Draco Malfoy grew up in a very secluded and rather lonely manor as an only child. Whenever he wandered around his home, He always would see portraits of this mahogony haired woman with beautiful round doe colored eyes and she looked different enough to tell that she was not part of his family.
For years, he wondered and wondered who this person was as he always saw his father staring at her portraits with eyes filled with so many unfathomed emotions- anger,guilt and even affection...he saw it in his own father's eyes. He thought his parents were deeply affectionately in love but he was wrong. Their marriage was arranged to keep the bloodlines of purebloods in existence. Of course, it was only natural for them to care for blood purity, it was a belief they were willing to protect.
He asked his mother, Narcissa Malfoy, but she had nothing to answer to him but inside him, he felt she knew something and he wouldn't tell him. It bothered him, to not know of a stranger lingering his own walls.
He looked around his house and found one of the photographs with a name he had been searching for written in an elegant grace
'Samantha Middleford.'
But then that day came. It was his final year at Hogwarts, a year after the Dark Lord was officially defeated. Of course, he had no interest to enter as he felt that he shouldn't even enter Hogwarts, still rather ashamed of his actions last year. He sat alone in the library as he continued a failing stare down with his Potions Essay.
Madam Pince sat down at her desk, her eyes lingering around to check for any noise or sense of trouble around. It was unusually quiet nowadays after Voldemort and his evident defeat triumphed, thanks to Harry Potter, the boy who lived and the boy who stopped Voldemort. Unfortunately, Draco wasn't there to see him anymore as he, Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom started Auror training instead of attend Hogwarts.
Draco looked down at his Potions homework and let out a sigh. He was now putting much more effort now as he had to maintain his grades on his own as Snape was not there anymore to give him a high mark without trying. He just wanted to pull through and just graduate.
As he scribbled down his words on a long piece of parchment, out of nowhere, a book appeared before his eyes. His eyes widened as he was startled by the book's sudden appearance. He wasn't so sure to get near or to far from the mysterious book but he came a bit closer as his arm reached towards the closed book and lifted it up. He began to search for a title. He flipped it and saw the initials, S.A.M, elegantly etched on the black colored book with an owl's face in the front.
He opened up the first page and saw the words form these words:
'This is the property of Samantha Hebe Aurélie Middleford. Do not read and if lost, return to immediately'
He couldn't believe it, all these years, he just had to look in a library!? He felt himself release a curse and it seemed Madam Pince heard as she sent a deathly glare towards him as if a warning. He gulps and rolled his as he turned his attention not to his dull homework, no, he pushed it aside and placed the book in front of his face, allowing his eyes to wander in the very first page.
'Bonjour Mon Ami!' It read, I am Samantha Aurélie Middleford and you, my dearest journal shall be my spectator! Today is the day that I will be leaving for Hogwarts, a time for change, the biggest one in my entire life-'
This might take a while.