The days I had spent at the Malfoy Manor had passed quite slowly as I didn't really do much but I am glad that it is over. My parents had sent me a letter telling me that I could stay with them for the last week of winter break. I was extremely happy as I really wanted to go home, but it wasn't that great. It was pretty boring and to be honest, I would probably be less bored if I had to go back to Hogwarts. My parents stayed in their study rooms basically all the time that I was there, I just stayed in my room off the whole week. That week also went very slow as I did nothing all week.
Winter break was over now and it was finally time to go back to Hogwarts. I was a few days late back to Hogwarts as my parents wanted to spend 'more time' with me, so they let me stay at home for a few more days. The only thing that has been playing on my mind is what I'm supposed to tell Mattheo or Pansy or Millie or even Blaise. I haven't aksed Draco about it yet as I really don't want to talk to him about it.
I had to get the train back to Hogwarts but since my friends were already there, I had to get the train by myself.
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The train had arrived at Hogwarts and I made my way into the castle. I made my way to the Slytherin common room and there I saw everyone talking in their own friendship groups.
"Y/n!" Pansy and Millie both squealed and ran over to me when they saw me. They both hugged me at the same time.
"You three act as if you haven't seen eachother in two years, it's been two weeks." Blaise laughed as him and Matthoe and Draco walked over to us.
"How was your winter break?" Pansy asked me.
"Boring." I sighed.
"Did you have fun staying with Malfoy?" Millie asked.
"No, it was torture." I exaggerated which made Draco roll his eyes.
"Did anything exciting happen?" Blaise chuckled.
"No." I rolled my eyes.
"What did your parents want to talk to you and Draco about?" Mattheo asked. Draco gave me a look but I couldn't figure out what he was trying to tell me.
"They just wanted to ask Malfoy if he would tutor me while I was staying at his house as I'm falling behind in some of my classes." I told them which made me receive a relived look from Draco.
"I was hoping for something a little more exciting than that." Blaise huffed.
"And I was hoping for something that wasn't exciting." Mattheo walked over to me, wrapped his arm around me and then kissed me.
"Get a room." Blaise mocked us which made everyone laugh, apart from Draco.
"Shut up." I told Blaise.
"You've been awfully quiet." Pansy turned to face Draco.
"I have things on my mind." Draco said, quietly while looking at me.
"I need to go unpack my things." I cleared my throat. I walked away and walked to my dorm, I entered and started to unpack my things. When I finished unpacking my things, I heard a knock on the dorm door.
"Come in." I shouted. The door creakss open and it was Draco Malfoy. Why would he be here? He came inside my dorm and closed the door behind him.
"What do you want?" I asked him.
"I just wanted to ask you why you lied about what your parents told us." He said.
"I didn't think that you would want anyone to know." I shrugged my shoulders.
"I don't care if you tell them but I don't particularly want them to know. Also the fact that if you tell them then you're potentially ruining your relationship with Riddle." He explained.
"You're right, I won't tell them." I sighed.
"That's all I came to say, I'll let myself out." He said and exited my dorm but walked into Pansy and Millie as he did so. Draco quickly walked past them without a second glance.
"What were you two doing?" Pansy aksed me.
"Nothing." I said.
"Why was he in here? You two are sworn enemies." Millie raised her eyebrows.
"He just came to give me a book that I left at his house." I lied.
"Right." Pansy said. "Well, we were all going to go to the great hall if you wanted to come." She continued.
"Yeah, I've just finished unpacking." I told them.
"Great! We're going now." Millie addressed me. Me, Pansy and Millie left our dorm and made our way to meet the boys in the common room.
"Are you girls coming?" Blaise asked us.
"Yeah." Pansy answered and we all left the common room. While we were walking in the corridor, I saw Hermione Granger waving her hand at me to go over to where she was.
"I have to go to the bathroom, I'll catch up with you." I whispered to Pansy and she nodded in response. I sneakily walked over to Hermione to see what she wanted.
"Hey, Y/n." She greeted me.
"Hey, did you need something?" I asked her, trying not to sound rude.
"We need to talk to you." She said.
"We?" I looked around the corridor to see if anyone else was there, but no one was.
"Follow me." She start walking down the corridor and I followed her. She took me to the moving stairs and then to a photo frame of a woman. I recognised it, it was the Gryffindor common room. The worst place I could be in Hogwarts.
"I don't think this is a good idea." I told her as she said the password for the common room.
"No one will see you." She tried to stop me from worrying but it didn't help. I nodded slightly and she quickly took me to a dorm room. We entered the room and I saw Ron Weasley and Harry Potter sitting on two chairs.
"Is this some sort of intervention?" I asked as Hermione shut the door behind us.
"Not exactly, we just need to talk to you." Harry spoke.
"What about?" I asked.
"Malfoy." Hermione said.
"That's my queue to leave." I said and began walking towards the door.
"Wait!" Harry exclaimed.
"What?" I sighed and turned back around to face them.
"Katie Bell was cursed." Harry told me. This was the first I've ever heard about this.
"She was put under the Imperius curse when she came into contact with a necklace that she was supposed to give to Dumbledore. She could have died!" He explained.
"That's awfully terrible, but what does this have to do with me or Malfoy?" I asked them.
"We are pretty sure that Draco was the one who cursed her." He sighed.
"I'm sorry?" I coughed.
"Harry is under the impression that Draco Malfoy is now a death eater." Hermione sighed.
"Draco Malfoy? A death eater? There is no way!" I gasped.
"His father is a death eater, it makes sense." Harry tried to convince me that he was right.
"His father cannot be a death eater, and neither can he! I just stayed at his house for a week and if they were death eaters, I think I would have seen something." I explained.
"You never know, Y/n." Hermione warned me.
"Look, I really must be going." I sighed.
"Like I said at the beginning of the year, if you see anything suspicious, tell me." Harry said.
"I will, but I still think you're crazy." I said and left their dorm without another word. I sneaked out of the Gryffindor common room to avoid anyone seeing me. I was in the clear and I had managed to escape. I made my way back to the corridor until I saw my friends walking my way, so I hid around the corner as I didn't and them to know where I was.
I looked around the corner and saw that they had gone, so I sighed in relief and started walking back to the Slytherin common room. As I was walking I had bumped into someone. Of course, Draco Malfoy.
"Watch where you're going!" I groaned at him.
"Where were you?" He asked me.
"The bathroom, I told Pansy." I said.
"I don't think it takes you ten minutes to go to the bathroom. Pansy was getting concerned so we all decided to go looking for you. They went to go look for you in the common room." He explained.
"Well, I got lost." I lied.
"You got lost in a place where you have been for the past six years?" He scoffed.
"Let it go, will you?" I rolled my eyes.
"Why were you in the Gryffindor common room?" He questioned me.
"I wasn't." I blaintly lied.
"Oh really? Well, I'm pretty sure that I just saw you sneak out of there." He crossed his arms.
"You must have seen someone else. Now, if you don't mind, I have places to be." I told him and walked away from him. He knows that I was in the Gryffindor common room and I can't even deny it, he saw me. He knows, but no one else can know.