Chapter 19
Detention
We were told to meet Mr Filch at eleven o'clock on Saturday night to do our detentions. So I reluctantly got up, met up with Draco in the common room in my cloak and walked down to the Entrance Hall, where the wheezy, balding scrawny figure of Argus Filch was waiting for us, along with Harry, Ivy, Ron, and Hermione.
"So, you decided to show." he wheezed "Come along then. You're going to be helping Hagrid this evening."
I brightened a little. If I was going to be outside with Hagrid, then detention wouldn't be so bad.
"You're getting off easy." Filch drawled "In the olden days, you would have been hung upside down by the Great Hall rafters for a day or two. I keep the shackles nice and oiled, in case Dumbledore comes to his senses."
We walked down to Hagrid's hut in silence, listening to Filch drone on and one about the olden punishments.
"But no, Dumbledore has you going into the Forest." Filch finished.
Draco's head shot up "What?" he whispered.
"You're going into the Forest." Filch said, an ugly grin spreading across his face. "Ah, here's Hagrid." "Hey, Hagrid." Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ivy and I said together.
"Hey, Harry, Ron, Ivy, Hermione, Hannah." Hagrid said eyes twinkling at the five of us, then nodding courteously at Draco "Ready to go into the Forest?"
"The Forest?" Draco asked "I thought that was a joke! We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are…" there was a howl from the Forest "werewolves."
There was another howl. "Werewolves?" I squeaked.
Draco nodded.
"There's more than werewolves in those trees lad." Filch sneered, setting off towards the castle "Goodnight."
My heart started to race.
"All right, here's what we're going to do. You see this?" Hagrid asked, holding up a leaf with a metallic silvery substance.
"Unicorn blood." Hagrid said "Something's been hurting them. Found one dead last week. So we're going to find this one. We might have to put it out of it's misery. So we're going to split up into two groups." Hagrid pointed to Ron, Hermione, and Ivy "Ron, Hermione and Ivy, you'll be going with me."
Then he pointed to me, Harry and Draco "Hannah, you and Harry are going with Malfoy."
"Ok," Draco said, not really sounding all that scared now "but we get Fang!" he pointed to the boarhound at my feet.
"Fine." Hagrid said "But fair warning, he's a bloody coward."
I glanced at Draco, then at Harry. Those two are like fire and ice. I thought This should end perfectly well.
…
After Hagrid supplied us with a lantern and Fang, Harry, Draco and I were walking tight nit to each other. Harry on my left, Draco on my right, holding the lantern.
"Wait till my father hears about this." Draco griped.
"I know, this is servants' stuff!" I complained, secretly terrified.
"If I didn't know better, you two. I'd say you were scared." Harry accused.
\ Draco scoffed "Scared Potter! Please! I'm just…protecting Hannah from the dangers in here."
I blushed "My hero." I mumbled.
There was a snap to my left. Draco and I screamed and I ducked behind Draco.
"Did you hear that?" Draco and I said together, me poking my head out from behind Draco.
Harry scoffed "Slytherins." he mumbled.
"I'm scared!" I whispered.
"I'm not!" Draco said, drawing himself up.
"Really, Draco?" Harry asked "Then why did you scream like a girl?"
"I wasn't screaming!" Draco said defensively "I was…cheering from the thrill, yeah, that's it. I like the thrill."
"Or," Harry accused, taking the lantern from Draco "you were screaming like a girl. Hell, I'd say you were screaming higher than Hannah."
"SHUT UP, POTTER!" Draco yelled "Now let's find this unicorn and get the hell out of-"
Draco cut himself off with a gasp, as did Harry and I.
We found the unicorn all right, and it was dead. It's legs were sprawled out at very odd angles.
Harry and I glanced at each other, both telepathically agreeing this was the most beautiful, and the most sad thing we've seen in our lives.
Just as I was set to pull out my wand and send up sparks to signal Hagrid that we found the unicorn, a cloaked person swept up towards the body and leaned in at the neck wound. He put his lips to it and drank.
I made a strangled cry of disgust. Big mistake, the figure looked up and looked Harry, then me in the eye.
My scar burned. And apparently so did Harry's.
Draco gave a scream like a little girl and grabbed my hand. Then we booked it.
…
We started back to find Hagrid so he could help find Harry and the unicorn.
"That…was…way…too close!" I panted, taking out Slytherin's dagger and cutting through a vine.
"Yeah, aren't you worried about your brother?" Draco asked, sitting on a stump.
"Yeah. That's why we're going to go find Hagrid, smart one." I said, pushing his head to one side.
"So…" Draco said looking my way.
"So…" I said, biting my lip and looking down.
"You want to kiss?"
I shot my head up and looked at him "What?" I asked, blushing.
Draco's eyes widened as he bit his lip. I read his mind:
SHIT! What did I just say?
"Did you just ask me if I wanted to kiss?" I asked.
Draco glanced down at a twig "Um…er…um…yes?" he said nervously.
"Um…" I said blushing "Ok."
"I didn't know what I was saying. I kind of shot my mouth off, wait a second. What?"
"I said ok." I said, looking at him "We can kiss, if you want to."
My face burned. Did I just say to Draco Malfoy that we could kiss if he wanted to? I must have exceeded smitten and went to full blown crush.
"Cool." Draco said, drawing me closer to him and placing a hand on my face.
I placed a hand on his face as we leaned in towards each other.
You'd think I'd get that kiss. But no, fate had another plan for me.
"Han!" Hermione yelled (big shocker it wasn't Ivy this time) coming out of a bush.
"Crap!" Draco and I whispered together, shooting away from each other.
"Where's Harry?" Ron, Ivy and Hagrid asked together, also coming out of the bush.
"Here I am." Harry said, walking up.
I face palmed myself.
"Were we interrupting anything?" Ivy asked.
I glared at her "You think?" I hissed. "We found the unicorn, Hagrid. It's dead." I explained.
"Oh." Hagrid said, crestfallen "I guess detention's over. So, you can all go back to the castle."
I cursed everyone as I walked back to the castle hand in hand with Draco in silence. I can never really win when it comes to this sort of crap, can I?
Pansy, Rose, Monique, Amelia and Lexi were shocked to hear that Draco and I nearly kissed. They were extremely shocked to hear that Ivy, Hermione, Ron and Hagrid had ruined the moment…again!
From that moment on, I always thought that the reason why Ivy (or any Gryffindor) would ruin one of Draco's and mine's moments, it was because they didn't want them to happen.
