Chapter 10

He put on his glasses and slippers, and we walked down to the Common Room, and sat down by the still going fire. I looked at the flames for a moment, then at him. Just to find that he did the same thing, at the same time. We smiled, still doing it at the same time. We both chuckled, and I spoke first.

"Tell me about you. About your life."

He told me about his horrid life with the Dursleys, how he was treated like a slave, much less like a person. He had to sleep under the stairs, never got much more than three meals a day. It took me a minute to realize, that, that was my family, my aunt and uncle, my pudgy, rude cousin. He must have seen the look on my face, because he stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm just thinking that… that's my family too. That I'm related to them."

He looked at me for a long time before he said anything, it was like he was soaking me in, imprinting me into his brain.

"Now you tell me about you."

I told him about my life in the wizarding world, the happy times in my life, the memories that I clung onto. Then, I told him about my time in the worst place on earth, my suffering, the sadness. But, he seemed to understand, which made me realize, that his life had been mine, but with no happy times to think of. No hope, no light, really nothing to live for.

We both yawned, and he said,

"Should we go to bed?"

"Ya, ya I think we should."

We stood up, and I gave him a big hug. I didn't let go until he yawned again.

"Goodnight." He said, and I said the same, as I climbed up the stairs and flopped on my bed. As soon as my head hit the pillow, I was out.

The next day was hard; the castle was confusing, with twisting and turning corridors, and moving staircases. Not to mention everyone whispering and starring at Harry and I as we walked quickly, trying to make it to our classes.

I liked her classes, and they were all with Harry, Ron and Hermione. There was Astrology, Herbology, History of Magic, Charms, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, and more. Friday morning, Harry, Ron and I walked down and sat next to Hermione and the twins.

"What do we have today?" Harry asked, helping himself to toast.

"Double Potions with Slytherins, and Snape's head of Slytherin house, and Potions. He always favors the Slytherins… ugh, all of them are so…" Ron moaned

"Stupid?" George said

"Or maybe the word that you're looking for is vile?" Fred said

"Not all of them are." I mumbled under my breath and took a big bite of toast and took a long time chewing, followed with a big chug of marmalade.

The mail came in by owl, as it did every morning. I was used to not getting anything, and so was Harry. But, as Fred and George flicked bits of toast at each other, a letter dropped in the middle of Harry and I. We looked at each other in shock, and then I told him to open it. I didn't need to tell him twice, he was just as excited as I was. We had gotten a letter!

It was from Hagrid, asking to have tea with us this afternoon, because we had it off. Harry didn't need to ask me my answer, he already knew. He sent back an owl, saying yes.

We made are way down to the dungeons, where Potion classes took place. I sat down at an empty table, and before Harry sat next to me, Draco slid into the seat Harry had pulled out for himself.

"Thanks Potter." Draco said to Harry, without giving him a passing glance. Instead of looking at Harry, he gave me a gorgeous smile and looked at me right in the eye. It made me melt.

"Hello Amy." He said.

"Um, hi." I said and quickly looked down at the desk. I could feel Harry shooting daggers at Draco and I, but I tried to ignore him.

"I'm going to go sit with Ron." Harry mumbled as he got his stuff.

"I haven't seen much of you this week, I tried saying hi to you on the stair case, but I guess you didn't hear me?" The way he said it, it made it sound more of a question then a statement. I blushed even more than I thought was physically possible.

"Did you not hear me?" He said worried.

The thing was, I did hear him, but I acted like I didn't, only because all my friends looked at me like I was a monster.

"AMY! HEY! WAIT UP!" I could hear him dashing down the stairs, and everyone sped up. I almost stayed behind, but Harry and Ron linked arms with me and basically dragged me along, skipping all the way. I couldn't help but burst out laughing, as we made our way down the hall. I heard the fastest pair of feet slow, and then stop.

"Draco, I –"but Professor Snape came into the room and everyone knew to get quiet, even Draco.

As he was taking roll, Snape stopped at my name.

"Ah, the Potter's. Our, new, celebrities.