Harry's POV
Location: Malfoy Manor
I was standing at the door of Draco's room, laughing. He was running around the room in a hurry to pack all his belongings for Hogwarts. I was already packed, but Draco, unfortunately, waited until the night before to pack. It was 10:30PM and he wasn't even halfway done. I sighed as I watched him run around; many times hoping he would trip on his cauldron. "You should have started packing when your mum told you to yesterday." I told him
"Oh shut up Harry." He threw at me. "It's not like you've finished packing" He scowled at me as he threw his robes in his chest.
"Actually..." I replied with a smirk in his direction. "I finished packing yesterday" His scowl deepened and I decided that if I wanted to get to Hogwarts, I would have to let him pack.
"Well I guess I will leave you to your packing." I told him and left the room shutting the door quietly behind me.
I walked downstairs towards the parlor where I knew Aunt Cissa and Uncle Luc would be. I walked through the parlor doors and they looked up at me.
Uncle Luc smirked as he asked "Draco still running around up there Packing for tomorrow?"
"Yep." I replied as I sat down next to my aunt and uncle and drank the tea Aunt Cissa had just handed me. Aunt Cissa sighed
"When will that boy learn to pack earlier?" she asked seemingly to herself, but Uncle Luc and I still heard her. We glanced at each other and chuckled at her words.
" He will never learn Aunty, you should know that." I told her.
"It's true dear. He even does this when we go on vacation" Uncle Luc said, agreeing with me. She sighed again and shook her head.
. . . . The Next Day . . . .
Location: Platform 9 , King's Cross Train Station
We were walking through the the train station looking for platform 9 3/4. Uncle Luc was in the lead, pushing through the rushing muggles as they tried to get to their platforms in time. But we didn't have the luxury of taking our time either because Draco didn't wake up in time. He has always been that way, a late riser and always having the excuse of needing "Beauty-sleep. Finally, we came to a stop in front of a wall that was between 9 and 10. Uncle Luc told us to run through the wall and I could suddenly hear my heart pounding in my ears. Sure, I was used to enchanted walls and such, but I never knew what to expect.
"Scared Harry?" I looked over at Draco, who I thought was making fun of me, but saw his own uncertain spread across his own features. We were both scared.
"Not as much as you are" I said, feeling a little bit better knowing that I wasn't the only one feeling this way.
Before Draco could shoot his response back at me, we both felt Uncle Luc's glare at our backs. Draco looked at me before running towards the wall, I swallowed and followed after.
I ran up to the wall, closing my eyes just before meeting it, expecting to hit the wall, but I didn't.
I felt the wall fall away, a brush of magic gathered around me as I stumbled on a flat surface.
I opened my eyes as I heard voices and other noises around me. I was in shock. The smell of smoke filled the air and there was chaos all around me. Everyone was rushing around, trying to get there things onto the train, or standing aside talking to their friends.
"C'mon Harry, Draco. You don't have time to be gawking at everything" Uncle Luc said, striding to the looming steam engine.
We walked through the crowd and I immediately started to look for a familiar dark haired girl. I pushed my cart through the throng of people, following Uncle Luc. I could hear the squeaky wheel of Draco's cart behind me as we walked to the cabins that held the students.
Right at that moment, the whistle, sounded, announcing the departure of the train. Chaos started to rise around us as the last minuters packed up onto the train. Uncle Luc stopped at a doorway, quickly grabbing my chest and tossing it through the doorway.
Hedwig squaked in protest as her cage was lifted hastily up into the air and was handed to a man that had outstretched his arms to grab it.
After Draco was all set, me and him boarded the train, walking through the walkways to try and find our friends.
It was hard to see through the compartments while other people were walking by. I started to panic, thinking that we wouldn't be able to find them through the chaos.
"Harry, Draco!" I ignored my erratic heartbeat as the voice spoke our names. I turned around to the compartments that we had already passed and spotted Emily and Neville coming towards us.
"Are you two blind?" She asked us. "You walked right past the compartment!" She scolded us.
"Sorry" I said to her. "There was so many people"
She crossed her arms and looked at us and was about to say something when Neville spoke up.
"C'mon guys, let's go back." He said as the train started to lurch forward. We made our way back towards the compartment, the walkways thinning out as people squeezed in.
When Emily pulled our compartment door open, the girl we met in Diagon Alley snapped her head up. She was sitting in the corner with a book propped against her hand. She smiled as she saw us.
"Draco! Harry! It's nice seeing you again!" She closed her book and shoved it between her leg and the wall.
On the opposite side of the girl there was another person. His cheek was pressed against the glass window, drool slipping from his mouth.
"Emily, why do we have to share a compartment with that…. weasel?" Draco asked the girl that was making herself comfortable on the bench seat closest to the door on our right.
"I told you before Draco, he's family. You are just gonna have to deal with him until we get to the school.
Neville was the one to sit next to Ron, as I took the seat next to him and Draco sat in between Sam and Emily. Draco didn't seem happy to be in the same compartment as the red haired boy, who seemed to be sleeping.
The scenery flashed before us as we talked about random subjects, just to pass the time.
I didn't know how much time passed, but at some point our compartment door slid open to reveal an older woman, who was pushing a trolley of certain treats.
"Hello there students" The witch who was pushing the trolley said. "Would you like anything from Honeydukes express? I'm sure I've got treats for everyone"
Neville was the first to get to his feet and walk over to the witch.
"May I have a chocolate frog please? Oh! And some Pumpkin Pasties?" He turned to us. "Would you guys like anything? I think I have money to pay for us." He stated, pulling out money to pay the cart owner.
We were all quick to give Neville our orders and soon we were all stuffing our faces with the sweet treats that we ordered.
I tried not to stare at Emily the best I could as she was talking to Neville about something, but I caught my eyes stopping a few times.
"You couldn't be wrong!" Jumping, I saw that Draco and Emily's cousin were bickering with each other. "To create an Anti-Paralysis Potion you have to…." Sam started, naming off ingredients to Draco. Emily and I looked at each other and she shook her head.
"Sam, did you already finish reading all of our textbooks?" Emily asked in exasperation. Though, I noted that she didn't seem to be too surprised if she did.
"No…." The girl said, going for the book that was on her lap. "I don't live under a rock Emily. I've read only two of our textbooks so far. The first one being our potions text book" She said.
"Wow, you really don't have a life do you?" Draco questioned teasingly, grabbing the book she had in her hand. "I mean reading is good and all, but you gotta have fun every once in awhile. You don't want to become a nerd do you?" He looked at the book that Sam was reading and I saw his face twist in disgust.
"Oh quit it Malfoy!" the red head, snatching her book back. She then slid herself back down into a sitting position and started to read once again. She was apparently done with talking to us.
After that, Emily, Draco, and I started to talk to each other when a snore was cut all looked at the red headed boy that had been asleep for more than half of the trip. We all instantly became silent, watching him, waiting to see what he would do.
"What are you guys staring at?" He snapped. "Haven't you seen someone sleep before?" He looked at all of us as if he was about ready to throw curses at us.
"Human beings yes," Draco started. "Cyclops, not exactly something you see everyday" The rest of us that was watching the whole scene unfold held back a laugh. You could feel the laughter in the compartment, even if there was no physical sound.
Ron's face also got red with anger, the orange in his hair mixed with the red of his face almost made him look like a fireball.
"Not like Mandrakes sleep well either!" He snapped, making Draco get to his feet.
"Well, at least mandrakes are loud enough to make someone deaf instead of not knowing what my left from right is!"
As I watched Draco and Ron argue about each other's presence, I was thrown back in time.
I looked down upon the two bickering forms of my younger brother and sister. Toy blocks were scattered all around us, making it hard to step anywhere.
"She knocked down my tower!" Nico yelled, pointing to Bianca.
"No I didn't! You did that!" Bianca yelled back, forcing me to step in between them.
"Enough, both of you before mom comes in here and starts yelling at us" I scolded both of them. Now, Bianca, did you knock over Nico's tower?" I bent down a little bit so I could look her in the eye.
"No! It was…"
"Earth to Harry!" I shook my head and looked to see that Emily was looking at me.
"What?" I asked, just noticing how quiet the compartment had become.
"You've been out of it for a while, we're here" I looked around to see that Draco, Emily, Neville and Sam had crowded around me, Draco still looked a little angered, but it was clear that he had calmed himself down.
Sometimes it was hard to know how long I've been lost in a flashback. There was really no time limit to how long I could be under.
Still a little dazed from my flashback, I followed Emily and the others out of the train where chaos was happening all around us. People were yelling all around me and the sound of feet was became deafening.
"Harry, c'mon!" Draco grabbed my arm and dragged me towards a towering man holding a lantern.
"First 'ears follow me!" He kept yelling over the students, his voice booming over them.
I had to crane my neck to see the man's face now that I was closer to him. Though, it didn't help with the beard and mustache that crowded his face. All I could see was his dark eyes that seemed to shine with the lantern light in his hand.
The man then lead us toward a lake where boats were sitting on the shore. Keeping five to a boat, Draco, Neville, Emily, Sam, and I piled in one.
As soon as Neville stepped into the boat- he was the last one to get on- the boat shifted and started to drift in the water. I looked up at the castle that now towered over us. The moon's light casted an eerie light upon the walls' surface and the lights that lined up and down the grounds didn't help much.
All of a sudden, there was a squeal and I spun around to see Sam batting away a tentacle with the book she had before, Draco and Neville were trying to help her with two others crowding the other sides, but I didn't see Emily.
"Guys!" I yelled, going over to them. "Where's Emily?" The tentacle slid back under the water as Sam gave it one last hit. She turned to face me.
"She fell off the boat" She said, grabbing the side to steady herself. "It grabbed her and dragged her in"
"What?!" Draco, Neville, and I all run to the edge, but stopped. None of us were sure if we wanted to jump into the strange water.
"Well, aren't you going to go save her?" Draco asked me.
"Me? Why do I have to do it? Why don't you go?" I said to him.
"No way am I going into that water there could be more of those things!"
"So, you want me to go and possibly get killed myself?"Draco scoffed
"You won't die" Draco told me.
"And what makes you so sure?"
"You're the Boy-Who-Lived aren't you?" Then, something dawned on us at the exact same time as we looked at Neville.
"Hey, don't look at me! I can't swim!" He interjected, stepping away from us.
"Okay, that's it, if you guys can't decide who to go I will!" Sam yelled. "But you have to turn towards the water"
"Why?" Draco asked, narrowing his eyes in suspicion.
"Just do it" She huffed.
Draco and I both looked at each other, shrugged and looked towards the water. I didn't really know what to expect, for I didn't exactly know Sam very well…
I felt myself fall forwards, air pushing around me as I fell into the water, darkness and water immediately swallowing me whole.
It took me a while for the skin to get used to the feeling of the cool dampness surrounding me before I could even open my eyes. But as soon as I had, as on search mode, looking for anything that might give me a hint as to where she could've been.
Then, through the darkness, I saw something in a shimmer of moonlight. A spark of red.
I swam towards it, ignoring the burn in my lungs as I swam deeper and deeper. And when I got closer, it was clear that the spark of red was the moonlight catching on her hair.
There didn't seem to be anything that was dragging her down as I wrapped my arm under both of hers and started to swim upwards. The resistance was making it hard to get to the surface, but I was finally able to. She was unconscious, and I wasn't sure if she was breathing.
I lied her down in the boat and put my ear to her heart. There was no sound, but that didn't mean she was dead . . . . right? Trying to stay calm, I took her wrist to check her pulse, and when I felt it, I sighed in relief. It wasn't strong, but this gave me hope that she was indeed alive.
I started CPR on her, hoping it would get some reaction. Soon enough she sat up and was coughing up water. I gently patted her on the back to help get some of the water out of her lungs. She looked over at me with a small smile, then leaned in and gave me a small kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks for saving me Harry." Emily said with a slightly hoarse voice, her hair sticking to her skin.
"No problem" I said turning my head to hide my blush. When I was sure that my blush had gone away, I looked back up and my eyes widened as I saw her face. She had a bright smile there and it was directed at me. My blush returned and I looked away from her once again.
This time, however; I looked past her towards the towering castle of Hogwarts.
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