Chapter One
A Letter from Hogwarts
It was a hot summer evening near the end of August and Draco Malfoy was wandering aimlessly around his living room looking for reasons to punish the house elf, Blinky. After quickly scanning the room and finding no sign of her he left and progressed on to the Dining room. Once again he looked around and found no trace of her or anything he could use to discredit her. Feeling defeated he turned and threw himself into the nearest chair.
"ELF!" he hollered, "COME HERE!" A few moments later a small creature with a tomato shaped nose, bat ears and big brown eyes the size of tennis balls, came running through the door holding a yellow envelope in her podgy fingers. She rushed over to him as fast as her squat little legs could carry her and said in a high squeaky voice:
"Yes master, you is calling on Blinky?" She was frequently bowing as she said this, which Malfoy found quite irritating, but satisfying all the same. Malfoy looked at Blinky and in a falsely high voice he answered her.
"Yes elf, master is calling on you" Apparently after two years Blinky still didn't recognise the mocking tone of voice Malfoy occasionally used when he was speaking to her and didn't realise that she was regarded as a joke.
"What is it that master is wanting Blinky to do?" she squeaked, still bowing. Malfoy stood thinking and looking at her for a moment before he spoke,
"I want you to clean the entire house before dinner" he replied. Knowing fully that there was no way she could clean the entire Manor while having to prepare dinner. For a second or two, Blinky looked utterly confused. She also knew that she couldn't clean the entire house before dinner.
"If that is what master wishes of Blinky" she said sounding baffled. After standing there, routed to the spot for a few minutes, she turned to leave, but after one or two steps she turned around and hurried back to Malfoy.
"Are you lost?" he asked in his usually snide tone.
"No sir" Blinky replied, again not detecting the tone of voice.
"Then what is it that you want exactly?" spat Malfoy.
"Blinky almost forgot to give master his letter" As she spoke Blinky stretched up her hands and held out the letter for him to take. Malfoy looked at her for a minute before snatching the letter from her. He immediately saw a wax seal on the back that he recognised at once to be the Hogwarts Crest. As he turned it over to read the details he saw Blinky's heel disappearing around the doorframe and out of site.