Astoria's P.O.V

My magical alarm clock began to ring and it awoke me from my dream filled slumber after kicking the covers off and taking a shower I sat on my bed and just thought for a few moments. Draco had changed quite a bit and not just physically either. His personality was something new altogether the only thing that remained of the old Draco was his arrogance and wit. It was a different kind of arrogance though, the old Draco was cruel with his arrogance and always put people down now it was just a reflection of his confidence that he can do anything and do it better than anyone else. Maybe being patient will be rewarding, I really want to trust Draco but there is that invisible wall that just shuts me out. A sigh escaped me as I began to slip my cloth on.

After buttoning the snap on my robe I exited my room. Usually Draco and or Blaise would be waiting to walk me down to breakfast but they had a quidditch meeting early this morning which left me to my own devices. I wasn't one to be bothered by loneliness but today for some reason that feeling was gnawing at my heart. It was probably because of the Dementors, their very presences could influence the emotional compass and bring about random bouts of depression and just icky feelings in general. I walked out of the dorm and bumped into the annoyingly ugly Pansy Parkinson. She swaggered up and flipped her short black pageboy hair and glared at me with eyes that were a plain brown and she was wearing far to much makeup to be remotely attractive.

She scrunched her pug face up and said, "Well if it isn't little miss pretend Slytherin princess. What gives you the right to be associated with my future fiancé?" My tone was sharp as I said, "Excuse me but I'm called the Slytherin princess because of my skill and hard work. Also in case you didn't get the message your not engaged to Draco anymore sweetheart. His father canceled the arranged marriage if I recall correctly and I believe he said, "Narcissa I was holding out hope that she would grow into a beautiful flower but it turns out she's nothing but an ugly weed and she's not fit for Draco". That was an amazing ball by the way a shame you weren't invited." She had a stunned look on her face and as I walked by a light rustling caught my ear, I turned on my heel and pulled my wand. I pressed it into her throat and said in a very cool way, "Parkinson you don't want to challenge me because you will lose and you know it." She retracted her hand from her wand and I said, "Come back when you graduate preschool level magic."

I continued down to the dinning hall and the minute I walked through the door the sound of a fuse being lit caught my attention and all of a sudden a firework that appeared to be loaded with magical paint was headed straight for me a giant orange W was painted on the side. I was so shocked I couldn't go for my wand when all of a sudden a protego charm came out of nowhere and protected me from the ensuing mess. The wall behind me was absolutely soaked with paint and shock was running through my body, what in the actual..." A hand landed on my shoulder and my eyes meet with a pair of warm hazel ones. She was pretty her long chocolate hair was curled at the ends and it rested on he lower back, she looked to be a fourth year and her tie was blue and bronze indicating that she was in Ravenclaw. My tone was shy as I said, "Thank you for helping me out I'm Astoria Greengrass a second year Slytherin"

She smiled and said, "I'm Violet Kingsly and I'm a fourth year Ravenclaw nice to meet you and pardon me while I get you an apology." She barged over to the Gryffindor table and grabbed two identical red heads by the ears and dragged them over to me, they had to be Weasley's. She stopped in front of me and said, "These are my two best friends Fred and George Weasley say hi boys" They both spoke at the same time and said, "Hi and we are very sorry about the prank." A smile grew on my face as I said, "No your not sorry and I appreciate your raw fire and guts but why did you aim it at me. Did I offend you in some way?" Fred I assumed said, "We were just testing out a new gadget. There was no specific victim in mind but you were more desirable since you are a Slytherin." Violet smacked both of them in the head and said, "You should be more respectful of your classmates, she is a kindhearted person guys and she would go out of her way to help you. No more pranks on her save them for the mean Slytherins." They both nodded and walked back to the Gryffindor table. Violet turned and said, "I apologize once again have a great day Astoria" She walked away and sat down with the other Ravenclaws.

Dumbledore came to the podium and began to speak in a frustrated tone, "Class is suspended for the day to make further preparations, students are free to do what they like as long as its with school regulation that is all for this morning enjoy your day" Well this was good news I could get the boys training started early I would offer Harry training as well but it appeared that Professor Lupin took an interest in him so I was going to let him handle Harry.

I got up after eating and walked down to the quidditch pitch. I pulled out a book and waited for about an hour and sure enough the Slytherin quidditch team walked out. Draco and Blaise walked out last and appeared to be in an intense discussion about which brand of broom was the best. Draco favored the Nimbus and Blaise liked the old fashioned Clean Sweep. Draco walked over and bopped me on the nose and said, "Your not in class don't tell me you've become a skipper." I poked his hard chest and said, "Not bloody likely I'm not like you two barbarians. Besides starting today I'm Professor Greengrass and you will follow my every order. You will be focused and open minded now let's go class is in session."