Title: Learning about Crystal Malfoy
Timeline: Sixth year of Hogwarts, Buffy the Vampire Slayer end of season two (Buffy never went to LA)
Summary: "Family stays together, you taught me this much. I will not forsake my blood," Draco declared with passion. "I will find my sister and we'll be a family again."
Pairs: Lucius/Narcissa, Draco/Harry (but not until much later), Ron/Hermione, Willow/Oz (just mentioning the pair in chapter two, don't know for later)
Disclaimer: The characters from Harry Potter books and Buffy the Vampire Slayer do not belong to me. I merely use them in my plot for fun.
A/N!!!!: Buffy will not be paired with Severus Snape, sorry. I like the pair very much, but I had in mind for this to be an Angel(us)/Buffy pairing. I know many of you asked who Buffy would pair up with and here it is. It will be a while though before we see him.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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Chapter Ten:
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September 2nd:
Great Hall:
Breakfast:
Buffy was impressed by the seer amount of food on the breakfast table and the appetite of the students.
Draco scoffed at the manners he saw, even from his own housemates.
"Pigs," he commented.
Buffy giggled. "Like you are better."
Her brother glared her. "I have to tell you that my manners are impeccable, as proper purebloods should be."
The honey blonde teenage girl snorted. "Who wolfed down half a chocolate cake with extra chocolate sauce and ice cream?"
Draco pinned his grey eyes on her. "I was merely doing you a favor, sister, since you ate the other half."
Buffy stuck her tongue out and took a seat at the bench of the Slytherin table.
"Better eat breakfast and bicker later," Blaise cut in before the siblings could continue.
"Tea?" Draco asked Buffy.
Transfiguration:
Buffy sat with her brother for the first double class of the day. She could feel Pansy Parkinson's glare on the back of her head.
"If glares could kill," she whispered to her brother.
Draco smirked. "What can I say? I'm one of a kind!"
"Thank God!"
"We favor Merlin," Draco added said conversationally.
"I'm new in this," Buffy told him, pointing vaguely at their surroundings.
She noticed Hermione, Harry and the other Gryffindors from the train, but they were busy talking among the group and she did not bother to call out to them. She felt she had annoyed Draco a bit too much already.
'Maybe another round after lunch?' she thought.
McGonagall entered then and all noise stopped. It was obvious to Buffy that this woman demanded nothing other than respect.
"Welcome back for another year. As you noticed we have a new student among us, Miss Crystal Malfoy," she nodded at Buffy, who in turn nodded back as respectfully as she was able.
The professor continued, "This year we will perform advanced object transfiguration and the introduction to human transfiguration, otherwise known as Animagi."
There were woops of joy even from the Slytherins.
Buffy saw that her brother looked excited.
"I will not tolerate having you try to become Animagi on your own. It is illegal, in case you forgot, and all Animagi are registered with the Ministry. Anyone caught doing things on their own will be punished for their remainder of school years, meaning until they graduate their seventh year," Professor McGonagall announced.
Many gulped.
"In your case I'll double it Potter," the Professor told the Boy Who Lived.
He blushed but nodded.
"Onwards with the lesson. I want to see what stayed in your head through summer."
Potions classroom:
Severus was busy spelling the instructions of the day's lesson on the board when his godson and newly found sister entered the classroom.
He turned, happy to see the young teen smiling at the girl.
"Good morning," he told them.
"Good morning," they chorused together, their smiles remaining.
"How was your day so far?" Snape asked them.
"Not bad," Buffy replied. "We had Transfiguration. It was pretty interesting. Though I have no idea how I'm going to do anything as advanced as professor McGonagall showed us."
"You'll catch up," Draco assured her.
"Yes, your extra lessons are to take place during weekends," Snape informed her. "You will begin in a week as the schedule has yet to be complete."
Buffy pouted. "I'll have no time to annoy Drakey!" she whined.
"Say that hideous name again and I'll curse you!" Draco threatened.
Snape smirked. "Miss Parkinson I presume?"
The Slayer nodded, followed with a smirk of her own. "It just offers so many opportunities."
"Wait until they form your own fan club," Draco said darkly.
"They won't," Buffy told him.
"This is a boarding school," Severus cut in blandly. "The rumor mill keeps the underdeveloped student minds ticking."
"Dear Merlin!" Buffy was horrified.
"See? You are fitting in!" Draco teased her and she swatted him on the head.
"The appropriate word for that is 'prat', I believe," the professor told Buffy as they ganged up on the blonde boy.
Draco was horrified.
"You are supposed to be on my side!" his godson cried out.
September 3rd:
Defense against the dark arts:
Nearing the classroom the lesson was being held, Buffy felt a bit anxious, like the feeling she had when a predator of the same caliber as she was.
Draco noticed how her eyes strayed from him as if she were looking out for something. He remembered his uncle's hounds doing that in a hunt in Lyon a few years back.
"Crystal?" he asked. "What is wrong?"
She waived him off. "Nothing. Must be my imagination."
Buffy spotted a familiar Gryffindor color.
"Hermione!" she called out.
Draco groaned but held his tongue as Granger slowed down till the Slytherin group caught up.
Pansy and a few others sneered at the muggleborn that stood alone for once, without either Potter or Weasley.
"Morning, Hermione, doing mind the bulldog," Buffy smiled at the Gryffindor and scowled at Pansy.
"Crystal, Malfoy, Zabini," Hermione greeted the most amiable people of the group. The latter boy seemed to enjoy the whole scene very much, which could not be said for Parkinson.
"So, what's this class like?" Buffy continued as they walked to the classroom. "Draco told me some wild things."
"And they were probably true," the girl admitted.
"We even had a werewolf teaching us," Pansy scowled.
Buffy stopped. "So?"
"So? A dark creature is dangerous and werewolves should be killed not tolerated!"
Buffy glared at the Slytherin girl. "My best buddy is a werewolf. His younger cousin, a mere toddler, bit him. We drug him with enough sedatives to keep him calm and feed him ourselves. He never killed or attacked a living creature. So the next time you badmouth a werewolf in my presence I'll deck you missy."
Pansy back away as Draco and Hermione followed the fuming girl.
"Oz?" Draco mention, having heard the name once during the summer. Buffy had been vague of situation but generous with some names.
"Willow's boyfriend and a really cool guy. He's in a band," she replied.
Hermione smiled as Draco shook his head.
"Band members are always cool," Hermione told her. "Up until a few years ago I still had crushes on members of boy bands."
"I prefer actors," Buffy whispered.
"Stop talking about boys!" Draco said with a blush.
"We are here anyway," Hermione told them.
A few minutes later Buffy had her first lesson in DADA and loved it.
Remus Lupin was an amazing professor and well versed in the subject.
As their year was advanced, they had moved on to dark creatures and that lesson was dedicated to mummies.
He explained the Egyptian history behind them, the muggle views and then how Egyptian wizards decided to tamper with them.
"They were officially the first examples of resurrection, although the people were soulless and bent on revenge."
"Like zombies?" Dean asked.
The professor shook his head. "More like avenging spirits with tangible form. I believe Mr. Weasley has been to Egypt and Bill Weasley, a Hogwarts graduate, works as a curse breaker at the Goblin bank there, which is locate in the 'Valley of the Dead' under one of the Pyramids."
"I've seen mummies at museums, muggle museums," Lavender said after raising her hand.
"Usually those that are imported are checked by the British Ministry of Magic or before they leave Egypt," Remus offered.
Buffy considered that. Then why had no one done anything about the mummy that wanted to date Xander back in high school?
"The Incas also had mummies," Hermione said. "And the Aztecs, well the majority of central American Indians. What about them?"
Buffy mentally thanked her.
"I actually have no idea. Not many were enchanted to begin with and since the ruins are under protection from the South American Magical Community, not much is left for the muggles to find."
Buffy blinked. 'I bet Willow does not know that.'
Then she paused. She had already thought of her two friends, though she still felt hostile towards Xander whenever she thought of him.
'Focus on the lesson,' she chanted in her head.
After the lesson was over, she walked out with Hermione, not seeing the look Remus gave her just as she walked past him.
"It can't be," he muttered under his breath after she was gone.
After Charms:
"He was so cute!" Buffy whispered to Hermione. "In a dear, loving grandpa short of way. Like Santa! Only shorter."
They had joined Charms with Gryffindors and the two girls had opted sitting next to each other.
"Like the dwarves in Snowhite!" Buffy continued.
"He was a great dueler in his youth," Hermione informed her. "Won a championship too."
Buffy knew a lot of people that where short and could pack a punch. Or demolish things. Herself was short and fit the description so she merely nodded.
"He's still cute."
September 4th:
Astronomy:
Buffy yawned.
Draco yawned.
Half the class was dozing over their telescopes while the other half drooling over their charts.
"When can I ditch this class again?" the Malfoy daughter said to her brother.
"Never. I need you to keep me awake."
"You are a cruel brother."
"Will you tell me how you god Sev to agree with you?"
"Nope!"
"Bu-Crystal! Come on!"
"Quiet class!" Professor Sinistra demanded.
The sibling went back to yawning.
After Divination:
"I'm not going back there," Buffy declared. "That bug is like a Giant Mantis without the good looks and any divination skill what so ever! I've had more prophesies asleep than she did standing! And did you hear her predicting my death? Big deal! I will die, eventually, and I do not need her to tell me."
"That rage is not normal, Buffy," Draco told her after she stopped yelling. They were alone in a corridor after he had dragged her away from Trelawney, lest his sister punched the woman.
"I just hate prophecies," his older sister told him.
"I bet there's an interesting story behind that," Draco said seriously.
"There is," Buffy admitted.
He did not press her.
September 5th:
Care of magical creatures:
"It's dangerous I tell you!" Draco insisted.
Blaise, Crabbe and Goyle accompanied the siblings to the lesson and watched in awe as Buffy riled the boy up.
"So? Afraid of the big bad professor?" she teased.
"I was mauled by a monster," her brother told her.
"You insulted it, him, whatever," Buffy said.
"Wait until you get mauled," Draco said.
"I won't," the girl replied.
"How are you so sure?" Blaise asked from behind them.
Buffy turned her head slightly to look at the handsome boy. She saw Crabbe and Goyle like lugs at his sides and shook her head at them. They were worse than the jocks Cordelia dated in high school!
"Well, Draco has yet to bite me," she told with a wink at Blaise.
Zabini laughed while Draco grumbled with a slight smile on his face when she laughed as well.
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Harry Potter was also waking to the class and once again he noticed the Thestrals. There was a large group of them waiting at the forest edge, Hagrid telling them to go back in the forest, but they would not budge. They stood there through the entire class.
The Boy-Who-Lived saw them as creatures observed Crystal Malfoy.
He also noticed how she pretended to ignore them
'Just what is up with the girl?' he wondered.
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A/N: Another chapter finished and I apologize it took so long. I just hope you liked it.
I also want to thank you for your reviews and the little suggestions you give me; they always are a big help.
Bye till next chapter.
Also, I will call Buffy, well Buffy, but to everyone else she is Crystal. Draco will use both names though.