Slytherin Heiress

Chapter 3

Narrator:

Today was going to be Dina's first day at Hogwarts. She had a task to do for He who must not be named, and she was anything but confident.

"Dina, are you ready to go?" Bella peered into her room.

She found the witch in a state on the floor. Dina had a panic attack. Bella quickly closed the door with a simple lock and cast a Muffliato Charm so no one could overhear. Bella slowly walked towards her friend.

"I can't do this", Dina sobbed out between breaths.

This had almost become a ritual for the best friends as being from pureblood supremacist households and not holding the same views as your family often took its toll.

Bella sat next to Dina and gently took her hand and squeezed it, and the tears started to roll down Dina's face.

"I know. But we to keep moving." Bella said, and Dina laid her head on her best friend's shoulder.

"Till what?" The silence in the room spoke volumes.

"We'll figure something out. We'll stick together and make it out alive at the other end of all this." Bella said while wiping tears from my eyes.

"Now let me see your poker face" Dina calmed her expression and gave a cold, indifferent stare. Putting all her training to use, she detached herself easily from her emotions.

"That's it, girl. Let's go before the boys come to search for us." Bells cooed. We head downstairs in the manor and meet our brothers to floo to platform 9 3/4.

"There's my brilliant nephew. Come here." Bellatrix was saying to Draco as Bella and Dina entered the room. Draco had walked towards Bellatrix, and she touched his face.

"Look at the handsome young man you've become. What you're doing will make him so pleased," Bellatrix said with a gleam, then started cackling.

Narcissa Malfoy removed her sister and waved goodbye to the children. Draco seemed unsettled; I wondered what she was referring to. Blaise put a hand on Draco's shoulder.

"Come on, let's go, Drake."

And with that, we stepped through the chimney with the floo powder and arrived at platform 9 3/4. It was busy with parents wishing their children goodbye, and Dina's eyes trailed off, and someone tapped her on the shoulder.

When she turned, it was a ginger-haired girl about her age. She must be a Weasley, Dina thought.

"Hi, the name's Ginny Weasley."

"Hi, I'm Dina Malfoy" Dina saw the girl, didn't flinch at her last name and was pleased.

"I'm a huge fan of yours. Your game against Drumstring is legendary. Will you be joining the Quidditch team at Hogwarts?" Ginny Beamed at Dina expectantly.

"It's only my first day. I suppose I'll have to see how heavy my schedule is." Dina smiled politely, looking for where her twin and best friends were.

"You have to let me introduce you to my friends", Ginny called behind her. Dina tried to stop her, but she wouldn't hear it. She dragged Dina with her onto the train.

"Ginny, I really should wait for my brother." Dina tried to argue.

"Trust me; he's not missing you right now. Malfoy is busy chatting up Pansy" Ginny made a face.

"Really? Urg why?"

"She worships the ground he walks on" It made Dina think about Bellatrix and Voldemort's relationship. She made a mental note to ensure Draco didn't become a noseless sociopath with only Pansy to keep him company. It's not that she disliked Pansy, and they were close. The two just made a bad couple. They constantly argued, making each other jealous, breaking up and getting back together. It was toxic.

"Here we are", Ginny gestured for Dina to walk in. But as she was trying to step over the threshold, Dina stumbled, expecting to hit the floors, and she felt her arms tighten around her.

"You okay?" She heard Ginny ask. When she opened her eyes, she felt disappointed. It had been Ginny to catch her, not that boy her brother had fought with the last time.

"Yeah, thanks for the help" Ginny nodded and introduced Dina to all her friends, and she spoke to them for some time.

"Well, it was great getting to know all of you. I better go find my brother and friends" the Gryffindors laughed and booed.

A couple of compartments away, Harry Potter felt more anxious than usual.

"You saw him, Hermione!"

"I don't know what I saw, Harry."

"He's one of them. Just like his father." Dina was passing on her way to find Draco when she heard a familiar voice and decided to eavesdrop.

"Harry, you can't just accuse that. You need proof."

"Ron, what do you think he was doing in Diagon Alley with his mother?" Oh no, Dina realised Harry must have seen them.

"And what about that girl that was with him?"

"Ginny told me it was his sister Dina a star Quidditch player, first in her year back at Beauxbatons. I did some research after Harry decided to pursue her romantically actively." Hermione said matter of factly. Dina watched Harry's face visibly relax.

"Isn't that suspicious?" Ron asked.

"What are you talking about, Ronald?" Hermione asked, huffing.

"Well, we all know Malfoy is too much of a coward to be a deatheater..." Ron says Dina has to clench her teeth not to say anything at the dig on her brother.

"Yes, and?" Harry asked, not liking where he was going with this.

"Well, she's the opposite. She's daring, the successful version of him, Malfoy 2.0. Which means she'd make a perfect one." Ron, who usually never knew what was going on, was closer to the truth than they knew. Dina would have to keep an eye on him; she thought as she walked into the Slytherin compartment.

"Amused Blaise? We'll see who's laughing in the end," Draco drawled, with Pansy sitting next to him. Blaise and Bella were across from him.

"Where have you been?" Bella asked her friend.

"Miss me already, did you?" Dina asked Bella playfully and waved at Pansy, which she returned with a smile.

"Of course", Bella sarcastically said. Blaise noticed how Dina dodged the question and raised an eyebrow at her. She never lied to her friend, tried to give him the most convincing poker face and sat beside Bella.