Where It Started

"Oh…no…" someone groaned from behind Harry. Swiveling around Harry faced Jade herself. Giving a weak smile Jade said nonchalantly, "that thing makes me out to be a real jackass doesn't it."

"Oh no not at all-" Harry began.

"You pushed Pucey into the Thames?" Ron asked incredulously looking up from the paper.

Blushing Jade replied, "Um…you see he was trying to get me to date him over the summer. And he might have a hot body but he is so boring when it comes to conversations, not to mention he's a bias weirdo. Well I kind of…you see he tried to hit on me and I was annoyed, but it's totally not my fault. I mean all I did was slap him and he had such crappy balance he fell in!"

Not noticing her embarrassment, Ron instantly congratulated her on the achievement, causing her to blush deeper.

"Jade!" Ginny squealed from her seat a little distance off. Jumping up, Ginny ran over and made her brother move over so she could sit between him and Hermione.

"Oh Ginny, hey! How are you?"

"Great!"

A brightening smile instantly originated as Jade and Ginny started chattering away. A few other students from other houses joined them including Blaise, Luna, Sally-Anne, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Susan Bones, and Terry Boot. Some of the Griffindors leaned in a bit in order to hear the conversation and add in their own comments.

A few minutes into a conversation involving music, realization of something hit Jade. "Hold on, so I'm guessing this is your brother Ron," Jade replied gesturing toward the red head.

"Yeah, and that's Harry and Hermione, Lavender and Parvati, Neville, Seamus and Dean," Ginny ranted before blushing, "here take a seat. I can't believe you've been standing all this time." She gestured next to Harry.

"Alright," she placed Banilla between her and Harry upon viewing that Harry was gazing at it with interest. Banilla look at Harry with interests, eyes blinking before she took a cookie and offered it to Harry.

"Oh um…thank you," he said slightly shocked. Weren't dragons supposed to be dangerous? Look at the Hungarian Horntail that thing tried to kill him.

Meanwhile Ron was asking "wait…so how did you get to know my sister."

Ginny and Jade exchanged glances before rolling their eyes.

"So we were both at a club and Ginny was trying to get this guy to stop hitting on her-" Jade started before Ron rudely interrupted.

"Ginny, why didn't you tell me! I would have-"

"Ron, I wasn't finished," Jade said coolly, she didn't like being interrupted, "Besides, with her looks, you would have to kill over half the people in the club, including security guards, and no offence but they're a couple times larger than you. You wouldn't stand a change when the number's one to about two hundred fifty."

"But-" Ron began.

"Don't worry Ginny didn't like him."

"He was so-" (Ginny)

(Jade) "Ugly and dumb not to mention-"

"He lacked dental hygiene to an extreme not to mention a facial scrub," the two girls finished simultaneously. Within a second they had both burst out laughing.

"Anyways, I gave her a hand. Well I kind of told the guy off for her. Then you got pissed at me," Jane recalled.

"Oh yeah I did. I told you I could stand up for myself," Ginny admitted.

"Then we got to talking once we were fumed out and we ended up going bowling at around two in the morning. Which was bizarre…I was so tired I could barely pick up the ball half the time," Jade said.

"Well at least you didn't drop it. I swear, every time I went up, I nearly fumbled," Ginny stated.

"What's bowling?" Blaise asked, looking at Ginny with a confused look that reflected upon many at the table.

"Oh it's a form of muggle entertainment. In general you roll a ball down a long lane in order to try and knock over as many pins as possible. A pin's this funny shaped sculpture, but it general you just try to knock them over," Ginny attempted to explain.

"I see…" Blaise said trying to comprehend why anyone would want to knock a sculpture over with a ball. It seemed quite stupid really. Replacing his confused look with one of pure charm he smiled before looking away. He wasn't stupid. He knew he couldn't stare too long at her of Weasel King would start accusing him of being a pervert. Well he was one, but what guy wasn't?

"So Hermione, Harry, you guy cool?" Jade asked. She tilted her head slightly toward Hermione, showing that she was indicating her but didn't want to single her out.

"Hum? Oh yes I'm fine," Hermione said slightly flustered for being caught not paying attention to their conversation, "I was just wondering how you obtained the moniker 'the silver dragon' that's all."

Wrinkling her nose slightly, Jade replied, "All honesty, it started out as a rebellion, well not really a rebellion, more like a 'if you don't stop bickering I'm going to settle this in my own crazy, obnoxious, creative way.' But people started taking the nickname seriously. The story's quite stupid now that I actually think about it. In general my friends were arguing over whether the Asian phoenix in muggle mythology was a male or female caricature. Ailith was saying that the dragon and phoenix symbolized marriage when place together. The dragon's known to be male symbolically so the phoenix had to be female."

"I'm sorry is this going to go anywhere or are you just schooling us on muggle beliefs?" Justin asked.

Jade gave him an incredulous look that automatically shut him up. "This is essential. To understand how I got the nickname you have to understand its roots. You're lucky I'm not telling you my whole life story. Well anyways, my other friend argued back saying that the dragon and phoenix both represented the emperors in the past, i.e. they both had to be male. I was trying to get them to shut up because it was arid and annoying, not to mention I had to finish up some stuff. I even suggested that the two creatures were gay together but that didn't blow over well. So I gave up and yelled that from then on I was going to have a dragon as my symbol because girls were better than guys, I know it makes no sense what so ever, but I was mad, I rarely make sense when I'm fuming. But it got them to shut up.

"Anyways later on that month, my friends and I went to get henna done. I wanted to get a dragon because it was the only thing I could think of at the time. But I had to choose a color. I really love platinum, but that's not really a color, so I got silver instead.

"So being as smart as I am, I forgot that a few days from then I had a ball to go to. I never remember important things. Like in one of my classes, every time we had a quiz I'd walk into the classroom not knowing that and I'd see everyone studying, but that's beside the point. In general I just have crappy memory, no wait selective memory sounds better. Anyways, at the ball photographers and reporters got tons of pictures of me with my henna and they declared it my symbol, a silver dragon. Since then I've been referred to by that name," Jade concluded.

Everyone just stared at her.

"You know I could have told that story in less than five sentences," a bored voice sounded from behind Jade. Turning around or looking up the group saw Draco Malfoy with a raised eyebrow, glancing at Jade without a care.

"I know Draco. Honestly, you've known me this long. You know I tend to extend all my stories. And that goes for reports too. Everyone that's been in a class with me knows it. I can't help it," Jade replied, "at least no one could say I don't give enough detail."

"So what about the silver part," Dean asked. He assumingly didn't mine the mindless jabber.

Tilting her head from side to side, Jade droned, "well the dragon thing goes on with Banilla. My parents raised her mom and all. Yadi-yadi-yada. Silver in general is my favorite color, like I said platinum is not a color. But silver has a ton of representation behind it. On it's own silver represents redemption, mercy, liberty, justice, like actual justice not all the bs laws and crappy lawyers pull off. It also represents excellence and feminism, I'm a total feminist. But it also reminds people to value themselves regarding personal development. Astronomically they represent-"

"-the two stars Altair and Vega. Altair in Persian means the balance or maybe it's a part of the balance. And Vega is set in the center of the musical instrument of heaven. It can tame wild beasts, change the course of the rivers, etcetera,' Hermione breezed out.

"Exactly!" Jade exclaimed, "Ginny's right you really are brilliant!" Hermione blushed at the comment and tried to be modest, but was interrupted as dessert sprouted up.

The group talked until dessert was consumed and Professor McGonagall stopped warning everyone to stay out of trouble before excusing them.

Everyone was tired and most dozed off to sleep immediately. Most of them, not all. Nevertheless, two figures were busy running through the forest before apparating with a 'pop.'