by your side. [ d. malfoy ]

➵ | forty- one, im not allowed to talk about my father.

— umbridge's office was a horrible place. thana had gone in after harry went out and he didn't look very happy. the office was filled with cat stuff and as she entered the room the professor herself was peacefully drinking something. she felt uncomfortable being watched by all the cats on the plates on the wall. she chose to ignore umbridge's 'friendly' greeting and walked up to her desk. "take a seat so we can get started." thana did as she was told and when she was told that she was going to write some lines she reached for her quill. "harry did the same thing but you'll be using a special one of mine." something was off about it and she found out what when she started to write down the sentence she was told to write down: 'i am not allowed to speak about my father'

the moment that the quill touched the paper she felt a burning pain on her arms. when she looked she saw the words written in her skin. i am not allowed to speak about my father. "how many times?" she asked coldly, clenching her jaw as she tried to remain calm. "until i say you can stop." she scoffed and focused on the paper again. "now tell me about malfoy. he seemed protective over you during class, mhm?" thana's eyes didnt leave the quill. "we're in the same house, he's a prefect and we used to be friends. thats it." umbridge chuckled and after an hour she finally let thana go again. the girl quickly ran outside and just wanted to go to bed and hope the wounds would be gone when she woke up. she was almost there when she accidentally bumped into the last person she'd want to talk to right now.

"hello riddle, you know you can't be here at this time so i'll have to-" he immediately stopped talking when he noticed the words carved in her skin. without saying anything he rolled up her sleeve and stared at the words on her arms. "they're on my chest too but i'm not letting you see those." thana said coldly, she just wanted to leave but draco was blocking the way. "what happened? was this a stupid prank from fred? what does it say?" all the questions he asked made her head spin and she decided answering them would be the best way to get out of there, "detention, no fred wouldn't do that and it says 'i am not allowed to speak about my father.' fun fact: umbridge made me write it down with a special quill and now i just want to go to bed so if you would let me through i would appreciate it." she tried to push him away but he didn't let her. "are you okay?"

the look in his eyes changed, he was back to being the boy who would comfort her whenever she felt sad, the boy who would sit and wait for her to wake up whenever she was in the hospital wing, the boy who had held her so many times. they both seemed to notice his sudden change of attitude and he cleared his throat. "i'll give you a warning. goodnight riddle."

•••

the next day almost all the words had disappeared. it didn't take long for her to find the twins, "hello love." he kissed the top of her head and thana immediately forgot about everything that had happened with umbridge and draco. "your hand," fred said, the smile fell off his face and he carefully took her hand in his. "i had detention, umbrigde made me write lines." she shrugged it off and awkwardly looked around. "i have to find harry but i'll talk to you later okay? good luck with the business." she winked and kissed his cheek before turning around and almost immediately saw him leaving the great hall. "harry!" the boy turned around and sighed in relief when he recognised her. "did she do it to you too?" harry asked once thana had caught up with him. "yeah." harry nodded and shrugged a bit, "hermione and ron want me to report this but what could they do? you understand that it's not that easy right?" thana nodded and sighed, "she has the ministry on her side and you using magic outside of school and me being voldemorts daughter doesn't make us their favourite people."

•••

thana had barely entered the great hall later that day when everyone left to listen to the conversation between mcgonagall and umbrigde. thana quickly went over to harry, ron and hermione and listened to what they were saying. she felt freds arms around her and the safe feeling was back. "merely your medieval methods." the brunette turned and smiled at fred, "but to question my practices is to question the ministry." she felt fred get slightly pushed and just a second later draco stood besides them. "what? just trying to see what's going on." he said innocently after thana shot him a glare.