TriNymphs - Chapter Eighteen - The Harry Potter? (Disclaimer on my profile)
The Malfoy's arrived in Diagon Alley to the sound of screeching. Eve Saruwatari came bounding up to the triplets squealing. Cho Chang trailed behind her looking embarrassed to be seen with the loud child. "Guess who was just checking out Cho!" Eve asked cheerily.
"Who?" Chelsea loved any piece of gossip.
"Cedric! The only hot guy in Hufflepuff. He's a fourth year now, and he just walked past us. He was completely checking her out!" Eve continued to squeal. People were starting to turn and stare, and her green hair didn't exactly help matters...
"She's exaggerating..." Cho said quietly. Her face was red.
"Well it wouldn't be Eve if she wasn't." Chelsea laughed, she liked the neon headed Slytherin girl for her refreshing cheerfulness, but she knew she could get annoying sometimes.
"Umm... Girls... Why don't you go off with your friends while we help Draco get his new Hogwarts things…? We'll meet back here in an hour." Lucius had no wish to be stuck with a group of loud preteens all day.
Narcissa pouted, she loved whole family shopping trips. She would usually drag everyone into stores that no sane person would ever go in. On a visit to France one year they accidentally put her in charge of finding a street to shop on. None of them had ever seen that many stores devoted purely to selling cheese in their lives.
The three girls jumped at the chance to shop without parental supervision. It would be much less antagonizing that way. The group walked down the street, slowly accumulating bags as they picked up their school supplies. Chelsea, Alex, and Eve lost Cho and Lyssa to Flourish and Blotts.
Lyssa was picking out extra spell books containing different charms and jinxes she could try. Towards the end of last year she had started working ahead of the other students, so she could stay even with her sisters. Cho was a Ravenclaw and was infinitely content meandering through the shelves and taking out random books to look through.
In the mean time Chelsea, Alex, and Eve were buying the rest of their school supplies. They stopped in Zonko's to peruse their new collection of pranks. Chelsea picked up some wet-start fireworks, but there was nothing in there to interest the other two. Though Eve dearly wished there had been some sort of device to help her listen into other peoples conversations.
They went and got some ice cream once they were done, by the time they were finished it was time to meet up with the rest of the Malfoy's again. They were thankful for their perfectly uneventful shopping trip after years of shopping with their mother.
The triplets got to the designated meeting place, Cho and Eve had both gone back to the Leaky Cauldron where their families were staying. They got to the meeting place just in time to see Mr and Mrs Malfoy shove aside a random muggle couple who had been idling in front of them. The couple shimmied over to the side to allow others to pass easier. They were very aware that the vast majority of the people in the Alley could do magic, where as they could not.
They stood out about a mile because of their clothes. Their child, who the triplets assumed was starting Hogwarts this year, glared at the Malfoy's as they were striding past. She had brown bushy hair and large front teeth. Draco, trailing along after his parents stuck his tongue out at the bushy haired child.
The Malfoy's took the floo network back to their manor and the four Hogwarts students exchanged purchases and shopping stories. Draco started going on about some boy he was talking to in Madam Malkin's when he suddenly saw a giant in the window holding two ice creams. "He was massive." Draco drawled. "The boy said his name was Hagrid, would that be the Hagrid you said works at Hogwarts?" he asked, idly.
"Must be, I can't imagine there are two people that massive with a name like Hagrid neither attributes are exactly common," Alex scoffed. Both Lyssa and Chelsea shot reproachful glares at the two, none of the four had ever talked to Hagrid, but he seemed like a nice person.
At the end of the day Chelsea left Malfoy Manor for Vampira's flat. She was thankful her 'father,' Mr Malfoy, had ignored her for the entire visit. She didn't want to get into that again.
The next time she saw her sisters was on at platform 9 3/4. They shared a compartment with Cho, Katie, Holly, and Eve. The compartment was split into Slytherins on one end and Gryffindors on the other, the group was somewhat dysfunctional as half of them refused to speak to the other half in the spirit of Slytherin-Gryffindor rivalry. Cho was sitting in the middle as the only non-Gryffindor-or-Slytherin person; Chelsea was in the middle as well as the only person who would agree to talk to every person in the compartment.
The neon green haired Eve, being of a gossip queen, was going on about everything and everyone that she had heard gossip about over the summer. Everything from who was apparently going to be on the Quidditch teams this year to which of the older students had hooked up over the summer. She had heard enough to talk almost constantly throughout the trip.
At the mention of Cedric apparently hooking up with some girl from Beauxbatons over the summer Cho looked distinctly put out. At which point Eve burst out, "Ha! I knew you liked him!" After which Cho glowered at Eve, who obliviously continued to go on about some couple that apparently had hooked up over the summer.
Not that she was entirely sure what a hook up entailed, as she was still eleven years old.
In the corner Katie, Chelsea, and Cho started discussing Quidditch. Lyssa was currently sitting between the three, and had to attempt to make the choice between sitting next to the goddam Slytherins and listening to them babble away or being bored to death with Quidditch talk. She chose to be bored to death.
"I am so going to make the team this year, as a chaser." Katie said, "One of the chasers from last year, Lulu Vasari, got kicked off the team for being so bad."
"Isn't she the one that kept running head on into the bludgers?" asked Cho.
"And the goal posts?" added Chelsea.
"And the stands," confirmed Katie, grinning. "I'm easily better then her, I could've made the team last year but first years can't have brooms," she frowned.
"Maybe I'll try out this year too," Chelsea thought out loud. "I also play chaser, and Fern Aporro finally graduated from Hogwarts so there's a spot open..."
"Fern Aporro?!" Asked Katie, "she was horrible, even worse then Vasari. How did she even get on the team in the first place?" Katie continued, astounded.
"Oh, she was sleeping with the captain. Didn't you guys know?" Eve interjected.
The three Quidditch nuts each shook their heads, mouth slightly hanging open at the thought that Eve knew anything even remotely related to Quidditch. Something that even they hadn't known.
At that moment Draco opened the door to their compartment, come to visit his sisters. Katie and Cho exchanged a look as the snotty little boy conversed with the three. Suddenly, Eve burst out some random snippet of gossip she had just remembered. "Oh my God! Did you guys hear, apparently the Harry Potter is coming to Hogwarts this year!"
"As in, The-Boy-Who-Lived Potter?" Asked Alex, curiously. Eve nodded vigorously, eyes wide.
"He'd be in your year, huh Draco." Holly asked dully.
"She speaks!" Chelsea blurted out as Holly had just said something for the first time during the train ride. Holly raised an eyebrow at her, as opposed to staring dreamily out the window, drooling slightly, as she had been doing the whole train ride.
"She's only been so quiet because she's thinking about this Italian guy her daddy set her up with over the summer. Apparently he's quite hot and their parents arranged for them to marry ages ago!" Eve gushed, cheerily. Holly then shot her a look. And growled a bit. It was weird.
"So Harry Potter is on this train?" Draco interjected, before the conversation could go elsewhere.
"Yeah, he's in a compartment somewhere near the end I think," Eve said, disinterested. Draco quietly left the compartment, a half hour later when the news about the Italian guy was finally done being talked about, they noticed he was gone. "So is he really as hot as I've heard?" Eve shot at Holly.
All the girls in the compartment who were on speaking terms with Holly decided to bug her about this guy as her face went slightly red each time he was mentioned. It was funny. The only time they took a break was to change into their robes.
I'm gunna be posting a chapter each day until chapter 22 (possibly 23) because I've had them all done since before I posted 17 so... yeah...
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