𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞 | 𝐇.𝐏

act i : scene vi

the professors announcing to us that there will be a ball, the yule ball, on christmas night. we will be there with our partners, wearing formal dress robes and fancy dresses. but that's something we don't have to think about right now. seeing as i still need to help potter with his stupid golden egg, i might've had an idea of how to break the code messages inside it.

the second task will be held approximately 2 months later but if we could break the code sooner why not?

in the courtyard, i see diggory's talking to his friends. i think maybe this is the way i also tell potter but not directly and made it less suspicious, even though he didn't think i was or at least that's what i think. and i reckon hufflepuff's soul in diggory's body still there, despite this is a competition. i'm pretty sure he will do the same as what potter did before the first task. "diggory! could i have a word?" i shout, i see his friends wriggling their eyebrows and some of them are whistling, boys. diggory stands up and walking towards where i was, which i'm at the bench near the corridor.

"ah! malfoy's girlfriend isn't it?" he says, grinning.

"..yes, listen, uh.. have you crack the egg yet? the messages inside it, i mean" i try to act as innocent as ever.

"no, i haven't actually, why?" he, apparently, finds me funny because of course this is not who i am and he's smarter than potter to realise that i'm acting suspiciously.

"ugh, i just wanna help. you're a prefect, aren't you?" he nods his head whilst his eyebrows furrowed "try to take a bath there, bring the egg, and maybe try to put it underwater then listen to the instructions... if there's any" i mumble the last part.

"oookay? why'd you let me know this anyway?" merlin! i need an excuse other than 'i wanna hogwarts to win' bullshit. wait,

"i have a bet, with my younger brother at durmstrang and it costs 500 galleons you see" i don't have a brother, let's hope diggory didn't know that.

"whoaa! that's a lot hm.. thank you?" thank god he believes me and my scenario but still, he's quite confused.

"you're welcome!" i answer overly enthusiastic. he starts to walk back to his friends, who've been watching us all this time. an amused smile etched onto my lips seeing him lost the suspicion of me.

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three days after i told diggory about the egg, i've been trying to get closer to potter. pretending that i really cared about him. and being 'closer' to him made me involuntarily close to his friends also. granger's accepted me more because she was grateful that i helped potter for the first task and avoid her best friend's death, somehow she managed to forget all the insults i gave years ago and at the quidditch world cup. weasley has no problem, we really getting along, we're food buddies and sometimes we snuck to the kitchen together. i have never really said i was sorry for all the things i've done to them, but thankfully they forget about it all. i began to think maybe it was because potter told them to be nice to me seeing as i helped him but that just another silly thought of mine. because for all i know they're not that fond of us —slytherins and also they will not easily forgive me for those heartbreaking insults.

"so potter... you've cracked the egg yet?" i ask nonchalantly. i don't know if diggory repays him by telling him the method i recommend or anything.

"yup, diggory told me. i've got the message but i haven't cracked the code of it y'know, i don't know what does that mean" he explains frustratedly. he's tired, i know, 'cause me too. tired of pretending of being the girl my mother wanted me to be, and it's definitely not me.

"let's just think about that after the ball, it's two weeks before the ball. have you got your date yet?" it's just the two of us in the corridor, walking without nowhere particular in our mind.

"no, i s'pose you'll go with malfoy?" ah yes, draco. he insisted me to be his date, because his father gave him no choice for him to go with astoria but draco begs to give him choice, me or astoria. it isn't a secret that lucius didn't approve of our relationship, i don't know why. narcissa okay with us as long as her boy happy.

no other word could describe astoria greengrass other than obsessed. she's obsessed with draco, obsessed being famous, obsessed being the prettiest girl at hogwarts. even daphne, her older sister, doesn't like her. hate her and she's ashamed of what her younger sister been doing to get everybody's attention.

but my mum told me to come to the ball with harry potter instead, to help her with her 'work' i suppose. because of that, we —draco and i kind of had an argument.

"nah, we had had an argument" although we finished the argument with sweet kisses and the understanding talks about how we really want to make our parents proud. "oh.. since we both don't have a date what if we'd go there together? as a friend or date is up to you" i ask him confidently, his face flushed with pink-red hues. "if you didn't have someone in your mind to ask to of course" i added quickly.

"kay, as a date it is then" he answers shortly and looking at me in the eye before he diverts his gaze to the ground with soft blush covers his cheek.

another mission of being close to harry potter - completed.