Lizzie arrived at Malfoy Manor the next morning, with a smaller than average for trunk for a student, but most of her belongings were being left at the school. She covered her mouth as she coughed up ashes from the fire.

"Hello Elizabeth," Narcissa Malfoy said as she began dusting Lizzie off. "It is good to see you again."

"Thank you for inviting me, Mrs. Malfoy. I am really excited to be here."

Just then Lucius Malfoy, entered the parlor where Lizzie had arrived. "Well, I see our little Slytherin Princess has arrived safely."

"Thank you for having me Mr. Malfoy." Lizzie tried to smile and not be snarky. She hated the nickname she had been given over the summer. Slytherin Princess. The Malfoys were so sure that she would be sorted into Slytherin, but Lizzie was not. She wished they hadn't given her that name.

"Narcissa, take her to her room and get her cleaned up. I will have the servant bring up her belongings later." Lucius waved towards the door of the parlor, indicating for them to leave him alone.

Narcissa took hold of Lizzie's shoulders and lead her from the room. "Come Elizabeth. Mr. Malfoy has some important work to do." Lizzie just nodded and let herself be guided from the room.

Not long after arriving at the manor Lizzie was dressed in clean clothes, her face washed and hair brushed and braided. Once presentable Lizzie was ushered outside to meet Draco.

Lizzie found Draco flying around his the courtyard on a broomstick. Lizzie had never really had any desire to fly or play Quidditch, but she enjoyed watching it. And Draco was good at flying; he wasn't as good as Harry, but he was still good.

It was several minutes before Draco noticed that Lizzie was watching him. The corners of his mouth twitched up and he came down to the ground. "When did you get here Gingersnap?" This nickname was was more tolerable and even made Lizzie smile a little.

"About an hour ago. But I was all covered in ash, so I had to change first." Lizzie tugged at her braid a little.

"Well, now your here. You can help me practice." Draco tossed a ball to Lizzie. "I'm going to be on the house team this year." Draco said this with confidence and pride; as if he already knew he would be.

Lizzie threw the ball for the next hour and Draco chased after it, catching it each time before it fell to the ground. He then even tried to teach Lizzie how to fly, but all that happened is she fell two feet off the broom.

When Lizzie fell from the broom Draco ran to where she was. "Lizzie, are you alright?" He helped her up off the ground the broom forgotten.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I told you the broom was a bad idea. I am not looking forward to flying." Lizzie said brushing herself off.

"How is your hand?"

"My hand? What are you talking about?" Lizzie asked with her forehead wrinkled.

"The one Longbottom broke in the spring. Is it okay?"

Lizzie had honestly forgotten that she had broken her hand earlier that year. She looked at her left hand making a fist and releasing it. "Its fine. I honestly forgot I broke it."

"Good." Draco bent down and picked up his broom stick. "Lets go inside. We can play snap or something in my room." Lizzie nodded and followed Draco inside.

That night after dinner, more games and walking around the garden with Draco, Lizzie returned to her room to find her trunk unpacked and her pajamas laid out on the bed. She knew the Malfoys had servants but she did not expect them to unpack for her or to lay out her clothes. She could do things for herself.

Lizzie had also not expected a house elf to be building a fire for her. Surprised to see the elf, Lizzie almost squealed but stopped remembering that she wasn't suppose to do that.

"Oh. Dobby didn't mean to scare Ms Lizzie. Dobby will finish the fire and leave Ms Lizzie to sleep." The house elf, Dobby, Lizzie guessed said in a squeaky voice. He was small with ears bigger than his head; much like the house elves in the kitchens at Hogwarts.

"You didn't scare me. I was just surprised to see you. I didn't think anyone else was in the room."

"Dobby isn't suppose to be in Ms Lizzie's room when she is in here. Dobby thought he had more time before Ms Lizzie came back from Mr Draco's room."

"It's okay. I won't tell anybody." Lizzie grabbed her pajamas from her bed and walked to the bathroom.

"Thank you Ms Lizzie. Dobby will finish the fire now." Dobby returned to tending to the fire. As Lizzie passed him on the way to the bathroom she noticed that the house elf had bruises on his head and his hands were bandaged. She wanted to ask what had happened but she knew that Dobby would never tell her. It was how house elves were.

When she returned from changing and brushing her hair, Dobby was gone and there was a warm fire in the fireplace. Her blankets had also been turned down, the curtains closed and two cookies and a glass of milk were by her bed. The house elf worked fast. Lizzie smiled and silently thanked Dobby as she ate the cookies and then went to bed.

The next morning Lizzie and the Malfoys ate breakfast and then traveled to Diagon Alley. Draco and his father went down a dark side street, leaving Narcissa and Lizzie alone to begin her shopping.

"Well Elizabeth, why don't we start with your school robes?" Lizzie nodded and followed Mrs. Malfoy to Madame Malkin's.

Upon entering the shop Lizzie was placed on a pedestal and measured for robes. While she stood there Madame Malkin and Mrs. Malfoy carried on a conversation.

"I didn't know you had a daughter Narcissa I thought it was just Draco."

"Oh, Elizabeth isn't my daughter. She Severus Snape's daughter. She has been spending part of the summer holidays with us."

"I'm sure that has been enjoyable." Madame Malkin said this as she helped Lizzie off of the pedestal.

"It has been." Mrs. Malfoy smiled at Lizzie. "I think some new hair ribbons are as well. "

"Oh. Mrs. Malfoy, I'm not allowed to get anything that isn't on the list. " Lizzie twisted the end of her shirt in her hands.

Narcissa smoothed Lizzie's hair. "Don't worry about the money Elizabeth." She turned back to Madame Malkin. "Put the ribbons on my bill. We will pick them up later."

Lizzie smiled at Mrs. Malfoy. "Thank you."

Mrs. Malfoy took Lizzie's hand and led her from the store. "Now for a haircut. Your bangs are uneven."

After the haircut and some window shopping Lizzie and Mrs. Malfoy met Draco and Lucius at Flourish and Blots to buy books. While Lizzie didn't need to buy school books, because she already had them all, Severus had told her she could choose two books of her own to read. She was extremely excited.

"Draco, go with Elizabeth upstairs to pick out her books. We will finish the shopping down here." Mrs. Malfoy said nodding towards the stairs.

"Yes, Mother. " Draco took Lizzie hand "Come Lizzie." Lizzie grinned and went upstairs.

The two spent what felt like a hour to Draco upstairs looking at books. Lizzie loved to read for fun had a hard time choosing.

"Lizzie, are you finished yet? I'm bored." Draco whined the last part just ever so slightly.

Lizzie looked at the stack of books she had been looking at. She took the two from the top and turned to Draco and smiled. "Finished."

As the two headed down the stairs of the shop they could see quite the spectacle in the shop. Harry Potter and Gilderoy Lockheart were posing for pictures together. Harry looked distressed and embarrassed. Lizzie noticed the Weasley family and Hermione Granger in the crowd.

"I hate that Potter. Such a attention hog. Thinking he is better than the rest of us just because he is famous. He disgusts me." Draco said this as he ripped a page from a book.

"Drake. Don't say that. You hardly even know him." Lizzie didn't get a chance to comment on him ruining a book before he started in on Harry again.

Harry had come into earshot of Draco, and Draco was going to take the opportunity to be mean. "Bet you loved that didn't you Potter? Can't even go shopping with out making the newspaper can you?" Draco said this with a sneer.

A redheaded girl, who must have been a Weasley then spoke up. "Leave him alone."

"Awh. Got a little girl friend there do you Potter?" Draco snickered at the group.

Lizzie tugged on Draco's sleeve. "Drake. Stop. Let's just go."

"If anyone has a little girl friend its you Malfoy." This comment came from Ron Weasley.

"Stay out of it Lizzie." Draco said pulling his sleeve away.

Then Mr. Weasley tried to move his children and their friends from the store, but was blocked by Lucius Malfoy. Mr. Malfoy then began to get into the Weasley's and their appearance and other such things. Lizzie didn't like it and wanted to leave, but that didn't happen before the two adult men began fighting. They had to be pulled apart by Hagrid who was also in the shop.

"Draco. Elizabeth. We are leaving." Lucius waved at the door after handing something to the young Weasley girl. "We will come back for your books."

Lizzie put her books down and followed Mr. Malfoy and Draco from the store.

The final stop on their trip was to get Lizzie's wand. For this she was most excited.

"Well Miss Snape, is it finally your turn this year?" Mr. Ollivander asked they entered the shop.

Lizzie nodded. "Yes, Mr. Ollivander."

"Well let's see." The magical measuring tape began doing its job while Mr. Ollivander began pulling wands from the shelf.

They spent half an hour in the wand shop searching for Lizzie's perfect fit. Finally Mr. Ollivander pulled a box from the shelf. "Beech wood. Unicorn hair. Eleven inches." He handed Lizzie the wand, and tingles ran from her fingers all the way up her arm. She grinned and looked at Mr. Ollivander.

"Well, my dear, I do believe this is the one for you." He repackaged the wand and Lizzie paid for it from her sack of money.

"Thank you, Mr. Ollivander." Lizzie said as they headed for the door.

"Your welcome, little one. Best of luck to you at Hogwarts." Ollivander waved lightly at the young girl as she left his shop.

As they walked down the streets of Diagon Alley, Draco spun Lizzie around his finger much like Hagrid did. "Our wand cores match Lizzie. Did you know that?"

Lizzie shook her head. "What does that mean?"

Draco shrugged. "I don't know. Nothing I guess. I just thought it was interesting." Draco was kind of right. It was interesting, but at the same time, having the same core as someone else was not a huge deal, as there where only three cores to choose from at Ollivanders. But, if they had come from the same unicorn, now that would have been a different story entirely. And that would have been really interesting.

That night when they returned to the Manor, Lizzie found her pajamas laid out, the fire warm, and her blankets turned down. She had secretly hoped to see Dobby again, but he was no where to be seen. Lizzie yawned and rubbed her eyes. It was defiantly time to go to bed after such an interesting, exciting day.