p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The Beans Of Society/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"It was very plain to see the qualities of the houses in this Hogwarts, especially on the Slytherin Table. First there was the peas, the nimble folk who were often ignored, and sometimes too wrinkly to be counted. Basically all the first years, shy, quiet and unassuming people. The seeds, were the largest group, all sorts of shapes and sizes, but hardened and able to fit in places. Then, the beans, the cream the crop, lavish folk whose hard exterior disguised the interiors completely; basically the deal eaters. This is what Violetta saw as she walked over to the table, a massive group of dead eaters, Riddle in the middle, and other pureblood family children, toffee nosed tosspots around him. Abraxus had an empty seat beside him and waved her over. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Are you Slytherin?" He asked excitedly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She nodded, smiling and sat down. If anything, Abraxus made the trip less painful. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh brilliant," Riddle noted sarcastically, "I thought we got rid of you on the train," He glared at her. Riddle didn't like Violetta, because she seemed dead suspicious, and was too pretty to be this down to earth. Something was amiss, she wasn't like the other pureblood poncy girls. Almost immediately, suspicions had been caught by Riddle, when he saw her wearing very strange muggle attire, that was either wildly out of fashion or created for her own unique style. She also guessed they were in Slytherin, without seeing uniforms, or being familiar with Hogwarts - he knew she wasn't familiar because of her surprise at the length of the journey to Hogwarts. She also seemed very urgent to fit in, and get along, hooking herself to the simpleton of the group Malfoy. Well, he may be a simpleton, but he was an evil one, and she was oblivious to that. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta squirmed under Riddle's gaze, because he had been glaring at her for a remarkable length of time, when a girl next to him, caught her attention. She looked very much like Bellatrix, and announced herself as Walburga Black, meaning she must have been Sirius's mother. She looked very different from her portrait, and was a pretty young woman, who clearly cared about her appearance, as she cut her food into tiny bits, spending ages to eat without messing up her makeup. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Tell us about yourself," she smiled sweetly, "Did you really come from Arabia? What are you wearing?" She asked the last question slightly hesitantly, as if she didn't want to offend. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta was wearing a slightly low cut pale pink top, tucked into a pair of loose shorts with a black oversized open shirt, and knew instantly she would stand out. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Yes," she replies cooly, "I lived in Arabia with my parents because my father had a job there, as a curse breaker, but I went to an international day school,"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""So it wasn't like Hogwarts?" Abraxus inquired. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Not really no, Hogwarts is much cosier. I didn't really like the teachers there and kids weren't that nice either, I wasn't the most popular one," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Walburga looked uneasy, as if she'd asked the wrong thing, but Violetta didn't mind the uneasy atmosphere, as long as she didn't feel uneasy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where did you get tailored from, anyways?" Another girl spoke up, another haughty pureblood, who was staring openly from two seats down. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh this old thing," Violetta laughed again, "It was a present from an old Arabian tailor friend of my mothers, who I asked to design me this because, well, it's just comfy!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The girls stared at her, "You got it designed because it was just emcomfy/em," One repeated. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Another frowned, "It's very emfleshy/em," She motioned, "My mother would never allow it, especially now I'm betrothed to Nott!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"It was quite uncomfortable when 1943's group of death eaters, including Voldemort, were staring at your fifty years in the future outfit that you'd thrown together intending to do housework in, with a blood traitor family, which is why it was muggle influenced. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"But anyway, one of the girls had just mentioned she was betrothed. She didn't look a day over 17. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""You're betrothed?" Violetta asked her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She looked weirdly at Violetta, a thing she'd gotten used to, "Most of us are, or in the process of, aren't you?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Well, no, I'm not, we don't really do that sort of thing out in the East, at this age," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Seriously? I couldn't imagine! What emdo/em you do?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"There had suddenly been a rush, and all the Slytherin girls in fifth year were interested, eyes spiked up and attentive. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta took a deep breath and resumed shit-talking for the rest of dinner, making up a story about a pervy knight, and strange tests people had to do. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"When it was time to go to the dorms, she had the attention of most girls, so they swarmed around her, and helped her every whim, which was lovely but ever so embloody/em draining. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"As they all walked to the common room, Violetta noticed Riddle was leading everyone, and wasn't surprised. Probably thinks he's Voldemort already, with these weirdos, following him. "Riddle's a prefect, this year," Walburga explained, with some admiration in her eyes, "Of course, he got chosen, what with his looks, ability, intellect…" Walburga was doing some serious fan-girling. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Shut it, Wally. He likes me, and you're engaged to Crabbe; what more do you want?" A bigger girl blurted, Parkinson. 'Wally' blushed furiously at this, but it was funny considering how ugly Vincent Crabbe was, down the line. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"A fourth year piped up, talking about a rumour concerning Riddle and Olive Hornby. Apparently, he invited her to the last Slug Club meeting and she'd just been made a prefect. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Well, she's a slut, so it probably meant nothing!" Abraxus said, appearing from nowhere. "Hello,' he noticed Violetta. Violetta smiled, finally one person who wasn't a gossipy, straight-laced button, he acted nothing like Draco as well. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Talking of the slug club, there's going to be the first meeting in a weeks time, but I don't suppose you'll want to go?" Abraxus asked Violetta, creating an uproar of ooos. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta decided to play it cool, by playing stupid, "I'm not sure I like slugs that much," She grinned, making the crowd laugh. They were all outside the common room now, while Riddle demonstrated the password. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh of course, you don't know! It's just a dinner club named after the leader, Professor Slughorn, potions master and head of Slytherin," he explained enthusiastically, with some hope. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""I'll go, sure, sounds fun," She agreed, brightening up his face. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"As they walked inside the low lighted, green glowing room, she noticed Riddle had given Malfoy a 'come over here and tell me everything' look./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The girls took her up to the dorm, which she shared with Walburga Black, Petula Parkinson, and Lucretia Rosier, all death eater girls who seemed perfectly innocent just now, if you ignored the slight racist and superior things they said. They didn't seem crazy though, just ignorant. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She arranged her bed how she wanted it with a private closed off air, thanks to the thick green curtains, and messed up the bed, a bit, to make it seem not so intimidating. She wasn't sure how a bed could be intimidating but it certainly felt so when all around you were enemies. Not to mention a charmingly attractive dark wizard. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She slipped out the dorm, though, because, she needed to get to Dippet's office for 9, for the test. It was to see whether she was clever, or not, and being competitive, she was aiming for the top marks. It didn't matter that the test wasn't the most important thing, but she might as well be trying to fit in, hen she stuck out like a sore thumb. Wishing she had a cloak, or a robe over her, she walked down the freezing dungeon corridor. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Nobody else was here, and she would have usually felt scared, but she was fine, a sense of security was there when she was alone, she didn't have to pretend. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where do you think you're going? It's after hours," A voice, calm and questioning arose from behind her. Without turning, she replied angrily, "You shouldn't be out of bed then too, because you're here after dark as well," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"That was a mistake. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Tom Riddle walked up to her, smirking, as if she'd given him a reason for detention, and said, "I, as a prefect, can go anywhere, especially considering I'm doing the rounds tonight, looking for troublemakers like you."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta continued walking, "Sorry sir, don't expel me or anything," her words oozed sarcasm./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"A hand rested itself on her shoulder, and he stopped her, looking at her intrusively, and making her feel uncomfortable. She felt like screaming 'Voldemort!'/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where are you going? I don't want our sweet little first year getting lost or anything," he pouted at her. He did a good impression of being concerned. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Your sweet little first year," she spat the words, "is going to the headmaster's office for a test," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"His face turned impassive again, "I heard Malfoy invited you to the Slug Club. Watch out, next time it'll be in the Room of Requirement and there's only one thing he requires,"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""What's that?" She asked, intriguingly. It was such fun playing stupid. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"He looked at her with a raised eyebrow, like she was an idiot, looking to see if they were alone, then spoke lowly, "Same as me; a body," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She went pale, feeling chilled as she knew exactly what he meant, and he laughed at her reaction, walking away, finally freeing her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The test was simple, and she wondered how stupid Dippet thought she was before she took it, because he was very surprised with the results and proud of her. "Well done, dear, you'll do well. Now I've got some things for you," He gave her textbooks, a basic potions kit, house robes, a some money as part of a monthly fund. As well as a long lecture explaining basic Hogwarts stuff, and they picked the lessons together, before he sent her off. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"It was very plain to see the qualities of the houses in this Hogwarts, especially on the Slytherin Table. First there was the peas, the nimble folk who were often ignored, and sometimes too wrinkly to be counted. Basically all the first years, shy, quiet and unassuming people. The seeds, were the largest group, all sorts of shapes and sizes, but hardened and able to fit in places. Then, the beans, the cream the crop, lavish folk whose hard exterior disguised the interiors completely; basically the deal eaters. This is what Violetta saw as she walked over to the table, a massive group of dead eaters, Riddle in the middle, and other pureblood family children, toffee nosed tosspots around him. Abraxus had an empty seat beside him and waved her over. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Are you Slytherin?" He asked excitedly. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She nodded, smiling and sat down. If anything, Abraxus made the trip less painful. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh brilliant," Riddle noted sarcastically, "I thought we got rid of you on the train," He glared at her. Riddle didn't like Violetta, because she seemed dead suspicious, and was too pretty to be this down to earth. Something was amiss, she wasn't like the other pureblood poncy girls. Almost immediately, suspicions had been caught by Riddle, when he saw her wearing very strange muggle attire, that was either wildly out of fashion or created for her own unique style. She also guessed they were in Slytherin, without seeing uniforms, or being familiar with Hogwarts - he knew she wasn't familiar because of her surprise at the length of the journey to Hogwarts. She also seemed very urgent to fit in, and get along, hooking herself to the simpleton of the group Malfoy. Well, he may be a simpleton, but he was an evil one, and she was oblivious to that. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta squirmed under Riddle's gaze, because he had been glaring at her for a remarkable length of time, when a girl next to him, caught her attention. She looked very much like Bellatrix, and announced herself as Walburga Black, meaning she must have been Sirius's mother. She looked very different from her portrait, and was a pretty young woman, who clearly cared about her appearance, as she cut her food into tiny bits, spending ages to eat without messing up her makeup. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Tell us about yourself," she smiled sweetly, "Did you really come from Arabia? What are you wearing?" She asked the last question slightly hesitantly, as if she didn't want to offend. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta was wearing a slightly low cut pale pink top, tucked into a pair of loose shorts with a black oversized open shirt, and knew instantly she would stand out. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Yes," she replies cooly, "I lived in Arabia with my parents because my father had a job there, as a curse breaker, but I went to an international day school,"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""So it wasn't like Hogwarts?" Abraxus inquired. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Not really no, Hogwarts is much cosier. I didn't really like the teachers there and kids weren't that nice either, I wasn't the most popular one," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Walburga looked uneasy, as if she'd asked the wrong thing, but Violetta didn't mind the uneasy atmosphere, as long as she didn't feel uneasy. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where did you get tailored from, anyways?" Another girl spoke up, another haughty pureblood, who was staring openly from two seats down. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh this old thing," Violetta laughed again, "It was a present from an old Arabian tailor friend of my mothers, who I asked to design me this because, well, it's just comfy!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The girls stared at her, "You got it designed because it was just emcomfy/em," One repeated. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Another frowned, "It's very emfleshy/em," She motioned, "My mother would never allow it, especially now I'm betrothed to Nott!" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"It was quite uncomfortable when 1943's group of death eaters, including Voldemort, were staring at your fifty years in the future outfit that you'd thrown together intending to do housework in, with a blood traitor family, which is why it was muggle influenced. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"But anyway, one of the girls had just mentioned she was betrothed. She didn't look a day over 17. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""You're betrothed?" Violetta asked her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She looked weirdly at Violetta, a thing she'd gotten used to, "Most of us are, or in the process of, aren't you?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Well, no, I'm not, we don't really do that sort of thing out in the East, at this age," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Seriously? I couldn't imagine! What emdo/em you do?" /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"There had suddenly been a rush, and all the Slytherin girls in fifth year were interested, eyes spiked up and attentive. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta took a deep breath and resumed shit-talking for the rest of dinner, making up a story about a pervy knight, and strange tests people had to do. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"When it was time to go to the dorms, she had the attention of most girls, so they swarmed around her, and helped her every whim, which was lovely but ever so embloody/em draining. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"As they all walked to the common room, Violetta noticed Riddle was leading everyone, and wasn't surprised. Probably thinks he's Voldemort already, with these weirdos, following him. "Riddle's a prefect, this year," Walburga explained, with some admiration in her eyes, "Of course, he got chosen, what with his looks, ability, intellect…" Walburga was doing some serious fan-girling. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Shut it, Wally. He likes me, and you're engaged to Crabbe; what more do you want?" A bigger girl blurted, Parkinson. 'Wally' blushed furiously at this, but it was funny considering how ugly Vincent Crabbe was, down the line. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"A fourth year piped up, talking about a rumour concerning Riddle and Olive Hornby. Apparently, he invited her to the last Slug Club meeting and she'd just been made a prefect. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Well, she's a slut, so it probably meant nothing!" Abraxus said, appearing from nowhere. "Hello,' he noticed Violetta. Violetta smiled, finally one person who wasn't a gossipy, straight-laced button, he acted nothing like Draco as well. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Talking of the slug club, there's going to be the first meeting in a weeks time, but I don't suppose you'll want to go?" Abraxus asked Violetta, creating an uproar of ooos. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta decided to play it cool, by playing stupid, "I'm not sure I like slugs that much," She grinned, making the crowd laugh. They were all outside the common room now, while Riddle demonstrated the password. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Oh of course, you don't know! It's just a dinner club named after the leader, Professor Slughorn, potions master and head of Slytherin," he explained enthusiastically, with some hope. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""I'll go, sure, sounds fun," She agreed, brightening up his face. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"As they walked inside the low lighted, green glowing room, she noticed Riddle had given Malfoy a 'come over here and tell me everything' look./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The girls took her up to the dorm, which she shared with Walburga Black, Petula Parkinson, and Lucretia Rosier, all death eater girls who seemed perfectly innocent just now, if you ignored the slight racist and superior things they said. They didn't seem crazy though, just ignorant. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She arranged her bed how she wanted it with a private closed off air, thanks to the thick green curtains, and messed up the bed, a bit, to make it seem not so intimidating. She wasn't sure how a bed could be intimidating but it certainly felt so when all around you were enemies. Not to mention a charmingly attractive dark wizard. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She slipped out the dorm, though, because, she needed to get to Dippet's office for 9, for the test. It was to see whether she was clever, or not, and being competitive, she was aiming for the top marks. It didn't matter that the test wasn't the most important thing, but she might as well be trying to fit in, hen she stuck out like a sore thumb. Wishing she had a cloak, or a robe over her, she walked down the freezing dungeon corridor. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Nobody else was here, and she would have usually felt scared, but she was fine, a sense of security was there when she was alone, she didn't have to pretend. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where do you think you're going? It's after hours," A voice, calm and questioning arose from behind her. Without turning, she replied angrily, "You shouldn't be out of bed then too, because you're here after dark as well," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"That was a mistake. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Tom Riddle walked up to her, smirking, as if she'd given him a reason for detention, and said, "I, as a prefect, can go anywhere, especially considering I'm doing the rounds tonight, looking for troublemakers like you."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"Violetta continued walking, "Sorry sir, don't expel me or anything," her words oozed sarcasm./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"A hand rested itself on her shoulder, and he stopped her, looking at her intrusively, and making her feel uncomfortable. She felt like screaming 'Voldemort!'/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Where are you going? I don't want our sweet little first year getting lost or anything," he pouted at her. He did a good impression of being concerned. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""Your sweet little first year," she spat the words, "is going to the headmaster's office for a test," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"His face turned impassive again, "I heard Malfoy invited you to the Slug Club. Watch out, next time it'll be in the Room of Requirement and there's only one thing he requires,"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;""What's that?" She asked, intriguingly. It was such fun playing stupid. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"He looked at her with a raised eyebrow, like she was an idiot, looking to see if they were alone, then spoke lowly, "Same as me; a body," /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"She went pale, feeling chilled as she knew exactly what he meant, and he laughed at her reaction, walking away, finally freeing her. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 12px;" /p
p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;"span style="font-kerning: none;"The test was simple, and she wondered how stupid Dippet thought she was before she took it, because he was very surprised with the results and proud of her. "Well done, dear, you'll do well. Now I've got some things for you," He gave her textbooks, a basic potions kit, house robes, a some money as part of a monthly fund. As well as a long lecture explaining basic Hogwarts stuff, and they picked the lessons together, before he sent her off. /span/p