Hello you beautiful person. I own nothing and have had horrible writers block because of this chapter. Chapter eight is almost done though and will be out shortly.
Chapter 7- Draco
Aries was right about Draco being tired. As soon as he hit the bed, he was out. He didn't dream of anything else that night. When he woke up he saw that he was still in the clothes he wore from last nights walkabout. Looking around, he saw that Theo was already gone. As he got ready, he became more confused than the night before.
After making his way to the great hall, Draco came to the conclusion that his parents had a reason for keeping her away and he needed to stay away. So, until he knew everything he would stay away from her. In the meantime , Draco would act as everything is the same.
Sitting in his normal spot at the Slytherin table, he noticed that the room was more rowdy than the day before and the SoM kids all were smiling like idiots.
"Bas, what's going on? People are acting strange." He asked getting settled.
"Apparently, before you got here two of the school of merlin students and two ravenclaw students got into a fist fight over loony. Things got really messy and it took the headmaster getting involved to stop the School of merlin kids from trying to kill the Ravenclaw kids."
"Oh, so they are more gryffindor than potter huh. That is pretty impressive." Draco said still watching everyone, but now eating as well.
After he finished up eating, Draco packed up his stuff and went to his first class of the day, Astronomy. Today was just going over the basics, such as all the names and placements of the stars. Draco's mother had him study the stars as a child, so he was very familiar with the subject. His class was paired with the 5th year students from SoM. They acted like they were caged hippogriffs, barely able to stay still and moving their arms and legs as much as possible while trying to look natural. Two of them making hand signs towards one student with a speak and write quill, that was writing all the words that the professor was saying. Draco assumed a child like that shouldn't even go to school. His father had told him about wizards and witches that couldn't hear or see, as well as other deformities. Most children born like that are put out of their misery at a very young age or at birth.
"Stop staring Draco. You aren't supposed to give those people attention. Though can you even call that one a person, even a squib is better than that poor excuse of a life-form. They are quite distracting though, I mean how do our parents expect us to get any work done if these things are here. Also why are they moving their hands in odd ways? Are they trying to communicate with it?" Pansy said, among other things that Draco chose to tune out. He didn't think she would ever shut up.
Draco kept looking over at the students, mainly feeling pity for the one who could never be aloud into wizarding society. Taking his eyes off of him, he saw that the other students weren't muscular, but very fit. This was strange for Draco to see and brought his curiosity to a high about how these people were taught. Draco couldn't focus for the rest of class, because of them and there spazzing out.
After class, Draco when straight to the library and went to the section on memory charms. He trusted his parents, but he wanted to know the whole picture.The nightmare he had the night before didn't feel like a dream, but like a memory.
"You want to look at this," Draco jumped and turned to see the girl he recognized as Jamie putting a book on the table next to him. "Don't cause her any more trouble."
Draco was amazed by how she snuck up on him. He was also put off by the maliciousness behind her small voice as she spoke to him.
"I don't need your help. I sure don't need whatever that book is. How do you even know what I'm looking for?" Draco said beginning to get offended by the idea that she thought he needed her help
Jamie smirked " Jacob was wrong. You are just like her up close. I remember she gave me that same look, though we were in a bookstore. If I am right and I know I am, read this and 'The Dangers of Child Memory Charms'. If somehow I am wrong, look into muggle phycology."
That's when Draco's curiosity got the best of him. "Why help me? You just said to not cause her trouble."
"Causing her trouble and learning about your past are two seperate things. Plus I know your sister, if you're even a little like her you'll do what's necessary to learn and adapt to the situation. I won't stop you from doing that, you'll just have to look at it from a different angle. I owe her my life and I won't let you mess up hers." After saying that she walked away with a forbaying look on her face.
Draco was sure that she was up to something. Grabbing the book she left 'memory suppression for dummies', an odd title though it looked like it was from the states, and went looking for the other book she mentioned.
After about two weeks, Draco had read both books multiple times and had taken multiple notes on them. He was now sitting in Muggle studies focusing on his class work when he felt a large boom under his feet. Looking up he saw his teacher running out the door. At first Draco thought it was that pyrotentic gryffindor, but he was sitting four rows behind Draco. Almost all the students got up and followed , some taking a moment to gather their things. Making their way down the hall they heard another boom coming from the main hall. Draco made his way to one of the walls and couldn't believe what he saw.
Aries and Jamie were on one side of the room, Aries having a bloody nose and multiple cuts on her face, arms, and her shirt and torso, Jame was also in a similar situation. They were facing Tony and Cristy, Draco thought those were their names. They had similar injuries, but Cristy also had blood coming down her forehead. Draco took a moment to look at the surroundings and saw two holes in the walls and that most of the school was now surrounding them, many on the stairs and halls around them. The two holes were now being put back together by the other students from SoM.
The girls were so focus on each other that it looked like they didn't see everyone around them.
"Come on Tony, we win!" Aries said breathless, her body obviously shaking. Taking a closer look at the girls Draco could see they were all exhausted. He wondered what in merlin's name was going on.
"No, we win!" Tony said taking a knee."We were more creative and did more damage".
"I don't believe that charming Cristy to fly is creative. Plus I think you my friend were the first to go on your knee, while we are still standing." Jamie said forcing certainty in her voice and grabbing Aries shoulder as to both offer and gane support. Draco was taken aback by jamie speaking so loudly and so vibrant with emotion.
"What is this?" A high pitched voice asked. When Draco looked for the voice he say the pink lady coming from what he thought was the school grounds. There was a silents after she made her appearance.
A large laugh came from the now patched up holes in the walls. "It is how our school got destroyed in the first place, but this time it wasn't multiple pranks going off each other. They all had great formation and executed all the charms well." It was the teacher that came with the students. He then walked between the girls and said " You all pass for now, I think Cristy and Tony 'won' so to speak."
It seemed those were the magic words, because all the girls collapsed where they stood. Draco could practically feel all the tension leave the room, minus pinky, upon the girls fall.
"How can that be an assignment, they were at each other's throats. This does not follow school policy." Umbridge said smugly and slightly scared. All the girls were trying to stand up after she said that. Draco couldn't understand why, maybe to defend their teacher and themselves.
Their teacher moved to stand in the way of her from getting to the girls. His canadian accent coming out. "Well madame, we aren't here to follow your rules. We are here to give my students a safe environment to study till our new building is done. Now if you have a problem take it up with the Board of Governors, as well as the international comity that put us here. Now, you asked how I run my class room. This is how, charms are great tools for dueling. So as tests, I give my students real situations that happen everyday to people, so they are ready for the real world." by this point the teacher was less than three feet away from her and had his wand at the ready to, from what Draco could tell, defend his students.
Very calmly Umbridge said "There is nothing in the real world that could do any harm that would warrant this kind of-" she was cut off.
"That is a lie! My girls will have be at risk for hundreds of things My boy's will have different risks, but still life threatening. Dueling is a good skill to have," He was visibly glowing with rage. "I will teach the skills of my choosing however I please! The british way of teaching is thirty years behind where is should be. I won't let your stupidity harm my students future."
That's when everyone heard someone scream. "I can't see! Help! Someone!"
When Draco looked around he saw Aries panicking on the floor. Multiple people ran in her direction, all of them trying to calm her down. She was spinning around on the floor her arms reaching for anything. That's when the school nurse grabbed her from behind and cast a sleeping spell on her, within moments Aries body had stopped moving and she calmed down.
"I can't tell at the moments, but her eyes may be deeply damaged, the rest of her injuries all look very minimal. This arm of hers looks likeit took a lot of blunt force damage. All of these girls need to come to the hospital wing. I'll keep this one though under sedation till I know what spell was used to cause such damage. "
Draco, by this point of her talking, had made his way to the front of the crowd and saw Aries and her friends close up. What he thought were small cuts and bruises from before he now saw were large gashes and dark bruises. When he looked at Jamie, the one on aries team, he saw her injuries were very minimal in the grand scheme of things. He looked at the other team and saw Tony was in a similar situation as Jamie. What kind of exercise was this? Draco looked at everyone around him and saw the headmaster and umbridge walking away quickly, probably going to owl parents, The SoM kids quickly coming to the aid of the nurse to get the girls to the hospital wing, and one of the older boys taking Aries dog outside so the dog would stop barking.
After this the rest of the school went about their day. Everyone quietly talking about what had happened earlier that day. Nothing big happened till at dinner when a family of eight and Draco's parents came into the great hall. They all walked up to the head master as he welcomed them.
"I am so glad you were able to get here so quickly. The children are resting right now, though we have some seats here to make sure you can eat as well." Draco's parents took the seats with the teachers while the family of eight politely declined and went to sit with the SoM boy's of Aries year. The children weren't that loud minus the youngest who looked about six years old and was asked about the hall and how Aries was doing. After dinner Draco met up with his parents.
"Why are you here?" Draco asked
"We were sent here by the board of governors to make sure everything is going well. The incident from earlier today had them worried for the schools safety." Draco's father said very nonchalantly.
"That doesn't explain why mother is here. Are you here for Aries?" Draco said starting to walk down to the dorms.
"Draco dear, you shouldn't ask such questions. I am here for her because I have no choice to be. We were told that there could be permanent damage to her eye's and as her birth parents we needed to come." Draco's mother said walking with him, giving as little information as possible but enough that Draco thought he was apart of the situation.
"May I ask a question about her?" Draco asked knowing his parents knew who he was talking about.
"Only one, but after this you can never speak about her again." His father said in a rough tone that meant he was serious.
Draco took a moment to think about what question to ask.
"Why does Aries, my sister, have such a large scar on her face?"
