Harry Potter and the Unknown
Chapter 2: Chosing Friends
"Come on Andrea, I'll show you where our Common Room is." Draco replied as
he stood up from the table. Andrea moved her glance away from Harry as she
also stood up beside him. "Oh alright.." They started walking, soon exiting
the Great Hall. For a while it was silent. Andrea was looking around at the
other students talking and laughing heading up towards their own Common
Rooms. "So Slytherin has an opening for Quidditch..tryouts are coming up
soon." Draco said as they went up a flight of stairs. Turning his head to
look at her. "You play Quidditch right? I mean..you Americans do play that
sport?" Andrea shook her head annoyed like and turned her head towards him.
"Of course we play Quidditch.." Andrea snapped at him. Draco's eyes were a
little wide being taken back, first time anyone has ever really snapped at
him like that. "American's arent stupid you know.." Rolling her eyes as
they headed up a staircase leading down yet another hallway. "Right. Well
what possion do you play?" He said, before she answered him he stopped
infront of a wall. Andrea looked at him confused as he muttered the
password. "Sneak" Walking in he looked around, then letting Andrea get a
good look. "Cool" She murmmed. "Oh..just FYI Malfoy..I play Chaser..never
played with my school of course, but my dad was Keeper and hes made me
practice since I was five..on becoming a Chaser..seemed I would see more
action that way.." Trailing off as she continued to look around. "Well
good.." Said Draco. "Turns our we have an opening for a Chaser..i'll let
you know when they are..there..you dormitory is up there." He said pointing
up the staircase to the left. "Pansy should be up there already..she'll
show you around tomorrow.." He said as he trailed off to bed. "Right
then..bye.." Andrea said as she headed up the stairs.
"Draco sent you did he?" The girl called Pansy said in a rather high
pitched voice. "Letting me show you around..probably because im a Prefect
also." She said smiling. "Welcome to Slytherin..my name is Pansy
Parkinson.." "Er..Andrea Carman.." She said forcing another smile. Didnt
seem to bad did they? Maybe Hermione and the others were just saying that
because they were in Gryffindor.."You sleep there..i'll see you in the
morning and we'll head off to breakfast.." "Right..night Pansy.." Andrea
sat there lying in bed looking at the ceiling. What on earth am I here for?
Would be so nice to be back home wouldnt it?Andrea thought to herself. But
her thoughts were soon interupted by her eye lids closing slowly letting
her fall into deep sleep.
"Morning Andrea." Pansy said dully as she got dressed. "Mornin.." Andrea
muttered back to her. Andrea looked around and on the end of her bed was a
dark grey skirt, a plain white shirt, a dark green and white striped tie
and a dark grey over sweatshirt. Rubbing her eyes a little as she put her
new uniform on. Moving over at a mirrior she brushed through her hair, than
ran her fingers through it to make it look layered. Looking over at Pansy
she smiled and asked her. "So whats going on now?" "Oh. We have to go down
to the Great Hall for some breakfast. There someone will give us our
sheduals." Pansy replied as they both started out of the Dorm room. Making
their way out of the Common Room, down a few flights of stairs then finally
entering the Great Hall. "Here Andrea, our table is over here." Andrea, who
wasnt really paying attention looked over to the Gryffindor table. Her eyes
catch Harry's and he gives her a small smile. Feeling a bit stupid, Andrea
gave him a smile back. Then looked towards Pansy and sat down next to her,
which Draco was on the other side of her. "Well Andrea, the Slytherin
colors look alright on you." Draco said proudly. "Oh thanks.." She said
softly as a few older students dropped a small paper infront of her. "Class
sheduals.." Pansy told her as she picked up hers. "Oh Draco! We have double
Potions today with the Gryffindorks." Draco let out a small snort. "Good we
can see what potion that damn Longbutton will mess up today, without that
filthy mudblood Granger helping him." Andrea dropped her spoon for a second
and looked up at Draco. "What did you say?" Draco looked curiously at her.
"Im talking about Hermione Granger..that stupid mudblood girl over by
Potter and Weasle." "Oh.." Andrea said as she moved her glance over towards
the Gryffindor table. Spotting Harry she glanced over at the two friends
sitting by them. Hermione met Andrea's eyes and threw her a soft smile.
Andrea smiles back then looks at Draco and says "She er..didnt seem to bad
when I met her.." Draco looked taken back at her and shruged but said
nothing.
Harry,Hermione, and Ron
"You cant be serious trying to make friends with her are you?" Ron spat out
looking over in Hermione's direction. "Well why not?" Hermione said
throwing him a dirty look. "Why not? Why not?!" He asked as he was trying
to come up with a good answer. "Hermione..shes in Slyhterin. She made
friends with Draco the first day! Hes probably filling her head with all
kinds of stuff against us." "Oh Ron shut up. Shes nice im sure she can see
right through that prat." Harry smiled as he looked over in Andrea's
direction also. It looked like Andrea was having a good time with them. But
every once in a while he thought he could see a bored look on her face. As
she got up to leave the Great Hall, Hermione stood up also seeing that she
was leaving alone. "Come on. Noone else is with her so we can see cant how
bad she is okay Ron?" Ron just rolled his eyes as both he and Harry stood
up and walked out behind her.
"Hey..Andrea!" Ron called out as he ran up to her. Andrea turned around and
smiled at him. "Oh Ron hello" She said happily as they were soon joined by
Hermione and Harry. "Hello Hermione. Hello Harry." Both of them smile back
to her and muttered their hellos. Hermione could see Andrea was struggling
on how to make conversation. Granted it was a bit akward for all of them
now that she was a Slytherin. "Oh we just wanted to see how you are getting
along." Hermione said sweetly. But Ron opened his big mouth. "Is Draco a
really a big prat when hes alone?" "Ron!" Hermione said but Andrea just
laughed as she looked at him. "Well..actually at times he can be quite
nice..." She said softly as she looked at Ron. A face of disbelief spread
on his face. "Your kidding right..nice? Hes the biggest jerk in the world."
Hermione shook her head and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Ron shut your
mouth..hey Andrea..we were going to take a walk outside for a while to
spend the time, do you want to come with us." Andrea smiled as she saw
Draco coming out of the Great Hall, their eyes met and he narrowed them as
he made a motion for her to come over to him. "Actually..I would love to
but..I think I need to get to know the castle better and Professor
Dumbledore told Draco to show me around since im in Slytherin." She offered
them a small smile as she left them.
Back to Andrea
"Having fun Carman?" Draco said as he looked at her. "Sort of..what do you
want?" Draco smirked a bit as he looked at her for a while. From the look
of his face he seemed to be forming a plan. Andrea wasnt sure if she liked
him very much. "Well I was thinking about when you said you can play as a
Chaser..well what if I told you I could get you into the Slytherin
Quidditch Team?" Andrea's eyes were a little wide as she looked at him. "Oh
really? Amazing!" Draco smiled as he continued. "I'd thought that would
make you happy..although there is one thing..I need to warn you about.."
Andrea looked at him confused. "What do you mean?" "I mean that if you hang
out with filth like Potter,Weasley, and Granger you wont make the
team..pluss..you would have a horrible time being in Slytherin." Andrea
backed away from him narrowing her eyes. "You mean I can be friends with
them? Your insane..they were the first to make friends with me..I like
them." Draco also narrowed his eyes at her. "If you want to fit in
Hogwarts, Carman you will play by the rules got it?" Andrea sighed as she
nodded. "Good...catch you later then." Draco said grinning ear to ear as he
shoved past her. Great..Andrea thought. Now what?
