Chasing Shadows || Draco Malfoy x OC

Year 5- Ch. 121

The following morning, at breakfast, Céline was interrupted mid-bite of her toast. When she looked back, to her surprise, she saw Harry standing there.

"Oh, Harry." She said a bit stunned to see him, especially after what had happened yesterday with Draco.

"Hey -er—" Harry said , eyeing Draco who was looking at him with one eyebrow raised. He noticed that his jaw had a dark purple splotch form where his fist connected with his face. Harry could help but smile internally that it left him a mark. "I need to steal you for a second."

"yes! Of course!" She said, quickly getting up from her seat, almost tripping over herself. She felt relieved that he wanted to stop even speak with it. She followed him towards the door to the entrance hall.

"Are you alright, Harry? Crabbe hit you with the Bludger really hard yesterday." She asked with concern etched in her voice.

"Oh, yeah. I'm fine." He said awkwardly. She could tell he was a bit weird around her. She fiddled with her fingers.

"I... I hope you and George didn't get into too much trouble. I told him off about it, saying he deserved what he got... I'm sorry—"

"You're not the one who needs to apologize." Harry cut her off.

"But I know you're never going to receive one from him. So I wanted to..." she said glumly.

"Don't. You shouldn't be the one to apologize for his poor behavior just because you're his girlfriend." Harry said. "Anyways, we did get into trouble... Umbridge banned us for life from Quidditch. Me, George, and Fred." He continued bitterly.

"She what?" She gasped, her eyes widened from the shock. "But-but that's not fair. Crabbe barely got lines for what he did. And Fred didn't even do anything." 

"Yeah, well Umbridge has been out for us for a while, hasn't she?" He said. Céline was completely stunned. She finally noticed that they were in the entrance hall heading towards the front doors that lead outside. She had hoped that Ron and Hermione would join them too, and to her relief they were waiting by the doors.

Hermione was smiling at Céline, while Ron seemed a bit displeased by her there.

"I'm glad you here." Hermione said to her and went in for a hug. Céline gladly returned it.

Céline looked at Ron and gave him a meek smile. "Hey Ron." She greeted him. He only grunted and looked at Harry.

"Why is she here?" Ron said coldly.

"Ron, stop." Hermione said to him.

"Hagrid was asking about Céline last night, I thought we could take her with us." Harry said to him.

"What? Hagrid's back?" She asked the group.

"You or Hermione could have just told her and she would have gone on her own..." Ron spoke, ignoring her question. "what if he says things like he did yesterday. She might run off to tell her little boyfriend." Ron said, making sure to add a disgusted tone on the last word.

"You think I would go and say something to him?" She asked him. His words cutting through her like a knife. "You don't trust me to keep everything we've doing from Draco?"

"Well I figured that all secrets were out of the window now that you're snogging him." He sneered.

"Ron!" Hermione gasped. "How can you say that?"

"Look, I get it. Your angry. But you know as well as we do, that Céline wouldn't do something like that." Harry said to him. Celine looked at Harry, her eyes glistening.