Ch. 3 Worrisome Respect
Draco Malfoy walked into the Slytherin Common Room, being trailed by two beefy fourth years, otherwise known as Crabbe and Goyle. He saw a sixth year he had hardly even noticed before. He looked at her face, her hair, and thought, Cimorene Strega-Borgia. But Cimorene wasn't one to study. This girl was quite different from her. But they looked a lot the same. He decided that he'd ask around later on, and headed up to the Boy's Dormitories, Crabbe and Goyle following close behind.
Once Draco closed the door to the boy's dormitories he started devising a plan against Neville Longbottom, a pudgy Gryffindor of who was quite easy to make fun of, as well torment. Whenever Malfoy and his sidekicks, Crabbe and Goyle, came near, he ran off, as if his knickers were about to catch fire.
Draco Malfoy was the seeker of the Slytherin Quidditch team and prided himself on that. His father had been a seeker, and Draco desperately wanted to please him. Quidditch was one of the things Draco was actually excellent at, and even though he sometimes doubted his father's love, he knew that he was somewhat proud of his success on the pitch.
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Clarissa Cirqueau was someone that everyone loved to hate, of course she was well liked, and she had an abundance of friends, but she knew that even her closest friend might be jealous. Clarissa wasn't that stupid.
She had gone out with just about everyone, Brody Conoway-Nevuz, Harry Potter, Xander Dolus, Alex Riese, Cedric Diggory...She was used to just about every girl with any drop of sense wanting her to leave Hogwarts for good so they could have lesser standards. After someone dated Clarissa, they expected everyone to not have to try to look beautiful.
An arm of the famous Hogwarts sea squid appeared above the water suddenly...the Hogwarts students were used to this, they probably wouldn't be surprised if Merlin himself came down and asked for a cup of tea.
Clarissa smiled to herself, she had always loved Hogwarts, it was her favorite place on earth. Nothing could compare to Hogwarts. Last year during her Holiday break she had attempted Beauxbatons, but she didn't like the more rich and proper setting of the school. Hogwarts was much more "homey" and no school could compare to that.
She wondered where her best friend was; she had missed her greatly over the vacation, and was dying to see her. Even though Clarissa had her share of friends, she had one best friend that she had met in the beginning of her fifth year, Lydia Astuto.
She hadn't seen Lydia since she arrived. She didn't think anything of her absence, she was probably just arriving later then the other students.
Clarissa wasn't one to worry, she did almost everything at the spur of the moment, and she loved it like that. Being overly planned wasn't in Clarissa's job description. Clarissa studied her watch for a moment and noticed that it was 15 minutes until History of Magic. She got up and looked at the lake once more, and headed back towards the castle.
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Helena noticed the fourth years come in, she knew them, but she figured they didn't know her. That was like Helena, she even knew who the smallest Hufflepuff was.
She took no mind to them and continued reading. She found Transforming Potions quite dull. But she figured Snape was trying to challenge her. He knew that the regular student would give up after the 500 page history of transformation charms, but, Helena Comiastra wasn't the regular student. She wasn't about to give up. She needed those points, no not need, craved. Helana stood up after reading quite a while and noticed that History of Magic started soon. So she grabbed her book back and started toward the other side of the Castle.
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Necia looked at her watch, "Shit! Herbology starts in four minutes! Crap!" She got up from her table in the common room and rushed out of the door...finally realizing what her mind was thinking about earlier. Alex Riese. Necia and Alex had gone out for quite a while last year. But it seemed that shortly after Necia said the "L" word, it ended. Maybe Alex was afraid of it. Who really knew, they hadn't spoken in ages, and Necia sort of liked it that way.
Finally, Necia arrived at the Herbology 4 green house and took her seat by Cho Chang. She and Cho were friends, but didn't ever talk outside of class... they were complete opposites. Cho was a jock with preppy fashion sense, and Necia walked to the beat of her own drum. It seemed that they were always partners in all their projects though. They worked well together.
"Hey Cho," Necia smiled "How was your break??"
"It was nice." Cho returned the smile "Spent a lot of it with Cedric"
"Oh really," Necia said "You two are still an item?"
"Yep." Cho grinned "Two years in November"
"Wow, that's quite a while" she finished just as Professor Sprout started talking about the properties of edible magical fruits. Just as Professor Sprout got into a big lecture about some fruits that could make music.. Carl Devinci, a very nasty looking Slytherin interrupted, "You mean beans right?" the whole class snickered. Well, the Slytherins at least.
Necia rolled her eyes as Professor Spout said "No Mr. Devinci, and the next time you interrupt it will be 10 points from Slytherin"
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Matthew sat boredly in his History of Magic class, the only interesting thing about it was when Professor Binns emerges from the Chalkboard, but even that was getting old. Everyone else there was half asleep, he noticed Corin Danvers across the room, sitting next to her Slytherin friend Helena, they were passing notes and pretending to be interested.
He took a deep breath. "It's over, remember." he corrected himself silently "But she sure does make History of Magic ten times better"
"Mr. Logan, can you name Anne Bolyn's daughter for me?" Professor Binns asked Matthew, noticing he was staring across the room.
"Um..Elizabeth Tudor, future queen of England" he said
"Correct. Five points to Hufflepuff. Thank you Mr. Logan." Professor Binns replied back
After Professor Binns turned his back he yawned and put his head down, waiting for the class to end.
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Clarissa yawned. "Another two hour session of History of Magic" she thought "One thing I didn't miss over vacation" Clarissa looked around her class, she saw Alex Riese sitting in the back, looking at his paper and pretending to be interested. That was like Alex, he had always been a bit of a teacher's pet.
Clarissa remembered going out with Alex for a long time last year, before Necia Clauson and him were a couple. They were what people thought were the perfect couple, meant to be. But, after Clarissa stupidly assumed that he had feelings for Necia Clauson, broke it off. It was a stupid mistake really, she sorta regretted it still. Clarissa didn't like to regret things a lot, but this was an exception. Alex was perfect. He was nice, cute, a quidditch player. What was a matter with her back then? "Oh right. Xander Dolus."
Xander was sitting near Clarissa. After a short lived string of relationships last year, they had finally agreed to just be friends. Even though Clarissa knew that Xander was still in love with her. Maybe a little part of Clarissa was still in love with him, but that was over now. And that relationship was something Clarissa would never regret.
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After Helena left the particularly boring two hour session of History of Magic, she headed down to the Charms classroom. Helena enjoyed charms, she was good at them. Professor Flitwick often called on her to perform various charms, and, Helena, being an over achiever, always knew them.
Today, they were just reviewing, like in every other class. Helena turned in her summer homework to Professor Flitwick's desk and smiled, "How're you Professor?"
"I'm just fine, fine fine fine. Great vacation I had, traveled Europe. Had a great great time. I'm excited to see my favorite student again."
"Who? Me?" Helena smiled and continued "Well, I'm gonna go sit down."
Professor Flitwick continued jabbering on, as usual and started class, by reviewing various first year spells. Helena yawned and pretended to listen, as she started to write an owl to her boyfriend in Durmstrang, Adam.
Dear Adam—
She stopped. Then remembered their breakup earlier that month. It was hard for Helena to realize that they weren't together anymore. Especially after three years of going out.
Helena hadn't cried. She wasn't one to cry. She just shrugged it off her shoulder and continued living. The one thing that annoyed Helena more than anything was someone who spent forever crying in bed and washing their troubles away on chocolate frogs. Helena figured that it wasn't worth it. Some one better would come along.
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Corin sat down by Helena in Charms and noticed that she had started to write, Dear Adam.
"Oh bloody hell Helena, forget about him. He broke up with you, remember?" Corin whispered
"Yeah Yeah, I know, but I just can't forget." Helena whispered while Opal Tinnethson, a Hufflepuff performed a Wingardium Leviosa spell
"Well forget soon okay?" Corin said in her worrisome whisper that she often used during one of her friends problems during class
"I know I know..." Helena said a pitch louder
"Shhhhh! Flitwick'll hear" She whispered in a hiss
"God Corin, live a little, the midget can't hear worth a damn anyway" She giggled a bit.
"And I thought you respected teachers." Corin said and shook her head.
Corin looked up again and saw that Professor Flitwick was writing important notes for NEWTS;
"Geez, they're starting to prepare us already?" she thought and rolled her eyes as she took the notes down.