Young Warrior

Chapter 13 - Family

I woke up well-rested. No nightmares last night and I was thankful. I packed all my things to go back to Hogwarts. I was nervous about telling Harry that we're cousins, that we're family, but surprisingly Draco was right. It's been on my mind a lot recently, I didn't think it was that noticeable.

After I packed all my things I walked downstairs to see Draco. Like always he was sitting at the table, in the same chair, eating breakfast. I sit next to him.

"When are Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy getting back?" I asked him. "Another week or so,"  he told me looking very tired. "I don't have to go back if you-" he interrupts me "No go ahead I'll be fine." I nodded. "So I have a plan for this morning..."

he picks his head up and looks at me with those bluish grey eyes. He notices I'm wearing the earrings and he smiles. "What do you have planned?" he asks me. "Well since you asked Malfoy... I noticed you don't have a pet. Hermione got her cat Crookshanks in September, around the same time I got Smokey." Draco stares at me for a second. "I have a family owl you know..." I raise a brow. "No I didn't know, where is it?" He points his fork to the window. "Since it's a family owl my parents have Ulysses now." I reply "See, Ulysses is not you're own though." he doesn't stop staring at me.

"C'mon, it doesn't even have to be an owl, I know you thought about having a pet at least once...What would it be?" I ask him. He half shrugs "I always wanted a dragon." he tells me. "A dragon? We cant get that Draco." he sighs. "I know...but how about another owl? I don't want a plain one like Potter's though," he tells me. "Okay, let's go to Diagon Alley to find an owl." He smiles and goes upstairs to get ready. After he's done we make our way to Diagon Alley.

When we get there we go into the Magical Menagerie, almost every wich and wizard got their magical creature here. We look around for a few minutes but nothing seems to please Draco. All of a sudden I can see his eyes widen, his face lights up, and a mischievous grin forms on his face. He runs over to an owl cage all the way in the back.

The cage was halfway covered with an old grey blanket. He slowly pulled off the blanket to reveal a mighty owl. Its feathers on its body are tinted red and the feathers on its head are a light brown. Its eyes were a big and bright greyish color with a hint of blue, just like Dracos. It had two green feathers on the top of the sides of its head that pointed upwards, it looked like horns.

The owner of the store comes up behind us, "Ah yes, this is a beautiful and very rare owl. His feathers are colored because of his magical abilities. The only problem with this owl is that he never seems to like anyone. Most magical creatures bond with their owner as soon as they meet. This one doesn't even have a name." She says. Draco gets close to the cage and he sticks his finger through the bars. The owl rubs his black pointy beak on his finger. The woman looks astonished. "This owl has chosen you indeed." Draco smiles. "I'll take him!" he tells her still grinning.

As we leave the store we go across the street for ice cream. We sit down at a table outside and Draco has his owl in his own seat. We get our ice cream, Draco and I both ordered strawberry. "What are you going to name him?" I asked. "This... is Dragon," he says proudly. I smile, "I like it," I tell him. "Far better than Smokey." He says and I roll my eyes.

"Smokey is a cool name!" I say annoyed. He laughs "I know, I know." I and Draco spent the rest of the morning in Diagon Alley. I had already put all my things in his car before we left. About a few hours later Draco had gone with me to the train station and I had left back to Hogwarts. 

The train was pretty empty. Not everyone was going back to Hogwarts now, most are still on their break. Some students liked to get their early though for many reasons, like setting up their dorm and some 5th years were studying for their OWLS test. I had my own booth and it was quite relaxing.