Destinia: First Year at Hogwarts

Chapter 10: Christmas Break

It was the next day, a Sunday, when Pansy and Draco made their way together to the lake. They decided that would be one of the safer places to discuss matters they shouldn't even know. Draco had his backpack with him. In there were a couple of things: the book, notebook, pencil, eraser, sharpener, two rolls of parchment, a quill, a spare quill, and ink.

     They settled down beneath a tree, and Draco took out the book and laid it in his lap. "So," he started, looking at Pansy, "where should we start?"

     "What about, Hallowe'en?" Pansy asked. Draco thought for a second but shook his head. "Where then?"

     "Let's start at Diagon Alley," he decided, opening the book at the beginning of that chapter. Pansy raised her eyebrows, confused.

     "Why there?" she asked. Draco looked up from the book to meet her eyes.

     "Well," he explained, "before Potter went to Hogwarts, he went to Diagon Alley for all his school things. That's were I met him as well, but that's a different story—"

     "You've told me a few times already," Pansy intervened, smirking.

     "Shush!" He cleared his throat. "He went there the day that Gringotts break-in happened. Wait—" He took the book and went to the page with the article, showing it to Pansy before remembering she couldn't read it. "I'll read it...

     "Gringotts break-in latest. Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts 31 July, widely believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches unknown. Gringotts' goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied earlier the same day."

     He looked up at Pansy. "31 July was the day Potter went to Diagon Alley, it's believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches, so Hogwarts would be the safest hiding spot, and the vault had been emptied earlier that day. Earlier that day, Hagrid emptied a top-secret Hogwarts business vault!" He finished with a smile on his face.

     "So that means the one who wants to have that... thing... was there the day Potter was there. Is there something in the book about a mysterious person?" Pansy wondered. Draco's eyes widened in realisation as he quickly went back to the scene in the Leaky Cauldron.

     "Pansy, you're a genius!" he exclaimed, "Listen to this!" And he read her the part about Quirrell. After he finished, he turned to Pansy, whose mouth hung open slightly. "Did you notice anything strange about Quirrell during the match?"

     She looked down thoughtfully. "There was something... I think I saw Granger push him over..." Then, her eyes widened with realisation. "Of course!" she exclaimed, "Because Granger pushed him, his eye contact was broken! He was the one jinxing Potter!"

     Draco thought so too, and he felt a sudden desire to at least severely injure that so-called teacher. Let's see how he is against actual Dark Magic. His murderous thoughts must have shown on his face as Pansy nudged him.

     "Wait until Potter finds out, then you can kill him together," she joked, Draco gave her a small push as she started laughing. He crossed his arms and turned away, pouting childishly.

     "But what about Snape then? Granger can't have been mistaken..." Pansy said thoughtfully. Draco smirked.

     "Oh, can't she?" he teased, earning a pinkish tint on her cheeks.

     "I'm being serious, Draco!" she exclaimed wildly. Draco stopped laughing.

     "Right, yeah..."

     "Is there a way he was saying a counter-curse?" Pansy muttered, more to herself. But Draco heard it and snapped his gaze towards her.

     "Since when do you seem to know everything?" he asked her, she shrugged. "Wait," he said, as he started going through the pages.