Two Opposites Attract

Chapter 1

The Wound Part 1

My last year. Draco thinks as he wakes up one morning. He lay in his giant bed in his parent's mansion, stretched, and thought about the upcoming year. There was only one week left before he has to return to Hogwarts and deal with all of the annoying students again. Especially the "Golden Trio." Lazily he looks over at the piece of parchment that lies on his nightstand. He starts to roll over but cringes in pain. He pulled the sheets down and looks at the wound on his chest his father gave him months ago. His father had taken an old antique spear off the wall of his study and hit Draco right below his heart with it. He put a hand on the wound and continues to pick up the parchment then re-reads it for the thousandth time.

Dear Mr. Draco Malfoy,

I am proud to inform you that you have been chosen as Head Boy this fine year. You and the Head Girl will be given the same responsibilities as past Heads. These will be given to you upon your return to Hogwarts. There is a train compartment for you and the Head Girl on the Hogwarts Express. There is also a dorm you both will be staying in. Upon your arrival to Hogwarts you will be announced to the school as new Head Boy prior to the beginning of the year feast. I am certain in my decision in selecting you and the Head Girl and hope you both get along well and help unite the school in these dark times.

Albus Dumbledore

He sighs as he thinks about who the Head Girl will be. The first name that pops into his head is the know-it-all "Golden Trio" member, Hermione Granger. This year will be hell if he has to spend it all with her. Yet, he has this gut feeling that she will be Head Girl just because how smart she is. She is the only other person who has better grades than him. Shaking the thought away he gets up. He places the letter from the Head Master of Hogwarts back on the nightstand next to the dark green badge with a silver 'H' on it, and then walks to his bathroom to shower.

Once out of the shower Draco wraps a towel around himself and goes back to his bedroom. He pulls a pair of dark green silk boxers out of the top dresser drawer and takes the towel off. As the towel hit the floor, a soft tapping coming from one of his windows. Immediately covering himself with his boxers he looks over at the window.

"Bloody bird." He mumbles to himself.

Draco puts on his boxers then walked over to the window and opens it up to let his owl in.

"Why the hell do you always come when I'm putting my boxers on, Riley? Out of all the time in the day you always manage to come at this exact moment, no matter what time of day I shower." He gave the barn owl a scratch behind the ears before untying the piece of parchment tied to her leg.

Dear Mr. Draco Malfoy,

Your presence is required at 12 Grimmuald Place this afternoon. I am aware that you do not know this place or its location, so someone will be at your house at 1:30. Please be ready along with your school things pack and ready to go. Thank you for your cooperation.

Albus Dumbledore

"What's this all about?" He asks Riley. She hooted in reply.

He walks back over to his dresser and grabs his watch, puts it on, and sees that it is 12:57. He takes an owl treat out of a jar on his dresser and goes over and gives it to Riley. She hooted happily as she ate the treat.

Draco returns one last time to his dresser and finishes getting dressed. He picks out a pair of jeans, a dark green t-shirt that matched the color of his boxers, and sneakers. He grabs his trunk that was sitting on its side next to his dresser and lays it flat and starts putting clothes and robes in it.

Once the trunk is full of clothes he puts in his schoolbooks and other things like ink and quills in. After that, he closes the lid of the trunk and latches it shut. Riley flies over to the bed and sits perched on the footboard watching him. Draco gives her another scratch before taking his favorite black belt that was hanging on the footboard next to her and then puts it on.

"Oh Riley, what in the world is this all about? Not that I'm complaining about leaving this place a little early. It gets so boring here. Not to mention Dad's been acting weird lately and I'm tired of things like this happening all of the time." He said pointing at his chest. "He's really starting to scare me, not that he hasn't my whole life. He's been so much more violent ever since I started Hogwarts. Speaking of Hogwarts, I wonder what Dumbledore wants with me? Maybe this is some sort of Head business." He answers himself.

Draco goes over to a corner of his room and grabs Riley's cage and takes it over to her. She just stairs at him like she is saying 'Are you kidding me?' He opens the door but she doesn't move.

"Come on now Riley. Be a good girl." He softly coaxes her into her cage. Reluctantly she goes in. Draco closes the door and grabs the handle of the cage and his trunk and made his way downstairs.

He checks his watch and it said 1:27. He set Riley's cage on his trunk and waited by the door. While waiting he looks at all the portraits of past relatives. Some smiled at him while others just stared back. Before he knows it, the doorbell rings. Draco walks to the door and opens it.

"Professor." He exclaims as Professor Snape was standing before him.

"Draco, so nice to see you." He says in his low, cool voice. "Now come with me." And he whips around and left Draco standing there.

Draco quickly picks up Riley and his trunk and follows Snape to a car that was waiting outside. Another man he didn't recognize, dressed in a black suit, was waiting to take his trunk and put it in the trunk of the car. Then he slides in the backseat behind Snape. Draco holds Riley in his lap while the other man gets behind the wheel.

"Professor, I was wondering if you know what is going on?" Draco asks his teacher.

"All questions will be answered later." He replies coolly.

Not another word is spoken the rest of the way to Grimmuald Place. Draco just gazes out the window watching the world wash by in a blur of colors. There must be a spell on the windows so you don't know exactly what you where looking at.

Finally the car stops and everyone gets out. Draco looks at the house numbers on the houses and saw 11 and 13, but no 12. He looks at Snape curiously wondering what is going on. Snape just mutters some words and a house starts to appear between houses 11 and 13. The driver handed Draco his trunk, went back to the car, and drove off. Draco watches the man drive away then looks back to the Professor but he's gone. He looks up at the house and sees Snape already halfway there. Draco quickly follows.

Snape knocks on the door and they wait. Soon the door opens by old Professor Lupin. Lupin moves aside and let the two men in. Draco looks around the old house. It was actually pretty clean. He was just waiting for some old white hair woman to come walking around the corner but instead, Professor Dumbledore appeared.

"Ah, Draco. So glad you came." Like I had a choice. "Now if you please, leave your things there and come with me." He turns around and leaves the same way he just came. Draco quickly puts this trunk and Riley down and follows Dumbledore. He goes down some steps that lead to what looks like the kitchen. Dumbledore motions for Draco to sit down at the long table so he did. Dumbledore sits across from him and just looks at him for what seems like hours but is really just seconds. He takes in a deep breath and starts.

"Draco, I don't know if you are aware or not, but the threat of Voldemort is getting worse. Not only has he disappeared but he is calling upon his Death Eaters to have their children join sooner than what is normally expected of them." Dumbledore looked at him worriedly.

"So, what does that have to do with me?" He asks moodily.

"So you mean to say that you do not know your father is a Death Eater?" He asks.

Draco didn't answer. He knows deep down that his father is indeed a Deatheater; he just doesn't want to believe it.

"I'll take that silence as a yes. Since this is all happening I have brought certain students who are in great danger of becoming Deatheaters and others that will help those particular students out. I am afraid to say that I believe that you are one of the students that are going to be forced into becoming a Death Eater against your will and I also believe that you do not want to live that life. However, if I am wrong in my assumption then you are free to leave here at anytime." He gets up to leave but goes behind Draco and places a hand on his shoulder. "But, I believe deep in my heart that you want to be here. I'll leave you here to think things over and when you figure out what you want to do, I'll be upstairs." Then he leaves.

Draco sits there with his face in his hands thinking for a long time. Dumbledore's right, I don't want to become a Death Eater. How much sense does it make to follow someone like Voldemort when I don't believe in what he's doing. And what is up with other students being here to help me? How the hell are they suppose to know what I'm going through? Why would anyone want to help me anyway? I haven't been exactly nice to anyone in that school. I wonder who else is here? He checks his watch and notice it is almost 5:30 so he gets up and goes upstairs.

As Draco reaches the top step he sees what looks like Harry Potter and Ron Weasley going upstairs. Great to see the lovebirds are here. He looks around and sees Dumbledore in a room off to his left. He walks in and waits for Dumbledore to say something but he doesn't.

"I've decided that I'm going to stay here, if that's still okay Professor." Draco says.

"Of course it's okay for you to stay here." Dumbledore says with a smile. "Your things have already been taken upstairs. Your room is on the third floor."

"Third floor? Aren't there only two floors?" Draco asks.

"Actually there are five floors. Your room is the fourth door on the right."

Draco shakes his head and sets off for the stairs by the front door and makes his way to the third floor. As he reaches the landing he goes down the hall counting the doors until he reaches the fourth door on his right. He hesitates for a second then opens the door. What he sees is a dark room, almost everything in it black, a single double bed, two dressers, and a table with two chairs. Riley is sitting on top of the dresser looking at Draco. He smiles, walks over to her, and scratches her behind the ears.

"Seems like you're making yourself at home." Draco says to her. She hooted in reply. "Looks like we're going to be here for awhile, Riley. Guess we should make ourselves at home." He walks over to the bed and lays down on two of the four pillows. He notices the pillows have a sensual fragrant to them. The sent makes a warm, pleasant felling go throughout his body. He rolls to his side taking in the sweet smell. There must have been a girl who used these pillows last. I could stay here for the rest of my life smelling this sent. Slowly Draco drifts off to sleep still smelling the sweet sent of the mystery woman who laid here before he did.

The door opens to Draco's room by none other than Harry Potter. Harry looks in and sees that Draco is sleeping so he closes the door instead of waking him up for dinner. The rest of the house eats dinner while Draco sleeps.