ONE THE TALE OF EURYDICE NOBLEZADA

     Eurydice and Heloise were inseparable the moment they met on the platform of nine and three quarters. Everything about the two girls went against each other — Eurydice with her pure blood-filled veins and notoriously Ravenclaw-Slytherin family made Heloise with her muggle parents (well, one muggle, one squib, respectively) and an older Hufflepuff sister (now graduated). The two were opposing sides of the same coin, Eurydice's parents always said although when she was twelve coming home for the summer for the first time she didn't really know what that meant.

     Nothing had ever gotten in between Heloise and Eurydice, even though they were in separate houses with Eurydice shocking everyone by being sorted into Gryffindor.

     "That's the Noble-Zeeda girl, right nasty family if I've ever heard one," she remembered hearing a boy she had learned was named Oliver Wood say. They never did get the last name right, but that wasn't the part that hurt her the most. When the sorting hat announced Gryffindor for all the dining hall to hear she made a point to sit right next to him in her own silent way of letting him know she heard him. Perhaps the courage she felt then helped to remind her why she donned red and gold in the first place. Still, her best friend was a table away at Hufflepuff yet she paid that no mind because nothing could come between them.

     Then came the red-headed boy with a full mouth and the name Weasley who sat next to his army of brothers at the table (which happened to be next to her) and his friend Harry. Now, Harry Potter was a name Eurydice had heard before. She remembered it clearly from the way her parents spoke about the great defeat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. However, looking at the scrawny eleven-year-old boy beside her with crooked glasses and a funny scar, he hadn't felt much like a celebrity nor a great wizard. In fact, he was kind of a terrible wizard, but it was funny to watch him in their classes.

     And watch him, she did. Of course, that wasn't all she did. Eurydice was a writer and a huge reader which meant she got on well with Harry's good friend, Hermione Granger. The girl was absolutely revolutionary in her eyes and the two of them were fast friends as well. Still, even when Hermione was going on about the potion they were trying to make in Snape's absolutely dreadful potions class, her eyes kept drifting to whatever disaster Harry and Ron were making.

     "You know, Di, it might be helpful for you to pass this class rather than look at my dreadful friends because entertaining as it may be, it worries me for their literacy... or, well, lack thereof," Hermione snickered as she drew back her friend's attention with a small smile. They were just kids, so it wasn't like this behavior wasn't normal. Eurydice just liked Harry -- or rather, she found him peculiar. Something about a boy so unbothered by his own legend, absolutely nothing like the Defense Against The Dark Arts professor they had their second year.

     Eurydice had to admit she found Lockhart absolutely dreadul, but it gave her something to talk to Harry about. The first time she really had a conversation with him was in the halls in the beginning of their second year, just after their first DADA class with the aforementioned airhead.

     "I guess they keep the pixies in cages for good reason," Eurydice had laughed to Heloise as the two had walked out of the classroom, Harry and friends following closely behind as they all rushed to get to their next class.

     "Right, I'm pretty sure one of them was trying to kill me," Harry had cut in, wiping at his cheek like he expected there to be a scratch, "Wouldn't be the first time."

     "Harry, for someone who singlehandedly defeated the Dark Lord, you sure are dramatic," Eurydice had teased, biting her lip as she held back a gleeful laugh when she saw the expression of dread on the boy's face, "Well, I'm sure that's not the only trouble you find yourself in, pesky little pixies ought to be the least of your worries."

     Harry had scoffed, but there was a smile on his face as his cheeks burned pink at the mention of his superhero antics, "Whatever, Eurydice, I still heard you squeal when one tried to come near you."

     The girl never got to respond since Heloise had tugged her off to their next class with an eyeroll. She had always been supportive of Eurydice's small infatuation with Harry -- except the girl refused to refer to it as anything other than a crush which the very notion of made Eurydice want to throw up. A crush? On Harry Potter? Absolutely despicable. They were just kind of, sort of friends. A friend she looked at from afar and daydreamed about in class. It was perfectly normal, in her eyes.

     By their third year, Harry had found yet another way to get himself in trouble with the school, but that was nothing new. They were closer now, although she wasn't sure when that happened. Heading into their teen years things felt different -- but even Harry seemed different. Withered, perhaps. It didn't help that it had been up to him to save the life of Ginny Weasley the year before and no one even knew about it until he had already done it. For the first time, though, in their third year Eurydice began to question his motives.

     "Did you hear about Sirius Black? They think he's broken onto campus, how bizarre! If there really was a murderer on campus you would have thought they cancelled exams!" Heloise ranted after Eurydice had snuck her into the Gryffindor common rooms one night. It was fairly often they did this -- after all, separate houses could never stop them even three years in.

     Eurydice remembered that Harry had walked in at this moment and likely heard their conversation, briskly walking away up to the dormitories.

     The part she remembered most, though, was following him to the whomping willow and watching Ron Weasley get his leg broken and get dragged into what appeared to be a tunnel under the tree. She always wondered what would have happened if she had been brave enough to follow, but she certainly questioned her status as a Gryffindor after that night.

     Fourth year was when things got weird. Of course, teenage girls experimenting with things never went well, but Heloise kissing her for the first time was a rather unexpected element in her teenage narrative, but not an unwelcome one. The romance aspect fizzled out quick as the two were too smart to look at it that way -- no, that had purely been scientific. Eurydice found out she quite liked kissing girls, but she wondered what it might be like to kiss a boy considering she had yet to try that. (Heloise had, Justin Finch-Fletchley. She said he had bad breath.) Still, fourth year was a bit of a blur.

     Fifth year was when Eurydice was closest with Harry. She took his DADA lessons since Umbridge was utterly useless. He taught her how to cast a Patronus -- hers was a ladon, she learned. Eurydice recalled the legends of the ladon from Greek Mythology, a love of hers (and her mother's, hence the name) and she was absolutely delighted. She could recall Heloise's sneer when it was cast, but Harry had smiled and told her that she was brilliant.

     The most memorable part of Eurydice's fifth year was when she kissed Harry for the first time. He had kissed her back, she thought, but after he told her he thought it was best they stay friends. They haven't talked about it since and she need not try again for she had already been embarrassed enough.

     All Eurydice could hope for as she headed into her sixth year was for something to change. To stop feeling like a side character in her own life, maybe. She wanted to live her own story, or at least have something to live for. Maybe things could change this year, at least, for once in her life, she had hope.

I just finished reading Chamber of Secrets again and now I'm moving onto Prisoner of Azkaban because I wanna base these off of the books not the movies but I have three more books so it might be a while before I start updating this consistently but I'm super excited for this story and I hope you guys are too!