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First Day of Class
Alyssia awoke with a start. She looked down at the foot of her bed and realized that Millcent's cat had jumped on her bed. Alyssia grumbled while Millicent retrieved her cat.
"C'mon, you don't want to miss breakfast."
"Apparently Miss Happy is not a morning person," Daphine Greengrass piped as she walked out.
Alyssia glared at the now empty doorway as she slid out of bed. Alyssia, the budding fashionista that she is, was glad Hogwarts had uniforms. It made it much easier to get ready in the morning.
Alyssia grabbed the uniform she had unwrinkledthe night before, and headed to the shower. The only difference was the small green "S" on the side of her knee socks, courtesy of her father.
Harry wasn't having a good morning. Ron ticked him off again.
Seamus and Dean walked in laughing, but stopped when they saw Harry and Ron.
"Hey what's going..."
Harry shot them a glare and they quickly turned back around and left.
"Some friend you are," Ron said as he walked off.
That did it. Harry knew he was a good friend but Ron went too far.
"Friend!" Harry spat, but Ron kept walking away. "You've been riding my coat tails since you met me!"
That stopped Ron in his tracks.
Harry had no time to react, his pre-breakfast state making him feel groggy.
"Stupefy!"
As Harry went down, Ron walked off looking like steam would come out of his ears at any moment.
Neville, having been in the bathroom and seen the whole thing, came in the room just as Ron attacked."Harry!"Neville checked on Harry then ran to get McGonnagal.
Harry was coming back to consciousness, when McGonnagal walked in with Neville trailing behind.
"Traitor!" Harry yelled as he jumped up and starting looking around.
McGonnagal felt uneasy being around somebody that looked so murderous. "Come with me, Mr. Potter."
Breakfast was in progress when Harry walked in the Great Hall. He sat at the end of table away from everybody.
Hermione got up to join him,
"Where are you going?" Ron chided.
Hermione looked confused. "To talk to Harry. Aren't you coming?"
"He started it," Neville sputtered without looking at Ron.
Hermione looked at Harry and stiffened. "C'mon Neville."
Neville held his head sideways, to avoid Ron's glare, and followed Hermione.
Alyssia didn't see Harryuntil Potions later that morning. She was curious about this morning so she walked over to Harry before Professor Snape entered the classroom. She started coughing a little bit but thought nothing of it.
Harry was in new seat across the room, so he didn't see Alyssia until he felt somebody poke him.
"May I sit down?"
Harry slid over a bit without a remark.
Draco looked like something had slapped him. His mouth went agape from shock.
"What's that little toad sucker doing?" Pansy asked, her face all scrunched up.
"Shut it!" Draco said without looking over. "I'll tell her you said that." Draco hated Alyssia's behavior sometimes, but he hated Pansy a lot more.
"You don't want to piss off somebody that is in good graces with Malfoy Sr."
Draco snapped his head towards Blaise. "She's not in mine," he said, thinking spitefully about the books.
"Oh you're just mad because she left her side to see the Potter brat," Blaise said goading him.
"Shut it!"
"Settle down Draco," Professor Snape said as he walked by. He reached his desk and looked at the class.
Alyssia had already returned to her seat when she saw Professor Snape enter.
"Potter return to your seat."
Harry immediately glared at Ron and narrowed his eyes as he picked up his bag and walked down.
Hermione didn't want any more trouble between those two so she shifted over beside Ron.
Professor cocked an eyebrow with curiosity but dismissed it. "If there isn't anything else, I will be announcing lab partners today."
Professor Snape thought he should change Potter's lab partner, but considered that it was a passing incident, and proceeded with current plans. Dumbledore refused year after year to change this particular potions class and now everybody had to suffer with him.
"Listen up. Bullstrode, Patil; Crabbe, Thomas; Davis, Brown; Garrett, Longbottom;
'Maybe that will subside the explosions this year. Goyle, Finnigan; Greengrass, Weasley."
The students left were getting fidgety, but Harry gave a sigh of relief. Members of both houses looked over slightly confused.
"Malfoy, Granger." Professor Snape gave a slight smirk over how mean that pairing was. 'Serves them both right'. "Parkinson, Potter and Nott and Zabini." That may have seemed like favoritism but It wasn't his fault the class was uneven. (HP Lexicon)
Harry looked over and decided she wasn't going to move. "You can have my seat Malfoy," Harry said rather smugly.
Draco looked over at Granger lightly banging her head on her desk. Draco grudgingly got up and pushed Harry. Harry pushed back and sat down.
Alyssia got up and sat down next to Neville as Professor Snape promptly walked over.
"Any exploded cauldrons and there will be detention for a month."
"I don't explode cauldrons!" Alyssia said shockingly. "He does!"
Professor Snape strode off towards the board.
"Why did he stick me with you?" Pansy whined.
"I'm glad," Harry said bluntly.
Pansy looked at him with shock. "What?"
"I'd take you any day over that brat, Ron," Harry said, venomously looking at Ron.
Draco plopped down next the Hermione, who was sitting up now. Neither said anything while both glared at Professor Snape, who was now giving instructions.
Draco and Hermione continued not speaking unless necessary, until they heard Alyssia laugh.
"She looks happy," Hermione spoke in the near monotonous tone of voice she had been using all class.
"She's always happy." Draco said, his voice dripping with disdain.
Hermione snapping out of her robotic motions asked, "What was it like growing up with her?" Hermione knew a little about the girl from having talked to her, but wanted to know more per usual.
"Fun when we were little, but now..." Draco remembered who he was speaking to and clamped his mouth shut the rest of class.
Alyssia was walking down the hill to Care of Magical Creatures, with the normal group that seemed to follow her. She stopped and looked up when she heard Harry ranting. She started to run up to him, when Draco grabbed her arm.
"Leave Potter alone!"
Alyssia looked at him like she wanted to slice him from eyeball to elbow. "Let me go." Alyssia got closer with each word till she was right in his face. "Sev" had taught her the principles of staring 'fire' into somebody else. Being good at potions at an early age earned her privileges that he didn't bestow on most people.
Draco hid a gulp and held fast.
Alyssia took her hand and removed him from her person.
Draco resisted at first, but let go, realizing she would have no problem breaking a finger or two.
The Gryffindor group gave the Slytherin's a wide berth. Alyssia glanced at Crabbe and Goyle, then caught up with Harry.
"Hey, Harry, Hermione!" Alyssia yelled as she ran to catch up.
Harry turned around. "Hey, giving Malfoy a hard time?"
Alyssia smiled, "Well for some reason," Alyssia glanced back at Draco, "he thinks he can tell me who to hang with."
Neville responded, "He runs Slytherin."
Alyssia looked at him as an evil smiled formed across her face, making her look more and more like the Grinch every second
"He 'thinks' he runs Slytherin."
"Anyway," Alyssia turned her head towards Harry, "What happened between you and Ron?"
"It's stupid." Harry mumbled.
"I know he's being brat, but unless he's always like that, why do you think he's doing it?" Alyssia inquired.
Harry looked at her, "You're not going to stop until I tell you are you?"
"Nope," Alyssia said seriously
"Ok." Harry sighed.
They had reached Hagrid's Hut but he wasn't there yet, so Harry figured he could fill her in a little. Harry started to talk but moved the group further away from the Slytherin group coming up behind them. They continued to come closer until Alyssia shot them a glare. "Go away!"
Harry picked a place a little further away. "Ron used to be my friend, but something happened over the summer to make him angry."
Hermione chimed in, "Harry stays with Ron's family, the Weasley's, during the Holidays."
"Why haven't I seen you there?" Alyssia inquired.
"What?" Harry and Hermione both exclaimed.
"I haven't been in the past couple years because of things beyond my control, but I love spending..."
"Wait a minute." Harry interrupted. "You know the Weasley's?" Shock coveredHarry's face.
"Yes I..." Alyssia began but she stopped as soon as the group quieted down when Hagrid began to speak.
Hagrid led the group down to where Buckbeak was.
Alyssia walked to Hagrid but had to bounce to keep up. Somebody else would have just ran, but she liked sideways bouncing.
"Hagrid I have a question?"
Hagrid looked at the girl with a smile. Upon noticing her badge, however, his smiled turned sour, "What yeh say yer name was?" Hagrid asked, eyeing the girl suspiciously.
"Alyssia," Alyssia said looking up at the huge man. "Alyssia Garrett." She finished.
The sour expression was replaced once again by a smile, "Sky's kid right?
"Yes sir," Alyssia said still bouncing along.
"No wonders yer so nice," Hagrid said"Don' get too close to um now."
Draco over to and stood next to Alyssia. "Forget what house you're in?"
Alyssia looked at him. "Forget who you're speaking to?"
"Settle down now, settle down!" Hagrid boomed over the rest of the class. "Does anybody know what this is?" Hagrid scanned for students and saw Hermione's hand go up
"Yes Hermione."
"A flying magical creature with the head wings and forelegs of a giant eagle..."
Draco started to snicker and generally cause disruption.
Alyssia glared at him, "Shut up!" she said in a forced whisper.
Hagrid looked somewhat stunned at Hermione. "Does any one else have anythin' to say?"
Alyssia raised her arms and exclaimed, "HORSEY!"
The group gave a collective titter.
Hermione looked at Alyssia oddly, "It's not just a horse, Alyssia its a..."
Alyssia raised her arms again and exclaimed, "BIRDY HORSEY!"
The titter progressed into full grown laughter.
Hagrid smiled, seeing she took after her father. "Who wants to ride um?"
The whole class got quiet.
Harry unfortunately sneezed.
"Ahh good Harry! Come on then!"
Harry looked nervous, Hermione took his books from him and edged him on. He looked over at the Slytherin's snickering and saw Alyssia smiling, which made him feel a little better.
After the hippogriff had been tamed and various students had thrown him dead things, Draco came to a conclusion about the beast ahead of him.
"He's just a bloody chicken!"
He began walking towards the hippogriff but suddenly landed face first into the dirt. He sput out dirt as he flipped over onto his back. "Who did this to my shoes?!" he demanded, but nobody heard him over their own laughter.
Alyssia stood there looking at the sky like nothing happened.
Hagrid mumbled something about Slytherin as he picked up Harry and plopped him onto Buckbeak's back. He then smacked the Hippogriff's back end which sends Buckbeak flying.
Draco got up and promptly tackled Alyssia. Alyssia and Draco both landed with an 'umpf',
"What did you think you were doing!?" Draco screeched at Alyssia while grabbing her robes.
It took a moment for Alyssia to regain her barrings, thinking of what she should do about Draco straddling her and yelling at the top of his lungs. She quickly brought a leg up right between his legs and watched him involuntarily roll off of her onto the ground.
Alyssia got up and tried to tidy herself up. "THAT'S what you get!"
Hagrid quieted the cheers with his booming voice.
"Yeh two follow me, the rest o' yeh stay put till Harry get's back."
When Hagrid arrived at the Castle, he noticed a rarity. Professor Snape was outside. Professor Snape was near the edge of the Forbidden Forrest walking away from it as he carried some sort of weed in his hand.
"Oy! Professor!"
Professor Snape looked around and saw the giant bellowing for him. He then saw the two dirty students following him and gave an annoyed sigh. He strode over to the giant to inquire about what exactly had taken place.
"What happened between you two this time?" Professor Snape sneered.
Draco started talking but quickly turned into whining.
"Draco stop your childish babbeling! Alyssia, what happened?"
Alyssia looked up at Professor Snape. "He tackled me, pinned me to the ground and starting yelling at me!"
Professor Snape narrowed his eyes at Draco, "Draco is this true?"
"She tripped me!" Draco said while pointing at her.
"Only because you thought you could just walk right up to a Hippogriff without being introduced properly."
"You keep being nice to those Gryffindorks!"
"You keep being a jackass!"
"Enough!" Professor Snape roared. "Hagrid you may go now. I'll handle this."
"Alright then, Professor," Hagrid said quickly as he walkedoff. "Don't want to get involved in any Slytherin business."
Alyssia started coughing and couldn't seem to quit.
"Go see Madam Pomfrey for a potion before dinner," Professor Snape ordered her.
After her coughingfit, Alyssia looked very afronted. "Why can't I get it from you?"
"Who do you think makes them?" Professor Snape asked in a slightly condescending manner. "Both of you will be serving detention with me tonight after dinner, understood? Owls will be sent to your parents Draco. And as for you Alyssia..."
Professor Snape tried to think of something.
'Her father is not availiable but The Malfoys' only job is to keep her from being expelled. They may not do anything to try and keep her in line'
"Come to think of it, I'll send an owl to the Malfoy's about you as well."
Professor Snape stormed off towards the castle.
Alyssia skipped off behind him trying to catch up.
"Go away." Professor Snape told her.
"Why?"
Professor Snape spun around and faced her. "Just because your father is a good friend of mine doesn't mean...STOP smiling THIS instance!"
"I'm not! You know that thing mothers say about how your face will stick like that…it's true."
Professor Snape cocked an eyebrow. 'You owe me Sky, you owe me big time'
Draco decided to avoid the yelling match between Snape and Alyssia and went another way back to castle. On the way there he caught up with a group of Slytherins…not his normal group, but his housemates none the less.
"What is up with that girl?" Tracey Davis asked when she saw Draco.
"I'm not talking about her," Draco spat rather than said. The others decided to keep quiet and keep walking.
After dinner, Alyssia walked to Snape's office. On the way, she met Lupin.
"Hi Remus! I mean Professor Lupin."
Lupin chuckled, "You've called me Remmy or Remus all this time, why not stick with it."
"Ok." Alyssia grinned.
"I must say I was quite surprised to see you here. How's your father? It's been a couple of years since I've spoke to him."
"He went missing," Alyssia said solemnly.
Remus stopped dead in his tracks. "What? Your dad went missing?"
Alyssia nodded.
"Maybe it's just a cover. I can't imagine anything happening to him."
"Neither can I." Alyssia started coughing worse than before
"That's a nasty cough. You need Professor Snape for a potion. You look peaky to."
"I don't ever get sick."
They started walking again and Remus noticed she was near tears, probably do to coughing but just incase he decided to change the subject. "How have you enjoyed your first day here?"
"Good! I'm glad I'm in an actual school now."
"I bet you are. Let's try to keep it that way," Remus said remembering the gruesome act of violence that led to her expulsion.
Alyssia walked in with Remus, still coughing.
"Alyssia, I thought I told you to go to Madam Pomfrey!"
"Now Severus, you know that didn't do any good. When she was younger, she'd only take potions directly from you." Remus said smiling.
Professor Snape looked back down at his desk, consumed in what ever paper work he was doing.
Alyssia, not feeling too well, sat down while Remus went up to Severus's desk.
"Here it is," Severus stated setting a potion vial on the desk.
"Thank you."
"Don't mention it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a detention to give."
Remus looked taken aback. "Your own Goddaughter?"
Professor Snape looked up at Remus with an exasperated look on his face. "Yes, my own Goddaughter! She apparently needs help remembering the rules like her father did… and countless others."
Remus left on that note and went where Alyssia was sitting, except now she had her head down.
"Severus, come here! She's burning up!"
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