24 Invitation

The kings cross station was bustling with people rushing here and there, Blair was walking through the crowd with a depressed expression on his face while slowly dragging his trunk with his right hand. Olivia was walking by his side with an expression opposite to his. Happiness was radiating all over her face.

"I don't get it, Why are you so depressed over being a prefect" Olivia said " I mean, you get to have so much freedom in the school, You can roam the castle after the curfew, deduct points from whosoever irritates you, Hell you can even give detentions to those pureblood bastards"

"Even though it grants me some power over students, what would I do with it, Take house points from some brats? It's just a waste of time."Blair said" Instead of roaming the castle all night, I would rather prefer sitting in the 'Come and go room' and comfortably read some books and Then there is that bitch, Bellatrix Black. She is also a prefect"

Olivia's face soured a bit after hearing her name.

"I have to go to the prefect's compartment, I will find you after getting instructions from the head boy. It will probably take half an hour" With that both of them parted ways.

Blair entered the prefect compartment, it was identical to other compartments on the train. The only difference was a Slytherin symbol embedded in the compartment door. Just as he sat on the left seat, The compartment door again opened and a blonde haired girl in the Slytherin clock entered the compartment. Blair instantly recognised her, as she was one of the students who was involved in the Astronomy tower fight. She looked at him with a surprised expression, But soon it turned into an indifferent one. She sat opposite to him without saying a single word. Blair also wasn't eager To talk to her, So they sat in the compartment without exchanging a single word to each other. Blair was thinking about things to do this year. He had nearly mastered Occlumency, His occlumency could block attacks from Veritaserum and ordinary wizards and witches. Only master Occlumens like Slughorn and Dumbledore could penetrate through his shield.

The restricted section and leather book were so much helpful to him that By now he knew more curses than 99℅ of the kids in seventh year.

Just as the train began to move The compartment door opened revealing two Black haired teenagers with a head boy and girl badge on their chest.

"Ok I will be quick, this year, you don't have to do anything other than patrolling and night surveillance. Also, observe the older prefects, This might help you guys in doing your job properly and please don't take house points or give detentions unnecessarily, you will get in trouble. Now you can go to your own compartments and remember to patrol the train corridor for at least one time"

Blair got up from his seat and started heading towards the door.

" oh, Blair right? This is from Professor Slughorn" the head boy handed him a white letter with 'SLUG CLUB' written on it in gold letters. Confused, Blair took the letter and opened it while heading towards the compartment where Olivia was sitting.

After a few hours you could see Blair and Olivia sitting in the compartment. Blair was looking out of the window with more depressed complexion then he had when he was boarding the train.

"I don't know why are you fussing about it, it's just a club. You should feel lucky that you will get to meet some influential figures of the wizarding world during the parties, I am so jealous of you".Olivia said with a hint of humour in her voice.

"Don't act innocent, You know fully well about my reason for feeling this way?" Blair glared at her "and you don't have to be jealous of me because you are coming with me to the parties"

"WHAT?"

"I need a date to attend the party and you are the only girl I know, so you are coming with me," Blair got up and went to patrol the corridors of the train, ignoring Olivia's protest.

After the train stopped, Blair and Olivia both went towards the carriage.

"Don't you have your prefect things to do?" Olivia asked him while boarding the carriage.

"Nope, My only job is to patrol the castle at night" Blair explained while sitting opposite to Olivia. Thankfully There was no one else on the carriage with them. The carriage began to move towards the castle.

"I wonder if we could make a castle like Hogwarts" Olivia said while looking at the Majestic Castle.

"Hmmm....if you are skilled enough in transfiguration, you could transfigure objects into stone bricks and stick them with permanent sticking charm. But it will turn back to its original form after your death" Blair said, tearing his eyes away from the castle.

Olivia, on the other hand, didn't say anything after that. She just kept on looking at the castle, like some obsessed freak.

Great Hall

Blair and Olivia were sitting opposite to each other on the Slytherin's table, Both of them ignored Dumbledore's speech. They concentrated on eating.

"What are you going to do this year" Olivia asked Blair while stealing a chicken drumstick from his plate. Blair glared at her But didn't stop her from stealing his another chicken drumstick.

"Other than attending parties and roaming castle at night, I am thinking about learning advance non-verbal spells and creating wards, What about you"

"I will try to brew Felix Felicis"

Blair's hands suddenly stopped it's mention, His eyes widen a bit. He slowly turned his head toward Olivia who was looking at their new DADA professor. It was a well-known fact that Felix Felicis was extremely difficult to brew. It needed an extreme level of potion-making skills to brew it. Even a single mistake would ruin the while potion and on top of that, it takes 6 months to brew one batch of it. Blair wondered if he ever will be able to brew such advance potions in his life.

He wouldn't have believed it if it were any other fourth-year student, But Olivia was a different case.

"Here Take this drumstick, I am not hungry and next time ask the house elfs for more"

"What the fun in that?"