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Chapter 3: The New Environment

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Their jaws dropped and their eyes bulged at the sight of the room. It was HUGE!!! The common room alone was probably the size of the Griffindor tower if you put all the levels laid out next to each other. It almost looked like a step down living room combined with a study room. The walls were a deep gray with a metallic look to them. There was a makeshift kitchen on the left side of the room with a Fridge and Freeze, a stove, food in cupboards, and a chopping table. The furniture in the common room symbolized their house colors with out looking like Christmas. There were two couches in the middle of the room with a large cherry wood coffee table in-between. The couches were one of a dark blood red and one of a dark forest green. There were bookcases lining the walls. There was a fireplace flush left next to the kitchen and two desks with each of their names engraved onto it flush right.

At the back of the room, there was a large double staircase. After examining the common room, they went upstairs. There was a hallway when they reached the top and three doors lining it. The first one they saw when they got up there was the bathroom. They could tell because there was a metallic navy sign with the word "washroom" engraved in it in a cursive white script. On the left there was Draco's room and on the right there was Hermione's room. Draco's room had a silver plate in the shape of a dragon with his name engraved in what looked like his own signature in green. Hermione's had a golden volleyball looking shape with her signature in red. At either end of the hall way were 10 feet tall French windows with small, round balconies outside. On each balcony there were two lawn chairs (one a pale olive green and one a pale cherry red) and a cooler table in-between. There was also an overhanging to protect the balconies from any kind of weather.

Hermione gave out a low whistle.

"You can say that again," Draco murmured to nobody in particular.

So she whistled again. He let out a small laugh.

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Hermione went to go open the door to her room, but found that she couldn't. After hearing her cries of frustration for what seemed like the fiftieth time, he started on his way upstairs with a note that was put on the Fridge door with a magnet.

"Hey! Granger! I think you might want to see this." He called as he walked downstairs. She looked short of temper, and he had to admit that the look that she gave him when she was upset was very close to a seductive scary one.

"What is it Malfoy?" He just handed her the paper, still looking in at her eyes, before turning away to go back downstairs where his latest book, The Fifth Quarter, was waiting for him.

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Dear Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy,

I hope this finds you settling comfortably into your new abode for the rest of the school year. I'm sure that you will find this letter very helpful, as you will not be able to enter your bedchambers with out it. As you may have noticed, if you try to open the door from the doorknob, it will shock you (Hermione shook out her numb hand "Now he tells me"). The only way to open the door is by fingerprint and password. You will each notice that you name plate opens from the top to reveal a dark black spot. For the first time to register your fingerprint, hold a finger of your choice from your wand hand to the black spot for 10 seconds. After that allotted amount of time, your fingerprint will be etched in the black spot in your metallic house color. Please remember which finger you use, because once you replace you nameplate to it's proper position, the gold etching will disappear until the nest time you decide to open your door. After replacing your nameplate, simply say a password into to the figure of your nameplate, and enter your room. Don't worry; it's easier afterwards, for you only need to hold your finger for about two seconds the rest of the time.

Enjoy!

Headmaster Dumbledor

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After she had finished reading the letter, she folded it and put it in her pocket.

"Let's get this over with then." She lifted up her nameplate and held her index finger to the dark spot on her door. She started to count to ten, but before she reached 9 her finger turned gold, so she withdrew her hand. She saw her fingerprint etched in the black area, shrugged, and replaced her nameplate.

'Now to decide a password. Books? No, to obvious. It needed to be something that Malfoy would never consider. Death eater? Nah, just a little too overboard.' Then she took a second look at her nameplate 'Aha! That's just the thing.'

"Pool Serpent" She said to her nameplate. She heard her lock unclick, so she stepped forward, wary of the doorknob, and opened the door.

'Jeeze, they must have had a really big budget for all of this.' She was speechless once again. Her room was painted a purple-dark blue, and had a Queen size bed at the side of the room, up against the wall. There was a long dresser with 8 drawers in it and a large rectangular mirror at the foot of her bed, so that the length of the bed and the length of the dresser were up against the wall to her left. There were two smaller nightstands next to each other on the same wall that the door was on. The wall directly in front of her had two fairly large windows on it. There was a desk in-between the two and a chest with a long cushion on top of it right underneath the closest window to her, which happened to be the one on the right. The wall to the right of her, or rather right in front of her, had a closet covered by fold away shutters closer to the windows and a hanging rug of a lion sitting on a rock in the moonlight closer to her.

Upon closer inspection, it seemed that if you pulled the rug back there was a tunnel that led to the Griffindor common room and that she had to do the same procedure with the rug door from the outside that she had to do with her normal door (which was good, so that Harry or Ron wouldn't be able to sneak up on her in the middle of the night.) She made this password 'lion rock' as she couldn't think of anything else. She also used her pinky this time.

After visiting Harry and Ron, she returned to her room to go to bed. After slipping into her tank top with her name printed on it with a blue music note behind it and her blue SweeTarts PJ bottoms she went over to her bed and was woken up a little more after looking at the bedding. It was her duvet from home with matching shams. ("I was going to put these on later, but I'll make sure to leave a sickle out for the house elf." So she put a not out to thank that house elf with a sickle next to it.) The sheets were a silk blue and it had a fuzzy purple blanket as well.

After taking it all in once more, she climbed into bed and went to sleep.

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After reading for a good half hour. Draco decided to go upstairs and get some of his beauty sleep. He remembered Dumbledoor's instructions after being shocked by his own doorknob. He lifted up his silver dragon nameplate and held his middle finger there until he saw it glow a golden color. He had already decided on a password.

"Shalom"

It was something that his father would never approve of, and it was something so random that nobody would ever think of his password. He gave one last sweep with his eyes of the hallway and downstairs before proceeding into his room, but what he saw caused him to stop in the doorway.

His room had a black and white pattern that looked similar to a piano, an instrument that he played. His room layout was almost the same as Hermione's. He had a Quidditch trunk instead of a chest; the rug was a big target (so that he could practice his beater skills) that stayed strait when it wasn't him that was touching it that led to the Slytherin common room, and he had two smaller mirrors instead of 1 rectangular one. He used his middle finger again when it came to the common room and he made his password 'target duck' incase anyone was able to get in.

After making a visit to his old common room and narrowly escaping Pansy's view (for she is a vile, vile girl) he made his way back to his room where he changed into his PJ pants of black with silver fire with no shirt (*Drool*) and made his way to his bed. Where he lifted one eyebrow, impressed with the taste of whoever designed the room, as they clearly knew him well. The comforter was a Zebra print (so as not to clash with the rest of the room, the blanket a fuzzy light green, and eye illusion circles (the ones where they overlap and become different colors) of forest green underneath.

Satisfied with his new environment he went to sleep.

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Like? Don't like? R&R P.S: Shalom has three different meanings in Hebrew ~ Hello, Goodbye, and Peace. I haven't figured out which one I should use for him though...yet. NEW POLL! You review, you decide! What meaning should I use? Also, feel free to comment if I'm going into too much detail or something. I was just trying to paint a picture so that y'all can see what I see in my head. Also Also, tell me if you like the designing of such so I know what to do with the bathroom for when they wake up in the morning...
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