I was in my room unpacking my stuff, I was sharing with two other girls their names were Miranda Loods and Samantha Hales. I went over to get a book to put it on the bookshelf when something fell out, I bent down to pick it up when I realised it was a picture. I flipped it over and my heart dropped "mum..." flashbacks overwhelmed me and I fell to the ground in tears, one of the girls I was sharing a room with found me a short while after.
I woke up in the nurses office, I sat up too see people watching me. "is she okay?" a deep old voice said, I opened my eyes fully to realise, Dumbledore, Snape, Harry and one of the girls who I was sharing a room with were surrounding me. "she's awake" Harry said fixing his shirt. Someone burst through the door making me jump "godsakes, I can't leave you for 5 minutes without you hurting yourself" It was Draco, no suprise there. Everywhere I go he's there, like a shadow I suppose. "oh shut up, Malfoy" I said glaring at him "I came here to make sure you're okay, I guess that was a bad idea" he'd reply, but this time he looked me up and down like he would with the people he called mud-bloods. A sharp pain tingled in my heart, I turned away from him and he left. "How you feeling, Catalina?" Harry said trying not to get too close but still moving closer to me. "I'm feeling okay, thank you, Harry" I forgot that I had to bring him do my father, I kinda feel bad. "So, I suppose I'll be seeing you in potions?" Professor Snape said looking down onto me, I looked up at him blankly obviously knowing he knew about why I was really here since he was working for my father himself "I suppose so" I cockinly replied.
A few hours later I was walking okay again, I forgot about the curse I had put on me by my mother before she disappeared. My father was madly inlove with my mother, but my mother wasn't so interested after he destroyed his face, I was 6 years old when she left, she said she couldn't handle a man that looked like a snake. Of course my mother didn't really care about me, I was nothing to her. Before she left she came into my room and put a spell onto me so I couldn't remember her, but everytime I find something and it reminds me of her I black out and forget her again, that's what my father told me anyways.
I was walking down the hallways before being backed against the wall with a wand to my throat by Draco "We're supposed to be doing this together, not going off on our own" he hissed at me, I gasped at the fact my life was in his hands, he looked down at the necklace I was wearing and used his wand to lift it a little "why are you wearing the Necklace I gave you." he questioned looking around him, I scoffed and glared at him again "why give it to me if I can't wear it". I stared into his eyes, but he only looked me up and down, he quickly moved his wand away from the necklace and walked away.
I entered potions class to see everyone staring at me, I looked at everyone then to see Snape staring down at me "why are we late, Ms. Riddle?" Snape said raising one eyebrow, nobody knew my last name so it wasn't a suprise that they were whispering to one another. "I left my wand behind, it won't happen again" I lied, Snape knew I was lying but couldn't exactly do anything since he worked for my father. "take a seat" he said slowly, I walked over to my seat with him still watching me, "turn to page 139 and read 'till page 190" Snape turned around examining his room "I expect the question sheet to be filled by the end of the lesson." his voice started to irritate me, I looked over at him and gave him a dirty look but he turned and looked at me, I quickly looked away. Shit, don't look... Don't look. I thought to myself. I slowly looked at him again but he wasnt looking, I sighed in relief and carried on with my work.
At the end of class we all handed our papers in, I packed my stuff and left the room, that was the last class of the day meaning I finally got to go and relax, I have no homework meaning no stress, No Draco, meaning no annoying penguin glued to my ear.
I stopped at the entrance to the slytherins Common room and said the password to enter, the door opened and I skipped inside and straight up to my room, the girls I was sharing with was already in there studying. "what you both studying then?" I said taking my bag off and putting it on my bed "everything, we have tests for every single class tommorow" one of them groaned, luckily for me I'm in none of their classes. I sat on their bed and closed their books "there's a much easier way to do it" I said dragging the books slowly towards myself "how?" one of the girls sat up intregued, I raised an eyebrow. "there's a spell.. Its called lactious practious" I said cockily, the girls looked at eachother then at me "well? How does it work?" they both got closer keeping their eyes on me. "well, you see when you say the spell it puts all the information you need to know in your head and you can't forget it until it's been written.." I smirked and wiggled my eyebrows, the two girls looked at me with their mouths wide open "and how come we haven't heard about this before and you have?" they crossed their arms looking at me "because I'm from a family that knows everything".
"Now, come on we're going out" I said getting up and putting my coat on "why? We need to study" one of the girls said, I paused half way from getting my coat on and looked at them "what are your names again?" I asked
"Samantha and Miranda" Samantha answered, I smiled walking towards them "Well Samantha and Miranda, I gave you the spell for a reason". The two girls looked at eachother blankly and giggled "oh yeah! Forgot about that!" they laughed harder. However, I didn't find it very funny, in fact I found it irratating "are you coming or not cause if not stop waisting my time!" I snapped harshly, they both gulped and sprang up "yes, sorry Catatlina".
We left our room and walked into the common room, Draco, Pansy and Blaise sat there studying, I felt as if I was the only one who didn't need to, but I was confused. Draco knew the spell but he prefers to still sit there and study? "oh look its that girl" Pansy said checking me out, and not in a good way "come to say hello? Or are you just going to walk out again?" she laughed, this time Draco laughed with her. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth trying not to let her get to me "why don't you go back home, to your father. Filthy wrench.." that was the last straw, I pulled my wand out walking over to her. I dragged her up by the arm pushing her against the wall putting my wand near her throat, the same thing reminded me of Draco. "Listen, you aren't so innocent yourself, don't try and mess with someone you obviously know nothing about" my face was close to hers, close enough for my spit to go on her face "who said I didn't know anything about you?" she scoffed, I laughed putting the wand closer to her neck. "if you knew a single thing about me–you wouldn't be saying the stuff you were saying now, cause I can make you wish you were never born" I smiled letting go of her and put my wand back, she grasped onto her neck "Pansy!" Blaise said going to make sure she's okay, I waked passed Draco but he stood up and grabbed my arm "Was that necessary?" he asked, I took a step back and looked at him "Draco darling" I put a hand on his face stroking it with my thumb "everything I do is necessary. What's the point in letting someone think their better than you when clearly their not, why give them the satisfaction?" I smirked ragging his hand off me then walking over to Samantha's and Miranda "Now, ladies, let's go".
It was snowing outside, the students that attended hogwarts only see snow when it's near to Christmas and if not then exactly on Christmas morning. The first years to fourth years were outside playing in the snow with around 5 people from my year, it was nice to look at people enjoying themselves. "what are you smiling at?" Miranda said elbowing me softly, she giggled obviously not taking me seriously. "I'm smiling at people who are enjoying themselves, it makes me happy". I said darkly "ooh look at that—Catalina Riddle, happy? Didn't know that was possible" Miranda messed around, I laughed a little then looked over to see Harry, Hermionie and Ron playing with eachother in the snow, I smiled looking down at them "hey girls, how about we throw snowballs at people?" I grinned looking at them both, Samantha and Miranda nodded so we all walked down to the field and started to make snowballs ready to throw. "hey, Catalina! Watch out!" someone said, I looked over to see Ron waving at me "Ron?" I questioned when suddenly a snowball hit my face and I fell backwards. "Ow!" I rubbed my nose and squinted my eyes while getting up to witness everyone laughing. "oh, so you think that's funny, do you?" I smirked taking a snowball from the pile of snowballs we made and threw it at Ron. "ow!" he fell backwards, I laughed hard, perhaps the hardest I've ever laughed, and thats what caused it. Everyone started throwing snowballs at eachother laughing and enjoying themselves for about 5 minutes before Ron accidentally threw a snowball at Snape. Snape looked directly at us "my office. Now".