Corrupt || Draco Malfoy

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Harry Potter and Lorelai Byrne walk into the Room of Requirement, stopping just as the door closes behind them, soon disappearing. The room was just like it was when she had found Draco for the first time. When he was kicking the cabinet, before she even knew what he was and what he had to do. The room where they had shared many kisses and the room where she lost her virginity to him.

"How are we going to find something as small as a diadem in here?" She questions.

"We split up, cover more ground. When I get close enough I will be able to feel it."

Lorelai nods and they split up. She wonders what Draco was doing now, if he was here at Hogwarts fighting alongside the Death Eaters or if he was back at the manor. What she didn't know was that he was outside summoning the door. Seconds away from entering.

"I found it!" She hears not too far away and she follows his voice.

Just as she sees him, she hears a voice that makes her freeze in her spot. "Well well. What brings you here, Potter?"

She takes a deep breath before slowly walking to Harry's side hoping that he was alone. "I could ask you the same." She hears Harry say. She steps beside him making herself visible to Draco.

He wasn't alone, he was with Crabbe and Goyle. Draco's eyes are glued to the girl. Not leaving the sight of her. They widen when he sees the blood from the deep gash on her arm. "You have something of mine." He says finally turning to Harry. "I'd like it back."

Lorelai pulls his wand out of her pocket making it visible to him. "I have it."

"What's wrong with the one you have?" Harry asks.

"It's my mothers." He hissed. Lorelai knew he was only acting that way so Crabbe and Goyle don't go full murder mode on Harry and herself. "It's powerful, but it's not the same. It doesn't quite understand me. You know what I mean?"

"Why didn't you tell her?" Harry asks referring to when they were at the manor. "Bellatrix. You knew it was me. You didn't say anything."

"Come on Draco. Don't be a prat. Let me kill the bitch then we can focus on him." Goyle whispers loudly into Draco's ear.

"No!" Draco shouts.

"Expelliarmus." Hermione casts from behind them. She manages to hit Crabbe and his wand goes flying out of his hand.

"Avada Kedavra." Goyle aims at Lorelai, missing her.

"Fucking hell." Draco says before tackling Goyle to the ground. "I will kill you if you hurt her."

Goyle, being much stronger than Draco, throws him to the ground and picks up his wand casting the killing curse once again, but this time to Hermione. Luckily she ducks just in time. Ron is furious. The three Slytherins run in direction of the door. Well, two Slytherins. Crabbe and Goyle practically drag Draco with them. Ron just runs after them. Wand in hand. Ready to get Goyle for nearly killing Hermione.

"That's my girlfriend you numpty!" He yells.

"Girlfriend?" Lorelai asks.

"It's a long story." Hermione says trying her best to hide a smile but failing miserably.

Harry starts to climb the mountainous pile of junk next to him, the diadem must have flown out of his hands amongst all of the chaos. Lorelai and Hermione climb behind him helping him get junk out of the way. A dozen of Cornish Pixies fly directly in front of Lorelai nearly making her lose her balance and falling to the ground, but Hermione grabs onto her hand just in time.

"Found it." Harry says. They jump down to the ground.

"Run!" They hear Ron yell. He continues to scream as he gets closer to the trio. A bright orange light behind him. "Goyle's setting the bloody place on fire!"

Lorelai's eyes nearly bulge out of her head when she sees a giant fire serpent following behind Ron. They run the opposite direction as fast as they can but fire serpents were coming from everywhere, slowly trapping them. Harry shoots a spell to the piles of junk hoping that he can buy them a bit of time hut the fire goes straight through. They run until they have nowhere else to go. Fire was racing towards them from all sides. This was it for them.

"Lorelai!" She hears Draco shout just as Harry casts a water shielding spell giving them a few more seconds. Ron stumbles back upon a couple of brooms.

"Guys!" He throws a broom at each one of them and they get on, flying above the fire to their safety. Lorelai looked in every direction trying to find Draco.

"Come on, this way!" Ron leads.

"Wait!" She shouts, catching a glimpse of Draco and Crabbe. Goyle was no where to be found. "We need to get Draco!"

"We can't leave them." Harry says.

"Their joking, right?"

Lorelai turns back her broom and goes to where Draco was previously standing, but she doesn't see him, at first. "Draco!" She shouts before finding him hanging onto his life. Fingers starting to slip off. She sticks out her hand reaching for him and misses. She quickly circles back and tries again. Every second wasted is a second Draco gets closer to his death. This time she reaches his hand and pushes him onto her broom. Harry doing the same with Crabbe. Once he is situated, Draco wraps his arms around the girl he loves and places his head in the crook of her neck.

"You're okay, thank Merlin you're okay." He says barely audible.

Lorelai zooms past the flames making sharp turns in order to avoid being burnt. Losing track of her surroundings, she only realizes they've left the Room of Requirement when her body hits the ground. Hard. Draco immediately gets up and runs to her side making sure she is okay and he helps her up. The diadem was just a few feet away from them. Crabbe was long gone.

"Lorelai!" Hermione shouts.

Draco turns his head to where she is just to see a Basalisk fang being thrown at him. Not even thinking twice, he grabs the fang. He knows that this fang would be able to destroy the diadem. His mum had told him beforehand that the only things able to destroy Voldemort's horcruxes were the sword of Gryffindor and the Basalisk fang. Something washes over him, and he no longer fears anything. He no longer feels the need to do as his father says. All he knows is that standing right next to him was the girl he loves, and she's all that mattered. He runs to the diadem and stabs it, being thrown back against the wall by the part of Voldemort's soul that shoots out of it.

Lorelai rushes to his side as Ron kicks the destroyed horcrux into the fire. At contact, the fire takes shape of Voldemort's head, but before anything could happen, the door closes, trapping the fire inside. They were safe. Harry, Ron and Hermione glance at eachother making sure that what they just saw really happened. Then they turn their heads to the blond boy who is currently sitting on the floor, with his girlfriend wrapped in his arms.

"Draco, do you know what you just did?" She asks in pure glee.

"I just destroyed the bloody horcrux, that's what I did." He gasps, still not grasping on to what just happened. It takes him a minute, but when he finally does, he smiles.

"Damn right you just destroyed a horcrux."

Two chapters in one day!
As you can see, I changed it up a bit. Hope you liked it!