RAVENCLAW!

13. Caught

Weeks went by and still Draco didn't get rid of these stupid feelings or whatever. He actually was a bit mad at Nobody for not telling him what that meant - they clearly knew something! - and therefore hadn't been visiting the room since that night. Instead he'd been spending more time with Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy and Blaise and sometimes also could be found reading in his dorm. He would never read in the Ravenclaw common room, the others would probably try and socialize with him, and that was definitely not what he wanted.

It had gotten a bit of a habit of Draco's to always keep an eye on Potter. In every situation. If that Scarface was actually poisoning or hexing him, it had to wear off after some time. Then he'd have to renew it and Draco would be watching out for every sign that he tried to do so.
He was currently lying on his bed, reading, while every now and then throwing a glance at Har- Potter. The black-haired boy seemed pretty nervous. He was always looking at his rather old and ugly watch, obviously waiting for something. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, pulling something out of his trunk. Then Draco recognized the silver material. It was the invisibility cloak Harry had gotten for Christmas. Draco almost smiled in memory of that morning but soon enough he remembered in what it had ended and got angry at Potter again.

He knew it was a stupid idea:
following someone wearing an invisibility cloak especially so close to curfew.

He did it anyway.

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Their plan went pretty fine.
After Norbert had attacked Fang, Hagrid had agreed to let Charlie Weasley escort the dragon to Romania. Then Hermione had started planning. Charlie and a few of his most trusted colleagues would be coming on brooms and arrive at midnight of the following Saturday, on the highest tower, the Astronomy tower. On the grounds they'd be too easy to spot, so they had decided on this location instead. Their only problem now was to walk a literal dragon through the whole school building, up to the tower - unseen!
Well, the 'unseen' part had an obvious answer: Harry's invisibility cloak.

At 11PM on the appointed day Harry and Hermione were knocking on Hagrids door who opened it teary eyed. Ron had had to stay behind because the cloak would never be able to cover the three of them and a dragon; It was Harry's cloak and Hermione was most likely to get them out of a tricky situation if one of that kind would turn up.
Thankfully it didn't. It only took them a lot of time to drag Norbert up all those stairs. Hagrid had given it something to calm down which caused the dragon to shuffle sleepily all the way. It almost tripped over the last step on the seventh floor's staircase, right under a singing and giggling Peeves who was writing swearwords onto the ceiling in black ink.

About an hour later they had finally made it to the top of the Astronomy tower where Harry took the invisibility cloak off of them and walked over to the edge to look out for a group of wizards flying towards them. He spotted them right above the forbidden forest.
The exchange went perfectly well; but then everything went wrong.
When Hermione and Harry had reached the bottom of the stairs they suddenly heard voices.

"Longbottom! What is your fat arse doing out here after curfew? Professor Snape will have a field day when I tell him about it and he will take loads of points from Gryffindor for it!"

"No, Malfoy, please! I just wanted to make them come back!"

"Aww... never earned so much as a single point for your house, did you, dumbass?!"

What the hell were these two doing here? How did they find them?
Harry reached into his robe pocket searching for the smooth fabric but apparently he had left the invisibility cloak on the tower. When he pulled his hand out of the pocket again a Knut got drawn out with it and fell to the floor, soundly bouncing up and down a few times before stirring to a halt in the middle of the corridor.
The two fighting boys turned to look at what had caused the sound and about two seconds later the blonde one was eye to eye with Harry.