Malfoy was furious.

How dare Slughorn send him a death eater costume for Halloween. How could he possibly wear this, even as a joke?

He picked up the mask and examined it. "It's incredibly detailed, I wonder how Slughorn knows all these details?" He thought.

Deciding he wouldn't wear the costume, Malfoy got dressed in his regular robes and went to find Blaise.

"I'm going to talk to Hermione tonight after dinner. I wonder what she would be dressed as." Malfoy thought dreamily as he walked.

"Oh I'm sorry!" Malfoy said as he bumped into someone. He straightened up and looked at who he bumped into.

Another death eater!

The death eater just looked at him and then walked away without saying anything.

Malfoy tried to clear his head, trying to focus on what to tell Hermione but he was distracted when he spotted another death eater.

"Draco, where is your costume?" Pansy said, walking towards him wearing robes like the weird sisters.

"I guess Slughorn didn't get me one." Malfoy lied. "Did you just see someone dressed as a death eater?" He asked looking around.

"No, I don't think anyone would be dressed as a death eater. Some people think it would be too insensitive." Pansy said rolling her eyes.

"Well, you look nice." Malfoy said glad she Wasn't wearing death eater robes. He didn't think he could handle another day avoiding Pansy and her extreme views.

"Really?" Pansy said, her voice going high and a face split into a huge smile.

"Darling, let's go if we don't want to be late." Nox said from behind her. He was dressed as a vampire and looked a little irritated to see her with Malfoy.

"Yes, coming!" Pansy said, still smiling as she turned to leave, arm in arm with Nox.

Finally Malfoy found Blaise and Daphne. They had been snogging near the fire, both dressed as Thestrals.

Waiting patiently until their lips parted, Malfoy dragged Blaise with him down to the dinner hall.

"Slow down, Daphne said she would join us with her sister." Blaise said.

"Her sister! You think that's a good idea after what happened at Hogsmead?" Malfoy snapped.

"What really happened? She wouldn't say either." Blaise said, looking at his friend in concern.

"Let's just say that we don't get along." Malfoy said dully, stomping towards the great hall.

Blaise followed quietly.

"What was your costume?" Malfoy asked suddenly realising Blaise did now wear his either.

"Same as you." Blaise said softly. They sat in silence. Malfoy looked down the Slytherin table and saw that there were no other students dressed as death eaters.

"Why only us?" He groaned.

By the end of the feast, Slughorn stood up and said. "Halloween wouldn't really be complete without a game of trick or treat!"

Suddenly owls swooped down and landed in front of the students.

"Remember you can only open one box. Once you open the chosen box, the other will vanish." Slughorn continued.

"Trick or treat!" Blaise said excitedly looking at the black and white boxes.

Malfoy was not as excited. His family followed the same trick or treat tradition and the memory of it was enough to spoil his mood.

Once the feast was over, the tables were cleared and everyone began to mingle. It reminded him of the Yule ball except that everyone was dressed up differently for Halloween. Malfoy pocketed the treat he got from the owl which he kept as a good luck charm.

Malfoy looked around and realised that Blaise had disappeared. "Probably gone back to snog Daphne." Malfoy thought rolling his eyes.

He focusses his attention to find Hermione. He looked around and found Harry, Ron and Ginny standing in the corner.

He wondered why Harry wasn't wearing his costume either.

"Hello!" came the voice he was waiting to hear all day.

"Granger!" Malfoy said involuntarily.

Hermione just laughed.

"You look great!" Malfoy said looking at her bookmark costume which completely his her except for her face and yet she still looked so beautiful.

"Yea rite, Slughorn's fascination with inanimate objects seems pretty apparent don't you think?" She said indicating everyone else.

She wasn't wrong. Although many students has costumes of other famous witches and wizards, there were a large number of students dressed as things like pumpkins and teacups. He even saw one student dressed as a chocolate frog.

"Yea, I can't imagine how McGonagal agreed to this." Malfoy laughed.

"Me too!" Hermione said smiling.

"So where is your costume?" She asked.

"Don't feel like wearing it." He shrugged. Then he took a deep breath. He had to do it now.

"Hermione-" Malfoy said at the same time Hermione said "Malfoy-"

Then they laughed.

"You go first." Malfoy said politely.

"I was just going to say that the others need me." Hermione said, Malfoy turned around to see Ginny waving at her to leave.

"Oh ok." Malfoy said nervously.

"What were you going to say?" Hermione asked.

"It's nothing, never mind." Malfoy said, going red.

"Tell me! They will wait." Hermione pressed.

"Later, this is not something to be rushed." Malfoy said. Hermione looked at him for a moment and then gave him a small smile.

"See you around then." She said.

"Yea, later." Malfoy said dully, watching her walk away.

"Another day wasted." He sighed.

He watched Hermione join Harry, Ron and Ginny and then they left the great hall.

"Your friends leaving so soon?" Pansy sneered. Malfoy ignored her and walked away.

He spotted Blaise and Daphne snogging behind a suit of armour. Suddenly feeling down, he decided to go back to the dungeons alone.

Malfoy walked alone feeling like he missed a good opportunity to tell Hermione how he felt about her when he heard Ron call out her name.

Malfoy's heart began beating rapidly. The tone of Ron's voice scared him. He knew something was wrong.

Without hesitating he ran in the direction where he heard the sounds of Ron and Ginny. To his horror he found himself staring at a circle of death eaters chanting in a strange tongue.

Harry and Hermione were unconscious on the ground while Ron and Ginny struggled to stay conscious. Ginny had her wand out and was muttering something, but nothing happened.

Without thinking, Malfoy jumped into action. He ran forward and yelled.

"Stupefy!"

The death eaters stopped chanting, they pulled out their wands and began shooting spells back at him.

Malfoy dove behind a wall for cover, narrowly missing a stinging curse.

"Stupefy!" He shouted.

The death eaters began to run, they were dragging Harry, Ron and Hermione with them.

Ginny was the only one still standing. She was fighting with every bit of energy she had, pulling Harry out of their grip.

Malfoy panicked when he saw them take Hermione.

"Leave her alone!" He yelled running straight into them, throwing one of them onto the ground hitting his head on the stone ground hard.

Everything became fast and blurry. He could see black robes zooming around him and few more flash of lights.

Unable to stand up, he crawled to the blurry figure he was sure was Hermione and then collapsed next to her.

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Malfoy to the rescue!!

But was he successful? Who were those death eaters who came to attack Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny.

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