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Hermione was already waiting outside the charms classroom, when Harry and Ron arrived.
"Finally I've been waiting here for ten minutes!"
"Sorry but we were late to breakfast," Harry defended.
"Yeah we were held up by Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle they tried to hex us," Ron explained.
"What did you do?"
"Well actually we did nothing, Amanda had the three of them bound in ropes in seconds!"
"Did she really?"
"Yeah, then we went and got some breakfast."
"You left them there tied up? You didn't even untie them?"
"Yes we left them tied up and no we didn't untie them."
"That's a bit mean."
"Come on Hermione, Malfoy would have done the same to us." Ron told her; surprised she was acting like she actually felt sorry for the three Slytherin's.
The classroom door opened and tiny Professor Flitwick stuck his head out, "you may come in."
The trio took their usual seats in the middle row next to the window, while Professor Flitwick started his little speech. He went on and on for the whole lesson about how important these NEWT years are, and what they were going to learn this year, he even wrote a long list on the black board of handy charms for around the home. Charms that they were going to learn this year, as many students were moving out of their parents houses as soon as they become of age. So for a whole lesson they just sat down taking many notes of the board.
Harry wasn't really paying attention though until Hermione poked him behind Ron and hissed, "pay attention." This would work for a few seconds then his mind would again be elsewhere. Harry tapped Ron's shoulder and pointed out the window, where they clearly could see Hagrid lying on the grass next to Malfoy and Amanda, who seemed to be laughing hysterically.
Ron elbowed Hermione and tilted his head towards the window. Hermione sat up a little taller to see out the window, when she saw them down their acting happy family a look of confusion appeared on her face.
"Didn't she just hex him like less then an hour ago?" Hermione asked in a whisper.
"Yeah, it is really weird, I thought he hated her," Harry commented.
"Me too, after all she's in Gryffindor and friends with us." Ron added on to Harry's comment.
"Mr Weasley,"
"Yes Professor Flitwick."
"Would you care to answer the question?"
"Umm I'm not sure of the answer, sir."
"Are you telling me you don't know your own mothers name?"
"Sorry sir I wasn't listening."
"Obviously, five points from Gryffindor, next time it'll be ten."
"Yes sir, it won't happen again."
"Now where was I? Oh yes we'll also be learning some basic first aid charms, for some of the more common injuries."
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Amanda and Malfoy finished the set work much quicker then Hagrid had expected, so he let them go back to their common rooms early. The corridors were deserted as everybody was still in class and would remain there for another three quarters of an hour.
"I have a free next then after lunch we have potions together, so what do you have next?"
"Herbology but it doesn't start for forty five minutes."
"So want to do until your Herbology lesson?"
"Not fussed, although it would be pretty cool to see the Gryffindor common room."
"Fine we can do that after I've had a tour of your common room."
"Okay then, follow me," Malfoy grabbed her hand and led her down to the Slytherin common room.
"Basilisk," Malfoy told the picture frame, which opened as he gave it the password.
"Your password is 'basilisk,' well that's original?"
"Yeah but they're very selective about our passwords, they can't just be some random word they have to have some meaning about our house."
"Well that just makes the password easier to guess."
"Yeah probble, but no other house would have the guts to try get into our common room, they'd be slaughtered."
They walked down a short corridor, which Amanda could tell was way longer then it appeared but was obviously magically enhanced to make it shorter. At the end of the corridor was another door, "Malfoy."
"Your name is the password?"
"No, it is just to make sure no strangers can get into our common room, which is also why it is located all the way under the lake, so it is hard to get to."
The Slytherin common room was dungeon-like room, with low-ceilings, greenish lamps and chairs. The green walls were lined with pictures of all the pure bloods who went to Hogwarts and were in Slytherin, including Malfoy, both his parents and a few of his aunts and uncles, including Aunt Bellatrix. Her parents were even up there; her family was pure blood but an entirely different family line to the European one. Her parents were from Australia, the first ones to leave the country in five centauries. So she wasn't related to anybody on the walls apart from her parents, obviously.
Amanda had always known her parents went to school at Hogwarts, but they never gave a reason why they sent her to Dumstrung. Although Amanda assumed it was her mother's idea because she was a bit paranoid when it came to Amanda's safety, and Amanda knew a girl was killed around fifty years ago. Also because all her mother heard from Lucius was how badly the head master, Dumbledore rans the school. Amanda knew that he just didn't like him because he is Voldemort's archenemy.
Amanda nodded her head in the direction of a spiral staircase, "what's down there?"
"That's our bedrooms, come on I'll show you," again Draco grabbed her hand and led her down the steep staircase.
"They're really steep."
"Yeah they're a killer early in the morning and late at night, when you're drowsy or if you've had a bit to much to drink."
At the bottom of the three-story stair case there was a corridor, you could go left or right.
"Boys on the right and girls on the left," Draco told her as he turned right.
It seemed that all students had their own rooms, because as they walked along the corridor Amanda read the names on the doors and each door only had one name on it.
Soon enough they reached the end of the corridor and on the door in front of them was the name Draco Malfoy, with a big green 'M' underneath it, which Amanda recognised as the Malfoy family symbol.
"Bellatrix," Malfoy told the door which opened at the word.
"Well you Slytherin's aren't to creative!" Amanda told Draco, who just pulled a stupid face at her.
"Welcome to my room."
Amanda was very impressed with the size and neatness of the room.
"Okay this is the main room where I sleep and this," Draco led her through a door is my bathroom."
The bathroom was rather big with a giant spa in the middle, with green emeralds encrusted in the shape of a snake. Also in the room was a shower, sink and a toilet, all with the same snake pattern made out of emeralds. On the towel rack there were green towel with the Malfoy's trade mark 'M.'
The next room was the wardrobe; Amanda found it pretty disturbing that her boyfriend's wardrobe was the size of her entire bunkroom. Her had many robes, dress robes, school robes and Malfoy family robes. He also had a vast selection of designer muggle clothes for some reason.
"And last but not least my study, which is very handy around exam time as you can be in there for hours and no time will have passed outside."
"Wait so you're saying if you sleep in there, no time will pass?"
"Yeah but I mostly only use it for studying and doing homework, it leaves me with a lot of free time."
"This is so unfair, how come you get this all to yourself and we have four of us in a little bunkroom?"
"You're more then welcome to stay here nobody here would ever know, but Granger, Potter and Weasley are often very nosy and Granger would notice if you were never there."
"Especially because she has a thing against me, she'll try to find anything to make Potter and Weasley not like me."
"Still though if you ever wanna come down just send a message and I'll send you the new passwords."
"All three, man you guys must be worried about your security you have three passwords, we only have one!"
"Yeah but you Gryffindors, well not you but the others, are really trusting and see the best in people and don't believe anybody would want to break in and take their stuff."
"Well don't you worry all my valuables are at Torque Estate and very heavily protected by curse and creature, speaking of valuables my new broom should be arriving around lunch time."
"So you're defiantly playing Quidditch this year then?" Draco asked trying not to sound to disappointed.
"Yeah that is if I get on the team, why do you sound so disappointed?"
"Don't be stupid of course you'll get on the team you're brilliant, and I'm disappointed because you're in Gryffindor and now they're going to beat us even more then they did before you came."
"Don't be stupid I doubt we'll win every game, assuming I'm on the team, and even if we do you can easily beat Hufflepuff and probble Ravenclaw."
"Yeah but Slytherin and Gryffindor have been against each other for over a thousand years, so I really hate losing to them."
"Speaking of Gryffindor didn't you want a tour of their tower?"
"That would be cool, it could come in handy on day."
"Yeah I bet that's what Harry and Ron were thinking when they went into the Slytherin common room!"
"They did what!" Draco yelled, causing Amanda to laugh at the look on his face.
"Actually you gave them the password let them in and told them stuff that your dad told you about the chamber of secrets."
"How?" Draco demanded.
"They had a little polyjuice potion and became Crabbe and Goyle."
"Please tell me you're kidding."
"I'm not."
"Well let's go to their tower now, to make it more even."
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Another fairly long chapter. Poor Draco. Harry and Ron have been in the Slytherin common room. LOL Hope you're enjoying my story. As always please review.