Best Friends to Lovers (Draco x Hufflepuff reader x Cedric)

Chapter two: Peasant

I stepped off the train onto the tiniest platform I had ever seen. It was dark and the night air was cool on my skin. I looked up at the stars above me and sighed.

"Firs' years this way!" a booming voice called.

I glanced in the direction of the voice and saw what might possibly the biggest man I had ever seen in my life. I glanced uncertainly at the twins just in time to see them wink. I grinned and started walking towards the man. All the other first years gathered around him and waited.

"Right then." he nodded as soon as we had all arrived, "The name's Rubeus Hagrid, keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts. now normally you would take the carriages with the others but since yer firs' years you'll be taking the boats." he explained.

Ron made his way over to me with someone else following close behind, Harry Potter. The only reason I knew him was because his family was at a party my parents through during the summer.

He smiled, "Hi Y/N."

I smiled back, "Hey Harry."

"This way!" Hagrid called as he beckoned us towards the edge of the lake where the boats waited patiently for us, "Three per boat."

Everyone rushed over to the boats to try and get one with their friends, everyone except me. I mean I did live in a mansion in the middle of nowhere, of course I didn't have friends. I put my head down, I didn't fancy getting recognized just yet, and trudged over to the boats. I sat in the nearest one and waited.

I felt two people sit behind me, "Yeah it must be hard being famous and rich and all." Harry muttered in my ear.

I chuckled, "Shut up, you know what it's like."

"Yep, and it's never going away so might as well embrace it."

I rolled my eyes and shook my head which made him chuckle. The boat glided smoothly through the glassy lake. Once we had all gotten off we were ushered to the front gates. We entered the front doors and hurried up a flight of stairs.

"Right. Wait here and professor McGonagall will come and get you when wer' ready." Hagrid explained.

Harry, Ron, and I were situated in the front of the group when a platinum blond boy walked up and started making small talk with Harry who, quite clearly, wasn't interested. I knew who he was immediately and rolled my eyes. Of course Draco Malfoy would be trying to make friends with all the famous people immediately after we arrived. Pathetic.

After what seemed like forever Ron interjected, "I don't thing he really cares."

Malfoys head wiped towards him. He looked him up and down, he raised an eyebrow, "Of course YOU don't think he cares. Red hair and hand me down robe, you must be a Weasley."

My annoyance bubbled to the surface and spilled over, "Bleached hair and cheep ass looking rings, you must be a Malfoy." I interjected as I folded my arms and glared at him, "Peasant." I spat the last word.

His head snapped in my direction. He stared at me and I glared straight back.

"You're Y/N L/N." he finally said. The group went silent.

I put my hand over my heart and arranged my face into one of mock shock, "Oh!" I chuckled, "It's smarter than it looks."

Several people laughed. He opened his mouth to retaliate and I raised and eyebrow but he never got a chance to say whatever he was thinking, because just then a woman with grey hair pulled into a tight bun with and emerald green robe and matching hat, who I could only assume was professor McGonagall, cleared her throat and tapped his shoulder with a rolled up paper. Malfoy returned to his original position next to two boys he had introduced as Crabbe and Goyle.

"I am professor McGonagall, Gryffindor head of house. When you enter these doors you will walk to the end of the hall and wait until I call your name. When I do you will sit down and place the sorting hat on your head to be sorted into your houses. There are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw. After you are sorted you will sit with the rest of your house." she explained. She looked at us over her glasses for a moment.

"You will be sorted now." with that she opened the doors to the great hall.