(Ophelia's POV)
"Can everybody see me? Can you all...hear me?" Lockhart smirks
"I don't wanna be here! I don't wanna be here! I don't wanna be here!" I repeat as Draco and Pansy drag me by each hand while Blaise, Eliott, the Weasley Twins walk behind me into Lockhart's dueling club.
He only started this 'club' so that he can make everyone forget about that Creevey kid getting petrified
"See you later, Eliott" the twins say in unison as they walk over to the Gryffindor side
"I have Professor Snape here to assist me" Lockhart continues while Snape emotionlessly walks up the stage
"Now today I will be teaching you how to block spells" Lockhart explains
"Why are we here anyways?" I groan
"I dunno this seems fun" Pansy grins
"I'd rather sit by the Whomping Willow" I mumble as I cross my arms
"1...2...3-" Lockhart starts
"EXPELLIARMUS" Snape shouts and suddenly Lockhart was thrown across the room
"Hey Lockhart I thought you were supposed to block the spell" I shout as the whole room laughs at Lockhart
"Yes well, that was just an example of what not to do" Lockhart groans as he quickly gets up
"But it was pretty obvious what you were about to do Professor Snape"
"Is that why you didn't block his spell?" Pansy sarcastically asks
"Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells, Professor" Snape says
"An excellent suggestion Professor Snape! Uh..let's have a volunteer pair." Lockhart stutters
"Potter and Weasley, how about you?"
"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest of spells, we would be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox" Snape sneers
"Well then, how about Potter and Granger?" Lockhart grins
"Might I suggest that pair against a pair from my own house, Malfoy and Mendoza perhaps" Snape shrugs as he turns around and signals us to come up
"YEEES GO GO GO" Eliott shouts receiving a glare from Snape as Draco as I confidently walk on stage followed by Potter and Granger walking up
I grab my wand out of my pocket, gripping it tightly, I'm nervous but I can't show it
"Wands at the ready" Lockhart starts, all four of us in unison put out wand up to our faces
"Scared Potter?" Draco says
"You wish" Potter responds
"You're the ones who should be scared" Granger spits
"Oh please" I smirk
All four of us walk our separate ways
"On the count of three cast your charms to disarm your opponent. Only to disarm!" Lockhart explains
"One...two-"
"Everte Statum!" Draco shouts as his spell hits Potter
"Flipendo!" I shout right after hitting Granger
Both get knocked back, spinning around before falling and quickly get up
"Rictumsempra!" Potter hits Draco and he is flung back all the way where Snape was I turn around as I watch him fall on his arse and Snape quickly picks him up and pushes him
"Immobulus!" Granger shouts before I can even turn around and I'm unable to move
"Finite Incantatem" Draco mutters quickly bring me back to my normal state
"That wasn't a disarming spell Granger!" I shout and she just shrugs
"Serpensortia!" Draco quickly says causing a serpent to shoot out of his wand
Everyone freezes as the serpent slithers over to Potter and Granger hissing. Draco proudly smirks as we watch.
"I'll get rid of it Harry" Lockhart confidently says as he walks towards the serpent
"Alarte Ascendare!"
The serpent then gets flung in the air then comes back down unharmed. Lockhart, who expected for the serpent to disappear looked around the room as people murmured all around him
Potter slowly walks up to serpent and starts hissing and almost speaking another language
"Parseltongue" I whisper as Draco slowly pushes himself in front of me
The serpent then turns its attention to a Hufflepuff kid in the crowd and slowly gets closer and closer, while Potter hissing the same phrases over and over again, almost looking like Potter was telling the snake to attack. Snape then moves us aside
"Vipera Evanesca" he says and the snake disappears as if it was burning
The whole room is silent
"What are you playing at?" The Hufflepuff says, Potter looks confused looking around the room, all of us starting at him
"Well um...you are all dismissed" Lockhart stutters
Draco and I quickly get off stage and join our friends.
"I'm not crazy right? You guys heard it too?" I whisper and my friends all nod
"I mean I heard it, but what the hell was it?" Eliott asks
"Parseltongue, snake language" I explain as we all exit the room
"Wait, that's sick!" Eliott exclaims
"No it's not, what if he's..you know..the heir" I whisper
"What are you saying?" Draco asks
"Well if you think about it, who else spoke Parseltongue?" I ask
"Salazar Slytherin" Pansy responds
"And what house did the sorting hat want to put Potter in?" I continue
"Slytherin" Blaise says
"And does anybody else in this school speak parseltongue" I ask
"No.." Draco mumbles
"But do you remember what was written on the wall?" Blaise asks
"Enemies of the heir beware, muggle-borns"
"Why would Potter want to hurt muggle-borns if he's friends with one" Pansy asks quickly glancing at Eliott
"But if he is...the heir...I'm gonna die aren't I? Eliott asks
"Eliott your not gonna-" I try to say but he cuts me off
"I'm gonna die!" he repeats louder, in defeat
"Eliott-" I sigh
He ignores me and walks up to two first year girls that are chatting away and taps them on the shoulder, then bends down to their level
"Hey guess what? I'm gonna die soon!" he enthusiastically says then without a word keeps walking
"See you at quidditch practice!" he turns around and yells from across the hallway then turns back around
"Or not!" he adds spinning around
"Who knows! I might die on the way there!" then he turns back around and casually walks away
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(A/N: Eliott is literally my favorite character in the whole world)
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Fanfiction「 My love is gone 」 - - Follow Ophelia Mendoza in her years at Hogwarts along with her best friends Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, and Draco Malfoy. As the years go by is Ophelia more involved in this than she thought? What happens when two best fr...
