I've seen how they look at you,
With scorn, or worse, pity-
Abjuring your spirit
As they bind your body.
There will come a day,
Sooner or possibly late,
When the bindings give way
You will rise and be great.
Firechild in the hearth,
Bound you may be,
but not forgotten.
When you set yourself free,
Perhaps then you'll ken
My spirit as well,
And even if I've ventured deep
As far as fiery hell-
Perhaps you'll spare a thought for me
Or even burn me, break me free.
Blaise looked at his friend Draco, who was talking again about his 'friend' Dye. Whoever that was. And it was driving Blaise crazy. He'd looked up everyone in the stupid school, including teachers and groundskeepers, and not a single one of them had a name that was easily nicknamed into that. Not even letters, initials.
And that wasn't the oddest thing - though Draco was certainly getting no letters from outside sources, barring his Mum, who merely sent sweets.
The oddest thing was - who'd be friends with him?
Malfoy was the arrogant type, and though Blaise genuinely liked the boy, he'd practiced a mean air that belied his true nature. It was taken as a given in Slytherin, that that was what you did, if you didn't want to be Millicent Bulstrode, perpetually bullied for doting on her cat. But none of the other houses seemed to realize that, and Malfoy had managed to go on quite a tear as a firstie, even, trying to get some of the other students to 'toughen up.'
What a Hufflepuff saw as purposeless bullying, was far different from a Slytherin's eyes.
But Malfoy wouldn't be dangling a Slytherin friendship in front of Blaise's eyes, not like this, anyhow. He'd have whomever's favor he'd won (of course it would be an upperclassman) sitting right by them, ready to regale them with tales of cunning and woe. Well, someone else's woe, of course.
Who was this Di? Dye? D.I?
It was driving him crazy.
[a/n: No, this story isn't done (Not by half!). I was just trying to write a poem, and it kept on getting snarled. So I did a different one!
Harry and Ron and the Gryffindors really do want Hermione to be more than a bit constrained, if you think about it.
Also, poor blaise.
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