Chapter 14 up! Sorry about the wait as usual. My laptop is practically dead so I don't know when I will be able to post the next chapter. I might be able to write a chapter from my mum's computer. I doubt my computer will boot up tomorrow, but again I don't know. I do promise to have the next chapter up in less than a month, hopefully, less than a week.
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Chapter 14: In To Hogsmeade
The day of the next Quidditch practice seemed finally arrived, after what seemed like months. The Slytherins had a dead boring school schedule including History of Magic and Muggle Studies.
At breakfast the Slytherin team sat together to discuss what they were going to go over at practice that night. Draco informed everyone that he had booked an hour of practice, every other night, until the first game of the season. He then started lecturing on what he would cover during that period. Much to his displeasure, no one heard a word. Elizabeth, who was positively starved, due to the fact that she had skipped dinner to get her Charms essay done for today, was much more interested in her plate full of eggs and toast, than anything else. Crabbe and Goyle were playing tic-tac-toe with grapes and banana slices on bread. Theodore Nott had fallen asleep over his half finished quiche. Blaise and Malcolm were finishing their Charms essays last minute.
" Hey! You guys listening?" Draco exploded after a rather loud snore from Nott.
" Yow, nov cwarse ve er!" Elizabeth mumbled through a mouthful of eggs.
" Sorry, Elizabeth, I don't speak Gobbledegook!" Draco responded briskly. Elizabeth blushed slightly and swallowed.
"Yah were listening… Right Blaise?" Elizabeth probed.
" Wa?" Blaise asked stupidly.
" Listening."
" Sure." Blaise shrugged. Draco shook his head.
" There's the bell." Draco said coldly. " I don't think I'm going to Muggle Studies, I, er, have a horrible headache, yah."
" Right." Elizabeth said skeptically. " See you in Charms then. I sure hope your 'Headache' gets better." She smirked as she drew quotation marks in the air around headache.
"Yah," Draco faked a pained look and rubbed his forehead vigorously. " I hope so. You know what?" He smiled at Elizabeth after most of the people had left the Great Hall for their classes, " I have this feeling that I might get an ingrown toenail or something right before History of Magic!"
" You are not missing two classed today." Elizabeth said calmly. Draco smirked.
" Nah, I'll be in History of Magic. I don't anything to be suspicious." He finished. Elizabeth grinned, picked up her bag and made her way to Muggle studies.
Elizabeth arrived in the Muggle studies classroom five minutes late, and was deducted ten points for it. She also noticed that Draco wasn't the only seventh year Slytherin missing. Zabini and Nott, were also absent. Professor Alecto Carrow informed that those with muggle relatives are contaminated, even if the muggle relative is generations back. Elizabeth felt like cursing her into a jelly. She was a second-generation half-blood, felt that saying she was "contaminated" by her muggle grandfathers as a huge insult. Despite this, she held her tongue.
Draco showed up in Charms and came to History of Magic begrudgingly. He and Elizabeth played hangman the entire lesson. They planned to copy Pansy's notes; that is if she even took any. Zabini and Nott were there and looked quite angry about something. Elizabeth wondered if they had showed up in Divination, a class that she and Draco didn't take.
That night before practice after Draco had grabbed his broom and headed out to the Quidditch pitch early to get ready, Elizabeth found out where Blaise and Theodore were. She ran out of the castle and stopped once she got to the pitch. Draco was in the dressing rooms writing up a training plan.
" Draco?" Elizabeth said slowly. Malfoy looked up.
" Elizabeth, ah, where is your broom?" He asked.
" Dormitory." Draco raised his eyebrows. " Draco, Blaise and Nott won't be practicing tonight." Elizabeth muttered.
" WHAT!" Draco stood up, the parchment he was writing on fell to the floor. Elizabeth stepped back.
" They were not in Muggle studies when I got there and left Divination."
" So…?" Draco said stubbornly.
" I heard from Goyle that they both got terrible nosebleeds Muggle studies before I got there and they were sent to the hospital wing. Their nosebleeds seemed to have gotten better before they even got to the hospital wing. Carrow asked Madam Pomfrey is they would be able to come back to class. Madam Pomfrey said that they had never came to the hospital wing. So Carrow was furious so she banned them from playing Quidditch today. She didn't do anything worse because they where pureblood Slytherins. She search their bags and found boxes of Skiving Snack boxes." Elizabeth explained.
" Dammit!" Draco growled and kicked the wall, which just made his toe hurt. He swore loudly.
" They will be able to play at the next practice." Elizabeth added.
" Right… Well no use doing anything today with no Keeper and only 2 Chasers. Or maybe we can bring Blaise and Theodore out here and have Crabbe and Goyle hit bludgers at them." He said and shook his head angrily. " Come on lets go back up to the castle before the rest of the team come out."
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The next Quidditch practices, fortunately, went quite well, even to the point that on the last practice, Friday, before the first Hogsmeade weekend, Draco smiled and said that they might just crush Hufflepuff to smithereens.
That night Draco and Elizabeth decided that they would meet at the doors leading out to the grounds, before going into Hogsmeade together. In the morning after breakfast, Elizabeth made her way to the doors. Draco was standing waiting for her with a grin plastered on his pale face. He was wearing black pants and a green , black, and white plaid dress top, which he didn't bother to tuck in, or button up the whole way. His white blonde hair fell into his face a little since he didn't slick it back as her usually did. Elizabeth admitted to herself that he looked quite handsome. She had on black V necked long-sleeved shirt and jeans. Draco had a cloak over his shoulder in case it do cold. Elizabeth had left hers in her trunk thinking that she would be fine with out it.
" You look nice." Draco observed as he leaned against the marble staircase railing lazily.
" So do you." Elizabeth responded. " I don't think I have ever seen you look so casual. You usually wear your Slytherin robes all the time."
Draco smirked.
" Not always. Well come on." He said as he walked toward he and tapped her softly on the arm. She followed him out the doors onto the sunlit grounds. At this point Elizabeth wished she had brought her cloak; it was quite chilly out. Draco, however didn't seem to mind the cold air.
" So, were do you want to go first?" Draco asked smoothly.
" Oh I don't know, I have never been there." Elizabeth said quietly, with a quick laugh. " Why don't you give me a tour." She smiled.
" I can do that." Draco said importantly.
" Even thought I don't know anything about it, what is your favorite place in Hogsmeade?" Elizabeth asked once they had exited the Hogwarts grounds.
" I'll show you won't I?" He smirked again. " No, I like Honeydukes, the wizard sweet shop. Like I don't get enough sweets from my mum." Draco said sarcastically. " She sends them to me at school. "
" So that's what is in those huge parcels you get once a week!" Elizabeth implored.
" Yah." Draco laughed. At this point they had arrived in Hogsmeade. Draco led Elizabeth all around pointing out all the shops in the village and explaining them to her. Honeydukes was the first shop that they decided to enter. They pushed their way through a crowd of third and forth years so they could look around. Elizabeth picked up a gigantic sample pack of one of everything in the store and immediately put it back when she discovered it was 27 galleons. Draco was wandering around the other side of the store. Elizabeth didn't buy anything because the line was ridiculous. However she thought she saw Draco throw the woman behind the counter a small bag of coins, but he did not carry anything out of the store. When they left Honeydukes they stopped at Zonkos Joke Shop but did not go in.
" I bet they will be going out of business any day now." Draco said calmly. " The Weasleys shop in Diagon Alley is going to put a stop to them."
" Is that the store that Blaise and Theodore got those Skiving Snack Boxes at?" Elizabeth asked.
" Yah, they were working on those boxes since their sixth year at Hogwarts. Fred and George Weasley are identical twins that were in Gryffindor house, two years ahead of me when I started here. If there was ever a blood traitor family it was the Weasleys, pureblood muggle lovers they where. Blood traitors are as bad as mudbloods in my family's opinion. Anyway, their store is huge and their products are better than Zonkos, I admit."
They continued walking and Draco pointed out things along they way. Eventually they turned back and walk back toward Honeydukes. By this time Elizabeth was chilled through and covered in goose pimples. She rapped her arms around her keep warm but said nothing. Draco noticed this.
" God, you look cold. You want to stop in at the Three Broomsticks for something to drink?"
" Ya-Yah." She muttered. Draco pulled his cloak off his shoulder and put it on her. He wasn't that cold anyway.
" Thanks." Elizabeth smiled and looked up at him. He buttoned his shirt the whole way up now. They walked until the came to the Three Broomsticks and entered. It was packed. There was only one place left to sit way in the back. Draco sat down next to Elizabeth on the booth after going up to the bar and buying two butterbeers from Madam Rosmerta.
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Second longest chapter yah! I hope you enjoyed it. It will post the next chapter as soon as possible and will explain so things... Thanks for reading and please leave feedback, I love it! If you didnt know Chapter 4 has been changed so feel free to read it. I said why one the previous chapter...
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