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They shrank into the shadows, staring at the dark outlines of two people grappling with each other 10 feet away. A lamp flared.
Professor McGonagall... had Malfoy by the ear. "Detention!" she shouted. "And 20 points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you..."
"You don't understand, Professor, Harry Potter's coming - he's got a dragon!"
"What utter rubbish! How dare you tell such lies! Come on - I shall see Professor Snape about you, Malfoy!"
Hermione did a sort of jig. "Malfoy got detention! I could sing!"
"Don't," Harry advised her.

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Chapter 15
Filch was already there - so was Malfoy. Harry had also forgotten that Malfoy had got a detention, too.
At this, Neville let out a little moan and Malfoy stopped dead in his tracks. "The Forest?" he repeated, and he didn't sound quite as cool as usual. "We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard."
Malfoy now turned to Hagrid. "I'm not going in that forest," he said, and Harry was pleased to hear the note of panic in his voice.
"Yeh are if yeh want ter stay at Hogwarts," said Hagrid fiercely. "Yeh've done wrong an' now yeh've got ter pay fer it."
"But this is servant stuff, it's not for students to do. I thought we'd be writing lines or something. If my father knew I was doing this, he'd-"
"-tell yer that's how it is at Hogwarts," Hagrid growled. "Writin' lines! What good's that ter anyone? Yeh'll do summat useful or yeh'll get out. If yeh think yer father'd rather you were expelled, then get back off ter the castle an' pack. Go on!"
Malfoy didn't move. He looked at Hagrid furiously but then dropped his gaze...
"And what if whatever hurt the unicorn finds us first?" said Malfoy, unable to keep the fear out of his voice.
"I want Fang," said Malfoy quickly, looking at Fang's long teeth.
"You don't think they've been hurt, do you?" whispered Hermione.
"I don't care if Malfoy has, but if something's got Neville..."
At last... noise announced Hagrid's return. Malfoy, Neville and Fang were with him. Hagrid was fuming. Malfoy, it seemed, had sneaked up behind Neville and grabbed him for a joke. Neville had panicked and sent up the sparks.
..."Right, we're changin' groups - Neville, you stay with me an' Hermione, Harry, you go with Fang an' this idiot. I'm sorry," Hagrid added in a whisper to Harry, "but he'll have a harder time frightenin' you, an' we've gotta get this done."
So Harry set off into the heart of the forest with Malfoy and Fang...
"Look-" he murmured, holding out his arm to stop Malfoy.
...out of the shadows, a hooded figure came crawling across the ground... Harry, Malfoy and Fang stood transfixed. The cloaked figure reached the unicorn... and began to drink its blood.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Malfoy let out a terrible scream and bolted - so did Fang.

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