Disclaimer: I am soooo not JK, so none of this belongs to me except for the plot andmy own characters (Mainly Emma, her parents, and some other random students I named).

My Minions, Parent Approved

Emma couldn't help but sigh. Her she was, going to Hogwarts, and her dad had to work! She arrived early with her dad at platform 9 and 3/4s so that he could say goodbye before he left for work.

"Are you going to be ok for the next half hour honey? I'm sorry about this. Who'd have thought the Bulgarian minister would come today? Just because his son has already gone of to school yesterday, . . . I'm sorry honey."

"It's alright dad. I'll be fine. At least I'll have first pick of the compartments. If I remember correctly, you always sat towards the back, and mama would always get the end carriage with her friends"

"Its amazing how much you know. Yes, your mum and her friends were a feisty bunch, to say the least."

I'd say more like a trouble making bunch thought Emma.

"I have to be going now hon, owl me tonight and tell me which house your in."

"Yes father" said Emma as she hugged him and then he disapparated. Emma carried her trunk to the train. As she was getting on she noticed that there were already some students arriving early like her. Most likely prefects and heads, she thought. But as she was heading to the compartment, she saw a familiar face. There was Draco saying goodbye to his parents. There was no doubt they were his parents. They all three had platinum hair and similar aristocratic noses. Hmm, it must have been his father that was approaching us in Diagon Alley. Yup, definitely the same presence Emma concluded.

Draco had also noticed Emma saying goodbye to her dad, and finished saying goodbye to his parents quickly. He got on the train and followed behind Emma to a compartment towards the front. They both went in and sat down after making sure no one saw them. Emma wasn't sure why, but felt like it would be best if people didn't see them together.

"Why are you here so early?" Asked Draco.

"My dad had to go to work, so I got dropped off early. You?"

"My parents had something to go to, something came up-something more important than seeing their only child go of to school obviously."

"I'm sorry." Emma said sincerely.

That made Draco blink. Here was a girl he had only met once, and she already seemed more concerned and sincere about his family situation than anyone he had ever met.

The continued to talk for about 15 minutes till a lot of students seem to arrive at the same time. Draco decided to leave before it got to crowded and went in search of his "friends". "I like to think of them more as my minions. They are parent approved. More like, they are spies for my father to make sure I don't do anything to dishonor the family name." Draco told her as he was getting ready to leave.

She couldn't help but laugh at how he felt about them. "Well, I hope they are good minions for your sake. I'll see you around Hogwarts, I guess then" she said.

"Yeah, I guess I'll see you around" Draco said off in search of a compartment and his parent-approved cliqued. For the first time in his eleven years, he wondered if he wanted to be put in Slytherinbecause he just somehow knew that there was no way anybody like Emma could ever be placed in Slytherin. By the time he reached his compartment he decided that he should follow his father's advice-that Slytherinis the only house for a Malfoy, and that no girl, even one like Emma, could change his father's onslaught of wisdom. If he wanted to make his father proud and follow in his footsteps and gain the power he had, then it began with becoming a Slytherin.