The Bookstore
Draco was literally just dragging me until we out of that alley and into sunlight. Then he turned me to.
"Are you out of your bloody mind?" I just looked at him, his hands were on both sides of my arms.
"Mira why were you in bloody knockturn alley?" He shook me.
"I don't know I was with Harry and there was floo powder and wait Harry-" I start to turn back I couldn't believe I forgot about Harry.
"Oh no you don't for merlins sake I think you're touched in the head do you know who was with you down there, do you know who those...some of them weren't even to be considered wizards" He said pulling me closer.
"It doesn't matter what they were I have to find Harry" but he wasn't letting me go.
"Well let me enlighten you then" Draco started to drag me further from the alley, I couldn't break away it seems like he gotten stronger along with taller.
"That group of men I don't know who they are but they obviously were fiends who I don't want to imagine what they would have done to a girl like you" Draco looked uncomfortably at me and I was confused.
"Then there was the bloody hag and werewolf!" He said still dragging me, people were starting to look and when he noticed he dropped his hand from my forearm and took my hand instead to just drag me that way.
"What's a hag? -" He wasn't listening nor cared for any replies from me right now "That wasn't any werewolf either that was bloody Fendir Greyback" he said the name in a whisper pulling me closer, I didn't know the name but for some reason it sent a chill down my spine.
"You know the hag would have just eaten you but him...he's literally the bedtime story parents tell their children when they're bad, he takes children from their beds, he eats them or worse he turns them" with every word I felt Draco get closer he was trying to scare me, and it was working.
"That's what was standing right in front of you, that is what you were surrounded by" He stopped us in place, just looking at me with a smug confident look on his face like he was waiting for me to agree with him and be grateful he just saved my life but instead I just busted out sobbing.
"Harry-" I was uncontrollably sobbing thinking of what was happening to my brother right now "Draco Harry's down there-" Draco's eyes grew wide and now he was the one frozen up, "I left Harry down there, I'm horrible sister" Draco didn't know what to do.
"Mira please stop, I'm sorry if I was coarse with you but they could have hurt you very bad" He put my face in his hands, trying to wipe away my tears.
"Come now if anyone's to survive anything it's Potter, I don't think you share the same luck" He grabs my hand again but he's softly pulling me with him now.
We were walking side by side and he was telling me Harry might be at the bookstore to try and calm me down.
When I stopped crying with the hope that Draco was right and Harry was there, I started to blush.
I was really close to Draco and we were holding hands in a nice way. But I think that once I noticed Draco did and he dropped my hand "here we are then."
Flourish and Blotts looked like every other store in Diagon Alley. But it had an even bigger crowd of people than the other stores. Then we went inside, there was apparently a book signing going on. I saw the Weasleys and Hermione Granger, but they hadn't noticed me, so I ended up just following Draco up the stairs. We just were looking over the balcony the second floor had.
"Wouldn't you rather be down there" as I went to his side.
"I could probably see Harry better from up here" but to be honest I didn't want to be down there. Despite Draco being mean sometimes I was more comfortable with him than the Weasleys.
"Well, there he is" as Draco pointed to him a wave of relief went over me.
Harry was walking in with Hermione. Went over to the Weasleys. He was smiling. He had no thoughts of me did he. I wasn't the only one that noticed, Draco was looking at me like he knew what I was thinking. But the sneering at my brother hadn't come on yet. Not until Gildory Lockhart came out and my brother got pulled from the crowd for a picture. That's when Draco started to sneer. But then he turned to me and looked at me curiously.
"Don't you get jealous?" I tilted my head to the side.
"No, I don't like attention so he can have it all for all I care" I shrug, and he looks at me like I have two heads.
"But doesn't it annoy you the special treatment he gets when you were there too, you survived the Dark Lord as well" I shrug again.
"He has the scar; I don't I guess that's why it never really mattered to me" I started to make my way towards the stairs as I saw Harry going towards the door. Draco followed close behind me.
I just watched Harry and the Weasleys on the stairs. I heard Draco pick up a book. Harry and the Weasleys didn't even notice I was there. Then I heard I tear from behind me, and Draco brushed passed me. He did not just tear a page out of a book. I didn't have time to scold if I was going to.
"I'll bet you loved that didn't you Potter?" Draco coming down the stairs to in front of my brother.
"Famous Harry Potter. Can't go into a book shop without making the front page" I started to move to Harry's side to defend but as I was Ginny was as well.
"Leave him alone" well that was cute, I smirked at that the moment.
"Oh look Potter. You've got yourself a girlfriend" I rolled my eyes at Draco but at the same time I was thinking the same thing.
"Now, now, Draco, play nicely" a man that looked like an older version of Draco appeared behind him. He scared me in a way, me and Draco started to unintentionally move over to stand next to each other.
He scared me in a way, me and Draco started to unintentionally move over to stand next to each other
"Mr. Potter. Lucius Malfoy. We meet at last." Mr. Malfoy pulled Harry towards on instinct I was about to get him off Harry, but Draco grabbed my hand again to pull me back next to him.
"Forgive me. Your scar is legend. As, of course, is the wizard who gave it to you." he was using his cane to move Harry's hair out of the way to see that bloody scar. Draco saw I was starting to fume, and his hand only tightened around mine. It brought an indescribable feeling as his thumb was starting to rub circles into my hand as if to calm me.
"Voldemort killed my parents." Harry started to pull away from him "He was nothing more than a murderer."
"You must be very brave to say his name or very foolish" having a smug look on his face. He wasn't wrong in my opinion; I didn't think Harry should've been saying name either.
"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself" of course Hermione has to say something. Draco dropped his hand from mine before his father turned in our direction.
"And you must be Miss Granger" saying it looking at Draco for confirmation. "Yes, Draco has told me all about you. And your parents. Muggles aren't they?" Then Mr. Malfoy turned his attention to the Weasleys only sparing a glance at me.
"Let me see. Red hair, vacant expressions......tatty, secondhand book. You must be the Weasleys" He took a book out of Ginny's bucket.
"It's mad in here. Let's go outside.- " Mr. Weasley said as he came behind us.
"Well, well, well. Weasley senior." I didn't take my eyes off Mr. Malfoy. Until I felt Draco put something in my pocket. I turned to him, and he was smiling at me. I tilted my head to towards him and then looked down in my pocket to see a folded piece of paper. I looked at him again tilting my head to the side very confused. He pointed his head down in response for me to look at it. Then he looked towards Mr. Weasley and his father who were apparently having a very tense conversation. Mr. Malfoy turned to leave, and Draco moved towards my brother "see you at school" then turned giving me a quick side smile only I could catch.
Then Ginny came to me "Where were you?"
"Knockturn Alley" she audibly gasped.
"You're lucky you're not dead" George trying to make a comical comment close by with Fred listening to our conversation. I gave a forced smile as I got the piece of paper out of my pocket and unfolded it to have an extremely confused expression my face.
I gave a forced smile as I got the piece of paper out of my pocket and unfolded it to have an extremely confused expression my face
"What's that?" Ginny seeing my obvious confusion. I handed it to her.
"Oh that's from The Warlock's Hairy Heart, where did you get that?" she said not looking at all disturbed as I was by it.
"Draco Malfoy" I whispered to her, not seeing a point in lying about it.
"Oh" she said obviously disapproving but seemed like she was trying not to be judgmental in a way "maybe he thought it was romantic" she shrugged as she handed it back to me. I looked at her with wide eyes and absolutely bewildered expression that she might not be wrong as she started to giggle.
Then me and her started hysterically laughing together.
That started the friendship of me and Ginny Weasley.