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Chapter 5: Zachary Knight

Paralyzed with disappointment I stayed on the stool for a little while longer. I looked for my friends at the Gryffindor table but all of them couldn't make eye contact with me and instead stared down at their empty plates. I got up and made my way down to the Slytherin table where the boy that had smirked at me was now invited me to sit with him. I took his invitation because I had no one else to sit with and shortly after, food appeared on the table. I had lost my appetite and just poked at the little amount of food I ended up putting on my plate, occasionally looking back to the group. I held back my tears and tried not too look up at all.

"I'm Draco, that's Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy." The smirk boy said, introducing me to the people around us. "I'm sorry about you having to stay at the Weasleys, it must've been really hard staying in such an ugly poor house."

"Actually, it was fine, thank you." I said trying to ignore Draco.

"You can't be serious." He said almost laughing; the two goons across from him laughing as well and anger grew in place of my fear. "It was fine? How could such a poor house like theirs be fine?"

"God you're such an ass." I said fighting every temptation to punch him.

"I didn't think you would be one of them if you were good enough to get into Slytherin." Draco said taking another bit of food. I started to get up from the table taking my plate with me. "Good leave, we don't want you over here any way."

"I thought we wanted her to be friends with us." I heard one of the boys say.

"Shut up." Draco whispered loudly. "We don't want her to know that."

"I heard you!" I turned around and called out to him. At the same moment, I stumbled over something as I was walking backward and began to fall, but I felt a strong hand on my back that steadied me. "Thank you." I said turning around to see the person that helped me.

It was a boy, of course, with jet-black hair and pale blue eyes. He was the complete opposite of what I just saw, with a kind smile instead of a smirk. "No problem." He said, scooting over to make room for me. "I thought you were going to make it into Gryffindor, you just don't seem like you would be in Slytherin at all. "

"Neither do you." I said taking a seat. "Since you seem nice and all."

"So you've met the others." He smiled. "But don't judge a book by its cover." He returned to eating.

"But you helped me and that seems rare here." I said. "And I didn't think I would be in Slytherin either."

"When I came here I had the same thoughts." He said. "I'm Zachary by the way, you can just call me Zach though."

"And I'm Auden." I introduced myself.

"Yeah, I know." He smiled. "My dad was happy when I got Slytherin, he thought it was perfect. He's a death eater and my mom divorced him right after he became one, I live with her now. She felt bad for me, she even raised my allowance to 3 Galleons a week."

"Death eater?" I asked, unfamiliar with the name. "You'll have to forgive me, I'm new around here."

"Don't worry about it. They are these guys, and girls, that work for He-who-must-not-be-named. He's so evil, we can't say his name." Zach explained. "That kid Harry, defeated him when he was a baby. And I mean this guy is one of the most powerful wizards in the world, second to Dumbledore. So he got super famous and is said to come back. But not a lot of people believe him and it's a crazy mess. Anyway, I just thought you seemed cooler then Slytherin, you know."

"Apparently not, because the friends that I made in a different house wont even look at me." I said.

"Not really, one of the twins wont stop looking over here." Zach said, looking in that direction.

"Really?" I looked over quickly and saw Fred turning his head around back down to his plate. "Well, I guess that's it then."

"Don't worry about it, they'll come back around." Zach reassured me. "Until then you're stuck with me."

I was able to eat a little, but when the desserts came around, I couldn't even get myself to put something on my plate. Instead, Zach snuck Cauldron Cakes out of the dinning hall and we had some later in the commons room when we were getting to know each other. He made me forget about that night's earlier disappointments and helped me look forward to the New Year. I went to bed around 1 AM and knew I would regret it the next day, but I spent the last few minutes looking at the list of my tutors and it came with plenty of mixed feelings.

Astronomy- Lucy Appleton, Ravenclaw

Charms- Claire Markson, Hufflepuff

Defense Against the Dark Arts- Harry Potter, Gryffindor

Herbology- Neville Longbottom, Gryffindor

History of Magic- Hermione Granger, Gryffindor

Potions- Zachary Knight, Slytherin

Transfiguration- Alphie Higgins, Ravenclaw

Divination- Parvati Patil, Gryffindor

Care of Magical Creatures- Liam Kornico, Hufflepuff

Arithmancy- Butch Claywright, Ravenclaw

Then I stopped at the last name, having a hard time reading it.

Flying- Fred Weasley

I had an easy time falling asleep, but only because I was tired. If I wasn't so exhausted by the surprising turn of events, I would've stayed up thinking about the look on Fred's face the one time I caught him looking at me.