"Why weren't you at the beginning of the feast?" a voice from behind me spoke. It startled me on my way up to my room. There had been a lot of traveling today, so I was tired.
I turned and saw Remus Lupin sitting on a couch in the common room. It seemed that everyone else went up to their dorms. It was getting late.
"Didn't Sirius tell you?" He gave a small shake of his head and looked curious. "He just had to make sure his hair was perfect and made the three of us miss the train," I sighed loudly. This was a normal occurrence for my twin.
A small smile formed on his lips. "I wondered if it was something like that."
"He tends to do these things," I rolled my eyes thinking of all of the dumb things Sirius does. I laughed to myself, realizing there were a lot of things that could be thought of. He was never the one to set a good example. Remus gave a short quick laugh, probably thinking of the same things I was.
"I'm going to head up to bed," I said quietly. "Busy day tomorrow, first day of classes and all."
"I'll see you around then," he spoke quietly turning back to the book in his hands. I began to tread up the stairs carefully but paused when I thought I heard Remus talking again. He was mumbling to himself. I decided to continue up the stairs, find my bed and sleep.
Breakfast sped by. I was excited to get to classes. I picked up my school bag and started to head down to the dungeons for my first class, potions. It wasn't my worst class, but it was far from my best. I just hoped that I didn't get paired up with Sirius. We might be twins, but that doesn't mean that I want to be with him in classes. We are nowhere near similar. I care about my grades. Him, not so much.
I walk into the room and wait for class to start. When everyone had finally arrived, Professor Slughorn call out partners for the year. I waited patiently for him to call my name. I realized that I would have been perfectly fine with just about any of the Slytherins as a partner. Regulus use to have some of his friends come over during break. When they first came over, they would glare at and insult me, most likely because I am a Gryffindor. Yet, for some reason, Regulus told them to stop or something similar, because I never got another word from them.
Professor Slughorn interrupted my thoughts with another pairing, "Lily Evans and Sirius Black." I breathed a sigh of relief. I felt bad for Lily, but I am so thankful that I didn't need to be paired with the thing I called my brother all year. After waiting for a while, it was just me and one other girl, Sophia Malfoy I believe. From what Regulus has told me, she seems nice.
"Arabella Black and Sophia Malfoy." I found the table that she moved to, set my bag down and took a seat while the professor started talking. Grabbing a roll of parchment, I begin taking notes without thinking about anything I was writing down.
"He's wrong, you know. Monkshood and Wolfsbane are the same thing. Hi, I'm Sophia, by the way." I looked at her, confused. I had no clue what she was going on about. I look up at the board and see that the professor was trying to explain the differences between the two. I think about it for a bit, and realize that she was right.
"Yes, Ms. Malfoy?" Slughorn asked. I turn and saw that Sophia was raising her hand.
She told him the same thing that she told me, and he praised her, even gave her points for correcting him and then went on to lecturing us on some other thing.
I wouldn't think that she would know these things, she never even took out anything to write notes on. Not that she wasn't smart or anything, she just didn't seem like the person to care, or speak up about school topics.
"How did you know that? Not to be rude or anything, but you don't seem like the type of person to care about anything school related," I quietly questioned her. She
"Shocker, right? Most people don't expect that from me." she started. "I think it goes with the whole Slytherin, Malfoy thing. Obviously I don't follow it." she finished boldly.
I was confused. "So you don't believe in the whole Purebloods are better than anyone or anything?" It seemed so weird, a Malfoy not following tradition. She opened her mouth to speak and
"Hold that thought," I quickly said, trying to copy down a recipe that Slughorn wrote on the board. He told us that we need to make a vile of swelling solution by the end of class as review.
"I guess we should get going then," Sophia groaned while getting up to get the ingredients we needed. I started to get out a cauldron that we could use. She was already back, chopping up caterpillars and placing them in the cauldron, while I waited for her to direct me. She seemed like she would want to lead with this and I trusted that she could. She was a Slytherin after all.
After a lot of waiting, adding and mixing, we finally had our vile of slightly blue green solution ready to turn in. It was supposed to be blue, but neither of us wanted to make it were the first pair done and brought it up to Slughorn. He examined it, said that it looked fairly good and excused us. We grabbed our things and walked to the door together.
"I guess I'll see you around, then." I stated shyly.
"I'm sure you will." she stated. We walked out of the room and went our separate ways.
A/N: Hey everyone! I wanted to say that this is my first story and that I don't own Harry Potter or Sophia Malfoy, she is my friends character. We are making another version of this story on quotev if you want to check that out send me a PM. I will try to update this once a week but I am also busy with school and dance. I would also love if I got a review or two. c: