23 Aftermath. (1/2)
Finally 50k words and 500k views... And I have already posted 6 chapter in 3 days so... I am back to one chapter a day. I won't do extra chapters now since I am kinda busy with other projects.
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”Are you okay?” Snape asked coldly.
”I am fine.” Draco said, ”I just used too much magic.”
”I still have to punish you for your recklessness, so I will deduct 10 points from you each.” Snape said not even turning back, ”But you still manage to defeat a full-grown Troll alone, so 15 points will be awarded to each of you.”
Theodore and Draco smirked.
”What were you really doing there?” Snape asked
”I dropped pumpkin juice on Granger and Chang, so we went to the bathroom to assist them.” Theodore replied. ”And after we saw the Troll, we wanted to fight it.”
Theodore knew how others would react when they hear that Draco was fighting it, partly for a Muggle-born wizard, so he had to save his ass, but he didn't forget to give Draco a 'you owe me' look.
”Why would you want to fight it?” Snape snorted, ”Don't tell me you really want its whiskers?”
”I wanted to test my strength, you know of the expectations father holds for me.” Draco said, ”I wanted to check whether I can live up to it or not.”
”You sure did live.” Snape said sarcastically, ”You can go now, but I can't handle Dumbledore... you would have to come up with a better excuse than, 'I wanted to fight it.'”
After that Draco and Theodore went back to their room and fell asleep quickly since they were very tired.
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Next morning, In the Slytherin common room,
Draco was sitting on the sofa getting nagged by 2 girls from both sides.
”Draco, how could you? You could've died.” Pansy said with a worried and angry voice.
”Draco did your brains got knocked out by your wand or did you fall off a broom.” Daphne said angrily as well. ”Do you think fighting a troll is a sensible thing to do?”
”I said I am sorry, didn't I? Gosh!! What do you girls want from me?” Draco was getting slightly irritated due to all the nagging he has been hearing since the morning.
”Draco keep talking and I will send a letter to Aunt Narcissa, she will take care of your antics” Pansy threatened Draco making him shut up at once.
”Hey! Pansy no need to involve mother in this okay!” Draco said looking at Pansy with a pitiful gaze, ”I told you, I only fought the Troll because Theodore was being chased by it, and since it wasn't possible to outrun a Troll, we had no choice but to fight.”
”Yeah! let him go girls.” Theodore said relaxing on the sofa, ”We had no choice.”
”You could have kept running after you attacked it,” Daphne said.
”Yeah, but Potter and the other arrived as well, so if we were to leave, the troll would most likely kill them,” Theodore said
”Since when did you start caring about Potter?” Pansy snorted
'Ever since he was a Horcrux!' Draco thought in his mind.
Even though what Theodore said made sense, but in reality, he wasn't trying to save Potter and Weasley. Instead, he just wanted to kill or in the very least harm the troll. The voice in his head had started acting up again but since Draco was wary of it, after what had happened with Weasley, he managed to snap back and control his rage. It still made him act different but at least he wasn't being mindlessly controlled by his emotion.
Daphne and Pansy seeing the silent Draco didn't continue to argue and went over towards him. Both of them sat on each side.
”Draco, I know you must be annoyed by our nagging.” Pansy said, ”But you know we are only doing it because we were worried for you.”
”Yeah! yesterday after class you just disappeared and later on, we found that you were fighting the troll.” Daphne said, ”We were worried.”
Draco looked at both of them, ”Sigh! I am sorry. I didn't think how you guys might feel, but you have to understand that I wouldn't fight a Troll, just because I wanted to show off.”
Pansy and Daphne nodded.
”Okay, since your little drama is now over.” Theodore said, ”How did you know that we fought the troll?”
”Oh! Everyone knows about it.” Daphne said, ”Yesterday when we were leaving the hall after Professor Quirrell came yelling in about the Troll. We had just gotten outside the hall when suddenly the Troll fell in through the ceiling.”
”Yeah! It was very scary, we all felt that the troll was going to fall onto us.” Pansy said, ”But Professor Flitwick used a spell making the troll stuck on the ceiling and we heard your voices.”
”So everyone knew after hearing my voice?” Theodore asked,
”Not you, you idiot.” Pansy said, ”Draco!, after hearing Draco's voice and seeing the troll struggle the other Slytherin students started cheering for Draco and since you were missing from the hall they assumed that you were with him too.”
Theodore's face started darkening, but Draco wasn't laughing at him.
”What's wrong Draco?” Daphne asked,
”Nothing, I just realized that I was careless. I didn't care about my surrounding much when I fought, if Professor Flitwick wasn't there, I could have put all of you in danger as well.” Draco said sighing,
”It's fine, Draco.” Pansy said trying to cheer Draco up, ”We are safe, aren't we?”
”Yeah! and we got to see you defeat that Troll as it stopped struggling.” Daphne said, ”It was awesome. Everyone was complimenting you.”
”Yeah! Even Dumbledore did.” Daphne said,
”Dumbledore?” Draco asked.
”Yes, he said that you were clever.” Daphne said.
Draco didn't believe that Dumbledore would compliment him, so he looked at Pansy to confirm,
”Well it wasn't necessarily a compliment when the ceiling broke through and we heard your voice, Dumbledore mumbled 'clever', He said it silently but the ones who were near him, heard it.”
Draco nodded, that he could believe. He looked at Daphne who was sitting beside him, Daphne was like a crazy fangirl most of the time, since she would exaggerate every compliment about him and would attack anyone that says something bad. It wasn't a bad trait but it could get weird sometimes.
Stuff like this always creates a wall between friendship, but Draco didn't say anything to her. This was something she needs to get over with, herself. Draco believed that with friendship along the way she would remove the wall herself after they get closer with each other.
”So How did you end up with Chang?” Draco asked looking at Theodore,
The girls were surprised, ”Chang, who?”
”Cho Chang the second year from Ravenclaw.” Draco replied
”How could Theodore end up with that pretty girl?” Daphne said not believing Draco, ”I heard she rejected many guys this year, even good looking ones. I am sure she wouldn't be willing to date him.”
”Yeah! How could rabbit face end up with her.” Pansy said.
”Che.. I have never said, I am dating her.” Theodore said getting annoyed, ”Draco was asking how did I end up meeting with Chang, yesterday?”
”She was with you?” Pansy asked to which Draco responded with a nod.
”Hmph!! And the thing I said yesterday to Professor Snape was true, I spilled some pumpkin juice on her, so I assisted her to the bathroom but as soon as she entered she came running back with the Troll chasing her.” Theodore said, ”After that, we ran but the Troll caught up to us fast, so I used a jinx to make it slip on the floor and we turned corners to meet you guys.”