by your side. [ d. malfoy ]

➵ | eighteen, buckbeak

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

buckbeak.

THE FIRST DAY back at hogwarts was a happy one. the choir sang while the others watched, candles floated around the room. "welcome ! welcome to another year at hogwarts.
now, i'd like to say a few words... before we all become too befuddled by our excellent feast.
first, i'm pleased to welcome professir r.j. lupin, who's kindly consented to fill the post of defense against the dark arts teacher. good luck, professor."

even though dumbledore wasn't finished yet, draco decided it was time to make fun of harry. "potter! is it true you fainted?" theo pretended to faint, "i mean, you actually fainted?" they both laughed and thana just rolled her eyes at her two friends. "shove off, malfoy." ron said before turning harry around.

"our care of magical creatures teacher... has decided to retire... in order to spend more time with his remaining limbs. fortunately, i'm delighted to announce, that his place will be taken by none other, than our own rubeus hagrid." the man stood up and everyone clapped.

"finally , on a more disquieting note, at the request of the ministry of magic hogwarts will, until further notice, play host to the dementors of azkaban, until such a time as Sirius Black is captured. the dementors will be stationed at every entrance to the grounds. now whilst i've been assured that their presence will not disrupt our day-to-day activities, a word of caution. dementors are vicious creatures.
they'll not distinguish between the one they hunt and the one who gets in their way. therefore , i must warn each and every one of you to give them no reason to harm you. it is not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving. but you know, happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"what does this mean? hello? yes," thana said when she finally had the professor's attention, "my-" before thana could finish her sentence, the professor had grabbed her cup and stared at it dramatically. "no, oh dear. this means death. and suprise. but you're not going to die, neither are they." she looked at her friends for a second, "then what is going to happen?" thana wanted to know. "you're going to find something out, which will suprise you, everything will be different. the death, i'm not quite sure, oh! and that is love." she nodded, as if she wanted to approve of thana's cup. "so she's going to find something out, then something with death happens, but it's okay because there is love too?" theo asked, genuinely confused. the professor nodded, grabbed theo's cup and announced that his cat was going to die. "i don't have a cat!" theo said. "then you're lucky, because if you don't have a cat, your cat won't die."

both thana and theo bursted out in laughter and turned to blaise and draco's table. "what did yours say?" apparently blaise's cup said something about sadness and draco's said something about love. "ah, yes i know what's going to happen. thana also had love so thana and draco will fall in love and blaise is going to cry about that." theo said dryly. all three of them started complaining and telling the boy he was wrong when theo started laughing. "i was just saying joking, these cup's are bullshit. my cat was going to die but i don't even have a cat!"

they looked up from their conversation about theo, who actually wanted a cat but was now too scared to get one because his future cat might die, when the professor dramatically gasped when she arrived at harry's table.

thana was looking forward to hagrid's class. and she had fun, she found it very amusing. draco however, had less fun. "open your books at page 49," hagrid said before he walked away to do something. "exactly how do we do that?" draco asked. "just stroke the spine, of course." draco did as he was told, which didn't happen very often, and the book calmed down. thana looked down at her own book, did as she was told and smiled.

"i think they're funny." hermione said. draco. of course, couldn't help but make a comment. "oh yeah, terribly funny. really witty." draco said, making the trio turn around. "god, this place has gone to the dogs. wait until my father hears dumbledore's got this oaf teaching classes." thana sighed, knowing this wouldn't go well.

"shut up malfoy." harry stepped forward. crabbe and goyle made some weird owl noises, just because draco did. thana stood with them, but didn't say anything and gave blaise a look, making him keep his mouth shut too. draco dropped his bag into crabbe's arms and walked to harry. he pointed at the sky, "dementor! dementor!" harry looked scared but turned back around when he realised nothing was there. draco, theo and goyle had put on their hoods and did a weird thing with their hands. pansy saw what they were doing and joined too. "mature." thana mumbled.

hermione told harry to forget it and dragged him away. the boys laughed a little more before taking off their hood. "don't look so grumpy," draco said and ruffled thana's hair. "isn't he beautiful?" hargrid asked. thana, as a short person, had no idea what he was talking about and decided to go and stand on a rock. she almost fell down and put her hand in draco's shoulder for support.

draco saw this as his second chance for an attempt to flirt. he didn't know if thana gave him that feeling his mother had told him about, but he definitely felt something when he was with her.

draco looked up at the girl, thana smiled at him when he put his own hand on hers, which was still on his shoulder.

"that, ron, is a hippogriff. first thing you wanna know is they're very proud creatures. very easily offended, you do not want to insult a hippogriff, it may be the last thing you ever do." thana chuckled, "are you sure you aren't a hippogriff draco?"

draco smirked back at her, "because i'm beautiful? and strong? thank you very much." thana laughed and rolled her eyes at the blonde boy. "now, who'd like to come and say hello?" everybody stepped back, except for harry, who ended up having to meet buckbeak. after five minutes harry had climbed on buckbeak's back and flew away.

"i could do that." thana scoffed. draco didn't care if she could or not, he just saw a new chance.

"sure about that?" he asked her after he threw her over his shoulder and spinned for a few minutes. he carefully put her down again. "totally." she nodded.

"well done harry!" everybody yelled when harry and buckbeak landed. "oh please," draco got up and started walking to buckbeak. "you're not dangerous at all, are you, you great ugly brute!" thana quickly got up too and watched as draco got hit by buckbeak.

"it's killed me! it's killed me!" draco screamed dramatically. "calm down! it's just a scratch," hagrid tried but draco didn't stop. he lifted him up and brought him to the hospital wing after dismissing the class. "you and your bloody chicken!" thana sighed loudly and collected both draco's and her own stuff, following hagrid.

"does it hurt terribly draco?" pansy asked, blinking at least 20 times within 10 seconds. "it comes and goes, still, i consider myself lucky. madam pomfrey said another minute and i could've lost my arm, i can't do homework for weeks!" thana rolled her eyes. "good thing crabbe always does it for you." crabbe stared at the table and draco smirked.