Diamonds and Pearls
Summary: A new Slytherin has come to Hogwarts, and in the grand scheme that is Draco's life, she doesn't seem to care about the mayhem and gossip that is floating chaotically around him. When insulted, she smiles, when scolded, she scoffs, when yelled at, she laughs. Life is just a game, and she's playing everyone the fool...and her father is loving every minute of it.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Kagome
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
R.I.P – Alan Rickman
(Severus Snape)
Remember
The Half-Blood Prince
~ALWAYS~
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You couldn't cut the silence with a serrated blade, so thick and heavy in the air, it was suffocating. Slytherin Common room had become a danger zone towards anyone who was neither Kagome nor Pansy. If the two were in the room, everyone seemed to become silent and distance themselves from the pair before they got caught in some unavoidable crossfire. This went on for four more days, and it was becoming horribly obvious to Slytherin House that any chance of a ceasefire was dubious in any near future.
"What are you working on?"
"Herbology essay," Kagome muttered as she continued neatly writing on the long sheet of parchment. Her eyes roaming a page from a book as she turned it back to a previous page before turning it forward to look at a picture. "Actually, it's not even an essay on Herbology. It's an introductory essay, on what we know. I'm already almost done."
"If it's on what you know, why do you have a Herbology book open."
"I was actually looking ahead about Snapdragon's; we are supposed to learn how to train them next week and so I was getting a head start on the lesson." She looked up and watched as Theodore Nott nodded and sat down with a book on Transfiguration, the Beginners Guide to. "Don't you get a second textbook for Transfiguration's in second year?"
He shook his head as he turned to a specific page, "nope, seems Lockhart monopolized the School list this year, with Standard Book of Spells Year Two as the only exception."
"Oh, those...did you read them?"
He raised a brow, "of course, we were told to."
"I guess, he's too...hmm, what's the word."
"Gaudy?"
Theodore and Kagome turned slightly at the sudden new arrival to their conversation. Kagome smirked, "Gaudy works, extravagant and loud, it's a perfect description." She turned back to her essay and finished it off before applying a quick dry spell on the ink and rolling it up. "Gentleman, if you will both excuse me, I have somewhere I need to be." She grabbed her book and popped it into her satchel before shouldering the bag and leaving the boys behind.
"Where do you think she's running off to?" Draco asked as he settled down on the couch.
"No idea; how was Quidditch practice."
"Well, which part...before it started or during?"
"What happened before it started?"
"Heh," Draco smirked before he started talking about the Slytherin Teams run in with the Gryffindors. Laughing as he recalled calling the Mudblood out in front of everyone and insulting the tragedy that was the Weasley's wand and charm work.
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"What's got you so quiet?"
"Hm?" Kagome looked up from where she was peeling the skin from a Shrivelfig, her cauldron on a low simmer as she had been monitoring the red liquid carefully. "Nothing really, I was thinking about the Common Room this last week."
"What's going on in the Common Room?" Severus watched as his daughter carefully dropped the fleshy meat of the Shrivelfig into the potion, the Red changing a bit to accommodate the fig.
"Everyone is just on edge. They think that Pansy and I might start the next Wizarding War. She's so...uhg!" She tossed another fig into her cauldron, the color changing again, still not the turquoise she was looking for, she started peeling the skin of one more Shrivelfig. "She must have gotten into Slytherin on her flaws alone."
Severus raised a brow at his daughters comment, "indubitably my dear," he watched the third of her figs sink into the cauldron and the liquid finally settled into a turquoise color. She began stirring the liquid and he watched her as she did this until the turquoise changed to a deep blue.
Kagome pulled the wooden spoon from the cauldron, tapping it along the side before placing it down on the side. She walked away from her cauldron and took a seat across from her dad. "I was hoping for more cunning and achievement-oriented students in my house."
"I think the same thing every year...but instead, I get the same crop of bigoted, self-serving snakes as I do every year. Though, everyone has flaws, my house certainly does its best to make theirs more noticeable. Your potion...is simmering."
Kagome stood back up and returned to the cauldron, a sunny yellow color met her eyes as she took in the liquids ever changing color. She took a handful of porcupine quills and started to evenly distribute them into her potion until the color returned to it's deep blue. "You altered this potion so much...I get the peppermint counteracts the side-effects of the potion but what is the deal with peeling the skin of the figs?"
"The figs flesh is the essential essence needed in the potion, when actually, you normally will add four figs with the skin, it also becomes too much for the potion. Remove the skin, and the flesh immediately starts to mix with the potion, so the color of the potion changes quicker to the preferred turquoise. Less...is best..."
"Yes, yes, yes...less is best. What's this for anyways?"
"A student is currently in the Medical Ward undergoing a Trauma charm, she apparently has a fear of heights and just had her first flying lesson."
"Ah..." Kagome laughed, "so the Euphoria Elixir, seems like cheating if you ask me."
Severus didn't reply as he watched her continue to mix the potion. When she finally was finished nearly twenty minutes later, the clinking of the ladle and the vials told him she was bottling the potion and labeling them.
"Here you go! Happiness in a bottle...ten of them." She carried a small box over with the ten vials and he picked one of them up, eyeing the bright yellow color with the rainbow-like effect towards the base of the liquid. He opened the vial; taking in the sweet aromatic scent, he nodded his head in approval. "Very well done, go ahead and deliver these to Madam Pomfrey, and I do believe you have Charms in ten minutes, have Pomfrey write you a note."
Kagome nodded, watching her father clean up the cauldron and ingredients as she grabbed her bag and the box of Euphoria filled vials before taking her leave. Stopping at the door, she looked back, "can I use one of these?"
Raising a brow, he looked contemplatively at her before giving her the go ahead. After all, what trouble could she possibly get into with a Euphoria Elixir?
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Me: Here is chapter four...I feel that perhaps Severus doesn't know his daughter at all. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter~! Let me know what you think! Below is a new story that I'm working on, I will try to get a few more chapters written before I start posting, next up is A Study in Emerald: Silver Linings~
Miracle Child
Summary: She was born like others of her year, in a time of war. She was brought up in the shadows of the chaos. Her parents loved her...that was all she knew and all that mattered. She didn't care if they were killers or if they had tortured ten or twenty witches and wizards...she just knew love.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Kagome/?
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content