Invidiosa

Trial and Massive Error

'Shit, where is your wand, Harry? Right, you can't answer that.' She felt around to rip the cloak off of him. 'Ugh! That boy, 'Don't expect I'll make your life easy'!' She mocked, grabbing his wand off the ground. She wasn't sure if it was going to react badly to it's non-owner.

Harry's face couldn't move, but his eyes sure looked fearful.

'God, I hate them! They're such idiots every time I hear them talk. Finite!' Yeah, that didn't work. Just some fizzled sparks. Attia looked at his wand annoyedly. 'He's all afraid in Knocturn and now he managed to pick up some balls! I outta kick him where it hurts, that cunt! And he knows something! I don't know what his task is, but he knows something about what happened to my mom. Whatever he's been put up to, I have no doubt he'll fail. His father failed, he wouldn't entrust a task to his arrogant son if he needed things done. Just an excuse to see him fail, and be punished for his father's incompetency. Lucius was never that intelligent either, he was my neighbour after all. Such ignorant people, it was crazy every summer. My mom at first insisted I hang out with that Malfoy; I was at no risk. Alex thought maybe he'd become disillusioned with that supremacy. It was my punishment for beating him up. He's never once not been a fucking idiot.'

'Wotcher language, Atts,' a familiar voice said behind the girl's sudden vent. Attia turned to see a mousy haired Tonks. 'Finite.'

'Tonks!' she exclaimed.

Harry was suddenly unfroze, and sat up uncomfortably. 'We'd better discuss this later. We're going to be late.' He began to move, but paused and flipped his head back. 'Why don't you have your wand?'

Attia handed his back to him as Tonks began to usher them quickly out of the train. She had no concrete explanation except perhaps she could be ditzy in the worst of times. 'What are you doing here, Tonks?' she changed the subject, not answering Harry's question. Tonks was urging them to the gate without the usual thestral lead carriages.

'Stationed at Hogsmeade for extra security. I take it Lucius' son did this from your rambling? Could hear you from a kilometre away.' She did not seem in her usual light hearted mood, not a hint of a smile. She'd nearly been killed a couple months back, her cousin had narrowly escape death and she was sure things were grim for her as everyone's lives were. She was probably being followed too, her mood wasn't light. She looked quite... sad.

'Yeah...' Attia was wary of the mood as they walked up to the gates. How do the english say? Ah, stuck between a rock and a hard place. A die hard hero and a melancholy pinkhead. And at their destination, it was Snape waiting for them behind the enchanted gates. It was becoming an awful first day.

Snape'd seen Tonks' patronus, a four legged creature that certainly wasn't what it was before.

'You may go. They are very much, ah --safe-- in my care, Tonks,' remarked Snape, as he lead the students away from her in the dark.

'For tardiness...' Snape glazed over Attia, also in muggle wear and a hint of an annoyed scowl on her face she made no effort to hide from him. Such was the bout of her overconfidence, often getting her into trouble. Now he couldn't torment Harry peacefully, not with his own rather gifted student present. 'Keeping good company, are we?' he asked.

'The immobilizing charm,' she remarked, unperturbed by his needling voice. 'I didn't have my wand to undo it.'

'You don't have your wand?' he looked at her empty hands and her unimpressed. 'That's unbecoming of a prefect. In these times? Downright stupid as a witch.' He seemed to try and find something to ink into her that would insult Potter, but held his tongue. His thin lips twisted in a perpetual scowl that could curdle milk at twenty paces. Attia was his top student for years, and in his house. The comment still stung. Aside from Harry... and beating up Draco... what could be faulted in her? Nothing really, except Snape was content to make up any problems with children more than half his age so she never understood. 'First weekend, detention for you two.' Instead of house points. Interesting. Probably to save face for his own house if he had to dish a punishment for the same thing.