Snivellus

39

'Potter is such an attention seeker.' Draco scoffed as he and Darah walked down the North Tower stairs after divination.
'First he faints on the train-'
He cuts off as soon as he saw Darah's glaring face.

They walk in silence for a while, whilst on their way to the forest for care of magical creatures.

'So have you and Pansy officially broken up?' Darah asks him curiously.

Draco scoffs. 'We broke up after a week.'

'Seriously?' She says taken aback.

Draco shrugs. 'She was... whiny.'

'Whiny?'

'Yeah like, Draco, do this, do that. Got fed up with her so I just started to ignore her.'

'Oh... right.' She paused. 'Does she know that?'

'What? Of course she knows.' Draco rolls his eyes. 'Anyway. I've got my eyes on someone else.'

Darah perks up at this. 'Oh really?' She wiggles her eyebrows. 'And who would that be?'

'None of your beeswax, Lucie.' He spits but then his face curls into a warm smile that he tries to hide unsuccessfully.

As they finally reach the forest clearing, most people are gathered around together, waiting for the lesson to start.

Hagrid was pacing around, whistling and rubbing his hands together.

'He looks nervous.' Darah pointed out to Draco who laughed in return.

'He should be.'

Then finally the rest of the Slytherins arrived, late as usual. Draco clapped Crabbe and Goyle on the back and Pansy came over to Darah.

'Hey girlie.'

'Good start to the year?' Darah asked her.

Pansy shrugged. 'Meh. That last class was a bit.' She gestured craziness.

'Tell me about it.'

'I can't believe Dumbledore's got this oaf teaching classes.' Draco said whilst observing Hagrid who was waving his ginormous hands everywhere, swatting away flies.

'Wait until my father hears about this-'

'Shut up, Malfoy.' Harry turns around and walks towards him with a sense of swag.

Draco and his gang make oos and ahs.

But Draco's face turns to solid fear as he points up above Harry and shouts, 'dementor, dementor!'

Harry and the other Gryffindor's swing round in a panic to find no dementors there.

He shoots Draco a squinted eyebrow and raised lip whilst the boys continue to tease him.

'Alright class.' Hagrid coughed.

Darah walks up to Draco and jabs him in the rib cage. 'Very funny.' She speaks with a flat tone of voice.

'Oh come on, Lucie. Lighten up a little.' He takes a bite into an apple.

Darah grabs the apple straight out of his hand and throws it across the dirt ground, rolling in leaves and mud in the process.

'I was eating that, you b-'

'Yeah, well now you're not.'

He gives her puppy dog eyes.

'Seriously Draco, what's gotten into you? Ever since we've gotten to Hogwarts you've been such an idiot.'

'Then you clearly don't know me, do you?' He says leaving Darah with a hole in her heart. He walks away closer to the front of the crowd.

Hagrid then introduces Buckbeak to the class and Harry steps forward to ride it.

He gets on Buckbeak's back and sores off into the sky.

'Oh my god, he's crazy.' Darah breathes in awe to Hermione.

'Yeah-'

But Ron steps forwards, banging into her on purpose, cutting her off. 'Don't you aught to be with your Slytherin friends, you know, your own kind.' He snarls.

'Ron-' Hermione starts but a voice cuts her off again.

'Oi, Weasley!' Draco marches forward and makes eye contact with Ron, he is so close to his face he can hear him breathing.
'You wanna speak to another Slytherin like that again and you'll be sorry you were ever born, filthy blood traitor.' He says through clenched teeth.

Ron moves his face in closer to Draco's, glaring him right in the eye. 'Try me.' He spits.

Suddenly Draco backs up and pulls his wand out of his pocket, aiming it in Ron's direction.

Cheers from Slytherins and shouts from Gryffindors erupted. Ron pulls his wand out too and sticks it right in Draco's face.

'Boys!' Hagrid shouts but even his booming voice cannot be heard over the commotion.

'Alarte ascendare!' Draco shouts and Ron goes flying up into the air, landing on his back, inches from breaking his neck.

'Ron!' Hermione screams and runs over to him but he pushes her back off and marches angrily towards Draco.

He shouts out a spell that creates a small explosion beneath Draco's feet, causing him to almost lose his leg.

They send curses that fly towards one another, Hermione screams for them to stop. Darah begs Draco to back off, all whilst Hagrid tries his best to intervene, unsuccessfully.

Then Hermione gets out her wand, she points it at the boys and shouts, 'aresto momentum.'

They instantly slow down, moving in slow motion, unable to preform any further spells.

Harry then comes in from above, Buckbeak landing beside them. Hagrid attends to the Hypogriff whilst Harry makes his way over to the circle of people.

'Ron!' Hermione cries, half angry, half sad. 'You need to go to the hospital wing.' She looks over at Draco. 'Both of you.'

'I'm completely fine, Granger.' He grimaces, brushing his uniform off.
'Look, I'll prove it.' He looks over at Buckbeak and starts to march off, confidently, towards him.

'Malfoy.' Hagrid holds his hand out warningly as Draco comes into contact with Buckbeak.

Suddenly the Hippogriff lurches forwards, knocking Draco to the floor. He rolls around, cursing at Buckbeak and Ron.

Hagrid hurries towards him and picks him up. 'Class dismissed.'

Harry turns towards Hermione. 'What happened?'

She scowls. 'Ronald decided to have a quick duel with Malfoy whilst you were gone.'

Harry looks from Hermione to Ron, who sends him a shrug in return. 'Sorry, mate.'

'Ron, just go to the hospital wing, please.' Hermione orders, not even looking him in the eye.

'Come on Harry, Darah you can come if you want.' She says as she notices Darah looking around, evidently lost.

Pansy steps forward. 'Actually, Granger, Darah's with us.' She swings her arm around Darah's shoulder, who keeps a flat face.

'Sorry, Pansy.' She lifts her arm off and without saying anything further she hurries off with Hermione and Harry, back up towards the castle.

'Alright, piss off with your new friends then, Darah!' Pansy shouts from the forest.

Darah doesn't turn around but shoves her middle finger up in the air at her.

'Badass.' Hermione grins.

Darah smirks back. 'Means a lot, coming from you.' Then the three of them all laughed.