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Pre-Chapter's Author's Note: Ok, so I was skimming through a few HP books and I found that the way J.K. Rowling described Blaise wasn't as I thought so I'm changing it in my story:
Blaise is a European looking type, he has dark brown hair styled to fawn over his forehead and the beginning of his eyes, he's about 5'11" and has dark brown eyes.
Draco (I'm describing him because I noticed I didn't earlier) stands about 6' tall, has the same platinum blonde hair styled the same as Blaise, just a half inch longer and has sapphire silver eyes.
Chapter Five:
Harry walked back to the Heads common room, along with Alison and Draco. Ron had stormed off, he couldn't stand Hermione and Blaise's flirting, while they walked off to the Prefects lounge. On the way there, Harry could hear the two's conversation,
"So, what do you want to do, love? We could go to the lake, watch the moonlight glimmer." Draco asked, Since when did Malfoy get all cheesy? Harry pondered on.
"That sounds great but I feel like doing something exciting- Harry, what do you want to do tonight?" Alison asked, looking at him with an excited glint in her eyes.
"I was actually thinking of just staying in, you two can be alone." Harry replied, looking down at his shoes. Alison stood in silence.
"Po- I mean Harry, I guess it'll be fun, getting to know each other a little more, for Lynna's sake. Don't you think?" Draco asked, he received a heartwarming smile from Alison.
"I guess your right, no need to be distant, right?" Harry answered with a smirk which matched Draco's.
"So, I was thinking of going outside, it's snowing lightly, perfect weather for some fun in the snow, doncha think?" Alison wondered childishly, her eyes wide on the thought of Draco and Harry having fun as friends.
"Sure, Lynna. What do you think, Harry?"
"Why not? I'll go change" Harry answered, the three only realized that they were already at the Head entrance, Draco left to the dungeons to change into more suitable clothes. Alison and Harry entered the common room and headed up the stairs and into their closets.
Ten minutes later, Harry arrived at the common room. He was dressed in a dark blue long-sleeve shirt, a pair of simple dark blue jeans, a pair of matching leather gloves, black hiker-style boots, a thin black scarf hung loosely around his neck and a dark blue winter-coat held on his arm.
A knock echoed from outside the entry-hallway, he walked down and opened it, revealing two Slytherins and Hermione. Draco and Blaise being the Slytherins, Harry let them in.
"I though it'd be fun if these two lovebirds came along." Draco announced sarcastically, acknowledging to the blushing couple and walked past humming.
"Great idea. Alison still hasn't come out yet." Harry answered and led the three into the common room (a/n I know Dumbledore said no inappropriate visitors but inappropriate being the keyword). It was after they stepped into brighter light did he notice what they wore.
Draco was dressed in a dark green long-sleeve shirt with a D threaded in black over where his heart was, a pair of black Vintage straight jeans, black hiker-style shoes, matching leather gloves, a grey scarf and dark green coat hung on his right arm.
Hermione was dressed in a creamy brown turtleneck sleeveless topped over a white long-sleeve, a pair of dark plain boot style jeans, creamy brown cotton gloves, a matching scarf, a pair of fluffy white snow-boots with two inch heels, covering over the ankle and some of the calf. Her hair was done up in a small loose bun, letting strands of hair fall, framing her face, small dangle earrings hooped through her earlobes and a white puka-shelled necklace completed the look. A pair of silver ice-skates slung over her arm.
Blaise was dressed in a beach long-sleeve polo, a pair of light blue destroyed boot jeans, dark grey leather gloves, matching scarf and coat was set on the coffee table and dark grey hiker-style boots decked out his feet.
The sound of a door closed and footsteps caught everyone's attention. Alison walked down; she was dressed in a grey belted cardigan, a pair of dark stretch boot jeans, and a pair of two-inch heeled black snow boots, a white fluffy scarf hung around her neck and a pair of black cotton gloves. She had her hair in a half-bun, letting hair cascade from the center of the bun to her shoulders, her fringe hung over her forehead, triple-upped hoops in her earlobes, a double-hoop went thru her cartilage. A thin silver choker stunned her neck and a pair of black ice skates hung over her shoulder.
Draco went up to greet her, kissing her cheek and they all set off to the fields. The fields were blanketed in snow,it waslightly snow just as Alison had predicted, Hermione was the first to set off to the lake, Alison following behind, and they chatted on and on, leaving the three guys behind with nothing to do.
Draco made the first move, he yelled "Accio broomstick!" Seconds later, a firebolt set down into his hand. Harry made the next move and Blaise followed. The three set off, zooming back and forth in the sky. Alison and Hermione were skating gracefully over the frozen lake; they sat down to rest and looked up at the hyper active 18 year olds.
"I never would've imagined those three flying together last year. That'd had been the most insane thing ever." Hermione said, looking over at Alison, in the back ground you could hear yells and shouts of delight and plenty of "WHOOOOOOO-HOOO!" 's.
"Really? Well, look at them now. They act like they've been friends since they were five, well, two of them are." Alison replied, laughing at the sight of the three having a snowball fight on their broomsticks.
"Yeah."
"So… I've noticed that you and Blaze are getting cozy, care to explain?"
"Well (laughs nervously), he's just so much different than I expected of a Slytherin, especially the best friend of Draco Malfoy, no offense! I mean, Mal- Draco was really mean, with the mudblood thing and being a jerk to us for the past six years."
"I get it. He was always so sneery when it came to Gryffindors, well, now, he's one to talk, his girlfriend is a "Gryfindork", as he so well put it. He's great, once you get to know him."
"Well, now, I'll get a chance."
"I'm glad that you will. Hey, (leans back on both elbows, staring up at the sky) you ever notice how bright stars are when you're outdoors, away from buildings… just you, the stars and snow?"
"I agree (leaning back as well and staring back at the night-lit sky); they're so bright, shining as if they're closer to us than the planets, when it takes about… three light-years to get to the nearest star! Isn't that ironic for the astronauts?"
"Traveling three light-years as in three years as fast as light travels. It's just creepy…"
"But so fascinating." Hermione finishes for her, sighing contently up at the sky.
"I know… I love Astronomy. It'd be my dream vacation to fly up to the stars and planets and just look at them… they used to make me feel so small sometimes; they're so far up and we're down here on Earth."
"I would love to fly up there and I used to think that I was small and tiny compared to the stars and the moon! But I'd much rather stay put on the ground. I am cursed with phobia of heights. It's just so unnerving… I could've tried out for Quidditch but my stupid phobia keeps me from doing some of the most extreme stunts in muggle history-
"like sky-diving! Or parachuting! Or something as small as looking out the window-
"Of an airplane!" Hermione and Alison finished the last part together, laughing at the ironic situation.
"So, you're afraid of heights as well?" Hermione asked, looking back up at the sky.
"Yeah, but you do know that we, who are cursed- not literally- with a phobia means that you have to overcome it! I've tried a dozen times a few months ago, it was field week at Maylignius, anyways, field week occurs every other occasion, like Christmas, Hallows Eve and Valentine's, so, you get to go anywhere in the wizarding world and the muggle world, well, my friends and I chose to go to Los Angeles, California in the US. So, they had these amusements parks like Magic Mountain, Disneyland, Universal Studios and-
"Knott's Berry Farm!" Alison and Hermione finished the sentence again.
"So, I went on hundreds of sky-scrapers, drop 20 feet-rides, things like that, by the end of the week, I was still afraid of heights! Can you believe that! I have to admit that the first day of visiting amusement park to park, I was freaked but I enjoyed those nerve-wreaking rides after that. I cannot wait 'til Christmas Break!"
"Why? Wait, you're planning on going to L.A. again, aren't you?"
"Hell yes! Oh, do you want to come? It'd be extremely lonely on the trip if I didn't have a friend with me!"
"Really? I could come along? Great! I've been dying to go somewhere foreign without my pestering parents, now, I have an excuse!"
"Great! Y'know(tearing her gaze from the sky, she turned to the three hyper-active, slightly tired boys), I think those three will get along just fine. If they do, we might bring them along, what do you think?"
"I think that's a great idea! Why not twist it a bit, we observe them silently- without them knowing that if they do get along, they can spend time with us- then we make our decision a week to Christmas Break! Whatcha think?"
"I like it!"
Meanwhile, over with the three boys.
"HEY!" Harry exclaimed, recoiling from Blaise's large snowball which aimed straight at the back of his neck, swooping down to the snowy grounds to make a gigantic snowball and whacking it straight at Blaise's laughing face.
"HAH HAH HAH!" was Draco's response to the two, he was suddenly silenced by two large snow-piles flung right at his face and open mouth, this action turned into an all-for-himself snowball/pile fight. Twenty minutes later, the three dropped down exhaustingly from their brooms, landing hard, flat on their backs on the thinning area of snow. Groans of pain and sighs offrustration were emitted.
"Man, is it me or do we really need to lay off on the exercising?" Blaise asked, drowsiness filling his words. Feminine squeals and giggles of delight were heard in the background, causing the three turn around. After a period of watching the two girls playing on the ice, giggling as they slipped every now and then.
"It's just you" were both heard from Harry and Draco, while Blaise answered to himself "It's just me".
"C'mon, let's, like,go join the girls!" Blaise said in a girly-snobby tone, skipping girly-like to the lake.
Chuckling, Harry and Dracoran after him.
"Hey, guys!" Hermione greeted, skating a half-circle in front of them and sending Blaise a wink.
"Hey." Harry answered, walking out further towards the ice, slightly stumbling every few steps, Draco following his footsteps.
"Hey," Draco whispered to Alison, who just landed on the ice from a finishing jump, sliding straight into his arms, "So, you're quite the talented one, never knew you could do that."
Alison blushed at the thought of stumbling into his arms, "Well, a lot's changed since last time we were together."
"Well, I guess we'll just have to make up for that lost time, now, won't we?" Alison blushed furiously at this, Draco, apparently taking joy in making her blush replied, "Y'know, you look extremely irresistible when you blush, I think I'll have to use all my self-control to keep from making you blush. Otherwise, I'll have to fight tooth and nail to pry youaway of hormone-crazy guys."
Alison blushed so hard that she could've turned literal red if that was possible. Smirking, Draco turned her all the way towards him and kissed her softly on the lips, her right hand tangled itself in his hair while her other hand trailed up to his chest, tracing his rock-hard outlined muscles. Harry stood watching the two, then turning his gaze to the other couple; Hermione and Blaise were caught up in a similar position, they were standing on the side of the lake, Hermione's right leg was curled around his thigh, his left hand was playing with the collar of her turtleneck while his other arm was wrapped around her waist. Groaning at the unbearable sights of the compromising situations, he took his firebolt and flew jet-fast up to the hill he and Alison were caught on their first night at Hogwarts. Mounting it, he flew up, higher and higher and turned around, sky-diving at a speed much like his third year Quiddtich match. After flying around a couple more times, he touched down and met up with the two disheveled Slytherins, who had separated from their girlfriends.
"Hey, so, you two looked extremely busy back there. What happened? Because I know for a fact that you two aren't the type to break from a heavy snog session."
"You got that right, Pot- er, Harry. Sorry, I still can't get used to calling you by anything but your surname." Draco explained, fiddling with his hair, trying to make it messier than it already was.
"Ditto on that, maybe we should go back to calling each other's surnames when the girls aren't around?"
"Yeah. That way, Hermione won't hex me when it comes to rivalries." Blaise added.
"Sure." Draco agreed.
"So, back to my original question, what happened with the girls?"
"Well, Hermione was the first to pull away. She walked towards Alison and- Blaise let Draco finish the rest of the sentence,
"She told Lynna in these exact words, "Hey, 'Lissa, remember that thing we're supposed to catch up on?" and 'Lynna says, "Right, thanks for reminding me! Sorry, Drake, I gottta go; girl talk." Can you believe that? And since when did Gra- Hermione call her 'Lissa?"
"Well, I guess that Hermione and Alison are becoming friends, y'know, best best girlfriends?"
"You mean that my girlfriend's a lesbian! (a/n I'm SUPER sorry if I offend anyone of the homosexual joke, SUPER sorry!) WHAT? When did this happen? I mean, there weren't many signs! I should've known! But then, there was that one time when she was saying-
Harry gawked at Draco and his never-ending rambling Who knew the guy could turn nervous train wreck when it came to Alison? Blaise was thinking along similar lines, he knew well enough that Harry meant that the two girls weren't lesbians but friends, best friends. Chuckling, Blaise did nothing to stop Draco's continuous rambling.
"MALFOY! Calm down! I didn't mean that Hermione and Alison are homosexual! Ugh, god! You can be so naïve! I mean that they are best friends, best friends who happen to be girls! My gods!" Harry shouted, staring at Draco in disbelief.
"Huh? THANK THE GODS! I actually thought that- HAH! I cannot believe I just thought that! So, they're just really best friends? Good god, Potter. You need to stop twisting your words around. A man could die from shock listening to you."
Harry stared at Draco in shock, shaking it off, the three turned to the giggling girls not too many yards away from them.
"What do you think they're talking- no, giggling about? They're so… girly." Blaise said dumbly, while Draco and Harry stared at him in great disbelief.
"Well, I'm going to ignore that last comment, considering they're girls and they have a right to be girly, we should sneak up on them, listen in on them." Draco said, apparently looking around for a well hidden place.
"Yeah. I've always wondered what girls talk about when they're not around us…" Blaise wonders, drifting off into deep thought. Harry and Draco looked at him weirdly.
"Right... Anyways, c'mon. Let's go. We can climb up that tree over them." Harry suggested, taking lead in approaching a tall pine tree and began climbing. After moments of struggling, silenced grunts of frustration and Harry stepping on Draco's head and Draco to Blaise a couple of times, they managed to find comfortable and stable positions.
"So, can you believe it? Neville is actually in love with (coughs) Draco (coughs)!" Hermione said, squealing with excitement. Harry, Draco and Blaise looked at each other with pure utter ness shock.
"WHAT! NO WAY! No! Really! I CANNOT believe that!"
"YES WAY! Well, now that you think about it, it does make sense." Draco listened in hard, mouthing "HOW!" furiously.
"How?"
"Well, you notice that Neville's so nervous around Slytherins, especially Draco. Who would be surprised?"
"Hmm… Guess you're right. It makes perfect sense."
"See? Told you! Oh! And you will NOT believe what I'm about to tell you! I vowed to myself that I would NEVER mention it ever again. But considering that I've got this weird spur of the moment thing, I cannot resist! Ok, so, y'know Parkinson, right? Well, it turns out she is secretly in love with Harry! Can you BELIEVE that!" Hermione said, giggling furiously. Harry gawked at the girls, shock and paleness took over his face as fast as Ron's did. Draco sat there, slightly chuckling at the news before remembering Neville's crush on him, while Blaise tried to hide his laughter by biting his knuckles.
"WHAT! NO way! But I thought they despised each other! I remember one time when Pansy was complaining about how Harry was so infuriating; I guess that she was just masking her forbidden affection for him… It does make sense." Alison announced. This only changed Harry's expression into widened eyes, mouth literally hanging open, his body sat still listening in on the gossiping girls.
"I know! Unexpected, but I overheard Parkinson whispering quite loud to Millicent."
"Well, you can't trust Parkinson and her loud ways. But I'm glad that she kept the bad habit."
"Me too. Still, I cannot believe that she is in love with Harry! It's totally unexpected but it makes weird sense. As for Neville and Draco, well, you can only imagine." Harry was shocked, he sat there, processing in all that was said. Draco sat there imagining Merlin knows what, while Blaise stooped on the branch, grasping the tree bark with his right hand while biting down hard on hisfree hand'sbleeding knuckles to keep from making any sound, shaking furiously with silent laughter. Unfortunately for the three boys, Blaise was holding onto the tree bark a little too hard, causing it to sever from the branch he was sitting on; Blaise fell with the tree branch, landing on the snow in front of the girls.
Harry and Draco still sat there on their lone tree branches, until they both realized what they just heard, shocked, then, they shouted at the same time, "WHAT!" (a/n Imagine SUPER sonic LOUD!)
The shout was so loud, its echo boomed through the forbidden forest, and reflected off of the ridiculously large mountains of snow. Slowly, the snow on the mountains started downhill, rolling faster and faster rumbling sounds could be heard not too far away.
"AVALANCHE!" Blaise shouted, scrambling up from the ground and running back towards the castle.
Moments later, Harry and Draco jumped off the branch, following the two girls and hysterical Slytherin towards the castle. Unfortunately, Blaise having no rational mind, kept running along the trees, screaming with his eyes closed halfway, having no clue whatsoever of where he was headed, ironically, the two girls were running off towards the right direction towards Hogwarts, leaving Draco and Harry to follow Blaise deeper into Forbidden Forest.
"'Lissa!" Hermione shouted, catching up with her and stopping momentarily to turn their attention to the three boys running off into the woods.
"SHIT! They're heading the wrong way! Should we go after them?" Alison shouted, running along the front of the forbidden forest.
"We have to! They're going to get trampled by the avalanche! C'mon!"
Hermione grabbed Alison's arm and sprinted after the trail of three sets of frantic footprints.
"HARRY! DRACO! BLAISE!" Hermione and Alison screamed frantically, scrambling and dodging flying pieces of what would seem to be the foreplay of an avalanche.
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"HEY! Zambini! STOOPPPP!" Harry shouted, the two other scrambled to a halt, "Where are we!"
"I think we went deeper into theForbidden Forest! Zambini! Fuck! We're still in the forest!" Draco cursed loudly, roughly turning Blaise's attention to the direction the avalanche was going to be trampling from in a matter of seconds, minutes.
"We're screwed! Wait, where are the girls! Goddamnit! C'mon! I think I hear the girls!" Harry screamed, dragging Draco and Blaise towards Alison and Hermione's direction, sprinting at high speed, they dodged flying pieces of tree bark and piles of falling snow.
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"Where the hell are they!" Alison screamed, ignoring the fact that the towering avalanche was headed their way, fast, fortunately, Hermione did.
"Alison, we have to go! It's coming this way, fast!" She shouted, seizing Alison's arm and sprinting, dragging Alison along as fast as she could towards the castle.
"Are you insane! Look, (grunt) we can't outrun (dodge) that fucking avalanche in (dodge) time to get back to (dodge) Hogwarts! We need to (grunt) get to shelter!" Alison shouted, pulling Hermione towards the direction of the caves.
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"We can't (dodge) make it (dodge) back to Hogwarts (dodge and grunt) without getting crushed by (falls and gets up) that!" Draco exclaimed, leading the two frantic boys towards the caves.
"What about the girls! They're- Harry stopped mid sentence when he saw two feminine figures scrambling, a little further ahead in the frozen lake clearing, "The girls! We have to get to them!"
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"Hermione!" Alison shouted, running towards her injured friend. Dropping down on her knees, she asked, "Are you ok! OMIGOD, the boys! 'Mione, c'mon! We have to meet up with them!"
Hermione was on the snow, sitting up she struggled to get to her feet apparently limping on her left foot, "You get them, I think I fractured something and- UGH! SHIT! OWW!"
"Never mind, they're here!" Looking up, she saw the three disheveled boys.
"What happened! 'Mione! Merlin! We need to get to the caves! C'mon!" Blaise shouted, swooping up Hermione in his arms and sprinting off ahead. The rest followed, when they heard a small crack.
"AGH!" Alison screamed in pain, she was struck by a small flying branch in what seemed to be both of her legs. Draco sped off towards her, shouting at the rest to go on ahead, but Harry and Blaise with Hermione in his arms, stood stock-still, watching the thunderous avalanche approach their fellow injured Gryffindor friend and unknowing Slytherin, Harry broke into a sprint towards them, shouting at them to get up.
"HARRY! NOO!" Hermione screamed, struggling to go after him but Blaise held her still in his death-grippening arms.
Helplessly, they watched the scene of their three friends; Draco finally had Alison in his arms when they heard the warning shouts of Harry, they turned around to meet with the avalanche, withinafraction of a second, they were trampled by the snow.
Harry stopped to a halt, taking in the just-happening scene, he turned around and started back up the hill shouting at Blaise and Hermione to get to shelter, who heard and reluctantly, Blaise (remember, he still had Hermione in his arms) turned around and started after the caves, knowing their friend would meet with the avalanche within seconds.
Harry watched them disappear in distance, slowly, he turned around and watched as the avalanche advanced on him, descend over him within milliseconds…
Meanwhile, Blaise stood in the shelter of the caves and watched the scene. Hermione sat in his arms, crying hysterically on his shoulder. The avalanche came to a slow-down and headed past the caves, downhill back deeper into the forest. All hope was lost, Harry, Draco and Alison lay somewhere buried under the snow, they were still conscious but barely alive.
Author's Note: Ok, so that was a cliffhanger. I know that in this chapter:
One: the scenes when they were shouting at each other seemed too long to be able to carry out without getting crushed by the avalanche but imagine them talking really fast. After all they were frantic.
Two: Harry might've seemed a little weird when he stopped and let the avalanche run over him but he knew it was useless to keep running to get to the caves since it was seconds behind him
Three: They could've apparated into the Hogwart grounds, but they can't because, yeah, they can apparate around the grounds and outside but not going inside or Voldemort can just pop in!
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