A/N: hey guys! I'm so glad you're liking my fanfic so far! I've had loads of fun writing this chapter! I'm glad I got this finished on time, it was Basset's birthday and we went out, had a really good time! Leanne couldn't proofread much this time as she's really busy, so sorry for any errors! Thanks for liking my fic - I love writing it, and I glad you all like Persephone! Next Chapter coming soon!
Persephone was waiting in the hall to go inside and get sorted into her house. Hermione had given her a big hug and then gone to meet her friends Harry Potter and Ron Weasly. "Good luck!" she had whispered. "No matter what house you get, we'll always be bestfriends!" Persephone smiled, Hermione was so beautiful and smart but she was also really nice.
Then Persephone waited in the big crowd of people. She was really nervous, what house would she be put in? Would her house mates like her? Before she could think on this any longer, she was distracted. A little bit ahead of her was a tall girl with brown hair wearing a short pink skirt leaning over another girl who Persephone couldn't see clearly. She was smirking cruelly and Persephone moved closer until she could see the smaller girl that was being spoken to.
She had long midnight black hair and big purple eyes like shining violet but they were currently filled with terrifying fear. Her skin was as white as a summer snowdrop and she was quite small but with a really nice figure. Persephone thought she looked nice.
"Please just leave me alone May." Persephone heard her mutter in a voice that trembled with fear. It reminded her of her own when Tessa, Cassie and Ellie bullied her. Bullying is so bad, Persephone thought angrily!
"Shut up, Lyric." Laughed the girl. "Ha ha, Lyric is such a stupid name anyway."
The girl with the purple eyes looked really sad and angry, but Persephone had had enough! How dare she laugh at her name! This time it really did remind her so much of Tessa, Cassie and Ellen and the cruel nicknames they had given her, and no one had stood up for her so she knew she needed to stand up for this girl now. Persephone marched up to the bully and stood in front of the girl, placing her hands on her curvaceous hips defiantly and staring her right in the face with strong uncontrollable anger.
"Leave her alone!" She shouted.
"Who are you?" Sneered the girl. "I've never seen you before. Why do you care anyway!"
She stood up straight, her emerald eyes glowing with anger. "I am Persephone Jewel Granger! And I am new to hogwarts and I don't like bullies!"
"Well, Lyric has a stupid name and that's that so there!" Said the girl.
"How dare you laugh at her name!" Persephone angered. "Her mom chose that! And anyways, Lyric is a beautiful name anyways."
The girl sneered which only made Persephone even more furiouser.
"Well, what's your name then!" She demanded.
"My name is May Elfair!" Said the girl, she was smirking.
"Well, I'm not going to laugh at your name because that's really mean. But I COULD say that you MAY stop being a bully and grow up!"
May Elfair stood with her mouth open, clearly she wasn't able to understand Persephone's wittiness. She shook her head leaned forward and glared at Persephone.
"Just watch out, or you'll get in trouble here. I'm the most popular girl in our year and I can make sure you have no friends at all. You are a nobody."
Persephone glared right back. Her days off being spoken down to by bullies were over. She had become truly brave so she took out her wand, which was silver. Olliver the wand seller had said that it was the most unique wand he had ever sold and it was the only silver one in the whole of Britian. "I am not nobody, I am Persephone Jewel Granger!" She demanded courageously. "And I am a powerful witch, I'm warning you. You will not bully me or anyone else!"
May Elfair glared but she looked scared of Persephone's wand, so she just growled "This isn't over" and then walked away. Persephone watched her go, still gripping her beautiful wand angrily. Then she looked to the girl next to her.
"Thank you so much," said Lyric, her violet eyes shining with gratefulness.
"You're welcome," Persephone smiled. "Are you Ok?" She asked concerned.
Lyric nodded, her inky black hair swaying as she did so. "May always picks on me and I've never been brave enough to stand up to her."
Persephone nodded. "I understand. I was bullied at Ilvermorny too."
"Really?" Lyric blinked. "I would never of thought that."
Persephone nodded. "It's true. But I've decided to stand up for myself here and make a fresh start."
"That's a good idea! I wish I could do that." Said Lyric.
"You can! I'll help you. What house are you in?" Asked Persephone.
"Ravenclaw!" Replied Lyric.
"I hope I'll be in ravenclaw too then!" Said Persephone, smiling with hopefulness.
Then they went into the Great Hall. Persephone gasped. It was so beautiful! There were glowing floating candles lighting the room with their ethereal warm glow and the ceiling was just like the night sky outside, as black and velvet as the deep night.
"Good luck Persephone!" whispered Lyric then she went to the Ravenclaw table and sat down.
Persephone looked to the front of the hall nervously, where a very old wizard with a long grey beard was standing. She knew he was professor Dumbledore, the principal of the school.
"Welcome back to Hogwarts witches and wizards! Before we have our delicious feast, first I have an important announcement." Said Dumbledore. "As you know, our first grade students are sorted into one of our four houses, gryffindor, slytherin, hufflepuff and...Ravenclaw. But today we must sort an older student...one who is new to hogwarts and needs to be placed into one of the houses." There was a bit of muttering at the news of a new student and Persephone felt a little nervous. "Persephone Jewel Granger, please can come to the front to be sorted!"
Persephone slowly began to walk to the front. Her heart was beating so fast inside her noble chest. I wonder where I'll be! She thought nervously! Of course, if she was in Gruffindor she could be with Hermione...but somehow, she wasn't sure she'd belong there. There were hundreds of eyes following Persephone as she walked, some looked friendly and some looked over her vision with scorn, but she didn't have time to care about anything except her sorting.
Persephone sat on the chair and slowly placed the sorting hat onto her silver locks.
"Hmmm…" said a deep voice. "Interesting… you are certainly brave, and kind, and cunning… tricky…. But most of all you are intelligent, wise, creative and individual….the traits of Ravenclaw…..and…perhaps you are the….no, it couldn't be….maybe you are the-…...no, not now…..anyways….you will be in…..RAVENCLAW!"
Persephone's heart sung with noble happiness. She would be in ravenclaw, the house of the smart! And she would be with Lyric! Of course she was also disappointed not to be in gryffindor with Hermione but Ravenclaw called her like a musical harp playing a song of the angles.
She lifted her emerald eyes to the Ravenclaw table, who were all cheering musically and clapping their hands with joy. Persephone felt her heart leap and a dazzling white smile graced her face. She walked down and joined the Ravenclaw table.
"Omg Persephone I'm so happy you're in Ravenclaw!" Said Lyric when Persephone sat down next to her, giving her a hug. "This is my best friend Bastian!"
She pointed to a boy next to her. He had pale snowy skin, midnight-black hair and intrigue amber eyes. Everything about him was angled sharply - you could have easily cut yourself on his jawline. If Persephone had been shallow she would've instantly fallen in love as he was one of the most majestically carved boys she had ever laid her shimmering eyes upon. He was hypnotising in his handsomeness. Persephone gasped. He looked at Persephone and suddenly his eyes widened.
"Hi Bastian, I'm Persephone," said Persephone warmly. "It's nice to meet you!"
Bastian stared at her as if he was in a trance, then he blinked and said. "Um it's really nice to meet you too Persephone! Welcome to Hogwarts!"
"Let's eat!" Said Lyric. The plates filled with a ton of amazing food and it was the most delicious meal Persephone had ever had. While they ate she talked to Lyric and Bastian and they had so mcuh in common! They all loved books and reading and they all really liked alternative music like My Chemical Romance and Panic! At the Disco that most kids their age wouldn't like. Persephone couldnt believe that she had friends! She had always been alone before now and it was the most amazing feeling for her. Her new friends were amazing.
Hermione waved at Persephone from across the room at her table. She waved back glowingly. For the first time in ages Persephone was truly happy.
The next day Persephone woke up early and dressed in her school uniform robes, they were long and flowing midnight black ones. She put on a silver locket with a picture of her adopted parents in it and added a blue and silver sash that had belonged to her mom. She let her long silver hair flow free and pushed a black flower behind her ear then she put on her silver bindi.
"Omg you look so beautiful!" said Lyric when she saw her.
"Thankyou!" Persephone blushed. "You look super gorgeous too!" She complimented Lyric, then they met Bastian and started the day.
They had Transformation first. The task was to transform their own hair color and eye color. After a few minutes Persephone managed to change her hair to a beautiful deep violet and her eyes to a shocking blood-red with golden stars.
"Well done, Persephone," retorted Professor Mcgongal proudly. "That is the fastest i have ever seen any student master the extremely tricky science of human transformation!"
Persephone blushed modestly. She couldn't believe it was going so well! She guessed it was because she had always studied so hard and had a natural talent for magic. Persephone spent the rest of the lesson helping Lyric and Bastian with the spell and by the end of the lesson they could do it almost as well as she could.
Afterwards they had Charms. They had to make feathers float. "Wengardean Leviosa!" Said Persephone, flicking her silver wand elegantly and focusing as hard as a rocket. Her feather floated through the air, and her classmates looked up in shock. Persephone was so happy she'd managed it!
"Curious, very curious indeed," said the Charms teacher, Professor Von Monroe who was tall and pale with a shock of jet black hair that shimmered against his sapphire eyes; his robes were dark and flowing, pooling around his ankles, like he was a majestic vampire, looking at her gently dancing feather.
"What is curious professor?" Asked Persephone.
He looked at her. "That feather is plucked from the one True Raven of Ravenclaw. Until today, I have never seen anyone else able to levitate a feather from the One True Raven. Very curios…"
Persephone shivered with curiosity, what could this mean? But May Elfair scowled angrily. "Whatever," she snapped childishly. "I bet it was just a fluke anyways, or maybe she cheated."
"Just because YOU aren't good at charms doesn't mean other people have to cheat, May," said Bastian sassily. "Persephone's just better than you, accept it."
"Shut up you fool." Snapped May.
"That's enough, detention, May Elfair!" Said Professor Von Monroe angrily. "Homework, write an essay on the floating charm!"
They all left the classroom. It was really crowded in the corridor and the three of them happily chattered about music and books. Then someone caught Persephone's eye and she stopped dead.
There was a boy a little way down the corridor in a crowd of Slytherin boys. Amongst them he almost seemed to glow - like he was bathed in the perfect tears of angels. He had hair as pale and magnificent as a silver strip of moonlight glistening upon cornfields and pale grey introspective eyes. He was tall and slender, but still really well-built and there was a ghost of a six pack showing through his shirt. He had an aura of mystery surrounding him like a shimmering cloud. Everything about him was almost too beautiful. He was like Eros in human form. A true child of Aphrodiete. Everything about him pulled Persephone's eyes to him, like he was a beautiful magnet. She gasped.
"Who's that?" Persephone asked, her heart twanging with the gentle song of curiosity.
"Oh that's Draco Malfoy." Said Lyric
"He's in Slytherin and he's a bully, he is really scary!" Said Bastian.
"Yeah you don't want to get on the wrong side of him." Added Lyric, nodding her head so her flowing locks swayed.
Persephone nodded too, but she couldn't help but stare after Draco Malfoy. Somehow she felt there was more to him. A certain something only she could truly unlock. Then suddenly - their eyes locked across the crowds. Persephone felt her heart jolt and her pulse begin to race, as if her own feelings were about to overwhelm her and she would collapse upon the floor. She instinctively knew though, that if this happened, Draco Malfoy would come to her aid.
"Perspehone? What's wrong?" Asked Lyric.
"Nothing." Said Persephone, dragging her eyes away. "Nothing at all."
Persephone went to the Forbidding Forest at sunset. It had been a wonderful day and she was so happy with her amazing new friends Lyric and Bastian, but she felt like she needed to be alone. The forbidding forest was so beautiful, it reminded her of the soulful river from back home.
Persephone sat down in the forest and sighed deeply, closing her emerald green eyes and letting her long lashes skim her ivory cheekbones as she sighed. Birds fluttered above her head, singing in tune with the song of her heart, and she was at one with nature.
Then Persephone heard a strange noise. She looked up suspiciously, her silver locks swirling.
"Whose there?" She asked.
Then there was a rustle in the trees and a figure stepped out of the forest.
Persephone gasped.
It was Draco Malfoy!