Chapter 7

The First Night

When Draco and I got into the Entrance Hall, we were bombarded by a group of second years.

"Hannah! Hannah!" they all shouted together.

"OI!" Draco said after a couple of minutes of this "One at a time, James, you, and only you, talk." Draco said, pointing to Willow.

"Hannah, we want to know if you're going to keep doing the DA meetings!" Willow said, beaming hopefully up at me.

"Yes, I learned loads with you!" Merissa Grey said

"Yeah, and if it wasn't for you, we probably would have failed our DADA Ordinary Wizarding Level!" Akane Circa said.

"Yeah! And with Umbridge, we would have never learnt hand on hand combat!" Hiyori Kuran said, her eyes glistening.

"Please say you'll keep doing the DA!" Lucas and Desiree Burke said pleadingly.

"Please!" the second years said together, looking up at me with big hopeful eyes.

I sighed. I really saw no point to it…but it would have made them so happy. "I don't see why not." I said, smirking.

The second years cheered and hugged me all at once, making me fall back into Draco's arms.

"You're the best, Hannah! Now we can train the new first years!" Blair Webing, a girl in my house said, beaming as the second years rushed into the Great Hall.

"Wow…" Draco said as we walked into the Great Hall together "I've never seen a group of second years so happy…minus the first little bit with us." he added with a smirk.

I giggled "Well, I really don't see the point of doing it, but if it makes people happy, what the hell?" I asked as I walked into the Great Hall and headed towards the Slytherin table.

"Yeah…" Draco said, shrugging "Are you sure you want to keep your Captaincy a secret?" he asked "A lot of people may want to know who you are."

I cocked my head to the side and thought about it. On one hand, if I didn't say anything, it would evoke mystery, but then again, wouldn't it also make people paranoid of who the Captain was?

"Fuck it." I said, taking my Captain's badge and pinning it to my robes as I walked up the Slytherin table.

I earned quite a few looks and gasps and gaps and mutters.

"It's Hannah!" they were all saying as Draco and I sat down where we knew the first years were going to be seated in a few short moments.

"I thought it would be her, lest you all forget, Potter is our queen." Akane Circa said next to me, smirking to Blair and Willow and Yuuki.

"Yeah, great verse, by the way, Willie." Yuuki said to Willow.

"You and Malfoy made a pretty good team for that chant." Blair added.

Willow smirked and stretched out over the bench "What can I say? I'm a natural poet. Once there was a cat, who sat on a hat. Hey, I'm a poet and I didn't know it! I can make a rhyme anytime!"

I turned to Willow and sneered "Hey, Will, take a nap, because your rhymes are crap!" I said, laughing.

The Slytherin second years burst out giggling as the Great Hall doors burst open and Professor McGonagall walked in with the first years (And Dominique.)

McGonagall set the school Sorting Hat onto its stool and the hat sang of the same theme from the previous term: Stick together, unite inside the school to defeat the outside enemies and then the Sorting began.

McGonagall opened her scroll and read out the first name:

"Abend, Luna!"

A little girl with shoulder length silvery hair and blue eyes (who had a bulge in her pocket from something.) sat down on the stool and the Sorting Hat was placed on her head.

The hat thought for a moment, and then called out:

"SLYTHERIN!"

Luna Abend beamed as she rushed over to sit next to Draco, taking a book out of her robe pocket (which would explain the bulge.) and starting to read.

"Hi." I said to her.

Luna Abend waved to me, tucking her book back into her pocket. "Hello, I'm Luna Abend."

"Hannah Potter." I said brightly before gesturing to Draco "And Draco Malfoy." I added.

Draco nodded before wrapping an arm around me and kissing my cheek "Why must my girlfriend be so bubbly and sweet towards the firsties?" he asked.

"Are you two date - oh, wait, you're Hannah Potter and you're Draco Malfoy!" Luna said, sighing "Of course you're both dating, it was all over the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly when the Triwizard Tournament was going on!" Luna said, sighing. "Your mysterious, yet awe-inspiring triumph in the final task seemed to have peaked my family's attentiveness towards you and your brother. Tell me, why did you become the sole victor in the Tournament when the Prophet said point blank the day after the challenge's tragic finish; with the death of one Cedric Diggory; that you and your brother had been touching the Cup at the same time."

I gaped. She had…she had my level of vocabulary!

"Well," I started "The Daily Prophet was indeed correct that when Harry, Cedric's corpse and I returned to the school from the maze, Harry and I were touching the Cup at the same time. However, Harry decided that he wanted nothing to do with the Tournament that cost Diggory his life, so he let me have the Galleons and the glory, so therefore, I was the rightful victor by default."

Draco gave me the "Duh?" look "Um, if you're going to talk like that, love, can I at least get subtitles?" he asked.

Luna laughed "There are subtitles, it's called a dictionary, Draco." she said before turning her attention back to the Sorting. "I have a few friends from the train that I would love to see in our house." she told Draco "They're being Sorted soon."

Draco turned to me and mouthed "Switch spots with me!"

I sighed "Baby." I mouthed back, but still swapping seats with him as a brunette boy went to the Ravenclaw table.

"Davies, Emily!" McGonagall announced.

A small, pale girl with straight dark brown hair grey eyes and a small button nose sat down on the stool as I watched the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain Roger Davies tense. She must have been his sister.

I also saw another Slytherin girl in my year (but in a different dorm with Daphne Greengrass.) called Traci Davies tense.

"So Davies and Traci are siblings." I muttered before the hat shouted:

"SLYTHERIN!"

Roger groaned and Traci squealed happily as Emily Davies rushed over to Traci quickly.

"Welcome to Slytherin, Emmy!" Traci said, slapping her sister a high five.

Emily beamed and rushed over next to me, budging Luna Abend further down the bench. "Hi!" she said "I'm Emily Davies. Do you like…OH MY GOSH!" Emily gasped, pointing to my chest, which was sporting both my prefect's badge and my Captain's badge "You're a Quidditch Captain! Do you know my brother, Roger? He's the Ravenclaw Captain!"

I smirked "I do believe I've had the pleasure of whopping his ass in a match." I said.

"You beat my brother once? No way, when was that!?" Emily asked.

I smiled "Actually, it was when I was your age. It was the last time Slytherin's won the Quidditch Cup."

"Oh, Roger was really upset about that." Emily said crestfallen "But Traci was thrilled!" she added happily turning back to the stool. "Davis, Bethany!" McGonagall announced.

A tall grey eyed girl with blonde hair sat down on the stool and after a moment:

"SLYTHERIN!"

Bethany Davis was met with a chorus of cheers from a seventh year Slytherin and his friends.

"YES! THAT'S MY SISTER!" he shouted.

Bethany rolled her eyes and sat down next to Luna Abend, nodding to me.

"Hello, Bethany." she said to me, pretty loudly seeing as I was a few feet away from her. "No need to introduce yourself. You're Hannah Potter." she added, smiling.

"Nice to meet you." I said, ignoring her loudness and smiling as a raven haired boy went to Hufflepuff, where She-Cat waved brightly at him.

"You Quidditch Captain?" she asked.

I nodded.

"Sweet, can I try out?" she asked.

"Talk to Snape about it." I said "If it was up to me, absolutely. What do you want to play?"

"Oh, Keeper." Bethany said happily "I played football with my brothers and sister and I wanted to play goalie for ice hockey, but my Mum wouldn't let me."

"SWEET!" I shouted, bumping fists with the first year "I love hockey!"

Bethany smiled "Me too, it's surprising, seeing as I'm a pure blood that I play Muggle sports as well as Quidditch."

I huffed "I think I'm going to like you." I said.

Bethany smirked "I think the feeling will be mutual." she said back before she started talking to Luna Abend.

McGonagall cleared her throat and called out the next name as a redheaded girl went over to the Gryffindor table, Hermione beaming at her.

I creased my eyebrows together. Hermione, Ginny and Ron were seated, and so was Ivy…but Harry was nowhere to be seen.

Where are you, Harry? I thought to myself as McGonagall sent another happy blonde Hufflepuff to her table, where the Burke twins grinned at her.

"Kuro…Kurosaki, Eboney." McGonagall said, having a little difficulty with the pronunciation of the last name of the girl going up to the stool.

The girl was tanned with black hair and light blue eyes and had I not known any better, I would have called her a thirteen year old based on her height.

"SLYTHERIN!" the Hat called.

Eboney Kurosaki smirked and rushed to an empty spot across from me before smiling brightly "Hi." she said to me.

"Hi, I'm Hannah." I said.

"Malfoy…" Draco said "Draco Malfoy."

"Kurosaki…Eboney Kurosaki." she said.

"Didn't your parents, like, die when you were younger?" Willow asked.

Eboney turned to her "I'd rather not talk about that, thank you." she said.

"It's ok, I know how you feel. I lost my family when I was younger, too." I said soothingly.

"Oh, right, yeah, I forgot you were a Potter." Eboney said happily. "I've never met someone that knew what I was going through before. I live with my aunt, Penelope Arithu."

"The Potioneer Penelope Arithu?" Blair asked, shocked.

Eboney nodded "Yes. The very same one." she said. And that was the last we heard from her for a while.

"Lafleur, Dominique!"

Dominique paled as she walked up to the stool and let the Sorting Hat fall onto her blonde braid.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

The Gryffindors cheered as Dominique sighed and went to sit next to Ron.

"Riness, Heather!"

A girl with wavy shoulder length brown hair, dark brown eyes, high cheekbones, sort of long legs with pretty good muscle and a nose that looked a lot like Angelina Jolie's stepped up to the stool.

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Heather shot up and rushed over to a beaming Hermione, sat down next to her and took out a red lolly before turning her eyes to the Slytherin table and waving to Draco and I.

I waved back, but Draco stayed silent and immobile.

After the last redheaded boy was sorted into Ravenclaw, Dumbledore stood up and started the feast.

As soon as I started eating, I heard a voice call my name.

"Hey, Potter!"

I turned around and saw a girl with long dark brown hair pulled into a high ponytail and green eyes, I knew her from anywhere (by sight, not by name.), she sat next to me in my History of Magic classes.

"Hey…uh…" I said, feeling ridiculously stupid.

"Kairi Phantomhive." the girl said smirking "I heard you're the Quidditch Captain this year. Good job."

I smiled "Thanks." I said gratefully as I made room for her to sit down.

"When're you holding trails?" Kairi asked.

I shrugged "It'll depend when I get enough signups." I said.

"Make it soon, I'm dying to try out for Beater now that Montague is gone." she said, holding up her hand "I'm ok, thanks. I just wanted to ask when you were holding trails. See you in lessons, maybe." she said, walking away, shouting "OI, WOLFBAIN, TRAILS ARE COMING WHEN SHE GETS SIGNUPS!"

"Yeah, see you." I said, waving to her before returning to eating.

As I was finishing my third helping (Yes, I'm a fat ass, deal with it!) of fried chicken and chips, suddenly, Harry burst through the Hall door, accompanied by Professor Snape!

Harry's face was covered in blood and I gasped with worry.

"What the hell happened to him?" I shouted.

Draco whistled innocently and started talking to Crabbe about Quidditch.

"Draco!" I said to him "What did you do?"

"Uh…nothing, love." Draco said smoothly. "What makes you think I did something?"

"Harry. Coming in. Middle of the Feast. You whistling as if you don't want suspected. Care to explain what you were doing in the compartment when you said you were checking something?" I asked.

"I was just checking something, love. I honestly didn't do anything." Draco said.

"I heard you say in the compartment the Full Body Bind Jinx and talking to someone." I said as the desserts replaced the main course on the tables.

"You were still half asleep, Hannah, you could have been hearing things." Draco said, smirking as he handed me an éclair.

I huffed. That was a good point. I had just woken up from a nap when I thought I had heard him, and I was still half asleep.

"Fine. I'll buy it. For now." I said, glaring into Draco's eyes and taking the éclair from him "But this isn't over." I said before biting into it and starting to converse with the new strand of first years about possible DA meetings for the term.

When all the desserts were cleared away, Dumbledore got to his feet again and stretched his arms out as if to embrace the room. Draco went mysteriously quiet when the Headmaster started talking and stopped paying attention.

"Welcome back to another year at Hogwarts!" Dumbledore said, stretching out his arms and revealing his injured hand. This sparked mutterings from the entire Hall.

"Nothing to worry about." Dumbledore said, covering up his hand. "Now, to our new students, welcome. To our old students, welcome back! A whole new year of magical education awaits you.

Now, I would like to introduce a new member of staff. Professor Horace Slughorn shall be taking on his old position as Potions' Master."

"Potions?" I said, shocked.

"POTIONS?!" everyone gasped.

"Professor Snape, meanwhile, shall be taking over the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts." Dumbledore announced.

Snape raised his hand in lazy acknowledgement towards the cheering members of my house (bar Draco, which I found odd. Snape was his favourite teacher.)

Dumbledore then launched into a speech about how Voldemort was on the rise again and how sticking together then was more important than it ever was. He implored us to not go out after hours because of the new security measures (Aurors, protective enchantments, etcetera, etcetera.). And then to tell a member of staff immediately if a student found something wrong.

"But now, your beds await, as warm and comfortable as you've ever dreamed. And I'm very sure that your main goal is to be well rested for your lessons tomorrow, so off to bed. Pip, pip!"

I stood up, elbowing a half asleep Draco "Oi, Captain Attentive. C'mon, time to wrangle these first years into their beds." I said.

Draco ignored me, still levitating his fork with his wand.

"Can I give him a wedgie?" Luna asked.

I nodded "Knock yourself out." I said, pulling a bit of Draco's underwear out of his pants.

Luna smirked and grabbed Draco's elastic strap, pulling it up tightly and sharply and making him jump.

"What the shit?" Draco shouted to Luna.

"Glad we have your attention now." I smirked "C'mon, Drake. We got first years to lead." I said.

Draco gave me the Death Glare "You are such a bitch, you know that?" he asked as he let me hop up on him.

I smirked "I'm a Potter, it's my job!" I said "Isn't it, guys?" I asked.

"Yeah!" the first years (and Willow, Akane, Yuuki and Blair.) said happily. "She's a Potter, it's her job!"

Draco huffed. "Girls." he muttered "I'll never understand their want to beat the Skinner out of boys." he said before his eyes widened as I squeaked "Oh no." he muttered.

"OH MY GOSH! YOU SAID SKINNER!" I squealed, hugging him and kissing the back of his head hard. "Did you hear that, guys? He said Skinner!"

Blair sighed "You and your Jeff Skinner!" she said "He's only a hockey player. What's the big deal?"

I gave the girl a death look "If you value your life, Webing you will not call Jeff Skinner 'just a hockey player'! He's the best, and the best shot!"

"If you love Skinner so much, why don't you marry him?" Annabelle Drosie sneered behind me.

"Piss off, Drosie!" I snapped "I highly advise you get to your common room before I give you detention for harassing a Prefect."

Drosie sneered and took something out of my robe pocket.

It was my Potions book.

"Oh, you're still taking Potions, Potter?" she asked. "I'll see you in class, then. Come to think of it, I'll need a new book. Thanks, potter!" Drosie shouted, running off with my Potions' book.

"That bitch! She ran off with my Potions book! Slughorn is going to murder me!" I said as Draco said the password to the dungeons.

"Don't worry. Father said that Slughorn was a really reasonable teacher, he'll just lend you a book until you can rewrite to Flourish and Blott's." he said as he set me down.

"Awe!" Eboney gushed "That's so sweet!"

"I know, they're such an adorable couple!" Luna said.

"I know, but I really don't care." Bethany said, rolling her eyes. "It's just a coupling, who cares?"

"I do!" Emily said, turning to Bethany and narrowing her eyes "They're so cute and passionate and inseparable, and romantic and Draco would risk his own life for Hannah and…"

"Ok, ok, we get it, we're cute!" I said, laughing as Draco stood there stone faced. "The girls' dorm is on the left with me, the boys is on the right. Come on, girls, follow me!" I said, walking up the stairs, with Draco following me oddly enough.

"What?" he said when I stared at him. "Can't a boy accompany his girlfriend to bed?"

I rolled my eyes "You romantic sap." I muttered. "You're so protective. What, do you think that a bunch of Death Eaters are going to come and murder me if you aren't with me every second of the day?" I said, laughing.

You don't even know the half of it. I accidentally read in Draco's mind. "Hannah, don't make jokes like that. You'll never know, for all I know Death Eaters could be in your dorm right now."

I huffed and waited for the first year girls to get into their beds. "Fine, Mr Malfoy. Why don't you check and see if the coast is clear for me?" I asked.

Draco drew himself up. "All right, then, I will." Draco said, starting higher up into the dorms and entering with a brief "Sorry, ladies."

After a couple of minutes he came back out of the dorm and looked down at me "It's safe." he said seriously.

I rolled my eyes. "My hero." I said, kissing him softly "Now I'm going to bed. Goodnight, I will see you in the morning."

"I love you." Draco said, looking into my eyes.

"I love you, too." I said, entering my dorm pale pink and shutting the door.

"Hey, Hannah!" Lexi McMaster said "Happy belated birthday!" she said.

I smiled "Right back at you, Lex!" I said to her as I got into bed "Hey, Tinkerbelle!"

"Hi, Han!" Amelia Finch said to me as I got into the covers.

"Hi, Han!" Pansy Parkinson, Rose Yaxley and Monique Clearwater said altogether to me.

"Hi, Pancake, Rosie, Nique." I said before turning onto my side and falling asleep.

Draco's POV

If only she knew what sort of danger she was in when she made that joke!

"What, do you think that a bunch of Death Eaters are going to come and murder me if you aren't with me every second of the day?" she had asked.

It was a rhetorical question, I knew, but I knew that there was an answer. A resounding "YES!"

When I fell asleep that night, I was worried sick. (Damn that joke Hannah made!).

The Dark Lord had her, she was paler than normal and didn't have the usual fight in her.

"Malfoy…" he was saying to me "You've failed your assignment. You know the penalty." he said.

"No, please, please, anyone but her. Take me, kill me, just let her go!" I pleaded.

"No, Malfoy…this is the price." the Dark Lord said as he let her drop as he drew his wand "Crucio!"

The room was suddenly ringing with Hannah's agonized screams.

"No, no!" I shouted, trying to make him show mercy. "Please, take me, let her go!"

"Trust me, Malfoy. You'll get your wish. Once I've finished her…nice…and slow." Voldemort said, sneering down at Hannah "And as for you, you wouldn't be in this mess if you had chosen to join me! Crucio!"

Again and again he cursed her, and again and again she screamed until she wasn't able to anymore. All she would do was glare up at him with a sneer until he left her unconscious and moaning.

He smirked down at her stirring body then back up to me. "Think of it, Malfoy. The Great Hannah Potter…broken. Finished. As good as dead."

"No! Please, leave her alone!" I pleaded, almost knowing it was hopeless, that he was going to kill her anyway. "Take me." I whispered. "Please, let her live."

He sneered at me "You really do love her, don't you, Malfoy?" he demanded of me.

I looked down at Hannah, then up at the Dark Lord and nodded "Yes." I muttered.

"Say it. Say how much you love her." he ordered me.

I swallowed "I love her more than my own life. If she died I'd kill myself to be with her." I said strongly.

He spat at my feet "Idiot boy! You failed your assignment, this is what you get. Your pathetic love will not save her! Wormtail, hold our little Lover Boy back so he will not try to interfere with his punishment."

Wormtail grabbed both my arms and held them back as Hannah came to and looked me in the eyes. Grey met metallic blue for a brief instance before I heard her rasp:

"I love you."

I thrashed around, trying to break Wormtail's grip, which was digging into my left forearm and making me cry out.

Finally I knew it was hopeless. I couldn't get out, even if I tried. Wormtail was just going to hold me back until his master killed me. I sunk to my knees and started sobbing.

"Please…leave her alone! I love her, please!" I sobbed, making him sneer and laugh that terrifying laugh.

"Silence, Malfoy!" he ordered, making me fall silent. "Now, Hannah Potter. You'll be with your dear Mudblood mother soon. Do you have any last words in this life?"

"Yeah…" Hannah muttered standing up and looking right at me "First, Draco, I love you. And, Lord Voldemort…" she shuddered "FUCK YOU!" she said before spitting at his feet.

Voldemort sneered and pointed his wand at her "Avada Kedavra!" he said.

"HANNAH I LOVE YOU!" I screamed before her lifeless body hit the floor. I squeezed my eyes closed to keep from looking at her.

I was shaking, bawling as he turned his wand on me.

"Open your eyes, Lover Boy." he sneered "And look at what remains of your precious Juliette."

I opened my eyes and felt my eyes swim with tears at the sight of her small body, limp and lifeless and pale.

That's when I jolted awake shaking uncontrollably from what I had just seen.

I had just seen Hannah…my Hannah murdered by the Dark Lord.

I shot out of bed, putting my dressing gown on and rushing into Hannah's dorm, just to double check.

There she lay, safe and soundly sleeping in her bed. Her regularly pale complexion and her chest slowly rising and falling.

I shuddered and started back to my room.

He's serious. I thought If I don't do what I have to do, Hannah's going to die. I guess there's one thing I have to do.

"I have to find the Room of Requirement." I said aloud when I was back in my bed.

A/N: R+R please! What'd you think about Draco's "nightmare" and what d'you think it means? Reviews are loved more than a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie from scratch! And feel free to give me first year profiles still, I won't judge! They can be girls and guys (even from Slytherin) I just need a lot more Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws! So please and thank you, submit some (the form can be found in my fifth chapter!)

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