"Shut up right now." He says, covering my mouth with his hand.
For a moment we both stare at each other, not quite sure what to do next.
My body is frozen against the wall. All I can focus on is Draco's minty breath that dances across my face.
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By the time I get back to the arena, Harry is hoisting a golden egg above his head victoriously. I smile to myself when I see Hermione and Ron both jumping for joy. Harry and Ron are still on non-speaking terms but its sweet to see that even so, Ron cares deeply for him.
Back at Hogwarts, Harry and Cedric, who's been cleared from the hospital ward, are both being hailed as heroes. I presume Fleur and Krum are receiving similar responses from their fellow students as all the competitors completed the first task. As it stands now, Harry and Krum are in joint 1st place, Cedric is 2nd and Fleur came 3rd. The celebration in the Gryffindor common room is quite the event. Hermione insisted I should come along considering I helped Harry prepare for the first task and Cedric said we could celebrate his victory together later on. My stomach is aching with laughter as I watch Fred and George pick Harry up on each of their shoulders and parade around the room chanting.
"Lose a leg..." Fred shouts over everyone.
"Or an arm!" George continues.
"Pack it in altogether?" Fred says, looking at George with a grin.
"Never!" They say in unison. Harry laughs and jumps of their shoulder to begin examining his prize.
"Go on Harry, what's the clue?" Seamus Finnigan asks, leaning over my shoulder and pointing at the glistening golden egg.
"Who wants me to open it?" Harry asks. I roll my eyes at his attempt to get the crowd going. It works though as the room is filled with students chanting 'open it!'. "You want me to open it?"
"Oh for fucks sake, Harry! Just get on with it." I say, grinning at him.
Harry makes a face at me then carefully opens the seal on the egg and pauses for a moment. The room is so quiet you could hear a pin drop. I rack my brain trying to work out what obscene object will be inside. He carefully lifts the top off of the egg and a loud, horrific screech deafens everyone in the common room. Luckily, Harry closes the egg almost immediately and my hearing has just enough time to recover.
"What the bloody hell was that?" I turn around and see Ron standing with his hands still on his ears. Well this is awkward. It seems everyone else agrees with me as eyes flicker from Harry to Ron and back to Harry.
"Alright everyone, go back to your knitting. This is going to be uncomfortable enough without all you nosey sods listening in." Fred says defiantly. I take his advice and make myself scarce. On the walk back to the Slytherin common room I spend my time trying to understand what that strange high pitched sound could possibly mean in the way of a clue. That's when I bump into someone.
"Miss Monet, is it?" I look up and see that the person addressing me is the new defence against the dark arts teacher, Mad Eye Moody.
"Yes, Professor Moody... h-how did you know that? You've never taught me before." I rack my brain just in case I'm wrong and we have actually met before but I come up with nothing. I'm even more concerned by the fact that the famous auror seems to be shifting uneasily as he tries to think of a response.
