Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 4- Ch. 83

Céline and Draco looked over, as he quickly stood up from his stool and taking a step away from her, until Harry came running past the curtain over to her.

"Céline." He said out of breath, he looked over to Draco who was standing there, already with a scowl that had always been reserved for Harry.

Harry looked at him confused for a moment, unsure why he was there.

"What do you want, Potter?" Draco sneered at him.

"What are you doing here, Malfoy?" Said Harry.

"All right now," Céline spoke up. "I think we've already established at this point that the both of you are my friends and both of you have the right to be here." She looked at Draco and then gave a pointed look to the stool. He looked at her and then rolled his eyes and sat down with his arms crossed.

"I don't understand why you would want to be friends with Potter." He said disapprovingly.

"Harry could probably ask me the same thing about you?" She retorted. She then looked at Harry. "What was it that you needed, Harry?" She asked softly.

"Oh," he said, seemingly remembering what he came there for. "Dumbledore. He spoke with Madame Maxime, and-"

"She knew that already." Draco cut in. Harry just glanced at him before looking back to her.

"And Madame Maxime was fuming that one of her own attacked a student. They're sending DuPont home, and then will give her the proper disciplinary action." Harry said.

"How do you know that?" Draco asked suspiciously.

"Why does it matter how I know that, if it's the good news that we were hoping for?" Harry said impatiently. The two boys looked at her, surprised to see that she didn't look as relieved as they thought she would.

"I am relieved to hear that, thank you Harry for telling me." She gave him a small smile. "Sorry I really am happy, I think I'm just nervous about how my father is taking this."

"Professor Dumbledore had your parents leave too..." Harry said. Celine's eyes widened. "From what I heard, he told them that you still needed to focus on your exams and also wanted the tournament to finish up, so he asked them to go."

Céline was speechless, she felt a mixture of relief that she didn't have to see them, but also some fear of what's to come when she goes home.

"How do you know this, Potter?" Draco looked at him with distrust.

"Like I said, Malfoy, it doesn't matter how I know this." Said Harry, coolly.

"No, Harry is right, at least for now, this is good news." Said Céline quickly, knowing he probably used his cloak of invisibility to find this out and that was something Draco couldn't know. She sighed a breath of relief. "At least some weight has been lifted off my shoulders... temporarily. I won't have the pressure of my parents breathing down my neck during exams."

Just as Draco was going to say something Madame Pomfrey came around the curtain.

"As much as appreciate you two visiting your peers, it's getting late and you need to leave. Visiting hours are over. Don't worry you'll see her for breakfast." She said, taking a step back before to have them pass her. They wanted to argue back, but they knew that Madame Pomfrey was always serious about visitors disturbing her patients. So with that, Draco got up, giving one last look and left. Followed by Harry who told Céline good night.

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Just as Madame Pomfrey said, by the morning time, Céline had gone back to the dorm to get in a quick shower before heading to breakfast. It was the morning of the third task so there was a lot of excitement for the it, but also a lot of stressed students as well, seeing that they also had a day of exams left.