Hogwarts: The Missing Relative - BOOK 3 (A Harry Potter Fanfic)

3: Defence Against the Dark Arts

The next day started with Divination, where Professor Trelawney predicted Harry's death. Everyone was looking at me as though I was going to murder him on the spot which really annoyed me. I hadn't exactly shown any murderous tendencies in the past two years, why would that change just because of my dad? Their theories made no sense and it riled me up more than anything else. When it came to Transfiguration, I got so mad that I somehow managed to make my teacup, that I was supposed to turn into a rat, bite Nico.

'What's the matter?' asked McGonagall, seeing how frustrated I was.

'Everyone is acting as though I'm the escaped convict!' I said angrily, grabbing my teacup away from Nico. I shot him an apologetic look as he nursed his hand, but he smiled at me to let me know he was alright.

'Ignore them!' said McGonagall and walked off. I glared after her but fought the urge to make some sort of comment. She didn't know how to react to my situation, I couldn't blame her if it was her first encounter with it.

I slammed my wand down on the table in frustration. There was no point in attempting the spell any longer, I would just end up injuring someone else. That wouldn't exactly go well for my already damaged reputation, I couldn't afford to have another black mark against my name.

Next, we had Care of Magical Creatures which we were learning about Hippogriffs.

'This is Buckbeak!' said Hagrid pointing to a big, grey half horse, half eagle. I stared at Buckbeak in awe. He was magnificent, a proud beast, and I was surprised Hagrid had managed to get permission to host around twelve of them at Hogwarts.

'What is it?' asked Harry. He clearly elected not to glance at any of his books before school had started.

'A Hippogriff!' said Hermione, a wide grin on her face.

Harry was first to go to see the Hippogriffs and he managed to fly on Buckbeak. Everyone else then headed for different Hippogriffs and I went to Buckbeak, I was drawn to him for some reason. I bowed down low and looked up to see if he had bowed back. If he hadn't I would have had to back away quickly but he had so I went up to him and petted his beak, a huge grin appearing on my face. The Hippogriff liked me, at least, even if nobody else seemed to. His head was an eagle and he had talons at the front. All the rest of him was horse apart from the giant wings that were sprouting from his back.

'Well done, Molly!' said Hagrid and I backed up so someone else could have a go, still grinning ear to ear.

Unfortunately, the next person to go up was the arrogant Draco Malfoy. He sauntered up to Buckbeak, his air of self-importance very obvious. I could see Buckbeak was agitated with the speed Malfoy was approaching him, he wasn't following what Hagrid had said to do. He walked past the point he should have been bowing and my eyes widened. His arrogance was about to get him killed, hadn't he listened to Hagrid? Hippogriffs were extremely proud creatures and if you didn't show them respect, you would most certainly regret it.

Draco stepped up to Buckbeack and said, 'You ain't so scary, are you, you great, ugly brute!'

What an arse. Buckbeak shrieked and went up on his hind legs, bringing a talon down on Draco's arm. Everyone surrounding us screamed, taken aback by the sudden turn of events. Draco fell backwards, yelling in pain, and Hagrid asked me to calm Buckbeak down whilst he took Draco to the hospital wing.

'Calm down, boy!' I said, standing in front of Buckbeak and hoping he wouldn't try to strike me down as well.

He looked at me with amber eyes then nudged my face. I stroked him, grinning. I was really starting to like this Hippogriff. Maybe he could deal with some other people for me too. I was joking, of course, but I was glad that Buckbeak at least liked me. Maybe he could replace some of my old friends, he wasn't so judgemental.