After about ten more minutes of mind-numbing work I had finished, edited and corrected any mistakes on my paper. "Goodnight Leah, 'night Haze." I leaned over and hugged them goodnight. I walked up the stairs as slow as I could manage. Then I hurried to the sixth years' dorm and dropped off my cloak and books. I went into the washroom at the end of the corridor. It was surprisingly big; I had never actually been inside the washroom in the girls' dorm yet. I grabbed a green towel off a large silver towel rack. My name appeared at the end of it. I crept around the corner of the room hoping not to sneak up on anyone. As I rounded the corner I heard a shower going. There were small marble-looking doors with occupied and unoccupied signs on them. But then I looked closer and saw that they also had messages reading 'clean' and 'unclean' written on them. I walked around taking it all in. The floor was gorgeous marble with green jewels incrusted in the floors. It was so glamorous. None of the other bathrooms looked like this. I heard the sound of a shower cut off and looked around, I saw a seventh year get out of her stall and when she closed the door I saw that the 'clean' sign that had marked the door before had changed so that it read 'unclean.' I walked over to a 'clean' shower and went in.
After a long shower in the spacious stall I reluctantly turned off my shower and grabbed my towel off the door. I walked out into the empty bathroom and realized that the place where I had left my clothes was suddenly empty. I heard a scuttling noise from somewhere behind me. I turned around to face a house elf. "Did you see who took my clothes?" I asked her. "Yes, Twinkle did." She replied in a miniscule voice that squeaked at an incredibly high pitch. "Who is Twinkle?" I asked a little angry, placing my hands on my hips. "I is Twinkle." Said the elf. "Why did you take my clothes?" I asked Twinkle. "They is to be washed. I is not the one who left 'em in the wrong spot! I is the one who put them in the right spot, so they is to be washed!" replied Twinkle affirmatively. "When do I get them back?" I said perplexed. "Tomorrow." Said Twinkle as she walked into the shower I had just vacated and she started cleaning. I walked back to the room and saw that Nikki's drapes had been pulled closed. I chuckled. Leah was sound asleep in her bed and Haze must have still been downstairs. All the other sixth year girls were asleep. I walked to my bed and saw that a pair of pajamas that I had gotten at Paris Fashion Week last year had been laid out for me. I changed and grabbed my divination and charms book so I didn't look suspicious walking down stairs.
When I reached the floor I saw Haze asleep at the table we had been working at before. The rest of the common room was empty. I approached Haze and saw that she had fallen asleep on top of her paper. "Haze, wake up." I said as I nudged her to get up. She sat up and her paper stayed stuck to her face. I pulled it off and sat down next to her. "Did you finish your paper?" I asked. "Yeah, just barely though." She replied. She looked at the clock on the wall. "What are you still doing up? It's nearly midnight!" she exclaimed. "Haze that's really not that late." I said. "Plus I have to look over this divination stuff." "And charms too?" she asked. "Oh yeah. That too." I replied. "Well, I am exhausted. I'm going to bed. I will just have to shower in the morning. Goodnight!" she said as she hugged me and turned to walk up the stairs.
I looked over my divination book. I had been taking divination classes since my second year and no matter how much I read the theories or studied others I never really understood how it was done. I never was able to do it either. I got very little studying in before I heard footsteps behind me. "Did you tell anyone what I asked in the note?" said Draco as he sat down next to me at the table. "No" I said not looking up. "Are you going to do it?" he asked. "I'm here aren't I?" I offered as a reply. "Oh right." He said I looked at him for the first time since he had come down the stairs. He was blushing! "Well let's get started then!" he said bashfully.
"Alright lets do today's lesson." I said while walking over to the middle of the common room. I flicked my wand at the furniture and it moved away. "You know you are really advanced for a sixth year." Draco said. "No I'm not. Trust me when you go to Beauxbatons you learn to figure things out before they are taught. Normally they teach you something and test you on it on the same day." I said. There was a short pause. "Did you like it at Beauxbatons?" he asked. "I didn't really fit in there." Another pause, "Is that a no?" he asked again. "Let's get started, because you've got an awfully long way to go." I said. He pointed his wand at his head and whispered "Contego" under his breath. I pointed my wand at him and a jet of white light shot out from my wand and hit him. He fell backwards and I caught his wand; before he was able to fall and cause a great commotion I pointed my wand at him and he stopped falling and straightened up.
"Like that!" he said, "You shouldn't be able to do that! We don't learn how to do that until seventh year and even for a very advanced wizard it is hard to do without saying the spell." "So, okay I think what you are doing wrong is that you are not picturing yourself escaping the spell coming at you. I am only doing 'Expelliarmus' so it shouldn't be that hard. Try to picture yourself gone or with a shield in front of you." I told him without really listening to what he said. "No, really, I think you might be better than Granger!" he exclaimed. "What did you say?" I asked. "I said you might be better than Granger. She is supposed to be the brightest witch of our age. I don't think so. I mean she is a mudblood! How can she be-" he rambled. "Stop mumbling! Are you talking about Hermione Granger?" I ordered. "Yes. What other mudblood named Granger goes to this school?" he said while looking right into my eyes. "You foul little creature!" I half yelled forgetting that it was almost midnight and my housemates were asleep. "DO NOT call her that! She is a person." I pointed my wand directly at his throat. "What you don't even know her. Stop yelling at me!" he yelled back. "Yes I do, Hermione is my cousin! Her mom and my mom are sisters!" I said calming down a little. "I'm sorry." He said. "Sorry for what you said or that she is my cousin?" I asked. "Sorry for what I said. I didn't know." He said blushing again. "You shouldn't have said it in the first place. Just because she is my cousin isn't the only reason you shouldn't be saying that. Let's just keep practicing." He pointed his wand at his head and closed his eyes and said confidently, "Contego." I pointed my wand at him and the jet of white light that flew out and hit him bounced back and hit me. I quickly caught myself on a sofa behind me and Draco caught my wand. "You did it!" I said. I was blissful that I was a good teacher but still slightly annoyed with the pompous jerk.
Draco faked a large yawn. "We better get to bed. Will you help me when we cover a new lesson?" he asked. "Of course." I said as he disappeared up his staircase. I walked over to get my books and heard the wall open to let Nikki back in. "Ana! Oh My God! You scared me!" she exclaimed. "What are you doing down here?" "I could ask you the same question, but I won't. I was just studying divination for tomorrow; I wanted to try to understand it." I said. "Any luck?" she asked. "No." "What is with the furniture?" she said looking around the room at all the spread out furniture. "Oh, I got bored and moved it." I said as I flicked my wand and it moved back to its original location. "Let's go to bed." I said.
I fell asleep as soon as I was in bed. I slept soundly and woke up when a loud horn was being blown outside. I heard movement inside the room and looked around to see girls walking to the bathroom to start the day. I brushed my teeth along with all the other girls in the Slytherin House. I walked back to my room and saw that a set of robes had been set out for me. I looked around the room and all the other girls robes had been laid out for them also. I looked in my trunk and there was one more set of robes inside it. Where are all my clothes? I wondered. One set of robes was in the wash –according to Twinkle, one was set out and my third set was in my trunk. But all my muggle clothes were missing. I would have to solve this mystery later though. That was so different from all my other schools. None of my other schools had house elves that would set out your clothes for the day or wash your clothes or clean up after you. I changed my clothes and packed up my books for my classes before lunch. I walked down to the common room to wait for the other girls. "Oh, Draco, Good morning!" shrieked the annoying girl, whose name was Pansy. "Hi, Pansy." Said Draco sounding bored and a little tired. "Ok, let's go to breakfast." Said Haze from behind me, followed by Leah and Nikki.
After breakfast we all went to Potions. With another 'perfect' potion under my belt and a 2 scroll paper due the next day I was ready for the day to be over. I was seriously considering skipping my Charms class- I didn't, I am too much of a goody-goody. I strolled in, almost late and pulled my chair out and sat down. "Hey." Came a quiet voice on my right. "Hello." I said to a pale, tired looking Draco sitting next to me. "How did you sleep?" he asked, with his head in his hands. "I slept fine. You?" As I answered he glanced up at me but when he saw I was looking at him he glanced down. "I didn't sleep very well." He stared at the table when he said this. "Why?" I ask as Professor Flitwick starts his lecture on today's lesson, Ascension Charms- again something I have already studied. "Well, I was really messed up about what I said about Granger. I really am sorry! I didn't mean it; well, yes I did at the time. But you have convinced me of the wrongness of my actions! And I really want to-" "Shut Up!" I almost yell, but is kind of a whispered yell. "I said that I had forgiven you! I am still annoyed by you but I did forgive you. Don't make up crap about 'the error of your ways' or whatever the stupid thing you said was, because I will not fall for it-" "MISS MARTIN! Are you paying attention? Or just talking to Mr. Malfoy? Hum? Because I asked you a question!" yelled the stout man in the front of the room. He rapped his ruler on the podium and said "Will you please demonstrate how to do the Ascension Charm?" he said pointing his ruler at me. "Gladly" I pointed my wand to the right and both Draco and his chair were raised into the air. "THAT IS MARVOLOUS!" yelled an astounded Professor Flitwick.