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Chapter 3: Hogsmeade.
Myself and Oliver were just after leaving Honeydukes sweetshop, just about. Nearly every kid in Hogwarts was there. Dumbledore was in there too but I added him in with the kids because he was acting like one.
It was hard to keep my mind on the trip. The letter kept replaying itself in my head. Malfoy and I agreed not to tell anyone about the letter, except our other parent. Since when was mam and Malfoy's dad friends?
"Dianne?" Oliver snapped me out of my mind.
"What? Oh sorry." I said, mentally slapping myself. Oliver finally asks me out and I'm making crap out of it.
"What has you distracted?" Oliver asked. He's always been a great listener.
"Just what happened to Gryffindor Tower." I admitted. Hey, I'm not lying.
"No need to worry. I'm surprised that we were allowed to come out here in the first place." Oliver said as we walked into The Three Broomsticks for the rest of the trip. We had already toured the rest of the town and came here to finish with hot butterbeer.
I looked around for a quiet place to sit and noticed something that caused me to smile. My granny. I don't see her too often because she concentrates a lot on her new Muggle job.
"I'm going over to the lads. Is that ok?" Oliver asked.
"Yeah. I'm going to talk to my granny." I said and we walked apart.
I walked over to her table and sat down.
"Hi granny." I said. She looked up from her paper and smiled.
"Ah hello Dianne." She said and hugged me.
"I missed you loads." I said.
"Same back. So what are you doing here?" granny asked.
"Hogsmeade trip. Then I have to go to the dance thing. And then I have to go to Malfoy's for the Christmas holidays." I said grimacing at the thought of living in the same house as the youngest Malfoy.
"She did it again didn't she." granny said shaking her head.
"Yeah. This time she left a note." I said handing it to her.
Hello Darling daughter,
As you can see I thrashed Gryffindor house. I
wasn't on my own though. Mr Lucius Malfoy
generously decided to help me. As your mother
I made your bed for you and cleaned around
your part of the room. Your welcome. Now,
this Christmas break I want you to go home
with Draco because I'll be staying there also.
I'll talk to you then and myself and Lucius will
talk to you and Draco about becoming Death
Eaters in the future. Bye.
"Wow. Are you going to become a Death Eater like your mother?" granny asked.
"Of course not. When I leave school I'm becoming an Auror. If she crosses me I'll kill her in an instant." I said simply.
"Charming. I see you haven't changed." granny said, smiling too.
"Just because my mother is a bitch doesn't mean that I change." I said. Nothing changes between me and my granny.
"Whatever. I need to get back to Hogwarts." I said getting up.
"Remember that dance you mentioned."
"Yeah. What about it?" I asked.
"I got you a dress for it." She said and handed me a cardboard box.
I sat back down and opened it. The dress was like an evening gown. It was dark red with the Gryffindor lion printed in silver rhinestones on the right hip. There were no sleeves but thick straps. There was a simple black ribbon that tied at the back into a loose choker. A little green gem was hanging from the front of it.
"Merlin." I whispered.
"You like it?" granny asked, smiling.
"Of course. This must have cost you loads." I said.
"No. I made it. The choker cost a pretty penny but that didn't matter. As long as you look beautiful, you'll be grand. You better get back to Hogwarts now. You're the last student here." Granny said. I looked around and saw she was right. I closed the box quickly and securely. Used a quick charm to retie the ribbon, gave granny a kiss on the cheek and bolted out, shouting that I'd owl her later as I went. I ran up to the big group of students and stood in the back.
"Running late are we?" I looked to my right and somehow managed to stand beside Malfoy.
"Talking to my granny. She'd talk forever." I said.
"What have you got in the box? Looks very presentable." Malfoy asked.
"You'll see tomorrow night." I said.
"I guess I will. Did you say anything to your granny?" Malfoy asked.
"Yeah I did and wait. How did you know I was with my granny? Caught you." I said.
"How did you know I wasn't there? Looking for me? Got you right back." he retaliated, winked, walked over to his scumbag Slytherin associates. I blushed a little and went over to Gryffindor.
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I walked back to the common room just before dinner to collect the letter I had written for granny so that I could post it afterwards. I was with Hermione but I had told her to go on ahead.
I stepped in through the fixed painting after giving the password and froze.
Oliver was sitting on the sofa snogging some girl I haven't seen before.
I walked quickly up the stairs, tears threatening to overflow, uncharacteristically for me.
I know I wasn't dating Oliver but I thought we were pretty close to that.
I slammed the dorm door shut and flopped down onto the bed. I cried myself to sleep.
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I woke up really early the following morning and took my letter up to the Owlery to send to granny.
When I got up there Malfoy was already there, alone.
I stayed quiet hoping that I wouldn't have to talk to him right now. I wasn't in the mood. No such luck.
"You're up earlier than usual." He said, not looking up.
"Yeah, strange enough is right." Shit. Hoarse voice again.
Malfoy turned to me as I tied the letter to a tawny owl belonging to the school.
"Look at me." He said. I did so.
"Were you crying?" he asked.
"Why do you care?" I asked.
"Does it matter?"
"I suppose not." I mumbled.
"I haven't eaten yet. Come on to breakfast, I'm sure we can talk about it there." Malfoy said.
"Wouldn't your friends not get angry that you're talking to a Gryffindor? Me especially." I asked.
"Who gives a fuck." He said and half dragged me there.
No one was up yet in Gryffindor or Slytherin so we sat down at the Slytherin table.
"You never answered my question from earlier." Malfoy stated.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Were you crying?" he repeated.
"I don't cry." I told him.
"There's a first for everything."
"I saw Oliver snogging another girl in the common room yesterday." I blurted.
"Wood? I knew something was going to happen." He muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing. So your heart was shattered and you went up to your dorm, slammed the door shut and cried yourself to sleep and now your starving from after missing dinner and Dumbledore's announcement." Draco concluded.
"Weird. It was like you were there. What announcement did Dumbledore make?" I asked.
"It's about the dance tonight for the third years. I took down all the rules for yo...uhm.... I just took them down." His cheeks were tinted with a faint pink.
I smiled and looked through the list.
1, Formal: girls dress the same colour as house. Boys suit in black.
2, Socializing: No one is to be with someone that's in the same house as them.
3, Dance: Just dance. Fast and slow dances.
Malfoy kept his notes short and sweet. He had nice handwriting too.
I handed the parchment to him and he destroyed it.
"I have number 1. Number 2 would be ok I suppose. I'm fucked for number 3." I said grabbing toast. Malfoy laughed. A genuine one. Why is he acting so different around me? Who cares? It's good.
"What are we going to do about evil parents?" I asked.
"I'm not becoming a Death Eater. You?"
"Of course not! I'm being an Auror. When I see my mother I'm going to kill her there on the spot. Your father too." I answered simply.
"What would you do if I was a Death Eater that crossed your path?" Malfoy asked.
I hesitated.
"You wouldn't kill me." He said for me. I shook my head.
"What about Wood?"
"Dead before he could blink a second time."
"Speaking of which." Malfoy said nodding his head. I only noticed now that there were a lot more students up, mostly Ravenclaw's and Hufflepuff's.
"Hey Dianne." Oliver said walking over to me.
"Shove off Wood." Malfoy said.
"Since when did this conversation have you in it?" Oliver asked.
"Ever since you strutted to my table." Malfoy retorted.
"Whatever. I don't know how to say this to you but, well, I don't think we'd work out if we began to date. I don't think that you'd be up for it either. You seem so distracted lately so you can have some space." Oliver said.
"I said get away from my table Wood." Malfoy said in a harsher tone.
"I'm going. Why aren't you coming Dianne?" Oliver asked.
"Because I'm staying here with Malfoy. Duh." I said in an isn't-it-obvious tone.
"Right." Oliver said and walked off in a huff.
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I was walking out onto the Quidditch pitch to watch the Hufflepuff vs. Slytherin game. I was one of the first out and sat at the railing.
Shouting was coming from beneath me. I looked down and saw Malfoy shouting at Oliver.
"Do you know how she felt when she saw you snogging some other girl. Shattered. You didn't even notice her. Are you proud?" Malfoy asked, blood bubbling. He was standing up for me?
"What happened between myself and her has nothing to do with you. I told you that already." Oliver retorted angrily.
"It mattered when I saw her in the Owlery, her face tear stained. You caused that you stupid prat. She's too good for you."
"Whatever. I'm out of here." Oliver said and walked away.
Got down from the stands and walked over to Malfoy.
"Hi Longbottom." He said.
"Thanks." I said and hugged him tightly, which he returned.
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