The Slytherin Princess - Year Four

November 1994

The rest of the week went by incredibly quickly and by the weekend, all the students were buzzing about Slytherin versing Ravenclaw in quidditch. Lucy and the others headed down to the match and watched on.

Slytherin had Ravenclaw beat 200 to 70 as Draco caught the snitch, ending the game again.

"He's playing so well!" Lucy called out as they headed back up to the castle.

Before they headed back to their common room, Lucy and Tina stopped in at the library.

Inside, they found Hermione sitting at a table, reading away.

"Hey Hermione." Lucy said, accidently startling her from her readings.

"Hey, what's going on?" Hermione asked them, smiling.

"We've just come from watching quidditch, Slytherin and Ravenclaw." Tina said.

Lucy nodded in agreement smiling.

"Honestly, Lucy. Is there anything you and Malfoy don't do?" Hermione teased, Tina joined her a for a laugh and when she looked back at Lucy, she must have had a confused look on her face because she added "well, you always go to his things, quidditch try-outs, games, you study together all the time, trips to Hogsmeade?" Lucy sat down and frowned even more.

"Isn't that what you're supposed to do for you friends?" She asked her, confused.

"Well I suppose. But, if you two don't end up together one day I will be seriously shocked." Hermione teased.

"Oh, stop it." Lucy said, shaking her head. "It isn't like that, come on." She added. Hermione and Tina shared a look together.

"Anyway, what are you doing?" Lucy asked, changing the subject.

"Trying to read up on past tournaments. I need to help Harry the best I can, but it's hard when I don't know where to start." Hermione answered, sighing to herself.

"Can we do anything to help?" Tina asked.

"Not yet, I'm afraid. But I'll let you know if there's anything you can do." Hermione answered. Lucy and Tina stayed with Hermione in the library for a little bit longer before heading back to their common room for the evening.

As they entered, that familiar thumping of music filled their heads and the smell of gin filled their noses. "Come on, let's change before we start drinking." Tina mentioned, heading up to their dorm as Lucy followed.

"Does this look okay?" Lucy asked,

"That looks great." Tina said, applying a coat of lipstick. "Lucy," she snapped, looking in her mirror at her, causing her eyes to snap up to hers, "stop fiddling with it." Tina sternly said. Lucy let go of the hem and looked down at herself. They were the same shoes she had worn to the Malfoy pureblood party during summer.

After they had seen what some of the other senior girls wore to the party last weekend, this was considered covered up.

Tina had dressed in a black silk slip dress, that hung rather low in the front and had a slit up one side of her thigh. She paired the dress with nude heels. "Come on." She said heading for the door.

As they made their way back downstairs to the common room, there were more people in there, compared to last weekend. Lucy even noticed a couple students from different houses.

"Is that?" Tina asked, pointing to brown, shaggy haired boy, who was drinking cups his friends kept handing him. Lucy looked over at him, Cedric Diggory.

"Yeah." Lucy answered, heading over to the beverages. Millicent was not on drinks that night as another Slytherin girl, older than them, was standing behind it, pouring the drinks.