Damn You Draco Malfoy!
A/U: Hey guys first story and I decided it would be a DMLS. The greatest thanks to my cousin, Son Of Hades, who gave me a lot of ideas. Hope you like Niveria and I'm really sorry if the whole 'love' bit starts a little late coz I really need to give a small intro (okay a BIG intro). Also I really REALLY need to thank Samantha Malfoy on Quizzazz for making such a wonderful story. She's my inspiration. Have fun with Niveria and Draco guys.
Dear Journal,
I'm so excited! I realized that getting this transfer was going to be fun...I've always been game for meeting new people. When I first got to know that TNSOM and Hogwarts had established the new Student Exchange Program I applied and figures out I was the only one to get this far! I'm supposed to be taking the place of some girl called 'Lavender Brown'. Hmmm...wonder whether they'd miss her. I already know a few people from Hogwarts. Actually only two. The twins, Parvati and Padma, had come to my school a few years ago and I happened to show them around but they couldn't make it to TNSOM because Hogwarts had already sent them an invitation. I wasn't really good friends with them anyways. I wonder who will be my best friend...I'm gonna miss Kapila dearly. *Sigh* Well, I need to find platform 9 3/4...wonder where that is. I better ask someone for directions. There are a whole pack of redheads over there and – Oh my! One of them just ran through that solid wall! I better get going...they've GOT to be wizards! Tell you more when I get to Hogwarts.
~ Niv
Niveria shut the cover of her journal tightly and whispered a few words onto the side. It immediately shut itself tightly and shrunk to a tiny, silver, heart-shaped locket with a swirling mood stone in the middle. She put it around her neck and hurried along with her baggage to the red-haired lady who seemed to be admonishing a pair of red-headed boys who looked like they were twins. What a lot of red...but they seem nice enough Niveria thought to herself. She approached them and tapped the red-haired lady on her shoulder. As soon as the woman turned around the twins disappeared with their baggage through the wall. "Oh lord! I hope those boys don't get themselves into trouble this year! Yes honey, may I help you?" She asked turning her eyes from the heavens to Niveria's face. "Uh...yeah...do you happen to know how I could possible get to platform 9 3/4?". The woman's face broke into a huge smile . "Well, the boys", she said rolling her eyes, "went through the arch...it is disguised as a wall. I'm Mrs. Weasley", she added and shook hands with Niveria. Niveria really liked her because she seemed really motherly like and her mother had died years ago so it was a refreshing experience. "Thank you. Well, I'm new and in my fourth year so I really didn't know". Mrs. Weasley looked at her, astounded and said "But honey, I don't think Hogwarts accepts new admissions from the fourth year. I've heard of first years being new but not fourth years.". Niveria coolly replied,
"I happen to be the first transfer student to Hogwarts from TNSOM."
"TNSOM?"
"The Nalanda School Of Magic"
"I see"
"Well, I must be on my way. Thank you Mrs. Weasley"
"Yes, see you honey. I guess you might need some guides...my son is always there to help; he's in his fourth year too and his name is Ronald Weasley. Harry Potter and Hermione Granger will be there to help as well."
"Harry, Ron and Hermione?"
"Yes, darling, that would be them"
"Well, thank you Mrs. Weasley for your help."
"Hope you like Hogwarts, darling. Have fun"
Mrs. Weasley pulled Niveria into a tight hug. Niveria breathed in. She smells like freshly baked cookies she thought. Niveria broke away from Mrs. Weasley and both of them ran through the wall and on the other side they saw a red train with 'The Hogwarts Express' written in gold on the side. The twins were at one of the windows. Winking at their mother, they chorused
"We'll send you Snape's burnt robes for Christmas, mother!"
"You shall do no such thing Fred, George!"
"Just kidding mother" Fred said
"But we're still getting you a bit of Hogwarts!" George shouted over the sound of the whistle of the train.
Mrs. Weasley rolled her eyes at them and turned to Niveria.
"There! Up you go now. Here's your luggage...be careful now." She said.
"Yes, of course Mrs. Weasley. I'll find Ron, Harry and Hermione!" Niveria said
As the train moved off Mrs Weasley shouted "Bye!"
Fred and George shouted, " Bye Mother! We'll get you a premium Hogwarts toilet seat!"
"That you boys will not do, and I MEAN IT!"
Niveria giggled as Fred and George waved goodbye to their Mrs. Weasley. She lugged her baggage across the train and opened the first compartment she found.
Three boys sat there : a pale one, a fat one and one with a potato-shaped head. They all looked up at her in surprise and she looked down at her shoes. If I could blush, I'd be beet-root red by now Niveria thought. The pale haired boy smirked and stood up. Extending his hand he said "I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy and these are my friends, Crabbe and Goyle" He said gesturing to the two boys behind him, who simultaneously nodded their heads." And who might you be may I ask and why are you in our compartment?". She shook his outstretched hand and said with all the pride she could muster at the moment, " I'm Niveria Kadam and I happen to be looking for Ronald Weasley and his friends and I had to start somewhere to find them, which explains why I'm in your compartment". Draco narrowed his gray eyes and said "What would you want Weasley for?". Niveria was disgusted at his tone of voice and the way he said 'Weasley' so, lifting her chin and meeting his eyes, she said, " I happen to be a friend of his, and I'd like to know where I might find him." Draco shook his head in disgust and said, "As you can see, clearly none of us are carrot-heads nor are we idiots." Niveria narrowed her eyes and said, pointing to Draco square on the chest
"Well, you seem to be one"
"I don't have red hair!"
"Yes, but that doesn't make you any less of an idiot!"
They were screaming on the top of their voices now and Crabbe had got up and said "You better not mess with Draco Malfoy, Kadam." Niveria narrowed her eyes and said "Watch me." Goyle added for a good measure "Watch it, Kadam. Are you new or are you just plain stupid?" while Crabbe sniggered. Niveria ignored him and spat in Malfoy's face "You watch what you say about my friends, Malfoy, and I mean it!" Malfoy merely smirked and pushed her against the wall and placed his hands on either side of her head on the wall and said "Or what?" Niveria narrowed her eyes and lifted her the palm of her left hand. Her robe slid back from her arm, which were covered in tattoos and which were now glowing golden. Her palm had a golden power thrumming in it. Crabbe and Goyle took a step back, their eyes wide with fear. "Or I will hex you into next wee -" "Will you people shut up? The whole train can hear your shouting" said a new voice as Niveria and Malfoy turned their heads towards the now open compartment door. A ginger-haired girl had poked her head inside the compartment and her eyebrows had shot up her face at the sight of the two of them. Niveria let her hand fall to her side and her tattoos were covered by her robe once more.
"Well, Granger, I don't think the whole train happened to tell you."
"As a matter of fact they did. And is that the way you treat a girl? Scratch that. Is that the way you treat anyone?"
Malfoy quickly took his hands away from the wall and Niveria pushed him aside and began gathering her luggage.
"Get out, mudblood, no one asked you to teach me manners. And you too Kadam!"
"It will be my pleasure" Niveria replied hotly as she pushed Hermione out and took her luggage along with her as the compartment door slid back to being closed with a bang.
"What was that all about?"
"Don't even get me started! I hate the little git already."
"Everyone of us does"
"Well, Mr. Potato Head and fatso don't happen to think so"
"Nor do the rest of the Slytherins"
"Slytherins?"
"You know...from the house 'Slytherin'?"
"There's a house full of people like that?" Niveria asked gesturing to the compartment they had just left.
"Unfortunately, there is." Hermione said, rolling her eyes.
"You must be the exchange student from The Nalanda School Of Magic" she added.
"Yeah, I'm Niveria Kadam. And how come you know that and they don't?"
"I happen to be one of the only people who read the main school notice board. By the way, I'm Her-"
"Hermione Granger? Yeah, I know. Mrs. Weasley told me"
"Oh. Mrs. Weasley told you about me?"
"Actually she told me about you, Harry Potter and her son Ronald Weasley who I happened to be looking for when I got into a brawl with that" She said gesturing again to the compartment they had left behind. Hermione nodded and motioned to the compartment they were making their way to. Niveria smiled and opened the compartment door. Three boys and two girls looked up at her and Hermione in surprise.
"Guys, meet, Niveria Kadam, the exchange student from TNSOM"
"TNSOM?" asked a boy with the jet black hair, glasses and a scar the shape of a lightning bolt.
"The Nalanda School Of Magic. I'm a transfer student and I happen to be here in exchange of one of your friends who is 'Lavender Brown' I believe" replied Niveria. They seem friendly enough she thought. Better than Malfoy and his minions. She chuckled mentally to herself at the 'Malfoy and his minions' comment she had just made. She smiled at the lot of them and sat next to the pale-haired girl who smiled at her in a sort of mysterious way. "I'm Luna Lovegood" she said in a soft voice. "Nice to meet you, Luna." She said "I'm Niveria...call me 'Niv' or 'Ria'" she added. The rest of them smiled an introduced themselves " I'm Harry Potter" "I'm Ginny Weasley and that's my idiot of a brother Ronald Weasley" "I am not an idiot, Ginny!" "I'm Ne-Neville L-Longbottom" She smiled again and said to Ron and Ginny "I like your brothers, Fred and George? And I met your mother who told me that all of you guys" she said gesturing to all of them "would be nice to be around. I was looking for you when I had some...people issues to deal with" she said glancing meaningfully at Hermione who nodded. Harry shrugged and said "Welcome to Hogwarts then." She smiled at him and compared mentally as to how different he and Malfoy were. What a snob Malfoy is she thought. "So, tell me more about the houses you have. We had four and they were named after gemstones and metals : Ruby was red, though we had a lot of gold in there too, Emerald was green and mostly silver was associated with it, Sapphire was blue and had steel to go with it and Topaz was yellow with Bronze as its corresponding metal." She said and then added "I was in the Emerald, the green house and the one associated with silver." All of them exchanged looks and then Hermione spoke up "We have four houses too. Gryffindor is red and those in this house are brave and loyal, Ravenclaw is blue and people who are smart usually get put into this house" Ron snorted and then looking at Hermione's face, which was now red with anger, he resolved to coughing "Well, that's two of the houses and there are two more which I would have told you if I hadn't been so rudely interrupted!" she said looking at Ron who quit coughing and looked out the window, his ears red. She continued "The other two houses are Hufflepuff, which is the yellow house, and the extremely loyal ones get put into this house and Slytherin" she rolled her eyes and everyone sighed as if it was a crime to be put into this particular house. Niveria could understand why. "The soulless , spoilt, snobbish, incorrigible gits get put into this house and its color" she said looking at Niveria "is Green". Niveria understood why all of them had exchanged looks when she mentioned the house she was in earlier. This is second time today that I feel that if I could blush I wouldn't be any ordinary shade of red she thought as looked down. "It's alright Niveria. Just because you were in the green house last time it doesn't mean you will be put in the same house this time. Idon't think you have the qualities of a Slytherin or else you would have gotten on perfectly fine with Malfoy" said Hermione "You got into a fight with Malfoy?" Ron ask disbelievingly. Niveria nodded. "Welcome to the club" Harry said shaking his head and she grinned. She couldn't help but like these people better than the ones she met. She was afraid that all of them might be like Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. "Besides, the sorting hat sorts you out and I'm not sure whether the sorting hat has ever made a mistake till now" said Luna in her mystical voice. Everyone looked at her "What? Just because I speak about thestrals, which you clearly can't see, and whatnot it doesn't mean I can't talk about normal things, which all of us can see" Luna added, exasperated. Niveria smiled as everyone turned away, red in the face. "In my old school we called it 'placing' and there were four objects, heirlooms of the four houses : A golden crown inlaid with rubies for the Ruby house, a silver necklace with emeralds on it, a steel sword with a big, blue sapphire on its handle and a bronze goblet with topazes around its rim. We used to get placed into the house when an any oneof the heirlooms glowed and that's how I became an Emerald." Niveria explained and then she added "So...here the sorting hat sorts you out right? How does it do that?". "It reads your innermost thoughts and feeling and can see through you so it knows all your qualities. It hasn't ever made a mistake" Hermione said knowledgably and Ron coughed again and said "Till Hermione came along". Hermione narrowed her eyes at him and shoved him. He was guffawing fully by now and everyone was laughing as both of them fought like cats and dogs. It ended with both of them feebly poking each other and Niveria said in a voice that is usually used by a commentator in a stadium "And the brawl ends with a poking contest between Granger and Weasley. Who will poke each other to death? Who will survive the pokes of the other and rise as the winner? Keep watching to find out!" The whole compartment were in tears of laughter at the statement when the compartment door opened again. The food trolley had arrived and the witch who was pushing it smiled at the lot of them. "Three packets of chocolate frogs and a packet of Bott's Every Flavoured Jelly Beans, please" Harry said through the tears in his eyes and after paying for the whole thing he handed out the goodies to everyone. Everyone was slightly less giggly now, and well enough to eat the chocolate frogs and the jellybeans. "Ooh! I got an earwax flavored one!" shouted Ron and that set off everyone once more. Finally, the train came to a stop and they all piled out of the compartment and into the carriages. Niveria seemed lost so Luna dragged her along to the carriages. The luggage was unloaded and left to be taken by whoever usually took the luggage up to their respective dormitories. Niveria sat in the carriage in silence and when, finally, the rumbling came to a halt she jumped out along with the others. "Welcome to The Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry" Ginny said with a sweeping gesture, motioning to the castle that loomed above them. Niveria just stared. Then looking at her new friends who were smiling at her she stepped through the great doors wondering which house she would be sorted into and how life would proceed from the moment she entered Hogwarts.
A/U : So I really hope you liked chapter one! Comment please! I'll be updating soon!