Tempus | Harry Potter |

22

The locked Classroom

"Are you sure we should be doing this, it feels wrong to threaten someone." Raya and Draco have been patiently waiting for an hour now, as they stood outside the greenhouse.

Draco scoffed, "We're not threatening someone, think of it as small blackmail."

Raya could feel her left eye twitch as he spoke, "Yeah that's not making it sound any better."

He opened his mouth to speak once more, before the door of the greenhouse opening interrupted him, he turned to her and gestured her to walk toward it.

"Hello, Neville," Draco said with a sheepish smile as they both approached Neville, who looked confused as to why they were even looking his way.

"What do you want," Neville sounded already bored of this entire interaction. Draco patted his shoulder, which made Neville slowly look down to his hand and back to him. "Neville, buddy, mate, I can call you mate right?"

Raya sighed as she nudged his shoulder, "Just get on with it," she said between her teeth.

"Right, okay uh Neville, we need you to do us a favor."

For the first time since they spoke to him, he cracked a smile and began to laugh. "Oh wow, you certainly are delusional, who do you think you are to ask me for favors Malfoy."

Wow, he is certainly not like my Neville, Raya thought.

Draco bit the inside of his cheek as he chuckled, "I know we don't see eye to eye Longbottom, but put some respect on my name. And maybe I misspoke there," the grip on his shoulder had seemed to tighten. "I wasn't asking," Draco's whole demeanor had completely changed as he spoke.

Neville glanced over at Raya, but she just shrugged him off as she tried her best not to have any part in this conversation, he sighed and then looked back at Draco. "What do you want?"

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"Should I be concerned that you two are pretending to be a teacher?" Neville asked as he looked up at Draco and Raya as they had just finished explaining the plan to him.

Raya shook her head and scoffed, "We're not pretending, okay, we're just helping Professor Lupin gather up his strongest students for this important meeting."

Neville raised a brow but let out a sigh, "Whatever you say," he mumbled. "Oh, oh, there's Hermione," Draco whispered, Hermione was now walking in through the doors, making her way to the back.

"Longbottom, you know the plan." Draco gestured over to where Hermione was walking, Neville sighed once more before making his way over to her.

"So what do you have on Neville?" Raya asked as she felt Draco seemed to withhold something over Neville's head.

Draco smirked as he crossed his arms, "Let's just say there's a reason why Neville is always in the greenhouse, if you know what I mean."

Raya's eyes widened, "Wait-no way Neville grows-" Draco cut her off, "Tsc tsc, come on let's get going."

They followed Neville, making sure to keep out of Hermione's eye as they hid behind bookshelves.

"Just spill it out Neville, I don't have all day." They heard Hermione's voice snap as Neville was now standing in front of her.

Neville didn't say anything, instead handed her a small card into her hand. "What-what is this?" She looked at him confused, but once again he didn't say a word as he walked off.

Hermione looked down at the card Neville had given her, her confused look turning into a small smile.

"Wow, she actually fell for it," Raya whispered as she looked over at Draco.