Not What I Expected - Draco Malfoy

Chapter Three - Invitations

The months went by quickly. Aleia, true to the bet had been doing well in all of her classes. Charms and potions were among her best subjects. One day in charms class, they had to perform a spell called Alohamora. She was sitting next to Hermione, who was partnered with Ron. Ron was having a difficult time with the spell, and Hermione tried to correct his pronunciation. Even Aleia tried giving him tips, but he was so annoyed that he told them off, saying "Why don't you two try it then if you're so perfect at it?"

Hermione and Aleia looked at each other and grinned wickedly. They both did so well that Professor Flitwick came over and gave them both 10 points each.

"Honestly, I don't know how you can be a Slytherin." Hermione sighed. "You're so nice to everyone, even muggle borns like me."

Aleia stopped walking. "Hermione you are one of the most talented people I have ever met, I have no reason to be mean to you." She told her assuredly.

"Neither does Malfoy, but he always has something cruel to say when I'm around." She sniffed.

Speaking of Malfoy, his cringe-worthy attitude had not changed since the first day. Even though Theo had told him to ease up on her, he was relentless. It's as if he went out of his way to rain on her parade. All of the other Slytherin students loved Aleia. She always had someone to sit with at meals, and she nearly always had a group with her in the common room. Even students from the other houses got along with her- inviting Aleia to hang out in other house common rooms, or around the school grounds. By the beginning of October, Aleia had visited every common room at least once. Ravenclaw's common room was her favorite. Dark blue carpet, giant arched windows, and a beautiful domed ceiling speckled with stars. Her mingling with other houses caused quite a stir for the first few weeks, but everyone got over it eventually.

Everyone except Malfoy.

Just last week in potions, Aleia was sitting on a table with a couple of Ravenclaw students. They were brewing a simple potion, talking about their common room when Malfoy began to throw insults at her from the table over.

"How can she call herself a Slytherin, entertaining low-life Ravenclaws over there like she has nothing better to do. She has absolutely no loyalty to her own house." He drawled, glaring at her again.

Theo nudged him and gave him a warning look.

"What?" he laughed maliciously, a gleam in his eye. "She would probably rather be a Ravenclaw, seeing how she loves to talk about them so much."

Aleia felt her irritation building.

"Just ignore them." One of the Ravenclaw boys told her, putting a hand on her shoulder as if to shield her from Malfoy. Malfoy gasped dramatically, clutching at his chest.

"Ooh, Aleia's got herself a Ravenclaw boyfriend, how adorable!" Anger building over, she whirled to face him when Professor Snape came around.

"What seems to be the problem here?" he asked sharply. Nobody spoke.

Snape turned to look at Malfoy saying, "maybe if you spent more time working on your potion Mr. Malfoy, you'd be much farther ahead."

Malfoy turned red and, after glaring at Aleia once more, turned back to his potion.

He hasn't bothered her since.

Halloween was coming up, and the teachers had planned a Halloween dance for the students. The theme was "into the woods," which was ironic because students were banned from the forbidden forest. The plan was to have the dance after the feast. But then things got wild.