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When I reached the bottom I saw that the common room was alive with people's gossipy chit-chat, much like it had been the day before.
"Oi! Olivia." I turned to see Seamus stand up from group of boys that were lounging in front of the fire place. "What's the deal with Malfoy?" The disapproval rang clear in his voice "In the past two days that Slytherin prat has been here twice…" thank goodness he didn't know about Draco's surprise visit from the other night. "And both times he's been here he's asked for you. Now don't get me wrong, you seem like a great girl, but what are you going off with that duffer for?" He basically said what was on everyone's minds (Although something tells me he said it nicer then Parvati would have) I could feel every pair of eye on me . A wave of anger indated over me and out of nowhere I grew the lady balls to tell off everyone in the room.
"Well first things first, I would like to thank you Seamus, for having the balls to approach me, unlike everyone else who just gossiped childishly behind my back." I started causing Seamus to smile and let out a few laughs "And to answer your question Draco is here because Dumbledore has asked him to show me around the castle, so I don't get lost on the first day of classes." The tone of my voice caused some students to stiffen awkwardly, others to be ashamed of themselves, and some to even laugh at the fact that I wasn't shriveling away from the situation."Oh and I would appreciate it if from now on you could follow Mr. Finnegan's example and come to me when you have a question that pertains to me, and not whisper sweet rumors behind my back." I added. The last part earned me a few more muffled giggles.
It seemed that Seamus couldn't get the grin on his face to go wide enough.
"Well I can tell you Miss. Stone that with that sense of humor of yours were going to be great pals." he reached out to shake my hand. I took it and brought him closer, till my mouth was to his ear.
"If you ever put me on the spot like that again so help me I will hex you into next month." I fed him a threat that I could never fulfill. We pulled apart and the look on his face was priceless. "So lets put this behind us and be pals." I smiled, he smiled back though I could tell he was a bit intimidated by me now. After a few seconds the room fell back into a casual atmosphere, and no one was paying attention to me anymore, well with the exception of three people.
"I hope you weren't planning on going unnoticed this year." Ron laughed from beside me.
"Wait till the other houses hear about this. One Gryffindor telling off the rest of here house, you might even gather up a small fan base with the Slytherin." Harry joked.
"While that might be true I think that Olivia needs to go and see to one Slytherin in particular." Hermione, being the voice of reason, spoke up.
And as if he magically heard her faint knocking started up from the common room entrance.
"Sounds like the duffers starting to get impatient." Dean spoke up from the couch.
"Yes I'd better go. My ferrite awaits" I said in an overly dramatic fashion, causing the boys to chuckle.
"See you later Olivia." Dean waved goodbye.
"Good luck." Ron said sincerely.
"Thanks. I'll be needing it." I spoke only to my trio of friends. The rest of the students either waved or just didn't care so they continued with whatever it was they were doing. I looked to Harry last, He simply gave me a small but reassuring smile, and a sad wave. It must suck for him, having to see a new friend go off with an old enemy. I thought to myself. I smiled widely at him, which in turn caused his smile to increase in with. I decided that it was time to exit the warmth and certainty of the common room, and stumbled out into the gloomy cold air in the hallway.
"Finally." Draco breathed out dramatically.
"Sorry, I got held up. Apparently Gryffindors and Slytherins aren't supposed to spend time together " I joked sarcastically.
"Really? Who knew." he matched my sarcastic tone perfectly. I was surprised by his levity, it was a nice change from his usually snotty attitude. I'd pick this Draco over the angry gets up in my face Draco any day.
"Shall we continue with the tour of Hogwarts?" I asked happily.
"We shall." He said simply, then held out his arm for me, I quickly accepted it and we were off down the staircase.
"I thought you weren't going to be all buddy-buddy with me buddy." I pointed to our locked arms.
"Well I'd happily push you down again." he replied, jokingly (At least I hoped he was joking, cause Hogwarts has some hard ass floors.)
"Their will be no need for that I can assure you." I looked over at him. He still seemed like the same old Draco, at first glace, but if you looked closer you could see that his usual façade of teenage anger had softened a bit. And the fact the he was making physical contact with me was a step in the right direction ( and I mean in a friendly direction… you perverts.) I knew it was going to take some time before we were actually friends, but I knew we were getting somewhere.
"So what are you? Mudblood? Pure Blood? A squib perhaps?" apparently I thought wrong.
"Well I'm obviously not a squib, seeing as I am a student here and not Mr. Filch's apprentice." I was go thankful that I had read most of the book and knew what he was a squib was.
"True, so what is your blood status exactly? Because I know for a fact that I will not stoop so low as to befriend a mudblood." he spat out rudely. I stopped abruptly, yanking him to a stop as well.
"Okay first of all lets keep the muggle-born bashing to a zero when I'm around, and second of all so what if I was a muggle-born witch. I could still do magic and probably do it better then any pure blooded witch or wizard could." I got defensive, and it looked as if it amused him. Then it dawned on me that I really should stop bragging about my nonexistent magical skills, because if anyone challenges me and asks me to prove how magnificent they are then I would be completely fucked.
"So your pure-blooded then." He smiled to himself.
"What?" He pulled me from my panicked thoughts. Where did he get the idea that I'm pure blooded?
"Well you said 'if I was a muggle-born', key word being if, which implies that you are not in fact a mudblood, which means your are pureblooded, or maybe a half-blood?" he put his finger to his chin as if he was deep in thought.
"Sure, yes I'm pure blooded." I said annoyance clear in my voice. I lied to him because I just didn't want to talk about it anymore, all this talk of mudbloods vs. purebloods was taking me and Draco's relationship in the wrong direction.
"I guess that makes this a bit easier." he pulled me forward so that we were walking again.
"Oh grow up Malfoy." I said harshly.
"So were back to Malfoy?" he teased "Someone's not being very friendly." He sang
"Someone didn't want us to be friendly." I matched his sing-song mock, then knocked him into the nearest solid object, which happened to be a wall.
"Calm down woman, come on I'll show you where your potions class is." he pulled me further down the hallway towards the new potions classroom.
