Thank you to my beta for being so understanding as to why this chapter is so late... cleaning my room is such a scary thing to do...
Chapter 6 Favoritism, Hoppy, and Draggy
After the cold and silent dinner, Rose was beginning to regret asking the Sorting Hat to place her in Slytherin, almost all the Slytherins were cold, and even cruel to Rose. While Draco tried to shield her the best that he could, that didn't stop Pansy Parkinson from flinging her mash potatoes into Rose's hair, or Theodore Nott "accidentally" spilling his pumpkin juice onto her lap. However, it was enough to tame down the glares, and Rose was sure that they would have done a lot worse to her, if it wasn't for the fact that they respected the Malfoy family so much. (She had even heard some of the girls whisper that, "-the members of the Malfoy family have been regarded as the Princes and Princesses of Slytherin for generations." Who knew!)
After dinner had ended the prefects stood up and called for all the first years to line up behind the prefect of each house, so that they could be led to their house common rooms. The Gryffindor first years left the room first, and after that, the Ravenclaws, then the Hufflepuffs, and then finally the Slytherins. After they left the great hall, they headed down moving staircase after moving staircase, (Rose was too afraid of the rest of her Slytherin house-mates to do more then follow the person in front of her.) until the ivory tiles of the rest of the castle turned into cold, hard, inky black stone; the moving and talking portraits started to become less and less, and more and more cold inky black wall replaced the warm wall paper of the upper floors; the glares of the Slytherins around her became harder and harder with each step.
Eventually, Pansy Parkinson -the one who had flung her mashed potatoes at her- bumped into her rather harshly, and sent her sprawling onto the floor. "Go back to dirt you came from, Mudblood, only those of pureblood are allowed to see where the noble common-room of Slytherin is hidden you trash." she said in a very cold and clipped tone, she the preceded to jump onto Draco, and pull herself close to his form. "Dracy-poo! Make the pest go away!"
"Get off me you hag!" Draco then started to shake her off his form, hopping around like an idiot when she grabbed onto is leg. "Get her off of me!" he shouted out. Crabbe and Goyle looked to each other, and then ran to help Draco get Pansy off of him.
"But Dracy-poo! I don't wanna get off until that- that- that thing is in the garbage where she belongs!" Pansy shrieked. Draco sneered at her and Crabbe was finally able to get her off. While many of the Slytherins were still glaring at Rose, another good amount of them seemed to be disgusted with Pansy.
Rose played with her ring a bit before finally deciding to speak up. "Ummmm, me being a muggle-borne...the sorting hat...corrected me on that. He told me I'm not the muggle-borne I've been led to believe. He said something about me being a- a- a half blood." she stuttered a bit, and Rose came to a new realization. Slytherins are scary...
All the Slytherins around her gave her an incredulous look, some of them, seemed to except what the Sorting Hat had told her, others seemed to think she was lying. But all in all, the glares where at least cut in half.
"And what are all of you still doing in the hallway-?' drolled out a voice from behind. All the Slytherins seemed to take a double look, and Rose, in utter shock, stuttered back in surprise , as Rose was falling backwards, flinging her arms around trying to get her balance. Pansy sneered -although nobody seemed to see her- and stuck her leg out when Rose came falling her way.
As Rose was lying on the ground starring up at the ceiling in shock -a very pretty ceiling by the way- Pansy started laughing, and all the people around her seemed to follow.
Rose's face seemed to go as red as her name (and her hair) for a second time that night, as many of her fellow Slytherins were laughing around her. Draco seemed to break from his shock, and -as Pansy was no longer holding on to him- rushed over to Rose and helped her back on her feet.
"Miss Parkinson! Ten points from Slytherin! And I don't believe I need to state that obvious reason?" said Professor Snape sharply. All the Slytherins starred at Professor Snape in shock, however, Rose, not knowing how Snape usually behaved, breathed out in relief, letting out a breath she didn't even know she was holding. "And what are you all looking at?" the Professor turned to the prefix in charge, "You, continue your duties and lead these Slytherins into their common room."
As most of the Slytherins broke away from the crowd, following the Prefix to their common room, the Professor put his hand on Rose's shoulder, holding her in place. "Not you Miss Potter."
When all the Slytherins, except for Draco, Rose, and Professor Snape, had left the hallway. Professor Snape's hand tightened. "Just because I helped you today, Miss Potter, doesn't mean this is going to become a regular occurrence." with that, Professor Snape turned to Draco. "Mr. Malfoy, I believe your father has informed you of whereabouts of the Slytherin common room?"
All Draco did was nod.
"Very well then, now, leave my sight before I dock more points for lallygagging in the hallways. The password is 'Basilisk'." Draco seemed to break out of his shock, grabbed onto Rose's hand and continued to drag her down the hall, away from their temperamental head of house.
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Before Draco and Rose reached the Slytherin common room, Draco dragged her to an out of the way spot.
"What the h-" "Draco!" "-did you do to Professor Snape! I would never have expected in a million years for him to actually -intake of breath- stand up for someone with your heritage against a pureblood."
"You mean he doesn't do that regularly?" Rose's eyes lit up, and she started jumping up and down in excitement. "Wait a minute, does that mean I'm special! Yay! I'm special! I'm special! I'm special! I'm-" Rose was just about to pump her fist up into the air, when Draco put a hand on her shoulder and grabbed her fist. An annoyed and tired look was on his face.
"Rose. Stop acting like a stupid f-" "Do you want me to stick a bar of soap in your mouth?" "-rabbit! Seriously. You're like a rabbit on sugar high..." Rose could practically see the gears in his head turning, until the light bulb lit up. Then, a devilish smile appeared on his face. Rose took a step back, then another, then another, and then another until...
"So Rose, if you want to act like a f-" "Honestly, do you kiss to your mother with that mouth!" "-rabbit on high, then how do you feel about your new nickname, Hoppy?"
"Draco! You wouldn't dare!"
A smirk appeared on his face, he crossed his arms, then suddenly his smirk changed into an innocent look. "I'm so sorry, Hoppy. But I just did."
"But Draco, that's not fai~~~~~~r! Why do I have to be Hoppy? Why can't you be Hoppy?" she whined.
"You don't see me hopping around like a rabbit so why should I be Hoppy, Hoppy?"
"Fine then, but if I'm Hoppy, then your Dragon!" a superior look appeared on her face, as if she had just won a battle.
"Rose you s-" "Draggy!" "-at making- wait. Did you just call me DRAGGY?"
"Well yes, I don't know why I have to have a 'y ' at the end and you don't, so you're gonna be Draggy."
"Of all the differences you could have noticed about those words, you only notice the 'y'!" he shouted out in distress. He then gave Rose a look, as if to ask how he even knew her in the first place.
"Well, Draggy sounds so~ much better than Dragon, if you ask me."
"Draggy," he spit out the word, as if it was some vile poison "is not a better nickname than Dragon! It's a horrible f-" "Draggy! Don't say bad words!" "-nickname! At least Dragon was cool!"
"Draggy is much better than Dragon!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"..."
"...wait a moment...Why are you being so quiet?"
"Because you just admitted that I'm right."
"I did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did n-"
"SHUT UP!"
Draco and Rose turned around to see a portrait glaring down at them. He had this evil twinkle in his eye, and he looked positively murderous. "Shut up now you brats! Now get out of my sight!" He yelled out. Draco and Rose slowly backed away from the evil portrait, until they turned and took off running down the hallway. When they finally reached the entrance of the Slytherin common room, they slowed down to a stop.
Panting, Rose asked, "What was his problem?" The sound of Draco palming his forehead filled the empty hallway.
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Unknown two the two young children, a few minutes after they had left the area, an enigma of a figure stepped out of the shadows. The figure had seen the entire argument, and was quite pleased with what he had seen, the friendship between the two children had a very large chance of working to his advantage, as it could set his plans into motion much earlier than expected.
"What are you up to my decedent? Surly nothing evil within these halls? I will not have any decedent of mine causing trouble in these halls. I shall not allow it! Wait until the summer if you must. My colleagues and I worked too hard to create this very Academy for you to destroy it in your petty battles."
"I apologize, oh great and noble Salazar, however, the opportunity is too great to simply ignore."
Nata: YA! FIFTEEN REVIEWS! Lets see if we can make it twenty-five!
Shi-shi: Yay! Authors note! Well, since Nata so kindly wrote this chapter for you guys... if you don't review... *takes out shotgun* You get the idea. =^w^=
Nata: I know Salazar Slytherin is acting a little OC...but, when you think about it he's actually telling him just to not cause trouble INSIDE of school, didn't say anything about outside of school. As long as it's not Hogwarts.
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