Of all the Ministry's punishments, this was the worst. Sure, being the test guinea pig for the Department of Mysteries was awful, but this, this is barbaric. No man, certainly not he, Draco Malfoy, should be forced to expose himself in front of the woman he loves.
Not that kind of expose. He could do that with ease and skill, but feelings and therapy, not so much. He still couldn't believe, that, with all her talents, Hermione "Genius" Granger became a therapist for the Ministry's employees. More so, he couldn't believe he was forced to see her about something as small as severe trauma to the brain or some nonsense like that. He felt fine.
His supposed trauma, had come about in a workplace/prison sentence accident. After the war, the Malfoy family had been tried and found guilty. His father had been given the dementor's kiss without much argument among the jury. His mother is spending 6 years in Azkaban. He however, only spent a month there and was then released to help the Department of Mysteries as part of his parole. His fantasy of cleaning tables and doing chores was short lived.
Draco was given what some would call a prestigious position, or others, that knew far better, would call a death sentence. The Department needed help exploring the force of love. His torture began with a "confidential" questionnaire. In reality, a woman in a dark blue robe strapped him into a chair and blindfolded him. She then performed a spell that, he supposed, allowed her to read all of his secrets. Immediately afterwords, she giggled. She giggled so hard she poked him in the eye when removing his blindfold. When he asked why she was being so rude, she just shoved a piece of paper in his hands and hiccuping, left the room. Draco reclined in the chair and looked at the paper. His worst nightmare had come true.
Draco Malfoy never intended to love Hermione Granger. He only wanted to hate her. He tried his best to do so. And now, someone he didn't know found out that he was in love with the person who should have been, but never was, his enemy. Draco's hands started to shake slightly. However, when his new supervisor found him, Draco was the portrait of calmness. Draco had been assigned to be the test subject of all the Department's study in the love room. A few months later, Draco was undergoing a test when the tester spoke the spell incorrectly and hit him with something that made him black out.
Hermione was going to help him, or so he was told. His supervisor told him to keep his work confidential when talking to her. The irony was not lost on him. He knew that their was know way she could help if he couldn't even be a little honest with her. But therapy was definitely the worst part of his punishment.