Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin 167 Arya Grimblehawk pt.3

"You don't think everyone here is as strong as you right?" Arya said in a sarcastic tone, "Krum is very good in charms and offense while Walter's strength lies more on defense, dark arts, and curses, it might not look much but Walter is the perfect counter for Krum, if only he was a bit older and experienced he could've easily won the duel without taking this amount of time."

"You seem to be still quite fond of him." Draco said with a questioning gaze, "I heard you escaped from Beauxbatons, what's that all about?"

"He couldn't keep his mouth shut huh?" Arya sighed heavily, "Well its none of your concerns to begin with but I am more interested in you being here. I thought you were stupid but not stupid enough to come here to face your problems head-on. Though it was still expected..."

"Do you just work on guesses or informants? For someone who looks certain about everything you really do contradict yourself quite a lot."

"None. You see some things are infinite in the world including knowledge, the more you know the more questions you have and the more lost you become, it's really endless." Arya said, "My will is to know what is going on and not act on it, same with your situation I know quite a lot about it but if I were to act on it and try to know more, I am sure to be more than just lost in this scenario. And similar to knowledge, the future can really be dangerous and confusing. Even if you know everything about the future it changes so drastically that you can't really be sure of anything, leaving me just contradicting myself every time."

Draco looked back at the fight and really couldn't hold back anymore as he wanted to clearly understand what and how much information Arya had got so he walked near them again. With Arya's wand still in his hand, he started fixing the table and the benches that were broken around due to the duel.

Both Walter and Krum were equally tired as they kept heavily breathing when they suddenly heard some noises. They looked back at Draco casually fixing things as he walked back towards them with a pleasant smile.

"Since both of you seem extremely tired how about we call it a tie?"

"No, I can defeat him." Krum grumbled still not being able to hide his heavy breaths, "I am not going to let him win this one."

"You both are tired so how about change to seconds, I will play for Walter here."

Krum looked back at his friends who were tied up by Draco with disappointment, he himself knew he couldn't do much as well. Though he was quite curious about the prince, he knew he was way too tired to fight him right now.

"Or are you both going to keep fighting until some of the guards or the teachers show up?" Draco continued as he raised his eyebrows, "One of you is already suspended and I can see you don't really want that. So how about we all just act like proper gentlemen and get over this for now at least?"

Krum stared at Draco for a while and then back at Walter as he snorted and turned back around, he waved his wand casting a spell as he released his friends from Draco's spell and walked out with them.

"Let's leave as well." Draco said to Walter as he looked around the students who seemed quite eager to meet him for some reason, "I didn't know this was going to be so annoying."

"But I am still hungry."

"No time for that." Draco pulled Walter as he walked outside the room ignoring everyone's gazes afraid to spark any unnecessary conversations.

Arya casually walked out with them and started leading them to somewhere outside of the castle, as they finally reached to a nearby gazebo right behind the castle. Walter who was tired immediately slumped over the bench, while Arya and Draco sat face to face with one another.

"So how much do you know?"

"Not much but I do know why you're here and who you're here for?"

Draco didn't say anything and just nodded, signaling her to continue.

"As I previously mentioned, you are here because of the accident that took place over your summer vacation, the one with Pius." Arya said, "And as far as I know he was manipulated by someone and that someone is the one you came here to look for?"

"So you're telling me you knew he was coming?" Walter said with an annoyed tone, "Why didn't you tell me before about it?"

"Because if I did, you wouldn't have gotten in a fight with Krum in the first place." Arya said casually as if she was used to Walter's questions, "And trust me when I say that it was necessary."

"For Merlin's sake, can you stop with your vague talks. I didn't understand you back when I was 7 and I am for no reason going to understand you now." Draco said sighing, "Could you just continue without ignoring me for a single second."

"Ryan, you're looking for Ryan Adams, right?" Arya said with a straight face.

"Wait you mean that Ryan, the one from the 5th year?"

"You know him?" Draco asked

"It's really hard to ignore a wizard in wheelchairs." Walter said shrugging, "Why are you even looking for him?"

"He called Draco out here." Arya said again surprising Draco by a lot, "Don't look at me like that, there is much that I don't know about."

"How did you..."

"How do I know?" Arya cut Draco off, "You aren't the only special one here and if you do want to know why? I am certain you will figure out within two weeks."

"The match?" Draco got the hint about what Arya was saying, "You want me to join in the weird bet you've got going?"

"That's your decision to make." Arya said sighing, "And I really hope you make the right one."

Draco stayed silent for a while, "I will think about it later, so how about you tell me everything you know about this Ryan, first."

"Ryan Adams, no one really know much about him in this school other than the fact that he isn't a pure-blood but a half. As Walter mentioned he goes around in a wheelchair, keeps to himself as far as I know." Arya said, "Not exceptional in studies, average in magic, potions, and everything. That's all I can tell you about him."

Draco frowned as he looked at Arya wanting to see if she was lying but there were no trace of it whatsoever, "So he is just average in every other way excluding the facts that he doesn't have any friends."

"Yes." Arya nodded, "Quite shocking in fact, I never would have known if our fate didn't intertwine."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean he is dangerous, I do know that but I don't know how." Arya said, "I know its confusing but this is honestly all I know. I can swear on a vow if you don't believe me."

Walter who didn't really seem to understand what was going on just looked back and forth between Draco and Arya, "Draco, I don't know what's happening but I can assure that Arya is not lying, she never does."

"Fine, I'll trust you for now." Draco said, "But a bit of explanation would really help."

"Believe me, if I didn't trust you as well, I wouldn't initiate this conversation with you in the first place." Arya said, "You're not the only one with your life on the line here. So I just ask you to be patient and not reckless."

Chapter end