a/n Hello! Okay so this is my first Hp fic, actually first fic ever. So excuse me if there are some errors here and there.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, that right belongs to the amazing J.K Rowling. I only own my original character and the imagination that came up with this fic. I got the start for this idea from the Pinterest writing prompt "I'm not as bad as the books say, you know. Quiet, evil one. Ooh, name-calling so fearsome." Then I got the idea to do it with Draco on my first trip to Universal Studios Orlando this past summer.
Hope you like it. I will try to post every week, but might not happen cause I have 2 kids to chase after. Please read and review. Offer ideas if you like. Criticize if you must but please be nice about it. Like previously stated this is my first fic. Just keep that in mind. And so without further ado.
Everything Has Changed
Harry Potter Fan-fiction
EWE/Modern AU 2015
By: Jenna Nyne
Chapter 1
This summer my friends and I went on our post-college graduation trip. One day clear back in freshmen year; during the dreaded freshmen finales. We were all feeling really down during one of our group cram sessions. So, to cheer ourselves up we planned this incredible week and a half trip to Disney World/ Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
The first week of our trip we spent going to all the Disney parks. The first day we went to Animal Kingdom. Second day we spent at Hollywood Studios. Third day in Epcot. We broke up the week by cooling off in Typhoon Lagoon. Then two days in Magic Kingdom and rounded off the week at Downtown Disney; shopping and dining.
Which brings us to now at Universal Studios. I was walking around Diagon Alley all by myself, taking everything in. It was all just as I imagined it would look like as I read the Harry Potter books.
All the sudden I was jerked into the darkness of Knockturn Alley. Just as I was about to scream, a hand came up and covered my mouth.
"Please, don't scream," a male voice, obviously British pleaded from behind me.
I nodded and the hand covering my mouth was removed. The man behind me turned me around to face him. The first thing I noticed about him was his pale blonde hair and steel gray, and he appeared to be wearing what I'd always imagined wizard robes to look like.
"Who are you and what do you want?" I asked.
"I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy. And I need your help," he replied.
I folded my arms and raised an eyebrow at him, "Yeah and I'm Hermione Granger," I said, giving him my best Hermione impersonation.
"I'm serious. I'm Draco Malfoy," he insisted.
"You can't be Draco Malfoy. He's a fictional character in a book who is an evil jerk."
"Actually, the books you Muggles know as the story of Harry Potter are, for the most part, real."
I raised my eyebrows at him and gave him a look that said I didn't believe him.
"Look the woman, J.K. Rowling is a Muggle with the gift of sight. So she wrote down what she saw not knowing it would happen."
"You look too young to be Draco Malfoy."
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, according to the books you should be thirty-five," I said.
"That's one of the parts she got wrong. I'm actually twenty-five. The events of the books took place ten years after what she believed. In the books, my first year at Hogwarts was in 2001 instead of 1991. And I'm not as bad as the books say, you know."
"Quiet, evil one," I said, as I tried to process what he had just told me.
"Ooh, name calling. So fearsome," he smirked, but then quickly became serious again. "I really am Draco Malfoy."
I rolled my eyes, "Fine. Prove it. Make my cell phone float."
He glared at me for a moment, then pulled out his wand and muttered, "Wingardium Leviosa."
My phone floated a couple inches above my hand then floated back into my palm.
Draco stowed his wand back in the pocket of his robe, then looked at me. "Satisfied?"
"I guess." I thought for a moment. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Running from someone. And before you ask, 'Why here in the Muggle world?' I came to the Muggle world because I thought it would be the last place the people looking for me would search."
"Well, you're doing a very poor job of hiding," I said motion towards his robes. "If you want to blend into the Muggle world beyond this part of the park, then you're going to have to get rid of the robes and dress more like a Muggle."
He smirked. "That's why I need your help."
I looked up into his face, searching his eyes. And the expression I saw there was almost pleading, maybe a little hopeful, and something else. Maybe worry. "Alright, I'll help you. First off do you have any Muggle money?"
He shook his head.
"Okay, that's fine I have plenty. I'll buy you some stuff. Um...I can buy you a shirt with the Dark Mark on it in Borgin and Burkes right over there," I said motioning across the alley at the store.
Draco shook his head. "I don't like to remember that part of my life."
"Okay, well then I'll have to go up Diagon Alley to Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment to get some Slytherin shirts. Do you wanna come with me or wait here?"
"I'll just come with you."
In a few minutes, we had made our way up Diagon Alley and into the store. We walked over to where the Slytherin merchandise was and I picked out two shirts. One was black with the Slytherin crest on it and the other was green and said Slytherin Team Captain.
"Which one?" I said, holding them up for Draco to see.
He shrugged, "I don't know just pick one."
I looked at the shirts again and back to Draco, "I'll get you both."
I started to walk to the register when I felt a hand take hold of my arm and stop me. Turning I saw Draco giving me a questioning look. "Aren't you get anything?"
"I would but I can't decide which house shirt to get."
He thought for a moment, "Well, I think you should get a Hufflepuff shirt. Because what you're doing for me is remarkable kind. I mean you don't even really know me, yet you're helping me. That seems like something a kind Hufflepuff would do," he said, as he picked out several Hufflepuff shirts.
I smiled at him and grabbed use each a house sweatshirt and backpack as well. After I paid for our stuff, I showed Draco pictures of khaki cargo shorts and black Chucks as we walked to the restrooms. I asked if he could transfigure his robes and shoes into them and he assured me he could. A few minutes later Draco came out of the restroom in his new clothes.
Draco looked at me, "Why didn't you change your shirt?"
I shook my head and started to peel off my tee shirt.
"What are you doing? Don't change here,"
"It's okay I have a tank top on under my shirt," I said as I put my new Hufflepuff tank top on. "I was thinking, Draco. If you really don't want to be recognized, you should change your hair color."
"Why?" he asked, frowning as he ran a hand through his pale blonde hair.
"Well," I paused and looked at his hair. "I just thought it would help you hide better. And besides even here in the Muggle world your unnaturally blonde hair gives you away as a Malfoy."
He ran a hand through his hair again and sighed, "Yeah, you're probably right. I'll be right back," he said as he walked back into the bathroom, Draco came out a few minutes later with brown hair. "What do you think?"
"Well, it defiantly makes you look different."
"Good." Draco ran his hand through his now brown hair. "I was wondering if you didn't mind, could I spend the day with you. It might help me hide better."
"Yeah, that's okay. You just have to go on the rides with me."
He looked at me and shrugged, "I suppose that would be fine."
I smiled at him, "Good since we're right by Gringotts, let's ride this."
"There's a ride in Gringotts?"
I nodded, smiling, as grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the line.
After a few minutes in line, Draco looked at me. "I never did ask your name."
"My name's Isabelle Bennet, but everyone calls me Belle."
"Belle...I like it. It suits you."
"Thank you. I like your name too."
"So, Belle, are you traveling alone?"
I shook my head, "No, I'm here with my best friend Emmy and her fiance. He just purposed when we were at Magic Kingdom over at Disney World. I decided today that I wanted to walk around by myself and give them alone time. And I was tired of being a third wheel," I paused. "Draco do you have somewhere to stay tonight?"
He shook his head.
I bit my lip and thought. "Then you can stay with me tonight."
"Thank you, but you've done enough for me already."
"Nonsense. I'm happy to help," I said, smiling at him.
After the remainder thirty minute wait in line and the ride we left Diagon Alley and rode the other rides. We returned to Diagon Alley around noon to have lunch at The Leaky Calderon. Over are fish n' chips and Butterbeer, Draco explained a little more about why he was hiding in the Muggle world. He told me that someone was trying to rebuild the Death Eater forces. A couple of days ago he received a letter inviting him to rejoin the Death Eater forces again if he didn't reply within twenty-four hours he would suffer the consequences. Draco refused to reply, not wanting anything to do with dark arts any longer. The following night several hooded figures burst through the door of his London townhouse. To escape them, he disapparated to the Leaky Calderon in London. But they found him again so he came to the Muggle world.
When he had finished telling me all this he asked about my life.
I told him I was an only child. That I was twenty-two, but that my birthday was in a few days on June seventeenth. I had just graduated from college. I told him both my parents were doctors, my dad was a surgeon and my mom was a pediatrician. Which I then had to describe what a surgeon and pediatrician were.
When we were finished eating we looked in the shops in Diagon Alley. In Ollivanders, I bought two wands, because I thought they would look awesome on top of my bookshelf. In Florean Fortescue's ice cream parlor, I wanted to get Butterbeer ice cream, but Draco convinced me to try lavender earl grey ice cream instead. Which was actually very delicious. After we finished our ice cream we walked over to King's Cross and rode the Hogwarts Express to Hogsmeade. We rode the Dragon Challenge first on the red dragon and then the blue. Just as we were getting off the blue dragon it started to rain. In a matter of minutes, it had turned into a torrential downpour. We made our way, quickly, over to Harry Potter's Forbidden Journey. Luckily most of the line for the ride was indoors, but by the time we reached the inside part we were both drenched. When we got off the ride we went into Filch's Emporium and bought a few more shirts and few other things. It was still raining when we left the shop so we walked down to the Three Broomsticks for some more Butterbeer and to wait for the rain to stop.
About ten minutes later the rain finally tapered off and we left the Three Broomsticks to ride more rides. By the time we left the park at ten o'clock, we both hand several Harry Potter shirts, two Transformer shirts, a Jurassic Park shirt, and a Spider-man shirt.
"I'm sorry there's only one bed," I apologized as I turned the lights on in my hotel room.
"You should take the bed, I'll sleep on the floor. After all, this is your hotel room," Draco said, chivalrously."
I looked at him for a moment, realizing for the first time how tired he looked. I shook my head, "We can share the bed. Besides the floor looks very uncomfortable."
"Are you sure?"
I nodded.
"Thank you. I'm going to use the bathroom. I'll just be a moment."
Draco came out of the bathroom a few minutes later, his hair back to it's regular Malfoy pale blondness and laid on the bed.
I was only in the bathroom for a couple minutes, but by the time I was done, Draco was already sound asleep. I laid down on the bed as far away from Draco as possible without falling off the bed and tried to fall asleep. My efforts, however, were in vain. It felt very weird sleeping in a bed with a guy, never mind that the guy was Draco Malfoy. I lay there for I don't know how long, just thinking, but finally sleep claimed me.
End of Chapter 1
a/n: How did I do? Be nice, please. I know this first chapter was a little boring but bear with me. Next chapter will have some excitement in it, promise. Please R+R
