I woke up to the sound of rustling, i opened my eyes slowly to find aurora still in bed waking up the same time i did, so i roll over to the other side to see Madeline's bed empty, she must have woken up early, i hear the other girl, Mia i think in the bathroom, but there wasn't any sign of Madeline,
I sit up as i rub the sleep from my eyes, "morning" i say to aurora who didn't look happy to be awake, i walk up to my cupboard, the cold floor tingling my feet, and take out my uniform which now had the slytherin crest on it and the inside of the robes were emerald green; the house color, i walk up to aurora's bed and wake her up, she wined a bit but eventually got up and brought her uniform, and I checked my nightstand watch to find that it was still 7:15 am, then Mia came out of the bathroom
"Good morning!, i hope you had a good sleep! I'm so excited! Can you believe we're-"
I didn't let her finish as i passed her and slammed the door in her face, I honestly hate her already, i mean seriously? With her loud pitchy voice I don't think I would last a week listening to her,
I quickly took a shower not washing my hair, brushed my teeth, and dried myself before wearing my uniform, it really was awful, which was another con to Hogwarts, i placed some lotion on my face then went out to let aurora in,
"That girl wouldn't shut up! She only left because i told her to shut up and get a potion to fix her voice!" Aurora said when i came out, we both laughing then she went to the bathroom, i went to my trunk and took out a box which had a few jewelry that i can wear on a daily basis,i took out a simple necklace with three emerald gems placed proportionally in the middle, and some matching earrings, and an expensive watch, i pulled my hair up in a high ponytail and let some baby hair fall on the sides of my face,i waited for aurora as i took all the books that i needed for classes today and placed them in a medium sized leather side bag, it was black with some silver designs on the top, then aurora came out dressed in her uniform with a bit of mascara and light pink lipstick, she left her hair down and gathered her books in her dark brown bag which looked like mine except the designs and color,
We chatted as we made our way to the great hall thankfully without getting lost, as it was 8:00 after learning that the new password for the common room was serpent, we entered the hall and sat at the Slytherin table, which was already half full, and as we placed food on our plates i found my eyes wondering over to the Hufflepuff table looking for a certain brunet, and as my eyes wandered around i found his grey eyes already looking at me, but at the sudden move he quickly looked away embarrassed that he was caught staring, i smirked as i continued talking with some of the Slytherins that were seated with us for as soon as i said that my name was Malfoy every one started to greet me and complement me, i know if someone was faking and right now I couldn't find a single person who wasn't, except for aurora of course, and they wouldn't shut up so i really got fed up with the sucking-up and stood up to sit somewhere else, aurora as well, don't get me wrong i love the attention but that was a bit too much,
I looked around for empty spots for aurora and i and i found some in front of a quiet girl and it only took me a moment to realize that it was Madeline, i went to sit in front of her, aurora by my side,
We both sat down and ate some toast with jam, we both kept glancing at Madeline who wasn't eating anything, I couldn't care less as i continued chatting with aurora, but a few minutes later we were interrupted,
"Miss Malfoy, miss Laine, your schedules" professor snape said handing each of a us a piece of parchment which had our schedules, professor snape is an old friend of father, I've meet him a few times as he is also Draco's godfather,
"Good morning 'professor' how are you, it's been quite some time since your last visit" i said with a polite smile with a bit of arrogance, but don't be surprised i never smile kindly even to my own family, it always has arrogance in it,
"Yes I've been quite busy" he said in his usual monotonous voice, that I've grown used to, "I'll see you in class Elara, I expect good grades" he then handed Madeline her schedule and continued to give out the students's schedules, i had herbology then charms both with the ravenclaws, then i had history of magic and transfiguration with the hufflepuffs, it wasn't so bad and as i showed aurora my schedule and vise versa we both had all our classes together luckily, so we both picked our expensive bags and headed to herbology,
We reached greenhouse 1 and we saw some ravenclaws and slytherins already there, we both went and stood at the middle of the table but still closer to the front, and after a few moments all the students come in and a quite plum middle-aged women introduced herself as professor sprout, the class consisted of her telling us what we will be doing throughout the school year and that our next lesson will be about the devil's snare and half through the class I noticed that Madeline was in this class to but she was standing at the very end of the table barely paying attention to the the professor, i ignored her and focused on the professor again until the class ended, i saw Madeline rush out of the class and from what I'm seeing she is also heading to charms,
And on our way we saw a bunch of third year griffindors tailing her and making fun of her, I ignored them but then they said something that made my blood boil,
"Yeah run off you slimy snake, but where would you run off to huh? Even your parents probably hate you and want to disown you, and I don't blame them, I wouldn't want a filthy snake as a family" the black haired boy which i can clearly see was their leader said, and I couldn't just stand there with Madeline who's face was so wet from crying and do nothing, and one look at aurora said that she has my back, so we both stalked over to them, i taped the boy on his shoulder who wasn't very tall luckily, and and before he could fully turn around the palm of my hands left a red handprint on his cheek, he stumbled a bit and looked at me in shock,
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He shouted at me which brought the attention of some students who were passing by, and unbeknownst to me a certain hufflepuff was standing behind us at a small distance, his lips agape and his eyes watching in awe,
"Slapping you of course, want me to do it again so it's clear!" I said to the griffindor boy who had his hand covering his red cheek, my voice was full of confidence and authority, looking strait into his eyes as I said so, his three friends that were standing behind him look at me in shock like their leader, the boy shook his head severely in denial,
"You would seriously get so low, four third years against one first year, why don't you try that again and see what happens?" aurora said with disgust on both her face and tone, they all shock their heads violently, ugh such cowards,
"Good then you stay away from her and mind you own bloody business, got that?" They all quickly nodded their heads and scurried away,
I turned to Madeline and asked her, "your heading to charms?" She nodded wiping her face, i looked at aurora and she smirked and linked her arms with a startled Madeline, "let's go then!" Aurora said to Madeline, i linked my arms to Madeline's other side and i could swear i saw her smile at the corner of my eyes, and as we walked we left behind a smiling Cedric who saw everything,
We all made our way to charms and sat together with Madeline in the middle, it went the same as herbology except this time Madeline became our friend
~~~~~time skip~~~~
We sat down at the slytherin table and ate when I noticed that Maddie, which is what we decided to call her, wasn't eating again but this time I didn't ignore her,
"You have to eat something Maddie, you haven't eaten all day" i said and turned to face her completely, for in the short time we talked together she wasn't so horrible and i guessed that's why she became a slytherin, but I didn't mind befriending her, after all she was a pureblood and was in slytherin, so I didn't see why not,
"I'm not hungry" she said looking down, i knew she was still upset but she had to eat to i placed some roasted chicken on her plate and kept persisting that she eat, finally she gave in and ate, and after a few bites her appetite came back and we all ate together, i knew we had to talk to her, so i decided to talk to her with aurora at our dorm when classes are over since we're all in the same room but we had to get rid of that girl, what was her name?...Ella?...bia? Maya? Oh right Mia!
After we finished lunch the bell rang and we went to classes unfortunately Maddie didn't have this class with us nor the one after it, so we just decided to meet back at dinner when the classes are over,
Me and Rue (aurora) arrived at history of magic, which almost all of the students slept through, why? We had a ghost as our teacher, professor binns kept drawling about lessons that i felt my eyes drop, and rue was resting her head of her palm which was propped against the table,
"I think he wants to kill us all of boredom so we can join him" rue whispered to me, I laughed quietly, and waited for the bell, and when it did rue said "finally! Saved by the bell" she breathed out only loud enough for me to hear, I chuckled and pulled my bag,
"So, what's next...transfiguration, uhh I don't want to sit and listen to professors blabbing anymore" rue whined while we walked out, she was so dramatic,
"Believe me no one does, come on we don't wanna be late" i said and pulled rue with me while she continued whining, and when we arrived we saw a few Hufflepuffs sitting, I scanned the room and my eyes laid on some fluffy brown hair, and i knew who he was, a few seats were empty two on the back, one at the front, and two beside the cute hufflepuff boy, rue pulled me to the seats beside Cedric, and before i can pull back she was already sitting on the seat at the left and of the desk, leaving the seat closest to Cedric, I quickly pulled a confident face and sat down, i glanced at Cedric and saw him turning his head, we both locked eyes, he smiled shyly,
"Hi" he said in his soft voice, "hi" i replied, I didn't know what to say and it was kinda awkward, "it was kind what you did for that girl back there" he said starting conversation, and unlike when we where at diagon ally he wanted to talk, kind? No i was just defending my house, nothing to do with kindness,
"I didn't do anything, i just defended my house, that boy deserved it" i said arrogantly, but he didn't seem annoyed, he seemed...amused? "If you say so" he said while chucking lightly,
"Where's the professor?" Asked aurora in exasperation, i shrugged but then i saw a cat sitting on the professor's stand, "what's a cat doing here?" I asked rue "cat?" She asked, I pointed to the cat and she gasped, "it's so cute! I always wanted a cat" i rolled my eyes at her and then instructions magically appeared on the blackboard, so we all took out a piece of parchment and copied and when three boys came running in, the cat jumped and transformed into professor mcgonagall,
everyone gasped, including me, the three boys looked shocked and froze in their place until professor mcgonagall seated them, then as rue called it the "blabbing" began, but she did say some useful and interinsting stuff and i give her some credit for not boring us to death, but i kept stealing glances at cedric and i caught him doing the same, and when the class ended we all left the classroom and went to the great hall since we had free period before dinner, and i told rue about my plan to talk to Madeline in our dorms
We met Maddie there and we all went to our dorms, we said the password and went through the common room all the way to our dorm and checked to see if that brat was there, thankfully she wasn't so we went in and locked the door, Madeline sat on her bed as both me and rue sat facing her on my bed which was beside her,
"Alright! Maddie you have to talk to us! What's wrong!" I said giving her my full attention, she looked down and i saw her body tense up, i stood up and sat beside her rue doing the same,
"I know you're sad because you didn't get into griffindor but you shouldn't, slytherin is a great house with many great witches and wiza-" i stoped talking as she interrupted me,
"It's not that, believe me" she took a deep breath and continued,
"My parents always wanted me to be in griffindor, but I didn't see what was wrong if i got in another house, they said that slytherin was evil but I didn't believe that. My grandmother used to say "It's not the house that define us, it's our actions", bad people can come from other houses, like Sirius black for instance, he was a griffindor right? And i stoped judging people by their house a long time ago, and for another example, that boy today, and both off you, you stood up for me, thank you for that"
I looked at her with a new respect in my eyes, and suddenly she wrapped her arms around me and hugged me, aurora joining soon after,
We went to dinner with lifted spirits, and we ate and talked and laughed, then we all went to our dorms changed, bid each other good night and went to sleep,
And Maddie was happy, she was an only child and her family wasn't so close, her father always busy, her mother going to meetings, that even on Christmas and birthdays they would let her stay with her grandmother who sadly passed away two years ago, so she spends it alone with only an expensive gift to show that they remembered, she said that if they know that she's slytherin they would disown her,
So both me and rue tried to assure her that her parents wouldn't give her up and when it didn't work we promised that we would always be her family, even if not by blood but by a stronger bond
Author's note:~
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Hey guys!
So sorry for updating so late, i lack both inspiration and motivation, but I'll keep writing for my devoted readers
I'm going to speed through year one and two and go to year three which is one year before harry comes to hogwarts and start wrecking havoc
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thanks for reading and have a wonderful day<3
F.J