Chapter 14
Let the Fun Begin
The food magically appeared before me, but it didn't do any good. My spirit was so down that I felt like the world was falling under my feet. I was left alone in an unknown school. I entered into the house where no one excepts the Weasleys. I'm with the people that are sly and untrustworthy. I thought I was in hell for sure.
"Like this morning was not enough?" I thought. I lowered my head on to the table and wished everything to be a dream.
"Welcome to the team."
"That is exactly what I need." I thought. "Why does he have to come here? Wasn't it enough to sit at the head of the Slytherin table?"
"Is anyone there?"
"Everyone is in there! Stop waiving your greasy hands before my face!" I pushed away his hand and looked at him.
"My name is..."
"I very well know what your name is! Is it everything you wish to tell me?"
"I'm not sure you are fully aware of who I am! My name is Draco Malfoy, and this house runs by my rules!"
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't go by any one's rules but my own. Now if it's everything, I would like you to leave me to lament on my misfortunes." I turned away from him and placed my head on to the table.
"Slytherin is not that bad."
"For people like you." I mumbled. He moved away a girl that was sitting by me and occupied her sit.
"My whole family was in Slytherin, and all of them turned out to be fine. They are great wizards and most importantly, pure." He said proudly. I looked at his arrogant face and was overwhelmed with disgust.
"You can put your pure roots up your behind Malfoy! I kicked you out of my compartment don't make me do it again. You were embarrassed before your two buddies; there would be the whole school that'll see you this time."
"Are you trying to scare me?"
"Leave her alone Malfoy!" I looked up to see Hermione by my side.
"Get away from here Granger. This corner of the school is not for Mudbloods like you!"
"Shut your trap Malfoy!" I jumped off my seat, reached for Hermione's hand and pulled her away from the Great Hall.
"What a jerk!" I told her.
"Wait! Slow down!" Hermione was running behind me. I didn't notice that I was still holding her. My grip was so tight that when I've let go the light tint of purple began to appear about her wrist.
"I'm really sorry!"
"Don't worry! Do you remember about the potion?"
"You still want to do it? You want to have a friend in Slytherin?"
"Natalie, it's just a name under which you go. You're my friend right now because of who you are. It will not be fair to turn away from you just because you got into Slytherin. If I did that then I would not have been a very good friend."
"What about Harry and Ron?"
"Well, Ron is a bit shaky with the whole thing, and Harry doesn't care. He even wanted to punch Malfoy when he came over to bother you, but I told him I'd take care of it. I said it was a girl thing." She had a great gift to make people laugh. My mood was slowly uplifting to my normal state. I felt better and better each moment.
"I thought you'd turn away."
"You're silly! Well, what about the potion?"
"Do you have a place where we can prepare it?"
"In the girl's bathroom. I have to worn you that their is a ghost in there that can get on people's nerves."
"What are you talking about?"
"You remember Ron telling you about the Chamber of Secrets?"
"Ya..."
"Well, the entrance was in that bathroom. About fifty years ago a girl died, and she remained at Hogwarts ever since. She's not very friendly, and she moans allot. We call he Moaning Martle."
"Thanks for the warning; I guess. We have to get the herbs and all of it."
"We didn't find out the password!" Hermione was kind of worried. Her eyes scanned over the hall. "I forgot about the meeting! We got to go back. Listen, at midnight get out of your common room, and I'll be waiting for you. Get all the things we'll need. I have a cauldron and all the things for preparing the potion."
"We need two cauldrons."
"Ok, I'll get two. Lets go back to the Great Hall. Let me tell you something about the school. We have passwords to each common room. The students under that house are the only ones that know it. The staircases change, so you have to be careful. Otherwise the castle is not that confusing. Did you get everything?"
"Ya, I think so. Midnight, before my common room. I got it."
"Good!" We were once again in the crowded Great Hall. The kids were finishing with their food and chattered about God knows what. I ignored all the looks that were welcoming me. The Griffindores contemptuously stared at me. The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs cautiously observed me. The Slytherins were just ignoring me completely. This strategy was excellent. They did exactly what I needed, leaved me alone and went about their own business.
Before I could sit back down a tall blond boy called all the students to follow him. I decided to walk not far away from him, as he probably held the password. We walked into a well like construction where many staircases moved back and forwards without a particular pattern.
I hurried after the first years also admiring the paintings that welcomed us. The Griffindores moved opposite of us. Some of the Slytherins began insulting Ginny and one of her friends. I saw her reaching for her wand and screaming a curse at one of Malfoy's friends. All the other kids rushed to see what was going on. Ron and Harry settled down to help her.
"Where are you going Potter?"
"To help Ginny to make dead meat out of you and your friends!"
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Harry's wand was stretched before him. His hands were shacking with rage. Ron's ears were burning red. Ginny's eyes were full of tears. I quickly rushed down to see what was going on. I fought through the crowd to reach the bottom of the stairs.
"Potter there is no reason to help your little dirty whore!"
"Malfoy!" I shouted. "Didn't you're mother teach you not to say anything if you have nothing nice to say?" I rushed to Ginny and reached for her hand. She lowered her wand and berried her burning hot face in my shoulder.
"What is the meaning of this?" Professor McGonagall ran into the hall! Her lips were barely visible. She was so angry that she gave me a chill.
"Nothing Professor McGonagall, Potter here decided to jinx me for no reason. Ginny cursed Goyle, and this girl over here," he motioned to me, "insulted me." Hermione's head poked from behind McGonagall, her face very confused.
"It is not very honorable to lie Mr. Malfoy." Professor McGonagall finally said.
"I did not! I have witnesses!"
"I don't want to hear any of it. Go to your dormitories immediately. You have classes tomorrow. An owl will bring your schedules during breakfast. Mr. Malfoy I suppose you forgot about the Head Boy meeting after the feast." She gave him an annoyed look.
"Well Professor McGonagall, I was here to stop the fight."
"Right, I'll see you tomorrow morning in my classroom to get everything about your new responsibility. Now go and have a good night."
"Malfoy? Malfoy as a Head Boy?" Hermione spat rushing up to us.
"I can't believe it!" Ron told her.
"Our life is officially over!"
"He'll make it a hell!" Hermione added and looked at Ginny and me.
"What did he say?" I asked Ginny that was crying.
"Nothing!" She turned around and rushed to the Griffindor tower.
"You should go," Harry told me. "You don't want to miss the password."
"Ya you right. Good night!" I turned around and rushed after the rest of the Slytherins.
We reached a long corridor that was dimly lit. There was a picture of an old man at the end of it. He seemed to be asleep. He wore a nightgown and was snoring into the hall that carried the sound through it. His long white beard was tied about his left arm, and his legs were crossed under the chair on which he sat on.
"It's time to wake Gabbers!" The blond boy said loudly. The old man gave out a loud snore and opened his eyes.
"Ah Jacob, you're back so soon! Have the school started already?"
"It very well has."
"I slept all through summer. An old man such as myself can't be aware of all the things that take place in this school! I got to tell you, however, that Dumbledore went out of line! His love for muggleborns is despicable!"
"You are quite right! We have the password!"
"Oh very well, we'll chat some other time."
"Thestral!" The portrait moved open reveling an opening in the wall. One by one they crawled inside. As I entered the common room the cold air wrapped about me. The place was cold and unwelcoming. The green sofas and silvery curtains created the appearance of a mausoleum. Even the fire that crackled in the fireplace was not comforting. My gloomy spirit became my friend once more. I felt distracted about everything.
"Come on, we'll show you where your room is." A lovely girl with black hair grabbed my hand and pulled me after her. Another girl, white as a sheet, followed us. We entered into a round room where five beds were located.
"A girl that used this bed had to move two years ago, and it's been empty ever since. We glad you can use it."
"Thank you."
"We never heard of a Weasley being in Slytherin. All of them were in Griffindor. I'm Mary by the way, Mary Jones." The pale girl with beautiful blond hair stretched out her arm. I gladly excepted it.
"I'm Nichole Wasterfly."
"I'm Natalie Weasley, nice to meet you."
"Don't mention it. We saw Draco talking to you. I wish he would speak to me. We got to worn you that everything in here runs by his rules. You wouldn't want to cross his path."
"I have my own path and if it happens to cross his then oh well." They stared at me dumfounded, as I prepared my bed. "What?"
"We heard you were opinionated, but we didn't think you'd be that opinionated."
"I say what I think."
"Why did the Sorting Hat place you in Slytherin? You don't seem it." I just shrugged my shoulders. It seemed to me that they were vain. Wind was blowing in their heads and there was nothing else about them.
"Mum bought me new perfume! You like to see?"
"Maybe some other time Mary. I'm tiered!"
"You just got here!"
"Ya I know but I had a busy night."
"Did you spend it with a boy?"
"What?"
"Have you spend your night with a boy? You said you were busy."
"Not everything is based on that!" I pulled my curtains closed and stretched out on the bed. All I had to do was wait until midnight.
I didn't have to wait long. They stopped chattering about lip-gloss and perfume in no time. I gathered all the things that I needed and sneaked out of the room. The common room was silent, and the only noise that could be heard in it was coming from the fire. I reached the door and turned the knob. Soundlessly the door opened, and I saw the outline of Hermione that was pacing about the corridor.
"Hermione!" I whispered.
"What took you so long?"
"Nothing, you just came too early. Where is the bathroom?"
"Come on follow me." We walked out of the dimly lit corridor and walked on for a long time. We had to move in the dark, as Snape and Filch were walking around. Hermione told me about Snape's extreme gift was to be at the place where they appear to be. The people in the frames slept in peace.
I don't remember for how long we were walking, but finally Hermione opened a door that gave off a low squeal and entered me in. The floor was wet, as the sinks were turned on with cold water.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked someone. I began to search for the one she was speaking to. A girl with two pigtails and round spectacles roamed about the bathroom, crying. Her voice was unbearable as she moaned into the night. I could see right through her. She must have been Moaning Martle.
"Oh hello Hermione!" The ghost said cheerfully. Her moaning abruptly stopped and she swarmed to us. "I thought you forgot about me! Where is Harry?"
"He's not coming tonight. This is Natalie; it's her first time at Hogwarts." Martle looked at me with her colorless eyes.
"What do you two want?"
"We're here to make a potion." Hermione placed two cauldrons to the floor and took out two spoons from the pocket of her robes. I followed her example and took out my ingredient box and a book where I found the potion.
"I'm glad that I took this book. I didn't want to at first, but it was the only one that had this potion in its contents." My fingers swiftly flipped through the pages until I reached the Fate Potion. "Ok what we need to do today is poor a cup of water and add Angelica Root, it gives a healing kind of aurora about you, so no one will suspect that you're under the effect of a potion."
"I'll look for it."
"Do you feel like someone is watching you?"
"Ya Martle! Here I got it!" Hermione pulled out a small root that looked like thin strands of hair. She ripped it in half and dropped it into the cauldron.
"Ok, now stir it three times counterclockwise." She followed my direction, but something stopped her, and her eyes began looking over her surroundings.
"What's wrong?"
"You are right, someone is watching us! Let's put everything away and go back!" She assembled all the things back to my little box and hid the cauldrons. Finally rising to her feet, she brushed away the dust from her robes and walked up to me.
"Ok, let's go."
"We-we-we should-should-we should RUN!"
"What do you see?"
"I'll tell you later! Let's RUN!" Hermione's head turned to look what I was so scared off. She saw a ghost, or that what I think it was. But it wasn't like all the other ghosts that I saw in the school. It was black with horrid features. Its hands were stretched out before her, and she tries to reach Hermione; however, Hermione's screech scared it away, and we began to run as fast as our feet could go.
"Over here professor!"
"What did you hear Filch!"
"It's professor Snape!" I whispered to Hermione. We came to a stop, so our loud pounding could stop vibrating through the hall.
"The Griffindor tower is not that far away. We can go there."
"But I'm not..."
"Who cares? If you go back to Slytherin, you would be caught for sure! Now come on, but quietly!" She reached for my hand, and we slowly walked up to a portrait of a really fat lady. She was serenely snoring into the blackness of the night from which the loud voice of Snape and Filch drew near.
"Wake up!" Hermione said trying to hush her voice. The Lady stirred and opened one of her eyes.
"You youngsters don't know how to behave yourselves. Give me the password and be gone."
"Apollo!" She said urgently. The picture opened and we rushed into the Griffindor common room. It was much more inviting and warm. I felt the heat rushing through my cold body. The reds and yellows were soothing to bad moods and fear that I just experienced.
"What was that?"
"I never saw it before. We better go to my room. You can spend the night in the Griffindor tower. I can share the bed; I'm not that picky."
"Thanks! Can I stay here forever? I hate the Slytherin tower. It's reeking with stealth. I hate it; it's not me."
"Come on!" We finally reached Hermione's bed, and tiered from the privies night I fell into troubled sleep.
A/N
Well I'm glad you all liked the previews chapter. Here's another.
hunni07: Ya I wrote the song on my own. You're right I have a bit of mistakes LOL I'm going to fix them later on.