Chapter 7:
That was Olivia. She was waving at Hermione happily and looked at her with puppy dog eyes. It was time for Hermione to freak out. Her face turned white and her lips turned purple. The whole cafeteria went silent. You cannot see the most popular girl at school invite someone to their table everyday, let alone a group of people. Could this day get any worse? She tried to open her mouth to speak but no words came out.
"Um Granger? I think your friend is calling you," Daphne said quietly.
"I-I know," Hermione stuttered.
She turned around. There stood Olivia, still waving at her and Dudley smiling encouragingly at her. She glanced at them and glanced back at Harry.
"C'mon!" Olivia yelled.
Hermione walked slowly towards their table with the group trailing behind her. She felt people's eyes on her and it made her want to faint. Olivia waved at her best friend and smiled sweetly at the Hogwarts students. Dudley had his back turned away and was talking to Piers, so no one noticed him. No one except Hermione.
"Hi! I'm Olivia and I'm Mia's best friend! You guys must be her schoolmates!" Olivia squealed.
The Hogwarts group smiled weakly at the blonde and nodded.
"Um yeah they are my schoolmates. This is Harry, Ron, Ginny, Pansy, Daphne, Blaise and Draco," Hermione said as she pointed at them.
Olivia started introducing her friends to them and you could tell that the gang was getting bored. Finally, she introduced Dudley to the group. Dudley turned around to say a nice greeting to them but froze when he saw his cousin whom he has bullied for years. Harry was shocked. Really shocked. The two of them stared at each other for a few minutes.
"Dudley?!"
"Harry?!"
Olivia looked at the duo questioningly. Ginny and Ron started glaring at Dudley as Hermione tried to make herself invisible.
"You guys know each other?" Olivia asked.
"Y-Yeah we're cousins. Right Duddykins?" Harry said, glaring at the frozen boy.
"R-Right," Dudley stuttered.
"That's amazing!" Olivia squealed as she clapped her hands together.
The whole table ate their lunch and chatted happily. Unfortunately, Harry and Dudley had to act nice to each other. Harry because he saw Hermione's glare and Dudley because he wanted to play nice in front of his girlfriend. The Slytherins observed the two cousins curiously. It was obvious that the two of them don't like each other. But why?
"I gotta use the washroom, I'll be back soon," Olivia announced.
The whole table watched her leave the cafeteria until she was out of sight. Dudley turned to Harry and glared at him.
"What are you doing here Potter? You're not welcome here," Dudley sneered.
"As if I want to be near you," Harry shot back.
"You can't talk to me like that. Remember your place here; you're the lowest of the lows. You ran off to fight in that stupid war, I'm surprised you're not dead yet."
"Why you-"
Harry turned bright red and growled at Dudley, ready to punch him in the face. Seeing this, Blaise and Ron held him back to prevent him from causing any harm. The war was one of the topics Harry hated to discuss. Even the Slytherins knew that. Harry was still trying to recover from the war and he still felt really guilty when a lot of people died to save him. Sirius, Remus, Tonks…
"Why do you bother talking to that awful cousin of yours when you can just hex him? So much for being the Boy-Who-Lived," Draco scoffed.
Harry and the others stared at him in shock when Dudley paled. Did Draco just defend Harry? Dudley stormed out of the cafeteria and left the Hogwarts group alone.
"Thanks for defending me Malfoy," Harry said quietly.
"I wasn't helping you; the stupid muggle was just getting on my nerves," Draco snapped.
First of all, if any of you are wondering, this is not going to be a Drarry. I'm just going to make Harry and Draco friends. It is going to be a Dramione story. I know I haven't added any 'romantic' scenes for the two of them but I can assure you that they are going to end up being together. Plain and simple.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please leave me a review to tell me if you liked it! Tell me what you think should happen next!
Again, I have to study for my exams so I won't be able to update so fequently but like I said I'll try to update once a week.
A shoutout to Apsincandescence as I promised as she guessed the correct answer to my question!