Hey guysss... so idk if it's just been classes kicking my butt or procrastination to the max on my part but anyways here's an update! I've decided I'm going to breeze through first and second year and things will pick up from the summer after 2nd year. I have this great plot and I hope I can pull it off! Please give me feedback on what u want and don't want to see In this story! It will help me update faster!
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The following morning had Dahlia waking up around 6:45 in the morning. She counted her lucky stars that none of the other girls were awake yet and rushed to the showers. She had never been about sharing her own personal space with others. Back home she
basically had a whole side of her "house" to herself, no one but her had ever used her bathroom. But now she had to share not only a room with 3 girls but a shower with them as well.
Yuck, she thought as she undressed and turned on the shower. The hot water woke her up the instant it touched her skin. All traces of sleep and fatigue evaporated, this was why she liked to shower early. She did her best thinking in the shower. And that's
precisely what she needed this morning. To think.
First day of classes, first day of first impressions, first day to show herself off. To truly set her self apart from the other first years. To stop being portrayed as just the girl who lived and nothing else.
She was brought out of her thoughts by a pounding sound on the bathroom door.
"Dahlia you've been there forever! We have our meeting in 30 minutes and Pansy and I haven't showered!" Hugged Daphne through the door.
Dahlia frowned and turned off the shower, I must of lost track of time, she thought as she dried herself off. She looked at herself in the mirror before opening the door and was relived to see herself looking so freshened up.
"Sorry girls" she said as she walked out the bathroom into their shared room with nothing on besides her towel.
Daphne rushed in the bathroom and said grunted, she was clearly not a morning person. Pansy on the other hand still looked dead to the world. Her head casually nodding from side to side as she fought the urge to fall asleep again.
Dahlia walked to her bed and closed the curtains around her area and changed into her uniform. A simple gray skirt that ended below her knees followed by long black socks and comfortable common black flats, a white button up covered by a black cardigan
with green lining on the outsides and a matching green tie and toped it off with the Slytherin crest on the left side of he chest.
She stepped in front of her mirror and frowned at her messy wavy hair. It wouldn't do. She grabbed a hair tie from her drawer and put half of her hair up and made a bun, leaving the other half down, making it look like causal waves instead.
Dahlia stepped out of her private area and almost ran into a frantic Pansy sprinting to the bathroom where Daphne had just walked out of.
"Good morning Dahlia" said Daphne walking towards her bed.
"Good morning to you as well" Dahlia said as she walked towards her book bag and checked to make sure she wasn't forgetting anything.
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As the clock hit 8, all three girls descended their stairs into their common room, where all the other first years awaited for their meeting to commence. Dahlia spotted Draco and sat next to him, leaning her head on his shoulders as they waited.
"Wish they'd hurry up, I need breakfast" Draco said as he smirked around the room, feeling oddly triumphed that Dahlia was leaning on him.
Dahlia chuckled, "quit whinnying, Draco" she said as she straightened up spotting Rosier and Fawley coming in, closely followed by Professor Snape.
"Good morning first years. Now we know you would all like nothing more than getting to the Great Hall and having some breakfast, so we're going to do this meeting quickly" Began Fawley.
"Now, some quick house rules. Always maintain a united front in front of other house. Slytherin is commonly the least liked house, so you have to rely on each other." Continued Rosier.
"Behave as the young adults you are, no acting immature and disgracing the great house of Salazar. Or consequences will be dire" said Fawley.
"If by some odd chance you find yourself in some trouble, come to one of us. We will help you to the best of our abilities." Said Rosier giving everyone a friendly smile for once.
"Don't get yourself in trouble, but if you must, do not get caught" empathized Fawley.
"Last but not least, study as much as you can. Us Slytherins usually occupy the top spots academically each year. And we would hate to lose our streak" said Rosier walking over to Fawley.
"Now Professor Snape will finish this meeting" Fawley said.
Said Professor, walked to the front of the cluster of first years and said,
"I am your head of house, I will be addressed as Professor Snape always. You will show me respect at all times unless you want to spend your whole first year stuck in detention." He began strictly.
"I take my job seriously. So if any one of you all have any concerns or conflicts with any teachers or students, come to me and I will sort it out. To end this little meeting I will call out your name one by one and hand you all your time tables" he said.
One by one each student got their time table, it wasn't until Snape got to her that it got weird. He first stuttered then looked up at her as she walked towards him and the same pained expressions she'd seen on him last night resurfaced. Dahlia now knew
it couldn't be a coincidence, he was hiding something.
She grabbed her time table smiled at him and thanked him before she walked back to Draco and grabbed her arm and dragged him out the common room.
"Geez Dahlia, now who's the hungry one?" He said as her rubbed his arm.
"I'm not hungry! Did you not see the way Professor Snape looked at me? As if he pitied me? No wait he looked regretful! But why? He doesn't even know me!" She ranted to Draco as they walked towards the Great Hall.
Draco sighed. "You're probably blowing this out of proportion? Maybe you just saw him with a pained expression from a stomach ache? I don't know Dahlia but you're right, he doesn't know you so he wouldn't pity you or feel apologetic towards you." He finished
as they neared the Great Hall.
"Yea, you're probably right. I'm just overthinking it" said Dahlia, not completely convinced.
Once they entered the Great Hall, all thoughts about Snape were forgotten. They walked towards the Slytherin table and Dahlia chose to sit next to Theo, while Draco followed and sat next to her.
"Morning, Dahlia, Malfoy" Theo said as he poured himself some milk.
"Good morning Theo, hope you slept well" she said as she reached for some berries.
"As good as one can sleep, I can assure you. What about you?" He asked
Dahlia was about to respond when Daphne jumped in and said,
"She knocked out the second her head touched her pillow and she woke up at the crack of dawn to take an hour long shower and used up all the hot water" she said in a sickly sweet voice full of sarcasm.
Dahlia smirked and rolled her eyes,
"Not my fault, you woke up late. The early bird catches the worm" she said
Draco and Theo chuckled while Daphne huffed and got herself some bread.
The rest of breakfast was a quiet ordeal with chit chat here and there, until all was eaten. They all then pulled out their time tables to check which class they'd be going to first.
"Ugh, Transfiguration with the Gryffindors!" Whined Pansy who had gotten late to breakfast.
"It can't be too bad" Dahlia said hopefully.
"Oh trust me, it will be" said Blaise, who had been sitting near them.
"Everyone knows that McGonagall favors her little lions, even though she tries to hide it" he said.
Everyone nearby nodded, agreeing to Blaise's comment, making Dahlia not look forward to Transfiguration anymore.
Students started to leave for their classes and Dahlia, Draco, Theo, Pansy, Daphne and Blaise left for theirs as well. They got a little lost on their way over there but thankfully they ran into Atticus and he showed them to their class.
They were one of the first ones to arrive so they had their pic of their seats, Dahlia went and sat on the front row, right in the middle seat. Draco sat to her right while Theo sat to her left. She turned towards Draco and said,
"Don't argue with Weasley"
Draco raised his eyebrows "I'm not dumb enough to do it in a class where his head of house is our Professor" he said.
"Lets hope you're not" she said as the rest of the class walked in, well almost all of it. Two students were missing and it only took Dahlia a second to realize it was Wesley and Granger.
She leaned her head on her hand and looked at Draco once again,
"5 galleons, they get points deducted" she said while smirking.
Draco nodded and said
"5 galleons, they not only get points deducted, but they get a detention as well"
Dahlia giggled and said, "you are so on"
Not 30 second after they had started their bet Professor McGonagall walked in, once again Dahlia got the impression that she was not a teacher you messed with. She was strict and clever and began to give them a talking to them the second she walked in
to class.
"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned"
As if on cue a very disgruntled Weasley and Granger ran in the room, panting as if they'd run a marathon. Granger looked at McGonagall, gulped and began to plead.
"Professor, were so sorry! We got lost on our way over here and Peeves sent us across the school!" She said in the most whiny, annoying voice Dahlia had ever said.
Weasley had not said a thing since he walked in, most likely leaving all the talking and explaining to Granger, what a boy. McGonagall looked rightfully annoyed.
"Please Professor-" whined Granger one more time before she was cut off by Mcgonagall.
"Enough. Miss Granger, , your tardiness for your first class on your first day is unacceptable. Since it is your first class and you did get tricked by Peeves, I will go easy on you both. I will only deducted 5 points each and you will avoid detention.
This time"
Granger nodded gratefully and walked towards the front row, the center of it to be exact. And when she saw Dahlia in the seat she definitely wanted she glared and sat down in the closest sit to the front. The third row. Weasley on the other hand went
to the back row and plopped himself down on a seat.
Dahlia smirked triumphly at Draco and raised an eyebrow arrogantly.
"I win" she said then turned and faced the front once again, giving all of her attention to McGonagall.
"Quiet down!," Professor McGonagall began. "Welcome to Transfiguration, first years. I'm professor McGonagall. I could take up a bunch of your time and go into detail as to why transfiguration Is one of the most important branches of magic but I'm not
going to do that. You will learn to transform items at your will" she spoke loud and clearly earning everyone's attention.
She then pulled out her wand and changed her desk to a car, to a mouse, to a pig and finally back to a desk. Everyone in class gasped and some even clapped.
"Now I don't expect you all to master this until your N.E.W.T year. So today we will start with something much, much easier. On the desk in front of you all, there should be a match. By the end of class i expect you all to change it to a needle. Now,
transfiguring it is going to be all about the way you picture it and intend to change it. You will focus on the match and picture it changing in your mind. Paying close attention to every element there is to it. You must move your wand hand in a suave
motion beginning from one end of the match to the other. Now. Enough of my chattering, Everyone begin."
Everyone stayed there staring at her open mouthed, they had all expect much more preparation before doing their first bit of magic, but they quickly found out that McGonagall expected more from her students.
Draco gulped and turned to Dahlia. He found her with her eyes closed mimicking the movement they'd been told to do. She was so concentrated that she didn't notice McGonagall observing her with a pleased smile. So far no one had succeeded and everyone
was starting to believe it was a lost cause. Even Hermione was sweating trying to change her match. Then out of the bloom Dahlia opened her eyes and said
"I've got it"
Everyone turned to look at her and her match which remained unchanged. Some started murmuring about her lack of tact.
Eventually Hermione snapped "what do you mean you've got it when your match remains as unchanged as all of ours!"
Dahlia smirked and raised her wand, completely aware that everyone was staring at her and swished her wand at her match and everyone watched in shock as it changed into a perfect, pointed, silver needle.
"Like I said Granger, I've got it. You should concern yourselves with changing your match" Dahlia said as she turned and began giving pointers to Draco.
"Ten points to Slytherin" McGonagall said. Then added so only Dahlia and Draco heard, "well done your father would be proud, he was as gifted as you are in transfiguration."
She then walked away and everyone began trying harder to match Dahlia Potter. But at the end of class only one other person had accomplished the task, Hermione. It wasn't a big accomplishment though as she had been the second to complete it, not the first.
At the end of class Dahlia walked out with Draco and got shoved by an angry Hermione.
"Watch it, mudblood" sneered Draco.
"Do not tell me to watch it! How did you do it huh?" She rounded on Dahlia.
"Cheating is my guess, there's no way you would of gotten it that fast!"
Dahlias cold eyes locked with Hermione's making the latter take a step back.
"Shut your filthy mouth. Do not go about accusing me of such nonsense. Let me dumb this down so your inferior self can understand. I am a pureblood from a good ancient family, who have always been gifted in magic. I was born talented. You on the other
hand are nothing. You're the scum on the bottom of my shoe. Do not try to compete where you don't compare" she whispered harshly then grabbed Draco's arm and walked away. Leaving a hurt, remorseful Hermione sobbing.
The rest of the week went pretty uneventful for Dahlia, she went to all of her classes. Was the best in them all and she helped her fellow Slytherins to do the same. Everything was going according to plan. She gained everyone's respect and all the teachers
adored her.
The most unexpected teacher was Snape. From the first potions class he taught her, he had become kind, well as kind as he could be. He used her as his prime student as she was the only one that could make perfect potions. He had even accidentally called
her Lily once, she pretended not to notice but was pleased she reminded him so much of her mum.
Of course things couldn't go perfect forever. And flying class would teach Dahlia that the following week.
So yea I know this chapter is a bit rough but plz review! Give me feedback! Also next chapter will include Theo and his blossoming friendship with Dahlia (; Draco won't be too pleased...