Yooooo I saw a green apple yesterday and suddenly remembered Draco and Drapple. I'm so glad my mum bought it because she's buying apples too. To be honest, it was my first time to eat a green apple and I ate it on dinner last night. And now, it's my favourite.

(Look how small my hand is)

The frickin pic won't edit. Siiiiigh anyways, that's the apple. So yeah back to the story 😂😂

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Draco walked into a hallway all alone. His two henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle, left him after Stacey offered them food. Stacey also invited Draco but Draco was too eager to save you. He turned to a corner and found Harry and Ron just came out from the hospital wing. 

Draco walked towards them and the two flinched in surprise when they see the Slytherin boy coming. He stood in front of them with his arms crossed. "As you both know, Stark has been Petrified..."

"Even Hermione and Peter Ambrose," Harry replied with a slight bitterness in his tone. "Look, Malfoy, if you're just here to insult us, don't bother."

Draco blocked Harry's way and his eyes widened. "Granger and Ambrose were Petrified?" He looked down as he thinks. 'I noticed that most Muggle-borns were getting Petrified but (Y/n) and Ambrose aren't Muggle-borns. (Y/n)'s a pure-blood and Ambrose is a half-blood. Why are both of them petrified?'

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Ron asked.

Draco sighed. "I know we aren't on good terms..."

"Definitely not on good terms." Draco heard Harry scoffed and muttered causing the blonde boy to glare at the raven-haired boy.

"I would like to join you."

"What?" Ron asked, his voice rising up. "You taunt us and now you want to join us?"

"To stop the Heir of Slytherin from unleashing the monster inside the Chamber of Secrets." Draco finished. "We might not like each other but we might as well cooperate. It's at least we could do for our friends. And this is only a one-time thing. Don't expect me to come back and help your little missions."

"(Y/n)..." Harry whispered. Draco looked at him and he looked at him in return. "You really do care about her."

"Of course I do. I--" The boy paused before he could finish his sentence. Draco licked his bottom lip then he shook my head. "Anyway, I really think you're not the Heir of Slytherin, Potter."

"Yeah. We thought it was you." Ron snickered causing Draco to glare at him again and he rolled his eyes. "Just because I'm in Slytherin and I'm a meanie doesn't mean I'm the Heir of Slytherin."

The two boys stayed quiet while Draco sighed. "And do you think I'm the guy who would unleash a monster knowing that it would kill my friends?"

They both nodded. 'Son of a...'

"Draco!"

The three boys turned around to see a girl running towards Draco. He quickly recognized who it was and was attacked by her hug earning confusing looks on the Gryffindor boys' faces. "Megan? Are you alright?" Draco asked.

She shook her head and looked up at him, tears flowing down on her cheeks. "My sister, (Y/n)... I should've been there with her and now she's..."

Draco sighed and hugged her back causing her to sob on his chest. "I don't know. But she'll be fine. They'll cure her and we'll find out what happened." He pulled away and looked at her, her watery eyes staring up at him. "Just stay safe, okay? Your sister would kill me if you're harmed or whatsoever."

She nodded causing Draco to smile. "Now go. I'll tell you what happened once I find out all about this."

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"Why do we have to get to Hagrid?" Draco asked Harry as the three approached Hagrid's hut. The three boys were inside Harry's Invisibility Cloak.

"To talk to him," Harry answered simply as he knocked at Hagrid's door. Suddenly, the three heard a voice inside. "Who's there?" 

The three boys stepped back as Hagrid kicked the door open with a crossbow in hand. "Hello?" Hagrid asked as he looked around but found no one. "Hello?" 

Harry removed the cloak and the three boys stared in surprise at Hagrid's crossbow. "What's that for?" Harry questioned.

Hagrid looked down at his weapon. "Nothing. I was expecting..." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Come on in. I just made a pot of tea." He turned around until he noticed something bizarre.

Hagrid stared at Draco Malfoy in surprise. "Malfoy?"

Harry glanced at Draco and sighed. "He's with us." 

After the three boys entered Hagrid's humble abode, Hagrid poured tea to each teacup but it was starting to overflow. "Hagrid, are you okay?" Harry asked in worry as Hagrid's hands tremble.

"I'm fine. I'm alright." Hagrid nervously smiled. "What's Malfoy doing here?"

"To get some answers," Draco answered softly. "I mean no harm." Hagrid just nodded and looked down.

"Did you hear about Hermione and Peter?" Harry asked Hagrid.

"Oh, yeah." Hagrid nodded. "I've heard about that, all right."

Harry nodded slightly and suspiciously. "Look, we have to ask you something." He glanced at Draco and Ron. "Do you know who's opened the Chamber of Secrets?"

Hagrid sighed. He opened his mouth to speak. "What you had to understand about that is..." Hagrid's explanation was cut off when a knock was heard. He looked down at the three boys. "Quick. Under the cloak."

The three quickly went to a nearby wall and covered themselves with the Invisibility Cloak. "Don't say a word. Be quiet, the three of you." Hagrid told the three boys before opening the door. "Oh! Professor Dumbledore, sir!"

"Good evening, Hagrid." We heard Dumbledore greeted. "I wonder, could we...?"

"Yes, of course! Come in!" Hagrid let Dumbledore and an old man in.

"Is that Fudge?" Ron asked quietly as he glanced at Draco and Potter. "Cornelius Fudge? From the Ministry of Magic?"

Draco nodded. "Yeah. I think he is."

"Bad business, Hagrid." Fudge stated. "Very bad business. Had to come. These incidents and attacks... things have gone far enough. The Ministry's got to act."

"You know I would never, Professor!" Hagrid told Dumbledore.

Dumbledore turned to Fudge and nodded. "I want it understood, Cornelius... that Hagrid has my full confidence."

Fudge sighed. "Albus, look, Hagrid's record is against him. I've got to take him."

"Take me?" Hagrid asked in disbelief. "Take me where? Not Azkaban prison!"

Draco inhaled sharply causing Harry and Ron to glance at him. "I'm afraid we have no choice, Hagrid." Fudge insisted. The three boys' heads turned when the door opened revealing Lucius Malfoy.

"Already here, Fudge?" Lucius asked. "Good." He stepped inside Hagrid's house and looked at him.

"What are you doing here?" Hagrid asked bitterly. "Get outta my house!"

"Believe me, I take absolutely no pleasure being inside your..." Lucius looked around and was disgusted at Hagrid's humble home. He stepped closer to Harry, Ron, and Draco unknowingly causing the three boys to walk backward immediately. "You call this a house?"

Draco winced at his father's attitude causing Ron to look at him with his eyebrow raised. "You alright there?"

"I... just don't like how my father behaves..." Draco whispered.

"To be honest, that's how you behave," Harry commented. Draco glared at Harry until he sighed and watched his father talked.

"I simply called up the school and was told the headmaster was here," Lucius stated.

"Well, what exactly is it that you want with me?" Dumbledore questioned Lucius.

"The other governors and I have decided it's time for you to step aside," Lucius replied earning exchanged looks from Hagrid and Dumbledore. "This is an order of suspension."

Fudge's expression fell in surprise as Lucius approached the old headmaster with a scroll. "You'll find all twelve signatures on it." After Dumbledore took the scroll, Lucius narrowed his eyes at Dumbledore. "I'm afraid we feel you've rather lost your touch. Well, what, with all these attacks... there'll be no Muggle-borns left at Hogwarts. I can only imagine what an awful loss that would be to the school."

"You can't take Professor Dumbledore away!" Hagrid demanded, looking at Lucius who was in front of the three boys. "Take him away, the students won't stand a chance! You mark my words!"

"Calm yourself, Hagrid," Dumbledore said calmly. "If they desire it, I will, of course, step aside." He started walking towards Lucius and stopped in front of him. "However, you will find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." Then Dumbledore looked in Harry, Ron, and Draco's direction as if he knows they were there.

Harry, Ron, and Draco's eyes widened all at once. 'He definitely knows we're there. Now thanks for the clue Dumbledore, my dad suspects something.' Draco said in his thoughts.

Lucius glanced at where Dumbledore was looking but found nothing so he looked back at Dumbledore. "Admirable sentiments. Shall we?"

Lucius opened the door and waited for Dumbledore to come out. Dumbledore stared at the three boys with a knowing look before leaving. Lucius turned to Fudge. "Fudge." 

Fudge gestured Lucius to go on as he stayed for a bit. Fudge looked at Hagrid. "Come, Hagrid. Well?"

The three boys looked at him as Hagrid cleared his throat. "If... uhh... if anybody is looking for some stuff, then all they'd have to do would be to follow the spiders. Yep. That would lead them right. That's all I have to say." He glanced at the unusual trio until he approached his door. "Oh, and someone will need to feed Fang while I'm away." Fudge was confused but leaves anyway.

Harry removed the cloak away from himself, Draco, and Ron. "Hagrid's right," Ron spoke. "With Dumbledore gone, there will be another attack but not just one by one!"

Draco looked down and his eyes followed a trail of spiders coming out through Hagrid's window. "Look," Draco whispered as he pointed at the spiders.

"Come on." Harry grabbed Hagrid's lamp and went outside. "Come on, Fang!"

Ron and Draco followed Harry out of the hut will Fang behind. When the three were outside, they saw spiders going somewhere. "Come on."

"What?" Ron and Draco asked.

"You two heard what Hagrid said. Follow the spiders!"

"They're heading to the Dark Forest!" Draco complained while Ron nodded with him.

Harry sighed and followed the spiders anyway causing Draco to roll his eyes and followed the Gryffindor boy. "Why spiders?" Ron whimpered. "Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?"

The trio traveled to the Dark Forest as they followed the spiders. Ron breathed heavily, Draco was silent, and Harry continued to lead the two boys ahead. Draco cleared his throat. "Just so you know, this won't be a permanent thing. I wish to not be associated with two again soon."

"Fine by me," Harry replied as he stayed focused on following the spiders. "So what does this make us for now? A team?"

Draco rolled his eyes. "Oh, God, no."

"We are an unusual team, aren't we?" Ron slightly chuckled before flinching when a spider got closer to him.

When the three saw an entrance, Fang went inside first.

"Harry, I don't like this." Ron whimpered. "Harry, I don't like this at all!"

"Shush!" Draco and Harry shushed in unison as they observed the entrance. It was where the spiders are going.

"Can we go back now?" Ron asked.

"Come on!" Harry exclaimed and went inside the entrance. Draco and Ron followed Harry and Fang as they both followed the spiders. The trio finally made it in and stopped when they heard someone asked.

"Who is it?"

"Don't panic," Harry whispered.

"Hagrid? Is that you?"

"We're friends of Hagrid," Harry assured the person who talked. Then a big spider came out from the shadows and walked forward in front of the three causing them to back away a little. "And you? You're Aragog, aren't you?" 

"Yes." The spider answered. "Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before."

"He's in trouble," Draco told him, trying his best to not run away. "Up at the school, there've been attacks. They think it's Hagrid. They think he opened the Chamber of Secrets, like before."

"That's a lie!" Aragog exclaimed. "Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets!"

"Malfoy," Ron whispered, tugging the Slytherin boy's shirt. Draco looked at him and Ron pointed at the spiders surrounding them. Draco's eyes widened and his breath hitched.

Harry furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "Then you're not the monster?" He questioned.

"No! The monster was born in the castle. I came to Hagrid from a distant land, in the pocket of a traveler."

Ron tugged Harry's shirt. "Harry."

Harry glanced at him. "Shush." Then he turned back to Aragog again. "But, if you're not the monster, then-then what did kill that girl fifty years ago?"

"We do not speak of it! It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others." Aragog answered.

"But have you seen it?" Harry asked.

Draco noticed Ron hiding behind him as more spiders came out. 'There are so many of them and Potter here doesn't mind. C'mon Saint Potter, you're supposed to save us!'

"I never saw any part of the castle but the box in which Hagrid kept me." Aragog continued. "The girl was discovered in a bathroom. When I was accused, Hagrid brought me here."

"Potter!" Draco whispered, tapping his shoulder.

Harry looked at the young Malfoy annoyingly. "What?"

Ron whined and pointed at the spiders surrounding the three. Harry looked around and finally realized what was happening. He gulped and cleared his throat as looked at Aragog. "Well... thank you. We'll just go."

"Go?" Aragog asked causing Ron to nod. "I think not. My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid on my command, but I cannot deny them fresh meat when it wanders so willingly into our midst. Goodbye, friend of Hagrid."

"Well, this is a great plan," Draco muttered as he back away with the two Gryffindors.

"Can we panic now?" Ron asked, his voice cracking in fear. 

Suddenly, spiders came down causing Draco and Ron to pull their wands out while Harry pushed the spiders away with the big lamp in his hands. Draco glanced at Ron's broken wand. "You still haven't replaced that bloody wand?" 

"It's not like we have enough money to afford a new one!" Ron exclaimed.

Harry gave up, set the lamp down, and pulled out his wand.

"Know any spells?" Draco asked Harry and Ron.

"One," Harry answered. "But it's not powerful enough for all of them."

"Where's Hermione and (Y/n) when you need them?" Ron whimpered.

Spiders surrounded the three and came closer until a car was coming towards the three, bumping and scaring the spiders away. The car stopped and opened the door for them. Draco recognized the car. "Isn't that the vehicle you two rode to get to Hogwarts?"

"Let's go!" Harry yelled. They went to the front while Draco and Fang were at the back. "Go!"

Ron drove away backward and they finally got out. Ron stopped driving and breathed heavily, thinking it was okay and finally safe. "Glad we're out of there." A spider suddenly jumped up and strangled Ron from behind because his window was damaged.

Harry was about to cast a spell but Draco pulled out his wand first and pointed it at the spider. "Arania Exumai!"

The spider flew out while Ron gulped and looked at Draco. "Thanks for that, Malfoy."

Draco sighed. "Don't mention it."

"Where did you learn that?" Harry asked in surprise.

"(Y/n) Stark. She and her sister taught me some spells last year." Draco replied. He turned to Ron and smiled a bit. "You're welcome."

Harry looked forward and noticed more spiders coming towards them. "Get us out of here, Ron. Now! Drive!"

Ron quickly drove the car away from the spiders.

"Get us in the air," Harry commanded.

Draco's eyes widened. "In the air?"

Ron tried something but failed. "The flying gear's jammed!"

"Come on!" Harry exclaimed. "Pull!"

"I'm trying!"

Draco gripped tight on his seat as Fang leaned to him. "I can't believe I'm about to die with you two!"

Then suddenly, the car was in the air. Harry, Draco, and Ron were out of the Dark Forest, leaving the spiders behind. Harry glanced at Draco with a smirk. "What were you saying about dying?" 

The car landed on the ground and the three and Fang got out of the car. "Follow the spiders?" Ron asked in frustration. "Follow the spiders?! If Hagrid ever gets out of Azkaban, I'll kill him!"

Then the car started its own engine and drove itself away back into the woods.

"I mean, what was the point of sending us in there? What have we found out?" Ron asked.

Draco crossed his arms and sighed. "We know one thing," Draco told Ron and looked at Harry and Harry nodded. "Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets. He was innocent." Harry replied.

Then we started to get the cloak, hid there, and headed back to the school. "Well, that was fun." Draco laughed. Harry and Ron stopped in their tracks causing Draco to be confused. "What?"

"You laughed." Harry smiled.

"Yeah. So?" Draco asked.

"It's just that..." Ron smiled too. "You didn't laugh mockingly, you know, just laughed."

Draco rolled his eyes with a smile. "Come on. We have classes tomorrow."

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They truly are the unusual trio.