the wrong choice // d.l.m.

six

"good afternoon, class." a woman said as she walked between the two rows of students, brooms resting on the ground to the right of everyone.

"good afternoon, madame hooch." the class said in unison and y/n giggled quietly to herself as she thought of the twins.

"welcome to your first flying lesson! what are you waiting for? step up to your broomstick. come on now, hurry up. stick your hand over the broom and say, "up!""

the children with their right hands over the brooms began to frantically say "up". y/n, who was stood on her houses side but in front of harry with ron to his right and hermione to his left, watched as harry picked up his broom almost effortlessly. y/n beamed at him as he smiled at her.

finally lifting her right hand out, y/n said "up" and the broom flew into her hand with no hesitation. it was then harry's turn to silently applaud her.

marley looked at the broom in y/n's hand, "how in the bloody hell did you do that so quickly?"she asked, a light giggle leaving her lips after. only two kids down from y/n on the right side stood draco malfoy who had his broom in his hands already as well.

she looked at him, though he was already looking at her, a smirk on his face. y/n just rolled her eyes and went back to focusing on ron and hermione in front of her that still had yet to pick up their brooms.

ron looked rather frustrated with his broom, now screaming "up" as his face grew more and more red. not soon after, the broom flew up, hitting the ginger boy in his face. both y/n and harry laughed lightly at him and he looked between the two with a smile on his face. "shut up, you two."

the children were then instructed to mount their brooms, and they did. madame hooch blew her whistle and the children kicked off the ground. a boy y/n had seen before began to fly higher and higher off the ground as he began to grow frantic.

"mr. longbottom!" madame hooch exclaimed. the boy soon flew past everyone while students from his house called out his name. he flew in the air, shaking and moving in a bunch of different ways. his broom flung him around as he called for help.

y/n didn't even know what to do besides stare at the boy and become worried about his safety while the rest of the slytherin house laughed. the boy whose name had been revealed as "neville" flew towards the school, hitting the sides of it and soon flew down towards the group of students, causing everyone to jump quickly out of the way. his broom flew up and the boy eventually lost control, now dangling from a statue that rested near the top of the castle.

y/n and everyone else ran over towards him, watching as his robe began to rip. he soon began to fall and landed on his side. y/n gasped loudly and madame hooch moved everyone out of the way to see if he had been hurt.

"is he alright?" y/n asked, not to anyone in particular.

"oh dear, it's a broken wrist. poor boy, come on now, up you get." madame hooch quickly led neville away from the group of students and towards the hospital wing, telling everyone to stay on the ground.

"did you see his face?" malfoy started, holding something that belonged to the boy that had just been escorted away. "maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he'd remember to fall on his fat arse."

y/n rolled her eyes, about to say something but was soon cut off by harry, "give it here, malfoy."

malfoy turned towards harry, getting close to his face. just as y/n began to step up malfoy said, "no. i think i'll leave it somewhere for longbottom to find." draco then mounted his broom and flew up in the air, "how about on the roof?"

y/n watched as the blonde boy flew farther up and she was quick to hold her breath, praying that he wouldn't fall and become injured as well.

"what's the matter, potter? bit beyond your reach?"

harry glared at the boy and y/n knew exactly what he was about to do.

"harry no! you heard what madame hooch said!" y/n said, reaching up to place her hand on harry's shoulder. harry quickly brushed her hand off and flew into the air.

"what an idiot." hermione sighed from next to her as they both watched the scene unfold before them.

harry flew up towards malfoy, "give it here or i'll knock you off your broom!"

"is that so?"

harry reached for the remembrall and draco just flipped over his broom, dodging harrys hands.

"have it your way, then." and with that, draco chucked the glass ball as far as he could. he then flew down and landed softly on the grass.

y/n walked over to him and shoved him backwards, "what is wrong with you, malfoy! you could've been hurt!"

he just put on his famous smirk and chuckled at the girl, "caring about me now, are we?"

"oh please," y/n scoffed. "i may not like you, but i'm not bitter, and i don't want you to end up in the hospital wing like longbottom."

he just looked at her, and soon y/n could hear cheering from all of the students around her as they all ran up to harry who had successfully caught the remembrall. she ran over with the rest of the students who all congratulated him.

"harry potter!" professor mcgonagall yelled, causing the group to grow silent. "follow me."

harry walked off, as draco, goyle and crabbe laughed. y/n looked at them with an irritated face and walked towards pansy and marley, dragging them back to their dorm with her.

~

a few days later y/n was sat in her usual spot with marley and pansy at her sides for breakfast.

"hello there, beautiful." y/n looked up to be met with the blue eyes that belonged to the infamous draco malfoy.

y/n groaned and rolled her eyes, setting her spoon down onto the table. "what do you want, malfoy?" she spat.

"well," he sat down in front of her, and much like her, had his friends on either side of him too, "i just figured that after you've seemed to care about me and my well being so much, we might as well be dating."

this made pansy pick up her head, now interested in the conversation. y/n rolled her eyes again at the boy, "draco, i've told you this before, but it seems i'm going to have to tell you again. piss off."

draco hummed, "i love it when you say that, say it again."

soon after, an owl swooped down near the heads of the students. it dropped something right into the hands of harry who was sat at the gryffindor table. draco looked over angrily and scoffed while y/n just smiled.

pushing her bowl away, y/n stepped away from the bench. "if either of you need me i'm going to be in the library studying for my potions test today." she said, talking mainly to marley and pansy, but draco overheard.

"aren't you going to the quidditch game?" draco asked, "slytherin is playing gryffindor."

"i know, why do you think harry got that new broomstick? he's the new house seeker." y/n told the boy proudly as she watched his face again morph into one of anger. before he could say anything back she quickly grabbed her belongings and walked away.