Rain

By: Who Else? Me

Chapter Three

To the Common Rooms

"GRYFFINDOR!!"

Draco stared almost murderously at the old, patched hat as tiny Professor Flitwick carried it away along with the three-legged stool. Dorothy stepped gracefully past him and his table glancing at him and continuing on to the Gryffindor table where many people welcomed her, mostly boys. A few boys moved so that she could sit beside Granger. The muggle born smiled kindly as they exchanged introductions. Draco grimaced at Harry Potter's group of friends and leaned back in his seat.

"How was your summer Draco?" asked Pansy, looking past Goyle's large frame. Her pug-like face made Draco's grimace increase tenfold but he acted fairly normal.

"The usual, you know. Father bought some more of those Black Magic artifacts he's always blathering on about. We had to spend a lot of time in Knockturn Alley because they found this weird amulet with an evil king's finger in the middle of the stone," he explained, taking a sip of pumpkin juice from his goblet coolly. "It's was a waste of time, though. It was a fake. When we were leaving the shop, I accidentally dropped it and it shattered. We found out the 'finger' was really just a chewed up piece of that stupid muggle candy...what's it called...bubbly rum...I dunno...but father put a permanent Dog Weed Jinx on him and now he can only bark. It's really a quite clever jinx."

"Well..." began Pansy about to explain her summer. Draco didn't hear a word of it though because his eyes wandered back to Dorothy. She was smiling which was the first time he'd seen her do that. Her smile was tired and sad and she talked a little bit but mostly she just scraped her food around her plate. When she was done she relaxed back into her chair and looked back at him. He looked away quickly and she raised an eyebrow at him, but when she turned back Draco stared again.

"Draco? Draco?! DRACO!" Pansy Parkinson hollered, waving her hand in front of his face to get his attention again. "What's wrong with you? You've been zoning out all night...hey! Do you like that Gryffin-dork or something?"

"No! She just looks like she belongs in Slytherin!" Draco replied, looking irritated. "She was sitting in my compartment today on the train! I just expected the sorting hate to say something besides Gryffindor...Damn! Why couldn't she be in Slytherin?!"

"Calm down, Draco! If you don't like her than you shouldn't be getting so worked up about her! Besides, do you remember what Dumbledor said? She came from an All-Witches Academy! She probably likes girls!" Pansy was getting desperate. She wanted some attention too!

"But wasn't it called Madam Seremine's All-Witches Academy for...MALEVOLENT MAGIC MAKERS!! She obviously was sent there for a reason," replied Draco. "Malevolent is the best word in that whole title. I wonder what she did."

"Probably something stu—"but Pansy was cut short when Dumbledor stood and cleared his throat.

"Another feast well-prepared. I hope you are all as full as I am. Now, prefects, lead your house to their common rooms and don't dawdle. It has been a splendid day for us all." And each prefect did as they were told.

In all the excitement of leaving the Great Hall, the student pressed each other against one another. It was to Draco's surprise that he was pushed up against Dorothy. She looked up as him as she was attempting to walk among the crowd.

"What are you looking at?" Draco asked, leering at her with his gray eyes.

"You, obviously," she replied, derisively. "Who else?"

Draco was taken aback but he glared down at her. Just at that moment, Hermione Granger grabbed her wrist and was pulling her along. Dorothy looked back at him as she began to disappear in the crowd. Draco gathered all the Slytherins together and guided them to the Slytherin common room.

Later that evening in the Gryffindor common room, Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Dorothy were talking.

"What was his problem anyway? It wasn't like I was pointing my wand between his eyes and preparing to fire off an Unforgivable," complained Dorothy.

"He's just a jerk! Just ignore him!" Ron said. "Do you remember? Do you remember what you did to him in the third year, Hermione?"

"Yes, and I would prefer if we didn't recall it," she replied.

"What? What did you do, Hermione?" asked Dorothy, looking from the girl with the bushy brown hair to the red-headed boy.

"She smacked 'im! She smacked 'im good!!" Ron exclaimed, looking excitedly at Dorothy.

The black-haired girl laughed and looked at Hermione whom was blushing a little and looking indignant. Her response was, "Well, I can't say he didn't deserve it. What he did to poor Hagrid was horrible. He nearly got Buckbeak, Hagrid's favorite hippogriff, executed for attacking him. He should've known better. Hagrid warned him about insulting a hippogriff. He said—"

"Yes, Hermione, we know what he said. Well, anyway, it was still hilarious. Me and Harry had never seen Hermione so angry."

"He's that bad, hm? Th-the Malfoy boy I mean." Dorothy looked at Harry who'd opened his mouth the replied.

"Bad? He's the worst! His dad was even with Lord Voldemort!" Hermione and Ron flinched but Dorothy's eyes only flashed at the name. "I'd imagine some of that wickedness had rubbed off of the father onto the son!"

Dorothy was silent for a long time and Harry attempted to read her expression but it was impossible. She seemed to always have a blank look on her face. She looked like she was in deep thought until she began to lean forward and the group thought she was in a trance.

"Hey, are you alright?" asked Ron, waving a hand in front of her face. She blinked and looked up, her face turning slightly apologetic.

"Ah! Sorry! I have this odd habit of spacing out when I'm thinking hard!" Her tone of voice had changed from sad and tired to panicky. "These nervous of a new school must really be taking a toll on me! Maybe I should get some sleep. These stairs, did you say, led to the girls' dormitories? Okay then, G'night!" And in a few seconds she'd disappeared.

"I get this odd feeling she's keeping something from us," whispered Harry. The other two agreed but didn't spend to much time pondering the idea.

A/N: Woohoo! Chapter three. Not to many reviews tho! Thanks XAX for the first review and the only one I've seen so far! The last Draco/OC fic I wrote got absolutely no reviews so I deleted it. Oh the mystery of Dorothy's past is soon to be unveiled. You'll have to wait two chapters though. NO! And I mean NO! There is going to be no Dorothy/Harry in this story! My friend asked me that today when she read it and I totally freaked on her. Sorry Peaches! But let me make one thing perfectly clear! Even though you can't tell at the moment it is going to be completely Draco/Dorothy! I LOVE DRACO!!! And yes, if you've read any of my other works in progress you'll noticed that all of them have an original character as a main character. I like making up characters!! It's a test of imagination. Well, that's it for my daily info! Ciao!

WEM (BTW, I might change my user name shortly)