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m00nmaiden and Glaze: Elizabeth knows that there are people that the Malfoy's don't want her talking to, so rather than take the chance, Elizabeth figured it was easier to just lie.
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Author's Note: Sorry it took me so long to update, I've been really busy lately, and this chapter was fighting me tooth and nail. It did not want to get written. Hopefully it doesn't take me as long to update the next chapter, but I've been on a role on one of my other stories and so I'm having trouble writing this story.
For weeks after the episode in the Great Hall, all any of the students could talk about was what had happened to the five Gryffindors. Nobody could believe that Draco would be so mean to his own sister, but because if it students from the other houses were being nicer to her.
"You know it wasn't me." Draco said during potions two weeks before people left for the holidays. Elizabeth had refused to talk to him since what had happened.
"That's not what I heard." Elizabeth said from her seat next to him. Snape had assigned partners for this assignment so Draco could try and sort things out with Elizabeth.
"It wasn't me." Draco said as they began to prepare the ingredients. "I had nothing to do with it."
"Then why was that bottle of Canary Crème Cream found in your pocket?" Elizabeth asked smirking inwardly at the pleading sound in Draco's voice.
"I don't know." Draco said. "Somebody must have put it there."
"Sure Draco." Elizabeth said concentrating on cutting her ingredients perfectly.
"It wasn't me." Draco said. "Why would I do something like that to you?"
"I don't know." Elizabeth answered. "You tell me."
"Elizabeth." Draco pleaded.
Elizabeth turned at the sound of Draco's voice and when she saw the look on his face she decided that she should let him off the hook. "Fine Draco. I believe you."
"You do." Draco said incredulously.
"Yes." Elizabeth said smiling. "Now can we just get back to our potion?"
"So you're going to start talking to me?" Draco asked.
"I have to." Elizabeth answered. "Winter break will be boring if I'm not talking to you."
"True." Draco said settling back in his seat.
"I have a question." Elizabeth said after she had begun to boil the ingredients.
"Go ahead." Draco said, as he made sure the flames were at the right heat.
"Do you think dad will let me invite a friend over for the holidays?" Elizabeth asked.
"Who?" Draco asked although he knew it could be one of a few people he completely disliked.
"Harry." Elizabeth answered simply. She knew that Draco disliked Harry and she knew Harry had sent Lucius to Azkaban, but she thought she would give it a shot.
"NO WAY!" Draco shouted causing the entire class to turn and look at them. "Harry Potter will never set foot in Malfoy Manor."
Everybody then turned to Harry who had a look of pure shock on his face.
"Hermione, Ron and Ginny are going home for the holidays and I don't want to leave Harry behind by himself." Elizabeth explained.
"I don't care." Draco said. "He's not coming home with us."
"Liz, don't worry about it." Harry said coming up to the two. "I'm going to the Weasley's for the holidays."
"Mr. Potter, I do not believe they were talking to you." Professor Snape said coming up behind them. "Twenty points from Gryffindor."
"But…" Elizabeth began.
"No but's Miss Malfoy." Snape said. "And another twenty points will be taken away for disrupting my class."
"Draco's the one that shouted!" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"He would not have shouted if you had not asked him such a foolish question." Snape replied looking down at the girl darkly.
"Oh bloody hell." Elizabeth exclaimed throwing her arms in the air. She then pushed her seat back and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Miss Malfoy, get back to work." Snape said glaring at the young woman.
"Fine." Elizabeth said getting back to work. When she saw Draco smirk, she got even madder. As professor Snape began walking away she said: "Professor."
"What!" Professor Snape snapped turning around.
"Stop calling me Miss Malfoy." Elizabeth said as everybody's faces took on a confused look.
"Well then what shall I call you?" Snape asked.
"I want to go my mom's last name. Rey." Elizabeth answered simply.
"Well Miss Malfoy." Snape said sneeringly. "You are registered under the name Malfoy, so you will go by Malfoy."
"Actually I'm registered under Elizabeth Rey. My father had it changed on the roster so I could go by Malfoy." Elizabeth said looking at Draco. "If you check the registry you'll see my name is Elizabeth Rey, with Rey crossed out and Malfoy written above it. I didn't mind it before, but if being a Malfoy means I have to become a slimy git, then I don't want to be one."
"That will be…" Snape didn't finish because he was cut off.
"I know, I know. That will be an unreasonably large amount of points from Gryffindor." Elizabeth said in an impersonation of Snape. Collecting her things and putting them into her bag, Elizabeth stood up. "I'll see you next class professor. If I stay I may do something I'll regret."
The entire class stared open mouthed at Elizabeth as she left the potions class.
"Potter!" Harry turned to look at Snape. "Let your housemate know she has lost Gryffindor one hundred points for disrespecting a teacher."
That night at dinner Elizabeth entered the Great Hall and was greeted by glares from her own housemates, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff all looked at her with sympathetic expressions and the entire Slytherin table was grinning from ear to ear.
"I'm sorry." Elizabeth shouted to the Gryffindor table. "I don't know why you're all glaring at me. Sure we lost one hundred and forty points today because of me, but I made one hundred and fifty five points alone for us today. I make more points than I lose so stop glaring at me."
"Miss Malfoy, please sit down." Professor McGonigall said coming up behind her.
Looking at Snape Elizabeth shouted: "You didn't tell them did you?"
"Tell us what Miss Malfoy?" Professor McGonigall asked.
"I want to go by my mothers name. The name that was on the register before my father had it changed. I want to go by Rey, not Malfoy." Elizabeth said.
Professor McGonigall looked from Elizabeth to Professor Dumbledore who had joined them and said: "I had assumed you wanted your name to be Malfoy."
"I didn't know about the change until right before I started here." Elizabeth answered as she looked across the Great Hall at Draco.
"Very well." Dumbledore replied seeing the look that Elizabeth was giving Draco. "From now on you shall go by your birth name Elizabeth Rey."
"Thank you headmaster." Elizabeth said bowing her head slightly. " I really appreciate it."
"Now please sit and enjoy your dinner." Dumbledore said as he placed a hand on Elizabeth's shoulder and guided her to her seat.
With a large smile Elizabeth took a seat at the Gryffindor table beside Harry and began to serve herself. "Thanks again headmaster."
Later that night, Elizabeth sat in the common room with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny around the fireplace.
"So you're going to go by Elizabeth Rey now?" Harry asked from his seat next to her.
"Yea." Elizabeth answered watching the flames flickering in the fireplace. "That's what I had originally wanted to go by, but they wanted me to go by Malfoy."
"You didn't argue it?" Ginny asked.
"I didn't want to cause any trouble."
"Too late for that now." Harry said with a smile.
"Yea." Elizabeth answered with a laugh. "I guess it is."
The five friends stayed in the common room talking late into the night about anything that came mind. Before they knew it, they had all fallen asleep.
The room was completely empty except for one single high backed chair that was in the center of a large circle of black robed figures. The only light was what came through the windows and the little bit of light the fire in the fireplace offered.
"What happened Lucius?"
"I'm not sure my lord." One of the black robed figures answered the person sitting in the chair. "Draco wasn't very clear in his letter. All he said was that Elizabeth wanted to go by Rey instead of Malfoy and that the fool Dumbledore allowed it."
"He did not give you a reason why?" The figure asked from his seat.
"No my lord!"
"Find out why Luc…." The figure in the shadows stopped speaking and after a moments pause he whispered: "Potter…and someone else."
"My lord?" Lucius asked
"Potter!" The figure sneered. "He's here with someone else."
"My lord?"
"Elizabeth!" The figure said after a moment's hesitation. "It's Elizabeth."
"What!" Elizabeth eyes sprang open and she jumped up out of her seat.
"No!" Harry jumped up beside Elizabeth and after a few seconds he looked at Elizabeth with confusion in his eyes. "What's going on?"
