Why do I love you; The Hogwarts Express Catastrophe
Students
rose with the morning sun. These students weren't just any ol'
students. No they were students of Hogwarts, School of Wicthcraft and
Wizardry. Today was the day The Hogwarts Express would leave, and if
you were late.. well you had to find another way. That's why these
student were rushing so. Not every student was like this. No there
were some that had already packed, one being at Malfoy Manor, still
sound asleep in her cozy bed, dreaming about, maybe that should stay
a secret.
As the girl slept, one certain blond headed boy scurried
across his room, throwing random clothes and other things into his
trunk. Occasionally he would curse wonder his breath for no apparent
reason, probably the waking up early got to him. It took longer than
he thought..The annoying packing for one more year at the dreaded
Hogwarts. He sighed and looked at his door, time to bug Raven.
Draco
ran out of his room, down the large hall, opened Raven's door and
walked in. "Still asleep huh? We can fix that." He said
with a smirk. He began to shake the bed...nothing. He shouted her
name a couple of times...still asleep. He smirked, one evil idea
popped into his mind. As his blue eyes wondered the room...he found
it...Raven's owl. He crept up behind the cage, scared the owl and
opened the cage. The Snow owl flew around the room, hooting as loud
as it could, sweeping in on Draco as much as it could. Draco kept
dunking so he would get hit by this mad owl.
Raven opened her eyes
as she heard the loud hooting and screaming from Draco. She rolled
her eyes and slowly got out of bed. "Misra calm down..."
She said in an extremely tired voice. The owl only hooted and
continued the attack on Draco's head. "Like that's working."
Draco said falling to the ground as the owl swooped lower. Raven
laughed held out her arm and let Misra land on her arm. She put her
in the golden cage and locked it.
Draco stood up and hugged Raven.
"Thank you. That owl was going to kill me." Raven shook her
head.
"Draco I need to change." Raven
stated.
"Yeah...umm... I guess I'll wait for you."
Draco sat on her bed. Raven shook her head and went into the
Wardrobe. A few minutes passed before she came walking out. She had
ripped jeans and a crimson red shirt that was under her Slytherin
Robes.
"Trying to be like me." Draco asked as he stood
up from her bed.
"Yeah that's it..." Raven said
picking up her trunk that was laying by the Wardrobe door and then
went to go get Misra. Draco ran out of her room, probably going to go
get his trunk since he almost forgot it. Raven walked out of her
room, trunk dragging behind her and owl cage in one hand. Draco met
up with her before they both walked down the stairs. Before walking
into the enormous Dining hall, they dropped the trunks by the large
marble door of the Manor. Again it was another Breakfast to be eaten
in Slience... of course that was for the Malfoys. A particular
black haired boy had just arrived in Raven's mind, making her smile
as she ate. She had to admit it now, she liked Harry...he liked her
obviously...but what about Draco...WHAT ABOUT DRACO! It had
just appealed to her that he was there. Harry had drowned out Draco
in her mind. He was mad when he found her with Harry, what if he
found out she liked him...That could cause some problems. She must
hide her feelings for Harry this year.
Lucius stood up, indicating
the end of Breakfast. As he walked out of the Dining Hall, his little
shadow followed. Raven stood up as well walking behind Draco. She
looked around for her trunk and Owl Cage but it was gone, but this
fact didn't bother the Malfoys as they walked out of the Manor. Raven
followed and seen the same driver less car in front of the steps.
They all walked down and got into the car. Lucius had to set in the
driver's seat so no Muggles would question the car. It pulled out of
the driveway and headed to King's Cross. Raven kept thinking about
Harry as she started out the window to look at the Streets of London.
The car stopped. Draco got out and took his trunk with him that
somehow was laying under the seat. Raven got out and began to wonder
where hers was, that is, till it magically appeared in the seat. She
shook her head and took her things following Draco and not even
noticing the car left.
There it was... the wall between Platform
9 and 10, the wall that would take you to Platform 9 1/3... and the
wall that would lead Raven to Harry. She readied herself and then ran
as fast as she could though the wall. The Train whistle blew as the
smoke from the pipe blew out. She looked at the Train, the same as it
was every year. Draco came in behind her.
"Oi, Draco."
The all familiar voice of his goon Crabbe, beside him stood Goyle.
"DRACO." A girl shrieked as she ran up to Draco. It was
Pansy the most disgusting girl in Hogwarts... even Hermione ranked
above her, at least in Raven's mind. Pansy's pug face landed on
Raven. "Hello Raven." She said in an awful girl voice.
Raven faked a smile and let her hand ball up into a fist. "Hi
Pansy..." Raven wanted to add I hope you fall and die in a
dragon cave, but she thought she would save that for later. This
seemed to satisfy Pansy as she turned back to Draco and seemed to be
flirting with him, and Draco seemed to be disgusted by it. Crabbe and
Goyle finally managed to get there selves over to them, and that's
when Raven took her leave.
Raven walked onto the Train and back
to the Slytherin section of the train. There was an empty Compartment
where she walked in and laid her things on the bench. She sat on the
other one and looked out the window. "Hey there..." Again,
that voice, the one that haunted her. As she turned her head she seen
Harry.
"You know you're in the Slytherin Section."
"I
know...I sort of followed you here..." Harry said with a smirk,
making Raven smile
"Stalker..." She said and Harry
chuckled.
"Come back with me... I kind of told my friends
about you, they sort of...umm...really don't think I should be doing
this...but...well..."
"Don't hurt yourself...you're
thinking to much." Raven laughed slightly and kissed his
forehead. "I'll go with you, I really don't care what they think
when a Slytherin's in a Gryffindor section." With that, Harry
took her trunk and Owl cage and led her down to the Gryffindor
Section. Many of the Gryffindor's eyed Raven curiously, they had
never seen a Slytherin come in their section of the train without a
fight or at least an insult. Harry walked into a compartment, that
was occupied by a bushy brown haired girl and a shaggy red haired
boy, who Raven immediately knew as Granger and Weasley. "Ron,
Hermione, this is Raven." Harry said as he laid her stuff down
on a bench opposite of Ron and Hermione. "I knew you said she
was a Slytherin, but not this one.." Ron said looking at Raven,
who only raised an eyebrow. Hermione elbowed Ron in the sides,
causing him to gape over and grab his side. "She's not that bad
Ron...She's really smart, she helped me on some things."
Hermione said, causing Harry and Ron about to go into shock. Hermione
was the smartest girl in Hogwarts, having someone help her was odd,
she never needed any help. Raven just shook her head. She sat down
beside Harry and looked out at the window as the countryside went by.
For what seemed an hour, the four of them talked. It was mostly
about how Raven and Harry met, but they never told the curious
Hermione and Ron that they did kiss. Then the subject changed to
summer, where Raven had to lie about living with the Malfoys, since
there was noway to explain how she was ordered to stay there,
especially by Voldemort. "Look at all these stupid Muggle
Lovers." A series of laughter came after this statement. No
doubt they were Slytherins...and no doubt it involved Draco. Harry
stood up and opened the compartment door. He looked down the hall and
spotted Draco with his little followers. "It's Draco." He
said as Ron and Hermione sprung up and followed him to the door.
"POTTER!" Draco yelled and walked down the Hall to meet
him.
"So what have you been doing since we last met in
Daigon Alley?"
"None of your business
Draco."
"Hopefully not snogging another girl huh?"
Again more laughter, Raven covered her face.
"Raven.."
The Furious Draco was back. Raven looked at him.
"Hi..."
She said nervously.
"What are you doing here... Get back to
Slytherin!" He ordered
"You don't order her around like
that." Harry said quickly. Draco was taken aback for a
minute.
"Why are you defending her, Potter, she's not yours"
Draco said, now balling a fist at his sides. Harry seemed to do the
same, but was the first to take action. He punched Draco, knocking
him down to the ground. Harry then kept punching him, not letting
Draco have any punches in this fight. Pansy kept gasping every time
Draco was hit. Raven ran to them and tried to pull Harry off of
Draco. Finally she succeeded. Crabbe and Goyle pulled their leader
off of the ground, blood running down his nose and a nice black eye
showing. He glared at Harry and Raven before allowing them to take
him away.
Harry looked at Raven. He relaxed himself a little more
as he continued to look at her. Ron and Hermione were still trying to
overcome the shock of the sudden outburst and also now of the sudden
kiss that Harry let Raven receive.
The Train came to a halt, and
many students fled off the train. The ones that had seen the fight
told other students, and word got around fast. When Harry and Raven
stepped off there were cheers coming from, mostly Gryffindors and
glares coming from Slytherins. Raven sighed.. this year was not going
to be so great after all.
