Title: Worse Than The Killing Curse.
Rated: T - Coz I'm paranoid!
NO SLASH!
A/N : After the first chapter the majority of the story will be written from Harry or Snape's point of view. Maybe a few parts from others but not many, anyway... Just a taster.
Please enjoy!
Draco thought the spell would only have the effect as if a muggle had shot him with a paintball. Draco was wrong. Very wrong. NO SLASH.
Chapter One.
"Ten points says I can hit Potter's Gryffindor pin!" Draco yelled. His idiot friends cheered around him. The monkeys' game of "Gunfire" had become quite popular among the fourth year Slytherins.
Draco usually won, given that he called how many points were awarded for each shot. He aimed at an unsuspecting Harry who was barely conscious. He had been awake all night messing about with Ron, Dean and Seamus. It was fun but not worth the homework Snape gave them for their lack of sense in the corridors. It was 200 hundred lines, for the next day! Completely unfair, Ron mentioned. 28 times.
Draco muttered a spell he'd found in an ancient book of his father's. It hit the very centre of the pin. Harry nearly fell off the bench, and he would have if Hermione hadn't caught. The spell had knocked him out! It did wake Ron up though. And to make matters worse Snape was heading this way. Ron desperately wanted to tell him to sod off and they had more important things to worry about but Hermione gave him one of her 'looks'.
"Twenty says I can do it again!" Draco jeered. The animals grunted in encouragement, if he didn't get it, he lost twenty points. That put him behind Pansy Parkinson, who was hot on his heels for scores.
He aimed and casted the same spell, it would have hit the target perfectly if Snape hadn't walked in front of it. He was kindly reminding the four Gryffindor's about the lines, I must not run in corridors, I must not throw hexes around, I must stay in bed at night and the last one for fun, I must not mess with Professor S. Snape. 50 of each.
The spell hit Snape full force and he toppled over to the floor. Ron lowered Harry's head onto the bench and made sure Snape was still breathing. He looked about for the source of the spell and he discovered a shocked looking Malfoy at the Slytherin table. That rat, he was palying Gunfire again. He only just learned what a gun was. Hermione and Ginny ran out of the hall to get Madame Pomfrey, the urgency for Harry's sake.
The full hall had went silent for a few seconds when the THUD of Snape's fall but then the usual chatter started up again at all four tables. However, a certain group of Slytherins were uncharacteristically quiet. All thinking about what Draco had just done.
Most wands would be checked to see what the last spell was. Draco quickly transformed his goblet into a rat and back to clear him but plenty of people had saw him cast the spell. Plenty of people would turn him in for house points. And plenty of people wanted revenge on Draco Malfoy. He was pretty sure Weasley and Granger would suspect him for hitting Harry, and they would accuse him of hitting Snape.
It wasn't Snape he was worried about, he would just yell at him. There would be any points taken from his house. That could be classed as attacking a teacher. Was it an attack? Was it a playful spell? Was it defensive? Dumbledore and McGonagall would poke their noses in and deliver punishment themselves. How severe would it be?
Although Draco didn't know what he'd done, that wouldn't spare him. It would only gain him more punishment. He could already hear his father "Who in the world is stupid enough to use a spell when they didn't know what it was?" Draco was, obviously.
Draco had a vague idea about what it would do but not exact and even that wasn't right.
Draco thought the spell would only have the effect as if a muggle had shot him with a paintball. Draco was wrong. Very wrong.
Snape was headed for a very unpleasant future. A very unpleasant one indeed
A/N : Just a littel taster :) What kind of curse was it? OoOoOoOo…. If you want to know mail me! Or wait until the next chapter. Should I continue? Let me know with a review, okay? Please&ThankYou!