Note: set in the summer after o.w.l.s. Glimpses at life in the Granger and Malfoy homes. malfoy is OC, but I'd like to think thats the kind of person he would be , when he's alone with his father.
(disregard the fact Hermione got her results at the burrow)
* I don't own hermione, I wished I owned draco...:p, but JKR owns these characters and she's stinkin' rich and laughing at our obsession. I don't own the song either, that belongs to alansis morrisette.
"Coming in second to a mudblood! Failing to restrain that potter brat and his friends! If you had done your job the ministry would be none the wiser to the dark lord's rising presence, you are weak and unworthy of the Malfoy name!" Lucios spat cold hateful words at the cowering blond teen.
"I tried my best father, I did everything you told me to!!!" the boy pleaded his voice rising " you said you would love me If I did what you wanted! Please father!!". Lucios grimaced as if the sight of Draco begging disgusted him, which it did.
"Sometimes is never quite enough. If you're flawless, then you'll win my love. Don't forget to win first place. Don't forget to keep that smile on your face. Be a good boy. Try a little harder. You've got to measure up, and make me prouder. How long before you screw it up. How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up. With everything I do for you, the least you can do is keep quiet.
A woman stood in a very average kitchen holding a thick old piece of parchment, " so 'o's are the best right dear?"
"yes mum." a teenage girl with very bushy hair stood wide eyed nodding her head vigorasly.
"and what is an 'E'?" the girl opened her mouth to speak but her mother cut her off "Quite obviously is is not the best. You know how your father and I feel Hermione. We simply expect the best from you."
"Mum the professor wa-"she was cut off again.
"THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!" The woman slapped the girl hard across the face. She fell to the ground and cried, looking up at her mother. "Be a good girl. You've gotta try a little harder. That simply wasn't good enough, to make us proud.. I'll live through, you, I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I. Compared to him compared to her. I'm doing this for your own damn good! You'll make up for what I blew, What's the problem... why are you crying."
Both very different parents, stood in their homes, their children cowering before them. Both parents said the very same thing,
"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect"
~over~
Kia Ora! hope you liked it, the idea just hit me and I manged to write it pretty fast, so It's probably crap! lol so please reveiw!! reviews are like crack and I want to be addicted!! (drugs are bad!) sirius-ly tho cookies for reviews! Hei kona!