- - - Stop and Stare*

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Draco sat upon his bed, his hands held out in front of him as he felt the elemental magic flow through his veins, just like the marking on his skin moved constantly, this time they were slow moving and he couldn’t help but stare at one for a moment. Anything to do with metal he could make him, just one simple thought was all it took. Concentrating, he formed a metal block, letting it hover for a moment before falling on his bed. He quickly snatched his feet from out of its way before he felt the heavy weight of the block land. So now what, he thought, looking at the dull grey thing. He could create anything from metal, so what did he want? A moment passed before he formed the shape of a sword in his mind. The basic metal shape, if he were to keep it, he'd have to finish the hilt with normal magic. Once more he held his hands out, watching as the metal lifted before contorting and taking the shape of the sword. He stared at it for a few moments before pulling his wand out and making it vanish. It was only practice and although he was one the fastest ones to learn how to control his element, he knew there was still a long way to go.

A heavy sigh escaped his lips as he stood and walked casually out of the dorm and into the common room, his cool, calculating face in place. No one knew he had lost the dark mark, not even those close to him like Pansy or Blaise, yet he still felt a slight itch on his arm every time he thought of it. He didn’t stay long in the common room and headed out to the great hall instead. It would be deserted by now, lunch having been and gone and dinner was still hours away, a perfect place for him to have time alone. His powers had given Gryffindor another reason to hate him, although what he did find strange was they had turned on a few of their own. Stupid lions, he thought as he seated himself at the Slytherin table. More fool Gryffindor and the other houses, now Slytherin had every elemental 'cept one.

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

Conjuring, for her, was never the problem. The fire came to her easily, it was a ]part of her and the emotions that triggered that were almost constant lately. Fires called to her, reached out to her. Control was something she was lacking. That much she gathered from her convorsation with Harry. She reduced her favorite quill to dust because she let her emotions get the best of her. It didn't help that he was pissing her off to all hell on top of her already terrified emotions from her attempt at writing in a diary. It was a silly thing to fear. A little book with blank parchment should not be so terrifying. She could form it into balls, her fire that was. It was the most simple, and concentrated. She could not do anything further than that, other than free formed blasts but fire was not meant to be molded and shaped. It was wild and unpredictable, she needed to be able to control her own abilities though. She found herself walking about the school as she thought. She didn't like sitting still when she did her thinking. The mundane task helped her organize her thoughts. She didn't neccessarily need to focus on the walking but it was still an action she needed to be concious of.

She found hersef at the Great Hall. She figured it would be a good place to just think. she liked looking at the magicked sky on days when the weather was not pleasant. That way she didn't need to feel the cold when she was looking at the grayish clouds. Though, the sky in the Great Hall was never as mundane as a block of gray clouds. She ran her fingers over the wood of the door absentmindedly before entering the room. She was surprised to see Draco in the room as well. She didn't want to turn back just because he was in here, but she didn't want to be in an increasingly awkward situation either. She ended up stepping in the room.

"I didn't think anyone would be here." She said. It was a statment and she made it flat, slightly apologetic. She didn't expect him to reply. She sat across the table from him. Not close enough to be a pest, but not far enough that he would need to yell to speak with her. She doubted he would speak to her but it was a habit. She was used to things like that. She was always shoved to the side by the people she so looked up to. It was both out of habit and of courtesy. She shrugged off her bag, and set in on the seat next to her, but pulled out a small peice of parchment and a pen. She had gotten it from Hermione before all this went on. She was rather fond of the bit of plastic, ink and metal. It was a bit more convenient than needing to pull out a quill and a bottle of ink.

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Draco heard footsteps outside the great hall but simply ignored them. Why would anyone come searching for him beside the other Slytherins. Had he known who would have become an elemental like him, he would have tried being nicer, of course he hadn’t been one hundred percent he would have been chosen for an element either, having had the dark mark on his arm, so when he experienced the change, it had come as a surprise. Now he thought the damage was already done, the majority of Gryffindor believed in Harry bloody Potter's rumour of him being a death eater, why would anyone want to give him a chance. It wasn’t like he was asking for a chance either, the others would simply have to get over it, he thought.

A voice snapped him out of his thoughts as he turned to see just who it was. Ah Ginny Weasley, blood traitor and yet another elemental. Had she finally made up with the so called chosen one, he wondered. Had Gryffindor finally decided to accept her, element and all? So many questions and yet he didn’t voice any.
"You and me both," he replied, the corner of his mouth twitching as he watched her sit down and pull out a book and some strange thing he hadn’t seen before. It had to be a muggle contraption, he thought. He took in her form, oh how he could use her against Potter, ideas formed in his head. Just once he wanted the fame and glory for doing something good, he wanted Potter to feel what he had felt for the past six year, that someone was in fact better than him.
"How's your uh...abilities?" he asked, might as well try and friendly conversation for once, after all he couldn’t really judge her now, she was an elemental and an Slytherin even if it were just honorary status.

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

"Interesting. Wild and often irratic but not completely out of my control. Harder to keep at bay when I'm angry. I turned my favorite quill to a pile of ash, but I guess that was better than Harry Potter's broom at the moment."

[/b] She said with a shrug. She had to try and get along with the others like her. They were all that they had and they didn't need more enemies amongst themselves than need be. If not friends, at least not enemies. She wasn't expecting him to cry one about how horrible his life had been, and how good he really was. That was about as likely as Snape coming to class dressed in a pink tutu. There it was. She would never be able to take the professor seriously ever again. That might be terrible for her because he was a very serious man. She did, however, know he could not be all evil. The power, any of theirs, would not have been reawakened if any of them. That much she assumed. There had to be some reason that it chose to not happen for who knows how many generations and then suddenly crop up again now.

"I have no trouble using it. It comes to me easily, but it's the getting it to do what i want it to that i have been having trouble with." She explained further. She set down the pen, deciding against doing what little homework she brought with her. "What about you?" She asked with honest curiosity. She didn't want the conversation to be one-sided. It was something that always bothered her, even if it was in her favor. She liked actually talking to people, rather than lecturing them or vice versa. It was boring, not to mention rude. She also did not want to ask something he was uncomfortable with answering but she assumed because he asked her first, it was only fair to reverse the question on him.[/size][/blockquote]

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Wild and irratic, he believed that described her as a person, they again why would someone with the abolity to control fire have a completely different personailty. She indeed was a little firecracker and one he reminded not to anger too much near open flames. He couldnt help the smirk forming on his face as she mentioned her quill and Potter's broom. If he had the ability to control fire, he wouldnt have destoryed the quill nor gone for the broom, instead he would have set Potter's robes on fire. Oh how funny it would be to watch him squirm, running around trying to put it out. But sadly he didnt have that power, maybe it allhad something to do with personalities, which element they got.
"I would have just gone for his robes instead, pointless ruining a good broom or quill," he shrugged, not really caring if she wanted to defend Potter. Then again he had been one of the first to turn on her, why would she want to defend him even now?

He nodded once briefly. So she could use it, she just lacked control. Something he was raised on was disipline and control. Maybe his parents knew something about it before, but then most purebloods were raised in the same way, well those from slytherin anyways.
"Control of it comes easy to me," he spoke, "but it isnt perfect." There he had said it, something about himself wasnt perfect and he was going to try his damn hardest to perfect his new found powers.
"It feels like i've been able to use the element forever, even though it was hard the first few days of getting it." He didnt really like admitting things like that, but if they were to work together and if he could turn her completely against Potter, he had to sacrifice something of himself, starting with admitting things.

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

"He was flying. I didn't want to get expelled if I killed him or something. Not to mention I'm no murderer. I still have to practically live with the kid on summers and holidays, I don't need to cause more trouble for myself than need be." She said. It was the truth, at the time she was so furious with him that was all she could think about. Besides, she honestly would have rather punched him. It was a much better feeling than besting someone at something you already know you are better at.

"It's too easy. This ability feels like something I should have had years to practice to even be able to produce and then over the span of minutes. I go from normalcy, to a fit of pain, to being able to create fire out of thin air." She said. It was odd. No one knew really why it was decided they would get their abilities then and there. She was sure there were some crackpot ideas out there. There were probably some that made sense too. She sighed, not really knowing how to go about this.

"We just got them. Perfection is a little much to ask from people who literally went from zero to elemental in like 60 seconds flat." She said shrugging. " I'm sure we are all having different challenges. My emotions drive my actions, and therefore mt abilities. Or so I assume that's the connection." She said. She was taking a shot in the dark but she needed to learn more about these abilities and how and why they manifested. She wasn't sure what of this the others knew. She knew that these things were things that other purebloods looked into at least briefly. In a way she was jealous of that. She loved her family, but there was a lot about her lineage and abilities she did not know about.

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Who cared if he were flying, he doubted very much the fire would have killed Potter straight away unless Ginny wished it. Also he didn’t think the headmaster would expel her, not when they were special to him and the rest of the world, just like Harry Potter. Maybe that was why Harry acted out, he wasn’t the only special one anymore. He should have been grateful to them instead.
"Yea well you don’t need Potter or to be in his shadow anymore, you're much better than him," she did have a point about her family and Harry. Every time he saw them at the station, it was like he was all they cared about, urgh pathetic really.
"Don’t you have friends to go to, I’ve seen you around Loony Lovegood, cant you stay with her during the holidays?" he asked. If he and Ginny were friends he would have offered for her to stay with him, explain to his parents, perhaps twist the words and say he was working on getting her to cross over to the dark side, although he wouldn’t. As soon as that dark mark had vanished from his arm, all he wanted was for Voldemort to make a mistake and die because of it, oh how it would feel to have him die by the hands of the metal elemental, or any elemental.

So she felt the same, they were easy to use but a little harder to control. He still couldn’t understand why they had to suffer pain to awaken them, couldn’t be something like tickling feathers, that would have been so much easier to put up with, not doubled over in pain.
"At least you're not the only one," he mumbled to himself, there were nine of them that he knew of but he was sure there was another one out there, at least Ginny and himself had the other elementals to speak to, at least they didn’t judge because of their new abilities.

Of course she was right, they had only just got them and yet it felt like they should have had them for years. He thought he was the only one that felt that way and so he hadn’t said anything, now knowing that Ginny felt the same, he assumed that the others did too. Draco sighed.
"Unfortunately Weas...Ginny, there will be times where it’s a life and death situation, you will have to kill using your normal magic or elemental magic, we need to get our elemental under control quickly, maybe the headmaster will allow us to concentrate on them instead of school for the time being."

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

"Luna" She said pointedly, with an edge to her voice. She didn't like when people made fun of her friends. "lives not too far from me. I can get away there for a while but my parents would still expect me home if I were that close. Besides they are still my family. Just because Harry is an ass, and my brother follows him around worshipping the ground he steps on doesn't mean I don't love them I still like to see them."

[/b] She said with a sigh. She thought about it, but she didn't think she could spend a whole holiday between them and sharing a room with Hermione. The girl was practically a sister, but she had things that annoyed her to no end. She could only be corrected so many times before she snapped.

"But I have to admit I don't think I could spend a whole holiday with the three of them. Luna just lives with her Dad. I might be able to stay at Fred and George's flat in Diagon for a while though." She said. She had to admit they were her favorite brothers. They were brilliant when they put their minds to it. She liked helping them come up with new ideas with the joke shop as well. They were funny, and they didn't treat her like the annoying naive kid sister but she didn't really know where they stood in this whole elemental issue. She should probably owl them soon, as well as Charlie. She's sure Bill and Fleur have already heard by now.

"Ginny is really a ghastly nickname. I prefer Ginevra or Gin if you mush shorten it." She said, when it came out of his mouth. She had been surprised he actually used her name though. She couldn't remember a time that he referred to her as anything other than her surname or Weaslette.

"That's different. If it's kill or be killed, everyone had their breaking point. Human nature dictates one would do anything they can to survive. Murder for no particular reason is different." She said. She knew it was something inevitable. She wasn't naive enough to think she could get through this war with stunning jinxes and disarming spells.

"We'll likely be forced to do so on top of our courses. I think I know just the place though." She said, she doubted Harry visited the room of requirement anymore. She, like Neville and Luna, wished that the Dumbledore's army meetings would have resumed. There was no real reason for them anymore but it made her feel like she was actually part of something for a change. That was before she got her powers. Before she was something other than Ron's baby sister in the eyes of everyone at this school.[/size][/blockquote]

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Some people were simply too touchy when it came to names, though with Lovegood being an elemental, he figured he had to start calling her by her proper name. Well to her face anyways, no one said he had to play nice all the time, in fact no one said he had to play nice period. Of course he knew it would make living with the others all the more difficult. Ginny continued saying that Loo...Luna lived not too far from her and that her family would still expect her to be home. He gave a soft chuckle, Potter was indeed an ass and that red headed sidekick of his was no better.

Now he was getting somewhere, she admitted she wouldn’t be able to spend the whole holidays with them, it seemed that she hadn’t so much as made up with Harry let alone her brother. If the so called golden trio hated the elementals what stopping them from turning her whole family against her, even the ones that had moved out of home, sometimes being the only child had its advantages. It made him think, maybe they were all better being together, with one of the more accepting families, until everything sorted itself out.

Oh she didn’t like Ginny. After everyone having called her that for years, she finally admitted to him of all people that she didn’t really like it. She preferred her own name or Gin. Gin, it was short and it seemed like it suited her.
"Gin it is," he shrugged his shoulders in a bored way, honestly he was too lazy to say her full name. She went on to say that a life and death situation was different, how was it different, every situation they were going to be in when it involved the death eaters meant someone would more than likely die, heck he'd kill those students that opposed them if he could, if he knew he wouldn’t suffer any consequences, the chosen one would be the first to die with his best friends straight after him.

She just had to put a dampener on his idea, why did they have to learn magic on top of having to control their elements, one of them would more than likely be that stressed out that their powers would be out of control, did the professors even care if the castle was left standing. Something had to be done and as he thought more about it he knew exactly what to do, didn’t mean the others were going to like it though and the first step was appointing himself as the leader of them. Oh yes he had gone through everyone and natural believed he would be best to lead them, ha oh he'd love to see the look on Potter's face when that came about.
"Owl your parents, tell them you're going to be busy controlling your new abilities. We, all of the elementals, are going away during the holidays to learn how to better handle them," he spoke in a confident manner. Would she pass up the opportunity to train with her powers or risk getting killed at the final showdown because she hadn’t mastered her ability?

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

"Going away? Where?"

[/color] She said, eyebrow raised. She leaned back in her seat, crossing her arms. She turned her head looking Draco in the eye. She knew better than to trust someone within seconds of knowing them. Not to mention, he picked on her and her family for ages, why in the world would all that change just because she had abilities now. Still a Weasley. Still a bloot-traitor, according to them, still loosely part of the blood feud that has been going on for ages. That should't all change because of something like this. Though their powers, they were bigger than all of them bigger than petty differences and taunts.

"I think you are getting a little ahead of yourself. Just because we were tossed in the same boat here, definitely does not mean I trust you. I'm not the naive little girl everyone at this school makes me out to be." She snipped. She knew better than to go from. She hadn't made a decision about him yet. She had no real reason, hard evidence, to think he was completely irrevocablly evil but she didn't have evidence otherwise either. She would take this slowly.

She was the girl who blindly followed, she did not want to be that girl again. She was cautious and cynical. She trusted very carefully now, because she was not a person who could let themselves make the same mistake twice. She wasn't even sure which of her brothers she could trust. She figured almost definitely Fred and George. They had liked Harry well enough but they were never as close to him as Ron was.

She definitely didn't know who to trust within the walls of the school. Neville and Luna were one thing. They were her friends. Everyone else? Not so much. She knew Slytherins were even trickier. Even if they weren't going to go darkside they were still not easily trusted. Always the hidden agenda. Despite what Harry kept claiming she wasn't going to let anyone manipulate her. She was smarter than that, or so she hoped. In some ways she just wished she could go back to fading into the background. It was so much easier to know what everyone was doing and what they didn't pay attention to her.

"You are still a Slytherin. You still have a hidden agenda, so tell me. How does this benefit you?" She asked. Even if it were just gaining control he didn't need her or the others for that. If he did need help or anything, there was still Pansy and Blaise. He didn not need her. It would be so much easier just to go as if nothing was different. [/blockquote][/size]

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Draco hadn’t actually thought of where, he knew they couldn’t exactly go to the manor, not with the dark lord making his home headquarters. They had to get back to the basics, back to the natural elements and what better why then to camp.
"Into the heart of the forbidden forest," he shrugged like it wasn’t a big thing. They needed somewhere dangerous and yet large enough to control their abilities. It was the only forest he could think of that would be somewhat protected by Dumbledore. He didn’t care if the headmaster was against it, he'd still do it.

Trust, who said anything about trust. In fact he was certain the word trust had not come up in conversation until now.
"I'm not asking for trust," he stated. Trust would come in due time, they first had to at least get along with each other first.
"I never said you were naive," where was she getting all this from. Well someone had to set her straight.

She went on about Slytherins having a hidden agenda, that he must have had one too. Oh how wrong the little Gryffindor was. Well he couldn’t really refer to her as a Gryffindor now, she was an honorary Slytherin.
"Not all Slytherins have hidden agendas when they say something," he replied, wanting to get that little fact right, "So what's mine you ask, simple: survival. Then again you can’t really call that a hidden agenda." How did this all benefit him, did she really think he was that self centred. Maybe in his first two or three years at Hogwarts he was but he had come a long way since then.
"It doesn’t just benefit me but all of us. But if you want to go home, get into an argument with Potter or your brother and burn the house down because your emotions are running high, then go right ahead," he waved her off, if she couldn’t see eye to eye with in on at least controlling their abilities then she was a lost cause.

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

"When someone will be training with powers like these, together in a group one would assume a certain amount of trust is involved because the people one is training with also learn the other's weaknesses. Or maybe you've overlooked that."

[/color] She said flatly. She had learned that from Dumbledore's Army last year. By showing someone your strengths and working to better yourself you also, intentionally or otherwise, show them your weakness. They learned what magic they exelled in and what they were weak in. Both learning how to complament one another as well as what traits to exploit when going against them.

"I'm sorry. Admittedly I'm a little paranoid. It's just a little hard to take in. You make it your personal mission to make Gryffindor's lives as difficult as possible for as long as I've known you. Quite frankly I've never seen you act at all pleasant it's just a little hard to believe that just because we now share some similiar power that that's all going to change in such a short amount of time."[/color] She explained with a sigh. She really didn't like apologizing. It grated against her the wrong way. She did sort-of go off on a strange little rant for no apparent reason. to be going on her own personal tyrade. She was just a little off from the series of arguments she's had with Harry. Some of which resulting in sore throats and/or loss of voice. Not to mention her feeling even more terrible about this whole mess than she needed to be. She really shouldn't put so much merit on his words, but in a way she could not help it. After hearing them enough she knew that in some ways they had a point, if you tilt your head sideways and squint at least.

"Not all but some, and it's better to be wary of all then to leave your guard down and get stabbed in the back for it. And it's not even just Slytherins, really. Almost everyone has now, or has had some sort of hidden agenda."[/color] She said with a shrug. She hadn't meant to offend him or anything she was just looking out for herself. It was something she had realized was going to be important now that she didn't have a whole house to watch her back for her. Instead she had two best friends, and a handful of people she didn't really know well enough to trust right off the bat.

"But the forest? It could work. We'd have to steer clear of Centaur lands of course, because I have heard they are not so fond of Wizards." She said, fighting the urge to snicker, remembering what Hermione said happened to Umbridge last year. Served the evil woman right in her opinion. "And the Acromantual territories. From things Ron and Hermione have told me I have a vague idea of where those things are. I'm sure there's plenty else to worry about but that's everything I really know of for sure that's particularly hostile."[/color] She said. From what she got from Hagrid there were Unicorns in the forest. She was in no way against training with him, and the others. She knew it needed to happen. It scared her every time the pressure built up, she felt it trying to escape and it did terrify her. She didn't know what would happen if she let the energy go. She could only assume it would not be pleasant. She needed to know how to control that, because she didn't want to see what happened when she snapped.[/size][/blockquote]

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Trust, indeed he hadn’t asked for it but she was right, training together would mean they'd have to trust each other to a certain extent. Whether or not she wanted to trust him was entirely up to her, but whilst her house and friends had turned their backs on her, his house had accepted them with straight away. She needed to understand the things all Slytherins had to give up just for them to be there, without sacrificing things, trust couldn’t happen. They had given up on their views of them being blood traitors and welcomed them. The other elementals had been the ones to show Slytherins that those from other houses weren’t all that bad, was it really that shocking to think that they could actually be nice to them, that he could be nice.
"I haven’t overlooked it because trust will come when its ready, whether or not we want to, we're going to have to trust one another eventually."

There she was apologising to him. Him of all people. She had no need to apologise though, if the situation had been reversed and he was sent to the Gryffindor tower, he would have acted like her.
"Gin, there are a few things you don’t understand, Slytherins watch out for each other, we have each other's backs no matter who they are. You're classified as a Slytherin therefore you're included, we just may not show it the way you know. There's no such thing as a Slytherin being mean to another Slytherin in the way Slytherin is to Gryffindor," he stopped and took a breath.

Everyone had at some point had a hidden agenda of some sort, it was only natural to have one. Having your guard up was definitely the way to go, being stabbed in the back with guards down was just not fun at all. He understood but how could he show her that things were different now, that he was at least one person that wouldn’t stab her in the back. He wasn’t about to lift his sleeve up and prove it that way, it was still entertaining watching people guess whether or not he was a death eater. And then she spoke, words he definitely wanted to hear. Was she agreeing to his idea, it sounded like she was. Of course they'd avoid the centaurs, he had heard a few things about those creatures, worse than hippogriffs in his eyes, and then there was the giant spiders. He was definitely going to avoid them too, not for his sake, but others in the group may have extreme fear to spiders. Was this meaning that she agreed with him being the leader. Ok he hadn’t exactly come right out and said 'hey leader here'. He had gone through everyone in his mind: Lavender didn’t seem like someone to led, in fact she seemed too cling for his taste but then some guys liked clingy. Then there was Cho she was too quiet, too much of an airhead to do the job. Padma, well he didn’t know much about her but she always seemed to do whatever her twin done. Blaise and Pansy, they wouldn’t care, and besides they already followed him. Neville was just too timid and Luna always daydreamed. Then there was Tonks, but she was here. And Ginny, she said it herself, she was too erratic. Naturally he thought he was the best option.
"Alright, any other creatures we should avoid?" he asked.

[GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY]

She nodded, taking a deep breath. She could give him a chance. It wasn't like she hadn't given it thought before. At this point the benefits outweighed the risks. She knew that. They needed to gain control, and to figure out exactly what their potential was. They needed to know what weakened them and what helped them out. She had already figured out that being wet dampened, [[no pun intended]] her abilities a bit. She was sure the results would be the same with someone like Blaise, the electricity conducting against the water and receding back on him. Or at least she could guess from the behavior lightening and electricity. She had no way of knowing if it were true but those were the types of things each of them needed to figure out on their own. To figure out if these things were overcomable.

"I hadnn't...." She paused, not really knowing how to phrase what she was going to say next. She didn't want to end up being too confusing because she realized what made sense to her didn't always make sense to other people. "I figured I'd just be a lion in snake's clothing, to you. To all of you." She said, a little self-conxiously. It had been something she was worried about. Honestly, other than her abilities, nothing has changed. She didn't become a Slytherin overnight. The ambition, the cunning. Those were things she had, but they never were and never would be as strong as the bravery. She was still a Gryffindor. She was glad that they were accepted into the Slytherin dorms, but she had figured that despite them not minding them there, it would not be the same as actually being in their house.

"I'm sure there are. But I've never ventured out too far, and I doubt that there is a book we can pick up labeled 'Evil Beasties you want to Avoid when entering the Forbidden Forest." She said, shruggin. If there was anything of the sort she knew one girl who would know where to find it. She still didn't know where that particular girl stood in all of this and she wasn't about to blow their little planning out of the water by asking her without first knowing where the girl stood. It looked like she would need to do it the old fasioned way. She had enough free time, with her potions classes being as easy as they were. Her other classes were a little more challenging but she'd never been particularly bad at school. In fact just the opposite. So that meant hitting the stacks whenever she could....Maybe Luna would know. She ventured into the forest occassionally to feed thestrals. That much she knew. Luna did have an affinity for animals, even if some of them were on the more....non-existant type. It wouldn't hurt to ask. "I mean there are other creatures I know of, but nothing particularly nasty. The thestrals that drive the carriages. They are relatively harmless creatures though."

[/color] She said. Otherwise, why else would they allow them to carry students to school. Most students couldn't see them but it was still something.[/blockquote][/size]

[DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY]

Draco couldn’t help but shake his head lightly. Typical Gryffindor to think like that. Why would they turn their backs on an honorary Slytherin, especially if professor Snape was the one that gave them that status, how little faith Gryffindors seemed to have.

he rolled his eyes, did she have to try being smart like that. Of course there wouldn’t be a book about the things in the forbidden forest, although he thought that Dumbledore would know every living creature that ventured into the forest and resided in there, maybe it was worth a shot asking the old headmaster what was in the forest and what they should avoid. Ginny went on about Thestrals. He knew of the creatures although hadn’t seen one. Although he was sure he'd eventually see one, all he had to do was whiteness a death and accept it. Maybe it would be the death of a death eater. Of course he couldn’t let anyone know that he had defected from the death eaters, that his mark had gone. He simply nodded at her. Was there an elemental that could see Thestrals?
"Can any of us," by us he meant the elementals, "see them, that way we can avoid those as well, no matter how harmless they seem. I doubt anyone would like being attacked by something invisible if they happen to stumble upon their nests," he spoke.

Would the others go with the idea, Ginny seemed to like it but would the others follow, would they want to train with each other or simply suffer because of the differences they had in the past. Merlin he hoped they'd just suck it up and get along with each other.