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The next morning Paige woke up with a smile on her face. She was enthusiastic for the classes to start ...and because of Harry.
Here was something about Harry that got to her. It was like she had seen him many times before, as if she knew him. A thought popped up out of the blue that she'd maybe seen him in a dream, she just had to laugh.
this is not sleeping beauty. Paige was thinking, smirking a little.
This is not even a fairy-tale, this is real life. Get it together, Paige! She thought to herself making a very serious face.
When she got to the Slytherin table in the great hall, she sat down next to Draco who put some toast on her plate.
'Thanks!' Paige said cheerful eating her toast. 'Damn I love toast, don't you love toast Draco?' She said loud making people look at her while crumbles flew around her plate.
'Paige, keep it down.' Draco hissed but knew it wouldn't help, that was just how she was.. Loud.
'Why? Toast is lovely. What do you think Pansy?' She asked when Pansy sat down opposite to her.
'Um…sure, toast is great.' She said grabbing some for her own and became to eat.
'Wow, Paige you're very happy.' A dark boy with black hair and brown eyes said to her. Paige looked at him, a piece of toast still sticking out of her mouth.
'How do you know my name?' She asked with her mouth full. Draco slapped himself on the forehead.
'Because you're not hard to forget.' He said looking at her with a smirk. 'By the way, my name is Blaise Zabini.'
'Pleasure to meet you.' Paige belted.
'Could you not talk with your mouth full?' Draco finally asked, irritated.
'Nope.' Popping the P making some crumbs fly to Draco's face. It was quiet for a second and Paige fast swallowed everything. Then they started to laugh and some around them followed.
'Which class do we have first, Draco?' she asked when the laughter quiet down.
'Potions.' He said smiling. '...With the Gryffindors.' he added bitterly, his smile faded.
'Is that so bad?'
'Bad? It's awful! I hate them all. And definitely that annoying Potter!' Draco sneered the last part. Paige felt her heart sank down her stomach.
'Why?' She asked carefully.
'Just look at him.' And he nodded in Harry's direction, who was eating cereal. 'Like he always wants to be in the spotlight and he… he, I just can't stand him okay!' He said angry.
'No good reason I see.' Paige muttered with a little smile.
'Will you shut up?'
'So you are jealous of the famous Harry Potter.' She said like she was talking to a three-year old.
'Shut it!' He hissed.
'Okay, you're in love with him…' She joked.
'SHUT UP PAIGE!' He said loud, but he gave up realizing she would never shut up.
Paige started to laugh.
'I was just kidding.' She said and stood up, sticking her hand out at Draco.
'Where are you going?'
'Potions, of course!' Paige said enthusiastically, a small smile appeared on Draco's face.
'Alright then, let's go.' He grabbed her hand and pulled himself up.
In the classroom, they sat down on the second row on the left. It took a while for everyone to come in, Paige looked to her right to see Harry and his redheaded friend sitting together.
'That's Ron Weasel.' Draco said in her left ear.
'Weasel, what a weird last name.' She turned to her right. 'Ron!' He looked at her with a nervous smile. 'Is your last name Weasel?' Every Slytherin began to laugh at what she said.
'What? did I say something wrong?' She asked Draco who was laughing as well. Paige turned back to Harry and his friend. Ron's face was as red as his hair.
'It's not his last name.' Harry explained. 'It's Weasley.' Paige mouthed an O in embarrassment.
'Sorry, I thought-' She stopped when Snape came in.
Paige turned back to Draco giving him a dirty look. He was still laughing a bit, shrugging his shoulders.
'Today we are going to make the dragon's potion on page 134. Get to work, at the end of the class we will see how good you all did.' Paige and Draco began happily on their potions when they heard glass break. Paige turned around to see who it was.
Harry had dropped a bottle of dragons blood when he was walking back to his desk. Professor Snape had a dirty look on his face and walked towards the student. 'Potter,' He barked. 'Clean that up, now. 5 points from Gryffindor.' Harry quickly began cleaning, Paige stood up to help but Draco stopped her.
'What are you think you're going to do?' He asked confused.
'Help him of course.'
'No way.' Draco said with a slightly jealous look on his face. 'Slytherins do NOT help Gryffindors.'
'Really?' She asked sitting back down next to her best friend, he nodded looking worried.
'Wow, you are way too good for this house.' He muttered rolling back his eyes, going back to his potion.
'But then I will just take some evilness from you, I mean you have enough.' Paige joked with a cocky smile, Draco laughed.
'I know.' He said smirking.
When the class was over Paige earned Slytherin a total of twenty points for making a perfect potion.
Draco and Paige walked to their next class, Defense against the dark arts.
'I'm Professor Moody.' He said loud writing it down on the board. 'And I'm going to teach you about the unforgivable curses. Now can anybody tell why they are called just that?' Paige saw a girl with frizzy hair-raising up her hand like it was on fire.
'Granger.' Draco muttered to Paige, seeing how she looked at her.
'Who?' Paige asked looking at Draco not realizing she was staring at the girl.
'A mudblood.' Draco said, Paige sighed; she didn't like Draco using those words. Paige slowly raised her hand up as well, everybody looked at her.
'Miss Prince?' Moody said.
'Because they're unforgivable sir.' She said, a cocky smile came on Moody's face.
'Very well, five points for Slytherin.' Paige turned to Draco with a big grin on her face.
'There are three of them, can someone name one.' Harry's friend, Ron, slowly raised up his hand. 'Yes, mister Weasley?'
'The Imperius curse.' Ron said not looking at him.
'Good.' He said walking to a pot with a spider in it, he grabbed it and put it on the table. With a swing of his wand it grew bigger. Paige could swear she heard Ron letting out a small cry from fear.
'Imperio.' Moody said and the spider began to do tricks. Everybody laughed at the silly spider. Paige laughed even harder when the spider got on the head of Draco who was letting out cries like a girl.
'You think that's funny?' Moody said. 'What can we do next, drown himself? Let him jump out of the window?' It became quiet. 'A lot of people died because of this curse. Okay another one.' A boy in Gryffindor raised his hand. 'Longbottom?'
'The Cruciatus curse, sir.'
'Yes, yes.' He pointed his wand at the spider that was standing on his desk. 'Crucio.' He said and the spider began to convulse. Paige knew if the spider could talk, he would scream it out.
'CAN'T YOU SEE IT'S BOTHERING HIM?' She heard Granger scream pointing at Longbottom. He had a painful look on his face and probable burst out in tears any second.
'Yeah, sorry. Miss Granger. Can you maybe tell me the last one?' Moody said grabbing the spider and putting it on her desk. She shook her head; Moody raised his wand at the spider. 'Avada Kedavra.' He said and a green light came out of his wand and the spider was dead.
'There is one person in the world who survived this curse. And he is sitting in this room.'
Everybody, even Paige looked at Harry. Moody turned back around and walked to his desk. 'I also know a person who can resist the Imperius curse like it's not even hitting her.' The professor turned towards Paige. Now everybody stared at her, Harry did as well. 'Miss Prince would you like to demonstrate?'
How does he know? Paige thought but said nothing, she stood up and confidently walked to the front of the classroom. 'Now. Weasley, would you come here as well.' Ron stood up and stood still next to Paige. 'Now, first I'm going to use it on Weasley.'
'Say what now!?' Ron asked sounding both nervous and shocked.
'Don't worry.' He pointed his wand at Ron. 'Imperio.' The redhead started to make weird moves and began to dance. Everybody laughed again, even Harry. When he stopped Moody pointed his wand at Paige and spoke the curse, but nothing happened. She just stood there with a cocky smile on her face. Everybody began to cheer.
'Thank you.' She said sweet going back to her seat still wondering how he could have known.
After the class, Paige was walking with Draco down the stairs when she saw Longbottom.
'Go on, Draco. I'll come soon.' Draco nodded and walked on. Paige began to stand opposite of the boy. 'Are you okay?' She asked, the boy looked up and nodded. 'You looked pretty down when he showed the Cruciatus curse.'
'It's a long story.' He said looking at his feet. 'I rather not get into it.'
'That's alright.' Paige said when Harry, Ron and Granger walked towards them.
'Are you okay Neville?' the girl asked, he nodded again. Then Moody came around the corner and took Neville with him.
'I feel sad for him.' Paige muttered looking at Harry.
'Yeah.' He said and Granger walked away but Paige stopped her.
'Wait, Granger.' She said and saw a proud but yet a fearful expression. 'What's your name, I hate calling people by their last name.' The girl's expression lightened.
'Hermione.' She said, a smile appeared on Paige face.
'It's a pleasure to meet you!' She said cheerful.
'Umm.. Didn't Malfoy tell you that I'm a…'
'Muggleborn, yeah but I don't mind about those things.' Hermione's mouth fell open.
'How can you be in Slytherin?' She asked making Paige laugh.
She cleared out her throat. 'Yeah I got that question a lot lately..'
'And what's with you and Malfoy?' Ron blurred out, getting a strict look from Hermione.
'We've been friends for a long time.' Paige stated.
'You're kidding right. How can you even be friends with him?' Ron asked still laughing.
'Well, he is more like my best friend.' They stopped laughing and looked amazed at her.
'Best friend?' Hermione asked.
'Yes, I've known him since I could remember so I have learned to love him. And he is not that mean when his alone with me.' Paige said smirking.
'I don't believe it!' Ron said with his eyes wide open, Paige laughed again.
'I understand that. He can be pretty mean but he has his moments of kindness.'
'Don't believe that either.'
'By the way Ron, sorry that I called you Weasel. But Draco told me that was your last name and I didn't believe him. I didn't mean to make everybody laugh.' Ron's cheeks became a bit red.
'It's okay.' He said.
'PAIGE!' They heard Draco yell.
'I should go. Bye, Harry, Ron and Hermione.' Paige said and walked on.
'What took you so long?' He asked when she got to him.
'Sorry, I had a conversation.'
'With who?'
'Well that's none of your business.'
'Oh come on, Paige. You can tell me anything right? Because, you know, I'm your best friend.' He said with a cocky smile.
'Oh stop teasing me, Dra.'
'And you will tell me because you love me.'
'Oh yeah I love you but I'm still not going to tell you.'
'Damn!'
'Come on, I'm hungry.' The two of them walked to the Great hall to eat. Sitting at their table, Paige saw that Harry was looking at her when Blaise tapped on her shoulder.
'Hey, Paige I heard you can withstand the Imperius curse.'
'Wow, words fly fast.' Paige said smiling.
'Yeah, well everybody thinks that's quite cool. You're getting a pretty good reputation with everybody. Even the Gryffindors respect you.'
'Well I have my moments.' She said flipping a lock of her hair.
'Yeah and you're pretty..' Blaise's eyes got big, '...amazing!' He added quickly.
'Thank you, Blaise!'
'Always cheerful.' Draco said putting a hand on her head.
'Well that makes one of us.'
'Ha, ha. You are so funny.' He said sarcastic, rolling his eyes.
'I know I'm funny, Draco. I'm the funniest girl you will ever know.' Paige said proud.
'Yeah right.' He said highly.
'Well, say one name of a girl who is funnier than me.'
'I... um... well.'
'I KNEW IT!' Paige yelled standing up pointing a finger at him.
'Alright.' Draco said laughing.
'Good, now let's start eating!' Paige looked at Harry again, who was still watching her. She smiled and he smiled back. 'Oh dear.' She muttered feeling something in her stomach, what she didn't know was that Harry felt precisely the same thing.
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