Melanie smiled as she walked into the great hall; she sat down beside Ginny and grinned as her friend's mouth fell open.
"Your hair!" Ginny gasped.
"What do you think?" Melanie asked, she had taken out the blue streaks, and grown it (magically) longer, so now instead of it reaching her shoulders it reached her lower back, and was very curly, big barrel curls, she looked amazing.
"You look fantastic." Ginny stated. Just then Harry plopped himself; he picked out his toast then looked towards Melanie.
"You look different," He stated, he had no clue what she'd done.
"Really I wonder why?" Melanie said in a fake confused voice, then got up and walked towards the Slytherin Table, where her boyfriend was sat with Blaise and Pansy.
Melanie looked concerned, they seemed to be having a serious talk, but still she walked towards him, and smiled when he looked up.
"Your hair looks nice," Draco said causing Melanie to smile at him, at least he noticed.
"Are you alright? I mean do mind if I sit with you?" Melanie asked, looking from Draco to Blaise to Pansy.
"Sure, we need to talk to you," Draco said, so cautiously Melanie sat down opposite the three. "We want to help you." Draco said, Melanie looked at him bemused. "I mean well we want to help your side, of the war." Melanie nearly choked on her toast.
"Why would you want to do that, I mean no offence, but Parkinson you're not known for liking muggles and half bloods. And in any case I thought it was your dream to be a Deatheater." Melanie said quietly.
"Because Potter," Pansy drawled. "I liked Narcissa, because she was the only kind one out of them all, and they killed her. They knew that Draco wouldn't have managed to get to you, because you were too well protected. Plus we can help. I know you don't want to trust us, but you need us." Pansy stated.
"That's were you're wrong, I do want to trust you. I'll talk to people for you. I'm gonna guess that you'll all need protection. I'll do my best," Melanie said.
"Y'know, you're not so bad P-Melanie." Blaise said with a small smile.
Harry was amazed. He couldn't believe what his sister was saying, the three biggest Slytherins were asking them for help and protection, he didn't believe it, he refused to. She was just too taken with Malfoy to see through his lies.
"Fine! You know what Harry; I am so fed up with you! I'm here begging you to think of them as humans, not Slytherins! And here you stand talking as if they are evil! They're only human! Kids like us!" Melanie snapped at Harry, Hermione watched in interest, as Ginny nodded along with Melanie. "Unlike us they weren't given choices in life! A single way of life is all they have! And they don't want that! Why can't you see?" They were sitting in the court yard, a summer sun beaming down on them; the small group were unaware of the three approaching figures.
"Melanie they are Slytherins!" Harry snapped at her.
"Do you define yourself as Gryffindor?" Melanie hissed; when Harry didn't answer she smirked. "They aren't just Slytherins, they are kids like us! Please Harry don't be the one to force them to become what we're fighting against!" Melanie begged of her brother, when a pair of strong arms wound around her waist from behind.
"Thank you, Melanie," Melanie twisted around to find herself nose to nose with Draco, his grey eyes sparkling with emotion.
"There's no need to thank me," Melanie said with a warm smile as she pressed her lips against his.
"Please don't!" Harry groaned.
"Look Potter, we know you don't like us, hell right now we don't like you either, but we know that there is something very twisted going on with the Deatheaters," Blaise drawled.
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked, and for the first time they didn't stick their noses up in the air at her.
"They are trying to get us lot to do their dirty work. Getting their ranks in Hogwarts, Draco was the first, he won't be the last," Blaise explained.
Ron had remained silent up until this point.
"You mean they are getting kids to become Deatheaters, so that they can have people in Hogwarts spying for them?" Ron asked.
"Exactly, most Slytherins will be in on it, some Ravenclaw and some Hufflepuffs, and that's it mainly," Pansy said.
"We've got to go to Dumbledore, and we've got to do that now," When everyone nodded in agreement, the odd group made their way to the headmaster's office.
Dumbledore had been sitting and thinking again when there was a knock at his door, he had expected it to be Harry and Melanie but the three students they brought along with them was what surprised him the most, but they sat down, and told him everything they knew about the Deatheaters, it was more then he could have ever hoped for, then he realised he would have to home these students, they also would need protection, because if he sent them home and their parents found out what they had done, they would certainly be killed.
"I've decided you will all be staying at Emma's home, it's big enough for you all, and in any case there are two homes," Dumbledore said.
"Who's Emma?" Pansy asked.
"Isn't she their aunt?" Blaise asked indicating to Melanie and Harry.
"Don't worry, Emma's really nice. It's Sirius you've got to be wary of," Ginny said with a weak smile. And Draco smiled at this, at least Melanie and Ginny were trying to help them.
"Well that's not for another two months, we'll worry more then," Hermione said then left the office, Harry and Ron at her heels.
"How do you put up with dating that boy," Pansy asked Ginny.
"He's hot." Ginny shrugged grinning, and for the first time Pansy laughed kindly at something Ginny had said.
Two months had passed by too quickly, and a group of ten teenagers stood on the platform at Hogsmeade, Pansy had turned out to be less of a bitch than they had thought, though with little other choice as many of the other Slytherins had shunned her, she had also gotten several extremely nasty howlers from her parents, some threatening to kill her, Hermione, Ginny and Luna would comfort the girl as she cried. Blaise also wasn't faring too well, his mother had gone missing, he knew why, so did most other people, that was a month ago, he was waiting for her body to turn up any day. But Draco got the most trouble; he'd been sent poison by his father, and aunt Bella, and found himself, like his two closest friends, with no money as their parents had cut them off.
"Well this is certainly going to be an interesting summer," Harry stated, the group around him, also consisting of Luna and Neville, chuckled.
"Well Blaise and I promise not to cause too much trouble," Pansy said honestly. "Draco wouldn't dare because you and Sirius would freak out on him and kick him out."
"Don't even think about it!" Melanie warned Harry, poking him in the chest.
Harry groaned, he knew he'd never get away with trying to kick Draco out of the house, which meant neither would Sirius, damn, so giving up with that idea, slowly but surely Harry gathered his and Ginny's stuff up and carried it onto the train. They were lucky to manage to get the large eight people carriage at the end of the train, however Ginny noted there was ten of them.
"Don't worry, Draco and I can find a carriage of our own, can't we?" Melanie said to Draco pointedly, and when he nodded numbly she grabbed him and dragged him down the train.
"I don't think they will be just sitting and talking for some reason." Luna said watching Melanie's retreating back.
Harry had a coughing fit at this and scramble up out of the seat he was in.
"Oh no you don't Harry, those two never have any alone time, and if you go that means we can't sneak out together later," Ginny said, to which Ron whipped around, the tops of his ears red. "Oh stuff it Ron."
"This lot is amusing to be around," Pansy whispered to Blaise. "I could get used to it."