(y/n) - your name

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"Do you have to?" 

"Yes Draco, the poor boy has no one. Don't be so cruel." (y/n) says as she and Draco walk together down the halls of the castle and out to the Black Lake. She was going to go spend time with Harry between classes and during breaks, to keep him company when his other friends abandoned him. She would've sat with him in class as well but a certain Slytherin made sure his Puff sat with him at all times

"Why should Potter have all your attention?" Draco scoffs out in annoyance, his arms crossed but (y/n) rolls her eyes with a smile.

"What do you mean? I'm with you 60% of the time." he pulls her behind a tree, standing in front of her as she leaned back against the tree. "If I agree to come up to the tower tonight will you stop your complaining?" the boy grins, nodding before pressing his lips against her cheeks, making her flush from the kiss before he saunters away. The Hufflepuff walks away towards the Lake, waving to Harry and Neville who were there.

"Hey (y/n)!" they wave to her as she stood next to Harry, peering at the book in his hands.

"What are you both doing?"

"Just hanging out." Neville says from the lake, surrounded by plants. He looks up and waves, Harry and (y/n) turning around to see Ron, Hermione and Ginny walking towards them.

"Why don't you just go and do it yourself?" Hermione scoffs in annoyance, Ron whispering to her. "Ron, this is your problem, not mine!" she exclaims and the boy avoids her glare as well as (y/n)'s who had her arms crossed. It was clear to her the petty and dumb fight the boys were having since they weren't on speaking terms. "What do you want me to say again?" Ron whispers to Hermione before she walks up to Harry. "Ronald would like me to tell you that Seamus told him... that Dean was told by Parvati that Hagrid was looking for you."

"Is that right? Well.... what?" Harry was just as confused.

"Ok, let me get this straight, you're not talking to Harry cause of something he didn't do!? Do you not realise the kid has a track record of people trying to kill him? Someone who doesn't like Harry probably put his name in the Goblet of Fire as a way to get rid of him. Do you not care for the safety of your friend Ron? Are you really that petty-you know what. you're all kids I'm not surprised." (y/n) finished her rant, everyone looking at her in shock.

"I... yeah that made me feel loads better (y/n)..." Harry rolls his eyes.

"I'm just saying. Some people should try to link logically here."

"Thank you (y/n)!" Hermione exclaims, looking at Ron. "Just talk to him!" the boy doesn't make a move, still being petty and (y/n) facepalms.

"Jesus fucking christ. Fine. Parvati told Dean, Dean told Seamus, and Seamus told Ron that Hagrid is looking for you. In simpler words," the Hufflepuff looks directly at Ron. "Hagrid is looking for you."

"Well, you can tell Ronald-"

"-hey, he can clearly hear you! We ain't owls." (y/n) and Hermione glare at the boys and Ron and Harry glare at each other. "Oh grow up, please. Also, we got Herbology next so let's get a move on if you don't want to be late." she says and everyone rushes to fix themselves before heading to their next class.

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"Holy shit, dragons!? That's the first trial?" (y/n) whispers as she and Harry walked together down the hallway as they head to their class together. It was another day, another disaster of harsh comments and ridicule that the poor Gryffindor boy had to go through.

"Yeah, I just don't understand why Ron didn't even tell me! he helped his brother bring them in! They were huge!"

"I really don't like the sound of this competition Harry..."

"I'll be fine... Just need to prepare..." Harry sighs as he barges through some students with the ridiculous badge that changed from 'Support Cedric' to 'Potter Stinks'. 

(y/n) glared at the people, hiding one of her hands behind her cloak as her powers trickled to the floor, a red misty line that branched out and crawled onto the students to electrocute them shortly. It spread out like a disease, each badge short-circuiting and fizzing up before blacking out completely. The kids try to go out to the courtyard but a bunch of Hufflepuffs was mocking Harry and blocking his way, making (y/n) shove them away hard. 

"Fuck off!" They all gasp as they fall to the floor, her simply walking over them as she sneered. She heard chuckling and looked over to see Draco sitting in a tree with his crew and she walks over to them while harry went to talk to Cedric.

"Hey it's (l/n)!" Theo exclaims, high-fiving her.

"Saw you shove those older Hufflepuffs! Who knew such a tiny person packed a punch!" Blaise and Marcus laugh out.

"Watch out 'cause she can throw you around too." Draco grins as he looks down at (y/n) from his tree. He leans his head in his hand to admire his Puff as she looks up at him with a smile, arms crossed.

"And why are you up there? Looking for more green apples?" the crew snickers as the platinum blonde-haired boy rolls his eyes playfully, lurching forward to catch the green apple the Hufflepuff threw up to him.

"Thanks." he nods, taking a bite before he looks over the girl's shoulder to see his rival. "Why so tense Potter?"

"Draco don't." (y/n) sighs out, pinching the bridge of her nose as she turns around to face Harry with an apologetic look.

"My father and I have a bet you see. I don't think you're gonna last ten minutes in this tournament." Draco jumps down from the tree, walking past his Puff but bringing her with him to face the Gryffindor. The girl looks up at the Slytherin with flushed cheeks, stumbling as he held her waist and kept her by his side as a way to show Potter that he had no chance of having her. "He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five." 

Now the whole thing truly ticked Harry off, having enough of holding back his anger. "I don't give a damn what you or your father thinks Malfoy! He's vile and cruel, and you're just pathetic!" he snaps at him, pushing him away from (y/n) and pulling her next to him. Draco obviously didn't like this and quickly took out his wand to stop Potter from taking his Puff away.

"Oh no, you don't laddie!" Moody says as he steps out from hiding behind the stairwell, his wand pointing at Draco who soon disappeared between his goons. A white ferret replaced the boy's place.

"Draco!" (y/n) gasps as he chitters, Moody levitating him with his wand and making him fly up and down. "Stop! What are you doing!?" everyone around them was laughing at Draco's demise, McGonagall rushing over to stop the professor.

"Is that a student!?" she gasps, Moody putting the poor Slytherin into one of his goon's pants but (y/n) hides her hands behind her cloak, quickly helping him out and onto the floor with her powers. The white ferret cries and curls around the Hufflepuffs feet, jumping up on her feet to crawl into her arms. He critters and croons in fright, jumping up to hide in her hair around her neck while McGonagall tried to turn Draco back to himself.

"Draco, Draco stop!" (y/n) tries to grab him but he keeps avoiding her hands, wriggling all over her body and holding onto the back of her cloak where she couldn't catch him. He chittered unhappily when she took hold of him, holding him in front of her face as he wriggled in her hands before she set him down on the floor again. McGonagall raised her wand at the boy and finally turned him back to himself but sprawled on the floor, his face pink, hair a mess and gasping for hair.

He quickly jumps back up on his feet, turning around and quickly backing away from Moody who stood there with his arms crossed.

"My father will hear about this!"

"Is that a threat!?" Moody yells back, chasing after Draco who runs away from him. He chases after the boy around the tree and the Slytherin bolts off with his friends. "I could tell you stories about your father that would curl even your greasy hair boy! It doesn't end here!" some of the students scatter away from Moody in fear and (y/n) rushed off after Draco to make sure he was ok.

"Draco?" she calls out, worried as she walked down the halls, trying to find him. She sped down the corridors in the dim lighting, picking up on faint sniffles. "Draco?" the sniffles stop and she turns a corner to see a shadow on the end of the dark hallway, knowing the boy was hiding around the corner at the end. "It's (y/n)..." she calls out, walking down the dark hallway and turning the corner at the end to see him sitting down on the floor with his back against the wall. Draco scowled as he quickly wiped his tears, standing up again to walk away.

"Just buzz off (y/n)-" his words cut off when she leans up to hold his cheeks, gently pulling him down to hug him. He melts into her arms easily, burying his face against her neck as his arms wrapped around her tightly. He didn't want to admit it but he had been so scared, to be turned into an animal, to be taunted at by this crazy professor that actually cast a spell on him. It was so quick and so fast but it had hit way too hard, terrified of what had happened to him.

Draco squeezed (y/n) as she leaned up on her toes to hug him back, leading him to sit down on the floor but him sitting in front of her. She waved her hand to cast an invisibility wall, a red glow lighting up the dim corridor as the boy sat between her legs, his back against her chest as his head stayed buried against her neck. The Hufflepuff held the Slytherin tightly, the two of them not saying a word, just holding each other until they knew they were ok again.