Chapter 3: The Switch

"Professor Dumbledore," I said shyly, "I was just wondering if I could take up your offer to switch to Slytherin."

"Had a change of heart Vanessa?" Professor Dumbledore asked.

"Yes sir," I said.

"What had caused this change of heart?" he asked curiously.

"I recently discovered that I was engaged at birth to Draco Malfoy and I wanted to spend more time with him," I explained.

"Alright Mrs. Wolphane, I want you to go to Professor Snape and give him this letter," he said finishing the letter and handing it to me, "have a nice day Vanessa."

I walked to DADA in a daze. When I got there I gave the letter to Professor Snape.

"Interrupting my class for this," he said annoyed. I looked around and saw fourth year Gryffindor and Slytherin students starring at me.

"Professor Dumbledore told me to deliver it to you now," I said looking back at him.

"I know," he said getting agitated, "but why are you being transferred into Slytherin?"

"Ask Professor Dumbledore," I said.

"Come see me in my office at 7:30 to discuss this," he said dismissively. I walked out of the room and walked down to the lake.

"What am I doing?" I thought sitting on the ground and wrapping my arms around my knees while tears started to run down my face.

"Avada Kedavra!" Splendora yelled, a green light shooting out of the tip of her wand. It hit Cristina, her youngest daughter. From behind her I screamed bloody murder.

"Young lady, you saw nothing," she said pointing her wand at me. Then everything went blank.

I squeezed my knees and started to cry harder not caring who saw me. There was a shuffling noise behind me but I just ignored in and kept crying into my knees. Whoever it was sat down next to me and pulled me into their arms.

"It's ok," Draco comforted stroking my hair. We stayed like that for several moments.

"It's almost time for class," he said releasing me and wiping the tears from my face with his thumbs.

"I'm sorry, you shouldn't have had to see that," I said apologetically. I stood up and stretched.

"Don't worry about it, you were upset so I had to comfort you," he said standing.

"I have to meet Snape in his office at 7:30," I said pulling my long silky and wavy black hair back into a high ponytail.

"Why?" he asked starting to walk towards the castle.

"To discuss me switching to Slytherin," I said following me.

"What the hell do you mean your switching to Slytherin?!" asked Harry angrily.

"H…Harry I have to," I said, "I want to."

"WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO?!" he screamed. Tears started to fall down my face again.

"HOW COULD YOU?!" he screamed as Ron and Hermione walked up with my bag.

"I trusted you!" he exclaimed angrily. I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed my bag and ran. I ran far away from them. I ran all the way to my next class.

At Lunch

"Hey, Vanessa, why was Harry yelling at you earlier today?" Ginny asked sitting down next to me at the Gryffindor table.

"I don't want to talk about it," I said opening up my favorite book of poetry.

"So you haven't already switched to Slytherin?" asked Harry sitting down on the other side of Ginny.

"Why would you care? Don't you hate my gut? You don't even know half of the things about me so you shouldn't be judging me!" I exclaimed closing my book, throwing my bag over my shoulder, and getting up. I walked out of the Great Hall and headed out to a sunny spot by the lake. When I got there, I through my bag on the ground, and lay down in the grass. I stared up at the sky and let my mind wander aimlessly.

A few minutes later, someone walked over and stood by my head blocking my sun.

"Enjoying the sun?" they asked. I instantly recognized the voice and jumped up to face him. I reached to grab my wand when my scarred arm started searing with pain. I clutched my arm as it I was afraid it might fall off at any moment. My eye sight stated to get blurry and I became very dizzy. I screamed in pain and collapsed to the ground.

"Vanessa!" someone yelled from the distance. I felt hands on my arm. I tried to stop screaming, but it didn't work, the pain was just too much for me to handle. Images of my attacker attacking me when I was seven quickly flashed across my eye sight.

"NO!!! DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!" I screamed shrinking away from all the hands touching and reaching for me. Tears started racing down my cheeks. "No….. Don't touch me," I breathed before everything went completely black.

I was sitting on the window seat by the beautiful stained glass window located in my father's study reading my favorite book of poetry. Father was sitting at his desk on the other side of the room writing a letter. I looked out the window to see a full moon high in the sky. I smiled and turned back to my book. Just then daddy hunched over and started to make weird noises. I put my book mark where I was and sat my book down next to me. I stood up and walked over to him to see what was wrong when the transformation started. Right before my eyes my father started to turn into a werewolf. I screamed and started to back up towards the window. It turned towards me at the sound of my scream. I tripped backwards over the foot stool. The instant I hit the ground it attacked. It lunged at my throat. Too young to own a wand yet, I was defenseless. I screamed for help but no one came to my rescue. The werewolf clawed my throat and my left arm.

Just then someone did come to my rescue. A blonde haired, blue eyed boy pulled it off of me. It starred at its hands and then ran out of the room.

The blue eyed boy lifted my shoulders and put his hand underneath my head.

"It's ok," he said. He pulled out his wand and started to attempt to get the bleeding to stop. I closed my eyes believing in his words.

I shot straight up and started frantically looking around. Someone put their hand on my shoulder and gently pushed me back down.

"Where am I?" I asked confused.

"You're in the hospital wing. Your arm started to hurt you really badly and you collapsed because the pain was too much for you apparently," Cecelia said gently squeezing my left hand.

"I know this might be a bad time but it's eight o' clock, and you were supposed to be in my office at 7:30. We were supposed to discuss you switching to Slytherin. Were we not?" asked Professor Snape from behind Draco who was sitting on my right side. "I believe that would be O.K. if you don't slack off," he said.

"Really?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yes," Professor Snape said.

"Alright everyone, Vanessa needs rest," Madame Pompfrey said from her office door way.

"Go back to sleep. We will all be on school grounds when you wake up," Cecelia said kissing my forehead. I smiled and closed my eyes. I drifted off to sleep thinking about what life as a Slytherin is going to be like.