Unexpected

Part 1

Draco Malfoy x F! Hufflepuff reader
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"Ah! You must be the new student!" A woman exclaimed from somewhere around you.

"Yes ma'am. I'm Y/N L/N." You stuck your hand out slightly for the woman to shake your hand.

"Good afternoon miss y/n, I'm Professor McGonagall. It's lovely to meet you." She said as she took your hand.

"It's lovely to meet you as well professor."  As you flashed her a small smile you heard a distant crashing noise come from the giant doors to the left of you, of which you later learn is the Great Hall. You tilt your head in confusion and open your mouth to ask Professor McGonagall what that noise was, but it appears she already knew what was coming and answered your silent question by saying "That'll be the Weasley twins. No doubt you'll ever forget them, you'll know just who they are when you see them. Come along now, we must get you sorted into your house."

Before you walked through the doors with her, she told you of the houses; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin; and of the Founders of the school that the houses were named after, and told you how sorting went and of the sorting hat itself, basically giving you a mini history lesson. You nodded your head taking in all that she's told you, she then told you that your robes will be assigned to your room once your house has been picked, all of the things you will need for school will also appear in your room along with a pet of your choice, since you didn't have the same list of things you'd need from Hogsmeade as the other students did, those supplies would be presented to you after your sorting rather than prior to your arrival to Hogwarts.

As she opened the doors to the Hall, you took in everything you could from the what seems to be floating ceiling candles, to the four large banquet tables in front of you, all the way to the giant stained glass window at the very end of the room, that was divided into four large pieces presented in front of you that took your breath away. The way the sun was hitting the window it cast rainbows of color all around you. At the very top of the window it showed a green snake on the left first, with a green section of glass pieces with a green 'S' in a green shield at the bottom of it. The next was a brown eagle with a blue section of glass pieces with a blue 'R' in a blue shield at the bottom, and the same repeated pattern of a red lion with a red 'G' in a shield and a yellow badger with a yellow 'H' in a yellow shield. At the bottom of those pieces there was a tree with the same animals and a few other things presented around the tree, oh how you could stare at that for hours.

You felt all eyes on you as you walked towards the stool that was placed next to the sorting hat and as you sat on the stool while the headmaster announced your arrival to the school. But there was one pair of gray-blue eyes that caught your eyes the most, the eyes of whom you'd later learn belonged to Draco Malfoy. And as your eyes met with his, you felt a strange connection to him as well as a strange feeling that you knew him from somewhere but you'd never seen him before in your life. In that short span of time you didn't realize that the sorting hat was placed on your head until a gravely voice started talking and pulled you out of your thoughts.

"Ah yes. Very interesting.." the hat responded. "You have a sense of loyalty to your family and your friends, yes.. but you have an anger about you that conflicts with your trust. You would be very good in Slytherin.." He paused for a moment as if to think, and you; knowing the short knowledge that you did from each house; was afraid of being placed there, you didn't want to give in to your rage and become evil. You hated when you'd get angry and your rage would fill your mind, why would you want to give in to that way? You couldn't..

"Please not Slytherin," you pleaded softly to the hat, "anything but that house, please. I don't want to be evil."

"Not Slytherin, eh?" The hat retorted " Ah, but you'd do so well.." He paused again, "But if you're sure you don't want to be there, you'd make a great fit for Huffelpuff.." He replied.

"I'd rather be there than Slytherin." You stated. And your brain seemed to match the way your heart felt about each house you learned about. You knew you were not smart enough to be a Ravenclaw, you're too stupid for that house as one kid said earlier, and you didn't like the way you felt when you were around two Gryffindor students who you met outside of Hogwarts on the grounds by the entrance of the school, and you never encountered a Slytherin student or a Hufflepuff student either. But you felt more comfortable being around a potential Hufflepuff or Hufflepuffs than you felt being called a Slytherin.

"Very well. HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat yelled, cheers erupted from all throughout the Hall, the loudest cheers coming from the Hufflepuff table. Professor McGonagall removed the hat, smiled at you, and you smiled back as you stood up and walked over to the table where your new classmates were, saying hi to everyone at the table as you sat down. Professor Dumbledore announced that it was time to eat dinner and the food appeared on the table shortly after, and it blew your mind at how much food was actually there. You started small talk to get to know your housemates as you all ate and conversed, you were looking at them as they talked, hearing them and what they had to say, but no matter how many times you tried to force your eyes to stay looking at them and not wander off so to speak; your eyes never left Dracos.

—later in your dorm—

Your first year at Hogwarts as a muggle, you aren't even a half-blood, not to mention you're not even close to being a pureblood like most of the students you've already encountered. But this year you're being placed in with the other fifth year students. You didn't ask your mother why you were going to this new school because you didn't know what or how to ask her, so you just simply agreed with her and went ahead to pack your things. You asked one of your new friends Samantha Green, or as she preferred to be called Sam, what was the difference between mudbloods, half-bloods, pure bloods, or even what you were; a normal person to yourself; but apparently a muggle to everyone else in the wizarding world as you learned.

Sam explained that if a wizard's blood is diluted with muggle blood, they are called a half blood and that they have both Muggle and Wizard ancestors. Muggleborn; a muggle; specifically means both parents are muggles but their child was born a witch or wizard. Pure-bloods have no known Muggle ancestors, because that status is kept by only marrying other pure-bloods. Many members of the old, pure-blood families look down on those who are not pure-blood, they see them as lesser people compared to themselves. If thats the case, why was Malfoy looking at you? More than the other students in the Hall at dinner, and why did you feel the connection to him that you did? As you went to bed that night you let your thoughts wander as they so often did, but one particular boy was on your mind before you fell asleep and throughout the whole night..

Draco Malfoy