Chapter One

Life at Hogwarts is about to change. Dolores Umbridge has been signed the position of the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and is about to mess with the order of the school. This is not what Phoenix Knight needs, she has enough problems staying out of trouble with her Housemates. As a Slytherin, she is not like her peers and they do not tolerate this. Mainly due to the fact that her three closest friends and from the other houses and two of them are not Purebloods. Each year her housemates have been telling her to break all ties with them and each year she has ignored them. But this year is different. Chosen to be a prefect in her house, she is now under the scrutiny of the seventh years and they have placed members of her year to make her change her ways. Mainly the Prince of Slytherin himself, Draco Malfoy. Hogwarts for Devon Oakshield had been quiet and blissful, taking private lessons with Professor McGonagall to better his transfigurations, but that too was about to change. He had managed four years out of sight of the sneering Slytherin Prince but one encounter with Phoenix and his life it turned upside down. Now he finds himself wanting to know the secrets that dwell in the dungeon of Slytherin and to know why one, from the House that thought themselves better than the rest, was adamant to remain with friends from other Houses, even a Gryffindor.