Chapter 1- Inside the Mind

Note: I do not own Harry Potter, or its characters.

A bright October day shone through one of the many windows at Hogwarts. This October day, though, was special. This was the day that something BIG was going to happen. Everyone could feel the sense of fore boating in the air. This danger, however, did not stop the constant gossip game that spread all throughout Hogwarts. He was one of the many topics of conversation today and every morning, but that never really bothered him. They really didn't know what he was going to do or who he really was. The conversations around him where a whirlwind of Harry Potter, Mudbloods, the latest sighting of the Dark Lord all this and the sixth year of Hogwarts just begun about a month ago. At least once in every conversation, friends more than likely girls brought up the fact that he was one of the best looking guys in Hogwarts and he was going to flaunt it as much as possible. Nevertheless, there was only one girl he wanted to be with. This one girl he wanted to call his own. He may be the best-looking person in Hogwarts, but he also was a mysterious one. The fact that he didn't know how to persuade this girl made him confused. There was also the fact that she detested him. He wanted to show her the truth about him. All these years he had hid his inner feelings and emotions from everyone. After all his family as one of those old-fashioned pure-blood families that believed that bull. He hated the constant reminders and invitations to court the other "pure- bloods." He always had to keep in sites for the future. Well he wants to live in the present now. There was a limited amount of choices to choose to "court" or whatever and none of them was even remotely a prospect. He knew he just HAD to either ask this girl or tell someone he trusted. Trick was he didn't trust anyone. Not after what his old friends had done to him. It would be a while since he would trust someone that much.

I can't keep going around being something I'm not. When I was younger, I wanted to be just like Father. He had the connections with all the right people, but once I got older, I found out it was for all the wrong reasons. He did this all for HIM.

He thought as he left the Great Hall and started for his first class.

I can't believe MY father sold his life for someone like HIM! He didn't understand. What was SOOO great about the "Dark Lord" anyway? He is just a crazy, evil lunatic thinking he can run the world. Yes, Father told me about some of the deeds he had done for the Dark Lord but he never got the point of it. He just acted like it to act like it. What a stupid git. Maybe this is why Father is always so harsh with me?

As he went on, lost in his rambling and convictions he didn't notice where he was going or whom he was going to run into.

CRASH!

Harry Potter collided with him while talking to his two friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

"Watch where you're going Malfoy!" Harry told him.

"Ya" Ron said.

Hermione just glared at him.

Draco looked at them with a dazed look still on his face.

"Ya well, sorry Potter. You bumped into me. I was just walking here by myself and you and your little friends take up the whole hallway. Ever thought of sharing?"

Potter with his quick Quidditch reflexes and sharp mind replied.

"Ya Malfoy, but not with you."

"What are YOU doing walking by yourself anyway? Where are your two brain- dead dummies that follow you around? Crabbe and Goyle?"

It was Ron who spoke.

Draco sighed.

"I don't know and I don't frankly care. I don't need them. Now, if you excuse me I'm on my way to my first class. Don't want to be late you know!"

Draco pushed through the group of friends and headed for Herbology.

Hermione looked at Harry and Ron's stunned and confused faces.

"I wonder what that was all about!? I think something is up with him! He might be up to something we better keep an eye on him."

She said as soon as Draco was out of eyeshot.

"Oh I dunno Hermione; I think Draco can mind for himself. It's probably a new act to make us all feel sorry because he friends don't hang out with him or that sort of rubbish."

Ron said in a matter of fact tone.

"Yes, but he didn't seem so cool and confident that everything was going to turn out in the end. He didn't seem to have a secret meaning!" She said

"I agreed with Ron" Harry answered, "You know he just wants some sort of attention. You know the stuff Malfoy gets into.

"I guess your right." Hermione said in defeat.

"Or course we are right and for once I might add!" Ron added, "Now come on or we will be late for Transfiguration and I don't think Professor McGonagall will like us late again!"

Draco had better things to do that concentrate on what Professor Sprout was saying.

Potter and his little friend didn't and don't understand. I need to tell her. I'll do it today! After dinner. I ask to talk to her. Hopefully she'll listen.