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Draco woke up from feeling a cold rag on his forehead, he opened his eyes and saw Madame Pomfrey and Snape standing over him.

"Mister Malfoy, you are very lucky...that beating only left dark bruises." Poppy said softly.

Draco hung his head down in shame as the potions teacher gave him a sharp glance.

"You mister Malfoy, for missing a days worth of classes, have earned yourself three days worth of detention with me cleaning and sorting out my potion stores, and cleaning the classroom." Snape said looking crossly at Draco.

To his surprise Draco smiled slightly.

"What is it you find so funny mister Malfoy?" Snape said becoming angry.

"I asked her out...Luna, she said she likes me..." was Draco's reply.

Severus looked over at Madame Pomfrey who shrugged.

"Detention mister Malfoy at 5:00 I want you there, I do not want to come and find you not in the room. Do you understand?" Severus snarled, earning a glare from Draco who reluctantly nodded.

"Good, now go, go to the dormitories and get your books, then go to , Care of Magical Creatures after that it will be 4:45...I want you back here then. Don't be traveling anywhere else." Snape said sharply.

Draco nodded and stood up then left in an angry huff.

~Hogwarts (Near Hagrid's Hut)~

Draco calmly waked down to the grounds where that Rubeus Hagrid was teaching his class and was shocked to see one of those vile creatures standing there in front of the class with the giant petting its feathers.

Draco's eyes widened to the size of baseballs as he recognized what the creature was.

It was one of those Hippogriffs, only this one as light brown on most the body, and random black feathers on its chest while the long brown wings were tipped with white and the top head feathers on its bird like head were black almost like a mo-hawk.

Draco's instincts told him to run as the creature took a small glance at him, but then Hagrid's voice caught his attention.

"Oh! Malfoy. Thought yeh weren't comin' I recon yeh remember what this is don't yeh?" Hagrid said as he stroked the hippogriff's black head feathers.

Draco gave a soft nod and watched as Potter gave a low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back which it did, then Harry walked slowly forward until he was right beside it.

Draco shivered as he remembered the sharp talons of the previous hippogriff Buckbeak sinking into his arm.

Luna walked over to Draco seeing the startled look on his face, she grabbed one of his hands and slowly pulled him forward towards the others who were watching the fear on his face, but he seemed to calm down as Luna squeezed his hand gently and then turned her attention back to the hippogriff.

"Well after a bit of convincing Professor Dumbledore he allowed me to try and teach you all about hippogriffs...so I'd like to introduce you to Kendra . Beautiful isn't she?" Hagrid said with a happy and chipper voice.

Draco's eyes were wide as he stared at the large creature, but he was startled out his gaze when Blaise suddenly leaned in next to Draco and whispered into Draco's ear.

"Where's daddy Draco? Woof woof, what do you think now? You stupid half-breed. Why don't you howl? Howl at the pretty little moon whose hand you're holding now...your father doesn't want you...half-breed." he hissed but he looked up in surprise when Hagrid's deep voice said his name.

"Blaise, I will not be havin' such talk in my classes, yeh have earned a detention for tomorrow night." Luna looked at Draco who looked about ready to cry but she gave his hand another squeeze and his eyes cleared of the tears.

"Now, mister Malfoy...would yeh like to say hello ta her?" Hagrid asked as Blaise backed away from Draco with a glare upon his face.

Draco's eyes went wide with terror and he shook his head.

"You can do it Draco." Luna said softly as she looked at him sweetly.

Draco shook his head and Luna leaned in and whispered something into his ear. Draco's stunned eyes looked at her for a second, but slowly he calmed down and gave a small nod to her and Luna looked up at Hagrid.

"I'll do it Professor." She said in her quiet voice.

"Very well." Hagrid said as Luna stepped forward.

"Slowly, now bow down nice an' low." Hagrid said calmly.

Luna did as he said and made nice low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back, the large creature let out a small noise before returning the bow, then Hagrid gave her the okay to come closer and she slowly walked over to the hippogriff and reached up and patted its thick neck with the large fluffy brown feathers on it.

"Good job Luna. Well done!" Hagrid said once again quite happy.

Luna looked over to Draco who took a deep breath and stepped forward.

"I'll give it a shot." He said quietly.

Hagrid gave a small nod and watched as Draco walked forward then gave a nice low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back which to Hagrid's surprise it did.

Draco straitened his pose and looked at Hagrid. "What now?" He asked softly.

"Why yeh can pet 'er of course, c'mon up here." Hagrid said in his happy yet deep voice.

Draco nodded his head in reply and took a few steps forward until he was just five feet away from it. He started to get nervous but he looked at Luna who gave him a reassuring smile.

So he continued walking over to the hippogriff and was about to pet it when the large bird like creature put its large head right in front of his and started sniffing his hair, some of his blond locks moved slightly from the creatures breath.

'Most magical animals don't get along well with werewolves, Merlin, I hope that doesn't include these things too...' Draco thought nervously to himself as the hippogriff let out a small noise, then he felt Luna who was still standing next to the hippogriff slowly grab his hand and bring it up to the griffin cross's face.

Draco was stunned but he couldn't help but glance at the hippogriff's sharp talons on its feet which made him cringe inwardly.

The large creature sniffed at Draco's hair again then moved down to his chest, the nose on the sharp beak let out a rush of air which made a loud snorting noise which made Draco freeze in spot as he was too afraid to do anything in fear that the large bird creature might attack him.

Luna gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze and Draco's look of fear went away, but not his nervousness.

Hagrid watched as Kendra continued to sniff Draco, this puzzled him of all his years teaching at Hogwarts he had never seen one of his 'pets' find one of his students so interesting.

'Then again, I have never had a werewolf student before an- wait a minute...' Hagrid's eyes widened in surprise and he wanted to run up and pull the boy back but he didn't.

He didn't know how hippogriffs reacted to werewolves, Kendra could likely smell it on him that he was a werewolf.

The half giant watched anxiously hoping that Kendra wouldn't hurt the boy, then suddenly the brown hippogriff's large wings started flapping wildly and she let out a loud screech which Hagrid noticed resembled a sound of when hippogriffs get angry or sometimes on rare occasion they made that noise if they were happy, but the half-giant couldn't tell which emotion the large creature was displaying, sometimes it was hard to read hippogriffs.

Draco remembered how Buckbeak had acted like this before he had stood up and attacked him with his sharp talons and his eyes widened and he instinctively withdrew his hand and took a step back, but the hippogriff calmed and her wings went back down to resting by her sides, she came forward slowly and rubbed her large head against Draco's shoulder. Hagrid clapped his hands once again.

"Nicely done Malfoy." Hagrid said happily.

Luna grabbed Draco's hand gently and pulled him back towards the rest of the class where she climbed up into one of the trees and sat while Draco slowly sat down on the rock in front of it, he looked up at Luna who smiled kindly at him.

"Well now, as most of yeh who except those of yeh who didn't take this class a while back know, this is a hippogriff, marvelous creatures hippogriffs are. Though they are very proud animals. But if yeh know how to treat a hippogriff, they will do the same." Hagrid said and pulled a dead ferret off his belt and tossed it to Kindra who stood slightly on her back legs to catch it before coming back down on all fours.

This made Draco silently curse as he blushed upon remembering when Allastor Moody or the person who had been impersonating him had transfigured him into a white ferret and how humiliating it was.

"Now, as some of yeh know from a few years ago, yeh never ever want ter insult a hippogriff, 'cause it could be the last thing yeh ever do. The way yeh should treat a hippogriff is simply how yeh yerself would want to be treated, with respect." Hagrid said as he stroked Kendra's neck feathers, he paused to before looking back at his students.

"Hippogriffs tend to eat ferrets and other small rodents, they also be tremendously strong, that is due to their naturally strong build, with their strong flexible muscles and of course their talons. Nasty things those talons are, strong enough to puncture dragon skin, and they really hurt. Male hippogriffs are dominate and territorial, so as I said before never insult one. Hippogriffs were also recently on the protection list due to being endangered, people like their feathers yeh see." Hagrid said patting Kendra on the shoulder.

"How yeh approach a hippogriff is very important, yeh have to let 'im make the first move, what yeh do is yeh do what Harry, Luna and Malfoy did just now, yeh give a low bow an' then wait to see if he bows back. If he does yeh can touch 'im if he doesn't...well then you better run, fast." Hagrid explained then looked at his watch.

"Oh. Looks like class is over, class dismissed go on back to the castle." Hagrid said as he walked over to Kendra and pulled her along back to the forest.

~Hogwarts (Court Yard)~

Draco could hardly keep up with Luna as she skipped into the court yard and while pulling him by the hand.

She finely stopped in front of the water fountain and brushed some loose strands of his short blond hair out of his eyes, she leaned in for a kiss but he grabbed her shoulders.

"I have a detention from Snape for being late to classes. I have to go, but I'll see you in Divination class." Draco said and gave her a quick kiss.

Luna wrapped her arms around him. "Okay, I'll be down by the lake, I'm looking for my charm necklace, I reckon the Nargles took it...they've been pestering me lately and they won't go away unless I have it." She said while tucking her long blond hair behind her ear.

Draco gave her a smile, one of the first times he'd smiled and actually been happy since he had gotten bit. He realized how much Luna meant to him all the sudden and he kissed her again then hugged her tightly.

"Alright...I'll see you later, I don't want to be late." He said and hurried off.

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Draco woke up from feeling a cold rag on his forehead, he opened his eyes and saw Madame Pomfrey and Snape standing over him.

"Mister Malfoy, you are very lucky...that beating only left dark bruises." Poppy said softly.

Draco hung his head down in shame as the potions teacher gave him a sharp glance.

"You mister Malfoy, for missing a days worth of classes, have earned yourself three days worth of detention with me cleaning and sorting out my potion stores, and cleaning the classroom." Snape said looking crossly at Draco.

To his surprise Draco smiled slightly.

"What is it you find so funny mister Malfoy?" Snape said becoming angry.

"I asked her out...Luna, she said she likes me..." was Draco's reply.

Severus looked over at Madame Pomfrey who shrugged.

"Detention mister Malfoy at 5:00 I want you there, I do not want to come and find you not in the room. Do you understand?" Severus snarled, earning a glare from Draco who reluctantly nodded.

"Good, now go, go to the dormitories and get your books, then go to , Care of Magical Creatures after that it will be 4:45...I want you back here then. Don't be traveling anywhere else." Snape said sharply.

Draco nodded and stood up then left in an angry huff.

~Hogwarts (Near Hagrid's Hut)~

Draco calmly waked down to the grounds where that Rubeus Hagrid was teaching his class and was shocked to see one of those vile creatures standing there in front of the class with the giant petting its feathers.

Draco's eyes widened to the size of baseballs as he recognized what the creature was.

It was one of those Hippogriffs, only this one as light brown on most the body, and random black feathers on its chest while the long brown wings were tipped with white and the top head feathers on its bird like head were black almost like a mo-hawk.

Draco's instincts told him to run as the creature took a small glance at him, but then Hagrid's voice caught his attention.

"Oh! Malfoy. Thought yeh weren't comin' I recon yeh remember what this is don't yeh?" Hagrid said as he stroked the hippogriff's black head feathers.

Draco gave a soft nod and watched as Potter gave a low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back which it did, then Harry walked slowly forward until he was right beside it.

Draco shivered as he remembered the sharp talons of the previous hippogriff Buckbeak sinking into his arm.

Luna walked over to Draco seeing the startled look on his face, she grabbed one of his hands and slowly pulled him forward towards the others who were watching the fear on his face, but he seemed to calm down as Luna squeezed his hand gently and then turned her attention back to the hippogriff.

"Well after a bit of convincing Professor Dumbledore he allowed me to try and teach you all about hippogriffs...so I'd like to introduce you to Kendra . Beautiful isn't she?" Hagrid said with a happy and chipper voice.

Draco's eyes were wide as he stared at the large creature, but he was startled out his gaze when Blaise suddenly leaned in next to Draco and whispered into Draco's ear.

"Where's daddy Draco? Woof woof, what do you think now? You stupid half-breed. Why don't you howl? Howl at the pretty little moon whose hand you're holding now...your father doesn't want you...half-breed." he hissed but he looked up in surprise when Hagrid's deep voice said his name.

"Blaise, I will not be havin' such talk in my classes, yeh have earned a detention for tomorrow night." Luna looked at Draco who looked about ready to cry but she gave his hand another squeeze and his eyes cleared of the tears.

"Now, mister Malfoy...would yeh like to say hello ta her?" Hagrid asked as Blaise backed away from Draco with a glare upon his face.

Draco's eyes went wide with terror and he shook his head.

"You can do it Draco." Luna said softly as she looked at him sweetly.

Draco shook his head and Luna leaned in and whispered something into his ear. Draco's stunned eyes looked at her for a second, but slowly he calmed down and gave a small nod to her and Luna looked up at Hagrid.

"I'll do it Professor." She said in her quiet voice.

"Very well." Hagrid said as Luna stepped forward.

"Slowly, now bow down nice an' low." Hagrid said calmly.

Luna did as he said and made nice low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back, the large creature let out a small noise before returning the bow, then Hagrid gave her the okay to come closer and she slowly walked over to the hippogriff and reached up and patted its thick neck with the large fluffy brown feathers on it.

"Good job Luna. Well done!" Hagrid said once again quite happy.

Luna looked over to Draco who took a deep breath and stepped forward.

"I'll give it a shot." He said quietly.

Hagrid gave a small nod and watched as Draco walked forward then gave a nice low bow and waited for the hippogriff to bow back which to Hagrid's surprise it did.

Draco straitened his pose and looked at Hagrid. "What now?" He asked softly.

"Why yeh can pet 'er of course, c'mon up here." Hagrid said in his happy yet deep voice.

Draco nodded his head in reply and took a few steps forward until he was just five feet away from it. He started to get nervous but he looked at Luna who gave him a reassuring smile.

So he continued walking over to the hippogriff and was about to pet it when the large bird like creature put its large head right in front of his and started sniffing his hair, some of his blond locks moved slightly from the creatures breath.

'Most magical animals don't get along well with werewolves, Merlin, I hope that doesn't include these things too...' Draco thought nervously to himself as the hippogriff let out a small noise, then he felt Luna who was still standing next to the hippogriff slowly grab his hand and bring it up to the griffin cross's face.

Draco was stunned but he couldn't help but glance at the hippogriff's sharp talons on its feet which made him cringe inwardly.

The large creature sniffed at Draco's hair again then moved down to his chest, the nose on the sharp beak let out a rush of air which made a loud snorting noise which made Draco freeze in spot as he was too afraid to do anything in fear that the large bird creature might attack him.

Luna gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze and Draco's look of fear went away, but not his nervousness.

Hagrid watched as Kendra continued to sniff Draco, this puzzled him of all his years teaching at Hogwarts he had never seen one of his 'pets' find one of his students so interesting.

'Then again, I have never had a werewolf student before an- wait a minute...' Hagrid's eyes widened in surprise and he wanted to run up and pull the boy back but he didn't.

He didn't know how hippogriffs reacted to werewolves, Kendra could likely smell it on him that he was a werewolf.

The half giant watched anxiously hoping that Kendra wouldn't hurt the boy, then suddenly the brown hippogriff's large wings started flapping wildly and she let out a loud screech which Hagrid noticed resembled a sound of when hippogriffs get angry or sometimes on rare occasion they made that noise if they were happy, but the half-giant couldn't tell which emotion the large creature was displaying, sometimes it was hard to read hippogriffs.

Draco remembered how Buckbeak had acted like this before he had stood up and attacked him with his sharp talons and his eyes widened and he instinctively withdrew his hand and took a step back, but the hippogriff calmed and her wings went back down to resting by her sides, she came forward slowly and rubbed her large head against Draco's shoulder. Hagrid clapped his hands once again.

"Nicely done Malfoy." Hagrid said happily.

Luna grabbed Draco's hand gently and pulled him back towards the rest of the class where she climbed up into one of the trees and sat while Draco slowly sat down on the rock in front of it, he looked up at Luna who smiled kindly at him.

"Well now, as most of yeh who except those of yeh who didn't take this class a while back know, this is a hippogriff, marvelous creatures hippogriffs are. Though they are very proud animals. But if yeh know how to treat a hippogriff, they will do the same." Hagrid said and pulled a dead ferret off his belt and tossed it to Kindra who stood slightly on her back legs to catch it before coming back down on all fours.

This made Draco silently curse as he blushed upon remembering when Allastor Moody or the person who had been impersonating him had transfigured him into a white ferret and how humiliating it was.

"Now, as some of yeh know from a few years ago, yeh never ever want ter insult a hippogriff, 'cause it could be the last thing yeh ever do. The way yeh should treat a hippogriff is simply how yeh yerself would want to be treated, with respect." Hagrid said as he stroked Kendra's neck feathers, he paused to before looking back at his students.

"Hippogriffs tend to eat ferrets and other small rodents, they also be tremendously strong, that is due to their naturally strong build, with their strong flexible muscles and of course their talons. Nasty things those talons are, strong enough to puncture dragon skin, and they really hurt. Male hippogriffs are dominate and territorial, so as I said before never insult one. Hippogriffs were also recently on the protection list due to being endangered, people like their feathers yeh see." Hagrid said patting Kendra on the shoulder.

"How yeh approach a hippogriff is very important, yeh have to let 'im make the first move, what yeh do is yeh do what Harry, Luna and Malfoy did just now, yeh give a low bow an' then wait to see if he bows back. If he does yeh can touch 'im if he doesn't...well then you better run, fast." Hagrid explained then looked at his watch.

"Oh. Looks like class is over, class dismissed go on back to the castle." Hagrid said as he walked over to Kendra and pulled her along back to the forest.

~Hogwarts (Court Yard)~

Draco could hardly keep up with Luna as she skipped into the court yard and while pulling him by the hand.

She finely stopped in front of the water fountain and brushed some loose strands of his short blond hair out of his eyes, she leaned in for a kiss but he grabbed her shoulders.

"I have a detention from Snape for being late to classes. I have to go, but I'll see you in Divination class." Draco said and gave her a quick kiss.

Luna wrapped her arms around him. "Okay, I'll be down by the lake, I'm looking for my charm necklace, I reckon the Nargles took it...they've been pestering me lately and they won't go away unless I have it." She said while tucking her long blond hair behind her ear.

Draco gave her a smile, one of the first times he'd smiled and actually been happy since he had gotten bit. He realized how much Luna meant to him all the sudden and he kissed her again then hugged her tightly.

"Alright...I'll see you later, I don't want to be late." He said and hurried off.