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A/n: Sorry about the long wait. I just moved across the country, and it is the start of the new school year and I have a TON of homework. I will try to update at least once a week.

Chapter 9: The Next Week

The following week was the worst one yet, spent at Hogwarts. I spent every free moment scrambling around trying to find info about my family history. Truth be told, I didn't know that much about my ansestors, just what my parents told me, growing up. Which really wasn't enough for a project. I guess my mouth just ran away with me again.

Because of my lack of info, My presentation was horrible. Professor Hall just sat there smirking at me the entire time. I guess he dosn't like Malfoys.

Weasley, annoyingly, although not unexpectidly, took great pleasure in my discomfort. An hour after class was over Hermione and Neville had to stop me from punching him in the face, as he told several ravenclaws about my presentation. All of them were laughing.

Then add on top of it all, the sandy blonde haired boy. Hermione had informed me that his name was Seamus finn-i-something. I Can't remember his last name and don't really want to.

Seamus seems to have decided that he is going to make the rest of my life horrible. Every lesson for three days straight, he would sit behind me and pull my hair. untill I got smart and started sitting at the back of the room.

Then he triped me in the hall twice that week and to top it all off, after history of magic and my terrible presentation, at dinner, he stuck a huge wad of chewed up gum in my long blonde hair. Weasley seemed to find it terribly amusing. I, however, did not. It took Hermione and I nearly an hour and a half to get all the gum out. I was gratefull that I didn't have to cut my hair, thanks to Hermione and her talent with a wand.

Over all my week had been pretty bad, and I was hoping that the upcoming week would be better.

The week started off pretty good, which I took as a good omen. Seamus had caught the flu and lost his voice for 3 days. Weasley seemed to have run out of things to bug me with. And I made a new friend.

I was walking around the library, trying to find a table that I could sit at and do my homework. I had tryied to do it in the common room, but neville already had it done and Hermione was ranting about a broomstick and rule breakers.

As I circled the library, I realized that there wern't any completely empty tables. If fact there were only two that had any empty seats at all.

Deciding not to bother the group of slytherin 7th years, I sat down at a table that only had one other person.

As I sat down she looked up.

"Hi," I said "Do you mind if I sit here?"

"Not at all." She said happily "I'm Susan, I'm in Hufflepuff. And you're Catherine the gryffindor Malfoy"

Slightly suprised I nodded. After that she became the fourth member of our group.

So the first few days were reletivly calm. if you excluded the few hours I spent with the Weasley twins in the library, quietly discusing prank ideas. All three of us together were able to come up with some great ideas, even if they were down one on their prank tester list.

"Okay, I think we should defenitly do the bubble prank on snape." Fred Weasley said excitedly

My head shot up so fast my neck cracked "No!" I hissed rubbing the back of my neck. Both twins looked at me in suprise.

"Why" George asked.

"Well, I don't care if you two do something on Snape. but please don't involve me or my ideas." I pleaded

"Why" George repeated.

"There's no way I am pranking my Godfather, he knows me to well. He'd know it was me! And my punishment would be more than a detention" I said loudly, receiving a glare from the librarian. Both twins mouths dropped open

"Your godfather is Snape?" Fred gasped

I nodded "He's actualy not that bad" And at the looks the twins gave me I added "Once you get know him."

"Ah, that's always the catch init?" George said wisely. I nodded.

The next day the entire school was taking about how the Weasley twins had filled the charms classroom with purple and blue bouncy bubbles. They both recieved a weeks worth of detentions.

It was halloween that things started to get kinda weird.

The day started out normal. Hermione, Neville, and I went down to breakfast together, and in the great hall Susan joined us. Classes were boring, seamus was flicking peices of paper at me, and weasley was making his snide remarks about me as usaul.

But during charms Weasley got frustrated and did something very cruel. Hermione was unfortunatly pared with him and unfortunatly she was being extremely bossy.

I didn't actualy see what happened, but apparently Harry did. All I know was Weasley said something very unkind, and I couldn't find Hermione anywhere. Neville and Susan helped, but none of us had any idea where she was, and soon we all had to go back to class.