I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while I've been busy but here is a
longer chapter for you. X
Chapter 9
Vanity
Olivia's Sunday consisted of Charms study, rolls of parchment for Defense Against the Dark Arts and more Charms study, her and her fellow Gryffindors were glad to welcome Monday morning for once. Olivia was the only Gryffindor fifth year at breakfast when she first came down. She was biting into her piece of toast when a screech owl came crashing down into the jug of pumpkin juice causing it to shatter. Olivia pulled out her wand and cleared up the mess, before paying the owl and picking up the magazine it had dropped on her plate.
She picked up Witch Weekly now a favourite of hers and began flicking through the pages. There was an article on ancient wands, a section on the latest Celestina Warbeck release and a segment on Harry Potter.
"Fifth year Harry Potter is a boy like no other writes Marelda Lipan." Olivia jumped and saw Harry reading over her shoulder quoting the article.
"You frightened me!" she said, playfully hitting him with the magazine, Harry winced.
"Ow! That hurt. I just thought I'd come down to breakfast and you know I have to keep up with my press cuttings." He winked at her and smiled.
"Oh great Malfoy's here." He said. She turned to look at the entrance of the Great Hall, Draco had come in with Crabbe and Goyle and Olivia could see Harry scowling at him.
Malfoy smirked at Harry then his eyes fell onto her and he walked over.
"Bugger off, Malfoy!" Harry said as he approached the Gryffindor table.
"Manners Potter, I'm not here to speak to you anyway, I'd like a word with Harrington." The tone in which he addressed her sounded brisk and business like. Olivia glanced at Harry apologetically and picked up her magazine and followed Draco.
She thought they were going for another classroom rendezvous but they passed the empty classrooms and went deeper down into the dungeons, stopping when they reached a lamp bracket.
"What's up?" she asked.
"I wanted to discuss the arrangements for the Christmas holidays. However much I'd like you to come stay with me, at the moment and with Father it's not possible. Yet I wouldn't exactly want you to stay here on your own, getting too close to Potter would I? So I'm leaving at the end of term but I'll be back just after Christmas for the last week or so."
***
Olivia went to see Draco off at the end of term, meeting briefly before for a proper goodbye. She had pulled him in close and kissed him. It wasn't any old kiss it felt wonderful, he had placed his arms around her waist as only he could do and held her whilst she ran her hands through his hair.
She had come out again to see him step on to the Hogwarts Express and waved at him without too many people noticing before departing with Hermione back up to the castle. Snow covered Hogwarts and it was unlike anything Olivia had ever seen before. The snow was deep and soft and the lake had frozen over. Hogwarts meals became heavier with the most spectacular hot puddings.
There weren't many people staying at Hogwarts. She had gone through it with Hermione before as Hermione had already planned on going skiing with her family. It would really just be her, Harry, Ron and the rest of the Weasleys whose parents had gone to visit their great aunt. There were a few others though, Sienna Scuro and Terrence Higgs, both fifth year Slytherins, Euan Abercrombie, a second year Gryffindor and a few Hufflepuff fourth years.
They spent the beginning of the holidays bundled up outside having snowball fights but then tended to retreat more into the common room when the cold winds really came.
Olivia woke up early on Christmas morning in her empty dormitory and ran down into the Gryffindor common room. Harry, Ron and his family were already sprawled in front of the fire place, discarded wrapping paper everywhere. She had received some presents from her father, a new ostrich feather quill and a yearly subscription to Witch Weekly, a box of chocolate frogs from Ron and a copy of Cosmetic Transfiguration from Hermione. Harry had given her a journal covered in thick Dragon hide with a built in Secrecy charm.
The Great Hall was spectacular filled with towering Christmas trees covered in every sort of charmed decoration. There was only one table piled high due to the lack of inhabitants and Olivia took her seat beside Harry and the Slytherin fifth year girl. She had seen Sienna in the corridors and with Draco but had never really spoken to her or Terrence. Sienna had longer darker hair then her which fell in great curls which complimented her dark green eyes. Terrence was obviously quite taken with her because he couldn't take his eyes off her and for a short while so was Ron.
When the last Christmas pudding had vanished the students were dismissed and Olivia wanted to write in her new diary and hurried back to her room. Waiting for her on her bed, were two eagle owls carrying a package. She rushed to untie the parcel and the birds flew away. In the paper deeply wrapped in silk there was a emerald brooch with a silver entwined serpent and a m. This brooch was accompanied by a note written in a familiar font.
Olivia,
I'm sorry you couldn't be here with me. Father doesn't know everything about you yet especially your house. He knows you're a pureblood and good in Potions but hasn't established that you're not in Slytherin. I hope you liked the brooch it's the Malfoy family crest, Father insisted I send it to you. Looking forward to seeing you next week.
Draco
*** The night before Draco came back Olivia was hanging out with Harry in the common room. All the others had gone to bed and she was sitting in a chair near the fire. He looked over at her covered in a blanket toes curled under it. They had been talking for a while when Olivia slid out of the chair and onto the floor pulling the blanket and Harry down with her. She sat looking into the flames before turning to face Harry.
"Harry" she said slowly. He looked at her and Olivia went on.
"I'm glad I have you as a friend, you're the only one I can talk to about my parents and Dumbledore." She leaned in closer towards him. She could see into his eyes and past through them, he ran a hand through his already ruffled hair. Olivia was so close now, Harry could see that she actually had freckles just a few, he moved in towards her.
"I'm glad too." They were so close now they noses were almost touching. Olivia was lost in his reflection and kissed him. He tried to speak but she silenced him and so he wrapped his arms around her, feeling her warm skin as they lay entwined in the blanket. It felt different to kissing Draco, yes he was a very good kisser but Harry was sensitive and gentle but so strong at the time. She pulled off his robe and her own before she heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
***
Chapter 9
Vanity
Olivia's Sunday consisted of Charms study, rolls of parchment for Defense Against the Dark Arts and more Charms study, her and her fellow Gryffindors were glad to welcome Monday morning for once. Olivia was the only Gryffindor fifth year at breakfast when she first came down. She was biting into her piece of toast when a screech owl came crashing down into the jug of pumpkin juice causing it to shatter. Olivia pulled out her wand and cleared up the mess, before paying the owl and picking up the magazine it had dropped on her plate.
She picked up Witch Weekly now a favourite of hers and began flicking through the pages. There was an article on ancient wands, a section on the latest Celestina Warbeck release and a segment on Harry Potter.
"Fifth year Harry Potter is a boy like no other writes Marelda Lipan." Olivia jumped and saw Harry reading over her shoulder quoting the article.
"You frightened me!" she said, playfully hitting him with the magazine, Harry winced.
"Ow! That hurt. I just thought I'd come down to breakfast and you know I have to keep up with my press cuttings." He winked at her and smiled.
"Oh great Malfoy's here." He said. She turned to look at the entrance of the Great Hall, Draco had come in with Crabbe and Goyle and Olivia could see Harry scowling at him.
Malfoy smirked at Harry then his eyes fell onto her and he walked over.
"Bugger off, Malfoy!" Harry said as he approached the Gryffindor table.
"Manners Potter, I'm not here to speak to you anyway, I'd like a word with Harrington." The tone in which he addressed her sounded brisk and business like. Olivia glanced at Harry apologetically and picked up her magazine and followed Draco.
She thought they were going for another classroom rendezvous but they passed the empty classrooms and went deeper down into the dungeons, stopping when they reached a lamp bracket.
"What's up?" she asked.
"I wanted to discuss the arrangements for the Christmas holidays. However much I'd like you to come stay with me, at the moment and with Father it's not possible. Yet I wouldn't exactly want you to stay here on your own, getting too close to Potter would I? So I'm leaving at the end of term but I'll be back just after Christmas for the last week or so."
***
Olivia went to see Draco off at the end of term, meeting briefly before for a proper goodbye. She had pulled him in close and kissed him. It wasn't any old kiss it felt wonderful, he had placed his arms around her waist as only he could do and held her whilst she ran her hands through his hair.
She had come out again to see him step on to the Hogwarts Express and waved at him without too many people noticing before departing with Hermione back up to the castle. Snow covered Hogwarts and it was unlike anything Olivia had ever seen before. The snow was deep and soft and the lake had frozen over. Hogwarts meals became heavier with the most spectacular hot puddings.
There weren't many people staying at Hogwarts. She had gone through it with Hermione before as Hermione had already planned on going skiing with her family. It would really just be her, Harry, Ron and the rest of the Weasleys whose parents had gone to visit their great aunt. There were a few others though, Sienna Scuro and Terrence Higgs, both fifth year Slytherins, Euan Abercrombie, a second year Gryffindor and a few Hufflepuff fourth years.
They spent the beginning of the holidays bundled up outside having snowball fights but then tended to retreat more into the common room when the cold winds really came.
Olivia woke up early on Christmas morning in her empty dormitory and ran down into the Gryffindor common room. Harry, Ron and his family were already sprawled in front of the fire place, discarded wrapping paper everywhere. She had received some presents from her father, a new ostrich feather quill and a yearly subscription to Witch Weekly, a box of chocolate frogs from Ron and a copy of Cosmetic Transfiguration from Hermione. Harry had given her a journal covered in thick Dragon hide with a built in Secrecy charm.
The Great Hall was spectacular filled with towering Christmas trees covered in every sort of charmed decoration. There was only one table piled high due to the lack of inhabitants and Olivia took her seat beside Harry and the Slytherin fifth year girl. She had seen Sienna in the corridors and with Draco but had never really spoken to her or Terrence. Sienna had longer darker hair then her which fell in great curls which complimented her dark green eyes. Terrence was obviously quite taken with her because he couldn't take his eyes off her and for a short while so was Ron.
When the last Christmas pudding had vanished the students were dismissed and Olivia wanted to write in her new diary and hurried back to her room. Waiting for her on her bed, were two eagle owls carrying a package. She rushed to untie the parcel and the birds flew away. In the paper deeply wrapped in silk there was a emerald brooch with a silver entwined serpent and a m. This brooch was accompanied by a note written in a familiar font.
Olivia,
I'm sorry you couldn't be here with me. Father doesn't know everything about you yet especially your house. He knows you're a pureblood and good in Potions but hasn't established that you're not in Slytherin. I hope you liked the brooch it's the Malfoy family crest, Father insisted I send it to you. Looking forward to seeing you next week.
Draco
*** The night before Draco came back Olivia was hanging out with Harry in the common room. All the others had gone to bed and she was sitting in a chair near the fire. He looked over at her covered in a blanket toes curled under it. They had been talking for a while when Olivia slid out of the chair and onto the floor pulling the blanket and Harry down with her. She sat looking into the flames before turning to face Harry.
"Harry" she said slowly. He looked at her and Olivia went on.
"I'm glad I have you as a friend, you're the only one I can talk to about my parents and Dumbledore." She leaned in closer towards him. She could see into his eyes and past through them, he ran a hand through his already ruffled hair. Olivia was so close now, Harry could see that she actually had freckles just a few, he moved in towards her.
"I'm glad too." They were so close now they noses were almost touching. Olivia was lost in his reflection and kissed him. He tried to speak but she silenced him and so he wrapped his arms around her, feeling her warm skin as they lay entwined in the blanket. It felt different to kissing Draco, yes he was a very good kisser but Harry was sensitive and gentle but so strong at the time. She pulled off his robe and her own before she heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
***