Guardian Angel
Chapter Three
Aha! Here is the return of the author everyone thought was dead! Heh, sorry about that. I got another big writers block, but it got better when I was in France. Then my compy broke and we have to replace the whole hard drive. But now we've got it back, and a whole new one as well! Expect loads of chapters!
Another quick
Enjoy this un-beta-d chapter
~Snidget
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'Beep beep!'
Draco opened one eye groggily as an obnoxious beeping noise echoed in his ears. With a start he saw a girl standing above him, holding a Muggle alarm clock over his head. He pulled the covers around himself and sat bolt upright, before noticing her long red hair and cheeky smile.
'Oh it's you,' he murmured, before snuggling back into his warm covers and closing his eyes.
'Charming,' Lily said sarcastically, prodding him on the arm. He groaned, then turned onto his other side, ignoring her. Lily held up the alarm clock again and turned the volume up to 'max.'
'BEEP BEEP BEEP!!'
'Ok, I'm up!' Draco yelled over the deafening noise, and Lily turned it off. 'You'll wake the others up.'
'They're already down at breakfast.' Lily told him, 'It's late. I thought you could use the time to sleep after what you went through last night. I'll leave you to it then, shall I?'
Draco nodded, and she slipped out of the curtains. He heard the door slam a moment later, sighed, and pulled a clean set of robes out of his trunk.
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Draco hurried out of the deserted hall with a piece of toast in his hand. He had got halfway down the first corridor when he stopped, wondering where he was hurrying to.
'You've got Potions next,' a voice told him, from the shadows on his left. Draco jumped back, startled as Lily appeared.
'Would you quit doing that!' he yelled, setting off down the hall again.
'What's gotten into you?' She asked, reappearing in front of him with a 'pop.'
'I'm tired, you moron, because *somebody* had to appear and keep me up all night.' Lily looked thoughtful.
'Oh, right. That,' she said. 'You're still annoyed about that?'
Draco shook his head and descended the stone steps to the dungeons. He hurried down the corridor, Lily bouncing merrily behind him. He pushed open the door to the Potions room and stood in the doorway, checking over his shoulder to make sure Lily had disappeared. She had.
'Mr Malfoy, are you going to come in or just stand in the doorway?' A cold voice asked him. Draco turned to see Snape looking at him.
'Oh, right.' He stepped inside.
'Today we are making a Confusion Potion. Set up your cauldrons, the recipe is in your books.'
Draco moved towards his usual table where Crabbe and Goyle were waiting. A voice whispered into his ear.
'Remember what I said! You have to be nice!' Lily's sing-song voice told him, and Draco could almost see the smirk on her face. He sidled over to where Harry, Ron and Hermione had set up their cauldrons.
'What is it Malfoy? You get lost or something?' Ron's voice sneered at him.
'Nope,' Draco replied, putting his stuff on the table. Harry and Ron exchanged looks of disbelief.
'Malfoy, the Slytherins sit over there.' Ron told him, pointing to the other side of the room, where the Slytherins were looking as shocked as the Gryffindors. 'Did he lose his memory?' Ron was whispering in an undertone to Harry. Hermione took matters into her own hands.
'Draco. We Gryffindor. You Slytherin. You no like us.' She told him slowly, gesturing towards him. There were giggles from the other tables. When Draco continued to unpack his bag, she turned away.
'Just ignore him, he'll go away.' Harry said quietly, his emerald eyes quizzical. As they started to add the ingredients, Draco heard a voice beside him.
'Are you gonna talk to them?' Lily asked, grimacing as she got a noseful of the purple smoke coming out of his cauldron. She was in her 'semi-transparent' state, so she was only visible to Draco.
'Nope,' he replied, stirring his potion. 'Where've you been, anyway?'
Lily nodded her head towards Harry, who was deep in conversation with Ron.
'Oh, right.'
'He is lovely isn't he?' she said, tears welling up in her eyes. Draco snorted.
'Potter? Whatever.' he said, a little too loudly.
'You must have noticed he's very handsome.' Lily smiled.
'It's not like I spend all day looking at Potter, I have better things to do with my time.'
'Nice to know Malfoy, but who are you talking to?'
Draco gasped, startled at the sound of Harry's voice. He looked up to see the three of them staring at him. Lily giggled as a pink tinge spread across his pale cheeks.
'Uh...well...I...er...' he stuttered.
'Did you drink any of that Potion, Malfoy?' Hermione asked, her mouth spreading into a small smile.
'Look, she's talking to you, so talk back!' Lily hissed.
'Urm....no, but yours looks good,' Draco mumbled, wondering where the years of etiquette lessons had gone. He saw Lily beside him, hand over her mouth as she tried not to laugh.
'I'm sorry,' she gasped, 'But that was the lamest thing I've ever heard!' Hermione, too, was looking amused.
'Her potions always look good,' Ron said haughtily, an angry look on his face. He turned away. 'Come on, we have to concentrate, the Potion's almost boiling, after that we only have a few seconds to add the herbs!
Hermione gave him a quizzical glance. 'Since when do you care about Potions?'
'And why are you talking like a textbook?' Harry added. Ron blushed and looked downwards. Draco followed his gaze and saw the phrase written in the book. He smirked.
'Shut up, Slytherin!' Ron said, spitting the last word out as if it were poison.
'Great insult Weasley. Well, I guess you can't afford any good ones.'
Ron's ears turned scarlet and he started towards Draco. Hermione and Harry both had hold of his robes and were holding him back.
Lily re-appeared in front of him with a frown. 'Draco,' she hissed, 'Be nice!!'
'I'm trying!' he whispered harshly. Forcing his mouth into a painful smile, he looked up from his potion, now a dark bubbling blue. 'Sorry Weasley.'
'Ron, call him Ron,' Lily reminded him.
'Uh, I mean Ron. Sorry about that, I was...tired and upset and I didn't mean that.'
Harry and Hermione had both dropped his robe and were staring at him in shock. Ron's mouth had fallen open and he seemed to be having trouble talking.
'Guh...um..da...what?!!'
'I said I was sorry. Now are you going to accept my apology becaue I don't do this for fun.'
Ron was still looking dazed. 'Um...yeah.' Snape's voice cut through the class, jolting the three Gryffindors out of their daze.
'We will now be testing our Potions. If I could have one volunteer...' he looked around at the silent class, 'no-one? Well I'll just have to choose then.'
Draco sunk lower into his seat. He didn't need anymore stress today. Snape was still gazing around through narrowed eyes, relishing the power he held over the cowering fifteen year olds.
'Potter.' he said, with a vindictive smirk. Harry groaned and picked up a spoonful of potion. Grimacing, he put the spoon to his mouth and swallowed.
Immediately he seemed to become dazed, his eyes glazed over and he stumbled backwards.
Lily appeared beside Draco. 'Oh Gods, what if he's been poisoned!!' she shrieked.
'Ow!' Draco whined, holding his ear. Lily took no notice, her eyes fixed on Harry, who was currently sitting on the floor gazing around like a lost puppy.
'Oh stop moaning, he's had Granger helping him. It's just a confusing potion.'
'Oh. OK.' Lily smiled as Harry tilted his head on one side and smiled happily. She disappeared again.
Then the bell rang, making Harry shriek and scramble under a table. Draco hurried to pick up his bag, not sure if he could stand the sight of Hermione and Ron trying to coax Harry out without laughing insanely. Ron stuck out his foot as Draco walked past, making him stumble and fall onto the floor. Harry yelled and backed away as Draco stood back up.
'Don't say anything,' Lily's voice warned him from beside his right ear. Draco's cheek's flushed a pale pink, but he bit his tongue and turned away, missing Ron's astonished expression. He stormed out of the classroom but refrained from slamming the door.
'That's it Lily! I can't stand this anymore!' he burst out, 'It's too hard! I can't do it anymore.'
'Calm down,' she said, popping back in next to him. 'Just stop being a baby, of course it's going to be hard at first, but you have to stick with it. It's not that embarrassing.'
'No, that's it!! I'm not going to be humiliated any more!' Draco yelled. He turned his head to see a second year smirking at him.
'Talk to yourself often?' The second year said, still grinning.
Draco turned to glare and somehow missed the wall in front of him. He walked into it and fell back with a 'thud.' A crowd of people gathered around, giggling. Draco pulled himself up.
'What?!' he said, with the air of someone being stared at for no reason, complete with childish pout. He walked away haughtily and headed for the Slytherin common room, Lily's laughter ringing in his ears.
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