AN: Hi again! Now, it's the chapter you have ALL been waiting for . . . AMANDA'S CHAPTER! Oh, and sorry I took so long to update . . . j'ai beaucoup deviors.  Now, a few shoutouts:

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muskaan - not to worry, Emily is far from perfect.

Celestia Memora

Satan Barbie - agian, Emily is not a goody-two-shoes, and I'm not sure what pairings I'm going to have yet . . . if i even have any at all . . .

Karana Belle

JBanana

elena - for D/H action (at least a little bit), maybe you should re-read the end of chapter five.

kura52

ArcherofDarkness - yes, I speak some French.  Example: J'ai beaucoup deviors!  Ne geter pas moi, s'il vous plait!

Takeshiyo - there's a lot of Amanda in this chapter!

Yami-Yugi-Girl

Blink gurl017 - I made up the spell "Amure Rexio."  It took me a while, though.

centaur219 - I'm looking forward to the championship, too.

Now, w/o further ado . . . heeeeeeeere it is!

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9/2/2017

Dear Journal,

You know, I've had this feeling since dad grounded me a few weeks ago that someone has been reading this . . . but maybe I'm just getting crazy. I mean, with Emily here and all, it makes things a lot more difficult. She's practically stolen the Marauders' Map from me. She says that dad said to let her have it. I don't believe her; I mean, why would dad want to give the Map to Emily when he could instead give it to his own flesh and blood? I sure hope he's not favoring Emily . . . but that's what it looks like. Stupid, no good, goody-two shoes . . . what's she got that I don't? Grr, this is so frustrating. I'll have to steal the Map back from Emily; after all, she stole it from me. Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts do. Heh heh. At least it's almost my birthday. (THREE MORE DAYS!) Then my parents can shower me with all kinds of love and attention and gifts, all of which I deserve. I'd better go, it's almost time for breakfast.

Draco's smile gradually turned to a frown as he read through his daughter's journal entry. Maybe it is an invasion of Amanda's privacy to have put a charm on her journal so as she writes it, the writing appears in a duplicate journal on his desk, but it does inform him of important stuff like this. Yes, he had told Emily to tell Amanda to give her the map, but he thought Amanda would understand: Emily was new to the school, and she needed to know how to get around. Although, his other reason for wanting Emily to have the map seemed to be nonexistent; he had wanted to make sure she had someone to talk to, and the Marauders were great for that, but it appeared that she had already made several new friends, according to the letter he had received that morning. However, this thing about her friend Clarice had really been puzzling him. He'd have to make a mental note to ask Ron about that later . . . after all, Hermione was just as concerned as he was. In the meantime, he had work to do . . .

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Amanda sighed as she sat at her desk, her hand in her chin, and her eyes staring blankly in front of her, hearing what Professor Binns was saying, but not comprehending it.

"And in the year 1036, the goblins declared war . . ." he was rambling in his monotone.

'Declare war . . . that's what I'd like to do to Emily right about now . . .' thought Amanda.

"Even after losing the first war, they again struck in 1054, this time victorious . . ."

'No, I wouldn't let Emily win . . . she'd have to surrender . . . maybe be my personal slave . . . but I'm not that cruel . . . perhaps just do my homework for a month or two . . .'

"And since then are called one of the cleverest beasts of the wizarding world . . ."

'But Emily's only a first year . . . she'd probably get me all sorts of bad grades because she can't understand intermediate transfiguration . . . Oh well. Just getting back the Marauders' Map will do . . . for now . . .'

The bell rang just then, saving her from Professor Binns' monotone until Wednesday. That last double period with the Hufflepuffs signaled the end of her day . . . finally! It had seemed like it would never end. Now, to approach her stupid little sister, who so happened to be walking down that very corridor, surrounded by her little first year friends. Amanda was about to go up to them when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around, ready to snap out a sarcastic remark, when she was met with stunning blue eyes and black hair on the head of the hottest boy she had ever seen in her lifetime . . .

"Uh, hey, I'm new here this year, I transferred over from America, and I was just wondering if you could show me around? I noticed you were in Slytherin, like me, and you looked pretty nice . . ." he trailed off.

'Well, I'm normally not very nice, but to you, oh I can be . . .'

"Well, er . . . I suppose I can do that. But you've found your way to your classes pretty well so far, I would assume, so what do you need me for?" asked Amanda, seemingly cool and collected, but really she was all butterflies.

"I've pretty much just followed the crowd, you know? But I don't really know my way around this place," he said.

"Okay then. Where do you want to start?" asked Amanda, risking taking her eyes away from this guy's to see if Emily was still anywhere in the vicinity. She wasn't.

'Darn it! I really wanted to get the Map from her! But a little distraction is always nice . . .'

"How about we start with your name?" asked the guy.

"Oh, of course, how stupid of me! I'm Amanda, what's your name?" said Amanda, turning back around to the guy.

"I'm Corey, nice to meet you Amanda."

"My pleasure . . . now, what do you say you tell me what your interests are? That will give me a basis as to what to show you first," said Amanda, suddenly business-like.

"Well, uh, I like to eat, and I like a little bit of mischief here and there . . ." he said, and Amanda already knew right where to take him.

"Follow me, I have the perfect place for you," said Amanda, and began walking towards the staircases.

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Once Amanda stopped in front of the picture of a giant bowl of fruit, she turned around to look at Corey, who was panting.

"I never knew – this school – was so – BIG . . ." he said. She didn't realize she had been jogging . . . this guy was going to have to get used to running around the school, though, so this was good practice.

"Get used to it. I hope you remembered how to get here, there will be a quiz," she said jokingly.

"Ha ha, very funny. But, what's so special about a picture of a bowl of fruit?"

"Okay, you are so naïve. What school did you go to over in America?"

"Rution's Institution of Wizardry, why?"

"Of course, it would figure that you would go to the only magic school in America that doesn't have anything remotely magic about it besides the classes . . . it's in a regular muggle school building for crying out loud!" exclaimed Amanda.

"What's so bad about that?"

"You haven't even seen any of the ghosts, I'll bet . . ."

"Yeah, I did. My old school had ghosts, too, just not nearly as many."

"Any secret passages?"

"Uh, no."

"Moving portraits that talk?"

"No . . ."

"House elves?"

"No, they were for the home, not school . . ."

"Good gracious, you poor, magic-deprived boy . . . watch and learn," said Amanda, and turned towards the portrait. She tickled the pear, and could almost sense Corey's questioning gaze. However, she couldn't miss his audible gasp of surprise when the pear giggled and then the picture swung open to reveal . . .

"Welcome, Corey, to the Hogwarts Kitchens!" said Amanda, and stepped in, closely followed by Corey.

"Whoa . . ." was all he said.

"Wow, you guys are already getting dinner together? It must be good . . ." said Amanda to the house elves to get their attention.

"Miss Malfoy! Miss Malfoy!" said several of them, and one, Minny, came running up to greet her.

"It is so good to see young Miss Malfoy again! Minny is so happy!" said the little elf, hugging Amanda tightly.

"Good to see you, too, Minny. Hey, would you guys mind giving me and my friend here a snack? We're a bit hungry," said Amanda.

"Certainly, miss," said Minny, and disappeared into the crowd of house elves and moments later appeared with three more elves plus a tray of teacakes, pumpkin juice, and chocolates.

"Oh, Minny, we'd love to stay, but I'm giving Corey a tour of the school, so we can't linger. I'm sorry," said Amanda. "But I promise we'll be back for a late night snack, and then we'll stay and chat, okay?"

"You may take the whole tray if you like. Anything for young Miss Malfoy and Mister . . ." said Minny.

"Tell them your last name, they won't call you by anything else," said Amanda to Corey quietly.

"Mister Cubson will do," he said to Minny.

"Farewell for now, Mister Cubson and Miss Malfoy!" said Minny as Amanda and Corey walked out of the kitchens, Amanda holding the rather large tray.

"Okay, let's got outside for awhile so we can enjoy this," suggested Amanda.

"Sure, okay," responded Corey, and they both headed for the outside doors.

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Once they were outside and underneath a nice, shady tree, they began to eat the snacks that the house elves had prepared for them.

"So, tell me more about this castle," said Corey, halfway through eating a teacake.

"Well, what do you want to know?"

"I dunno . . . how about what you do here besides classes?" asked Corey.

"Oh, there's loads of stuff! But the most important thing is Quidditch. We have our own house teams, you know," said Amanda, after taking a gulp of pumpkin juice.

"Really? That's awesome!"

"Yeah, I'm trying out this year for Chaser. I tried out last year but the captain said I was 'too young.' I'll show him . . ." Amanda seemed to be going off into her own little moment here, so Corey tried to get her attention back to him by snapping his fingers.

"Hey, earth to Amanda! Are you in there?" he said jokingly.

"Oh, yeah . . . sorry. Anyway, about the Quidditch teams . . . I hate to admit it, but Gryffindor is the best team at Hogwarts, but Slytherin isn't very far behind. Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff aren't even worthy to be playing, if you ask me. Ravenclaws are too focused on their 'studies' to be concentrating on such 'trivial' things like Quidditch, and the Hufflepuffs can barely tell which end of a broom is which," stated Amanda. Corey started laughing hysterically.

"What? I'm being serious!" said Amanda, although she was pleased that Corey was laughing at something she said. She was funny to him . . . sigh.

"I'm sorry," he said, calming down. "But it was funny."

"Anyway, the tryouts for the Quidditch teams are the last weekend in September. If you wanted to be on the team, you should try out! We have two Chaser positions open and the Keeper position," said Amanda.

"I think I might try out for Keeper. My three older brothers always made me Keeper when we played at home. They just graduated last year from Rution's," explained Corey.

"Cool. When my dad and me played, we just kind of tossed the ball around, sort of guarding our own goals, since we don't exactly have enough people for two teams, and we didn't have our own Quidditch Pitch, of course," said Amanda.

"That's too bad . . . we did," said Corey with a sly smile.

"You WHAT?!?!?!" exclaimed Amanda with wide eyes.

"Yeah, we had our own Quidditch Pitch back over in America. Shame we can't have one now . . ." said Corey, who suddenly looked a little sad.

"Hey, at least you've got a Quidditch Pitch at Hogwarts!" said Amanda, trying to cheer him up.

"Yeah, at least I've got that." Corey smiled slightly. Amanda could tell that they should get back inside, where she could take his mind off of this.

"Hey, Corey, come on, let's go inside. I still have a couple places I wanna show you," said Amanda, taking a last piece of chocolate and standing up before she shrunk all of the food (except the pumpkin juice), placed a preservation charm on it, put a bubble charm around it, and stuck it in her pocket.

"Going to stop at the dormitories to drop that off?" asked Corey curiously.

"Good idea, we'll go there next," replied Amanda, and they both set off for the castle.

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AN: Okay, you guys finally got to see what Amanda is up to! Sorry it was a bit shorter than normal, but I was having EXTREME writer's block! Check out my new story, Forever Together but a World Apart!

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