Dueling Club

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You were in the girl's bathroom on the first floor with Harry, Hermione, and Ron, brewing the polyjuice potion. Hermione was adding the ingredients and stirring the potion. 

Harry was telling the story about that house elf visiting him in the hospital wing, telling him how the chamber was opened before. 
"Again? You mean, the Chamber of Secrets has been opened before?" Hermione asked.
"Of course! Don't you see? Lucius Malfoy must've opened it when he was at school here, and now he's told Draco how to do it."
"Maybe. We'll have to wait for the Polyjuice Potion to know for sure. "

"Enlighten me.  Why are we brewing this potion in broad daylight, in the middle of a girls' lavatory? Don't you think we'll get caught?"
"No. No one ever comes in here," Hermione said, adding another ingredient.
"Why?" Ron asked with a scrunched face.
"Moaning Myrtle." Hermione replied. Just then you see the ghost girl peek from one of the stalls. "Who?" Ron asked.
"Moaning Myrtle." Hermione said once again.
"Who's Moaning Myrtle?" Ron pressed on.
-I'm Moaning Myrtle!" the ghost girl roared and floated her way to the top of the stalls. "I wouldn't expect you to know me! Who would ever talk about ugly, miserable, moping Moaning Myrtle?"
She screeched and dived into one of the toilets.
"She's a little sensitive." Hermione informed.
"Y/N, what time is it?" Hermione asked. "Almost 3." you reply after checking your watch. "Shoot! We'll be late!" Hermione exclaimed as she started to put away the ingrediants and hiding the couldron. 

You gathered your stuff and followed the trio to the great hall. The tables were gone and turned into a small structure Lockheart stood upon. The Great Hall filled up with students in every year. Most of the girls tried to make their way to front to be closer to Lockheart. You rolled your eyes and groaned as you saw them sigh a daydreamy sigh and gazed at the professor. You exchanged annoyed looks to Ron and Harry, who returned them. 

" Gather 'round, " Lockheart said. "Gather 'round! Can everybody see me? Can you all hear me?" the professor smiled his annoyingly dashing smile most girls fainted over. "Excellent! In light of the dark events of recent weeks, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little Dueling Club to train you all up in case you ever need to defend yourselves, as I myself have done on countless occasions- for full details, see my published works. Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape."
Snape got up onto the structure. "He has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration. Now, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry- you'll still have your Potions master when I'm through with him, never fear."
The two bowed to each other and separated from on another. "One, two, three."
"Expelliarmus!" Snape said, causing Lockheart to go flying back.
"Do you think he's all right?" Hermione asked, giving a worried look to you and the boys. You were laughing your arse off.
"Who cares?" Ron snickered. You gave Ron a high five. 

 "An excellent idea to show them that, Professor Snape, but if you don't mind me saying, it was pretty obvious- ah- what you were about to do. And if I had wanted to stop you, it would have been only too easy," Lockheart said as he got up. "Liar." you muttered under your breath. 
"Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells, Professor," Snape said in a tone that said doubted he couldn't teach. 
"An excellent suggestion, Professor Snape! Ah... Let's have a volunteer pair! Um, Potter, Weasley, how about you?" Lockheart said, pointing to the two boys. Harry went to get up. 
 "Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox. Might I suggest someone from my own house? Malfoy, perhaps?"

Malfoy and Harry made their ways up on the structure. You see Lockheart wish .
"Wands at the ready." Lockheart said. The two faces off, wands in front of their faces.
"Scared, Potter?" you hear Draco ask smugly
"You wish," Harry said in the same tone. The two put their wands down to their sides, turned their backs and walked in the opposite direction of each other. 

"On the count of three, cast your charms to disarm your opponent- only to disarm. We don't want any accidents here." Lockheart said. "One, two--"
"Everte statium!" Draco said, turning his back quickly and flicking his wand. Hary went flying back and landed on his side. You, Hermione, and Ron winced while some others laughed. 
Harry got up and pointed his wand. "Rictusempra!" 
Malfoy went flying in little twists and landed on his arse, bouncing a few times. You burst out laughing so loud it was almost like a scream. Snape grabbed hold of Malfoy's robes and pointed his wand once again. 

"I said disarm only!" Lockheart said sharply. 
"Serpensortia!"
A snake drew from Malfoy's wand and started to his his way towards Harry.
"Don't move, Potter. I'll get rid of it for you." Snape said, walking towards the snake.
"Allow me, Professor Snape," Lockheart stepped up. "Alarte ascendare!" 
The spell did nothing but, throw the snake into the air. It landed back on the platform with a thud.


The snake started to make it's way to the a kid in Hufflepuff up front. "Leave him." You hear Harry say. The snake glared at Harry, then looked back at the boy. "LEAVE HIM!" Harry said once more. The snake snapped its head right back at Harry with utter confusion. 
"Vipera evenesca." Snape encanted. The snake burst into a flame and burnth away.
 "What are you playing at?" the Hufflepuff boy said.
"He just saved your life." you say sharply to the boy. "What? How do you know?"
"Because I heard him!" you snap. Kids around you exchanged looks. 

"Class dismissed." Lockheart said. You followed Harry, Hermione, and Ron to the Gryffindor common room.
"You're  Parselmouths? Why didn't you tell us?" Ron asked. You did a double take to Ron as Harry asked. "I'm a what?"
"You can talk to snakes." Hermione said in a panicky voice.
"I know. I mean, I accidentally set a python on my cousin Dudley at the zoo once."
Hermione and Ron shoot him a look while you chuckled at the thought. "Uh, once! But, so what? I bet loads of people here can do it."
"No, they can't. It's not a very common gift, Harry. This is bad." Hermione said.
"What's bad? If I hadn't told that snake not to attack Justin."
"-Yeah." you agreed.
"Oh, that's what you said to it!"Ron said in a snappy tone. "You were there! You heard me!" Harry said.
"I heard you speaking Parseltongue. Snake language?" Ron tried to reassure Harry. 

Harry scrunched his face. "I spoke a different language? But- I didn't realize I- how can I speak a language without knowing I can?" Harry asked. 
"I don't know, Harry, but it sounded like you were egging the snake on, or something." Hermione replied. "Harry, listen to me. There's a reason the symbol of Slytherin House is a serpent. Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth. He could talk to snakes, too."
"Exactly! Now the whole school's gonna think you're his great- greatgreat grandson, or something," Ron suggested, uneasily.
"But I'm not... I can't be." Harry reassured. 
"He lived a thousand years ago; for all we know, you could be." Hermione said.
"Yeah, and who knows. Y/N and harry could be related," Ron said, snapping his head to you.
"Hey, hang on," you say, putting up a hand. "You know that's not true. No offense, Harry. But, we couldn'tbe related. Neither could I or my father's side be related to him. My mother sure isn't. But, I think I picked up the trait from her since she does have snakes. My mum never told me about parseltongue. When I was young I thought snakes were the only animals that could talk like humans. So, you can't make any thoeries on that?"
"Oh, yeah? So where did your mum learn it?" Ron asked.
"I don't know! Why should I?"
"She's your mum!" Ron snapped. "Don't think that just because she's my mum means I have to know every single detail about her. It's not like I ask questions about your mum you don't know the answer to."

You and Ron had a stare down. 
"Both of you, stop it!" Hermione exclaimed. You snapped your heads to her. "You two always have it on with each other and it's rather ridiculous."
"What do you expect happens when you grow up with someone annoying." you say with a sly smirk."Shut up, Y/N," Ron smirked too.
"We'll figure this whole partseltongue thing out later," you say, takjng a deck of cards out your pocket. "Now who wants to play some Exploding Snap?"

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