Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all of these characters, except Aura Venezia, and the later song lyrics belong to American Hi-Fi

WARNING: This story will contain SLASH. If you do not like it, please do not read it!

AN: I meant for the second part of the first chapter to be chapter two, but it didn't work right, so now chapter two is what would really be chapter three. Sorry about that!

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Now on their own way back to the Gryffindor common room, Harry, Ron and Hermione's conversation once again returned to the scene that had recently transpired in potions.

"Did you see the look on Malfoy's face when she taunted him? Tee hee, I am really starting to like this Aura girl," said Ron.

"I wonder who Malfoy does dream about?" pondered Hermione. "Whoever it is, it certainly seems to frighten him."

"It's probably Pansy Parkinson! That would scare me any day," laughed Ron.

"Hey," began Harry. "Has anyone noticed that, while she may be smart and totally deserves our respect because she managed to annoy Malfoy, Aura is kind of, well, different?"

"I've noticed it as well. It seems like she's had no previous experience with magic. And the way she just disappeared like that! If it wasn't for the fact that I knew it was impossible, I'd say that she Disapparated out of that classroom!" stated Hermione.

"All I know is as soon as I find her, I am definitely shaking that girl's hand!" said Ron.

And he soon got the chance to do just that. For when they entered the Gryffindor common room, they spotted Aura sitting in one of the armchairs, absentmindedly strumming some kind of Muggle instrument.

"It's called a guitar," she said, as if reading Ron's thoughts. "It makes music."

"Oh," he said. "Hey, Aura, can I shake your hand?"

"Hmmm? Why?"

"Anybody who can one-up Draco Malfoy at least deserves a handshake!"

Aura smiled at Ron, and chuckled a little. "You guys are so funny," she said, shaking Ron's hand.

"Aura," began Hermione, "How did you manage to just disappear from the potions classroom, and end up here, in the Gryffindor tower?"

"Magic," she said with a wink.

"But you don't do very much magic," Harry pointed out cautiously.

"I do a lot of magic," replied Aura. "It's just not the kind you're used to."

"What do you mean?" asked Hermione. But Aura was cut off by the sudden arrival of Neville, Dean, and Seamus into the common room.

"Aura Venezia! Lady of the hour! Tell me, how did you talk down Draco Malfoy, public enemy number one?" asked Seamus.

"I didn't talk anyone down. I wish you all wouldn't refer to him as if he was the greatest enemy any of you'd ever had," said Aura.

"How can you say that? Didn't you just insult him, and make his face change colors we've never seen before?" Seamus asked.

"Really, I didn't. I just told him I wasn't afraid of him, and that I didn't intend to let him get to me. In fact, I am hoping to get to him, just not in the sense that you mean, Seamus. I don't want to make an enemy of him. I want him to be a friend," replied Aura.

"You want to be his friend?" asked Neville. In the pandemonium of shouted opinions that followed this question, only Harry was able to hear Aura's answer. "I never said that I intended to make him my friend."