Barely Acquaintances

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"My father will hear about this"
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(3rd person)
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The train had finally arrived at Hogwarts and y/n, along with the rest of the students were just getting seated in the great hall for their start of year feast. The hall was lit up as beautifully as ever, and the gleeful sound of friends catching up after spending time apart put y/n at ease. Or as at ease as she could feel right now at least. The journey was a strange one to say the least, and y/n still wasn't quite sure what exactly Draco had meant when he said what he did.

"You look better"

It really wasn't much, but that didn't stop y/n from overthinking it, if it came from anyone else's lips she wouldn't even think twice about the small meaningless sentence, but Draco Malfoy's lips never said a thing like that to her, to anybody. If he did mean it as a compliment, then it wasn't the best she had ever received. But knowing him, he probably didn't mean well by it. As soon as she began to dwell on the blonde boy, y/n's thoughts were ripped from her mind as Pansy took a seat next to her. With a sly grin on her face, she looked to y/n,

"Did you hear what happened to Potter on the train? It's hilarious!" She laughed to her herself and left y/n clueless to the clearly very amusing events that had occurred just earlier that day. Just as she was about to ask what Pansy was talking about, a loud, recognisable voice came from near by.

"I can't believe it! Only Potter would be scared by that!" Draco sneered as he took a seat opposite the two girls with his sidekicks, Crabbe and Goyle laughing along with him. He had refused to even look at y/n since their encounter earlier on, although she had barely even noticed. It wasn't at all out of the ordinary for Malfoy to pretend she didn't exist. At this point, she was too intrigued to know what had happened to Potter to dwell on what he had said on the train.

Blaise, who was sat on y/n's other side, suddenly raised his had to point at something, or more, someone. He had gotten Dracos attention and suddenly it was as if they were reading each others mind as they began to giggle like little girls, then, all that could be heard was Malfoys shouted whispers,

"Potter..."

"...Potter!"

Harry, from the Gryffindor table next to the Slytherins, was now turned in his seat, looking into the ever so amused eyes of Draco Malfoy. He didn't say a word, but nonetheless, Draco continued on, clearly trying to get a reaction out of the boy, as usual.

"Is it true you fainted? I mean you actually fainted?"

Malfoy and his friends were joking about Harry apparently fainting on the train, how y/n hadn't heard about this sooner was surprising. Nevertheless, it was a funny thing to picture, silly little Potter fainting on the train. However, she would not give Draco the satisfaction of knowing she found him amusing. Instead, she simply rolled her eyes at him and continued to pile food from the banquet onto her plate.

"Oh shove off Malfoy" Harry's red headed friend sighed and pulled him back away from Draco, muttering something that he's probably lucky Malfoy didn't hear. The mop of platinum hair turned back around and continued smirking and joking with his friends. It was then that he must've caught on to y/n's unamused face.

"What's up Merlott? Don't tell me you're scared of a stupid Dementor too are you?" He spoke in such a sarcastic tone, but y/n wasn't focused on that, she had never heard of a dementor before, what was it?

"A what? What's a dementor?" She kept her voice low and unbothered but that didn't stop Draco laughing at the confused look on her face before digging into her some more.

"Didn't your parents tell you anything about what's going on this year? Father told me all about the dementors, Dumbledore has them surrounding the castle for some reason." He stated, rather matter of factly. And, as a matter of fact, he was right, her parents hadn't even mentioned this over the summer, which was strange as they usually told her everything they needed to, to make sure she was safe and out of harms way. Maybe it had simply slipped their minds. Y/n silently assured herself they were nothing to worry about.

"Anyway, knowing you," he practically spat, "you'll probably be scared shitless of them" of course the two boys either side of him cackled at his dig at y/n. This made her temperature rise. Y/n Merlott could take a lot, but she wouldn't take being humiliated and laughed at by Draco of all pathetic people.

"Oh shut up Malfoy" she sighed in attempt to keep her cool, standing up from her seated position, now leaning over the table to be in Dracos face, looking deep into his swirling grey eyes, she said clearly, "at least I'm not scared of my own father." Everyone gasped at her statement, even Pansy, but when y/n began to walk away from the great hall, she was right beside her and so together, they began making their way to the Slytherin dungeons together. Dracos sly remarks and "my father will hear about this" could be heard throughout the room but not once did they turn around.

If Malfoy was going to continue being his cold, harsh self, then y/n decided she could be worse. Two could play at that game, she thought.

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"I cannot believe him! I know you're braver than that Y/n! You wouldn't be scared of them stupid dementors anyway.." Pansy went off on a tangent, pacing back and forth as soon as the two got into the common room, after telling the few first years in there to get out. Y/n however, wasn't phased at all, she was sitting on the leather sofa gazing into the fire that was burning before them.

"Honestly Pans, it's not a big deal, thank you though" she sent a grateful smile to her friend before turning back to look at the flames. Shortly after, the two decided they should get an early night before classes started again tomorrow. Pansy had then disappeared up the stairs to their dormitories.

Y/n was appreciative of the short amount of alone time she had, it was something the students didn't get a lot of while at Hogwarts. Living with everyone else at the school wasn't easy at times, but she wouldn't change it for the world.

Her thinking time was cut short as two boys burst through the portrait door into the common room. From where she was sat, y/n had a perfect view of who it was, while staying rather hidden in the dark shadows of the dungeon.

"Yes but Draco, if you hadn't tried to embarrass her in front of everyone she wouldn't have said what she did," y/n recognised the voice to be Zabini, "honestly mate, you cause your own trouble sometimes." He laughed, and Malfoy evidently didn't like it.

"What's gotten into you Zabini? Anyone would think you fancied the brat. You could do better than someone like her you know." And of course, the second voice belonged to Malfoy, she could tell from a mile the way just from the way he spat his words.

"Whatever Malfoy," Zabini laughed at his friend, "goodnight" and he quietly went up to the boys dorms. Leaving just y/n and an unaware Draco in the common room, all the other Slytherins must either be asleep already or still in the hall chatting away.

Draco began to make his way over the fireplace where y/n was hiding, she was hoping the sofa would swallow her whole so she wouldn't have to be discovered and consequently speak to the boy. But of course, the sofa didn't swallow her whole, instead the flames lit up her face and she accidentally caught his eyes, instantly he jumped back, not expecting anyone else to be around.

"Y/n! What are you doing in here?" He coughed out, trying to hide that he was clearly scared of who it could've been sitting there.

"This is my common room too Malfoy, anyway, why are you wasting your time talking to a brat like me?" She quoted him from just a few seconds ago, standing up from her warm seat and walking towards the stairs, brushing past him. To her surprise, Draco actually didn't say anything, instead he stood still, with his mouth open, in shock.

However if y/n had turned around to look back at him, she'd had seen his bewildered, lost face staring back at her.

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Okay so I switched it to 3rd person for this chapter ! Let me know what you think and if you prefer it.

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