Harry Potter: Miss Malfoy

"This way, when we go back, everyone will know that we cried..."

Daphne whined softly as she rubbed her fingers against her eye sockets.

Draco and Pansy looked at each other. The eyes of the three of them were slightly swollen, and they looked so embarrassed that they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Don't worry, I'm here to help you."

Pansy stuck out her tongue, stretched out two fingers from both hands, and pinched Daphne's cheek.

"Let your whole face swell up so you won't be noticed!"

"Bang... Bang Yi!!!"

Daphne struggled with her voice unclear, clapping her hands together, but Pansy would not let her go easily.

Draco smiled, straightened his body, climbed over the bed and joined the battle.

"Then I'll help you too, Pan...Ah!!!"

"Parkinson!!!"

Before she could stretch out her claws towards Pansy, the lively girl had already let go of Daphne.

He lifted the pillow and half-stuffed it, half-threw it towards Draco's face.

"Three ladies, please respect yourselves."

The three of them were playing around until Madam Pomfrey spoke to them in an unpleasant tone, then they returned to the hall early with red faces and apologies.

Before leaving, they had already cast spells to heal each other's swollen eyes.

After returning to the dormitory, the three of them finally got to the point.

"What happened that day...?"

"You really don't know!"

"We realized halfway through that you seemed not to be yourself..."

Only after listening to Pansy and Daphne's stories did I piece together what happened that night when the two were attacked.

After witnessing Draco being dragged off his broom by Harry, Pansy had long forgotten her displeasure with Draco.

After dinner, I wanted to visit the ward again, but soon after I stepped into the castle's entrance hall,

He met Colin, who had been petrified not long ago, lying on the ground, stiff and cold.

"At that time...even though I was very scared, I still felt that I wanted to go see you."

"Especially, I seemed to see you walking past the corner of the corridor."

Daphne said quietly, and Pansy slowly added.

The three of them sat on the bed, holding each other tightly.

Through the warmth of his palms, Draco could feel the tension as the two recalled that night.

"So we chased after him, and then..."

"Seeing you walking down the hallway barefoot in your pajamas and robe."

"That's simply not something you would do. After quietly discussing it with Daphne, we decided to follow you."

"I just noticed that you seem to be holding something in your left hand..."

"Daphne said it was your new diary after we had the fight."

Pansy said, glancing at Daphne, who nodded and continued.

"It was Pansy who felt that something seemed a little strange."

"We had a little argument about how to do it, because I said..."

"Perhaps you could ask her to go find Professor Snape first, and then I'll continue to follow you."

"How can I agree to that? If you want, let's go find it together."

"But we are worried about leaving with two people and leaving you alone, so..."

"We called you from behind."

"Then, you turned around and kept your eyes closed..."

"He looked like he was sleeping peacefully, but his face was so pale that he didn't look like a living person at all..."

"A bit... weird..."

By this time, Daphne's hands were shaking slightly, and even Pansy shuddered.

Draco frowned deeply, held the two of them tightly, and put the backs of their hands against his cheeks.

"Then what...?"

"Then... your mouth suddenly made a hissing sound..."

"He also walked to the wall and put his hand against it, as if he was talking to something inside."

"It just feels like... you seemed to stop suddenly in the middle of your speech."

"Yeah... you suddenly stood still, but your hand holding the diary was shaking."

“Although I was scared, I felt…”

"More worried about you. Anyway, the two of us stupidly walked up to you and found you crying."

"My eyes were tightly closed, but tears kept falling."

"It was probably at that time that we began to wonder if you were being controlled by something..."

"Pansy said we had to take the diary first, but we can't do that."

"I just reached a little closer to your left hand, and you suddenly took out your wand..."

"It was Pansy who pulled me and ran away, but you were following me..."

"Also, there seems to be something following us in the wall..."

"actually..."

“At that time, I felt that maybe I couldn’t escape.”

"That's why I thought I had to tell you, no matter what, to be careful with that diary."

Listening to Pansy and Daphne's words, Draco held them tighter and tighter, his eyes, which had just calmed down, were moistened by the mist again.

Pansy and Daphne also began to sob. It was Pansy who calmed her breathing first and spoke in a low voice, suppressing her sobs.

After Pansy finished telling the final ending, she finally burst into tears.

"Daphne started cutting her own hands first. We didn't know what else to do."

“The time was so tight that we could only write one word each, and then I stopped.”

"Even if I die, even if you can't hear me, I still want to tell you—"

"we love you."