One by one: DM X OC

Chapter 4

" Harry Potter, from what do I owe the company? " She yawned, hugging her jumper close because of how cold the day was today. " Where have you been? I've been everywhere. " She yawned again. " Sleeping had a long night in the Slytherin dorms. " Harry shrunk back. " Slytherin dorms? " He shook his head and grabbed her wrist. He pulled her towards a secluded hallway." I know what the first challenge is. " Rain adjusted her posture, slipping her hands out of her pockets. " Well spit it out already. "

" It's dragons, they got one for each of us. " Rain just hummed. " Okay. " Harry shrunk back, she wasn't nervous at all? " Oh, what's with the badges? " She noticed the moment she left her dorm that many of the Hogwarts students were wearing badges that read 'Potter stinks' or 'Support Cedric Diggory'
" Possibly the Slytherins are behind it. "

" You don't like the Slytherins? " Strange to know that her new friend hated the Slytherin house, a she'd most likely be in if she went to Hogwarts. The two wandered towards the courtyard to track down Cedric who himself was in the middle conversing with his friends, though at the sight he quickly got up from his spot. " Can we have a word? "

" You stink Potter! " Rain narrowed her eyes at the boys. " Alright. " They walked away from the taunting and annoying boys. " Dragons, that is the first task. They got one for each of us. " His eyes shifted over to Rain and back at Harry. " You're serious? Um, do Fleur and Krum, do they- " Harry nodded. " Alright um, her listen about the badges. I've asked them not to wear them. " Harry shrugged his hand off his shoulder. " Don't worry about it. " Rain glanced at Cedric, preparing to follow after Harry. " Tell them to take them off, you're allies, start acting like it. "

" You don't have to do that. " Rain just smiled, walking beside the chosen one. " You're my friend. I got your back. "

" Why so tense Potter? My father and I have a bet you see! " Rain wouldn't expect anything less, from what Harry told her they had a rivalry. She stood beside the tree with arms crossed over her chest. " I don't think you're gonna last ten minutes in this tournament, he disagrees, he thinks you won't last five. "

" I don't give a damn of your father things Malfoy. He's vile and cruel, and you're pathetic. " Harry turned to leave, Rain wasn't sure whether to follow or just leave. So she turned away but glanced over her shoulder at the same moment.

" Pathetic? " Draco reached into his robes and tugged out his wand. " Oh no, you don't sonny! " A flash of magic flew past her hair, she yelped. Flying to grab hold of the tree. A loud yell echoed off the courtyard and students began to crowd. Draco Malfoy had been turned into a ferret. " Did I teach you to curse someone while their back is turned? " Mad-eye-Moody had hobbled forward and began to wave his wand. The white ferret was flung into the air repeatedly. However, when it landed on the floor it crawled to Rain's feet and began to squeak and squeal at her legs. Hopping around. She picked it up, admired the animal, and laughed. " How cute. " She held the animal by its neck and revealed it to the rest of the gathered students " Professor Moody! What are you doing? " The ferret crawled out of Rain's hands and up her shoulder blade. " Is that a student? "

" Actually, it's a ferret. " Rain exclaimed, letting the animal down slowly for McGonagall to use transfiguration to turn it back to the rich Malfoy. The boy scrambled to his feet. " My father will hear about this! " Moody waddled forward intensely. " Is that a threat? I can tell stories about your father that will curl even your greasy hair boy! " He ran around the tree before he and his friends fled the courtyard quickly. Rain laughed with her arm holding her stomach, the students began to break away. " You come with me. " Mad-eye said to Harry, then he looked at the girl. " You, I assume you have classes to attend so I'll leave you to it. "

Rain shifted her legs, watching Mad-eye enter the castle with Harry beside him. Rain hummed, leaving the courtyard once more, though upon doing so Hermione Granger stood nearby, she had been watching the girl for a few days. Something she was curious about and thought maybe she deserved some answers. " You! " Rain turned her body to look at the girl, she noticed her the day students were submitting their names in the Goblet. She was a friend of Harry's. " You, I don't know you. "

" My name is Hermione Granger, Gryffindor House. " Rain knew that house held the ones who were brave and valued friendship. " Not to be rude but do you need something? I have somewhere to be. " No, she didn't, she didn't have anywhere to be actually. " Right, I'll get to it then. " She took out a book, sitting on the stone that created a window to the courtyard. " I was reading on something, I was reading a book about famous wizard families that go back hundreds of years, and the Scarletts are well known. Your last name is Scarlett but you don't seem to be anywhere in the family tree. " Rain furrowed her eyebrows at the Gryffindor girl. " I was adopted in France when I was a baby by Madam Maxime. I know nothing of my previous family. " Hermione let out a breath, then she looked down at the book. " Um, I'm sorry. Maybe this might help at least. " Hermione flipped through several pages. " The last known update from, wait you're 15, correct? "

Rain nodded her head, Granger continued flipping pages and placed her finger on a paragraph. " Darius Scarlet and Elizabeth Linn married in 1979. Elizabeth Scarlet soon became pregnant but she and her unborn child later died and Darius Scarlet disappeared from the public eye, in 1987 he later reappeared and was already married to a new woman, Oliva Taylor. " Rain scoffed, she knew her last name held great meaning in the wizarding world but there was no way she was related to such a royal pureblood family like the Scarlets, it was taboo, and a situation like that would ruin someone's legacy. " That just has to be a coincidence. "

Rain didn't know how to feel exactly, her mind was replaying what Hermione had said and she found herself going to the one place that gave her peace. The tree in front of the Black Lake. Rain walked down the small hill to the tree and to her surprise found Draco Malfoy already sitting there. His knees pressed to his chest, he looked up once her shadow blocked the sunlight from his right. " What do you want Scarlet? " He spat.

" To sit. " He looked up at her through his eyelashes, he thought for a second and moved over so the two were hidden in front of the tree. They sat in silence for what seemed like forever. " Why are you so quiet? " He suddenly said, she cracked a small smile in response as she picked at the grass beneath her. " Why are you? "

" I got turned into a bloody ferret. " He snapped at the girl. " It was a tad bit funny. " The blond shrunk back, scoffing at what she had said. He glanced at the lake ahead and over at the girl beside him. " I'm sorry. " It was quick, she realized Malfoy wasn't amused. " On the bright side, you make a pretty cute ferret. " She picked at the grass again, her head lowered. He tried to hide his face by turning his head to the left, his cheeks reddened and his fingers curled around the robe he was wearing. " Don't even say that, it was embarrassing, the whole school saw. " She stared ahead, the wind blowing in the distance. " To be fair, you did try to hex thee, Harry Potter, and you also started it. "

" Shut it, Scarlet. " Rain didn't seem offended, instead she chuckled. Draco glanced at her in shock, he half thought she'd seem offended and leave but she didn't and he found his lips lifting through the angry exterior he had. He enjoyed her quiet company.