Evan Barrow arrived at the apparition point at Hogsmeade. His mother's insistence that he go to Hogwarts this year confused him, he knew his cousin had being attending the school for almost 6 years, but with the Death of Voldemort his mother insisted that he was suppose to be there. Draco, Evan's cousin had fought in the war against Voldemort, surprising the whole family by choosing to fight on the "light" side. Draco had always got what he wanted, the whole Malfoy family had betrayed their Dark Lord simply because the boy had decided it should be so. Evan's mother was related to Lucius, Draco's Father, his grandparents had always seemed to favor Draco because he shared their name. Evan though agreed Draco was perfect, he was handsome, respectable, polite, political, intelligent and, although in the past he had been a brat, was quite genuinely nice.
It was Evan's
belief that his mother had sent him there in order to "learn"
from Draco. There wasn't much he could do about his look, he had
the Malfoy pale skin but that was where the similarities ended, his
brown hair and brown eyes a gift from the father he had never met.
The behaviorism he could perhaps work on.
He walked the path
to Hogwarts deep in thought, he and Draco had always got along, he in
fact believed it was due to Draco that him and his mother were still
recognized as Malfoy's. He hoped that Draco would not be too mad
that he hadn't been informed that Evan was planning on attending
the same school, but it was too late now.
Severus Snape stood at
the main door to the school, waiting for his arrival it seemed, as he
approached Evan.
"Mr Barrow,"
the man inclined his head, "come we must go, the welcome feast has
already began and you are still to be sorted."
"Must I, sir?"
Evan asked puzzled, surely they knew he wished to be in his cousins
house.
"All new student
must be sorted Mr. Barrow, no exceptions."
Evan entered the hall
behind Snape refusing to look at anyone; he followed him up the
middle of the Hall and sat down on the stool as instructed. The hat
called out Slytherin as soon as it touched his head.
He stood and
finally looked up, searching for Draco, finding him shocked, but
Draco managed to smile at his favorite cousin and motion for him to
come sit with him which Evan did.
"Pansy, Blaise,
Vince, Greg, this is Evan." Draco introduced his ever loyal friends
to his cousin with a smirk.
"I'm sorry I
didn't warn you Drake, I was surprised myself, mother sort of swung
it on me yesterday. She's definitely a Malfoy, went behind my back
and got me all my Hogwarts stuff without my knowing." Evan
explained hurriedly, not wanting his cousin to think he'd gone
behind his back.
"You don't need to explain yourself Evan, I'm really please to see you, I can just tell this year is going to be interesting," Draco said with a genuine smile.
Across the Hall
a pair of emerald green eyes narrowed in jealousy.
"Hey Harry, what's
up mate?" Ron, Harry's best friend since the day he first
attended Hogwarts asked concernedly.
"Who, the hell is
Evan Barrow?" Harry raged, glaring at the boy.
"No idea mate
looks pretty chummy with Malfoy though,"
"A bit too chummy
if you ask me," Seamus added, from where he sat beside Harry.
"Well
no one asked you!" Harry snapped back angrily, shocking the
Gryffindors in the near vicinity.
