Summer at the Malfoy Manor
©Elena C,
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Disclaimer: Both Malfoys, Karkaroff etc belongs to the amazing J.K Rowling. Lena Karkaroff belongs to me and Nadia Irvin belongs to my best friend Nadia. So please restrain the flaming and suing.
Summery: Lena Karkaroff and Nadia Irvin both have to stay at the Malfoy Manor till the Quidditch World Cup. Romance blossoms, anger greatens and friendship strengthens.
A/n:
Nadia: I hate Malfoy!
Lena: Oh come on I know he can be mean sometimes but there's always good in everyone.
Nadia: Whatever…enjoy the fanfic.
Chapter two
The next morning at breakfast Malfoy was rather subdued. He remained quiet throughout the whole meal even when Nadia and Lena were chatting about their favorite Quidditch teams. He was looking at his bowl of soggy corn flakes, thinking off into space.
"No, Brazil has a more chance of winning than Poland."
"I think Iran has a more chance of winning over all of them."
"Iran, are you serious? The team is horrid."
"It's not horrid, who told you that?"
"It's everywhere, they lost six competitions in a row."
"Actually its four not six, get your scores right."
" Well sorry."
The conversation went on for a few more minuets followed by opinions on several schoolbooks. Draco was still looking quite sullen only looking up once at Lena when she mentioned that Ireland would be playing at the world cup. The three were almost done with their breakfast and ready to get up before an owl swooped through the stained glass window and landing on the table with three school letters in its beak. Both Nadia and Lena grabbed their letters followed by the sulking blonde boy. Lena managed to get her letter opened first. "School list!"
The students started briefly skimming through their letters Draco's father came into the breakfast room. "You got your letters. Very well, very well. I was planning to go to Knockturn alley to visit an old collogue on mine, so I can drop you off at Diagon Alley in ten minuets, go get ready." He spoke. Nadia, Lena, and Draco all nodded and proceeded to get up from the dinning room table. Eight minuets passed, Draco was all ready sitting on the green leather coach near the fireplace awaiting the two girls and his father. Lena and Nadia entered the room a couple of minuets later finding the two blondes standing in front of the fireplace waiting for them.
"Hurry up, we don't have time." Lucius said sharply. The four made their way through the fireplace one by one. They arrived at the Leaky cauldron, walking past particularly weird looking wizards from Japan practicing some form of ancient voodoo as they mumbled some sort of strange syllables sounding like verses of Native American songs. One wizard was smoking a hand painted pipe while reading a book entirely filled with calligraphy, making the three young wizards cough as they passed him. They entered a room where at the end stood a red brick wall, Lucius tapped a pattern of bricks with his wand making the wall open a doorway to a quaint looking street. The blonde man turned around and looked at the three students.
"I will meet you in front of the Apothecary." Lucius said as he pointed to a small shop. "At two thirty, I expect all of your shopping to be done by then. Draco you have your key, Lena Nadia here are yours. I have to get going so run along." Draco's father went his path leaving the three kids alone.
"Well, I guess we should first go to Gringotts." Said Lena and she held her small silver vault key.
"Yeah, lets get going." Nadia replied. Draco was still silent as they made their way through the crowded street. They passed a number of different shops, including Flourish and Blott's and Madame Malkin's Robes for all occasions before entering the grand alabaster money bank. The wizards walked through the long hallway passing a number of different goblins all glowering at them as they walked, until they came to a tall desk with a rather mean looking goblin.
"Umm excuse me, we are here to withdraw." Nadia told the Goblin and he looked down at the three, his abnormal looking face looking at them.
"Very well, may I have your keys. " Asked the Goblin, a few seconds later they were following another goblin but this time smaller, into a cave trolley that transported them to a vault.
"Vault 454." The small goblin said with its shrilly voice. "Key please." Draco handed his key to the goblin. As the key entered the small hole, several clicking noises resounded through the hall of vaults. The door opened to reveal numerous piles of gold. Nadia and Lena both stared at the gold reflecting the torches that hung on the walls glittering on the floor. Draco meanwhile was loading his money sack up to the brim, and stowing a few galleons in his pockets. He nodded, indicating that he was finished colleting his money. Moments later they arrived at a vault numbered 414. Nadia entered her vault brazenly, kneeling down gathering gold and silver coins. Occasionally grabbing a few levs (Bulgarian currency) and some English pounds. Finally the three arrived at their destination, the Karkaroff Family vault number 1255. This vault was yet again different, Lena unlike Draco and Nadia kept her gold in her family vault. This vault extended into several chambers all leading to one another. Lena strode to her own chamber, which contained a generous amount of galleon as well, as Bulgarian and English notes.
When three finally walked out of the enormous Goblin-run bank, their moneybags were bulging.
"Where to now?" Malfoy asked once they had descended the last of the marble steps.
"Well we can go to Madame Malkin's, we need dress robes form there." Lena replied.
"And I wouldn't mind a new cloak." Nadia added brightly.
"Black again right?" Draco smirked, "Lets go then."
Once again the three set off down Diagon Alley towards the gray-bricked shop with a large sign 'Madame Malkin's Robes for all Accessions'. Upon entering the shop the trio were confronted by several women including Madame Malkin herself.
"What can we do for you today?" The brightly dressed woman asked.
"We need dress robes." Lena answered.
"Would you like them custom made or will you choose from our store selection." A lady in pink asked the brunette.
"Custom made." Draco said confidently. "All three of them."
"All right then, step on to these platforms." Madame Malkin said as she smiled.
Each on of them stood on one platform, and immediately fabrics of all colors and textures started cascading around the three swirling in all directions, following the wand motions of the women designing the robes. At the end Nadia chose a light gray velvet robe that was embroidered with green swirls of thread at the cuffs, collar, and hem. Lena chose a lighter sky blue material that had blue ribbons decorating the seams. Malfoy chose a dark navy blue material, which only helped to highlight his hair. At the end of their bargain their left Madame Malkin's and boldly continued their way to their next shop.
Flourish and Blott's was there next destination only a minuet away from Madame Malkin's. It was rather big store, containing all sorts of books. They entered the bookshop, gazing at all the different books from 'How to get rid of garden gnomes' to 'Death Omens, a guide to reality.
Lena and Draco were looking at some spell books on the second floor, occasionally reading stanzas from the books they're reading.
"So what kind of books do you read?" Lena turned around to Draco reading a rather large book.
"I like reading Dark Arts mostly, find they're interesting – might come in handy sometime." Draco smiled walking towards Lena.
"Handy in what?" Lena put down her book on the table and crossed her arms.
"Once I get the you know…" Draco started to whisper, "the mark."
"Ohh…" Lena said.
"You do plan to get it some day don't you?" Draco asked as he strode closer.
"Y…yeah, sure." Lena stuttered.
"It's best if you do…what books do you read?" The blonde wizard asked Lena.
"Well…I read transfiguration books, occasionally history and muggle romance novels." Lena smiled turning around to choose another book.
"Muggle romance books?" Draco laughed, "Are you serious?"
"Yes, they're interesting. I like the way muggles write." Lena said as she opened her book.
"You're wasting your time, those bloody muggle can't write. "
"Yes they can, plus you never even read one single muggle written book. Did you know they accomplished everything the hard way, unlike wizards?" Asked Lena.
"So what?" Draco smirked, "At least we can do magic."
"Magic isn't always the key, like if you're in love with someone you don't need a love potion to win them over."
"Maybe sometimes you do?" Draco smiled slyly making Lena look suspicious.
"What are you saying?" Lena look puzzled, crossing her arms and walking toward her blonde friend.
"Maybe magic is the key in love?"
"It's not!" Said Lena as she stopped a few feet away from him.
Draco started walking towards Lena, holding his book in his hand; he had stopped only four inches away from the brunette.
"Maybe sometimes it is." Smiled Draco.
"Ok, fine, prove it then if you think you're so smart."
Meanwhile Nadia had finished with her browsing and went to look for her friends; walking through the wooden stairs she saw many paintings that hung on the walls of former owners of Flourish and Blott's, greeting the customers.
"Who's so smart?" Nadia asked.
"No one, just Malfoy thinks that magic is the key in love. What do you think?" Lena asked her friend.
"I'm no pro at love so I don't know, but I do know that we have to go and buy our books, it's one forty-five right now we have to get going." Nadia answered.
"Right lets go." Lena said.
The three teenagers left the second floor in search of their school textbooks, finally finding them they went to pay for their reading material.
"Here we are." Nadia smiled as she picked up her schoolbooks followed by a smirking blonde wizard. Later after their finding they left the store continuing on their shopping journey, passing a couple of small shops.
"Let's stop at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor." Lena said smiling, "We can rest there."
"Yeah, lets do that. It's one fifty we got loads of time. " Said Draco as he stopped to look at his watch.
The trio walked south of Flourish and Blott's towards the light green shop. They stepped into the shop being compressed by the outgoing customers. As they sat down on the medieval style chairs, they were greeted by Florean Fortescue, a young looking man.
"Here are the menus, choose what you would like." Said Florean as he gave each of them a blue parchment menu.
"What can I get you three?" He asked the trio.
"Vanilla, please." Nadia told the man as he started writing down their orders.
"And for me… chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts." Lena looked up at the red haired man.
"And what can I get you?"
"Mint…just mint." Said Draco as he put down his menu.
"Alright, I will be back in a few minuets." The shop owner left the three alone.
The trio sat in silence waiting for their ice cream, occasionally looking at each other for a few seconds. Lena looked up at Draco and saw behind him a familiar looking boy walked towards him.
"Draco, hey what's up?" Asked the dirty-blonde boy.
Draco turned around, "Hey, how was your summer?"
"Fine, what are you doing with here with these muggle loving losers? I thought you hated Gryffindors?" Smirked Blaise as he looked and Nadia and Lena.
"They're staying at my house till the Tri Wizard Tournament." Draco said as he rested his elbow on the table.
"Sucks for you." Blaise sneered as he pulled up a chair and sat by Draco.
"Yeah, I know they're a pain, make me do everything for them." Draco said with a sigh.
"Excuse me! We don't make you do everything, you don't do anything!" Snapped Lena ominously.
"Shut it." Draco retorted, making Blaise laugh at his comment.
"You shut it, we're not your slaves." Nadia barked looking menacingly at Draco.
"You will be if you don't shut up." Threatened Draco, and then looked at Blaise.
"Aren't you going out with Parkinson?" Blaise asked the gray-eyed boy.
"Nah…we're just friends." Draco smiled, "I have someone else in mind."
"Who?" Asked Blaise.
"Tell you later."
A bit into the boys conversation the ice cream arrived carried on a metallic platter. The waiter placed the three plates of ice cream on the table and asked with a smile, "Can I get you anything else?"
"No, we're fine." Draco told the waiter.
"Alright." The man left, his apron swishing.
"Come one tell me, I won't tell anyone." Blaise implored Draco.
"No…later ok."
"So were are you guys going next?" Asked Blaise.
Lena lifted her head up, interrupting her quiet ingestion, "Quality Quidditch Supplies."
"Oh...right, anyway…are you two purebloods?" Blaise eyed the girls.
"What else would we be? Malfoy can't even look at anything lower than him." Nadia snapped lifting her head.
"That's not true." Leered Draco, "I look at Hagrid when he makes his stupid lectures."
"Hagrid's lectures aren't stupid." Lena snapped eying the blonde wizard.
"Ooohoo…" Blaise chuckled followed by his friend.
"Hey if you want, I can ask father if you can come over." Draco asked Blaise.
"Yeah, that'll be great." Blaise smirked, "We can have a little fun." He looked at the two witches.
The conversation went on, followed by more mean comments from Draco and some laughs from Blaise – glaring faces from Nadia and Lena. The four stood up and went out of the ice cream parlor, towards their next destination accompanied by Draco's fellow Slytherin – Nadia and Lena stayed a few feet away from them, occasionally talking in Bulgarian. Meanwhile Draco and Blaise were insulting a few Gryffindors that passed by them.
"Gryffindorks!" Draco barked laughing, "What losers, I hate Gryffindors!"
"Yeah they're losers alright, dumb as rocks." Blaise commented.
"If that's what Gryffindors are then what are Slytherins?" Nadia snarled.
"Smart." Blaise said turning to Nadia.
"That's where our opinions differ." Nadia shot back.
"When did you opinions matter?" Snapped Draco as he walked.
"We're here." Lena pointed as they approached the sporting store.
They entered leaving Draco's question unanswered. Lena immediately walked up to the new Quidditch brooms, looking at a newly made Silver Arrow -- lying on a shelf waiting for someone to buy it.
"This is amazing." Whispered Lena as he stroked the blue birch twigs of it tail, then looking up at the description.
The Silver Arrow 400 Racing broomAerodynamic perfection
Pinpoint precision
Smooth turning
Soft Landing
Acceleration of 120 mph in 16 seconds
Abbeys every grip without any vacillation
This broom was Lena's dream, immediately walking toward Nadia, showing her awesome find.
"Look at this! Isn't it awesome!" Lena gleamed with joy.
"It's a broom." Nadia said blankly.
"Not just any broom, The Silver Arrow 400, it's faster than the Nimbus 2001." Lena commented.
"So…" Nadia added impassively.
"I can beat Draco for sure now." Lena smiled.
Meanwhile on the other side of the store Malfoy and Blaise were looking at the new line of Snitches, ranging from 15 galleons to 100 -- made out of different kinds of material, including
Gold.
Draco took a silver snitch, throwing it up and down – showing off to a couple of giggling Ravenclaw girls, "I think I'll buy this, only forty galleons."
"Great!" Blaise smiled and went towards a shelf filled with bludgers, "Look this one is, it says it made out of iron – must really hurt when it hits you."
"Yeah, it must." Draco answered as he saw Lena walking with a shiny navy blue broom in her hands. He started walking towards Lena and Nadia, turning around eying Blaise indicating to follow him.
"You buying that?" Draco smirked.
"What do you think?" Lena snapped.
"Thirty-five galleons." The man answered waiting for Lena reply.
"Here you go." Lena handed the storeowner thirty-five gold coins shinning brightly in the light.
The man took the money, "Thank you, would you like it wrapped?"
"No thanks, I'll be fine." Lena smiled.
"Will that be all?" He asked.
"Oh, almost forgot here." Nadia added, handing him a jar of broom polish.
After Nadia's and Lena's purchase the four left the Quidditch shop, Lena grinning about her new broom, "I can't wait to ride it!"
They continued walking a few steps when Blaise interrupted, "I have to meet my parents the Leaky Cauldron entrance."
"Great, we're meeting my father near there – I can ask if you can come then." Draco smiled at his friend.
"Cool." Blaise answered.
"Did you do McGonagall's essay yet?" Blaise looked at Draco.
"No not yet, you?" Draco asked.
"Nah…can't stand her essays, she's a horrible professor can't do anything but yell." Said Zambini.
"How about Lupin, now he was a loser!" Draco smirked.
"Yeah I know, why did Dumbledore even hire him? He's a werewolf, could've killed us."
"Shut it Zucchini!" Nadia snapped.
"It's Zambini, Irvin." Blaise snickered.
The four were approaching the apothecary; a rather large potion shop perched on a slight hill. Striding toward the window, Nadia went in front of the three other wizards, eying the freshly brewed verituserum still letting out a few wisps of steam.
Draco went toward the window snickering, "It's a stupid potion." He then left the Nadia and Lena, and went into the shop followed by Blaise.
"Don't listen to that loser, it's not stupid." Lena tried to cheer up her friend.
"Yeah, I know…come on let's go into the shop." Nadia strode into the stored, a few second later pursued by Lena.
As Nadia made her way through the potion shop, she spotted a mahogany shelf filled with several potion vials. Walking toward the shelf she spotted a familiar looking man. Striding closer she noticed that that man was none other her potions master at Hogwarts, Professor Severus Snape, the greasy git who was in love with his precious Slytherins. Slowly she walked towards the bookshelf; she carefully took out a vial, making sure that he would notice her – but he did, instantly turning around like he had woken up from a vivid dream.
"Watch who you bump into, Miss Irvin, not all people are forgiving." Snapped Snape, and immediately turned around and walked away.
Nadia continued with her browsing, wondering why Snape snapped at her; she did even bumped into him – maybe she just startled him by taking out that vial.
In the shop Draco and Blaise were looking at a large jar of cow eyes, the eyes blinked making the two jump.
"It's the key ingredient in deflating draft." Nadia had walked behind the two, startling them.
Meanwhile Lena was mesmerized by the smell of freshly brewed Love Potion, standing on a tall shelf filled with other mind-boggling potions, "This smells so good!"
"Don't smell it too long or it'll make you fall in love with someone." Nadia warned her friend while holding a small jar filled with chicken toenails.
"Right…sorry." Lena smiled.
As Nadia walked toward the back room looking for other substances, Draco and Blaise crept up behind her starling her, "What are you looking at?"
"Oh, nothing." Lena answered continuing with her browsing.
"Love Potion, Amour de Paris." Draco smirked, "Might come in handy someday."
"You're going to waste your money on that?" Lena turned around eyeing the blonde boy.
"Maybe, why do you care?" Draco snapped, walking closer to Lena, she stepped back knocking two bottles of potions behind her, spilling on Lena's shoulder creating a sort of misty steam.
"Smooth move, Lena." Draco snickered.
"Be quiet!" Lena felt a slight sensation, a headache – and then a weird feeling towards a particular wizard.
Lena looked at Malfoy, becoming dizzier and dizzier. Meanwhile Nadia walked towards the group carrying a few more ingredients in her arms, "Lets go." She then spotted a blonde man on the street, "Oh, there's your father, Malfoy."
Draco then looked at the window, walking towards the door followed by Blaise, "We'll meet you outside." Draco eyed the girls -- they nodded with a reply.
Lena strode after Nadia, who went to pay for her things, " Are you alright?" Nadia asked Lena as she handed her ingredients to the clerk.
"Yeah…just a small headache." Lena smiled.
"OK, well tell me if it gets worse."
"Alright." Lena replied, rubbing her temple.
After Nadia's purchase they left the Apothecary, finding Lucius standing with a man obviously Blaise's talking about something.
"You can pick Blaise up at eight then?" Lucius asked.
"Yes, that will be good." Said Blaise's father in a thick Irish accent, "Well then Blaise I have to be going, see till then." The man left walking toward the Leaky Cauldron.
Mr. Malfoy turned around, "I have to go back to Knockturn Alley, you can come with me."
The four nodded with reply then following the blonde man towards a much darker alley, filled with bizarre looking wizards all moving out of the way as Mr.Malfoy went through. They passed dirty shops with soot covered windows, small spiders crawling in the corners making then twitch at the sight of them; they even saw a black and green snake slithering on the door of a small shop, hissing loudly at the sight of them. The teenage wizards followed Draco's father into a dark and gloomy shop, which only had candles lighting up a few corners of the large room. Lucius rang a web-covered bell, a second later a relatively old looking wizard came out with a patch over his eye.
"Good day Lucius, how ar' ye" The man asked shaking the blonde's hand; Nadia saw a snake with large fangs tattooed on his wrist, making her look uneasy.
"Fine Lawrence, do you have the package?" Mr. Malfoy asked the shopkeeper.
"Yes, follow me." The two adults went, leaving the students in the frightening shop.
"So…do we just wait?" Blaise asked Draco.
"Obviously." Snapped Lena.
"Who asked you?" Blaise snickered.
Lena didn't answer his comment but instead turned away to look at the rest of the shop. Moving her eyes around the room she spotted a tall black potion bottle resting on a dark mahogany table. The chocolate-eyed girl moved closer to the table, reaching her hand toward it, stroking the neckline of the bottle. Lost in her curiosity, she placed her fingers on the cork ready to pull it out when a foreign voice sounded at the corner of her eye.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A rather tall boy stepped out of the darkness; he had black hair, black eyes, and a rather mystifying smile, "That delirium draught, makes you see you worst nightmares coming true."
"Right…sorry." Lena put down the bottle blushing a bit realizing her mistake.
"I am Alex." The raven-haired boy told shaking Lena's hand.
"I'm Lena." She said with a lackluster smile, "Do you go to Hogwarts?"
"No…I go to Beuxbattons, my mum's a teacher there, what is a girl like you doing in Knockturn Alley?" Asked Alex.
"I'm here with the Malfoys." Lena rolled her eyes showing her great irritation.
"There snobby aren't they, Mr. Malfoy comes here often." Alex told Nadia, "I have to go, maybe I'll see you later."
Lena said goodbye to her friend and went through the darkness towards Nadia who was quarreling with Draco.
"Where were you?" Nadia turned around, "How could you leave me with this dunderhead?"
"Sorry, I found this interesting potion." At the corner of Lena's russet eyes she spotted Lucius Malfoy walking towards them with a rather small package in his left hand.
"I will see you till then." Smiled the shopkeeper.
Lucius walked towards the door followed by the four students. Lena stopped, hesitated a moment, then turned around just before the shopkeeper left, "I met your grandson."
The man turned around at the moment she finished her sentence and replied with a slightly dull completion, "I have no grandson."
Lena turned around looking slightly puzzled at his answer, then noticed that her group was half way down the street – passing the gloomy shops she ran catching up still thinking about the shopkeeper's comment. Was he a ghost or was the man lying? Questions ran through her mind, trying to think of possible answers.
They arrived at Malfoy Manor, Draco and Blaise tired from their shopping outing, immediately dropping down on the auburn couch. The two girls headed for their room, trying not to make the boys notice their departure, but unluckily failed their operation.
"Were are you two going?" Draco said with a vivid smirk on his pale face.
"Up to our rooms why should you care?" Snapped Lena.
"I don't just asking." He continued chatting with Blaise about Quidditch.
Nadia and Lena were half way up the stairs when Draco interrupted their stride, "Come to the field when you two are done." He smiled, " Bring you brooms."