The Dragon's Heart: Chapter 14
By: Teenlaunch
a/n: Okay, you are going to be either shocked or.shocked that I would even
type this chapter. It was my sister's idea! Since when do I listen to my
sister?! Anyway, the rest of the chapters are wacko, especially all the
parts with Luscious, just to warn you. Oh, by the way, D: means Draco and
H: means Hermione.
"Happy Valentines Day," Draco said when he went into the common room and he kissed Hermione.
"You too." She laughed.
"Pity we have to go to breakfast instead of having it here. I would have liked to stay here. We could skip breakfast."
"I would like to stay here too, but I'm hungry. I'm not skipping breakfast."
"I just have this funny feeling that something bad is going to happen if I leave this room."
"It will if you think like that. I had that same feeling one day when I was eight and I told my mother and she said, 'Be careful not to jinx yourself.' Well guess what, I must have jinxed myself because that was the day you left." Hermione shrugged.
"That makes me feel so much better." Hermione rolled her eyes and left. When Draco entered the Great Hall he was met with an unpleasant sight. His father, Luscious Malfoy, was sitting among the Slytherins, waiting for him. "She's too smart for her own good." Draco took a deep breath before sitting down by his father. When his father didn't acknowledge his presence he was put on edge. Then he heard someone snickering. He looked around his father and saw Pansy sitting a few seats away from him laughing. After a minute she noticed him watching her and she looked away. Draco turned to his food and realized that his appetite had suddenly disappeared, but he tried his best to eat what was in front of him. After he was done with his breakfast, Luscious cleared his throat and Draco looked up from his plate.
"Draco, I have received some very interesting news about you. Is it true that you and Miss Mudblood Granger have gotten.closer?"
"First of all, I refuse to tolerate anyone calling her that foul name and second, yes, it is true. What is it to you?" Draco watched his father's face work furiously.
"DRACO, HOW DARE YOU DISGRACE THE FAMILY NAME, AND WITH THAT GRANGER FILTH! WHAT COULD HAVE INFECTED YOUR MIND SO THOROUGHLY THAT IT CAUSED YOU TO DO SUCH A THING?!" Luscious fumed, his voice reverberating off the walls, canceling out all other sound. He was on his feet and Draco was soon on his own.
"LOVE, FATHER! SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT! TELL ME, WHY ARE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE?" Harry and Ron spit out their pumpkin juice. There was a sputtering noise and they looked across the table to find Neville drenched in their pumpkin juice. "WHY DO YOU INSIST ON KEEPING THE TRADITIONS OF THE PUREBLOODS ALIVE WHEN YOU KNOW THAT IT IS WRONG? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE MY FATHER?! I CAN NOT STAND YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHY?" Luscious opened his mouth but Draco didn't let him say a word. "YOU TRIED TO MOLD ME INTO A REPLICA OF YOURSELF! LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR, I DO NOT WANT OT BE LIKE YOU! I DON'T WANT TO BE SOME KIND OF MONSTER THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT HIS MONEY AND HIS POWER! That's not me."
"DRACO, HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME THAT WAY!"
"Wait, I'm not finished! I wanted to congratulate you on your.success. While you wanted to transform my entire being you only succeeded halfway. You can shape the exterior but you can't shape the heart. It has its own course, and it looks like my heart's course is very different than yours. Do what you will with me just don't blame Hermione for this." At this Hermione stood and came up to Draco. "Hermione, what are you doing?!" He whispered fervently. She responded by giving him a kiss on the cheek and taking his hand. Luscious glared at her. "I hope you don't regret that."
Crabbe, Goyle, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Luna, and Neville got up and stood beside their friends. Harry and Ron looked at each other and slowly got up to take their places beside their fellow Gryffindors and, used to be enemies. Draco looked around him and smiled. Everyone, even Harry and Ron, smiled back. "Let me repeat the main point of my speech in smaller, simpler words so you are sure to understand. I love Hermione Granger and nothing you say or do will ever change that. Thank you for your time, Father. Now, if you will excuse me," Draco walked away from Luscious with Hermione's hand gripped tightly in his own and their little posse following them. Luscious was standing there, gaping.
"D-Draco.Draco!" Draco continued walking and soon they were in the Room of Requirement. Everyone collapsed onto couches, cushions, and chairs.
"I never thought I'd see Luscious Malfoy put to shame like that," Harry said.
"It was really funny too. Did you see his face?" Ron asked.
"Your dad would have paid everything he has to see that. That's a fact!" Draco said. There was a knock on the door and Ron opened it. His eyes grew wide and he slammed the door.
"Guys, I think we need a bigger room!" The door was forced open and Ron was slammed against the wall. All of the school's Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws poured in. The more people that filed into the room the larger the room got.
"Three cheers for Draco Malfoy! Hip-Hip-Hooray! Hip-Hip-HOORAY! Hip- Hip-HOORAY!" Someone called and the cheers were given, loud and clear.
"What's this for?" Draco yelled.
"You're the only person to have ever stood up to your father! You deserved that!"
"Not really," Draco muttered.
"Come on; let's have our own V-Day party!" Parvati screamed. The room grew to the size of the Great Hall. A dance floor, tables, food, and a DJ station appeared.
"I'm the DJ!" Colin raced toward it. The party went on for a couple of hours. Some of the girls even got together to do a couple performances. When Hermione, one of the girls, came back to her seat Draco gave her an odd look.
"Since when have you danced like that?"
"If only you knew." Hermione muttered. After a while of listening to the music the song that Draco wanted came on. He grabbed Hermione's hand and dragged her onto the dance floor. They both started to sing as they danced. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D: I come here today, H: I'm kind of nervous D: You know how words get in my way H: It should come easy, I've been rehearsing D: I don't know why I'm so afraid, to say
B: Will you marry me
Put our love and life together H: Will you stay with me
For always and forever D: On bended knee, would you take this ring B: Will you marry me, please D: Will you marry me
D: To be with you is what I live for
But at this moment I confess
Though I love you, H: God knows I love you
Deep down inside I'm scared to death D: say yes
B: Will you marry me
Put our love and life together H: Will you stay with me
For always and forever D: On bended knee, would you take this ring B: Will you marry me, please D: Will you marry me
D: On bended knee * Draco stopped dancing, dropped to one knee, and pulled a box from his pocket. H: On bended knee * Hermione could barley believe her eyes. Was he doing what she thought he was? Her eyes welled up with tears as he opened the box. D: Would you take this ring * He looked up at her with a worried expression. What if she said no? H: I will take your ring * Hermione smiled as his eyes lit up and he stood. D: Will you marry me, B: please * Draco slid the ring on her finger as he sang the last line. D: Will you marry me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Draco kissed Hermione, more passionately than ever before and there was applause. Half of the congregation didn't even know why they were clapping but they did anyway. There were a few whistles and catcalls from the people closest to the couple.
"Why are we clapping?" Harry asked Ron.
"Beats me," Ron said as he shrugged.
"Malfoy just proposed to her!" Hannah Abbot shrieked.
"What?!" Ron's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell down into a dead faint.
"Ron?! Uh.Ron? Uh, oh." Harry started to laugh.
Later that night, when Draco and Hermione went to their dorm, they met Luscious for the second time that day. "Hello, Draco, Miss Granger." Luscious' mouth twitched.
"Hello, Father," Draco said slowly as his father took a drink of a strawberry milkshake in his hand. Draco's hand that was holding Hermione's tightened its grip. "What do you want?"
"I want to talk. Your behavior was most intolerable today."
"I don't really feel the need to talk to you. I've said all I want to. Happy nightmares," Draco said as the portrait hole opened and he and Hermione climbed through it. The flames of the torches along the corridor caught Hermione's ring as the portrait closed and Luscious, who had been taking a sip of his milkshake to calm himself, spit it out all over himself and Sir Cadogan's canvas. He dropped his cup, which happened to land on Mrs. Norris. She sped off, hissing madly.
"You hooligan! How dare you vandalize my private territory! Wait until Filch finds out!" Sir Cadogan raged. Luscious paid him no attention.
"DRACO JAMES MALFOY!!"
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning," Draco mumbled.
"Shh.Listen, it's Filch and McGonagall!" Hermione said excitedly.
"Filth, grime, muck! More work for me!" Filch yelled.
"Argus, that is quite enough!"
"Enough, enough?! I'll say it's enough! I've been scrubbing the dungeons clean for two days now and I am still not even halfway done!"
"Fine then! I will clean it up!"
"Y-You would? Oh, thank you Professor! Thank you! I've got to get going." Filch hobbled away muttering to himself.
"Now, Mr. Malfoy, what is the meaning of this? Befouling the castle and disturbing the peace at the same time!"
"Peace? Peace?! There will not be peace until my son comes to his senses!"
"What has he done this time?" McGonagall asked, trying to fight down her laughter. Luscious looked like an overgrown, exotic vulture with pink and black feathers.
"I think," Dumbledore said stepping up behind Luscious, "that Luscious has finally realized that his son is out of his control. Draco has finally gone too far."
"What has he done?"
"It's up to you Luscious. What is your decision? Are you going to disown your son forever or stand by his side because he really has done nothing wrong, nothing against the law anyway?" Luscious glared at Sir Cadogan's portrait then turned on his heel and left.
"Is anyone going to tell me the big secret?"
"Oh, so sorry, Minerva. What do you want to know?"
"What did he do?"
"Oh, noting out of the ordinary really. He just asked the woman he loves to become his forever."
"WHAT?!" McGonagall and Sir Cadogan yelled.
"That's right. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a couple owls to send."
'And here I thought it might not last.' McGonagall thought.
Teenlaunch: Someone kill me. BaByBuSh: Oh, here, let me! Teenlaunch: You're just mad because it reminded you of something else. BB: Nuh-uh you didn't just.Now I am going to kill you! T: But what would Tate say then? He might not like you after that. BB: You said his name! T: What? Taters? Tater-tot? Spuddy? Boy? Which one did I say? BB: Leave me alone before I kill you, now. T: Okay, bye! BB: Get back here!
End of chapter 14! Thanks for reading! Don't ask about that stuff above this. I just did it to get on my friend's nerves.
~Teenlaunch~
"Happy Valentines Day," Draco said when he went into the common room and he kissed Hermione.
"You too." She laughed.
"Pity we have to go to breakfast instead of having it here. I would have liked to stay here. We could skip breakfast."
"I would like to stay here too, but I'm hungry. I'm not skipping breakfast."
"I just have this funny feeling that something bad is going to happen if I leave this room."
"It will if you think like that. I had that same feeling one day when I was eight and I told my mother and she said, 'Be careful not to jinx yourself.' Well guess what, I must have jinxed myself because that was the day you left." Hermione shrugged.
"That makes me feel so much better." Hermione rolled her eyes and left. When Draco entered the Great Hall he was met with an unpleasant sight. His father, Luscious Malfoy, was sitting among the Slytherins, waiting for him. "She's too smart for her own good." Draco took a deep breath before sitting down by his father. When his father didn't acknowledge his presence he was put on edge. Then he heard someone snickering. He looked around his father and saw Pansy sitting a few seats away from him laughing. After a minute she noticed him watching her and she looked away. Draco turned to his food and realized that his appetite had suddenly disappeared, but he tried his best to eat what was in front of him. After he was done with his breakfast, Luscious cleared his throat and Draco looked up from his plate.
"Draco, I have received some very interesting news about you. Is it true that you and Miss Mudblood Granger have gotten.closer?"
"First of all, I refuse to tolerate anyone calling her that foul name and second, yes, it is true. What is it to you?" Draco watched his father's face work furiously.
"DRACO, HOW DARE YOU DISGRACE THE FAMILY NAME, AND WITH THAT GRANGER FILTH! WHAT COULD HAVE INFECTED YOUR MIND SO THOROUGHLY THAT IT CAUSED YOU TO DO SUCH A THING?!" Luscious fumed, his voice reverberating off the walls, canceling out all other sound. He was on his feet and Draco was soon on his own.
"LOVE, FATHER! SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT! TELL ME, WHY ARE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE?" Harry and Ron spit out their pumpkin juice. There was a sputtering noise and they looked across the table to find Neville drenched in their pumpkin juice. "WHY DO YOU INSIST ON KEEPING THE TRADITIONS OF THE PUREBLOODS ALIVE WHEN YOU KNOW THAT IT IS WRONG? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE MY FATHER?! I CAN NOT STAND YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHY?" Luscious opened his mouth but Draco didn't let him say a word. "YOU TRIED TO MOLD ME INTO A REPLICA OF YOURSELF! LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR, I DO NOT WANT OT BE LIKE YOU! I DON'T WANT TO BE SOME KIND OF MONSTER THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT HIS MONEY AND HIS POWER! That's not me."
"DRACO, HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME THAT WAY!"
"Wait, I'm not finished! I wanted to congratulate you on your.success. While you wanted to transform my entire being you only succeeded halfway. You can shape the exterior but you can't shape the heart. It has its own course, and it looks like my heart's course is very different than yours. Do what you will with me just don't blame Hermione for this." At this Hermione stood and came up to Draco. "Hermione, what are you doing?!" He whispered fervently. She responded by giving him a kiss on the cheek and taking his hand. Luscious glared at her. "I hope you don't regret that."
Crabbe, Goyle, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Luna, and Neville got up and stood beside their friends. Harry and Ron looked at each other and slowly got up to take their places beside their fellow Gryffindors and, used to be enemies. Draco looked around him and smiled. Everyone, even Harry and Ron, smiled back. "Let me repeat the main point of my speech in smaller, simpler words so you are sure to understand. I love Hermione Granger and nothing you say or do will ever change that. Thank you for your time, Father. Now, if you will excuse me," Draco walked away from Luscious with Hermione's hand gripped tightly in his own and their little posse following them. Luscious was standing there, gaping.
"D-Draco.Draco!" Draco continued walking and soon they were in the Room of Requirement. Everyone collapsed onto couches, cushions, and chairs.
"I never thought I'd see Luscious Malfoy put to shame like that," Harry said.
"It was really funny too. Did you see his face?" Ron asked.
"Your dad would have paid everything he has to see that. That's a fact!" Draco said. There was a knock on the door and Ron opened it. His eyes grew wide and he slammed the door.
"Guys, I think we need a bigger room!" The door was forced open and Ron was slammed against the wall. All of the school's Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws poured in. The more people that filed into the room the larger the room got.
"Three cheers for Draco Malfoy! Hip-Hip-Hooray! Hip-Hip-HOORAY! Hip- Hip-HOORAY!" Someone called and the cheers were given, loud and clear.
"What's this for?" Draco yelled.
"You're the only person to have ever stood up to your father! You deserved that!"
"Not really," Draco muttered.
"Come on; let's have our own V-Day party!" Parvati screamed. The room grew to the size of the Great Hall. A dance floor, tables, food, and a DJ station appeared.
"I'm the DJ!" Colin raced toward it. The party went on for a couple of hours. Some of the girls even got together to do a couple performances. When Hermione, one of the girls, came back to her seat Draco gave her an odd look.
"Since when have you danced like that?"
"If only you knew." Hermione muttered. After a while of listening to the music the song that Draco wanted came on. He grabbed Hermione's hand and dragged her onto the dance floor. They both started to sing as they danced. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D: I come here today, H: I'm kind of nervous D: You know how words get in my way H: It should come easy, I've been rehearsing D: I don't know why I'm so afraid, to say
B: Will you marry me
Put our love and life together H: Will you stay with me
For always and forever D: On bended knee, would you take this ring B: Will you marry me, please D: Will you marry me
D: To be with you is what I live for
But at this moment I confess
Though I love you, H: God knows I love you
Deep down inside I'm scared to death D: say yes
B: Will you marry me
Put our love and life together H: Will you stay with me
For always and forever D: On bended knee, would you take this ring B: Will you marry me, please D: Will you marry me
D: On bended knee * Draco stopped dancing, dropped to one knee, and pulled a box from his pocket. H: On bended knee * Hermione could barley believe her eyes. Was he doing what she thought he was? Her eyes welled up with tears as he opened the box. D: Would you take this ring * He looked up at her with a worried expression. What if she said no? H: I will take your ring * Hermione smiled as his eyes lit up and he stood. D: Will you marry me, B: please * Draco slid the ring on her finger as he sang the last line. D: Will you marry me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Draco kissed Hermione, more passionately than ever before and there was applause. Half of the congregation didn't even know why they were clapping but they did anyway. There were a few whistles and catcalls from the people closest to the couple.
"Why are we clapping?" Harry asked Ron.
"Beats me," Ron said as he shrugged.
"Malfoy just proposed to her!" Hannah Abbot shrieked.
"What?!" Ron's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell down into a dead faint.
"Ron?! Uh.Ron? Uh, oh." Harry started to laugh.
Later that night, when Draco and Hermione went to their dorm, they met Luscious for the second time that day. "Hello, Draco, Miss Granger." Luscious' mouth twitched.
"Hello, Father," Draco said slowly as his father took a drink of a strawberry milkshake in his hand. Draco's hand that was holding Hermione's tightened its grip. "What do you want?"
"I want to talk. Your behavior was most intolerable today."
"I don't really feel the need to talk to you. I've said all I want to. Happy nightmares," Draco said as the portrait hole opened and he and Hermione climbed through it. The flames of the torches along the corridor caught Hermione's ring as the portrait closed and Luscious, who had been taking a sip of his milkshake to calm himself, spit it out all over himself and Sir Cadogan's canvas. He dropped his cup, which happened to land on Mrs. Norris. She sped off, hissing madly.
"You hooligan! How dare you vandalize my private territory! Wait until Filch finds out!" Sir Cadogan raged. Luscious paid him no attention.
"DRACO JAMES MALFOY!!"
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning," Draco mumbled.
"Shh.Listen, it's Filch and McGonagall!" Hermione said excitedly.
"Filth, grime, muck! More work for me!" Filch yelled.
"Argus, that is quite enough!"
"Enough, enough?! I'll say it's enough! I've been scrubbing the dungeons clean for two days now and I am still not even halfway done!"
"Fine then! I will clean it up!"
"Y-You would? Oh, thank you Professor! Thank you! I've got to get going." Filch hobbled away muttering to himself.
"Now, Mr. Malfoy, what is the meaning of this? Befouling the castle and disturbing the peace at the same time!"
"Peace? Peace?! There will not be peace until my son comes to his senses!"
"What has he done this time?" McGonagall asked, trying to fight down her laughter. Luscious looked like an overgrown, exotic vulture with pink and black feathers.
"I think," Dumbledore said stepping up behind Luscious, "that Luscious has finally realized that his son is out of his control. Draco has finally gone too far."
"What has he done?"
"It's up to you Luscious. What is your decision? Are you going to disown your son forever or stand by his side because he really has done nothing wrong, nothing against the law anyway?" Luscious glared at Sir Cadogan's portrait then turned on his heel and left.
"Is anyone going to tell me the big secret?"
"Oh, so sorry, Minerva. What do you want to know?"
"What did he do?"
"Oh, noting out of the ordinary really. He just asked the woman he loves to become his forever."
"WHAT?!" McGonagall and Sir Cadogan yelled.
"That's right. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a couple owls to send."
'And here I thought it might not last.' McGonagall thought.
Teenlaunch: Someone kill me. BaByBuSh: Oh, here, let me! Teenlaunch: You're just mad because it reminded you of something else. BB: Nuh-uh you didn't just.Now I am going to kill you! T: But what would Tate say then? He might not like you after that. BB: You said his name! T: What? Taters? Tater-tot? Spuddy? Boy? Which one did I say? BB: Leave me alone before I kill you, now. T: Okay, bye! BB: Get back here!
End of chapter 14! Thanks for reading! Don't ask about that stuff above this. I just did it to get on my friend's nerves.
~Teenlaunch~