This is for Kamerreon's Drabble Challenge — a drabble a day until my imagination dies.

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Crystal Ball


Harry sighed as he left the Divination room. Once again, Trelawney proved herself to be off her nut. She had predicted (get this) that great chaos would be caused by a Crystal Ball. And of course, she predicted this from a crystal ball.

Harry made the long journey down to the Great Hall, ignoring Ron's complaints. Lunch was about to start, and Harry was hungry. They reached the large hall, ignoring the Halloween decorations, and crossing towards the Gryffindor table.

"Potter,"

The name was spat from the lips of Draco Malfoy as he passed his rival. Harry narrowed his own eyes.

"Malfoy," he growled. Draco sneered back at him as they both stopped. Unnoticed to either of them, the levitating spell on a crystal ball hovering above them began to fail.

"Did you want something in particular?" Harry asked coldly. Draco opened his mouth to respond, stepping forward. As soon as he was a foot away from Harry, the spell failed.

The crystal ball came tumbling down, smacking into the back of Draco's head and sending him flying forward into Harry. His natural instincts jumping into play, Harry reached out to grab him instinctively, as Draco looked up.

Their mouths collided with a yelp, green and silver eyes widening at the contact. They drew back, Harry's arms still wrapped around Draco, staring at each other in wonder.

And all around them, chaos reigned.

Ginny Weasley had stood up from the Gryffindor table, throwing a nasty hex at Malfoy for daring to kiss her future husband. At the same time, an identical curse had flown from Pansy Parkinson's wand, both colliding in midair. The resulting spell had hit Crabbe in the chest, sending him falling to the ground as he screamed, his arms replaced with tentacles.

Goyle had taken a step back from his friend, only to step on the crystal ball and go flying into Blaise. Blaise had reached out to grab Theo to steady himself, who had shoved the dark boy off of him, and straight into Ron Weasley. Unfortunately, his wand was drawn, the long piece of ebony stabbing the redhead in the thigh. Ron had screamed, hopping back and falling onto the Ravenclaw table.

And straight onto Luna Lovegood's pudding.

The blonde girl had paused, staring at her ruined pudding, before her eyes flashed dangerously. Before anyone could move Ron was screaming and stuck to the wall, small spiders crawling all over his body as Luna turned her attentions on the Slytherins who had caused the loss of her pudding.

And through it all, Draco and Harry explored each others mouths, an innocent crystal ball lying at their feet.