Title: Mistaken Actions

Pairing: HP/DM, RW/HG (slash eventually)

Rating: M

Summary: After the Dumbledore's death, Harry and the Weasley's receive a letter from none other than Draco Malfoy.

Legal Stuff: I own nothing but the characters you don't recognise and the plotline.

Chapter One: The Letter

31st July, 1997

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Draco Malfoy, and I am 17 years of age. Up until June this year, I was attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

I received two Outstanding OWLs in Transfiguration and Muggle Studies, three Exceeds Expectations in Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts and Charms, and four Acceptables in History of Magic, Astronomy, Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures.

Given that everyone in the magical world knows of the Malfoy name and the inherent hatred of Muggles and Muggle-borns within that name, I am sure that you are surprised that I took Muggle Studies at all, let alone received almost top marks for it. I had to take the subject privately, and I had to tell my parents that I was taking Arithmancy, for I am certain that they would have denounced me, should they have learnt the truth.

As I am sure that Harry Potter has informed everyone already, I was given a task by the Dark Lord, Voldemort, before the beginning of my sixth year. I was to kill Albus Dumbledore, and therefore, my father's failure would be paid for, and I would become a Death Eater. Professor Severus Snape, my godfather, made an Unbreakable Vow to my Mother, that he would take up my task should I back out, or fail.

I had no wish to kill Professor Dumbledore, but I also had no wish to end up dead either. I made my preparations, I did what I was told, and I hoped that either Harry Potter or Dumbledore would kill me before Severus, any of the other Death Eaters or Fenrir Greyback caught up with me and killed Dumbledore themselves.

When I failed to kill Dumbledore, and Severus had to do it for me, one of the other Death Eater's, Bellatrix Lestrange, informed the Dark Lord that I had failed. Severus tried to keep me safe, but I knew that eventually he would have to do his duty to the Dark Lord. I fled from his house.

I am in a place where I know Voldemort will never think to look, for the last time he was here, he met his downfall in the young Harry Potter. I am at Godric's Hollow, hidden amongst the ruins. I need protection, and I am hoping that I can plead with you, whoever you are, to provide it. I do not care if you lock me up, or put me before a jury before deciding my fate, but please, help me.

Begging you,

Draco Vito Malfoy