Hey, so, I did it again. I'm super excited to post through the week, only to forget it's Tuesday.

Welp, here this is, baby Draco grows up, sad face.

There was more, but I'm writing this on my phone so its a bit difficult to do the authors note.

I DON'T OWN!

ENJOY!

Draco did come back, days later, and again, weeks after that. Over time, Willow would come to expect a visit at least once a month.

As they got closer to the kid's eleventh birthday, and his residency at Hogwarts, the boy came more often.

They talked about everything on the kid's mind. That particular day was a rant about the Weasleys.

"But Father said that they're blood traitors," Draco hissed angrily at Willow, who simply rolled his eyes at the dramatic boy.

"Your Father also refers to muggles as lesser beings, and you know how fascinating they are. They can't fly with brooms, so they made aeroplanes," the man reminded him. Draco huffed.

"I guess," the boy conceded with a long drawn-out sigh. Willow huffed good-naturedly, holding out a hand. Draco knew he couldn't touch; a spell that would hurt Willow was set for any physical contact, but he got as close as he could.

"Why are they blood traitors? Do you know?" Draco asked, looking at him expectantly.

"Not really. It could be anything, from refusing to marry into a family to siding with muggles over wizard folk. But I've got a feeling it's a bit more complicated than that. Why don't you try and befriend one and ask them yourself?" Willow joked. He was not expecting to see the calculating look in the boy's eye.

"Do you think there'll be one at Hogwarts when I go?" Draco asked slowly. Willow had a bad feeling about that look but decided not to address it.

"I'm almost positive."

When Draco got home for the summer after his first year, he went into a rant about his new 'friends' and how they kept excluding him from everything.

Slytherin won the house cup, but only barely. His new friend Harry got them the last fifty points to beat the Gryffindors, who were only forty-five points under.

He told about meeting a boy on the train and becoming friends, about the Weasley who was too boorish but friends with his new friend so Draco puts up with him. He informed Willow that Weasley got offended when he asked why Weasleys were considered blood traitors.

"I had to promise I was only curious, he made me promise, Will!" Draco complained. Draco didn't like the obligation of promises, but he had a craving for information. "He's going to ask his mother for me."

After that, it was a rant about how Harry spent more time with the Muggle-born and the Weasley instead of him, and more about the three leaving him out of everything.

"Even Longbottom was included in the ending feast! Longbottom!"

Willow just chuckled and nodded along in all the right places, a familiar niggling feeling in his heart and head about some of the stories he was hearing.

It was halfway through that first summer that Willow understood something: he had to get out. By the time Draco got into the third year, he had to be out of here.

He didn't know why, but there was something he had to do that was out there, somewhere.

When Draco came down the next weekend, Willow made sure he knew to look for the animagus book Sirius and his group used when they were in school. It was hidden somewhere in Hogwarts. It was the only magic he knew of that would allow his freedom.

"Animagus?" Draco asked, more to confirm. Willow nodded.

"Okay, what'll it do? So I know I've got the right book," Draco asked. Willow tried to make sure every detail was given―he needed it, and he didn't want Draco to get the wrong one.

And then he waited.

The boy didn't come back until after his second year, and the rant this time was about the girl Weasley. He was still excluded from a lot of their activities, but that was better for him, "since it gave me time to search for this," Draco crowed, pulling out the book on animagi.

Willow took the book happily and started to flip through it. It described the change and told exactly what he needed to do.

He chuckled happily when he noticed the neat scrawl of one James Potter in the margins of the book.

Further rants were interrupted when Draco informed him that he had to go to dinner with his parents. Willow spent the rest of the day reading in the painfully-dim light.

So that's that! plot stuff!

Slytherin!Harry! There is another originally Gryffindor student who is now Slytherin, can you spot them? Guess in a comment! I'll give you a shoutout if you're right!

Mars