Chapter 6: The mysterious lash.

(Harry's voice)

"Wow!" I said. "Nice catch!"

"Thanks." Ron said smiling. "She makes us train really hard, but the truth is she is a good captain."

"Yeah, I think she knows what she is doing." I said.

I hoped to see her going out of the changing rooms after having had the shower she said she used to have after the trainings. In fact, she was the only one having it there; the rest of girls preferred to have it at our common bathrooms or the prefect ones in the case of the prefects, anyway, she, who could have also bathed at the prefects' bathroom preferred to bath there.

"I think she is a bit out of her mind." Hermione said. "She wakes up early for training and then when you come here she is usually already flying. And she always gets her homework ready on time for lessons."

"Do you think she is having extra-aid?" Ron asked.

"I hope no." I said.

"Of course she is not!" Hermione said. "But… that doesn't mean it's less weird and mysterious."

Then we saw her going out of the stadium, and she was not alone.

"Malfoy…" I hissed as we saw him.

"What is she supposed to be doing with him?" Ron asked then.

"Hey, nice to have seen you keep on being a good leader." Malfoy told Isa when he noticed us. "Anyway, I can not say the same from your company… Hello, Potter. Weasley. Granger…"

"What are you doing here, Malfoy?" Ron asked.

"Draco came to ask for some help." Isa said. "I think he is having certain problems with…"

"You don't need to give explanations to them." He said then. "We are all elder enough for not having to explain such things to people, in general."

"Ok, ok." I said. "But they are my friends."

"So, are you helping?" He asked her.

"Sure, but first let me look for some information." She said smiling. "We will have that helping meeting on the weekend, right?"

"On Saturday we had a trip to Hogsmeades." I pointed out.

"You promised to allow us showing you around." Ron said.

"Ok, then on Sunday." She told Malfoy. "I have some important things to do on Saturday so…"

"Ok." He said. "Then on Sunday morning."

"Ten in the morning is ok for you?" She said.

"Sure." He said.

Then he left towards the castle while we were on the same point.

"What did that rat want from you?" I asked her.

"Nothing important, he is having problems with Transformations lately so he asked professor and he was told to ask me for some extra-help."

"You give lessons and you never told us?!!" Ron said offended.

"It's been just two weeks since we met." She said. "Furthermore, you have never asked and I'm not a teacher. I just help mates to understand some points they have difficulties with. Just friends or when a teacher asked me to."

"But you are giving lessons to Draco." I said.

"Yes, Transformations teacher asked me to do it." She said as we walked back to the main doors. "Anyway, what's wrong with it? I thought it was alright."

"He is a snake." I said. "He is a…"

"I know he is not as good as it seems." She answered me. "But even if he was a deatheater, I would help him with the lessons just the same."

"Deatheater, in fact…" Hermione began saying.

"He was?" She said making us astonish because she said it on a relaxed way. "I know Malfoys were a deatheater family. I have been looking into that topic for the summer since… well, you know."

Yes, I supposed. She must be furious at them for what happened to her family; all murdered by deatheaters. So, now she said it, it was perfectly understandable that she would have looked into deatheaters topic as part of her revenge.

"Don't worry." She said. "He would not do anything on anyone on such a crowded place. I think he is not so silly."

I thought I should tell her that he was not so nice; that he had began to show some of Voldemort signs during their hood. But I thought she would not even listen to it.

"I think I'll need a hand with it too." I said. "Do you mind if I join you?"

"Of course I don't mind." She said. "As long as we can find a good place for group extra-lessons."

"I can still remember the D.A. meetings." Hermione said. "They were really good."

"The what?" Isa asked.

Then we began telling her about it while we were to have dinner at the great hall. She seemed to like it so she was smiling and took nearly every single detail of our meetings and the way of going on them.

"Perhaps we could organise them at the same place." She said.

"No." We said.

"Malfoy discovered us last time." I told her. "So it's not point on meeting there."

"Then perhaps an empty classroom." She suggested. "Perhaps I could manage to get allowance to use one if I say I'll help everyone having problems every week..."

"If you want to lose your time on that..." Ron said.

"She is also studying while she helps the ones not good at it." Hermione told him off. "I think you should help him too."

Then Isa held her laugh as Hermione and Ron began a little row. Since she arrived I have seen her smiled some times. I think that's good because that must mean she doesn't take the new orphan state too bad. I mean... she is getting over the first time depression.

When she saw me smiling at her she smiled as she went a bit pink.

"If you don't mind I think I'll take a long bath at the prefects' bathroom." She said. "Hermione, wanna come?"

"I have to get to study after dinner." She answered her.

"Ok, I then have dinner and then have the long bath." Isa said sighing. "What do you think we will have for dinner?"

(Draco's voice)

I was walking towards the common room with Crable, Goile and Parkinson after dinner while I was bored. Her admiration for me was sometimes boring and Crable and Goile were so brainless that it was impossible to have any kind of chat with them.

"I think I'll go to have a bath." I said. "To the prefect's bathroom." I added realising on Pansy's face. "See you later on the common room."

I wanted a break from their idiocy so I decided to bath and relax on that room silence. I walked to get to the tapestry hiding the entrance to the room and when I was there I said the new password and the entrance opened allowing me in.

I was so deep on my thoughts that I didn't noticed there was someone else in there till I went out of the little cabin I had got in to pee before bathing and then, while I walked to the tube with my towel as if it was a skirt, I saw something I will not easily forget.

There, in front of my eyes was a wet naked female body who had her hair short as a guy's one and spiky. She had a big tattoo at the end of the back where it joins to the bottom. And as I realised, there was another one at her right sternum. She seemed to have got out of the tube after having swum for a while.

And that the last I could see before the body jumped in the water with a perfect jump to then disappear.

I then went nearer the edge afraid on her, whoever she was, had drowned.

Anyway, there was not much chance of it cause as soon as I arrived the edge of the tube I was held by my ankle and I fell in the water to begin wrestling against the one in the tube till we ended and I saw a girl over me, staring at me in shock.

"Draco! You frightened me!" She said. "What are you doing here?! This is the prefects' bathroom!"

"It comes across that I'm in fact a prefect." I said being released. "And who are you?"

Her face rang me a bell; anyway, I didn't know a girl with such appearance. Then I realised she was taking the towel and wrapping herself.

She then jumped out of the tube wearing her soaked towel around her to cover her body.

"I think I'll bath other place." She said. "I was nearly ended so… Bye"

"Hey!" I said trying to hold her where I could. "Who are you?"

"Prefect too." She answered without looking at me.

Then she went to the changing room and nearly ran from me while I was buttoning my trousers. Anyway, when she ran away I could swear having seen a red spark on her way.

I tried following her but when I was out wearing just my now wet trousers

"Who was such a fast girl?" I wondered as I tried to get back in the bathroom to dry my pants and bath longer. "I thought it was… it can't have been her. She has not short spiky hair."

(Isa's voice)

"Hello!" Hermione said when I went back to the common room wearing my clothes a bit wet cause of my hair was now wet despite of I grew it up again while I was getting wear. "We thought it would take you longer to bath."

"Prefect's bathroom is mixed one?" I asked them confused.

"No." Ron said.

"Yes, it is." Harry said looking at him. "But guys and girls don't usually bath at the same time. Why?"

"A guy came in while I was bathing." I said sitting down and performing a cleaning charm on my hair to remove the rest of the foam from it. "I don't know how much of me he saw." I added laying the best I could.

"WHAT?!!" She screamed. "Who?!" She added nearly whispering now as Harry and Ron were coming too after dropping their magical chess game.

"Who what?" Ron asked.

"Didn't you got a good bath?" Harry added.

"A guy went in the bathroom while I was bathing." Hermione said.

"Shhhh!" I said. "Not so loud, please!!"

"Ok, but you tell us who was." Hermione said.

"Wow, we have a true hero somewhere around here." Ron said to be hit by Hermione.

"Hermione, you must agree with us that a guy sneaking in the prefect's bathroom and seeing her bathing deserves to become a hero for all the school men." Harry told him.

"Why do you men become so silly and hormone mix during hood?" I asked them. "And I must say that is not pleasant for any woman. Anyway… I doubt he knew who he saw…"

"Such a red shade of hair colour is unmistakable." Ron said.

"Then he will never know he saw me because I was not looking as myself." I said. "I don't like wearing long hair while I bath."

"So?" They said.

"This." I said after having look around to check we were now alone and making my hair shrink and go pitch black, spiky on the back and a long lock nearly covering one side of my face. "See? He would never recognise me like this."

"How is you got…?" Ron asked.

"Metamorphomagi, for my father's side." I recognised on a soft voice as a bit ashamed of it. "And I got another good gift from my mother so… I have a good defence too."

"You are running away from our question." Hermione said. "Who?"

I then thought about it but I didn't say a word.

"You are still not answering." Harry asked.

"Who is our modern hero?" Ron asked then.

I then shrugged and close my eyes before answering.

"Draco." I answered. "And I'd rather you not to consider him a hero because he frightened me when I perceived him while I was out of the tube to jump in the water."

"We would never consider him such." Hermione said.

"Yep, he is just a snake." Ron said.

"I still can't believe he peeped you at the prefects' bathroom." Harry said. "It's… too much even for him."

"Ah, before he was a hero and now he is just a peeping tom." I said ironically. "What a big change."

(Draco's voice)

I wasn't used to chat with other house members, but this time it was a different matter. I was trying to end my homework and I couldn't remove that beautiful body from my mind, I then decided to get up to my common room to sleep and I couldn't. Each time I closed my eyes I remembered that mysterious girl's body.

"Blaise." I called him. "Hey, wake up."

"Hummm… what do you want now Draco…" He said half slept.

I knew I couldn't trust Crable or Goile; they were too silly for even looking for their own nose, so less a student from I don't know which house about who I just knew had short spiky hair at the back of her hair and was a prefect. And then there was the tattoo at the low back.

"Do you know the prefects from other houses?" I asked him.

"Who do you want to beat up now?" He asked still half sleep.

"No, it's just… I want to find a prefect lash I want to speak to." I told him after getting sure nobody else heard us.

That seemed to call for his attention because he woke up in some seconds.

"What do you mean by speaking?" He asked. "Since when you speak to other house members?"

"I just met a girl before and I want to speak to her." I said. "That's all. She left something behind."

"What?" He asked me.

I couldn't tell him I had find her bra at the prefects' bathroom. She must have dropped it without even realising it.

"Something." I said. "It's really important for me to find her, so? Can you help me?"

"Yes, but stop lying to me." He said. "You have never returned anything to anyone. So, what else?"

"I saw her and as I didn't knew such a… perfect and beautiful goddess out of my mind." I finally confessed him giving up. "I can't study because I can't take her image out of my mind."

"Ok, I'll help you finding your 'Goddess'. So, what is she like?" Blaise asked me.

I tried to make all my sights words. I had her image present in the ceiling of my bed as if she was there.

"She has a bit darker skin than ours, as if she had been sunbathing lately… no, perhaps it's her real skin tone. Then… she has short black hair spiky at her back and longer on the front locks. Pitch black with metallic glitters when the light hit it. Her eyes were… green, yes, charming green."

"Sorry, I don't know anyone like that." Blaise said after hearing me and thinking for a second. "Perhaps that Patil from Gryffindor… but she is not prefect. Anyway, I could help you asking girls about her."

"Thanks." I said. "But don't tell anyone, please!"

"Ok." He said holding his laugh. "Anyway, what interest you have on such a girl? You don't know her, you have never speak with her… what does she has then?"

"Her eyes." I said. "And her touch. She is soft; and warm."

"Mate…" He said about laughing. "Swear me you don love her and you just want to do her up and I'll shake earth and sky for finding her for you."

"I don't know what I want for her." I answered him. "But I want to speak with her and hand her back what she dropped at the bathroom. And I want to take her out of my mind, I want to be able to sleep again."

Then his pillow hit my face.

"Try closing your eyes and thinking McGonagall." He said.

Then I did it and immediately the image of the old McGonagall turned into the image of her niece. Her beautiful niece and her pretty face.

I then smiled thinking on the good day I would have that weekend when she would teach me transformations.