the wrong choice // d.l.m.

twenty five

y/n stood by dracos side in the great hall as they watched students approach the goblet of fire, throwing their names into the flames. they stood silently until a group of older boys walked in. she only knew one however, cedric diggory, who was in hufflepuff. they had spoken very few times, but he was a sweetheart and was always so kind to her.

his friends threw him into the magical ring and he smiled proudly before placing his name into the cup. he turned around and noticed y/n's eyes, sending a wink her way. luckily, draco wasn't paying attention so he hadn't said anything. cedric then returned his attention to his group of friends and y/n turned hers to her boyfriend.

"what's wrong, love?" she asked as he stared down at his shoes. she placed a comforting hand on his shoulder and he looked up, placing a soft kiss to her cheek, incredibly close to her lips. he allowed his lips to linger for a moment before he finally said something.

"nothing. just thinking."

"about?" she questioned but he shook his head. if he didn't want to talk about it she wasn't going to force him. instead she leaned her head on his shoulder and continued to watch all of the students.

not too long after, the weasley twins came running in, screaming with joy. y/n smiled at them. even though she was no longer friends with ron, she still loved the twins and they still loved her.

"well, lads, we've done it. cooked it up just this morning." she heard them say. they had created an aging potion so they could enter the tournament. they stood on a bench and beamed at each other.

"ready, fred?" "ready, george?" they spoke at the same time. "bottoms up." they then linked arms and downed the potion they had created. the room grew silent as everyone watched them. they jumped into the circle and when nothing happened everyone cheered. they placed their pieces of parchment into the goblet and began to yell with joy once again.

after a couple of seconds, blue flames started spilling out from the cup, hitting the twins and flinging them several feet backwards. y/n couldn't help but laugh at their failed attempt to enter. when they sat up, they began to grow white hair and white beards.

"you said!" they both shouted at the same time as they began to wrestle on the ground. the sight of this actually brought a smile and a chuckle to dracos face and y/n was more than pleased as she watched her boyfriends mood change.

while the twins still fought on the ground, the students grew quiet as viktor krum and his high master walked in. the students that were by the ring all parted to allow them to go through. krum walked with confidence in his step and everyone watched in awe.

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the time was here when the contestants for the tournament would be announced. y/n, marley and pansy sat on the benches while draco and his friends sat on the tables, pansy sat between blaises legs and y/n sat between dracos, leaning back on his lower abdomen.

"sit down, please." dumbledore called as the students that were still standing quickly found spots. "now the moment you've all been waiting for, the champion selection!"

y/n smiled and rested her arms on dracos thighs. she looked up at him and he pressed another kiss to her cheek, his blonde hair tickling her face.

dumbledore reached his hand up to catch the first name that the goblet of fire spit out, it's once blue flames turning pink, "the durmstrang champion is viktor krum!"

the champion from beauxbatons was fleur delacour and the champion from hogwarts turned out to be cedric. when his name was called y/n clapped, he looked so happy to be chosen.

"excellent! we now have our three champions!" dumbledore exclaimed, "but in the end, only one will go down in history. only one will hoist the chalice of champions, this vessel of victory, the triwizard cup!"

y/n and her friends clapped rapidly, more than excited to watch the challenges that were soon to come. the room grew quiet when the goblet of fire began to spit out another name and everyone looked around in confusion. another piece of parchment was thrown out and dumbledore grabbed it, reading the name.

"harry potter." he spoke quietly, "harry potter?"

y/n's eyes grew wide as she scanned the group of students for harry.

"harry potter!" dumbledore yelled and harry finally stood up and walked to the front of the room where the other contestants stood. y/n stared at him in worry, afraid for him.

"oh my god." y/n spoke softly to herself. marley turned towards her, worry on her face as well.

"why was harry's name called?" she whispered.

"i don't know." y/n said, never taking her eyes off of the raven haired boy.

"he's a cheat!" "he's not even 17 yet!" voices said in the crowd. y/n knew harry wouldn't have been stupid enough to put his name in the goblet. in fact, y/n had been in the great hall almost every day while students entered the tournament and not once had she ever gotten suspicious that harry would try to cheat his way in.

dumbledore instructed the students to go back to their dorms, and y/n was quick to stand and walk to the slytherin room.

"i don't understand," she said as she walked with her friends, "how could harry's name be called?"

draco scoffed, "who cares. i'm just excited to watch him fail the first task."

"don't be a git, draco." marley said and he glared at her.

"it's not funny. he could be seriously injured, or even worse, killed." y/n said to her snickering boyfriend. she watched as he stuck his hands in his front pockets while he shrugged.

"why do you care so much?" he quizzed, "it's not like you two have spoken in the last two years."

"draco, for the love of merlin, i've told you before. we may not be friends but i still care for his well being." y/n spat as he rolled his eyes.

"yeah, yeah. whatever."

once they had all reached the dungeons they spilled swiftly into the common room. marley went up to their dorm and pansy followed blaise to his shared one with draco, crabbe, and goyle. y/n and draco sat on the sofa quietly. after a long uncomfortable silence y/n stood.

"i'm gonna go up to my room." she went to walk away but draco grabbed her hand.

"please," he said as he looked into her eyes, "stay."

she nodded gently and sat back down. he wrapped his right arm around her, "i'm sorry. i know that you care for potter but that doesn't mean that i do."

she laughed lightly, "i know, and i don't expect you to. he's an arse anyway."

they sat together for awhile, watching the orange flames in front of them before they soon ventured off to their dorm rooms to get some sleep.