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'Sure, Potterhead gets all the attention!' Draco nagged to Paige when they were sitting in the common room. 'Of course he is one of the champions!'
'Draco, I don't want to say much but I don't think he put his name in the goblet.' Paige said slowly.
'Oh you think that, Paige?' she nodded, not sure if she would want to get into an argument with him about it.
'Yeah, I mean he came out as the fourth and there should only be three.'
'SO!' Draco practically screamed.
'So, he is not that strong or yet smart enough that he could charm the goblet to make a fourth one.'
Draco sat down next to Paige with a thinking expression.
'Maybe.' He said slowly. 'But still, he is always in the spotlight!'
'I think he doesn't even want to be in the spotlight, you know.' Paige said fast.
'Why wouldn't he.' Draco almost laughed. 'He is a brat.'
'And you aren't.' She said with a cocky smile.
'Ha ha, you're being funny again.'
'Yes I am, but now the funniest girl and blondest boy need to go to bed.' Paige said who stood up.
'You're right.' Draco said and stood up as well. 'Is my hair that blond?' He suddenly asked. Paige said nothing, just laughed and walked to her dorm. 'Paige!' He sighed and went to bed as well.
A few days went by and Paige was sitting at breakfast with Blaise and Pansy when the daily profit came in.
'Look Paige.' Blaise said who was holding the paper. 'Look what they wrote about Potter.' Paige grabbed the paper and read it.
Harry potter age twelve, suspect entering of the tri wizards tournament. His eyes are swimming in the ghost of his past.
'You really believe this.' Paige said, a bit irritated.
'Well Rita Skeeter wrote it.' Pansy said, shrugging.
'Yeah Rita, because she always writes the truth.' Paige said, giving the paper back to Blaise. She stood up and walked away to look for Harry. After everything she had to talk to him again. She had to push away her anxiety.
When she got outside she saw Ron, Hermione and another girl with red hair just like that of Ron.
'Hi, Hermione, Ron. How are you guys? And what's your name?' Paige said cheerfully as she walked towards them.
'Hi, Paige.' Hermione said. "We're good, I guess.. and this is Ginny Weasley, the sister of Ron.'
'Pleasure meeting you!' Paige said, giving her a hand. 'I'm Paige Prince.'
'Great meeting you, you're the nice Slytherin right?' Ginny asked.
'Is that my nickname now, pretty cool. But yes that's me.' She said happy. 'Where's Harry?' Nobody said something for a long time.
'We were just going to him.' Ron muttered.
'Okay, I will come too!'
The four of them walked to the black lake where Neville was standing in the water doing something with the plants and Harry was sitting against a tree. When Neville saw them he waved, making Harry look around. Paige waved happily back but Ron put her hand down.
'So what do I need to say again?' Hermione whispered to Ron. He whispered something back that Paige couldn't quite hear. Harry stood up and walked towards them; Hermione took a step forwards and took a deep breath.
'Ronald would like me to tell you, that Seamus told him, that Dean was told by Parvati that Hagrid is looking for you.' She said nervous.
'Is that right… What?' Harry said not really getting what she was saying.
'Umm.' Hermione walked back to Ron and began whispering again. She sighed again and walked back.
'Dean was told by Parvati… Please don't let me say it again…' Hermione almost begged. 'Hagrid is looking for you.'
'Well you can tell Ron.' Harry tried to say.
'I'm not an owl.' Hermione snapped back, she grabbed Ginny and walked away. Ron stood there for a few seconds and walked away as well.
'Don't worry Harry.' Paige said, walking towards him. 'I didn't get it either.' He smiled.
'Yeah, so Hagrid is looking for me…' Harry muttered.
'I guess, that's what I understood out of it.' Paige said, shrugging.
'Do you believe what they say, that I put my name in the goblet?' Harry asked, looking at his feet.
'No, I don't. You're just not the type who would put his name in the goblet of fire.'
'Thank you.'
'You don't have to thank me for that.' Paige said, biting her lip softly. 'Harry, I'm sorry about the way I've been acting these few days.' She started.
'It's okay,' Harry said quickly. 'I probably said something wrong.'
'No, that's the thing, you did nothing. I just.. I'm.. a bit messed up.' Paige stated.
'Yeah well me too.' Harry said, but Paige still looked quite sad. 'Really, Paige it's okay. We just met, you know. It's fine not to share everything about your past with someone you just met.' He added trying to reassure her.
'Yeah but that's the thing with you, it feels like we've known each other for ages.' Paige blurred out.
Harry smiled, feeling the warmth in his heart grow. 'I feel the same way, but still, we just met so don't worry about it. But know that if you ever wanna talk about it, I wanna be there for you. I'll listen.' He sounded sincere.
Paige smiled, finally believing him. 'Thank you Harry. you are truly.. very sweet.' She told him. Harry could feel his face turn red again. How could she always make him feel this way? So warm.
'I got to go,' Paige said almost sadly. 'See you later.' She turned around.
'Bye!' Neville said happily and went back to his plants.
'Yeah, bye.' Harry muttered as she walked away.
When it was dinner time, Paige went to sit with Draco and the rest of his friends, if you would want to call them that. Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, the stupidest people Paige had ever met. No wonder Draco felt so smart and proud all the time.
'I hope he gets hurt at the first task.' Draco said to his friends.
'Yeah, maybe he'll be eaten.' Crabbe said excitedly.
'Or maybe he'll fall off a cliff.' Gregory said loudly.
'Yeah!' Paige said sarcastically.
'Come on, don't tell me you're rooting for Potter?' Draco asked with his eyes shut.
'Let me just say I'm rooting for Hogwarts.'
'Better than Potter alone.' Draco muttered when Blaise came to sit with them. he was wearing a badge that said, Support Cedric Diggory and then changed into Potter stinks.
'Merlin's beard, Blaise, where can I buy one of those?' Draco asked cheerily, Paige rolled her eyes.
'By some Hufflepuff.' Blaise said, grabbing some chicken.
'Hufflepuff?' Paige asked. 'Shouldn't they be like, nice…?' Blaise shrugged.
'I guess they aren't that nice, or they are really supportive of Diggory.' He said, still grabbing some chicken.
'Whatever… I'm going.' Paige said, grabbing an apple and walked away.
When Paige got out of the Great hall she heard her name and turned around to see Harry.
'Hi, Paige.' He said with a smile, he probably hadn't seen the badge yet.
'Hi, Harry. How are you?'
'Good.' He said when he arrived next to her.
'Did you go to Hagrid?' Paige asked, Harry nodded.
'He said I needed to come tonight, nine o'clock.'
'Why?'
'I don't know, he said I needed to take my invisibility cloak with me.' Harry said, holding up a cloak.
'You have an invisibility cloak?' Paige asked in unbelief.
'Yes, but I was wondering.. if you would like to come with me?' He asked, avoiding her gaze.
'Yeah, sure. I would love to come.'
'Great. I will wait for you outside the castle at quarter to nine.' Harry said and walked away.
Paige walked to her common room and looked at the clock.
'Eight o'clock.' She muttered, walked up to her dorm and sat on her bed. 'Should I see this as a date?' She asked herself. 'Going to Hagrid isn't really romantic.'
Paige stood up and walked to her trunk and opened it. One thing good about being pure blood was definitely the money. She grabbed an expensive dress and looked. It was a blood-red empire dress. 'Way too fancy.' Paige threw it back in her trunk.
She grabbed another dress, a black cocktail dress. 'This is hopeless.' She threw it back in her trunk again and grabbed a skinny-jean and a sweater with a red heart on it. She then walked to her make-up box and opened it. She put on some eye pencil and mascara with some light pink lipstick and put her hair in a cute ponytail.
Paige looked at the clock on her desk, almost eight thirty. 'I better get going.' She muttered and started walking. When she got to the entrance of Hogwarts, Harry was already waiting for her.
'I will never arrive sooner than you now will I?' Paige asked to get his attention.
Harry let out a laugh, 'sorry. I just got a bit nervous and didn't have that much else to do.' He explained.
'You don't need to apologize. I don't mind.' Paige muttered the last bit.
'Thanks.' Harry said excitedly. 'We should go.' He grabbed Paige's hand and started walking.
When Harry took her hand, Paige felt a weird feeling in her heart, warm and gentle. Almost like an old feeling, a familiar feeling… She tried to ignore it, focusing on Harry holding her hand. His hand felt nice, she would like to hold his hand more often…
After some minutes of walking, they got to Hagrid and Harry let go of Paige's hand. Which she felt somewhat sad about.
'Hello, Harry. Oi, you brought a girl. Hi, I'm Hagrid.' The big man said, holding out a hand.
'Hi, Hagrid. My name is Paige Prince.' She said, shaking his hand.
'Oh, you're that nice girl in Slytherin.' He said happy.
'Yes that's me.' Paige said loudly. 'It's my new nickname.' She whispered to Harry who let out a small laugh.
'Come on you two, let's go!' Hagrid said cheerfully.
'Where are we going?' Harry asked when they walked towards the forbidden forest.
'You will see.' He said a bit nervous.
'I hope we will stay alive.' Harry whispered, sounding amused.
'Yeah me too.' Paige said nervously, while they entered the dark forest.
'Are you scared?' He asked, getting a bit closer.
'Yeah.' Paige said and grabbed Harry's arm when she suddenly heard something.
Harry let out a small laugh, 'Don't worry.' Harry said not minding at all that she was holding his arm so tight.
'Hagrid, what's with the flower on your coat?' Harry asked, noticing just now that Hagrid was wearing a fancy suit, at least for him.
'Just…it just looks nice.'
'Hey, and Hagrid, did you comb your hair?' Harry kept asking.
'Yeah, and it would be nice if you did it once too.' Hagrid said nervously. Then they heard a woman's voice. 'Fast Harry, Paige get under the cloak.' They did what he said and watched.
It was the head of Beauxbatons, Olympe Maxime.
'I don't want to see that.' Paige said when they started flirting.
'If he wanted me to see this I will kill him.' Harry muttered, Paige turned to his face and realized how close they were standing. Harry came closer but stopped when they heard screams and looked and saw Hagrid was walking forwards. They quickly followed him and saw…
'Dragons!' Harry almost screamed. When Olympe walked away Harry put their heads out of the cloak so Hagrid could see them.
'Dragons?' He said again and walked closer. 'That's the first task, Dragons.'
'Yes.' Hagrid said.
'You're kidding me!' Paige said, looking at them.
'Nope. Ron almost had a heart attack when he saw them.' Hagrid said.
'Wait, Ron was here.' Harry asked..
'Yes, didn't he tell you?'
'No.' Harry said looking down. 'Nothing at all.'
After the dragon thing, Harry and Paige sat down at the edge of the forbidden forest.
'Whoa, a dragon.' Paige said, looking at the sky.
'Yeah.' Harry muttered.
'Oh don't worry.' Paige said, turning to him. 'You defeated a Basilisk when you were twelve.'
'Yeah, but according to the daily profit I'm twelve.' He said with a small smile.
'Yeah I read that. But as far as I know you're fourteen, just like me.' Paige said with a cocky smile.
'You're right.' Harry said.
'Hey, I'm sure you're going to make it. I mean it's you.'
'Thanks.' He still sounded down.
'And let me tell you something. If I was in your shoes I would already be dead.'
'I don't know.'
'Oh come on, I almost peed my pants back in there.' Paige said, pointing behind her.
'Yeah but I have been there way more often than you.' Harry said defending Paige.
'Really?'
'Yeah, once there were like a million spiders and one huge one.' Harry said looking with amusement at Paige's shocked face.
'I hate spiders!' Paige cried thinking about it.
'Then you have something in common with Ron.' Harry said.
'What is it with you and Ron now; he is not sitting with you at breakfast or talking to you. And he didn't tell you about the dragons.' Paige stated.
Harry's smile faded. 'He is mad because he thinks I put my name in the Goblet and not telling him how I did it.'
'That's stupid of him.'
'Thank you.' Harry expressed.
'Again Harry don't worry, it will be okay, he just needs to cool down.'
'Yeah maybe.' Harry said and suddenly Paige pulled him into a hug. Harry put his arms around her too. She smelled sweet, like honey. He could feel her warmth through his clothes. When she let go it felt weirdly colder than before.
'We should go.' Paige muttered when she looked at Harry's watch.
'Goodnight.' She said when they parted in the great hall.
'Sweet dreams.' Harry said but knew she couldn't have heard him.
Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it.
