Well I'm glad some of you liked how much I have Ron and Ginny hating Vega, since their anger is pushing Harry towards Vega more and more.
Now this chapter shows the start of DA, but of course Vega will be in it and so you can expect some drama; but she will still be part of the group. There are still many more people who don't trust her, and I will also throw in a part where her and Harry can have a moment alone.
Written by me and AnnaBoleyna1536
We don't own Harry Potter.
Enjoy!
The next day:
Vega had been discharged from the wing that morning, her concussion had gone down and she felt tons better after the potions kicked in. Right after she ate breakfast Madame Pomfrey let her leave, just in time to catch up on her homework. Sabina helped her through it to speed things up, and when she turned in the last assignment she was free to walk around the school since classes were out for the day.
"Ms. Malfoy." Vega was walking on her own down the halls when she heard Professor McGonagall call her.
"Yes ma'am?" she turned around.
"Have you by any chance seen Mr. Potter today? I've been meaning to speak with him about his future career."
"No ma'am I haven't today, he might be on the pitch practicing for the game." She sighed.
"Honestly that boy…well if you see him tell him to see me as soon as possible."
"Yes professor." Vega took off down the corridor, but she didn't get far when she spotted Umbridge talking to Trelawney. "Oh damn…" Vega tried to sneak by, but Umbridge spotted her anyway.
"Ah Ms. Malfoy, would you mind telling me where you are going on this fine afternoon?"
'Fine afternoon? It's bloody cold out…' "Nowhere professor I was just going for a walk."
"Oh, well have you seen Potter lately?"
"Not today ma'am." Why was everyone asking her about Harry? True she was friends with him, or starting now but damn.
"I see, Ms. Malfoy I must ask you though, does your father know you're friends with Potter?"
"What does it matter if he does or not?" she didn't mean to sound cross, but this was really infuriating.
"Hmmm…" the toad scribbled down on her clipboard. "I would assume your father would not want you making friends with the wrong sort, or your mother for that matter." That pegged it, Vega gave Umbridge her worst glare ever and the woman shivered slightly.
"It doesn't matter who I'm friends with professor, and for the record I don't think Harry Potter is a bad person he just likes to speak his mind." she got closer to the woman. "You can't tell me who I can and can't be friends with, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't bring my father into this least of all my bitch mother." Umbridge's eyes widened slightly.
"Such vulgar language, what would your mother say?"
"I don't care, now if you'll excuse me I need to blow off some steam." Vega turned to leave.
"Twenty points from Gryffindor for your attitude Ms. Malfoy, I'll be sure to write to your father about this." The toad walked away scribbling more on her clipboard.
"As if I care." Vega loved her father very much, but he wouldn't be able to stop her from being with Harry thanks to the soul mate bond. The bond was already growing, Harry might not have known but Vega had sensed him near her in the hospital wing. That's how strong the bond was, it was slowly working its way into them both until their magic intertwined, and that would only happen if they…consummated it to say the least.
Vega knew how her dad felt about Harry, not to mention her godfather and her brother, but if Harry and she were meant to be she could at least show them he was a good person. Of course there was the matter of Ginny Weasley; the girl was obsessed with Harry to the point of pure annoyance. How even Granger put up with her it was unsettling.
"Hey Malfoy!" Vega stopped her thoughts when she heard Ronald Weasley call her.
"What now Weasley?" he was alone, good.
"I want to know what's going on between you and Harry." He glared at her.
"You mean just being friends, that's all there is."
"No way, Harry would never make friends with someone like you." Vega rolled her eyes.
"Do you want a repeat of the first time I hit you? Believe me that's child's play compared to what else I can do." Weasley yanked out his wand.
"I'm warning you now Malfoy, keep away from Harry or you'll pay the price." Vega, finally having enough of the pea-brained buffoon, lifted her knee and into his stomach it went. Weasley crumpled over in pain, dropping his wand to the floor.
"You don't tell me what to do carrot top, if I want to be friends with Harry then so be it. Good day." She left the miserable wretch on the floor, and then walked outside to sit on the bench. She used her wand to get the snow off and dry it, and then sat down. Sabina was with Draco working on a potions essay, as for where Harry and the others went she did not know.
"Vega…" speak of the devil, Vega turned around and there was Harry.
"Oh hey Harry." He sat beside her.
"I saw what you did to Ron, let me guess he ordered you to stay away from me?" she nodded. "Don't worry about him; Hermione's already dragged him off to the common room."
"Is she his keeper or something?" Harry laughed.
"She might as well be. Listen, I don't know exactly what's happening but would you like to um….go to Hogsmeade with me?"
"What do you mean you don't know what's happening?" he was confusing her.
"Hermione's got some gathering going on at the Hog's Head, and she's asking me to come but she also wants you to come too." This was weird, Granger wanted Vega there?
"Um…just out of curiosity why is it Granger seems to like me but Weasley doesn't?" Harry smiled.
"Hermione's more open-minded, plus Luna got to her about you." Luna, Vega was already glad to be making a friend like her even if she was a bit odd. "Ron's just hard-headed, he and Ginny both but I think you charmed the twins after you slipped that candy to Parkinson." Vega laughed at the memory. "Why's Parkinson out for you anyway?"
"She's after Draco, but I already know he'll never get with her. She's a joke, true she's proper to an extreme but she's aggravating and she 'has' to know every little detail on everything. Her parents are worse though, and I've only met them twice."
"I always thought those two were good together." Vega glared.
"Please Harry even Draco's got standards." He instantly started laughing.
"Oh ho…oh that's cold…" he laughed so hard he wiped a tear from his eye. "You know you're actually a lot better to be around than I thought."
"Uh…thanks…oh and to answer your question yeah I'll go to Hogsmeade with you."
"Great, we're going in a few minutes. You ready?" Vega looked at him.
"Sure." Harry stood up and Vega followed, and they met with Hermione at the gate.
"Hey, you two ready?"
"Yeah, Ron already gone?" Hermione nodded. "How many people are we meeting Hermione?" she shrugged.
"A fair few, but we'd best be going." She led them off the grounds, taking the path that led straight into Hogsmeade. The streets weren't very crowded, but it was a cold snowy day so who would want to be out? Vega liked snow, but not a huge amount of it.
"Here we are." They made it to the Hog's Head, and an old man let them in before motioning towards the back. Once they got there, there was a huge crowd of other students around some of whom Vega didn't recognize.
"Hello everyone." Hermione gave an awkward smile. Harry sat up at the front with Vega, and right away two certain people spoke up.
"What is she doing here?" Ginny snarled.
"I invited her to come, as did Harry." Hermione answered. "And before you or Ron start on her being no good or a Malfoy then save it or you can leave." Ginny shut up instantly. "Now, you all know why we're here, because we need a teacher, a proper teacher at that."
'Teacher?'
"Someone who's had real life experience battling against the dark arts."
"Why?" a boy wearing a beanie spoke up.
"Why? Because You-Know-Who's back you twat." Weasley glared at the boy.
"So he says."
"So Dumbledore says." Hermione argued back.
"So Dumbledore says because he says, but where's the proof?" he looked at Harry.
"You don't need proof to say a Dark Wizard like Voldemort is back, haven't any of you wondered about the disappearances lately? Or about how paranoid the Minister's become since it came to light last year?" Vega glared at all of them.
"What would you know Malfoy? Everyone knows your dad's a supporter of the Dark Arts." The boy smirked.
"So what? Just because he supports it doesn't mean I do."
"Oh really, daddy's girl?" Vega turned on her darkest glare, and the boy flinched.
"Leave her alone, she's a friend she can speak as she wants." Harry stood up.
"Yeah, she's got as much right to be here as all of us." Neville Longbottom agreed.
"Thanks." Vega smiled slightly.
"You know, perhaps Potter can tell us more about how Diggory died? That might help some of us." A boy with long dark hair standing next to Weaslette spoke.
"I won't talk about Cedric; if that's why you're here you can go." Harry turned to leave but Vega stopped him.
"You don't have to see in order to believe, I haven't seen Voldemort but I know he's back. No one would be dumb or stupid enough to mess this up." She snarled at them.
"Harry, is it true you can produce a Patronus Charm?" Luna piped up, making everyone look at her.
"Yes." Hermione answered her. "I've seen it, a stag right?" Harry nodded.
"Wow, I didn't know you could do that Harry." A dark-skinned boy, Vega recognized him from Gryffindor, Dean something.
"You too eh?" Vega stared at Harry.
"You can do it too Vega?" Hermione looked at her.
"Yeah, they teach that in the Advanced Defense Class at Beauxbatons; learned it in my second year." She heard a few scoffs.
"Harry also killed a Basilisk, with a sword in Dumbledore's office." Neville Longbottom spoke up proudly.
"He's also fought a dragon, not to mention saved me from drowning in the Black Lake." Hermione stepped forward after Weasley finished.
"And last year he really did fight You-Know-Who in the flesh, he is out there whether you believe it or not."
"Hermione…" Harry stopped her. "Look, it all sounds great when you say it like that but more than half the time it was luck, and I had help."
"He's just being modest…"
"No I'm not." Harry sounded cross. "All of that does sound amazing, but each time I was close to dying if not nearly killed. In school you can try again, but out there if you're an inch from death or from watching a friend die…you can't change it once it happens. I don't care if you believe me or not, I know what happened last year and I have to live with it every day for the rest of my life." Harry was shaking slightly, Vega stood next to him and Hermione took the other side.
"That wasn't your fault Harry, none of that was. True none of us were there with you, but we know you didn't ask for any of this to happen." Hermione turned to the others. "That's why we need a teacher like him; Harry knows what it's like to face true evil. He can show us and teach us what we need to know, how to defend ourselves against anything."
"And why should we let him?" beanie boy scoffed.
"Because unless you want to end up dead at the hands of the Death Eaters or Voldemort himself, you'd best take the chance now while you can. That toad isn't going to teach us, and surely no one from the Ministry is going to either." Several people laughed when Vega called Umbridge a toad.
"Why should we listen to you?" Ginny mumbled but loudly.
"Maybe because I can help, I know a few things about the Dark Arts myself." Vega wasn't bragging, she knew a good bit as did Sabina, both girls knew a few defensive spells from Beauxbatons.
"Yeah and she's welcome to help." Hermione stepped up. "Now, we're going to form an organization, a secret one. We will meet secretly, and Harry and maybe Vega will teach us what we need to know and not some bothersome theories out of a book by a man who thinks nothing of self-defense."
"I agree." Harry stepped forward. "We will form this club, but it has to be kept secret and…if you can swear to us you will say nothing no matter what, then…oh bugger…" Harry looked to Hermione, who held up a long scroll that read at the top 'Dumbledore's Army'.
"You sign this, just sign your name and we can expect you at the first meeting. As for where, well we'll have to get back on that. So?" she held up a quill as well. People started lining up and signing, including the four Weasleys and beanie boy. Once they finished Vega signed at the bottom, then Hermione, and then Harry.
"Ok that's everyone…" the others left, all that was left was the Weasleys, Neville, Luna, Harry, Hermione, and Vega. "We'd better get back before old Toad-Face gets worried." Harry walked ahead of everyone, directly out of the bar and through the village.
"We're going to need a place to meet, somewhere where no one not even Umbridge can find us."
"The Shrieking Shack?" Ginny suggested.
"No it's not big enough."
"There aren't that many private places in the school, where can we go that Umbridge won't think to look?" Neville pointed that out and Vega instantly got an idea.
"Why not the…" she almost said it when she spotted Umbridge in the balcony over the school gate entrance. "Shhh." She pointed upwards at the woman. Before Umbridge spotted them they made it inside and over into an empty hallway.
"Ok she didn't see us, now what were you saying Vega?" Hermione whispered.
"I was going to suggest we use the Room of Requirement."
"Room of Requirement?" Neville looked at everyone.
"It's the come and go room, I've been using it a lot to get away from Parkinson and her group. It's always equipped with the suitor's needs, Harry's even seen it it'll be perfect." Harry smiled.
"She's right, we can use that room. We'll report there every Friday after classes before dinner, spread the word guys." The twins, Neville, Luna, and Hermione all nodded.
"Why is she even here?" Ron pointed at Vega.
"Ron don't you dare start again." Hermione growled. "Now Harry and I have had enough of you badmouthing Vega, she's done good so far I think we can trust her."
"I seriously doubt it, first she's in our house, then she makes better grades, she befriends you and Harry, and now she's in our club? What does she have to offer?" Ginny was obviously jealous.
"Ginny…"
"No." Vega stopped Harry.
"Vega?"
"I'm not putting up with this right now, I need some air." Vega stormed off away from the group and made her way back outside. She stayed in the covered walkway out of the snow, but leaned against the walls to try and calm her raging nerves.
"Vega?" Sabina's voice reached her. "Are you ok?" Vega shook her head.
"No, I'm mad and I'm cold I can't think straight."
"Weasleys again?"
"Yeah, they're getting worse than usual now. I'm not worried about them though, it's more along the lines of…you know." Sabina nodded.
"Draco's worried about you."
"He'll be alright, I'll be fine. Oh and Sabina…?"
"Yeah?"
"I have a proposition for you I think you're gonna like." Vega gave her father's famous sly smirk, the same smirk he used when it came to business. Sabina returned the smirk and leaned in.
"Enlighten me."
Ok hopefully that's long enough for this.
Next chapter will have a time skip but it will have the meeting for the DA. There will be a clip of Sabina and Draco there, even some drama from Pansy but not on Vega this time. Might also put in something with Severus and Lucius on Narcissa; not sure yet.
R&R
Later!