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Chapter written: 7/30/18
UPDATED:9/30/2019
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Chapter 18
September 1, 1993
Draco sighed with relief as he got on the train. Crabbe and Goyle had appeared out of nowhere about two weeks after he had been returned to his father. The two had taken to Finn like flies to a horse's arse. Draco's torture had just gotten worse, he could no longer keep a protective charm around his room to keep them out, they always seemed to find a way around it, and he had barely gotten a proper nights' sleep. He was just glad to be going back to Hogwarts. His mother had told him she was able to send word to Dumbledore on the rotten relationship between the boys and her son. Unfortunately, Narcissa had been told that Draco could be moved to a different room from the three boys, but that was all he was able to do since they were unable to move houses after being sorted. So maybe Draco would be lucky to get sleep if he wasn't near them, but he had a sinking suspicion that it would also be a failed effort in keeping those three from him. He was, after all, a Slytherin. But now he wished he was in a different house at this moment.
Draco already had his stuff in the baggage car and a small book-bag on his back as he leaned against a pillar, waiting for Harry, Ron and Hermione to get there. He was glad school was starting, he needed away from the manor and everything that was going on. He had snuck around and dug up some things on his cousin and his aunt Adora's maiden family name, even his own Malfoy family history, and it was interesting because it dated back all the way to the 13th century if he'd counted right. It turned out that Adora was in fact a Lestrange relative, her mother had an affair with Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange's father, she was born just five months after Rabastan.
Draco smiled wide when he found his three friends rushing up to him once they found him off in the distance and decided to meet them halfway. Hermione had beat the boys to him first and tossed her arms around him in a tight hug, "Are you alright? We didn't get a single letter from you, what happened?"
"Let the poor man breath, Hermione," Ron laughed, patting the blond on the back when they gave one another their hug, "Glad to see you're still alive. Aunt Emma has been having a panic attack all summer after you left."
"Trust me, I came so close so many times over the summer of escaping that place, but I always got caught. Come on, I made sure Finn and the others were already on the train, there was no way I was spending another second with that prat." Draco slightly growled. He had disliked the boy the first moment he met Finn, something deep inside him. Something that was manifesting, Finn had woken him up in the middle of the night while home.
The boy was always screaming so fearfully that Narcissa had turned to attempt to help him.
"No more! Please, mum! No more! I didn't d-do it! I didn't do it! I didn't touch anything! I swear! I didn't do it! MUM!"
Draco remembered clearly when his mother had held him as she rocked the boy back to sleep. Finn had been so deep in his sleep he hadn't realized he'd even woken them up. He never even remembered Narcissa rocking him back to sleep. Draco shivered at the memory of Finn finally in a position of vulnerability, something that finally showed himself as a scared child, the first and only time Draco saw Finn as a human being, a boy his age who'd likely been hurt by his mother terribly, likely terrified of her. Draco figured that whatever had happened to him as he was growing up in the care of his mother that it had left him nearly petrified of mothers, another possibility why Finn had latched onto his father so quickly. Finn refused to be in arms reach of Narcissa.
Harry nodded in agreement, from what Draco had quickly told them, the kid was a special one, as in cruelly special, "I don't blame you. Hey, is that a fading bruise on your face?"
"Oh, yeah, Mum and dad had to separate us. Got into a few fights with him over the summer. Sad to say he won half of them, but I was never much of a physical fighter in the first place."
"Yeah but you learned a few moves didn't you, Dracie?" a boy's voice boomed out full of snide sarcasm and laughter, but his laughter quickly stopped as he turned his charm over to Hermione, sliding between the three boys he stood only an inch or two from her, a charming grin across his face, "Well, well, well, cousin you've been holding out haven't you. Had I known you were friends with this creature I may have been nicer to you over summer… However, I can smell the muggle born blood in her, such a shame." Finn bit out.
Draco and the others shoved themselves between Finn and Hermione. The poor girl seemed to be having a bit of a difficult time breathing. His eyes were screaming as they looked at her. A mask is all she saw at that moment. One she'd soon forget about. Finn was indeed handsome, he held a certain charm to him with a thick air of arrogance and ego, something Hermione figured he seemed to excel in.
"Bugger off, Lestrange..." It took everything in Draco not to hit him for getting that close to Hermione, that was far to close and personal, and for someone like Hermione, that was not only a threat, Finn had just marked his target and Draco wasn't sure what he intended to do with this one. And he didn't want to find out.
Finn grinned, his eyes still seemed to find her, none of the boy liked the way Finn's grey eyes looked through them at Hermione.
But his eyes still screamed and with utter shock Hermione watched the screaming being shoved back and replaced by his arrogance.
"I believe I should warn you Kitten, don't think it won't stop me from looking from afar."
Hermione shrank into Ron's arms he had protectively wrapped around her, Harry standing next to Draco in front of her and Ron. She felt small to his eyes and she was becoming even more uncomfortable, if anything she felt more threatened now. The shiver that ran up her spine didn't help her either as they watched Finn walk away.
His eyes found it difficult to look away from her, the idea of her scared had left a grin on his face, he liked scaring other, a way of keeping his mind from thinking of his own fears and nightmares. He may have felt self-sickened that he was reacting to a muggle born, a mud-blood girl, but he hadn't been able to help it. The moment Finn had laid eyes on Hermione, his heart skipped three beats and he had a feeling he was going to enjoy playing with his new target.
They all made a body cage around Hermione as they got on the train, not wanting to have another recap of what had just happened. Hermione seemed to be, not only jumpy, but rather irritated as she shoved herself through the three of them and opened a compartment door, "Everyone's full come on, and no bodyguards, please. I'll be fine." Hermione barked out.
Seeing her irritation, they understood when to back off a little. Sitting in the compartment they got comfortable not noticing Remus in the corner against the window with his jacket covering his face as they spoke.
"So, wait a minute? My dad took you off to the side in the Leaky Cauldron and told you Sirius Black escaped to come after you? To kill you?"
Harry nodded, rubbing his face from exhaustion, he was tired of being chased, tired of being the target, tired of everything. He just wanted a normal life, normal friends. Harry didn't want it to be about him and his Aunt. They both wanted freedom, peace and just to have a life like a normal magical family, "Yeah, pretty much." Harry knew his Aunt wanted the same thing. Normalcy, peace and to have her family back in safety.
"Well, that's interesting." Ron sighed, they'd decided to change the subject to what they were looking forward to their third year and it was all about Hogsmeade. They had spoken about what to look forward to while they were there, and they had endless possibilities. But their creative fun was rudely interrupted by the train jarring to a sudden halt, nearly sending the kids into one another and Ron into Remus's sleeping form waking the man.
Remus had a feeling he knew what or who it was, so he waited and kept covered. especially since he was so rudely woken from his sleep.
Ron was panicking, the train was nearly freezing through everyone's breath was cold in the air and the kids were panting with fear. Something wasn't right, something was on the train with them and it was looking for trouble, from anyone, "What the bloody hell was that?"
"Not a clue-Ouch! Ron that was my foot." Hermione looked around the compartment, her mood had sunk to her stomach, her heart was nearly in her throat. She knew they were all panicking but hearing Ron's panic really didn't help her keep what little composer she had, "There's something out there."
Draco gulped as his eyes grew wide and watched the door latch click open, his heart went down to his stomach and did the usual and began to digest, "No, there's something on the train… Look."
Everyone's breath caught as they watched a cloaked figure flout into to the compartment, unfortunately it started right for Harry.
Draco reacted, putting himself between Harry and whatever the thing was, but it was no use, the second Draco moved the creatures hand gripped him around the throat and lifted him up and against the wall and began draining Harry. Draco fought against the creature, but he'd never seen one of these things before, therefore, he had no idea how to get free nor get it away from Harry.
Hermione's panic was clear, just as Ron was shaking in his skin as they watched, they knew they couldn't physically do anything to help, look where it got Draco, "What's happening!"
Remus swiftly moved, a burst of light coming through his wand and chasing off the creature, and light's out for Harry as Draco fell back into the seat a bit painfully. Everyone's attention was back on the fainted Harry Potter.
Hermione helped Ron readjust Harry to a lying position, they were all still shaken of course, they had no idea what to do, had no idea how to help him, "Is he alright?" They had turned their attention back to Remus and found full relief that they had picked the very compartment that he was in. They were very thankful when he grinned and nodded, "Yes, he'll be fine. Now we just have to wait for him to wake up- ah, here he is. There we go, come on Harry."
They were all relieved when he sat up, a bit disoriented understandably. But they couldn't help but laugh a little at him, "What was that thing?"
"It was a Dementor-"
"Why the heck was it on the train in the first place!" Remus hadn't been able to finish his explanation upon Draco interrupting. The blond was still clearly bothered and a bit ticked that it had not only attacked him and Harry but that it was on a train full of Hogwarts students, his concern was understandable.
Sighing with slight exhaustion, Remus nodded looking at each one of them, "They were looking for Sirius Black likely. Oh yes, here you are Harry, eat this… It's alright, it's chocolate, it helps… Trust me." He smiled gladly when Harry began to nibble on the dark piece of Chocolate with a heavy sigh, likely disturbed from the attack. His relief of the kid's safety was short lived upon his notice of Draco paling. An action and expression that unsettled Remus deeply. "Draco, are you alright?"
Draco never gave a response as he rushed from the cabin and down the hall, he was thankful he had seen the kids in a compartment on their way in. Draco had heard Emma on the phone with Mellena talking about having the kids ride the train to Hogwarts with the Weasley's, likely the twins since they were the ones' that seemed to enjoy the twin's company more than others, but he hadn't seen them with the twins in the compartment they had walked by. Draco sighed with relief when he opened a compartment door and found the two Dumbledore kids, obviously distressed, but otherwise alright. He felt terrible because he hadn't really had the chance to meet them properly, but he had to know they were alright, so he played it off like he was going through the compartments to check on everyone, "Everyone alright in here?"
Athella was tightly hidden in her brothers arms protectively, both kids clearly not alright, the fact they were in a cabin with first years also didn't seem to sit well with Draco either as he watched the poor girl's face streamed with tears, "Ho-Horus, I want Fred and George." She sniffed, she was shaking, and her brother was in no better condition. He wasn't crying but he was sure petrified, "M-me too, Rosie."
Draco was just glad they were alright. He checked on the rest in the compartment and helped them calm down, then looked to the twins with a smile, "I know where the Weasley twins are, want me to walk you to them?" he asked, smiling when they nodded and held both his hand out for them and walked them down the corridor towards the Weasley twins after checking on the other kids in the compartment then requested a group of passing by Hufflepuff students to stay with the first years. They gladly did as asked.
All occupants looked shocked as ever when they watched Draco open the door to their compartment, "Uh, I think you two have some little visitors." Draco said with a small smile as he moved out of the way for the little ones.
The Weasley twins' mouths fell with surprise. They had thought they were going to be up front with the conductor, so how did Malfoy find them? And why did he bring them to the Weasley twins? Though, they hadn't cared when the two eight-year old's rushed in. Athella beaming for Fred in a hurry. He'd taken her with a smile as she cried, "You're alright Ellie… Hey, Thanks, Malfoy."
"Not a problem, the Dementor's should be gone now, but I think the conductor and the rest of the adults are checking the train just to be sure. Uh, if any of you need anything, I'm in the compartment with the others and Remus just down the corridor, usual compartment." He informed them.
The twins nodded, George had to ask something to the blond, he and his twin really hadn't a clue as to why Draco was so suddenly not a git anymore, he was funny, and Ron had been so excited to hang out with him and the others over summer for Harry's birthday, "Yeah, thanks. Careful on the way back, in case the thing is still here, is everyone else alright?"
"Uh, y-yeah, Harry got attacked but Remus was there, sent it flying off in a hurry. The man is a genius when it comes to defense, he's the replacement teacher this year I think."
Angela smiled and picked up a blushing Horus and set him on her lap, "At least he's okay, all of you." Her and George were constantly glancing at one another with wide smiles. George would admit, she looked cute with a blushing kid in her lap, and Horus seemed to be perfectly fine where he was.
The rest of the train ride was fine, smooth as it had always been, up until they got to the school, that was when things seemed to roll downhill just a little for the four friends. With Draco being stuck alone at the Slytherin table, the other three kept a close eye on the blond in case he needed some assistance where they could give, meaning they'd be restricted to prank's, Hexes and Jinxes.
Their irritation was just beginning when a sharp whisper came from behind them, a laughing group of Slytherins grouping around Finn Malfoy, "Potter,"
Choosing to ignore Finn's annoying attempt to get a rise from the Gryffindor's. But it wasn't meant to be.
Finn was persistent, "Potter, hey… Potter, you're Aunts a hottie." That got his attention and the rest of the family as they glared at him and the others as they laughed, "Is it true? You actually fainted?"
Everyone at the Gryffindor table all rolled their eyes, Ron took it upon himself to make Harry turn around as he tossed back to the laughing dark haired Malfoy "Shut up, Lestrange."
"Technically I'm a Malfoy. But either one is fine by me." Finn poked out, holding back a grin as he watched Draco crumble up a piece of paper and tossed it at his head not believing Draco would be brave enough to toss something at another in his house with the staff watching. He hadn't expected the piece of paper to actually hit him. Finn's laugh ceased seconds after Draco got him with the bunched-up paper.
Draco and the rest of Gryffindor table laughed when the boy had been hit in the face as Finn glared heated to them and Draco, even the Slytherin students, new and returning, were laughing at his humiliated.
Class had gone as usual the next day, unfortunately, when they had headed down towards Hagrid's, they seemed to find more and more issues as the days went on. Finn was constantly making remarks against Draco, Harry and Ron. What made it worse was when he began pulling mud-blood remarks to Hermione and talking about their Aunt Emma and Narcissa, "To bad I don't know much about the famous Evans sisters. I hear they had Potter and Black wrapped around their precious little fingers."
Draco glided up to Harry and gently shoved him forward the rest of the way to Hagrid's, "Ignore him, he isn't worth it. Not right now that is." Draco grumbled, fighting back the erg to slug the prat again. Class carried on, unfortunately their restraint wasn't meant to last. Just as Harry was taking off in flight on the back of Buck-Beak, the Hippogriff, Finn had snuck up close to Hermione and whispering into her hair and ear startling her.
Ron and Draco had had enough.
Ron shoved Finn away from Hermione, "Just stay away from her."
Finn and his little group laughed at him and Hermione, she was trying to hold the Weasley boy back. Ron was not much of a physical person, he hated confrontation, but Ron had in fact, as stated in previous times before, had enough of Finn and his crap.
Hermione had seen the grin, she knew Finn was going to try to enact a physical fight, she wanted to prevent Ron from getting hurt. But Finn's constant nagging was egging the Weasley boy on to initiate the first wing. Another thing Hermione was hoping she could stop.
"Oh, so little Weasel does have a spine, interesting, let's see how much spine you have then, Weasel." Finn growled with pure anticipation. He was going, his adrenaline and everything was at a high rise when he walked up into Ron's paling face, the fear the ginger gave off only seemed to feed Finn's ego and arrogance. He was taken by surprise immediately after a solid punch connected with his left cheek bone, sending Finn staggering five feet from where he had been.
He should have known Draco would have tossed a punch at him, especially when he was only standing three feet from his cousin and in one of his friends faces. But his arrogance had gotten the better of him and he had been sent flying into the ground, almost quite literally, eating the dirt. Finn could feel a bruise already forming, his eye hurt from the contact and his face burned like Hades had punched him, he had a feeling he was going to begin regretting the summer he had taken to beating the life half out of his cousin just to see if he could actually fight the kid, "That's enough, Malfoy or Lestrange, I can care less, but the moment you get into one of their faces and try laying a hand to them is the moment I take action! Leave Harry alone, lay off Ron, and stay the hell away from Hermione!"
Hermione and Ron had to give it to Draco, they knew 100% they could call him a friend; a good friend, a best friend. Because the moment Draco had taken up for both Ron and Hermione in such a way, all of their doubts and questions vanished regarding him, even if Ron trusted Draco even after the year before for saving him and Harry he still had some small doubts and had chosen to be careful regarding the boy. Now he was questioning himself on how dumb he'd probably been to not trust him fully, but even Harry was being careful, just in case, though Harry seemed to trust Draco much more than Ron and Hermione. They enjoyed their friendship with each other, and they were glad that they had found another to call friend, Gryffindor or not, why not? They had other friends in other houses, so why couldn't they have a friend in Slytherin? The answer was that they could, they just had to look past a lot of things not only regarding the house but how the person was, because deep down, maybe they were alone and in emotional pain, like Draco had been. They had been in time to help him, but maybe Finn was past saving. He had, after all, been raised by a crazy person for twelve years of his life then lost her so fast the kid probably hadn't had time to blink.
Draco huffed and puffed with irritation and anger as Hermione pulled him back away from the fallen boy and his group. Not long after Harry landed Finn found a way to get payback. He charged Draco's turned back, tackled the blond to the ground and the two started fighting. Finn, in retaliation of being humiliated by his cousin and Draco in self-defense as they rolled around on the ground.
Hagrid huffed with disappointment and separated the two, scolding them both, yet the moment Hagrid set them on their own feet Finn shoved Draco back, knocking him into Harry had caused a domino effect by Harry accidentally bumping into Buck-Beak and to the ground.
Draco found his feet before falling, only because he had grabbed a hold of Buck-Beak. This was soon to become one of his mistakes and panicked as Buck-Beak reared up. Draco lifted his arm in front of his face as the Hippogriff's front claws came down, slashing him down his arm and knocking Draco back in sheer pain. At the sight of everyone, but Finn, gasped in shock and panic for him as he shouted and held his arm close to him. Finn was left staring in shock, punching Draco was one thing, the only thing he'd done previously that drew blood was a busted lip or a bloody nose. This could have actually killed his cousin. At the sight of Draco's blood Finn felt his stomach tighten, but the years of pretending he was heartless and cold had been so deeply rooted he was able to pull his mask forward, shielding his bothersome emotions from others view.
Hagrid tossed a stuffed ferret off to the side of the outdoors classroom they were at and quickly walked over to check on Draco, "Draco, ca-calm down please, i-it's just a scratch," he stutter, he was in so much fear and panic he would get fired for this happening, his first day as a teacher and he had not only allowed a fight to happen but one of his students had been hurt by one of his own animals, an animal he wasn't supposed to have on school grounds, let alone own one in general.
Harry moved fast and was next to Draco in seconds, even though he wasn't that far from him he had still moved faster than he thought he could and looked at the cut on his arm, it looked worse than what it was but he had to say he'd be on the ground crying too, especially with how sudden it had happened Draco probably thought he was far enough away from Buck-Beak to not get hurt, "Draco! It's alright, you'll be alright jus-just try to calm down." Harry tried helping Hagrid in calming his panic filled friend while Hermione and Ron had rushed over to them. But it was useless, the poor kid was still reeling from his panic and the pain that it was making the pain hurt far more than what it was.
Hermione saw the panic on Hagrid's face, he didn't know what to do, "Hagrid, he has to be taken to the hospital!"
To this Hagrid nodded and picked Draco up into his arms and quickly walked away with a shouted, "Class dismissed!" disbanding everyone, Finn was off in the back with his little group laughing about Draco being hurt, thought his guts were still turning in disgust. But Finn's laughter sent Harry into a bit of an overdrive and began walking up towards the laughing group. Three of the boys stopped their laughter at how cold and angry Harry was glaring at them all.
Harry's strides were heavy and quickly paced.
"Ah, Pot-" Finn hadn't had the chance to finish anything. Harry swung, and he'd made perfect contact with Finn's bottom lip.
The sudden punch sent Finn backwards over the stone edge he was sitting on, busting his lip, but he apparently had tough skin. 'That punch should have broken more skin than it had.'
Everyone else around had clapped, cheered and began laughing at Finn, even Crabbe was laughing at him, but the boy had flinched in fright when Goyle glared and smacked the poor kid upside the head.
Finn stood on wobbly feet, finding it difficult to stay standing, he had ended up using the wall to help him as his eyes seemed to darken a bit in color, the bright stormy grey darkened to a shimmer and the action seemed to have sent chills through his group of followers, Harry and his friends, "I hope that Sirius Black gets here soon, he'll find you and he'll destroy you just like he did Peter Pettigrew!"
They had spent a few days after that making sure Draco didn't strain the wound, "Really, I'm fine… It's just a scratch, though when I got it, I'll say it was more painful than a scratch, I can't believe he actually shoved me into Buck-Beak. Do you have any idea how badly I wanted to pee myself when that thing went up on his hind legs," Draco laughed at himself.
"Hey Dracie, you excited about the trial coming up, I know I am. Your father is furriers, he said he couldn't believe they let that oaf teach a class here." Finn laughed walking by, he was trying to taunt them again, he'd been going on about it for days, the trial wasn't happening until after Halloween's feats.
"He's really laying it on thick, isn't he?" Ron asked with a glare and a sigh, "Yeah, the git's going to be getting another bruise if he keeps it up, he's the reason I got this in the first place. I don't see why my father is doing any of this either. He doesn't even tolerate me, it's like I'm not even his son anymore, he treats Finn like a son more than me, and I'm his biological kid! My mum said she was able to change Mira's name on record without his approval. So, now Emma Evan's is officially my Godmother and has full legal rights to help remove me from the Malfoy manor, or if anything happens, she can legally take me in without issues. Mum said if she had too, she was going to have to use dramatic measures to get me out of there away from them. At least away from my father." He said informing the three friends, he knew they were in a state of shock, he didn't need to see their faces.
They had no idea what to say really, his mother, Narcissa Malfoy, had willingly listed their Aunt, a muggle-born, as his legal guardian. But something stuck Ron as he thought about what Draco had just said, she was trying to get Draco, not them both, away from Malfoy Manor. This, understandably, confused him, "Wait, what about your mum?"
They watched Draco's face fall, his shoulders slumped, "She refuses to leave my dad. She won't give me a reason, but she won't leave him, she wants to stay. Probably in hopes of helping him wake up from his stupidity. I don't know what's going on, so I can't really say." Their gloomy mood changed when Athella and Horus ran into breakfast laughing with two Foxes chasing after them, yipping and playing along. One of the two foxes had surprisingly been Fox. Though the second fox was new to them, they'd never seen this one before. They all took notice of its Goldie blonde, tall ears, normal sized fox with black paws, almost like it had stepped into a three-inch-deep paint bucket, its' eyes being bright blue, just like Athella's.
The foxes were playing with the children, jumping around the hall making everyone smile, even Finn was grabbed by the two Foxes beauty.
"I didn't know kids under the age of eleven were allowed here, ah look, they have pets! How cute." The peace was ruined by Goyal's comment one that Finn chose to feed.
"You're kidding. He isn't going to try messing with Ellie and Horus, is he?" Ron sighed.
"It's okay boys, why don't you let us deal with this one."
A chill ran through the four friends when Fred and George's voice had come out of nowhere, they sounded far too delighted for something. They watched the twins with a smirk when they pulled out their wands and sent a charm at the Slytherin bully, charming his legs together.
George sent one of their small fireworks after him and nailed him right on his butt, lighting up the area with a harmless little fire. This sent the third year in a panic screaming in the breakfast hall and trying to run and rolled out the fire, which was kind of failing.
Finn had realized that the fire was not causing any form of damage, instead felt warm not burning and melting your skin kind of heat, he stood, rather terribly and used the table and sent a nasty glare to the Weasley twins and around the room. Everyone was laughing at him, he had yet again been humiliated by a Weasley and in front of just about everyone in the school, student wise. He had turned a glare to the kids when they laughed, even the Foxes were cackling with laughter, "Teaches you huh? Our dad was in Slytherin too… In fact, he is one of the smartest Slytherin has had in years," Horus said with a grin, one that had a possibility of getting him into trouble in the future. His sister, however, had a graceful charm, even for her young age of not even being a Hogwarts student when she crossed her arms and grinned at Finn, something about her and the boy looked familiar to him, he just couldn't place where or why.
Athella continued on from her brother, "Our mum is talented all her own also, transfiguration is her skill with a nice background in defense, don't even get us started on our Aunts and the rest of our family. We're a league all in its own-" her eyes lit up with pure joy and she took off after the twins, her eyes were all on a laughing Fred, "Freddie!"
They had no idea how she did it, she always knew which twin was which, they could fool anyone and everyone, until Athella was born, they could never fool her out of George playing Fred and Fred playing George, they did one another perfectly, so how had she always known? Truth was, Athella herself never knew how she knew, she just did. It probably helped by the fact that Athella had a huge crush on Fred. The moment her eyes had seen the twins as a baby when he first held her, she had been stuck there, the twins were inseparable, Athella was inseparable from Fred. She loved George too, enjoyed being around him, but Fred was who she always ran too first, and he had never had any issues with it, it never bothered him, and it definitely did not bother George, he thought it was adorable. Athella had fussed and fussed all the time with anyone else holding her besides her father-Severus-, Grandfather-Dumbledore-, Ginny, who she and Horus always played with while growing up, and Fred.
"Why are kids even at this school that aren't even student's!" Finn shouted, pointing to the smiling and giggly Athella. She was in Fred's lap looking through his and George's small prank bag they carried around with them with wide eyed awe's, "Because their mother is one of the Professors here and she had no one else to watch them while away to teach." A cold and irritated growl flooded his ears.
'Why does that voice sound familiar? And why in Merlin's name do I have a sick feeling that I won't like the outcome of this?' His mind rattled around the question, as he turned, Finn found McGonagall standing right there, arms crossed over her chest and a stern and very irritated look on her face, what he really didn't find appealing was a very pissed off looking Severus Snape looking at him, his arms crossed over his chest as well with a deep seated scowl on his face.
'What the in-hell fires did I do now! It's not like the Witch and twerp brother are his freaking kids!'
Finn paled when Severus's left eyes twitched, and his already dark eyes darken, Finn could have sworn they were black holes in space with the way Snape was looking at him, "Detention, Mr. Malfoy… You'll be serving it with myself and Professor Fox. Due to the fact that Professor Blue, the children's mother, is on maternity leave." Snape growled lowly at his third year Slytherin, none of the others could help but cover their mouths in laughter, the ones who knew who Severus was to the twins were trying not to laugh even harder, which was only the staff and a few of the Weasley's kids, like the twins, Ron was so oblivious as a child. He knew Severus had always been around the family and Mellena and his Aunt Emma, but he'd just never put two and two together. No one outside of Slytherin had ever seen Severus Snape snap at one of his own Housed students, "Fifteen point are taken from Slytherin, bullies are very unwelcomed in any house, you disgrace the Slytherin name, Malfoy, maybe you should take example from your cousin." The Dining Hall went silent instantly, even Minerva had nearly gasped. The two Foxes had let their jaws loosen instantly and their mouths dropped and hung open in utter shock.
Emma looked at Mellena shocked and still half frozen, the only thing on her that could move was her neck, so she could look at her friend as she gently yipped to the Goldie fox, "Did he just-"
"Yes, he did… I'M NOT EVEN PREGNANT!"
{Nellive Longbottom was Born July 30, 1980 HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEVILLE! Tomorrow is July 31, Harry's birthday, Happy early Birthday Harry!}
Okay, so just to clear it up really quick. No, I don't believe Lucius had any siblings, I haven't found anything saying he did or didn't and I don't think he did really, more likely just the only child. I just wanted Finn and Adora, who was quickly made up and random character, to have some kind of origins of relations to the Malfoy's and that was to give Lucius an unnamed brother who married Adora and had a son. So, there you go! Lol Hope you enjoyed! Thank you for reading!