second chapter
Draco raised his wand towards the Ravenclaw girl, ready like a tiger about to pounce on its prey.
"Crusates Levas!" Draco yelled the spell him and Harry had practiced all too often.Like in the practice sessions with Snape he saw the stream of crystal blue light hit his opponent.one down and another on the way.Draco thought to himself silently, as he glanced over to Harry who looked as if he was going to be sick.
"Hey Potter!"Draco yelled at him jerking Harry's attention towards him.
"Come on hurry up!"He yelled at him ,but before Harry could cast his spell the Hufflepuff was already casting his.
"Potter move! "Draco yelled as he saw the opponents lips move and heard his scratchy voice call out his spell.
Harry ,who had just been pulled out of a dazed state quickly moved out of the opponents wands view as soon as he heard Draco.
Turning around, Harry pointed his wand at the Hufflepuff and yelled loudly "Apparus Difinite!"his opponent keeled over grabbing his stomach in pain.
They had won.
"The winner for SilverFire against RedFire is SILVERFIRE!"
The crowd roared with applause and Harry heard yells of praise from Hagrid, who was standing next to Hermione and Ron,both of which were yelling at the top of their lungs.
"Good job you two." Harry turned towards the voice and saw Draco standing beside him along with Snape."I had little doubt you could do it,"continued Snape."But then again I taught you."he smiled a nasty smile that told them he was not congratulating them, but merely giving praise to himself.Snape walked off, his midnight black robes flapping in the cool air behind him.
"Well,"Harry heard Draco say."That was a waste of our time."He had a small smile on his lips as he spoke.
"What do you mean?We won!"Harry spoke giving Draco a confused look.
"Yeah I know we won ,but what did we really win potter?"Draco now look as if he was worried about something ,but Harry couldn't really tell.
"I don't know."now Harry was wondering the same thing.
The air around them got quiet until they harry heard the voices of Hermione and Ron yelling out to him.
"HARRY! "Draco turned towards the voices only to see Ron stop in front of him gasping a bit his face in a questioning stare.
"Oh hey you guys." Harry replied a bit confused at the rush of excitement that seemed to flow out of Hermione.
"Congratulatiuons!"Hermione yelled as she jumped up and hugged Harry, then giving an unsure glance at Draco continued talking her voice a quick slur of words.
"Oh my God! Harry this is so cool!"She beemed at Harry.
"What so great about it we just won a duel?"harry was a little alarmed by her enthusiasm.
Harry looked at Ron expecting him to say something , but saw him looking at draco with a glare that could only mean trouble.
"Hey Ron!"Harry said quickly."your'e my best friend and yet I haven't heard a word of praise from you!"
"Oh yeah, good job."he said tonelessly, not even glancing up at Harry.he was too busy staring at draco.
"What?"Draco said suddenly to Ron."never seen such beauty?"his voice was coated with sarcasm.
"actually I have seen such beauty as yours, Hermione and I passed by Mrs. Norris on the way out here!"Ron let his voice drip with as much hate as he could muster.
Draco gritted his teeth as he stepped towards Ron.Harry got between them quickly , not wanting Ron to get in anymore trouble than he had so far.The slytherins ,always the jokesters(*sarcasm*) had set rons robes on fire during potions class, while they were making a potion that would allow the drinker to set himself on fire, and not feel a thing.Ron had cried out in pain as the flames swallowed up his robes, and Snape casting a Dark glance towards Ron had said with a sneer "obviously your potion didn't work."
"ok!what did you guys want again?"Harry asked Ron as he held him away from Draco.
"Well,"Hermione answered."I read an article in The Daily Prophet about the Fire Fracas."
"The what?"Draco asked a slightly confused look spread across his face.
Hermione gave a barely audible "Argh!" as she looked at Draco.Her stomach dropped as she looked into his eyes.His eyes shine like silver, how come I never noticed? She continued staring at him her eyes working their way down his face, checking his every feature.Draco realizing she was staring at him looked at Harry and cleared his throught slightly.
"Oh um …sorry"She blushed a little and glanced at Harry and Ron slightly, they had noticed too and were looking at her with curious and amused looks set on their faces.
"The Fire Fracas…."Still seeing their confused faces, she started again this time in a louder voice."Here let me read it.Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is one of the first schools to be introduced to the Fire Duels, or the Fire Fracas.The Fire Fracas consists of duels between several teams which are named after magical fires.The winner of each duel will take the opponents goblet of fire."looking up she saw they were still confused."ok, look let me summarize it for you.you won against red fire right?so, you get their cup or goblet of fire.Each team has a goblet of fire according to their team name, for example your goblet would have silver fire, because your team name is Silverfire.at the end of all the duels the team with the most goblets of fire will move on to a sort of final match against the winners of other schools.The grand prize being a trip to America!that's whats so neat!"she concluded.
"Ok so all we have to do is win and we get to go to America?"Harry asked a little excited himself.
"Why would we want to win a trip to america all there is there is a mother load of muggles!were talking the Queen ship!"Draco exclaimed.
"Shut up Malfoy!"Ron said, a sneer on his face.
"Wait a minute!i just thought of something"Harry said."Snape told us that we didn't get a prize.It was just a matter of who's weak and who's strong."
"I always knew he was a slither!"Ron yelled.
"shhh!"Hermione said hushing Ron up.
They walked back to Hogwarts together, but separated when they entered.
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The worst class to be in was Snapes.Ron wished he could magic himself away.He hadn't done his Potions homework and now he was regretting it.The doors flew open with a loud bang on the walls and Snape followed by two young girls walked in.
Ron suspected a lecture coming on.
"Listen up class!"Snape said loudly.
Ron was right.
The class didn't get silent instead they talked louder.
"All right, All right"Snape said."OK! SHUT UP!"
The class grew silent quick.
"Today I am very pleased to make an announcment"he looked around the room at all the still faces.
"We have recieved two new students from Adeni School of witchcraft and wizardry, in America."the class broke into a babble of talk, but Snape shut them up with a glare.He placed a hand on each girls shoulder.
they were both slender, with deep brown, almost black hair and golden eyes which gleamed with amusement.their hair tumbled down in loose waves, falling just right on their shoulders, they couldv'e been twins if it were'nt for the fact that one had a smile on her face and the other was looking around with a look on her face as if she were upset about something.
"This is Ariana and Rachel Latimer."Snape said grandly.
"My Nieces."
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"Bloody Hell!"ron exclaimed."his neices!"
It was after potions class and Harry, Ron , and Hermione were walking towards the common room.
"that threw me off my seat!"Ron yelled loudly as they stood infront of the potrait with the fat lady on it.
"Password please?"The fat lady asked them curtly.
"Oh um, Majoris Dosicis."Hermione replied.
"That's so scary! Snape! of all people !Woah!"Ron continued loudly.
He was about to start talking again, but stopped when he saw Rachel Latimer sitting on an oversized armchair in front of the roaring fire.She looked up at ron as they entered and smiled at him, making him go red all the way up to his ears.
"Don't worry continue with what you were saying."A sweet voice spoke out from behind them.Turning around they saw ariana Latimer who had been walking behind them the whole time.
"Uh........" ron couldn't speak.
Ariana stepped out more into the light of the fire. the gleaming fire reflected off her eyes, making them glow.
"I was deeply interested in the conversation"Ariana continued speaking a smile dancing on her lips.Harry looked at her and his mind and heart raced.
"You're in Gryffindor?"harry managed to say.
"Yes.Are you so suprised?" she said passing by Harry her cloaks brushing his."Uncle wasn't so happy either but what can you do?"She looked at harry, glancing up and down his body as if inspecting him.Harry blushed slightly.
"I'm Ariana Latimer."She moved her hand infront of her to shake harry's hand.as soon as their hands touched he felt a spark of heat.
"I-I'm Harry Potter."For a minute Harry thought she like all the others would look at his scar that barely hid beneath his untidy hair.
She didn't instead she turned towards ron who was still a bit red.
"I believe I know you already."She raised her left eyebrow in a questioning manner."but," she continued "we were not properly introduced." She then reached her hand out toward Ron.Harry saw Rons eyes open wide as he took her hand.After that she then introduced herself to Hermione who seemed a little taken back.
"Well," Hermione said timidly" we must-"
"going already?"Ariana questioned as she sat down lazily on the unoccupied armchair which was opposite to her sisters.
Hermione looked stunned.Ariana was now opening a book, which from the cover looked like a secondhand book.She recieved a stern look from Rachel.She noticed this and looked at Hermione.
"Oh, I am truly sorry I keep forgeting to stay out of other peoples thoughts."She however had already looked back down at her book, so she did not notice the strange looks upon their faces.A moment later she looked up and saw Ron looking at her book, with a quizzical look.
"The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5."she said glancing back down."I looked at it at the end of last year, only to find I already knew it."she didn't have a vane tone, but a rather annoyed one.
Ron was still looking at the book as if his question had not been answered.
"It's a secondhand book ."She looked up at Ron who turned a bright red again.
"oh I'm sorry again!"She said after another stern look from her sister."I just never found any sense in buying a new book, why buy a new one?" she got up gracefully and walked over to them in a catlike manner.She continued to talk Ron and Harry looking at her naturally tinted lips as she spoke."When," she continued"You can have one that tells a story, like look see here." she moved between Ron and Harry so that one was on each side of her and could see the thing she was pointing at with a slender finger.It was a page that was slightly tattered, and on the top left corner of the page was a large heart with several words in it.
"Now I know that a Cho Chang was in love with a..." she thought a little as she tried to make out the fading ink." Ah, a Cedric Diggory."
Harry hoped that Ariana wasn't reading his thoughts right now, cause then she would find out about the painful crush he had had on Cho Chang.
"But, "she said turning her head to look at ron their faces close enough that you would've thought they were about to kiss."on page one hundred and twelve you find out, that Cho no longer likes Cedric, but likes Oliver Wood.Now I've met him.Good choice Chang."she then looked at Harry, their eyes locked.
"like I said before, we must go to bed we have transfiguration tommorow, first."Hermione said loudly.
The moment was gone.
Hermione was already tugging on Ron and harrys arm.
"Goodnight!"Ariana called as they stepped onto the spiral staircase leading to their dorms."See you tommorow in first!"
She sat back down in the armchair, thinking silently to herself a moment before speaking.
"and second, and third, and fourth.."she stroked her finger on the armrest of the chair.Rachel smiled up at her.
"Now how are you going to do that?"a fake innocence lingering on her voice.
"Simple."Ariana replyed."Give me your schedule." Her sister handed her the schedule and sat back an amused look on her face.
"I'll just change it."
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"Hello Harry!" Ariana called out among the great hall as she entered.Everyone looked at her, she simply ignored their stares and walked till she was at the table where Harry Potter sat at.Neville Longbottom and a rather small chunky boy who were sitting in front of Harry moved leaving a small space for ariana to sit.She took it thankfully, saying thanks to them before she started talking to harry.
"Harry I don't want to seem a bit awkward, but may I see your schedule?"she asked looking at harry sweetly, eyes wide.
"sure, i don't think we will have very many classes together though I never get lucky."he handed over a crumpled piece of parchment which she carefully unfolded, and laid in front of her.
"Hmm..." she muttered her brow furrowed in concentration." we have first, and second together, then.....we have all our classes together!"she looked up at Harry happily.Harry's heart lept as he smiled back.She was easily the prettiest girl, and the nicest.Harry felt so close to her.
"really?" he stammered looking into her eyes trying to tell if she was really happy about it.her eyes were a golden brown and the light radiating from the bewitched ceiling above made them shine like gold, and the warmth he felt when he looked in them was as warm as the fire in the Gryffindor common room.
"Mmm Hmm."she replied nodding her head.
Harry and her exchanged another smile before Hermione reminded them that it was time to go to their first class.
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"Now," Snape announced to the class." I am going to be announcing the partners you will be working with for the remainder of the year on the potions being made in here."he glanced around his dark eyes darting from face to face."When i call your name, go find your partner and begin on the assigned potion if you ask me for help on anypart of the potion you automatically fail."He smiled a nasty smile, but changed to a rather cheerful looking one when he saw his niece Ariana."lets begin."
"Millicent Bulstrode and Harry Potter."harry looked from millicent to Ron who gave a quick smile, that reminded harry of the smiles people gave you when they knew you were going to die, but wanted to give you hope.
"Draco Malfoy and Ariana Latimer."Ariana rose from her seat and slinked over to the table which had a handsome boy seated at it.Ariana noticed he had blonde hair that made his silvery eyes stand out.
"Hmm.." she thought."i like him already."
"I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy."Ariana was taken back by his warm deep voice.
"Ariana Latimer."she extended her hand and he took it, she felt his thick pulse beneath her index finger as it lay on his wrist.It quickened as she said the charm quickly in her mind.It was a simple handshake her uncle snape had taught her, along with other various things. whenever she met someone she placed a spell on them which allowed her to have a connection with them, like read their thoughts, feel their feelings, and keep them safe.They were always kept safe as long as they were not threatened on the bottom crescent of the moon, thats the way she made it to be.bottom crescents were very rare, almost unheard of.
"Pleasure to meet you Ariana."Draco replied politely."Shall we begin?"
"lets."Ariana read the instructions to the potion, while Draco gathered the materials needed."Oh it's the confessio spell."Ariana read aloud to Draco who was on his knees getting some parchment and a quill from his bookbag.
"Really?"He said looking at the paper, when he had gotten up."That's a rather easy one."
Ariana looked at him trying to see if he was lying, but as she read his thoughts he was already trying to remember it.
"Confessio spell?.....Oh, of course the Confessio spell makes you confess to one thing for every drop given to you."Dracos thoughts entered Arianas mind, and a smile formed on her lips.
"Beauty and brains."Ariana thought to herself as she looked at Draco.
"ok."Draco looked at her his silver eyes shining brightly"Do you want me to get the resate?"
"sure, I'll simmer the leafell."She smiled warmly at him, and he smiled back before going to the front of the class.
Draco smiled at Ariana and felt a tug on his heart.He wasn't scared of her, he was scared of his feelings for her. The truth was he had very much fallen head over heels for her.He walked toward the table again, where she was simmering the leafell , it was then that he noticed a snowy white cat standing next to Ariana looking up at what she was doing.the cat glanced quickly at Draco then looked at Ariana who turned towards Draco and laughed a light laugh.
"Amiculus, this is Draco,"She looked up at Draco smiling."Draco Malfoy."
Draco raised his wand towards the Ravenclaw girl, ready like a tiger about to pounce on its prey.
"Crusates Levas!" Draco yelled the spell him and Harry had practiced all too often.Like in the practice sessions with Snape he saw the stream of crystal blue light hit his opponent.one down and another on the way.Draco thought to himself silently, as he glanced over to Harry who looked as if he was going to be sick.
"Hey Potter!"Draco yelled at him jerking Harry's attention towards him.
"Come on hurry up!"He yelled at him ,but before Harry could cast his spell the Hufflepuff was already casting his.
"Potter move! "Draco yelled as he saw the opponents lips move and heard his scratchy voice call out his spell.
Harry ,who had just been pulled out of a dazed state quickly moved out of the opponents wands view as soon as he heard Draco.
Turning around, Harry pointed his wand at the Hufflepuff and yelled loudly "Apparus Difinite!"his opponent keeled over grabbing his stomach in pain.
They had won.
"The winner for SilverFire against RedFire is SILVERFIRE!"
The crowd roared with applause and Harry heard yells of praise from Hagrid, who was standing next to Hermione and Ron,both of which were yelling at the top of their lungs.
"Good job you two." Harry turned towards the voice and saw Draco standing beside him along with Snape."I had little doubt you could do it,"continued Snape."But then again I taught you."he smiled a nasty smile that told them he was not congratulating them, but merely giving praise to himself.Snape walked off, his midnight black robes flapping in the cool air behind him.
"Well,"Harry heard Draco say."That was a waste of our time."He had a small smile on his lips as he spoke.
"What do you mean?We won!"Harry spoke giving Draco a confused look.
"Yeah I know we won ,but what did we really win potter?"Draco now look as if he was worried about something ,but Harry couldn't really tell.
"I don't know."now Harry was wondering the same thing.
The air around them got quiet until they harry heard the voices of Hermione and Ron yelling out to him.
"HARRY! "Draco turned towards the voices only to see Ron stop in front of him gasping a bit his face in a questioning stare.
"Oh hey you guys." Harry replied a bit confused at the rush of excitement that seemed to flow out of Hermione.
"Congratulatiuons!"Hermione yelled as she jumped up and hugged Harry, then giving an unsure glance at Draco continued talking her voice a quick slur of words.
"Oh my God! Harry this is so cool!"She beemed at Harry.
"What so great about it we just won a duel?"harry was a little alarmed by her enthusiasm.
Harry looked at Ron expecting him to say something , but saw him looking at draco with a glare that could only mean trouble.
"Hey Ron!"Harry said quickly."your'e my best friend and yet I haven't heard a word of praise from you!"
"Oh yeah, good job."he said tonelessly, not even glancing up at Harry.he was too busy staring at draco.
"What?"Draco said suddenly to Ron."never seen such beauty?"his voice was coated with sarcasm.
"actually I have seen such beauty as yours, Hermione and I passed by Mrs. Norris on the way out here!"Ron let his voice drip with as much hate as he could muster.
Draco gritted his teeth as he stepped towards Ron.Harry got between them quickly , not wanting Ron to get in anymore trouble than he had so far.The slytherins ,always the jokesters(*sarcasm*) had set rons robes on fire during potions class, while they were making a potion that would allow the drinker to set himself on fire, and not feel a thing.Ron had cried out in pain as the flames swallowed up his robes, and Snape casting a Dark glance towards Ron had said with a sneer "obviously your potion didn't work."
"ok!what did you guys want again?"Harry asked Ron as he held him away from Draco.
"Well,"Hermione answered."I read an article in The Daily Prophet about the Fire Fracas."
"The what?"Draco asked a slightly confused look spread across his face.
Hermione gave a barely audible "Argh!" as she looked at Draco.Her stomach dropped as she looked into his eyes.His eyes shine like silver, how come I never noticed? She continued staring at him her eyes working their way down his face, checking his every feature.Draco realizing she was staring at him looked at Harry and cleared his throught slightly.
"Oh um …sorry"She blushed a little and glanced at Harry and Ron slightly, they had noticed too and were looking at her with curious and amused looks set on their faces.
"The Fire Fracas…."Still seeing their confused faces, she started again this time in a louder voice."Here let me read it.Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is one of the first schools to be introduced to the Fire Duels, or the Fire Fracas.The Fire Fracas consists of duels between several teams which are named after magical fires.The winner of each duel will take the opponents goblet of fire."looking up she saw they were still confused."ok, look let me summarize it for you.you won against red fire right?so, you get their cup or goblet of fire.Each team has a goblet of fire according to their team name, for example your goblet would have silver fire, because your team name is Silverfire.at the end of all the duels the team with the most goblets of fire will move on to a sort of final match against the winners of other schools.The grand prize being a trip to America!that's whats so neat!"she concluded.
"Ok so all we have to do is win and we get to go to America?"Harry asked a little excited himself.
"Why would we want to win a trip to america all there is there is a mother load of muggles!were talking the Queen ship!"Draco exclaimed.
"Shut up Malfoy!"Ron said, a sneer on his face.
"Wait a minute!i just thought of something"Harry said."Snape told us that we didn't get a prize.It was just a matter of who's weak and who's strong."
"I always knew he was a slither!"Ron yelled.
"shhh!"Hermione said hushing Ron up.
They walked back to Hogwarts together, but separated when they entered.
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The worst class to be in was Snapes.Ron wished he could magic himself away.He hadn't done his Potions homework and now he was regretting it.The doors flew open with a loud bang on the walls and Snape followed by two young girls walked in.
Ron suspected a lecture coming on.
"Listen up class!"Snape said loudly.
Ron was right.
The class didn't get silent instead they talked louder.
"All right, All right"Snape said."OK! SHUT UP!"
The class grew silent quick.
"Today I am very pleased to make an announcment"he looked around the room at all the still faces.
"We have recieved two new students from Adeni School of witchcraft and wizardry, in America."the class broke into a babble of talk, but Snape shut them up with a glare.He placed a hand on each girls shoulder.
they were both slender, with deep brown, almost black hair and golden eyes which gleamed with amusement.their hair tumbled down in loose waves, falling just right on their shoulders, they couldv'e been twins if it were'nt for the fact that one had a smile on her face and the other was looking around with a look on her face as if she were upset about something.
"This is Ariana and Rachel Latimer."Snape said grandly.
"My Nieces."
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"Bloody Hell!"ron exclaimed."his neices!"
It was after potions class and Harry, Ron , and Hermione were walking towards the common room.
"that threw me off my seat!"Ron yelled loudly as they stood infront of the potrait with the fat lady on it.
"Password please?"The fat lady asked them curtly.
"Oh um, Majoris Dosicis."Hermione replied.
"That's so scary! Snape! of all people !Woah!"Ron continued loudly.
He was about to start talking again, but stopped when he saw Rachel Latimer sitting on an oversized armchair in front of the roaring fire.She looked up at ron as they entered and smiled at him, making him go red all the way up to his ears.
"Don't worry continue with what you were saying."A sweet voice spoke out from behind them.Turning around they saw ariana Latimer who had been walking behind them the whole time.
"Uh........" ron couldn't speak.
Ariana stepped out more into the light of the fire. the gleaming fire reflected off her eyes, making them glow.
"I was deeply interested in the conversation"Ariana continued speaking a smile dancing on her lips.Harry looked at her and his mind and heart raced.
"You're in Gryffindor?"harry managed to say.
"Yes.Are you so suprised?" she said passing by Harry her cloaks brushing his."Uncle wasn't so happy either but what can you do?"She looked at harry, glancing up and down his body as if inspecting him.Harry blushed slightly.
"I'm Ariana Latimer."She moved her hand infront of her to shake harry's hand.as soon as their hands touched he felt a spark of heat.
"I-I'm Harry Potter."For a minute Harry thought she like all the others would look at his scar that barely hid beneath his untidy hair.
She didn't instead she turned towards ron who was still a bit red.
"I believe I know you already."She raised her left eyebrow in a questioning manner."but," she continued "we were not properly introduced." She then reached her hand out toward Ron.Harry saw Rons eyes open wide as he took her hand.After that she then introduced herself to Hermione who seemed a little taken back.
"Well," Hermione said timidly" we must-"
"going already?"Ariana questioned as she sat down lazily on the unoccupied armchair which was opposite to her sisters.
Hermione looked stunned.Ariana was now opening a book, which from the cover looked like a secondhand book.She recieved a stern look from Rachel.She noticed this and looked at Hermione.
"Oh, I am truly sorry I keep forgeting to stay out of other peoples thoughts."She however had already looked back down at her book, so she did not notice the strange looks upon their faces.A moment later she looked up and saw Ron looking at her book, with a quizzical look.
"The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5."she said glancing back down."I looked at it at the end of last year, only to find I already knew it."she didn't have a vane tone, but a rather annoyed one.
Ron was still looking at the book as if his question had not been answered.
"It's a secondhand book ."She looked up at Ron who turned a bright red again.
"oh I'm sorry again!"She said after another stern look from her sister."I just never found any sense in buying a new book, why buy a new one?" she got up gracefully and walked over to them in a catlike manner.She continued to talk Ron and Harry looking at her naturally tinted lips as she spoke."When," she continued"You can have one that tells a story, like look see here." she moved between Ron and Harry so that one was on each side of her and could see the thing she was pointing at with a slender finger.It was a page that was slightly tattered, and on the top left corner of the page was a large heart with several words in it.
"Now I know that a Cho Chang was in love with a..." she thought a little as she tried to make out the fading ink." Ah, a Cedric Diggory."
Harry hoped that Ariana wasn't reading his thoughts right now, cause then she would find out about the painful crush he had had on Cho Chang.
"But, "she said turning her head to look at ron their faces close enough that you would've thought they were about to kiss."on page one hundred and twelve you find out, that Cho no longer likes Cedric, but likes Oliver Wood.Now I've met him.Good choice Chang."she then looked at Harry, their eyes locked.
"like I said before, we must go to bed we have transfiguration tommorow, first."Hermione said loudly.
The moment was gone.
Hermione was already tugging on Ron and harrys arm.
"Goodnight!"Ariana called as they stepped onto the spiral staircase leading to their dorms."See you tommorow in first!"
She sat back down in the armchair, thinking silently to herself a moment before speaking.
"and second, and third, and fourth.."she stroked her finger on the armrest of the chair.Rachel smiled up at her.
"Now how are you going to do that?"a fake innocence lingering on her voice.
"Simple."Ariana replyed."Give me your schedule." Her sister handed her the schedule and sat back an amused look on her face.
"I'll just change it."
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"Hello Harry!" Ariana called out among the great hall as she entered.Everyone looked at her, she simply ignored their stares and walked till she was at the table where Harry Potter sat at.Neville Longbottom and a rather small chunky boy who were sitting in front of Harry moved leaving a small space for ariana to sit.She took it thankfully, saying thanks to them before she started talking to harry.
"Harry I don't want to seem a bit awkward, but may I see your schedule?"she asked looking at harry sweetly, eyes wide.
"sure, i don't think we will have very many classes together though I never get lucky."he handed over a crumpled piece of parchment which she carefully unfolded, and laid in front of her.
"Hmm..." she muttered her brow furrowed in concentration." we have first, and second together, then.....we have all our classes together!"she looked up at Harry happily.Harry's heart lept as he smiled back.She was easily the prettiest girl, and the nicest.Harry felt so close to her.
"really?" he stammered looking into her eyes trying to tell if she was really happy about it.her eyes were a golden brown and the light radiating from the bewitched ceiling above made them shine like gold, and the warmth he felt when he looked in them was as warm as the fire in the Gryffindor common room.
"Mmm Hmm."she replied nodding her head.
Harry and her exchanged another smile before Hermione reminded them that it was time to go to their first class.
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"Now," Snape announced to the class." I am going to be announcing the partners you will be working with for the remainder of the year on the potions being made in here."he glanced around his dark eyes darting from face to face."When i call your name, go find your partner and begin on the assigned potion if you ask me for help on anypart of the potion you automatically fail."He smiled a nasty smile, but changed to a rather cheerful looking one when he saw his niece Ariana."lets begin."
"Millicent Bulstrode and Harry Potter."harry looked from millicent to Ron who gave a quick smile, that reminded harry of the smiles people gave you when they knew you were going to die, but wanted to give you hope.
"Draco Malfoy and Ariana Latimer."Ariana rose from her seat and slinked over to the table which had a handsome boy seated at it.Ariana noticed he had blonde hair that made his silvery eyes stand out.
"Hmm.." she thought."i like him already."
"I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy."Ariana was taken back by his warm deep voice.
"Ariana Latimer."she extended her hand and he took it, she felt his thick pulse beneath her index finger as it lay on his wrist.It quickened as she said the charm quickly in her mind.It was a simple handshake her uncle snape had taught her, along with other various things. whenever she met someone she placed a spell on them which allowed her to have a connection with them, like read their thoughts, feel their feelings, and keep them safe.They were always kept safe as long as they were not threatened on the bottom crescent of the moon, thats the way she made it to be.bottom crescents were very rare, almost unheard of.
"Pleasure to meet you Ariana."Draco replied politely."Shall we begin?"
"lets."Ariana read the instructions to the potion, while Draco gathered the materials needed."Oh it's the confessio spell."Ariana read aloud to Draco who was on his knees getting some parchment and a quill from his bookbag.
"Really?"He said looking at the paper, when he had gotten up."That's a rather easy one."
Ariana looked at him trying to see if he was lying, but as she read his thoughts he was already trying to remember it.
"Confessio spell?.....Oh, of course the Confessio spell makes you confess to one thing for every drop given to you."Dracos thoughts entered Arianas mind, and a smile formed on her lips.
"Beauty and brains."Ariana thought to herself as she looked at Draco.
"ok."Draco looked at her his silver eyes shining brightly"Do you want me to get the resate?"
"sure, I'll simmer the leafell."She smiled warmly at him, and he smiled back before going to the front of the class.
Draco smiled at Ariana and felt a tug on his heart.He wasn't scared of her, he was scared of his feelings for her. The truth was he had very much fallen head over heels for her.He walked toward the table again, where she was simmering the leafell , it was then that he noticed a snowy white cat standing next to Ariana looking up at what she was doing.the cat glanced quickly at Draco then looked at Ariana who turned towards Draco and laughed a light laugh.
"Amiculus, this is Draco,"She looked up at Draco smiling."Draco Malfoy."
