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Chapter 19 Some Slytherins

A few days later Harry managed to get alone with Selena to ask her about her cousin and what had happened that night in the corridor. It had been very hard to catch her she was very good at not being noticed in the corridors and during the meals. All her free time she seemed to spend in her dormitory. Harry had finally decided just to wait outside the fat Lady until she had to pass him.

Harry, Ron and Hermione had agreed on doing something to help Selena settle in and keep Draco away from her. Ron and Hermione had thought it best if Harry approached her alone and asked about Draco since she had asked Harry not to tell anyone.

Harry stood partly hidden from view if you came from the portrait so Selena didn't see him at first. She poked her head out from the entrance to Gryffindor common room when the fat Lady swung open. It was almost heart aching to see how she looked wildly around the corridor. She resembled a little mouse looking out of her hole in the ground wondering if there was a cat nearby. Harry stayed hidden he doubted that Selena wanted to be cornered by him so he decided to wait. Selena tripped silently down the first set of stairs looking around in all directions, her eyes landed on Harry and she froze.

"Hello, Selena" Harry said awkwardly. Selena didn't reply at once she seemed to go through some sort of inner panic

"Hi" She finally said and made to get past him towards the great hall.

"Selena, can I have a moment?" Harry asked stepping in front of her blocking her way.

"It's dinner" Selena said coldly "can't it wait?"

"No, it can't" Harry said firmly.

"Please I'm really, really hungry" Selena pleaded changing tactics from coldness to politeness.

"Would you rather talk to me during dinner?" Harry asked.

"No" Selena exclaimed, she seemed horror struck by the very idea "I mean… I usually eat alone"

"Please Harry" Selena begged desperately.

"We could have dinner somewhere else" Harry said trying to logic with her.

"No way Potter" Selena spat "You already have a girlfriend"

Harry knew that she only said this to anger him enough so that he would give up on her, but he wouldn't let her get away so easy.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that… would you rather talk to Hermione?" Harry asked, he didn't care who she talked to as long as she told someone.

"You told her?" Selena snapped fixing her eyes at him instead of the corridor leading down towards the great hall "You promised you wouldn't tell anyone and then you go tell a prefect!"

"Selena, please"

"You should have been in Slytherin" Saline said accusingly "I thought Gryffindors kept their promises"

"Sorry" Harry replied, and figured that he would have to earn Selena's trust "And you are right I would have been in Slytherin"

"Don't lie Potter" Selena said in a very Malfoyish way "Your mudblood mother was a Gryffindor and so was your father"

Harry suddenly understood why Hermione had been so upset to hear Selena use the word mudblood. When Selena said it, it sounded a hundred times worse then when Draco Malfoy said it. However, Harry had already decided that he was not going to let Selena get away until she had told him or someone else what happened. Harry took a deep breath and swallowed.

"That hurt" He said truthfully, trying to make her realise that he loved his mother even if she had been muggle-born and that muggle-borns was not anything less worth then purebloods.

"Don't lie then" Selena said though she looked a little taken aback.

Harry sighed "Look I'm sorry I told Hermione I didn't tell her because she's a prefect and the sorting hat really considered putting me in Slytherin mostly because I'm a parselmouth I think"

"Right" Selena said looking nervously up and down the corridor. Harry knew that she was dreading being seen by anyone together with him.

"Let's go in here" Harry said and pulled aside a tapestry that led into a hidden corridor he had found on the marauders map. The chances of anyone walking in on them there was very small especially now that the Weasley twins were out of school.

"You don't have to tell me anything, but you have to talk to someone if Malf… I mean Draco troubles you" Harry said when they had walked long enough into the corridor not to be overheard by anyone that might walk by the tapestry.

"It's okay, Draco is just stupid" Selena said dismissively "I won't leave my dorm again so he won't be able to threat me"

"Not that it is any of my business" Harry said carefully "But are you're parents okay with you being a Gryffindor"

Selena looked down on her shoes "They won't write to me, not that I care I don't want to see them ever again"

Harry wasn't surprised though he felt very bad for Selena "What about the holydays?"

"I'll stay here" Selena said sadly and turned her back at him so that he couldn't see her face.

"What about the summer holyday?"

Harry could tell by the way Selena shivered that she was sobbing quietly.

"Don't, cry" Harry said, he wondered for a moment if something about him made girls cry "We'll, think of something"

"Like what?" Selena said bitterly and turned to him "I don't have a single galleon and no one not even relatives to live with"

Harry grabbed her hand hoping to sooth her. It was nothing like holding Fleur's hand even though Selena had a warm and soft little hand.

"You do have nice relatives" Harry said rubbing her hand gently, he'd had some practise comforting girls since he met Fleur "Your uncle Lucius's wife's sister and her daughter"

"Bella doesn't have a daughter she's in Azkaban with uncle Lucius"

"No… haven't they told you?" Asked Harry, but then he figured that as far as the Malfoy's were concerned Andromeda, Sirius favourite cousin was no longer family "Draco's mother had two sisters, Bellatrix and Tonks's mum"

"What?" Selena asked looking up at him in disbelief "They would have told me"

"Not if Tonks's mother married a muggle…"

"How do you know all this?" Selena asked suspiciously "I thought you knew Delacour not Tonks?"

"I know her too but she didn't tell me, Sirius Black was my godfather" Harry explained smiling sadly at the memory of Sirius telling Harry about his family more then a year ago. He was almost painfully open with Selena but he knew that if he wanted her to tell him stuff he would have to tell her.

"Oh, right father told me he was innocent" Selena said sounding just like Draco "used to laugh when the daily prophet wrote about how evil he was"

"Yeah, well anyway" Harry said stirring the subject away from Sirius "We'll think of something if your parents…"

"I don't care if they will have me for the summer because I won't come" Selena said firmly "I would rather live on the streets like a mud… muggle"

"Don't be stupid Selena, no one's going to force you to live on the streets" Harry said smiling gently "You are a Gryffindor now and Gryffindors take care of each other"

"So that's why no one will talk to me" Selena spat and tore her hand from him, she clearly had the Malfoy sarcasm "I got so many good little nice friends in Gryffindor!"

"I'll be you're friend" Harry offered hoping he could help Selena to become as happy he had been in his first year.

"Right" Selena said angrily "You don't fool me Potter! You just want to be friends with me to annoy my cousin"

Harry gritted his teeth, he felt a surge of hatred but it wasn't only directed at Selena it was most direct at Draco.

"Fine, you don't need to be friends with me I won't make you" Harry snapped "If you plan to behave like your family I don't want anything to do with you"

"That's just fine with me! I don't need your help!" Selena yelled and ran away but she didn't run far since Harry pulled her back in her robs. He had made up his mind about Selena and he was sure that she could be very happy if she just settled in a little.

"I'm sorry I snapped at you" Harry said firmly as Selena tried to fight him off "I have no interest in using you to annoy your cousin besides Fleur won't let me teach the dueling club if cause trouble"

"Why would she tell you to not get into any trouble, you can't get into trouble you are the-boy-who-freaking-lived" Selena spat but stopped trying to fight him off.

"She did" Said Harry resolutely "And if I want to annoy your cousin I just have to mention Azkaban"

"He will kill you at the first chance he gets?"

"Yepp, so just tell him to get inline after his dad, the rest of the death eaters, and Voldemort" Harry replied Selena startled at the sound of Voldemort's name.

"Don't say the dark Lords name!" She hissed as if Voldemort would be able to hear them if she spoke normally.

"Listen Selena, we don't have to be friends if you don't want to but if you want to be my friend Draco doesn't need to know about it"

"All right" Selena said "but only if Draco hears nothing about it otherwise I will curse you with curses that…"

"You know what, now that we are friends we got to get that Slytherin attitude out of you" Harry interrupted teasingly hoping that Selena would take it the right way. None of them said anything for several moments, Selena was clearly thinking hard of what she should do.

"Sorry about calling your mother you-know-what" Selena finally said earnestly.

"It's okay" Harry replied "and, yeah I almost forgot, you can't call Voldemort the Dark Lord only death eaters do that"

"You can't call him by his name only dead people and Dumbledore does that" Selena retorted.

"Hermione calls him by his name" Harry said "And she is the smartest students since Tom Marvolo Riddle"

"Tom Marvolo Riddle?" Selena said uncertainly raising an eyebrow.

Harry chuckled, he new it was a childish joke but couldn't think of anything better to loosen the mood "You just called him by his name"

"What" Selena asked "What's this Tom got to do with anything?"

"I'll show you" Harry said and pulled out his want "About Fifty years ago there was this orphan Slytherin named Tom Riddle after his father. His mother had died giving birth to him or something and his muggle father Tom had abandoned them when he had found out that she was a witch"

"That's sad" Selena said "Muggles are so stupid"

"Not all muggles are stupid" Harry said but couldn't think of a single muggle he knew well that wasn't stupid "anyway look at this" He waved his wand the same way Tom Riddle had done down in the chamber and letters appeared floating in the air spelling Tom Marvolo Riddle.

"Let's see" Harry said and started rearranging the letters so that they spelled 'I am Lord Voldemort' instead. He didn't manage to make it as neatly as Tom had but it was still readable.

"I am…" Selena read but stopped abruptly when she figured out what the letters said.

"You tricked me saying his name" Selena said accusingly smiling brightly.

"Oh, come on loads of peoples are named Tom Riddle" Harry replied and then stared wide eyed down the passage "Oh my god he is here!"

Selena turned around quickly and drew her wand she didn't know Harry well enough yet to know that he was joking. Harry supposed that she didn't really expect Voldemort to turn up, but Draco and that was just as bad to her. She soon figured out however that he had tricked her and cursed him with the jelly leg jinx.

"Ha" Selena exclaimed as Harry's legs became as stabile as jelly completely unable to carry his weight. He sat down painfully on the stone floor and leaned against the wall.

"Cursed by a first year" Harry muttered "Have you ever thought about joining the dueling club?" Selena Malfoy had been one of the few Gryffindors not to attend.

"Draco would like that wouldn't he?" Selena asked sarcastically.

"I could ask not to teach the first years" Harry offered "We wouldn't even have to look at each other"

"Are you sure 'cause Draco will kill me if he suspects anything" Saline said seriously, she was clearly terrified of Draco.

"I won't let him kill you besides he won't know" Harry said firmly "first to fourth years are meeting at Fridays and I doubt that Draco has any friends in those years especially as there are no Slytherins at all attending"

"I'll think about it" Selena promised. A few minutes later Selena left the secret passage. Harry waited back a few moments so that no one would suspect they had even seen each other. Just when he was about to pull the tapestry aside someone from the outside did it, Harry startled and drew his wand quickly. He took a deep breath of relief when he recognized one of Tonks more usual pink hairstyles.

"Oh" Tonks startled and fell back on the stone floor hard "Ouch, damn it Harry did you have to scare me like that?"

"Sorry" Harry said and pulled her up from the floor as he so usual did.

"How did… were you looking for me?" Harry asked uncertainly.

"I got to ask Remus to make me one of these" She said pulling out the Marauders' map from her pocket "You wouldn't miss it too much if I borrowed it for a few days so that I can learn it?"

"Sure" Harry replied putting his wand back. Tonks gave him a calculating teasing look.

"You are just not letting me borrow it so that I won't tell Fleur you have been with a younger woman?" Tonks asked teasingly.

"I thought you said the first years are innocent" Harry replied.

"Yeah, but she's a girl. Girls are never innocent" Tonks explained grinning widely.

"Some are" Harry said.

"No they are not" Tonks said shortly and gave him a pitying look "Trust me Harry"

"So why are you not innocent?" Harry asked teasingly.

"Perhaps because someone put flies in Filch's soup" Tonks said and smiled her most innocent smile.

Harry laughed "If Fleur figures that out you will have detentions for a week"

"Nah not a chance Filch didn't even notice a thing. He's too used to have insects put in his food, bet he even complains if it isn't crunchy. Anyway Fleur thought I was laughing because I miss transformed my nose and got tickled by some nose hair" Tonks said happily "So what did you and sweet young Miss Malfoy talk about?"

Harry spent that evening in the dark art professor's room. Tonks asked him several times that evening to tell her everything about what had happened in that passage. Every time Harry said that Selena had cried Tonks looked as if she wanted to cry too and laughed loudly every time Harry told her about being hit with the jelly leg jinx. Fleur finally put a stop to Tonks questions when it approached midnight and Harry wandered back to his dorm. He had of course arranged with Fleur and Tonks so that if Selena chose to attend the dueling club he would not teach her.

He saw Tonks and Fleur the next morning as a student in the defence against the dark arts classroom. They had a very funny lesson reversing confundus charms. Some of Tonks's mirrors had been confounded so that they thought that whoever looked inside them was a girl. Not every one received a confounded mirror it was a part of the task to identify the confounded mirrors. Each house got at least one, Tonks made sure that Harry and Ron got a confounded mirror each.

Harry suffered a few very embarrassing moments with his mirror when it flirted madly with him in a deep male voice, he realised however what was going on when Tonks had to leave the room so that she could laugh freely outside for a minute. Harry glanced around in the room to see who else had gotten a confounded mirror, he saw to his pleasure that Malfoy was sitting in the other end of the classroom scarlet faced with a mirror who called him "My little veela girl" in a voice somewhat like Hagrid's.

Harry had very hard time keeping his face strait this was pure torture. Fleur had tremendous problems keeping her face strait too. He could even feel her desire to laugh when she had eye contact with him. He figured this had to be her veela power running wild. He wondered for a moment before he started to work on his mirror if Fleur was aware that she was sending out her desire to laugh to anyone who had eye contact with her. He never asked Fleur anything about her being a veela, he knew it was a very sensitive subject for her and settled with what she told him.

There was a sharp knock on the door and half a second later, it opened, the class turned their heads to see who was there.

"Fleur, could I borrow Weasley for a moment?" McGonagall asked.

"It's all right" Ron's mirror said to him in a voice a little like Kingsley's "play with your little friend I'll wait here for you baby"

McGonagall looked questionably up at Fleur she clearly didn't like being addressed as little friend.

"Confundus charm, we are practising curse braking" Fleur explained gently.

"I see, in that case I wont keep you long Mr Weasley" McGonagall said, the class laughed though Harry doubted that McGonagall had meant it like a joke.

Ron returned a few moments later grinning widely as if he had suddenly realised that it was his birthday.

"What?" Asked Hermione in a whisper not to be over heard by Fleur or Tonks, which was completely unnecessary as every one was having too much fun to notice anything unless you yelled.

"First years had flying lessons today" Ron said still grinning very widely.

"So" Asked Hermione.

"McGonagall usually observes them from her office. She found us a third chaser!"

"Who" Harry asked eagerly perhaps they had a chance at the Quidditch cup after all.

"Miss Malfoy" Ron said gleefully "Can you imagine Draco's face when he finds out that his dear cousin is on the Quidditch team with you"

"Ron seriously, I told you she is terrified of Draco" Harry said sternly but couldn't stop grinning.

"Yeah you can't breathe a word about that, or I bet Selena will leave the team quicker then you can eat a chocolate frog" Hermione said.

"Okay, okay not a word" Ron promised "But it's not as if I would let her resign even if there were a hundred Draco's"

"Isn't it odd though" Harry said "First years are not allowed a broom and now McGongall has broken that rule twice in six years"

"She hasn't really broken any rule, just bent them a little" Hermione said brightly "There is no rule that says that first years are not allowed to play Quidditch, the only rule is that first years are not allowed to have their own broom"

"Harry got a broom in his first year" Ron stated.

"No not technically I figure, Harry didn't buy his broom and bring it into Hogwarts did he?" Hermione asked not expecting an answer "You didn't technically own a broom you just kept one of the team brooms"

"But she gave it to me"

"That's why she bent the rules" Hermione stated "but no one could really say anything since McGonagall just would have to claim that Harry didn't have his own broom in his trunk just a team broom and show the recite"

Harry and Ron stared at her, it had never occurred to either of them to figure out why Harry was allowed to have a broom in his first year. It had been enough just to have a broom.

"All the School rules can be found in Hogwarts a history" Ron said sarcastically in a rather good impression for a teenage boy of Hermione's voice.

"They can be found in Filch's office and in the Library" Hermione said coolly.

"Not in Hogwarts a history" Ron said surprised.

"Well some of them" Hermione admitted Ron raised an eyebrow disbelievingly "Right most of them, but not the new ones since the latest addition of Hogwarts a history came out 89"

"So the rule about brooms?" Ron pressed on.

Hermione didn't reply instead she begun to read the chapter about confounds charm and pretended to be busy.

Selena turned up the following day at the dueling club, Harry just noticed her and caught her eye for a fraction of a second before he started teaching the second years and some third years Expelliarmus, the third years helped the second years and at the end of the class when everyone knew at least expelliarmus they dueled. They had a very good time.

On Saturday morning, they had their first Quidditch practise Selena ignored everyone except the beaters and Katie who she seemed to consider safe as they were not too close to Harry. McGonagall had provided her with a Cleansweep 11, it was a good broom especially as it was cheaper that the Nimbus 2000 and about as good. To Harry's, Ron's and probably Selena's relief there was not a single Slytherin in the stands like last year.

Selena really was a very good flyer, at lest as good as Harry had been on his first practise However, Selena had been flying since the age of eight. Unfortunately, the beaters were just as horrible as last year, but compared to Fred and George every beater would seem horrible. Harry snapped back to life as he spotted the snitch half way down the field. He urged his Firebolt towards it and within second held the struggling Snitch firmly in his hand.

"Excellent Harry" Ron yelled from the goal posts "We got time for one more catch let it go!"

"Ron, please" Ginny said "We've been here for hours and it's lunch soon" Harry was glad to hear Ginny acting normal and not snapping or hissing at everyone.

"Yes, we better get up earlier next Saturday" Ron said thoughtfully for a moment before turning back to Harry "Let it go Harry! The sooner you catch it the sooner Ginny can have lunch"

Harry caught the Snitch again a few minutes later and hurried off to get a shower before lunch, he was in a hurry because right after lunch he was supposed to teach the dueling club. He arrived lunch a little late and noticed at once when he saw Fleur sitting up at the staff table that something was wrong. Fleur gave him a very apologetic look he could feel her veela powers telling him that she was very sorry about something. Harry found Hermione sitting alone at the Gryffindor table with her nose deep inside his copy of Dueling for Masters. He wondered for a moment if Fleur had broken up with him and had given his book back through Hermione, but Fleur wouldn't do that, not without telling him anyway.

"You got the book" Harry asked nervously, not sure if he wanted to hear her answer.

"Yeah, they are done with it so she gave it back to me before lunch" Hermione explained still very focused on the book.

"Did you speak to her?"

"Who… oh Fleur yes" Hermione said finally looking up from the book, she gave him a very guilty look.

"What did you talk about?"

"I'm sorry Harry but I think she has persuaded some Slytherins to join the dueling club"

"Some Slytherins?" Harry asked irritably "Tell me!"

"You better ask Fleur" Hermione said apologetically.

"And why is that" Harry snapped now feeling thoroughly frustrated.

"Because…" Hermione said nervously "Because… she wants to tell you herself"

"Is it Malfoy" Harry asked angrily, he couldn't imagine any other Slytherin that would cause Hermione to not tell him.

"No, not that we know of" Hermione replied.

"Fine" Harry spat and got up from the table "I'll just have to ask Fleur then" Harry walked quickly up to the staff table to where Fleur sat next to Tonks.

"What's going on" He asked them.

"I'm so sorry Harry, I know you don't like him and all but we really had no choice" Fleur said apologetically.

"What choice" Harry asked sharply.

"To get Slytherins to join" Fleur explained sadly "I spoke with Minerva and she agrees"

"Agrees with what?" Snapped Harry, he knew that Fleur must have done something bad or at least Harry would think it was bad.

"Let's take a walk" She said and got up from her seat. Harry looked over at Tonks for some kind of explanation but she focused completely on her food and did look back at him.

Harry followed Tonks out of the great hall and out of the castle. Harry thought a million thought's each more horrible then the other. By the time, Fleur stopped and grabbed his hand they were standing next to the lake. Harry had prepared himself to hear anything from Remus being dead as well, to that Fleur didn't love him anymore.

"I spoke to Snape the other day" Fleur said guiltily.

"About the dueling club" She added when Harry didn't reply.

"You still love me?" Harry asked quickly he couldn't help it he had to know.

Fleur smiled and squeezed his hand so that he clearly could feel her heartbeat "Can't you feel it?"

"Yes… but then what?" Harry said feeling warm relief pulsing through his body.

"I spoke to Snape the other day and… well he said that there was no way the Slytherins would join since they didn't think there were any competent teachers"

"So" Harry pressed on not surprised that Snape would tell Fleur in her face that the Slytherins thought she was unqualified.

"Well he's right in a way Tonks a Hufflepuff and you are a Gryffindor and I am not a Slytherin so there is really no wonder that the Slytherins would feel awkward attending" Fleur explained "I mean if Snape taught dueling you wouldn't join would you?"

"No I wouldn't" Harry said he had a horribly feeling that Fleur was going to tell him something terrible any moment.

"Besides there are almost too many students as it is, if we were going to have Slytherins too we would need an extra teacher"

Harry suddenly realized what Fleur was telling him "No way! Never, not a chance, Snape is not going to teach!"

"Harry please" Fleur winced "You are crushing my hand"

"Sorry" Harry said and realised his grip "but Snape is not going near the great hall while I am…"

"It is already decided" Fleur whispered not meeting his eyes.

"WHAT" Harry yelled "YOU DECIDED TO LET HIM TEACH WITH OUT ME?"

"Sorry" Fleur said in a very small voice looking down.

"SO MY DA TURNS INTO A DUELING CLUB AND THEN YOU JUST DECIDE TO BRING SNAPE IN? I STARTED IT ALMOST A YEAR AGO AND NOW I DON'T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT?"

"Sorry" Fleur muttered sadly.

"Is that all you got to say? Because I can tell you that I am much sorrier then you" Harry hissed "You could at least have asked me first"

"I am sorry" Fleur said, Harry now noticed that Fleur really was sorry because she had tears rolling down her cheeks, and when he looked her in her eyes he could feel her sorrow thanks to her veela powers.

"Just don't expect me to go anyway near any of them" Harry said grumpily, he couldn't be angry with Fleur if she was crying it just wasn't possible.

"You won't have to Harry, we'll teach a house each. You can teach Gryffindor if you want to, I will teach Ravenclaw, Tonks Hufflepuff and Snape Slytherin" Fleur said quickly, relieved that Harry wasn't too angry at her anymore "We'll have four rings, you can have number one and Snape will have to settle with number four"

"Right" Harry said, it didn't seem to horrible any more he could just teach his Gryffindors and Snape wouldn't be near enough to say or do anything.

"Let's get the great hall ready" Harry said as he watched his wristwatch "They will be there in twenty minutes"

"No" Fleur replied shortly "You are going down to the kitchens to get some lunch, I don't want you to be cranky 'cause you haven't eaten enough"

"What am I your little baby?" Harry asked as they begun walking back to the castle hand in hand.

"It's not my fault you tend to get cranky when you don't eat properly" Fleur teased.

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Hmmm so what do you think? Did I make Harry a little bit too eager too befriend Selena?

Have you ever heard that story about St George and the dragon? Well any way St George saves a city in Libya from a terrible dragon. Can you guess what that city was named?

"Selena" of course! Isn't that a funny coincidence?

No I am not matching Selena Malfoy with George Weasley… that is a real coincidence besides Selena is way too young to do anything more then giggle and blush.

I let Fleur break down a little when Harry got angry, she is not ready yet to have fights with him.

Next chapter is a really long one with loads of action.