coconuts and strawberries | draco malfoy

3.

you jump at the sound of a book hitting your desk loudly, you turn to see Malfoy and his friends. "so, parents out of the picture?" he asks with a smirk. "how do you know about my..." you remember what he said a few days before, how he did a background check on you. "yeah, why do you care?"

"i'm just getting to know you" he says sarcastically, his friends laugh but it really wasn't even funny. "well i know a bit about you too." you confidently respond with a smile on your face. "oh yeah? like what, how handsome i am?" "get over yourself" you groan. they walk away and that smell of coconut rushes through the air again.

"silence..." a man says from the front of the class, distracting you from your thoughts. Everyone turns towards him and sits appropriately in their seats. "Alistair Moody. I'm your new Defence against the dark arts teacher, don't ask me why or how, it's because dumbledore asked me to, end of story. when it comes to the dark arts, i believe in a practical approach. but first, can anyone tell me how many unforgivable curses there are?"

Everyone in the room looks around at one another, until Hermione speaks up. "3 sir..." "and why are they called the unforgivable curses?" "because they are unforgivable sir, the use of any of these curses will-" "send you a one way ticket to azkaban, correct. now everyone here thinks you're too young to learn these but i say different. you need to know what you're up against to be prepared."

you look at Hermione who has a nervous look on her face, as do most people in the room. "now who can tell me the first curse... Weasley!" "yes sir?" Ron asks nervously. "stand." He slowly gets up from his desk, looking around at the students around him then back towards Moody.

"give us a curse." "um... well i have heard about one... The Imperius Curse?" "hm... you know your father would know all about that one, he caused us quite a bit of grief a few years back... let me show you all why." Ron sits back in his seat, your interest has become peeked.

Moody pulls out a small spider looking animal from a jar and enlarges it with his magic.

"Imperio" he shouts as he manipulates the animal to move towards a students desk up front. small snickers of laughter are heard before the creature is moved to sit on Crabbe's head. "don't carry on it's completely harmless!" Moody informs while students laugh quietly at Crabbe freaking out.

The animal then uncontrollably jumps onto a students hand and creeps up her shoulder, her laughter turns into fearful gasping. Moody waves his wand towards Ron and the animal follows, sitting itself on the top of his hair. he whimpers and freaks out while you laugh with the class.

you got to admit, it's pretty funny to see Ron squirm and whimper... as much as you shouldn't admit that. Moody laughs with everyone before he notices Draco specifically,  laughing at Ron. "what are you laughing at?" he asks as the creature makes a jump onto Draco's face. "get it off, get it off" Draco whispers to Goyle while everyone around him laughs, including you.

you like seeing Draco look scared, you haven't seen that in him yet. "she's talented isn't she? what should she do next? jump out the window?" moody asks as he throws the creature towards the window of the classroom. It begins to weakly make its way down the glass before Moody brings it back into his hand.

"Another curse, another!" he asks the class, many hands raise but his attention is towards Neville. "Longbottom isn't it?" Neville nods nervously before slowly standing up from his desk. "There's the Cruciatus Curse..." "correct!" Moody shouts enthusiastically, "come, come!". Him and Neville make their way to the desk at the front of the class.

"The Torture curse..."

He shouts something inaudible to you, and suddenly the creature from before is screeching and moving around. You can see the look in Nevilles face, how it's affecting him. The creature continues to be tortured and Neville starts to look really upset. His eyes squinting as he tries not to look, "stop it! can't you see it's bothering him?" Hermione shouts as she stands from her desk.

you watch her then watch Moody as he stops using his magic, Neville looks traumatised. Moody makes his way to Hermione desk and sits the creature on her books. You watch her expression as she looks terrified and nervous. "Perhaps you could give us the name of the last curse."

she shakes her head no slowly, fidgeting with her hands on her lap. "no? okay..." moody whispers before taking a step back. "Avada Kedavra!" he shouts as he point his wand at the desk. the creature shortly dies in front of everyone's eyes, but especially Hermione. "The killing curse... only one person is known to have survived it, and he's sitting in his room."

Moody continues as most students look towards Harry's seat.

The class ends shortly after and you exit the room alongside your friends. You notice Neville walking extremely slowly down the hall. Draco pushes past him, knocking his shoulder and shouting "Loser". You roll your eyes and walk over to Neville, "Neville..." you ask softly. he doesn't respond or move, Hermione looks at you with a worried expression.

"Neville are you alright?" Hermione asks, tapping his shoulder. he turns to her and nods slowly, but you know he isn't okay. "Let's all go spend some time together yeah? we can read some books together in the library and enjoy each other's company... you, me and Hermione." you suggest, "okay" he whispers as you rub his shoulder comfortingly.

you make your way to the library with the 2 of them, and spend the afternoon reading together.

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aa. i added one of the scenes in the movies but changed up some of the words so no one tries to get me in trouble for plagiarism! if i add anymore movie scenes in the future, i will use the same method :))