A/N: So I came up with this concept with the help of my friend song-of-misery, she helped me realize it would be mice to make a character that can even Draco out, and to also give her some strong frineds. Cassie's best friend is actually based off song-of-misery who has been a big help with the dialogue for Lydia. I hope you enjoy this story, please review and let me know what you think and heck maybe give me some suggestions you think would go well in this story. Love you all!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, if I did there would be more fluff and less death.

Chapter One

Cassandra Ravenwood

The day started off like any other, the alarm rang moments after she woke up; the pale sunlight was shining on her face and her tiny fluffy gray cat Elwin was curled up next to her, snoring quite loudly for one so small. Reaching over she shut off the alarm and crawled out of her warm nest of blankets.

After pulling her hair back into a sloppy bun she pulled out a silver bowl, pointing her wand at it she murmured "Aguamenti" and watched with satisfaction as it filled with crystal clear water. She splashed the cool water across her face, effectively chasing away the last bit of drowsiness and then patted it dry with a fluffy hand towel. Once done with that she again pointed her wand at the bowl and muttered "Evanesco", making the water inside disappear.

Walking over to her trunk she pulled out her uniform and two silver hair clips. After pulling on her clothes and smoothing out her skirt she stood in front of the mirror and brushed out her long black locks. After pulling back the hair from the left side of her face and clipping it in place, her deep blue eyes roved across her face before deciding there was nothing else to fix.

Gathering up her book bag she left her dormitory, meeting up with a tall boy with shaggy, sandy blonde hair and ocean colored eyes.

"There you are Cassie, for a second there I thought you were actually going to be late getting down here." He joked, flinging an arm across her shoulders and walking her towards the exit of the Ravenclaw common room.

"You know better than to think that Jake. I'm always on time." Cassie said while shrugging out from under his arm and leading the way down to breakfast.

"Yes I know, little miss perfect. Never late. Always on time and ready for anything." Jake joked, ruffling her hair.

"Don't call me that, and you know I hate when you do that to my hair." Cassie frowned up at him, smoothing her hair back down to perfection.

"I know Cass, but it's just so much fun teasing ya." Jake said with a brotherly smile, bumping her playfully.

Cassie smiled slightly, rolling her eyes. She really needed to learn to deal with playful teasing, because if she couldn't handle small things like that she would always be the weird girl with horrid people skills.

Upon entering the Great Hall Cassie was tackled by a blonde ball of energy, otherwise known as her best mate Lydia. Unlike Cassie, Lydia was a social butterfly and can make friends with almost anyone, which if you consider the fact that she's a member of Slytherin house; you'd find it very odd. And yet there she was, best friends with Ravenclaw's very own Ice Queen.

"Cassie! I missed you over Christmas break, oh and thank you so much for the Celtic friendship knot necklace. I love it so much!" Lydia said with a huge smile, showing Cassie that she was wearing the sliver pendant proudly around her neck.

"I'm glad you like it Lyd. Did your dad bring you home anything interesting from his last dig?" Cassie asked politely as she sat down for breakfast, Lydia sitting down on her right as if sitting at the Ravenclaw table was the most normal thing in the world. And for Lydia, it sort of was.

Jake excused himself and went to sit with the other members of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, talking strategy and whatnot. Cassie wasn't a big sports fan, preferring a good book over the loud yelling and violence involved with Jake's beloved game.

"Yeah he brought me home an onyx cat statue with gold inlay. It's really cool." Lydia said with a bright smile, helping herself to toast and smearing it with marmalade before taking a huge bite.

"That's nice. My parents had a Christmas ball to celebrate my birthday; it was a bunch of old people I didn't know and their snooty children. The only person there that I knew was Draco of all people." Cassie sighed, remembering how difficult it had been to avoid running into him. Grabbing herself a piece of toast she added a light layer of raspberry jam and took and small bite, enjoying the sweet crunchiness of it.

"Well doesn't that just sound pleasant… How'd that turn out? I remember you and Malfoy have butted heads a few times over the years, and that his annoying little pug faced fan-girl Pansy keeps giving you grief. Her pugly ass is just jealous of you." Lydia said, knowing all about how Pansy would make fun of Cassie's lack of people skills and was always trying to make her feel ugly.

"Pansy was there as well. She sort of latched herself onto Draco the whole night and was glaring at me like it was her party and I was crashing it." Cassie said with a sigh, still not understanding Pansy's intense hatred of her.

"What a bitch! If I was you I would have kicked her ass out without batting an eyelash. You shouldn't keep taking her bullshit Cass." Lydia said with a growl, her green eyes flashed as she glared over at the Slytherin table where Pansy was blatantly flirting with Malfoy who wasn't paying her the least bit of attention.

"Lyd, I'm not you. I don't get in confrontations with people and I abhor getting angry. You of all people know that." Getting up Cassie shook her head, waving to Jake from where he was sitting with his other friends. "I need to get to class; I'll talk to you later Lyd." Smiling lightly at her blonde friend she turned and headed off to class, immersing herself in facts and information.

Completely in her element Cassie answered all the teacher's questions with ease and focused on her work. It was her intense work ethic and her lack of people skills that had long ago earned her the nickname of Ravenclaw's Ice Queen. While she was a classic beauty with her deep blue eyes, flawless ivory skin and raven locks; most of the boys at Hogwarts had long since learned to not even attempt flirting with her. She just wasn't interested in any of the guys that had tried asking her out over the years, none of them sparked her interest so she turned them down flat.

While her hands wrote out answers and took notes her mind wandered, remembering how she met her two best friends who had big impacts on her life. The first friend she had made at this big formidable school had been Jake, though it wasn't friendship from the start.

When Cassie had found out she was sorted into Ravenclaw she quietly made her way to the Ravenclaw house table. She held her head high yet avoided eye contact as she sat down, not wanting anyone to see how nervous she truly was. Just a few moments later she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. Looking up in surprise she saw a pair of smiling ocean blue eyes with swirls of forest green in their cheerful depths.

"You look scared stiff there kiddo." said the boy who looked to be about a year older than her.

"I… I don't know what you are talking about. I am perfectly fine thank you." She said with stiff politeness, turning back around and staring down at her plate she tried her hardest to ignore him.

The boy wasn't deterred in the least by her behavior and sat down next to her, a kind smile on his face. "Look I know it can be difficult leaving home and everything you know just to come to some strange castle and be overwhelmed with all the new people. Trust me, I was in your shoes last year and know how it is. My name is Jacob Knight, friends call me Jake."

"Cassandra Ravenwood, it's nice to meet you Jacob." Cassie said politely, her upbringing and her manners not allowing her to ignore his introduction.

"Nice to meet you too Cassie, and please, call me Jake." He said with a charming smile and playful wink.

Cassie blushed brightly, not knowing how to handle this boy and his friendliness.

It took Jake another three months of being his usual friendly self and trying to help Cassie out before she started warming up to him and he finally earning a place in her heart as the big brother she always wished she had.

When it had come to Lydia, well things had gone along a rather similar path, though Lydia had been louder and more talkative in her approach. Then again Lydia was like that with almost everything she did.

It was the beginning of Cassie's second year, Jake had been pulled off by his Quidditch buddies and Cassie had been left all by her lonesome, which was something she was rather accustomed to. She had been sitting in her compartment, quietly reading a book on advanced potion making and spell work, when suddenly someone opened the door.

Glancing up Cassie's gaze was met by a pair of quizzical green eyes. A girl of about her own age was standing in the doorway, a thoughtful look on her face as she studied Cassie from behind her blonde bangs. Cassie fidgeted under her intense gaze, wondering what was up with this girl.

Nodding to herself the girl suddenly smiled, her green eyes shining happily. "Hi! I'm Lydia. Let's be friends." The girl said quickly, sitting down next to Cassie with a bright smile and glancing at her book. "Wow that looks… completely boring." She said then started talking about all sorts of things so fast that poor Cassie's head started to spin.

Cassie blinked, looking at the girl like she was crazy. "Uh…" Cassie couldn't even think of a proper response to all the questions the girl was asking. See Cassie liked things calm, collected and this girl was not the type of person she normally dealt with. Instead of trying to understand the strange girl sitting next to her Cassie went back to reading her book, focusing intently on the pages.

Once they arrived at Hogwarts Cassie quickly managed to give the girl the slip and head up to Ravenclaw Tower, deciding to skip dinner and just go straight to bed, her head still reeling over her time on the train with that Lydia girl.

The next day Cassie woke up, did her normal routine and headed to her first class of the day. Sitting down and pulling out her charms book Cassie was surprised when suddenly the seat next to her was filled by none other than the girl from the train.

"Hello again! Seems we have Charms together! How great is that?" she said, her smile so big it made Cassie's own face hurt sympathetically.

"Yeah… Great…" mumbled Cassie, turning and trying to focus on the lesson.

"So, I never did catch your name yesterday. It's difficult being friends with someone when you don't know their name. So, what's your name friend?" Lydia asked, poking Cassie's arm to get her attention and smiling brightly at her.

Cassie sighed, though she hated doing this, the girl was interfering with her work and that was a no-no in Cassie's book. "Look, I never agreed to be your friend, and I never offered up my name because I have no intention of making new friends. I'm trying to focus on my work, now please just leave me alone."

Lydia blinked, but other than that she didn't seem to have taken any offense to Cassie's icy reply, in fact she looked rather amused. "Look, I'm giving you the courtesy to tell me your name on your own. Honesty I already know who you are Cassandra Ravenwood. You have quite the reputation amongst the students for being an "Ice Queen". I for one don't think you are a bitch by nature, I think it's a coping mechanism you use because you are a tiny bit socially awkward and fear trying to make friends and failing. You're top of everything you do, yet if you failed at making a friend you are worried that would lead to failures in other aspects of your life."

Cassie stared at the girl with wide eyes, how- how could she possibly know all of that, when she had only met her the day before?

"Furthermore, I know you only have one friend at this school, a 3rd year Ravenclaw boy, I believe. Now Cassie, I would like to be your friend, you seem like you would be a good friend and to be honest I don't get along with most of the girls in Slytherin house. My guess is that the massive stick that was shoved up their ass is starting to poke at their smallish brains but who can say for sure?" she said, flipping her hair back from her face and rolling her eyes with a smug smile. "I mean, honestly, what's not to like about me?"

A smile could almost be seen creeping onto Cassie's face "It definitely couldn't be the fact that you obnoxiously talk for hours on end, no, that wouldn't make sense now would it?"

Lydia cracked a smile and laughed at Cassie's remark. "You're funny, so what do you say? Can we start over?" she stretched out her hand towards Cassie a bright smile on her face. "Hi, my name is Lydia Moore. I'm a 2nd year Slytherin. Let's be friends."

Cassie stared at it for a few moments, her mind whirling with everything the girl had said. Looking up into her sincere green eyes, Cassie made up her mind. Taking the girls hand, Cassie smiled shyly. "Hello Lydia, my name is Cassie Ravenwood. I'm a 2nd year Ravenclaw, and I guess I would love to be your friend."

It may have started off in an odd way, but soon Cassie and Lydia were the best of friends, and though Lydia would groan and complain about Cassie's work ethic and about wanting to have more fun, Cassie helped to keep Lydia on track with her work. Lydia was also good for Cassie, though she would never admit it, slowly but surely, Cassie would break through that wall of ice with the help of her best friend.

Cassie shook herself from her reverie and gathered up her books when the bell rang, heading to her next class and keeping to herself, Cassie dodged around a young Hufflepuff who coughed and sneezed in her direction. Quickly walking into her Arithmancy class she took her usual seat, behind a bushy-haired Gryffindor girl named Hermione Granger and looked at the board, quickly getting to work on her assignment.