened or did not happen to The Boy Who Lived could mean less to her.
But then, everything had changed.
The third challenge, in the maze… Harry Potter had returned, bringing victory to Hogwarts and himself, holding the cup and… the lifeless body of the other Hogwarts champion- Cedric Diggory.
At first, while it is difficult to say Cady was unfazed by the death, for she did have compassion in her, she saw no consequence to the event, as far as it came to her, but how wrong she was…
Before the years end, headmaster Dumbledore had told them the truth of Cedric Diggory's death, a truth the ministry was desperate to burry along with the poor
Boy's cadaver, he did not die in some freak accident, he was murdered by Lord Voldemort.
So, he has returned…
Cady thought, many different feelings flooding her mind and heart.
Now you see, where our very average Cady Smith becomes a dash less normal.
Cady's grandfather Elvin was cousin to one Hephzibah Smith. Now, Miss Smith, who remained miss until the day she died, was considerably rich. Since she had no children of her own, she intended to leave all her worldly possessions to her closest blood relative, her cousin Elvin.
Hephzibah faced a premature death, apparently it seemed, she was poisoned by her house elf, Hokey… but Elvin knew it was not so.
After her death, it turned out Hephzibah had nothing to leave to her next of kin but debt.
How is this? One must wonder indeed, well, Elvin Smith concluded (due to circulating rumors and some guesswork) that his cousin was leading some sort of an affair with one Tom Riddle, who, it seems, striped the poor woman of all her estates.
But that was not the only thing he took…
Elvin knew also of the two priceless objects Hephzibah had in her possession- Helga Hufflpuff's cup and Slytherin's locket, which, along with this young Romeo Tom Riddle had disappeared.
From that point, the Smith's financial status began declining- Granddaddy Elvin had to work double to pay Hephzibah's old debt and support his own family, work which put him in an early grave, before Cady was even born.
While all these facts should be enough to feed Cady's hate for this Tom Riddle, the Smith's misfortunes continue.
Cady's father, Darius, met her mother Elaine when they were both twenty two years old, at the ministry, where he worked as a clerk, and she as a secretary. A few years into their marriage, Cady was born, such a joyous day for Darius and Elaine Smith!
Tragically, only a few months after Cady's birth, Elaine was diagnosed with a fatal disease, fatal unless she received proper treatment, but alas, the amount of money required for this treatment was far beyond the Smith's reach…
And so, but mere weeks after Cady's first birthday, Elaine Smith passed away, and Darius was never himself again.
Mr. Smith had developed a rather nasty alcohol habit, which ultimately cost him his job, ever since he worked just wherever he could, bringing home little, if any., money at all.
Cady grew up knowing how this horrible creature, Tom Riddle had ruined her family, because of him her grandfather and mother were dead and she and her father lived in poverty.
After the violent attacks on muggle-borns during her second year, Cady came to learn (how is a bit of a long and rather tedious story) that Tom Marvolo Riddle was in fact Lord Voldemort, he who must nit be named…