It had been four months since Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter had got together, and they couldn't be happier. Their friends were pleased for them as well, although it had taken Ron a little time to adjust to this new Malfoy. His opinion of Malfoy had never been exactly high. But now, he had accepted Harry's decision, and made civil conversation with Draco whenever he was with Harry. This was a lot. The other pupils thought it was cute, and even the teachers gossiped in the staffroom about Hogwarts' hottest new romance. Everybody was content. Except for two girls…
Pansy Parkinson and Cho Chang were secretly furious about their ex-boyfriends' relationship. Cho regretted the day she had chosen to test Harry's feelings for her, while Pansy was furious that a lowly half-blood such as Potter could steal away what was rightfully hers. Cho schemed and sulked, throwing clumsy curses at Draco whenever she saw him. Pansy meanwhile did everything she could to seduce Draco away from Harry. But he ignored her advances, and she was reduced to bribing him with sweets and Galleons whenever she saw him. Still he would pay no attention.
One Friday morning, Cho was at the Ravenclaw table, staring angrily at the back of Draco's head, when the post owls soared overhead. Her sleek brown eagle owl dropped a note in her lap. It was from Pansy.
Chang,
Meet me in your Transfiguration classroom at midnight.
Pansy.
Pansy caught her eye, and Cho nodded. She knew that Pansy was just as furious as Cho. If anybody could help her split Harry and Malfoy up, it would be her.
Draco and Harry meanwhile, were blissfully unaware of the conspiracy forming under their noses. They spent every possible moment together, and seemed to be growing closer by the day. On school days, they had only Potions together, but they met up at lunch time, whenever they had a free period, and at night time.
This particular day, they met up outside the trophy room at eleven, and started to make their way to the library, under Harry's invisibility cloak. They tended to go to the library as it was big, private, and Filch didn't usually prowl around there.
They hadn't been going for very long, when Draco tripped over a school bag that somebody had dropped in the middle of the corridor.
"Draco! Are you okay?" Harry cried, hurrying over to his fallen boyfriend.
"Ouch… I hurt my ankle. Bloody bag. Incendio!"
The bag burst into flames, and Harry had to put it out with water from his wand. He then helped Draco to climb onto his back. Draco could probably have walked, but he wasn't complaining!
Harry carried Draco all the way to the library. But when they got there, somebody had locked the door. Draco tried to open it using Alohomora, but it wouldn't open.
"Filch must have realised we were meeting here." grumbled Harry.
"Where shall we go now?"
"Uh, how about the Trophy Room?"
"Or we could just go in there."
Draco pointed into an empty classroom opposite. Harry shrugged.
"You're the boss!"
Harry swung Draco off his back onto a desk, and started to kiss his neck. Draco sighed, pulling Harry on top of him. They kissed passionately for a few minutes, before they heard a noise outside the room, and fell silent to listen.
It sounded like footsteps.
"Filch!" hissed Draco. They quickly pulled the Cloak over themselves, and shrank into a corner. Somebody came in, but it wasn't Filch.
"Cho!" whispered Harry. Sure enough, Cho Chang looked nervously around, and then Pansy followed her in. They appeared to be arguing. Harry and Draco were about to reveal themselves, when they caught their own names in the discussion.
"Jesus, Chang! Aren't you meant to be in Ravenclaw?" Pansy snapped angrily. Cho went red.
"I don't understand. Can you explain again?"
Pansy sighed, rolling her eyes.
"Look, I slip Love Potion into Draco's food. He falls madly in love with me. I lead him here. All you have to do is make sure Potter sees us. Potter and Draco split up. I get Draco. You get Potter. Bah-bum, the end, we all live happily ever after."
Harry and Draco looked at each other incredulously.
"As if I'd ever fall in love with that ugly cow," Draco whispered, as Cho agreed to do as Pansy asked.
"When?" Cho asked.
"Draco will be here on Sunday, at one o clock. PM. Make sure you get Potter here. I don't care how. Just do it."
Cho nodded, and the two girls left the room. Draco pulled off the cloak.
"Those scheming bitches!" he said angrily. Harry nodded.
"Well, we have to get them back. Any way we can." he said. "Just don't eat anything Pansy may have tampered with on Sunday."
"Hey, I have some Veritaserum that my father gave me!" Draco said excitedly. "But I only have enough for one person…"
Harry looked thoughtful. Then he snapped his fingers.
"I have some Chocolate Cauldrons with Love Potion in them!" he remembered.
"Brilliant!"
"One problem… they make the person who eats them fall in love with Romilda Vane."
Draco stared at him. Then he began to laugh.
"Even more brilliant!"
