Adopted by the Malfoy's {Harry Potter fanfic}

18. Detention, wishes and trapdoors

A/N: I own Lexie, Max and Ruby. Everything and everyone else belongs to J.K. Rowling

Chapter 18

As promised, Lexie spent the following days helping the trio with Quirrel but her resolve was tested the day the three got the note one morning that the egg was hatching. She wanted to stick to her decision, if Lucius were to find out that she knew about the egg, and that Ron was involved too, he would no doubt make all sorts of noise about Ron's father. She didn't want them to get into trouble because of her so she very reluctantly went about her day of classes and preparing for exams.

It was later when she happened upon her brother bragging to his friend's about Potter having a dragon and getting "the oaf" thrown off the grounds that she tried to step in. She approached him and grabbed his arm, bodily dragging him away from his friends.

"Stop it Draco, stop whatever you're planning!" She said firmly but he just smirked at her. She stepped closer, "I will make your tongue green and polka-dotted for a week if you so much as tell another soul."

Draco stared at her incredulously, "you wouldn't dare."

Lexie glared back. "Do you really want to find out?"

Unfortunately her threat didn't work and not only did Harry and Hermione get in trouble for their plan to send the dragon to Ron's brother in Romania, but Neville did too. Lexie hated the way everyone treated the three and took to spending most of her time with Neville. Harry and Hermione at least had Ron, while Neville had nobody. She also hexed the twins when they made some faux-whispered comments about the boy. She helped him as much as she could to prepare for the exams but she could tell the loss of points and the school's heavy silent treatment was still affecting him too much for the boy to concentrate.

The exams were almost a welcome distraction from all the drama, and Lexie worried that she would mess up but once the exams got closer, she felt confident. The dragon was gone, soon it would be the end of term and everyone would let their grudges go. What she forgot about was the Stone, and the detention.

Lexie watched as Harry, Hermione and Neville got their notices and tried to cheer Neville up but the poor boy was shaking in fear. That night she and Ron waited, well actually Ron fell asleep, but she still waited. He became wide-eyed and shouted something about Qudditch fouls when Harry shook him awake. He and Hermione told the two of them what happened in the forest, while Neville went straight to bed. Hermione took a seat beside Lexie and smiled in thanks as the other girl covered her in a blanket while Harry paced.

"Snape wants the stone for Voldemort…Voldemort's waiting in the forest…and all this time we thought Snape wanted to get rich…"

"Stop saying the name will you?" Ron whispered, and Lexie scoffed.

"Why? If he wanted to kill them he'd have done it. I hardly doubt saying the bloody name will make him storm up here to do it now."

Harry ignored them both, "Firenze saved me except he shouldn't have so Bane was furious. They were talking about Mars and not to interfere with the planet's…they must say that Voldemort is trying to come back…Bane thinks Voldemort should have killed me, it's probably written up there too."

Ron hissed again about not saying Voldemort's name and Lexie leaned into his ear and said it repeatedly to annoy him. "Voldemort, Voldemort, Voldemort!" He swatted her away as Harry continued, not paying them any mind.

"All I have to do now is wait, Snape will steal the Stone, Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off then. Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy…"

Hermione looked very frightened but she tried to comfort him, "Harry everyone says Dumbledore's the only one You-Know-Who's afraid of. You-Know-Who won't touch you with him around. Besides, who cares if the centaur's right, Professor McGonagall says fortune telling is a shady branch of magic."