Elyssa Malfoy stalked up to the boy's dormitory of the Slytherin common rooms, malice in her every step.
She needed to rant at someone and her friend Alessio was her first choice. She muttered as she went, Alessio's dormitory was at the top of the stairs and it was a long walk.
"Can't believe it...With that filthy whore...Not pureblood..."
It was her first year at Hogwarts and she had been looking forward to it for years, her older brother Scorpius was head boy and she had liked the idea of spending more time with him.
She had gone up to his bedroom in the head boy's sector to find him in bed with that slut Rose Weasley, she was a halfblood. How dare he?
Elyssa was debating whether to send a letter to her mother, she would be disgusted.
Elyssa Malfoy was very much her mother's daughter, her brother on the other hand, with his blonde hair and grey eyes, was very much his father's son. Elyssa had raven black hair and piercing blue eyes, a trait that showed that her mother was a Greengrass originally.
Her father had always tried to teach her and Scorpius that living was all that mattered, no matter what your blood was. Her mother on the other hand was opposed to everything Draco believed in, but still they got on amicably.
Asteria, Elyssa's mother, was eight years younger than her father and had grown up in northern Ireland. Unlike many children her age she had not witnessed Voldemort's rise to power first hand and ignored the warnings of her sister about pureblood mania.
She had always pressed these beliefs upon Elyssa, as if she was trying to make a carbon copy of herself. Draco sometimes commented on how uncanny it was that Elyssa was almost a small clone.
Elyssa had always scoffed at this, how dare her father say this when Scorpius was a clone of him, he even had the same sad eyes.
Finally an out of breath Elyssa reached Alessio's dormitory. She found him lying on his bed throwing a small round silver ball up and down, chewing lazily on some drooble's best blowing gum.
"Alessio," she shouted as she stormed in.
He got up slowly and stood against his bed post, "Yes, Elyssa."
Alessio had always had an annoying habit of repeating her name very often, Elyssa knew that he did this to annoy her but it was his touch of sadism that made her like him so very much.
She knew that she was meant to be with him, she had loved him since her ninth birthday soiree. Her mother refused to call it a party; she was not common muggle filth.
She remembered that day the most clearly out of her life, she also remembered sneaking behind the door to the study afterwards and listening to her parents argue.
"Asteria, how dare you?" Draco had shouted, his eyes blazing with fury.
"Draco, she will marry him, we must carry on this line. Do you not agree that they are both as beautiful as each other? They will make a fine family."
"Dear, of course I agree that they are beautiful. But you are not listening to my point, they are NINE woman. Nine, and I promised myself that I would not do to them what my mother did to me, no arranged marriages."
"Draco, I am happy in this marriage, are you telling me you are not? This was arranged. And you know that Blaise and Sierra would be happy to arrange this, I could just make a quick floo now and it would be done."
At this point Elyssa had left the room, she did not want to hear more, she knew that her mother would win the argument, she always did. She felt very happy, she loved Alessio and, young as she was, had been looking forward to their wedding day ever since. Especially since she came to Hogwarts and got to see him everyday, in every class.
She snapped back to reality at this point and looked straight into Alessio's questioning eyes.
"Well go on with what you were going to say or please leave me in peace."
Elyssa had known him long enough to know that it wasn't because he didn't like her that he was being so cutting, he was just like this with everyone.
"Alessio! I saw Scorpius, and he was, he was..."
"Spit it out my dear," he had drawled, he acted as though he was years older than her, though in reality it was three and a half months exactly.
"He was in bed...with...with...the...the Weasley scum!" She had said, malice in every word. "I'm going to write a letter to mother about it, I know she will be very interested in this turn of events."
Asteria had always hoped that Scorpius would marry Lena, Alessio's cousin.
Elyssa had hoped that Alessio would support her plan to tell her mother and was surprised when he responded with: "No, wait..."
She waited for him to carry on with his sentence, a look of pure concentration on his face. Alessio was clever, more so than anyone else Elyssa knew so she waited for the rest of his sentence in anticipation.
A few seconds passed before he carried on. "We will get him back, I have a plan, don't you worry my dear. Just don't write to your mother, there are much better ways to hurt him than that."
Elyssa nodded eagerly but still doubted that there was anything in the world that was worse than her mother's wrath. The two young Slytherin's planned into the night, the thoughts swimming around their head were thoughts that even Salazar Slytherin himself would be proud of.
