As much as I love the books, I regret to say that all of Harry Potter belongs to J K Rowling. This includes all of the characters except for Ryua (who's mine) most of the places, and an awful lot of the spells. Oh, and if you see something that looks like one of your stories, I'm really, really sorry. I don't mean to plagiarize. I've just read a lot of really cool fanfics, and they melt into my brain, but I'll try not to use any of it. Tell me if I do, okay?
Back at Home
When Draco and Father finally came home, one was ecstatic, and the other was livid. In fact, Lucius had a marvelously colored shiner developing, which Draco later told her was incurred in a fistfight with Arthur Weasly. Well, actually, an Encyclopedia of Toadstools had done the damage, but Ryua would have enjoyed seeing Lucius Malfoy scrapping like a common muggle.
Draco, on the other hand, was as cheerful as could be. For his present, Father had taken him to Quality Quidditch Supplies to get a Nimbus Two Thousand and One. Not only that, he had bought six others, enough to outfit the entire Slytherin House team. Ryua looked at it enviously. Made of black walnut, with a glittering gold lettering, (Draco's had his name personalized under the Nimbus logo) it was superior even to last year's Nimbus model. Apparently, the idea was to buy her brother on to the team. Ryua could probably train him up to be a half-decent seeker, but her family was still in denial that she had any skills at all, especially in something as "gentlemanly" as quidditch. (All the other house teams had girls at least some of the time, but neither captain Marcus Flint nor her old- fashioned father would let her near a broomstick, even though she believed she could fly circles around them). Draco believed her too. And for once in his life, he felt his sister was really being wronged in this, but he would never say so to Lucius.
Her snake, Parsyl, however, made Draco almost as jealous. One of the few personality traits the twins shared was a love of snakes, and Parsyl was an exquisite example of one. Her powerful white body coiled easily around Ryua, having already bonded to the girl, and Draco looked on wistfully. Ah, well, maybe she'd let Draco feed her once in a while or something, if he'd let her on that broom...
Author's Note: I've had 6 reviews to date, and I'm sorry to say I haven't given any of them credit yet. Which is not entirely my fault, by the way. I'm swamped with homework, being in Grade 12, (and I got FFX-2 for my birthday, so I'm distracted...) and I only have internet access once or twice a week. I type my stories at home, which explains why I'll have five chapters at once, but then I have difficulty getting information off the website to my home computer. So, to catch up with everyone; JeanieBeanie37- Ryua is a derivitive of Ryu, or Ryou, or something like that(it's got more than one English spelling). It's Japanese for dragon. Athena Diagon Cat, Argo Hades, and littlemissarwen- thanks so much for reading and reviewing, it's so cool to know people are enjoying something I made. Sarahamanda- Is she good or bad? Well, I'm not really sure yet. Ryua's definitely not your teacher's pet, and she has a bit of a talent for dark curses, but she's no death eater either. She's way more likely to be on Harry's side than the Dark Lord, for example. I'm a fanfiction critic- thanks for all the suggestions. This is the first creative (or any writing) I've done in quite a while, as I finished English last year, so I'm a bit rusty with my skills. I really like the idea of having her interact more with the other Slytherins, watch for it once she gets back to school. Oh, and to everyone, I don't actually own the books. I can only borrow them for a couple weeks at a time from the library, and Order of the Phoenix isn't likely to end up on the borrowing shelves for months yet, so please have a bit of patience. I'll often incorporate bits and pieces from the books, but they'll be a bit off either because I can't remember it verbatim, or I've rewritten it for Ryua's existance
PS: If anyone has any plot suggestions for the any of the years, please tell me. I've got bits and pieces thought up, but I'm having trouble stringing any of it together. I'll send you a special coupon by owl, promising Ryua will come curse someone for you if they're being aggrevating.
