Love from the Other Side

Harry Potter One-shot

I did not know what to think of the boy who lived. He was powerful yes but he was a bit of an idiot. An yet his heart is always in the right place. He was after all the child that everyone loved.

I was not. I being a Slytherin did not get praise for my work, no happy joys when I came home from holiday. I was just a ghost. A ghost that no one wanted.

I sighed at my lot in life as I walked into my potions class. I sat in my seat and read my book. I waited for my other class mates to file in so we can get started.

I was about to turn the page when I heard them. The golden trio of Gryffindor.

"Hermione come on. It's not like I want you to do the potion for me. I just want some pointers. I know about three fourths of what I am to do." Said Ron in a desperate manor.

"No Ronald if you weren't so busy snogging with Lavender then you would have had time to study." Hermione snapped back and sat down somewhere.

They all sat down until the dreaded Potion Master flew into the room.

"Today we are creating the truth serum. You will be in partners of my choice. This potion will take about a week to finish." He droned on and got his list.

"Malfoy and Crabbe."

"Granger and Patel"

"Potter and Kruger."

I gasped. I did not know what to do. The boy that I was crushing on was going to be my partner.

"Hi I'm Harry. Who are you?" He asked. His green eyes staring happily at me until he saw what house I was in.

"I am Stephanie Kruger. It is a pleasure to meet you." I told him and tried my best to be friendly.

"You're a Slytherin aren't you?" He asked with a little disdain in his voice.

"Um yes but I am nothing like Draco. He brings our house, we are meant to be cunning, ambitious, and determination. He is just a pure blood. That is the only reason why he is in this house." I told him and opened my book to the potion's page.

Harry just looked at me and smiled a little. As if before he did not know what to make of me but now he was very interested in what I had to say.

"So you are a Slytherin who doesn't like Draco. Tell me how you can get out of his family's grasp in society?" Harry asked a little worried about me.

"If I tell you, you will not like the answer. I would rather you like me for my personality not how I get away from their grasp." I explained and started on the potion. We worked on it and we chatted. Harry was not a bad guy and I think we were starting to like me.

Weeks went by and we finished the potion. Luckily for us we got a good mark. Professor Snape did not like it but he had to give us our due. Every since then we have been near each other.

"Stephanie are you busy later today? I need a second opinion on this essay I am writing for Snape." Harry and Ron asked.

I smiled warmly at them both and shook my head no.

"I was going to finish that essay as well so we can just do it together." I told them and walked out of the great hall and went to my dorm.

I gathered all of my things and went to the library. I wanted to make sure that I had all of my work finished for the next class. No need to have Snape harping at me for it not being completed.

I gathered books for my essay and started to do some research. I was deep in one book when I heard a large slam happen. I jumped and looked up. There was Ron, Hermione and Harry. I glared at them for scaring me.

"You are not funny." I growled at them and reorganized my things to make room for the other three.

We chatted and worked on our essays. We were actually able to finish our papers and just sat around and chatted again. As time when buy I began to understand why they were such good friends.

After a while Draco saw us and came over to torment us.

"Well hello Kruger. It is nice to see that you are walking around again. How is your dear Uncle anyway?" Draco sneered at us and leaned close to me.

"How should I know Draco? You see him more than I do. Being as he is the Voldemort and all." I replied and stepped on his foot.

The trio gasped and stared at us talking.

"I will never understand how a weak person like you is even related to someone as great as him." Draco smirked and waited for me to get angry.

"Unfortunate roll of the genetic die. I am not like him as you well no. He is not above telling me that I am a failure in his eyes." I told him and started to pack my things.

I was done being his sick pleasure so I pushed him out of my way and walked out. Harry and the others just stared at me as I walked out. Not really sure on what to do with all the info that they just got today.

All day I had stayed in the forbidden forest sitting with a boa constrictor. I talked to it all day and just laid on a tree trunk. The boa wrapped around me to keep me safe and a little warm. I just sat there in my snake bed until I heard a voice in the distance.

"This is the last place where she could be." Harry whispered loudly to himself. He was out looking for me. Maybe he wanted to kill me cause I was related to Voldemort.

I hid inside the weave of the snake's body. Desperate to make sure that Harry did not find me. I did not wish to look at him right now. Seeing as I was related to the man who was destroying his family.

He walked around until he came upon the boa. He stared at the snake and you could see that he was deciding whether or not he should talk to it or not. The snake kinda smiles at him and moves so I am not hiding anymore.

"There you are." Harry said and kneeled in front of me. His eyes were dead on me and I shied away from his gaze.

"Hey don't be upset. I got to know you in the past few months. I saw that just because you are a Slytherin does not mean that you are bad. And not only that I saw that you are a special girl. Someone who just brings the best out of someone. Whether it is academic or just personally. That's why I love you Stephanie Kruger." He told me in one long breathe.

I didn't hear what he said to me at first but after a few seconds I stared at him wide eyed.

"Harry did you just say that you love me?" I asked him a little worried that this may be a trick.

"Yes Stephanie I love you. From you dark red hair to your smart little mouth. You are it for me Stephanie." He told me and caressed my cheek.

I grabbed him and kissed him gently. This boy who I thought would never look at me a second time. I smiled and rubbed his face.

"You are such a sweet boy Harry. I love you" I whispered to him and climbed into his lap. We sat against the tree watching the boa make funny hearts with its body around us.

This boy, this man loved me for the person that I was. Who would have thought that I would have found the love of my life on the other side.