As November got underway, the weather got considerably colder. There was frost on the grounds and Quidditch season had begun.
Haylin had never seen a Quidditch game before and was thoroughly excited.
Draco, on the other hand, was outraged that Harry had made Gryffindor Seeker.
"He's only a first year!" he cried for the twenty-fifth time.
Haylin sighed. "Stop complaining, Draco, it was your fault anyway," she said, not looking up from the news paper, Validus had dropped on the table.
"What do you mean it was my fault? I don't recall going up to McGonagall and Dumbledore and saying 'please make Harry a Seeker'," Draco asked angrily. Their fellow Slytherins almost leaned away from them. Something was up between them and they had no idea what.
"If you hadn't thrown Neville's Remembrall, then Harry wouldn't have caught it right outside McGonagall's window and she wouldn't have made him Seeker. It's as simple as that," she explained, still not looking at him.
"How do you know that? Getting friendly with the teachers now?" he accused.
"Whoa," Janaya whispered.
"Hermione told me," Haylin said calmly.
Draco made a face. "Why do you talk to those Gryffindors? Especially Granger, she's just a filthy little –"
Haylin stood up and pointed a finger at him. "Don't you dare finish that sentence!" she said, her voice, once again, sounding remarkably like her father's. "'Those Gryffindors' of which you speak were my friends before you were, before I knew of the different houses or the rivalries between them. If you can't deal with that then fine. Leave me alone." With that Haylin stalked off. Janaya and Adriel ran after her.
"Haylin!" Adriel called. Haylin didn't stop. "Haylin, Please!" She called louder. Haylin turned to face them, her eyes filled with tears she refused to let drop.
"Haylin, what is up between you two?" Janaya asked, putting a comforting arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah, you guys used to get along great, what happened?" Adriel asked, slipping her arm around Haylin's.
Haylin just shook her head. "Ask him," she said. Janaya and Adriel looked at each other and nodded.
"Will you be okay by your self?" Janaya asked. Haylin nodded and Janaya and Adriel ran off to find Draco.
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They found him sulking in the Slytherin common room.
"Okay Draco, what did you do to Haylin?" Adriel said angrily.
"What are you talking about? I haven't done anything to her," Draco said defensively.
Janaya pulled her wand out and aimed it at him. "Don't lie to me Draco. I've never seen her this upset. What did you do?"
Draco stared at her wand for a second then smirked. "You can't do anything to me with that," he laughed.
Janaya stepped closer. "You don't know my parents," she said. Draco gulped.
"Fine. Last night, I was sitting in the common room studying. Haylin came in; I asked her what she had been up to. She told me that she had been in the library, studying with Granger. Then we sort of had an argument about her hanging out with the Gryffindors. And then…" Draco trailed off, not wanting to disclose the rest of the information.
"Keep going, pretty boy," Adriel pressed threateningly.
Draco closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "I performed the Imperius curse on her."
Janaya took another step closer with her wand. "How do you even know how to perform the Imperius curse? You're our age! In case you hadn't realised, we're not even teenagers yet." Janaya never took her eyes off him.
"You're not the only one whose parents teach them tricks with a wand, Janaya," Draco said, stepping toward her.
"You are going to apologise and you are going to mean it," Adriel ordered, her voice dangerously low. "you don't want to know what I'll do to you if you don't."
Draco nodded and Janaya and Adriel went upstairs to prepare for their next class.
Not long after they had gone upstairs, the door opened, and Haylin entered the common room. Draco stood up and walked towards her. Haylin, seeing that no body else was there, drew her wand and pointed it at him.
"No, Haylin, please. Just hear me out," Draco pleaded. Haylin lowered her wand, but she did not put it away. Draco continued. "I'm sorry. I was angry, and I lost control," Draco hung his head.
"What was that spell called? The one you put on me?" Haylin asked. Draco looked up at her, confused.
"The Imperius curse," he answered. "It should have given me complete control over you,"
"What do you mean should have?" she asked, slowly walking toward him.
"You kept fighting it, I didn't get 'round to making you do anything because I spent most of the time getting you under control."
Haylin shook her head. "I can't believe you did that to me," she said, with a not of disappointment in her voice. "Teach me how to do it. Teach me and I'll forgive you."
Draco thought about this for a moment. He wanted her to forgive him but he wasn't sure if he could. He nodded. "I'll try," he answered. "I'll do my best but I'm not sure if I'll succeed."
Haylin put her wand away just as Janaya and Adriel came down stairs carrying her books.
"To charms?" Adriel asked. Her eyebrows raised, asking a different question. Did you two sort it out?
Draco and Haylin nodded, and followed Janaya and Adriel to class.
