This chapter is to a new reviewer of mine. They have a REALLY long and complicated name and I'm too lazy to look it up so sorry! Its starts with an "H" I know that much.

Chapter 5 - The New Slytherin, Darren Shan

Hermione watched as Darren looked at the floor.

'What's wrong with him? And why is he so pale? It looks like he hasn't been out in the sun in weeks!' she looked at him in more detail. He had ruffled brown hair (Im making this up as I go, just so you know. Why did they never describe what he looks like?) and hazel eyes that look like they've seen death many times, full of secrets and grief, but lifeless at the same time. He was wearing a dusty gray sweater and black pants underneath the royal blue cloak he had around his neck.

Hermione stared at the cloak 'How many people his age wear cloaks?'

Crookshanks jumped into her lap and purred for attention. She smiled and rubbed his ears.

"Well well well... If it isn't Potter and his band of unstable and dirty bloods!" said Draco Malfoy at the door, his two cronies behind him.

Everyone looked up and Ron drew his wand and pointed it at Draco.

"I suggest you leave before you make me do something you would regret Malfoy."

"Ha! What? You couldn't hit the side of the train! Maybe the side of your mother, she's just the right size target for you..." He also drew his wand and pointed it at Ron. Harry stood up and pulled his own wand out, 'he's not going to insult Mrs. Weasley!'

"LEAVE MY MUM OUT OF THIS!"

"BOYS!" Ginny and Hermione yelled as they jumped up and pulled Ron down to his seat but Ron jerked out of his grasp and fired a few hexes at Malfoy.

Malfoy dodged and one of his cronies grabbed Ron and dragged him out into the hallway while the other grabbed Harry and followed the first.

Neville jumped up to defend his friends but Malfoy put a body bind on him.

Ginny, Luna and Hermione ran into the hallway where they started to beat on Crabbe and Goyle, but they just swatted them off like fly's and continued to pin the two boys to the wall by their necks.

Darren watched as his newly found friends were dragged out of the compartment and be knocked unconscious by something he didn't know. He looked around franticly

'I want to help them but I cant! The only way I can defeat those lugs is if I use my vampiric powers! (Another cool word!) And I cant do that!'

Neville glared at him silently from the floor. Darren got the point and ran out into the hall, thinking franticly about a plan.

"And WHO is this? Boy, you do know you're with the wrong crowd, right? If you ditch them now ill let you join us Mr...?"

"Darren Shan." said Darren, making no attempts to help them, keeping his face neutral.

"Darren. So, will you join us? Slytherin is far more superior than Gryffindor." He said the name like a bad taste in his mouth.

"I want to get to know you Slytherin's better, they sound like the right people to be with. Ill go with you. "He said without looking at the Gryffindor's who were now either gawking at him or glaring hatefully.

"Ha! I knew you were a smart one Shan the moment I looked at you."

"Can we go and meet the rest? I find that the hallway is starting to stink of Gryffindor" Darren said, nodding his head in the direction of Harry and Ron struggling in Crabbe and Goyle's grasp.

"Yes, we must introduce you. Come along now. Crabbe! Goyle! Let them down and lets go." ordered Malfoy as he smiled in triumph at Harry who was astonished that Darren had said yes to go with Malfoy. 'One point for me.' thought Malfoy as he walked off down the hall with his new follower.

Crabbe and Goyle let go and followed faithfully behind Malfoy.

Ron Stood up and grumbled "Traitor, that's all HE was..."

Harry still sat rubbing his throat, thinking hard. 'Why did he do that? I thought he was on our side...'

Ron helped Harry up and they walked back into the compartment where they released Neville from the body bind and sat down again.

"Why did you bring him Harry? I knew he was bad from the start! I felt a chill when he walked in and he certainly doesn't belong in Gryffindor! Too quiet, that kid. BBRR!" rambled Ron

"I saw him before he went out there, he looked panicked for some reason. But I really thought he was going to help you! I guess looks aren't everything." said Neville

Ron continued to ramble on about Malfoy and his followers as the others thought over what happened. 'Why HAD he gone with Malfoy? He seemed ok.'

0With Darren and Draco0

They stopped outside Malfoy's compartment and Malfoy opened the door and walked in.

"I'm back. And I bring good news. I have saved this fellow from the Gryffindor's. This is Darren Shan, my new right hand man."

They nodded their heads and some even glared 'Why hadn't they gotten to be Malfoy's right hand man?'

Darren glared right back and then followed Malfoy to the seat in the middle of them. He motioned to the seat beside him; Darren sat down and kept his face stony.

"Now, did you find anything useful from them? Any fears or embarrassing moments? We could always use new material. Our other new member gave us plenty on Potter so we only need information on the rest of the mudbloods and blood traitors. "He said, motioning to at the fat boy he saw with Harry at the begining. Dudley was it?

Darren inwardly flinched at the word 'Blood-traitor'. But stayed solid on the outside.

He turned his eyes (Which had turned passive and cold as ice) to Malfoy and replied "I wasn't around long enough to find anything out."

Malfoy shrugged "Oh well."

"So were you from Shan?" He asked while leaning down and resting his head in Pansy's lap were she played with his hair.

"North."

"Durmstrang?"

"No."

"Then were?"

"Its privet, you wouldn't know it."

" snort , Fine then"

"I'm thinking that this year I should use my prefects badge to do some damage to Potter and his gang, what do you think Shan?"

Darren shrugged slightly and continued to stare blankly into space."

"What do you think about planting a Dark arts item in Mr. Potters bag? Hmm? Yes, I think ill do that."

The train started to slide to a halt and the Slytherin's grabbed their bags and start to exit the compartment.

Darren stood up with them and followed Malfoy out into the hall.

As they walked towards the exit of the train, the six Gryffindor's exited their compartment. They stopped and watched with glares and betrayed glances.

Darren couldn't look at them and only focused on looking stony and glared straight ahead, not even glancing at them.

'What happened to him?' thought Hermione

" Where's your luggage Shan?" asked Malfoy, quzzicly looking at him.

"I didn't bring any with me." Darren replied, showing no emotion in his voice

"Ah, getting it shipped here so you don't have to carry it? Your smart Shan, you'll fit in fine in Slytherin" he walked off and entered a carriage with strange looking horses.

Darren glanced around and saw the Gryffindor's go into another carriage; he turned and entered the carriage with Malfoy.

Malfoy rambled on about something that Darren droned out, nodding every so often to look like he was listening.

He watched as they approached a gigantic castle made out of stone.

The carriage stopped outside two huge doors and they climbed out. Malfoy led them into an entranceway that could fit one hundred people and started for to doors right in front of them that led to what looked like a dining hall.

He was about to go into the hall when he was stopped by and old, stern woman who was glaring at him.

"You will come with me Mr. Shan" she turned and swiftly walked over to a group of younger students.

He sighed under his breath and followed, straight backed.

The younger students looked at him in awe and whispered among themselves.

"He's so BIG!"

"I think he looks creepy! Look at his pale skin!"

"And look at those scars! There must be billions of them!"

Darren tucked his hands inside his sleeves.

"Now children!" she commanded "Mr. Shan" she added as an after thought. "I am Mrs. McGonagall (sp?) and second head mistress of this school. I will teach you all during this year and I will take no breaking of the rules, am I clear? We are to enter quietly and swiftly; you are going to be sorted. Then go to your table. Understood? Good." She turned and walked through the doors and down the middle of the four tables. and up to a stool with an old hat on it.

Prof. McGonagall took out a list and read down the list.

Children went up and sat down on the stool then had the hat placed on their heads. The hat came to life and yelled out a name of a house. The house that one cheered the loudest so they knew where to go.

Soon enough, McGonagall called out

"Shan, Darren"

Darren walked up and sat on the stool that was so small that his knees had to bend, ignoring all the whispers and glares he got from the Gryffindore's. Apparently Ron had told them all about what happened today.

Professor McGonagall placed the hat on his head and he suddenly saw black.

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And that's chap 5! woot! I'm on a roll. Where do you think Darren will go? smiles we will see now wont we?