Authors Note: Thanks to all reviewers!!! You have no idea how exciting it was to get my first review!!! This is my first story, so please be easy on me...but I definitely appreciate any constructive criticism, and if there is anything you don't understand, email me or send me a review and I will try to explain it better for you. Thanx! Peace! Oh, and also,*all JK Rowling's stuff is hers (Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Hogwarts, Dumbledore, etc...) and Lily, Mary, and Joseph Shouk are mine, along with a few other things...*
Chapter Three
Lily's stomach was doing flip-flops. She had just said goodbye to her mum, who had been crying, and now she had to run and go THROUGH the barrier to Platform nine and three quarters. She watched as a bunch of red-headed kids ran towards it, suitcases in tow, and then, suddenly, she realized they weren't there any more!! They just sort of disappeared! The last one, a boy who looked to be her age, she recognized as Ron, who seemed to be a friend of Harry's. Ron kissed his mum goodbye, and ran, and was gone. Lily took a deep breath, grabbed her owl, who she had named Equinox, and her suitcase, and ran towards the barrier. And ran...and then it was in front of her, and then she crashed. She couldn't get through! People were turning and looking at her now, and she knew that if she didn't do something quick things could get embarrassing. So, she used her mind to move the barrier. Just enough so that she could squeeze through, and then moved it back. No sooner than she had replaced it, but in came a puzzled Harry Potter. He was walking towards her! Now her stomach was REALLY doing flops...
"Hey! I'm Harry. Are you new here??" He said this as he took Equinox from her, whom she had almost dropped, much to the bird's annoyance.
"I...erm...I'm Lily..." She said awkwardly. Then she had to quickly catch her owl, because he HAD dropped it.
"Oh! God, sorry! I, just, well...uh, your name...was..." he paused and took a deep breath before recovering nicely, "just a bit of a shock, that's all." Harry decided that he needed to change the subject.
"So. Where're you from? Are you an exchange student?" Stupid question, she had an English accent.
Reading Harry's mind was very interesting, but she felt like such a snoop. "Oh, no...I've lived in London my whole life. I just, um...well, Dumbledore just decided that this year I should come to Hogwarts..." Lily took a deep breath. She sooo wanted to tell Harry why she had been a last minute decision. And apparently he was keen on knowing.
"But that's impossible! The Ministry should've known that you were magical and sent you a letter a few years ago offering you to come to Hogwarts! Why didn't they?" Was he prying too much?
"Well, erm, because I'm, um, not magical. I'm just very psychic..." There. Done. Now for the reaction.
"Whoa! Isn't that like, illegal??? Can you read my mind??? So you can do telekinesis...you DID move the barrier...I thought maybe my eyes had been tricking me...stupid muggle thought!" then he quickly added, "D'you wanna come sit with me and some of my friends on the train?? 'Cause we've gotta find seats quick or we'll have to end up sitting with someone like Malfoy! Have you met him yet?"
"One question at a time! Yeah, I'd love to come sit with you all...yeah, its illegal, yeah I can tap into your mind, yeah I moved the barrier, and yes, I've met Draco...." She laughed, having recited such a long list of answers.
Something hard poked her on the back. Would he ever stop that? She whirled around. Sure enough, Draco, and his posse, which consisted of two large, obviously
not-too-bright boys she would later learn were named Crabbe and Goyle.
"What was that about me? Potter chatting you up already? Shocked that he would talk to a Slytherin..."
And off he walked. Lily shouted after him, "I'm no Slytherin! It's just a little early to be making guesses, Draco! I haven't been sorted yet!"
For some reason Draco had greatly upset her. And Harry was looking none too pleased himself.
"Come on, he's just a stupid git, don't listen to a word he says. If he ever gets on your nerves too much, just call him a weasel, and that should shut him up!" He chuckled to himself. The one good thing the Moody imposter had done was turn Malfoy into a weasel...something Harry would never forget....the best Malfoy ever looked...
Lily looked at him questioningly, but realized it was some sort of inside joke. Harry had found his friends compartment, and Lily got introduced to Ron, Fred, George and Ginny Weasley, and Hermione Granger, who saved her from a candy that Fred *innocently* offered to her.
When Harry mentioned to them that she was a muggle but was here because of psychic abilities, Hermione practically kissed her, and then grinning said,
"It says, in Hogwarts, A History, that a non-wizard, who demonstrates incredible psychic powers, will help defeat Voldemort!!! Are you, by any chance, an Animagi?"
Lily shook her head, confused. Hermione's look of glee faded a little. "Oh well! I hope you're in Gryffindor!"
Harry looked at her, grinning, and said, "Yeah! You don't seem much like a Slytherin, anyways! No matter what Malfoy says! By the way, how was your first encounter with the ferret?"
Lily grinned and explained that she couldn't remember the first time she had met him, but that last time she had been troubled because Lucius and Draco were the only two people that Lily had ever not been able to tap into. Harry and Hermione frowned at this.
Hermione had decided against saying what the rest of Hogwarts, A History had said about this girl, because it was so troublesome. Now she was practically certain that she was indeed sitting next to the very girl that was needed to "complete the puzzle". Unfortunately, this girl could go either way...as long as she was in Gryffindor, she would be fine...
Suddenly there was a banging on the compartment door and everyone (except, of course, Lily) raised their wands. Luckily, it was just Neville.
"Erm...has anyone seen my toad???"
No one had, but Hermione rounded up a little search party to help Neville. Soon Lily was left with only Harry and Ron, who explained that Neville lost his toad every year on the train, and lost just about everything else imaginable at Hogwarts. He was a very forgetful person, but despite all of that, he really was a nice kid, and, when he needed to be, a brave Gryffindor. Suddenly there was another knock on the door, and they all just assumed that the toad had been found, so Harry got up to open the door, wand at his seat.
Unfortunately, this time it was Malfoy and posse. The posse had grown larger too, but the whole posse looked to be a rather dull and stupid lot. When Lily realized that Harry had opened the door wandless, Lily did all she could to help him, and have a little fun with Draco in the meantime. She lifted him off the ground, and gently put him down ten feet away. She shot his wand to the other end of the train, and closed the compartment door. Harry ran back and got his wand, and he and Ron were prepared to fight when the posse came back, five minutes later. This time it was even larger. Two wizards against ten. Ron and Harry stepped out of the compartment to keep Lily out of this. More Gryffindors came out and joined Harry and Ron. More Slytherins came out to fight the Gryffindors. No one noticed that Malfoy had slipped off somewhere. That somewhere just happened to be into the compartment that Lily was in.
They were having a war of their own. Lily had Draco in the air upside down, but he was winning, because he had a firm grip on his wand, and had it pointed straight at her.
"If you put me right side up and on to the ground, I will withdraw my wand." Draco was laughing as he said this.
Lily did as he said, but not exactly gently. As he fell, she got hold of his wand. And now it was her turn to laugh. He paled, but then began to smirk. She couldn't use the wand, and he could taunt her with words. Draco had a little plan up his sleeve. And so far, it was going just the way he wanted it to. Except for one thing...he hadn't thought he would like Lily. He hadn't expected her to get to him.
Her hazel eyes were laughing, burning brighter, and with more green than usual. Her cheeks were flushed, and her hair had a strange purple glow to it. Their eyes locked, and everything became strangely quiet. Then she backed away, and handed him his wand, lifting him off the floor once more and getting him out of the compartment. She wouldn't say that she liked Draco. He made her nervous; he bothered her. But she did like mystery, and for the first time in her life, she had a mystery. She had always known what everyone was thinking around her. Now she finally had someone whose mind was a complete secret. And she desperately wanted to get inside that person's head.
Harry came rushing into the compartment. He had seen Draco flying out of it, and got a little worried about Lily. He knew that she had dealt with him fine, but he didn't know if the weasel had said anything else to bother her. Luckily she sensed him coming, and drifted out of her reverie in time. As Harry entered the compartment he was struck by the muggle's strange, magical beauty. Her eyes were greener than usual, with the fiery passion that usually accompanies a fight, and her cheeks were flushed. Her short, curly hair was in disarray, and she had the grin of a warrior on her face. He asked if she was ok, and her only resoponse was to laugh, and say, "What, do you think I would let HIM get to me?" he grinned at this, because that was, of course, exactly what he was worried about (and she knew it). Then he went back out to finish their little duel, which ended quickly, since the Slytherins realized that Malfoy had retreated. Hermione came back triumphantly, with her hands cupped, and in them, a toad. Then she told Neville that it was alright, the Slytherins were gone, and told everyone to hurry and get into their robes, the Express would be reach Hogwarts soon.
In a mad rush everyone shoved in a few more Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, ended up mainly with disgusted looks on their faces, and hurried to get all of their things together. Then The Hogwarts Express groaned to a halt, and everyone piled out.
Lily saw Hagrid and grinned. He was shouting, "Firs' years over 'ere, firs' years over 'ere..." She wondered where she should go, when the familiar face of Professor McGonagall whispered to her to go with the first years, since she had to be sorted. Minerva squeezed her hand to say good luck, and was off, rounding up all the other students.
Lily was incredibly nervous, and felt SO out of place. She was well over a head taller than all the scared first years, and it didn't help that they were all looking at her and whispering. She got into a boat with two scared first year girls, who were whispering excitedly together. Hagrid gave her an encouraging smile, at least she thought he did, but she couldn't be sure, behind all the hair on his face...
She was led into what was the entrance hall, and up onto a stage. The Sorting Hat was pulled out. It sang a song, and started to go down the list of students, sometimes having to think for a while before shouting out one house or another. Then it was into the S's. Lily had a knot in her stomach so big she was certain she would wretch any moment. She looked out at the different house tables, and realized that two people were saving her a seat. Harry was, and so was Draco...
"Shouk, Lily!" the hat called. She stepped forward, sat down on the stool, and put the hat on. Luckily, it covered her eyes.
"Hmmm....yes...everyone has been waiting quite a while for you...so you really want to go into Gryffindor? This is a difficult decision for me to make...you could just as easily go into Gryffindor OR Slytherin...and while you desperately seem to want to go into Gryffindor, I'm afraid I just can't put you there...you are needed in...SLYTHERIN!!"
No! This just couldn't be happening to her. She looked at the staff table. Minerva looked like she was crying. Even Dumbledore looked a little sad. Snape and the Slytherins were cheering.
Hermione noticed that Lily looked like she was going to her death. Then Hermione realized that Malfoy had saved her a seat. She was washed over with feelings of pity for the girl, and almost started to cry. She had known that this would happen, it said as much in Hogwarts, A History, but Hermione, for once, had wanted the book to be wrong.
Lily managed a weak smile, and managed to get into her seat before she fell over. Her legs felt like jello. Draco was smiling a smile that seemed to be saying, "I told you so!" Suddenly Lily wasn't very hungry. She just knew she was going to be sick. Snape's smile had subdued, because as much as he loved the Slytherins, he knew that Slytherin would be a challenge to Lily, and could easily sway her to the dark side. He knew all too well, because he had been there, too.
Draco almost felt sorry for Lily, because she looked so miserable. But at the same time, he felt like she should be a little bit happier to be in Slytherin, he just didn't see why anyone would be so dismayed...
"Lily? Are you OK?" Draco asked, shocking her, and everyone around him. All heads turned. Clearly Malfoy was the most popular boy in "their" grade.
"Yeah. I'm, uh, fine. Really!" she managed a weak smile, and everyone else turned back to Dumbledore in time to hear "Dig in!" and then were all to preoccupied with food. Draco remained unconvinced, but shrugged, and turned to talk to Pansy Parkinson, who had been trying to get his attention all evening.
Pansy was a pretty girl, probably not the brightest, but not an idiot either. She had long, cascading blonde hair, big blue eyes, and a complexion so perfect you wondered if magic had been involved. She had a slightly turned up nose, and a good figure, and you could tell that most of the guys in Slytherin would jump at the chance to go out with her. However, Lily knew that Draco was the only one Pansy wanted to date.
Lily picked at her food, and was almost relieved when it was time to go to the common room for bed. She was exhausted, she just didn't know if she could sleep. Dumbledore winked at her as she passed, as if to say everything would be ok...
After getting past a very chatty Bloody Baron she was led up to the girls dorm, and sighed thankfully. It was empty. Everyone else was downstairs partying, and welcoming the first years. There was a tap on the door, and Pansy walked in. She didn't look nearly as nice as Ginny or Hermione, but she did at least look genuinely concerned.
"Lily? Are you ok?? You didn't seem to eat much tonight...I guess you were expecting to be in a different house, huh?" Pansy laughed, but it wasn't mocking. "I, uh, brought you some pumpkin juice and a cookie in case you get hungry later on..." She grinned, put down the juice and cookie, and quietly closed the door.
Maybe Slytherin wouldn't be completely awful...as long as she could balance friendships between Slytherins and Gryffindors...which, prior to herself, seemed to be nonexistent. She ate half of the cookie, and drank some of the pumpkin juice, lay down, and was asleep in a matter of seconds.
End of Chapter Three
Chapter Three
Lily's stomach was doing flip-flops. She had just said goodbye to her mum, who had been crying, and now she had to run and go THROUGH the barrier to Platform nine and three quarters. She watched as a bunch of red-headed kids ran towards it, suitcases in tow, and then, suddenly, she realized they weren't there any more!! They just sort of disappeared! The last one, a boy who looked to be her age, she recognized as Ron, who seemed to be a friend of Harry's. Ron kissed his mum goodbye, and ran, and was gone. Lily took a deep breath, grabbed her owl, who she had named Equinox, and her suitcase, and ran towards the barrier. And ran...and then it was in front of her, and then she crashed. She couldn't get through! People were turning and looking at her now, and she knew that if she didn't do something quick things could get embarrassing. So, she used her mind to move the barrier. Just enough so that she could squeeze through, and then moved it back. No sooner than she had replaced it, but in came a puzzled Harry Potter. He was walking towards her! Now her stomach was REALLY doing flops...
"Hey! I'm Harry. Are you new here??" He said this as he took Equinox from her, whom she had almost dropped, much to the bird's annoyance.
"I...erm...I'm Lily..." She said awkwardly. Then she had to quickly catch her owl, because he HAD dropped it.
"Oh! God, sorry! I, just, well...uh, your name...was..." he paused and took a deep breath before recovering nicely, "just a bit of a shock, that's all." Harry decided that he needed to change the subject.
"So. Where're you from? Are you an exchange student?" Stupid question, she had an English accent.
Reading Harry's mind was very interesting, but she felt like such a snoop. "Oh, no...I've lived in London my whole life. I just, um...well, Dumbledore just decided that this year I should come to Hogwarts..." Lily took a deep breath. She sooo wanted to tell Harry why she had been a last minute decision. And apparently he was keen on knowing.
"But that's impossible! The Ministry should've known that you were magical and sent you a letter a few years ago offering you to come to Hogwarts! Why didn't they?" Was he prying too much?
"Well, erm, because I'm, um, not magical. I'm just very psychic..." There. Done. Now for the reaction.
"Whoa! Isn't that like, illegal??? Can you read my mind??? So you can do telekinesis...you DID move the barrier...I thought maybe my eyes had been tricking me...stupid muggle thought!" then he quickly added, "D'you wanna come sit with me and some of my friends on the train?? 'Cause we've gotta find seats quick or we'll have to end up sitting with someone like Malfoy! Have you met him yet?"
"One question at a time! Yeah, I'd love to come sit with you all...yeah, its illegal, yeah I can tap into your mind, yeah I moved the barrier, and yes, I've met Draco...." She laughed, having recited such a long list of answers.
Something hard poked her on the back. Would he ever stop that? She whirled around. Sure enough, Draco, and his posse, which consisted of two large, obviously
not-too-bright boys she would later learn were named Crabbe and Goyle.
"What was that about me? Potter chatting you up already? Shocked that he would talk to a Slytherin..."
And off he walked. Lily shouted after him, "I'm no Slytherin! It's just a little early to be making guesses, Draco! I haven't been sorted yet!"
For some reason Draco had greatly upset her. And Harry was looking none too pleased himself.
"Come on, he's just a stupid git, don't listen to a word he says. If he ever gets on your nerves too much, just call him a weasel, and that should shut him up!" He chuckled to himself. The one good thing the Moody imposter had done was turn Malfoy into a weasel...something Harry would never forget....the best Malfoy ever looked...
Lily looked at him questioningly, but realized it was some sort of inside joke. Harry had found his friends compartment, and Lily got introduced to Ron, Fred, George and Ginny Weasley, and Hermione Granger, who saved her from a candy that Fred *innocently* offered to her.
When Harry mentioned to them that she was a muggle but was here because of psychic abilities, Hermione practically kissed her, and then grinning said,
"It says, in Hogwarts, A History, that a non-wizard, who demonstrates incredible psychic powers, will help defeat Voldemort!!! Are you, by any chance, an Animagi?"
Lily shook her head, confused. Hermione's look of glee faded a little. "Oh well! I hope you're in Gryffindor!"
Harry looked at her, grinning, and said, "Yeah! You don't seem much like a Slytherin, anyways! No matter what Malfoy says! By the way, how was your first encounter with the ferret?"
Lily grinned and explained that she couldn't remember the first time she had met him, but that last time she had been troubled because Lucius and Draco were the only two people that Lily had ever not been able to tap into. Harry and Hermione frowned at this.
Hermione had decided against saying what the rest of Hogwarts, A History had said about this girl, because it was so troublesome. Now she was practically certain that she was indeed sitting next to the very girl that was needed to "complete the puzzle". Unfortunately, this girl could go either way...as long as she was in Gryffindor, she would be fine...
Suddenly there was a banging on the compartment door and everyone (except, of course, Lily) raised their wands. Luckily, it was just Neville.
"Erm...has anyone seen my toad???"
No one had, but Hermione rounded up a little search party to help Neville. Soon Lily was left with only Harry and Ron, who explained that Neville lost his toad every year on the train, and lost just about everything else imaginable at Hogwarts. He was a very forgetful person, but despite all of that, he really was a nice kid, and, when he needed to be, a brave Gryffindor. Suddenly there was another knock on the door, and they all just assumed that the toad had been found, so Harry got up to open the door, wand at his seat.
Unfortunately, this time it was Malfoy and posse. The posse had grown larger too, but the whole posse looked to be a rather dull and stupid lot. When Lily realized that Harry had opened the door wandless, Lily did all she could to help him, and have a little fun with Draco in the meantime. She lifted him off the ground, and gently put him down ten feet away. She shot his wand to the other end of the train, and closed the compartment door. Harry ran back and got his wand, and he and Ron were prepared to fight when the posse came back, five minutes later. This time it was even larger. Two wizards against ten. Ron and Harry stepped out of the compartment to keep Lily out of this. More Gryffindors came out and joined Harry and Ron. More Slytherins came out to fight the Gryffindors. No one noticed that Malfoy had slipped off somewhere. That somewhere just happened to be into the compartment that Lily was in.
They were having a war of their own. Lily had Draco in the air upside down, but he was winning, because he had a firm grip on his wand, and had it pointed straight at her.
"If you put me right side up and on to the ground, I will withdraw my wand." Draco was laughing as he said this.
Lily did as he said, but not exactly gently. As he fell, she got hold of his wand. And now it was her turn to laugh. He paled, but then began to smirk. She couldn't use the wand, and he could taunt her with words. Draco had a little plan up his sleeve. And so far, it was going just the way he wanted it to. Except for one thing...he hadn't thought he would like Lily. He hadn't expected her to get to him.
Her hazel eyes were laughing, burning brighter, and with more green than usual. Her cheeks were flushed, and her hair had a strange purple glow to it. Their eyes locked, and everything became strangely quiet. Then she backed away, and handed him his wand, lifting him off the floor once more and getting him out of the compartment. She wouldn't say that she liked Draco. He made her nervous; he bothered her. But she did like mystery, and for the first time in her life, she had a mystery. She had always known what everyone was thinking around her. Now she finally had someone whose mind was a complete secret. And she desperately wanted to get inside that person's head.
Harry came rushing into the compartment. He had seen Draco flying out of it, and got a little worried about Lily. He knew that she had dealt with him fine, but he didn't know if the weasel had said anything else to bother her. Luckily she sensed him coming, and drifted out of her reverie in time. As Harry entered the compartment he was struck by the muggle's strange, magical beauty. Her eyes were greener than usual, with the fiery passion that usually accompanies a fight, and her cheeks were flushed. Her short, curly hair was in disarray, and she had the grin of a warrior on her face. He asked if she was ok, and her only resoponse was to laugh, and say, "What, do you think I would let HIM get to me?" he grinned at this, because that was, of course, exactly what he was worried about (and she knew it). Then he went back out to finish their little duel, which ended quickly, since the Slytherins realized that Malfoy had retreated. Hermione came back triumphantly, with her hands cupped, and in them, a toad. Then she told Neville that it was alright, the Slytherins were gone, and told everyone to hurry and get into their robes, the Express would be reach Hogwarts soon.
In a mad rush everyone shoved in a few more Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, ended up mainly with disgusted looks on their faces, and hurried to get all of their things together. Then The Hogwarts Express groaned to a halt, and everyone piled out.
Lily saw Hagrid and grinned. He was shouting, "Firs' years over 'ere, firs' years over 'ere..." She wondered where she should go, when the familiar face of Professor McGonagall whispered to her to go with the first years, since she had to be sorted. Minerva squeezed her hand to say good luck, and was off, rounding up all the other students.
Lily was incredibly nervous, and felt SO out of place. She was well over a head taller than all the scared first years, and it didn't help that they were all looking at her and whispering. She got into a boat with two scared first year girls, who were whispering excitedly together. Hagrid gave her an encouraging smile, at least she thought he did, but she couldn't be sure, behind all the hair on his face...
She was led into what was the entrance hall, and up onto a stage. The Sorting Hat was pulled out. It sang a song, and started to go down the list of students, sometimes having to think for a while before shouting out one house or another. Then it was into the S's. Lily had a knot in her stomach so big she was certain she would wretch any moment. She looked out at the different house tables, and realized that two people were saving her a seat. Harry was, and so was Draco...
"Shouk, Lily!" the hat called. She stepped forward, sat down on the stool, and put the hat on. Luckily, it covered her eyes.
"Hmmm....yes...everyone has been waiting quite a while for you...so you really want to go into Gryffindor? This is a difficult decision for me to make...you could just as easily go into Gryffindor OR Slytherin...and while you desperately seem to want to go into Gryffindor, I'm afraid I just can't put you there...you are needed in...SLYTHERIN!!"
No! This just couldn't be happening to her. She looked at the staff table. Minerva looked like she was crying. Even Dumbledore looked a little sad. Snape and the Slytherins were cheering.
Hermione noticed that Lily looked like she was going to her death. Then Hermione realized that Malfoy had saved her a seat. She was washed over with feelings of pity for the girl, and almost started to cry. She had known that this would happen, it said as much in Hogwarts, A History, but Hermione, for once, had wanted the book to be wrong.
Lily managed a weak smile, and managed to get into her seat before she fell over. Her legs felt like jello. Draco was smiling a smile that seemed to be saying, "I told you so!" Suddenly Lily wasn't very hungry. She just knew she was going to be sick. Snape's smile had subdued, because as much as he loved the Slytherins, he knew that Slytherin would be a challenge to Lily, and could easily sway her to the dark side. He knew all too well, because he had been there, too.
Draco almost felt sorry for Lily, because she looked so miserable. But at the same time, he felt like she should be a little bit happier to be in Slytherin, he just didn't see why anyone would be so dismayed...
"Lily? Are you OK?" Draco asked, shocking her, and everyone around him. All heads turned. Clearly Malfoy was the most popular boy in "their" grade.
"Yeah. I'm, uh, fine. Really!" she managed a weak smile, and everyone else turned back to Dumbledore in time to hear "Dig in!" and then were all to preoccupied with food. Draco remained unconvinced, but shrugged, and turned to talk to Pansy Parkinson, who had been trying to get his attention all evening.
Pansy was a pretty girl, probably not the brightest, but not an idiot either. She had long, cascading blonde hair, big blue eyes, and a complexion so perfect you wondered if magic had been involved. She had a slightly turned up nose, and a good figure, and you could tell that most of the guys in Slytherin would jump at the chance to go out with her. However, Lily knew that Draco was the only one Pansy wanted to date.
Lily picked at her food, and was almost relieved when it was time to go to the common room for bed. She was exhausted, she just didn't know if she could sleep. Dumbledore winked at her as she passed, as if to say everything would be ok...
After getting past a very chatty Bloody Baron she was led up to the girls dorm, and sighed thankfully. It was empty. Everyone else was downstairs partying, and welcoming the first years. There was a tap on the door, and Pansy walked in. She didn't look nearly as nice as Ginny or Hermione, but she did at least look genuinely concerned.
"Lily? Are you ok?? You didn't seem to eat much tonight...I guess you were expecting to be in a different house, huh?" Pansy laughed, but it wasn't mocking. "I, uh, brought you some pumpkin juice and a cookie in case you get hungry later on..." She grinned, put down the juice and cookie, and quietly closed the door.
Maybe Slytherin wouldn't be completely awful...as long as she could balance friendships between Slytherins and Gryffindors...which, prior to herself, seemed to be nonexistent. She ate half of the cookie, and drank some of the pumpkin juice, lay down, and was asleep in a matter of seconds.
End of Chapter Three