Royals (Draco Malfoy x Reader)

Chapter 22

Spiders

The cake smashes to the floor and Hagrid stares at the trio nervously, (Name) snatches her robe and they ran into the corner of the room and Harry threw the cloak over them.  Sweating, Hagrid grabs his crossbow, points it at the door. " C-come in." Hagrid sputters The door opens. A grim Dumbledore enters, followed by a portly man in a pin-stripe suit and bowler it was Cornelius Fudge the minister of magic. "Good evening, Hagrid." Dumbledore greeted him a sad tinge in his voice. "That's Dad's boss! Cornelius Fudge. The Minister of Magic!" Ron whispered to the duo and the (h/c)ed girl elbowed him roughly to shut him up. "Bad business, Hagrid. Very badbusiness. Had to come. Fourattacks on Muggle-borns. Things've gone far enough. The ministry's got to act." Fudge looked Hagrid up and down "I never... You know I never,Professor Dumbledore, sir..." Hagrid fell over his own words and Dublmbedore held out a hand silencing him, he turned to fudge, "I want it understood, Cornelius,that Hagrid has my fullconfidence." Dumbledore stated and Fudge nodded "Look, Albus, Hagrid's record's against him. I've got to take him" Fudge explained and Hagrid began to panic "Take me? Where? Not Azkabanprison." Hagrid was basically rattling at this stage. "For a short stretch only. Not apunishment, Hagrid. More aprecaution. If someone else iscaught, you'll be released with afull apology." Fudge explained. A loud rap is heard on the door and Dumbledore opened it, in walked Lucius Malfoy (Name) and Harry grimaced at the sight of him. "Already here, Fudge? Good,good..." Lucius spoke, "What're you doin' here! Get outtamy house!" Hagrid demanded. Lucius looked around disgust on his face "My dear man, please, believe me, Ihave no pleasure at all in beinginside your -- do you call this a house? I simply called at theschool and was told the Headmasterwas here." his eyes landing on Dumbledore "And what exactly did you want withme, Lucius?" Dumbledore questioned "Dreadful thing, Dumbledore, butthe governours feel it's time foryou to step aside. This is anOrder of Suspension. You'll find all twelve signatures on it. I'm afraid we feel you're losing yourtouch. What with all theseattacks, there'll be no Muggleborns left at Hogwarts. And weall know what an awful loss thatwould be."Lucius hands Fudge a piece of parchment and the Minister's eyes danced over the writing "Now, see here, Lucius. Dumbledoresuspended. No, no... last thingwe want right now... If Dumbledorecan't stop these attacks... I meanto say, who can?" Fudge looked at Lucius "That remains to be seen, but as all twelve governors have voted --" "An' how many did yeh have terthreaten before they agreed!" Hagrid shouted glaring at Lucius "I would advise you not to shout atthe Azkaban guards like that." He tutted at Hagrid who looked defeated "Yeh can take Dumbledore! Take himaway an' the Muggle-borns won'stand a chance! There'll bekillin's next!" Hagrid raised his voice again "Calm yourself, Hagrid! If the governors want my removal,Lucius, I shall of course step aside. However... you will find that I will only truly have leftthis school when none here areloyal to me. You will also findthat help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who... ask for it." His eyes gravitated to the corner where the three lurked, he knew they were there. "Admirable sentiments. We shallall miss your highly individualway of running things, Albus, andonly hope your successor willmanage to prevent any more, um, killings" He snapped, Lucius strides to the door and bows Dumbledore out. Fudge was fiddling with his bowler as he waits for Hagrid to leave with him. Instead, Hagrid stands his ground, takes a deep breath and speaks carefully "If anyone wanted ter find out somestuff, all they'd have ter do isfollow the spiders. That'd lead'em right! Tha's all I'm sayin'." He walks outside, Fudge stares at Hagrid in amazement, then follows him out. As the door slams shut, Fang starts to whimper, scratching at the closed door.

The trio emerged from underneath the cloak "Hagrid's right. With Dumbledoregone, there'll be an attack a day." (name) sighs sadly and Ron nods, "Look.." Harry mutters pointing at the windowsill where a trail of spiders escapes through the hole in the glass. (Name) grabs hagrid's lantern and began walking out "are you guys coming?" she turned to look at the boys who nodded trailing after her. (Name) illuminates the trail of spiders. They run from the window to the ground, to the dark trees in the near distance. As Harry moves to follow her, Ron hesitates "What are you doing?" he looked at the two "You heard Hagrid. Follow thespiders" Harry responds continuing to follow (Name) who was a distance ahead her hair blowing lightly in the wind her skin illuminated by the moon. "They're heading into the DarkForest" he stutters harry sighed rolling his eyes and begins to jog towards (Name), Ron grabbed Fang and began to run after him "why couldn't it follow the butterflies!" he complained and (Name) giggled.