(y/n) - your name

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"Come on princess. We're here." Draco smirks lowly seeing his girlfriend whine in his arms as he held her up in the train compartment, her legs shaking as she leans her head against his chest. "Let's go." (y/n) gasps lightly as he leans down to pick her up bridal style, letting her cling onto him as he walked out of the train.

"Tired..."

"I know princess." he kisses her neck, letting her bury her head against his shoulder to hide her face while he carries her outside onto the platform. Draco ignored the other students staring at him and his Puff, them knowing that there was something obviously going on with the Slytherin and the Hufflepuff. They knew that they were more than friends now, more than just classmates but no one would dare confront Draco about it. 

The platinum blonde-haired boy walked up to his goons that followed behind him, passing the golden trio who looked at their friend warily. "What's wrong with her?" Ron asks.

"I still can't believe that they're dating..." Hermione whispers, a cheeky smile on her face knowing how cute the two of them were together even though they both were a pain in the ass.

"I can't believe it either..." Harry sighs out, a frown on his face as he watched the way Draco held (y/n) in his arms, a loving smile on his pale face when he leans down to kiss her forehead.

"You two get on that one, we'll catch the next carriage." the Slytherin orders his goons and they shrug, getting in the carriage before it starts moving away. "Princess, you can't fall asleep on me." he chuckles lightly hearing her ask why. "How am I supposed to get on the carriage?" the Hufflepuff grumbles as her boyfriend sets her down on her feet, exhausted as she yawned and rubbed her eyes.

(y/n) thought she was dreaming when she saw the carriage being pulled up to them by a black reptilian skeletal horse-like creature. "What the fuck..."

"What's wrong?" Draco asks, looking in the direction of where (y/n) was looking to just see a carriage.

"What is that?" she asks, the horse huffing out as cold air fogs around its nose. "The horse pulling the carriage."

"There's nothing there (y/n)..." the couple warily walks to the carriage to get on, noticing one other student sitting on it already.

Maybe I'm going mad-

"-you're not going mad." a soft voice speaks out from the other student, scaring (y/n) and wondering if she could read her mind.

"What is it?" the Hufflepuff leans back to see the golden trip with Neville standing in front of the carriage, Harry looking up at the horse.

"You can see it too!?" she asks him and he nods while the others say that they don't see anything.

"Saint Potter." Draco hissed in disdain as he gets on the carriage with the golden trip and Neville, pulling (y/n) next to him and holding her waist.

"Malfoy." Harry rolls his eyes, crossing his arms as everyone sat down comfortably.

"I can see them too." the mysterious student speaks up again, gaining everyone's attention as she lowers the magazine she was reading.

"What are they? These skeletal horses?" (y/n) asks as the carriage starts moving.

"They're called Thestrals. Only people who have seen death can see them." Harry and (y/n) both pale, the others looking at them with concern that they could see this creature.

When have I seen death?

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Draco took off his blazer as the winds got colder, draping it over (y/n)'s shoulders as she slept on his shoulder. He held her close, glaring at Harry who rolled his eyes. Hermione and Ron looked at each other warily at the two boys fighting silently.

The carriage came to a slow stop in front of the castle, Draco smirking at the idea to piss Harry off even more. "(y/n)... princess, wake up." he whispers, brushing his fingers against her cheeks as she hums against his touch. The Slytherin grins and leans down to hold her chin and kiss his Puff, making sure Harry would be fuming and he was successful when the boy jumps off the carriage to storm away. His friends dash off to chase after him, Neville and the other strange student leaving Draco and (y/n) together. "We're here princess." he pecks her lips over and over until she finally opens her eyes. "There she is, my lovely girl." he taps her chin up to kiss her nose sweetly, making her smile before he gets up and jumps off the carriage.

She yawns out as she gets up, holding her boyfriend's hand as he helped her down on the ground to walk together into the castle. "Hogwarts, man have I missed you." (y/n) stretches happily, sighing in the warmth of the various candles as people whisper about her and Draco walking in together

"Hungry?" he asks her and she nods. "Let's go get changed and we can go join everyone for dinner."

"Ok!" the Slytherin chuckles at his Puff's excitement, following her to the dungeon's corridor. He pulls her back before she could leave, stealing a quick kiss that makes her flush. "See you soon (y/n)."

"See you soon Draco." she blushes happily, leaning up to kiss her boyfriend once more before running off to change while he did the same. The two quickly changed in no time, Draco waiting outside the Hufflepuff House while fixing his uniform. He looks up once the door closes, flushing when he sees (y/n) in her uniform that may or may not have gotten smaller in size in certain aspects. "I need to get a bigger size-" she yelps when he grabs her arm and pulls her behind an empty corner, pushing her against a wall to kiss her.

"Merlin, you're just so pretty (y/n)..." Draco moans lowly against her lips, pushing his body against hers as his hands roam all over her body. "So fucking pretty." he groans when she moans his name, breaking the kiss to press his lips against her neck as he pushes her skirt up her legs.

"Draco~" she gasps out when he bites down on her neck, sucking on her sweet spot as his hands move up to grasp her ass and pull her flush against him. "We have to go-" she sighs blissfully as her hands grip her boyfriend's shoulders, her breath hitching when he moves to unbutton her shirt to leave a dark mark on her collarbone. "Draco!" he smirks against her skin, leaning back to see the mark bloom on her skin before trailing kisses back up her neck to her lips, biting down gently on her bottom lip.

"I can't help it..." he sighs as he leans back, his body already begging him to lean back into his girlfriend.

"Well, too bad 'cause we're going to be late and I'm hungry." (y/n) huffs as she gently pushes her boyfriend back before buttoning up her shirt again and fixing her appearance.

"Fine, fine. Can't keep my princess hungry." Draco chuckles lowly, stealing one more kiss before grabbing his girlfriend's hand and pulling her to the Great Hall. The couple walks into the chatter-filled room, students catching up with their friends. "Astronomy tower after?" he asks the girl next to him as she nods, kissing the top of her head before they split away to go to their tables.

"About time!" Hermione huffs when she sees (y/n) walk up to the tables, waving a fork at her as she went to sit down next to her at the Gryffindor table. The Hufflepuff saw how other people purposely avoided Harry, frowning at their attitude towards him. The four friends talked and ate their dinner together when Dumbledore welcomes the students back for another year, making announcements about Hagrid being on temporary leave and a new teacher taking over DADA.

"Whos the pink flamingo?" Ron and Harry snort out their drinks at (y/n) remark, trying so hard not to burst out laughing.

"She works for Fudge-" Harry coughs out, laughing behind his hand. "-she was at my hearing."

"Why is she here?" (y/n) asks, hearing the professor clear her throat to cut Dumbledore off from his speech. "Yeah, I don't like her." Everyone turns to look at her as she stands up, a sickly sweet smile on her face as she walked to the front to address the students. "Does this mean that the ministry is meddling with Hogwarts?"

"I think so." Hermione purses her lips, the friends looking at each other warily.

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Students started leaving the Great Hall, all excited for the new year while (y/n) looked for Draco. "(y/n)!" the girl turns around to the voice calling for her, eyes wide seeing Cedric running up to her.

"Cedric. What's up?"

"Thank you." that confused the female Hufflepuff, wondering what the thank you was for.

"For what?"

"I don't know how you did it but thank you for saving my life." Cedric says and (y/n) narrows her eyes, whipping around to look at harry who shudders and turns around to see her looking at him.

"Get over here." she hisses out and he quickly runs over, afraid to get scolded. "Did he tell you?" she points to the Gryffindor and the male Hufflepuff nods. "Harry-"

"-I'm sorry! It slipped ok!"

"I just don't know how you got to the graveyard, how you managed to find us-"

"-don't overthink it, Cedric. Really." (y/n) tries to sway him to drop it.

"I don't know how to repay you back. You literally saved my life."

"I suggest you stay away from these two Diggory." the three turn around to see Seamus and Dean. "The Daily Prophet's been saying a lot of things about you two and Dumbledore."

"Me? Why me?" (y/n) asks warily, Seamus throwing a piece of newspaper at the floor to see her picture and Harry's with the heading of plotters. 

"These two are just making all sorts of crazy claims about seeing you-know-you!" Seamus snaps, students starting to circle around them. "They're liars! Absolutely mad I tell you and she's dangerous-" Seamus grunts painfully when he falls to the floor, holding his jaw as Draco sneered above him.

"Talk to her like that again and I promise that punch won't be the last," He hisses, shaking his hand that he used to punch Seamus. "The rest of you leave now!" he orders and everyone scatters to their dorms, including Seamus who runs away.

"Thank you again (y/n)!" Cedric calls out, Harry leaving as well but glances at (y/n) with worry.

"Draco, you shouldn't have punched him! What if you get in trouble-"

"-I'm prefect. He won't do shit." he hisses, rubbing his hand that turned pink and his girlfriend holds his hand, gently rubbing against his bruised knuckles.

"Still, you didn't have to punch him and I didn't know you became Slytherin prefect!" (y/n) notices the smile on her boyfriend's face and she knew it was something he was very proud about. Draco had been telling her all his plans to try and become prefect. "Congratulations! Why didn't you tell me?" he shrugs, his cheeks flushing in slight embarrassment which made the Hufflepuff grin at how cute he looked right now. "I'm so proud of you Draco!" the Slytherin's eyes widen when he heard that, his heart pounding at the words he had hoped to hear for so long. "I'm so happy for you!"

Draco leans his forehead on (y/n)'s after she kisses his bruised hand, his heart swelling in love for her.