Chapter 2 – Sevvie…my padrino!
Meeting the Gryffie's. Reunited with godfather and feeling at home…REVIEW!)
Valeska smiled politely at the two girls and two boys in the carriage. She noticed that two of them had ginger hair.
They must be related she thought.
There was an awkward silence, which one of the girls broke, the girl had bushy brown hair and brown eyes,
"Well, there's no point in spending the whole journey in silence. Might as well introduce ourselves."
She said this looking at the other, the ginger girl nodded, but the other two boys didn't respond, they seemed fascinated by Valeska. The ginger girl rolled her eyes and introduced herself,
"Hey, I'm Ginny Weasley. This one's sister."
She pointed at the ginger boy, who quickly spoke saying,
"Yeha I'm Ron Weasley and this silent person here is Harry Potter, my best friend."
Valeska raised her eyebrows at the name. The famous Harry Potter…
We do have the Voldemort thing in common I suppose, thought Valeska, looking at him curiously as his eyes bore into hers. She saw him scowl at Ron and muttered a
"Hello."
He didn't seem to want to take his eyes off Valeska. She felt a bit self-conscious at his gaze and so quickly turned to the girl with the bushy hair, who had broken the silence in the first place. This one smiled and said,
"Well, I'm Hermione Granger. Pleased to meet you. You are?"
Hermione asked this politely, she may have been seen as quite rude by other people, but Valeska did not find her at all rude. She smiled and replied,
"Oh, hey, well I'm Valeska Rose. I'm here for my last year of magical education, the last 6 years I've spent in a wizarding school in Spain. Sorry for my accent."
She smiled slightly, embarrassed at her slight Spanish accent, but Hermione along with Ginny shook her head saying,
"You actually have a very good accent. I wouldn't have thought you were Spanish if it wasn't for you complexion."
She smiled warmly and Valeska returned the smile. She had a feeling that Hermione and her would become good friends. An awkward silence ensued and Valeska, disliking awkwardness in any situation, looked out of the window, pretending to be interested in the countryside. Hermione quickly tried to break the silence by saying,
"So, Valeska, how come you've come to Hogwarts?"
Valeska smiled and open her mouth to answer, but was cut short by the carriage stopping abruptly. She smiled apologetically at Hermione and said,
"I'm sure you'll find out soon enough."
Valeska grinned mysteriously at Hermione's confused look, but simply got up and was about to jump off the carriage when she was shoved back into her seat by someone getting out before her. She narrowed her eyes and looked to see who it had been, only to see Harry standing holding the door open for her.
She smiled nervously and jumped out, twisting her foot slightly in the process and nearly falling onto the hard floor, hadn't it been for Harry who grabbed her waist clumsily. Not at all like Draco had caught her.
Wait, she thought smirking I'm comparing two guys and how well they caught my waist? I'm so clumsy today…
She shook her head slightly and smiled thankfully at Harry, as she stood up, brushing herself down. She looked at him and once was taken aback by the intensity of his gaze, she looked at those green eyes, so much like hers and felt herself trapped, lost in a forest of green…
She quickly snapped out of it as Hermione jumped out of the carriage and asked her loudly,
"Valeska, are you OK?"
Valeska smiled at Hermione and was about to reply, when she was cut short. Again. This time she felt an arm grip her arm and the faces of her newly found friends dropped, she quickly turned her head to see who was grabbing her arm with such force and grinned widely as she recognised the familiar face.
"Severus!"she announced cheerily," how nice to see you again!"
Snape simply scowled and said,
"Can't say the same for you Valie."
"Oh Severus," retorted Valeska tutting, "still the moody prick I see?"
She giggled as he gave an exasperated look. He then rolled his eyes and muttered,
"I see you haven't changed…just gotten into Hogwarts and you already have guys after you!"
Valeska looked at him, surprise written all over her face and she asked him, slightly annoyed,
"Sevvy, what are you ON about??!!"
Snape answered simply,
"Val, look around you."
She now looked around and saw that now she was in the castle, boys were staring at her from every direction. She blushed at the attention and turned to smile at Snape saying matter-of-factly,
"Oh, do shutup Padrino mio. They're just staring 'coz I'm the new girl and you're still clutching my arm. It does attract attention."
She smirked as he quickly let go, realising she was right and said,
"Ok. Now go into the Great Hall, I need to go take care of something first."
Valeska looked at him inquisitively, eyebrow raised, but he just gave her a small smile and walked off. Students looked alarmed as they saw the small smile Snape had given Valeska and looked at her in wonder.
But Valeska wasn't paying attention, she had just entered the Great Hall and was too busy smiling at her fascinating surroundings. She looked up at the starry sky and then at the floating candles around the hall, making it seem illimunated and seeming more beautiful and amazing then it already was.
She felt a presence next to her and saw it was Dumbledore. He smiled at her, eyes twinkling under his half-moon spectacles, catching her mumble,
"Finally, somewhere I belong."
