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Falling occurs during Prisoner of Azkaban.
Falling…
Draco Malfoy has and will never claim to be a seer, but even he should have known that something was going to go terribly wrong during the Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff Quidditch game with the twisting in his stomach.
For one, the rain is coming down in sheets and the wind is blowing so hard that players are having a hard time flying. Within five minutes, his umbrella is stolen by the wind and he is soaked through his clothing. Draco can barely keep up with the game, the wind had almost drowned out the commentary and he can barely see the players through his omnioculars.
Then a horrifyingly familiar wave of cold washes over the crowd, and people begin to scream.
Draco feels sick, like he is going to throw up but can't. He remembers horrible things: like the time he fell off his broom just before his tenth birthday and broke his leg. Or that time when his father's old Death Eater "friend", Macnair, came over and snapped a bird's neck with his bare hands because it was making to much noise. Or during the final days of his first year, when the whole school watched as Dumbledore floated Hariah Potter's limp body to the hospital wing from the third floor corridor…
"Potter!"
"Oh Merlin, Harry!"
"Somebody, help her!"
The screams have changed, and Draco's stomach twists on itself even more as he just makes out Potter plummeting towards the ground, having fallen off of her broom. One of the Weasley twins is streaking towards her as fast as he can, trying to get under her in order to catch her. Dumbledore's voice, loud enough to be heard over the both the wind and the crowd, calls out a spell that he does not recognize and Potter slows in her decent.
It is only after he watches the teachers and Gryffindor team carry Potter off to the hospital wing that Draco realizes that he has been gripping his omnioculars so hard that he cracked the lens.