December Surprises

A/N: Alright, I'm not much of a Draco fan and this DM/Padma/OC fanfiction is dedicated to my dear fellow Potterhead . Anyway, this is my first ever piece English fanfiction and I dare say I do not come up with any Mary Sue OCs since I hate them so badly. So, enjoy

Disclaimer : I do not own Harry Potter and if I own it, I would've written more about the Marauders and would get the new chapters on Pottermore quicker. Also, Fred wouldn't have died so heart-breakingly.

Chapter 1: Niece of the Muggle Junior Minister

The sun was blazing softly above the Hogwarts grounds, splattering sunbeams onto the students lying idly across the fresh lawn beside the black lake, where several students were swimming in with the giant squid and Peeves zooming around, throwing StinkSnaps everywhere, screaming 'GOT YOUR CONK!' as usual.

Everything was alright, so was Noelle Chorley. She was pouring over her History of Magic essay about Emeric the Evil with her best friend Padma Patil. Ravenclaws, who always foster their bests to get best marks, were not usually spotted studying across the lakeside lawns. Her housemates were usually gathering in the Common Room or so what, but she and Padma were just not that kind of Ravenclaws. They were the more book-nerded and studious type of Ravenclaws, with curiosity to almost everything.

Noelle was special, but wasn't the kind that of in the spotlight, nor was those gossipings. She was just normal, perfectly normal, and thank you very much, she hated Cho Chang, who was a year above her and used to drag her pale-faced boyfriend around the school, 'prettily' so.

She had always supported Harry Potter and she was annoyed by the lot of Slytherins. Especially Pansy Parkinson, that dark-haired bitch, who always made fun of her red hair and freckles. 'She was just jealous of your Muggle Juniour Minister father.' thought Noelle optimistically. 'That she doesn't have one...other than a Death Eater father spending most of his lifetime in Azkaban.'

The Whomping Willow crashed into by Harry and Ron was just so enchanting and curiosity-taking that made Noelle and Padma so interested that they missed death thrice during the years. Once they tried to sneak into the passageway beside the Willow but, very unfortunately, they got whacked into ten metres of the sky and disappeared into the skies, landed in the Hospital Wing and regained conscious a week later, with a few broken limps and a permanent scar on her arm which made Parkinson to joke more on her.

'Oi, Mudblood Chorley, what's that ugly patch on your arm? I bet not a scar!' 'Piss off, Parkinson, You stink.' Padma replied stiffly, not feeling brave. 'Not too friendly, aren't you?' 'Glad as you've seen it, just get out of the way and leave your squashed face out of the way. You stink, you really do.' Noelle pushed her out of the way and she fell onto the ground with a groan of pain, stirring dramatically to Noelle's point of view and clutched her arm. Her pansy face was even uglier after the faux-pain was twisting on it.

'Oh! My arm! It hurts! Chorley, you big mean toerag – '

'Not that old idiotic trick again, Parkinson!' Padma folded her arms and rolled her beautiful eyes. A few random first-years watching were flabbergasted. 'Your dearest Draco has played it last year and it failed since that Hippogriff thing escaped and so –' 'Pathetic, you are.' Noelle kicked Parkinson(who was still stirring on the ground) in the arm and walked away, but a shout of Filch stopped her and Padma.

'Ah ha, Chorley! Patil! Detention!'

'Darn it, not again, what've we done and has to end up with this?' Padma scrubbed the castle wall in the faint candle light and sighed. 'Try to remind yourself of some Potions essay...Snape wouldn't be so greatful to learn our essays' missing.'

'Oh dear, we left it for tonight. I'd nearly forget it, Padma! So what can we do?'

'Scrub the wall and shut your mouth.'

'Why're you being so rude?'

'That's the way I talk, people!'

'Maybe you should start you way straight ahead to St. Mungos, ' Noelle started sarcastically, stared at her best friend non-appreciatingly. 'as seen you've got some brain damage – '

'You know sometimes I really prefer you being asleep.' Padma said. 'At least you're not talking.'

Noelle went silent. This really was the way how Padma talks, but she had never expected it to be so harsh, rude, and mean.

So what could be worse, having a nice and harmless best friend ?

A/N: And so it comes to the end of chapter one. Tada! I may get the next chapter on as fast as possible so please do review! I'll do the next faster if you do so, so review! Just type a word or few in the box and hit the little button which would make me smile so much! Thank you!