"I can't believe you!" I yelled at Draco when I found out why he had snuck out that night
"He had a dragon with him!" he exclaimed, defending himself
"I don't care if he had You-Know-Who with him! Actually I would care then… That's not the point! Detention, Draco?!" he flinched away at my words. He had gotten detention from Professor McGonagall after she had caught him sneaking out that day. Apparently he had been trying to catch Harry and Hermione sneaking a dragon out of the school. Unfortunately for Draco there was no dragon, only him, alone, in the middle of the night. It was days before he was told what his detention was but at last he was told to meet Mr. Filch in the entrance hall.
"Be good" I said as he headed out that night
"Yeah, yeah" he said looking around waiting for me to let him leave
"I'm serious" I said bringing his attention back to me. "School is almost over and I don't want you getting into any more trouble." He scoffed but said okay when he saw my worried face.
Being as paranoid and overanxious as I am I stayed up the whole night in the common room, waiting for him to come back. Sometime during the night Daphne had come in and brought me a blanket before she made her way up to bed. I drank some hot chocolate and stared into the fireplace until I fell asleep on the sofa. It wasn't until Draco arrived early morning that I woke up.
"Have you been here all night?" he asked looking worried and took a seat next to me.
"Yeah" I replied and yawned as I rearranged myself in my seat. As I took a better look at him I realized that he looked quite frightened and I highly doubted it was because I had stayed out of bed. "You okay, Deedee? How was it?"
"Nothing I couldn't handle" he said with a brave face but I knew him better than to believe it. I scooted closer to him and hugged him, wrapping my blanket around both of us as I did.
"Better?" I asked and gave him a smile
"Yeah…" he said as he hugged me back under the thick fabric.
He didn't tell me what it was that had scared him so much from his time in detention but he still looked somewhat frightened. I saw Harry and Hermione, who had also had detention with Draco, looked bothered as well. Whatever it was they had been made to do must have been pretty terrifying. But I didn't think about it long as soon enough it was time for our exams.
Some of the exams had been easier than others. The Charms exam with Professor Flitwick had been simpler than I had expected. Hermione had said she felt very confident about that one. She had still looked worried but as we got deeper into the exams she seemed more focused on them and less on whatever was bothering her. Professor McGonagall's exam had been a little more intimidating but overall it wasn't too bad. I was happy to have gotten a "well done" from her before I left. The Potions and History of Magic examinations were the easiest of them all. I had always loved Potions and as I had studied History of Magic the most it was something that I now knew quite a lot about.
Everyone cheered as the exams ended and we all now had a week to ourselves until our scores were released. Draco had gone with Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy somewhere after much of her insisting. I walked over to the Great Lake to find Fred and George there playing with what looked like the tentacles of a giant squid with Lee. I stopped to talk to them for a little while but as it got late I made my way to my room. I would have been out celebrating like the rest of the students but I couldn't get myself to relax.
I had a strange feeling about everything that was going on. There were things happening that I knew nothing about. Draco had seen something while in detention, something terrifying enough to try to keep me from finding out. Hermione was worried about something too and she didn't want to tell me either, which still bothered me a little. There was more that I didn't know, I was sure of that, I just wasn't sure how horrible those things were. It was scary to think about.
Next morning I took a walk down to the west wing courtyard and stayed there a while. Everyone seemed really excited and happy to not have to deal with exams anymore. Unfortunately, that happiness was short lived when Fred ran in looking worried and a bit of a mess
"Harry and Ron are hurt! They're in the hospital wing now!" he yelled into the courtyard. He looked at me for a second before fading from sight. I knew something had to be wrong! I thought and started down the corridors and towards the hospital along with most of the other students. When we got there I saw Hermione sitting next to Ron's bed as they both looked over to Harry, who looked worse off than the two. I rushed over to her and she hugged me when she saw me.
"What happened?" I asked but she didn't say anything. She had a few scuffs and scratches but nothing too bad, Ron was a little worse off but neither of them looked as bad as Harry. He was out cold as Madam Pomfrey treated him and told every curious student that got close to back away. Fred and George came to see how Ron was doing but it didn't take long for Madam Pomfrey to kick all of us out. Only Hermione was allowed to stay as Madam Pomfrey wanted to make sure she was really okay and not at risk of going into shock or something. The next day Hermione and Ron were let go but Harry still hadn't woken up. We all worried about him and hoped that he would be okay.