Hey guys. Okay, I know I have stories to update already and everything but I just had to write this! I was recently introduced to Dramione. Mostly because I hadn't read the books in over a year, and then I watched the movies, so I started reading fanfiction and then suddenly I was shipping Dramione. I don't know, I never paid much attention to the relationships part of the books, probably because I was 11 and relationships were… gross.
However, in the many Dramione fanfics I've been reading, it seems that it is a common idea to have Draco say that Hermione should have been a Slytherin because she did something especially devious or out of character. This, naturally, gave me the idea for this fic.
Okay, enough of my rambling. Let's get on with this story, shall we?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters associated with it. They belong to J.K. Rowling, not me.
The first time he'd noticed it was when it was announced that she'd helped Potter get to it. There was quite a dispute on what it was. Some said it was a potion that could cure any illness. Others thought that it was a book of the strongest and most dangerous spells ever created. And some said that it was the alleged Philosopher's Stone, the stone that could create the Elixir of Life and turn any metal into gold. He was inclined to believe the last. He doubted that anyone Potter knew was experiencing an illness for which there was no known cure, and he doubted even more so that Potter would choose of his own free will to read a book, strongest and most dangerous spells be hexed.
There were rumors that she was the only reason Potter had made it past the first challenge, and that without her help Potter and Weasley would be dead. There were other rumors, too, unsavory ones, mostly started by his fellow Slytherins. Rumors that she had used forbidden spells to get them there, or that she was doing it simply for the fame that came with helping the Boy-Who-Lived, as he was often referred to.
But it was the facts that interested him most. The facts that she had indeed helped Potter through at least one of the obstacles because otherwise he likely would have died. That she had petrified a fellow Gryffindor because he was attempting to stop them from breaking curfew. And that he was making no motions to stop the rumors. These were what intrigued him.
At first of course, he had only paid attention to her because she hung around Potter. After all, why should he pay attention to a lowly mudblood such as her? But as time went by, the idea began to grow on him. What if. What if. What if her knowledge and her skills could be used to benefit Slytherin? That was when he began to plan.
Because he, Draco Lucius Malfoy, was going to make Hermione Granger loyal to the house of Salazar Slytherin, even if it was only in spirit, if it was the last thing he did.