Dumbledore's my granddad!? (A Harry Potter FanFiction)

Chapter 4

I thought my last encounter with Malfoy was weird. He seemed really...aggressive. Well if he goes anywhere near me again then he is going to regret messing with me. I sit at the Gryffindor table in the evening staring over at Malfoy at the Slytherin table, what is his problem?! He stared over to where I sit and smirked when he found me staring. I kept looking, I didn't want to but supposedly if I kept looking it meant I was challenging him...I read that somewhere, whether it is true is a different thing.

"Why are you and Malfoy having a staring contest?!" Ron murmured, a confused expression on his face and a mix of anger

" We-uhh... I don't know what your talking about?!" I rambled.

He gave me a weird look but didn't ask more, so I guess I just have to make sure he doesn't see it anymore.... WAIT?!? Did I just say there was going to be more?! What is going on with me? Maybe Malfoy gave me Malfolitus or something like that....? Oh who am I kidding...

"Erica?!" Someone yelled and then nudged me hard enough that I fell backwards onto the floor behind the bench. People around me erupted into laughter, I even saw Malfoy and his buddies laugh. Great..... I look up to see Seamus looking at me.

"Sorry to scare you like that Erica but you were looking like you had seen a ghost and you began mumbling to yourself, It was like you were possessed!" Seamus exclaimed laughing contagiously.

"Thanks...." I exclaimed sarcastically flailing my arms around to point obviously at my sorry state sprawled on the floor. He just laughed more.... I ended up standing up and walking to my room.

"Hey, Erica, Wait up!"

I turned to find Harry running over.

"Oh hey harry. I thought you were busy figuring out what the first task is?" I mumbled still feeling embarrassed about earlier.

"Oh yeah I was wondering about it, I thought maybe some fresh air would help then I saw what happened in the hall and yeah.." he drawled off, probably remembering my awkward scenario Seamus put me in back there.

"I am a bit tired so I think i'm going to lie down a bit Harry." I mumbled.

"Oh, yeah sure. Well bye Erica!" he exclaimed and walked off.

I walked up to my room,  I fell asleep and began to dream a horrible dream but when I awoke in the middle of the night I couldn't seem to remember what it was about. I couldn't get back to sleep so I decided to break the rules and go for a walk around the grounds.

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I was walking around the court yard when I spotted lights in the forbidden forest, I was curious and began to walk towards it. On my way down I saw Harry with Hagrid near the forest. Harry suddenly disappeared...? Into thin air!? I was about to run down when the tall lady appeared, the one who was headmistress of the all girl school who were also competing in the Goblet of fire competition. Hagrid and her began talking and then they started to walk into the forest. Are they on some kind of date?! Or is it just business? I decided to follow them. Maybe Harry, wherever he is, was too. I ended up sneaking around the forbidden forest for around a half an hour, trying to keep at a distance. Eventually there in a clearing was fire and commotion. What is going on here...?! Suddenly the woman and Hagrid where talking and who's head magically appeared behind them? Harry! He had some sort of invisible cloak on and no one seemed to see him. I however could from a distance behind my tree. The commotion in front of us was dragons. They were in cages and fire flamed from their mouths as helpless workers tried to restrain them. Everyone was busy and Hagrid and his lady friend decided to move on. Harry however remained. Well at least now he knew what the next task would be. How to get out of the forbidden forest without getting caught or lost would be tricky. I figured I would wait for Hagrid to leave and follow him out.

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After a while Hagrid and his extremely tall lady friend did leave. I following and Harry seemed to be in front of me tailing them to. On wards we went until we were out. Hagrid and his friend left for his shack where they departed ways and Harry and I went back to our dorms, unbeknownst to him that I was behind him. After I snuck in 10 minutes after Harry I made my way to bed. Only to be woken up moments later by Hermione and Ginny.

"Good Morning Erica! Come on get up the first trial is today and we have to give Harry support." Ginny squealed.

"On a weekend...Really?!" I mumbled into my pillow. I was up all night and was exhausted, you really can't blame me. I begrudgingly got up because I knew Harry would want me to be there for him. I went to breakfast having people stare from the disaster of yesterday and left to see Harry in his tent before I took my seat on the quidditch pitch side-lines. When I got there however Hermione had beaten me to it. I decided to leave it seeing as she would be there for a while. I went to take my seat when Malfoy began to pester me once again.

"Have a nice fall yesterday, Crawford?" He laughed evilly.

I didn't answer him, knowing well that he would just continue.

"Don't be like a little Weasley Crawford, everyone here knows full well that your not one of those dirty,ginger scum." Malfoy coaxed.

I turned around, gripping Malfoy's arm. "You mention any filthy thing about my family from your grubby mouth, I swear Malfoy I will make you regret it." With that I walked away, but in the distance I could hear Malfoy leer.

"Game on Crawford....Game on."