Jealousy; Draco Fanfiction

First Years Follow Me

Nova looked between the three of them, wondering who the name Malfoy is and why it's such a shock to Hermione and Ron that Harry hadn't told her about him. She was just about to ask what was wrong when Ron gave out a screech as something dropped from his hands: a rat.

"Scabbers!" Ron said, as he scooped up a long and malting rat which looked on the verge of death, panting a little. Hermione just looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"He doesn't look healthy at all, Ron, why don't you get a-"

"Ronald doesn't want to get rid of it, Nova, it's a family pet you see." said Hermione, in an unfortunate tone. "You were going to say something?"

"Oh, um," she completely forgot what she was going to say for a few moments, until she remembered the name Malfoy,

"Who's Malfoy?"

At this Hermione looked at Harry as though asking for permission to tell her, and turned back to Nova.

"He's a boy at Hogwarts and he's not really, well, the best person in the world... he's a little, off." Hermione looked at Ron, who nodded in agreement. "We've never really been friends with him, you see, we're classed lower than him and his cronies."

"He doesn't seem very nice at all... What house is he in?"

"Slytherin." said a pair of identical twins, who both had fiery red hair which was a shade darker than Ron's own. "Fred & George Weasley, at your service." the both of them bowed and mimicked lowering hats to the floor in their left hands.

"Nice to meet you both, I'm Nova." she said as she curtsied baring a wide smile. The group of them laughed and Hermione turned back towards Nova.

"Slytherin is the enemy in Gryffindor. We tend to stay away from the whole of them... but if you get into Slytherin we will definitely stay with you, no matter what." Hermione said holding herself highly with a smile on her face.

Meanwhile, Ron was looking at Scabbers with a grimace on his face, holding him with two hands to avoid him escaping.

"Let's go. I need to get some rat tonic for him... he doesn't look well at all,if i'm honest.."

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"Nova?" Harry said, running up towards her as they entered the Magical Menagerie.

"Yes, Harry?"

"You don't have an animal... You need one for Hogwarts..."

Nova had noticed this, but Hermione hadn't got one? Or was that because-

"OOH!" Screeched Hermione, pointing up towards a fat ginger cat with a flat face upon a shelf. "He's so beautiful!"

After a while, Ron had bought his rat tonic, after being told that he should get a new rat multiple times and had a weird encounter from the witch behind the counter, that if Scabbers was an ordinary rat that he would've died long ago, and Hermione carrying the ginger fur ball which was named Crookshanks, they had left.

Nova had an idea of what pet she wanted, but only if they had it in store. The group of witches and wizards alike entered a store with owls, toads, ravens, eagles and guinea pigs in cages and Nova began to look for her ideal pet.

Looking up high on the cages and low on the shelves, she spotted a Western Screech Owl on a low perch, opening its wide eyes and looking Nova straight in the eye. Picking it up, she carried it over the counter and gave her money to the assistant, who gave her a handled cage and a certificate of identity, which Nova had to think of a name. Zeus. Nova thought, allowing her hands to write her new owls' name down.