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The next day Paige was walking through the hallways from Hogwarts when she looked aside and saw Harry.
'Hey, Harry!' She said cheerfully.
'Oh, hey.' He said a bit sad.
'Is something wrong?' But her question was quickly answered.
'POTTER STINKS!' A Slytherin yelled.
'I support Cedric!' Another student yelled.
'You Stink!' Someone said and that did it for Paige, she stood still.
'WAIT!' She yelled and everybody stopped yelling at Harry and looked at her. Harry stood still as well. 'Thank you.' Paige said happily and leaned closer to Harry and smelled him. 'You guys are so wrong, he smells great!.'
Students rolled their eyes and walked on. Paige shrugged and walked on with Harry who walked outside but got stopped by some Hufflepuffers, they were showing off their badges.
'Like them Potter?' One of them said,
'Excuse me.' Harry said, trying to get past them.
'What? Don't you like them?' The other said. Harry pushed himself through the two of them. Paige followed him but stopped just a second and turned around.
'Right now you two don't deserve the name of Hufflepuff.' She said and turned back around; the smiles of the Hufflepuffers disappeared instantly.
'You don't have to do this.' Harry said as he waited for her.
'Well I do need to show, sometimes, that I'm a Slytherin. Not that it helped much that I am defending you.' Paige said laughing.
Harry smiled a little, 'Yeah, I don't think it helps your case.' He stared at her for a second. She somehow made everything feel okay.
'I need to go, meeting up with… Draco..' She said almost with guilt. They said their goodbyes and Paige walked towards Draco, who was sitting in a tree.
'Paige, good you're here.' He said still sitting in the tree.
'Yeah, isn't it great?' Paige said excitedly, leaning against the tree.
'We were just discussing what could be the first task!'
Paige swallowed, thinking about the dragons. 'Yeah, what could it be?' She said trying to sound innocently.
'Do you know something I don't know?' Draco asked but got distracted when Crabbe started to point.
'Look at that, Draco.' Crabbe said, he was pointing at Harry and Cedric. 'What do you think they're doing?'
'Talking.' Paige said annoyed.
'Oh yeah.' Crabbe said like he just noticed.
'Potter is coming this way.' Goyle said pointing as well.
When Harry came close enough Draco spoke.
'Well, who do we have here?' He said, jumping out of the tree.
'Harry.' Paige said, trying to keep a straight face. She thought it was extremely funny answering their rhetorical questions. And it was even more funny how irritated Draco got about it.
'Thank you, Paige.' Draco said through his teeth. 'Anyway, why are you looking so tense Potter?'
'Isn't that obvious.' Paige answered.
'Could you shut up for one minute?' He said, again through his teeth.
'Sure.. I'm counting.' Paige said and then kept quiet.
'Anyway my father and I have a bet, you know, I think you're not going to last ten minutes in this tournament.' Harry stopped and turned around to face Draco. 'My father disagrees; he thinks you won't last five.'
'I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy!' Harry snapped at Draco, but he only laughed. 'He's vile and cruel.' He continued and the laugh on Draco's face changed to an angry face. 'And you're pathetic.' Then Harry turned around and walked away.
Draco grabbed his wand and pointed it at Harry.
'DRACO NO!' Paige shouted but before he could do anything Professor Moody came out of nowhere and pointed his wand at Draco.
'Oh no you don't!' He yelled and waved his wand. Draco turned into a ferret at the spot. 'This will teach you that you don't curse someone when their back is turned.' He said angrily and let the ferret or.. Draco fly up and down.
Paige looked at Harry for a second and saw he was laughing; she started to laugh too when Moody put Draco in the pants of Crabbe who started to scream.
'Professor Moody!' The voice of Professor McGonagall yelled as she walked towards the scene. 'What are you doing?'
'Teaching.' Moody said again, letting Draco fly up and down again.
'You mean that is a student?' McGonagall asked in unbelief.
'I would say more like a ferret.' He said and put him on the ground. McGonagall grabbed her wand and pointed at Draco and turned him back.
Draco grabbed Paige (who was still laughing) by the hand and started running. 'My father will hear of this!' He screamed before they ran inside. When they stopped they were at the Slytherin's common room. 'Would you stop laughing?' Draco asked, irritated.
'Sorry…It was just so funny looking.' Paige said through her laughter she felt weak at the knees from laughing.
'Yeah…Yeah.' Draco muttered trying to make his hair look good again.
'Draco, your hair looks fine.' Paige said and started to play with his hair a bit.
'Yeah, stop, just let me..' Paige laughed again but let him fix his hair.
'Thanks, come on, let's go have some lunch.' He said putting an arm around her neck and started walking.
'Oh and Draco, I bet that Harry will survive the whole tournament.' Paige said, putting her arm around his waist.
'Now do you? Fine.' Draco said, laughing a bit. 'We will see tomorrow if he will even survive the first task.'
They sat down with Pansy and Blaise when lunch began.
'So tomorrow's the big day.' Blaise said to Paige with a cocky smile.
'Yeah, I'm excited!' Paige said happily, grabbing some toast.
'Do you want to sit next to me during the task?' Blaise asked. Paige looked up and stared at Blaise for a moment and switched looking at Draco who shrugged.
'Sure.' She said, trying to sound excited.
'Great!' Blaise said cheerful and kissed her on the cheek. Paige let out a small uncomforable laugh and quickly glanced at the Gryffindors table where Harry was staring at her with an open mouth.
'Sure, he looks now.' Paige muttered, feeling a dreadful feeling emerge from her stomach..
'What?' Blaise asked.
'Nothing.' Paige looked again and saw George and Fred looking as well. She kept staring and grabbed her pumpkin juice to take a drink. Fred and George began making sexy weird faces to her, making Paige almost choke on her juice.
'You alright?' Draco asked, hitting her on the back.
'Yeah, totally fine.' She said with a husky voice. 'I just need to go to the girl's room.' looking at her shirt that was covered in pumpkin juice.
'I'll go with you!' Pansy said, almost standing up but Paige stopped her.
'No you don't have to, thank you.' Paige said as she saw that Harry was already walking out of the Great hall. 'Bye.'
When she walked out of the Great hall she didn't see Harry anymore and sighed. Then someone grabbed her and pulled her into a secret hallway.
'Harry, don't scare me like that.' Paige said, a bit angry.
'Sorry.' He said awkwardly.
'We don't need to hide, you know?'
'Yeah but I wanted somewhere private where we wouldn't be at risk that Malfoy would come and save you.' Harry said, the last part sarcastic.
'Yeah he would call it like that, saving me.' Paige said laughing.
'So you and Zabini?' Harry asked suddenly not looking at her.
'What?' Paige asked, confused.
'He kissed you on the cheek.' He said fast.
'Yeah, I don't know where that came from. I just agreed to sit next to him tomorrow for the first task.'
'So you two are not… you know, dating?'
'NO, I would never date him. He is too serious and does not know a good joke when it's right under his nose.' Paige said, making Harry laugh. 'And you do.'
'So did you place a bet yet on who is going to win?' Harry asked with a cocky smile.
'Wait you can actually bet?'
'Yeah, Fred and George.'
'Oh really. No I have not yet but I will then.' Paige said excitedly.
'What are you going to bet?' Harry asked with a smirk this time.
'I don't know, maybe that Potter boy wins the tournament.' She said smiling.
'Really? You think I could win?' He asked surprised. Paige nodded.
'Yeah.' She said and she sounded sincere. He could feel her body warmth again.. She was feeling the same thing as him, right? He asked himself. She doesn't wanna be with Zabini, would she wanna be with him?
She took his arm and looked at his watch. 'We should go to class! Good luck tomorrow.' Paige hesitated for a second but then leaned forward and kissed Harry on the cheek before walking away. Harry stood there frozen for a second, hand on his cheek. He could feel the place she kissed burn a little.
The next day Paige woke up because someone was poking her. She opened her eyes and saw Blaise. It was such a shock to her that she fell on the ground, when she jumped up she saw that she was in the Slytherin common room.
'You fell asleep on the couch.' Blaise said.
'What time is it?' Paige asked, still a bit sleepy.
'Almost noon.'
'WHAT! And nobody woke me up?'
'They wanted to let you sleep and Malfoy hasn't come down yet, but come on, the first task is almost starting.'
'Yeah I'll see you there, I will wait for Draco. Will you save me a seat?' Paige asked, walking to the stairs that led to her dorm.
'Yeah sure.' Blaise mumbled and walked away.
Nobody was there, when Paige got to her dorm room. She put on jeans and a Slytherin sweater and walked back down where Draco was waiting for her.
'Aww, I wanted to be first.' Paige said to him.
'Well, too slow.' Draco said teasingly, grabbed her hand and they walked to the quidditch pitch where the first task will be held.
Paige saw Fred and George asking people to bet.
'Oi, Fred, George, I want to bet please.' Paige walked towards them with an irritated Draco behind her.
'Really my lady' George asked, winking at her.
'That's great Princess.' Fred said, also winking at her.
'Oh boys stop teasing. Anyway I want to bet seven galleons that Harry wins the tournament.' Paige said, ignoring the sassing from Draco.
'Brave.' Fred and George said when she put the money in George's hand.
'I know. See you two.' Paige said when she walked away with Draco at her side.
'There they are!' Draco said pointing at Blaise and Pansy. They walked to them and sat down.
'You excited?' Blaise asked Paige.
'Yeah very.' She said when they suddenly heard dragons.
'Oh my did you hear that, Paige.' Pansy said looking scared.
'Yeah I heard that.'
The first one was Cedric and he was handling it very well, not long after he came in he got the golden egg. Cheers filled the stadium when he held the egg and walked away with just a few scratches.
The next one was Viktor, it took him a little more time to get the egg and he got hit once by the dragon but recovered fast. The cheers felt the stadium again when he held the golden egg up.
The third one was Fleur. She looked pretty scared when she stepped in but just as the rest of them she handled it pretty well. But it took her the longest of them three to get the egg. Eventually she got the golden egg just like the rest of them. A big applause filled the stadium again and she walked away.
The last one was Harry and of course he had the hardest dragon of them all, the Hungarian horntail.
When Harry came in the dragon attacked him immediately but she missed. Paige gasped when the dragon attacked him again.
'Are you sure you made the right bet.' Draco said, teasing her.
'Shut up.' Paige snapped.
Harry grabbed his wand and screamed a spell. A few seconds later his broom flew out of the air. Harry jumped on his broom and began to fly. He stared at the Horntail for a moment then something changed within him.
He dived. The Horntail's head followed him; as if he knew what it was going to do and pulled out of the dive just in time; a jet of fire had been released exactly where he would have been had he not swerved away.
"Great Scott, he can fly!" yelled Bagman as the crowd shrieked and gasped. "Are you watching this, Mr. Krum?"
Harry soared higher in a circle; the Horntail was still following his progress; its head revolving on its long neck - if he kept this up, it would be nicely dizzy - but better not push it too long, or it would be breathing fire again - Harry plummeted just as the Horntail opened its mouth, but this time he was less lucky - he missed the flames, but the tail came whipping up to meet him instead, and as he swerved to the left, one of the long spikes grazed his shoulder, ripping his robes.
Paige gasped, grabbing hold of Draco's arm.
'Doesn't look good.' Draco said almost excitedly. Paige looked at him annoyed.
'Would you please shut up?' She said turning back to Harry. 'COME ON! YOU CAN DO IT!'
Harry began to fly, first this way, then the other, not near enough to make her breathe fire to stave him off, but still posing a sufficient threat to ensure she kept her eyes on him. Her head swayed this way and that, watching him out of those vertical pupils, her fangs bared...
He flew higher. The Horntail's head rose with him, her neck now stretched to its fullest extent, still swaying, hike a snake before its charmer. . . Harry rose a few more feet, and she let out a roar of exasperation.
'Come on,' Harry hissed, swerving tantalizingly above her, 'come on, come and get me. . . up you get now. .'
And then she reared, spreading her great, black, leathery wings at last, as wide as those of a small airplane - and Harry dived. Before the dragon knew what he had done, or where he had disappeared to, he was speeding toward the ground as fast as he could go, toward the eggs now unprotected by her clawed front legs - he had taken his hands off his Firebolt - he had seized the golden egg.
A massive applause got loose from the students, Paige cheered loudly and laughed.
'I guess I won our bet!.' Paige said to Draco and held up her hand.
Draco rolled his eyes and gave her five galleons.
'You're lucky this time.' He said irritated.
'Yes I am.' Paige said, still cheering.
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