Chosen

Chapter 3

I woke up and put on my robes. Today was the first day of the semester. I grabbed my bag which was filled with all the items needed for my classes. My first class of the day was Care of Magical Creatures with Hagrid. I walked out the doors of the castle and to the circle of tall stones.

"Nyx!"I heard someone shout. It was Hermione. I picked up my pace as she waited. I knew exactly what she was going to say. "I told you so." She whispered. I looked at her and rolled my eyes. We walked down the stone steps to Hagrid's hut, Ron and Harry behind us. It was quite a walk down the steep hill, but we finally made it. I looked around to see who else was in our class and noticed Draco to my far right staring at me; I blinked a couple times and looked away. Hermione lightly elbowed me and smiled. Hagrid gathered us around. "Alrigh' I got summin' special fer ya terday." He said. Hagrid lead us a little ways into the forest. We all took our monster books out; I could see Neville being attacked by it. "Alrigh' kids turn ter page forty in yer books." He said going further into the forest.

"Wait till' my father hears that Dumbledore's got this oaf teaching classes." Draco said making Crabbe and Goyle laugh.

"Shut up Malfoy." Harry demanded.

"Ooh." Draco said along with some others. He took his satchel off his shoulder and handed it to Crabbe. He slowly walked up to Harry. Then he looked up to the sky, his face changed from a smile to a fright. He backed away slightly, and then pointed upward yelling "Dementor, Dementor!" Everybody there quickly turned and looked in the sky. There was nothing there. The Slytherin's started laughing and put on their black hoods saying "ooh", in a ghostly way wiggling their fingers at Harry. They laughed some more. Hermione grabbed Harry and gave them a disgusted look walking away.

"Arsehole." I directed at him.

"What?" He shouted at me. Everyone turned back at once. I turned looking at him also.

"What did you call me?" He asked. I smiled.

"I called you an arsehole, because that's what you are." I asserted to his face. He walked closer and closer.

"Oh yeah, and what are you gonna do about it?" Draco came close enough I could feel his hot breath on my face. "And don't tell me you didn't enjoy that kiss, because I know you did." He seductively whispered. Hagrid cleared his throat. Everyone turned around. "Say 'ello to Buckbeak." I walked over to my friends. "Isn't he beautiful?"

"Hagrid, exactly what is that?" Ron asked with his eyebrows scrunched.

"This Ron is a hippogriff. They are very proud creatures, you do not want to offend a hippogriff, it might be the last thing you do." He raised his eyebrows. "Now." He clapped his hands together. "Who'd like ter come and say hello?" Everyone backed up except for Harry. "Well done Harry, well done." Hagrid said. Ron pushed Harry to go forward. He walked forward. "Alrigh' now walk up very slow, take a nice bow, back up and see if he bows back, if he does, you can pet him, if not, well, we'll get to that later."

Harry walked up very slowly, he took a steep bow, and Buckbeak started to hawk and flap his wings. "Back off Harry back off." Hagrid implied. Harry quickly backed up. Then Buckbeak slowly bowed back. "Alrigh', you can go and pet him now, but go slowly." Harry walked slowly up to the hippogriff holding out his hand. Buckbeak then walked over to him putting his beak on his hand. "Well done Harry, well done!" Hagrid and the rest of the class clapped. "Now I think he'll let ya ride him." Hagrid picked Harry up and set him on Buckbeak. He smacked the hippogriffs behind and up flew Harry. It was about two or three minutes before Harry and Buckbeak showed up again. The class clapped again. They reached the ground; Hagrid pulled Harry off of Buckbeak. Draco pushed through the crowd. "You're not dangerous at all are you, great ugly brewt." He stomped over to Buckbeak thinking he was the best. Buckbeak got on his back legs and everybody screamed, the hippogriff hit Malfoy knocking him to the ground. Hagrid calmed the bird down. Draco rolled on the ground in pain.

"It's killed me!" He chanted. "Calm down, it's just a scratch." Hagrid said. I ran forward.

"Hagrid, he has to be taken to the hospital wing!" I shouted.

"I'm the teacher, I'll do it." He said picking up Malfoy. Draco whimpered. "You're gonna regret this." He murmured.

"Class dismissed." Hagrid said.

"Stupid bloody chicken." Draco whimpered.

The rest of the class walked up to their next classes, which was Divination for me, Hermione, Ron, and Harry. We basically had the same schedules.

In Divination we had to put tea leaves in our tea and drink it and that would tell our fates or desires. Apparently Harry had the grim, which was a bad sign that you're going to die. Of course Hermione and I didn't believe a word. Once our class was over we went to lunch in the Great Hall. Draco had just gotten out of the Hospital Wing and was showing off his stupid sling and telling all these crazy stories. I was sitting a few people down from him where my friends were eating on the Gryffindor table. Draco stared at me. I saw him staring at me, so I looked away.

"Can you believe that?" I beamed over at him.

"Don't worry about it Nyx." Hermione added. I went back to bickering with my friends about how Malfoy's father is furious and wants to get Hagrid fired. It was awful.