Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in Harry Potter. They are JKR's. I just manipulate them into doing my bidding ;) I simply own my dear Violette.
Chapter 2
"What do you want?" Violette asked Draco, who was staring at her, his cold grey eyes wide. It took a moment for Draco to realise that Violette was talking to him. Violette sighed. She always had this reaction from boys, although she didn't expect this from Draco Malfoy. She had heard so much about him from friends although she hadn't actually spoken to him before. He was good-looking, the same as she had seen him in corridors. Lots of her friends had mad crushes on him, but not Violette. From what she had heard he was a bully and seemed to think no girl was good enough for him. She had also heard about his pure-blood mania and how he strongly disliked muggle-borns.
"I was simply wondering who was in this compartment." Draco said, regaining his trademark smirk and sneering voice. "I don't remember speaking to you before. I'm Draco Malfoy. You are?"
"Violette Smith." Violette answered.
"And you," Draco said turning to Luna, "You're Luna Lovegood."
"Yes, I am." Luna said, still not looking away from her magazine.
Draco smirked. Violette knew he had heard about Luna's slightly odd personality.
"May we join you?" Draco asked. Violette opened her mouth to speak but Draco spoke first. "Well, I don't see why not." He said, sitting in the seat next to Violette. His cronies, Crabbe and Goyle, squashed in next to Luna, who pushed herself close to the window.
"So what house are you in?" Draco asked.
"Ravenclaw. And your in Slytherin." Violette answered, not looking directly at him.
"Yes. You must have heard of me before then." Draco said, obviously enjoying the note of his popularity.
"Yes, and what I have heard of you is making me more and more uncomfortable with you being in this compartment. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like you to leave." Violette said. The smirk on Draco's face slipped slightly and he stood up.
"Okay." He said. He left followed by Crabbe and Goyle.
After they'd gone Luna finally put her magazine down.
"He didn't seem very nice." Luna remarked. She had a habit of speaking her mind openly, a habit Violette loved as it had constantly got her out of sticky situations or awkward silences.
"No, he didn't. From what I've heard of him though, he's not very nice anyway." Violette said in agreement.
The hours passed quickly and before she knew it Hogwarts came into view.
"C'mon, we better get out robes on." Violette said, pulling her bag off the luggage rack.
They stepped off the train and ran to get an empty carriage. It took a few minutes to reach the castle and they stepped off. As they walked towards the stone steps leading up to the huge oak doors, someone barged past Violette, throwing her slightly off balance. Her eyes followed the blond who walked past grinning. Malfoy again, she thought, rolling her eyes and continuing up to the Great Hall. Violette and Luna sat about halfway down the Ravenclaw table. Dumbledore gave his opening speech warning them of the return of He-Who-must-Not-Be-Named. As Violette looked around the hall observing other's reaction to this information, she noticed that Malfoy was sitting directly behind her and he was looking right at her smirking.
"What?" Violette asked him in a whisper. He shrugged and turned back to his friends laughing. Violette rolled her eyes and turned back to the table as the golden plates filled with food. As she ate she looked up and down the Ravenclaw table, smiling at familiar faces. Near the end of the table Violette noticed Cho Chang. Her boyfriend, Cedric Diggory, had been mysteriously killed last year by You-Know-Who, and his death had been witnessed by Harry Potter, whom she could see sitting with his friends at the Gryffindor table. Harry Potter's enemy was Draco Malfoy. She knew this as she had seen Malfoy mocking him in corridors. From the little she had spoken to Harry he seemed to be a very nice person.
After dinner Violette and Luna walked up with the rest of the crowd to the Ravenclaw common room. When they were in the Entrance Hall Violette could distinctly see a white blond head bobbing towards the dungeons. Someone ahead of them had already solved the question to open the common room so Violette and Luna filed in with the rest of the students.
"Shall we go to bed?" Violette asked Luna, as the common room was very crowded. Luna nodded and they walked up too their dormitory. Violette changed into her night clothes and lay in her four-poster bed with the curtains pulled shut. She just wanted to think. Think about a certain someone, to whom her feelings were quickly changing. No, you can't like the Slytherin prince, Violette. Even If he is good-looking, he has a horrible personality. Besides you'd get killed by that Parkinson girl, Violette thought. When she finally managed to drift off to sleep her dreams were haunted by the same boy.