Through the Darkness | Draco Malfoy

Twenty nine

"Harry, are you sure you don't want me to come with you? I mean... what if someone insults you, or attacks you? you need me!"

Aries has been begging Harry to allow her to come with him to the Ministry of Magic, but he refused, knowing damn well if she comes, chaos will follow. She will cause more problems.

"Aries, I can't let you come, I want you to be safe from those people." Harry told her.

More like he wants people to be safe from her.

"You can stay with us, Aries. Me and Fred want to come up with pranks and we need your help." George told her.

"It's our last year, it needs to be the best prank in Hogwarts history." Fred added.

"Oh I can help with that! I have some great ideas!" Aries said excitedly, completely forgetting about Harry's adventure she was begging to be part of.

Suddenly, Kreacher walked past them and muttered something, "Nasty little brats of a blood traitor they are." He definitely was referring to the twins.

"Kreacher," Aries scolded him without looking at him.

Kreacher bowed, "Kreacher said nothing." Then he continued to mutter things. "...and there's the Mudblood, standing there bold as brass, oh if my Mistress knew, oh how she'd cry, and there's a new boy, Kreacher doesn't know his name, what is he doing here, Kreacher doesn't know..."

"This is Harry, Kreacher," said Hermione tentatively, joining the group. "Harry Potter."

Kreacher's pale eyes widened and he muttered faster and more furiously than ever."

"The Mudblood is talking to Kreacher as though she is my friend, if Kreacher's Mistress saw him in such company, oh what would she say—"

"Don't call her a Mudblood!" said Ron, very angrily.

"It doesn't matter," Hermione whispered, "he's not in his right mind, he doesn't know what he's—"

"He knows exactly what he's saying, Hermione." Aries interrupted her. "Kreacher isn't going to stop until you hear his words out loud and clear, just ignore him."

"Aries, he's not right in the head," said Hermione pleadingly, "I don't think he realizes we can hear him. I know he's your... family's house elf, but if you just set him free, maybe–"

"Set him free?" Aries scoffed, "No, he belongs to me, to my family, he's not just some random house elf so I can simply set him free, Hermione. House elves are—"

"Aries," Sirius interrupted her while standing at the door step. "Go help your mother with the twins."

Aries turned around and looked at her father without saying a word, then left the room, leaving Sirius with the rest.

"Kreacher has been in the family for his entire life, and the only people he listened to were my mother, brother and Aries." Sirius explained, "Setting him free would make things worse, he knows too much about the Order, and Aries would leave her family just to be his owner again."

"But how can an elf and a wizard have such bond?" Hermione asked.

"Well," Sirius smiled as he looked at the family tree on the wall. "She reminds him of my brother."

Meanwhile, Aries was with Wisteria holding one of the twins as they were chatting.

"Aries, I don't want you getting into trouble when you go to school, especially with the Malfoy boy, your father told me how you kept taunting him–"

"Mother, he doesn't mind when I taunt him, he actually likes it." she shrugged simply.

The usual, Aries being Aries. Wisteria shook her head in disbelief, "Likes it," she scoffed. "Just be careful, the Malfoys love getting people into trouble, try to avoid him."