Soon the "Weasleys" all found themselves at Platform 9 ¾. Jessica
was trying to avoid Max. Somehow he got a hold of some mistletoe.
"He is such a dork." Jessica muttered as she entered a compartment on the train. She saw a boy with silver blonde hair already sitting there.
"Hello there, do you mind if I sit here? I'm trying to avoid a hormonal boy." Jessica said. The other boy smirked at what she said.
"No I don't. You're welcome to sit here."
"My name's Jessica Ely, I don't think I've met you before. What year are you in?"
"I'm Marcus Malfoy. It's not a surprise you don't know me. I used to go to Durmstrang, that was before my mother died. My dad took me out of Durmstrang and wanted me to go to Hogwarts."
"Malfoy huh? So you're Erica's and Shenlong's brother?"
"Half brother. My dad had an affair with my mother and had me. So what house are you in?"
"I'm a Gryfinndor first year."
"Really? I'm going to be in Slytherin. Professor Black came over and had me sorted. I'm a first year too."
"Wicked."
"No, that's a bad thing. Gryfinndors and Slytherins can't be friends."
"What are you talking about? Why not?" Jessica asked.
"Long story. See Godric Gryfinndor and Slytherin were two of the founders of Hogwarts. Gryfinndor and Slytherin were enemies. Ever since, all Gryfinndors and Slytherins are enemies."
"Well isn't that stupid." Jessica said.
"Yes it is. Do you have any classes with Slytherins?"
"Yeah, I have potions. Maybe we will be partners. I don't have one."
"That would be great. Are you any good at potions?"
"Er... I was hoping you were." Jessica said. They laughed uncontrollably until the lady with the food cart came by. Marcus ordered almost everything on the food cart except the blood pops and cockroach clusters.
"How can you afford all that?" Jessica said in awe.
"I got alot of inheritance from my mother and my father is loaded."
"Oh..." She said quietly pulling out her empty change-purse hoping to find at least one measly Knut.
"Do you want a chocolate frog? I got plenty to share." Marcus said.
"Really? Thank you." Jessica said. Marcus handed her one.
"It's fun to actually be able to share with someone. I didn't have any friends at Durmstrang or any siblings."
"I glad I finally found someone that knows how I feel. We have alot in common. I never had friends until recently, never had anything to share, my parents are both dead and I've lived in an orphanage since I could remember."
"I feel bad now, I knew mine, and I'm complaining."
"Don't. But you have two half- siblings to talk to. I have nothing."
"You have me now." Jessica looked up at Marcus. He was grinning but was still unsure about her reaction. Jessica smile inwardly at him.
"That sounds good."
"Where's Jessica? You don't think she missed the train do you?" Max asked.
"No, I saw her enter a compartment on the other side of the train. Calm down Max, she probably just wanted to have some alone time. You have been crowding her lately." Niaomi said as she pulled a butterbeer out of her bag.
"I have not!"
"Whatever you say dear cousin."
"I'm going to go find where Jessica is." Max got up and exited the compartment.
"Obsession." Niaomi muttered as she took her History of Magic book out of her bag.
"Have you guys seen Jessica?" Max asked Kurt, Paul, and Morgania as he opened their compartment door.
"I saw her go in the compartment in the back." Morgania said.
"Thanks." Max said as he walked to the back of the train. When Max reached the compartment he knocked on the door.
"What do you want?" A voice asked from inside. Max opened the door revealing Jessica and Marcus playing Exploding Snap.
"Jessica? What are you doing with a Malfoy?!" Marcus and Max got into a glaring match.
"Um.. I'm playing a wizard game. What's the big deal?"
"This guy is a Malfoy. Malfoy's are bad news."
"Erica is a Malfoy. Skylar and Tim don't seem to mind that!" Jessica shouted.
"Jessica, are you friends with this guy?" Marcus asked.
"Yeah, Max, this is Marcus. He just moved here from Durmstrang. Marcus, this is Max Potter."
"Come on Jessica, lets go see Niaomi."
"No Max. I want to finish this game. I'll see you when we get back to the castle." Max's jaw dropped. Marcus grinned.
"But..but.." Max stuttered.
"I'll see you later." Jessica said.
"You'd rather hang out with him than me? You just met him!"
"Max, I want to make him feel at home. Gees, I thought you of all people would understand that. Get out of here before you really make a fool of yourself." Max shook his head in disappointment and left the compartment.
"What was all that about?" Jessica asked Marcus as soon as Max was out of ear shot.
"His dad took my dad's girlfriend, my dad took his ex-girlfriend, they've always been enemies so it kind of went with the genes with Malfoys and Potter's hating each other."
"Kind of like a Romeo and Juliet thing right?"
"Yeah, except he doesn't have a sister does he?"
"No."
"Darn." Jessica laughed.
"Whose turn is it?"
"Mine." They went back to playing their game.
"I can't believe that just happened." Max whispered to himself. "I thought Jessica was my friend.
Jessica walked into Hogwarts with Marcus, by they split up to go to their individual House Tables. Max and Niaomi sat beside her when they reached the Gryfinndor Table. Jessica was staring absently toward Marcus. When he looked up and caught Jessica's eye he winked. Jessica laughed silently.
"Why did you run away from us today?" Max asked angrily.
"Your hormones have been running too high this past week, Potter. I just wanted to get away from you for a while."
"My hormones have not been running too high. I just wanted you to have a nice family Christmas for once." Jessica's eyes narrowed. She slammed her fork onto the table.
"Just rub that in my face why don't you?!" She yelled. Everyone in the hall turned their gaze towards the pointed eared one.
"I try to be nice and look what it gets me." Max hissed.
"Practically pulling my arm out of the socket and introducing me to everyone at that party was not nice! You just showed me everything wrong with my life!"
"Stop yelling! You're making a scene."
"I'm making a scene? I'll show you a scene." Jessica grabbed the bowl of pudding and dumped it on Max's head. Max was fuming. He grabbed the bowl of creamed corn that Niaomi was holding. He grabbed the collar of Jessica's shirt and dumped the corn down it. Jessica even more furious slapped Max across the face.
"Never come near me again." She sneered. Max rubbed the place where a red hand print was already forming as she ran out of the Great Hall.
Jessica, after spending twenty minutes getting the smell of creamed corn out of her clothes, sat against the wall in the girl's dormitory.
"I hate Max so much. I would have had a much better time staying here for the holidays. I can't believe I hit him though." She thumped her head against the wall. "I'm going to get in alot more trouble. More than normal. I actually hit someone. That's much worse than causing a food fight, which I also did." Jessica whipped her head around as she saw the door to the dormitory open. A short greenish thing came into the room. It had huge eyes and was wearing what appeared to be a top hat with the top busted out. It was wearing it like a poor person would wear a barrel.
"What the bloody heck is that?!" Jessica thought as she watched four more come into the room carrying a trunk. Even more followed that as they placed the trunk in front of Niaomi's bed. Jessica stood up and went over to the door once they exited. She saw some more carrying her personal trunk.
"I can take that if you want me to." She told them. She grasped the handles on both sides and lifted it from the alien-like creatures.
"Thank you ma'am, thank you." One of them said. This one was wearing shrunken clothes.
"Er.. You're welcome." Jessica placed her trunk on top of her bed. "So what...I mean... who are you?"
"I'm Dinky the House elf. That's Dorky, Dweby, Danky, Dippy, Dopey, and Dumpy." Dinky said. Jessica smirked.
"I just walked into a fairy tale, Snow-witch and the seven D's." Jessica thought to herself. "Pleased to meet you. Do you want some Everyflavor Beans? I have a whole bag yet and I lost my appetite." All the house elves squealed. She noticed that the other ones were wearing very interesting outfits. Dorky was wearing a potato sack, Danky was wearing a towel like a toga, Dippy was wearing a lamp shade like a dress. Dopey and Dumpy were wearing garbage bags. Dweby was wearing something Jessica couldn't place. "Um, Dweby? What are you wearing?"
"I made it myself miss. I sewed socks together. Isn't it just purdy? Do you like it?"
"Yeah. I wish I had one myself." She said sarcastically.
"Really? I'll make one for you miss! I'll start right away." Dweby said excitedly. He ran out of the room.
"Oh dear." The other house elves left after him, yelling, 'Dweby watch out for that...uh. That had to hurt. Dweby are you alright?'
"Jess? Are you in here?" Jessica lifted her head at the voice.
"Alannah?" She came into the room, with a plate of food.
"Thought you would be hungry. I didn't think you would like to snack on that corn." Jessica laughed and took the plate from her. "My mom was pleased. She had a reason to start another food fight."
"I suspected that. Are the teachers mad?"
"Just Snape, and maybe McGonagall. Snape might actually have to take a shower this year. He was covered with every thing that happened to be on the Gryffindor table, except for the pudding you dumped on Max, and the creamed corn he dumped on you."
"How about Professor Black?"
"I thought she would be down yelling at Skylar for throwing a flaming orange at Shenlong, but she wasn't there."
"Skylar, or her mom?"
"Her mom. Usually she is talking to my mom, but today Lupin was sitting in Black's seat."
"Really? Did Skylar notice?"
"I don't think so. Remember, she was over at Meg's house on the last day, and Erica went to the Malfoy Manor." Jessica looked down at her plate.
"Where did you get this food if they threw it all at Snape?"
"Oh, once the professors cleaned up the mess, the house elves made more, but not as much." Alannah picked up the bag of Everyflavor beans. "Mind if I have these?" Jess shook her head and started to eat her dinner as Alannah carefully nibbled the end off of a yellowish brown one.
"Eck, wax."
A:N// We hope you guys all had a great holiday. We would've got this up earlier, but both of our hard drives crashed over break. We'll upload the next chapter soon. Thank heavens Hawkins saved this in 3 different spots.
"He is such a dork." Jessica muttered as she entered a compartment on the train. She saw a boy with silver blonde hair already sitting there.
"Hello there, do you mind if I sit here? I'm trying to avoid a hormonal boy." Jessica said. The other boy smirked at what she said.
"No I don't. You're welcome to sit here."
"My name's Jessica Ely, I don't think I've met you before. What year are you in?"
"I'm Marcus Malfoy. It's not a surprise you don't know me. I used to go to Durmstrang, that was before my mother died. My dad took me out of Durmstrang and wanted me to go to Hogwarts."
"Malfoy huh? So you're Erica's and Shenlong's brother?"
"Half brother. My dad had an affair with my mother and had me. So what house are you in?"
"I'm a Gryfinndor first year."
"Really? I'm going to be in Slytherin. Professor Black came over and had me sorted. I'm a first year too."
"Wicked."
"No, that's a bad thing. Gryfinndors and Slytherins can't be friends."
"What are you talking about? Why not?" Jessica asked.
"Long story. See Godric Gryfinndor and Slytherin were two of the founders of Hogwarts. Gryfinndor and Slytherin were enemies. Ever since, all Gryfinndors and Slytherins are enemies."
"Well isn't that stupid." Jessica said.
"Yes it is. Do you have any classes with Slytherins?"
"Yeah, I have potions. Maybe we will be partners. I don't have one."
"That would be great. Are you any good at potions?"
"Er... I was hoping you were." Jessica said. They laughed uncontrollably until the lady with the food cart came by. Marcus ordered almost everything on the food cart except the blood pops and cockroach clusters.
"How can you afford all that?" Jessica said in awe.
"I got alot of inheritance from my mother and my father is loaded."
"Oh..." She said quietly pulling out her empty change-purse hoping to find at least one measly Knut.
"Do you want a chocolate frog? I got plenty to share." Marcus said.
"Really? Thank you." Jessica said. Marcus handed her one.
"It's fun to actually be able to share with someone. I didn't have any friends at Durmstrang or any siblings."
"I glad I finally found someone that knows how I feel. We have alot in common. I never had friends until recently, never had anything to share, my parents are both dead and I've lived in an orphanage since I could remember."
"I feel bad now, I knew mine, and I'm complaining."
"Don't. But you have two half- siblings to talk to. I have nothing."
"You have me now." Jessica looked up at Marcus. He was grinning but was still unsure about her reaction. Jessica smile inwardly at him.
"That sounds good."
"Where's Jessica? You don't think she missed the train do you?" Max asked.
"No, I saw her enter a compartment on the other side of the train. Calm down Max, she probably just wanted to have some alone time. You have been crowding her lately." Niaomi said as she pulled a butterbeer out of her bag.
"I have not!"
"Whatever you say dear cousin."
"I'm going to go find where Jessica is." Max got up and exited the compartment.
"Obsession." Niaomi muttered as she took her History of Magic book out of her bag.
"Have you guys seen Jessica?" Max asked Kurt, Paul, and Morgania as he opened their compartment door.
"I saw her go in the compartment in the back." Morgania said.
"Thanks." Max said as he walked to the back of the train. When Max reached the compartment he knocked on the door.
"What do you want?" A voice asked from inside. Max opened the door revealing Jessica and Marcus playing Exploding Snap.
"Jessica? What are you doing with a Malfoy?!" Marcus and Max got into a glaring match.
"Um.. I'm playing a wizard game. What's the big deal?"
"This guy is a Malfoy. Malfoy's are bad news."
"Erica is a Malfoy. Skylar and Tim don't seem to mind that!" Jessica shouted.
"Jessica, are you friends with this guy?" Marcus asked.
"Yeah, Max, this is Marcus. He just moved here from Durmstrang. Marcus, this is Max Potter."
"Come on Jessica, lets go see Niaomi."
"No Max. I want to finish this game. I'll see you when we get back to the castle." Max's jaw dropped. Marcus grinned.
"But..but.." Max stuttered.
"I'll see you later." Jessica said.
"You'd rather hang out with him than me? You just met him!"
"Max, I want to make him feel at home. Gees, I thought you of all people would understand that. Get out of here before you really make a fool of yourself." Max shook his head in disappointment and left the compartment.
"What was all that about?" Jessica asked Marcus as soon as Max was out of ear shot.
"His dad took my dad's girlfriend, my dad took his ex-girlfriend, they've always been enemies so it kind of went with the genes with Malfoys and Potter's hating each other."
"Kind of like a Romeo and Juliet thing right?"
"Yeah, except he doesn't have a sister does he?"
"No."
"Darn." Jessica laughed.
"Whose turn is it?"
"Mine." They went back to playing their game.
"I can't believe that just happened." Max whispered to himself. "I thought Jessica was my friend.
Jessica walked into Hogwarts with Marcus, by they split up to go to their individual House Tables. Max and Niaomi sat beside her when they reached the Gryfinndor Table. Jessica was staring absently toward Marcus. When he looked up and caught Jessica's eye he winked. Jessica laughed silently.
"Why did you run away from us today?" Max asked angrily.
"Your hormones have been running too high this past week, Potter. I just wanted to get away from you for a while."
"My hormones have not been running too high. I just wanted you to have a nice family Christmas for once." Jessica's eyes narrowed. She slammed her fork onto the table.
"Just rub that in my face why don't you?!" She yelled. Everyone in the hall turned their gaze towards the pointed eared one.
"I try to be nice and look what it gets me." Max hissed.
"Practically pulling my arm out of the socket and introducing me to everyone at that party was not nice! You just showed me everything wrong with my life!"
"Stop yelling! You're making a scene."
"I'm making a scene? I'll show you a scene." Jessica grabbed the bowl of pudding and dumped it on Max's head. Max was fuming. He grabbed the bowl of creamed corn that Niaomi was holding. He grabbed the collar of Jessica's shirt and dumped the corn down it. Jessica even more furious slapped Max across the face.
"Never come near me again." She sneered. Max rubbed the place where a red hand print was already forming as she ran out of the Great Hall.
Jessica, after spending twenty minutes getting the smell of creamed corn out of her clothes, sat against the wall in the girl's dormitory.
"I hate Max so much. I would have had a much better time staying here for the holidays. I can't believe I hit him though." She thumped her head against the wall. "I'm going to get in alot more trouble. More than normal. I actually hit someone. That's much worse than causing a food fight, which I also did." Jessica whipped her head around as she saw the door to the dormitory open. A short greenish thing came into the room. It had huge eyes and was wearing what appeared to be a top hat with the top busted out. It was wearing it like a poor person would wear a barrel.
"What the bloody heck is that?!" Jessica thought as she watched four more come into the room carrying a trunk. Even more followed that as they placed the trunk in front of Niaomi's bed. Jessica stood up and went over to the door once they exited. She saw some more carrying her personal trunk.
"I can take that if you want me to." She told them. She grasped the handles on both sides and lifted it from the alien-like creatures.
"Thank you ma'am, thank you." One of them said. This one was wearing shrunken clothes.
"Er.. You're welcome." Jessica placed her trunk on top of her bed. "So what...I mean... who are you?"
"I'm Dinky the House elf. That's Dorky, Dweby, Danky, Dippy, Dopey, and Dumpy." Dinky said. Jessica smirked.
"I just walked into a fairy tale, Snow-witch and the seven D's." Jessica thought to herself. "Pleased to meet you. Do you want some Everyflavor Beans? I have a whole bag yet and I lost my appetite." All the house elves squealed. She noticed that the other ones were wearing very interesting outfits. Dorky was wearing a potato sack, Danky was wearing a towel like a toga, Dippy was wearing a lamp shade like a dress. Dopey and Dumpy were wearing garbage bags. Dweby was wearing something Jessica couldn't place. "Um, Dweby? What are you wearing?"
"I made it myself miss. I sewed socks together. Isn't it just purdy? Do you like it?"
"Yeah. I wish I had one myself." She said sarcastically.
"Really? I'll make one for you miss! I'll start right away." Dweby said excitedly. He ran out of the room.
"Oh dear." The other house elves left after him, yelling, 'Dweby watch out for that...uh. That had to hurt. Dweby are you alright?'
"Jess? Are you in here?" Jessica lifted her head at the voice.
"Alannah?" She came into the room, with a plate of food.
"Thought you would be hungry. I didn't think you would like to snack on that corn." Jessica laughed and took the plate from her. "My mom was pleased. She had a reason to start another food fight."
"I suspected that. Are the teachers mad?"
"Just Snape, and maybe McGonagall. Snape might actually have to take a shower this year. He was covered with every thing that happened to be on the Gryffindor table, except for the pudding you dumped on Max, and the creamed corn he dumped on you."
"How about Professor Black?"
"I thought she would be down yelling at Skylar for throwing a flaming orange at Shenlong, but she wasn't there."
"Skylar, or her mom?"
"Her mom. Usually she is talking to my mom, but today Lupin was sitting in Black's seat."
"Really? Did Skylar notice?"
"I don't think so. Remember, she was over at Meg's house on the last day, and Erica went to the Malfoy Manor." Jessica looked down at her plate.
"Where did you get this food if they threw it all at Snape?"
"Oh, once the professors cleaned up the mess, the house elves made more, but not as much." Alannah picked up the bag of Everyflavor beans. "Mind if I have these?" Jess shook her head and started to eat her dinner as Alannah carefully nibbled the end off of a yellowish brown one.
"Eck, wax."
A:N// We hope you guys all had a great holiday. We would've got this up earlier, but both of our hard drives crashed over break. We'll upload the next chapter soon. Thank heavens Hawkins saved this in 3 different spots.