Title: From the Heart
Author: Seiki
Chapter rating: pg 15 (that was what I really wanted to rate it actually.)
A/N : This is the life! Sitting down, in front of the pc, no parents around to make me clean my room, while listening to my cd! Plus the added fact that my brother has been unnaturally good this morning… [he he] anyway, thanks for the people who reviewed. I appreciate them. ^-^ (it's not everyday that I get praised for writing things that my teachers consider "not worth it" you know. ^-^)
My over persuasive friend who refuses to be named – thank you!!!!! If you weren't there to persuade me I would've stopped writing!
AllyCat739 – thanks for the review! I really do like your story too, I just didn't review! I'll try again later. ^-^
Mione G & Violet Blues – Thanks for the review! (I'm flattered!)
Fire Goddess – He He. Thanks to my friends who let me use their names! Thanks for the review!
And in 3...2...1!
Chapter 2 'Choo. .Choo!'
After 1 month of being carefree and very careless, their vacation ended. It was again the time to pack their trunks, buy their stuff, and ride the Hogwarts express.
"Cassie! Hey—Cassie! I'm here!" Hermione said. "Whew! Finally, you guys heard me! You wouldn't mind sharing a compartment with my friends wouldn't you?"
"As long as they don't come from Slytherin, that would be fine!" Cassie replied.
Victoria had suddenly gone completely still. "Vic, Vicky, are you okay?" Hermione asked worriedly.
"Harry Potter just passed by me!" she said in an almost or rather a breathless whisper.
"Uh—so..?" Hermione said.
"I don't think you understand Hermione, Vic here, had a crush on Harry ever since fourth year!" Cassandra replied.
"Oh…then, can I say that she would be very pleased with the seating arrangements?" Hermione said mischievously.
"Why? — Oh!" Cassie said, slapping her head. "How could I have forgotten? Harry Potter's your friend!"
At that moment, Hermione opened a compartment's door. And voila! Harry and Ron were there! Hermione smiled as she saw her two best friends. [A/N: well, in addition to Cass and Vicky] Harry, admittedly, had grown very good looking. With wavy black hair and green eyes which sparkled when he laughed. And also with a great body too! Ron on the other hand, had also grown good looking, but in a cute way.
"Harry, Ron!" Hermione greeted. (She could hear Victoria whispering "Oh my gosh!" at her back)
"Hermione! How are you?" Harry greeted her with a sincere smile (which showed off faint dimples) and a warm voice.
"Ya Hermione! How are you?" Ron greeted her with a laugh and with an imitation voice of Harry which made them (her, Cass and Vicky) laugh.
Harry gave her a questioning look which she knew all too well. It said 'who are they?' and 'what are they doing here?' He gave her a lot of those looks in the past years.
"Oh! Harry, Ron, this is Cassandra Nott," she looked at Cassandra, "and this is Victoria Moon." This time, she looked at Vicky. "I met them during the summer. They're my neighbors. Cassie's in Ravenclaw and Victoria's in Hufflepuff."
Cassandra smiled at them. {Harry's handsome and cute, but he's not my type. So is Ron.}
"Do you mind if they sit with us?" Hermione asked Harry and Ron.
"No, I don't." he replied. {Wow. That friend of hers, Cassandra, is really a knockout. But then again, she also is.}
It was true that Hermione was really pretty. In fact, she wasn't pretty, she was beautiful. But Harry and Ron treated her like their sibling.
"Sure. That's a-ok with me." Ron also replied.
"So why don't you move over and let us sit then?" she asked.
***
Draco Malfoy didn't even notice the summer pass by. All he knew was that he read his sister's letters all the time. Now he was here at the express again, he would be going to school. To Hogwarts. He walked across the train's corridors, barely noticing the scenery. He was given a task by Prof. McGonagall. He was supposed to get Granger and bring her to the Prof. He wondered what Granger had done wrong. And why he was the one sent. Actually, finding Granger wasn't that hard. He knew where Potter's compartment was. And the whole school knew that where Potter was, there would also be Weasley and Granger. He reached a particular compartment with a little Gryffindor lion was drawn on the door. He had reached his destination. He was at Potter's compartment.
***
Hermione, Cassandra and Victoria were having a good time. Ron and Harry kept them laughing. "You know Cassandra, wait, may I call you Cassie? Thanks, I remember the time when we were sorted, Harry told me a particular something. Remember when your name was called? …..
flashback
"Moon, Victoria!" the tall green-hatted witch said. A girl with shoulder length black hair sat on the stool and put the hat on her head. It remained there for thirty seconds or so, when it shouted "HUFFLEPUFF!" the girl walked over to the Hufflepuff table, where she received many handshakes and welcomes. "Nott, Cassandra!" this time, a redhead sat on the stool. "Not Cassandra?" Harry whispered to Ron. "If that's not Cassandra, then where is Cassandra?" Ron just snorted, trying to hide a laugh. Luckily, nobody noticed them.
end of flashback
They all cracked up laughing when they heard it. Harry was laughing and so was Victoria, Ron and Cassandra had tears flowing down their eyes and Hermione was laughing hysterically. They didn't hear the compartment door open. Suddenly, all of them stopped. All except Hermione, who was trying to stop laughing, and who was facing the window. She noticed that they stopped and that Harry and Ron were glaring. She turned to see who it was, not knowing why Harry and Ron were glaring that much. And then she saw why.
***
Draco stood outside their compartment door, the sound of their laughter making him want to know why they were laughing and join in. {Don't} he thought. {I might get into trouble. Surely if I join in, Potter and Weasley will clobber me and I'll get into trouble.}
"Oh well," he said, "Here goes nothing!" and he opened the door.
Almost automatically, he noticed, Potter and Weasley stopped laughing and shot him glares which would've killed him. He saw that there were two people in the room also, a black haired witch who had kind of purple, violet eyes and a pretty auburn haired one with blue green? No, blue eyes. And there was one more, presumably Granger, who was trying to stifle her laughter. When the girl or rather Granger, turned around, he got the surprise of his life.
Sitting in front of him was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had golden brown—no, he was pretty much sure they were gold—eyes, a creamy complexion, and shiny, wavy brown hair. {WAIT! What was he thinking about! That was Granger for goodness sake! She was in Gryffindor, and had two over violent best friends! And she's a mudblood.} He thought. {Oh boy…}
***
Hermione Granger, for the first time in her life, was stunned speechless. She couldn't speak, much the less breathe. Malfoy was standing in front of her, but not the Malfoy she had always known. This Malfoy was different. A certain aura came out of him. An aura which she couldn't quite place. And also because of his looks. He was tanned, yes, but he wasn't that tanned. It suited him well. His blond hair was like silver, his eyes were the same. She didn't know if it was silver or blue, it sort of altered, she just couldn't tell!
"What are you here for Malfoy?" he asked.
"Why?" Malfoy replied. "Is it your business?"
"Yes it is, because you're here in our compartment, which makes it our business." Ron shot back angrily.
"Really now? Is it your compartment?" Malfoy replied with a smirk. "Then why don't I see a sign that says "Potty and Weasel's compartment: Keep Out"?"
"Why you bastard! [ A/N: Warned you, PG 15!]" Ron said and lunged at Malfoy, ready to give him a broken nose.
Hermione was sure Malfoy would end up with a broken nose, but what happened next left her speechless again, for a few seconds.
Malfoy's eyes flashed a brilliant blue, and his hair, she swore, turned silver. Ron's fist was near him now, really near him, when it suddenly stopped, and Ron floated for a while, his feet barely above the ground. Then suddenly, a force—she was also pretty sure that it came from his aura—pushed Ron away from him and caused him (Ron) to hit the wall.
No one, not even Harry spoke for a few seconds. She thought that they, all of them were astounded at what happened.
Then Ron moaned and Victoria rushed over to help him.
"Wh-what is it that you came here for?" Hermione asked him, her voice shaky.
Malfoy turned to face me, his eyes still a brilliant blue, and said
"You."
***
Hermione and Malfoy left the compartment, and all of them were able to speak again.
"Bloody hell." Cassandra commented.
Meanwhile, Harry's thoughts were rushing through his head. {Holy s***. What was that that happened? That was no ordinary power, I can tell, yet my scar didn't hurt. If it wasn't Voldemort, then what was it?}
"Ouch!" Ron said.
"Sorry! Just rest for a while, that'll undo the bump." Victoria replied.
"Damn that Malfoy! I'll get my revenge on him somehow! If he does something bad to Mione, he'll die!" Ron said.
"Oh boy!" Cassie commented.
***
Malfoy cursed himself as he and Hermione made their way to Professor McGonagall.
{Why did he have to use that power?} He thought. {I am so stupid! Why did I let go?}
"Malfoy?" Hermione asked timidly. "Where are we going?"
"Prof. McGonagall sent me to fetch you and told me to bring you to her. She said that she had something to tell us." He replied.
Finally, they reached the teacher's compartment. Malfoy knocked on it three times, as the professor told him to do, then stepped back. Suddenly, the door opened and a great wind, like a vacuum, made them go inside.
"Now I know the feeling of being sucked into the Black Hole." Hermione said.
After they had dusted themselves off, they looked at their surroundings. They were in a compartment that was more like a room. There they saw 4 armchairs which were colored according to the houses. There on the Gryffindor colored armchair sat Prof. McGonagall. On the Slytherin colored one sat Prof. Snape. On the Hufflepuff one sat Prof. Sprout, but on the Ravenclaw one, sat no one.
"I see that you have finally reached here, Mr. Malfoy." said Prof. McGonagall.
"Yes yes!" said Prof. Sprout happily. "Do sit down! Do sit down!"
She motioned to a sofa chair bearing the Hogwarts seal.
Hermione sat on one end (being still unsure of Malfoy) while Draco sat on the other.
"Do you know why you are gathered here?" asked Prof. Snape.
"Um, no sir." Hermione answered.
Prof. McGonagall smiled proudly at the both of them. "You two have been chosen as Head Girl and Boy!"
Draco and Hermione looked at her in disbelief.
"Of course we would've informed you earlier, but we had a hard time deciding." said Prof. Sprout.
"We will announce your being Head Girl and Boy in the Sorting Ceremony, when we get to Hogwarts." Prof. Snape said.
"And, your first job as Heads will begin now." said Prof. McGonagall. "You are assigned to notify the students who will be the Prefects now. You may use the school owls we have here." She motioned to the two owls that were perched on the edge of the table. "You may use your name or you may use your title to sign."
"Here are the names." said Prof. Sprout. "And here are the quills and the school stationary."
Hermione excitedly looked at the names. To her surprise, Cassie was prefect again and Victoria was Hufflepuff's Prefect! Blaise Zabini was for Slytherin, and Virginia {Do I know a Virginia?} she thought. {Oh! Ginny!} Ginny was for Gryffindor!
"I'll write for Slytherin and Gryffindor." Malfoy told her.
"Sure, then I'll get Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff." She replied.
So the owls were sent and Draco and Hermione was led to a compartment that was much like the Teachers' but only with two armchairs.
"So, I guess we're gonna be stuck together for the rest of the year." Hermione said rather meekly and feebly, out of tension and her still 'uncertainty' of Malfoy.
"Yeah. Don't dare mess up my hair." Draco said, in an effort to lighten up the mood.
"I'll start wrecking it right now!" Hermione said, laughing.
"Doooon't!" Draco pretended to plead as Hermione threw one of the plush pillows on his head.
***
Cassandra was sleeping when she heard something tapping on the window. She saw an owl, carrying two letters outside the window.
She let the owl in, and took the mail. They were both bearing the Hogwarts Seal. One bore Victoria's name, while the other bore hers.
"Hey Vic," she called out. "There's mail."
"Really?" Victoria replied.
Cassie tore open the envelope and read the mail.
Ms. Cassandra Kay Nott,
We, of Hogwarts Faculty and the Head Girl and Boy, are glad
to say that you have been chosen as the Prefect of your house, Ravenclaw. Further announcements will be given at the school.
Ciao!
Head Girl
"This isn't the same letter I got last year!" exclaimed Cassie.
"Oh Gosh! I'm a prefect! I'm a prefect!" Victoria said happily, jumping up and down.
The door of the compartment opened, beholding a redhead.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ron! Ron! Harry! Harry!" the redhead exclaimed.
"What Ginny? What's the matter with you?" Ron asked.
"Really Gin, what's wrong?" Harry also asked.
"I'm a prefect! I'm Gryffindor's Prefect!" Ginny exclaimed, jumping on Ron and causing Ron to fall flat on his face.
"Ow! Gerroff Gin!" Ron's muffled voice said.
"Sorry Ron! It's just that I'm sooo happy!" Ginny replied.
"Really?" Harry smiled again, causing his faint dimples to reappear. "Can I see the letter?"
Harry looked at the letter. {Weird, I recognize the handwriting. But it can't be.}
Ron also had come to look at the letter. "Holy Bloody Mary! That's Malfoy's writing!"
"What!" Ginny exclaimed. "But it's signed Head Boy!"
"Then that must mean that Malfoy's the Head Boy." Vicky said. Harry and Ron had filled her up about Malfoy.
"No Way!" Harry, Ron and Ginny said in unison.
"And I also think that Hermione's with him right now." She added.
"Double no way!" Ginny said.
Victoria just showed them the letter which she received. "Isn't that Hermione's writing?" she asked.
Harry studied the letter carefully and had to agree with Vic. "Yea. This is Mione's writing. No mistake about that."
"Well then, let's go and find them!" Ron said, beginning to get all riled up again.
"There's no use. We're here." Cassandra said.
"Where?" Ron asked.
"Dummy, we're at Hogwarts." Cassandra said.
"All the students, please leave your baggages, they will be taken separately."
"Oh boy." Victoria said.
All of them went out of the train and looked at the carriages that would take them to Hogwarts.
"This is it." Harry said. "The beginning of a new year, our last year."
A/N: Hope all of you readers will appreciate this chapter. I worked at it for 4 hours (actually 5) straight! From 8am to 12nn. Oh my sore back, butt, and imagination! Oh yeah! Thanks also to the radio! Helped me a lot!
p.s. there will be individual ratings per chapter.
p.p.s. { } means their thoughts.
p.p.s.s. [ ] means author's notes
p.p.p.s.s. ain't this irritating? ^-^
Disclaimer: The only things that are mine are Cassie, Vicky, Malfoy's description, the teacher's compartment, the plot, the pc, the cd, the radio, the imagination, the chair, the butt, the back, the fingers—wait! what fingers?
Author: Seiki
Chapter rating: pg 15 (that was what I really wanted to rate it actually.)
A/N : This is the life! Sitting down, in front of the pc, no parents around to make me clean my room, while listening to my cd! Plus the added fact that my brother has been unnaturally good this morning… [he he] anyway, thanks for the people who reviewed. I appreciate them. ^-^ (it's not everyday that I get praised for writing things that my teachers consider "not worth it" you know. ^-^)
My over persuasive friend who refuses to be named – thank you!!!!! If you weren't there to persuade me I would've stopped writing!
AllyCat739 – thanks for the review! I really do like your story too, I just didn't review! I'll try again later. ^-^
Mione G & Violet Blues – Thanks for the review! (I'm flattered!)
Fire Goddess – He He. Thanks to my friends who let me use their names! Thanks for the review!
And in 3...2...1!
Chapter 2 'Choo. .Choo!'
After 1 month of being carefree and very careless, their vacation ended. It was again the time to pack their trunks, buy their stuff, and ride the Hogwarts express.
"Cassie! Hey—Cassie! I'm here!" Hermione said. "Whew! Finally, you guys heard me! You wouldn't mind sharing a compartment with my friends wouldn't you?"
"As long as they don't come from Slytherin, that would be fine!" Cassie replied.
Victoria had suddenly gone completely still. "Vic, Vicky, are you okay?" Hermione asked worriedly.
"Harry Potter just passed by me!" she said in an almost or rather a breathless whisper.
"Uh—so..?" Hermione said.
"I don't think you understand Hermione, Vic here, had a crush on Harry ever since fourth year!" Cassandra replied.
"Oh…then, can I say that she would be very pleased with the seating arrangements?" Hermione said mischievously.
"Why? — Oh!" Cassie said, slapping her head. "How could I have forgotten? Harry Potter's your friend!"
At that moment, Hermione opened a compartment's door. And voila! Harry and Ron were there! Hermione smiled as she saw her two best friends. [A/N: well, in addition to Cass and Vicky] Harry, admittedly, had grown very good looking. With wavy black hair and green eyes which sparkled when he laughed. And also with a great body too! Ron on the other hand, had also grown good looking, but in a cute way.
"Harry, Ron!" Hermione greeted. (She could hear Victoria whispering "Oh my gosh!" at her back)
"Hermione! How are you?" Harry greeted her with a sincere smile (which showed off faint dimples) and a warm voice.
"Ya Hermione! How are you?" Ron greeted her with a laugh and with an imitation voice of Harry which made them (her, Cass and Vicky) laugh.
Harry gave her a questioning look which she knew all too well. It said 'who are they?' and 'what are they doing here?' He gave her a lot of those looks in the past years.
"Oh! Harry, Ron, this is Cassandra Nott," she looked at Cassandra, "and this is Victoria Moon." This time, she looked at Vicky. "I met them during the summer. They're my neighbors. Cassie's in Ravenclaw and Victoria's in Hufflepuff."
Cassandra smiled at them. {Harry's handsome and cute, but he's not my type. So is Ron.}
"Do you mind if they sit with us?" Hermione asked Harry and Ron.
"No, I don't." he replied. {Wow. That friend of hers, Cassandra, is really a knockout. But then again, she also is.}
It was true that Hermione was really pretty. In fact, she wasn't pretty, she was beautiful. But Harry and Ron treated her like their sibling.
"Sure. That's a-ok with me." Ron also replied.
"So why don't you move over and let us sit then?" she asked.
***
Draco Malfoy didn't even notice the summer pass by. All he knew was that he read his sister's letters all the time. Now he was here at the express again, he would be going to school. To Hogwarts. He walked across the train's corridors, barely noticing the scenery. He was given a task by Prof. McGonagall. He was supposed to get Granger and bring her to the Prof. He wondered what Granger had done wrong. And why he was the one sent. Actually, finding Granger wasn't that hard. He knew where Potter's compartment was. And the whole school knew that where Potter was, there would also be Weasley and Granger. He reached a particular compartment with a little Gryffindor lion was drawn on the door. He had reached his destination. He was at Potter's compartment.
***
Hermione, Cassandra and Victoria were having a good time. Ron and Harry kept them laughing. "You know Cassandra, wait, may I call you Cassie? Thanks, I remember the time when we were sorted, Harry told me a particular something. Remember when your name was called? …..
flashback
"Moon, Victoria!" the tall green-hatted witch said. A girl with shoulder length black hair sat on the stool and put the hat on her head. It remained there for thirty seconds or so, when it shouted "HUFFLEPUFF!" the girl walked over to the Hufflepuff table, where she received many handshakes and welcomes. "Nott, Cassandra!" this time, a redhead sat on the stool. "Not Cassandra?" Harry whispered to Ron. "If that's not Cassandra, then where is Cassandra?" Ron just snorted, trying to hide a laugh. Luckily, nobody noticed them.
end of flashback
They all cracked up laughing when they heard it. Harry was laughing and so was Victoria, Ron and Cassandra had tears flowing down their eyes and Hermione was laughing hysterically. They didn't hear the compartment door open. Suddenly, all of them stopped. All except Hermione, who was trying to stop laughing, and who was facing the window. She noticed that they stopped and that Harry and Ron were glaring. She turned to see who it was, not knowing why Harry and Ron were glaring that much. And then she saw why.
***
Draco stood outside their compartment door, the sound of their laughter making him want to know why they were laughing and join in. {Don't} he thought. {I might get into trouble. Surely if I join in, Potter and Weasley will clobber me and I'll get into trouble.}
"Oh well," he said, "Here goes nothing!" and he opened the door.
Almost automatically, he noticed, Potter and Weasley stopped laughing and shot him glares which would've killed him. He saw that there were two people in the room also, a black haired witch who had kind of purple, violet eyes and a pretty auburn haired one with blue green? No, blue eyes. And there was one more, presumably Granger, who was trying to stifle her laughter. When the girl or rather Granger, turned around, he got the surprise of his life.
Sitting in front of him was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had golden brown—no, he was pretty much sure they were gold—eyes, a creamy complexion, and shiny, wavy brown hair. {WAIT! What was he thinking about! That was Granger for goodness sake! She was in Gryffindor, and had two over violent best friends! And she's a mudblood.} He thought. {Oh boy…}
***
Hermione Granger, for the first time in her life, was stunned speechless. She couldn't speak, much the less breathe. Malfoy was standing in front of her, but not the Malfoy she had always known. This Malfoy was different. A certain aura came out of him. An aura which she couldn't quite place. And also because of his looks. He was tanned, yes, but he wasn't that tanned. It suited him well. His blond hair was like silver, his eyes were the same. She didn't know if it was silver or blue, it sort of altered, she just couldn't tell!
"What are you here for Malfoy?" he asked.
"Why?" Malfoy replied. "Is it your business?"
"Yes it is, because you're here in our compartment, which makes it our business." Ron shot back angrily.
"Really now? Is it your compartment?" Malfoy replied with a smirk. "Then why don't I see a sign that says "Potty and Weasel's compartment: Keep Out"?"
"Why you bastard! [ A/N: Warned you, PG 15!]" Ron said and lunged at Malfoy, ready to give him a broken nose.
Hermione was sure Malfoy would end up with a broken nose, but what happened next left her speechless again, for a few seconds.
Malfoy's eyes flashed a brilliant blue, and his hair, she swore, turned silver. Ron's fist was near him now, really near him, when it suddenly stopped, and Ron floated for a while, his feet barely above the ground. Then suddenly, a force—she was also pretty sure that it came from his aura—pushed Ron away from him and caused him (Ron) to hit the wall.
No one, not even Harry spoke for a few seconds. She thought that they, all of them were astounded at what happened.
Then Ron moaned and Victoria rushed over to help him.
"Wh-what is it that you came here for?" Hermione asked him, her voice shaky.
Malfoy turned to face me, his eyes still a brilliant blue, and said
"You."
***
Hermione and Malfoy left the compartment, and all of them were able to speak again.
"Bloody hell." Cassandra commented.
Meanwhile, Harry's thoughts were rushing through his head. {Holy s***. What was that that happened? That was no ordinary power, I can tell, yet my scar didn't hurt. If it wasn't Voldemort, then what was it?}
"Ouch!" Ron said.
"Sorry! Just rest for a while, that'll undo the bump." Victoria replied.
"Damn that Malfoy! I'll get my revenge on him somehow! If he does something bad to Mione, he'll die!" Ron said.
"Oh boy!" Cassie commented.
***
Malfoy cursed himself as he and Hermione made their way to Professor McGonagall.
{Why did he have to use that power?} He thought. {I am so stupid! Why did I let go?}
"Malfoy?" Hermione asked timidly. "Where are we going?"
"Prof. McGonagall sent me to fetch you and told me to bring you to her. She said that she had something to tell us." He replied.
Finally, they reached the teacher's compartment. Malfoy knocked on it three times, as the professor told him to do, then stepped back. Suddenly, the door opened and a great wind, like a vacuum, made them go inside.
"Now I know the feeling of being sucked into the Black Hole." Hermione said.
After they had dusted themselves off, they looked at their surroundings. They were in a compartment that was more like a room. There they saw 4 armchairs which were colored according to the houses. There on the Gryffindor colored armchair sat Prof. McGonagall. On the Slytherin colored one sat Prof. Snape. On the Hufflepuff one sat Prof. Sprout, but on the Ravenclaw one, sat no one.
"I see that you have finally reached here, Mr. Malfoy." said Prof. McGonagall.
"Yes yes!" said Prof. Sprout happily. "Do sit down! Do sit down!"
She motioned to a sofa chair bearing the Hogwarts seal.
Hermione sat on one end (being still unsure of Malfoy) while Draco sat on the other.
"Do you know why you are gathered here?" asked Prof. Snape.
"Um, no sir." Hermione answered.
Prof. McGonagall smiled proudly at the both of them. "You two have been chosen as Head Girl and Boy!"
Draco and Hermione looked at her in disbelief.
"Of course we would've informed you earlier, but we had a hard time deciding." said Prof. Sprout.
"We will announce your being Head Girl and Boy in the Sorting Ceremony, when we get to Hogwarts." Prof. Snape said.
"And, your first job as Heads will begin now." said Prof. McGonagall. "You are assigned to notify the students who will be the Prefects now. You may use the school owls we have here." She motioned to the two owls that were perched on the edge of the table. "You may use your name or you may use your title to sign."
"Here are the names." said Prof. Sprout. "And here are the quills and the school stationary."
Hermione excitedly looked at the names. To her surprise, Cassie was prefect again and Victoria was Hufflepuff's Prefect! Blaise Zabini was for Slytherin, and Virginia {Do I know a Virginia?} she thought. {Oh! Ginny!} Ginny was for Gryffindor!
"I'll write for Slytherin and Gryffindor." Malfoy told her.
"Sure, then I'll get Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff." She replied.
So the owls were sent and Draco and Hermione was led to a compartment that was much like the Teachers' but only with two armchairs.
"So, I guess we're gonna be stuck together for the rest of the year." Hermione said rather meekly and feebly, out of tension and her still 'uncertainty' of Malfoy.
"Yeah. Don't dare mess up my hair." Draco said, in an effort to lighten up the mood.
"I'll start wrecking it right now!" Hermione said, laughing.
"Doooon't!" Draco pretended to plead as Hermione threw one of the plush pillows on his head.
***
Cassandra was sleeping when she heard something tapping on the window. She saw an owl, carrying two letters outside the window.
She let the owl in, and took the mail. They were both bearing the Hogwarts Seal. One bore Victoria's name, while the other bore hers.
"Hey Vic," she called out. "There's mail."
"Really?" Victoria replied.
Cassie tore open the envelope and read the mail.
Ms. Cassandra Kay Nott,
We, of Hogwarts Faculty and the Head Girl and Boy, are glad
to say that you have been chosen as the Prefect of your house, Ravenclaw. Further announcements will be given at the school.
Ciao!
Head Girl
"This isn't the same letter I got last year!" exclaimed Cassie.
"Oh Gosh! I'm a prefect! I'm a prefect!" Victoria said happily, jumping up and down.
The door of the compartment opened, beholding a redhead.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ron! Ron! Harry! Harry!" the redhead exclaimed.
"What Ginny? What's the matter with you?" Ron asked.
"Really Gin, what's wrong?" Harry also asked.
"I'm a prefect! I'm Gryffindor's Prefect!" Ginny exclaimed, jumping on Ron and causing Ron to fall flat on his face.
"Ow! Gerroff Gin!" Ron's muffled voice said.
"Sorry Ron! It's just that I'm sooo happy!" Ginny replied.
"Really?" Harry smiled again, causing his faint dimples to reappear. "Can I see the letter?"
Harry looked at the letter. {Weird, I recognize the handwriting. But it can't be.}
Ron also had come to look at the letter. "Holy Bloody Mary! That's Malfoy's writing!"
"What!" Ginny exclaimed. "But it's signed Head Boy!"
"Then that must mean that Malfoy's the Head Boy." Vicky said. Harry and Ron had filled her up about Malfoy.
"No Way!" Harry, Ron and Ginny said in unison.
"And I also think that Hermione's with him right now." She added.
"Double no way!" Ginny said.
Victoria just showed them the letter which she received. "Isn't that Hermione's writing?" she asked.
Harry studied the letter carefully and had to agree with Vic. "Yea. This is Mione's writing. No mistake about that."
"Well then, let's go and find them!" Ron said, beginning to get all riled up again.
"There's no use. We're here." Cassandra said.
"Where?" Ron asked.
"Dummy, we're at Hogwarts." Cassandra said.
"All the students, please leave your baggages, they will be taken separately."
"Oh boy." Victoria said.
All of them went out of the train and looked at the carriages that would take them to Hogwarts.
"This is it." Harry said. "The beginning of a new year, our last year."
A/N: Hope all of you readers will appreciate this chapter. I worked at it for 4 hours (actually 5) straight! From 8am to 12nn. Oh my sore back, butt, and imagination! Oh yeah! Thanks also to the radio! Helped me a lot!
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Disclaimer: The only things that are mine are Cassie, Vicky, Malfoy's description, the teacher's compartment, the plot, the pc, the cd, the radio, the imagination, the chair, the butt, the back, the fingers—wait! what fingers?