Double Trouble || Draco Malfoy x Reader

party night || chapter thirteen

The following morning, the sky had lightened to a dazzling, opaline white and the muddy grounds were covered in glittering frost. Inside the castle, there was a buzz of Christmas in the air and everyone seemed to be in relatively cheery spirits.

Well, nearly everyone.

After the other week's Quidditch incident, Harry had finally returned to lessons. But what came with that was Malfoy's dementor imitations intended to aggravate him. So, halfway through Potions; Ron finally cracked and flung a large, slippery crocodile heart at him, which hit Malfoy right in the face.

Snape scowled and took fifty points from Gryffindor.

For the rest of that lesson, Malfoy sat in the corner with a wet towel and a frown on his face. But, fortunately for the sake of everyone's wellbeing, he seemed to have cooled off.

It was the lesson before lunch and Slytherin had Defence Against the Dark Arts with Gryffindor. Before entering, I peered around the classroom door to ultimately decide whether I was going to skive or not. But when I saw Professor Lupin inside, I let out a massive sigh of relief.

I walked in and sat down in my usual seat. Pansy joined me a couple minutes later.

Lupin greeted everyone as they entered the classroom, and as soon as everyone was seated, he shut the door and the class burst into an explosion of complaints.

"It's not fair! Snape was only filling in, why should he give us homework?"

"We don't know anything about werewolves never-mind two rolls of parchment!"

"Did you tell Professor Snape we haven't covered them yet?" Lupin asked, frowning slightly.

The babble broke out again.

"Yes, but he said we were really behind he wouldn't listen—,"

"—two rolls of parchment!" Someone screeched again.

Professor Lupin smiled at the look of indignation on every face. "Don't worry. I'll speak to Professor Snape. You don't have to do the essay."

After that, everyone had a very enjoyable lesson. Professor Lupin had brought along a glass box containing a hinkypunk, a little one-legged creature who looked as though he were made of wisps of smoke, rather frail and harmless looking.

"Where did you go yesterday?" Pansy finally asked half-way through the lesson. I looked up from my notes and frowned. "What do you mean?"

The hinkypunk made a horrible squelching noise against the glass.

Pansy and I both laughed before she turned back to me. "Yesterday, one minute you were there and the next minute you were gone."

"Oh? I'm sorry?" I apologised, "I think I lost you guys in Honeydukes."

"You didn't lose anyone," a voice interrupted from behind. Pansy and I turned around to see Malfoy sat around the table behind us. "They left you." He said, glaring at Pansy.

Pansy swivelled further around in her seat and scoffed. "Excuse me?"

"You know I'm right." Malfoy spat. "I seen youse, all four of youse. All got up and left Honeydukes when her back was turned."