Draco stuck his head out around the corner again, firing off a binding hex, and then he saw her and for a moment he froze and his heart stopped its frantic stampeding, jerking and jolting to a stuttering halt in his chest. His eyes were slammed open wide as he saw her there, and then he slammed back around the corner as a bolt of yellow light flashed at him, his breath rattling in his chest, not thinking about how close he had been to being stupefied and failing – only thinking about her.