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mOOnmaiden: This chapter will tell you what house she was placed into. I'll touch up more on why her family was killed later
Chapter 2"Are you ready to go?" Draco asked entering Elizabeth's room.
"All set." Elizabeth replied as she closed the lid on her school trunk.
"Let's get going." Draco said as a couple of house elves showed up to take the trunk to the station.
"Okay." Elizabeth said as they headed towards the library.
When they entered the library Lucius pulled Elizabeth into a hug. Pulling away from her he asked: "You know how to use floo powder right?"
"Yes." Elizabeth relied as she took some powder from the bowl on the mantle.
"Good." Lucius said as he stepped away and she entered the fireplace. "You go ahead. You're going to platform nine and three quarters."
"Okay see you in a bit." Elizabeth said as she stepped into the fireplace and said: "Platform nine and three quarters."
Elizabeth pulled her elbows in tight as she saw fireplace after fireplace go by. She stepped out as gracefully as she could when she came to a stop and brushed off the soot on her robes. She smiled when she looked around and saw the chaos. Parents were giving their children hugs and kisses. Younger children were yelling trying to get the attention of their older brothers and sisters before they left for the year.
"Elizabeth!" Elizabeth turned around when she heard her name and smiled at Pansy. "Let's go get a compartment before the good ones are taken."
"Okay." Elizabeth said as they boarded the train and walked down the hallway.
"In here." Pansy said as she opened a door to a compartment and found it empty.
"These are pretty good sized compartments." Elizabeth said as she sat down on one of the seats.
"Yea, it's going to probably just be you, Draco, Goyle, Crabbe and I who are in here." Pansy said as she looked out the window and waved. Turning to Elizabeth she said: "The boys are coming."
"Hey Draco, Crabbe, Goyle." Elizabeth and Pansy said as the boys entered the compartment.
"Elizabeth, mom and dad want to say good-bye." Draco said putting his hand out to escort Elizabeth to his parents.
"We'll see you for the holidays." Lucius said as he gave Elizabeth a hug.
"Have a good year." Narcissa said.
"I'll see you in December." Elizabeth said.
"Take care of your sister Draco." Lucius said.
"I will." Draco said dropping his arm on Elizabeth's shoulder.
"Have a good year." Lucius said as the two boarded the train.
"We will." Elizabeth said as the train began to move.
"Draco," Pansy said once they had entered the compartment. "we have a prefect's meeting to get to."
"All right." Draco replied as he looked around the compartment. "Where are Crabbe and Goyle?"
"Looking for the witch with the trolley cart." Pansy said shrugging. "They couldn't wait."
"Will you be okay alone for awhile?" Draco asked.
"I'll be fine." Elizabeth answered as she took a seat.
Elizabeth waited until she was certain that they were gone, then she got up and began walking to the back of the train checking compartments as she went along.
"Hi Elizabeth." Elizabeth closed the door to the compartment she had been checking and looked at the person who had said hi.
"Hi Ginny." Elizabeth said. "I was looking for you."
"Well, walk down with us. We're on our way to a prefect's meeting." Ginny said as she pointed to the two people behind her. "This is my brother Ron and his friend Hermione."
"Hi." Elizabeth said
"Hello." Hermione and Ron said.
"Did your brothers send my things?" Elizabeth asked as they came to a stop outside a door.
"Yes." Ginny answered. "I'll let you have them when we get to school."
"Great." Elizabeth replied. "See you later."
When she got back to her compartment she wasn't surprised to find Crabbe and Goyle. Goyle turned to her as she sat down and asked: "Where were you?"
"Trying to find the bathroom." Elizabeth answered. "There was someone in it though."
"Come on." Goyle said leading her out of the compartment. "I'll go with you."
When they got back, Draco and Pansy had returned.
"Where were you?" Draco asked looking suspiciously at Goyle.
"Restroom." Elizabeth answered. "He didn't want me going by myself."
"All right." Draco said calming down a bit. Draco motioned for Elizabeth to sit between him and the window.
During the entire ride Elizabeth watched the scenery go buy while everyone else talked about a weasel and potty.
"I don't see the connection between a weasel and a toilet." Elizabeth thought as the train slowed down and came to a stop.
"Impressive." Elizabeth said under her breath when she and the rest of the first years arrived after the boat ride.
As they entered the main hall Elizabeth held her head up and tried to ignore the first years that were pointing at her and whispering. When they reached double doors a stern looking teacher was waiting for them and everyone got real quiet.
"Hello, my name is Professor McGonagall and I am the Deputy Headmistress, the transfiguration professor and head of Gryffindor house." Professor McGonagall said. "When you go through these doors you will be separated into you houses. While you are here your houses will be like you family…"
Elizabeth listened as Professor McGonagall went over the house rules and the point system.
"We have a student transferring to us from Beaubaxtons." Professor McGonagall said as everyone turned to Elizabeth. "She needs to be sorted also. Due to her age difference she will be sorted after the rest of you. Follow me."
Professor McGonagall turned and led everyone into the Great Hall. Elizabeth was the last to enter and she held her head up high as she walked to the front of the hall. Elizabeth stood off to the right as she listened to the sorting hat's song. She waited patiently as first year after first year were made Gryffindors, Slytherins, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs.
"As you all can se we have one more student." Professor McGonagall said as she motioned for Elizabeth to come forward. "She's transferring to us from Beaubaxtons and she also needs to be sorted so without further ado Malfoy, Elizabeth."
As Elizabeth took her seat on the stool she was surprised to see a look of horror on Ginny's face. Ron and Hermione were staring open mouthed from Ginny to Elizabeth.
"Hmmm" Elizabeth jumped when she heard the voice in her head.
"Who are you?" Elizabeth asked.
"I'm the sorting hat" Came the reply. "I will sort you into your new house."
"Okay." Elizabeth replied somewhat confused. After all it's not everyday that a piece of clothing decides your future.
"Well now this is interesting."
"What is?" Elizabeth asked.
"You are difficult to place."
"Is that good or bad?"
"Please call the headmaster. I would like to speak with him."
"The hat would like to talk to the headmaster." Elizabeth said to Professor McGonagall.
Elizabeth watched as the hat was placed on the headmaster's head. Turning to Draco she shrugged her shoulders at the confused look he gave her. When Professor McGonagall replaced the hat on Elizabeth's head, she was worried.
"Well that's settled" The hat told Elizabeth "Your house is…"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
When Elizabeth turned to look at Draco she noticed that every other person in the Great Hall was doing the same thing. Draco's eyes widened for a second before he regained his calm composure. He watched Elizabeth as she got off the stool and headed towards the Gryffindor table where everyone had turned their attention to her. As she neared Ginny and her friends Elizabeth heard the whispering start.
"Has there ever been a Malfoy in Gryffindor?" A fourth year Gryffindor asked her friend.
"Never mind that." Her friend said. "Has there ever been a Malfoy who wasn't a Slytherin?"
Elizabeth continued took a seat next to Ginny and her friends and tried to ignore the whispering going on around her.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a Malfoy?" Ginny asked after they had been eating for a while.
"Why does it matter?" Elizabeth asked as she looked from one person to the next.
"Draco is your brother right?" Hermione asked.
"Yes." Elizabeth said as she looked across the hall and made eye contact with Draco.
"Draco doesn't exactly like us." Hermione said.
"Why?" Elizabeth asked guardedly. Draco had to have a good reason to not like these people.
"I'm muggle born." Hermione said simply.
"Since our family doesn't feel the need to only associate with purebloods, we're considered to be blood traitors by the Malfoy family." Ginny said motioning to her brother and herself.
"I'm Harry Potter." Harry said simply.
"Come on." Elizabeth said brushing those reason aside. "There has to be a better reason than that."
"No," Hermione answered, "there isn't."
"If you want to turn my sister against me Granger, why not tell her the truth?" Draco asked as he came up behind her with Crabbe, Goyle and Pansy.
"What are you talking about Malfoy?" Harry asked as he turned in his seat to scowl at Draco.
"I'm talking about the fact that you four are responsible for sending my father to Azkaban last year." Draco said as he glared at Harry and his friends.
Elizabeth looked from Draco to Harry in surprise. "How can these four teenagers be responsible for sending my father to prison?"
"Your father is a Death Eater Draco." Harry said through gritted teeth as people all over the hall began to look at what was happening at the Gryffindor table. "He was somewhere he shouldn't have been and he got caught."
"Ginny can you show me to our common room." Elizabeth asked as she got up, she had the feeling that she would have to choose sides if she didn't get out of there soon.
"Sure," Ginny said standing up and motioning for the other first years to follow her. "I have to show the other first years the way anyway."
Two days later Elizabeth was not surprised when she received a letter from Lucius at breakfast. He told her that he was certain Dumbledore had something to do with it. Elizabeth didn't let Lucius and Draco's outrage bother her. Elizabeth began hanging out with Ron, Harry and Hermione during classes. Whenever they had classes with Slytherin, Elizabeth would try and avoid the fight that had been going on since the first time these people had met.
"That will be twenty points each from Gryffindor Mr. Potter and Ms. Granger." Elizabeth looked up from the potion that she and Ron had been working on and saw Harry and Hermione's potion that was supposed to be light blue and simmering was a dark orange and boiling over. When she looked over their shoulder she saw Crabbe and Draco snickering as Draco stuffed something inside his robe.
"I wonder they did?" Ron said venomously when he saw what had caught Elizabeth's attention.
"I think it's time I paid my brother back." Elizabeth said her annoyance clearly written on her face.
"Pay him back for what? What are you planning and can I help?" Ron asked as he watched Harry and Hermione clean up their workspace.
"The first time I met my brother he annoyed me." Elizabeth said as she turned towards their potion. "I can't tell you what I'm planning, but it will be good. I'm getting help from your brothers who own the joke shop in Diagon Alley."
"Fred and George." Ron said incredulously. "Malfoy won't know what hit him. This will be good."
For the next few weeks Ron tried to imagine what Elizabeth could be planning. Elizabeth for her part was not acting like she was planning anything. By the fourth week, Ron had forgotten what Elizabeth had said, so he was surprised when Neville shook him awake on a Saturday morning.
"Ron wake up." Neville said as he shook Ron roughly. Turning to face everyone in the room he said: "Wake up everybody."
"What is it Neville?" Harry asked as the boys woke up and pushed themselves up on their elbows.
"You have to come and see what's outside our common room." Neville said excitedly.
"What?" Ron asked as he lay back down and rolled onto his side.
"There's a lot of water." Neville said shaking Ron again.
"So someone spilt water." Dean said as he also lay back down. "It was probably Peeves."
"Not spilt water." Neville said sounding exasperated. "It looks like an ocean."
"A what!" The four sleepy boys exclaimed as they jumped out of bed and ran out the door and to the common room. When they reached the common room, they found everyone gathered around the entrance.
"What's going on?" Dean asked when they arrived.
"Someone put a beach outside our entrance." Lavender said.
"A beach!" Harry exclaimed as they pushed their way to the front.
When they reached the entrance they were surprised to see a little island of sand that extended fifteen feet around the entrance. The rest of the hall was an ocean.
"What on earth!"
The Gryffindors on the island and in the entrance looked up and saw Professor McGonagall standing at the end of the hall looking furious.
About forty-five minutes later all the students and teachers were gathered in the Great Hall. Beaches had appeared outside every common room, but nobody had any idea why.
"I want to know who did it," Professor McGonagall said the anger in her voice clear. "and I want to know now."
Everyone sat quietly and looked around to see who would confess. After about ten minutes Professor Snape stepped forward and said: "This does resemble the trick the Weasley twins pulled last year."
"Severus, are you suggesting Fred and George did this?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"Of course not." Snape said looking at Ron and Ginny. "But perhaps their younger siblings may know something about it."
Ron and Ginny looked from each other to Snape and glared at their least favorite teacher.
"It appears as if no one wants to confess." Dumbledore said as he scanned the room. Elizabeth could have sworn that his gaze lasted a moment longer on her. As food appeared Dumbledore said: "Enjoy you meal."
Through out the entire day all anyone could talk about was how a beach could appear outside of all the common rooms. Later in the day Ron, Ginny, Harry, and Hermione cornered Elizabeth in the common room.
"Did you do it?" Ginny asked. "I know you told my brothers that you wanted to start the year off with a bang."
"The first problem with that is how would I know where all the common room are?" Elizabeth asked looking from one face to another.
"You could have found out." Ron said sitting on the couch.
"From who?" Elizabeth asked. As she eyed everyone she asked: "Who else knows where the common rooms are besides the Professors?"
"The prefects!" Hermione exclaimed. "Are you suggesting that a prefect did this?"
"I'm not suggesting anything." Elizabeth said reassuringly. "I'm just saying why not start by looking at the obvious people first?"
Ginny eyed her skeptically and asked: "Elizabeth did you do it?"
Elizabeth scanned the room and saw that no one was close enough to get her into trouble. With a large smile Elizabeth gave a slight nod.
"Do you think the twins will count that as getting us?" Ginny asked.
"Why?" Ron asked.
"They promised her a fifty percent discount if she got us." Ginny explained to Ron.
"They might." Ron said. Turning to Elizabeth he asked her: "Was this your plan to get your brother back?"
"Nope," Elizabeth said as she looked at the disappointment on Ron's face. "I didn't think that I could get my brother, you and Ginny together. I decided to do it separately."
"My brothers said you had to get the three of us together." Ginny said.
"Yes, and the beaches were aimed at the three of you." Elizabeth replied. "I want to get my brother again with something better."
"All right." The four friends said.
Later that evening everyone had stopped talking about the beaches and had gathered at the Great Hall for dinner. They had all been eating for about ten minutes when out of nowhere Hermione, Harry, Elizabeth, Ginny and Ron all turned into different colored canaries. Everyone in the hall looked from the five friends to Draco who cast one look at Elizabeth and started laughing hysterically. Soon the entire hall was laughing causing Harry, Hermione, Ginny and Ron to fly out of the room.
Elizabeth stayed where she was and when the charm had worn off she glared at Draco. "Did you think that was funny Draco?" She screamed.
"You have to admit it was funny." Draco said smiling at her.
"No it wasn't." Elizabeth said as she headed towards the door. Turning to face back to face him before she walked out of the hall she said: "I can't believe you would do that to me."
"I don't know what she's talking about." Draco said as he went back to eating. "I had nothing to do with it."
Draco and his friends passed McGonagall as they were leaving the Great Hall thirty minutes later. Just as the walked by her a small jar fell out of Draco's pocket. McGonagall picked it up, read the label and said: "Thirty points from Slytherin Mr. Malfoy as well as a week of detention with me."
"What!" Draco exclaimed.
"Next time you claim that you didn't pull a stunt make sure you don't have the evidence in you pockets." Professor McGonagall said handing him the jar.
"It's not my jar." Draco said as she walked away and he read the jar. He stared at the jar then threw it away in the trash. The label said Canary Crème Cream. Draco knew it was Weasley product but he had no clue as to how it had ended up in his pocket.
Once they had all left and there was no one in sight a small giggle was heard then Elizabeth and Ron pulled off Harry's invisibility cloak.
"Thanks for the help Ron." Elizabeth said smiling as they headed back towards Gryffindor common room.
"No problem." Ron answered smiling. "I wish you would have told me."
"Sorry." Elizabeth answered shrugging. "I had to catch you and Ginny off guard in order for your brothers to give me the fifty percent discount. Hopefully everyone will forgive me."
"I'm sure they will." Ron said. "I thought that the beaches were the prank."
"Nah, I wanted to start the year off with a bang. That was the beach prank, I figured if I pranked you and Ginny while getting my brother a detention would be more fun."
"Good one." Ron said.
"Do you think your brothers will still give me the discount?" Elizabeth asked.
"I'm sure they will." Ron answered. "I want to hear all about how you planned this one."
"Okay." Elizabeth said as they put their arms around each other and continued on to their common room with Elizabeth explaining how she had got Dobby to place the cream in the bowl of mashed potatoes at their normal section of the table.
