I do not in any way own Harry Potter, nor do I claim to.
It was the beginning of a new year at Hogwarts as Jessica walked down the hall. She was heading to the Great Hall for the opening of the year feast. Jessica was as happy as could be, nothing could ruin her mood, except maybe…
"Omph!" Jessica collided with a hard object and fell back unto the floor. "I'm sorry" she said as she looked to see who she ran into. Malfoy. He was looking at her with his eyes narrowed.
"Watch where you're going, mudblood." Malfoy said as he got up and brushed himself off. "Don't want you dirtying my brand new robes." He sneered while looking down at her.
"Lay off Malfoy." She got up and walked to the Great Hall. When she got there she saw the normal candles floating in the air and the black ceiling with stars spotted around. It was good to be back. Jessica looked around and noticed a hand waving at her.
"Jess!" Shouted Hermione as she waved. Ron and Harry turned their heads and looked at Jess. All three of them were smiling as she made her way over. Hermione scooted over for her to sit down. Jess sat down in-between her and Ron.
"How was your summer?" Hermione asked before either of the boys could.
"Oh, it was fun. I missed all of you guys though." She smiled warmly as she looked at her friends.
"Yes, you should come and visit us next summer." Ron suggested as he smiled. "You live so far away you know."
"I can't help that though, Ron. But yeah, I'll see if my parents can't get my ticket back to America a couple weeks later."
"That would be great! It might convince Harry to come over sooner."
"You think I want to stay at the Dursley's? You're off your rocker if you think so!" Harry looked over to Ron who was laughing.
"Anyone who wanted to stay with them would be off their rocker." Ron replied.
"True, trust me I would much rather come with you."
"Maybe you can."
"Dumbledore wants me to stay there part of the summer."
"I don't understand why."
"Me either." Harry shrugged as he tried to think of a reason.
"Think of it this way Harry. You only have to endure one more summer with them." Hermione said with a smile.
"But a summer there might kill him!" Ron laughed as Hermione hit him lightly. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"Never mind." She directed her attention back to Jess. "You could stay at our house. I'm sure mum and dad wouldn't mind."
"I'll send mom and dad an owl once everything is settled down." Jess smiled and looked to the front of the room. The first years were up there being sorted.
"It seems like forever ago when we were up there." Hermione stated as a young boy was announced as a Hufflepuff.
"Maybe because it was forever ago." Ron retorted. "What was it five years ago that we were up there?"
"Sounds about right." Harry watched a girl join Gryffindor. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Jess were all starting their sixth year. Once the sorting was done food appeared.
"Good, I'm starving!" Ron grinned as he grabbed a roll and some chicken. They all ate in silence for a while before someone spoke. Hermione was the one to break the silence and start up a topic about what classes they would be taking this year. Ron seemed to be less than interested in the topic and turned to Harry to discuss something more enjoyable. Once Hermione was done with talking about school they all joined back into the same conversation. They continued chatting while eating until dinner was done. When they finished the plates were wiped clean and they went up to the Gryffindor house. After saying the password, they all were in the common room. Jess yawned as Ron sat down in a chair.
"I think I'm going to head to bed." She said while rubbing her eyes.
"I think I'm going to as well." Hermione began walking towards the stairs. "Night boys."
"Goodnight." They both responded as the girls headed up to their dorm. Jess and Hermione have the same dorm room. They both changed into their pajamas and got in their separate beds.
Jess looked over at Hermione. "I already got bugged by Malfoy."
Hermione turned and looked at her. "What did he say?"
"I ran into him. He said the usual. Called me a mudblood."
"He's such a piece of work."
"Well, we all know that." Hermione laughed.
"Don't let him get to you, Jess."
"I won't."
"Good, goodnight."
"Night." Jess shut off her light and fell asleep.
In the morning Jess got dressed and headed downstairs to the Gryffindor common room. She woke up earlier than she normally did. Hardly anyone was in the common room as she walked out and to the Great Hall.
"Move it, mudblood." She heard from behind her as she was right in front of the Great Hall. Her green eyes narrowed as she turned around to see a boy with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes looking at her.
"I said move!" He shouted at her. It was Malfoy, again, this time with his idiot cronies Crabbe and Goyle.
"Say please." Jess responded back.
Malfoy laughed and after a second Crabbe and Goyle got the hint and started laughing too. "Say please, to you? Highly unlikely Anderson." Malfoy replied as he pushed by her, followed by Crabbe and Goyle.
Jess grunted and walked in after them. She would just love to slap him on the face in front of everyone there but resisted as she sat down at the Gryffindor table. After a little while Hermione came in, followed by Harry and Ron. They ate and then went to their first class, Transfiguration, with their Head of House, Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall brought the class to order rather quickly. Their task was to turn a cactus into a fishbowl. This seemed to be easy enough except for Neville, who's fishbowl was still prickly. Their next class was Care for Magical Creatures which was taught by Hagrid. They all walked out unto the grounds and over to Hagrid's hut where he was standing there waiting.
"Hello, how was all of yer summers?" He asked as he looked at them.
"Good." They all replied They talked about what they did over the summer until the entire class was present. Gryffindor had this class with Slytherin. Which of course meant Malfoy was present. He was arrogant as usual. Making not only Jess irritated but Harry, Ron, especially Ron, Hermione and Hagrid.
"What is that?" Malfoy said while walking over to the box Hagrid had the creatures in. He peeked in and grabbed one. "Its nothing more than a fluff ball. What's so dangerous about this?" Malfoy held it up so all of the Slytherin's could see it. They all laughed at the pitiful excuse of a fluff ball. Malfoy smirked and laughed as well. The fluff ball bit Malfoy hard on the hand. "Ouch you little rat!" He threw the fluff ball back down rather roughly into the box and walked away from it.
"Yeh be careful next time it don' bite of yer finger!" Hagrid said in a annoyed voice as he bent down in the box and checked to see if the fluff ball was okay.
Pansy, a Slytherin girl who liked Malfoy too much for her own good, ran over and clung on Malfoy's arm. "Are you alright Draco? Did that stupid thing hurt you?"
"I'm fine Pansy." He shrugged her off. Satisfied with the state of Malfoy, Pansy walked back over to Millicent, another Slytherin girl, and talked.
Both Jess and Hermione rolled their eyes at how pathetic Pansy was. Hagrid continued talking about the fluff ball for a while before letting the students hold them.
Jess was holding one in her arms. It was making a soft purring like noise. Hagrid walked over and put a big hand on her shoulder. "I 'hink he likes yeh." He smiled as he walked away to see how everyone else was doing. Malfoy then walked over and took the fluff ball from Jess.
"Hey give him back!" She shouted while reaching for the fluff ball.
"Him? How can you tell?" Malfoy lifted it above his head to get a better look.
"Malfoy stop it! You're going to hurt him!"
"Oh sorry, here's your boyfriend back." Malfoy retorted as he tossed the fluff ball back to her and walked away.
"Jerk" she muttered as she pet the fluff ball. Jess then handed it to Hermione for her turn.
Hermione softly pet it while it started purring again. "He is such a twit." She said referring to Malfoy.
"What do you expect from him?" Jess said while quickly looking over at him.
"Nothing." Hagrid collected all of the fluff balls back shortly before the bell rang. Everyone then headed off to lunch. Their last class finally came. Potions, with everyone's favorite teacher, Snape. To make things worse Gryffindor had this class with none other than Slytherin. Everyone piled into the room and grabbed a seat. Snape looked as though he was waiting for someone with a rather annoyed look on his face. A few minutes later Professor McGonagall walked in with a piece of parchment in her hand. Everyone looked at her, confused as to why she was in the room.
She cleared her throat and began to speak. "Today you will be starting a project that we have just added to the curriculum for sixth years. You will have a partner of the opposite gender. For this project you and your partner will be living together as a married couple." She glanced around the room to see most of the classes horrified looks. "There will be a spell put on your rooms so there will be no inappropriate behavior." This time she more glanced at the boys in the room. "After two weeks you will be getting a child who looks like you and it will be made from your DNA by a spell. This project will last six weeks. Are there any questions?" Everyone shook their head no. "Also when you get your child you will have a period off each day to spend time with your child." McGonagall then opened the parchment. "I will now be reading off the pairs. Once I am done you will be dismissed to pack your things. You will be moved into a special floor where you will have a common, a bathroom and a bedroom with two beds." She then looked down at the list. "The first pair is, Lavender Brown and Ron Weasley."
Lavender looked over at Ron and smiled. Ron smiled back, "it could have been much worse."
"Hermione Granger and Seamus Finnegan." Hermione looked over at Seamus before McGonagall continued. "Pansy Parkinson and Neville Longbottom." The look on Pansy's face was priceless. She looked as though someone had murdered her precious Draco right before her own eyes. Neville looked stunned and didn't say a thing.
McGonagall called off a few more pairs before saying. "Parvati Patil and Harry Potter." Harry smiled as her, hoping she still wasn't upset about the Yule Ball two years ago. Professor McGonagall continued through the list, a few more groans happened in-between the reading of some pairs. "And lastly, Jessica Anderson and Draco Malfoy."
Chapter one is up! Please review, thanks!-Jess