Title: Chamber of Secrets
Part: 2 (Revamped)
Author: Cynthia
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Summary: Harry, Buffy and co entered the second year of Hogwarts. Willow showed up and dark force followed. Who's responsible?
Rating: G
Disclaimer: All characters, sites and such from 'Buffy, The Vampire Slayer' and 'Angel' belong to Joss Whedon, UPN, WB, and et al. All characters, sites and such from 'Harry Potter' belong to JK Rowling. No copyright infringement intended. Anything new in it belong to the author (Yah me!). This story is not sell or for any profit.
Notes :
- Sorry for taking so long and thanks for everyone's feedbacks (I'm doing a happy dance in front of the notebook for you guys right now). I've been temped to rewrite the whole story, and actually had rewrite it thousands times until my head almost fell off from banging it too many times on the wall and the motherboard of my notebook burnt itself to death (and I do mean it literally)... and at last settle back on the first vision (why bother to write it so many times at first are beyond me :sigh:). Anyways, the story should sounds better in next couple of chapters... oh, and don't worry, more details about the gangs' background and such will be revived later... ;p
- (7-20-05) Um... many wrong names... bad me...
"Hey, have you heard that You-Know-Who's daughter is coming to Hogwarts this year?" Ron asked while the whole gang headed for Flourish and Blotts.
"You-know-who has a daughter?" Xander said, his hand on his chin, thinking. "I bet she's all fat and ugly."
"Oh yeah!" Buffy grinned. "With horns and tails."
"Who's that guy anyway?" Willow asked, feeling annoyed. She had kept asking about it but every time she asked someone interrupted, including this time. "Hello." Joyce greeted them warmly. She and Giles were now standing in front of the bookshop with Molly, Arthur and Ginny.
"Mum! Giles!" Buffy smiled and hugged her mother.
"Hello Giles, Joyce." Harry said, and then turned to the Weasleys. "Hello Molly, Arthur."
"Harry, we're so worried about you." Molly came up and hugged Harry tightly. Seeing the quite redhead standing beside him, Molly bended down a bit and greeted her. "Hello dear. You're..."
"Willow. Willow Slytherin." Willow smiled shyly at Molly.
All four adults were a bit shocked by the name, but they recovered quickly. Molly smiled and shook Willow's hand. "Hello Willow. I'm Ron's mother."
"Hello Mrs. Weasley."
"Call me Molly. Everyone calls me that."
"Willow's in the second year. She's from Sunnydale CA." Buffy said proudly to her mother.
"Hello." Joyce stepped closer to Willow and shook her hand. "Nice to meet you. And call me Joyce. He's my husband, your History in Magic Professor, Giles."
"Hello Professor Giles. Hello Mr- Joyce." Willow gave them both a small smile.
"Um... hello Willow. Just call me Giles when you're not in class, okay?" Willow nodded. Giles watched the girl closely. 'Certainly looks like her mother.' He thought. Then he noticed the phoenix on her shoulder. "Is it yours? What's his name?"
"Um, I haven't thought of it yet." Willow shrugged.
"Well, why don't we go in and buy the books first?" Giles smiled, and the group went into the bookstore.
The Flourish and Blotts was full with people waiting for the star of the wizard world. Gilderoy Lockhart, five-times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile award, stepped out from the back room and smiled at the crowd. When he spotted Harry Potter, he immediately grabbed him out from the crowd, telling the journalists that the famous Potter was coming here to buy his autobiography. They took pictures, and Harry was given a set of his autobiography. Molly quickly took the books and waited for Lockhart to sign them.
"You sure are popular." Willow whispered to Harry when they walked away from the crowd. Harry just shrugged. Suddenly a voice came from behind them.
"Willow." They turned, and saw Draco Malfoy walked down from the stairs. He glanced at Harry, raising his eyebrow, and took Willow's hand gently, pulling her to his side. "Where have you been? You shouldn't be around those mudblood and mudblood lovers." His soft voice wasn't lost by Harry who was standing nearby. Buffy and the others joined when they saw the young Malfoy touching Willow's hand.
"Let her go." Buffy demanded. She didn't know much about Willow, but she certainly didn't like Malfoy going after her friends.
"Who are you ordering me, Summers?" Draco snapped.
"Um... guys..." Willow didn't understand the tension, but by the look of their faces she was certain that they were going to hex each other till the end of the world. "Guys... it's all right. I'm living with Draco- no. I mean, I'm living-in-his-house-in-different-wings living but not living-in-his-house-in-same-room living with Draco. Not that I don't want to live with him or I want to live with him but I just want to say I don't mind living with him in the same house but it wouldn't be good if we live in the same room cause I really like privacy and my nana always said that never let boys into a girl's room and I think I'm babbling again 'cause I'm nervous and when I'm nervous I'll babble a lot and you can just stop me and I'll be shutting up like, um, now." Willow finished her sentences in like two seconds and her face turned bright red. The others were staring at the redhead, forgot that they were actually arguing.
"That's all right." Draco was the first to recover from the babble fest. He smiled at Willow. "Your babble is cute."
Everyone was now out of their trace from the babble and fell into the deep hell of shock. Not only because of the fact that Willow was living with the Malfoy, but also that the Slytherin Prince was flirting with a girl who had spent most of her live in the muggle world and didn't even know about the wizard world until this year. Willow herself just stared at the floor, her face ever brighter.
Draco turned back to Harry. "Bet you loved that, didn't you Potter? Famous Harry Potter, can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page."
"Leave him alone." Ginny walked up in front of Draco.
Draco looked down, and then turned back to Harry, amused. "Potter, got yourself a girlfriend?"
"Now Draco, play nicely." A new voice came from Draco's back. Draco was shoved aside by a silver cone, and a blonde around forty years old stepped up from behind.
"Hello Unc- um, Lucius." Willow smiled politely at Mr. Malfoy.
"Hello my dear." Lucius Malfoy smiled back, and turned his attention to Harry. "Mr. Potter." His smile lost. "Lucius Malfoy. We meet at last. Forgive me." He shook his hand and suddenly pulled Potter closer to him, shoved a bit of his hair aside, looking at the scar on his forehead. "Your scar is a legend - of course, is the wizard who gave it to you."
"Voldemort killed my parents." Harry hissed. Lucius was surprised by his words and immediately let go of his hand. Harry stepped back, his eyes filled with anger. "He's nothing but a murder."
"You must be very brave to mention his name..." Lucius smirked. "Or really foolish."
"Fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself." Hermione said firmly, standing beside Harry.
Lucius looked at her. "And you must be..." He paused, looking at his son. "Ms. Granger." Draco nodded. Lucius turned back to Hermione. "And Draco had told me all about you... and your parents." He looked at her parents, who were now talking with Mr. Weasley at the back of the store. "Muggles." Hermione just stared at him.
He looked at Xander behind Hermione. "Black curly hair... you must be Mr. Harris. How's your mother? Still missing your father in Azkaban?" Xander shot him a deathly glance.
He then turned his attention to Ron. "Let me see. Red hair, with this expression..." He took out the book inside Ginny's cauldron. "Secondhand book. You must be the Weasley."
Just then, Arthur, Giles and Joyce walked up from behind. "Have you got everything you need?" Joyce asked.
Lucius turned. "Hello Rupert, Joyce, Arthur."
"Lucius." Giles said, his face darkened.
"So, having a good time with your child Rupert?" Lucius said, looking at Buffy, feeling disgusted. "Taking caring of child who's not pureblood. And Arthur," He turned to the old Weasley. "Busy at the Ministry, I heard. They haven't paid you for working overtime, don't they?" He threw back the book into Ginny's cauldron. "Seeing you and Rupert are disgraced in the name of wizard."
"We've a very different concept about what disgraced the name of wizard, Lucius." Giles said, gritting his teeth.
"Clearly." He turned to Willow. "All your new books have already been sent to our house." Willow nodded. Lucius gave them the last glance and nodded at Arthur. "I'll see you at work." Then he left the shop.
Draco pulled Willow beside him and stood in front of Harry, his hand never left Willow's. "See you at school." He smirked. Looking at Ron, he raised his eyebrow and left, pulling Willow with him. Willow waved at them and gave them a sad smile. "Bye." She mouthed at Harry and the gang.
"Okay, what the heck is that all about?" Buffy said. "Willow's a Malfoy?"
"I don't know." Xander frowned. "She seems nice. A bit shy, and babbles, but nice."
"But her family name is Slytherin, Malfoy's house." Ron pointed out.
"I don't care." Harry said, still staring at the door. "She's a good person, I know it."
"Well," Giles took off his glasses and start polishing it. "She is." He put on his glasses again, and sighed. "Shall we?" He opened the door and let the children out.
