A/N: The Twelfth chapter and they are still on the first day at Aradia.
Just so you know, I'm updating as fast as I can, but at the moment, I do have a lot in school and school always comes first. Sorry!
As Grabryel showed Draco around the castle, Draco learned a lot about him. The first was that, Gabryel had the same interests as him. He liked Quidditch, and to being rude to people was another interest they shared. Gabryel was a pureblood and valued it high, but he didn't have anything against muggleborns. Gabryel was like the Swedish version of himself.
When Draco told Gabryel about him and told him why his parents had named him Draco, (his Father had a burning interest for Dragons) Gabryel interrupted and said that his parents had named him Gabryel after the angel in the bible, just because he looked like an angel when he was born with his blond hair and blue eyes. It was kind of funny that Gabryel's parents had named him after an angel, when he acted like anything but.
When Gabryel had completed their tour around the castle, Draco slowly headed toward his room. Classes wouldn't start until tomorrow and he had a lot of time to spend before dinner, so maybe he could do some reading or maybe write letters to Mother and Pansy. When he opened the door to his room, he saw that Thomas already was there.
" Thomas." Draco greeted him
"Malfoy." Thomas politely replied with a smile. "You know, I hate it when people in my own age call me by my last name, so please call me Dean?"
"Okay…Dean. You can call me Draco" Dean smiled as an answer and continued to write what looked to be a letter. He was just about to start writing a letter himself when the door opened and Granger and was he assumed to be her mentor entered the room.
"Granger?" "Hermione?"
The two boys uttered at the same time.
"Erm, well I came just too introduce you to Ellinor" She said, looking at Draco. "And to you too of couse" this time watching Dean.
"Hellu, my name is Ellinor" Ellinor said, walking towards Draco, reached out a hand and shake his hand. When he said his name, she turned to Dean, froze and then continued, looking a bit embarrassed.
"Hi, Ellinor" She said this time, a bit shy. When Dean greeted her, she gave him a big smile and started talking about Hogwarts, which led to Draco and Hermione staring at each other.
"Why did you want Ellinor to meet me?" Draco asked very curios. Granger blushed and stuttered.
"Errrrr, well, I-I actually used her as an excuse. I kind of t-thought that it was time to forgive y- you" He gave her a genuine smile, glad she wanted to forgive him. He had missed her, not that he ever would say it, not even to Blaise.
"Great and I will try not to say it to you again" When Hermione smiled and walked closer he just stared at her "Why is she coming closer?" he thought. When it was less than 10 cm between them she raised her arms and gave him a hug. He got so shocked that she actually hugged him that he just stood there. Girls didn't really hug him that often, mostly because he never allowed them too. He didn't like the clingy ones, and most of the girls he had dated were. But when Granger hugged him it was kind of nice. When she took a step back, she smiled at him a little and told Ellinor that they probably should go. Ellinor gave Dean a hungry look, that Draco supposed wasn't her first one, told them good bye and followed Granger out the door. What was it with girls here in Sweden and hungry looks?
He heard the girls giggle down the stairs and finally walked over to his bed, unfolded two parchments and wrote a letter to his Mother and one to Pansy. When he was done writing he started his walk to the owlery where he had his own owl Viper. On his way there, he got a lot of glances from the Swedish girls and felt his ego grow ten times bigger. Draco Malfoy was in ego-heaven!
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All Ellie talked about for their walk to the Fox common room, where they were supposed to meet Ellie's friends, was Dean. How cute he was, that he seemed like a nice guy, that he had the cutest dimples she'd ever seen, his curly hair, well she talked about everything. They reached the common room and Ellie stopped talking about Dean, to say the password, "Jelly Beans" and then to continue chattering about Dean. When she saw her friends she gave a shriek and dragged Hermione to the table her friends sat at.
When they heard their friends shriek, they all looked up from their homework excitedly. She figured that Ellie and her friends were like a mix between herself and Parvati and Lavender.
"Hola, my dear friends" Ellie began. "Let me introduce you to my, hm… British?... and friend Hermione." She heard a hi from the girls
"Hermione" Ellie continued "this is Karolina, Pauline, and I guess you already know Vera" Ellie said, pointing at different girls and lastly at the Head Girl.
"Yes, I do." Hermione said smiling politely at the girls.
"Girls…" Ellie said, pointing at Hermione to sit down at the last armchair. " I have something to tell you." The girls listened carefully, sensing that their friend had something important to say. "I have just found the perfect guy for me!" Ellinor declared.
"Oh, who who who!" the girl called Pauline said, very excited knowing how rare that statement was coming from Ellie.
"Hermione's friend, Dean Thomas, he is perfect, he is tall, great personality and nice looking, what more can you ask for?" Ellie said, the other girls nodding to agree with her. Hermione had been right about that Ellie was a mix of herself and Parvati/Lavender. But she liked Ellie anyway so, the gossiping part was just to accept.
"Who except me is perfect?" Hermione heard a guy say two tables away. They all looked up and saw Draco's mentor Gabryel Something, looking at them.
"Oh, Gabryel, stop being so full of yourself" Ellie smirked at him. From what Hermione had thought, Gabryel was Aradia's Sexgod, like Draco were Hogwarts. So she thought it was kind of amusing that Ellie didn't seem to like him in that way. The other girls at the table, even Vera, shot glances at him, glances that showed that they thought he was perfect.
"Ellie, Ellie, Ellie... The only reason why you don't think that I am perfect is because you are my cousin." Gabryel said, with a serious look at his face. Merlin that boy had good ego. He and Draco was a perfect match. "Hmmm" Hermione thought, that explained it all!
"That's probably true!" Ellie said and then turned to continue talking to her friends again, but found them lost in thoughts - or more like it, lost in watching her cousin, so she once again dragged Hermione out of the common room and this time into what had to be Ellie's room.
The room looked exactly like Draco and Dean's except it had a girly touch.
"So can you tell me something about the houses?" Hermione asked.
"Of course. There is not that much more to know actually. Fox, our house, has the color red and silver, hence the colors in our room. Bear has yellow and gold and Reindeer has bronze and beige/cream. Sometimes we have classes with other houses but mostly we are by ourselves. Each house has a Quidditch team and a brolo team.."
"Excuse me" Hermione began "Brolo? What's that?"
"Oh right! We only play Brolo in Scandinavia! You are a muggleborn right?" At Hermione nod, she spoke again. "It's like Horse polo, except it's played on brooms, hence the name Brolo. It's really funny actually!" She said, at Hermione's glance.
"We are allowed to go to Kittelby the day after tomorrow, and then we buy you new clothes" Ellie said, thinking loudly. Why had she'd been given a mentor, that when it came to clothes, where exactly as Ginny?