Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 4- Ch. 67

"What is this rubbish?" Céline said.

"I was thinking of putting an end to that big oaf's teaching career." Said Draco to Harry. "Half giant... and here I was thinking he just drank a bottle of Skele-Gro when he was young. No one's mums and dads are going to stand for this.. they'll be worried that he might eat there kids, ha,ha"

Céline rolled her eyes and turned to Harry, "Come on Harry," she said, pulling him away from Draco and his snickering friends. "I'm sure no one cares that he's a half giant, he's a good person."

She heard Draco snort behind her, so she looked over her shoulder and glared at him.

"I hope that woman stays." Said Parvati, as they all headed back up to the castle for lunch. "That's more what I thought Care of Magical Creatures was going to be like. Proper creatures, not monsters."

"What about Hagrid?" Harry snapped angrily.

"What about him?" Parvati said icily to him, "he can still be gamekeeper, can't he?"

"That was a really good lesson," Hermione said going up the steps next to Céline, "I didn't know half the things Professor Gubbky-Plank told us."

Céline handed the the Daily Prophet newspaper to her Hermione in a huff, "Look."

Hermione grabbed the newspaper and read it, her eyes widened, "How did that horrible Skeeter woman find out? Did Hagrid tell her?"

"No," said Harry, "He didn't tell us, did he?"

"Maybe she heard him tell Madame Maxime at the ball." Said Hermione quietly..

"But Hagrid said that Dumbledore banned her from going onto school grounds." Céline said, opening her doors to the entrance hall.

"Maybe she has an invisibility cloak? Seems like something she'd do, you know, hide in bushes, listening to people." Said Harry as they stop in a secluded corner.

"Kind of like you and Ron." Céline said raising an eyebrow.

"We weren't trying to hear him!" Ron huffed, "the stupid prat, talking about his giantess mother where anyone could hear him!"

"We've got to go see him, this evening after divinations. Tell him we want him back... you do want him back, right?" Harry said looking at the three.

"Well... I won't pretend that it wasn't a nice change, but I do want him back!" Hermione said fiddling with her fingers.

"I would love to go see him, but Cedric and I agreed to dinner this evening..." Céline said hesitantly.

"Oh.. yes, right, Cedric." Harry said, "that's alright. I'll see you tomorrow then?" She nodded.

She had noticed Harry acting a little differently these last few days, when she mentioned Cedric. He told her that he came up to him after the ball, telling him to take a bath and to bring the egg. But she felt as though that there was something else Harry is keeping himself.

They all went their separate ways in the Great Hall, Céline going to the Slytherin table, just as she sat down, she smacked Draco on the back of the head. He grunted and whipped his head at her glaring, and she returned the expression.

"You're such a child, Draco." She hissed at him. He glowered at her. How he hated that word, especially coming from her.

"Stop calling me that." He said.

"Then stop acting like one." She said looking at him directly into his cold blue-grey eyes. He narrowed his eyes, she copied. She turned her head back towards the food in front of her and started filling her plate with fruits.