Destinia: First Year at Hogwarts

Chapter 14: Plans

Draco stopped at the perfectly right time and place to even hear Potter whisper, "Shut up!" Draco smirked victoriously. Today was the day the dragon would hatch, and the book had given him a chance to watch. He didn't even have any dialogue to practice. Just standing at a window and running back to the castle.

     There was only one thing that Draco was against in that whole scenario; he had to be seen, which went fully against all his morals. Either way, this was what the book wanted, so this was what he would do, and now he knew what would happen if he defied it. That's why, right after Charms, he hurried out the castle, completely forgetting to inform Pansy about anything.

     Reaching the hut, he walked to the window with a gap in the curtains and looked inside. There, on the table, laid a huge black egg, deep cracks covering its surface. Draco saw as the four occupants of the small room drew their chairs to the table and started staring intensely at the egg.

     With a crack, the egg split into pieces and a baby dragon flopped out of it, falling onto the table. Draco thought Potter's description of a crumpled black umbrella suited the black lump well. From his position at the window, he didn't have as good a view as those inside, though he had a good view of the tail, black with small stubs, not long yet.

     "Isn't he beautiful?" he heard Hagrid say, his voice muffled, after the dragon sneezed and almost put the wooden table on fire.

     Draco skipped the following conversation, of two sentences if he remembered correctly, to keep a good look on Hagrid's face. Right as the colour drained from it, Draco pushed himself off of the window ledge and sped towards the castle, hoping to Merlin he wouldn't get caught. Right at the entrance, he almost bumped into a very disgruntled Pansy.

     "Draco, there you are!" she exclaimed, fixing him with a sharp look.

     "No time to talk, Pans," he said hastily, pulling her towards the Greenhouses for Herbology. "We have Herbology and I just saw a dragon!"

     Draco heard Pansy's sputter behind him before she threw him against the glass wall of one greenhouse. "You saw a what!?" she exclaimed, her voice an excited whisper. "How was it?"

     Draco smiled cheerfully. "No time for that, I'll tell you after school," he whispered under his breath as Professor Sprout ushered them inside for their second period.

"So, our journey with the dragon continues, huh?" Pansy asked as she and Draco made their way to Hagrid's hut on Wednesday afternoon, a week after Draco went to see the dragon in person.

     "Yep," Draco answered shortly, giving her a small smile before shushing her and hiding beneath a window with their backs pressed against the wall. They had been following the trio a lot lately, while Draco had to keep up the pretence the book wrote for him. They were almost a hundred percent sure Hermione knew of them going there, but she said nothing... yet.

     Hiding in the shadow of the window ledge, they listened to the quiet conversations going on inside the walls, Pansy scribbling down bits of important information. As the trio finally left later the day, Draco and Pansy waited a few minutes before getting up and walking towards the greenhouses.

     They had already made a habit of it. Every time they'd follow Potter, Weasley and Hermione to Hagrid's, and they had to return to the castle, they'd go past the greenhouses to avoid suspicion of oblivious classmates. They were about to turn a corner when a small cough caught their attention. They turned around and looked at a disapproving looking Hermione.

     "Granger," Draco and Pansy greeted in unison, a little stiff.

     "Draco, Pansy," she greeted back, giving each of them a small nod. "Why have you been following us?"