Note: This is a collection of shorts in the Harry Potter fandom that I wrote for the H/D Flashfic community.
This is How it Didn't Happen
This is how it didn't happen: Draco thrust his (finely-boned, aristocratic) hand out to the scruffy boy on the train, squeezed in between the wall and a sticky-faced ginger monkey. The boy (who just so happens to be Harry Potter—isn't that a wonderful coincidence?) accepted the hand and everything it was offering with nothing more than an apologetic shrug of his shoulders at the redhead. They walked out of the room and in the hall, they stepped on a frizzy-haired girl who was looking for a toad.
This is how it really happened: Draco offered his (slightly grubby and gritty with pasty crumbs) hand to the boy on the train, somehow managing to keep his eyes away from the (stark white, painfully obvious, and only a bit disfiguring) scar on the boy's forehead. The Weasley thing sitting next to Potter laughed, and Potter stared at his hand (left hanging there like a dead fish) in the air. Rude words were exchanged, and Draco left. In the hall, Draco ("accidentally" kicked a beaver-faced boy looking for his toad and) was told off by (Miss Beaver, also known as) Hermione Granger.
This is what happened later: Draco curled in the middle of his bed (with Thuban, the stuffed Dragon he'd had since his sixth birthday), his green silk pajamas rumpled around him. He was flipping idly through a small leather book (filled with wax colored drawings and notes). He had his ever-inking quill (filled with ink that smelled like lime trees) and he crossed out whole paragraphs from the book.
"101 Ways to Become Best Friends With Harry Potter" was ripped out. "16 Things I Want to do Before I Turn 20 (or die, whichever comes first)" had number eight ("Get Harry Potter's Signature") quite vehemently scribbled out. An entire section longer than he cared to admit (about eight pages) devoted to planning summer vacation with Potter at the Manor was incinerated.
Draco settled down with Thuban in his lap, poked his tongue between his lips, and started a new page: "101 Ways to Make Potter Suffer."