Caledonia Lilia Snape

1.4: Life of a Girl

Caledonia's lips curled upward slightly during Divination class. Professor Trelawney was rambling about dreams and getting students to write out their dream and analyze them. Instead of paying attention to the lecture, she read her letters between the Divination book pages while sitting in the back of the class on the Slytherin side. She and Hermione had continued to write back and forth every day, telling each other the going on in Slytherin and Gryffindor houses and stuff on girl subjects that Caledonia wanted to know. She was beginning to understand why girls gossips, and it was amusing.

It had been a couple of weeks since the change, and Caledonia settled in her new life as a girl and learned quickly to get around in Slytherin house without attracting unwanted attention. She often found herself bickering with Pansy from time to time over trivial things, trading insults with her roommates, and getting hit on by Draco. Despite her vexation, it was like having an everyday teen life.

Draco leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Letters from a boyfriend in Sicily?" He had taken upon himself to sit with her in every class they had together, much to her chagrin. Unfortunately for Caledonia, it was every single class they had.

Adopting the infamous sneer from the said boy, she pushed him away bodily and snapped, "Personal space! Have you ever heard of it?"

He smirked, lazily leaning on the table and gazing at her, "It's not in my dictionary with the girls I find very pretty."

She felt her face go hot at the comment and rolled her eyes. "I think you're blind. All those girls you dated didn't fall in those categories." She gestured toward Pansy, "And your girlfriend there, I think she's more dog than a girl."

He blinked, wondering he should be offended, and glanced over his shoulder to Pansy, and he sneered slightly, "How would you know how many girls I dated? You've not been here very long. And I am not dating her!"

She leaned on her hand, bringing her face closer to him with a sly smile on her lips. "It gets around with the girls. I've heard stories about your performance in bed." She smirked as he flushed. "It was the part that turned me off," She wiggled her pinky finger, "So, back off, teeny-weenie." She bit her lips to prevent laughing as the pinkness faded to pasty pale on his face, and he scowled, turning away. The rumors were flying around in the Slytherin girl dormitory on how he was in bed, and most were very far-fetched that she suspected none were believable.

He growled under his breath and muttered some choice curses. He had believed he managed to get away without an insult but, in the end, received another one. He heard a soft laugh behind his back and rolled his eyes, and resumed with his assignment.

Caledonia went back to her letter, reading. She and Hermione decided to use a different alias in case their letters got intercepted. Professor Umbridge took it upon herself to confiscate random letters after hearing rumors of students putting dung bombs in the mail. It was getting pretty bad around school with new rules and decrees.

Hermione never fails to relay in the letter how distraught Gryffindor was over Harry Potter's disappearance. It was as if the Gryffindor House's world had ended. But they managed by putting Ginny on the team as a new seeker and Ron as the keeper. However, the latter wasn't doing so well, and there were few incidents, such as Katie Bell getting severe nosebleeds and bickering among the teammates. Angelina became the new team captain was getting frustrated with everyone on the team.

After arguing with Umbridge in DADA classes, Hermione had gotten herself several detentions already, objecting to the teacher's way of teaching and standing up against Umbridge. Caledonia had attempted to warn her and found it was futile and let it go, allowing Hermione to learn her lesson. Eventually, Hermione decided that something had to be done but wasn't sure what to do.