Between angels and insects

Chapter 1: There she goes...

The Great Hall was already crowded when Albus Dumbledore appeared in front of the students. He wasn’t very usual to see him late, it only happened when he had an emergency case to take care of. The hat had chosen in which houses the new ones would be for the next seven years. The wisest wizard on Earth stood in front of the Hogwarts students.

“Welcome everyone, I’m sorry to be late. I hope you all had good holydays” he glanced at Harry Potter who replied with a smile. This boy, actually the Boy-Who-Survived, was one of his favorite students, even if he had a real problem with authority. Sitting next to the teenager were his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. “In fact, this year, we’ll gonna have a special student in Hogwart.” The crowd started whispering. “She comes from USA, and practice a different form of magic. I hope you’ll all welcome her nicely and honor our school.” Everybody in the room turned to look at the end of the Hall. The newcomer was quite tall, around sixteen, and was wearing the usual Hogwart outfit. Her face was pale and contrasted with her long dark brown hair.

“What’s that!” Malfoy chuckled and soon his court did the same. The stranger stared at him and Draco felt his blood freezing in his veins. He gulped and sat straight on the bench.

“Miss Tariyo, please come over here!” Dumbledore asked quietly and the girl walked down the Hall. “Seena will be put in fourth year, considering her control of magic. But we still have to define in which house she’ll be.” The girl came closer and waited. “Just sit here and the Hat will Sort you.”

Seena did what she was told.

‘This damn hat stinks...’ she thought.

“Um...interesting!” The Sorting Hat said in a voice full of mystery. “It’s the first time I hesitate to choose a house...You’re brave and strong, but your soul is...”

“Spit it out!” The young girl exclaimed and it made jump everyone in the room. Amongst the teachers, the reactions were varied. Professor McGonagall looked horrified, Snape had a smirk on his face, and the gamekeeper Hagrid was frowning.

“Slytherin!” The hat shouted angrily. The students from the house applauded without conviction, some of them were wincing. Albus Dumbledore cleared his throat, obviously ill at ease.

“Well, um...let’s eat what the house elves cooked for us!”

‘This child is gonna be a real problem for us, I should better watch over her.’ The old wizard thought as he was sitting in front of a large plate of food.

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Seena hated being here.

‘Fucking forced to enter this damn school! The Ancients are dumb, they should know I’ll never fit in.’ She thought while she was walking to the Slytherin common room when someone grabbed her shoulder.

“Hey!” A blond guy called her. Seena observed him carefully but didn’t reply.

“What, you can’t speak?” another guy, very fat, said mockingly. The girl turned her gaze to him and an evil smile appeared on her face.

“Ila m’or aliksh” she chanted very low, getting weird glances from people around. Their expression changed from curiosity to horror when Fat guy’s mouth disappeared. He was trying to speak, but couldn’t do anything but muffled sounds. The blond guy turned back to Seena, he was the only one smiling.

“Nice trick! Crabbe never knows when he must shut up. I’m Draco, Draco Malfoy.” He extended his hand.

“Seena Tariyo.” The brunette shook his hand forcefully.

“Wow! Strong grip you’ve got there!” He grinned and looked at his red hand. Seena didn’t say anything and just chuckled.

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“So, you come from USA?” Malfoy asked casually. Seena, and him were gathered with other Slytherins in the common room.

“Yeah, near L.A.! That’s a big change to be here...”

“What’s your magic exactly?” A girl called Parsy Parkinson asked.

“It’s wiccan magic, based on energies and stuff.”

“And you don’t use a wand?” Goyle interrupted.

“No need to. And anyway, Wicca is way more powerful than your things.” Seena answered calmly while playing with a feather she had just found. The students next to her seemed to be offended, and it made her laugh.

“Show us!” Crabbe ‘Fat guy’ said furiously. Seena chuckled and looked at the feather. She covered it with her hand and it turned into a knife. Everybody in the common room was amazed. The brunette then spotted a toad in the corner of the room. She extended her arm and the toad came flying on the table.

“I heard you have three I-don’t-what spells, really bad ones...”

“Yeah, ’Unforgivable’ but we can’t use them in any case...” Parkinson said.

“That’s what they say” Malfoy snickered.

“Anyway, we can’t use them in Hogwart, there’s Dumbledore’s spell and...” The girl was stopped talking and gasped when Seena threw the knife in the air. They all looked at it as it was falling towards the table, exactly where the toad was. They quickly moved away, expecting to be splattered with toad guts. But to their surprise, the knife stopped just before hitting the animal.

“That’s incredible! You didn’t even speak at all!” Malfoy grinned. “We don’t control non-spoken spells until the sixth year.”

“Look...” Seena said in a very low voice. The knife penetrated slowly the toad’s flesh and stopped again before reaching its heart. The animal was emitting screeching noises.

“Your Unforgivable spells are manipulation, torture and kill aren’t they?” Malfoy nodded.
“I know a lot of other spells to torture. And I’ve got a favorite one to kill.” Seena took the knife in her hand, sat back in the sofa and once again stretched her arm towards the toad. All of a sudden it was skinned off alive, and laid dead on the table, fresh flesh exposed to the view of every Slytherin in the room. A look of fear appeared on their face, except on Draco’s. The blond boy was smiling sardonically.

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