Chapter 4

Jade looked back over her shoulder to where Ginny was standing with some unknown person. She tugged on Harry's sleeve, and he looked down at her "Who's that talking to Ginny?" She asked nodding her head back to where Ginny was.

"Oh that's…" Harry started but was interrupted.

"Hello again Harry, Jade" Hermione greeted them as they neared their spot at the table.

"Hey," Harry replied pulling out a seat for Jade, then sitting down himself next to her.

"Good morning," Jade greeted with a smile as she crossed her legs under the table and placed a napkin in her lap.

"Tell me," Ron started watching her little routine "Was Catback like a finishing school or something?"

"Ron!" Hermione scolded. "That was very rude."

"Oh hush Hermione, it was only a question." Ron retorted grabbed a knife-full of butter and starting on his toast.

"Um…" Jade raised her eyebrow looking at Ron "Not really, it was just like here…I supposed." Jade shrugged "My parents always taught me and my sister to always to poise and proper." Jade looked between Harry, Ron and Hermione "Always act like a lady, mother used to say."

"Oh Hermione!" Ron exclaimed, "You should take some lessons, act like a lady"

Hermione narrowed her eyes at him "I am perfectly happy with the way I am." Hermione stuck her chin in the air "Whether you like it or not."

"I was just saying," Ron shrugged "Maybe you could be just a little more feminine," He took a bite of toast "Mavy fen, you'd be a vittle vess up-tight."

Hermione swung her arm and forcefully hit Ron's upper arm. "Shut it, Ronald." Ron frowned and crossed his arm turning his back on Hermione.

Jade looked at Harry "Are they always this childish when they flirt?" She asked.

Ron looked at Jade in horror "VE ARE VOT-"

Hermione cut in "Swallow first Ron,"

Ron swallowed and continued his thought "WE ARE NOT FLIRTING!" he defended himself.

Jade raised her eyebrows and stood up placing her napkin on her clean plate. "Well, I'm off to my class, I want to check in with Professor Cheewa's lesson." Jade smiled "I might've already learned it."

Harry smiled and stood up next to her "I'll come with you," He offered.

Jade shook her head "Stay, eat, I insist." She said calmly, and Harry took his seat again. Jade turned on her heel with a light wave and headed for the exit of the Great Hall, practically every eye that belonged to a male, followed her.

"There's something I don't like about her," Ron admitted.

"Oh Ron," Hermione rolled her eyes "I like her just fine, she's really smart."

"She thinks she's better than us or something." Ron whined.

"Well…maybe her parents are big and famous in America or something like that." Hermione shrugged "But she doesn't fault it, she's not Malfoy."

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Jade flipped her hair over her shoulder and look down at the piece of parchment in her hand, "Defense against the dark arts." She said to herself. "And I wonder where that would be." She said looking around with a little frown. She heard a sound to her left and turned looked for the source but didn't see anything. She shook her head and kept walking. She cautiously looked around every corner, this big dark castle made her extremely paranoid. She heart practically stopped when she heard a voice. She whipped around again and was face to face with the girl that had been talking to Ginny.

The girl forcefully pushed Jade against the wall and trapped her there with a hand firmly planting on the wall at either side of her head. "You better say away from him," She said menacingly.

"What? What are you talking about?" Jade closed her eyes and shrunk against the wall slightly, cowering to the girl.

"You stay away from Draco!!" She said raising her voice slightly. "Or else."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Jade said gripping the wall trying to find a loose stone or something.

"You know what I mean," The other girl took her hand off the wall and ran a pointed fingernail over Jade's fair skinned throat, "You stay away from him." She let her hand close around Jade's throat "Or I swear I'll kill you." She said squeezing her hand close choking Jade. Jade whimpered and her hands flew to her attackers wrists, trying to pry her hand off her neck.

"Let her go." A cool calm voice said from behind the other girl's back. "I said, let her go." The attacker dropped Jade and she fell in a heap to the floor, where she rolled over and started coughing her brains out.

"Oh Draco," The girl said crawling over to the source of the voice "She's the only thing in the way of you and me," the girl babbled on "If I kill her, it'll be you and me, all the way."

Draco pushed the girl away from him "Get out of here you dirty piece of Slytherin scum," Draco spat "You're a complete disgrace to your house."

The girl's eyes narrowed dangerously "Fine, you take your little Gryffindor slut," She started walking away slowly "But you wait, as soon as she's gone, you'll come crawling to me."

Draco rolled his eyes and swooped to Jade's side sitting her up and tapping her back, "You alright?" He asked gently.

"What the hell was that about?" Jade asked through a series of coughs. "Who the hell was that?"

Draco shook his head and wrapped his arms around Jade, putting her head on his shoulder and standing her up, "Don't worry about that,"

Jade looked at him like he was crazy. "Don't worry about it?" She asked frowning deeply "Draco she just threatened to kill me!"

"I'll take care of it." Draco purred, pushing a few strands of hair that had fallen out of her bun behind her ear. Jade nodded resting her head against his shoulder. Draco ran his hand over her cheek "It'll all be okay." Jade nodded weakly as her vision started to blur and her head began to feel very light. "Jade…Jade are you okay?" was the last thing she heard before falling completely limp in Draco's arms.

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A/N ; OHMY! Drama! Drama! Drama! Lol. Do I know my drama? Yes I do. Please review, I hoped you enjoyed. See isn't this re-write so much better then the original? LOVE, HERO.