Cordelia Lyra Malfoy had always been different from the rest of her family. Her family were blood-supremacists who tried to teach their views to their children. Cordelia never believed with their views and would be punished for it.
She never felt a...
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Word of Cordelia's adoption and name change quickly spread around the student population when they returned from winter break, thanks to a Gryffindor fourth year named Lavender Brown.
Cordelia was happy about this particular rumor about her to be spread like wildfire. Professors started calling Cordelia by her new last name with smiles. Even Professor Snape held back a smile when he saw how happy the newest addition to the Diggory family was.
Cordelia continued to feed Snuffles, and she would occasionally bring him clean blankets as she figured the ones she brought him at the beginning of winter probably needed to be changed.
The fifth year students started to feel the pressure of their upcoming OWL exams now that they were in the second half of the school year. Professors were assigning more homework than ever before, and students were having trouble with keeping up.
When winter turned into spring, the majority of her time was spent with Cedric and Hermione in the library. While Hermione was 2 years younger than the Hufflepuffs, she was very bright and she was a great help with studying.
Hermione had been fighting with Ron and she was grateful for the company of the older students. Cordelia assisted Hermione in helping Hagrid with his upcoming case to spare Buckbeak's life while Hermione helped Cordelia with her Transfiguration homework.
Her other free time was spent with Fred and George, when she would help them plan pranks, though she didn't participate in the follow-through very often.
June came around quickly and the fifth year students were stressing to cram in all the study time they could, except for Fred and George, who tried to bring laughter to the stressed students. Cordelia felt her anxiety rise as the dates of the exams came closer, and she was relieved when they were finally over. She could only hope that she did well enough to pass, as she wished so desperately to please her new parents.
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One morning a few days before the school year ended, Cordelia and her fellow Hufflepuffs entered the Great Hall for breakfast to find the student body talking in hushed voices.
There was talk that Professor Lupin was a werewolf. It made sense to Cordelia with the scars on his face, the weakness and tiredness and missing classes once a month. She merely internally kicked herself for not figuring it out sooner. They heard that Harry and Ron were in the hospital wing, but no one knew why.
Cordelia felt that something else was going on, so she took some fruit and toast from the table and put them in her bag before rushing to the Hospital Wing.
Once she stepped inside, she saw Ron and Harry laying in beds with Hermione sitting in a chair in between the two boys.
"Are you alright? What happened?" asked Cordelia, standing in front of Harry's bed.
