(y/n) - your name

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To say the least, the match between Slytherin and Gryffindor really wasn't a close game as the green house won by a landslide. The Gryffindors had a major disadvantage with Ron being new on the team, the red team closely terribly to their enemy. The chants and cheers of the Slytherin house burst out, jeering at the Gryffindors who sulked while fireworks and confections erupted in the air. A certain Slytherin pureblood couldn't care less as his eyes raked over the podiums for his girlfriends, his heart thumping loudly in his ears as soon as he saw her jumping and screaming out for him and his team. 

She's cheering us on...

Draco couldn't help the large smile grow on his face, the adrenaline from the game still pumping through his body as he quickly flew down to (y/n)'s podium and jumped to stand in front of her. He couldn't care less about the people around him, couldn't care less of the shock and cheering that ultimately got louder when he pulled her close and kissed her. He was just so happy to have her and be with her, so incredibly happy that she brought so much colour into his life.

The Hufflepuff couldn't help but smile in the kiss, looping her arms around her boyfriend's neck as he picked her up and spun her around happily with laughter. The Slytherin melts from her giggles, kissing her over and over again.

"YEAH DRACO!" his teammates and his friends all cheer, hyping up their new Hufflepuff friend as well. The boy pulls her forward with him to climb onto his broom, flying her around the stadium with his team while she buried her face against his neck and he leans his head against hers gently.

"Congrats Draco." (y/n) whispers into his ear, squeezing her arms around his waist and kissing his cheek before he flies them both down to the ground, quickly grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the Slytherin changeroom showers. Draco didn't let his Puff say anything else as he gently pushes her against a tiled wall and kissed her deeply, unzipping his pants and pushing her skirt up only after she verbally let him know he could continue. The couple really couldn't keep their hands off each other.

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The dark room was filled with a warm glow of a fire crackling in the fireplace, a mechanical death eater standing at the end of the Room of Requirement in front of the students that were standing in a line. This was the first secret DADA lesson that Harry was holding after sending secret messages to those that signed up on how to find teh room, courtesy of (y/n) of course. She was standing in the back of the line against the exit, observing the students and watching carefully to make sure no one got hurt.

The mechanical death eater moved its hand holding its wand in a rickety and slow way, Neville standing in front nervously with Harry standing next to him to guide his spell casting. Everyone else was peering at the dummy in two lines, surrounded by protecting mats and steel glass walls with DADA equipment.

Harry nods to Neville who raises his wand, casting the spell. "Expelliarmus!" Everyone quickly dodges when his wind suddenly flicks backwards, (y/n) catching it easily in her hand before it could hit the little redhead boy next to her. "I'm hopeless..." Neville sighs in disappointment, thanking the Hufflepuff as she hands him his wand back.

"You're not hopeless Neville. Practice makes perfect. Also maybe hold your wand a little tighter." the boy nods at (y/n), turning to listen to Harry who guides him on his movements and shows him an example.

"Try it like this. Expelliarmus!" Harry manages to knock the mechanical death eater's wand out of its hand, turning to Neville who gulps.

"You can do it." (y/n) nods encouragingly, sending the students out into pairs to practice.

While this is happening in the warmth of the Room of Requirement, mischief ensues out in the cold snow with three certain Slytherins picking on a poor boy out in the courtyard. Crabbe and Goyle were throwing around this first-year student, Draco hesitantly joining in as he didn't want to get lectured by his girlfriend but his goons soon rope him into the bullying. The three boys threw snowballs at the kid, being observed by a certain pink bitch who whispered to Filch about recruiting them for her own devious exploits.

The boys kept throwing this younger kid around until the platinum blonde-haired boy froze in fear. "Draco!" he slowly turns around to see (y/n) narrowing her eyes at him and he quickly shoos off his goons away from the kid. "What did I tell you about your bullying!?" she hisses, walking over to him and grabbing his ear to pull him away while he yelps and pleads for her to let go.

"I know! They roped me into it! I didn't mean to!" Draco knew he should've stopped sooner since (y/n) was coming to find him to take him to the Room of Requirement for their one-on-one DADA lesson. She had promised to teach him everything Harry taught the others in secret but after they were done with the room since he couldn't bear to be in the same room as Saint Potter. But maybe it was more like he couldn't bear to be humiliated in front of everyone and preferred private lessons with his girlfriend instead.

"I don't care. I was waiting for you! It's empty but we can't use it now since we have class with Umbitch!" it was a tight schedule to have secret lessons after the group was done and before they had classes.

"We can always have them at night... can you let go of my ear now princess?" Draco asks sweetly and (y/n) lets him go as he rubbed his ear.

"Ok, we'll have the classes at night if you're ok with that."

"I'm perfectly ok with that." the Slytherin smirks down at his Puff whole rolls her eyes with a smile knowing exactly why.

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(y/n) sighs in annoyance as she hovers in front of the Room of Requirement wall, sitting crossed-legged with boredom while being invisible and using her powers to create an illusion of the hallway to let the kids sneak into the room without Filch catching onto them.

It was late at night and she held the illusion of an empty hallway up until all of them were safe, annoyed with how Filch had been getting persistent with trying to catch the students the past couple of weeks. Harry had to move the classes to later at night since it was getting hard to organise proper lessons between classes without getting suspicious when a group of the same kids go missing at the same time.

(y/n) made sure to help the kids sneak for the secret DADA classes with Harry, guarding the door and joining them after only when Filch was gone. This was the same routine for each lesson, observing and practising with the others until the class ends. She would always help out the kids in houses by keeping them invisible when they left the room until they got to their dorms, obviously they didn't know it was her and they didn't need to know it was her keeping them safe. 

Only after that did she and Draco have their one-on-one classes where she taught him what Harry taught the whole class. The Slytherin was unsurprisingly very determined to learn and perfect the spells, the couple spending the night together until he was happy with the results. This would lead to late nights together, the couple spending time in the Hufflepuff room to catch some sleep. Not like the platinum blonde-haired boy didn't hate it.

(y/n) counted the last student, nodding as she let them walk into the room and hovered down to the ground to walk in after. The students were learning a stunning spell, standing in two lines opposite the battle stage where Nigel cast the Stupefy spell of Harry that sent him flying.

"Shit-" the Hufflepuff groans as he flies into her, the both of them falling over and he gasps with worry.

"I'm so sorry! Are you ok?"

"Yeah... I'm alright." Harry quickly got off (y/n) with a heavy blush on his cheeks, holding his hand out for her to grab as he pulled her back up on her feet while he complimented Nigel on his spellcasting. Each pair of students went against each other one by one, practising the spell until they each got it right. When it was time to go, (y/n) took the students by their house colours separately and took them to their dorms, keeping them invisible until she got back to the Room of Requirement where the Golden trio were talking.

"She knows! Of course, she knows!" Ron exclaims in fear. "That's why she's questioning everyone!"

"Is this about her recent decree?" (y/n) pipes up and her friends nod.

"We need to be extra careful-"

"-how extra careful can we get Harry? (y/n) is protecting all of us so we don't get in trouble! She can't keep using her powers! It's hurting her!" Hermione exclaims, pointing at her friend's arms that were covered with burnt streaks that were taking longer to fade away.

"I'm ok Hermione. I just need to rest..." the Hufflepuff sighs out, secretly worried about the streaks that were getting harder and harder to hide. They weren't going away quicker from long-time use, crawling up her neck. She could wear gloves and a scarf but she couldn't hide her face if it got worse.

"Just tell us if you need a few days to rest. We can always come up with ways to stop Filch." Hermione says and Ron nods.

"Fred and George are happy to pull one of their pranks on him to give you some time. they won't question the opportunity to pull one on someone." Ron shrugs and (y/n) thanks her friends.

"Yeah, I think it'll best for me to give it a rest for a few days. Now you three get to bed before you get caught." the Hufflepuff urges her friends to get to their dorm, saying their goodbyes as they hide beneath Harry's invisibility cloak. (y/n) sighs out heavily, hearing the door open again to see Draco walk into the room with a smile for his lesson but it falters seeing how tired she was.

"Please tell me your friends are letting you rest." He frowns as he walks up to his girlfriend, pushing the sleeves up to see the streaks burning her skin. "Shit." he hisses in anger, pulling her collar down to see they had crawled up her neck and he knew her body was riddled with them. "Those shit-"

"-Draco." (y/n) warns him and he purses his lips. "We learned a couple more spells today-"

"-you need to rest!"

"You can take care of me after we're done. How about that?" Draco sighs in defeat knowing that he had to get his spells right so he could protect his girlfriend. He was done having her protect him all the time, sacrificing her life for him. He needed to be there for now and he swore to himself that he would make sure she stays safe.

With his new sense of being determined, he flew past perfecting the spells in no time, the couple leaving the room of requirement so it could change into his girlfriend's bedroom before walking in. The Slytherin gently helped his Puff unbutton her shirt and sit her down on her bed, grabbing a warm damp cloth to ease the pain of her streaks as she hissed.

Draco made sure to take care of (y/n) like she has done for him many times, kissing each streak softly after they stopped glowing.