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-"Malfoy…" – Harry muttered in angry tone. Draco's face grew even more innocent, as it was swimming in its joy. He couldn't believe what he was going to do to Harry, and how much hard time he is going to give to him.
-"Potter…" – Draco mocked
Harry, repeating what he said. His
voice was filled with irony and sarcasm. His eyes suddenly gained glitter, and they shinned under the light illuminated
from the fireplace.
-"Draco, why don't you let
us introduce ourselves to Harry Potter" – the girl that previously talked to
Draco said. Harry drew his eyes away
from Draco, eyeing that girl. She was
sitting on the couch, beside three other people. She was the only girl there.
-"Fine, you introduce yourself
to Potty-Head" – Draco said. He
returned where he was sitting, but this time placing his arm around the girl.
-"Hello Harry, you may not
know me, but my name is Pandora. I'm
fifth, just as you are, and I'm Beater on the Quidditch team for previous two
years." – She seemed nice, but Harry noticed something in her tone and behaving
– she didn't show any emotions at all. Her voice was cold, with pale face, on which two freezing violet eyes
were fixed.
Other three guys introduced
themselves. Harry realized that all
four of them were playing on the Quidditch team. He didn't really know much Slytherins. Even if he had almost half of his classes with them, he still
wasn't interested in any of them. Unfortunately, he knew Draco because he was always given hard time by
him.
-"You can sit here with us,
if you want. We were just talking about
Quidditch." – Pandora said. Harry sat
on the chair opposite of her. Again,
she showed no emotion – she didn't seem happy that Harry came over to join
them. Nevertheless, her eyes weren't
filled with annoyance because of his presence, like Draco's eyes were. Other people, who were with them, were quite
fond to have Harry over. Harry wasn't
loathed by the whole Slytherin. They
didn't worship him as the Gryffindors did, but respect was always there.
Harry gave another look in
direction of Draco and Pandora. When
Draco noticed that Harry's looking at them, he tightened his grip around
her. They started having pointless talk. They reached subjects like Quidditch, music,
art, and books. Draco said nothing for
the whole time. He didn't seem happy
for the way Pandora accepted Harry. Around eleven o'clock, everyone expect Harry, Draco, and Pandora left to
go to sleep. Than they started talking
about some more important subjects, like school perhaps.
-"So Harry, what is your
average?" – Pandora said, slightly placing her head over Draco's chest. Harry didn't seem happy by that. He wanted her to be hugged by him. He never realized how Slytherins were much
closer to each other when it came to those kinds of matter. She seemed amazingly attractive in that semi
dark. Her hair was combination of
mixtures of red and brown. Her face was
pale, with thin eyebrows, that would go in loop over her eyes. Eyes were cold and distant, colored in
violet.
-"Pretty low. I have something around seventy-nine
percent" – Harry answered. He finally
saw triumphant expression on Draco's face. He knew what he was about – Draco was the best student in the year after
Hermione.
-"It's not that bad. At least you are on the honor roll. My is sixty-nine" – she said. Draco bent his head down, looking in the
direction of her face, and their eyes slowly meeting each other's. Draco's sneered at her. She finally showed something on her
face. It was mysterious smile given
back to Draco.
-"Sixty-nine you say…" –
Draco said in low tone. That's the
first thing he said after Harry came.
-"Stop it Draco." – She
snapped on him. – "Why do you link everything with sex?" – She asked. Draco shuddered his shoulders.
-"I don't know. You are the one who first showed how horny
for me you are" – Draco said for himself, loudly, looking away from her.
-"You are sucha bastard" –
she grabbed first pillow she could reach, and shoved it into Draco face,
leaving them for girls' dormitory.
-"Bitch" – Draco whispered
under his breath, as he looked at her entering the girls dormitory, slamming
the door.
Harry didn't know what to
say indeed. He felt left out of the
whole thing. He had no clue what has
happening between Draco and Pandora. He
didn't know that Pandora exists at all; he never had clue about anything linking to Draco's love life. He knew he was quite popular, that Pansy was
digging on him, but he never wanted her, because she was a slut in his opinion,
but Harry had no clue about anything other than that.
-"What?" – Draco snarled at
Harry.
-"Nothing" – muttered
Harry. Than he looked at Draco
again. He was trying to calm himself
down. He was breathing heavily, staring
distantly into the flames of fire and thinking.
When he reassured himself,
he said: "It's time to go to bed." – Than he left, beckoning Harry to follow
him. Harry did so, pulling him trunk
behind him.
Inside the boys' dormitory,
everyone was sleeping. Harry noticed
that the room wasn't bright like in his own room. It had no windows at all, and four-poster beds had velvet sheets
around them. Everyone had pulled them
around their own bed. It would be utter
dark, sleeping in some place like that. Harry reminded himself that it would be just like sleeping inside a
coffin, but with exception that you aren't buried.
-"You can have Crabbe's bed"
– Draco said, pointing his finger towards a bed in the far corner of the room.
– "He practically doesn't use it."
Harry looked at the
direction that Draco pointed to. It was
hard to see, because the only light was a candle that was holding. He headed toward his new bed, getting hurt
few times by tripping on chairs. He saw
almost nothing in that dark.
-"Where is Crabbe sleeping?"
– Harry asked when he finally reached his new bed. Draco was standing beside the door all the time.
-"In Goyle's bed" – he said
that carelessly, going outside. He took
his candle with him, leaving Harry with no light. Harry had to use his wand so he could see, and change into
something appropriate for sleeping. When he was finally able to lay his head on the pillow, and cover
himself, he couldn't sleep. Thoughts
about Draco and stuff related to him didn't bother him. He had something else in his head. It was the Bloody Baron. He was questioning himself with questions
for which, right now, there was no possible ways to find the answers. Why did he call him to come to his
chambers? It seemed just like he
wanted something from Harry, and that he used him to get out some information out. In total dark, Harry felt little bit
afraid. He heard some strange
noises.
At the same times Draco had
some of his problems to take up with. He sneaked into the fifth year girls' dormitory, making sure he doesn't
produce any noise. He went over to
Pandora's bed. He opened the curtains,
slowly starting to move her hands, looking for her. He expected that she does something to him, without him knowing
it, like snatches his hands, or something like that, but none of that
happened. He was a little bit
confused. He returned the curtains, and
found his way out, silently. As he got
outside, closing the door, he heard someone laughing in high, evil laugh. He was turned his back to the door. He turned around, finding Pandora standing
there laughing in her sarcastic way.
-"You think you're funny,
don't you" – Draco said, making you-think-you-know-everything-bitch face
expression.
She said nothing for a
moment, just laughed. Than she stopped,
eyeing his. Her eyes and her body were saying
that she wants him, but if he'd try to touch her, she would beat him.
-"C'mon Draco. I know you want me" – she said,
teasingly.
-"And where did you get that
from?" – Draco said, clearly wanting to jump on her.
-"A birdie told me." – She
said, looking down.
-"What do you want from me?"
– Draco asked, placing each of his hands on side from her, violently. She felt trapped. Suddenly her face changed back to emotionless look, with two
violet eyes.
-"Who says I want you?" –
She answered.
-"A birdie told me" – Draco
sneered, touching his teeth with his tongue.
-"Why do you keep
embarrassing me, Draco?" – She asked. Draco sneered, not answering. Suddenly she pushed him, and opened the door of the room, on which she
was leaning all this time.
-"Do not talk to me again,
Draco Malfoy" – she slammed the door.
-"Bitch…" – Draco said,
going back towards his own dormitory.
Harry didn't know was he
sleeping or not. He felt something in
his bed. It was cold, and long. It was going around his bed. He didn't know what was that at least. Than se slowly opened his left eye. Because of the dark curtains around his bed,
he saw nothing. He opened his right
eye, too, but it was still nothing. He
was laying on his back. The thing
climbed on his stomach, from the bed, and than it started going over his chest,
towards his head. Harry panicked. Than he screamed. It was a snake. Draco
quickly moved the curtains from his bed. In the unnatural light, produced by torches all over the room, Harry saw
that that mysterious thing on him was a snake.
-"Come, Tubby, come…" –
Draco slowly look the snake off him. It
was black snake, just like the one from the Slytherin insignia.
-"That thing…" – Harry was
too shocked to talk. He wasn't afraid
of the snakes, but they weren't his favorite animals.
-"What? Oh, this is our common room pet, Tubby" –
Draco said, holding it in his hands like it was a cat, and patting it.
-"But it's…" – Harry was
still in shock to talk. He never slept
with snake before.
-"It's a serpent, ok. Now get dressed Potter. There are lots of things to show you." –
Draco said, coldly, exiting the room. Harry figured out that it was around eight o'clock, and that everyone
was awake. The only good think that it
was Saturday, so he would have the whole day to himself.
When he got dressed, he got
out. He found Draco standing in front
of the door, still patting the thing, which was in his opinion, the ugly
creature. He was looking down at what
other people were doing.
-"Finally" – Draco said, not
even turning around. Than he threw snake
down onto some bunch of first-year girls. They started screaming. Draco
just sdescended down the stairs. Harry
followed him.
-"Faster Potter. I have lots of stuff to show you." – He said.
He sounded annoyed
indeed. Of course Harry had no idea
why. He didn't know about Draco and
Pandora's talk last night. He also didn't
know that Draco was looking at Pandora all the time, who was talking to some
seventh year Slytherin.
They got out of the common
room, heading towards the Great Hall. Harry already learned how to get to the Slytherin common room. They went for breakfast. Harry's heart sunk when he saw Gryffindor
table empty. As soon as he stepped into
Great Hall, Fred, George, and Lee, who were the people who did this to Harry, came
over to him. Lee wasn't directly
involved in this, but McGonagall knew he had something to do with the
dynamite explosive.
-"Yo man, wuzup? How'z in Slytherin?" – Lee asked, as they
approached him. Draco was standing
beside Harry, looking away.
-"It's okay." – He didn't
want to diss Slytherin too much in front of Draco.
-"I'm in Revenclaw, while Lee and George are in
Hufflepuff" – Said Fred.
-"Hufflepuff?" – Draco was
disgusted.
-"Better Hufflepuff, than
Slytherin" – Said George.
-"Of fuck you. Hey Weasley, I heard that they sleep on the
floor there" – Draco asked George, mockingly.
-"At least they are not sleeping
with snakes" – said Harry, neutrally.
-"What?" – Draco, George,
Fred, and Lee asked in unison.
-"Nothing" – Harry said,
laughing for himself. He already got
material to gossip Slytherins when he gets back to the Gryffindor. He just has to accidentally let this slip,
while he is talking to Parvati or Lavender, and the next day the whole school
will be thinking how each Slytherin sleeps in the bad made out of snakes.
-"C'mon Potter" – Draco
said, pulling him for his sleeve towards the Slytherin table.
-"Bye Fred, George, Lee" –
said Harry, as he was dragged away.
-"See ya!" – yelled Lee
after him.
Draco dragged him across to
the Slytherin table. This may be the
accident, but Draco took Harry so they could sit close to Pandora. She was there already, talking to someone
else. Draco pushed Harry to sit beside
her, and he sat right across Harry. When she noticed them, she went silent, and changed her voice tone.
-"Hello Harry" – she said in
really nice voice – "and person with Harry, which is not important enough to be
mentioned" – her voice was on a rough note.
-"Hi" – Harry said. The person she was just talking to went
away, and Draco sat in his place, right across her.
-"Fine, don't talk to
me. After all we had" – Draco said, not
looking at her, but being into choosing what he is going to have for
breakfast.
-"Don't listen to him" –
Pandora whispered to Harry. Harry said
nothing, but poured tea for himself.
-"You know I was thinking
indeed about what you said yesterday" – Draco started again.
-"What, the thing that you
are a bastard or a prick, please specify" – she said in stern tone, following
every move of Draco with her eyes.
-"Don't lie, you bitch, you
said none of those. About the part that
how I want you" – Draco said. There was
no one around them, accept Harry, so they were able to have their own private
talks.
-"Don't call me that way" –
she snapped, taking her cup of coffee close to her hand, just in case.
-"Well I realized that if I
want you or don't, that that's not important. The important thing is that you want me, but you can't have me,
so that's why are so mean to me" – Draco said, smiling. Than he sensed that she was touching his leg
with her left leg. He smiled even more.
She just rolled her eyes to
Harry, and drunk her coffee. But all
the time, she didn't even once stopped touching his leg.
-"This is a pencil. You use it to write. And this is a paper. You use it to write on it. And that's…"
-"Thank you very much
Malfoy, but I know how to use the following things" – Harry was pretty annoyed
by Draco. Draco showed him a castle, telling
stories from his perspectives. He told
the whole history of Hogwarts, but it was through what each of his Malfoy
ancestors did. The stories could
actually be considered interesting, if Draco didn't brag so much.
Malfoys were already
considered noble and pureblood family in time of the great Salazar
Slytherin. Abraham Malfoy was picked by
Salazar Slytherin himself to come and go to Hogwarts, and of course, stay in
Slytherin. Abraham's father, Luke was
personal friend of Salazar Slytherin. Even that long ago, Malfoys were primary famous because they were deeply
involved into the Dark Arts. Looking at
the Dark Arts books, name Malfoy is really common. And than other things happened, and overall, Harry hates Draco
even more for having a family.
Than Draco took him back to
the common room, and started showing him around. He became a real asshole, because he showed him things that he
already knew.
-"Thank you very much
Malfoy, but I know how to use following things" – Draco repeated after him, in
high and scornful voice. It was clear
that Harry didn't need Draco anymore, so Draco left him alone in the common
room so he could study.
Draco exited, leaving him
totally alone. Almost everyone went to
watch Revenclaw-Hufflepuff Quidditch game. Harry didn't find it really interesting. In normal circumstances, Slytherins would never ever show up on
something like this, but this time it was important game for them. If Hufflepuff won, they would go down from
their first position. Therefore,
everyone from Slytherin was cheering for Revenclaw to win.
Harry took out his books,
and started looking over what does he have to do. He didn't do his Potions homework, so he thought that it would be
a good idea to do it right now. He
wondered if Snape is going to start liking him, or even stop hating him now,
because he is in Slytherin.
Potions were getting harder and
harder. He didn't know how he is going
to keep track on them without Hermione. Of course, there were some smart Slytherins, and he could ask
them to help him. But who was it? He could ask Draco Malfoy, he was the only
person he would remember that has high average. Sure, he could imagine Draco helping him; but not helping him get
the good marks, but Draco helping him fail or get expelled.
Harry was being utterly
confused. He had no clue what is asking
in the question.
1) What are the properties of the Canarine Flower (Atilias Cueries), when the main substance of the Alp Plant (Thorenas Alpus) is added to its solution?
Even the question itself was
confusing.
-"The properties are
easy. The substance is used to heal
wounds and scars. It gets grayish color,
and it can't be left on the room temperature more than two hours. Than it starts losing its magical
powers. It has to be kept in the cold" –
Harry heard a voice behind him saying. He was sure that it was a voice of a girl. He turned around, and saw:
-"Pandora aren't you on a
Quidditch game?" – Harry asked her. She
was standing over his head, looking at what he was doing. He didn't hear her coming in because he was
too much into his Potions homework.
-"I lost will to watch it
the moment when Draco Malfoy showed up, and sat close to me" – she sighed.
-"So um – err – what is the
thing between you and Draco?" – Harry asked, feeling that he was blushing. He thought that the question was too
straight forward. But she didn't share
his opinion. She answered him.
-"Nothing."
It wasn't just nothing. It was sharp and determined nothing, with
matching face reaction.
-"Anyway, where did you get
that stupid idea that I could have anything with him?" – She asked,
totally grossed out, sitting on the chair beside Harry. The chair was heavy, and light brown. When she moved it, it made unpleasant noise
over the tile floor.
-"I don't know. The things from yesterday…"
-"Listen Harry, Draco can
think what ever he wants to, I do not care. I have no idea what kind of lies he told you about me, and to his
guyfriends, but the only thing I know that Pansy, with who I never was friends,
and hopefully never will, started eyeing me with jealousy. Draco probably told her some lies about him
and me, and threatened not to tell me, so she hates me even more. You know how she wants him. Draco is stupid sometimes, but not
that stupid to get into anything serious with someone like her." – She said in
calm voice. Her tone was clear and full
of concern. And Harry actually believed
her. But she wasn't telling him the
truth. Indeed, she was laying to him.
-"So you are single now?" –
Harry asked. He didn't know himself why
did he ask her that. He thought that he
didn't care for any other girl instead of Cho. But Cho never ever showed interest in Harry in the way he would like her
to. She was always holding strictly aquatint
relationship with him.
-"Yes" – she answered.
Harry's heart started
beating. He didn't know himself why did
her answer make him so happy.
-"Now, Harry, if there is a
subject I'm good at, than it's Potions" – she said, changing her voice to
business-like. Harry totally forgot
that he had to study. – "So, I can help you if you'd like."
-"That would be great" –
Harry said. He really thought so.
-"Fine, lets start than."
Revenclaw won. Slytherins were even happier that Revenclaws
themselves. They were keeping their
first spot, while Revenclaws moved to second, letting Gryffindors keep their
third stop. Hufflepuffs had to satisfy
themselves with last spot. They haven't
scored any goal at all, so that meant instantly losing fifty house points.
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