Chapter Two: Beyond me

"Attention students!!" Professor Dumbledore called tapping his knife against his glass. "There is to be one more sorting before we can begin the feast! I would like you to welcome Miss Iris Tybalt who is coming into the seventh year, she just recently moved here from Ireland. Now lets all give her a warm welcome. The hall clapped politely looking around trying to see where this new student was hiding. All eyes turned to a girl with black but mostly blue hair stood from her spot on the Gryffindor table and walked towards the sorting hat. She sat calmly on the stool and had the old hat placed upon her head.

'A Tybalt now, a long history of great pureblood witches and wizards. But what house to put you? Your learning's could put you in Ravenclaw but you could also be great in Slytherin or Gryffindor.' The hat whispered.

'Put me somewhere I really don't care as long as I don't have to deal with people asking me why I have so many piercing and why my hair is blue. You know what I think? This school is safe; I think it'll be a change for the better to have me here.' Her mind replied.

'A fighter now are we? Better be "SLYTHERIN!!"' The hat shouted. Iris removed the hat from her head and stood. The Slytherin table was clapping and cheering wildly. She walked to the only empty seat and sat rolling her head over her shoulders. She felt the stares of her now fellow classmates.

"Can I help you all with something?" She asked coldly and they all turned back to their conversations waiting for the food to arrive.

"I have one last announcement!" Dumbledore announced "This year Hogwarts is to be holding schools play written by Shakespeare called: A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. A play meeting will be held on October 13 here in the Great Hall. Now tuck in!" The food popped up and everyone started to eat and chat about the play. Iris stared at her food not eating, thinking about what her friends must be doing right now.

"It's not poisoned you know." A male voice said from beside her. She turned her head to see a boy with white blonde hair that looked almost silver, with piercing grey eyes staring at her.

"Never thought it was." She answered coolly their eyes meeting. She held his gaze and didn't turn away blushing like most girls do when Draco Malfoy looked at them.

"I'm Draco Malfoy." He said "Welcome to Hogwarts."

"Iris Tybalt, but I think Dumbledore already told you that." She answered giving a seductive smirk, extending her hand. He took it and they shook hands lightly before he turned back to her food and his 'conversation' with the girl on the other side of him. She had dirty blonde hair and a pug like nose. 'I think she's part dog.' Iris thought grinning at this thought before finally starting on her food.

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"So, Hogwarts had a new girl. She's pretty hot if you ask me." Ron Weasley comments to his friends Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger.

"I've seen her before, I think she lives on my street several houses down." Harry comments as well pausing from his eating and glancing over at the new girl.

"So I take it you fancy her Ron." Hermione states teasingly.

"No." Ron says a little too quickly. Hermione and Harry glance at each other trying to suppress laughter.

"She's not your type Ron." Harry tells him glancing over at Iris again.

"And how would you know?" Ron demands his ears growing red.

"Because I know you're not into that whole bad girl thing. And besides she's in Slytherin she's probably as bad as them." Harry points out. Ron shrugged and returned to his eating. Harry watched the girl for a moment before turning back to his eating as well.

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Iris followed the other Slytherin's as they left the Great hall and moved towards the dungeons. She felt someone grab onto her arm and pull her towards the front of the group. She looked over to who was leading her and saw that it was Draco Malfoy.

"Don't think you want to hang around first years do you?" He asked as they reached the front where a few other seventh year students were standing.

"Every one this is Iris our new Slytherin addition from Ireland. Let's give her a warm welcome." He said. They all turned to her taking in what she looked like.

"I'm Blaise, I'm sure we'll get along just fine." A boy said with black hair and light blue eyes as he placed his arm around her waist.

"Don't touch me." She said pulling away from him. Blaise slipped a sly smile to Draco who shook his head at him. "You remind me of someone...I don't like him either." (A/N: My trade mark saying. I just love that saying!!!) she continued giving him a once over.

"Hey I'm Pansy I'm sure we'll come to be like best friends!" The girl with the pug nose said linking her arm with Iris' pulling her into conversation with the other girls.

"You fancy her don't you Draco. You haven't stopped staring at her all night." Blaise stated nudging him in the ribs.

"Maybe, maybe not, it's obvious that you fancy her Blaise." Draco countered turning it away from him. Blaise shrugged.

"Yeah I do but I bet you are dying to get a piece of her. Admit it you think she's one sexy girl. And probably better then that pug Pansy." Blaise answered waggling his eyebrows at Draco. Draco playfully pushed him away before stopping in front of a small part of wall framed by two torches on each side.

"First years listen up because I'm only going to be saying this once." Draco announced "This is the entrance to the common room if you don't remember then that's your problem not mine or ours. Remember this rout because it is the only rout to the common room. Every one the password this year is 'Darkness Falls' remember that because I'm only going to say it this once for all of you to hear." Draco finished before turning back to the wall and saying the password. "Boys dormitories are to the left girls to the right."

When everyone was gone Draco collapsed onto the coach closing his eyes.

"Do you mind?" The coach said from beneath him "I think I was sitting here first." Draco jumped up when he heard the coach talking and looked behind him to see Iris' faint outline sitting on the coach.

"Are you a ghost?" He asked.

"No, I can become invisible when I feel most relaxed. Which is something I haven't felt in a long time." Iris replied. Draco nodded and sat down next to her but a little too close for her liking but she let it pass because she was tired and knew he was too. Her molecules finally arranged them selves properly so the she was solid and she turned to look at Draco.

"So, you've gone to this school for the past seven years?" He nodded "Tell me about it." Draco began to tell her about the teachers and the students.

"Hmm...someone you should stay away from is Potty and his band of merry men...hey are you alive over there?" Draco asked looking over to see that Iris had fallen asleep and was leaning on him with her legs thrown over the side of the coach. "I guess not." He replied to his own question. He stood slowly so as not to wake her and picked her up slowly. He knew he couldn't take her up to her dorm because of the stupid stair thing so instead of going right he turned left and brought her up to his.

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The sound of an alarm went off and Iris pulled a pillow over her head. The alarm was turned off and she took the pillow off her head. She then rolled over and snuggled close to source of heat that was in the bed since the comforter was kicked off some time during the night.

"Sleep well?" A male voice asked. She knew that voice but where did she know if from? She opened one eye and saw abnormally pale skin and knew who it was at once. She looked down at herself and she fully clothed except she was in black silk jimjams.

"What?" Iris asked groggily "what am I doing here? Whose cloths are these?" she continued not getting up just staying in her position against his warm body.

"Well, when I was telling you about Hogwarts you fell asleep and for some reason boys can't go up into the girl's dorms because the stairs turn into some sort of slide so I took you up to my dorm. Those are mine and no I didn't take your cloths off I used a spell to change you into them." Draco explained. She nodded and stood.

"I'm goanna go back to my dorm now. I'll see you at breakfast." She said and left quietly so none of the other boys were waken.

Iris walked up the stairs to the girl dorm to here that the seventh year girls were already awake.

"Really, Iris? Any parent who would name their child Iris is beyond me." Iris knew that voice it belonged to Millicent and girl who was actually really nice to her last night.

"Any parent who would name their child Millicent is beyond me as well." Iris said coldly entering the room.

"So where were you last night? You never came up." Pansy questioned from her spot on her bed.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Iris answered walking over to her trunk and pulling out her school robes and cloths to put under it.

"Those are Draco's jimjams aren't they? You slept with him?!?!" Pansy cried looking murderously at Iris.

"Don't get your knickers in a twist nothing happened we just how should I say this so you'll understand... Oh yes, we just kinda fell asleep together." Iris said with an innocent smile before walking into the bathroom and closing the door behind her.

"That bitch! I can't believe she would do such a thing." Millicent said trying to sound sincere to Pansy. Pansy glared at the bathroom door until it opened and Iris stepped out fully dressed but was missing her robes to go over her clothing that she was wearing. She wore a black wife beater that said in big white letters 'DORK'. She had about and inch above the knee length black plaid pleated skirt with mid-calve black boots. On her neck she had a spiked choker and matching spiked bracelets. The girls stared at her out fit but soon switched their gazes to her tattooed arms.

"What?" She asked in annoyance which made them look up at her face. She had black lip gloss on blue mascara and a dark grey almost black eye shadow that looked perfect on her.

"N-nothing." Pansy answered for the girls who were still shocked by her look.

"Good." Iris answered coldly turning and walking to the door. Pansy caught a glimpse of a serpentine dagger hilt sticking out of her boot and gulped just as Iris left the room. Pansy turned to the other girls.

"Girls I think we should keep our distance from her."

"You're not going to get back at her?" Julia asked dumbfounded. Pansy always got her revenge on someone and never backed down.

"Oh I will, but I just think we should keep our distance from her."

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Iris entered the Great Hall for dinner and all eyes of the students who where in the hall, which wasn't very many of them, turned to her. She paused at the door and raised an pierced eye brow at them. She still hadn't put her robe on (which she had draped over her arm) so they were probably mesmerized by her tattoos since it appeared that no one here had any visible ones or if they did, they really worked on hiding them.

"Can I help any of you?" She asked the hall. As soon as she said this they all turned back to their food and started their conversations.

"That's what I thought." She answered walking to the Slytherin table. She was about to pass the Gryffindor table to see the same black haired boy as she did when she was home sitting there with what looked like his friends. A red haired boy and a busy brown haired girl.

"Oi, Harry what do you think?" The red head asked. 'So his names Harry. I should have fun with this.' She thought as she drew closer.

"Hey Harry, nice day isn't it? Maybe you could show me around later." She said as she passed but left before he could answer. When Iris reached the Slytherin tale she heard the clapping of a single person. She turned her head and smirked because Draco was clapping for her.

"Nicely done, you've only been here for about 24 hours and you already have part of the school scared of you. Couldn't have done it better my self." He said smirking as well. She gave a mock bow and smirked evilly at him. 'Wow, her smirk comes into competition to mine. I think this is going to be a very fun year.' Draco thought as she took a seat next to him so she could get a good view of the Gryffindor table. Her smirk broadened when she saw Harry blushing and the red head talking about 1000 words per minute 'probably ranting' she thought noting his hand movements to emphasize his point. She then noticed that the bushy brunet cutting in with a reasonable face.

"Playing games with Scare Head over there?" Draco asked leaning over to say it in her ear.

"Oh yes, it's bad enough that I have to miss making my last year hell at my school in Ireland then I'm goanna just have to do it here." She replied with that smirk of hers that was running competition with Draco's famous Malfoy smirk.

"So you and your friends were the bad asses of your old school I take it?"

"Oh yes, we made life there a living hell for some people or just terrible for others." She replied turning her attention back over to the Gryffindor table and watching the conversation of the trio.

"I take it that the kid with the black hair is Harry Potter, the boy-who- lived-to-make-my-life-last-year-a-blast?" She asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Actually he's the boy-who-lived-to-annoy. But you call him whatever you want. The Red head is Ron Weasley, the other red head that just walked in is his sister Ginny, and the bushy brunet if Hermione Mudblood Granger. She's a book worm one way to get at her is to take a book of hers and ask her impossible questions. Gets her every time." Draco explained to her, she nodded. More students had entered the great hall so that it was almost filled up. There was a sound of swishing feathers and thousands of owls flew into the great hall carrying in the mourning mail.

"Ah there you are Demetrius. I see you've brought me mail from mother?" Iris said cheerfully to the grey eagle-owl that landed before her. It nipped her hand affectionately and stuck out its leg. She untied the letter and gave her pet some of her toast before opening the letter and stroking the eagle-owl's head affectionately while she read.

Iris,

I hope you're enjoying yourself at Hogwarts. I know that it's a little early in the year to be saying that but still it's your first day there and I just want to know. You're probably thinking 'why couldn't she be a cool mom?' well FYI I am a cool mom. I'm just being the responsible mom right now. I've got a job interview today at England's Ministry of Magic. I'm hoping to be in the Department of Magical Mayhem. You know how much I love being out there in the field like that. Well, I've got to go get ready for my interview. Don't have to whish me luck because I know your whishing it right now.

With all my love, Mum

Iris smiled when she read the letter. It was so like her mum to say something like that. Another owl landed in front of her and she laughed. It was her best friend Erin; she was an animangus (spelling?) as an owl.

"What are you doing here?" She asked dumbfounded. The owl jumped off the table and landed behind her chair. Iris turned to see the owl changing quiet rapidly into brown and green haired girl that she loved like a sister.

"I thought I'd come visit you before school starts. And to check out Hogwarts." Erin said looking around the room. "I see the guys here are pretty fine." She said her eyes following seventh year boy with blonde hair as he left the hall. Iris embraced her with a hug that Erin quickly returned.

"Glad to see you here." Iris said smiling.

"Me too." Erin replied hugging her again.

"So, this is Erin. You're best mate in the entire world?" Asked Draco from behind them. Iris turned surprised for she had forgotten that he was even there.

"Yup! This is her, Erin meet Draco." Erin gave him a smile but didn't except his extended hand.

"Well, I think we should be getting to class. Wouldn't want to have Snape waiting." Draco said picking up his messenger bag and grabbing Iris' as well holding it out for her. Iris grabbed it.

"C'mon, you're going to hang with today." Iris said pulling Erin along with her and Draco as they left the hall.

"Hey, Iris!" a voice called from behind them as they reached the stairs leading to the dungeons. Iris turned as well as Erin and Draco. Harry Potter was running towards them.

"Can I help you with something?" She asked eyeing him.

"Uhh...I could show you around later when classes end." He said looking nervous. Iris glanced at Erin and smirked. 'This is going to be fun. Go on play with him.' Iris thought. Erin seemed to have read her mind and stepped forward a bit.

"Do I know you?" she asked reaching a hand up and touching his face lightly brows furrowed in concentration. "No, never mind." She said shaking her head "But I could have sworn you were my long lost brother." She mumbled shaking her head again but continued mumbling for a few more moments. Erin then nudged Draco nodding her head towards Iris. "Do something." She whispered. Draco then stepped up behind Iris and wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her back against his front.

"C'mon we got to be getting to potions. Wouldn't want to be late now do we Potter?" He asked kissing Iris's neck.

"Sure how about we meet by the Great Hall it's Garry right? See you in potions, don't want to be late!" Iris called as she turned and walked down the stairs with holding Draco's hand with their fingers laced.

"It's Harry!" Harry called after them.

"I'll remember that!" She called back still walking deeper into the dungeons. Ron ran up behind him with Hermione at his heals.

"So? What did she say?" He asked waving a hand in front of his face to snap him out of his trance.

"She almost remembered my name." He said in a dreamy voice.

"Boys." Hermione mumbled rolling her eyes.

"You say something 'Mione?" Ron asked turning to her with a small smile on his face.

"No, I didn't. Now let's get to potions! We're going to be late!" Hermione answered pulling them down the stairs with her.