Platform 9 was a hive of activity. Old students and new students alike saying their goodbyes to their parents and other family members. A Scarlett steam train sat filling the platform with steam while its engineers prepared it for the long journey across the country. Daphne had arrived a few minutes earlier and was currently saying goodbye to her parents and keeping her eye open for her best/only friend Tracy Davis.
As the five-minute warning whistle blew Pricilla Greengrass looked both of her daughters in the eye. "Now, I want you both to take care of each other and remember you're a Greengrass. I do not want to hear from Professor Snape about either of you miss-behaving."
Astoria replied, "Of course mother we will uphold the family reputation to the best of our ability" Whilst Daphne answered, "Yes mum". Pricilla looked directly at Daphne wondering what was going on with the girl, over the last few weeks Daphne had been acting very odd, hopefully, she wouldn't do anything unbecoming of a lady.
"Well off you go then." their Mother said giving each of them a final kiss on their cheek before ushering them off to the train.
Once on the train, Daphne found an empty compartment placed her trunk in the overhead storage and sat down next to the window. A few minutes later Tracy Davis walked in placed her trunk next to Daphne's and sat down on the opposite seat. Tracy was curvier than Daphne but also quite short at 5ft1 she was one of the shortest in her year, her hair was pure black and dropped to her shoulders in ringlets.
Daphne classed Tracy as her one true friend, sure there were others in her year than she had spoken with. Theo, Blaise, Millicent and to some degree, Pansy but Daphne just could not trust the others like she did Tracy. Plus the others were not exactly friends either more acquaintance The other thing about Tracy was that she was vastly more confident and daring than Daphne which is an unusual trait for a Slytherin.
Tracy was the first to speak after getting settled "Hello Daphne, how was your summer? Find any boys to snog?" She said finishing off with a wink and wagging her eyebrows.
"Hello Tracy, summer was splendid thank you for asking. I have not snogged anyone, my mum would kill me if I did! Listen I need to tell you a secret, but you got to promise me you will not tell anyone else?" Daphne Replied.
Tracy nodded and pointed her wand at the door locking it with a simple charm. "What's going on then? What's the secret?" Tracy asked.
Daphne leaned forward closer to Tracy and in a hushed voice said, "I decided over the holiday that I do not really want to be the perfect ice-cold pureblood anymore. I want some help with rebelling the rules. I have already started some things at home but I just do not know what I should do."
Tracy just blinked at Daphne like she had grown another head, then began to smirk and her eyes began to twinkle so much that she could have given Dumbledore run for his money. "Ok, so what have you done so far? This is going to be so much fun!" She squealed.
Daphne proceeded to tell Tracy of her rebellious endeavours so far. To say Tracy was a little disappointed would be an understatement. "Hold on let me get this straight, you have decided you want to rebel against everything your parents have ever taught you?" Tracy spoke and Daphne Nodded "But the only thing you have done so far is to call your mother and father, mum and dad and move a few items out of place?" Tracy continued Daphne once again nodded looking a little dejected that "ok the, looks like we got a lot of work to do then." Tracy finished saying with a massive grin across her face.
Daphne's heart rate soared with Tracy's smile. Daphne was on the verge of having a panic attack, maybe telling Tracey was not such a good idea. "W-What do you mean a lot of work?" Daphne stuttered.
"Well, I think we need to thaw that ice heart of yours by locking you in a broom cupboard being snogged to death" Tracy stated as if it was no big deal, meanwhile Daphne's face went so red she looked like a tomato.
Daphne had heard so much about snogging but had never understood it entirely having never taken part in the activity. Sure, she had experienced kisses from her family in greetings and farewells, but snogging was a whole new game-changer. 'Maybe I should ask Tracy how to engage in snogging, she brags about having snogged most of the male population…" Daphne thought to herself. '…Maybe I should wait a bit build up more confidence,'.
"Maybe I should wait a bit Tracy, I do not want to push my luck too quickly, it might make people suspicious," Daphne said.
Tracy sat up straight looked Daphne straight in the eye and said "Wimp". Just at that moment Theo and Nott unlocked the compartment door and entered. "who's a wimp?" Asked Theo and Blaise said, "Why did you lock the bloody door?"
"Oh, Daphne was just saying how she- "Tracy started but Daphne butted in whilst eyeing Tracy
"How I saw Neville Longbottom in Diagon Ally over the summer"
"Ah, that makes sense why you said wimp then," Theo said shrugging and taking a seat next Tracy.
"I think Neville's hot," said Tracy to nobody specific causing the occupants of the compartment to just stare at her. "What? He's gained some muscles now and lost his baby fat. Still a bit shy but good eye candy" Tracy added. Daphne Theo and Nott just shook their heads.
The rest of the train journey continued with an idle chat about the past holidays and the upcoming school year. As the train began to approach Hogsmeade the boys headed off to find another compartment to get changed in while Daphne and Tracy got changed in the current one.
As Daphne was finishing getting ready Tracy spoke "If you want to bring out your rebellious side then you need to strip back the prime and proper dress code for a pureblood princess. Look undo your top button on your shirt."
Daphne looked at Tracy shocked. "No way! I will end up in detention for weeks if I do that, that's far too risky"
Tracy let out a sigh and replied "Daphne if you want to rebel, you're going to have to take risks. If you are that worried when you do up your tie cover the gap. I promise nobody will know."
Daphne was not convinced but did as Tracy suggested. She could not tell if what Tracy said was true until she could get to the toilets but there was no time to go now as the train was pulling into the station. Resigned to the fact she would now have to hope for the best that nobody would notice Daphne pulled her trunk down from the storage rack and stepped off the train, Tracy following seconds later.
Once Daphne and Tracy found a carriage, they climbed in Daphne whispered to Tracy "Are you sure nobody will notice?"
"It will be fine" Came Tracy's reply, "Just stop worrying or you will draw attention" In all honesty Tracy couldn't see the issue she never did up her top button and not once had anyone picked up on it, well other than a fee of the boys who probably wanted a few more undone.
The rest of the journey up to the castle was made in companionable silence. Daphne worried that in a few short minutes she would be heading home having ended her education by being expelled. While Tracy sitting opposite her played with her nails completely oblivious to Daphne's quickly rising heart rate.
Once they arrived at the castle, they both headed up the entrance steps towards the great hall doors. Just before they arrived at the doors Daphne froze causing quite a few people who were also trying to get in to grumble about how the "Ice Queen" just blocked the entrance. Tracy quickly grabbed Daphne's arm and pulled her to one side. "Come on Daphne what's wrong now?" Daphne, however, seemed to blank Tracy and continued to stare into the great hall.
It was at this moment that Draco Malfoy saw them and decided to involve himself. "Greengrass, Davis, why are you standing out here. You haven't forgotten where the Slytherin table is have you? Or was you waiting for me as one of your betters to enter first?"
Daphne continued to blank everyone, whilst Tracy began to snarl "Malfoy what an unpleasant surprise, my dreams of you being sent away to Durmstrag obviously haven't come true yet. Drat" Draco Malfoy was fuming but before he could answer another voice chimed in this time from a green-eyed black-haired boy…
"It seems like even your own house has a dislike for you Malfoy." Potter shouted over the building crowd causing a few sniggers "Now can you move some of us would like to get in before the sorting starts." Draco turned and glared at Harry Potter before stalking off towards the Slytherin table as a few other students just sniggered at the display.
"Are you ok Greengrass your looking rather peaky? Potter asked as he walked over to the girls. At this moment Daphne seemed to snap out of her trance.
"Erm. I'm fine… thanks" Daphne said gaining a slight blush which was only noticeable due to how pale she had turned.
"Ok, well see you around then." Harry shrugged as he walked off to the Gryffindor table.
"What's got into him, he never talks to us Slytherins. In fact, I don't think he talks to Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw" Tracy said
"Come on Daphne, let get in," Tracy continued then whispered, "This year should be interesting".
Daphne just nodded not hearing the second part of Tracy's sentence. Slowly Daphne began to move towards the doors of the Great Hall… the moment of truth would she get away with her top button being undone? This was just the start of her school rebellion she had to do this… one small step at a time Daphne began chipping away at her cold persona.
-Extremely Rebellious-
A/N: I have decided I will be sticking any of my author notes at the bottom of the chapter so that you can ignore them if you wish :) I hope you all enjoy this 2nd chapter and please rate and review it, all reviews positive and negative helps me improve.
I can't promise any schedules for updating this story with 3 kids sometimes allocating time to writing can be difficult, but rest assured I will be trying to update this as often as possible.