Chapter Five
The Cold Shoulder
That Night in Gryffindor Common Room
As hard as she tried to talk to the people in her house everytime she introduced herself people would make up some stupid excuse to get away from her. No one gave her a chance so somehow she found herself in the school library. She couldn't help but notice how different it was from the one in Sunnydale. For one thing it had PEOPLE which never happened in Sunnydale. Apart from the Scoobs no body ever came in or out which was kind of odd. Before Buffy knew it she was roaming through the long rows of books picking up the occasional book that contained spells of many different kinds. She found herself a seat at a table in the back all alone like she had been since arriving at Hogwarts and started reading through each and every book memorizing all the spells so quickly that it shocked her. She had never been good at school or the whole 'learning' process.
Hours passed as people left the library, but she stayed not wanting to feel the sting of rejection any more. She stayed there until the librarian told her to leave.
The next morning she woke up to the sun rise, before anyone else was awake. She got ready in silence using the years of practice from getting ready to sneak out of her mothers house in Sunnydale. Buffy didn't want to be with these people, who ignored and hated her because she was a Malfoy. They didn't bother to know her, they didn't bother to find out about being kidnapped as a baby and growing up a muggle. They call the Slytherin's evil for being Slytherin's but their worse bedcause of their prejudice against those whose family are Slytherin's.
Buffy walked down to the common room expecting to find it empty, instead she found a red-headed girl who reminded her sooo much of Willow.
"Hey," the girl said looking up from the book she was reading.
"Hi," Buffy responed unsure of what to do, even though it had only been a day she still had become accustomed to being ignored or shunned by her fellow Gryffindor's.
"You're the new 5th year right? Buffy Malfoy?" the girl asked her not with hate but curiosity.
"Ya, I am." Buffy replied ready for the girl to start running away or say something insulting.
"Nice to meet you Buffy," she said standing up as if to walk away but instead much to Buffy's surprise she walked over to her, "I'm Ginny Weasley a 4th year."
"Nice to meet you Ginny. What are you doing up so early?" Buffy asked finally feeling like she'd found someone to talk too.
"I always wake up at the crack of dawn, I guess I like the privacy." Ginny answered with a smile that reminded Buffy of Willow even more except this girl was no where near as shy.
"Aren't you supposed to ignore me?" Buffy blurted out the question that was repeating in her head, "Ohmygosh,that was so rude of me to ask. I'm sooo sorry. It's just that everyone else ignores me because I'm a Malfoy. AND I am so totally rambling now... Sorry."
Instead of looking at her funny Ginny laughed at Buffy's rambling whiched eased Buffy's worry ten fold. "It's alright if I were you I'd probably be wondering the same thing. I was just curious and you looked nice enough. No one really knew anything about you except you were a Malfoy and COME ON just cause your a Malfoy can't make you completely evil."
"Ya, but whats with everyone assuming that I am ya know evil?" Buffy asked hoping that finally she would get some answers to why she was being ignored.
"Well your whole family was in Slytherin and they have that whole evil vibe. They also are obsessed with the whole pureblood superiority thing. OH YA your brother...is he older or something?...is a git to most everyone." Ginny said with a smile as they went over to the chairs in front of the fireplace to talk some more.
"I get it, the whole raised by evil thing then they must be evil thing." Buffy said with a laugh before frowning and saying, "WAIT A MINUTE, I wasn't raised by them. Oh ya Draco's my TWIN brother." Buffy added at the end of her tirade.
"Uh, twins never knew he had a twin. And what do you mean you weren't raised by them? They're not exactly the type to give up a child." Ginny asked her curiosity peaked.
"Not GIVEN up, kidnapped. Snatched away as a baby," Buffy said pretending to be scandalised for dramatic affect. "I was raised by muggles in the big old normal world." Buffy finished internally gagging at her having a normal life before the whole 'witch' thing and who could forget the whole 'dying' thing.
"Ha, ha, ha. They most of loved that..." Ginny said feeling bad for how she was being treated by the other Gryffindor's and now knowing how she was so nice.
"Oh they were completely THRILLED at the idea... Ya should of seen them the did a little dance they were so excited." Buffy said with extra enthusiasm. Which made Ginny laugh even more.
"THAT must of been so funny.." Ginny said
They continued talking for a long while before going down to breakfast together. They told each other stories about their families and friends. Getting to know each other better. Ginny promised not to tell anyone about Buffy being kidnapped, it would be funnier to see their guilty expressions when they learned. By the end of breakfast and they went their seperate ways for classes Buffy was content with the feeling of having a friend at Hogwarts to talk too. Suddenly this whole school didn't look so bad. She'd just have to show them not to judge a person by their names and with Ginny's help they would.