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[Book 1: Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone, Chapter 6:94]
"...rumor about-"
"Listen Harry, would you mind if I slipped off for a quick pick me up at the Leaky Cauldron? I hate em Gringotts carts" A voice could be heard entering the shopping with a little bell tonging at their entry as he talked to someone leaving them be, Interupting a certain blondes rants "Excuse me dears.." Madam Malkin let go of the pale boys robes and put a needle into one of her many pin cushions on her mauve dressed accessorys.
"Dumb woman cant even focus on her main subject-"
"She can have other customers, Draco..."
A girl said rolling her tired eyes mumbling as she was sat on a seat all comfy with her legs up and her arms resting on a box of materials aside her, Draco the now identified boy glanced in the girls direction scoffing at her usual non caring expression as he looked at the elf that helped the other witch keeping his arms up for him "Girls"
"Hello, Hogwarts too?"
"Yes"
"My fathers next door buying me books and my mothers up the street looking at wands", Boasted the pale boy as he ranted away, The young girl peered over to them opening her eyes slowly noticing a strange look on the other boys face a fimallar look appearing.
"Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms, I don't see why first-
years can't have their own, I think I'll Bully father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow"
"Have you got your own broom?"
"No"
"Play Quidditch at all?"
"No"
"I do- Father says it's a crime if im not picked to play for my house, and I must say, I agree, Know what house you'll be in yet?"
"No"
"Well, no one really knows until they get there, so they? But I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been- Imagine being in hufflepuff, I think I'd leave wouldn't you?"
"Mmm"
The boy said awkwardly as Draco kept ranting on about this and that, the boy not even getting a word in properly, The girl glanced at Draco when he suddenly insulted hufflepuffs to which she thought he'd definatly become Slytherin. The other boy seemed to look around ignoring the boy noticing the door didn't seem to open yet as the girl stared at him noticing, he felt eyes on him quickly glancing at a dark corner noticing a girl with curly brown locks of hair whom seemed to have an annoyed expression, she was like nothing he had never seen before.
She had freckles dusting all over her cheeks and slight ones on her forehead and chin with terrible dark circles under her blue eyes with a slight glimmer in them from the warm light in the shop peering down them, she glanced at Draco and pointed to his back making her hand open and close like a mouth showing he wouldn't shut up making the boy with dark brown hair chuckle a bit.
"I say, Look at that man!"
Draco had burst out pointing to a very large bearded man in the door barely able to make it through the door with two ice creams in both hands with a large smile, he waited paitently for the nice witches to finish his robes for fitting.
"Thats Hagrid, He works at Hogwarts"
"Oh, Ive heard of him, Hes some sort of a servant, Isnt he?"
"Hes the gamekeeper" The boy with glasses corrected the other boy next to him in a sudden defensive tone of voice, "Yes, Exactly, I heard hes a sort of savage- Lives in a hut in the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk and tries to do magic and ends up setting fire to his bed"
"I think hes brilliant"
"Do you?" Draco fought back with a sneer, "Why is he with you? Where are you parents?"
"They're dead" The boy with glasses quickly shut him up with his honest response, Hagrid had managed to fit in the door sitting next to the young girl also waiting for Madam Malkin to finish their robes, the bell tonging for entry "Scamander- What are you doing here?"
"He wouldnt go by himself so he dragged me with him" The girl started a converstation with the quite large man taking up most of the seat holding the two icecreams which both hoped they didnt melt, "Oh sorry, But they were our kind, werent they?"
"They were a witch and a wizard, if thats what you mean"
"I really don't think they should let the other sort in, don't you? They're just not the same, they've never been brought up to know our ways. Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine! I think they should keep it in the old wizarding families, What's your Surname by the way?"
"All done my dear"
Madam Malkin saved the poor eye sighted boy and helped him down from the stool as Hagrid nodded a quick goodbye ending his talk with the girl who made a small joke, "Well I'll see you at Hogwarts, I suppose"
Draco sneered as he watched the two leave the shop making the doors connected bell ring, "Why were you talking to that Fat Buffoon?"
"Why were you degrading Hufflepuff's?"
She got him back as she lifted her head to look at him with a glare making him gulp stiffly mumbling insults scoffing at her, The two had obivously known eachother long enough to shut eachother up, She knew how much he hated muggles but because of her last name made her confused about the fact he still demanded her presence, due to the fact her grandfather famous for being muggle friendly in his adventures.
"I have to go collect my brother, I'll see you on the train Draco"
"Hey wait-!"
He tried to stop the girl but ended up getting hit on the arm by the needle slightly from moving making the witch and her elf hate him more and more, The girl opened the door and quickly left before he could try and get her back as the bell rang becoming distant, She walked down the stoney road with a slight skip in her step as she walked up to the local bookstore in the alleyway where she should meet her brother aslong as if her didnt get distracted.
She walked into Flourish and Blotts a small bell ringing identical to the one in Madam Malkin's store of Robes, She saw her brother in the distance in one of the aisles distracted, A Tall ravenclaw in a libary could keep them entertained for hours on end. As she walked over she matched the brunette with her own as she noticed he hadnt grabbed her school books yet making her sigh and rub her temples.
"We'll get them in a sec- let me just finish..."
Her brother dozed off as he wouldnt look away from the book he had raised his hand which slowly pointed to the line he was on and suddenly went off to dreamland she grumbled stubbornly going off into another aisle upstairs, her hand glided along the rail as she walked up the wooden stairs meeting another level of books, she grabbed her hogwarts letter from out of her dress pocket and opened it up to the requirement list, her hand gliding along different genres on the frames holding papers looking for matching titles.
"It would've been easier if you pre-ordered"
A slow voice started, the lady quickly recongised the voice as she glanced up at the tall adult, "Pre-orders are untrustworthy, they get muddled up"
"But yet, You get everything in one with no work, and extra's"
Lucius fought back as he held a string wrapped around Draco's books and thin extras put in the top of it, His boney fingers sitting in the holes of the bow as he looked at shelf of books grabbing one out looking over it.
"Quidditch through the ages, I bet you'll need this"
He continued as he held out a book to the young woman next to him as he dropped it into her arms as he rubbed his fingers tips against his hand rubbing off any germs that had sat on it, who knows who touched that book which is a perk to pre-ordering, Knowing whom's touched your kids books.
"I hope you know how much I dispise purebloods like you"
"I know, Draco has a big mouth.."
She grumbled walking past him trying to get away from the problem holding one of her many books she has yet to find, he deems to follow her "Newt Scamander, Would he still be around?"
"Yes, what are you implying?"
"I simply want to talk with him, You see I have a letter for him regarding something none of your concern, So where may I find such a busy man?"
"Hes retired"
"You'd think they'd send you to Ilvermorny or Beaubaxton's"
"You'd think Draco would get sick of you by now..."
She mumbled finally shaking him off her back and collecting the rest of her books in record time and quickly ran down the stairs to her brother already at the register buying a few non school books, so I shoved my pile in with his people in the line groan and sigh whom obivously been waiting for along time, although she felt gulity she had already paid and left.
"Your being called I hope you noticed"
"I know"
A annoying voice could be heard in a crowd far behind the duo walking ahead to the train station, the dusty road of stones was littered of different families and creatures by occasion, Both of the two could recongise the voice demanding to be noticed by the girl, The two met when they were kids introducing them to the minister by their parents and the two clicked ever since, well, more like one is stuck cause the other wont let go.
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The young girl walked with her older brother to the train station hearing the trains whistle blow, An old fat man wearing an old platterned suit was waiting outside the doors holding two carts of different sized boxes, and an owl in one with bigger boxes obivously being Rolf's, The old man held two small packages of muggle pastries.
"Jacob!"
"Ah- There you kiddo's are, Got you some stuff from the bakery Rolfie"
Jacob handed Rolf a small bag of good favourite pastries including muggle made muffins to whom jacob excelled in due to being muggle, And then he turned to Odette handing her own bag of favourites including morang shaped into little magical creatures, "Even got little Niff's in there for you"
"Aww Thank you! I'll have to hide them from Richie though-"
The three chuckled at her, Odette has her own famillar but not listed along the list, A Niffler was hers and she called it Richie due to being.. well obsessed with Shiny things, And he'd be very upset and confused at a full white Niffler being eaten whole "Well I gotta go to the front cabins with the other prefects, I'll see you at school Otis"
The girl groaned at her manly nickname, she quickly hugged Jacob as the luggage suddenly dissappeared assuming its in the trains luggage compartments, "Goodbye Jacob, I'll see you all on the Holidays I hope?"
"That is if Tina manages to get Newt out of that suitcase-"
The two chuckled quickly hugging for a depart as the last trains bell whistled loudly, making Odette quickly run onto the platform of the red carpet walking through the different compartments preferring an empty one although unable to find she'd know Draco would be somewhere near the end when suddenly a pair of both a boy and girl went by stumbling yelling something about a toad suddenly opening random compartments, The girl with bushy hair stood at a door of one of them making unable to pass.
Odette tried to wait paitently but it seemed the people inside noticed the girl trying to get by through the glass, although one seemed to look fimallar, it was the boy from the robe shops that was with Hagrid, The two stared at eachother as the girl had moved slightly before breaking eye contact. The girl pushed past her gently mumbling a sorry as she looked for the annoying boy that had already invited her with his little gang of followers, She heard quite a loud compartment near the end so she assumed who was in it, and was she correct?
Yes, Draco was sitting in the middle of Blaize and with Pansy clinging to his left side which was closer to the door, on the other side was Crabbe and Goyle. The girl opened the door of the small area sliding it to the side made the coverstation die down quieter, "Oi- You two! Make room for her-"
Draco yelled at Crabbe and Goyle making the two suddenly moving to the sides only leaving a small space in the middle of the two, Odette's face scrunched up a bit but still sat down grateful about the fact they'd follow his orders because it seems no more seats were left available, "But back to the converstation- Im obivously going into Slytherin like my father, I'd leave Hogwarts if I got put into anything else"
"I wouldnt quite mind if im being entirely honest"
"Oh Dont be silly, Scamander!"
Draco and Pansy snickered together as next to Draco sat Blaize as he sent me a knowing smile and a nod, Odette quickly got up stumbling as the two boys quickly filled the gap, brushing herself off she was walking to the sliding door about to leave before Draco felt the need to put attention on her.
"And where are you going?"
"Oh shes just going to the Trolley lady, Yes? Oh do get me some Pumpkin Pasties and Cauldron Cakes?"
Panay quickly made a reason so keept Draco's attention on her feeling his arm up as Crabbe and Goyle got excited at the mention of the Trolley ladys goods, Odette quickly escaped while she could before bumping into someone in the hallway making her think why is the hallway so populated but luckily he was just the last obstacle before her favoured destination.
"Odette? Its been awhile how are you?
"Quite well Nott, Draco's in the second last cabin do tell him I wont be returning"
"Will do- Uh, will I see you at school?"
"Yes"
Theodore Nott quickly nodded with a nervous smile stumbling walking past the girl going down to the named cabin, she sighed rubbing her eyes as her head started to hurt walking through the hallway as she passed the Trolley lady whp did ask her if she wanted anything to which she politely declined but pointed to the correct direction where Pansy can pay for her own sweets.
She walked past all the same looking compartments that were filled of different years and houses and or creatures accompanied, hoping for an empty cart she'll settle for one that is quiet even, She walked past a few ones looking through the windows of each compartment looking for the boy she likes to have staring competitions with.
She saw a boy and a girl leaving one compartment whom both one looked fimallar, She walked up to the small room noticing the same boy and his red headed friend, "Sorry for interrupting, but may I join you?"
Before the firey haired boy could decline the boy next to him quickly agreed and patted the spot next to him inviting her to sit next to him, As she sat down Ron sent an angry but confused face too Harry as he looked between the two with an Awkward smile, "Uhm Im Harry Potter and this is.. I never got your name?"
"Odette Scamander"
"Scamander? Like Newt Scamander- I'm pretty sure his book is on our requirement list?" Harry had tried to introduce the girl but had seemed to never introduced himself even.
"Mhm.."
She nodded as she shuffled in her robes looking for a bag so which she grabs out from the small bow ontop of it wrapped perfectly, it had oddly shaped creatures of muggle made ingredients set in place. "Who's Newt Scamander?"
"Only the greatest Hufflepuff ever! I'm quite famous myself- Ronald Weasly!"
Ron boasted going to shake her hand but as she noticed how dirty his hand was but still shook it none the less but once he looked away she quickly wiped it off on the seat which Harry had noticed by gave her a shrug and a smile as they continued talking, Harry had noticed how she didn't ask about his scar which he sliently appreciated and her about suddenly joining their cabin in the middle of the train ride.
"You were in the shop with Malfoy, do you know him?"
"Yea, We've known eachother since we were kids"
Ron suddenly gave Odette a judgemental look of distaste, Harry gave her an odd look having experienced first hand Draco's behaviour reminding him extremely of his old residence, she noticed the looks of the two but tried not to think about it as she unwrapped the sugary smell filling the cabin "Blimey- What is that?"
Ron suddenly had an interest as his nose twitched to the smell of sweets, his before rude expressionwas filled with hope of getting a nibble of this new found food, "Meringue"
Harrys head randomly popped looking at her rememebering the same name from his world wondering why she would have a muggle snack? "Isnt that made by muggles?"
Odette nodded as she bit into a Niffler munching on it as it dissolved in her mouth the more she chewed, Ron had a suprised look on his face as Harry had a smile happy he knew something Ron didnt, "Would you like to try some?"
"Yes!"
Odette snapped an arm off and gave some to Ron which he quickly gulped barely giving it a chew as he gasped in content, Odette shuffled closer to Harry as she cracked another arm off and handed it to Harry which he gratefully did a small 'thank you' before eating it both him and Odette smiled at Rons suprised expression ranting about how hes gonna have to tell his dad about this so they could get more to show.
"Say- If Malfoy dispises muggles, Why is he your friend?"
"Were too far along friends and now I cant get rid of him"
Harry snickered as they kept on talking as Odette had a small smile on her face hidden by the niffler shaped sweet she was eating, Her other hand was pressed against the top of her chest feeling her necklace rubbing it, A quieter cabin with wizards who wont disrespect other people, It was like a dream come true except it never stayed long.
The doors of the compartment suddenly slide open revealing the person Odette had tried to shake off, Three boys were at the entrance as Harry recongised the middle one, "Is it true? They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment, So it's you?"
"Yes" Harry said, He looked at the two boys ethier side of him both looking thick and dumb minded, Standing on both sides of the pale boy making it look like bodyguards. "Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle, And my name is Malfoy- Draco Malfoy"
Ron coughed under his breathe probley from trying to hide his snicker by how posh he sounded making Draco quickly look at him, "Think my names funny do you? No need to ask you who you are, My Father told me all the Weaslys have red hair, freckles and more children than they can afford"
It was now then Draco had noticed his friend was sitting quite close to Harry with a bag of muggle sweets in her lap obviously been shared by the breakage of the creature and teeth marks on it, He met her glare with a smirk seeing her just bite into it as if before their expressions switched onto eachothers faces, Draco noticing it wasn't a magic made sweet he turned his smirk into a glare watching her, Obviously annoyed he moved his attention towards someone else.
"You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much Better than others, Potter, You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort, I can help you there"
Draco held out his hand to the boy for him to shake in agreement to join his little gang of airheads, Ron looked between the two worried as Harry looked at the two he was sitting with thinking about what he'd say next Draco noticed how he had also contributed Odette to this decision making as if they were friends.
"I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, Thanks"
Harry said confidently and cooly as the girl beside him looked at him with a toned down expression of shock and confusion not thinking he'd had disagree atleast in that form of voice, "I'd be careful if I was you Potter, Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents, They didnt know what was good for them ethier, You hang around riff-raff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid and it'll rub off on you"
Now Both Ron and Harry stood up in aggravation Odette sighed and rubbed her temples caught directly in the middle of this, at this moment it made her think where was Blaize or Theo, and where Pansy was due to usually being stuck onto Draco's arm.
"Say that again"
"Oh, your going to fight us, are you?"
"Unless you get out now" said Harry, more bravely than he felt, Crabbe and Goyle sought alot bigger that Ron and Harry but although alot dumber, Harry had advanced making Odette shuffle more closer to the window holding her bag of sweets protectively as she was stuck watching the boys fight pettishly.
"But we don't feel like leaving, do we boys? We've eaten all our food and you still seem to have some"
Goyle reached towards the Chocolate frogs next to where Ron had been standing to which Ron leapt forward but before he could do anything Goyle had let out a horrible yell, A rat had been hanging off Goyles fat knuckles as his little sharp teeth sunk in making Crabbe and Malfoy move back as the boy had swung his hand around until the rat flew off and hit the window making all three run off disappearing.
Odette assumed the rat was one of the boys famillars as she quickly outstretched her arm onto the windowsill picking up the poor unconsious rat, putting the rat into her arms with a frown as if holding it like a baby which the boys found weird, Ron thought it was a side affect of being a Scamander.
But it seemed someone had heard the commotion and took it beneath themselves to go check whats happened, "What has been going on?!"
The same girl Odette had to pass to get to the last cabins but it seemed the boys knew her, She looked at all the sweets that have been thrown around as Ron had token back his rat having grabbed him by his tail and lifted him up in the air much to Odette's stress, "I Think hes been knocked out- No wait hes just asleep"
Odette sweated as Ron gave his rat back to her noticing how much she spoils him, "Scabbers" Ron told her as he sat down needing to due to having the girl that arrived knowing himself she'll give him a headache from how much she blabbers.
"Can we help you out something?"
"You'd better hurry up and put your robes on, Ive just been up the front to ask the driver and he says we're nearly the there, You haven't been fighting have you? You'll be in trouble before we even get there!"
"Scabbers has been fighting, not us-"
"Would you mind leaving while we change?"
"Alright- I only came in here because people outside are brushing very childishly, racing up and down the corriders- And you've got dirt on your nose, be the way- Did you know?" The girl said in a sniffy voice as she left Ron had been glaring at her but as they were about to change they remembered a girl as in there with them, both looking at the awkwardly.
"Your just changing your robes- Bloody hell"
She scoffed rolling her eyes but standing up putting Scabbers down into the table she went outside the cart to wait as she brang her bag of sweets with her, almost finished she just goes back to eating her creature shaped candy. Theodore Nott suddenly came out of his cabin noticing her standing outside one as he walked in her direction, "So- why are you out here?"
"Waiting for them to change into their robes"
She pointed into the compartment as she was leaning against the wall as she asked the same question to him, to which he replies rubbing the back of his head "Bathroom, Im guessing you gotta go back in now?"
Nott noticed the boys walking up to the sliding door as she nodded giving him a nod before he leaves as does she, the boys welcomed her back into the cabin "Who was that?"
"Just a friend"
'We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes time, Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school seperatly', An announcement through the train was signaled, Harry and Ron was filled of nerves as they quickly shove sweets and unopened packets into their pockets of their robes as Odette just finished of the last of her muggle pastries, As the train slowed the group noticed outside the window how dark it had gotten originally.
As the train slowed down people pushed their way towards the doors and out onto a tiny dark platform of dirt, Harry shivered in the cold as he watched Hagrid go past more smaller people with a lamp up high in his hands, "Firs'- years! Firs'- years over here! C'mon follow me - any more Firs'- years? Mind you're step now!"
A few students stumbled and gripped as they followed the large man down the steep narrow path and it didn't help on how dark it was making both sides look quite creepy with the thick trees making people not want to speak, "Yeh'll get your Firs' sight of Hogwarts jus' round this bend here-"
A loud sound of "Oooohs!" Bellowed the first of students led by Hagrid, The narrow path had suddenly opened to a large black lake, Perched ontop of a high mountian in the other side of the lake sat a castle which windows shinned against the starry skyes, "No more'n four to a boat!" The large man called out staring to lead the crowd to little boats sitting by the shore.
Before Odette could join Harry she was suddenly pulled back harshly as she quickly turned around seeing Nott to which she had a slight glare before noticing Harry and Rons boat had already been filled so she walked off with him as he led her to a boat with Draco and Blaize, He helped her into the boat as the two watch them enter as Draco seemed to quickly get off the shore making us unsteady for a moment but quickly caught up, Draco and Blaize were sat in the back with Odette and Theo in the front. Zabini was watching the other boats unseriously not really caring much of the sight that their approaching, Draco was more focused on the two infront, it seemed she was quite close to Nott as he watched her side profile seeing the two laugh together, he also noticed the slight eyebags under her eyes, Out of everyone in the group he was the only one to know about her odd condition.
He had a slight moment of relaxation as he watched the fireflys fly under the group of stars, it was quiet, no Pansy or Crabbe and Goyle just the sound of water and laughing, The little fleet of boats were off gliding against the glass like lake of wonders, The great castle and its towers peering over us as we got closer and closer to the cliff on where it stood.
"Heads down!"
Yelled Hagrid in his own boat to himself as the first group started getting closer and closer to the cliff, They all bent their heads down as their boats carried them under a long curtain of ivy which hid a wide opening in the cliff face. They were carried along a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle until reaching a kind of underground harbour, where everyone clambered out onto slick rocks and pebbles.
"Oi you there! Is this your toad?" Asked Hagrid who had been checking all the boats as everyone managed to get onto the platform safely, "Trevor!"
Cried the boy as he wiped away some tears as the crowd followed Hagrid up the long stone stairs now everyone in the shadow on the castle infront of a very large oak frontdoor, "Everyone here?"
And with yes's came from the crowd Hagrid knocked three times on the door.
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