The Daughter Of Snape

Chapter seven: Expecto Patronum

I am laying in my bed and can't sleep. I hear weird noises but I don't know where it is coming from. I guess from the common room, but I am not sure. I try to ignore it but I keep hearing rustlings. I am too curious so I go out of my bed, put on my robe and walk out of the dorm into the common room. I see nothing so I walk into the hall. The sounds seem to come from the end of the hall. When I get closer to the end of the hall it seems as if I am hearing voices.

Suddenly I am grabbed by my arm. I am trying to loosen up and see Draco, "What are you doing here?!", he says angrily. "I was just cu-", I stutter. "Hold my hand, don't let go and act normal", he grabs my hand really tight. We walk into another hall and end up in a crowd of people dressed in black. They all look so angry and I have never seen this people before. It makes me scared. "Draco, please let go. I don't want to be here", I whimper, trying to get my loose my hand. He is holding my hand even firmer. "Shut up!", he looks at me angry and penetratingly. But in his eyes I also see.. fear. 

"Now!", he pulls me out of the crowd, into another hall. He keeps looking back, but fortunately nobody noticed. At the beginning of the hall I see a kind of black smoke, I am not sure if it is smoke, it is so bad to see. "Draco, look ahead, what is that?", I point to the beginning of the hall. The smoke seems to be ... growing. I feel him squeezing my hand. The look on his face changes from worried to terrified. "Dementors", his voice is quivering. 

My dad learned me everything about dementors, but I never seen them before, till now. "We have to go back", I pull his hand. "We can't go back to the Death Eaters, Zara", he pulls me along. The dementors are getting closer and closer, it seems as if they are becoming more and more. "Grab your wand!", I yell. "What?!", he looks at me confused. "Your wand! Now!", I yell. "I count down, alright?", I look into his eyes. He nods. "One, two, three, now! Expecto patronum!", it works. It's tough, we both use all the power we have. It seems to take hours. It is slowly diminishing. I look in front of me, all the dementors are gone. I look directly to the side, to Draco. "We did it!", I wrap my arms around his neck. He leaves a deep sigh, I feel his hands on my lower back. 

We walk back to the common room. "I never done something like this, like something this big", he whispers. I look to him, smile and look back at the ground "me neither". We walk back in silence. 

We are in front of my dorm. "You feel safe? I mean I can sleep on your couch if you-", he says as he stands in front of me. I touch his arm, "I feel safe, thank you", I interrupt. I smile to him and we both walk into our dorms.