Second chances *ੈ✩‧₊˚ (harry potter x reader)

⇢ ˗ˏˋ Post Curfew࿐ྂ

at exactly 9:30pm, i hear a soft knock on my dorm door. i climb out of bed and open the door to see Draco in sweatpants and a sweatshirt standing in the doorway.

"ready Diggory?" he teased

i rolled my eyes playfully and nodded. i slid on my trainers and we headed out my dorm. i was in pyjama pants and a hoodie. (with socks obvs🙁)

we had to manually dodge every prefect and ghost on the way to the exit of the castle. whenever i had snuck out with Harry, we always used his invisible cloak. i had to admit, this was way less efficient.

when we finally make it out the castle, we laugh softly at how much effort we put in to sneak out and start making our way down to the lake.

"so, you liking my ring?" Draco asks with a smile as he notices i was wearing the snake ring he gave me.

i laugh softly and look at the ring. "i wear it on occasion." i tease. i was lying. i wore it quite often. regardless of the fact that Draco gave it to me, it was a very nice ring.

"ah...occasion." Draco replies, definitely not believing me.

we chat and tease each other and tell more stories as we stroll along the banks. after about an hour or so we get tired and want to start to heading back up, but plans changed when we saw Hagrid walking out of his hut.

the two of us scurried to hide behind a tree and we watch Hagrid to see when it's safe for us to leave. Hagrid was dressed up a lot more formal than usual, like a lot. his hair was tamed and he had on a bow tie. we see him approach the Beaubaxtons carriage.

"oh of course! madam Maxime." i whisper at Draco who probably couldn't care less. madam Maxime was the headmaster of Beaubaxtons and was the only person who could possibly give Hagrid a run for his money in terms of size.

Hagrid picks up Madam Maxime from the carriage and the two of them start heading for the Forbidden Forest.

"the hell is that oaf-" Draco comments but i thump the back of his head at his referral of Hagrid.

"my bad. Hagrid, doing going into the Forest with her?" Draco scoffs. "whatever. now's our chance. let's go back."

i ignore his words and his hand pulling my arm. i hear very distant voices that i knew didn't belong to Hagrid nor Maxime. "do you hear that?" i whisper and look up at him.

"uhh...no?" replies Draco, rather confused.

i wasn't convinced though. i evaluate the area around us before i start stealthily heading towards the forest.

"y/n! y/n! what are you doing!" Draco whisper shouts, his voice full of worry.

"y/n!" Draco whisper shouts again. but it was no use, i was already a decent distance away from him and towards the forest. he sighs and runs to catch up with me.

"y/n, the hell are you doing? the castle's the other way." Draco says

"there's people in there, i wanna go see what's happening." i say as we're walking.

"are you crazy??? the Forbidden Forest at this time of the night? y/n, it's forbidden for a reason. please, let's just go back up. for all we know, whatever's in there could kill us!" Draco replies in a whisper shout.

i was getting a little frustrated at Draco's rejection to the idea, but it wasn't necessarily his fault. i had always been a curious person, even if it got me into sticky situations. Harry was the same, never being a pussy about anything. he is definitely worse than me though.

Draco was still trying to persuade me into going back to the castle as we approach and start to enter the forest.

"i'm just looking Draco i swear it's okay." i reassure him. Draco was still pleading with me.