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The Lifeaters (III.2)

II. That chicken

MASTERLIST

Chapter Summary: Too many new classes to uncover

Pairings: Draco Malfoy x Fem!Reader (platonic)

Warnings: Cursing, magical objects, Mugglephobia, classism, charms and curses, blood!, injure!, Buckbeak being a majestic menace, might miss some warnings

Wordcount: 3,8 k

Notes: thank you all that read this series! sorry for the wait! I had illustrious visits with me, that require my whole attention

You felt somewhat at home when you entered the Great Hall, it was as beautiful as always, and seeing so many students there actually made you feel warmth, safe.

You sat amongst your best friends, already with your uniform on, and your ceremonial black pointy hats on

The sorting ceremony was becoming longer and duller every year, although it was fun to see the new Slytherins

Did you really look that small your first year? only two years ago?

Before the welcoming speech from Dumbledore , the corus stood there in front of everyone and you thanked you didn’t have to sing the school anthem anymore

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Something wicked this way comes!

You all applauded as the chorus got down from the three steps separating you from the professor’s high table

“You sounded great Daph!”, Pansy said with a wide smile as she sat right by her side

“Thanks, it’s nice to be back, right?”, she asked excitedly

You hadn't noticed, but now you were sitting with your roomates, even Tracy was sitting there, before she had kept her distance, you didn’t even know why

“How was your summer Tracey?”, you asked softly, she actually smiled at you

“Pretty calm, cool…”, it was vague, but she was so mysterious all the time. You felt some eyes on you, when you raised them you saw Draco looking back at you wide-eyed, in fear, he looked away, “did you guys take divination?”, you all nodded, and you were actually surprised

“Did you take “care of magical creatures”?”, you asked her

“Yes, did you?”

“Yeah”

“I didn't, merlin I don’t like animals”, muttered Daphne, “except for my lovie”, her Siamese cat familiar

Draco, by your side, nudged you and then he signaled to Potter. Rumor has spread that he fainted when he even saw the dementors, having to be saved by a professor

“Hey Potter!”, called Draco, “is it true that you fainted?”, he mocked, “YOU ACTUALLY FAINTED?”, Theo mocked him even further, pretending to faint. His annoyed face was worth it, you laughed loudly.

You were going to keep talking, but Dumbledore took main stage

“Welcome! Welcome to another year at Hogwarts!”, Dumbledore said, extending his arms, “I'd like to say a few words... before we all become too befuddled by our excellent feast”. Another professor against the dark arts, you guessed

“First, I'm pleased to welcome Professor R.J. Lupin who's kindly consented to fill the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher! Good luck, professor!”, he was going to need it, when you catched a glimpse of him, you were not impressed… he was a bit… underdressed… for the occasion and in comparison of his peers

“...Our Care of Magical Creatures teacher has decided to retire in order to spend more time with his remaining limbs!”, you were looking forward to that class, “fortunately, I'm delighted to announce that his place will be taken by none other than our own Rubeus Hagrid!”, the entire hall broke in applause. But then, the headmaster’s face turned serious, you knew what he was going to say before he said it, it was about the dementors, you had seen two more guarding the gates outside

“Finally, on a more disquieting note at the request of the Ministry of Magic Hogwarts will, until further notice, play host to the dementors of Azkaban until such a time as Sirius Black is captured”

“All of this just for Potter not to get killed by the lunatic”, whispered Draco

“The dementors will be stationed at every entrance to the grounds. Now whilst I've been assured that their presence will not disrupt our day-to-day activities… a word of caution[, he said severely, [Dementors are vicious creatures. They'll not distinguish between the one they hunt and the one who gets in their way. Therefore, I must warn each and every one of you... to give them no reason to harm you. It is not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving”, that seemed like a good omen for a great school year, you thought bitterly

“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light!”, he said, playing with the light of the candles on his podium, “Now… let the feast begin!”

As always, food appeared in front of you, and the feast began.

You had missed this, the energy of the first week back was always electric, chat filled the hall, and the silver cutlery against the plates and the goblets when you placed them back on the table.

“How can he be the “chosen one” when he faints when he sees a dementor?”, mocked Draco to your ear

“Well, even though I think it’s pathetic this time I won’t hold it against him, have you seen those things?”, you asked, “they gave me the creeps”

“Don’t you worry Basilik, I’ll protect you”, said Theo, winking at you

“You can barely Wingardium Leviosa something and you are going to protect her against a Dementor?”, mocked Draco, and everyone laughed

As you were abandoning the hall, Pansy grabbed your hand, which surprised you, dragging you to her side instead of Draco’s until you reached your common room

“I need to talk to you about something”, she said softly

“what?”, you asked, she looked giddy, her cheeks blushed

“Is there something going on between you and Draco?”, she asked, and you frowned

“We are very good friends”, you said quickly

“But you fancy him?”, she asked

“No I don't think so, why?”

“I do, I fancy him”, she said quickly, you opened your mouth, in surprise. “Do you mind if I… you know”

“What?”, you asked her

“I get close to him?”, you took long seconds to think about it, and you didn't know why, but the mere thought of being second to Draco because of another girl didn’t settle right in your belly, but at the same time, you did like Pansy

“I say go for it”, you said with a smile, “But please just… if it doesn’t go well… don’t…”

“You’ll be safe”, she said, “we will fight over your custody like my estranged parents”, she said with a laugh, and you snorted

“I’d like that”. You laughed

The very next day after a great breakfast, mocking Potter some more with your Quidditch team, and your first class of History of Magic, you were ready for your first class of Care of Magical creatures

You wouldn’t admit it to anyone, but you were excited about your first lesson, specially because was Hagrid teaching it, he knew his animals and you knew it was going to be a more hands-on class then any other, so you were truly excited

Which passed pretty quickly when you realized you were going to be in the company of the Gryffindors, everywhere where Potter was tended to become all about him and it was getting old pretty quickly.

Hagrid gathered you in front of his hut, introduced the class, and then encouraged you to follow him quickly. To a paddock amongst trees, on the edge of the forbidden forest.

“Alright, gather around everybody”, he said, he looked excited, “I have a great lesson for you today, but first… open your books…”

“How are we supposed to do that?”, asked Draco meanly, he, in contrary to you, did not find this amusing at all

You grabbed your book, which the book clerk cried for you to obtain, and released him from the binding spell.

“Stroke the spine of course!”, he said excitedly, you tickled him, and the book seemed to purr, and then it opened itself

“Cool!”, you admired

“I thought they were funny!”, said Granger defensively, as Hagrid turned to look for something, something for the lesson maybe

"Oh, tremendously funny!" said Malfoy. "Really witty! Merlin, this place is going to the dogs," said Draco. "That oaf teaching classes”

"Shut up, Malfoy," said Potter, it was funny to see him all riled up

“Uuuhhh!”, mocked Draco, turning to look at you with complicity, he then walked up to face him, chest puffed like he used to, but then, he looked up and behind Potter, a scared look on his face.

“Dementor! Dementor!”, not only potter but all his friends turned in horror, you all put on your hoods of your cape and when Potter turned you scared him some more

It was hilarious

But Hagrid had come back and he wasn’t alone!

"Oooooooh!" squealed Lavender Brown, a Gryffindor girl. You all turned to see Hagrid walking towards you, holding the chains to twelve Hippogriffs

You had seen them in illustrations and paintings, but never in real life, they were the most stunning animals you had ever seen!

It was an eagle-horse hybrid, having the front legs, wings and head of an eagle, and the back legs of a horse. They had gray-colored cruel looking beaks, and big threatening golden eyes. They were wearing leather collars, attached to the chains Hagrid was holding.

Each of the hippogriffs had various colors, gray, brown, black, bluish, even a beautifully coated bronze one and an even rose gold looking one, they were all beautiful, stunning.

But looking at his front quarters, dangerous looking claws, you all took a step back, as Hagrid wanted to encouraged you to go near

“Hagrid? what are those?”, asked Granger

"Hippogriffs!" he presented happily, "Beautiful, aren' they?", they were stunning, majestic creatures

“The first thing you gotta know is that Hippogriffs are very proud creatures”, he said, getting confident in his new role as a professor, “you do NOT want to insult an Hippogriff, it could be the last thing you ever do”, he said cheerly, the creatures looked at your huge group in a not very friendly way.

“Alright! Who wants to come and say hello?”, you raised your hand quickly and excitedly, but Draco grabbed it before Hagrid could see it, and dragged you a step back with him, leaving Harry standing there as the only one who was offering, without knowing so. “Well done, Harry. Well done!”, Hagrid seemed really relieved, as he seems to think Potter has volunteered, “Come on now!”, he encouraged, you had to give him points, Harry crossed the wooden fence and entered the Paddock.

“Now... you have to let him make the first move. It's only polite. So... step up. Give him a nice bow”, he commanded, and Potter did as instructed, “Then you wait and see if he bows back…

If he does, you can go and touch him…If not... Well, we'll get to that later”, you shared amused looks with Draco, this was going to be too fun if it went poorly

Potter bowed and surprisingly the creature bowed back

“Well done, Harry. Well done”, hagrid encouraged you to clap, which you did not, but other did, “Right, I think you can go and pat him now”, he said, you could actually see Potter trembling, but eventually, the Hippogriff did let him pet him, “That's it...Yes! Well done! Well done, Harry, well done!”, he said happily, well, this was his first lesson, it it was cool so far, so…

“Does he get to fly?”, someone asked, and you wanted to ask the same question

“I think he may let you ride him now!”, said Hagrid

“What?”

Hagrid grabbed potter who was squirming, and placed him on top of the hippogriff, Buckbeak, you believed his name was, took flight, gave a few laps around the paddock, and then landed gracefully

"Good work, Harry!", and of course all of his house cheered, except for your group, "Okay, who else wants a’ go?"

Well, if un-lucky Potter could do it, why couldn’t you? you shared looks with Pansy and approached the beautiful black creature, you were always drawn to black animals, you didn’t know why.

You followed his instructions, and bowed profusely, he was incredibly gorgeous, but you did not wanted to be attacked by those nasty lookings front sharp claws

It looked at you curiously, but then decided to bow to you, once it did, you approached him slowly, avoiding eye contact, and raising your hand to it, remembering all you knew about horses, quickly enough, it approached you, feeling the his breath on your palm, you finally met him in the eyes and he let you pet him on the beak

“Great job Basilik!”, said Hagrid quickly and he walk by you to the other Gryffindor students

Pansy repeated your movements and Tracy did too, you three started interacting with the beautiful animal, and it seemed he liked you, as he had a relaxed demeanor and seemed to appreciate the caresses

You felt watched, so you turned and watched back as Draco, Theo, Crabbe and Goyle looked at you surprised.

You didn’t know it then, but Draco was a bit angry you were “playing along” with Hagrid’s class, and emboldened by the attitude you and the girls were having with the Hippogriff, he decided to approach Buckbeak in a less than ceremonial manner. He took glasses at you, but you were too distracted to watch him back

He did bow, and Buckbeak, curiously, bowed back

If you were playing along he wanted to surprise you somehow

“You are not dangerous at all, are you?”, he mocked Buckbeak, “you great ugly brute!”, he said mockingly, still patting his beak

Buckbeak did not took that lightly

It was a second, the Hippogriff raised his two nasty claws and attacked him

It was bad, he screamed bloody murder, you watched back, recognizing his scream, and you saw him on the floor twisting and turning, trying to grab his own arm, were thick spots of blood were flourishing on the fabric

“I'm dying!”, he screamed, you wanted to get close to him, help him but Buckbeak was still close, menacingly, "It's killed me!", cried Draco, the gash on his arm looked horrible, it was bleeding profusely

"Yer not dyin'!" said Hagrid, who had entered a panicked state, "you are going to be fine!”, he said quickly

“Hagrid! you need to take him to the hospital wing!”, said Granger quickly, Hagrid grabbed Draco, who was whining and turning, there was a spot of blood left on the floor, and you felt a knot on your throat when you heard Draco’s screams

“Class dismissed!” Hagrid called when he started walking away

“You are gonna’ regret this! you and your bloody chicken!”, called Draco

Soon your friends surrounded you, all concerned about Draco, you didn’t know what to do! but the class had been dismissed, so you ran after Hagrid closely, leaving your friends discussing about the measures they would take against Hagrid and “the chicken”

They wouldn’t let you in the infirmary while Madame Pomfrey was curing him, and they were taking too long, you had to get to your next class.

Snape showed up quickly after

“To class Basilik”, he commanded swiftly

“But Draco…!”

“I’m sure Mister Malfoy can fend for himself for just a couple of hours”, he said, looking down at you, he frowned a bit when he saw the raw, pure concern on your face, “go along, I will not say it again, the first divination class is always… tricky”

You only nodded, hoping Draco would not be angry at you for leaving him in the hospital wing alone

You had heard that the Divination class was… different, but nothing would prepare you to being led by a knight through the paintings on the castle, to the small room in one of the tower, and then had to climb up a portable stair to the upper floor of the tower, to find Professor Trelawney

She was… very original

You were skeptical about this class, but Arimatcy was a nogo, and less of it muggle studies, you wanted to take ancient runes but Draco insisted, saying he wants to have all classes with you

So here you were, no Draco, but Matthew was quick to take his place on your other side on the small round table.

As she was talking to you, introducing the class and what was in store for you for the semester, you thought how it was going to be hard to take this professor seriously

You couldn’t deny that they actually were people who could see the future, that had certain… sensibilities, but then to assume all of you could do it, was a big jump

You wondered if it was too late to change to ancient runes when Professor Trelawney asked the lot of you to serve yourself tea and then drink it

Matthew seemed as skeptical as you, but since you kinda know of him and his “commitment” to his classes, this was going to be a long one, specially since he had to read your cup of tea and you had to read his

Professor Trelawney seemed skittish in your class, claiming she saw darkness everywhere, as you looked around to your friends, your Slytherin friends, and some Hufflepuffs, you didn’t believe she was talking about them.

She was referring to the lot of you

Again, you were skeptical but very, very curious, as you tried to read Matthew’s leaves, following the icons written in your book

You felt his gaze on you, as you looked back at him, he seemed more interested in you that in your cup

“Are you going to read mine or not?”, you asked him, and he only smiled

“yes, yes”, he said dismissively, and then turned to your cup

You were seeing, -according to our book-, very ugly things but you were trying hard to re-interpret many of them

You saw something that looked like a bird on the bottom of the cup, but also a very strange looking cross, or at least, you thought it was a cross on one of the sides…

The thing that caught your eye was something that looked like a tongue

You had to admit that there were actually drawn symbols on the inside of the cup.

“Let me see dear…”, professor Trelawney said, reaching your table

“I see this… thing”, said Matthew, “I think it means gold, unexpected gold coming her way, and then, that looks like a circle”, he said, not helpful at all

“Give me the cup”, she said shakily, Matthew handed her the cup, his eyes on you, and you looked at her, really curious about what she had to say

“A Waxing, recent moon, going to a first quarter”, she whispered, looking intently inside your tea cup

“What?”, you both asked, frowning

“You will find what you are looking for, girl”, she said, looking at you through her glasses, that made her eyes look round and comical, “you, like the moon, are new, you will come complete…”, she said, with a smile, “but I see, the path to a full moon is not free of trails, judgment and pain”, she continued.

The entire room was quiet, listening to her rambles

“You shall discover the part that part of you that was before missing”, she said, nodding, you looked back at her skeptically, she seemed in some sort of a trance, “beware of your foes, but beware of your friends as well”, ah great, “and be careful of the last step of the stairs”, she theme released the cup as it burned her and kept going. She took Matthew’s cup out of your hands, looked inside, and let out a shriek that made you jump

She looked back at him in horror, and had you frowning

“riddles, riddles”, she said shakily, now she looked like she was afraid of him or something

You were definitely talking to Snape to change classes after this.

You walked back at the common room, hearing Tracy talk about how much she had enjoyed the class, and how she had found her “calling”, after your own prediction you had missed professor Trelawney praising her and calling her a true “Seer”

You got distracted when you saw Draco, sitting in the common room, his arm on a sling, and a twisted look on his face. You were so excited you miscounted the steps, thinking that you had climbed down all of them, you missed the last one

A sense of vertigo flooded you, for a fraction of a second you thought you were going to fall but then your feet collided with the floor one step down, making you trip

You didn’t fell, but the ugly sensation stuck with you

And be careful of the last step of the stairs

Nah, it had to be a coincidence, wasn’t it?

Draco was waiting for you, now surrounded by your friends, Pansy was all over him, and you only got to join the group, instead of talking to him directly.

They talked about Hagrid, how he was an “Oaf”, Draco boasted of how he had told his father, that he was furious, that he was going to talk to the rest of the governors, that he was coming to the school as soon as he was able.

That he was in incredible pain, that shot of what felt like lightning came up and down his arm when he tried to move it, he whined a lot

The gash, when you saw it, looked very nasty, now it was all covered

You had seen Madame Pomfrey do literal magic to cure students, you didn’t doubt Draco was going to make a full recovery, but still, he was enjoying the attention, specially of the ones who weren’t there, that were receiving a very colorful description of the facts.

It was hours, already night, when all your friends went to the great hall to eat, and you managed to get alone time with your very best friend

“Are you alright?”, you asked, worried, as you moved a silvery lock out of his eyes

“I’m good”, he confessed

“So you were faking, you had Pansy all over you”, you teased, nudging him, he blushed scandalously.

“How was the first divination class?”, he asked

“Awful, can’t believe you made me take that ridiculous class”, you said, mocking him.

You decided not to tell him what Professor Trelawney had said, instead focusing on him, on pampering him, you made sure to go down to the great hall and pick up food for him, and then take it downstairs to him, as he did not want to go to the great hall.

He had said the trauma his body experimented had left him very tired, his muscles tense, and you believed him

It was an eventful first day, wasn’t it? that, as the other omens, make you believe this was going to be a very… interesting… school year, to say the least

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