Blue Eyed Girl

The rest of the day flew by fairly uneventfully. After Charms Roxanne and Katie went to the Great Hall for lunch and then continued on to Transfiguration. After their last class they went to the library to get a head start on the homework that had already been piled on them. They dropped their books onto one of the round tables in the library, sat down, and began on their potions essay.

"Do you happen to remember the last ingredient for that potion we were mixing today?" Katie asked Roxanne.

"Um...no," Roxanne replied, "let me look it up." She turned, opened her book, and began flipping through the pages as Katie said, "It wasn't in there. I already looked."

"Oh that's right," Roxanne answered, "what was the name of that book we were using today?"

"It was something like 'Uncommon Potions for the Common Wizard' or something like that," Katie answered.

"Let me go see if they have it here," Roxanne said getting up from her chair, "I'll be right back."

"Okay, I'll keep going with this," Katie answered.

Roxanne wandered down each aisle of shelves reading the titles of all of the books. She finally came to a section of Potions books and examined each title until she found the one she was looking for. She grabbed it and started paging through it as she walked back to her seat, not paying attention to wear she was going. She suddenly bumped into someone and knocked all the books out of their hands.

"Oh jeez, I'm really sorry," she said picking up the books that were now lying on the floor. The person she bumped into, whoever it was, just stood there waiting for her to finish. She finally did and stood up to hand the books back to their owner.

"Well if it isn't the new girl," she heard a cold drawling voice say. The voice belonging to the person she was now sorry she had bumped into.

"Actually, my name's Roxanne," Roxanne said, looking into the ice blue eyes of none other than Draco Malfoy.

"So it is," Draco replied looking her over from head to toe and smiling. "You had better be more careful and watch where you're going from now on," he continued, "you never know who you'll run into."

"Uh huh, thanks for the advice," Roxanne retorted as she brushed past him to make her way back to her seat.

"Who was that guy?" she asked Katie who had witnessed the whole thing.

"Draco Malfoy," Katie responded, her face contorting as if she had a bad taste in her mouth, "he's a measly fifth year who thinks he owns everyone. Just ignore him."

"Will do," Roxanne said as she watched him walk out. He was kinda cute you know, she thought to herself. Whoa, what am I saying? He was a jerk. She just shook her head and returned to her essay.

After making a small dent in their mountain of homework, Katie and Roxanne decided to call it quits and head down to the Great Hall to have dinner.

"Hey everyone," Katie said as she sat down and Roxanne did the same.

"Hey guys," Angelina Johnson said, turning from her conversation with Alicia Spinnet.

"Ah, so how was the first day, new girl?" George asked Roxanne, leaning toward her.

"Not too bad," she replied, "well that is if you don't count Potions," she finished looking over at Katie and rolling her eyes. Katie laughed in agreement.

"Oh so you don't like Snape?" Fred asked innocently, "He such a wonderful man. What is there not to like?"

"Oh gee, I don't know," Roxanne said facetiously, "maybe it's the fact that he basically asked me every possible question about gillyweed to see how long it took me to mess up? Which turned out to be not very long at all."

"Yeah, that would do it," George said in agreement, finally taking his eyes away from her.

"How about you guys?" Roxanne asked Fred and George.

"Eh, it was okay I guess," Fred said.

"If, by okay you mean incredibly boring, I wholeheartedly agree," George finished.

They continued talking about their day while they ate the feast that had been prepared for the school. Roxanne was still getting used to the massive amounts of food they were given for each meal, even though she didn't eat much of it. That was just one of the many differences between Hogwarts and her old school. The food, the castle, the classes, it was all so different, and she loved it. Another big difference was that her old school had been an all-girls school, and most of the girls hadn't been particularly nice to Roxanne. That was one change she was not having trouble with at all. There were plenty of guys at Hogwarts that she would gladly get to know better, a certain red-head in particular. She was just thinking about this when she realized the topic had turned to the upcoming ball.

"I can't believe the Founder's Day Ball is only five weeks away!" Katie exclaimed.

Roxanne laughed, "Katie, five weeks is kind of a long time."

"Not really," Katie said logically, "it's less than two months."

"Uh, ok," Roxanne surrendered. She really didn't want to argue with Katie's logic because she knew she would never win.

"So who are you guys taking?" Katie asked Fred and George, changing the subject.

"I'm working on it," said Fred winking and looking over at Angelina who was talking animatedly with Alicia.

"How about you, George?" Roxanne asked him with genuine curiosity, hoping it might be her.

"I haven't really thought about it," George said nervously and blushing slightly. Hopefully you, he thought to himself. What's the matter with me? I'm never nervous when I'm talking to girls. "There are so many choices. I'm just keeping my options open," he finished nonchalantly, hoping to cover up his nervousness.

"Good idea," Roxanne laughed while trying to hide her slight disappointment.

"Well, we should probably finish the rest of that homework," Katie said to Roxanne, standing up.

"I guess you're right," Roxanne said, she hated homework.

They said good bye to Fred and George and left for the Gryffindor common room for a long night of homework.