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Chapter 2 - Dinner and a Fight?
Jessie stood in front of a table full of teachers. Behind her were four tables, each decorated in different colors, full of students.
One of the teachers stood and brought a hat on a stool out. Jessie tuned out the hat while it sang some kind of song. She looked around the room, her eyes resting on Draco, sitting at the table decorated in green and silver.
Draco looked around the room when he felt eyes on him. He looked at Jessie, finding the eyes, and smiled at her.
Jessie saw Draco smile at her and she winked at him. "Jessie Black is our new fifth year student." Jessie turned her attention to the front, to see Dumbledore talking. "As in the past, the Forbidden Forest is off limits. For dangerous things lurk there. Also, our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," a man stood up at this acknowledgement, "is Professor Lupin. Some students may know him from two years ago." Lupin sat and Dumbledore clapped his hands.
The woman who brought out the hat walked over to the stool with a scroll in her hand. "Black, Jessie."
Jessie walked up and put the hat on her head and sat on the stool. Hmmm. you have great power, you would do well in Slytherin. She heard in her head. 'No!' Then it will be. "Gryffindor!" Jessie pulled the hat off and sat it on the stool. Three tables had erupted into a cheer, as the other table sat silently. She had seen Draco's face fall at what had been announced. She sat down across from Hermione, looking over Hermione's shoulder, Jessie could see Draco. Harry, who sat next to her, was looking at Professor Lupin with joy in his eyes.
"It's so great that you're in Gryffindor!" Hermione said from across the table. The sorting was over and everyone was eating.
"Yea. What do we do as far as classes?" Jessie asked.
"We get our schedules tomorrow, and then Monday we start classes." Harry said between fork fulls of food.
Jessie pushed her food around her plate, eating very little. Hermione noticed what she was doing, "Anything wrong, Jessie?"
Jessie looked up, "Not really, I'm just waiting for a letter. That's all." Jessie looked across to the Slytherin table, Draco sat between the two bullies. It looked like he wasn't really paying attention, only nodding.
Draco looked up when he felt a heated gaze on him. He surprisingly found himself looking into a pair of green eyes from the Gryffindor table. They were Jessie's and he smiled at her. Then Draco looked up to the sky, almost transfixed by the beautiful eagle that had flown in the window.
Jessie looked up to see what Draco and most of the rest of the school where looking at. A hawk eagle was flying towards the Gryffindor table. The eagle landed in front of Jessie, she held out her arm and it climbed on to it. She took the note attached to its foot, and then gave it some meat off of her plate.
"He's yours?" Ron said enthusiastically.
"She, and yes she's mine. Was a present for my 12th birthday." Jessie said stroking the eagle, she then threw her arm up and the eagle took flight, and flew out the window. Jessie looked over at Draco, he seemed to be amused at most of the students shocked reaction to the eagle.
Draco looked over at Jessie. She was looking at him, a smile playing at her lips, and he knew that there was one on his own. He thought it was funny that most people had never thought of having an eagle instead of an owl. From his lifestyle, he knew that an eagle was very rare, even among the richer families. His father had gone to great lengths to get one, when Draco was younger. Like my pet? Shock crossed Draco's face when he heard this in his head, but he knew who it was because Jessie had her eyebrow raised like she had just asked a question, that wasn't being answered.
Jessie smiled a little more, shock and confusion coming across Draco's features.
"Who gave you the owl?" Harry said drawing Jessie's attention away from Draco, a small scowl on his face.
"My cousins in America, Hawk eagles are a little more common in America. They saw me eyeing her every time we passed by the shop, so they bought her for me." Jessie said giving Harry her full attention.
Desserts appeared on the table in front of them. Ron picked some desserts, and put them on his plate. Jessie picked one and picked at it a little. "Aren't those supposed to be expensive?" Ron asked going a little pink.
Jessie smiled, "They are, but my cousins have plenty to buy me the things I want."
"Are there many people with the last name Black?" Harry asked, looking down a little.
"No, anyone with the last name Black is related. It's an old wizarding name, as well. The Blacks in America are the only Blacks to ever marry a non-pure blood. Most of my ancestors thought it best to keep the blood line pure." Jessie said the last part sourly.
"You don't believe the same?" Ron asked.
Jessie looked at him, "If I did, I would be at the Slytherin table and nowhere never Hermione." She said coolly.
"Why not Hermione you don't know her blood line!" Ron said harshly.
"If Draco hadn't come into the compartment I wouldn't. He called her a mudblood, that means she comes from a muggle family." Jessie said hotly.
"You two, please stop this.." Harry and Hermione said, almost together.
"No Harry. Don't call her that!" Ron said starting to stand up.
"Don't bother standing up! I'm leaving, I don't need to take this!" Jessie stood up, picked up her letter, and stalked out of the Great Hall, most of the students' eyes on her.
Draco looked up when he heard Weasley yell. He watched Jessie get up and storm out. 'That's interesting.' Draco stood up and walked out of the Great Hall. He walked toward Gryffindor Tower, and found Jessie sitting on the stairs. "What happened? I thought you were being all buddy buddy?" He said sitting down next to her.
Jessie looked up when she heard Draco's question. She watched as he sat down next to her. "I'm not really sure.they were asking me questions. We got on the topic of pure blood, then muggle born and Ron just blew up." Jessie put her head in her hand and sighed. Draco put his hand on her shoulder, comfortingly. "Maybe I shouldn't have gone to Gryffindor." She mumbled.
"What do you mean?" Draco asked, a little confused.
Jessie looked up at him, "The sorting hat wanted to put me in Slytherin."
"Then how did you end up in Gryffindor?" He asked softly.
"I didn't want to go to Slytherin, because I don't want to be consumed by the hunt for power." Jessie paused seeing a little confusion on Draco's face, she smiled a little, "I have a lot of emotions that, if put in the right place would take over. I don't want that to happen."
Draco nodded, "I can understand that."
"Why don't you like Harry?" Jessie asked quietly.
Draco sighed, "My father's always comparing me to Potter, and punishing me when he does better.makes you hate a person. I obviously can't take it out on my father, so Potter's the next best thing."
Jessie nodded, "So how do you like my pet? You never answered my question."
Draco looked at Jessie, she had a smile across her face. "Beautiful! Where did you get her?"
"At a store in America. Every time my cousins and I would go shopping, I'd stop in front to 'Barbara's Animal Shop'. I guess they just got tired of stopping there every time." Jessie looked up to see students making their way towards the two. "Guess it's time for bed."
Draco stood up and pulled Jessie to her feet. "I should get going. I'll see you tomorrow?"
Jessie nodded, "Absolutely." Jessie watched Draco walk off towards the Slytherin dorms. 'Why does he appeal to me so much?' Jessie turned and went up the stairs. She found herself in front of a portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress.
Draco walked to the Slytherin common room, a smile playing at his lips. Anyone passing him gave him weird looks. 'Why can I just let go when she's around? How can she get past all my walls when no one else can?' He made it all the way to his room without meeting up with the two boys he was always seen with, Crabbe and Goyle.
Draco changed, flopped down on his bed, and mumbled something. The curtains around his bed closed and all other noises disappeared. He sighed, he'd never been affected like this by someone. Thinking about what happened tonight, Draco fell asleep.
The fat lady looked down at Jessie, "Password?" was all she said.
"Umm." Jessie didn't know the password, she had left before she found out.
"Butterbeer." Said a voice behind Jessie. The portrait swung open and Jessie climbed in, and so did the girl behind her. The girl turned to Jessie, "Hi I'm Brianne Shay. What's your name?"
Jessie looked the girl over, she had dark red hair down to her waist, and blue eyes. "I'm Jessie Black. Thanks for helping me."
"It's no problem at all. You're the new fifth year, right?" Brianne asked as the girls took a seat on a couch by the big fireplace in the common room.
"Yea, are you a fifth year?" Jessie asked looking around the room, most people that were coming in where going straight to their rooms.
"Yea I've been here since I was a first year. Where did you transfer from, if you don't mind me asking?" Brianne asked as she watched a round- faced boy enter the common room. He waved at Brianne and she waved back, smiling.
Jessie chuckled a little at the transaction between the two, drawing Brianne's attention back. "I'm from America. Who was that?" she said raising an eyebrow.
"That was Neville Longbottom. He's one of my friends. Loses his toad a lot, but he's got a kind heart. What's so funny by the way?" Brianne said, her turn to raise an eyebrow.
"It's just that you two look so cute, you'd probably make a cute couple." Jessie said shrugging.
"Oh?" Brianne said yawning, "It must be late."
"Yea." Jessie said as the two girls got up and headed across the room. Harry, Hermione, and Ron walked into the common room. "I'll see you tomorrow Brianne."
"Jessie." Harry said softly, almost questioningly.
"Night Jessie." Brianne said leaving Jessie with Hermione, Ron, and Harry.
"I wanna talk about what happened at the table." Harry said.
"It's not your place to talk about it Harry. Anyway, it's late and I'm tired. We can talk about it some other time. Good Night!" With that Jessie left the three standing in the common room. Jessie changed, crawled into bed, and mumbled something. Her curtains closed and all other noises disappeared.
End of chapter 2. So what did everyone think? Hopefully I'll post chapter 3 soon, depends on how long it takes me to write it, but I'll get it up A.S.A.P.