Weeeee my first HP fic! I'm excited! Lol, but um enough about that. If you've read my other fics on this site *waves happily* hey long time no see! Anywhore, I guess I should get to the point. Well... I really don't have a point ^_^'' uh just ask if you want to use any of this stuff or whatever okay? And don't mind the errors and stuff, I don't use a program that has spell check. I've been told about beta reading and shay but I wouldn't want to bother anyone with that. So... yeah, just apologizing in advance! Okie dokie!
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Chapter I
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Spider sits alone in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express, looking out the window. Why had Uncle Draco forced her to ride on this stupid thing like the others? Now she has to sit on a train with a bunch of snot-nosed brats. Being around adults all her life, Spider's maturity is much higher than what it should be. The sunlight bounces off her face as she sighs. The train had left the station about ten minutes ago, and she could hear the yelling and chatter of other children.
"I hope no one comes in here."
As soon as the words escape her lips, the door to her compartment slides open. Spider bangs her forehead against the window, sliding her head down, a whine sounding from the friction of skin on glass.
"Something heavy fall on me now..." she begs.
She turns to see who the intruder is. Her eyebrows reach her bangs.
"Uh, did you want to be alone or something?"
Sweat collects on Leo's brow and other places. Oh no, a girl. And an odd one at that. Cool hair, but the eyes are way freaky. Cool, but freaky. He shudders as the girl studies him with her mix-matched eyes. He wrings the paperback book in his hands nervously. He hopes she's okay with him being here. No other compartment had room. Or more like every other compartment had too many people for his taste. This is the only one close to empty. Finally, Spider shrugs.
"You can stay if you want." She looks him over one more time before looking back out the window. Leo sighs with relief and closes the door behind himself before taking a seat. He glances at Spider, but she's too absorbed in her own thoughts to notice his eyes on her. He leans back, getting comfortable. Finally, the time of Hogwarts has come. Frankly, he was kind of nervous. Sighing, he opens his book and begins to read.
Spider looks over at the boy. His glasses are way wicked. Best color of all time is green! And he had the prettiest hair she'd ever seen on a boy before. Yes, he was sort of a pretty boy. Curious. She wondered why he didn't go and be with the others instead of being in here with her. And just what was he reading so intently anyway?
Leo tenses as he feels movement. Not daring to look, he stares intently at the pages of his book, too frightened to look anywhere else. Uncontrollably he begins to shake. Suddenly something is very close to his side, practically pressed against him, and he feels warm breath on his cheek. Inhaling cautiously through his nose, he catches a scent. Fresh soap and calm fire. Her scent. It sent a chill down his spine. He turns only to brush his nose against Spider's, who's staring down at his book intently. He blushes scarlet.
"Do you bloody mind??" he asks, astonished.
Spider looks up at him. "What are you reading?"
The question makes Leo speechless. Couldn't she have asked that from her own side of the compartment? He jumped as she frowned.
"Why are you shaking like that?" Spider hasn't budged, and their faces are millimeters apart.
Leo swallows before licking his lips. "I'm fine. The shaking is a side effect of the fear."
This puzzled Spider even further. Fear?
Definite awkward moment. Suddenly, the compartment door slides open. Both heads turn towards the door in unison.
"Oh! Dreadfully sorry! We're not interrupting anything, are we?"
Spider looks at the girl that just spoke. Behind her is a boy that looks too like her not to be her twin and another boy next to him. He had a candy cane sticking out of his mouth.
"If we are, feel free to continue anyway," the girl's twin said, grinning wolfishly. He coughed as his sister elbowed him in the gut.
"What he meant to say," the girl continues, "is we were wondering if we could stay in here with you lot. Unless you're, you know..." the girl blushed.
Spider sat back, crossing her legs. "No. I don't," she said, giving the girl a look, as if daring her to say what she was suggesting. Leo had by now went back to studying his book, willing himself not to blush. Blimey, how embarrassing...
"Well, if you're not then there's no reason why we can't share this compartment with you!" The non-twin spoke this, popping his candy out of his mouth to speak before sucking on it once again. Spider smirked. She could tell by his lack of accent that he was most likely American. Amazing, since she didn't know any. These people look interesting. Why not let them stay?
"Free train," she finally answers.
The three nod and step in, the guy twin closing the door behind himself. The girl holds a hand out to Spider. "Names Ginger Harding. Call me Gin. This is my brother Xavier and my friend Seth Samson. This is our first year at Hogwarts." She giggles nervously while vigorously shaking Spider's hand. "First time in the wizarding world actually. I nearly died at that Diagonal Alley place."
"Diagon Alley," Leo corrected her curtly.
"Oh. Well, Diagon Alley. All that nifty stuff! My brother and I had no idea until about a month ago. Neither did Seth. His mother is a witch. Neither of our parents were a wizard or a witch so ha who knew?"
"Gin, you're going to bore her to death," Xavier groaned. She glared at her brother. "I am not!" She then looked doubtful. "Am I?" she asked Spider innocently. Spider chuckled.
"No. Quite fascinating actually. I've never been outside the wizarding world, so Muggles are intriguing to me. I like to know how Muggles live."
"Muggles?" Gin asked.
"Non-magic folk. Please sit." She watched them as they got comfortable. Since when was she so nice to people? Strange, for some reason she liked these three, and the other one wasn't half bad if he just talked a little more. "Forgive me, I've apparently left my manners in my other robe. My name's Sabina Melville. Everyone calls me Spider though." She gestured vaguely at her hair. Leo's eyes lighted up. So that was her name. He flipped the page to make it look like he was reading.
Gin smiled. "Nice to meet you."
The three looked at Leo. Spider looked at him as well. Just what was this fellow's name anyway? Leo's face squinted up in annoyance.
"Leonardo Baldwin. Just Leo, thanks." Spider grinned. Leo. That's a nice name.
"So how do you two know each other?" Seth asked Spider.
She looked at Seth before looking back at Leo. "Um... well, we don't really. We were just kind of sharing this compartment."
"Looked pretty cozy for just meeting," Xavier purred.
Leo snapped his book shut, looking up at him. "I beg your pardon?" he said angrily.
Ginger looked at her brother. "Xavier, I don't want to hurt you." She then smacked him on the back of the head. "Some of the time," she added.
"You've been in a crabby mood ever since Mother made you wear your hair like that," he grumbled, rubbing his head.
Xavier was referring to the pigtails that were held by bright yellow ribbons. Gin folded her arms, pouting. "Shut up."
"Aw, but you look lovely, Sis. You're glowing."
"That's because the ribbons are radioactive!" she whined.
"Aw, I think you're adorable Gin," Seth said teasingly, maneuvering the candy cane in his mouth expertly.
Spider looked at him. "Are you American?" Seth looked back at her, blessing her with a smile. "I'm sorry, I completely just lost myself in your eyes."
"Oh, please..." Gin drawled, rolling her own bright ones.
"Darling," Seth said sweetly, taking Ginger's hand, "don't be jealous. My heart belongs to you." He placed a sugary kiss on her hand affectionately.
Gin pulled her hand from his. "Ew! Do not go there. I want you about as much as I want a disease."
Seth put a hand over his heart. "That hurt, Baby."
Leo's eyebrow twitched. "I'm trying to read here."
Xavier snorted. "Whatever. You've been listening ever since we came in here. Why not put that silly thing down and chat with us?"
Spider sighed, studying her nails. "He's afraid."
Leo gasped indignantly. "I am not! Take that back, you nosy brat!" How dare she mosey into his business and then go around telling people how he felt.
Spider glared at him. Of all the nerve! "You know, I didn't think bookworm nerds came out of hibernation till spring," she said icily.
Leo closed his book with a dark calm, his head bowed, standing up. Spider got to her feet as well, ready for any attack.
Ginger jumped up. "So! Anyone hungry? I think I hear the cart coming. My treat? I really want to try things out with this currency of yours."
Spider put her hands on her hips, head high. "I'm not hungry."
"Loss of appetite," Leo murmured.
"Aside from your incredibly uninfectious enthusiasm, do you have anything else to contribute?" Spider growled at Ginger.
"No," Ginger squeeked, plopping back down next to Seth.
"Lover's quarrel, perhaps?" Xavier asked Seth, loud enough for all to hear.
"We're not together!!!" Spider and Leo yelled together. Leo glared at Spider.
"I'd never lower myself to that level and be with such a... obnoxious, smart-ass, gelled-up nutter like her."
Spider's jaw dropped. She stomped her foot. "Well, I'd never want to be with a nerdy, prissy, freakishly girlie-looking git like you!"
"At least I'm pretty!"
Everyone else in the compartment gasped, except Spider, who was too shocked to say anything, even suck in air. She knew she wasn't the prettiest girl in the world, but she knew she was at least pretty. Uncle Draco wouldn't lie to her. Leo noticed the hurt in her eyes and immediately starts to regret what he said. Of course he wouldn't admit it to this... this girl though. If that's what she was.
"What did you say?"
"I didn't stutter, Freak." He winced saying this, but he wouldn't back down.
"Freak??" Spider exclaimed, pulling her wand from the folds of her robes. Leo's was up exactly as her own, pointing at her nose. She blinked. No one ever beat her to her wand before. Even Draco had a hard time doing so. Even the Bloody Wanker Who Lived... or so Draco calls him anyway. Spider called him Uncle Harry.
"Wow, pretty fast for a girl."
Xavier jumps up, holding up his own wand, aiming it at Leo. "Hey, lay off! I... I know how to use this thing," he said uncertainly.
"Xavier!" Ginger admonished.
"I don't need your help," Spider spat. She lowered her wand and squared her shoulders. "I'd rather do something much more humiliating to you than hexing you into the middle of next week in front of these three. The whole school would be better."
Leo squinted at her, tilting his head. "You're odd."
"Yeah, well you're as square as a saltine cracker."
"I like saltine crackers," Seth said timidly, raising his hand.
"Shut up!" Leo and Spider hiss simultaneously. They look at each other. "Don't talk to him that way!" they both say together again. "Me??" they protest at the same time yet again.
"Are you guys sure you're not-" Xavier starts.
"We're not together!!!" They shoot daggers at each other before sitting down side by side, turning slightly away from each other.
"I'm hungry," Spider declares.
"So am I," Leo claims.
"But I thought-"
Ginger trails off at the look she receives from the two. She claps her hands together. "Ok! Let's just wait till the cart comes along, shall we?"
"Porcupine," Leo mutters, picking up his book and searching for the page he was on.
"Queer," Spider replies under her breath.
Seth and Xavier snicker as Ginger sighs.
"You're cute when you're angry, Spider."
Spider looks over at Xavier, eyebrow raised. "Excuse me?"
"Oh, come on." He turns to Seth. "Am I right?"
"I'll say," Seth murmurs, winking at Spider. She rolls her eyes. "Boys are so weird."
"I'll say," Gin agrees dryly.
"No really. Your voice gets even more high-pitched, your cheeks go all red, and you do this adorable little squinty thing with your nose-"
"Oh, for Merlin's sake!" Leo cries with exasperation, banging his head back against the cushioning on the wall. Spider by now is the same color as a strawberry.
"Xavier, that was naughty," Seth comments, crunching on his candy cane.
Xavier shrugs. "I know. Santa skips my house every year."
"Xavier Phillip Harding," Ginger chides, highly disappointed.
"She did a full name on you!"
"Ears quite functional!"
"Bite me."
"No thank you."
Xavier and Seth start to bicker back and forth. Ginger tries to shush them, and the three are lost in a usual routine of theirs. Spider watches them silently before looking back at Leo, who really had begun to ignore them and read again. She catches the name of the author on the cover.
"Shakespeare."
Leo looks up sharply. "Pardon?"
"I like Shakespeare." They were the only works she really liked to read outside of the reading Draco makes her do. Leo's eyes light up.
"Really?"
"Yes. Most people die. I find it funny."
Leo stares at her. "You have an appalling lack of tact. You're crazy."
"Cauldron calling the kettle black. You have an appalling lack of conversation, but you don't hear me saying anything about it. I see that changing in the future."
"Funny, cause I don't see us having much to do with each other after getting off of this train. Are you sure your inner eye isn't on the fritz?"
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"She's finally coming."
"I say we just kill her."
"Malfoy!"
"What? Now isn't the time to be noble, Potter."
"Draco..."
"Don't you 'Draco' me Granger."
"Shut your hole, you ferrety-git."
"Blow me, Weasel."
"You know... for two creatures so alike, I'd think that you two would get along better."
Harry and Hermione snickered as Ron and Draco scowled at Dumbledore's comment. The five were situated comfortably in said man's office. Comfortably as in Draco on one side of the room, Harry and Ron on the other. Dumbledore rested his elbows on his desk, pressing his fingertips together thoughtfully.
"Let's just watch her and see what happens."
"What about the others?" Ron asks.
"Them too," Dumbledore confirms. He slowly stands up on his feet, eyeing the young men and woman in his office. "Them too..."
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Ha... interested? Great, I am too! It's fun making things up off the top of your head. You never know what happens next! Anywhore, I'm not exactly known for my speedy updates, but I promise to try to update as fast as my busy schedule will let me. In the meantime, there are other stories of mine. There's 'College Life' on here, which is complete. Also, on fictionpress.com, under the name 'Echo', there are two stories I have started, one with one chapter I literally just started (TBD), and one with 7 chapters I believe (Elemental Sacrifice). Feel free to look at those. I hope to gain at least one loyal reader or so. Please, R&R, making whatever comments you like; I like criticism. It's fun to laugh at. Well, until next time then? ^_~ Ciao!
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Chapter I
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Spider sits alone in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express, looking out the window. Why had Uncle Draco forced her to ride on this stupid thing like the others? Now she has to sit on a train with a bunch of snot-nosed brats. Being around adults all her life, Spider's maturity is much higher than what it should be. The sunlight bounces off her face as she sighs. The train had left the station about ten minutes ago, and she could hear the yelling and chatter of other children.
"I hope no one comes in here."
As soon as the words escape her lips, the door to her compartment slides open. Spider bangs her forehead against the window, sliding her head down, a whine sounding from the friction of skin on glass.
"Something heavy fall on me now..." she begs.
She turns to see who the intruder is. Her eyebrows reach her bangs.
"Uh, did you want to be alone or something?"
Sweat collects on Leo's brow and other places. Oh no, a girl. And an odd one at that. Cool hair, but the eyes are way freaky. Cool, but freaky. He shudders as the girl studies him with her mix-matched eyes. He wrings the paperback book in his hands nervously. He hopes she's okay with him being here. No other compartment had room. Or more like every other compartment had too many people for his taste. This is the only one close to empty. Finally, Spider shrugs.
"You can stay if you want." She looks him over one more time before looking back out the window. Leo sighs with relief and closes the door behind himself before taking a seat. He glances at Spider, but she's too absorbed in her own thoughts to notice his eyes on her. He leans back, getting comfortable. Finally, the time of Hogwarts has come. Frankly, he was kind of nervous. Sighing, he opens his book and begins to read.
Spider looks over at the boy. His glasses are way wicked. Best color of all time is green! And he had the prettiest hair she'd ever seen on a boy before. Yes, he was sort of a pretty boy. Curious. She wondered why he didn't go and be with the others instead of being in here with her. And just what was he reading so intently anyway?
Leo tenses as he feels movement. Not daring to look, he stares intently at the pages of his book, too frightened to look anywhere else. Uncontrollably he begins to shake. Suddenly something is very close to his side, practically pressed against him, and he feels warm breath on his cheek. Inhaling cautiously through his nose, he catches a scent. Fresh soap and calm fire. Her scent. It sent a chill down his spine. He turns only to brush his nose against Spider's, who's staring down at his book intently. He blushes scarlet.
"Do you bloody mind??" he asks, astonished.
Spider looks up at him. "What are you reading?"
The question makes Leo speechless. Couldn't she have asked that from her own side of the compartment? He jumped as she frowned.
"Why are you shaking like that?" Spider hasn't budged, and their faces are millimeters apart.
Leo swallows before licking his lips. "I'm fine. The shaking is a side effect of the fear."
This puzzled Spider even further. Fear?
Definite awkward moment. Suddenly, the compartment door slides open. Both heads turn towards the door in unison.
"Oh! Dreadfully sorry! We're not interrupting anything, are we?"
Spider looks at the girl that just spoke. Behind her is a boy that looks too like her not to be her twin and another boy next to him. He had a candy cane sticking out of his mouth.
"If we are, feel free to continue anyway," the girl's twin said, grinning wolfishly. He coughed as his sister elbowed him in the gut.
"What he meant to say," the girl continues, "is we were wondering if we could stay in here with you lot. Unless you're, you know..." the girl blushed.
Spider sat back, crossing her legs. "No. I don't," she said, giving the girl a look, as if daring her to say what she was suggesting. Leo had by now went back to studying his book, willing himself not to blush. Blimey, how embarrassing...
"Well, if you're not then there's no reason why we can't share this compartment with you!" The non-twin spoke this, popping his candy out of his mouth to speak before sucking on it once again. Spider smirked. She could tell by his lack of accent that he was most likely American. Amazing, since she didn't know any. These people look interesting. Why not let them stay?
"Free train," she finally answers.
The three nod and step in, the guy twin closing the door behind himself. The girl holds a hand out to Spider. "Names Ginger Harding. Call me Gin. This is my brother Xavier and my friend Seth Samson. This is our first year at Hogwarts." She giggles nervously while vigorously shaking Spider's hand. "First time in the wizarding world actually. I nearly died at that Diagonal Alley place."
"Diagon Alley," Leo corrected her curtly.
"Oh. Well, Diagon Alley. All that nifty stuff! My brother and I had no idea until about a month ago. Neither did Seth. His mother is a witch. Neither of our parents were a wizard or a witch so ha who knew?"
"Gin, you're going to bore her to death," Xavier groaned. She glared at her brother. "I am not!" She then looked doubtful. "Am I?" she asked Spider innocently. Spider chuckled.
"No. Quite fascinating actually. I've never been outside the wizarding world, so Muggles are intriguing to me. I like to know how Muggles live."
"Muggles?" Gin asked.
"Non-magic folk. Please sit." She watched them as they got comfortable. Since when was she so nice to people? Strange, for some reason she liked these three, and the other one wasn't half bad if he just talked a little more. "Forgive me, I've apparently left my manners in my other robe. My name's Sabina Melville. Everyone calls me Spider though." She gestured vaguely at her hair. Leo's eyes lighted up. So that was her name. He flipped the page to make it look like he was reading.
Gin smiled. "Nice to meet you."
The three looked at Leo. Spider looked at him as well. Just what was this fellow's name anyway? Leo's face squinted up in annoyance.
"Leonardo Baldwin. Just Leo, thanks." Spider grinned. Leo. That's a nice name.
"So how do you two know each other?" Seth asked Spider.
She looked at Seth before looking back at Leo. "Um... well, we don't really. We were just kind of sharing this compartment."
"Looked pretty cozy for just meeting," Xavier purred.
Leo snapped his book shut, looking up at him. "I beg your pardon?" he said angrily.
Ginger looked at her brother. "Xavier, I don't want to hurt you." She then smacked him on the back of the head. "Some of the time," she added.
"You've been in a crabby mood ever since Mother made you wear your hair like that," he grumbled, rubbing his head.
Xavier was referring to the pigtails that were held by bright yellow ribbons. Gin folded her arms, pouting. "Shut up."
"Aw, but you look lovely, Sis. You're glowing."
"That's because the ribbons are radioactive!" she whined.
"Aw, I think you're adorable Gin," Seth said teasingly, maneuvering the candy cane in his mouth expertly.
Spider looked at him. "Are you American?" Seth looked back at her, blessing her with a smile. "I'm sorry, I completely just lost myself in your eyes."
"Oh, please..." Gin drawled, rolling her own bright ones.
"Darling," Seth said sweetly, taking Ginger's hand, "don't be jealous. My heart belongs to you." He placed a sugary kiss on her hand affectionately.
Gin pulled her hand from his. "Ew! Do not go there. I want you about as much as I want a disease."
Seth put a hand over his heart. "That hurt, Baby."
Leo's eyebrow twitched. "I'm trying to read here."
Xavier snorted. "Whatever. You've been listening ever since we came in here. Why not put that silly thing down and chat with us?"
Spider sighed, studying her nails. "He's afraid."
Leo gasped indignantly. "I am not! Take that back, you nosy brat!" How dare she mosey into his business and then go around telling people how he felt.
Spider glared at him. Of all the nerve! "You know, I didn't think bookworm nerds came out of hibernation till spring," she said icily.
Leo closed his book with a dark calm, his head bowed, standing up. Spider got to her feet as well, ready for any attack.
Ginger jumped up. "So! Anyone hungry? I think I hear the cart coming. My treat? I really want to try things out with this currency of yours."
Spider put her hands on her hips, head high. "I'm not hungry."
"Loss of appetite," Leo murmured.
"Aside from your incredibly uninfectious enthusiasm, do you have anything else to contribute?" Spider growled at Ginger.
"No," Ginger squeeked, plopping back down next to Seth.
"Lover's quarrel, perhaps?" Xavier asked Seth, loud enough for all to hear.
"We're not together!!!" Spider and Leo yelled together. Leo glared at Spider.
"I'd never lower myself to that level and be with such a... obnoxious, smart-ass, gelled-up nutter like her."
Spider's jaw dropped. She stomped her foot. "Well, I'd never want to be with a nerdy, prissy, freakishly girlie-looking git like you!"
"At least I'm pretty!"
Everyone else in the compartment gasped, except Spider, who was too shocked to say anything, even suck in air. She knew she wasn't the prettiest girl in the world, but she knew she was at least pretty. Uncle Draco wouldn't lie to her. Leo noticed the hurt in her eyes and immediately starts to regret what he said. Of course he wouldn't admit it to this... this girl though. If that's what she was.
"What did you say?"
"I didn't stutter, Freak." He winced saying this, but he wouldn't back down.
"Freak??" Spider exclaimed, pulling her wand from the folds of her robes. Leo's was up exactly as her own, pointing at her nose. She blinked. No one ever beat her to her wand before. Even Draco had a hard time doing so. Even the Bloody Wanker Who Lived... or so Draco calls him anyway. Spider called him Uncle Harry.
"Wow, pretty fast for a girl."
Xavier jumps up, holding up his own wand, aiming it at Leo. "Hey, lay off! I... I know how to use this thing," he said uncertainly.
"Xavier!" Ginger admonished.
"I don't need your help," Spider spat. She lowered her wand and squared her shoulders. "I'd rather do something much more humiliating to you than hexing you into the middle of next week in front of these three. The whole school would be better."
Leo squinted at her, tilting his head. "You're odd."
"Yeah, well you're as square as a saltine cracker."
"I like saltine crackers," Seth said timidly, raising his hand.
"Shut up!" Leo and Spider hiss simultaneously. They look at each other. "Don't talk to him that way!" they both say together again. "Me??" they protest at the same time yet again.
"Are you guys sure you're not-" Xavier starts.
"We're not together!!!" They shoot daggers at each other before sitting down side by side, turning slightly away from each other.
"I'm hungry," Spider declares.
"So am I," Leo claims.
"But I thought-"
Ginger trails off at the look she receives from the two. She claps her hands together. "Ok! Let's just wait till the cart comes along, shall we?"
"Porcupine," Leo mutters, picking up his book and searching for the page he was on.
"Queer," Spider replies under her breath.
Seth and Xavier snicker as Ginger sighs.
"You're cute when you're angry, Spider."
Spider looks over at Xavier, eyebrow raised. "Excuse me?"
"Oh, come on." He turns to Seth. "Am I right?"
"I'll say," Seth murmurs, winking at Spider. She rolls her eyes. "Boys are so weird."
"I'll say," Gin agrees dryly.
"No really. Your voice gets even more high-pitched, your cheeks go all red, and you do this adorable little squinty thing with your nose-"
"Oh, for Merlin's sake!" Leo cries with exasperation, banging his head back against the cushioning on the wall. Spider by now is the same color as a strawberry.
"Xavier, that was naughty," Seth comments, crunching on his candy cane.
Xavier shrugs. "I know. Santa skips my house every year."
"Xavier Phillip Harding," Ginger chides, highly disappointed.
"She did a full name on you!"
"Ears quite functional!"
"Bite me."
"No thank you."
Xavier and Seth start to bicker back and forth. Ginger tries to shush them, and the three are lost in a usual routine of theirs. Spider watches them silently before looking back at Leo, who really had begun to ignore them and read again. She catches the name of the author on the cover.
"Shakespeare."
Leo looks up sharply. "Pardon?"
"I like Shakespeare." They were the only works she really liked to read outside of the reading Draco makes her do. Leo's eyes light up.
"Really?"
"Yes. Most people die. I find it funny."
Leo stares at her. "You have an appalling lack of tact. You're crazy."
"Cauldron calling the kettle black. You have an appalling lack of conversation, but you don't hear me saying anything about it. I see that changing in the future."
"Funny, cause I don't see us having much to do with each other after getting off of this train. Are you sure your inner eye isn't on the fritz?"
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"She's finally coming."
"I say we just kill her."
"Malfoy!"
"What? Now isn't the time to be noble, Potter."
"Draco..."
"Don't you 'Draco' me Granger."
"Shut your hole, you ferrety-git."
"Blow me, Weasel."
"You know... for two creatures so alike, I'd think that you two would get along better."
Harry and Hermione snickered as Ron and Draco scowled at Dumbledore's comment. The five were situated comfortably in said man's office. Comfortably as in Draco on one side of the room, Harry and Ron on the other. Dumbledore rested his elbows on his desk, pressing his fingertips together thoughtfully.
"Let's just watch her and see what happens."
"What about the others?" Ron asks.
"Them too," Dumbledore confirms. He slowly stands up on his feet, eyeing the young men and woman in his office. "Them too..."
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Ha... interested? Great, I am too! It's fun making things up off the top of your head. You never know what happens next! Anywhore, I'm not exactly known for my speedy updates, but I promise to try to update as fast as my busy schedule will let me. In the meantime, there are other stories of mine. There's 'College Life' on here, which is complete. Also, on fictionpress.com, under the name 'Echo', there are two stories I have started, one with one chapter I literally just started (TBD), and one with 7 chapters I believe (Elemental Sacrifice). Feel free to look at those. I hope to gain at least one loyal reader or so. Please, R&R, making whatever comments you like; I like criticism. It's fun to laugh at. Well, until next time then? ^_~ Ciao!
