Chapter 21

Here we go. I have actually stuck to a dead line. I was ill on saturday, sunday monday and tuesday so I had to catch up at school so I didn't think I was going to meet the dead line, but I did. However, I am really tired cause I was up last night (Thursday night) until twelve, and I am writting this Friday night, whether I will post it tonight is a different matter. I hope you like this chapter! xx

Disclaimer: I have no ownership of Harry Potter, however I do have owner ship to my OC's: Emilly Riddle and others. Enjoy! :)

Ok just to let you know I wrote this chapter and then rewrote it because I don't think the chapters I have wrote recently have been as good as previous ones. I hope it is ok. :) xx

Stuck at school for the Christmas holidays. Its so unfair! Christmas is the best holiday of the year. I loved all of the festivities. My mom, dad and I would always decorate the entire house, so much that it looked like Santa's workshop had relocated to London. I missed the smell of Christmas in the air. No matter how much they tried to make the school Christmasy, with all of the Christmas trees and the magical snow falling from the sky so it melted before it hit you, they could never make it that Christmas I truly craved- with my parents.

I walked out of my room, which I avoided spending time in when Pansy wasn't here because it made me feel very lonely, into the common room, where I found Draco and Blaise there waiting for me. Since the incident with Dumbledore's Army they have not let me leave their sight unless it was to go to the bathroom or to sleep. I'm sure they would try and sleep in my room with me but there was a spell designed to stop boys from going into girls rooms. It is like when your younger and you run into the girls toilets to try and get away from the boys cause they 'can't' go in there. They often try to convince me to sleep in their room, because strangely there is not a spell for stopping girls going into boys rooms, which I think defeats the idea of stopping a certain act **wink wink**.

"Hey, guys." I said when I reached them.

"Hey, Em, can you please tell Draco not to sleep out here another night. He knows the Griffindors can't get into our common room." Blaise said.

"You stayed out here again! Draco no one is going to get me when I am asleep. And I promise you there is no boggey man hiding under my bed." I said with a smile.

"Well, if you stayed in our room I wouldn't have that worry, now would I?" He said.

"If that is your way of trying to get me into your bed, it is not very smooth. And, anyway, I don't want more rumours circulating about me and you. There is enough already." There acctually were. The scene at the mascarade party caused many to think that Draco and I were in a secret relationship, and I only went with Harry to try and keep it under wraps. Also the fact that Draco practiallly saved me from the DA and we 'walked away hand in hand' (the words of a certain Lavender Brown and Pavarti Patil) caused a lot of people to talk about us.

"I think your safety is more important than what the two gossip girls of the school are spreading." He said and I knew he had read my mind, because I was positive I never mentioned the girls out loud.

"Draco Malfoy, a girl likes to have private thoughts. Is that what you do to all your girlfriends?"

"Are you my girl friend?" He sounded too eager, and I still wasn't sure if I wanted to go down that road with him.

"No, I meant is that what you do to all of your friends that are girls." He smiled and I could tell he was ok at my holding back on being his girl friend.

"I only have you and Pansy that are friends. However I have many admirers." He said and looked at the fourth year that was trying to secretly stare at him. She noticed that we had saw her and looked completely mortified. Poor girl.

"That wasn't very nice. And stop being so arrogant. I'm sure not all off the girls fawn over you." I said and rolled my eyes at his fondness of himself. He laughed.

"Oh believe me, they do." He leaned in to clearly try and get me to fall at his feet, like he thinks all of the girls do. I faked being flustered at his close proximity and started fanning my face to show my sarcasm.

"Oh Draco." I leaned in to his chest, which he seemed to like and didn't seem to realise that I was faking. I laughed and stood up. "I think we should go to dinner. Blaise?"

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"Are they staring again?" I asked. I was reffering to the golden trio and the extras, that had been trying to burn holes into my skull for the past week.

Blaise looked up, "Yeah." He said and continued eating.

I stood up. I was fed up of them blaming me when it was Potter who cast an unforgivable. I walked over to the Griffindorks. I heard Draco and Blaise get up and follow me.

"What is the problem?" I asked, my voice sweet like sugar.

Potter stood up and leveled off with me. Well, concidering his height he was actually towering over me. "You know what the problem is. But what I can't understand is why Dumbledore lets someone like you stay here."

I laughed. "Someone like me?" I asked and raised my eye brow.

"Yes someone like you, but mind you I don't really understand why he lets him stay here either." He nodded to Draco. I saw Draco's jaw flex and his stance went rigid.

I stepped in before there was a repeat of the mascarade party. "Well, in all honesty I don't understand why they let you stay." I said. I noticed Dumbledore talk to Snape and gesture to us. "But I suppose you have always been Dumbledore's pet." I spoke with venom because I didn't like that Potter was treating me asthough I was a lowly creatre not worthy of his presence.

He snapped at my words and backhanded me. The blow stung but I was high on adrenaline so it didn't register. "You little bitch!" Potter shouted at me. I saw Draco go to advance on him, but stopped when I laughed. The first time I have ever heard Potter swear. I always have been able to bring out both the best and worse in people, and he was no different.

I looked back at him. "I never thought you were bad enough to hit a girl. It makes you... interesting."

"Mr Potter." We all turned and saw Snape who had clearly just seen what had just played out. "There is no excuse for hitting a girl. You will be recieving a two hour detention every night for a month." He turned and left.

"Naw, poor Potter." I said and patted his cheek, he looked seething but this didn't phase me. I smiled, "See you later, yeah?" I winked at him. Eventhough he was angry with me, I knew he still had some romantic feelings towards me, and it was always fun to play on people's heart-strings.

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"How is your face?" Draco asked for the billionth time as he was inspecting it.

"For the bazillionth time it is fine." I said and tried to manuver out of his grasp, but was unable to.

"I hate to tell you but you are going to have one hell of a bruise." He said with a look of pain.

"Draco you look like you were the one that had just been hit. It's fine." I tried to reassure him.

"No it's not. No one hits my friends without having me to deal with."

I laughed and he looked at me like I was crazy. I tried to sobber up but endded up hiccupping. "I think he had enough of your right hook at the mascarade party." I saw him look annoyed. "I am joking. But really don't do anything, I don't want one of my few friends to be stuck in detention for the rest of the school year."

"Ok. I won't as long as you never let him better you ever again." He said the words with seriousness. I knew his family were supposedly very big on being the best and most powerful, but I never realised Draco felt it was as important as they did. I suppose it is better to say what he wants to hear now, so he doesn't go and try to murder Harry Potter.

"Fine." I said. We sat in silence for several moments, until Blaise came over and sat in the middle of us on the couch.

He looked at me and his eyes went wide. "Wow, Em. That is a killer black eye." He said and I laughed. Clearly Draco was right about the bruising.

"But I'm sure I still look good." I said with a wink.

"Well, of course. It is you. The one that has all of the boys in the school wrapped around her finger. Oh, that reminds me, what did you mean when you said to Potter; 'See you later'?"

"Yeah what did you mean?" Draco questioned. I could tell they were trying to tease me because they knew I would never do anything like that with Potter of all people.

"Oh shut up." I nudged Blaise and he and Draco began laughing. "Are we going to go to Hogsmead or not?"

"Are you allowed out of the castle with you-know-who out there?" Draco asked.

"I don't really care and your not going to stop me." I jumped up and raced to my room where I knew he couldn't enter. He chased me all the way there and I laughed when he ran smak bang into the barrier. "That's the fifth time you've done that, you know?" I said still not crossing over the threash hold.

"Yeah well you keep cheating by running in there. You know I could chatch you if you ran longer. In fact I have, when I was just out of hospital no less." He said in a mocking tone.

"Whatever! I'm going to get ready for Hogsmead and I am going with or without you. I am not staying in this castle for another day. I'm so bored I even did all of my homework." I said.

"Oh my God! Emilly Riddle actually did homework. Tell the press!" He said sarcastically and smiled. "Ok but you better be ready in ten minutes." He turned and left. I shut the door and hurried over to the mess that was my trunk in search of my boots, hat, scarf and gloves. When I had gotten them all on, ten minutes later, I ran for my coat that was on the door and went back into the common room.

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Blaise had just said something about the young girl that walked past. She was wearing a green and yellow stripped coat, blue flowered boots and huge pink earmuffs. In all honestly it was hard not to say something. We were all in hysterics as we entered the three boomsticks.

When we had taken off our snow covered coats we sat down and waited to be served. I noticed that we were the only ones in the room. I expected it to be not as full as the Hogwarts students were off school, but I expected there to be some locals here, but there wasn't. I couldn't even see a barkeeper. Well, this is strange.

"We have to get out of here." Draco said suddenly grabbing my coat and trying to get it on me and out the door. I could feel it now. An energy, a powerful energy. It seemed to fill the whole room. "Hurry up!" Draco said and pushed me out of the bar in to the cold, with Blaise following suit. I wasn't going to complain. There was someone or something in there that scared me. "We need to get to the castle! Now!" Draco said over the whipping freezing wind. We turned in the direction of the castle, and were met with some one wearing a gold, metal mask that consealed their face.

"Draco." Was all it said and I noticed Draco had a look of recognition in his eyes.

"Father, what is going on?" He asked. It was a question that sounds as though it could never be polite, however coming from Draco it was. It was asthough he didn't want to upset his Father.

"The Dark Lord wishes to speak with his daughter." What he said shocked me, but I didn't like his tone. I know where Draco gets his beliefs about being better than everyone from, at least he didn't speak to everyone in such a manner.

"Well, Mr Malfoy." I spoke the man's, that I had only just met, name with distaste. Even behind the mask I could tell he was not used to being spoken to like that and above all his stance said he clearly didn't like it. "I do not wish to speak with him. So you can take yourself and your little Merry men away with you." I gestured to the group behind him that had just materialised. They were wearing the same sort of mask however each appeared to be different in some way.

"Ahhh, just like your mother." I turned slowly towards the person that was now behind me. His voice was like ice-cold, hard and uninviting. "So sipirted." He smiled a humourless smile, that made him look even scarier than he already did. He looked exactly as he had in the book. The same pale skin, that really did look greenish next to the white snow. He had the same nose, or should I say lack of nose. He had two slits for nostrils. However the only thing that was different were his eyes. They weren't the red they had been in the picture. They were a pale blue...like mine.

WOW WOW WOW! I hope you all liked it.

First meeting with Voldermort. Draco and Emilly getting close. Harry hitting her. Oh Lord, there was a lot in this chapter.

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