A/N: Here's another chapter. Enjoy:))

Chapter 117: Out of the safe heaven

"Wake up! We're leaving in three hours. You have to get ready." I groaned and rolled on my back, eyes still closed and wishing to go back to sleep. I didn't even try to figure out who was attempting to wake me up.

"Unlike you, I already packed everything. Not that there was much to pack in the first place anyways. Most of my stuff is at Hogwarts. I just have to eat and get dressed. So let me sleep please."

"Bold of you to assume I didn't pack as well. I'm used to packing a week before term even starts." I peeked through my eyelashes and saw Draco hovering over me, sleek hair back in place and dressed in an all black suit. I eyed him warily and reluctantly got out of bed.

"And I assume you're going back to being a stuck up prat?"

"That's not very nice of you; and for the record, I just like looking good."

"I wasn't trying to be nice, you woke me up after all. And just so you know, you looked like a cow licked your head."

"You obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed, so I'll let you get ready. Come to breakfast after that." He got out of the room and I started laughing to myself. His hair actually looked like that.

A few minutes later, dressed and more awake, I ran down the stairs, two at a time and went to the kitchen, tripping over a pile of school books covered by a jumper. Luckily, I caught myself before falling and continued walking.

The room smelled like pancakes and porridge. Surprisingly, this morning there were no eggs or bacon on the table.

"Eat, and whoever has things left to pack will go do that after breakfast." Mrs Weasley told us, and then Sirius started talking:

" We'll Floo to King's Cross today, just to be sure everything is going to be fine. The fireplaces here have been off the Ministry's radar since I was little. My parents didn't want anyone knowing where they were going and when. Finally something they did turned out to be useful."

Two hours later, we were lined up in front of the fireplace in the living room. Narcissa wasn't coming with us, since it wasn't safe for her to be seen. It was rather dangerous for Draco as well, but a plan was made to protect him, and he had to go to school. Once we reached Hogwarts, he'd be safe.

"I'll miss you Draco."

"I'll miss you too." he hugged his mother tight before stepping in the fire with Tonks. "Platform nine and three quarters!"

We followed, each of us accompanied by an adult, and then got in the train. He left to meet up with his friends and I found a compartment along with Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione. Soon, Luna and Neville joined us and we started talking about the OWLs, much to Ginny's horror.

"Mom nagged me enough about the exams, can you stop doing it as well?"

"C'mon Gin, there's almost a year left until then, and Luna isn't worried."

"She's never worried, or stressed."

"Oh, but Ginny, I have been worried; although indeed, being stressed is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain."

"Besides, we're only talking about our results. But of you insist...what kind of teacher do you think Slughorn will be?"

"We'll, he's kind of a talent collector, but he's far nicer than any of the previous ones, except Remus obviously."

"Where's Malfoy by the way?"

"What does that have to do with the conversation?"

"It doesn't, Harry just has an obsession with him again." I said, subtly nudging my brother in the ribs. "he thinks he's a Death Eater."

"I don't think, I know it. It's the only reasonable explanation."

Shortly after Harry finished his story about what happened at Borgin and Burkes, a third year girl entered the compartment, holding three parchment scrolls tied with violet ribbons in her hand and quivering with nervousness.

"I was-I was told to give these to Harry-Harry and Selene Potter and Neville Longbottom."

They were invitations to a "little lunch" in Slughorn's compartment.

"Oh dear... Let's get this over with."

"It's going to be okay guys, just relax."

"There's something off about that man and I don't think I want to know what it is Mione."

When we got there, we realised we weren't the only ones invited, but when I looked at the people sat around the small table, I wasn't surprised. A few kids there had important parents with connections in the Ministry, Blaise was there as well (Probably because of his mother), Ginny, who apparently casted a brilliant Bat-Bogey Hex on a jerk outside her compartment, and of course, the three of us.

We sat down and ate turkey, with Slughorn going around the table and talking about each of us. I answered his questions as dry and uninteresting as possible, just like Harry, hoping to get him off our backs, but it only seemed to make him more interested.

"I'll see you back at our place." Harry said after we managed to escape, and pulled the cloak of invisibility out of his pocket.

"What are you doing with that?"

"I'll go after Zabini to the Slytherin compartment. Malfoy will probably tell them if he's got the Dark Mark."

"Really? I thought you were over it."

"He was nice during summer, yes, but I still don't believe him. If his father could pretend to be a good man for so long, why wouldn't he be able to do that as well? Bye." he disappeared and I sighted, leaving. I just hoped they wouldn't observe his presence, or it could end badly.