Vandraedi was NOT pouting. Sure they got off light with their punishments but the female lion she had to serve it with wouldn't even TALK to her! She didn't even look like she was paying anyattention to her surroundings. Her eyes even looked a little glazed over.

The Slytherin had had enough. She turned to Monelleria and made the girl stop in her tracks. Arms crossed she gave her best impression of her fathers scowl. "What is your problem with me?!"

"I was listening to," Monelleria searched her mind for who she was talking to.

"Nargles,' Nammi suggested.

"Nargles," Monelleria said. She immediately wanted to slap the small snake that suggested it. If this got out everyone would think that she was crazy.

Vandraedi gave the girl a look. 'Does she think I'm stupid?'

"Really? Nargles? That's what you're going with?" She sighed and shook her head. "Never try to lie to a Slytherin. Especially one who recognizes reptilian languages and talks to Dragons." She whistled and her Opaleye Ophelia came swooping down from her perch and landed on Vandraedi's shoulders. Sprawling herself across Vandraedi's neck, ophelia eyed the lioness curiously.

'Mistress who is the other speaker?'

Vandraedi hid her shock at the dragons question.

'Stupid worm,' Nammi said slithering into plain view. 'Keep your tongue to your own Mistress and leave mine be.' She hissed.

'Calm down,' Monelleria said using a finger to stroke the snake.

'Careful Snakeling, you would be nothing but a snack to me.'

Vandraedi lightly stroked the dragon's snout, 'Ophelia. Be nice.'

'Yes mistress.' Ophelia grumbled still eyeing the small snake.

'Do behave yourself as a proud member of your race,' Monelleria said to Nammi who nodded to her mistress.

'I will if the dragon does. The last one I met raided my nest and paid for it.' Nammi looked like she was smiling.

"I apologize for Nammi's comment. She gets a little over protective, but I thought that Snakes had more subtlety." Monelleria said as Nammi hid underneath her hair. "After all, a dragon isn't something legal."

Vandraedi nodded. "Ophelia isn't normally like this. However Hugo has been trying to catch her and it's made her irritable. Apparently he isn't convinced she isn't a threat or that I have permission to have her here." She shrugged.

"I have no permission whatsoever to bring snakes to school," Monerlleria said bluntly. "But that doesn't stop them. If anything it makes them more determined to come with me. I was able to stop the majority of the venomous ones though." She said thoughtfully.

Vandraedi let out a small chuckle. "Ophelia is the only one I have permission for. That doesn't stop Vipera, Emerald, Sky, and Rozario from following the train."

"I know," Monelleria said opening up a bit. "They just follow you if they know they aren't going to see you for a while."

Vandraedi smiled. "I don't think we've ever really properly been introduced." She extended a hand towards the lioness ~ not realizing that they were being watched by everyone in the Great Hall, nor how similar this scene looked to McGonagall.

Minerva remembered when a young Malfoy and a young Potter were in the same position. The young girls also looked remarkably similar to the young boys.

The female snake smiled. "Vandraedi Malfoy. And this is Ophelia my Opaleye."

The female lioness smiled at Vandraedi and took her hand warmly then led her away from the Great Hall. "Monelleria Lovegood." She said.

Vandraedi looked confused. "I thought your last name was Weasley?"

"So does everyone else. But mom married someone else. She won't tell me who, but George has always been like a father to me." Monelleria replied. "She said that I would find out when I could rip out someone's organs with my bare hands. Or control the Basilisk. I don't know if she was joking or if she was serious."

Vandraedi just looked at her. In shock at what the girl had just said. "Um. Well that's…"
'Insane? Demented? Somewhat against the laws of reality since the Basilisk is supposed to be dead?' Ophelia said, attempting to not continue glaring at the smug looking tan snake.

"Let's continue this conversation after detention," Monelleria said looking at the classroom they were supposed to have detention in. "My friends call me Ria."

Vandraedi smiled glad for the topic change. "I don't really have a nickname." She shrugged. "No one could ever find one that fit me."

"Drae it is then." Monelleria said brightly before walking into the classroom. Nammi was laughing on her shoulder. Hard.

Vandraedi burst out laughing. "That's funny because my dad has the same nickname." Rai smiled brightly at Drae with a hint of a smirk before the door shut behind the two new friends. Professor Longbottom looked up at the two and sighed. 'Oh no,' he thought. 'A Lunar Elf and a Dracon. This could, would, be trouble.'

"Write down these sentences from on the board," He said tiredly. "You each have separate columns. So get to work. I will stop you two in an hour." Rai sat down and picked up the quill. Looking up she saw the first sentence was, 'I will not set loose giant snakes in the Great Hall.'

Vandraedi took her seat and saw her first line was, 'I will not make exact copies of Tom Riddles diary and put them in the common rooms for the students to find.' She let out a chuckle, 'Like that's gonna happen.'

'I will not give Peeves Kool-aid and watch the ensuing chaos.' Monellerai wrote smirking. That had been fun.

'I will not convince the other first years that the sorting ceremony takes place in the Forbidden Forest.' Drae frowned, she didn't remember that. She looked at Rai who was cackling quietly then shrugged and continued.

'I will not bring cats to school and let them out before telling Filch tearfully that Mrs. Norris had kittens.' Ria remembered that. The man had fainted.

'I will not attempt to dye Professor Weasley's hair blonde then insist that he is a long lost Malfoy and there was a strong glamour charm put on him from birth.' Now Drae was cackling.

'I will not charm the armor in the Great Hall to sing the Camelot song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' Rai smirked. That had been fun.

[A/N: I do not own Monty Python and the Holy Grail]

'I will not catch spiders and set them loose in Professor Weasley's private rooms,' Drae frowned 'That was funny but it wasn't me.'

'I will not steal the sorting hat and put it on the roof to have it sort the castle or secretly resort all the students and bribe the hat to put them all in Slytherin.' Ria was cackling madly now and Professor Longbottom looked a little alarmed. "I didn't do it, but I want to now!" She declared. Professor Longbottom looked a little scared of the lioness.

"Maybe this was a bad idea," he said to himself. 'Why did Ihave to get stuck with them?' He thought sadly.

'I will not bring a laser pointer to school and use it on McGonagall or Mrs. Noris.' Drae wrote confused at the first name. She had only done it to Noris.

'I will not run through Hogwarts screaming and crying that the Thestrals are coming for us.' Ria smirked and sighed happily.

'I will not run through Hogwarts while singing "They're coming to take me away!" while skipping.' Drea rolled her eyes. "That's totally unfair! I made the Gryffs laugh by doing that!"

'I will not imitate the Basilisk speaking then petrify any student or teacher in the immediate vicinity.' Rai frowned. She hadn't done that.