The Mudblood and The Slytherin Prince

Chapter 4: Mad-Eye Moody

A few days have passed and it's storming outside Hogwarts. You loved it when it stormed. Something about it calmed you. You look out the windows and see a bolt of lightening hit the ground. You look back down at your plate and fiddle with your food. You haven't spoken to Cedric since the first night back and you're kind of worried. No one else in your house talked to you.

'Aww, look at the filthy mudblood eating alone at the table.' You didn't have to look up to know that it was Malfoy, but he was right. You didn't even have anyone sitting besides you, not even Cedric. The other students kept a open space available between you and them.

'If I didn't know Malfoy, I would think that you have a crush on me. It would only make since considering you're talking to me all of a sudden.'

That didn't sit well with him. He grabbed your hand and dragged you out of the hall. Everyone was staring, but no one said anything. He takes you up the stairs to an abandoned classroom. He shoves you inside and closes the door behind him.

'Who the hell do you think you are?!' He yells at you.

Really? He couldn't just do this around everyone in the great hall?

'I'm (y/n) and I'm in Hufflepuff an-'

'Stop being so sarcastic and annoying! Do you know how embarrassing that was?!'

'Embarrassing?! Embarrassing Malfoy?! You have embarrassed me almost everyday of my life since I have been here!' You can feel tears start to form in your eyes. 'You have made my life a living hell ever since I came here. You have targeted me more than anyone else. You have even gone after me more than Hermonie.' The tears are now streaming down your face. 'Why me?' You say quietly.

You sit down on the floor with your knees up to your chest, letting yourself cry. You can feel Draco's eyes looking at you.

'Get up.' He says, but you don't move. 'I said, get up!'

He grabs your arm and pulls you up. He pushes you against the wall. You try to break free, but he pins your arms against the wall. You look at him and he is staring right into your eyes. He doesn't even look mad, just... sad. You look down at the ground. You can feel him still starring at you. He grabs your chin gently and you look into his eyes.

'Why is he so beautiful?' You think to yourself. 'He's such a git, but, I love him.'

'I can't do this.' He says while letting your arms go. 'I can't.'

Can't do what?

Without another look, he leaves the classroom and shuts the door behind him.

You sit back down onto the floor, letting the tears fall. What just happened? He can't do what? He was probably thinking about killing you, or something similar. Why else would he say it?

You stay there for sometime until you decide to head to the common room.

Shit, I don't know the password.

'Hey, where did you wonder off to?' You look to see Cedric. Thank God.

'I just needed some alone time, do you know the password to the common room?'

'Yeah, follow me.' You two walk and Cedric decides to continue. 'What did Malfoy want?'

You shudder a little bit at his name, but don't say anything and Cedric takes that as to leave you alone.

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'Alastor Moody.'

You've heard about him. He used to be an aura, locked a lot of people up in Azkaban. You guess he got here when you stayed in the classroom after Malfoy left. You're glad that he's the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher instead of Snape, Snape has been after this position for ages.

'How many of you can tell me how many unforgivable curses there are?' He says. Immediately Hermonie answers.

'Three sir. Use any one of them and..'

'You will earn a one way ticket to Azkaban.' He interrupts her. 'Correct.' He looks around the classroom and looks directly at Ron. 'Weasley, stand.'

Ron stands nervously and Professor Moody asks him if he knows any of the curses.

'The imperious curse.' He says a bit shyly.

Moody smiles. He turns around and grabs a jar with a spider in it. You shiver at the sight of it. I hate spiders. You hear a snicker beside you and turn to your left to see Malfoy laughing at you. God, why does he have to be in this class? And next to me no less, you think to yourself. You turn away from Malfoy and look back at Professor Moody. When you do, the spider is sitting on top of your book. You let out a scream.

'Don't worry, completely harmless she is.' Moody says laughing. Other people join in and laugh too. 'But if she bites, she's lethal!'

At that point you have jumped out of your chair and Malfoy starts laughing even more. Professor Moody sends the spider flying at Malfoy's face and now you start laughing. You grab your chair and sit back down, still watching Malfoy's horrid expression.

'What shall I have her do next? Jump out the window?' Moody slams the spider into the window. 'Or.. drown herself?' The spider is hovering over a bucket of water. He puts the spider down beside him and she just sits there.

At this point you're out of breath. You laughed so hard at Malfoy. Your smile disappears when a note lands in front of you.

You'll pay for that one mudblood. No one laughs at me and gets away with it. You best not leave class alone.

You look over at Malfoy, knowing exactly it was from him. He gives you a evil smirk and you just roll your eyes, wadding the paper into a ball and throwing it at his face.

'The cruciatus curse.' You hear Neville say when you turn your attention back to classroom.

'Correct. Come, come.' Moody says, gesturing Neville towards the spider. 'The torture curse.' Professor Moody begins to torture the spider. You can see that it is bothering Neville. He has always had a great care for animals and any kind of creature.

'Stop it! It's bothering him, please stop!' You yell. Moody looks at you and stops. He picks up the spider and walks over to you.

'Would you like to tell us the last unforgivable Miss...?'

'(l/n) and no, I wouldn't.' You say very quietly.

'Hmm.' Moody casts the spell and the spider dies. 'The killing curse,' he starts, 'only one person is to have survived it, and he is sitting right in front of me.' He finishes while looking at Harry.

Moody starts on a new topic and another note appears on your desk. This time, you don't even take the time to look at it, you just crumple it and throw it at Malfoy again. This seemed to have really made him mad.

When the class was over you rush out of the room to hurry to your next class, but you don't make it far out of the classroom before someone stops you.

'Going somewhere?' Malfoy asks slyly.

Shit.