A/N: This is my third attempt at a Harry/Draco fic, I hope you like it! It's set in 6th year and Ginny and Luna's 5th year. Please tell me in a review whether you want me to continue this story or whether I should just take it off fanfic all together! P.s, I don't know how to spell McGonnagle!
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First day back; always a nightmare! No matter how much you plan how to get through the packed platform you always seem to get squashed.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were making their way through the crowd easily; everybody moved out of the way so he and his friends could get through, well, they owed him that at the least, he'd saved all of them during the summer holidays. For once in his life Harry couldn't be modest, it was no piece of cake slaying a near immortal megalomaniac. The trio got themselves safely seated on the Hogwarts express before they started to chatter about their sixth year.
"Are you sure? Seriously, that could be dangerous!" The teens heard voices from outside their carriage, Harry stood up to see if it was anyone they liked, you couldn't tell the boys from the sound of their voices anymore, they no longer sounded like Mickey Mouse's long lost cousins. Harry slid the door open and spoke to one of the people outside.
"Oh, it's just you Malfoy, what's up? No Voldie to tell you who to kill? Shame, we thought we'd got rid of you!" Harry and his two best friends chuckled; Blaise Zabini didn't seem to find it funny.
"Shut your mouth, or at least find out facts before you go using it" The tall, dark haired Slytherin stepped up towards Harry, eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Well you see my mouth has two purposes, which 'using it' would you be referring to," Harry answered smartly.
Blaise was about to say something but Draco stopped him, "Leave it, lets just go find a compartment," the blonde said softly.
The two Slytherins walked off and had just gone into a carriage when the other Gryffindor sixth years started to arrive, Ginny Weasley, Harry's girlfriend since his last stay at the burrow, had just about enough time to give her boyfriend a kiss when they were all disturbed by a girl screaming her lungs out.
"What d'you mean you want to break up? Drakey, we've been together for three years and we're not going to split up now!" Pansy Parkinson roared.
"Anybody up for seeing the ferret get murdered?" Ron said excitedly. They walked down until they reached Malfoy's compartment and looked inside.
Harry laughed maliciously as he saw the escapade before him, Draco Malfoy being held by his shirt collar against a wall.
Everyone went quiet as Malfoy spoke.
"Well, what I meant is, now listen up Pansy, I don't want to repeat myself, so listen very carefully, I…Don't…Like…You!" Draco finished talking to her as if it was a four year old before him and not a teenager.
Pansy sobbed and screeched again "You're so arrogant, just 'cos you're a Malfoy you think you're so great, but you're not, I hope Potter makes you're life hell this year you arse!"
"Well, I hope you'll leave soon so we don't have to put up with you… pug features!" Draco pushed the crying girl off him.
The rest of the slytherins defended Draco, they crowded round Pansy, and they made sure that she left the compartment.
As the door opened a seventh year slytherin pulled Harry inside.
"You don't want to go talking to Draco like you did before Snotter or you'll have a lot of trouble on you're back, got it!" He snarled.
Harry just nodded.
"Oi! Selven! Just drop it okay, I'm fine, I can take petty insults" Draco had turned round to see Selven, the seventh year slytherin, holding Potter off the ground.
"Okay Draco, if you say so, and only because it's you" Michael Selven finished and gave Draco a wide smile. The blonde smiled back and Harry couldn't help but noticed it was the most dazzling smile he had ever seen, Draco was a dentists dream, with sparkling white teeth and perfectly pink gums, his eyes lit up like fireworks when he smiled properly. Not a smirk, a smile, and it were a beautiful smile.
Harry quickly caught his breath and shook the disturbing thoughts out of his head, he coughed and Selven turned back around.
"Oh, sorry," he smiled at Harry, again Harry let his thoughts take over his mind and he noticed Selven's smile was slightly manic, not at all like Draco's. Harry came back from his musing when Selven spoke again "Yeah, sorry… not!" He laughed maliciously but stopped when he saw Malfoy shaking his head.
Harry felt a slight pang of guilt, Malfoy was sticking up for him but he had been such a horrid arse before.
Malfoy spoke next " Get out of here Potter" His eyes were filled with sadness but when everybody looked at him he quickly made them expressionless, something the emerald eyed boy in front of him wished he could do, that way Hermione wouldn't have to know all of his secrets.
"I said get out, what are you, a retard?" Malfoy said it quite bluntly but everyone took it as a joke and burst out laughing Harry just exited trying to hide his blush shamefully.
Harry was safely seated at the Gryffindor table when the Slytherins sauntered in, dishing out dagger-like glares to anyone who dared to look at them in the wrong way.
Malfoy sat in the middle of the group of purebloods that had just walked in and started to talk to Blaise; the year before Draco and Blaise had revealed that they had been secret best friends since first year. Every Slytherin already new, except for Crabbe and Goyle, who just took to following Pansy around.
The sorting finished relatively quickly, followed by the feast. Before everybody knew it, Dumbledore had stood up and was coughing to try and get silence.
"I would like to announce that this year at Hogwarts a new lesson has been planned, Chemical Mixing Studies, the lesson will be run by the one and only set of Weasley twins, Fred and George" He held out his hand in a sweeping motion, bringing everybody's attention to the two stocky red-headed boys who were stood up waving at the crowd.
Dumbledore coughed and once again regained control of the hall, "also, I have handed a copy of everybody's OWL results to Miss Granger, who will give them to you if you wish to possess it"
Dumbledore sat back down, so the students started talking again.
Ron turned to Hermione "What did he get then?" He asked grinning.
"Who?" The girl asked lazily, as if she was bored and already knew what was coming.
"Malfoy" Ron said the world crinkling his nose.
"Oh, erm… lets see" She flicked through the papers and stopped when she found what she was looking for, her face paled and she looked up, "I need to study more"
Harry laughed but Ron looked puzzled.
"He got higher than you?" The red head asked in shock.
"Yes, He got all outstanding…stars" Hermione gulped and her hand shot in the air, Professor McGonnagle stood up and walked over to her.
"What is the matter miss Granger?" She asked with a small smile.
"It says here that Malfoy got outstanding stars in everything but there's no such mark is there?" Hermione was determined to prove she had the highest level in the school.
"Oh, I assure you Miss Granger there is such a mark, Mr Malfoy did extremely well in everything, He has the highest mark in the school since professor Dumbledore sat his OWLs; Mr Malfoy answered every single question correctly and added extra detail that he had found out himself" She smiled proudly in the direction of Malfoy.
"But, But, How does he know so much, what's he taking this year?" Hermione asked frantically.
"If you look, you will see a copy of the list of lessons the students are taking clipped to the back of the sheets you are holding" McGonnagle answered before sweeping away to the head table.
"Oh my god" Hermione read out what Malfoy was taking " Potions, Transformation, Defence against the dark arts, Charms, Chemical Mixing Studies, Divination, Care of magical creatures, Ancient Runes and extreme magic" She looked up at the two open-mouthed boys next to her.
"What's extreme magic?" Harry asked, eyes darkened.
"It's a new class, only five people are attending, Ron you're not on the list for it!" Hermione looked at the boy sympathetically.
"You and Me are though Harry" Hermione spoke again.
"What does it do?" Harry asked, "And who are the other three people?"
"It enhances you're magic abilities and the other three are, oh guess what, Malfoy was the first on the list, Blaise Zabini and Theodore Nott are here too" She looked up at the three boys on the Slytherin table.
Harry looked up too; fortunately for him, Draco wasn't smiling.
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A week had passed and Harry, thankfully, hadn't had any strange feelings towards Malfoy.
The golden trio were sat in a long, boring Potions class; Hermione was the only one listening from the Gryffindor side of the room. Ron appeared to be asleep and Harry was ignoring Snape's constant droning.
"Potter!" The potions master hissed.
"Yes sir" Harry groaned, he really wasn't in the mood for Snape, he had recently been nervous, in case Malfoy smiled.
"What did I just say," Snape asked I a patronizing tone.
Harry made a guess, he was quite confident it was the right answer, "Fifty points to Malfoy sir?"
"Incorrect Potter, move you're stuff and sit next to Malfoy," He turned to look at the front row Slytherin table, "Nott, if you would be so kind as to move up one space" the scrawny boy scurried up the bench to make room.
Harry sat down but Malfoy didn't look up at from his notes, Harry couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Harry half listened to Snape in case the hook nosed man decided to pick on him again, all the while keeping his eye on a certain blonde. Harry could smell the blonde's aftershave and it was having inevitable effects on the Gryffindor. He was mesmerised by Malfoy's looks, he wondered what it would be like waking up and seeing Malfoy in the dorm.
Malfoy finally looked up at Theodore, to Harry's disappointment Draco looked straight through the Gryffindor boy sat next to him, but when the Golden boy looked back all he saw was the sparkling smile. Harry's heart melted but he quickly regained control of his feelings and almost immediately began to think things like: Stupid Malfoy, I wish I could kill him, EW what a minger!
The bell went and Harry found himself walking behind Malfoy, his worst fear had come true…He was looking at Draco Malfoy's arse and he liked what he was seeing!
A/N: Well what do you think? Tell me in a review, please, or I'll make sure Malfoy's ass becomes well and truly covered, away from Harry's prying eyes!
Hugs,
AACS