Chapter One

-Uninformed-

Students Dumbledore stood up and opened his arms in welcome. "Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. First and for most I would like to announce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Professor Snape." A hush fell over the great hall as every student's eyes fell on Prof. Snape. "And we have a new potions teacher." He waved his hand toward the teacher table. "This is Professor Fowler." Dezeraine stood and looked over all the students. "I would also like to introduce a new student in her 6th year." Dumbledore motioned for the doors to open and all the first years and one older student came through the doors.

Professor McGonagall brought out an old hat on the stool and opened a very large piece of parchment. "When I call your name please come forward to be sorted. Alvins, Melissa" She placed the sorting hat on her head.

"Hufflepuff."

Crabbe, do you see her?" Draco grabbed his robe sleeve.

"Yeah, she's pretty."

"She'll probably go the Gryffindor" Goyle huffed.

"No, there's something about her," He smirked.

"Fowler, Alexia." Professor McGonagall called out.

Alexia walked forward and sat on the stool. No sooner had the hat touched her head the sorting hat yelled out "Slytherin." She smiled as everyone at the Slytherin table cheered. She walked over to the table cheered. She walked over to the table and sat in the closest available seat which so happened to be beside Draco Malfoy.

"Congratulations on getting Slytherin." He stuck out his hand.

"Thank you." She smirked at him and shook his hand.

They talked through the rest of the sorting ritual. After the big feast was over everyone started to disperse. "You can follow me to our house." Draco started toward the door. Alexia turned and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, cause I can't do anything for myself." She started to walk. "Hold up." She grabbed Draco's robes. "Who's that?" She pointed to the Gryffindor table.

"That's the famous Harry Potter." He mocked.

"Oh." She smiled at him. "Note to self."

"What are you talking about?" Draco snorted.

"None of your business." She pushed past him and caught up with the other Slytherins down to the bottom of the castle.

"More than you handle Malfoy?" Hermione snorted.

"No, and you'll do good to keep your nose out of it, you filthy little Mud-blood." He snorted and walked toward the door.

"He boils my blood." Ron said grabbing for his wand.

"He's not worth it." Hermione put her hand on his.

"What was the password again?" Alexia said to herself.

"Pretrener." Draco said coming from around the corner.

Immediately the door opened and they were looking into the dungeon like common room. Alexia smiled and walked into the room. "Just like home." She walked to the staircase going to the girl's dorm.

"There's a lot about her you need to find out." Professor Snape walked up behind Draco who was now standing by the fireplace watching her walk away.

"What?" Draco spun around. "Oh."

"Alexia." He yelled.

Alexia spun around at the top stair and when she saw Snape her face lit up. "Sivirus."

"Uh." He started.

"Sorry." She came down the stairs.

"Professor Snape."

"Better." He smirked.

"It's going to take a while." She sighed.

"I know. This is Draco Malfoy..."

"I know who he is... Mister prefect Draco... I'll let you follow me so you don't get lost." She mocked him. "Please, let me follow you it's more like let you follow me. Get lost that's funny." She snickered and sat on the couch.

Snape half smirked. "How's you parents?"

"Mom's fine, as you know, and dad's been gone for a couple months." She looked at her fingernails. "Business."

"I see." He looked at Draco.

"I have to talk to the first years, make yourself at home."

"Oh I will." She smiled.

Draco took a deep breath and sat down on the other side of the couch. "So where did you go before here? And how do you know Professor Snape so well?"

Alexia looked at him. "What's with the third degree?"

"What!" Draco stood up getting irritated.
"Oh calm down Malfoy, I'm just joshing." She rolled her eyes.

"Oh." He sat back down feeling a little embarrassed.

"I went to Periview in America. Then if you can put two and two together my mom got offered a job here to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Well she convinced Dumbledore that Sivirus was best for the job and she took potions. And as for knowing Sivirus, I mean Professor Snape, he and my father are good friends. He used to watch me when they had to go away for business. My dad fully trusts him. He's like a second father to me."

Draco nodded his head. "What's your dad do?"

Alexia smiled and looked at him. "Apparently your father isn't as open to you as mine is to me." She looked at the clock. "Oh look, bed time." She stood and walked off to her room.

Next Morning

"But father, why won't you tell me if you know him." Draco whined.

"Because it's none of your business." Lucious snorted. "If you want to know so bad ask her."

"I did," he huffed, "She said you weren't as open with me. Whatever that means."

Lucious snickered, "You'll find out soon enough." He then stepped into the fire called out, "Knockturn alley" and was gone.

Alexia came down the stairs fully dressed in her school robes with her books floating behind her, "Mornin' Draco." She walked past him and toward the door.

"Are you eating breakfast?"

"Yes."

"Care if I join you?" He grabbed his backpack.

"Note to self." She said. "You're learning eh?" she smirked. "Come on"

Draco boiled inside. Never before had he had to act inferior to anyone especially a girl. Probably not even a full blood. But there was something about her that intrigued him. He might be forced to see Alexia as an equal. Something he never conceived possible. But he put his inner feelings aside and followed her out the door.

At the table she started piling the food on her plate. "Oh man this is so much better than the food at Periview."

"Tell us about Periview." Crabbe joined them.

"Well its something like this, nowhere near as big though. They also had four houses. Palmistry (Gryffindor), Teetree (Ravenclaw), Foxina (Hufflepuff), and Serpentine (Slytherin). We didn't have a sorting hat, which I personally like but we had a parchment." She took a drink of pumpkin juice.

"How did they..."

"Hold your tongue Goyle" Draco scowled. "She needed a drink."

Alexia nodded her thanks. "We would dip our hand in some ink and place it on the parchment. The parchment would then take the ink, soak it up and then the name of your house would appear. It was neat actually. But all the first years would dread to be put in Serpentine. I however knew I would be put there and welcomed it openly."

"So you pretty much knew you'd be put in Slytherin then, right?" Draco looked at her.

"Not really, I was hoping, but I wasn't sure what the procedure for sorting was." She looked at her watch, "Oh, we'd better go, we'll be late for potions."

"I don't have potions." Crabbe and Goyle said in unison.

"You mean you don't go to classes with your house?"

"Well for the most part, but they failed so they couldn't move on." Draco shook his head, "But I've got potions first. Then transfiguration, care of Magical creatures, and Defense Against the Dark Arts."

So do I what a great way to end the day." she picked up her wand, flicked it over her books and they floated behind her as she and Draco walked to potions.

"This is so much better than potions at Periview." Alexia tossed some Mandrake root into her cauldron and it hissed.

"Very good Mister Malfoy." Professor Fowler came around the class. "You too Miss Fowler." she winked.

"Is it weird having you mom as a teacher?" Draco leaned over.

"Not really, it'll be weirder having Siv... Professor Snape as a teacher." She poured her potion into a flask, labeled and corked it and walked up from to place it on the table.

"Finished already?" Professor Fowler said making her way to the front again.

"Yes I am professor and just between us..." She glanced at Harry. "He's cheating."

"WHAT?" Professor Fowler turned red faced and her nose flared. "How?"

"He's got that Hermione girl giving him the right measurements." She turned and joined Draco at their table.

"Better finish, my mom's about to throw a conniption." She snickered.

"How do you know?"

"Just watch."

Draco put the cork on his bottle and looked at Professor Fowler.

"Mister Potter!" She bellowed. Her normal 5'7" stature seemed to grow and her pale face turned bright red.

"Yes?" Harry looked up from his cauldron.

"Are you cheating?" Her nose flared.

"No Ma'am" Harry's face drained of color.

"You are cheating, don't lie to me." She slammed her hands on her hips.

"And you" she pointed at Hermione "Are you helping him?"

"No ma'am I promise I'm not." Harry pleaded.

"I don't want to hear it." Professor Fowler turned to face her desk. "You all should be done by now, label your bottles and turn them in."

All the students slowly walked to the front of the class and turned in their potions.

"You are free to go." She waved her wand over the bottles and they disappeared. "Except for you two." She blocked Harry and Hermione front leaving.

"I'll wait for you outside." Ron said walking out the door.

"I don't want to see that you've been cheating. That's not tolerated in my class."

"But..."

"But nothing, I know Professor Snape didn't allow cheating in his class and I am no exception."

"I know..." Hermione sighed. "I'm sorry, it won't happen again."

"You're right, now you've forced me to do this. 10 points from Gryffindor" she sighed. "Now head on to your next class."

Alexia watched them walk down the hallway, "10 points mother."

"Yeah 10 points is a good starter, don't want to get fired so soon."

"True alright I'm off to transfiguration." She joined Draco at the door.

"Only 10, but she said she's pacing herself."

"Cool, I can't wait till Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"Me either."