AN: For the:
Achieve That Outstanding challenge: Poor - Diagon Alley.
Favourite House Boot Camp: Traitor
OTP Boot Camp: Yelling
36. Hurt
Stumbling out of The Leaky Cauldron and into Diagon Alley with Astoria Greengrass on his arm just felt right to Draco.
Why am I dating that Granger girl? He thought to himself. Her hair is all funny!
Turning the corner as they went past Madam Malkin's Draco came to a stop and turned to face Astoria before pulling her to him and enveloping her in a kiss that left him breathless. He had never been close to Daphne Greengrass in school, but maybe he should have been if this was how her sister made him feel. He'd only known Astoria for an hour, but he was already in love with her.
It's okay, Granger will understand it's true love… Draco thought, just before he heard Hermione's voice start yelling. Speak of the devil!
"Hermione, what are you doing here?" Draco asked with a giggle, still hanging onto Astoria who was wearing a proud smile.
"WHAT AM I DOING HERE?" Hermione yelled, almost deafening Draco, "WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE?"
"Actually, Hermione, I wanted to talk to you about that. Astoria and I... Astoria and I are in love. It's true love Granger, you wouldn't understand, so we're going to be together from now on!" Draco replied calmly.
"I WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND? WHAT THE HELL DRACO? YOU THINK I'D DATE YOU FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN TRUE LOVE?" By this point Hermione was almost in tears, "I see how it is. I'm going home. Don't bother coming back tonight, traitor!"
Draco watched Hermione's retreating figure until she disapparated. Something in the back of Draco's mind was telling him that this was wrong – it was Hermione that he loved and not Astoria – but he ignored the more rational part of his brain and turned back to the blonde witch beside him. However, pretty soon that part of Draco's mind that was telling him it was wrong was getting louder and he was starting to wonder what had possessed him to leave with Astoria in the first place.
It was almost an hour later before Draco returned to his senses fully, and realised that somehow Astoria must have slipped him some Amortentia. Daphne had warned him in school that her sister had an almost stalker like crush on him, obviously that hadn't gone away.
Draco managed to slip away from Astoria by slipping into a disused alleyway next to Gringotts where he managed to apparate home. When he arrived home he found Hermione in floods of tears packing her belongings.
"Hermione, love…" he started before being interrupted by a shoe flying towards him.
"HOW DARE YOU DRACO MALFOY!" She yelled at him, Draco barely dodged the second shoe that came flying at him, "HOW DARE YOU CHEAT ON ME AND THEN COME CRAWLING HOME CALLING ME LOVE WHEN SHE REALISED SHE COULDN'T PUT UP WITH YOU! YOU DAMN TRAITOR!" This time it was a book that came flying at him.
"Hermione… HERMIONE! LISTEN TO ME!" Draco had resorted to yelling himself by this point. He didn't like raising his voice towards Hermione, but he couldn't think of another way to get her attention.
"Hermione, please, you have to believe I wouldn't cheat on you willingly."
"You seemed pretty happy to cheat on me when I saw you kissing Astoria earlier!"
"That wasn't me!" Draco almost yelled at her, "Well, it was… but I wasn't myself. She slipped me a love potion, Hermione!"
"Oh…" Hermione's response came. Draco just managed to get to her in time to catch her as she collapsed in defeat.
"I'm sorry, believe me; I love you!"
"I know," her response came, her voice was starting to come back to her now, "but I still need some way to make you pay for being a traitor."
AN: I know in the film Astoria is brunette, but I always pictured Daphne, and therefore Astoria, as being blonde so I decided to make her blonde in this.