Disclaimer: All rights go to J.K. Rowling. All characters belong to her, only the plot is mine.

A/N: I edited the last chapter to add a couple of things.

Chapter 4 – Revenge

Slytherin Commons

The Slytherin Common Room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts, and the Black Lake above it provides an ethereal green glow. The room is furnished with black chairs and couches, along with tables to write on and a fireplace at one end.

Sitting in one armchair near the flickering fire was a sixth year Slytherin with platinum blonde hair. Draco Malfoy had been very worried ever since a week ago, when he noticed his best friend, Harry Potter, and a fellow Slytherin, Daphne Greengrass, had suddenly started avoiding each other, after dating for three years. However, Draco had decided to leave it alone, figuring that they had had an argument or broken up.

Many people believed that Draco's best friends were Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe. This was untrue; Draco abhorred the two fools, and only put up with them because he was actually rather insecure, and worried that someone (particularly a Gryffindor) might attack him simply for being a Slytherin, and he might need back-up.

He had befriended Harry in their second year, after their duel. Both of them had displayed magic that was well beyond the abilities of most first years – especially their then best friends; the Weasel for Harry, Crabbe and Goyle for Draco – and had begun to respect each other after that.

That year on the train ride back to London, they had run into each other, without the fools. After a few minor insults, they began chatting about nothing, and suddenly found themselves becoming great friends.

During that summer, Harry spent a week at Malfoy Manor. He had met Draco's mother, Narcissa, and his father, Lucius. Draco had been amused by his reaction to find out that Narcissa was a lovely woman, who packed a Molly Weasley-esque hug, while Lucius had been telling the truth all along.

Although many people doubted the Lord Malfoy, he had indeed been Imperiused by the Dark Lord to fund him and to serve him; the same could also be said for Draco's aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange. However, Bellatrix had not only been under the Imperius, she had also been forced into a marriage contract with Rudolphus Lestrange that basically bound her will to him.

Anyways, now Draco felt incredibly guilty; he was Harry's best friend and yet he had not recognized the effects of a Memory Charm. And now, he was paying for his mistakes, as he had no clue where Daphne and Harry were, or when they would return. It was still in the early morning, before breakfast, so the Malfoy heir decided to move towards the Great Hall and act as though nothing was amiss.

Throughout the day, much to Draco's disappointment, the duo did not appear. Of course, it was a Saturday, so they had no classes anyways. This led him to believe that they either will not return until much later, or have already returned, and are spending some quality alone time.

Great Hall [Dinner]

By the time dinner had begun, Draco had become very worried. He shared several worried glances with Tracey Davis, a fellow Slytherin whom he knew to be good friends with Daphne. Of course, he also shared more than a few glances with a certain Hufflepuff, but those were more lustful than worried.

He had had a bit of a crush on the niece of the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for some time now, especially as she was part of their secretive study group. This group consisted of Draco, Harry, Daphne, Tracey, Neville Longbottom (who had shown a surprising aptitude at Transfiguration and defensive magic ever since having obtained his own wand), and the busty red-head herself, Susan Bones.

During the year of the Tri-Wizard Tournament – when all of Harry's so-called "friends" abandoned him – they had a formed a super study group, as it were, holding meetings in the Room of Requirement almost daily. They had discovered the R.O.R thanks to Dobby, the former house elf of Theodore Nott Sr., who had become fiercely protective towards Harry. Harry had merely asked for a room where they could practise without restraints, and the excitable elf brought them there.

Of course, the group also understood that they would, one day, become a political power house if they continued their friendships, and had begun to refer to it almost as a quest for world domination, but slightly more peaceful than Voldemort's attempts.

Harry, Daphne, and even the normally quiet Neville found immense pleasure in teasing Draco whenever they caught him ogling the curvaceous Puff, and now it was Tracey's turn. "Hey Drake," she began, with a nefarious Weasley-twin-grin, "Like what you see?"

Draco felt his cheeks warm, which was rather embarrassing for the usually composed pureblood. Luckily, Hogwarts' current power couple decided that then would be a good time to make their grand entrance, as the door suddenly slammed open, resulting in a resounding BANG!

To say that Harry and Daphne were angry about what had happened would be a gross understatement. The Slytherin Ice Queen was in full effect, her cold glare seemingly freezing students were they stood; the Gryffindor Golden Boy had a harsh anger that was completely unexpected given his nickname. Spectators would later say that this was when they believed that he turned Dark; his rage was palpable, his magic swirling around him and forcibly knocking students and teachers alike back.

All eyes were on them as Harry and Daphne stomped towards the Gryffindor table. They stopped in front of Hermione, Ron, and Ginny. Ginny and Hermione had stopped eating and were looking up at Harry, while Ron was still shovelling food into his mouth.

Hermione had an innocent and questioning look, while Ginny was attempting to glare holes into Daphne's head. Harry coughed loudly, finally drawing the human garbage bin's attention. "Where the hell have-" Ron began furiously, until a wandless, ironically silent, Silencing Charm from Harry shut him up.

Gryffindor Commons [Earlier that day]

When Hermione also had no idea where Harry was, Ron began to worry. Not out of any fear for Harry's well-being, but because if the berk got himself offed before he was married to Ginny, then they would never gain the formidable mass in the Potter Vault. Of course, Ron had no idea at that moment how wealthy Harry really was, a fact that the boy in question would only be learning later that day.

Ron decided to check in Harry's trunk for the Marauder's Map and was rather surprised to find it. The norm would be for Harry to take the incognito parchment and his Invisibility Cloak (the presence of which was even more surprising to Ron) with him on whatever foolish, and often dangerous, task he was on.

Now Ron was beginning to think that maybe Harry had just gotten up early, so he checked the Map, and Harry was nowhere to be seen. Suspiciously, Daphne was also missing, leading Ron to believe that they were spending "quality time" together in the R.O.R. However, that was cause for even greater fear, as that could mean that Harry had somehow escaped Ginny's love potion.

But how was that possible? Harry had shrugged off the Imperius Curse cast by the impostor Moody two years ago, but that was different – wasn't it? Amortentia was the most powerful love potion on the planet, and their Headmaster had gotten Professor Severus Snape himself to make the potion-but that was just it, wasn't it?

Snape had always hated the two youngest Weasleys, and Hermione also, he made no attempt to hide his contempt for them. But at the same time, he had also showcased his dislike for Harry, why would he try to help Potter's love life with one of his own Snakes?

Now the redhead had given himself a headache, trying to make heads or tails of this matter, so he decided to consult his beautiful girlfriend and his sister. Hermione assured him that the potion was foolproof; she had utter confidence in their Potions Master's skills and his position on the matter.

The youngest Weasley, however, had her own opinion on the matter. "Last night, while I was with Harry, about to make him mine," Ginny began tentatively, as though it were a subject she would rather not breach, "we were …interrupted… by that Slytherin bitch, Tracey Davis or something."

Hermione's eyes widened. "She's best friends with the Greengrass slag, she could have told Daphne. What if they know now?" she asked, panicked.

Ron, finally understanding, shared Hermione's worry. They eventually decided to just act normally, and see what happens from there on. Throughout the day, there was no sight of Harry, and they were convinced that Harry would be in for a large dose of amortentia when he returned.

Great Hall [Dinner]

When dinner came around, Harry had still not appeared. However, Hermione was sure that she knew the dramatic tendencies that her "friend" had, so she expected him to make a grand entrance in the middle of dinner. To everyone's shock but her own, exactly this happened. However, while he was in the company of the Greengrass heiress, which had been expected, the look of rage on his face was unexpected. Yes, they expected some anger for the love potion and Obliviation, but this was a new level of fury that no one had ever seen before, not even when he exploded prior to his hearing regarding the Dementors.

The only conclusion that Hermione could come to was that he had somehow discovered the theft from his Vault and Ginny's marriage contract. This theory was proven by the glint of the Potter ring on his finger; however, he had two other rings that Hermione had never heard of before.

Gasps were heard from the Ravenclaw and Slytherin tables; the Claws for their uncanny ability to know even more than Hermione at times, the Snakes because they prided themselves on their ability to know everything regarding Purebloods. Hermione almost rolled her eyes when she saw that Ron was still engrossed in his plate heaped with food; she loved him, but he was a bit of a slob at times.

Finally, Harry and Daphne approached the trio angrily, and Ron finally looked up when Harry cleared his throat rather obviously.

The Great Hall was shocked by Harry's actions. Some were awed by his display of wandless and silent magic, others, that he had turned against his friends like that. Unbeknownst to all, Susan, Neville, Draco, and Tracey had a victorious look, as if saying, 'Finally!' or, 'It's about damn time!'

Ron continued to rant at Harry for a few minutes, until, with a meaningful look from Hermione, he realized that he had been Silenced. This epiphany caused him to glare even more at Harry, whose own glare was easily stronger, and Ron soon looked away, cowed.

Suddenly, Harry's demeanour seemed to reach a pinnacle, and with a slash of his wand, which had appeared in his hand too fast for a normal human to see, sent a jet of light towards his former best mate.

The crowd was speechless as Ron flew several feet away, eventually hitting the wall with a crack and landing on the Slytherin table, where the nearby students jeered at him, but Harry kept his wand trained on his supposed best friend. Hermione got up in an attempt to aid her lover, but was struck down by the same Blasting Hex from Daphne. Tracey hurried over as Ginny stood up, and, unwilling to cast anything too strong without knowing why, merely Disarmed her, before sending a Banishing Hex, tossing Ginny over the Gryffindor table and onto the ground with a painful crack.

Finally, Albus too-many-goddamn-titles Dumbledore stood up and intervened. Casting a silent Sonorus! he shouted immediately stopping all action, "Stop this madness!"

However, before he could continue, Harry stopped his spell, turning on the old man. "And you," he spat angrily, "You have NO right to take money from me!" The student body and teachers gasped at this, and Dumbledore's lowered gaze seemed to be a confession to those assembled.

"Please, Harry," he pleaded, "I beg of you to forgive my actions. And while I realize that all of them, as well as I, deserve several times this amount of pain, this is neither the time nor the place to seek your revenge. You may do something that you will regret for the rest of your life. So please, come with me, Miss Greengrass, Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, and Mr. Weasley to my office, and we can take care of this in a more peaceful manner," he ended, looking hopefully at Harry.

Harry, finally beginning to calm, nodded slowly, and took Daphne by her arm and escorted her out of the Great Hall and to the Gargoyle Statue in front of the Headmaster's Office, anxiously awaiting the old man and his explanation.

Of course, with Rita Skeeter on the loose, he could have never known the consequences of his actions.

A/N: Wow, I really need to stop procrastinating on my chapters and waiting until Saturdays to write it. In case you have not noticed, I have tentatively decided to upload every Saturday, so here's to that. Thanks for Reading, and please Review.

Edited: 08/04/2013