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Changing Rooms

C H A N G I N G  R O O M S

Fifth Year- Order of the Phoenix.

"Izzy!" George said, " You asking out Malfoy this year?" He burst through into the carriage with Fred where Pansy, Luna, and I were sat.

"Oh, Haha. C'mon George you know I'm not gonna do that. First of all I don't like him, second he's gonna say no and then I'll be a joke for the rest of time" I complained.

"He's only saying that 'cos he wants you to go out with him" Said Fred.

George's face turned a slight shade of red and he looked down at the floor. Everyone knew he had a crush on me but I always considered him a brother.

"Phff. Don't be embarrassed George. C'mon Lee's waiting." said Fred and left, pulling Geoge after him.

"I think you and George would be cute together." said Pansy, halfway through unwrapping a chocolate frog.

I scoffed, "Seriously, I would never date him. Have you seen him picking his nose?!" To this all three of us burst out laughing.

Looking out the window, I recognised the familiar landscape and knew we were getting closer to Hogwarts.

"We're nearly there, we should put our robes on." I said.

We made our way out of the carriage and went off to the changing rooms, shoving past the people wandering from carriage to carriage.

I scanned the line of changing rooms and the crowd of people waiting infront of them. Great.

Eventually I shoved my way to the front and managed to cram inside the small changing room. I hurriedly tore my clothes off and stuffed them into my bag, just as I was reaching for my shirt the door was knocked open - the latch slipping past its stopper.

I shrieked and a hand pulled the door shut. Murmurs of apology were followed by panicky footsteps away from the changing room. Fuck. I hope they didn't see me.

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The train pulled to a stop at Hogmead Station. As the doors pulled open everyone rushed to get out. Someone crashed into me from behind just as I was about to step off the train. Panic rushed through me as I collapsed to the ground, scraping my hands on the floor.

"I'm so sorry Isabella!" It was Harry Potter. How wonderful. Nice to know that the self involved git can apologise. At least he was nice though.

Harry extended a hand and helped me up off the floor, just then Malfoy barged past with a devilish smirk on his face. Potter scowled with distaste and sulked off with Ron and Hermione.

Draco must've been the one who pushed Harry into me. I locked eyes with him to tell him I'm not to be messed with, which I do a pretty pathetic job at. As his eyes scanned over Potter, they eventually landed on me, spotting my scraped hands and reddened face.

For once the emotionless figure blushed. He quickly turned away and pulled Crabbe and Goyle after him, stalking after Harry Potter like always.

"What was that about?" asks Pansy, coming up behind me. Her voice growled either with anger towards Harry or Draco, maybe even aimed at me.

"I dunno.." I replied. Although now I may have an idea of who saw me in the changing rooms....

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Once we were in the great hall, I sat down to eat next to Pansy. I stuffed myself completely on the train so I wasn't very hungry, my parents were going to be mad I spent so much on chocolates. Everyone was sorted into their houses, Ravenclaw seemed extra popular this year. And Gryfindor hardly got any Hah! We made our way to our dorms. I said bye to Fred and Goerge and gave them good luck for quidditch training. Although I hoped to be on the Slytherin team as keeper this year.

The Slytherin common room was surprisingly warm with the huge fire lit. The soft rugs on the floor were green this year instead of silver, it made a nice change - The silver just looked out of place. I plonked myself down on the sofa and made room for Pansy.

"Budge over, Gray." Demanded Draco.

"Can't you just leave me alone Malfoy" I argued. "You did just fine in the changing rooms earlier"

He turned red from embarrasment again. This was going to be a fun year. I had a free ticket to make Draco go away! And a way to black-mail him if needed.

"What happened earlier!" whispered Pansy excitedly.

"I'll tell you later" I whispered back. This was going to be a great story to tell.

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Stayed up almost all night catching up with everyone. And apparently Harry Potter almost got expelled because of a bunch of out-of-contol dementors. And, someone called 'Dolores Umbridge' might be taking over Dumbledores job! It's not his fault that the ministry can't do their jobs properly and Voldemort might be back! I hope Umbridge is just as good as Dumbledore, less bias to Gryffindor though. I think that might be the only bad thing about Dumbledore, he never let's Sytherin win and has a preference for Harry. It's not fair really.

I told Pansy about what happened with Malfoy. I made her promise not to tell anyone or I wouldn't be able to use it as blackmail. I can't wait to tell Fred too. I wrote a letter to my Mum and Dad saying I've arrived safe and hopefully Draco won't be annoying me this year. I also told them about Dumbledore, I bet they'll both be gutted. I decided to send it in the morning - I couldn't be bothered then.
I slowly drifted off to sleep dreading the potions class I had tomorrow.