AUTHORS NOTE: Um, I'm not sure how the previous chapter turned out, so if
the format is off I apologize. Also As my knowledge of a lot of the Mutants
is a little limited, and yes they are a little evasive at the moment, I'm
sorry if they're out of character and I also apologize if I'm dragging
stuff too much. Oh and another apology for the lameness of the sorting song
in the previous chapter.
~*~
"So." She started "Your mutants"
"What gave us away? Was it the whole announcement by the Dumbledore guy down stairs" Jubilee cut in.
Spawning smiles on Rogues and Bobby's faces, as Hermione flushed a deep scarlet. "Um, so, er whats being a mutant like?" Ron asked
Again Jubilee answered first "Whats being a wizard like?" she countered.
Rogue just shook her head at that "Jubilee's just being annoying at the moment, she'll get over it when she relaxes a little"
"Yeah" Bobby pitched in "Try talking to her when some of the others get here. or when she gets some sleep" Jubilee just shot the two of them a scathing look and shut up at Bobby's grin.
"So you asked what its like?" Rogue stated, "It can be wonderful, exciting, sometimes you can feel like the worlds yours, but it can also be terrifying, especially when your mutation starts. You get these powers that you can't stop or control; sometimes powers that are so extreme you become a danger to everyone around you"
She could feel it sliding into her eyes, personal experience and she knew they could see, but it didn't matter. The sooner any misconceptions about what mutants were, where cleared up the better it would be.
"Then there are the people, the normals, that fear us, that hunt and persecute us because we're different, because they're scared of us" she could feel a tear slid down her cheek, and just hoped they'd think it was sweat, "So, that's what its like to be a Mutant"
"You forgot family" Bobby said, though it was in a small voice, his own had been scared of him, his own brother calling the police on them, making them run.
"Yeah, a lot of the time when your family finds out you're a mutant you have to run. They're terrified of you, report you or whatever. And now even if they don't want to they have to" There was an almost malicious smile on Jubilee's face "The Mutant Registration Act, guaranteed to keep all mutants known and traceable. You don't sign up and you get found out, prison, probable some kind of a brand or implant as well"
Everyone but Ron was looking at the three with a bit of shock, speechless; they probable hadn't been expected quite so much.
"But you've got these like wicked powers, don't you? I mean a lot of people would kill to be able to do the stuff you guys can do, sure there are some draw backs, but give it a few years and I bet it'll all die down" he said in one breathless sentence.
This time it was the mutant's turn to be shocked, kill to have our powers? Rogue thought bitterly, If I could, I'd give mine away!
Hermione and Ginny both gave him a vicious elbow in the ribs, but she didn't take much notice of that.
She probable should have used some common sense and let Bobby or Jubilee respond to what he has said, but she couldn't think anymore.
"And how long have wizards been around? A few thousand years maybe? I notice you don't seem to be racing to reveal yourselves? Could it possibly have anything to do with the burnings? The persecutions that have been going on for hundred of years?" she said in one breathless rush of her own "I'm sure the appropriate time just hasn't presented itself", her voice dripped with sarcasm on the last sentence
She barely noticed him murmur an apology before she was trying to apologize herself.
"Oh god, I'm sorry, it's just, just-"
"Just that our powers, our mutations can bring us a lot of grief" Bobby told them, his eyes flicked towards Rogue "None of you have asked why Rogue's wearing her coat, I mean its nicely warm in here for us, but unless your blind you should be able to see that she's boiling"
The Gryffindors were obviously confused by the change of subject, and a little embarrassed that they hadn't noticed Rogue's discomfort.
After a long pause Harry finally asked "Erm, so, ah Rogue, why are you wearing your coat still?"
"Do you have some kind of a disfiguring, er what was it called, um mutation?" Ron interrupted eagerly before she had a chance to say anything, Rogue didn't even realize she'd slipped off one of her gloves until Bobby's hand was gripping her sleeve-covered wrist.
"Erm, I think we should take Ron off to bed before he gets to experience some of your powers up close, don't you Harry?" Neville said giving him a quick nudge, smart boy to catch on to the tension.
"Oh what? Yeah, yeah lets go"
Rogue watched as a protesting Ron was dragged away, once he'd disappeared up the stairs with the other two boys, Hermione and Ginny gave her a nervous look.
"Um, I think maybe we should all get some rest -" Hermione started
"Good idea, we can continue this in the morning" Jubilee interrupted, up on her feet and happily pushing the two girls towards the other spiral stair case, "We'll just stay down here for the night" she said and gave them one final push.
They didn't argue too much, vanishing fairly quickly up the stairs, Jubilee slumping back onto a couch as soon as they were gone.
"Well that got a bit tense, didn't it?" She said light heartedly
Bobby just gave her a look as Rogue slipped her hood back up and lay her head against his chest, letting herself be lulled to sleep by the rhythm of his breathing, the feel of his chest rising and falling.
Tucking her legs up beside her, she let her eyes drift shut as Bobby's hand rested on her own head, murmuring that everything would be alright once the wizards got over the initial shock.
Released one final frustrated breath she let her body succumb to its need for sleep, her mind reliving the day and the irritably unimpeded curiosity of the red head.
~*~
Rogue dreamed once more of adamantium, tasting it plunge through skin, gasping as it sent shock waves rippling through her, not of pain exactly. She dreamed of her hand touching Logan, his cheek bristling to the touch from lack of shaving.
And in moments it was veined, blood flowing towards her, but more than blood also as those veins stood so far up, she could feel his energy, his strength flowing from him.
His ability to heal infusing her, veins standing out of the skin of her own back as his power flowed there, clotting the blood and knitting the wound shut. From there she flicked to John, stealing his pyrokenetic abilities to stop him.
She could feel her body shuddering as she slept, flicking back and forth between those she had stolen from.the first boy she had ever kissed, Bobby in their brief contact, and as always Magneto.
Not stolen but thrust upon her unwillingly, in a plot that would have ended in her death.
Even as she dreamt she could feel each of them inside of her, memories, emotions, pain, no matter who she took energy from she could always feel their pain and of course the distinct feel of the energy that flowed through each of them. Magneto and Logan in particular, each having kept contact with her skin for longer than they should have.
~*~
Rogue jerked awake to a damped fire and light filtering in from the immensely sized windows, the storm of the night before having passed. One or two of the students beginning to descend from their dormitories.
She didn't need to look to see that Bobby was still asleep; she could feel it from the deep rhythm of his breathing. Jubilee on the other hand, was up and about and bouncing around, filled with the almost vibrating energy that she always seemed to possess.
She jerked Rogue up off the seat and was dragging her towards the portrait of the Fat Lady before she was awake enough to work out what was happening
"Where are we going?" she asked
"To breakfast" Jubilee replied smugly
"But what about -"
"Bobby?? Let him catch up when he wakes up! Now come on" she said continuing to drag Rogue out of the common room and into the hallway where two girls already stood, she was relieved to see it wasn't the two from the night before, she didn't quite feel like continue that conversation yet.
Jubilee gave a quick introduction, "Lavender, Parvati" Pointing to each to go with the name
"Now come on!"
Resigned to her fate she managed to get free of Jubilee and followed on her own two legs while the three other girls began to busily chat. Gossips, she thought.
And before she knew it, she and the others had arrived back in the Great Hall, where the ceiling was now proudly displaying a clear, sunny sky. Taking some seats at the Gryffindor table, Rogue only partially paying attention to the three Gossips, some discussion about magically hair and make up, how it saved hours or something like that.
Propped up by one arm she wistfully gazed around the hall, it was still early and despite the fact that classes for the Hogwarts Students started in a few hours most people where still asleep. Or just stumbling out of bed, truthfully if she'd been in an actually bed she probable would have been asleep as well.
"Hey Rogue, earth to Rogue! Come in Rogue!" Rogue started out of her thoughts at the hand waving in front of her.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, what were you saying?" She asked
Jubilee rolled her eyes and then was just one big smile, "I was saying that Lavender just told me we've got today, maybe even a couple more days off before lessons pick back up for us, as there's still a lot of confusion about our teachers, and mutants still getting here"
She started to turn back to Lavender, than swung back to face Rogue again "Oh, and do you wanna go with Lavender and Parvati to their first lesson? Its something about caring for magical creatures, magicless for the most part so it should be no prob for us, and that Dumbly guy said we could last night"
Rogue just blinked at the onslaught, Bobby would probable be asleep for a few hours yet, and she could always catch up with him at lunch, so she shrugged and said "Why not?"
And so an hour later she found herself descending from the castle down to the school grounds, there was a group of students gathering down to a sort of hut on the edge of the forest. "That it?" She asked, and got a yep from Parvati.
When they got closer she noticed the silver and green snake crest on some of the students uniforms, Lavender answered the question before she could ask it "We share this class with the Slytherins". And from her tone, she really didn't like it either.
"Don't you like Slytherins?" Jubilee asked
They had almost reached the group when Parvati answered "Slytherins in general are what muggles call the bad guys, a lot of them are rotten to the core and go to the dark side when they graduate, that one over there" pointing to a greasy, slicked back, blonde "is Draco Malfoy and he's the worst of them all, even more so since most of the Slytherins treat him like some kind of a God"
"Is that why he's got the two henchmen?" Rogue asked as she noticed the two, very broad, very big teens either side of him.
"Crabbe and Goyle" Lavender said, "No one can really remember whose who, so it doesn't matter if you can't tell which is Crabbe and which is Goyle"
She was getting an eerie sort of feeling from the Blonde and she didn't like it, especially when he started looking at her like he was appraising a piece of potential property, his cool little eyes raking over her.
She liked it even less when he pushed off the post he'd been leaning against and swaggered over her way. Lavender gave him a look of disgust as he reached them and stuck out a hand, for a moment she was wondering whether she was meant to shake it or get down on her knees and kiss it.
"Draco Malfoy" he stated with a cocky self-assuredness
In the end she took his hand, not wanting to be rude "Rogue" she said
He cocked an eyebrow at that, "Just Rogue?"
She nodded, "Um, are you going to let go of my hand?"
For a moment he just looked down at it, as if wondering what he should do with it before letting it go, hesitantly. "Its pretty warm out here for those of us in robes, you've got to be boiling in those" he said indicating her several layer, plus coat, hood and gloves.
He reached in to push back her hood and she jerked away from him, not for the reasons the people around must have thought since they'd burst into laughter, but because she was afraid she'd hurt him.
"I'm-I'm sorry" she stammered quickly, "It's just I-I"
His face contorted with the rage of injured pride, and more dangerous, prejudice "Its just your a stupid little bitch, whose too much of an idiot to see a good thing!! There isn't a word in the wizard or muggle world filthy enough to describe you" he was literally spitting as he raged now, and crippling her composure
"You're worse than any mudblood, at least some kind of wizarding blood runs through their veins, your some kind of a damn muggle trying to pollute the lines by rising above yourself, your disgusting, your-your -"
A lot of people around her were starting to make noise about what Draco was saying and Jubilee's hand were raised dangerously, but she could already feel tears sliding down her cheeks, and lowered her head so he wouldn't see, her mistake, his was trying to force her to meet his eyes again.
Striking a hand out to grip her chin and yank it up to face him, she tried to shake it off but his grip was like iron and he was continuing to fume, unnoticing of the terror in her eyes, she could already feel him, the slight prickle of it beginning, the initial rush.and finally his awareness that something bad was happening.
His skin turned even more of a deathly pale then it had already been and he collapsed to the ground as his knee's gave out under him, trying to suppress the pleasure at the new power flowing through her as fragmented memories shot through her. Looking down at him she thought that he'd been lucky.
He hadn't kept contact very long once it had begun and she was pretty sure that he'd be fine in ten or fifteen minutes, she wasn't so sure about herself though as everyone was wondering what had just happened.
Also as she'd had a rush of his thoughts. he wasn't a good person. And given half the chance he'd get revenge, even though the fault had been his own and not hers.
With confused looks the two henchmen picked him up and carried him back over to the fence where he just huddled against a sneering pug faced girl
Most of the Slytherins stayed out of easy contact with her after that, as did some of the Gryffindors, but Lavender and Parvati just shrugged it off.
The rest of the lesson went well after that though, Harry and his group turned up and just smiled when Lavender gave them a condensed version of what had happened. And when she glanced around for Bobby Harry said he'd migrated up to one of the dorms to continue sleeping, which had just made her smile, typical boys.
Rogue also got to meet the man Hagrid seeing as he taught the lesson, from his size she'd been wondering whether he was a mutant himself until Parvati told her that he was half giant, then said but he was a nice guy and there was no reason to be scared of him. She also got to see something called a Rathputh, a sort of puffy looking mushroom like creature that released spore puffs when threatened, making for a very sleepy victim, allowing the little critter to run and hide.
~*~
AUTHORS NOTE: My apologize to any Draco fans who like him to be all-good (I seem to be apologizing a lot!), but I just felt like he'd make a good baddie at the moment. All nice to begin with, but enraged at the smallest sign of rejection. What did you think? Oh and yes I do know that most wizards could just do their little spell and the flames wouldn't bother them, but the mutants don't know that.
~*~
"So." She started "Your mutants"
"What gave us away? Was it the whole announcement by the Dumbledore guy down stairs" Jubilee cut in.
Spawning smiles on Rogues and Bobby's faces, as Hermione flushed a deep scarlet. "Um, so, er whats being a mutant like?" Ron asked
Again Jubilee answered first "Whats being a wizard like?" she countered.
Rogue just shook her head at that "Jubilee's just being annoying at the moment, she'll get over it when she relaxes a little"
"Yeah" Bobby pitched in "Try talking to her when some of the others get here. or when she gets some sleep" Jubilee just shot the two of them a scathing look and shut up at Bobby's grin.
"So you asked what its like?" Rogue stated, "It can be wonderful, exciting, sometimes you can feel like the worlds yours, but it can also be terrifying, especially when your mutation starts. You get these powers that you can't stop or control; sometimes powers that are so extreme you become a danger to everyone around you"
She could feel it sliding into her eyes, personal experience and she knew they could see, but it didn't matter. The sooner any misconceptions about what mutants were, where cleared up the better it would be.
"Then there are the people, the normals, that fear us, that hunt and persecute us because we're different, because they're scared of us" she could feel a tear slid down her cheek, and just hoped they'd think it was sweat, "So, that's what its like to be a Mutant"
"You forgot family" Bobby said, though it was in a small voice, his own had been scared of him, his own brother calling the police on them, making them run.
"Yeah, a lot of the time when your family finds out you're a mutant you have to run. They're terrified of you, report you or whatever. And now even if they don't want to they have to" There was an almost malicious smile on Jubilee's face "The Mutant Registration Act, guaranteed to keep all mutants known and traceable. You don't sign up and you get found out, prison, probable some kind of a brand or implant as well"
Everyone but Ron was looking at the three with a bit of shock, speechless; they probable hadn't been expected quite so much.
"But you've got these like wicked powers, don't you? I mean a lot of people would kill to be able to do the stuff you guys can do, sure there are some draw backs, but give it a few years and I bet it'll all die down" he said in one breathless sentence.
This time it was the mutant's turn to be shocked, kill to have our powers? Rogue thought bitterly, If I could, I'd give mine away!
Hermione and Ginny both gave him a vicious elbow in the ribs, but she didn't take much notice of that.
She probable should have used some common sense and let Bobby or Jubilee respond to what he has said, but she couldn't think anymore.
"And how long have wizards been around? A few thousand years maybe? I notice you don't seem to be racing to reveal yourselves? Could it possibly have anything to do with the burnings? The persecutions that have been going on for hundred of years?" she said in one breathless rush of her own "I'm sure the appropriate time just hasn't presented itself", her voice dripped with sarcasm on the last sentence
She barely noticed him murmur an apology before she was trying to apologize herself.
"Oh god, I'm sorry, it's just, just-"
"Just that our powers, our mutations can bring us a lot of grief" Bobby told them, his eyes flicked towards Rogue "None of you have asked why Rogue's wearing her coat, I mean its nicely warm in here for us, but unless your blind you should be able to see that she's boiling"
The Gryffindors were obviously confused by the change of subject, and a little embarrassed that they hadn't noticed Rogue's discomfort.
After a long pause Harry finally asked "Erm, so, ah Rogue, why are you wearing your coat still?"
"Do you have some kind of a disfiguring, er what was it called, um mutation?" Ron interrupted eagerly before she had a chance to say anything, Rogue didn't even realize she'd slipped off one of her gloves until Bobby's hand was gripping her sleeve-covered wrist.
"Erm, I think we should take Ron off to bed before he gets to experience some of your powers up close, don't you Harry?" Neville said giving him a quick nudge, smart boy to catch on to the tension.
"Oh what? Yeah, yeah lets go"
Rogue watched as a protesting Ron was dragged away, once he'd disappeared up the stairs with the other two boys, Hermione and Ginny gave her a nervous look.
"Um, I think maybe we should all get some rest -" Hermione started
"Good idea, we can continue this in the morning" Jubilee interrupted, up on her feet and happily pushing the two girls towards the other spiral stair case, "We'll just stay down here for the night" she said and gave them one final push.
They didn't argue too much, vanishing fairly quickly up the stairs, Jubilee slumping back onto a couch as soon as they were gone.
"Well that got a bit tense, didn't it?" She said light heartedly
Bobby just gave her a look as Rogue slipped her hood back up and lay her head against his chest, letting herself be lulled to sleep by the rhythm of his breathing, the feel of his chest rising and falling.
Tucking her legs up beside her, she let her eyes drift shut as Bobby's hand rested on her own head, murmuring that everything would be alright once the wizards got over the initial shock.
Released one final frustrated breath she let her body succumb to its need for sleep, her mind reliving the day and the irritably unimpeded curiosity of the red head.
~*~
Rogue dreamed once more of adamantium, tasting it plunge through skin, gasping as it sent shock waves rippling through her, not of pain exactly. She dreamed of her hand touching Logan, his cheek bristling to the touch from lack of shaving.
And in moments it was veined, blood flowing towards her, but more than blood also as those veins stood so far up, she could feel his energy, his strength flowing from him.
His ability to heal infusing her, veins standing out of the skin of her own back as his power flowed there, clotting the blood and knitting the wound shut. From there she flicked to John, stealing his pyrokenetic abilities to stop him.
She could feel her body shuddering as she slept, flicking back and forth between those she had stolen from.the first boy she had ever kissed, Bobby in their brief contact, and as always Magneto.
Not stolen but thrust upon her unwillingly, in a plot that would have ended in her death.
Even as she dreamt she could feel each of them inside of her, memories, emotions, pain, no matter who she took energy from she could always feel their pain and of course the distinct feel of the energy that flowed through each of them. Magneto and Logan in particular, each having kept contact with her skin for longer than they should have.
~*~
Rogue jerked awake to a damped fire and light filtering in from the immensely sized windows, the storm of the night before having passed. One or two of the students beginning to descend from their dormitories.
She didn't need to look to see that Bobby was still asleep; she could feel it from the deep rhythm of his breathing. Jubilee on the other hand, was up and about and bouncing around, filled with the almost vibrating energy that she always seemed to possess.
She jerked Rogue up off the seat and was dragging her towards the portrait of the Fat Lady before she was awake enough to work out what was happening
"Where are we going?" she asked
"To breakfast" Jubilee replied smugly
"But what about -"
"Bobby?? Let him catch up when he wakes up! Now come on" she said continuing to drag Rogue out of the common room and into the hallway where two girls already stood, she was relieved to see it wasn't the two from the night before, she didn't quite feel like continue that conversation yet.
Jubilee gave a quick introduction, "Lavender, Parvati" Pointing to each to go with the name
"Now come on!"
Resigned to her fate she managed to get free of Jubilee and followed on her own two legs while the three other girls began to busily chat. Gossips, she thought.
And before she knew it, she and the others had arrived back in the Great Hall, where the ceiling was now proudly displaying a clear, sunny sky. Taking some seats at the Gryffindor table, Rogue only partially paying attention to the three Gossips, some discussion about magically hair and make up, how it saved hours or something like that.
Propped up by one arm she wistfully gazed around the hall, it was still early and despite the fact that classes for the Hogwarts Students started in a few hours most people where still asleep. Or just stumbling out of bed, truthfully if she'd been in an actually bed she probable would have been asleep as well.
"Hey Rogue, earth to Rogue! Come in Rogue!" Rogue started out of her thoughts at the hand waving in front of her.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, what were you saying?" She asked
Jubilee rolled her eyes and then was just one big smile, "I was saying that Lavender just told me we've got today, maybe even a couple more days off before lessons pick back up for us, as there's still a lot of confusion about our teachers, and mutants still getting here"
She started to turn back to Lavender, than swung back to face Rogue again "Oh, and do you wanna go with Lavender and Parvati to their first lesson? Its something about caring for magical creatures, magicless for the most part so it should be no prob for us, and that Dumbly guy said we could last night"
Rogue just blinked at the onslaught, Bobby would probable be asleep for a few hours yet, and she could always catch up with him at lunch, so she shrugged and said "Why not?"
And so an hour later she found herself descending from the castle down to the school grounds, there was a group of students gathering down to a sort of hut on the edge of the forest. "That it?" She asked, and got a yep from Parvati.
When they got closer she noticed the silver and green snake crest on some of the students uniforms, Lavender answered the question before she could ask it "We share this class with the Slytherins". And from her tone, she really didn't like it either.
"Don't you like Slytherins?" Jubilee asked
They had almost reached the group when Parvati answered "Slytherins in general are what muggles call the bad guys, a lot of them are rotten to the core and go to the dark side when they graduate, that one over there" pointing to a greasy, slicked back, blonde "is Draco Malfoy and he's the worst of them all, even more so since most of the Slytherins treat him like some kind of a God"
"Is that why he's got the two henchmen?" Rogue asked as she noticed the two, very broad, very big teens either side of him.
"Crabbe and Goyle" Lavender said, "No one can really remember whose who, so it doesn't matter if you can't tell which is Crabbe and which is Goyle"
She was getting an eerie sort of feeling from the Blonde and she didn't like it, especially when he started looking at her like he was appraising a piece of potential property, his cool little eyes raking over her.
She liked it even less when he pushed off the post he'd been leaning against and swaggered over her way. Lavender gave him a look of disgust as he reached them and stuck out a hand, for a moment she was wondering whether she was meant to shake it or get down on her knees and kiss it.
"Draco Malfoy" he stated with a cocky self-assuredness
In the end she took his hand, not wanting to be rude "Rogue" she said
He cocked an eyebrow at that, "Just Rogue?"
She nodded, "Um, are you going to let go of my hand?"
For a moment he just looked down at it, as if wondering what he should do with it before letting it go, hesitantly. "Its pretty warm out here for those of us in robes, you've got to be boiling in those" he said indicating her several layer, plus coat, hood and gloves.
He reached in to push back her hood and she jerked away from him, not for the reasons the people around must have thought since they'd burst into laughter, but because she was afraid she'd hurt him.
"I'm-I'm sorry" she stammered quickly, "It's just I-I"
His face contorted with the rage of injured pride, and more dangerous, prejudice "Its just your a stupid little bitch, whose too much of an idiot to see a good thing!! There isn't a word in the wizard or muggle world filthy enough to describe you" he was literally spitting as he raged now, and crippling her composure
"You're worse than any mudblood, at least some kind of wizarding blood runs through their veins, your some kind of a damn muggle trying to pollute the lines by rising above yourself, your disgusting, your-your -"
A lot of people around her were starting to make noise about what Draco was saying and Jubilee's hand were raised dangerously, but she could already feel tears sliding down her cheeks, and lowered her head so he wouldn't see, her mistake, his was trying to force her to meet his eyes again.
Striking a hand out to grip her chin and yank it up to face him, she tried to shake it off but his grip was like iron and he was continuing to fume, unnoticing of the terror in her eyes, she could already feel him, the slight prickle of it beginning, the initial rush.and finally his awareness that something bad was happening.
His skin turned even more of a deathly pale then it had already been and he collapsed to the ground as his knee's gave out under him, trying to suppress the pleasure at the new power flowing through her as fragmented memories shot through her. Looking down at him she thought that he'd been lucky.
He hadn't kept contact very long once it had begun and she was pretty sure that he'd be fine in ten or fifteen minutes, she wasn't so sure about herself though as everyone was wondering what had just happened.
Also as she'd had a rush of his thoughts. he wasn't a good person. And given half the chance he'd get revenge, even though the fault had been his own and not hers.
With confused looks the two henchmen picked him up and carried him back over to the fence where he just huddled against a sneering pug faced girl
Most of the Slytherins stayed out of easy contact with her after that, as did some of the Gryffindors, but Lavender and Parvati just shrugged it off.
The rest of the lesson went well after that though, Harry and his group turned up and just smiled when Lavender gave them a condensed version of what had happened. And when she glanced around for Bobby Harry said he'd migrated up to one of the dorms to continue sleeping, which had just made her smile, typical boys.
Rogue also got to meet the man Hagrid seeing as he taught the lesson, from his size she'd been wondering whether he was a mutant himself until Parvati told her that he was half giant, then said but he was a nice guy and there was no reason to be scared of him. She also got to see something called a Rathputh, a sort of puffy looking mushroom like creature that released spore puffs when threatened, making for a very sleepy victim, allowing the little critter to run and hide.
~*~
AUTHORS NOTE: My apologize to any Draco fans who like him to be all-good (I seem to be apologizing a lot!), but I just felt like he'd make a good baddie at the moment. All nice to begin with, but enraged at the smallest sign of rejection. What did you think? Oh and yes I do know that most wizards could just do their little spell and the flames wouldn't bother them, but the mutants don't know that.