Softer
A/N: I've already finished this story but I'm just beginning to post it. It's not really a romance yet but it's the beginning of love. This isn't really a Harry/Draco either but Draco/OC. This is the first story that I have already completed and will post all the chapters on because I'm having writer's block on all my other stories, and I've lost interest in them... Anyway, it's a rewrite of Harry's second year about what might've happened if Harry had an (adopted) sibling.
Summary: Harry has been separated from his sister at a young age. What happens when they meet again in his second year? And finds out that she's living with the Malfoys?
Chapter 1: We Were Separated Young
Jenna ran up the stairs and into a hallway. She soon collapsed in one of the corridors and started sobbing. After a few minutes, someone opened a nearby door to see where the noise was coming from.
"Jenna? What are you doing" The boy said, staring at the girl.
She immediately stopped crying, not wanting to get in trouble for not doing her "chores."
Before she could do or say anything, the boy helped her to her feet and led her into his bedroom.
"So, why were you crying?" Draco asked, tossing her a box of tissues.
He tried to sound careless and cold, but he only did because that was how he was raised.
She wiped her eyes with some tissue and looked at the floor.
"It-It's nothing important..."
He snorted.
"If it wasn't important, then you wouldn't be crying."
She slightly sniffled but did not cry.
"I'm still not allowed to go to Hogwarts again...it's back to Durmstrang for me," she sighed.
"I want to go to Durmstrang, I'd learn more than just Defense Against the Dark Arts over there." He said, returning back to his summer homework.
"But..." She bit the insides of her cheek, trying to stop herself from saying what she wanted.
Draco looked up.
"Well? But what?"
"But my brother is at Hogwarts..."
He slightly scowled.
"I don't think Potter would much care if you went there or not."
She looked down in shame.
He sighed.
"Alright, I'll have a talk with my father...though I doubt he'll change his mind, he never listens to me anyway."
~~~
Harry stared out the window in Ron's room, thinking of someone he hasn't seen since he was five years old.
*Flashback*
Harry was sitting on the ground with a little girl his age. She had dark brown hair that looked black most of the time, and her eyes were the same as her hair.
"Harry? Why don't we have a mommy or a daddy like all the other kids do?" Jenna asked.
"Aunt Petuneea says that they died in a cawr cwash."
Just then, Vernon walked in and dragged Jenna away from her brother.
Harry ran after them, wanting to know where his sister was going.
"Here! Take her!" His uncle shouted, shoving the little girl at a tall figure at the doorway. "As long as they're separated for a few years, they're better off!"
The tall figure grabbed Jenna's hand and dragged her out of the house.
Vernon slammed the door shut.
*End Flashback*
Ron entered the room.
"Hey Harry? What's going on?"
"Nothing..."
Harry had thought about his sister quite often but never told his friends about her.
She was a few months younger than him but that's only because she was orphaned by Voldemort and the Potters took her in before they died. Hagrid told him the truth the year before but didn't know her whereabouts.
"We meet Hermione at Diagon Alley on Wednesday, right?"
~~~
Jenna and the Malfoys were at Knockturn Alley selling some things from the Malfoy manor. She stood outside the shop, waiting for the Malfoys to come out. The young girl was slightly happy for once because Draco was able to convince his father to allow her to go to Hogwarts.
She knew that the Malfoys were not very popular and Draco was slowly beginning to follow in his father's footsteps, but he was very kind to her (compared to his father).
Draco knew that his father considered Jenna as a sort of servant, but he did not. Lucius treated her like a house elf ever since she arrived, but Draco (for once) saw differently than his father. The point was that she wasn't a house elf, she's human. He often pitied her but tried to be cold towards her in front of his father (without hurting her in any way).
As the three entered Diagon Alley, Draco noticed Hermione running up to Hagrid and Harry. He was disgusted but continued on walking towards Gringotts Bank.
Lucius made a face as they entered a cart that would take them to their vault.
Jenna wondered where she was going to get her money.
"Um...where do I get money from?" She asked quietly.
"From Potter's vault!" Lucius growled.
He was still grumpy that she would be going to Hogwarts and somehow possibly ruin the Malfoy reputation.
"No, no..." That goblin (who was driving the cart) said. "Her birth mother left her a small fortune before she died."
Lucius merely snorted.
Jenna and the Malfoys entered Flourish and Blotts to get their books.
She just walked off to purchase her books while Draco stared jealously at Gilderoy Lockhart and a boy she didn't notice.
Once she returned, Draco was throwing rude comments at a redhead boy she didn't know.
"I suppose your parents will go hungry for a month to pay for all those." He retorted as the rest of the Weasleys and their father came along.
She bit her lip.
Draco's family practically starved her; sometimes Dobby would sneak food for her to eat.
But going away to Durmstrang and being well fed has made her slightly healthier. She also made friends at the school too, but they didn't write to her all summer, and she didn't have an owl. She became quite popular as well (mostly because of her last name), but they obviously didn't care if she was lonely over the summer (except for Draco).
"Draco?" She said quietly, hoping to break up the dispute before Lucius came. "Shouldn't we be going?"
The red-haired boy stared at her, along with a red-haired girl, a bushy- haired girl, and...
Harry was very surprised.
So this was where Jenna has been all these years? With the Malfoys?
Even though she's changed a lot, he knew it was her.
"What are you looking at, Potter?" Draco sneered as he stepped in front of Jenna.
Apparently, none of them realized that their fathers were arguing until Arthur attacked Lucius.
The three were surprised.
Draco pulled Jenna aside as the two men tumbled to the floor.
Jenna clearly didn't really care if either of the two was injured, but more worried if Harry was going to attack Draco because he looked like he wanted to.
Hagrid soon came in and pulled the two apart.
"Here, girl-take your book-it's the best your father can give you-" Lucius thrust the book at Ginny.
The three turned to leave.
Harry was angry. He wanted his sister back.
"Jenna-" he said, catching the attention of the people around him.
She turned her head at the sound of her name.
"Come on!" Draco muttered, irritated.
She quickly followed him out the shop.
Hagrid seemed amazed.
"So that's where the poor girl's been all these years!"
Ron turned to Harry.
"So, who's she?"
"She's my sister! The Dursleys wanted to separate us when we were only five," he replied.
Everyone seemed amazed and horrified at the same time.
Arthur Weasley was thoughtful.
"I remember Malfoy saying something about taking in an orphan girl a few years back. 'Said that the muggles she lived with treated her horribly and his son needed a playmate."
"More like someone he can practice curses on!" Harry growled.
~~~
Hermione was on the Hogwarts Express with Ginny, waiting for Harry and Ron to enter the compartment.
They decided that the two boys were in another compartment when they heard a familiar drawling voice come from the next compartment.
"Father's in a fit because of that rotten weasel! He wouldn't let me test out my new broom for a whole week." Draco grumbled.
Crabbe and Goyle just grunted.
What sounded like a girl sighed.
"The world doesn't revolve around Quidditch, Draco. Can't you talk about something else for once?" The girl said.
There was silence for a while.
"Usually you're quiet. Since when did you express your opinion?"
"My friends at Durmstrang..." She trailed off and became quiet again.
Hermione shut the door and came back to her seat.
As time passed, Fred and George came by and started a game of exploding sap. Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas came by as well and Neville soon showed up.
Not long after...
The compartment door slid open and there stood Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle.
"Well, looks like the Dream Team was separated." He sneered.
"Leave us alone!" Ginny snapped.
He stared at her.
"Well if it isn't the runt. Don't tell me you're going to join the Dream Team too."
She turned red.
He continued on.
"Or maybe you'll be starting the first official Harry Potter fan club."
"Leave her out of this, Malfoy!" Fred snapped.
His eyes traveled around the compartment.
"Oh dear, I never thought I'd ever see so many low-leveled wizards and witches in one room."
"You're the lowest one in here, Malfoy." Hermione said matter-of-factly.
He glared at her.
"I don't associate with muggle-borns." He said coolly.
"Draco?" A quiet voice behind him said. "We're almost there, we better change."
Everyone looked to see who just spoke.
"Hey, you're Harry's sister!" George blurted out.
"Harry has a sister?" Neville, Dean, and Seamus said in unison.
Jenna looked around the compartment.
"He's not here," she said quietly.
Before anyone could say another word, Draco pulled her back into their own compartment.
~~~
A/N: Ok, I know it's not the best plot or the best of anything, but I hope you liked it and will return for the next chapter. R+R!
A/N: I've already finished this story but I'm just beginning to post it. It's not really a romance yet but it's the beginning of love. This isn't really a Harry/Draco either but Draco/OC. This is the first story that I have already completed and will post all the chapters on because I'm having writer's block on all my other stories, and I've lost interest in them... Anyway, it's a rewrite of Harry's second year about what might've happened if Harry had an (adopted) sibling.
Summary: Harry has been separated from his sister at a young age. What happens when they meet again in his second year? And finds out that she's living with the Malfoys?
Chapter 1: We Were Separated Young
Jenna ran up the stairs and into a hallway. She soon collapsed in one of the corridors and started sobbing. After a few minutes, someone opened a nearby door to see where the noise was coming from.
"Jenna? What are you doing" The boy said, staring at the girl.
She immediately stopped crying, not wanting to get in trouble for not doing her "chores."
Before she could do or say anything, the boy helped her to her feet and led her into his bedroom.
"So, why were you crying?" Draco asked, tossing her a box of tissues.
He tried to sound careless and cold, but he only did because that was how he was raised.
She wiped her eyes with some tissue and looked at the floor.
"It-It's nothing important..."
He snorted.
"If it wasn't important, then you wouldn't be crying."
She slightly sniffled but did not cry.
"I'm still not allowed to go to Hogwarts again...it's back to Durmstrang for me," she sighed.
"I want to go to Durmstrang, I'd learn more than just Defense Against the Dark Arts over there." He said, returning back to his summer homework.
"But..." She bit the insides of her cheek, trying to stop herself from saying what she wanted.
Draco looked up.
"Well? But what?"
"But my brother is at Hogwarts..."
He slightly scowled.
"I don't think Potter would much care if you went there or not."
She looked down in shame.
He sighed.
"Alright, I'll have a talk with my father...though I doubt he'll change his mind, he never listens to me anyway."
~~~
Harry stared out the window in Ron's room, thinking of someone he hasn't seen since he was five years old.
*Flashback*
Harry was sitting on the ground with a little girl his age. She had dark brown hair that looked black most of the time, and her eyes were the same as her hair.
"Harry? Why don't we have a mommy or a daddy like all the other kids do?" Jenna asked.
"Aunt Petuneea says that they died in a cawr cwash."
Just then, Vernon walked in and dragged Jenna away from her brother.
Harry ran after them, wanting to know where his sister was going.
"Here! Take her!" His uncle shouted, shoving the little girl at a tall figure at the doorway. "As long as they're separated for a few years, they're better off!"
The tall figure grabbed Jenna's hand and dragged her out of the house.
Vernon slammed the door shut.
*End Flashback*
Ron entered the room.
"Hey Harry? What's going on?"
"Nothing..."
Harry had thought about his sister quite often but never told his friends about her.
She was a few months younger than him but that's only because she was orphaned by Voldemort and the Potters took her in before they died. Hagrid told him the truth the year before but didn't know her whereabouts.
"We meet Hermione at Diagon Alley on Wednesday, right?"
~~~
Jenna and the Malfoys were at Knockturn Alley selling some things from the Malfoy manor. She stood outside the shop, waiting for the Malfoys to come out. The young girl was slightly happy for once because Draco was able to convince his father to allow her to go to Hogwarts.
She knew that the Malfoys were not very popular and Draco was slowly beginning to follow in his father's footsteps, but he was very kind to her (compared to his father).
Draco knew that his father considered Jenna as a sort of servant, but he did not. Lucius treated her like a house elf ever since she arrived, but Draco (for once) saw differently than his father. The point was that she wasn't a house elf, she's human. He often pitied her but tried to be cold towards her in front of his father (without hurting her in any way).
As the three entered Diagon Alley, Draco noticed Hermione running up to Hagrid and Harry. He was disgusted but continued on walking towards Gringotts Bank.
Lucius made a face as they entered a cart that would take them to their vault.
Jenna wondered where she was going to get her money.
"Um...where do I get money from?" She asked quietly.
"From Potter's vault!" Lucius growled.
He was still grumpy that she would be going to Hogwarts and somehow possibly ruin the Malfoy reputation.
"No, no..." That goblin (who was driving the cart) said. "Her birth mother left her a small fortune before she died."
Lucius merely snorted.
Jenna and the Malfoys entered Flourish and Blotts to get their books.
She just walked off to purchase her books while Draco stared jealously at Gilderoy Lockhart and a boy she didn't notice.
Once she returned, Draco was throwing rude comments at a redhead boy she didn't know.
"I suppose your parents will go hungry for a month to pay for all those." He retorted as the rest of the Weasleys and their father came along.
She bit her lip.
Draco's family practically starved her; sometimes Dobby would sneak food for her to eat.
But going away to Durmstrang and being well fed has made her slightly healthier. She also made friends at the school too, but they didn't write to her all summer, and she didn't have an owl. She became quite popular as well (mostly because of her last name), but they obviously didn't care if she was lonely over the summer (except for Draco).
"Draco?" She said quietly, hoping to break up the dispute before Lucius came. "Shouldn't we be going?"
The red-haired boy stared at her, along with a red-haired girl, a bushy- haired girl, and...
Harry was very surprised.
So this was where Jenna has been all these years? With the Malfoys?
Even though she's changed a lot, he knew it was her.
"What are you looking at, Potter?" Draco sneered as he stepped in front of Jenna.
Apparently, none of them realized that their fathers were arguing until Arthur attacked Lucius.
The three were surprised.
Draco pulled Jenna aside as the two men tumbled to the floor.
Jenna clearly didn't really care if either of the two was injured, but more worried if Harry was going to attack Draco because he looked like he wanted to.
Hagrid soon came in and pulled the two apart.
"Here, girl-take your book-it's the best your father can give you-" Lucius thrust the book at Ginny.
The three turned to leave.
Harry was angry. He wanted his sister back.
"Jenna-" he said, catching the attention of the people around him.
She turned her head at the sound of her name.
"Come on!" Draco muttered, irritated.
She quickly followed him out the shop.
Hagrid seemed amazed.
"So that's where the poor girl's been all these years!"
Ron turned to Harry.
"So, who's she?"
"She's my sister! The Dursleys wanted to separate us when we were only five," he replied.
Everyone seemed amazed and horrified at the same time.
Arthur Weasley was thoughtful.
"I remember Malfoy saying something about taking in an orphan girl a few years back. 'Said that the muggles she lived with treated her horribly and his son needed a playmate."
"More like someone he can practice curses on!" Harry growled.
~~~
Hermione was on the Hogwarts Express with Ginny, waiting for Harry and Ron to enter the compartment.
They decided that the two boys were in another compartment when they heard a familiar drawling voice come from the next compartment.
"Father's in a fit because of that rotten weasel! He wouldn't let me test out my new broom for a whole week." Draco grumbled.
Crabbe and Goyle just grunted.
What sounded like a girl sighed.
"The world doesn't revolve around Quidditch, Draco. Can't you talk about something else for once?" The girl said.
There was silence for a while.
"Usually you're quiet. Since when did you express your opinion?"
"My friends at Durmstrang..." She trailed off and became quiet again.
Hermione shut the door and came back to her seat.
As time passed, Fred and George came by and started a game of exploding sap. Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas came by as well and Neville soon showed up.
Not long after...
The compartment door slid open and there stood Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle.
"Well, looks like the Dream Team was separated." He sneered.
"Leave us alone!" Ginny snapped.
He stared at her.
"Well if it isn't the runt. Don't tell me you're going to join the Dream Team too."
She turned red.
He continued on.
"Or maybe you'll be starting the first official Harry Potter fan club."
"Leave her out of this, Malfoy!" Fred snapped.
His eyes traveled around the compartment.
"Oh dear, I never thought I'd ever see so many low-leveled wizards and witches in one room."
"You're the lowest one in here, Malfoy." Hermione said matter-of-factly.
He glared at her.
"I don't associate with muggle-borns." He said coolly.
"Draco?" A quiet voice behind him said. "We're almost there, we better change."
Everyone looked to see who just spoke.
"Hey, you're Harry's sister!" George blurted out.
"Harry has a sister?" Neville, Dean, and Seamus said in unison.
Jenna looked around the compartment.
"He's not here," she said quietly.
Before anyone could say another word, Draco pulled her back into their own compartment.
~~~
A/N: Ok, I know it's not the best plot or the best of anything, but I hope you liked it and will return for the next chapter. R+R!