Skill and Seclusion [2] || Harry Potter x OC x Draco Malfoy

143. A Good Thing

DISCLAIMER

I do not own Harry Potter ... but idk how I feel about labelling Harry and Bel as 'dating' yet (they're just two confused kids lmao)

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There are two types of people in this world.

Type 1 : Every man for themselves.

Type 2 : No man left behind.

In other words, those that look out for themselves, and those that look out for others.

Both have their strengths, and both have their weaknesses.

Some people don't even know what type they are until the moment arrives for them to decide.

Their life or someone else's life.

Harry Potter discovered what type he was years ago.

Ever since that night in the dungeons in his first year at Hogwarts, Harry can remember watching his friends backs more than his own when they faced life-threatening dangers.

And it hasn't left him, even now.

It's not overexaggerating to say that Harry's life was hanging in the balance with this tournament and the challenges he has to participate in.

The second of which was coming up in less than a week.

A challenge he was extremely unprepared for, just like the first one.

But unlike the first one, Harry hadn't thought about it once.

Ever since Bel was carried into the hospital wing, she was the only thing on his mind.

Over the three days she had been unconscious, he had visited her as much as he was allowed.

Ron and Hermione physically had to pull him up from the small stool he had placed next to her bedside the first time he had to leave her.

Throughout the meeting in Dumbledores office, throughout each of his classes, throughout every conversation he had had since, he couldn't get the image of the manic Hufflepuff girl out of his head.

He just wanted her to wake up.

To be okay.

He still didn't know anything about what had happened to her.

Madam Pomfrey had taken one look at Bel and demanded someone go and fetch Dumbledore.

Harry had gone immediately, already knowing he would be the one she needed to see.

Once the headmaster had arrived by his side, all of the students were ushered out and left with no answer until Dumbledore returned and summoned them all to his office.

In that room there was a one-way exchange of information.

Everyone gave their rendition of what had happened out in the courtyard, but Dumbledore never said a word.

That was until the memory altercations.

The only ones that walked out of that room with their memories intact were Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Cedric.

Snape had taken on the Slytherins who wished to remember just to hold it over Bel's head.

Ron had spoken to Fred and George, and Professor Sprout (by some miracle) managed to convince the other Hufflepuffs that it was in Bel's best interest that they forget.

Cedric was another story.

He put his foot down when it came to the wellbeing of the girl he saw as a little sister to him.