4.
"Well this is uncomfortable," states Draco, shifting an inch to the left.
"You know, you're already as far away from me as possible," says the mudblood. "You can stop inflicting yourself on that poor wall."
Draco, just to prove he can, shifts half an inch away from the wall.
"Brave," she observes.
Draco blinks: "Was that sarcasm?" he asks.
She scoffs: "Sarcasm is but the lowest form of wit." But her voice cracks a little toward the end.
Draco raises his eyebrow. "I prefer irony myself," he says.
She smiles reluctantly, wryly, almost sad, and Draco is surprised. She's pretty.
2.
He expects her to say something like 'do you think we'll live?' or 'what if we don't get out of here?' But she just settles back into the cold stones of the dungeon walls and gazes out towards nothing.
Draco doesn't even know her name.
He'd had enough time to grab one person before the Death Eaters swamped the school. She'd been closest and her hair had reminded him of his mothers.
3.
"Why me?" she asks, and he almost laughs.
"You were closest, mudblood," he tells her, truthfully.
1.
"Let go of me," hisses the girl as he drags her along.
"Shut up," he wants to say, "I'm saving your life."
But he doesn't because all his breath is needed for running.
He wonders if Voldemort will kill everyone in the school. If his father will help.
He wonders how many are already dead.
5.
"You're a hero, boy," says Auror Livenly. "You saved that girls life." He nods in the mudblood's direction.
Draco says nothing.
"It was clever hiding here," says Livenly, admiringly.
Draco doesn't speak.
Hiding in the Prison of the Forgotten was Snape's idea, not his.
"Amazing place really," Livenly says, "though you'd never have been found if that message hadn't arrived."
Snape, again. Contingencies always contingencies.
But Draco doesn't care.
He's watching the Medi-Witches take the mudblood away.
"Let's get you somewhere warm, eh?" says Livenly. "Somewhere you'll both be safe."
Draco's not listening.
Livenly follows his gaze. "You saved her life, you know," he says for the second time.
"I was wondering..." starts Draco.
"Yes?" says Livenly, not unkindly.
"What's her name?"
6.
She's sitting wrapped in a warm woollen blanket, and safe, when Malfoy approaches her.
"Hannah?" he asks shyly.