This is a new story. Don't judge me; I know the other ones aren't finished. But I like Harry Potter better. I also give thanks to my friends for pushing me to publish this!

This chapter has been rewritten as of Sept. 2013.

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Chapter One- A Change of Heart

She held him by the hand as she skipped up to the seventh floor, dragging him along. His anxiety grew as his pace slowed when they reached the middle of the corridor where a large tapestry normally hung. The sound of their echoing footsteps hushed as they stood in front of an intricate door. This particular door only showed itself to those who wanted to learn, who need to defend themselves from the darkness that plagued their world.

"Are you sure about this Luna? They won't exactly appreciate you sneaking a snake into the lions den." The normally calm and collected Slytherin Prince was looking worse for wear as his now shaggy white blond hair fell into his eyes.

"Of course, Draco. If you're worried about the Nargles I've brought a cork necklace just for you. Besides, there are more than just Griffindors inside." Luna's dreamy tone was not very reassuring, the fact that her friends would hex him once they caught sight of him. To them, Draco Malfoy was someone to hate, but by some miracle Luna Lovegood saw him as someone to trust.

"That doesn't exactly make me feel better, Luna…" murmured Draco hesitantly.

He wouldn't even have been in this situation if it wasn't for his mother.

When You-Know-Who returned at the end of last year, his mother knew his father would return to His service. She had readied divorce papers and moved over half of the family's fortunes to her personal vaults without his father's knowledge.

She had even sat him down to explain the horrors his father had committed under You-Know-Who.

It was as if he saw the man who raised him in another light. He wasn't just the man who taught him to ride a broom, but the man who had broken so many families beyond repair.

The divorce was finalized within two weeks; it paid off being one of the last living members of the Black family not wanted for murder or in Azkaban. Mother moved them to a villa near the village of Ottery St. Catchpole. She managed to get Draco to agree to see a Mind Healer to rid him of Father's evil influence. It paid off, he felt remorse for just about each decision he had ever made in his youth. Draco had taken to wondering the grounds of his new home, going deep into the woods on some days to clear his mind.

The woodland areas themselves held a soothing kind of magic, enough to calm his, at times, raging temper. There, deep within the undergrowth, he ran into Luna, who was doing some exploring of her own.

They grew closer as he apologized for his years of cruelty towards her and she showed him the secrets of the forest land he owned. He changed nearly his entire self, but thankfully for the better. At this moment Draco wasn't confident in his agreement to join the young Lovegood in learning from Dumbledore's Army, led by his now former arch-enemy Harry Potter.

Especially with the fact knowing none of the other three houses there would accept his presence. But as Luna looked at him with her hopeful silvery eyes he remembered why he was standing in front of the room that held most of the people who despised his very being. He snapped out of his revere as Luna tightened her grip on their linked hands, it was now that he looked up at the seemingly looming, dark door before him. Luna lifted her hand and placed it on the door knob, she pushed open the door and there was no running now. She walked ahead of him as he dropped her hand and stayed in the doorway. A voice sounded in front of them and drew his eyes away from the girl in front of him.

"Luna! There you are. Where have you been? You've never been late to a single meeting before," Neville Longbottom question the small blonde Ravenclaw who, along with the door, blocked him from view. As she fully entered the room and pulled Draco's arm to being him inside to close the door, Neville's eyes widened and his wand snapped to attention. A curse on his lips as he stared down the blonde, Neville spoke only to Luna but did not remove his eyes from the young Malfoy. "Luna, get away and go find Harry or the others. A snake seems to have slithered in behind you."

At his command Luna only cocked her head in confusion, as to question why anyone would want her to move away from Draco. She stayed stationary and spoke to Neville in her calming, serene tone, "I thought I had informed all of you that I would be bringing someone along with me. Harry even said I could invite anyone willing to learn how to fight against Voldemort and his Death Eaters." Draco surprised himself when he had no reaction to the name that struck fear into the heart of his own father. Longbottom didn't lower his wand even a centimeter and eventually others had noticed the newcomers and some went to fetch the Golden Trio.

It seemed like a stampede had sounded in the few seconds it took Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny to reach the front of the room. The four of them had their wands drawn and pointed at the Slytherin who had entered the proverbial lion's den. All the other members stood crowding them in curiosity.

"It seems that the Wrackspurts have entered the room and invaded everyone's brains," she turned to Harry, "I believe he should start learning as everyone else did the basics of course. Don't you agree?" She turned her body so she could visibly grab Draco's hand, then she started to drag him towards the other side of the room. "Come Draco, we need to find something to repel the Wrackspurts."

She waltzed, quite literally, to the other side of the room. Halfway there they were stopped by Mr. Ron Weasley who was scarlet faced and standing in their path. He managed to push the two blondes away from each other and pulled Draco up by the collar as he stood between them.

"I don't know what you think you're doing here Malfoy, but you better get out now before you become a ferret for the second time in your life." Malfoy opened his mouth to make an angry retaliation when Ginny came from behind them and attempted to force her brother to drop the other boy's collar.

"Oh, come off it Ronald. Luna obviously trusts him, so why don't you give him the benefit of the doubt first before you go off and make a prat of yourself?" As Luna's best friend Ginny was privy to the fact that the two had begun dating during the summer. Ron's ears burned as he roughly dropped Draco onto his feet.

"Now, why don't we allow them to explain before you decide to hex him, hmm?" At that, Ron had been successfully cowed and stomped off to throw a few spells at one of the practice dummies not too far from them. Hermione rushed to his side and seemed to be scolding him further as he tried to concentrate on sending a disarming spell.

Harry had finally reached them and just stood there. He looked Luna in the eye and only asked her one question. "Are you absolutely sure we can trust him?" At her nod he turned to Draco and held his hand out to shake, "Welcome to Dumbledore's Army."

Luna's proud smile was blinding.

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Yay! Better now! Sept. 2013.