Meant To Be?

11. The Duel

(Draco POV)

I swear, Potter just thinks he's better than everyone just because he's the Chosen One, doesn't he? I'll show him. I walk into the Great Hall and, as expected, the three Gryffindorks are sitting at the Gryffindork table. Surprisingly, Y/N isn't there. She's actually at the Slytherin table this time. That's a shock.. I wonder if something happened.. Anyways, I walk over to them.

"Hey Pottah," I say. "I want to challenge you to a duel. What do you say?"

He looks at me, dumbfounded. "What?"

I roll my eyes. "A duel, Pottah." He continues to look at me. "If you decide to agree, meet me in the Trophy Room tonight at midnight, sharp." I walk away. As I'm walking off, I swear I hear the ginger one offer to be Harry's one-up. 

(Y/N POV)

Is he crazy? I think to myself. He's going to challenge Harry to a duel? I walk up to him. "Hey Malfoy!"

"What, L/N?" He snarks back.

"Are you really challenging Harry to a wizarding duel?"

"Yeah, what's it to you?"

I think to myself for a moment before finally speaking. "I want in."

(Draco POV)

 Is she crazy? She must be if she thinks I'd actually let her be a part of this. I roll my eyes. "No."

She looks at me almost as if she's pouting, begging.

"No, Y/N, it's too dangerous for you." She looks at me like she's just been insulted. Uh oh.

"Too dangerous for me??"

I roll my eyes. "Fine, fine. Y/N, listen. I'm not actually dueling them, I'm setting them up." I explain that I didn't plan on showing up at the appointed meeting spot, and that I was going to tell Filch that I knew students were out of bed after hours. She nods the entire time, keeping eye contact. I can't tell if she's actually listening, or if she's just staring off into space. I shake my head and walk off.

(Y/N POV)

I swear I could listen to him talk for hours... And his baby blue eyes, I can't stop staring at them... He finally gets done talking and walks away. I go back to my dorm and wait til midnight.

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Midnight comes around and I'm on my way up to the trophy room when I run into them. "Oof!" Hermione exclaims as we bump into each other. "Y/N, what are you doing here?"

"Malfoy's not really meeting you! His entire plan was to get you caught out of bed after hours by Filch! He told me." At that instant, we see Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, walking up to us in the hallway. We take off into the closest room to us. We come across a door that's locked, but we need to hide, so Hermione does "Alohomora" to unlock the door and we get inside.

"Alohomora?" Harry asks. "Stand Book of Spells, Grade 1," Hermione says, shrugging.

"Uhhh, guys?" Ron says in his squeaky, scared voice. We turn around and see a giant three headed dog! We all scream and run out of the room.