Title: Harry Potter and his Cronies go to Muggle University! Part 4

Author: love-child-1403

Disclaimer: Although I would love to own the characters, I think we all know that I don't... It would be a little odd for you to have thought otherwise, hm? All other characters here (e.g. Alice, Maura, Katrina, Blanca, Aria) are all my own.

Brief Summary: The title pretty much says it all - but if you don't like Hermione & Ron pairings or Harry & Other Character pairings then I suggest that you don't read this - if this is not the case, enjoy!

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AN://Sorry this was such a long time coming but my muse went on holiday and my exams are looming – LOOMING! And looming exams are definitely the worst kind… Anyway, in this chapter Draco Malfoy is back by popular demand (Ok, so only a few people have asked me to make him a more important character but it's enough for me!) and I will be introducing a couple of new ones… Read, relax and enjoy…

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Harry gaped at Alice. Then, just to be sure she had got the point, he gaped a little more. He only stopped when Alice started to explain, thinking it would probably look rude if his mouth was hanging open whilst she was talking.

"Sorry, Harry – but how was I to know you were a wizard?" she said, shrugging and fiddling with the end of her shirt. Harry had to admit that she had a point there. She wasn't exactly allowed to tell him that she was supposed to be magical but wasn't, especially as she suspected him to be a Muggle.

"Ok…" he said slowly, still trying to take it all in. "So, you're a squib?" Alice winced slightly but nodded nonetheless. "And that means that you're from a magical family, right?" At this, she broke into a grin and she suddenly looked proud.

"Yep! I'm actually a pure-blood. The twins went to Hogwarts and so did Siân and Dylan." Her smile faltered slightly at Harry's perplexed look. "Oh, yeah," she conceded, "I never told you about my vast family, did I? Well, they're all older than I am, the twins being the oldest by far at 27 – that's Kendra and Kendrick. And then there's Siân and Dylan, who're 24 and 21 respectively." Harry nodded at her to continue. "Basically, my family thinks I'm a disgrace and that I bring shame on the family…" Alice's speech slowed and her look of pride suddenly disappeared, to be replaced with that look you get from a puppy when someone treads on its paw.

This was when Maura cut in.

"Basically, her family, being the stuck-up arses that they are," (Alice winced at this but said nothing) "think that she's inferior because she can't do magic." Harry could tell by the look on Maura's face that she didn't hold with that sort of behaviour, and he was suddenly reminded of Hermione.

"But, Alice…" Harry began slowly, running a hand contemplatively through his hair. "You did magic back there. And you may not have realised but you did some last night in my dorm, too." Maura's eyebrows practically disappeared off her head at this comment, but not because she was surprised.

"You were in his dorm last night?" she asked incredulously, a smirk appearing on her lips where before there had only been the occasional wince of pain. Alice flushed an attractive shade of pink, which only darkened as Maura continued. "And there was magic?" Harry could see the cogs turning in her head – in entirely the wrong direction, so he decided to come to Alice's aid.

"She couldn't sleep so she came into our dorm, somehow managing to enter through a locked door," Alice threw Harry an odd look.

"You said it was unlocked!" Her tone was accusatory but there was a hint of hurt in there too. Harry knew it was going to be difficult to explain to her. For a start, he didn't know why he'd lied to her about it in the first place. Maybe he didn't think she would believe him. It was only now that he realised he was going to have to try pretty hard to find something she wouldn't believe.

"I didn't think you'd believe me if I told you it was locked – I didn't know you weren't a Muggle, did I?" Harry realised that he sounded pretty defensive but Alice just accepted it with a smile and a slight shrug of her shoulders.

"I guess not…" Maura ignored this triviality and continued.

"Why didn't you come to my dorm instead?" she asked Alice, a mischievous smile on her lips. Alice mumbled something about peanut butter and Cheerios then stopped talking altogether.

After a few moments of intense staring from Maura and intense embarrassment from Alice, Harry was still confused, and decided that it would probably be best if he just left.

"Erm… I've gotta run – I'm going to try and get some sleep in before my next lecture…" He threw Alice an apologetic look and quickly vacated Maura's dormitory.

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Katrina pulled out her wand and sent an angry, pointless hex out of one of the hall windows, narrowly missing a rather perplexed pigeon as it flew past. She growled. She would much rather have hit it. Blanca walked calmly next to her as she stormed down the corridor, flinging hexes around and cursing under her breath.

"Fucking mudblood and her stupid friends… Next time I see that Alice girl, I'm going to-"

"She's a pureblood, Reno – you can't do a damn thing…" Katrina stopped in her tracks and whirled around to face a demure-looking Blanca.

"She's a WHAT?!" Katrina hissed, infuriatingly close to a mental breakdown – that impudent girl was sullying the name of her kind. Blanca shrugged and flicked back her long dark hair. Blanca was a Spanish half-blood whom Katrina had befriended the year before. She was extremely beautiful and clever but Katrina didn't care about that – besides, she was just as attractive and her mind, though evil, was pretty sharp. No – the reason that Katrina was friends with this particular half-blood was that it greatly angered her parents. And though she had grown rather fond of the girl, that was pretty much her aim in life…

"She comes from a long line of pureblood witches and wizards and-" Katrina shut her up with a sidelong glare.

"I don't care what her blood is like, I'll drain every last drop…" she trailed off at the end of her sentence, staring longingly down the long corridor. Malfoy was striding towards her, his bright blonde hair glinting in the sunlight. She sighed breathily as he continued towards her and she couldn't help but note the delicious way his baggy jeans glanced off his lithe frame and the confidence that he exuded with every step.

A sigh beside her brought Katrina back to where she was standing.

Next to Blanca.

A half-blood.

And Draco Malfoy was coming towards her, every step bringing him closer to what Katrina saw as her impending doom.

She thought fast, opening a door to her right and shoving Blanca inside, ignoring her startled protests and slamming it in her face. She leant casually against the door and tried to look extremely cool, although her heart was beating out one hell of a rhythm against her ribcage.

"Hey, Katrina," Malfoy drawled as he passed her, nearly giving her heart failure. Not that she would have cared – at that moment she would have died happy…

"Hi, Draco," she answered breathlessly – but he had already rounded the corner and disappeared from sight. Katrina gave a soft moan and slid down the door. "He said 'hey'…!" She felt as light as air!

A banging on the door she was leaning against brought her back to her senses and she stood up and brushed herself down. She turned and opened the door… to find the most comical sight she had ever seen in her life. Blanca was sitting on the floor of what appeared to be a broom cupboard (though not the sort of brooms that Katrina was familiar with), a whole host of cleaning products strewn across her lap – and a bucket on her head.

Katrina's delighted laughter could be heard for miles.

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Ok, so I lied about the toast and the Cheerios…

Hope you enjoyed reading that as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Will bring next part out as soon as possible.

Please review – I'll keep bashing the message in, you know? IT REALLY DOES HELP!

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