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I finally remembered to put another one of these author's notes at the bottom of the last chapter. I'm so proud of myself! Hehehe.

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Chapter 5: Welcome to Hogwarts (Part Two)

The others were already trying to manage their Jarveys, but with little luck, they all seemed to be having trouble with the part of the Jarvey that could talk.

'Well, we had better get to work" Jesabelle said, not looking at him, and trying her best to stay patient with him.

"What do you mean WE. Us Malfoys do not work, especially with Gryffindors." Malfoy said coldly.

"Well, then you can fail. Remember, Hagrid grades the way we coexist, and the way we work to-ge-ther." Jesabelle said, dragging the word together. "And I don't think your dear old daddy Lucius would like it, even though he's still in Azkaban."

"Don't you dare speak about my father in such a tone." Malfoy said through gritted teeth.

"Then let's get to work." Jesabelle said.

"I told you, us Malfoys don't-" Malfoy said.

"Work. Yes, yes I know, but if you want to fail then you can just stand around and do nothing." Jesabelle said, waving him off with her hand and crouching down to look at the Jarvey, but keeping a few inches away from its beak.

"Stay away vermin!" the Jarvey said, turning to Jesabelle, causing her to fall over on her butt, making Malfoy laugh.

"This is very entertaining." Malfoy said, smirking.

"Oh, shut up, you git." Jesabelle said, getting up, and dusting off her robes.

"Oh, ouch that hurt Potter." Malfoy said sarcastically, clutching his heart, as if he was going to die, and then laughing at the exasperated look on Jesabelle's face.

"Humph." Jesabelle said, getting a rat from one of the nearby boxes and holding it above the Jarvey.

The Jarvey immediately noticed the bribery and trying instead to peck at Jesabelle's robes.

"Hey!" Jesabelle said, backing away from the Jarvey, dropping the rat.

Malfoy quickly picked up the rat and stood by Jesabelle as she got up saying, "You shouldn't stand so close to it."

"Well, then, I'd like to see you work your 'magic' Malfoy." Jesabelle said, agitated.

Malfoy walked to the Jarvey, keeping a few feet away from it's beak, Jesabelle close behind him.

"Now listen you," Malfoy began holding up the rat, "you are going to have to behave in order to be fed."

"Prat! Give me the food you useless piece of-" the Jarvey said.

"Hey! Watch it! Shut you stupid piece of-" Malfoy began.

"Malfoy, watch your tongue." Jesabelle said, as the bell rang, signaling the end of classes.

Jesabelle sighed and walked down to Harry and the others as Malfoy threw the rat into one of the boxes, sticking his tongue out to the Jarvey.

The rest proceeded to potions.

"How was it?" Jesabelle asked the others.

"Our Jarvey isn't so bad, when you've mastered the binding spell." Harry said grinning.

"So, what about you?" Hermione asked Jesabelle.

"In one word? Hell." Jesabelle said.

"That bad huh?" Ginny asked.

"Yup, and to think I'm stuck with him for most of the year. ARGH!" Jesabelle screamed, still dusting off her robes. "I certainly have my work cut out for me."

The rest nodded in agreement and headed to potions.

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They all waited outside the dungeon door, waiting for Snape to call them in. Everyone was deep in conversation.

"What do you think Snape has in store for us this time?" Ron said, looking uncertainly at the dungeon door.

"I bet you it's something only Hermione and a few other people would be able to do." Ginny said, nudging her head to Hermione.

They laughed uneasily. Harry turned to Jesabelle, who was standing about a foot away by herself, her school bag on the floor. She was clutching her right arm, squeezing it as if it hurt, her expression tired.

"You okay Jesabelle?" Harry asked, as the others turned to her.

"Oh, nothing, my arm just hurts a bit that's all, nothing to worry about." Jesabelle said, reassuringly as Snape opened the door and barked at them to get inside.

Harry and the others sat down at a table as far away from Snape as possible, but close enough to know what's going, but not in the range of Snape's insults.

When the class began sitting down and taking out their books and chattering, Snape glared around saying, "This year, you will be taking your N.E.W.T.s, and potions is one of the vital parts of the things you will need to apply for the job when we finally get rid of you lot this year".

"Is he always like that?" Jesabelle asked, whispering to Harry, who was sitting to her right and Hermione to her left.

Harry nodded as Snape reverted his gaze to Jesabelle. When he saw her, a grin crawled across his face as he made his way closer. He stopped just a few inches away from the table.

"Well well well." Snape said, "If it isn't Potter's little cousin, the exchange student. Welcome to Hogwarts." Snape continued, locking eyes with Jesabelle.

"Thank you Professor Snape." She said with as much malice, meeting his gaze. "Long time no see."

Snape looked at her, then Harry saw Jesabelle's lips move quickly as if liping words to him. Snape's expression changed from malice to disgust and he returned to the front of the class, explaining the potion they were supposed to brew, and pointing at the chalkboard, where all of the instructions were written.

"You have an hour and ten minutes! Begin!" Snape said.

For the next hour, everyone was struggling to make the potion. The potion was supposed to be purple, but people kept putting too much alligator eyes, and they either turned out red, or even blue.

Jesabelle concentrated as she added the last ingredient, which was a drop of vampire's blood. She got a drop into the potion, when Gabriel Parker, who was sitting behind her, threw a bag full of powder at her back, causing her to drop the whole vial of blood into the potion, turning it into the color of blood red, causing it to bubble furiously, melting the cauldron.

Jesabelle looked around as the potion ran down the table. Snape ran over to the table and cleaned it up with his wand.

"What happened here Potter?" Snape said.

"Professor, I was adding the last ingredient into the potion, and then Gabriel threw this bag of burning powder at my back, causing me to drop the whole in the potion." Jesabelle said, getting and removing her robe, which had little holes in it.

"I didn't do anything Professor." Gabriel said in a voice that sounded so fake that Jesabelle wanted to strangle her. "Obviously, she did it on purpose to frame me, for what reason I do not know." She continued trying her best to look innocent.

"Liar!" Jesabelle screamed at Gabriel.

"Now, there will be none of that." Snape said, smirking. "Let's see, fifty points from Gryffindor for accusation of another student, and for ruining your potion, you will receive no marks for it."

"But I was nearly done Professor! I was just about to add the last ingredient! That's - That's not fair!" Jesabelle screamed at Snape.

"And detention for defying a teacher. Hold your tongue Potter, or I will double it." Snape said, sweeping away as the bell rang, dismissing them. "Potter, come over here to my desk and we will discuss your detention."

Jesabelle packed her things, throwing her robe inside with disgust.

"We'll wait for you outside." Harry whispered to her.

She nodded gratefully, picked up her bag and walked to Snape's desk.

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The others waited for her outside, wondering what kind of madness, Snape had planned for her. A few minutes, Jesabelle came out with a disgusted look on her face.

"So what do you have to do?" Harry asked.

"I don't know yet, Snape just told me to go to the back of the castle tonight at six, and then he will tell me what I have to do." Jesabelle said, a tired expression crawling across her face again.

"Well, you want us to come with you?" Harry asked, concerned.

"No, its okay Harry, thanks." Jesabelle said.

They dropped off their bags at the Gryffindor Tower, and Jesabelle tried to finish most of her homework before heading down to the Great Hall for dinner at 5:30. Before she headed down to dinner, she had finished everything except for the Care of Magical Creatures assignment, which required you to write about the Jarveys and how much you had learned about them in the day's lesson.

At six o'clock, she walked to the back of the castle to find an outdoor greenhouse, which had no roof. It looked well-kept, except that there were gnomes everywhere.

"Right on time Potter." Snape said from behind her, making her jump. "Now, for your detention, you will have to de-gnome the southern part of this greenhouse, which is where we are standing." Snape said. "Malfoy will be monitoring your detention." Snape continued, as Malfoy came out from a door and sat on a chair nearby. "If I hear about any further discretions from Malfoy, you will repeat your detention." And with that, he left through the door Malfoy came in from and closed it behind him, leaving her with Malfoy.

"Might as well get this over with. To think, my second day at Hogwarts, and I already have detention. I'm gonna get Gabriel for this, somehow." Jesabelle thought.

She sighed and picked up one of the nearby gnomes and twirled it around her head, after about five turns, she let it go, watching it fly countless feet away.

It was slow work. The gnomes either tried to run away, or bit her while she was twirling them around her head. Of course, she didn't scream in pain or anything, she didn't want to show Malfoy any sign of weakness.

Finally, at midnight, she threw the last gnome out of the garden, and dizzily made her way to the door leading back to the castle.

She felt very tired, her hands were full of blood from the many gnome bites on it, and she felt weak. She took out a handkerchief from one of her pockets and wrapped it around her right hand.

After that, she took out a vial, about four inches tall and one inch wide with clear liquid inside and drank the whole thing. She put the vial back in her pocket and slowly made her way to the door leading back to castle, stumbling a bit from dizziness and sleepiness.

"Done?" Malfoy asked in a bored tone, closing a book he was reading.

"Yes, I am Malfoy." Jesabelle said, she was too tired to throw in any sarcastic comment.

"Finally, I was wondering if you were ever going to finish." Malfoy said.

"Hey, I didn't ask you to come and oversee my detention." Jesabelle said, leaning against a wall, nursing your hands.

Malfoy walked over and saw the blood on her hands saying, "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine." Jesabelle said.

"Here, sit down, and I'll help you clean that." Malfoy said.

Jesabelle didn't know why she was doing it, but she let Malfoy lead her to another chair that was next to his. He made her sit down on it and he sat down on the other chair.

He reached into his robes and pulled out a blue vial and some bandages. "Madame Pomfrey gave me these before i headed over here; she thought that you might need it in the end."

Malfoy slowly removed the handkerchief from her hands and opened the vial, poring a drop of green liquid into the middle of her hand, and spreading it to the other bites, taking care to be very gentle. It burned a bit.

"Ow." Jesabelle said, grimacing a bit.

"Ow? That's all you have to say Jesabelle?" Malfoy asked, bandaging up her right hand, still being gentle.

Jesabelle was taken aback by him calling her by her first but recovered by saying, "What am I supposed to say, Draco?"

"Most girls would complain that it burns and all that. Most girls can't hack it when they have to have stuff like this put on bites or wounds." Malfoy said.

"Well, I have had worse injuries and felt more that innocent little burn. Therefore, I'm not like most girls Draco." Jesabelle said, nicely.

"Just make sure that you don't remove the bandages until two days from now." Malfoy said politely.

"All right." Jesabelle said.

They continued in silence. When Draco had bandaged up her left hand, he held her hands in his and looked at them, stroking it the tops of them with his thumbs. They were both surprised at this and suddenly pulled their hands away when Snape came out to check on them.

"Done. I see, very good, you may leave." Snape said, leaving.

Jesabelle whispered thanks to Malfoy and hurried upstairs to the Gryffindor common room, which was deserted. She went upstairs to her dormitory, took a bunch of her books down to the common room and finished her homework, the thought of Malfoy stroking her hands the way he did still lingering on her mind.

Hey wow! They feel the connection. Anyways, yeah I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Stay tuned for Chapter Six! ^_^