Destinia: First Year at Hogwarts

Chapter 3: A Blank Book

Wednesday went by relatively quick. Draco had been right about it not taking all too long for them to receive homework. They got two essays and two quizzes for the next week, one of each for Transfiguration and the others for History of Magic.

Only late that evening, he continued working on the task again; they had to stay up until midnight for Astronomy either way. Pansy had gotten tired around ten and had gone upstairs, telling Draco to wake her up half an hour in advance so they could leave. Draco, likewise, had gone up to his dormitory; there wasn't much to do in the common room without Pansy.

Really not being in the mood to work on his homework, he had grabbed the book and the other stuff, and settled down behind his desk with the little light.

It took him a nearly an hour and a half to complete the notes for the fifth chapter. Maybe it was so he could wake Pansy, half an hour in advance like she had asked.

He put everything away, before reminding himself he'd rather keep the book close to him. Why? Was he getting attached to it or something? Draco didn't know, and he didn't feel like questioning it. He put it in his bag with his telescope, a very expansive one of course, and went to the common room. There, he took the door to the girls' dormitories and quickly found those of the First Years.

He knocked twice, not wanting to just burst in; it was the Girls' Dormitory after all. He turned the knob after he heard a girl's voice Draco recognised as Millicent Bulstrode allow it. He entered the room and every girl's head turned towards him.

"What are you doing here?" a girl asked surprised. Draco didn't know her name.

"Waking up Pansy," he answered casually, shrugging and gesturing towards the sleeping Slytherin girl. "She asked me to wake her half an hour before our Astronomy lesson."

He strode over to her bed, followed by eight pairs of eyes, and nudged the sleeping Pansy. "Wake up, Pans, it's time."

It took Draco a few times before Pansy finally groaned and demanded in a hoarse voice, "Who dare wake me?"

"Pansy," Draco said, playfully irritated, "it's nearly midnight. We have Astronomy, remember?"

Pansy shot up, suddenly wide awake. "Oh, yeah, you're right. Let's go, Draco." She grabbed her bag, which obviously contained her telescope and led Draco out of the room.

For their first Astronomy lesson, they had to meet up with the other houses, seeing as it was for all the First Years, in the Entrance Hall. From there, their Professor would come to get them and guide them to the Astronomy Tower. It was safer that way because Filch wouldn't be able to keep them up, at least not from the Entrance Hall onwards.

Down in the Entrance Hall, Draco and Pansy were the only Slytherins present yet. The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were already there, and it didn't take long before the Gryffindors arrived, all in one big group. Draco wondered for a second if the other two houses also came like that. If so, he and Pansy would look full on ridiculous coming here with the two of them.

Draco couldn't help glancing at Potter across the room as Pansy was busy complaining about them having their lessons with the whole school. Potter was talking to Weasley at the edge of the Gryffindor group, occasionally laughing. Draco wondered how someone with such a past could still smile and laugh like nothing ever happened. He knew he would have a much harder time doing so if his father wouldn't push him to do it.

"Draco? Are you listening?" Pansy called, bringing Draco's attention back to her.

"Oh, no, sorry. I was thinking about our homework and Astronomy," he lied smoothly. She didn't have to know he had just been looking at a Gryffindor, and Potter no less.