The Beast

An: Hello everyone this is my rewrite on my Dramione flick, due to major writers as well as some unexpected and unpleasant things that have happened in my personal life I was forced to putting my writing on hold and I'm very sorry for those who have stuck with me while I've been absent for quite some time but I want you all to know that I plan on returning very soon in the meantime will be rewriting the chapters I previously posted to make them better for you guys.

Days before the Battle of Hogwarts

A dark storm raged outside the grounds of the Malfoy Manor, the Dark Lord sat in his throne like chair in the drawling room of the Malfoy Manor he converted into his headquarters. Fenrir Greyback, the menacing werewolf stood beside him in his human form as Voldemort gazed out the window. "Greyback, I think it's time for me to discuss my immense displeasure with the Malfoy family." the Dark Lord said to him absentmindedly as he continued to gaze out the window.

Fenrir chuckled darkly and bowed to his master and slowly back out of the drawling room to set off on his task. "My Lord?" his hollowed gazed narrowed at his second in command, the dark haired crazy woman Bellatrix Lestrange. "Fear not, my sweet Bella. Your beloved sister has caused me no ill will, I will not bring any harm to her." Voldemort stated in annoyance. Bellatrix casted her dark eyes downward, in terror. Their conversation had ended the moment Greyback returned in with the Malfoy family still in their pajamas.

"Leave us, Bella" the Dark Lord hissed at her as she scurried out the room with her head hung low pasting a worried gaze towards her sister, whom was holding on to her son's hand. "My Lord, do you need our assistance? The hour is quite late." Lucius Malfoy asked him in submissive tone as he bow his head. The Dark Lord scoffed at the tall blonde in front of him. "Ever the master of words, Lucius. I did not have Greyback summon you to me to have a linguistic lesson with you. There are three of you in this room and of you three, two of you in this room have failed me on several occasions and now you must be dealt with accordingly." the Dark Lord said with a bored sighed.

Then Voldemort wiped out his wand in the blink of an eye and pointed it the group, Narcissa gasped and held her son close to her. They both squeezed their eyes together, "CRUCIO!" the Dark Lord roared as Lucius fell to his knees screaming out in pain. "You have failed me for the last time Lucius! You had Harry Potter right here, in this very room! Yet you did nothing to summon me! NOTHING!" Voldemort shouted at the elder Malfoy and continued to torture him.

The spell that the Dark Lord cast was so power that it caused Lucius passed out on the floor, in his own bodily waste. Voldemort looked down at the unconscious man in front of him, his gaze full of disgust. "You are pathetic, unworthy of be a follower of mine. If it wasn't for your money you wouldn't even be alive." He said with a sadistic laugh and pushed the man away with his foot like you would kick a piece of dirty trash away from yourself.

"Greyback take him" Voldemort said to the beast of a man, Fenrir grabbed Draco and dragging him away from his mother. "NO! PLEASE NO! NOT MY BABY BOY!" His mother wailed and tried to hold on to his hand. "MOTHER!" Draco struggled to get away from the werewolf, but he was so much stronger than the werewolf. Voldemort pointed his wand at Narcissa, "Oh my dear, do not force your son to struggle this will make this much harder on you both" he said to her and nodded to the man.

"NO! PLEASE MY LORD! HAVE MERCY! PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON MY BOY!" she cried as she begged him and clung to the baggy robs of the Dark Lord. "Have mercy? My dear this is war, there is no mercy in times of war" his long bony fingers wrapped around her small chin. "Leave her alone!" Draco hissed at the Dark Lord. Voldemort looked at the young Malfoy in astonishment letting his mother go, "How dare you! You dare command me? I am your Lord! This will be your final outburst, I will make you bleed for that. Make home kneel, and hold his arms out Fenrir" The Dark Lord ordered the man, who did as instructed and as the Dark Lord conjured a whip from the end of his wand. Lord Voldemort raised his arm and with the crack of the whip slashed the young man across his chest.

Draco screamed out in agony and continued do so as the whip was brought down upon his chest ten more times till droplets of blood dripped on the marble floors. "No more please my Lord! No more!" Narcissa cried and begged the evil man in front of her. The Dark Lord grabbed a fist full if blonde hair, looking over the young man's face, "What do you think Greyback? Has the boy learn his lesson?" He asked the man with an vile laugh the werewolf let out a laugh as well. As the Dark Lord looked back on to Draco's face, Draco spat at the cruel man. The Dark Lord backed a away rubbing the spit out of his eyes.

Greyback punched Draco square in the jaw cracking it. He pulled Draco up by his neck and went to hit him again "NO! STOP PLEASE! DON'T HURT HIM!" Narcissa tried to push the beast away from her son. Greyback growled and shoved her to the floor hard enough to bruise her knees, "Enough! Out you" He huffed and kicked her away from himself. Voldemort had regained his sight, "Fenrir, pickup the boy. I'll teach you to spit in my face. Bite him Greyback! Do it!"

"NOOOOOO!" Narcissa cried out as she watched in horror when Greyback smirked and revealed his long canine fangs and bit down on the boys flesh between his neck and shoulder. Draco screamed at the top of his lung as the werewolf bit down harder, he struggled against the man's hold and tried to get away but it was too late the infection from the werewolves bit was already spreading rapidly down through his arm and had begun across his bloody chest.

Greyback's bite caused his victim's to become paralyzed, he let the young lord fall to the floor and wiped the blood from his face. Voldemort smiled evilly as the lady Malfoy crawled over to her son and pulled his head into her lap and stroked his fine blond hair.

"Oh Draco, oh my baby boy…what has he done to you" Narcissa cried and rocked her son as there was nothing else she could do. Narcissa watched in horror as her son's veins turned black in color as the virus spread through his body. Sweat started to break out over his body, and he began to shake and thrash, "Draco, my son" she shrieked. "Help! Please help him!"

"HELP!"

Present Day

Draco woke with a jolt on the small uncomfortable prison cot at Wizengamot at the Ministry of Magic, he rubbed his tired eye and the bite mark over his left shoulder. It brought him throbbing pain whenever the moon was about to reach its fullness, "Malfoy, Draco" the guard called out his name in a bored tone. Thank Merlin it's about time, Draco thought to himself as he stood up from his cot. "That's me down here!" Draco shouted and smoothed out his tattered grey and back prison suit. No reason not to look presentable, Draco thought to himself.

Draco could hear the sigh of the guard and could smell the man's terrible breath as he walked closer to his cell. What the hell did this guy eat for breakfast, Draco nearly gagged at the smell. The guard stood outside his cell and held a small parchment out in front of him and squinted in the dim light, "Malfoy, Draco?" he had to look up at Draco in question, who now stood 6'3. No longer a skinny little boy but an adult in the wizarding world. "Yes, I am Draco Malfoy" the guard nodded and slowly rolled up the parchment. "Very well, turn facing the wall hand behind you head interlocking your fingers" the guard stated simply.

"Is that really necessary?" Draco asked him, the guard pulled out his wand. "Would you rather I tell the Minister, that you would not cooperate and should be sent to Azkaban?" Draco held his hands up in surrender and turned to face the wall and put his hands behind his head, Fair enough. The guard tapped his wand on the iron bars of his cell and they disappeared, he took a slow apprehensive step into the cell. He is afraid of me, he could hear the guard's heart beating a mile a minute and smell hissed fear. He should be I am a werewolf after all.

The guard grabbed Draco's wrist and placed him in iron shackles behind his back as he was pulled out of his cell. The guard lead him down strange stairways and hall ways of the prison, till they came to a large oak door, where they met two more guards, "Name?" the half-giant of a man's deep voice boomed over them. "Malfoy, Draco. Prisoner number 0171-8503-D, scheduled trail in court room C-4 at half eleven" the smaller guard who pulled Draco from his cell stated.

"Very well" the half-giant said and pushed the doors open to a bright white light blinded them and the smaller guard pushed Draco inside.

Weasley House

Hermione brushed her fingers through her smooth hair once more before starting the day, "You look fine 'Mione" Ginny said to her as she lay across her bed flipping though the latest Witches Weekly. Hermione smile at her through the mirror. "Are you sure this looks ok?" Hermione ask her best girl-friend turning to face her. The red head rolled her eyes and looked up from her trashy magazine, "You look fine. As a matter of fact you look hot" Ginny said hopping off her bed, and gesturing to her outfit which consisted of a short tight gray pin striped skirt, silk crimson top and black Mary Jane's. "Beside you're going to court not on a date…but if you happen upon a handsome wizard at least you came prepared" Ginny wiggled her eye brows suggestively.

Hermione rolled her eyes at her sex crazed friend, "After your bother I have sworn off men for good" Hermione said referring to her half an hour relationship with Ronald Weasley the youngest male in the Weasley clan. She assumed they were a couple after their hot yet awkward snogg-fest in the Chamber of Secrets but that didn't stop him from getting totally drunk and fucking Lavender Brown at the victory party they held after the Final Battle.

"Mione, just because my brother is a total and complete idiot doesn't mean that other men are. You never know you just might find love in a place you never expected" Ginny said to her fixing her blouse. "You got it easy, Harry practically confessed his love for you on multiple occasions, and proposed to you at the V-day party" Hermione said grabbed her black clutch purse.

"Hermione, trust me when I say things with Harry aren't always easy. He is the Savior of the Wizarding World for Merlin sake's I'll have to hex whores off of him left and right for the rest of our lives." Ginny joked. Hermione smiled and laughed, "But you wouldn't have him any other way, now would you? Hermione asked.

Ginny nodded, "You are correct I wouldn't have him any other way." Ginny said in admiration and looked down at her pear shaped engagement ring. "This ring is gorgeous, though isn't?" Ginny said with a girlish giggle.

"I swear she loves that ring more than me" Harry chuckled as he stood in the doorway and leaned against the frame, his green eyes shown bright with love. Harry no longer needed to wear his thin metal glasses, he whether to a mugged eye doctor and they gave him contacts as he was always losing them or breaking them. Ginny smiled and walked over to him threw her arms around his neck and kissed his lip. Hermione look everywhere but at the couple, "Yuk, could you guys not do that in front of others it makes me want to barf, and mum made a great breakfast and all but I like it better when goes in not back out." Ron said as he visibly gaged at them.

Harry wrapped his arm around Ginny waist, "Better get used to it then, because this right here is pay back for all the time we have to watch you snog Lavender Brown." Ginny said to her older brother, whose face grew red with anger. "Whatever" he huffed and rolled his eyes at her. "Dad is waiting down stairs with the car for us" Ron added with a huff and hurried down to the stairs. Harry looked at his muggle watch, "I thought I'd never say this but he is right, we should get going we don't want to be late" Harry said and pulled Ginny down the stairs followed by Hermione.

They all piled into the small blue car Harry and Ron Flew back in their second year, Ron sat in the front seat while Harry, Ginny and Hermione squeezed into the back seat. "Everyone ready?" the Petrarch of the Weasley's asked them giving them a cheesy smile. Everyone nodded as Arthur started the car, which puttered to life and they took off down the dirt road of their home. "Right off we go!" Arthur said to them as he pressed the black button on the gear shifter and they were lifted into the air.

Arthur mashed the chrome button on the dash and the car became invisible to the muggles. "I love magic" Harry said with a big goof smile and they made their way to London. The all laughed and rolled there eyes at him.

Draco was lead into a vast court room, "Sit here and wait till the Minister calls your name" the small guard ordered, pushing Draco down on the bench. "Are we ready to begin with the sentencing?" the Minister asked the other members of the Wizengamot, who nodded to him.

"Alright then, Lady Malfoy on the count of torturing muggles, muggle-borns, half-bloods and pure-bloods the court finds you…Not guilty." Draco sighed in relief for his mother who stood in front of the new Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt. "On the count of consorting with Death Eaters this court finds you…Guilty"

Narcissa Malfoy closed her eyes and hung her head, "On the count of providing financial and political aid to this court finds you…Guilty" the Minister said and clears his throat as the court room broke out in harsh whispers. "Order… order please…now Lady Malfoy I have taken Mr. Potter's strong testimony into a count here on your case. You will be sentence to house arrest for six months after which you will place on magical probation for 2 years." Kingsley smacked his gavel on the desk and the guards unchained Narcissa Malfoy, she rubbed her aching wrists and spotted her son.

"Oh Draco" his mother smiled and ran over to him. Draco stood taller than her as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed his pale cheek "Are you alright?" she asked his as she hugged him tightly. Draco nodded to her. "No touching the prisoner ma'am" the guard said to her. "Just give us a moment for Merlin sake I haven't seen my mother in a month" Draco hisses harshly at the man. The guard began to reach for his wand.

"Malfoy, Draco!" the Minister calls out his name, the guard backs down slowly putting his wand away, and grabbed Draco's arm. "I'll see you later mother, I promise." Draco said to her with confidence as he was dragged in front of the Minister of Magic. "Mr. Malfoy you have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the murder of your Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, aiding Death Eaters and becoming a Death Eater. How do you pled?" the Minister looked down at him through his glasses.

"Not guilty" Draco said confidently, the Minister of Magic set down the parchments and looked down at the young man in front of him. "These are serious charges Mr. Malfoy I do hope you have proof to back up your plea. Let us began with conspiracy to commit murder and go from there shall we?" Draco nodded and cleared his throat.

"It was never my intention to kill anyone. I was ordered to do so by Voldemort" everyone visibly cringed at the sound of his name even Draco. "So if he told you to jump off a tower you would do it?" one of the male members of the court asked Draco with a scoff. "I think you would too, sir. If Voldemort had threated your family if you refused him." Draco answered, as the harsh whispers broke out over the room again.

"Order…order in the court…please. I think you've made your point Mr. Malfoy. Please let us continue I would like to be out of here by lunch time." Kingsley said to the two men. Draco nodded his head and cleared his throat once more. "As I was saying I never wanted to kill anyone, it was never my intention to harm anyone. I also…I also…never wanted to become a Death Eater. My father forced me to take the Dark Mark, my first mission was to fix the vanishing cabinet that would allow the Death Eaters into Hogwarts this would distract the staff and older students allowing me time to find and kill the Headmaster" Draco confessed sadly to the court.

"So you admit to aiding the Death Eaters!" the same man stated to Draco, who rolled his eyes and sighed. "Yes, I aided them. However I did not kill the Headmaster, when I had to face him…I couldn't kill him… Even when my mother's life hung in the balance I couldn't' do it…" Draco said to them honestly.

"Mr. Malfoy, if you claim that you had nothing to do with Albus Dumbledore's death then how did your wand case the killing curse?" the Minister asked him. Draco paled at the question, he couldn't throw his own Godfather under the bus. The man had raised him like his own son, Draco opened his mouth to speak.

"I believe I can answer that Minister" the voice of Harry Potter spoke up, "Ah Mr. Potter we get to hear from you again, please come down and take a seat" the Minister said proudly. Draco looked over his should to see Harry Potter his boyhood rival push his way down the steps, Draco noted that he brought the whole Potty party with him. Weaslette, Weasel and…wait who was the brunette beauty beside him…was that Granger.

Damn when did she get so fucking sexy, Draco mentally shook himself and tried to shake the thoughts of them together naked and alone running through his head. Draco felt the wolf in him rumbled to life at the suggestion, Focus Draco. Freedom first, and possible sex with Granger later. The wolf hummed to the promise,Draco tried to turn his attention back to his trial but the thoughts played over and over in his mind, "Mr. Potter do you swear to this court to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth or have your wand snapped?" the guard asked him.

"I solemnly swear." Potter said and stood next to Draco instead of sitting. "Back to the question at hand, Mr. Potter if you could shed some light on this matter." The man asked him Potter nodded, "Of course, I had just finished a mission with Professor Dumbledore. We heard a noise outside of the Astronomy tower doors, the Headmaster told me to go to my dorm room, but I stayed behind to see who it was I hid under winding stair case. I saw Draco pointing his wand at the Headmaster they were talking Draco was shaking he looked in distress, he kept saying he had to kill the Headmaster of (he) meaning Voldemort would kill his mother and himself. Then Professor Snape came up behind Draco and took his wand away from him, the Headmaster looked relieved but then Snape turned Draco's wand on him and said the killing curse" Potter said to them sadly.

"Thank you Mr. Potter. You may head back to your seat" the Minister said to him, Potter nodded and turn back to go to his seat, "Good luck, I hope that my statement helped you some." Harry whispered to Draco, who nodded and watched as he made his way back to the group. Draco's eyes landed back on Hermione as she shifted uncomfortably under his heavy gaze.

The Minister cleared his throat loudly, bring Draco's attention back to him. "Well Mr. Malfoy I think I have all I need to begin the sentencing process, the court will take a short recess." Kingsley said and struck his gavel on the desk and the members stood and left.

Draco sat down on the bench behind him. "You are not going to believe this 'Mione but I've caught Draco staring at you twice" Draco overheard the female Weasley softly squeal to her friend. "No way...you think?" he smiled to himself but softly cursed the red heads perceptiveness. "Yes way, the man has done it twice now. Once might have been an accident but not twice. Come on you've got to admit he has gotten hot, maybe time in jail changed him. Look at all his muscles" Ginny said suggestively to Hermione.

"Hey I'm sitting right here" Potter whined, Ginny let out a small chuckle, "Yes love I know, I'm just showing Hermione the hunk of man candy that was eyeing her like she was his dinner." she said sweetly to him. Potter rolled his eyes at his future wife, Draco turned his attention back to the Minister who had returned, "Mr. Malfoy please stand." He ordered to the blonde man.

Draco stood up from the bench, "After a tedious discussion, the members of the Wizengamot and I have come to a verdict, to which I will read now aloud for the court." The Minister cleared his throat and began, "On the count of conspiracy to commit murder we the members of the Wizengamot find you…Not guilty" Draco let out a sigh of relief and smiled. "On the count of murdering of Albus Dumbledore this court finds you…Not Guilty" the court room was in an uproar.

Shouts came from around the room.

"SLIANCE!...ORDER!...ORDER!" the Minister smack his gavel on his desk three times harder and harder each time he did so. "I will have order here in my court room!" the guards filed into the room, which seemed to calm everyone down I am hurry. "Now on the last two counts of aiding the Death Eaters and becoming one yourself the court funds you…guilty" Draco held his head up high he accepted his shame. He had made many mistakes in his youth, and now he was owning up to them.

"After taking your statement and the testimony of Mr. Potter, I feel that this sentencing is right and just. I sentence you to six months magical probation with time already served, you will also attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to re-take the last year of school that you have missed. Upon which you will pass all your N.E.W.T.S with flying colors, You shall not harm another student with: a wand, potion or anything that may deem dangerous to your fellow students. This court is abjured" Kingsley said with a sigh one last smack of his gavel.

The guards un-cuffed Draco's iron shackles, his mother rushed over to him and hugged him once more. "We did my Dragon we are free" she said to him and lead him out the door, where Draco caught one last glace at Hermione before they entered the lobby, "You remember you're other Aunt Tonks" Draco nodded and shook her small hand. "Why yes of course, thank you for coming" Draco said to her and smiled.

"I took the liberty of bring you some clothes to change into these are some of Ted's old clothes from when we first started dating, such a handsome man, even then." She said handed Draco the bag full of clothes. "I'll be just a moment" he said and hurried to the bathroom to change out of his dirty prison rags.

"I can't believe they let the slimly git off with probation and time served. Its dragon shite is what it is" Draco heard Ron's voice bellow through the bathroom door. "Take it easy Ron" Harry said with an annoyed sigh. I take it this conversation has been going on for quite some time, Draco thought to himself as he pulled on the clothes his Aunt gave him. "The whole Ministry has become weak, when let convicted Death Eaters roam out streets and attend school with us. Come on mate you know the Ministry has no spine" Ron huffed in anger.

"Just leave it be what's done is done nothing can change it now, it's time to let the past stay in the past. We all need to move forward, Ron." Harry said to him as Draco shrugged on his Uncle's gray vest and opened the bathroom stall. "See! Look what I told you! They are everywhere now!" Ron hissed and reached for his wand. Harry put his hand on Ron's arm, "Stop it Ron!"

Draco clear his throat, "Potter" Draco said and stood in front of him, "I just wanted to thank you, for what you did back there for me and my mother. If not for you I think we both know I wouldn't be standing here." Draco stuck out his hand. Harry looked shocked but shook his old nemesis hand, "Your welcome, Malfoy." Draco began to walk away, "Hey Malfoy, tell your mother I said hello and thank her for saving my life."

Draco gave a slight smiled with a little nodded and left the bathroom when he collided with a feminine body. His strong arms wrapped around the female figure as he dropped his bag full of rags. "I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going…" Draco looked into the eyes of none other than Hermione Granger, the famed brains behind the Golden Trio. "No…it was my fault really." Draco said and watched as she bent down and slowly picked up his bag.

Draco's eyes immediately went to her rounded bottom that looked good enough to take a bite out of his eyes quickly meet back to her eyes as she turned around to handed him his bag. "Your bag" she said as he uncharacteristically hugged to himself, "Thank you" Draco he muttered with a slight smile as they both stared at each other. "'Mione? What happened are you ok?" Ron Weasley's voice broke them from there trance. Draco turned and hurried back to his mother but not before he looked over his shoulder at the young witch, who was till watching him. As they left the Ministry building they were bombarded by reporters.

"Mr. Malfoy how does it feel to be a free man?"

"Mr. Malfoy what were the conditions like on the inside?"

"How do you feel about your father's sentencing? Do you think it was fair and just?"

"Mr. Malfoy do you have anything to say?"

"YES! JUST LEAVE US ALONE!" He yelled at them and stormed off with his mother and Aunt behind him.

AN: well that was my first chapter rewritten, so how did you like it? I will hopefully it was better than the first be updating very soon with the next rewritten chapter. Don't forget to review! And thank you again to those who stuck with me!