Golden Girl Gone "Bad" (fem!Harry Potter)

Chapter 7

Summary:

Previously: Emmelia has her first flying lesson (which goes about as well as you might expect, realized something odd about their DADA Professor, and gets caught in the act.

Coming up: Emmelia has an odd conversation with one of her dorm mates, has her first potions class, and much more.
Notes:

This ones a bit short, sorry y'all

edited september 8th
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text
Emmelia spent the next hour before lights out trying to explain to Pansy Parkinson exactly what she had seen without explicitly telling her. After the increasing amounts of confused frowns and suspicious looks, she eventually gave up.

"Basically, I'm Magic Blessed. Well, that's what Neville and Daphne said at least." She said with an exasperated sigh.

Pansy's already wide blue eyes widened drastically before she composed herself. She spoke in a whisper , "A-a Magic Blessed? As-as in you're blessed by Lady Hecate? The goddess of magic herself? You should've just told me!"

"Yes well, I'm kinda trying to keep this whole thing secret. So please promise me something Parkinson. Please. You can't tell anyone, alright."

"Fine, but on one condition."

"What condition?" Emmelia asked hesitantly.

"I want you to call me by my first name. And of course, I'll call you by yours too."

The ginger smiled wickedly, "You got it Pansy."

"Of course, Emmelia. Just, I wouldn't be so obvious about it. You know, the glowing eyes and floating hair..." she trailed off suggestively.

Emmelia laughed at that, "I definitely will, don't worry. That was a mistake in my part. I'd never done that before. I didn't even know I could do something like that, and there aren't very many books on the Magic Blessed in the library, so I haven't been able to learn much about it."

Pansy's eyes lit up at that, "Hmm, well, I'm sure I could help with that. I studied all about them when we were younger. I can teach you."

"Really? And what would you want in return?"

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe just a reserved favor for later. Of equal value obviously." Pansy smirked.

"Deal." Emmelia shook the hand that Pansy had stuck out

That was not what Emmelia was expecting that conversation to go. For some reason, she expected Pansy to be freaked out by her and then spend the rest of the year ignoring or avoiding her. She felt-she felt almost ashamed of her ability really. Like she was weird. A-a freak. That was one of her Aunt's favorite insults against her. Emmelia knew it would take longer than a few days to get over the years of self hate ingrained into her by the Dursleys, but she didn't think she'd really understood how deep it went.

The two girls bid each other good night as Daphne and Davis entered their dormitory. Emmelia stayed up for another two hours study about Parseltongue and Parselmagic until she finally cancelled her Lumos charm and went to sleep.

Overall, Emmelia thought that it had been a day of revelations.

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Emmelia waited outside of potions class, anxious for it to start. She'd heard from older students that Snape, her head of house, absolutely hated Gryffindors, and favored his own house to an extremely obvious extent. To be honest, she wasn't sure she blamed him. From her time spent in shared classes the Lions, she'd gathered that they were rather loud, disrespectful, and annoying. That wasn't the best combination. Also, besides Hermione, they weren't really the best students. Most acted as if they had never picked up a book before. It was rather, well, embarrassing.