Disclaimer: Which I'm not going to bother repeating in the other chapters because; I do not own Harry Potter. At all. In any way. I may have once owned a toy broom, I shall get no closer to owning it than that.

Author's Note: This is an ooooold story of mine - and at the same time not so old. The first few chapters are not so great. I know it, I just don't want to get sucked into changing the whole thing. I'm posting it here because I am slowly shifting my affection to this new account :P. Enjoy.

The Ravenclaw Common Room was quiet, the only noise being the soft crackle of the fire which sent a low orange glow across the room

The Ravenclaw Common Room was quiet, the only noise being the soft crackle of the fire which sent a low orange glow across the room. The grandfather clock in the corner gave a dull, metallic clunk as the minute hand moved to 12 and the clock began to chime, alerting the room that it was midnight.

A girl appeared at the steps leading to the dorms, she walked briskly over to a circle of armchairs as a string of other girls and boys followed, planting themselves into chairs or on the floor, all waiting for the 7th year girl who had first sat down to say something.

Arcadia Morreno watched her carefully, sitting by the fire with Lisa Turpin she glanced around at the other members of her house. Arcadia had transferred to Hogwarts from Beuxbaton in the 4th year when her family had moved back to England - she had never fit in at Bauxbatons, for one thing her French was appalling and for another she had never mastered the art of being girly...or hiding so many birds up her dress for long periods of time. Although she was now in her 6th year she still felt a little uncomfortable with a lot of the other members of Ravenclaw.

"Well," the girl, Elizabeth Carthy, said to the gathered group. "another meeting of the Ravenclaw Racketeers, and congrats to Terry Boot for completing his last...challenge," She said the last word with a small smirk and a mischievous glint in her eye. Terry blushed slightly and Arcadia suddenly wished she had paid enough attention to know what his challenge had been. not that I care... she thought to herself.

Not all of the Ravenclaw House were in the Racketeers, some of them didn't even know about it, Lisa Turpin had told Arcadia about it and Elizabeth had asked her to join, that was almost a year ago and Arcadia had still never done a challenge.

Eyes straying to the witches hat full of names in Terry's hand Arcadia felt her stomach tighten as Elizabeth said "Now someone else gets a turn,"

Please don't let it be me!...wait, let it be me! I want a go...hang on, no I don't! I don't need more reasons to embarrass myself in public! I can do that fine on my own! Arcadia thought.

A dig in her ribs by Lisa'a elbow made Arcadia look up, Elizabeth was holding a slip of paper with her name on it and looping purple ink.

"You haven't done one before have you?" Elizabeth asked as she eyes Arcadia.

"No,"

"Well, you're kind of being thrown in at the deep end here...but I'm sure you can handle it,"

What is that supposed to mean? she thought as Elizabeth's small smile turned into a slight smirk.

"Your challenge...is to seduce Draco Malfoy."

What? What the hell kind of challenge is that?! I have to seduce someone?!

The girls heads snapped around in Arcadia's direction, and she started to feel very self-conscious. Stop staring at me! Why am I getting the evil glares?!

Elizabeth watched Arcadia for a moment and, unhappy with her lack of reaction, asked "Well? Any questions?"

Several. How are you gonna make me? Would you object to me giving you a beating? And do you have any points of weakness?

"Uh...just one I guess,"

"Go ahead," Elizabeth replied.

"Who is Draco Malfoy?"

"What?" Elizabeth asked, one eyebrow slightly raised. She leant slightly forward as though she hadn't heard what Arcadia had said.

"I, uh, I don't know who this Draco guy is...wait, is he the tall brown haired guy in Hufflepuff?"

Several boys gave snorts of laughter, but Elizabeth stared at her like she'd done something disgusting. Arcadia felt her cheeks flush a brilliant pink and she lowered her eyes to the floor. Why do I always say the wrong things? How hard is it to smile and nod?

Elizabeth suddenly sighed and softened slightly, reminding herself that Arcadia hadn't been there as long as everyone else had, and had been quite quiet in the time you had been at Hogwarts.

"I'll point him out at breakfast," She said with a smile that held just a hint of irritation.

"Thanks," Arcadia said quickly, trying to avoid raising her eyes to the looks she knew the girls were giving her, even Lisa Turpin and Reanna Charles were staring slightly open mouthed.

"Ok, well, the fun will start tomorrow! That's all for tonight, back here next week to see how Arcadia is doing and hand out another challenge, also Tamara you're deadline is next week for that Living Laundry charm, goodnight everyone,"

With that Elizabeth got to her feet and went back up the stairs to her dorm, the others disappeared in dribs and drabs until Arcadia was left to put out the fire.

As she moved to the fire place she caught sight of the clue banner above the fire, the loopy, silver lettering read:

"... Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind ..."

There's certainly wit and ready minds, but wise? yeah right.

The sun was pouring in through the windows when Arcadia woke up, the dorm was empty and someone seemed to think it was a god idea to open the curtains before they went.

Damn them! Damn them and their entire family! Arcadia thought as she rolled onto her side and groaned. She was usually a morning person, but today she felt a nagging in the pit of her stomach and nervous butterflies caused her to keep putting her hand over her stomach.

Arcadia had never seduced anyone before. She wasn't ugly or anything, she had long brown hair to a few inches above her hips, with thin black streaks that reached half the length of the brown, she had pale, silver, grey eyes that were her favourite feature. She was pretty, not stunningly so, she had a nice body, not stick thin with huge boobs like she may have wanted, but there was ample in the chest area and she certainly wasn't fat. It's just that guys had never taken much notice of her because of how quiet she usually was.

With a sigh Arcadia rolled out of bed and - after putting on her robes, applying her eyeliner and brushing her hair - made her way out of her dorm and into the hall from the Ravenclaw Common Room. Giving up trying to look casual she decided to run in case she missed breakfast. Well no-one's around and I'm hungry!

She had just made it to the last few steps before the corridor to the Great Hall when she felt them lurch beneath her and begin to swing.

"No, no, no! Change back! Right now!" Arcadia scolded. When a smooth voice behind her said:

"Do you always order the stairs about or is this particular set just lucky?"

Arcadia felt herself flushing already as she turned around to face the body that went with the voice.

Arcadia looked at the boy a few steps up from her, he had dark hair that was stylishly scruffy and deep blue eyes, he had a small, amused smile on his lips and wore Slytherin robes.

Quick! Think of something smart to say! Think of something! "Uh...I find that yelling at inanimate objects helps keep my rage issues under control,"

Oh, bloody excellent! Thank you mouth, once again, for another embarrassing outburst, Luckily, the boy seemed to think she was joking and smiled, laughing softly. He held out his hand to her. "Blaise Zabini,"

Arcadia took the offered hand and smiled back, "Arcadia Morreno"

At that moment the stairs lurched and swung back to their original position. Arcadia let go of Blaise's hand and descended the final few steps, giving him one, final, attempt at a shy smile, it would have been fine if she hadn't tripped over her own foot as she turned. She managed not to fall onto the ground but righted herself as quickly as she could and hurried, red faced, into the Great Hall, hearing a snort of laughter from Blaise as soon as he thought she was out of ear shot.

Why do I have to constantly embarrass myself?! Arcadia continued to blush as she entered the Great Hall and searched for Lisa and Reanna along the Ravenclaw table. Suddenly someone grabbed her wrist and she turned to se Elizabeth looking up at her from her seat.

"Sit down,"

Arcadia shot a helpless look at Lisa - whom she had spotted - and sat down.

"We need to talk about your challenge," Elizabeth said, a little loudly Arcadia thought considering the Racketeers were supposed to be secret.

"Ok," Arcadia replied, "What do I have to do? I mean, how far do I have to go?"

Elizabeth looked at her for a minute. "Well, you have to seduce him, you know that much, you have to at least get to second and have the opportunity of...bedding him,"

Arcadia thought she saw a small flush appear across Elizabeth's cheeks and she felt the desperate urge to see what would happen if she yelled "SEX!"

"Ok," Arcadia replied, trying to hide her grin. "But, who is this guy anyway?"

Turning around, Elizabeth focused her attention on the Slytherin table. "See that boy?" She asked, "Directly opposite us,"

Arcadia's attention focused straight ahead of her and she found herself looking at Blaise. A sly grin spread across her mouth. "The dark haired one?"

Elizabeth frowned and checked where Arcadia was looking, "No, the blond next to him,"

Arcadia felt slightly dismayed as she turned to look at the guy next to him, that is, until she saw him.

Arcadia felt the urge to do an impression of that muggle cartoon wolf who always yelled 'Huba huba - ding ding ding - aooooga!' whenever he saw a pretty girl, however Arcadia decided Elizabeth probably wouldn't understand her humour and decided to just stare at the guy instead. Blonde hair, icy blue eyes...gorgeous.

Well, I dare I'm going to enjoy, Arcadia grinned to herself.

"I know he's cute but this challenge won't be as easy as you'd think," Elizabeth tuned back to her breakfast. "He has most of the girls in the school tripping over themselves for him to notice them...with the exception of one Miss. Granger and yourself - seeing as you didn't even know who he was,"

And I realise now what a terrible mistake that was! No wonder the girls were staring at me! Arcadia left Elizabeth and went to sit with her own friends; they chattered happily as they ate breakfast, the ceiling was showing a beautiful summers day, with the sun blazing down on them. Arcadia had stripped down to her white shirt with the Ravenclaw crest with the sleeves rolled up, her pleated skirt and her shoes, all the girls had abandoned their tights and Arcadia was glad to have Care of Magical Creatures next where she could abandon her shoes - unless Hagrid had bought something else incredibly dangerous in, she still had bite marks from the grass leeches! Honestly, why hadn't he thought to warn them!

As soon as breakfast was finished Arcadia went out into the corridor, and heading down it, saw Draco Malfoy coming her way, Blaise Zabini and two beefy looking guys with him.

Perfect opportunity, Arcadia quickly made sure her hair was ok and then, moving her books into her bag - so that her chest was not hidden behind them- rather than carrying them, Arcadia kept her eyes on the ground a few feet in front of her, purposefully making sure that she was in their way, she kept walking towards them until she saw their feet and then she looked up with a look of (what she hoped) was either alluring or innocent.

Arcadia was roughly moved to one side by one of the beefy guys and Malfoy didn't even look her way!

What the...?Arcadia stood in the corridor staring after him when she noticed several other girls try the same tactic, each was ignored.

So...this really won't be as easy as I thought

With a sigh Arcadia headed down to Hagrids Hutt for Care of Magical Creatures, trying to think of other tactics that could catch Draco's attention.