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Daisy got up early the next day. She was excited and nervous about her lessons. Her mother and father had told her story's of Hogwarts for as long as she could remember, and she just didn't hope she'd set her expectations too high.
"Another early bird" Naomi said, who was already fully dressed in her uniform. Daisy was sharing a dorm with 3 other girls- Katy Walton, Nerissa Fenwick and Juliet Stone, all of whom were fast asleep.
"Yeah, suppose I am. I'm a bit nervous, actually. How about you?" Said Daisy as she made up her bed.
"Hmmm, dunno, I feel excited...I'm looking forward to charms most, how about you?"
"Defence against, definitely. I'm going in the shower," Daisy said, grabbing her clothes.
"Oooh, Getting all nice for Lewy?" Naomi cooed in a mock baby voice
"Lewy?" Daisy laughed, "No way. I don't like him THAT way"
"Why not?" Naomi asked
"Cos, He's just a friend" She lied, as she stepped into the bathroom.
She had a quick shower and attempted to use a drying charm on her hair. She got frustrated when only little wisps of air came out the end of her wand, so she resorted to the traditional toweling method, cursing Hogwarts for its lack of muggle friendly atmosphere. She hated her hair, but her dad had always loved it. He said that she was the double of his mother, and Daisy agreed after seeing pictures. She remembered her uncle Hagrid saying 'Well tha's a Lilly Potter face if I eva saw one!' That was before he had died of course.
"About time" Lewis said as she arrived at the great hall
"What do you mean?" Daisy replied, grabbing a stack of toast, carefully not looking at him "This castle is huge"
"I followed a 5th year," He said apologetically
"So, you sharing a dorm with Brett?"
Lewis rolled his eyes "Don't remind me. That git kept me up half the night. He's the bed next to me as well" He scowled.
"Speak of the devil" Daisy muttered as Brett strode into the hall.
"Hiya!" He said eagerly, handing her a timetable "Isn't it great here? The beds are soo comfortable"
"Whatever" Daisy said. She took the timetable that Brett had given her "Defence against the dark arts first"
"Cool" Lewis said, scanning his column "Ahhh, potions after that. My dad told me Snapes a right moody old bastard"
"Favours the Slytherins," A sandy haired Irish boy said.
"Hi Shay!" Brett said "Never noticed you there!"
"Shay Finnegan" Lewis said to Daisy.
"Your Daisy Potter, right?" Shay asked
"Yeah" Daisy replied, smiling at him. "Hey, Lew, you coming to Defence?" She gave him a look that clearly said 'We can lose Brett if you hurry up'
"Mayas well" He said, hoisting his bag onto his shoulder. They set off at a quick pace, hoping to lose Brett.
"God that Brett kid" Lewis said, "He's so annoying"
"How do you think I feel?" Daisy said, rummaging in her robe pocket "I've had that since I can remember. Our parents are friends, and they always came round. I always had to play with him. Aha! Got it" She pulled out an old worn piece of parchment.
"What's that?" Lewis asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I solemnly swear I am up too no good," She said, tapping the parchment with her ebony wand.
At soon as the wand hit the parchment, little ink lines like spider's webs crawled across the page. Lewis gazed at the map in awe as little names appeared.
"Marauders map" She said, scanning it "Was my dads. I'm looking for the defence classroom. Hey look, it's just the floor above us"
"So you can see people on here. This could come in useful," He said with a crafty look.
"Yeah...Oh shit! Brett's coming! Mischief managed!" She sad, stuffing the map into her robes and running up a flight of stairs.
They arrived at there defence against arts classroom just in time. Their teacher, Professor Boot, gave them quite a dirty look as they took their seats at the back. Brett came in about 2 minutes later and sat down next to them, much to there dismay.
There first defence against the dark arts was quite a boring class. They copied down notes from the board, and Boot explained all they would be learning that year. He was a strict teacher who liked his class to sit in silence. Finally they were allowed to leave.
"So we'll get to see what Snape is really like," Lewis said while they queued outside his dungeon 5 minutes later "He'll probably hate me...He hated my dad after all"
"Same here" Daisy said, "He despised my dad"
"And who wouldn't?"
Daisy turned round to see none other than Ariana Malfoy smirking at her, surrounded by a group of catty Slytherin girls.
"Excuse me?" Daisy said coldly, glaring at her.
"Don't take that tone with me" She said, throwing her hair back. Many of the boys in the line grinned stupidly and blushed, including Lewis.
"I'll take whatever tone I like with you" Daisy said, sniggering. The arrogance of the girl was comical.
"I don't think you will. Speak to me in a respectful manner, or you'll be in trouble" She took a step forward, so that they were face to face.
"Oh, now im scared. Off whom will I be in trouble with?"
"You'll be in trouble with me, Miss Potter, if you don't shut up and get in line" Snape had just stepped out of his dungeon. Daisy gave Snape a fearful look and stood in front of Lewis. Ariana smirked at her and went off to join the Slytherin line.
"I don't want any chatter in my lessons" Snape said a few moments later when they had all taken there seats. "I don't want you to speak out of turn. All I ask is you to concentrate fully on your work. You could become great potion makers...if you aren't as big a bunch of dunces I usually have, that is" A few people laughed nervously but stopped immediately after a warning look off Snape.
"Today you will make a simple sleeping draught...this does not take much work to any half-intelligent person, but without a doubt someone in this class will find it hard" He eyed Brett, who gulped uneasily.
Snape prowled along the desks as they worked. Daisy would have normally found this sort of thing easy, as she had made a few potions before Hogwarts, but Snape made her very nervous.
"Potter" He said, looking enquiringly down at her potion "Why is your sleeping draught purple?"
"I don't know sir," She said, blushing. Ariana was laughing at her from the other side of the Dungeon.
"You don't know" He said mockingly "The potion is meant to be blue. You have obviously not added the spine of lionfish...like father, like daughter, hmmm? He was also, and remains to this day, no doubt, a lamentable potion maker"
Daisy stared down at her purple potion. She was quivering with rage. She knew it wasn't wise, she knew it was the wrong move to pick a fight with Snape, but sometimes her temper just got the better of her...
"You shut up," She said, still staring at her potion.
"10 points from Gryffindor" He said curtly "I may remind you, missy, that arguing will get you know where within Hogwarts. How extraordinarily like your father you are"
"Ha, Ha" Ariana said an hour later, as the class made there way to the Great Hall for lunch "Carrot tops got her self all wound up with big bad old Snapey!"
"Shut the hell up" Daisy said
"What did I tell you about tone, lil carrot top?" She sneered, barring Daisy's way to the great hall.
"You tried to tell me to be respectful towards you" Daisy said, "Like I would"
Ariana eyes narrowed "I'll have you know, my father is a very important man with regards to this school"
"Oh, lardy daa and boo hoo hoo, I'll have you know, my father is much more important then your scummy death eater dad. But then, it's not about our fathers, is it?"
"Don't you dare insult my father, Potter"
"I'll insult whoever I want," Daisy said confidently
"I have no time for this" Ariana said haughtily "You've made a big mistake, Potter. No one picks fights with me!"
"Well, too bad for you, I just did!" Daisy said angrily to Ariana's retreating back. She responded with a two-fingered salute.
"C'mon, lets go" Lewis said, making his way too the great hall.
"Thanks very much for backing me up" She said angrily to Lewis as they sat down to chicken casserole.
"It was your fight," He said.
"Maybe so. But you just stood there like a gawping idiot. You have the hots for her"
"I do not!" He said, as Shay Finnegan sat down across from them.
"That Ariana Malfoy" He said "Is the most gorgeous girl ever!"
Daisy glared at him. Lewis grinned stupidly and played with his food.
"Don't you grin like that!" Shay said playfully
"What?" Lewis said innocently
"What, he says" Shay grinned "I think you should tell Daisy the truth"
"What truth?" Daisy said sharply.
"The fact that Lewis wants to-"
"Shut up" Lewis said blushingly.
"I get the gist of it" Daisy said coldly, standing up "I'll leave you two to have some nice pervy chats about that slut over dinner. Your probably in with a chance anyways"
"What's got her knickers in a twist?" Shay said enquiringly to Lewis as she stormed out the hall.
"Ariana"
"She definatly likes you" Shay mused
"Daisy? Nah. Ariana pissing her off"
"Whatever. She definatly does. You can see it in her eyes. Nice yes she's got as well"
"Shut up!" Lewis said, throwing a bread roll at him.
Meanwhile, Daisy was making her way up to the owelry with a letter she'd written to her parents. She was still seething with rage. First some cocky bitch starts on her for no reason, and then her supposed best friend just drools over the girl insulting her. It wasn't fair.
"Come here" She said, holding out her arm for one of the school owls. She wasn't going to use Hedwig, no way. She attached the letter to the owl's leg and watched it fly off.
She'd heard bad things about the Malfoy family. Her dad and Ariana's dad had hated each other in there years at Hogwarts. He'd probably told her to get Daisy.
"Sad" She said out loud.
Malfoy had also been a death eater, just like his father. He'd come back to the good side after Voldemorts fall, claiming he'd been cursed. Just like his father.
Sighing, she made her way to her next class. The corridors were full of people making their way to their afternoon lessons. She had History of magic, and if she didn't hurry up she'd be late.
The teacher didn't even look up as she hurried into the classroom. He seemed absorbed in his long speech about the giant vanquishing. She sat down grudgingly next to Lewis, Shay and Brett.
"You alright now?" Lewis said to her. She replied with a huffy stare. "Fine" he said, turning away from her.
Daisy and Lewis spent the rest of the afternoon lessons not talking to each other. At the end of their last lesson, transfiguration, Daisy went to dinner with Naomi.
"So whats happened with you and Lewis?" She asked, watching him enter the hall with Shay.
"Ariana Malfoy. He was totally gawping at her when we were arguing" Daisy said grudgingly.
"Well, she is quite pretty, most of the guys fancy her" Naomi said fairly, glancing over at Ariana.
"I don't care! I'm meant to be his friend" She replied huffily, staring down at her mashed potato.
"Yeah, I suppose I see what you mean" Naomi said, leaning over to have a look down the table where Lewis and Shay were "But Shay's kinda hot. Maybe you could make him jealous?"
"I told you, Naomi, I have no interest in Lewis that way. Nor do I like Shay either"
"Fine, fine" Naomi said, with a sly grin "But if you don't get in, any bets Ariana will beat you to it"
Daisy replied with a grunt and set off out of the Great hall on her own. She felt like all her friends were turning on her, but maybe that was just her being self-conscious. She set off to the library, hoping to finish a transfiguration essay quickly.
Next time, She thought to herself, Ariana Malfoy isn't going to know whats hit her.
Daisy got up early the next day. She was excited and nervous about her lessons. Her mother and father had told her story's of Hogwarts for as long as she could remember, and she just didn't hope she'd set her expectations too high.
"Another early bird" Naomi said, who was already fully dressed in her uniform. Daisy was sharing a dorm with 3 other girls- Katy Walton, Nerissa Fenwick and Juliet Stone, all of whom were fast asleep.
"Yeah, suppose I am. I'm a bit nervous, actually. How about you?" Said Daisy as she made up her bed.
"Hmmm, dunno, I feel excited...I'm looking forward to charms most, how about you?"
"Defence against, definitely. I'm going in the shower," Daisy said, grabbing her clothes.
"Oooh, Getting all nice for Lewy?" Naomi cooed in a mock baby voice
"Lewy?" Daisy laughed, "No way. I don't like him THAT way"
"Why not?" Naomi asked
"Cos, He's just a friend" She lied, as she stepped into the bathroom.
She had a quick shower and attempted to use a drying charm on her hair. She got frustrated when only little wisps of air came out the end of her wand, so she resorted to the traditional toweling method, cursing Hogwarts for its lack of muggle friendly atmosphere. She hated her hair, but her dad had always loved it. He said that she was the double of his mother, and Daisy agreed after seeing pictures. She remembered her uncle Hagrid saying 'Well tha's a Lilly Potter face if I eva saw one!' That was before he had died of course.
"About time" Lewis said as she arrived at the great hall
"What do you mean?" Daisy replied, grabbing a stack of toast, carefully not looking at him "This castle is huge"
"I followed a 5th year," He said apologetically
"So, you sharing a dorm with Brett?"
Lewis rolled his eyes "Don't remind me. That git kept me up half the night. He's the bed next to me as well" He scowled.
"Speak of the devil" Daisy muttered as Brett strode into the hall.
"Hiya!" He said eagerly, handing her a timetable "Isn't it great here? The beds are soo comfortable"
"Whatever" Daisy said. She took the timetable that Brett had given her "Defence against the dark arts first"
"Cool" Lewis said, scanning his column "Ahhh, potions after that. My dad told me Snapes a right moody old bastard"
"Favours the Slytherins," A sandy haired Irish boy said.
"Hi Shay!" Brett said "Never noticed you there!"
"Shay Finnegan" Lewis said to Daisy.
"Your Daisy Potter, right?" Shay asked
"Yeah" Daisy replied, smiling at him. "Hey, Lew, you coming to Defence?" She gave him a look that clearly said 'We can lose Brett if you hurry up'
"Mayas well" He said, hoisting his bag onto his shoulder. They set off at a quick pace, hoping to lose Brett.
"God that Brett kid" Lewis said, "He's so annoying"
"How do you think I feel?" Daisy said, rummaging in her robe pocket "I've had that since I can remember. Our parents are friends, and they always came round. I always had to play with him. Aha! Got it" She pulled out an old worn piece of parchment.
"What's that?" Lewis asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I solemnly swear I am up too no good," She said, tapping the parchment with her ebony wand.
At soon as the wand hit the parchment, little ink lines like spider's webs crawled across the page. Lewis gazed at the map in awe as little names appeared.
"Marauders map" She said, scanning it "Was my dads. I'm looking for the defence classroom. Hey look, it's just the floor above us"
"So you can see people on here. This could come in useful," He said with a crafty look.
"Yeah...Oh shit! Brett's coming! Mischief managed!" She sad, stuffing the map into her robes and running up a flight of stairs.
They arrived at there defence against arts classroom just in time. Their teacher, Professor Boot, gave them quite a dirty look as they took their seats at the back. Brett came in about 2 minutes later and sat down next to them, much to there dismay.
There first defence against the dark arts was quite a boring class. They copied down notes from the board, and Boot explained all they would be learning that year. He was a strict teacher who liked his class to sit in silence. Finally they were allowed to leave.
"So we'll get to see what Snape is really like," Lewis said while they queued outside his dungeon 5 minutes later "He'll probably hate me...He hated my dad after all"
"Same here" Daisy said, "He despised my dad"
"And who wouldn't?"
Daisy turned round to see none other than Ariana Malfoy smirking at her, surrounded by a group of catty Slytherin girls.
"Excuse me?" Daisy said coldly, glaring at her.
"Don't take that tone with me" She said, throwing her hair back. Many of the boys in the line grinned stupidly and blushed, including Lewis.
"I'll take whatever tone I like with you" Daisy said, sniggering. The arrogance of the girl was comical.
"I don't think you will. Speak to me in a respectful manner, or you'll be in trouble" She took a step forward, so that they were face to face.
"Oh, now im scared. Off whom will I be in trouble with?"
"You'll be in trouble with me, Miss Potter, if you don't shut up and get in line" Snape had just stepped out of his dungeon. Daisy gave Snape a fearful look and stood in front of Lewis. Ariana smirked at her and went off to join the Slytherin line.
"I don't want any chatter in my lessons" Snape said a few moments later when they had all taken there seats. "I don't want you to speak out of turn. All I ask is you to concentrate fully on your work. You could become great potion makers...if you aren't as big a bunch of dunces I usually have, that is" A few people laughed nervously but stopped immediately after a warning look off Snape.
"Today you will make a simple sleeping draught...this does not take much work to any half-intelligent person, but without a doubt someone in this class will find it hard" He eyed Brett, who gulped uneasily.
Snape prowled along the desks as they worked. Daisy would have normally found this sort of thing easy, as she had made a few potions before Hogwarts, but Snape made her very nervous.
"Potter" He said, looking enquiringly down at her potion "Why is your sleeping draught purple?"
"I don't know sir," She said, blushing. Ariana was laughing at her from the other side of the Dungeon.
"You don't know" He said mockingly "The potion is meant to be blue. You have obviously not added the spine of lionfish...like father, like daughter, hmmm? He was also, and remains to this day, no doubt, a lamentable potion maker"
Daisy stared down at her purple potion. She was quivering with rage. She knew it wasn't wise, she knew it was the wrong move to pick a fight with Snape, but sometimes her temper just got the better of her...
"You shut up," She said, still staring at her potion.
"10 points from Gryffindor" He said curtly "I may remind you, missy, that arguing will get you know where within Hogwarts. How extraordinarily like your father you are"
"Ha, Ha" Ariana said an hour later, as the class made there way to the Great Hall for lunch "Carrot tops got her self all wound up with big bad old Snapey!"
"Shut the hell up" Daisy said
"What did I tell you about tone, lil carrot top?" She sneered, barring Daisy's way to the great hall.
"You tried to tell me to be respectful towards you" Daisy said, "Like I would"
Ariana eyes narrowed "I'll have you know, my father is a very important man with regards to this school"
"Oh, lardy daa and boo hoo hoo, I'll have you know, my father is much more important then your scummy death eater dad. But then, it's not about our fathers, is it?"
"Don't you dare insult my father, Potter"
"I'll insult whoever I want," Daisy said confidently
"I have no time for this" Ariana said haughtily "You've made a big mistake, Potter. No one picks fights with me!"
"Well, too bad for you, I just did!" Daisy said angrily to Ariana's retreating back. She responded with a two-fingered salute.
"C'mon, lets go" Lewis said, making his way too the great hall.
"Thanks very much for backing me up" She said angrily to Lewis as they sat down to chicken casserole.
"It was your fight," He said.
"Maybe so. But you just stood there like a gawping idiot. You have the hots for her"
"I do not!" He said, as Shay Finnegan sat down across from them.
"That Ariana Malfoy" He said "Is the most gorgeous girl ever!"
Daisy glared at him. Lewis grinned stupidly and played with his food.
"Don't you grin like that!" Shay said playfully
"What?" Lewis said innocently
"What, he says" Shay grinned "I think you should tell Daisy the truth"
"What truth?" Daisy said sharply.
"The fact that Lewis wants to-"
"Shut up" Lewis said blushingly.
"I get the gist of it" Daisy said coldly, standing up "I'll leave you two to have some nice pervy chats about that slut over dinner. Your probably in with a chance anyways"
"What's got her knickers in a twist?" Shay said enquiringly to Lewis as she stormed out the hall.
"Ariana"
"She definatly likes you" Shay mused
"Daisy? Nah. Ariana pissing her off"
"Whatever. She definatly does. You can see it in her eyes. Nice yes she's got as well"
"Shut up!" Lewis said, throwing a bread roll at him.
Meanwhile, Daisy was making her way up to the owelry with a letter she'd written to her parents. She was still seething with rage. First some cocky bitch starts on her for no reason, and then her supposed best friend just drools over the girl insulting her. It wasn't fair.
"Come here" She said, holding out her arm for one of the school owls. She wasn't going to use Hedwig, no way. She attached the letter to the owl's leg and watched it fly off.
She'd heard bad things about the Malfoy family. Her dad and Ariana's dad had hated each other in there years at Hogwarts. He'd probably told her to get Daisy.
"Sad" She said out loud.
Malfoy had also been a death eater, just like his father. He'd come back to the good side after Voldemorts fall, claiming he'd been cursed. Just like his father.
Sighing, she made her way to her next class. The corridors were full of people making their way to their afternoon lessons. She had History of magic, and if she didn't hurry up she'd be late.
The teacher didn't even look up as she hurried into the classroom. He seemed absorbed in his long speech about the giant vanquishing. She sat down grudgingly next to Lewis, Shay and Brett.
"You alright now?" Lewis said to her. She replied with a huffy stare. "Fine" he said, turning away from her.
Daisy and Lewis spent the rest of the afternoon lessons not talking to each other. At the end of their last lesson, transfiguration, Daisy went to dinner with Naomi.
"So whats happened with you and Lewis?" She asked, watching him enter the hall with Shay.
"Ariana Malfoy. He was totally gawping at her when we were arguing" Daisy said grudgingly.
"Well, she is quite pretty, most of the guys fancy her" Naomi said fairly, glancing over at Ariana.
"I don't care! I'm meant to be his friend" She replied huffily, staring down at her mashed potato.
"Yeah, I suppose I see what you mean" Naomi said, leaning over to have a look down the table where Lewis and Shay were "But Shay's kinda hot. Maybe you could make him jealous?"
"I told you, Naomi, I have no interest in Lewis that way. Nor do I like Shay either"
"Fine, fine" Naomi said, with a sly grin "But if you don't get in, any bets Ariana will beat you to it"
Daisy replied with a grunt and set off out of the Great hall on her own. She felt like all her friends were turning on her, but maybe that was just her being self-conscious. She set off to the library, hoping to finish a transfiguration essay quickly.
Next time, She thought to herself, Ariana Malfoy isn't going to know whats hit her.