Through the Darkness | Draco Malfoy

Eighteen

"Come on, come on! be quick, Aries!" Ron was dragging Aries through the halls as soon as he spotted her with McGonagall. "We want to see who's going to enter, I swear if I miss seeing Viktor Krum put his name in the Goblet of Fire I'm going to murder you!"

"Okay jeez calm down. If you like him so much why don't you marry him?"

Aries tried to keep up with Ron who started walking fast so he doesn't have to hear the silly comments Aries throws.

"By the way, why are we always getting separated from Harry and Herms?" Aries asked.

"Because, dung brains, you keep telling me you know a shortcut and then we part from them, no thanks to you."

"And for some reasons, you keep believing me." she smirked as they reached a big door.

The Goblet of Fire was the first thing that caught their eyes, it was placed in the center, and a thin golden line was traced on the floor, forming a circle around it.

"Amazing." she said, walking closer.

"Come on, you!" he pulled her by the tie while she's still staring at the goblet in admiration, not minding getting pulled like this.

"I'm guessing it's her fault." Harry spoke as he approached them with Hermione.

"Yeah, of course. I'll blame Aries for all of my problems starting now." Ron replied sarcastically.

"I didn't do anything wrong!" Aries yelled defensively.

"Yeah, you just keep distracting us from finding out who'll put their name in the Goblet, it's like you're doing it on purpose so I don't get to see Krum."

"Oh please, I want to see who enters the tournament just like you, what makes you think I did this on purpose?" She argued back.

"Done it!" Fred suddenly appeared next to them. "Just taken it."

"What?" said Ron.

"The Aging Potion, idiot." said Fred.

"One drop each." said George, rubbing his hands together with glee. "We only need to be a few months older."

"We're going to split the thousands Galleons between the three of us if one of us wins." said Lee, a friend of the twins.

"I'm not sure this is going to work, you know. I'm sure Dumbledore will have thought of this." Hermione said warningly, but they completely ignored her.

"I swear if this work, I will be bringing glory to the Gryffindor house by entering and winning, got it?" Aries said loudly in determination. "I'm tired of people thinking they can beat me."

"No one thinks that, Aries." Hermione told her.

"Thanks to my wonderful genius brain, I've made another Aging Potion in case our dear Aries wants to join us." Fred announced proudly as he handed over a bottle to her.

"It was technically my idea but alright." said George. "Anyway, ready you two?" he told Fred and Lee who were quivering with excitement. "Come on, then, I'll go first."

The twins drank the potion together, then they too a great breath and stepped over the line. For a split second, everyone thought it had worked, but next moment, there was a loud sizzling sound, and both twins were hurled out of the circle and landed painfully.

The entrance hall rang with laughter, while the twins were arguing, blaming each other.

"Thank god I didn't listen to them." Aries mumbled under her breath as she placed the potion away.

"Hey." Seamus and Dean joined the group.

"Seamus, Dean, you won't believe what I'm about to do—!" before Aries can excitedly tell them the whole plan, she was cut off when Ron clapped her mouth with his hand.