Harry Potter: Miss Malfoy

Chapter 167 Skeeter Caught by Kim

On Christmas morning, Draco poked his head out from under the covers.

Her eyelashes closed as her eyes did, and the cold air made her frown.

Just when I was about to crawl back into the warm bed, I felt a warm current coming towards me.

Slightly confused, with starry eyes slightly opened,

A blurry scene appeared before my eyes, making me unsure whether I was still dreaming.

A Hungarian Horntail doll was looking at him, and it seemed to have just woken up.

As he yawned towards his own face, he released hot air.

There was a card next to the doll.

?My dearest Draco,

Merry Christmas and looking forward to the dance.

(I snuck into the kitchen with Hermione a while ago, and found out that Dobby and Winky were hiding in Hogwarts!)

(Thanks to his help, the doll was placed next to your bed.)

Yours ever,

Harry

With a sweet smile, she held the little tree wasp dragon to the pillow and gently kissed its forehead.

The little Horntail dragon doll purred in contentment.

I was still deep in sleep when I suddenly felt the weight on my body and a scent that didn't belong to me.

"I! See! It!!"

Pansy wrapped herself in her thick quilt and climbed into her bed without her knowing.

He looked like he was ready to play.

"I still want to sleep..."

Draco struggled in a daze, burying his face in the pillow.

Pansy climbed onto his back without mercy.

"No. Skeeter, here's a message."

She couldn't hold back her smile in her tone, and Draco was instantly startled.

-

After quickly washing up and having breakfast, he rushed into the library with Pansy and Daphne.

Then, we walked into the campus on the snow.

While walking, they discussed countermeasures.

The message from Rita Skeeter explained the location and format of the later meeting.

There was also a long list of leading questions about how dangerous Hagrid's class was.

And he clearly instructed the three people that they did not need to talk, but just respond to the questions one by one.

After the three of them finished reading, the paper with the message on it spontaneously combusted.

"It's so cold. She made the appointment under the big tree in front of the auditorium, right?"

Pansy clapped her gloved hands together and jumped lightly, as if this movement would relieve the feeling of the cold.

"Do you remember those questions?"

Daphne nodded, and then asked the two of them, apparently she didn't pay much attention to the question on the note.

“‘I forgot.’”

Draco and Pansy said in unison.

The three of them looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

The clear and pleasant laughter of a young girl could be heard softly on the snow.

"Did you bring the things you were supposed to bring?"

After stopping his smile, Draco asked.

Pansy took out a small cloth bag from her pocket and shook it gently, and the sound of a glass bottle shaking came from it.

"But...will she really be so honest?"

"I don't know. I don't expect her to be that stupid."

"Maybe it's not stupidity, but arrogance caused by excessive narcissism."

"That's right. She even thought she could threaten us."

While we were talking, we had already arrived under the tree where we had agreed to meet. There was no one at the agreed spot.

"Here we are."

-

Draco whispered, spreading his palms as if performing some kind of summoning ritual.

Then, a ladybug flew from the tree and floated into Draco's palm.

Pansy's expression switched between surprise and disbelief.

Even Daphne had to put her hand over her tightly pursed lips to hold back her giggles.

"Is that Ms. Skeeter?"

Draco asked, and Ladybug flew up and then fell down in his palm, as if to respond positively.

Draco sighed in mock helplessness and began to talk about the absurdity and danger of Hagrid's class.

The ladybug seemed satisfied with her words, and its wings, which had been flapping restlessly, had stabilized.

Without noticing Pansy quietly took out the glass bottle from the bag.

It stayed motionless in Draco's palm, and it was unclear whether it was concentrating or just excited.

"We all hated Hagrid, but we were all so scared of him that we could only hold our anger in check."

As Draco finished speaking, he suddenly clenched his palms tightly.

Then, he quickly poured the beetles into the glass jar in Pansy's hand.

"But we hate you even more, Ms. Skeeter."

"Do you really think we will forgive you for what you did to Daphne?"

After sealing the jar, Pansy watched the ladybug struggling and bumping around in it.

"Don't try. This isn't just any bottle."

Draco's tone was cold.

"We checked it out after you told us that you would turn into a ladybug and talk to us."

"You're an illegal Animagus, right?"

"Perhaps one day you will want us to report you to the Ministry of Magic."

"Thank you for giving me an unforgettable childhood."

“I hope you can have an unforgettable time too.”

Daphne also leaned over to the bottle, a strange light flashing in her eyes, and her tone was so gentle and calm that it was a little scary.

The ladybug struggled to spread its wings in panic, but seemed increasingly powerless.

"You'd better not act rashly. The glass bottle and the cloth bag are my treasures."

Look at it like this, Draco reminded coldly and added another sentence.

"It was a birthday present from Mr. Birkin and Mr. Burke when I was a child."

Upon hearing the last names of the two gentlemen, Ladybug finally stopped quietly.

It seemed as if there was a silent scream coming from within the glass bottle.

The three of them didn't care and put the glass bottle into the cloth bag.

Pansy wanted to give the bag to Daphne, but she shook her head.

"I don't want to see her."

-

The days after that passed extremely quickly.

On campus, the sight of female students walking around is becoming increasingly rare as time goes by.

There were only a handful of women eating in the auditorium at lunch time.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, there are almost no female students to be seen on campus.

"How much time do they need to spend on makeup?"

Watching Hermione disappear before his eyes, Ron couldn't help but complain to Harry.

He was still upset about not inviting Hermione.

Harry and Hermione were reluctant to tell him who their dance partners were.

This made him angry for a long time.

Fortunately, Harry helped him ask Parvati, one of the most beautiful girls in Gryffindor.

Only then did Ron calm down a little.

While Ron was complaining, Harry was distracted and his responses were incoherent.

My heart beats wildly from time to time, and my palms are always wet.

I have been feeling restless since last night, looking forward to meeting Draco.

She was also worried that her two weeks of cramming might go wrong and cause her to make a fool of herself at the dance.

I slowly began to think that perhaps facing the Hungarian Horntail Dragon would be a relatively simple task.

While Harry was getting nervous, Draco's terrified scream was heard from the Slytherin dormitory.

"Pan!si! Parkin!son!!!"