14 September, 1976

After eating lunch Eleana headed to one of the green houses accompanied by Camilla and Caren. Their herbology class began soon after they had arrived, and Professor Pomona Sprout placed a green plant on the table they were all gathered around. It looked harmless, until she explained that this was a 'Fanged Geranium' and it could attack by biting you if it was not taken care of. Then the plant moved slightly and opened what looked like a mouth, as if it was smiling, and it showed off several sharp teeth while doing it. Eleana could not imagine that it would be pleasant to receive a bite from it.

After they had been given instructions they were sorted into pairs, Eleana was paired with a girl from Ravenclaw. Camilla then touched her shoulder and sighed while looking at her as if she pitied her.

"I'll live." Eleana said sarcastically, just to calm her friends. She herself did not have anything against this girl, but she knew of the reason why her friends did. Walking closer to Fiona she felt the others' stares. From what she knew, Fiona was very clever and she had been impressed by her during their first year when she did a spell perfectly on the first try, while it took everyone else twenty minutes and much wand waving. However, the reason Eleana's friends did not approve of her, was because she was from a muggle family.

Eleana and Fiona began by reading the instructions on the board once again, carefully, so they would not do anything incorrect and get bitten. Then they did the best they could, and together, seemed to make a good team; for the plant did not seem to be angered at all. Eleana liked Fiona more and more, they both had the same humour. They had some other things in common too, Fiona's favourite subject was also Astronomy.

They had become friends without really knowing it, and after that they said 'hello' to each other when seeing one another in the hall, and they sometimes even studied together during break or after dinner. Eleana really enjoyed Fiona's company and she certainly was not as stuck up as many of the others in Eleana's life. She was kind and smart, and not only book smart. This could have been a beautiful friendship, unfortunately it did not last very long. Merely a month later it was over.

10 October, 1976

"No! Don't give me that rubbish!" Eleana shouted angrily.

"What's wrong with you?" Eithan said, not understanding why she was so angry all of a sudden, and not appreciating her tone.

"What's wrong with me?!" she asked, thinking that he must be joking. "What is wrong with you?! You despise people who haven't done you anything. Why'd you feel the need to look down and pick on them?"

"Where is all this coming from?" he now sounded quite worried about her thoughts. "This is the way it is Eleana, they're not like us."

She just sighed, disappointed, and felt like it was completely hopeless to talk to him about this, he simply could not understand the nature of her feelings.

"I don't appreciate that you sent Avery to hex my friend."

"Come on, why would you even care, she's a mudblood-"

"please don't say that." she said with a sad and tired tone as she looked at him.

He looked into her eyes and still could not understand what had gotten into her.

"You had to ruin the only friendship I had."

"Well, then it wasn't a very good friendship since she abandoned you after a little hex."

"One of her ears nearly fell off!"

Eithan sighed, and just gave her a look of concern. When he spoke he sounded frustrated.

"Why don't you hang out with us anymore then? And I'm sure Caren and Camilla wants you as their friend again, you've been ignoring all of us lately."

" 'Cause all you do is talk of 'pure' and 'un pure' blood. I want to be surrounded by people who for one second, can care for somethin' else."

"Oh com'on! Don't be so sensitive."

"I'm just being human, and you are all being mean for a stupid reason."

"A stupid reason? Talking of stupid, you're acting fairly stupid. What if our father heard you now, defending mudbloods."

She was taken aback by the mentioning of their father, it was true, if their father heard her now he would be displeased. But she just found it too cruel.

"Don't call her that." she simply said with a low voice. Then she saw Rutilus turning around the corner and walking towards them. She sighed at the sight of him and crossed her arms, she simply did not want anyone else to interfere.

" I was wonderin' where you two went." Acacius said.

"You've come to lecture me as well?" she said.

He frowned, looking surprised. On the inside he felt slightly hurt by the way she had spoken to him, he tried not to show it though. It was obvious she also blamed him for what had happened, a notion he did not like.

She turned around and started to walk. Eithan just looked annoyed, and began to walk away in another direction. He grabbed Acacius by the arm.

"No wait, I think I'll talk to her." He said, gesturing for Eithan to let go.

"Good luck with that." he said, then let go and kept on walking.

Acacius went after Eleana, and hurried his steps to catch up with her. He found her walking down the spiral staircase.

"Eleana wait!" he said, and to his surprise she stopped. She looked at him with unusually tired blue eyes.

"What do you want?"

"I just wanted to tell you somethin'." He said and stopped in front of her, standing on the other side of the step.

She looked at him patiently, waiting for him to speak but he did not, he just stood there.

"Well, let's hear it." She said impatiently.

"W- Well… " he stuttered, feeling nervous all of a sudden. He was alone with her, and that did not happen very often since they were always surrounded by their friends whenever they met.

"I just wanted to make sure that you were okay." He said and gave her a weak smile.

She raised her eyebrows.

"Which you clearly aren't." he hurried to say when seeing her expression. She still looked annoyed, and he really wanted to make her smile again.

She saw the innocent look in his eyes, and sighed. She could not be truly angry with Acacius, he was always nice to her, but she could not ignore the fact that he was involved with treating her friend the way they had done.

"It was horrible what you did to Fiona." She said.

"I know… I had no idea that Avery was going to do that! It was an impulsive thing, and I apologize for his actions."

He sounded truly sorry about it all, and she could not help but to give him a soft little smile. When he saw her smiling he immediately felt relieved, and shrugged.

"I don't want you to be hurt." He said.

She looked into his eyes, and when she did he could tell that she was still sad.

"Let's go to the common room. " she said, trying to keep her voice as steady as possible since she felt tears coming on, and the thickness in her throat did not help. Still, she managed not to sound too miserable.

Acacius nodded perceptively.

The following morning everyone seemed to know about the incident, and they all talked of how it had happened. Everyone seemed to have different knowledge of the incident, though only a few knew the truth of what had actually taken place. All the stories were horrible, it did not matter who told it, a Gryffindor or a Slytherin, they all exaggerated and either glorified Avery or made him sound villainous. Either way, it was extreme.

Eleana held her books against her chest while walking down the hall. She noticed the glares and she heard the whispering coming from people. Even so, she tried to keep her head high and not let it get to her.

"Tell your friends to pick on people their own size for once." Said a boy standing by the window. He had turned to her and now he was looking accusingly at her, his voice harsh.

She merely glanced at him, keeping a straight face before she looked away and kept on walking as she had this whole time of fired glares and accusations.

You may think that when all the other houses looked at her angrily, the Slytherins would embrace her, unfortunately that was not the case. See, they knew she had spent time with a muggleborn, and many found it very strange, and some were repulsed by the thought. Her brother had, to ease her trouble and to keep his family's reputation intact, been telling people that she had not actually been friends with that girl. Only that she had a gentle heart, and that had caused her to pity the girl. Eleana was very angry with him when she found out what he was telling people, however, it did ease the Slytherins recent, but for the other houses it only made them dislike her more. Fiona did not even want to speak with her, she had visited her in the hospital wing and Eleana had realised that Fiona had come to hate her.

She felt more lost than ever, and more alone than ever. Torn between two sides, torn between what she wanted to be like, and what her family wanted her to be like. But she told herself she had gotten herself in this mess, and it was her choices that had led her to here.

Author's note: I know Sirius wasn't in this chapter, but don't worry there's gonna be more of him from now on. Also, I think that this chapter was important for understanding and getting to know Eleana. Thank you all for the response I get, and thanks for reading ;) (I'll keep posting chapters on a regular basis)