Potter\'s Sister

O.K. I figured I\'d better start on the thrid chapter now if I ever want it to be done. Again, if you want disclaimers, see the first chapter. I\'m going to try and work Natalie\'s future boyfriend into this chapter, but I don\'t know how the hell I\'ll do it. Oh well. I\'ll try and that\'s all you people can really ask from me. ON WITH THE FIC!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Back in Natalie\'s POV~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

As Harry left, I began to feel tired so I went back up to my dorm and got ready for bed. I pulled on my red satin night shirt and pajama bottoms and went to brush my teeth.
Soon, I\'m underneith my dark red comforter with the curtains pulled and falling into a peaceful slumber while wondering briefly who Harry could possibley be going out with that Ron would have a problem with.
The next morning I wake up as the sun comes up and filters in through cracks in the curtains. I look at my watch and see that it\'s five.
\"Well, it\'s later than I\'m usually up,\" I mumble to myself as I get ready. I pull out some clothes and a robe, then I head to the shower.
The hot water feels good and helps wake me up faster. I wash my hair and shave, all the normal girl stuff. When I get out, I wrap up in a towel and look into the mirror before whiping the water off my face and puting on my cleanser (AN: come on, people. even witches have to do the normal feminine practices after their showers). I spray myself with my sandelwood and chamomile body spray while waiting for the cleanser to dry.
Around six, I come out feeling completely refreshed and ready for my first day at Hogwartz. I still have two hours to waste before breakfast, so I guess I\'ll just read some of my school books. I have Potions first, so I\'ll start on that one. I\'ve always had a talent for Potions. Albus said I got it from my mother. I wish I had known her.
I had just begun reading about the Dreamless Sleep Potion when the portrait opens, revealing Harry holding his invisiblity cloak. I grin at him and innocently say, \"So, I take it you had fun last night with whoever he is?\"
He grins back at me before replying, \"We were just snuggling. He said it would be hell to try and explain why I was limping all day.\"
I laugh, \"That would be a pain in the ass. No pun intended (AN: honestly, I didn\'t even realize it was a pun until I said it to myself in my head).\"
He laughs with me for a minute before he asks, \"What are you doing up so early? Breakfast isn\'t for another hour, and yet you look like you\'ve been up for a while.\"
\"Yeah. I\'ve been up since around five I normally wake up earlier, but I guess I was just tired last night. And I had to go throught the hour long shower slash getting ready proccess. I\'ve been reading since about six. I have double potions with Ravenclaw first, so I decided to read up on the book for the class.\"
His eyes kind of light up before he replies, \"That\'s good! I\'ll go with you and introduce you to my boyfriend then. We\'ll have to get there early, though. He\'s the first one there so you\'ll be able to talk to him for a little while before the others start to show up.\"
\"O.K.. Why don\'t we go down to breakfast a bit early? I\'m getting bored just sitting here reading.\"
\"We should a few more minutes for Ron and Hermione. They should be coming down any minute now.\"
As if on cue, Ron comes down still looking half asleep while pulling his outter robe on. Not five minutes later, Hermione does the same, only looking more awake and alrefullfully dressed while performing a drying charm on her hair. She\'s been up for at least an hour, I figure.
\"Just finishing the morning regiments?\" I ask.
She smiles and nods, \"It\'s finally good to have another girl in our group to relate to.\"
Ron frowns and says, \"What about Giny? She\'s in our group, too.\"
\"Giny has grown up with six brothers and shows it. She only takes about ten minutes for her showers,can\can\'t relate to the whole proccess almost every other girl goes through,\" Hermione replies.
\"Gods, girls are complicated. I\'m glad I\'m not attracted to them, it might effect my outlook on life!\" Harry teases with a smile.
\"Can we go eat now?\"
\"Ron? Can you think of anything except eating?\" Hermione asks in an exasperated tone.
\"No.\"
We all laugh and walk down to breakfast. There aren\'t that many people here, so we\'re able to eat with it mostly quiet. Harry and I are the first done, so we leave, telling Ron and Hermionet Hat Harry is going to show me where some of my classes are and not to wait up for him.
\"They accept you just walking off with so simple an explanation?\" I ask curiously. \"If I tried that with Emily and Darres, not only would they suspect something, they\'d administer a truth serum, then ground me for lying to them. Then again, they\'re your friends, not gaurdians.\"
\"I wish they were my gaurdians,\" He retorted vehemently.
I decide to change the topic before I got angry and made a suit of armor blow up instead of just a glass, \"So where is the Potions classroom? We seem to be going down a lot.\"
\"They\'re down in the dungeons. It took me the longest time to get used to finding my way around the school, so I think the teachers will cut you a little slack the first few times you\'re late. Professor Snape will probably be more leaniant than others,\" He adds with a smile.
\"What does he teach?\"
\"Potions. And don\'t let him fool you in class. He appears to be a hard ass, but he\'s alright once you get to know him. Albus has him training me in a lot of dark arts stuff for the battle with Voldemort. It\'s hard to spend that much time with someone you hate, so we formed a truce,\" He stops outside a classroom and opens the door, \"Good morning Severus, this is Natalie. Natalie, this is Severus Snape, the mysterious boyfriend Ron wants so much to know.\"
To say that I\'m shocked would be an understatement. Harry\'s dating a teacher?! They could get caught! What would Dumbledore say if he found out?
\"I think you should have warned her before hand, Harry,\" He scolds Harry with a frown. \"She seems a bit out of sorts with it.\"
I finally find my voice, \"No, I\'m fine. I just wasn\'t expecting Harry to be dating a teacher. Does anyone else know about this relashionship?\"
\"My godson, Draco..\" Harry narrows his eyes at Draco\'s name, \"Knock it off, Harry! Of course, it\'s ssibssible to keep anything in castle away from Dumbledore, so it\'s inevitable that he found out. Other than that, just Harry, you and myself.\"
\"Alrigh was was just worried how Albus would take it. The downside to him knowing you all your life is that he ALWAYS knows when you\'re lying, and always gets that dissapointed look in you when he knows you did. So I just kind of gave up, but if he ever asked if Harry had a girlfriend, I could honestly say no, but then he\'d go and ask the alternate of if he has a boyfriend and I\'d be screwed there.\"
\"Do you always ramble when you\'re nervous?\" Severus asks with a small smile.
\"Yeah, I do.\"
Harry smiles and says, \"Well, I have to get going to class before the rest of the class gets here and begins to suspect something. I\'ll see you tonight, Sev,\" He adds and gives him a quick kiss before walking towards the door. \"Oh and Sev? Try and be nice to the kids this year! They don\'t need to put up with that bastard mask you put up every day!\"
He laughs and leaves. Snape grins and mutters, \"Insolent brat,\" before turning to me. \"You might want to find a desk and start doing something before the others get here. They\'ll all think you\'re insane if you\'re sitting here chatting idley with Hogwartz\' biggest git.\"
I crack a smile and head to a desk in the front and pull out another potions book I\'ve been working on, on my own. I barely open toverover before students start to trickle in from the hallway. I ignore the stares and stupid questions from my peers and wait for Snape to begin while still reading my book.
One girl in Ravenclaw looks at me with awe, \"Are you related to Harry Potter? You look a lot like him...\"
Thankfully, Severus steps in with a sour expression before I\'m forced to answer, \"Take out your books and turn to page 36. We shall be doing the Dreamless Sleep Potion. I want it done individually, and I want a vial placed on my desk by the end of class. Now go!\"
I sigh and thank whatever gods and goddesses that decided to be merciful as I hear we\'re to do the assignments seperately. Of course, this won\'t stop the constant whispering and stares I get throughout the class, but it\'ll make it more bearable than having to put up with a stuttering nitwit the whole class. I don\'t want to risk ruining my potion.
Using a quick hair placement charm, I begin. I slice the chamomile root precisely and add it into the mixture. I stir, occasionally adding new ingrediants, and finish with a half hour left of class. Corking my vial, I place it on the desk in front of Snape. He smiles and says softly so only I can hear, \"At least you\'re better at potions than your brother is. You should try and tutor him, not that he\'ll accept any help.\"
I flash him my own smile before heading back to my desk and cracking open my Transfiguration book. This is going to be a long half hour if these twits don\'t stop staring at me.
Finally, I break my last nerve, look up and snap, \"Is there something I can help you with? If not, I suggest you go back to your business and stop oggling me like some sideshow freak!\"
I smirk as they all look back at their potions and don\'t look at me for the remainder of the class. Finally some peace!
I had just finished the part about changing things into roses, a romantic, yet fairly useless ability, when Snape stood up and said, \"Class dismissed! Cork your vials and bring them up here.\"
Getting up to leave, I don\'t notice a boy from Gryffindor trip and send his potion flying at my head. Turning around, I see it coming and shout, \"Disparus!\"
The vial dissappears and again, I thank the gods that it hadn\'t touched my skin. Dreamless Sleep doesn\'t seem to like me much. I sigh and turn to the kid who tripped and helped him up with a smile. He stands and st at at his feet while mumbling a quick apology. Sighing again, I say, \"It\'s alright. The only thing that would\'ve happened if the vial had hit me would be some hives that I could spell away in seconds. Don\'t worry about it.\"
He smiles at me before holding out his hand, \"I\'m Devan.\"
I take his hand and reply, \"I\'m Natalie. Now come on, let\'s go to Transfiguration.\"
Devan looks over at Severus who\'s looking like he wants to say something nasty, but is trying to make Harry happy by not being a bastard this year. I grin at him and say, \"Sorry about the scene, Professor, and sorry for the potion that\'ll probably reappear in your pocket any second now.\"
He just shakes his head as he pulls Devan\'s vial out of his pocket and sets it on his desk, \"I have the potion, now get out of here before I deduct house points!\" I nod and stride out the door, followed closely by Devan.
\"I have no Idea where I\'m going,\" I admit once we\'re in the hallway.
He smiles brightly, \"I\'ll show you the way!\"
I sigh inwardly, realizing I\'ve just gained myself a leach, but follow him anyway because, well, I need to know where my classes are. I\'ll deal with this later. Who knows? I might actually become friends with him. He is in my house after all.
The rest of the day is boring until I get to Care of Magical Creatures. It\'s doubled with Slytherins, and it\'s one of the selectives so we have it with the older years (AN: I know that\'s not how it really works, but it\'s the only way I can make this work out, so bear with me). I might actually get to talk to Draco and see why the hell Harry is convinced that he\'s working for Voldemort.
I think about this for a minute until Harry, Ron and Hermione come into view and wave. Waving back, I wait for them to catch up and start talking about my first few classes. Harry grins as he hears that Severus didn\'t take away any house points for the accident while Hermione and Ron look shocked.
\"Did you cast a spell on him or something, Nat?\" Ron asks with a laugh and a wink. \"Or maybe Snape\'s finally discovered that he\'s only human and gave into your looks!\"
I blush and Hermione smacks him upside the head, \"Honestly, Ron! Do you have no tact?!\"
\"He can\'t, that would involve thinking,\" a drawling voice says in back of her.
\"Malfoy,\" Harry growls under his breath.
Stepping forward, I say cooly, \"Now, Draco, there\'s no need for acting like an asshole, and I know that\'s all it is: an act. Now I suggest you knock it off and be friends with Harry.\"
Their eyes all widen and Draco looks more than a little surprised, \"Why would I want to be friends with scarhead?\"
I shrug and reply, \"Dumbledore\'ll tell you the same thing. I just felt like saying something ahead of him for once.\"
His eyes narrow, \"Why would I care what he says?\"
\"I know about it, Draco. There\'s no use trying to hide it from me, now why don\'t you and Harry shake hands and call a truce?\" I say sweetly before adding a demanding, \"Now!\"
They both jump, and Draco stiffly holds his hand out to Harry, \"Truce?\"
Harry looks at me before taking his hand and agreeing.
\"Good! Now let\'s enjoy our class, shall we?\"
Hagrid comes out and welcomes us before bringing us around the back to see Fairies fluttering around in large ranges of colors. I\'m automatically drawn to the odd one in the bunch: the black one.
Most of the girls gasp while the boys just stare at the beautiful flying lights.
\"Pick one out. You\'ll \'ave to \'ave a partner. Jus\' watch \'em,\" Hagrid says to us. I head towards the black Fairy and am met with Draco on the way there.
\"Would you like to be my partner, Draco? We both seem to like the same Fae.\"
\"Sure. What are we supposed to learn about them? All I think we should know is that they enjoy being lights.\"
I shrug, \"I dunno. I\'ll have to ask Hagrid.\"
We sit there and just watch our little black light until Draco finally breaks the silence, \"You know, you\'re the only one aside from Potter who\'s ever talked to me like that, and usually it\'s him retorting to my insults.\"
\"Well, fighting the ones on your own side is rather pointless, now isn\'t it? And have you forgotten already that he\'s my brother? Being apart all our lives isn\'t going to keep some personality traits from being genetic.\"
\"Actually, I thought the last name was just a coincidence until I got a good look at you. The only real differences are obvious ones. Your eyes are gray, not green, your hair isn\'t so messed up, and well, you\'re a girl!\"
I laugh at the last reason, \"Of course I\'m a girl! What sort of guy name would Natalie be?\"
After that, we talk about random things with our Fae sitting on my shoulder and making faces at Draco. We continue talking until we\'re dismissed. Even then, we walked and talked until we had to part to go to our separate dorms.
\"Later, Draco!\" I call to him as he walks away.
\"Later!\" He yells back, turning a corner.
I finish the walk up to Gryffindor Tower and open the portrait. Entering, I flop into the armchair by the fire.
\"So, have fun with your new friend?\" Hermione teases me.
\"What do you mean?\"
\"You and Draco,\" she put an emphasis on Draco,\" got along quite well during class, don\'t you think?\"
\"Well, yes, but that doesn\'t have to mean anything sinister, does it?\"
\"Only if it\'s Malfoy!\" She laughs then suddenly turns serious. \"If you do get involved with him, you\'ll have to remember to be careful. He doesn\'t have a very good track record with being nice to people. You\'ll also have to realize that Harry will threaten him. Just because he didn\'t know he had a sister before, doesn\'t keep him from wanting to be the protective older brother now. He didn\'t have that great a childhood and now wants to protect you from ever having to put up with what he did with your aunt and uncle.\"
\"Let me guess, they left you to tell me all this?\" I ask calmly. \"And what\'s with you guys thinking that I\'ll go into a relashionship with Draco? We just met today in class. If we do, it won\'t be for another couple of months. I don\'t just go into a relashionship without knowing a lot about the peron I wish to be in said relashionship with. As for Harry being the protective big brother, he can deal with it. I\'m only a year younger than he is, and I am quite capable of taking care of myself! I don\'t need someone who has, quite literally, the fate of the world in his hands trying to keep track of me as well. You tell them that. Or better yet, why don\'t I just tell them to come out of hiding so they can talk to me themselves? Come on out you two!\"
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That was a long chapter. I like how my story is going. I think I might actually finish this one. I\'ll bet you guys thought for a minute that Devan would be the one with Nat. Well, no. I think it\'s really obvious who it *WILL* be though. Anyway, review if you like it, tell me why if you don\'t.