Captured By A Dragon

Chapter Twelve: Captured

Roaming the halls of Hogwarts once again didn't quite ease his anger, seeing as he hated it from the start. Why Lucius went there in the first place, he never knew.

How Draco could even go there, he never knew.

But no, Narcissa said Durmstrang was 'too far from home'.

And Draco just had to meet that Weasley girl and fall in love with her.

If only it was easy enough to get rid of her.

Dumbledore was on close watch of anything related to that horrible boy Potter; those wretched Weasleys were certainly a part of his life.

Fortunately, he had watched his son for the past week and he had seen signs he never even dreamed of seeing.

Signs that triggered a sense of alertness; he needed to find out what his son had with that girl.

And Lucius found out enough to see that they were in love.

It was sickening to watch. The detentions, the looks in the corridors, the stares from the Slytherin table to the Gryffindor table.

Lucius had to get rid of this... this... relationship... before it went any further.

Last he knew of, Draco and the girl (her name Ginny, he concluded) were meeting in the Owlery at 5:00, the time in which classes ended.

To many people, it might've seemed hard to do this, but Lucius had it all planned out already.

The girl was weak.

He could tell by her thin stature, her scrawny, yet long legs, and her skinny arms that she was weaker than ever.

She may have been tall, but she wasn't strong.

This was too easy.

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"Transfiguring creatures into humans takes time as well as practice. This isn't Transfiguration, however, it is Potions, so I'm sorry to INTERRUPT ANY DAYDREAMERS."

Professor Snape was right in Draco's face while Draco himself was sleeping like a little baby.

"Mister Malfoy, I don't allow drooling in my classroom," Snape hissed. As he did this, he sprayed Draco with spit, which was the thing that woke him up.

Draco's eyes snapped open as he wiped Snape's shower off his face. Rather reluctantly, Snape muttered, "Five points from Slytherin."

He spun on his heel back to the front of the room where he stood, still gaping at Draco, who rubbed his left eye.

"Sorry, Professor," he said, not meaning it at all. He wanted the class to finally be over so he could get to Ginny in the Owlery. One thing Draco forgot all about, though, was protecting her. The time still hadn't come and Ginny was perfectly fine so far, but something would happen to her very soon that Draco didn't know about.

"As I was saying," continued Professor Snape, turning back to his class, "the transfigmor normit, otherwise known as the Changing Draught, is meant to be used painstakingly and you must follow the directions clearly, or someone may very well get turned into some kind of cactus..." he stopped a second. "Which is most likely what will happen once we get started."

Draco yawned widely as he saw Snape stare pointedly at Neville Longbottom. He wondered what time it was, probably around 4:00...

"The instructions are on the board, as are the ingredients," Professor Snape told them, pointing his wand to the blackboard somewhat boringly.

Draco knew class was definitely going to be long; the potion today was the hardest he had ever seen...

"To your right, the salamander scales are in small bags of six teaspoons, for you and your partner will use three teaspoons each..."

"Oh Draco," whispered Pansy next to him in a simpering voice. "I'm so glad we're in Slytherin together. If we weren't, how would we ever be partners all the time?"

Draco sighed heavily.

He didn't think the class would ever end.

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"Ginny, you look like you're getting ready for a date," sang Heidi, surrounded by Taryn, Jamie, and Shannon.

Ginny turned around and saw that all four girls were grinning in an evil kind of way, as if they were saying they knew about everything with her and Draco.

"What are you talking about?" she said after a long pause, blinking falsely.

"You're going somewhere with Draco, aren't you?" asked Taryn.

Ginny blushed like she did that morning, realizing that her friends weren't as dumb as she thought they were.

Another long pause.

"You caught me," she told them quietly.

They all inhaled as they heard this and each grinned again, wider than ever before.

"I knew it all along!" exclaimed Shannon.

"Congratulations," Taryn said.

"What are you talking about, Shannon? You had no idea!" Jamie told her, laughing.

"Well..." started Heidi, looking at Ginny with envy. "You got yourself the sex god of the century."

Ginny frowned.

"Excuse me?" she said, folding her arms angrily and narrowing her eyes.

"You mean you haven't even heard?" Heidi said, actually looking pleased. Ginny was already heating up with irritation; why was Heidi all the sudden acting like this around her?

"Everyone knows that Draco is the best in bed."

Ginny's lips were getting thinner.

"Go on," she said, as if challenging Heidi to say more. Heidi seemed to not notice this and continued with what she was saying, and in addition to this, she rolled her eyes.

"Every girl in the school wants him Ginny, you just have to look," she said, making Ginny shift uncomfortably. "Whenever Draco walks through the corridors, just watch how many girls stare at him."

Ginny scowled crossly.

"I'll decide when I want to see other girls staring at my boyfriend," Ginny told her, and Heidi raised her eyebrows in an attempt at a fake surprise.

"So he is your boyfriend," she said, and the rest of the girls looked around at each other. Heidi had a distinct feel of victory coming off of her, like she was trying to get this out of Ginny all along. Ginny just looked at the ground to her side and kept her head down until Heidi spoke again.

"It's funny," she said, and Ginny looked back up at her. "I always thought of you as one who wouldn't go for his heart, maybe lower than that..."

Ginny unfolded her arms and had a disbelieving look on her face.

"Are you saying you think I'm using him?" she asked loudly as the three other girls stayed completely silent. Ginny knew they probably had nothing to do with this, especially Shannon, one of her best friends that would never doubt her.

But Heidi was something different.

"Basically," Heidi said, picking dirt from under her fingernail. She looked very bored, as if this conversation wasn't exactly her image of useful spare time.

Ginny glared at Heidi for awhile before deciding that she should make her exit before things got out of control. She started walking out of the dormitory but Heidi stopped her.

"I hope you and Draco have a fabulous time in his dormitory, you have to tell me all about it tomorrow," she said loathingly, her upper lip curling.

Ginny halted all of the sudden and stayed where she was before turning her head up to look at Heidi and the rest of the girls. Jamie looked like she was really sorry, but she couldn't do anything about it as she gave Ginny a pleading look. Taryn and Shannon were keeping their heads low and weren't making eye contact with her. Heidi was giving off a sort of angry vibe.

It was silent for a while before Ginny realized she was late for meeting Draco. She was so caught up in her and Heidi's conversation that she forgot she actually needed to be somewhere.

She took one last look at all of her friends (who she at least thought were friends) and sighed.

"I'll take my leave now," she said, and she walked out of the dormitory, leaving the rest of them there to stay with Heidi.

Ginny didn't need them anyway.

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God, she was already twenty minutes late.

Draco was waiting for Ginny in the Owlery, owls all around him waking up from their sleep to go hunting.

Okay, so he was angry that she was late.

Maybe she wasn't coming at all.

Maybe she was just having trouble getting ready.

Or maybe something happened to her...

Draco suddenly remembered his dream. He remembered what the woman said in his dream about Ginny and about protecting her.

Oh, he had been so stupid!

What was he doing, waiting up in the Owlery for her?

Draco hurried out of the small building and ran back to the castle as fast as he could. He wanted so badly to see her he forgot about the dream and all of the signs... no, she wouldn't get hurt. Don't let her get hurt.

Suddenly Draco heard a deafening scream that rang in the corridors, a scream that was so loud it would've made him deaf if he hadn't of plugged his ears in time.

The scream was then cut off.

Draco slowly removed his fingers from his ears and looked around him, wide-eyed. The scream sounded like it had been so close to him, but then again, it sounded like it had been far, far away...

No...

Not Ginny...

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Ginny was running through the corridors as fast as she could, trying to get to the grounds on time to make it to the Owlery. She desperately hoped that Draco wouldn't leave it without her...

Ginny didn't know why this was so important to her, she could just owl Draco in the morning and tell him what came up, but she had a feeling that someway, somehow, she wouldn't be able to make it till morning...

But no, that was just a silly thought.

Maybe it wasn't so important after all.

Ginny started slowing down and finally started walking. She was in the Transfiguration corridor, which was close to the Great Hall, so she wasn't far from the castle entrance.

Suddenly, Ginny heard footsteps behind her. They sounded something like boots, which confused her. Somebody wearing boots at Hogwarts?

Ginny started speeding up again, becoming scared. Was someone following her?

The boots clicked faster as Ginny turned a corner, and then, unexpectedly, she saw somebody come out of the shadows.

Ginny screamed as loud as she could as the person wrapped his hand around her mouth, silencing her.

Ginny's own hands flew up to the black glove over her face, which was even more suspicious. She knew it was definitely an adult; it wasn't anyone from the school.

Ginny tried screaming like before, but she couldn't. She was breathing as hard as she could out of her nose, which was very difficult.

"Stupefy," muttered a cold voice, and the last Ginny saw was complete darkness.

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A/N: Arrghhh!! Another chapter in which I've neglected to write for soooo long! Well, here it is! Chapter twelve! Hoped you liked it! Haha, kinda left ya hangin there, but wait for the next chapter!

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