Royals (Draco Malfoy x Reader)

Chapter 29

Buckbeat

We sat on fat little pouffes in a murky, incense-laden room for divination. "Welcome, my children. In this room, you shall explore the mysterious art of Divination. In this room, you shall discover if you possess..." Professor Trelawney spoke airly, she seemed quite ditsy and light-hearted, Harry, Hermione Ron and I sat at one table, Harry had the ends of my hair in his fingertips and he twirled it around, he does that a lot when he's nervous. I looked at the boy who was deep in thought. "... the Sight. Hello. I am professor Trelawney. Together, we shall cast ourselves into the future. But know this. One either has the Gift or not. It can not be divined from the pages of a book. Books only cloud one'sInner Eye." The women continued gliding around the room as if she was on rollerblades. "What rubbish." Hermione groaned and Ron spins around and Frowns at Hermione "where did you come from!" he hissed and the girl raised her eyebrow "Me? I've been here all along." she retorted a slight smirk on her face. Professor Trelawney walked around the class and stopped suddenly "You, boy! Is your grandmother well?" she pointed a finger at Neville who jumped back "I... I think so." the boy stuttered "I wouldn't be so sure of that" she spun away from Neville and began to walk again "The first term will be devoted to the reading of tea leaves. If all goes well, we will proceed to palmistry, fire omens, and finally... the crystal ball." she gazed at one of the Parvati sisters "By the way, dear, beware a red-haired man." Trelawney spoke medicinally and the girl shuddered and began to eye Ron. "Unfortunately, classes will be disrupted in February by a nasty bout of flu. I myself will lose my voice. And in late spring, one of our numbers will... leave us forever." she talks to herself more than any of us, the entire class exchanged uneasy glances and the professor smiles brightly "let's get started then will we?" the women exclaimed as she pulled her goggles down over her eyes.

She told us to each gather a teacup and scoops some leaves from a cauldron at the top of the class and we did, I sat back down with my three friends. I swapped my cup with Harry and Ron and Hermione swapped theirs. I glance down at Harry's the leaves were mutated oddly and I looked from the leaves to the book. Trelawney walked almost us all her robes flowing g behind her "Broaden your minds, my dears. And allow your eyes to see... beyond." Trelawney takes Lavender Brown's cup, she peers inside curiously. "A five-leaf clover... You can expect to wake with a horrible rash tomorrow morning, dear." she placed the cup back down "Mr Longbottom after you've broken your first cup..." she was cut off by Neville dropping his second cup I laughed lightly at the boy's clumsiness "... would you be so kind as to select one of the blue ones? I'm rather partial to the pink." she walked off again and stopped in front of our table "Mr Potter could you tell us what you see in Miss Windor's cup" she looked at the boy who nodded and stated at the leaves "A skull and the sun?" Harry looked confused "Danger and Great Happiness" Trelawney slightly smiled at me "and what do you see in Harrys?" the women looked at me "Well there's a cross  -- that's trials and suffering. But this lot here could be the sun -- that's great happiness. So... he's going to suffer but be very happy about it." I looked at the women who gently took the cup from my grasp and peers inside the women lets out a horrified gasp. "what is it, Professor?" Parvati questioned, Trelawney looked at Harry with a mixture of pity and fear. "My dear boy... You have the Grim." the women gasped out "The Grin? What's the Grin? " Seamus questioned and Parvati slapped him lightly on the back of his head "Not the grin, you idiot. The Grim." she practically hissed at the Irish boy, "But what does it mean?" Dean questioned and Lavender Brown muttered out 'the grim' everyone turned Lavender was bent over her book "'Taking the form of a giant spectral dog, it is among the darkest omens in our world. It is an omen... of death.'" She gasps out and everyone turned to look at Harry with great pity on their faces.

The four of us walk through the bridge and walk towards Hagrid's hut, "Death omens. Honestly. If you ask me, Divination's a very woolly discipline. Now Ancient Runes. That's a fascinating subject." Hermione snickered "Ancient Runes? Exactly how many classes are you taking this term?" I questioned looking at the girl "A fair few." she replied and I nodded "Hang on. Ancient Runes is the same time as Divination. You'd have to be in two classes at once." he eyed Hermione suspiciously "Don't be silly. How could anyone be in two classes at once?" she laughed at Ron and I glanced at the trio "Brodern your minds" I mocker Trelawney. Harry was awfully quiet. 

"C'mon now, get a move on! Got a real treat for yeh. Great lesson coming' up. Follow me." Hagrid called Hagrid leads us towards a small paddock just on the side of the Forbidden Forest. In the paddock, a freestanding Iron rack hangs dead ferrets dangling off it. "Gather 'round. Find yerself a spot. That's it. Now, firs' thing ye'll want ter do is open yer books --" Hagrid shouts and Draco interrupts "And exactly how do we do that?" he hissed at the man Hagrid looks. Belts, rope, Spellotape: any means available have been employed to bridle The Monster Book of Monsters, which move around violently, "you stroke the spine of course!" he turns and walks away and we all did as told "Righ' then. So... so... yeh've got yer books, an' now yeh need the Magical Creatures. Right.So... I'll... I'll go an' get 'em." Hagrid disappeared into the forest. Draco snickered "God, this place is gone to the dogs. Wait until my father hearsDumbledore's got this oaf teaching classes." He and his friends laugh loudly "Shut up Malfoy" Harry hisses, Draco and his friends ooo and I grabbed Harry's wrist he was going to get himself in trouble. Draco drops his bag on Crabbe and walks towards Harry and faces him as if he was going to fight him then he points his face moving into shock "Dementor! Dementor!" He calls Harry jumps and turns quickly in fear and he finds nothing. Draco had moved back to the rest of the Slytherins who had pulled up the hood of their cloaks and made ghost noises, I pulled Harry back and flipped Draco the middle finger.  Harry was Red in embarrassment, Hagrid came back a strange beast following him. It had the torso, hind legs, and tail of a horse, but the front legs, wings and head of a giant eagle. I looked at the animal in amazement and Hermione pulled me back away from the animal. "Beau'iful, isn' he?" Hagrid grins "Indeed Hagrid, extremely beautiful!" I gushed happily staring at the animal. The students staring wary wonder nonetheless. As Hagrid coaxes the beast to the centre of the paddock, Ron stares uneasily at it "Hagrid? what exactly is that?" Ron questioned "A Hippogriff, o' course. Now, firs' thing yeh gotta know is they're proud. Easily offended, Hippogriffs are. Don't insult one, 'cause it migh' bethe las' thing yeh do. Right then -- who wants ter come an'say hello?" Hagrid looked around it was Ron's turn to pull me further away from the animal, Harry though was too deep in thought to level realize what was going on. 

"Goodman, Harry!" Hagrid praises and Harry looks up and realizes what happened, he began to cautiously approach the hippogriff, "Tha's it. Easy now... stop! This here's Buckbeak, Harry. Yeh wantter let 'im make the firs' move. It's polite, see? Jus' take a step forward, give 'im a bow, and ifBuckbeak bows back, yeh're allowed ter touch him. Ready?" Hagrid stared at Harry. Unsure, Harry nods anyway he Steps forward And bows deeply to Buckbeat. Buckbeak's head cocks, eagle eyes studying Harry cannily. Harry waits. And waits... "Back off Harry! Back off" Hagrid whisper yelled, Harry starts to step back, when Buckbeak ducks his beak bowing back to the boy. Hagrid sighs in pure relief, "Well done, Harry! Go on. Give'im a pat." Hagrid called out to the boy. Tentatively, Harry reaches out, lays his hand onBuckbeak's fierce beak. The entire class claps and cheers loudly except for Draco and his goons of course. Harry smiles "Look at that! I reckon he migh'let yeh ride 'im!" Harry's smile dropped quickly "excuse me?" he looked terrified, "We'll jus' set yeh behind thewing joint. Mind yeh don' pull any feathers out. He won' like that." Hagrid lifts Harry high, drops him onto Buckbeak'sback, and before Harry's settled, Hagrid slaps Buckbeak'shindquarters "off you go!" he calls As Buckbeak gallops forward, Harry slides scarily back, giant wings unfold, huge and powerful, and they soar into the air. Rising higher. And higher.And higher until we can no longer see them. 

It had been about ten minutes and Hagrid whistled loudly, and Buckbeak wheels, beating his way back to the paddock, galloping to a halt. As Harry slides off, we all cheer for him excitedly-- all except Draco, who narrows his eyes maliciously. Draco pushes through the crowd and strides towards buckbeat "Give me a go at that thing. If Potter can do it, it must be easy. You're not dangerous at all, are you, you great ugly brute --" he stormed towards the Hippogriff and Hagrid gasped out "Malfoy, No!" Hagrid shrieked In a flash, Buckbeak's steely talons slash down. Malfoyfreezes. Looks down at the blood blossoming on his robes as he drops to the floor he screams. Hagrid stands calming the beast "It's killed me! it's killed me!" he cries "Calm yerself! Yer fine... jus'a scratch..." Hagrid calls, I move forward swiftly and take my robe off wrapping it around his injury "he must be taken to the hospital Hagrid" I insisted "the gash is fairly deep!" I continued snd Hagrid nodded "Ill take him, come with me (Name)" Hagrid picked up Draco and I walked behind them.

"You're going to regret this you and your bloody chicken!"