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Repeat After Me	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 8880 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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So, this chapter was supposed to be just one, but after I started typing I realized it would have to be split into two parts. There is just too much to put into a single chapter so you guys are in luck! You now have two more chapters left after this to conclude the story, instead of just the epilogue! Yay! And who knows, you might just get Chapter 12 early…We will just have to wait and see...Don't forget to leave those wonderful reviews! XOXO
Chapter 11- Finish Line- Part 1
Friday October 29^th, 1999 07:25am
“Winky!” Draco yelled into the air; trying to summon the only house elf he could remember the name of. “Winky, dammit, I need your help!”
A loud pop erupted from behind the Slytherin making him turn around and take a deep breath as he smirked happily.
“What cans Winky help Mr. Draco with, sir?” the house elf asked with a bow of her head.
“Winky, I need you to do me a favor, but first…do you know if we have a school handbook or-or something that has the rules and guidelines for students and Professors?”
“I’s believe we dos, sir. Would Mr. Draco wish Winky to gets him a copy?”
“Yes, please. Then I will need another favor from you…if that’s alright?”
“Of course, sir!” Winky gleamed at the Slytherin’s kindness. “Winky wills be right back!”
The house elf quickly disappeared with a pop as Draco ran to his closet and changed. Before the elf returned however, he opened up the secret cabinet in the back to make sure the bottle of Firewhisky was still there, before writing something down on a piece of parchment. When Winky returned with a large tomb, he quickly thanked her, and handed her the note to give to a specific person.
Winky nodded her head and smiled widely before popping out of the room to leave Draco to his reading. The Slytherin scanned the pages until he found what he was looking for, and then he shut the book with a snap, and headed downstairs.
“Draco!” Pansy called out in glee as she stood up from the couch facing the West fireplace “Took you long enough; we were beginning to think you died up there.”
“I was just doing a bit of light reading, Pans. No need to worry, love” he claimed with a large grin before Hermione walked out of her room with an armful of books.
Draco turned his body to his right before she crashed into him and quickly reached out a hand.
“Got enough books there, Granger?” he smirked as he took two from the top of the pile and scanned the titles. “History of Potions and Magical Guide to Brew Your Way to Victory…”
“Can I have my books back, please?” Hermione asked in embarrassment and annoyance as Draco held the books above his head when she reached out to retrieve them. “Malfoy, come on, I need to study!”
“You don’t need these to pass Potions, Granger” he stated while lowering his arm and handed her back her property. “If you really want to top the best in the class, then you’re going to need to learn from the best.”
“Snape isn’t here anymore, so I-”
“I meant me…” he claimed gently, making Hermione drop her shoulders and raise a brow in confusion. “I’m really good at it and I can give you a few pointers…if you want…”
“Um, y-yeah…su-ure, okay” she smiled nervously. “I mean, if you have time…
“I always have time…” Draco smiled warmly as he stepped out of the way and let Hermione walk down the stairs first. He trailed after her and when she went right to sit at the desk to begin her quick study session, he went left and sat down in his usual seat on the couch.
“Hey Draco!” Theo grinned with a small wave. “You seem to be in a better mood today.”
“I am, Theo! A great mood actually! I have a feeling that today is going to be a good one-oh by the way, you might not want to sit there.” he answered with pursed lips.
“Why? I always sit here.”
“Just trust me. You’ll thank me later.”
“Oh-kay…” Theo replied in a perplexed tone before standing up to sit between Draco and Pansy.
‘Now to just go through the day like normal…but I think I’ll change a few things…just to spice it up’
Harry, Ron, and Lavender took their seats like normal as Pansy perked up and looked at the people in the room.
“So, who’s excited for tonight?” she asked, throwing Draco slightly off.
‘So…because I don’t look like I’m depressed, the entire conversation changes? I really had that big of an impact on everyone?’
“Ugh” Ron groaned as he threw his head back in annoyance. “Why are you making us all go to this thing, Parkinson? Is it because you want us all to suffer listening to you and Zabini singing a mash-up? We’ve heard enough of you practicing every night. I think we’re good on hearing the ear bleeding notes.”
“Wow, Weasley” Draco cut in irritated. “Sounds a little pretentious for someone still pinning for a girl he can never have again…Bitter much?”
“Stay out of this, Malfoy?” Ron demanded callously while his cheeks turned a blushing red. “Why don’t you just piss off back to your damn room where you’re actually wanted, you low life scum?”
“Whoa oh oh!” Draco laughed as Theo stood up and glared at the Gryffindor. “Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. You kiss your mother with that mouth?” he scoffed while leaning back. “Like I said…Bitter.”
Ron stood up to attack the Slytherin, but Harry quickly grabbed the red-head and forced him to sit back down as Draco smirked and crossed his arms victoriously. Theo clicked his tongue against the inside of his lip before slowly retaking his seat…his baleful glare never once wavering from Ron.
“It’s fine, Theo…Weasley doesn’t have the strength to knock me out anyway. Granger throws a better punch than he ever will…Don’t you, love?” Draco asked while tilting his chin towards the confused curly-haired brunette, who turned around with a shy perplexed gaze. “Anyway…” Draco clapped his hands on his thighs before standing up “I’m gonna go to breakfast; you coming, Theo?”
Theo rose from his seat and moved to walk towards the portrait when he suddenly stopped and turned around.
“I should grab my books before heading down…Meet you out side, yeah?” he said before walking towards the stairs, giving Draco an idea.
“Wait up, mate. I have a proposition for you.”
Draco quickly caught up to his friend, who raised a brow in interest, and walked up the stairs towards the brunettes’ dorm. Once they entered the room, five doors down from Dracos’ against the South wall, the students below continued their conversation leading to Hermione storming out, due to Lavenders’ virgin joke.
The two Slytherin’s talked in the black and silver colored bedroom as Theo gathered his books before heading back downstairs and out the portrait door.
“Soooo, let me just rerun this back again” Theo declared with a raised finger, however Ron quickly ran past the duo before he could continue and tripped over his own feet, sending the Gryffindor flying to the floor. “Ha! Serves him right!” he laughed as he stepped around the red-head scrambling to stand up. “Anyway…so you want me to put up a spell so that no one can leave the Common Room after we get back from class, and then suggest we all play a game…that involves Firewhisky?”
“Yes…Granger helped you study for Charms, right?” the brunette nodded his head “Okay, so you should be well versed in boundary spells.”
“Yeeahh…I’m still not following though. How did you even know she helped me with that exam? And if what you told me earlier, about something happening in Potions…wouldn’t everyone object to playing?”
“That’s why I want you to suggest it.” Draco answered as they rounded the corner and witnessed Ginny yelling at some underclassmen. “And I guessed at her helping you. She’s the best in that class and somehow for a person who never studies…you passed that exam with a perfect O.”
“Okay, but how exactly am I going to convince people to play when they’re going to hate you. And you won’t even tell me why they’re going to attack you.”
“It’ll come to you. You’re resourceful, Theo. The Sorting Hat doesn’t put just anyone in to our house.”
“Why can’t you just tell me what the hell is going on?”
“Because…hold on…” Draco stopped walking to watch the Ravenclaw girl slap her boyfriend across the face before storming off towards her group of friends. “Sorry,” he chuckled “that’ll never get old. Any who, I don’t want to play all my cards at once. You’ll find out later today though, I promise” he claimed as he ducked his head to the side when the snitch, flying freely through the corridor, zoomed passed the pair.
Harry like always, jumped into the air and caught the golden ball before looking around the hall for the culprit to no avail. He pocketed the snitch before shaking his head and walked into the Great Hall, making Draco half-grin in satisfaction.
Once he and Theo entered the Dining area, they took their seats and waited for Blaise and Pansy to arrive. After breakfast was served, Draco scarfed down as much as he could eat while his friends eyed him in disgust at the mess his was making.
“Uh, Draco?” Pansy began as she lowered the sausage link in her hand back down to the plate in front of her. “Do you need to be somewhere or something? I’ve never seen you eat so fast or even more than Theo for that matter.”
“I do actually” he answered after swallowing his mouth full of food. “Long story.”
“ENOUGH, LAVENDER!”
Everyone in the hall went quiet as they looked over at Hermione standing at the Gryffindor table with a face so red, she looked like she was about to explode. Draco played along like he did the first day he experienced the outburst, and waited for Hermione to leave and Pansy to speak up.
“Ugh! Just leave me alone!” the Golden Girl shouted in anger before she collected her things and stormed off with a worried Ginny following swiftly behind her.
Pansy turned back around, clicked her tongue, and began picking at her eggs.
“Well…I guess we all can assume what that was about” she smirked before taking a bite of the food in front of her.
“I don’t follow” Draco lied as he took a bite of bacon.
“Oh, right” Blaise cut in “you weren’t there. Apparently, Brown did another one of her virgin jokes in the Common Room when you and Theo went upstairs. She really is quite the hypocrite if I do say so myself. I heard she hasn’t even had sex with Weasley yet, making her…a virgin still too.”
“Actually, Blaise…” Draco smirked as he looked down at his plate and stirred the left-over syrup with a strip of bacon. “I heard differently…but you’ll find that out soon enough” he chortled before looking up and taking a bite of the meat in his hand. “Gotta go, I’ll see you guys in class” he claimed while dusting off his hands and standing up.
“Wait” Theo said while rotating his body to view his friend behind him. “You’re not going to hang out with us before class? Pans said she had our costumes ready and since we didn’t get a chance to go over them before breakfast…”
“I’ll see it afterwards, mate.”
“So, you’re going?” Pansy asked with a large smile.
“Yeah…but I might need you to change what I’m going as…I’ll let you know. I really gotta go though.”
Draco waved to his friends before exiting the Great Hall at a swift pace. Instead of running after Hermione like he so desperately wanted to, he turned left instead of right and headed down towards the dungeons.
‘Please nothing kill me. I beg you, anyone listening, please have nothing kill me…’
The Slytherin Prince passed the kitchens as he made his way to the Potions classroom and quickly brought out his wand. Preforming the unlocking charm on the wooden barrier, he slipped inside the empty room and marched up to the front. He began to dig through every drawer in the Professors desk before summoning the specific potion he was looking for. To his surprise, the colorless draught wasn’t locked away and had been peacefully resting on a shelf in the corner of the room near the blackboard.
‘Why the hell didn’t I think to do this shite before? Would have saved me so much time…Then again, I wouldn’t have gained the Intel I needed. Hmm, better late than never, I guess.’
Holding the vile in his fingertips, Draco examined the clear liquid before placing it in his pocket and rushing out of the room. Speeding down the halls, he almost crashed into a few roaming students as he made his way towards the Common Room, but managed to make it to his destination without being stopped.
Hermione and Ginny luckily were not in the room when Draco arrived, so he walked up the stairs to his dorm and pulled the vile out of his pocket before placing it in the hidden compartment in his closet. For the next couple of hours, he continued to read the school handbook until he heard the knock that put a smile on his face.
“Malfoy?” Hermione’s soft voice spoke “It’s Hermione…I-”
Draco scrambled off his bed and quickly opened his door, surprising the Gryffindor slightly.
‘Shite, Now what?’
“Hi” he nervously said while rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
‘Stupid, Draco…Hi? Really? That’s all you could come up with?’
“Uh…Hi” she replied in confusion. “Um, I-I just wanted to let you know that Potions was starting shortly…in case you were sleeping.
“Oh, I wasn’t sleeping…”
‘Merlin, this again? You’re supposed to be changing this day, not repeating the same conversations over and over!’
“Oh…”
“I was reading actually.”
‘Better’
“Oh? What book?”
“The school handbook…I know it’s boring…” he chuckled slightly.
“No, it’s not” she smiled softly. “It’s nice that someone other than me is taking an interest in the rules of this place. Were you looking for something specific at all? Maybe I can help…I mean, it’s the least I can do after you offered to give me a few pointers in potions.”
“No, I think I’m good, thanks though.”
“No problem” she beamed before lowering her head and blushed. “I…I should get going. Don’t wanna be late” she finished before turning to walk away.
“Hey wait, Granger…”
“Yeah?” she asked as she stopped and faced him while biting her lower lip nervously.
Draco tensed up at the sight of her action and had to hide the lower half of his body behind the door.
‘Salazar, she really needs to stop doing that!’
“Uh…ehem…I uh…Wh-what do you know about the Unbreakable Vow? Not the vow itself, but the use of it on school grounds? I can’t seem to find it in the book” he lied. It was the very first thing he found during his search; he just wanted to talk with the brunette a little while longer.
“Um, well it’s forbidden. It’s cause for immediate expulsion to anyone who is found making it on school grounds…You’re not planning to-”
“No! No, I was just wondering. I heard a rumor that someone was planning on making it with another student, so I wanted to look up the rules. What would happen exactly if one of the people, let’s say, didn’t want to make the vow but someone forced them to? Would they get in trouble?” he questioned, honestly not knowing the answer.
‘Like if I had Theo make the vow with Brown…but it would be difficult to get Theo to agree to do it…I also don’t even know if she made that vow with Longbottom on school grounds…Fucking hell, this is so fucked! Why me?’
“They might be exempt depending on the circumstances, but which student, Malfoy? That has to be reported, immediately!”
“I will once I figure out everything. Don’t want to jump the sword before even finding out all the details first” he grinned. “Anyway, I think it might have just been a joke between students.”
“Gun…” Hermione corrected with a small chuckle.
“What?” he asked raising a brow.
“It’s gun, Malfoy. The saying is ‘you don’t want to jump the gun’. You said sword.”
“Oh...Does it really matter?”
“Sort of…” she shrugged. “But only if you look back at the origin of the phrase; basically, it alludes to starting to run in a foot race before the starting gun goes off.”
“Ah…So, jumping the gun…Got it.”
“Do you need anything else?” she questioned sweetly.
“No, but uh...thanks, Hermione.” ‘Shite!’ “I’ll-I’ll see you in class.”
“Oka-”
Draco quickly shut his door when he realized he almost ruined his own plan by calling the Gryffindor by her first name and held his breath as he waited for her footsteps to dissipate. After she walked away, he released his breath before scrambling to get his books in order to throw in his over-the-shoulder bag.
Standing in front of his bedroom door, Draco sucked in a deep breath as he closed his eyes and mentally prepared for the next part of his mission. He had decided to allow himself to be blamed for the potion mishap that was about to occur; not because he wanted to, but because the only way the person responsible could go down, was if they already preformed the deed. He just hoped his plan didn’t fail in the end.
On his way to the dungeons, the Slytherin spotted Harry and Neville walking down the hall and an idea began to form in his mind. Swiftly running to catch up to the pair, Draco reached out both hands and touched the back of the Gryffindors bare necks causing both boys to suddenly freeze.
‘Please work, please work, please work…’
Walking around to the front of the pair, Draco watched as their fixed gazes settled and they shook their heads in confusion.
“What the hell?” Harry asked as he looked to Neville perplexed.
“Ma-Malfoy…” Neville began in a stutter. “Di-did you just-Are you-What the-”
‘Thank fucking Merlin!’
“Yes and yes” Draco cut in quickly. “I don’t have time to fully explain everything, but I need some help…from both of you.”
“I’m sorry, what the hell just happened?” Harry questioned in bewilderment. “Why do I remember a conversation I know for a fact, I didn’t have with you? And why do I have the sudden urge to speak with Ginny?”
“It will all be explained later today, I promise, but right now I need you both to make sure Brown and Boot are in the Common Room after class.”
“Malfoy-”
“Potter, please” he pleaded “I need you to do this for me. I have never asked anything from either of you and yes, I don’t deserve the assistance, but I am desperate here, and those two won’t listen to me or my friends.”
“I’ll make sure Boot is in the room” Neville chimed in, making Harry furrow his brows in confusion. “It’s to help Mione, Harry…I know it sounds crazy, but I think he’s being genuine about this.”
“How do you know he’s asking this to help Hermione?”
“Because…” Draco interrupted “Brown has been badgering and-and teasing Granger about being a virgin ever since we returned to school and I’m sick of hearing it” he half lied. “I just want to get everyone together to work it all out and make it to stop. I’m sure even you are tired of the constant fighting and I have a plan to fix it…I hope.”
“You hope?” Harry questioned while crossing his arms. “Since when did you become such a Hufflepuff and care about who is fighting?”
“Harry, just make sure Lavender is in the room…please?” Neville requested with a sigh. “I think we all would like the bickering between houses come to an end.”
“I don’t know” the raven-haired boys scoffed as he released his arms “What if this just makes things worse-”
“It won’t” the Slytherin added.
Harry sighed deeply as he looked back and forth between Draco and Neville before relaxing his shoulders.
‘Please, Potter…I really need you to do this’
“Okay, fine. I’ll make sure Lavender is in the Common Room.”
‘Yes!’
“Great!” Draco exclaimed as he patted Harry on the arm once. “Thanks Potter!”
"Ugh, don't do that. Man, I really thought hearing you finally say those words to me would make me ecstatic, but honestly…it's just made me a little uncomfortable."
“Trust me, Potter, the feeling is mutual…By the way, Longbottom, be careful putting the Goblin’s Blood back up on the shelf” he advised with a wink, before walking away from the duo; knowing full well that Neville knew he was stuck in a loop after he touched him.
02:06pm
Draco waited patiently through the course of the exam until the right moment he was to enact his plan. Originally, he was going to warn Hermione about the added ingredient and tell her to let it happen when a thought composed and he changed his mind last minute to perform an act that would end up altering the day he had adapted to.
The Golden Girl knocked her elbow into her Nightshade and hastily bent down to clean it up. As she hunched over the mess on the floor, Draco gripped his wand beneath the table after watching the Fluxweed fall. Flicking his wrist, he sent a nonverbal switching spell at Hermione’s cauldron…instantly trading the substances within a blink of an eye.
The curly-haired bookworm stood back up and briefly smiled at him before turning to her elixir to complete it; unknowing that he selflessly gave her his own perfectly brewed potion. A faint glow began to emit from the Gryffindor’s body before softly surrounding her with a white light. Draco smirked in satisfaction of another task completed before bringing up his wand to perform the spell to activate the tampered draught.
As he hoped, the smoke turned black while Hermione's turned white and he silently cheered in his head. But Hermione gasped in shock causing Draco’s heart to drop into his stomach and he turned his head to make sure her potion was still good.
‘What now?’
“Malfoy…your potion!” she whispered loudly.
“Oh” he sighed in relief “Yeah…I-I must have added too much Acromantula Venom or something…Happens sometimes” he lied.
“That’s not possible!” Draco looked at Hermione in confusion, because to him, it was perfectly logical that too much of an ingredient could be added…until Hermione said the one thing he wasn’t expecting to hear. “You’re the best at potions, Malfoy. For you to mess up something like that is like me forgetting a charm…it doesn’t happen.”
“Is…that a compliment?”
“No…Yes…Maybe…I don’t know. It was just an observation…”
“Oh? I just-I assumed you never paid attention enough to know if…I was good or not…” he claimed softly.
“Well, it’s not like you could really hide that sort of skill from me…You’re getting off topic here, Malfoy-”
“Draco…” he cut in gently while Hermione looked at him in surprise. “Call me Draco…please?”
‘Damn, I’ve said please more times today than I think I have my entire life…This time-loop is changing the shite out of me!’
“Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Granger” Slughorn interrupted, causing both students to quickly glance up at the Professor. “Is there a problem?”
“No” Draco answered, but Hermione hastily replied ‘yes’ making him curse inside his head…until another idea came to mind. “Actually, yes Professor. It seems something is amiss with my potion.”
“Your potion, Mr. Malfoy? Impossible!” Slughorn stated in bewilderment.
“Told you” Hermione whispered as she leaned slightly to her right, forcing a smile to briefly form on the Slytherin Prince’s lips.
Professor Slughorn marched over to their table and looked at Draco’s draught in sorrow.
“You’re my best student in this class…I don’t understand…” the professor looked off to his right at Hermione’s cauldron and took note of the Fluxweed powered lying on her station. Taking a step, he placed himself in front of her causing Draco to begin to sweat nervously.
“Professor!” he yelled, trying to distract Slughorn long enough to not ruin his plan. “Sorry, sir…Um, do you mind if I talk with you in private?”
Slughorn raised a brow in confusion, but nodded his head as Draco moved from behind the table. The pair talked quietly outside of the classroom making a few students furrow their brows in confusion. Draco admittedly told the Professor what was happening and surprisingly the elderly man accepted his words. The Slytherin thought it would take a lot more to convince the Potion teachers of the mishap he landed himself into, but Slughorn seemed to understand what happened and knew Draco had to figure things out on his own.
The Slytherin Professor let Draco off on a warning and allowed Hermione to keep the swapped potions due to Prince’s pleas that her draught would have been perfect if it wasn’t for the added ingredient. The only thing he required in return, was for Draco to figure out who was responsible, which the blonde told him would be sorted out before the end of the night; right before telling the man he would win the bet between Professors.
Slughorn nodded his head before walking back into the room and dismissing the class. On the way back to the Common Room, Harry and Neville both completed their tasks of getting the Ravenclaw and Ron’s girlfriend to stay in the room while Theo sneakily put up a boundary charm to keep everyone inside.
As the students gathered and talked amongst themselves, Draco ran upstairs with Theo following steadily behind him to grab the Firewhisky. Without Theo’s knowledge, Draco slipped some of the odorless potion he had obtained earlier, into the alcohol before handing it over to his friend.
“So, I just suggest a game, right?” Theo asked as he studied the bottle in his hand.
“Yeah…” Draco answered while running his fingers through his hair. “Whatever you do though, you start it off…and make it good” he finished, knowing full well the game the brunette Slytherin would pick.
“Didn’t you say they were going to hate you or something? No one seems to be pissed down there, well besides Weasley, but he’s always mad about something.”
“That’s because I changed my plan slightly. Just make sure to not give any to Longbottom. It’s a long story, but I need to make sure he doesn’t have any.”
“Uhh…okay…That’s a little rude though, don’t you think? Why is everyone else getting a shot but not him?”
“I’ll talk to him don’t worry. Just be sure everyone takes a sip, alright?”
Draco looked to the clock resting on his end table behind Theo who looked perplexed as he lifted the bottle again to study it, and noted the time was now 2:45pm. He had fifteen minutes to get everything in order so he quickly shoved Theo out of his room and closed the door behind him.
“Hey you lot!” Theo exclaimed as Draco rolled his eyes at the top of the stairs. “Guess what I got!” he yelled as he held up the bottle of Firewhisky. “I think before we all get ready for the Ball, we do a little pre-gaming! Everyone except Longbottom has to drink at least one shot! I don’t trust that he won’t fall over and get us all in trouble for splitting his head open…No offense, mate.” Neville raised a brow as everyone in the room except Hermione, who dropped her shoulders in defeat, gleamed with happiness.
Draco walked over to Neville as Theo conjured thirteen tall shot glasses and began filling them half-way. Ginny eyed the glasses skeptically as she rubbed her stomach subconsciously causing Draco to freeze momentarily as he recalled her condition. Luckily, Hermione took the glass from her hand, and dumped it into her own, before anyone could notice. Ginny then covered her glass with her hand so no one would see it was empty as Draco shook his head.
‘Why the hell did I forget that she would be here after class? Stupid, Draco! Stupid!’
Leaning over the back of the couch that Neville was sitting on, Draco quickly whispered in his ear before figuring out his next move.
“I know about your vow…” he spoke softly. “Do not drink any of that alcohol, do you understand me? I don’t wanna repeat this day again because I accidentally got you killed. I am going to help you, so just play along, alright?”
Neville’s eyes widened as he nodded his head in understanding before Draco stood up straight and took the outstretched glass from Theo’s hand. He nonchalantly walked over to Hermione and stood next to her before holding out his hand.
“Cheers!” he declared with a smirk as everyone clinked their glasses together and downed their shot.
However, before Hermione could take the double shot, Draco grabbed the glass from her hand while everyone was distracted, and drank it before handing it back to her, and downing his own.
‘I’m not going to let her take both of those because I was forgetful. Besides, this part isn’t for her…Well it is, but it isn’t…’
“You’ll thank me later” he whispered before walking away from her and the confused look she was giving off.
“Oh, I have an idea!” Theo announced with a large grin. “Let’s play Truth or Dare! Longbottom, you can play too if you want, I won’t deny you that.”
“Alright” Neville agreed, knowing that if he backed out then others would too.
“I’ll start… Theo continued. “Pansy…” The raven-haired Slytherin girl looked to Theo and tapped her shot glass with her pointer finger as she waited for the question to start off the game. “Truth…or Dare?”
“Dare” she answered firmly with a mischievous smile.
“Alright…I dare you tooooo…kiss any girl in this room, on the lips, for five seconds!”
“Any girl…of my choosing?” she asked with a raised half-smile while setting her empty glass down.
“Any girl” he answered.
“Okay” she claimed firmly before walking the length of the couch over to Ginny.
The red-head’s eyes widened as Pansy leaned in and placed her lips on hers. After five seconds were up, Pansy pulled back and winked as every guy in the room jaws dropped and most of the girls looked on in disgust.
“That’s my sister, Parkinson!” Ron yelled in anger after he wiped the stunned look from his face.
“What? She’s hot” Pansy shrugged as she walked back over to her boyfriend who looked to be drooling from the action.
“O-okay, Pans” Theo stuttered as he shook the inappropriate thoughts from his mind. “Your turn.”
“Alright, let’s see…Potter” she said while pointing her finger at the Boy-Who-Lived. “Truth or Dare?”
“Uh well, I don’t really trust Slytherin’s and their dares…no offense” he chuckled. “So, truth.”
“If you had to name someone in this room other than your girlfriend, to hook up with, who would you pick?”
“That’s easy, Sadie” he blurted out before quickly covering his mouth with his hand.
Everyone looked at Harry in shock at his quick answer as Hermione tilted her head to the side before looking to Draco with furrowed brows.
“Well that was unexpected…” Pansy claimed with a tilt of her head. “Anyway…your turn, I guess.”
Harry lowered his hand to reveal his redden cheeks and turned his attention to Draco across the room while avoiding the death glare Ginny was giving him.
“Malfoy…Uh, Truth or Dare?”
‘Finally!’
“Truth” the Slytherin answered while crossing his arms.
“Um…okay uh…”
“Any day now, Potter” Blaise chortled.
“Sorry, um…Okay, uh, wh-what did you and Professor Slughorn talk about in the hallway during class?”
“Really, Potter?” Blaise questioned while crossing his arms. “That’s the best you could come up with?”
“It’s fine, Blaise” Draco cut in with a raised hand. “I’ll answer…but once I do, it’ll become my turn and I think I’ll switch the game up a little. Make it…more interesting. I told Slughorn that I saw someone tampering with Granger’s potion, so I switched hers with mine so she would pass the class, and I wouldn’t get blamed for it” he stated as a matter of fact while walking closer to the circle of stunned peers. “You see, I am stuck in a time-loop thanks to the Wishing potion gone wrong, this is…my fourteenth day, give or take. I won’t go into too much detail about it, but I will say that I have finally figured everything out. I learned a few secrets along the way, which I will revel shortly, but in order to help out the people I am supposed to, to get out of this nightmare, I had to trick you all into taking Veritaserum…via Firewhisky.”
“YOU WHAT?” Ron shouted as he stood up and clenched his fists. “You slimy no good cheat!”
“I don’t want to deal with this!” Lavender exclaimed as she stood up and began to walk towards the portrait door.
“Oh, but Brown” Draco fake pouted. “You’re part of the main attraction! Besides, you can’t leave; there’s a very powerful boundary spell on the door, so no one can exit, and I’m pretty sure Granger will refuse to break the spell, seeing as this has something to do with her as well.”
“What the hell is wrong with you?” Ron yelled as everyone in the room looked to Draco in shock and confusion. “Mione, open the door!” he demanded.
“You don’t have to do that, Hermione!” Harry chimed in, shocking everyone more. “Malfoy wouldn’t pull something like this without reason and I for one would like to know what this is all about. You told me this was to help stop the arguments from happening, Malfoy; I don’t understand.”
Hermione looked around the room as all eyes landed on her. She glanced at Draco briefly before taking a seat on the couch facing the East wall and crossed her arms.
“Looks like Granger would like to know as well” Draco smirked. “Very well, let’s discuss, shall we? Now, as you all are fully aware, I took a shot of the whiskey as well, so I can’t lie. Everything I told you was the truth. I died too many times to fail this…so, let’s begin.”
“This is fucking stupid!” Ron announced while Draco leaned on the back of the couch facing the West wall with his hands as he glared at every person in front of him.
“Gryffindors…Slytherins…Hufflepuffs…and a Ravenclaw. Four houses, all with different reasons to try and ruin Granger…So who would do it?” Draco asked while narrowing his eyes. “Well, I have deduced that Slytherins are not responsible, seeing as none of us are callous enough to ruin someone’s grade; plus, we all like Granger in our own way. The Ravenclaw is too smart to care about someone else’s potion, so that leaves the Gryffindors and the Hufflepuffs.”
“Now wait just a minute!” Bradley interrupted “A Puff would never do something like that!”
“You’re right, Stoll. A Puff wouldn’t” Draco answered firmly. “But Potter would never hurt his best friend and Weasley is still pinning after his ex to want to seriously hurt her either.”
“Shut your mouth, Malfoy!” Ron cut in as he tried to storm over to Draco, but Theo and Blaise immediately grasped his shoulders as they held the red-head back.
“See I touched I nerve…point proven. Moving on…I already knocked Brown and Weaslette off the list, along with Longbottom, which I will come back too, so that leaves two people.” Sadie’s eye widened in fear as she took a step back and tried to hide behind her boyfriend. “Stoll, in one of my repeat days you told me that Cornwell should have been sorted into Ravenclaw, but her kindness trait out shined her wisdom…Except her kindness only goes so far when it comes to me. I have also learned that she doesn’t like me very much and you only ignore me because of her…So, a Hufflepuff and a should-have-been Ravenclaw to choose from…But which one did it?”
“What does that have to do with Hermione’s potion getting tampered with?” Ginny asked while holding Hermione’s hands in hers for support.
“Everything, Red” Draco replied adamantly. “You see, most of this school apparently already thinks Granger and I are secretly dating and someone tried to use that to their advantage. My father apparently did something to their family, and they want revenge. Their problem however, is they can’t get to him since he’s in Azkaban; so, they turned their focus on me. They couldn’t take me out during the exam because everyone knows I’m the best in that class…I never mess up. But just making me fail wasn’t going to help them. They wanted me out of the school. Isn’t that right…Sadie?”
“Y-ye-yes…” she answered while shaking her head no.
The room erupted in gasps while Draco smirked happily and stood up straight.
“The only way she could get me expelled,” he continued, drawing everyone’s attention back to him “is if I were to fuck up someone else’s exam. Granger just so happens to sit next to me and would be the perfect target for her plan. You lot would automatically blame me, which has happened more than I like, and when no evidence is presented during the investigation, I would be the one to take the fall for it. It’s the perfect plan because if wands were checked, hers would only show Repetit Forma as the last spell used.”
“Sadie?” Hermione exclaimed as she stood up in disappointment. “How could you do something like that?”
“How could I?” Sadie began with a scowl and clenched fists. “I’ll tell you exactly how! Lucius Malfoy is the reason my little sister…IS DEAD!”
‘What? How?’
“What are you talking about, Sadie?” Harry asked as the group looked on in shock and confusion. “We were told your sister moved out of the country with your Aunt to finish her seventh year at Ilvermorny.”
“Yeah…” Pansy added. “We knew you were upset about it and we knew it was because she was scared of Draco’s father after she was captured by Greyback, but what do you mean she’s dead?”
“That’s just the story my parents spun because they didn’t want attention drawn to us; in fear of what Malfoy would do if he knew! He could have very well come after the rest of my family to cover for his father…or worse, kill us on the orders of that monster! After all, Malfoy was only spared from being sent to Azkaban on a technicality, thanks to Harry and Hermione’s testimonies!”
‘Is she for real? Does she not know me at all?’
“Fucking hell, Cornwell!” Theo claimed in disgust. “Malfoy wouldn’t come after you any more than I would!”
“Even I have to agree with Nott here” Ron said with furrowed brows. “I mean, I hate the guy, but he would never come after you; not after how his father treated him growing up. He may be a prat, but he’s not that callous…at least not anymore.”
‘Am I absolutely positive I didn’t wake up in an alternate reality? The weasel…is defending me? Even after he tried to bring me down for standing by and watching Hermione receive the torment she didn’t deserve? Well, I guess the truth serum would make him say what he really thought, but damn this is strange.’
“What happened to your sister, Sadie?” Ginny questioned softly, making the whole room grow quiet.
Sadie looked to be struggling to answer against the Veritaserum as her jaw quivered and her eyes narrowed. Her face turned red as she fought against telling the truth, but the potion was too strong, and she had no choice except to answer.
“That…bastard…threw her into a room…with Fenrir Greyback during the first half of the Battle…That…beast, tore her apart! There was nothing left for my family to bury!” she stated as a tear trickled down her cheek.
Draco’s heart dropped in sympathy while his lips parted in shock. He had no idea the girl even had a sister, let alone that his father of all people was the reason for her death.
“I-I didn’t know…” he cut in gently while taking a step forward. “I promise if I did, I would have made sure my father’s sentence was set for life instead of two years…I-I’m sorry…truly.”
“Sorry?” the Hufflepuff replied ruthlessly as she wiped at her face and turned her hatred towards the blonde. “Sorry, isn’t going to bring my sister back! Sorry, isn’t going to change the past!”
“I know it won’t” the Slytherin answered delicately. “I can’t speak for my father, Cornwell, but I can speak for myself. I honestly didn’t know you had a sister, or what my father did to your family, but I can at least offer my condolences and an apology.”
“What exactly was your plan, Cornwell?” Blaise interrupted as the rest of the group watched Draco in awe.
“I…I…”
“There’s no point in fighting it, Ms. Cornwell” Professor McGonagall claimed as she stepped out of the shadows of the Foyer and into the room, causing everyone but Draco to gasp in surprise. “I received your note from Winky, Mr. Malfoy. I am not very pleased with the way you decided to go about this, but I do appreciate you letting me know what was happening.”
‘Right on time’
“Expel him, Headmistress!” Sadie yelled as she pointed to Draco.
“Expel him? Why ever would I do that?” the professor questioned as she gazed over the spectacles resting upon her nose.
“Because…because he used Veritaserum on multiple students! And he supplied us all with alcohol on school grounds!”
“I am well aware of what Mr. Malfoy has done. However, you are all above age and only drank a minuscule amount of alcohol. The rule strictly states that no underage student is allowed to drink or become intoxicated on school grounds.”
“But he tricked us” Lavender chimed in angrily. “He spiked the bottle and giving Veritaserum to students is a one-way ticket out of here! He must have stolen the potion! There’s no other way he could have gotten his hands on it!”
“It is technically illegal, Brown…” Draco interrupted “but I looked it up. I had plenty of time this morning to read the school handbook and I had little help. Chapter 6, section F, paragraph three states-Any professor or adult over the age of twenty, found using an Unforgivable or giving Veritaserum to a student will be removed from their position and or escorted off the premises pending investigation. It says nothing about a student giving it to another student. I also already told the Headmistress that I was going to borrow the potion” he claimed as he pulled out the vile from his pocket and handed it over to the Professor. “So, let’s stop beating around the bush and get back to answering the question, Cornwell. What exactly was your plan?”
All eyes turned to the Hufflepuff as she coward backwards behind her boyfriend. Bradley however, shoved the girl off him in disgust and crossed his arms as he waited for her to explain.
“I-I…I only came back this year to exact my revenge. Lucius Malfoy was unreachable except through his son. I…I overheard a Ravenclaw couple this morning,” she claimed as she grappled against the potion. “talking…about how they heard a rumor that Malfoy and Hermione might be secretly together, but it…it wasn’t confirmed…The boy made a rude comment about how if he was single, he would…try and-and pursue Hermione before Malfoy could ever get the chance.”
“So, that was the fight I saw this morning?” Draco mumbled aloud. “He deserved to be slapped then…”
“I-I thought I could use it to my advantage” Sadie continued. “I thought Malfoy would never like her like she likes him, so I devised a plan to blame him for ruining her exam. I s-stole tests from Professor Slughorn’s office to try and see what po…potion we would be making in class. I studied it all morning until I had discovered that adding Fluxweed would make the smoke turn black.”
“How did you get the Fluxweed, Ms. Cornwell?” McGonagall questioned as she folded her hands in front of her.
“Um…Nev-ille, T-Terry, Bradley a-and I, made P-polyjuice two weeks ago for extra credit. P-Professor Slughorn didn’t know that I could hear him when he uttered the spell to unlock the vault holding the ingredients. So, after breakfast, I-I snuck into the classroom, opened the safe, and took out enough Fluxweed to ruin her potion. I didn’t want her to fail, but it was the only way I could ensure my victory, and I knew Ron would blame him. I wanted Malfoy to go down for it and get expelled! I wanted his father to know how much of a failure his son was! But then he had to go and switch the potions, ruining everything!” she yelled as she brought out her wand and pointed it at the Slytherin. “I’ll kill you!”
But Hermione slowly stepped in front of Draco, shocking him, and causing everyone else except Lavender, Bradley, Terry, and Ron, to follow suit. Bradley narrowed his eyes as he bit the inside of his lower lip before walking in front of Sadie, pulling her focus to him. He didn’t say a word as he looked at her in disappointment and shook his head before turning his gaze behind him sorrowfully to the group blocking Draco.
“I’m-I’m so sorry she did this to you…” he spoke gently. “If I would have known, I would have spoken up.”
Sadie lowered her hand as tears formed in her eyes and McGonagall took away her wand.
“I am sorry to have to say this Ms. Cornwall” the Headmistress began dolefully.
“Please…” Sadie pleaded. “I-I only did what I thought was right…for Theresa …Please, Professor…”
“I wish there was another way, dear…I really do, but you leave me no choice. The war is over and I can no longer ignore rules that are broken. You stole tests and robbed a Professors safe; you deliberately tampered with a student’s exam in hopes to cease their education and you have now threatened a student of their life…”
“Please don’t do this….”
“Sadie Alison Cornwell…In accordance with the Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Hufflepuffs’ Head of House, Professor Pomona Sprout, and myself, Headmistress Minerva McGonagall; on this date, Friday October 29^th, 1999 03:18pm…you are hereby expelled…from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.”
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