Malfoy's Girl

Chapter 9- dragons

Okay. Second day and guess what happened. My brother got elected for the triwizard tournament. I don't even know how he does it anymore. He was as shocked as I was when we found out, well, as shocked as everyone was. Specially because there was another elected from Hogwarts, Cedric Diggory, nothing less. 
I decided to ignore it, he was predestined to trouble. 

I was late to divination, which we had with the Slytherins. "You are late Miss Potter" Madame Trewlany said with a high pitched voice that almost scared me. She had not changed a bit. As I sat down I could see Malfoy staring at me from beside the table that I shared with Harry and Ron, Hermione and Seamus. Ron and Harry didn't talk for most of the class, Ron was very angry at Harry, for not telling him how he got elected into the tournament. "You will have to do a project with another partner and present it to the class in a week" the teacher said. I hadn't heard a word about the project as I was too distracted. "Does anyone not have a partner?" she spoke again. "Hey Hermione, want to do it with me?" i asked. "Sorry, I'm already doing it with Harry" she said. I turned to face Ron but he was talking to Seamus, whom with he was doing the project as well. I raised my hand, then. "Alright, Miss Potter you'll do it with Mr. Malfoy" the professor said. I turned to face Malfoy, who was already looking at me with a nasty smirk on his face. I stared at him and simply said "the library, tonight, 5 pm". 
When we left, Harry told me we could change partners so I wouldn't have to go with Malfoy, but I told him not to worry as I was looking forward to make Draco suffer a bit. 

At 5 pm I was sitting in the library reading a shakespeare novel, I love muggle books. "Romeo and Juliet" someone behind me said "I believe I've heard about it, it was something about two idios that end up dead, isn't it?" I turned around to find Malfoy standing up and looking at my book as if it was the most hideous thing he has ever seen. "For your information, it's a classic and it's beautiful" I remarked. He ignored me and sat down next to me. "Okay, here's the deal. You do the project and then we both present it, alright? Bye now" he said and made an action to stand up. I caught him by the tie and sat him down again. "Okay, here's the deal, we are gonna do this and get it over with and get an Outstanding on it, you got that?" I said. 

After some time of preparing and organizing, I looked to see his work. "Oh my god, this is so wrong, it's ok I'll do it, just do something else" I half-shouted. I even reminded myself of Hermione and laughed a bit about that. 
After some time I glanced at his work again and saw that he was doodling on a paper. "Draco you need to take this serio-" I couldn't finish the sentence, as I grabbed the paper in which he was drawing on and saw a rough sketch of me. "I didn't know you drew" I said, not really sure what to say next. He rolled his eyes to say "I don't" He looked back at me. "Well, maybe you should" I said at last. I looked back at the drawing, it was nice. No one had ever drawn me before. 
After that, Draco kept on throwing paper balls at me until I finally cast a spell and he stopped while laughing. "Oh god, remember when you fell into the frozen lake last year, and you said that someone pushed you" he said with a smile on his face. "someone did push me!" I couldn 't believe he didn't think it was true. "Yeah right". I ignored him and went back to my work. 
The time had passed quickly and it was already dinner time. "Well, I have to go or people will wonder what I'm doing with you for so long" he said while grabbing his book. "Oh yes, god forbid, we have got to keep your great reputation" I said with sarcasm. "Exactly" he smirked and left. When I was packing I realized he had left something behind, it was the drawing. I tried to run but he was far gone by then, I admired the drawing and saw that it had "D.M" on one of the corners. I folded it and tucked it in my journal, I decided to keep it. It was a beautiful drawing.

There were many people when I got to the Great Hall, apparently the first challenge was going to be in a few days or something. After dinner we left for the dorms, but I was going to the Slytherin common room as I had to give Draco some part of the work for him to learn. When I was almost there I saw Cedric Diggory getting out of a little wooden door on the other side of the dungeons. "Cedric?" I asked. "Oh hey Evie, what are you doing here?" he asked lightheartedly. Suddenly I forgot what I was doing there in the first place. "Er, tourism through, er, the castle" I mumbled. He stared at me half smiling. "What are you doing down here?" It was me who asked it this time. "Well the hufflepuff common room is here" he said. I had no idea that the hufflepuff was in the dungeons. "Hey would you like to come with me?" he asked. Now I had completely forgotten what I was doing. "Sure, just please don't ask me to sabotage my brother for the tournament" I said jokingly. "Of course not" he laughed. 

He took me to the fields, I wasn't really sure where we were going but I followed him. "Where are we going?" I asked. "To the forbidden forest" he simply said. Maybe he wanted to murder me so Harry would fail in the challenge. "Are you gonna murder me and hide my body somewhere in here?" I asked. He stopped and looked at me, after three seconds of tense stare he burst out laughing. "You are crazy" he said, still laughing. After walking for a bit we stopped and I heard a loud noise. He pointed to a part of a clearance where some dragons were trapped in cages. "That's going to be the first challenge" he said. "You are gonna get roasted by some mad dragons?" I asked. He laughed again. For some weird reason I liked it when he smiled. Like a lot. It was contagious. "Wait, aren't you scared I might tell my brother?" I asked him. "Well, I'm pretty sure he already knows." He said, looking undisturbed. We talked a little bit more about the dragons and their horrendous appearance. I liked to make him smile. 
"So how is your brother handling the tournament" he asked, sounding concerned. "Would you believe me if I tell you I have no idea?" I said. "He has been very silent about it, but he is Harry Potter and my brother, so I'm sure he has a plan" I said. He was staring at me in confusion. "How does he do that?" he asked. "Well, he's got it in him I guess. I mean he's meant to live all this and I don't know why, or why him" I said. "You wished it was you" he remarked. I stared at him in dismay, not really sure what to respond. "I don't think I do, but I know that it would have been less dramatic if it was me, like seriously, who goes to the chamber of secrets with one dumb friend whose wand is broken?" I said. He started laughing again and I joined him, of course. 
When it got late, he held my hand and led me through the forest and into the castle.
"What are you craving right now?" I asked. He looked at me confused again and then blurted out "Er, a pumpkin pudding" he said with a little bit of thinking. I held his hand and started running in the direction of the kitchen. It was a hidden passageway that Fred and George showed me the first year. We got in and opened a little cabinet with loads of sweets. "Woah" he exclaimed. I grabbed two pumpkin puddings and two spoons. I was about to grab a chocolate bar for Fred and George, when suddenly, a house-elf saw me and started shouting at us. I grabbed Cedric's hand again and lead him out running faster than before. When we got out we blurted out laughing, as we ran out of air. We went down the stairs and sat to eat our pudding. 
After a few minutes we heard the Slytherin common room door open. It was Draco and his little lapdogs, they looked at us in disgust and left. We started laughing again at the stupidity of Malfoy's face. 

He then accompanied me to the Gryffindor common room and wished me goodnight. "Goodbye Miss Potter, sleep well" he said with a tone of joke in his expression. "Same to you Mr. Diggory, be careful with the house-elfs, they might still be around trying to catch us" I said. He smiled at my comment, bowed and left. I didn't remember having such a fun night in a long time.

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