okay, here's chapter one!
Disclaimer: I love disclaimers, especially funny ones, anyway, mine isn't funny, alas, I couldn't think of anything, so, here: I don't own any of this, except the plot, I think, but I do know for sure that I don't own Harry Potter and any of it's characters, or stuff like that, I'm sorry if I borrowed from your story, I never do that intentionally, and a lot of stuff sounds the same, but isn't, anyway, that's all!
Chapter one:
Okay, so maybe my life is a little better than it was, a little better, not a lot, just a little, seriously… Okay, so it's a lot better, in fact, my life is fantastic now, I mean, I've got the girl of my dreams, awesome best friends, a beautiful mother, a huge family, and a world that just exudes peace.
Now, I suppose you're wondering who on earth I am, and what on earth I'm talking about, let me explain. My name is Draco Malfoy, I used to have a horrible life, no friends, just cronies, everyone expected me to be evil, and I didn't want to be, my father controlled my every move, as well as my mother's, and, might I add, he was one of the people who expected me to be evil, so, I was evil to everyone who wasn't in Slytherin, even the people I liked, which was basically everyone I knew that wasn't in Slytherin, even Hagrid, actually, especially Hagrid, I love that man, he's fantastic! But I had to be horrible to him too. You can blame my father for that, everyone else does. Anyway, back to what I was saying, I was destined to serve the dark lord or see my mother die, and then go through lots of torture myself before I was killed, slowly, but, as you can tell, I didn't die, and neither did my mother, though, my father got thrown Azkaban, which is nice, let me tell you, he was pretty much the main reason my world wasn't at peace then, the other two were the dark lord, and everyone around me who hated me for what I appeared, and not who I am, only Dumbledore trusted me and actually like the real me, and he still does.
Oh yes, I suppose I should start at the beginning, where every good story apparently starts; at least that's what Hermione told me.
go back in time, to September 1st, to Draco's first year. Switch to third person view
As the hat yelled "Slytherin!" Draco took it off and stood up, he grinned inwardly, he didn't particularly like any of the Slytherins, but if he had been put in any other house, his father would have hurt him, badly, no need to elaborate. Draco had had to forcibly make the hat put him in Slytherin, and the hat had actually tried to trick him into going into Gryffindor, but Draco firmly told him that he didn't want to get beaten when he went home because he got put in any other house than Slytherin, especially Gryffindor. The hat remained silent for a second, and Draco was wondering what was going on, when the hat started sobbing, it was terrifying, I mean, this had all happened in the course of a few seconds, and then the hat just up and wails it's head off inside his brain! 'What is wrong with you??' the hat just replied that whenever it sat on the heads of children who got beaten, and hexed, it felt so horrible, that it started crying, Draco just shook his head and said, 'look, just yell Slytherin, and be done with it!' The hat nodded, and yelled out "Slytherin" and continued sniffling as Draco put in down.
Eventually Dumbledore found out about his secret, when he was halfway through second year and helped him out, showing him that there were always ways for him and his mother to escape from Voldermort and come to the light side once Voldermort came back, at that draco had looked up in surprise, and Dumbledore nodded wisely (A/N when is Dumbledore not wise???) and said, "yes, my boy, I'm afraid that Voldermort is not completely gone, and in order for him to be entirely destroyed, he must first come back."
Draco just sat there, but from that day on, he was on the side of the Light, even when there was no need for sides, he and his mother, who was a sweet woman, but, as was mentioned before, was controlled by her husband. Draco now merely needed to keep up appearances until the right time, and he often went to Dumbledore with his problems, as the old man had made it quite clear to him that at any time draco needed him, he would be there, it was fantastic, Draco felt so much happier, even if he knew that darker times were to come, he also knew that the light always won, and that he was on the winning side. It almost made him laugh out loud.
The next year he noticed Her, something must have happened over the summer, because she was different, there was more of a fire around her that was more than just books, but apparently nobody else noticed, that she was more beautiful, that she had a little more new confidence, that even if she wasn't a star, she was most definitely the beautiful water reflecting it. But Draco was fine with that, he didn't want to have anyone else notice her, he wanted to have her all to himself, it was amazing, he had never felt that way about anyone before, and immediately regretted calling her a mudblood, even if it was vital for his cover, he just wanted her laughing eyes, to be laughing when they turned on him, not fierce and unforgiving, though he did like the lioness-like look she had, it made her look like a fire, water, and air goddess all at once.. switch to Draco's point of view It was amazing. Like that one time right before, during, and after she hit me when we were down near Hagrid's hut, I was originally there to watch Hagrid, I just couldn't stand to be cooped up in the Slytherin common room when one of Hagrid's beloved pets was getting killed, and it was all my fault, and I felt like I had to watch, to watch how much I was hurting Hagrid, because I felt I deserved to feel like scum, then she showed up with Harry and Ron, or Ronald, as I call him to annoy him, it's fun, anyway, she showed up with Harry and Ron in tow, and I had to put up my horrible, cold mask again, we got into an argument, courtesy of my stupid mask, and my mask got punched, really, it was almost funny, if it hadn't hurt so much. Apparently Buckbeak didn't get his knacker knocked off (A/N heheheh, that sounded cool), Dumbledore told me later, about Hermione and Harry's little time travel escapade, it sounded fantastic.
Finally, in Fourth year, it happened, he came back, the dark lord had risen, it was really creepy, but before that, was the Tri-wizard tournament, and the Yule Ball, at the Yule Ball She walked in the most fantastic dress, did I mention that over the summer she changed yet again? And, yet again, I was the only one who noticed, she just kept getting more beautiful, and I would have bet my fortune that one day she would just show up for breakfast and wow everyone. Thank goodness the Yule Ball was only one night, I could barely control myself when everyone started staring at her, I had gotten so used to thinking of her as mine, that it was annoying to have everyone staring at her, but she went back to her oversized school uniform, and then nobody noticed her, I'm not sure which annoyed me more, actually, that people had kept looking at her at the Yule Ball, or that after words, when she went back to her still beautiful self, nobody noticed her at all, it was like they didn't care about who she was, just what she looked like, it made me furious. But anyway, after the third task of the Tri-Wizard tournament, he-who-must-not-be-named-and-won't-just-shut-up-and-die-already, came back, and killed Cedric Diggory, which was too bad, because Diggory wasn't that bad of a chap, and almost got Harry, which would have been bad, to say the least. On horribly annoying thing though, is that almost nobody believed Harry when he said Voldermort was back, they made fun of him and everything, endangering everyone just so that they could keep their perfect little worlds (more like bubbles) intact.
Then in fifth year, the most horrible woman came from the ministry to teach, and was horrible to Harry, and everyone else who believed him, then was the only time I was ever happy to have a mask, especially when I saw Harry's hand.
Soon the horrible woman recruited me for some sort of stupid 'Get Harry Potter' club, even though we didn't call it that, only I did in my head. She even got Dumbledore to leave for a while! I swear I hate that woman; I did then, and always will. Pretty much the only good part of that year was with Fred and George's spectacular exit, I still laugh about it whenever I think of it. Then, Harry and DA when to fight the dark lord in the department of mysteries, and my uncle Sirius died, or fell through the curtain, though, I have some good news about that, but it can wait. Anyway, DA and the Order of Phoenix managed to nab quite a few Death Eaters, including my father, which made me quite happy, now all I had to worry about was the dark lord. That year ended sadly, but at least the wizarding world knew that the dark lord was back.
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Okay, please tell me how that was; this is my first fan fic, so please, no flames, just constructive criticism, though my story isn't fully developed yet, so there are quite a few things left to be discovered… please read and review, I would really appreciate it!!!
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