The Mudblood and The Slytherin Prince

Chapter 7: Ferret

'I'm sorry.' You hear someone say as they sit beside you at the Hufflepuff table. You look up to see Cedric.

'For what? Nothing wrong with wanting to hang out with your friends.' You say smiling at him. He decides to sit down next to you and gives you a hug.

'I'm sorry about Harry getting into all this, I know how much he means to you.'

'Harry is tough. I know he can handle himself.' You say while picking at your food. 'I'm glad that he has someone that he knows going through it with him though. I think you two can really help each other out. Don't worry, I'm worried about you as well.' You smile while pushing his shoulder.

He starts getting a plate ready and continues talking, 'so, do you like Harry?' You nearly choke on your food.

'He's brilliant, yeah, but not like that.' You say laughing. 'He's just a really good friend, that's all. And he needs currently needs someone since Ron is still mad at him.'

'Well,' he starts slowly, 'my friends and I are going to hangout in the courtyard later if you would like to join?' Cedric asks you smiling, and you smile back.

Later, you, Cedric and some of his friends are sitting in the courtyard and everyone is enjoying themselves. You haven't felt this happy since your first day back at Hogwarts. Cedric and you are talking like nothing ever happened and his friends are constantly asking you questions, which you enjoy. You feel like you belong. Everything about this makes you happy, except for the annoying buttons that they are wearing that says 'Potter Sucks.'

'Come on, Harry isn't that bad.' You say after some other Hufflepuff's are making fun of him. Before you can say anything else, Harry comes around the corner and asks if he can talk to Cedric.

You and Cedric follow Harry and he tells Cedric about the first tournament.

'Dragons? Do Krum and Fleur know?'

'Yes.' Harry says before walking off.

'Hey, Harry!' Cedric yells after him and Harry walks back over. 'I told them not to wear them.'

'It's fine. (y/n) would you like to come with me?'

You nod and tell Cedric bye as you follow Harry to where ever it is he plans on going. Harry bumps into Ron and they both start arguing. You pull Harry away and tell him not to worry about him and that he just needs time.

'Why so tense, Potter?' You hear someone yell from a tree.

God, Malfoy.

'My father and I have a bet. I don't think you'll last ten minutes,' he continues, jumping down from the tree, 'he doesn't think you'll last five.' He looks at his friends and laughs and his friends laugh with him.

Harry starts walking towards him and you try to pull him away before things get heated, but Harry shrugs you off.

'Girlfriend with the mudblood I see?' He says angerly, looking you up and down. 'I don't understand how you can stand to be around that thing.' He says disgustingly, pushing at you.

'Leave her out of this, Malfoy,' Harry says stepping in-between you two, 'this is between you and me. You're pathetic, you know that? She's done absolutely nothing to you.' Harry grabs your arm and you both start to walk away. Malfoy mumbles something and you hear someone yell from one of the corridors and Malfoy turns into a ferret.

Moody is now standing beside you and Harry, making Malfoy hover above the ground. Everyone comes to look and starts laughing. Moody then puts Malfoy into one of his friends pants and you start laughing even more. By the time Malfoy makes his way out and is running around on the ground, McGonagall comes by and turns him back to normal. He runs off and his friends follow. After McGonagall is done lecturing Moody, Moody turns to Harry.

'You, follow me.' Moody says to Harry and Harry looks at you apologetically and leaves with Moody.

You wonder around the courtyard for a little bit and decide to go back to the common room and write in your diary. You've never kept a diary until you started at Hogwarts. With everything that happens here, you want to remember it forever and look back on it one day and remember how amazing, yet scary, Hogwarts has been for you.

'My father will hear about this!' You hear Malfoy yell down the corridor. You start to turn around to avoid him, but he already seen you. 'You! Come here!' He yells at you.

You decide to run, but Malfoy is faster than you and when he catches up, you both fall onto the floor, your head hitting the ground hard.

'You're not going anywhere. You're coming back to the Slytherin common room with me.' And before you know it, your vision goes black.