22 July 2004 : How stupid am I? I've put up the same chaoter twice, when this was the one that really wanted to go up . . . Thanks to Rednal29 for noticing! Hope this is better. How ever didn't anyone else notice? Or did they and I just ignored them?!
Disclaimer : I don't own any of the characters blah blah blahdy blah. Except Aurora. And Lana.
This chapter is dedicated to Jezuz (no not the actual 'Son of God', just my friend!) coz she's mean. And evil about this story. But she does give me helpful hints!
Snape and Aurora walked down the long corridors and down flights of steps, until they finally reached the dungeons and the Slytherin common room. Snape said the password and a large stone door appeared and swung slowly open. The volume of noise that hit Aurora was astounding.
"Oi! Pass me that book will you?"
"Come back!"
Voices shouted around the room. But when Snape stepped into the room, all fell silent. He waved his hand. "It's alright, go back to what you were doing," he ordered. Most people did, but some stared at Aurora as she too stepped into the common room.
"Lucius!" said Snape.
"Severus," said Lucius Malfoy, who was sitting on one of the sofas next to his son. Two other, menacing-looking boys, stood beside them like bodyguards, threatening off anyone who came near.
"What are you doing here?" asked Snape.
"I am here to speak to the headmaster about my son, Severus," Lucius answered coldly. Aurora looked into his mind and found deep, cold hate for Snape, a deserted Death Eater.
"The headmaster wishes to see you and I, Lucius," said Snape, just as coldly. "Now," he added and turned to leave. Lucius Malfoy rose off of his seat, then stopped and looked at Aurora.
"Who's the girl?"
"Oh yes. This Aurora. She is a new fifth year."
"She is a pure blood I presume? We can't have Dra- I mean any of the Slytherins mixing with mudbloods."
"It depends what you mean by pure blood," Aurora spoke up. "If you mean pure blood witch, then no, I'm not a pure blood."
"You aren't?"
"No."
"But - Severus!" Lucius turned to Snape. "How dare this girl be in Slytherin, and not be a pure blood? It's not right!"
"She said she was not pure blood witch, Lucius. This does not mean she is not pure blooded something else," he said, giving Aurora a small smile.
"Well?" Lucius barked. "What are you girl?"
But yet again, Aurora was not listening. She was too busy looking at Draco Malfoy, and he was looking at her.
"I said, girl, what are you?" he said again.
"Hm?" she answered pulling her eyes off the blond boy sitting on the sofa and looking at his father. "Oh," she said, scanning his brain for the last thing he said. "I'm pure blood sorceress," she finally said.
"Sorceress? I was told sorcery was dead!"
"Are you joking? There are more of us than ever. You have to be born into us though, so there are not as many of us as there are witches and wizards."
"Well, if some of us had our way, we wizards and witches would be the same," said Lucius. "But that day will never come…"
"Now Lucius, we really must go," said Snape. "We should not keep the headmaster waiting." Together Snape and Lucius Malfoy swept out of the room, clearly trying to keep as far apart from each other as possible. Aurora was left standing alone in the middle of the room, which was slowly starting to empty as people left to go to bed.
"Do you want to sit down?" asked Draco Malfoy.
"Sure," she answered. "You're Draco, right?"
He nodded. "And you're Aurora," she nodded and sat down next to him on the sofas. "So, you're a sorceress?"
"Yes."
"Father has always said that there were no sorcerers left."
"There are very few of us. Perhaps four or five hundred in the world."
"A lot less than there are of us," one of the bodyguards coughed. "Oh yes. This is Crabbe and Goyle."
"I know."
"You do?"
"Of course. I am telepathic after all."
"You are?" Draco's eyes went wide with amazement.
"Yes," Aurora laughed. "And a… what do you call it? Animagus? And I can apparate, and see into the future, and make things move with my mind, and much more."
"You must be very powerful to do all of this."
"Yes."
"Then why are you here? I mean, if you can do all of these things without ever going to school…"
"How did you know I had never been to school?"
"I guessed so. Anyway, why are you here?"
"My tutor, Lana, thought it fit to send me here. She told Dumbledore it was to 'right my wrong ways', whatever that means."
"You must be bad though. There isn't a good person in Slytherin."
"I know. I am technically evil," she pulled up the sleeve of her left hand robe, and burned on her upper forearm was a large circle with a curved line horizontally through the middle. "This makes me so."
"What is that?"
"When a sorcerer or sorceress is about twelve years old, a test is taken. Two knives are laid in front of them, and they are told to pick one of them up. I happened to pick up the one that means I am evil. The knife, whichever one you pick up, then makes a symbol on your upper arm."
"That symbol?"
"Yes," Aurora yawned.
"Are you tired?" Draco asked.
"Yes, a bit. I think I should go to bed."
"Do you have lessons tomorrow?"
"Yeah," Aurora stood up.
"I should go to bed as well," Draco stood up too. "Do you want one of those two to take your trunk up to your room for you?"
"No, it's OK, I can carry it," Aurora said, walking over to where she had put her trunk down, "or not," she whispered, levitating her trunk with her hand. "Night then," she said. "Thanks," she added, turning back to where Draco was standing.
"For what?" he asked.
"Making me feel like I fit in a bit," she said. "It's going to be so difficult." Aurora turned and walked to the stone steps up to her room, her trunk trailing after her.
"Breakfast is at eight o'clock!" shouted Draco after her. She turned around. "I'll meet you here if you want, and take you up to the Great Hall."
"Sure. Night!"
Aurora climbed the steps carefully, thinking about what she had seen in Draco's mind. His father bullied him constantly, always telling him to be top of the class, best at everything, and his mother went along with her husband. He felt unloved by anyone, insecure inside. Aurora would help to change that.
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