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Chapter Six-The Test
"Trinity," Draco said, shaking her lightly, "wake up, you've slept in."
Trinity opened her eyes to Draco's standing over her and comprehention to what he had just said came over her. She jumped up off the bed and ran to her wardrobe. She said 'jeans' hastily to her wardrobe.
"How long until I have to be at the Ministry?" she asked as she pulled a pair out of the wardrobe and then adding "shirts" to the wardrobe.
"You have to be at the there in," he paused to look down at his watch, "twenty minutes." He looked up walked from beside the bed over to his rushed friend.
"Shit!" she exclaimed as she grabbed a nice white button-up top. She ran into the bathroom closing the door behind her, leaving behind a scowling Draco.
Voldemort had it all planned out. Trinity was to pose as Trinity Zabini, a cousin of a boy at Hogwarts of her year, Blaise Zabini, a transfer from some American Wizarding school, and had brown eyes instead of scarlet but the same black hair. A 'simple' spell, as her father had called it, changed her eye-color. Today she was to take an entrance exam to see what year she would be in at Hogwarts. She hoped she'd be in sixth as that was what year Draco was in.
As soon as she was dressed, hair brushed and make-up on, Trinity walked out of the bathroom to find Draco sitting on her bed looking at the titles on the books she been reading before she had fallen asleep the previous night.
"I see you did a bit of late night studying," he said looking up at her and grinning.
Trinity nodded as she reached for his arm with his watch on it, Draco realizing what she wanted, straighten his arm so that she could read it properly. She had to be at the Ministry at eight and his watch read ten til. Trinity pulled Draco's arm and pulled him out of the bedroom and scurried down the hall with a surprised Draco struggling to keep up with her while she still had a grip on his arm.
When the two reached the front hall, after running down two flight of steps and down four halls, they almost ran into Tetorus Zabini, Blaise's father, which Trinity had met the day before. Ater skidding to a stop, they began to apologise but he said that there was no reason to apologize, that it was entirely his fault. He then bowed so low that Trinity thought his head might hit the ground if he went any lower. A glance at Draco told her that he was thinking the same thing she was, as he was scowling.
He had seemed a little weird to Trinity but Draco had explained that she should get used to it, that all of her father's followers were probably going to act the same way that Zabini acted. Her father was, after all, the most feared dark wizard in all of England.
But she still thought he was a bit on the odd side, not that most wizards aren't not. It was just something about the man. She got the same feeling around Draco's father, Lucius.
When Zabini didn't raise from his position, Trinity cleared her throat.
"Uhh. . . sir? I appreciate this and all but do you think that we might be able to leave now." Thinking she might have sounded rude by the hurt look on the older man's face, she hastily added, "we have to be there in. . . ." She looked to Draco and he, getting the point, looked at his watch.
"Five minutes," he said looking up.
"Not to worry Miss Riddle," he said and then began to pull out different items from the pockets of his mid-night blue robes. After a few minutes, he found what he was looking for, a tattered, old hat that looked to have been through every curse that Trinity could think of.
Trinity stared at it with a puzzled expression and Draco, sensing that this was where he was to come in, walked to her side and began to explain that it was a portkey and that it was to take them to the Ministry. All she had to do was put a finger on it.
Zabini held the hat out to them. Draco put his index finger on it and Trinity followed.
"Now, be prepared because it may je-" Draco didn't have a chance to finish what he was saying when the portkey jerked. Trinity felt as though her heart was up in her throat.
Finally they landed, or that's what she thought at least because she was thrown to the ground. Draco, who was on his feet, helped pull her to her own. She looked around. They were in front of an abandoned telephone. Zabini walked over to the phone booth and picked the reciever up and began to talk into it.
Trinity looked at Draco with a puzzled expression but he was watching the back of Zabini. He, however, was pobably used to this, as Draco had told her that his father worked at the ministry.
Her new 'uncle' motioned for the her and Draco to come into the booth. Hesitently, Trinity followed Draco into the old, broken down phone booth.
Zabini dialed a few numbers with th old reciever in his hand. Suddenly, a cool female voice filled the booth, "Welcome to the Ministry of Magic. Please state your name and buisiness."
"Tetorus Zabini from the Department of Mysteries and Draco Malfoy and we're here to escort Trinity Zabini to her placement test area," Zabini said to the reciever.
The cool voice filled th booth again. "The two visitors take the two badges and attach them to your robes."
There was a click and rattle and two badges came from the coin exchange part of the phone. Zabini gave Trinity and Draco one each. Trinity looked down at hers. It read Trinity Zabini, Placemant Testing.
Draco attached his to his robes and turned to help Trinity with hers. As he pinned it to her plain black robes, he looked up and smiled. Trinity felt her knees buckle. She returned the smile and quickly looked away feeeling her cheeks burn.
After he finished with the badge, he straightened and ran a hand through his blonde, stringy hair. Trinity loved the way his hair fell in his face, just above his grey eyes. She looked away, sculding herself for thinking of him in that way. She had never thought of Draco in anyway besides a good friend. Sure, they had gotten close over the last month in a half but she thought no more of their relationship.
The booth shuddered to a stop and broke her train of thoughts.
"Here we are," Zabini said as a lady's voice filled the booth and told them to take their wand to the security desk for registration.
The three of them stepped down from the booth. They were in a long hallway with doors on both sides about five yards apart each. It seemed to go on forever. All of the walls were plain white. Beside the first door on the right, there was a man behind a wooden desk. He didn't take any notice to their arrivial.
Zabini cleared his throat, but the man seemed to be more interested to Daily Prophet. He cleared his throat again but more loud and abnoxious this time. This time the man looked up from the paper. On his plain black robes, he had a badge that said 'Security' on it.
"Wands," the quite-larged burnette wizard said as he put a meaty hand out. Trinity handed her wand to the man as did Draco. She guessed that Zabini didn't have to, since he worked there.
After looking over their wands, he smiled and handed them back to the pair.
"Follow me," Zabini said as he began walking past the desk and up the hall. They passed half a dozen doors before Zabini stopped at one at the left. He raised up a fist and knocked on the door.
"Enter," came a voice of an older man from the other side of the door.
Zabini opened the door and held it open for Trinity and Draco, then came in too, shutting the door behind him. They were in a type of office. There were papers scattered everywhere along the brown carpet and all over the sides of the dask. Behind the desk sat a skinny old man with robes of dark red.
"Hello, Tetorus," the old man said, nodding a head of long gray hair to him.
"Morning, Julian," Tetorus said with a small smile.
Julian looked to the two young adults. "And this must be your niece," he said smiling at Trinity.
Tetorus walked over to his 'niece' and put an arm around her acting as a favorite uncle would. He looked down at Trinity and then smiled back to the Julian. "This is Trinity."
Trinity couldn't help but shudder. This was too close to Tetorus for her comfort, even if it was all an act.
"Well, nice to meet you dear," Julian said smiling at her.
She smiled up at him,"nice to meet you too."
"Your uncle and I have had good times, haven't we son?"
Tetorus smiled, "why, yes we have."
"Anyway, let me get the written part and I will start you off with that test," Julian said to Trinity. He then began to search the desk. He cursed as he shoved some of the balled papers off of the desk.
"Here it is," he said after clearing more of the desk off. Julian then grabbed a quill and a bottle of ink and went to the door across the one they came into. "Come, Trinity," he said motioning his head torward the door.
Trinity glanced at Draco and then followed.
The next room was alot smaller than the office. It had enough room for three desks and the walkway to get to each.
Julian, who was to the left side, laid the quill, bollte of ink and the test on the desk to the left.
"Go ahead and sit down, when I say go, you can start the test, but I will be back in here in an hour and I have to take it, done or not. After that I will test you with your wand," he said and walked to the door. "Go."
She opened the booklet and began.
1. What is the incantation to making things fly and what motions do you make with your wand?
Wingradium Leviosa. Wand movment-swish and flick
The end of this chapter. I am sorry to say that I have to get off now and can not write another chapter. I hate work. Next time, it will not be so long for an update, I promise.
Christiana Anderson - Sorry that it seems like a rush, I have been really busy lately, as you can see since I have not updated in a while. But I am glad that you like my story