Draco Malfoy and the Marauder's Reunion

Chapter 5. My Boggart is a little B*tch

Boggarts are funny things aren't they?

Some people's biggest fears are snakes, heights, spiders. While others could be the person they love... dead. Today we learnt that Professor Snape could sport a nice red handbag. Ron was shoved to the front and it was no surprise that a spider bigger than Aragog came from the boggart.

Parvati turned her boggart into something scarier, who that fuck thinks that an old jack-in-the-box is funny? That girl has a screw loose, she does. I walked up to the Bunny Rabbit in front of me and smirked.

"Give me your best shot," I smirked. It seemed the whole class fell silent trying to identify my greatest fear. Slowly the bunny morphed into my father. His gaunt features, hollow eyes, pale face. Chains clasped around his wrists and ankles that dragged along to the closet. Slowly his body was being pulled into the closet. The dementor's kiss, I looked down at the man I used to look up to. "You deserve what you got," the boggart arched a brow confused, he sneered and stood up, slowly the boggart morphed into my mother.

"Draco! AHAHAHAHAH!" She was as crazy as her sister, Aunt Bella. I crouched and looked into her eyes. "YOU KILLED HIM- AHAHAHAHAH DADDY'S NOT PROTECTING YOU ANYMORE!" I smirked. The boggart looked at me and sneered. "Tough one."

I shrugged and looked at the boggart in my mother's eyes, "used to fear."

"Oh yeah?" it smirked and turned to Sirius Black. I took a step back, "Stupid kid. YOU KEPT ME FROM HIM! YOU KEPT ME FROM HIM! YOU'RE GOING TO FAIL!" I dropped my wand. Harry pulled me back as Lupin turned to face the boggart. "And you... I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU-"

"Ridikulus!" Professor Lupin shouted. He turned to face me and then the rest of the class before calling for a dismissal. I sniffed, walking with the rest of the class as I made my way to grab my bookbag and wand.

"Draco?" Professor Lupin called.

I stilled, looking back at the others. "Go, I'll join you later." They looked like they wanted to protest, but I shooed them away. Hermione placed a hand on my arm and then left with other boys. I turned back and walked quietly towards Professor Lupin.

"Sir- I-" I felt myself shake slightly. "I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to bring that image of Sirius- I know that you knew him in school-"

"Draco, it's alright," he said. Professor Lupin sat against his desk and gave me a sad smile. "There's nothing to be sorry about. Sirius Black was my friend but he's not anymore. He's not the same man-"

"Really? I asked. "I mean... He's just my second cousin and I've never met him before. But I just... I was reading about it, you know. The lack of a trial and stuff. It's just everything that came up. Even Griffin was thinking it over and there's..." I trailed off. I couldn't really disclose much to him. "I don't know where I was going with that. Sorry again," I turned around, not waiting to hear his calls before I left his classroom.

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"How can you have both Divination and Ancient Ruins on your schedules, aren't they at the same time?" Ron asked. We were walking along the familiar path to Hagrid's. Harry and I were platonically holding hands and running down a steep hill. Ron was behind us and Hermione had just come out of nowhere.

"Honestly Thnx. I can't be at two places in once," Hermione gave a little smirk.

"I can!" I shouted. Hermione just got her Ancient Ruins book and shoved it in my chest, "urgh!"

"Shut up Dray! Don't want the whole world to know your 'secret'," she made quotation marks around secrets. Harry laughed and jumped on my back, we were all walking to our first Care of Magical Creatures lesson with Hagrid teaching. Once we made it down we greeted Hagrid cheerfully and sat on some boulders.