Disclaimer: Don't own Harry, his friends, his school or his world- only Lauren, Ellie and Yksnillow Hpesoj.

Catastrophe from Canada
By:rubber-ducky-lauren

Chapter 3: Draco's devilish charm

At first the Hogwarts students just sat starring and whispering as the two Canadian girls danced through the great hall, but then a lot of heads turned and most of the whispering was ended in boys' open mouthed starring.

"They seem like a pair of prats to..." But the rest of Ron's sentence was never heard as when the girls danced passed him his mouth dropped open and he became speechless. Harry noticed a lot of the boys with their mouths hanging open and wondered why, and then turned back to look at the Canadian girls and he could feel his own mouth drop open too. The girls were two of the most gorgeous girls Harry had ever seen. One was tall with blonde hair in a pony-tail which swung as she danced, with layers falling gracefully into her green eyes. The other girl was short with straight, chestnut brown hair that fell about an inch below her shoulders, which fluttered after her as the pair of them danced. She had large blue eyes and freckles across her nose.
Even Hermione was staring fixedly at the girls, but on what they were wearing on their heads rather than on their appearance. Both of them (now that Harry took a closer look) were wearing what Harry recognized as earphones, as his cousin Dudley whom he lived with prior to Hogwarts, had owned many pairs.

"They must be muggle born," Hermione told Ron and Harry who slowly turned around to face her, snapping back to reality. "I learned about what they're wearing on their heads in my muggle studies class- they're called headphones and they are attached to a CD player. It's a way of listening to music- the CD's have music written in them, and you can listen to them by putting them in the player called a walkman, which has attached headphones from which you can hear the music." Harry already knew what these were, having lived with his spoiled cousin, Dudley, and remembered being jealous of him when he had received his first pair as one of his many birthday presents when he turned nine. Ron seemed to understand the concept once Hermione had explained it to him and continued to gape at the girls.

"They sure don't make 'em like that here," Ron said longingly to his friends. Harry was sure that Hermione hadn't heard, since she didn't retort Ron's comment, but instead she walked over to the girls, waved to catch their attention, and once they removed their headphones, started talking to them. Soon after, they all came and sat down at the Gryffindor table and everyone went back to normal as food appeared on the golden plates on the long tables, which indicated the beginning of the start of year feast.

"Harry, Ron, this is Lauren and Ellie," said Hermione, pointing at each of the Canadian girls in turn as they waved when they were introduced. "And Lauren and Ellie, these are my friends Harry and Ron."

"Hello," Ron managed to say, breathlessly. The girls giggled and whispered to each other and then to Hermione, who joined in the giggling.

"Nice to meet you," Harry said as he outstretched a hand towards the girl named Lauren.

"Well aren't you the sweetest thing!" she said excitedly and shook Harry's hand with a smile.

"Nice to meet you too," Ellie said sweetly as she shook Harry's hand also.

After dinner was cleared, and the dessert had appeared, Ron said to the pair of girls, "Ah! Now you get to try some of Hogwarts' pudding- excellent!"

"I prefer cakes and pastries actually," said Lauren thoughtfully.

"What are you talking about?" asked Ron, who was now very confused. "Those are types of puddings!"

"You mean you have cake pudding?" asked Ellie, who seemed equally confused. The three of them sat arguing confusedly for about a minute before Hermione joined in, in attempt to settle the matter when Harry saw out of the corner of his eye a pale figure with white-blonde hair get up from the Slytherin table and stride closer and closer to him, until he stopped right behind where the girls were sitting. He cleared his throat and they both spun around to see what had made the noise.

"Welcome to Hogwarts girls, my name is Draco Malfoy, and if there is anything at all that you need, I would be more than happy to help," said Malfoy bowing to the girls in turn, and then taking their hands and kissing them. Harry, Ron and Hermione watched with a mixture of puzzled disgust. Lauren and Ellie however, giggled quietly to each other and introduced themselves to Malfoy, slightly blushing.

"Would somebody be so kind, as to show our new guests around the castle?" asked Dumbledore once the plates had once more been magically cleared. A ringing of "I will" was heard throughout the great hall, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Malfoy contributing. Ron and Harry turned to each other looking confused.

"I can, I know the castle the best," Harry heard himself say, although couldn't remember deciding on it.

"You?! I know it just as well as you do!" said Ron, outraged. The two of them started to row when Hermione tried to settle it, but they were so deeply immersed in argument they didn't even notice that the girls had left. When they both turned around finally, they became speechless with horror. Malfoy was halfway up the marble staircase with the girls on either side of him, all linked by their arms.