Chapter 11

After Dumbledore had finished speaking, he waved an arm and the previously empty golden, and in the one table's case silver, plates filled with food and drink. Down the table Ron and Hermione had finally spotted Harry, and the fact he was seated next to Draco hadn't escaped their attention either.

Ron scowled at Draco while shoving some mashed potatoes in his mouth. Harry sighed; it seemed, even with Dumbledore's new table, there would still be animosity between the houses. But all thoughts at the table were interrupted when a spoonful of green peas went flying from Harry's end to bounce off the face of the glowering Ron.

For a second the table fell silent. Everyone craning their heads to see who had thrown the green peas at Ron; had it been Draco?

Beside Harry a nervously smiling Elizzabeth said, 'Sorry, slippery little devils.'

At her words Harry and Draco, the latter having previously been smirking at Ron, began to fall into laughter. Seeing the two great rivals laughing Ron's face was that of one struck dumb. Harry seen his friend's face and this only made him laugh harder. Soon others at the table began to laugh as well.

SPLAT!

Harry stopped laughing and wiped the creamed corn from his face. Dead silence fell over the table except from the person sitting next to Harry, Draco Malfoy. Smirking at Draco, Harry merely brought his hand up behind the Slytherin's head and forced said Slytherin's face into his plate of gravy-covered mashed potatoes.

As Draco's head came up, with a new mask of gooey brown potatoes, he hissed in a warning voice, 'Potter...'

But it seemed that the few spoonfuls of food had started a food fight that was now raging throughout the whole of the Great Hall. Large masses of food were flying through the air, through a spoon or spell it didn't matter, hitting students continuously.

But back at the seventh year's table, as Draco's sentence trailed off into a silent threat, a smiling Harry Potter had stuck a baby carrot onto the end of Draco's nose.

Draco snarled, threw the carrot at Harry, and then wiped off his face on a napkin.

At this point Dumbledore stood up and waited until complete silence had fallen throughout the hall.

'…And so you see, she should have thanked me for cutting up that god awful dress. I mean, who looks good in a purple puff with yellow polka dots and ribbon? And with her brown hair-'

Her friend beside her quietly said, 'Pansy, shut up.'

As the girl finally stopped talking Dumbledore gave a beaming smile and said, 'Now that our belly's are full, and we're all ready for bed, I feel I should give some last minute announcements.'

Harry looked up at this, usually the last announcements before they were sent off to be held some importance as to some danger they may be faced with that year.

'As you may have guessed by now, things will be quite different with the houses and classes. All seventh years will be sharing the same courses, depending, of course, on their time tables. These time tables will be handed out to all students tomorrow, along with any extra knowledge the staff feels you should receive.'

A bit of murmuring began as the seventh year students wondered over what else the aged Headmaster had up his sleeve.

'Now, if all tables could please retreat to their houses. Seventh years to your original houses as well, please. thank you. Good night, and don't let the bed bugs bite.'

At the headmaster's dismissive words, the five tables began to file out of the Great Hall. Elizzabeth, Draco, and Harry, strode towards the open doors together. It wasn't for want, more out of the fact that all three of them were headed that way.

At this point Hermione came up and wrapped her arms around Elizzabeth, stopping the three from continuing on.

'Oh Lizz, we're going to have so much fun now that you're here.'

Smiling, Elizzabeth got to talking to Hermione, but when it looked like Draco was about to walk away, she interrupted herself and grabbed his arm, '…wait, you have to show me where the Slytherin common room is.'

Draco sighed and gave a brief bob of his head, acknowledging that he would wait for her.

'But yeah, I just think that Black Eyed Peas are truly phunkalicious.'

Hermione laughed and said, 'What about Green Day? They're pretty awesome.'

As the girl's talked Harry smiled at Draco, Draco looked perturbed at how easily, since she was new, he had to wait and listen to the girls chatter away. Harry smirked as he thought to himself that the male Slytherin may have some punishment coming up. And the way Elizzabeth's next sentence changed the subject he nearly laughed.

'Yeah, I like them, but my boyfriend back in Canada didn't like them all that much.'

Hermione's eyes sparkled and she said, 'You have a boyfriend?'

'Yeah, and he's totally sweet. What about your boyfriend?'

When Hermione didn't say anything Elizzabeth's eyes twinkled and she asked, 'Or is it a girlfriend?'

Hermione's face turned crimson from blushing.

Elizzabeth laughed and said, 'Fine, keep your secrets, but I will figure them out eventually.'

Draco's face looked like he was about to be sick. Obviously he didn't want to know about Hermione's love life

Hermione, trying to speak through her blush said, 'At the sorting they said you had a sister. How come you never told me you had a sister?'

At Hermione's words, Draco suddenly seemed a lot more into the conversation

Elizzabeth's smile grew and her eyes twinkled as she said, 'I never told you about Amy?'

Hermione shook her head, her blush receding slightly, 'No.'

Draco seemed to have his ears perked up, and Harry was quite interested as to why.

'Well. Amy is two years younger than me. She was sorted into Slytherin with me….Her birthday is July 16. And she is really quiet.'

Hermione smiled and said, 'Hopefully you'll introduce us in time.'

But as Elizzabeth was about to open her mouth to reply Ron, Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy made their way over to the group of four.

Draco sneered and said, 'Took you three long enough.'

Pansy hung herself off of Draco's arm and smiled at him with adoration in her eyes, 'Oh Drakey, you know we would never abandon you.'

Crabbe and Goyle, however, had taken up positions on either side of Draco and stared dumbly at the Gryffindors and Elizzabeth.

Elizzabeth smiled and said, 'Hey, are you three in Slytherin too?'

Pansy smiled and, releasing Draco, pulled Elizzabeth into a hug, 'Oh finally, a girl!'

Ron snorted and said, 'What Pansy? Draco isn't girly enough for you?'

Crabbe and Goyle, feeling that Draco had been offended cracked their knuckles ominously, and Pansy snarled, 'Watch it Gryffindork.'

Draco smirked and said, 'Be careful about who you try and take your anger out on, Weasel.'

Ron snarled and said, 'Don't worry; a ferret like yourself isn't that important to my life, Malfoy.'

At the word 'ferret' Crabbe had lunged forward and pinned Ron against the wall of the Great Hall.

Hermione screamed and said, 'Put him down!' Her fists pounding on Crabbe's back uselessly.

Pansy smirked and said, 'Looks like Granger's afraid for her boyfrien-Ack!'

Hermione had just tackled Pansy and was at the moment wrestling with her on the floor.

Around the fighting a circle of students had stopped and stood watching. There was also quite a bit of cheering and making bets on who would win going on.

'…Odds for Granger are 10:1, odds for Parkinson are 2:1. Any bets? Any takers?...'
'…get her Pansy! Show how we Slytherins can dominate the weak Gryffindors!...'

Elizzabeth watched and said to Harry and Draco, 'Looks like this school will be a lot of fun.'

At this point Harry heard an oily voice say, 'Well, well, what do we have here?'

Harry's head turned to look at the source of the voice, 'Weasley, and Granger, please do disentangle yourselves from my students.'

Hermione pushed Pansy off of her and then stood up, the sleeve of her robe hanging on by a thread. Ron kicked Crabbe in the nuts, who as a result, slid down the wall.

'Now, who started this quarrel?'

Hermione opened her mouth to explain what had happened when Draco's smooth voice cut in, 'Sir, it was all Weasley's fault. He insulted Pansy.'

Ron opened his mouth to make a comment when Harry cut in and said, 'It's true sir. Ron did insult Pansy.'

Ron turned to Harry, hurt written across his face. Snape too had turned to look at Harry, slight shock written upon his face from Harry's confession.

'Well, 20 points from Gryffindor, and each person involved in this quarrel shall have a detention.'

A voice from behind Snape said, 'Good call Professor Snape.'

Turning around Snape glared at Lupin,' Thank you Professor Lupin.' Turning back to the students he said, 'Now, as I was saying. Potter, Granger, Weasley. You three shall report to detention tomorrow night.'

Ron burst out, 'But Professor, Harry didn't do anything!'

Snape glared at Ron and said, 'Precisely Mr. Weasley. Potter here should have intervened instead of allowing the fighting to go on.'

Remus Lupin behind him smiled and said, 'And Mr. Malfoy, Crabbe, and Ms. Parkinson shall also report to detention tomorrow.'

Snape snarled and then turned to the rest of the students that had formed the circle, 'Unless anyone else would like to join these six students in detention tomorrow, I would advise you to get to your common rooms.'

Snape then stormed away and Draco turned to Elizzabeth, 'Come. I'll introduce you to everybody else.'

Elizzabeth gave a small hug to Hermione and then said, 'I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast Harry. Maybe we'll even have some classes together.'

At this Elizzabeth followed Draco as he led her to the dungeons.

'Bloody prat,' Ron snarled as he watched Draco leave.

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Harry tiredly climbed out of his pants and into his pajama bottoms. Seamus and Dean were in the corner snogging, and Neville was already asleep in his bed while Ron went on about how unfair it was that they had lost house points when Draco had started it.

Harry sighed and said, 'Ron, give it a rest. Tomorrow's another day and we have our detentions tomorrow night. So please, let me get some sleep.'

Ron grumbled for a few more minutes before Harry heard his even breathing, telling him that his red headed friend had fallen asleep. Turning over in his bed, he closed his own eyes, and tried to drop off to sleep. Because, like he'd told Ron, tomorrow they had classes and detentions on top of that and he needed as much rest as possible in order to make it through the next day.

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Pansy moaned and held the cold cloth to her eye, 'Why did that stupid bitch have to scratch! Why couldn't she just punch?'

Elizzabeth smiled at Pansy and said, 'I think Hermione's paid too much attention to her books to worry about fighting.'

Crabbe snorted and said, 'That's for sure.'

Draco was too lost in his own thoughts to worry about what the others were talking about.

'I mean, I'm going to have to use a concealment charm on this until I can get Madam Pomfrey to heal it.'

'Don't worry Pansy, it doesn't look too bad.'

Pansy took the cloth off and showed the cut to Elizzabeth, 'How bad does it look?'

Elizzabeth smiled and said, 'Trust me; I've had worse from just fooling around with Amy.'

Draco looked up as he heard the name.

'Yeah, speak of the devil, there she is now. I guess I better go make sure she's all settled and everything.'

Draco watched as Elizzabeth walked over to the smaller girl. Although they both had blonde hair he had to wonder why Elizzabeth's was more of a honey blonde, while her sister's was platinum blonde.

'Drakey, what do you think I should wear to detention tomorrow?'

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I'm srry for any inconvenience.