Title: Slytherin Princess Chapter Three
Author: Windandsummer
Disclaimer: I only own the characters that came from my imagination.
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When the feast was over Paige followed Pansy to the dungeons. Once there, she was told by a girl prefect named Meg that she would have her own room like the rest of the six years. Showing her to her room, the girl stopped in front of a picture of a mermaid with long flowing blond hair and a silver tail. Paige looked at the mermaid a moment, then Meg stepped forward and explained, "these paintings work like the ones we use in front of the common rooms. The mermaid's name is Lena, and she is very friendly and will keep people out, even if they have the password, if you ask her to. Your password is Vampire." With that Meg smiled and said goodnight, leaving Paige in front of the mermaid painting.
"Evening, Lena, it's nice to meet you. Password is Vampire." Paige said. Lena smiled, nodded her head, and swung open. Paige stepped inside, expecting a room covered in green and silver like the common room, but was pleasantly surprised to see that it was decorated in hues of purple and blue. Her walls, which were stone, were draped in deep purple drapes, while her floor was covered in lush blue carpeting. Her bed was gold while her comforter was a mix of deep blues and purples. Her wardrobe, desk and fireplace were also trimmed in gold, while the couch that sat in front of the fire was a lush purple.
Moving to the bathroom and opening the door she saw a large tub, a toilet and a long marble counter. Sighing with happiness Paige walked back into her room and changed into her nightwear which consisted of a pink tank top and pink and red pajama bottoms. Setting a magic alarm that would sound like chimes in the morning, she crawled under the covers and said a simple extinguishing spell to blow out her candles.
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Making her way to the Great Hall for breakfast, Paige arrived in time to have Pansy introduce her to a few other Slytherin girls. Most of them seemed a little creepy to Paige. It was one thing to be smart and conniving, it was something else altogether to act like a brute. There was one girl though that seemed nice enough. Her name was Alana and she too came from a pureblood family. Talking to her, she found that Alana was really bright and liked the same classes she did. Both of them liked Divinations and Potions extremely well, and she, Alana, and Pansy talked about it all the way to their first class of the day, Potions in the dungeon. Their class was to be with the Gryffindors and they wanted to make sure they got good seats. Paige and Alana sat at a table together while Pansy and Millicent sat at the table behind them. Soon the rest of the class piled in and Paige noticed right away that Draco and Blaise had taken the table beside them. Glaring at Blaise, she nodded and smiled at Draco, who smiled back. She was about to try and start a conversation with him when Professor Snape swept into the classroom.
"Today we will be working on a lunar potion. A potion that if brewed correctly will give you the ability to see into the dark without any noticeable side-effects. This potion, however, is quite tedious and will take some skill. Skill that some of you quite frankly just don't have," he announced, turning to glare at a boy Paige quickly identified as Harry.
"Your pairs for today will be as follows: Granger-Bulstrode, Potter-Malfoy, Weasley-Goyle,Finnigan-Crabbe, Zabini-Anderson,Worth-Parkinson..." The list went on but Paige had stopped listening after she had heard that she was partnered with Pansy.
Moving around to the stations, she saw that they would be sharing with Draco and Harry. Seeing the clearly visible tension between the two, she wondered briefly why Professor Snape would pair them together. Letting the thought go, she moved to help Pansy gather their supplies for the potion. As they got to work, Paige and Pansy chatted about school and their home lives. Paige made an effort to ignore the constant angry muttering going on between Harry and Draco, but after a while she couldn't take it anymore.
"Will you two knock it off? There are far more important things than your obvious dislike for each other. One being your grade in this class," she snapped. Both boys looked at her in shock, surprised that she would snap at them.
"Oh, don't look at me that way. If someone hasn't said anything yet about the childish way you two argue, they should have." Both were quiet a moment before Draco spoke up.
"You're right, I have much more important things to attend to than Potter." Harry looked like he was going to reply with an equally scathing comment when Paige again butted in.
"So, Draco, Harry, tell me about yourselves."
"Well," Draco said, cutting Harry off, "my parents are purebloods. My mother was a Black before she married my father. I grew up at Malfoy Manor, and I generally spend my free time with my friends or playing Quidditch. I'm the seeker for our team."
"Yes, Draco's amazing." Pansy pitched in with an over-the-top smile.
"So, how about you, Harry?" Paige asked.
"Yes Potter, tell us more about yourself." Draco cut in.
Harry looked like he was going to get into it again with Draco when he noticed the look on Paige's face, and he decided telling her a little about himself couldn't hurt. And she seemed like a really nice girl.
"Well, I grew up with my Aunt and Uncle since my parents were killed in the war. I didn't even know I was a wizard until I got my letter for school. I'm best friends with Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, and I'm seeker for the Gryffindor team." Harry explained.
"How about you, Paige?" Harry asked.
"Well, I grew up in New York, and I attended Hinsburg until my family moved here this last year. My father is a pureblood American Wizard, while my mother is Blaise's father's sister. Most families in Hinsburg are mixed so having pure blood there is not as huge as it is here. Its kind of strange moving back here, but my mother's family summoned us and we had to come," Paige said.
Pansy smiled and said, "my mother owled me this morning telling my that she had known your mother from school, in answer to the owl I sent to her last night about our arrival."
"Yeah" Paige answered "my mom was a Slytherin through and through in school. It wasn't until a friend of hers had died in the war that she kind of woke up. That's when she had decided to move to America."
"Who died?" Draco asked sounding truly curious.
"One of my mom's best friends. I don't know what her name was after she got married but when she and my mom were in school together, her name was Lily Evans," she told them. This seemed to catch Harry's attention.
"Did you say Lily Evans?" He asked.
"Yeah, that was her name. They were in different houses so I'm not really sure how it all started but they were really close. My mom was crushed when she died; she still gets upset when she thinks about it. After it happened she left her family and moved to America where she met my dad," she said, looking at Harry.
After that they went back to making their potions, and for the rest of class Harry was really quiet. He knew something had to be off. He had been only a year old when his mother had died, and Paige was the same age that he was. There was no way her mother had met her father after his mother's death. Not wanting to say anything in front of Pansy and Malfoy, Harry decided he would catch up to her after class and see if they could figure out what had happened, because Harry knew this was more than a matter of messed-up dates. He could feel it in his gut and he had learned by now never to question his gut.