"How's Hermione?" Ron asks as he notices Ursa outside the greenhouse.

     "Still getting bandaged up. There were a lot of boils." Ursa says. "Madam Pomfrey said I had to go to class because, unlike Binns, Hagrid would notice if I was missing." The Slytherins notice Harry.

     "Hey Potter. Split up with your girlfriend yet?" Pansy asks. "Why was she so upset at breakfast?"

      Harry ignores them but Ursa doesn't. Ursa turns and points at Pansy. "I know you wrote the letter calling her that word." She turns her finger onto Draco. "And I know you told her what to write." Ursa glares at Draco and fear fill his eyes.

     "I told you she'd know." Pansy says to Draco.

     "Why do you have to know me so well?" Draco groans.

     "Because I'm your big sister. It's my job." Ursa says. They go outside and see Hagrid with crates. "Not again." Ursa groans. When they get closer, they see that there are black fluffy creatures with long snouts in the crates. "Nifflers!" Ursa yell happily.

     Hagrid lets out a deep chuckle. "I knew you'd be excited to see em Ursa."

     Ursa walks over to a crate and one jumps out at her. She giggles as it tries to take her watch. "No that's mine little niffler."

     "These are nifflers, as Ursa said." Hagrid says. "You find em in mines mostly. They like sparkly stuff. Go ahead and take a look." One of the nifflers leaps out of the box and tries to bite Pansy's watch off her wrist. Ursa laughs. "Useful little treasure detectors. We're gonna have some fun with em today. I buried some gold coins for them to get. Take off your valuables and choose a niffler. Whose ever digs up the most gets a prize."

     Near the end of class, Ron has the most gold. "Can you get these as pets?" Ron asks.

     "Your mum wouldn't be happy Ron." Hagrid says.

     "They tend to wreck houses." Ursa says.

     "That should nearly be all the gold. I only buried a hundred. Oh there you are Hermione." Ursa turns her head and smiles at Hermione, whose hands are heavily bandaged. "Lets see how you've done. Count your coins." Hagrid notices Goyle sticking some coins into his pocket. "There no point in tryin to take any Goyle. It's Leprechaun Gold. Vanishes after a few hours." Ursa laughs as Goyle empties his pockets. After the counting, Ron has the most and gets a huge slab of Honeydukes chocolate as a prize. The bell rings and everyone but the Trio and Ursa leave. They help Hagrid put the nifflers back in the boxes. Ursa laughs as she carefully walks over to Hagrid, five nifflers hanging onto her.

     "I think they can tell I'm a Malfoy." Ursa laughs. "I don't even have anything valuable on me except maybe my watch." Everyone except Ron chuckles at Ursa's predicament. "Someone want to help get them off of me."

     Hagrid helps Ursa get the nifflers off of her. "What happened to your hands Hermione?" Hagrid asks. Hermione explains her morning to Hagrid. "Ah don't worry. I got some of those letters too. Just toss them into a fire."

     "You missed a really good lesson." Harry tells Hermione as they walk back to the castle. "Right Ron?" Ron doesn't answer, frowning at the chocolate in his hands.

     "Whats the matter?" Ursa asks. "Wrong flavor?"

     "No," Ron replies. "Why didn't you tell me about the gold Harry?"

     "What gold?" Harry asks.

     "At the World Cup. The gold I gave you for the Omnioculars. It was leprechaun gold."

     "Oh..." Harry says. "I guess I never noticed it was gone. I was more worried about my wand and everyone else."

     They climb up the stairs into the entrance hall and into the Great Hall. Ursa looks at the front table before sitting with the Trio. "Must be nice." Ron says as they are getting food. "Having so much money you don't notice a pocketful of gold goes missing."

     "Listen I had other things on my mind that night, we all did." Harry says. "Well except maybe Ursa."

     "I had no idea what was happening." Ursa says

     "But you had your mum with you."

     "True."

     "I didn't know leprechaun gold vanished." Ron says. "You shouldn't have gotten me anything for Christmas."

     "Forget it alright?" Harry says.

     "I hate being poor." Harry and Hermione look at each other as they don't know what to say and Ursa just stares at her plate. "It's rubbish. I don't blame Fred and George for trying to make some extra money. I wish I had a niffler."

      "It could be worse Ron." Hermione says. "At least your fingers aren't full of pus. I hate that Skeeter woman! I'll get her back if it is the last thing I do! Why is she attacking me and not you Ursa?"

     "You know how I was talking about her and Bellatrix Lestrange?" Ursa asks as she digs in her bag.

     "Yeah?" Hermione answers.

     Ursa holds up the stack of cards. "This is every punishment record of her and Bellatrix together. How would it look if people found out she was best friends with You-Know-Who's right hand man?"

     "Wow. How did you get that?" Harry asks.

     "Severus was having me rewrite them for detention after hearing me threaten Rita. I told her I would get them."

     "Snape really favors you." Ron says.

      "Yep." Ursa replies.

      "How did you know they were friends?" Hermione asks.

      Ursa purses her lips before speaking. "You know how Draco was talking about my favorite person being in Azkaban and me telling you that favorite person was my aunt..."

     "What does- Bellatrix Lestrange is your aunt." Harry says.

     "Sadly." Ursa replies. "She's my mother's sister and was my favorite person when I was really little. I saw a side of her only family ever saw. She adored me. I threw a huge temper tantrum when I found out she was arrested. Broke a mirror with magic."

     "I've notice glass breaking when you get angry." Hermione says.

     "Yeah apparently it comes with being how powerful I am."

***

     Hermione continues to get hate mail over the next week. She followed Hagrid's advice and didn't open any of them. Though some people sent her Howlers that blew up at the Gryffindor table and shrieked insults at her. Ursa always rolls her eyes and reduces the Howlers to ash before they get far, sometimes without looking up from her food or even from the Slytherin table.

***

     While the Trio stays at Hogwarts for the Easter holidays, Draco and Ursa go home. "You'll keep your promise right?" Ursa asks Draco as they sit on the train.

     "Not telling our parents that you are associating with Potter and his friends?" Draco asks. "Yes."

     "Good. I won't hesitate to hurt you."

     "We're almost there. Go fix your hair and and maybe put on a little makeup."

     "Yes Mother." Ursa says sarcastically as she stands. She gets her bag from the overhead rack and digs out a smaller bag before walking off.

     "Why does she need to do that?" Pansy asks. "She looks fine."

     "Our mother doesn't like it down." Draco replies. "'A proper pureblood lady's hair must always be up.' Same with the makeup." Ursa comes back a few minutes later with her hair pulled back like Narcissa's often is and eyeliner. "You look like Mother."

     "Shut up." Ursa says. "I hid my hair pins and elastics under my bed at home. All I have is what I could find from the beginning of the year and the Yule Ball. So like three pins and one elastic."

     "Why hide them?" Pansy asks.

     "That way Mother thinks I took them."

     "Knowing our mother, she would send them if Ursa left them out." Draco says.

     "Probably in a jinxed envelope that would throw them in my face." Ursa says.

     "Really?" Pansy asks.

     "Yes." Both Draco and Ursa say.

***

     Ursa sits in her room, keyboard on the bed in front of her, and puts her notebook in front of it. She takes a deep breath and sings quietly.

      "Am I allowed

     To look at her like that?

     Could it be wrong

     When she's just so nice to look at?"

     Ursa doesn't notice Draco leaning against the door frame.

     "And she smells like lemongrass and sleep.

     She likes apple juice and peach.

     Oh you would find her in a Polaroid picture.

     And she means everything to me."

     "Please tell me that wasn't about Granger." Draco says.

     Ursa's head snaps up, her eyes wide. "Draco. H-how much of that did you hear?"

     "All of it. Please tell me that wasn't about Granger."

     "It wasn't."

     Draco walks over and sits on Ursa's bed. "Anything you want to tell me?"

     "I... I don't know."

     "Ursa I know you like girls."

     "How? I mean no I don't. I can't. I can't. I'll lose everything."

     "Ursa I don't care. And I've suspected it since the ball and the World Cup. You basically confirmed it when you went to the Yule Ball with Pansy."

     "What made you suspect it?"

     "How much you seemed disgusted at the idea of marriage and your reply when I said the draw of the veela only effects those attracted to women and that you said you had to resist it. So... do you like someone?"

     "Maybe."

     "Is it... Pansy?"

     "How-"

     "Just a hope. Maybe she'll shut up now."

     "Huh?"

     "She doesn't stop talking about you. She's admitted to me that she has a crush on you."

     Ursa smiles softly. "She does?"

     "Yep."

     "I can't act upon it though. I can't. Our parents..."

     "Should be alright with it as long as you understand that you have to marry a man in the end."

***

     Ursa frowns as she reads a letter in her room. Draco walls in and sees her. "What's wrong?" Draco asks.

     "Mrs Weasley is a bitch." Ursa replies.

     "Whoa where's this coming from? I know she's a blood-traitor but damn."

     "She believes that stupid article Skeeter wrote about Hermione. She sent Harry and Ron Easter eggs full of candy the size of dragon eggs but sent Hermione one the size of a chicken's."

     "Wow. I hate Granger but even I think that's mean."

     "We're going to Diagon Alley." Ursa storms into her closet. "Get dressed."

     "I'm not going with you."

     "Please, our parents won't let me go alone." Ursa walks out of her closet in a skirt and blouse. "We can get ice cream."

     "Fine."

     When they get to Diagon Alley, they go straight to the candy shop. "What do you still have in the way of Easter eggs?" Ursa asks the shopkeeper.

     "Large dragon eggs are all we still have left." The shopkeeper replies.

     "Perfect. How much to get one delivered to Hogwarts?"

***

     Ursa walks into the Great Hall only to be engulfed in a hug. "Whoa!"

     "Thank you." Hermione says. "For the Easter egg."

     "You're welcome." Ursa replies as Hermione releases her.

     "Why did you send me it though?" They walk towards the boys.

     "A little birdie told me about Mrs. Weasley's egg."

     "Lyra?" Hermione asks.

     Ursa laughs. "No. Harry. Although Lyra did bring me the letter from our owlery." Ursa sits across from the boys with Hermione.

     "That was a huge egg Ursa." Ron says.

     "Luckily it was the only size left in Sugarplum's in Diagon Alley." Ursa replies.

     "Well I loved it." Hermione says.

     "Good. Hey Ron if you say something to your mother about how rude that was, tell her even Draco thought that was mean."

     "Seriously?" Hermione asks.

     "Yes. Draco said he that may hate you but even he thought that was mean."

***

     "Hey Pansy," Ursa says. "Could I talk to you for a minute?"

     "Sure." Pansy says before following Ursa to their dorm.

     "So um... Draco told me something over break after finding something out from me. Do-do you want to go on a date with me?"

     "I'm going to kill him."

     Ursa frowns. "Oh."

     "No, no. Wait. I mean yes I want to. I'm going to kill him for telling you but yes I want to."

     Ursa smiles. "Great."