Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 3- Ch. 10

A week passed and the student started heading down to Hogsmeade. Céline heard that Harry wasn't able to join them for the trips so she decided to hangout with Ron and Hermione for the first half of the trip, since she wanted to buy some sweets for Harry.

Much to Daphne and Tracey's grumbles , they made Céline agree that she only hangouts with Hermione and Ron for a couple hours and to meet them at the Three Broomsticks at one in the afternoon.

After a couple of hours with Ron and Hermione she let them know she had to go meet with her friends, but asked them to give Harry the sweets for her. They waved her goodbye, and she started heading to the Three Broomsticks. Only to be intercepted by the two Ravenclaw girls, asking to talk to her for a moment.

Céline checked the time in her watch and saw it was a quarter till one. She shuffled from one foot to the other a little uncomfortably, thinking back to their previous conversation on the train. But she brushed it off and followed them anyways down the road.

After a while Draco stepped into the Three Broomsticks and saw his group of friends. When he sat down, he noticed Daphne looking at her watch and back to the main door.

"Did you date stand you up?" Draco snickered. She glared at him.

"No. Céline was supposed to meet Tracey and I here, and she hasn't come yet. She's late." She huffed, crossing her arms. He looked at her in disbelief.

"You know she has other friends. She's probably with that mudblood Granger and Weaslebee." He said in an uninterested tone, as he pulled out a chocolate bar and took a bite.

"She promised she would come after spending the morning with them. She should have been here by now." She checked her watch again. "She's never been one to break her promises."

"What time was she supposed to meet you two?" Theodore chimed in trying to get the last drops of butterbeer.

"At one." Tracey said, while reading her book. The boys looked at their watch and read the time, half past two. Draco furrowed his eyebrows.

"Big whoop." Pansy whined. "She's probably out somewhere snogging some bloke." She swirled her butterbeer with a bored look. Draco's frown deepened, before looking indifferent.

"She's not like you Parkinson, who goes to find a random guy to snog." Daphne hissed. Pansy slammed her drink onto the table and scowled at Daphne before she got up and grabbed her shopping bags and stormed out of the tavern.

"Let's wait for another thirty minutes before we head back." Daphne checked her watch again. Draco got up and headed to the door with Crabbe and Goyle following behind.

He walked around and saw just who he was looking for. Just down the hill, he saw Hermione and Ron by the fence facing the path to the Shrieking Shack.

He started over there, "already looking for your future home." He taunted and he reached them and they turned around glaring at him. "It's a bit grand, don't you think? Probably more than you can afford."

"Shut up, Malfoy." Ron grumbled. Draco scoffed at him.

"Oooh, you think you're a big man now, do you? I'd have Crabbe and Goyle show you who's boss around here." Draco holds his arm out to the side, stopping the two hulking guys from going any further. "But I'm here for other things."

"What do you want, Malfoy." Hermione rolled her eyes.

Draco looks at her in disgust before looking back at Ron, "Everhart. Where is she? Last we heard she was hanging out with you lot. She was supposed to meet her friends at the Three Broomsticks."

Ron and Hermione furrowed their eyebrows in irritation and confusion, "yeah, she left for them back at half past noon." He said to him, "She's probably already been with them."

"No." Draco said irritably, "I just came from there and her friends were still waiting."

"Maybe she just decided to do something better with her time than hangout with a bunch of rotten snakes." Ron smirked.

Before Ron saw what happened he was pinned to the ground by Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione trying to pull them off. Draco slowly walked over and glowered down at him and lowered himself a little. 

"You must have forgotten with that small brain of yours," he points to his head, "But Everhart is a Slytherin, so you insult our house, you're insulting that little friend of yours too."

"She's too good to be in your house." Ron spat.

"Is she?" Draco straightened himself, "hmm, The sorting hat never makes a mistake, don't you agree?" He said with a smirk before tapping Goyles shoulder, having them release Ron. "Keep that in mind." Draco said as he walked back up the path, his two henchmen in tow.