By Gaz Destiny
Chapter 14
Rating: PG-13
Spoiler: whenever you feel like it…as long as you've seen the battle with
Disclaimer: the people from the wizarding world belong to J.K.Rowling, and the people from Sunnydale belong to Joss Whedon. Anyone that you don't recognize from either belongs to me, SO DON'T TAKE THEM!
Note: Sorry for not updating…been working on a bunch of other ideas…and I haven't had enough inspiration for anything before Buffy gets there…but I'm back and my brain is working…also…when Gaz comes…it's not SI…it was just really, really late when I wrote that chapter…
~*~Chapter 14: New Friends~*~
"How do you know who I am?" Draco asked coldly, that's just putting it mildly, it was more icy and frozen than cold.
"Um…the books," Dawn answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Too pureblooded to keep up with muggle best sellers?"
"I've been reading all the best sellers, and I've never come across a book that told about anything here," Hermione piped up.
"You know Draco, you really are much cuter than the actor that portrayed you in the movie," Dawn said slowly circling him, watching him as he turned with her so that he could see her every move, something very funny to watch, if it weren't for the seriousness of the book problem at hand. Then, stopping and turning to the others, she said, "Hey, well, anyways, what's there to do around here?"
"Quiditch is always something good," Draco muttered.
"Yeah, Destiny told me all about that, she even bought me a brand new broom," Dawn said quietly. "A Moonbeam I believe."
"Wow, you have one of those?" Ron asked excitedly.
Beep, beep, beep.
"Ugh," Dawn grumbled pulling her pager out of her coat pocket.
Teachers' room-3pm. They'll show you the way.
"What's that?" Ron asked, having never seen a muggle pager before.
"Pager. Duh. Just Dez telling me I need to get to the teachers' room by three for whatever goddamned reason she's come up with, leaving only half an hour," Dawn answered, not knowing that many witches and wizards knew nothing of the muggle world's electronic stuff and other such things. "Anyways, Draco, Destiny said something about hidden chambers, missing for over a century. Any chance you could help me find them, she said that there was something really kewl inside."
"Which ones?" Draco asked.
"Hmm…Chamber of Secrets…Chamber of Courage…Chamber of Loyalty…Chamber of Knowledge…and the Chamber of Love," Dawn said trying to remember exactly what the mentally challenged witch had told her (A/N: no offence to actual mentally challenged people). "I know that the Chamber of Secrets has been found, it's supposed to be Salazar's chamber. There's one for each founder."
"Hermione, you alright?" Ron asked the quickly paling girl staring at Dawn.
"Okay, that's just creepy," Dawn said moving away from Hermione's line of vision.
"So which founder had which chamber?" Harry asked Dawn knowing the look on Hermione's face.
"Courage was Godric's, Loyalty was Helga's, Knowledge was Rowena's, and Love that one belonged to Salazar's daughter and Godric's son, at least that's what Destiny told me from her days of living here, says that the chambers are to be opened by their heirs only, though there are two heirs each, like for the Chamber of Secrets, Voldemort is able to open it, and so is Salazar's first daughter, it's exactly like that for the other ones, except with the founders' sons instead," Dawn said, happy that for once she knew more than everyone else. "Salazar was the only one to have daughters, the only one of them to have more than two kids also."
"How do you know all this?" Hermione asked somewhat exasperated that someone knew something she herself had not been able to find. "I've been looking for information on the founders since my second year."
"Destiny—" Dawn started to say.
"Knows more than she leads people to believe," Draco stated, not allowing her to say anything else.
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"There you are," Dumbledore said as the five walked into the room, where all the teachers, including Spike and Destiny which surprised Dawn, were assembled.
The teachers were spread out around the room talking in groups. Destiny was standing in a corner engaged in a conversation with a certain potions professor about the different types on deadly potions and creating antidotes for them, a conversation in which it would not have been smart to interrupt. Spike was standing only feet away from Destiny, trying to look like he held no interest in her whatsoever. Hooch, Sprout, and the other female teachers (except Minerva, who was with Dumbledore, and Sibyll, who wasn't even there) were standing off talking to each other, giving Destiny somewhat cold glances every few minutes or so. The remaining teachers were scattered around the room talking amongst themselves, Dumbledore, having tried several times to start up a conversation with Spike and failing, was now standing near the center of the room with Minerva and the sorting hat.
"Yup, here I am," Dawn said trying to put on an air of false confidence. "So what do I do?"
"You sit down and put the hat on, Dawny," Destiny said walking over to where Dumbledore was standing, leaving both Spike and Professor Snape watching her from behind.
"Alright," Dawn answered coming over and sitting down on one of the chairs.
Professor McGonagall put the old sorting hat on her head. The room became eerily quiet as the hat took it's time choosing her house.
"Hmm, you are a very hard person to place," a voice said in Dawn's head, she knew it was the hat, Destiny had told her all about it.
"That makes me feel good," Dawn thought sarcastically.
"You are very smart, but you do not seek knowledge, definitely not Ravenclaw for you," the hat murmured (A/N: this is all in her head and her head only). "You are loyal to your friends and family, but keep your loyalties well hidden, and you don't truly like to work harder than you have to, to succeed, no Hufflepuff is not for you. You are brave, but only when you must be, no, I believe for you, it will be…"
"SLYTHERIN!" the hat called out for the whole room to hear.
Immediately Destiny started clapping. The instant the sorting hat was taken off Dawn's head, Destiny had dragged her over to Professor Snape, who easily seemed a little uncomfortable at the enthusiasm Destiny was putting forth.
"Dawn, this is Professor Severus Snape, he is the head of the Slytherin house and the potions teacher," Destiny introduced.
"Hey," Dawn said with a nervous smile and a tiny wave.
"Dawn, could you go tell Spike he owes me a thousand galleons, you made it into my house not his," Destiny told her nudging her towards Spike.
"Alright," Dawn said before going over to Spike and telling him about the thousand galleons, about which he became very angry.
"So you were saying about the sleeping draught?" Destiny said pulling back into the conversation they had been having before the sorting interruption.
"Oh, yes, it's been found that if you mix in one drop of rose oil from the green roses found near dead zones, that it will become a deadly potion that will eat away at the body's most important organs at a very rapid speed," Snape answered.
"And here I thought that the oil from those roses could make a person invisible, and also heal heart diseases," Destiny confessed.
"Well, that's true, it does do those things, but mixed with the chemicals and herbs in the simple sleeping draught, it becomes highly deadly," Snape explained, both were fully aware how natural it seemed to be standing there talking about this.
"One thing, though it's totally off subject, but I heard that you helped teach the dueling club a couple of years ago," she said curiously.
"Yes, that's right," he replied.
"Well, I'll be teaching the dueling class after Christmas 'olidays are over, and I wouldn't mind hearing a few of your suggestions," she told him.
"Whoa, I think Dez's found her natural habitat," Dawn said joining Draco, Harry, Hermione, and Ron.
"Of course, she was a professor's daughter, and on her way to be one herself," Draco agreed. "How'd you make it into Slytherin anyways?"
"Because I have power, and bravery's just a natural thing for me, not something that I have to work for," Dawn answered.
"What'd you mean 'bravery's just a natural thing?' Bravery's something one must achieve," Hermione digressed.
"No, it's not if you live on a hellmouth with vampires and demons attacking everyday, bravery's a necessity, not anything really meaningful," Dawn argued. "If you had to fight just to survive daily life, bravery would become second nature, and mean nothing after a while. Power on the other hand is a necessity that you have to work for, if you don't have it you're in major trouble."
"Power isn't a necessity, it's something that comes with hard work," Hermione said.
"It's people that believe that that make it harder for everyone else," Draco put in.
"That's not true," Dawn argued, making both Draco and Hermione stare at her like she was crazy for arguing against both of them. "Power is something you get with hard work, but sometimes it is just handed down to you, like me for instance, I have power, it's power I've had for millenniums and am never going to lose, and for you guys, you have magic powers that most people only dream of, but where you're from you'll have to work to make that power better than everyone else's."
Both Draco and Hermione just nodded in agreement, knowing full and well that she was right and that she wouldn't back down even if she were wrong.
"That's very interesting, Severus," Destiny complimented about one of the dueling tales Snape had just told her of. "I would love it if you'd come help me with a demonstration in my first class, I'm afraid my co-teacher is a muggle and knows only to fight hand to hand combat."
"I doubt I'd be able to do that, with my own classes interfering," he explained, obviously flattered that she wanted him to be at her first class.
"Oh, nonsense, it would mean a lot, if you could do it," Destiny said, noticing a jealous Spike out of the corner of her eye.
~*~Meanwhile, in Sunnydale~*~
Buffy-
I know I said not to contact me, and that still holds. But I heard you're coming to teach a class here after Christmas. Anyways, Dawn's here now, she's safe, she's starting school here tomorrow. She's happy. Thought you'd like to know.
-Spike
Buffy reread the note several more times before taking it to Giles for him to read. She didn't say a thing, though she didn't need to.
"She's safe there, Buffy, it's the safest place on Earth," he said for lack of anything else to say, after reading the note.
Both of them just sat in a strange sort of silence for a few minutes before going on with the silent packing of the Magic Box.
~*~Halloween Feast~*~
"Quiet everyone, I have an announcement to make," Dumbledore said, calming down the student body, which had been wondering why dinner wasn't on the tables yet.
Though, the students started whispering again as Destiny and Dawn walked in through a door near the staff table. Destiny instantly went up and took a seat right in between Spike and Snape, while Dawn just stayed where she was for the overwhelming lack of knowing what to do.
"We have a new student joining us today, Dawn Summers, the newest member of Slytherin," Dumbledore said as Dawn waved somewhat nervously, while the Slytherins clapped wildly, and everyone else sat disappointed that she didn't make it into their houses. "She's new to the magical world, but is going into the fifth year, I hope all of you will treat her with kindness."
Dawn quickly walked over to the table that was clapping for her, though now they weren't clapping as hard as before, a person of non-magical ancestry in their house was a terrible thing to them, she squeezed in next to Draco, unknowingly angering Pansy Parkinson. Dumbledore just waited for everyone to quiet down again.
"And I would also like to introduce one of the two teachers that will be teaching a dueling class starting after the Christmas break," Dumbledore continued, pausing for a second as Destiny whispered something to him. "Professor Destiny Slytherin."
The entire room seemed to gasp simultaneously as Destiny made her way back to her seat. Then, before sitting down, she stood there for a second, taking a good long look at the students.
"'Ello," she greeted cheerfully, "As Professor Dumbledore said, I am Destiny Slytherin, I will be teaching the new dueling class, and I cannot wait to get started next semester."
With that she sat down, Dumbledore announced dinner, and she turned and started up a conversation with Snape, just as Spike started to say something to her. It was quite obvious that she was pretty pissed at Spike, though none of the student body saw this as they knew nothing of how she acted when she was pissed, only Draco and Dawn knew it.
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Hey, sorry that took so long, but I've been at a void of inspiration.
~*~Gaz Destiny~*~
