Disclaimer: for the umpteenth time, I don't own Harry Potter but Harmony Granger is my character and you can't have her :)

Ch. 9-Butterflies

Sitting down caused the spell to break…..

The noise level instantly rose as the students continued their conversations as if they had never been frozen. Luckily for Harmony no one noticed that she was sitting there, at least for a couple seconds. During the spell, Dumbledore had changed her Gryffindor robes into Slytherin ones.

Draco, the first to notice her, leaned closer to her and said, "It's about time you sat next to me."

She blushed and busied herself with filling her plate. As she was about to take a dinner roll, Pansy suddenly noticed her. "Harmony, what the heck are you doing here? And in Slytherin robes?" she shrieked.

The whole hall stopped talking at once and every student was looking at Harmony.

"I, uh…."Harmony said.

Draco cut in. "We're seeing how long a Gryffindor can last in Slytherin until they go crazy." He said, addressing the entire student body. "It just so happens that we decided to go with a Mudblood to see how much torture she can stand." He smirked. The Slytherins all clapped and whistled as Dumbledore stood up.

"Er, thank you Mr. Malfoy." He replied, as if it was common to kidnap other students and place them as case studies to be tortured. "Now students, the first task of the Triwizard Tournament will be this Saturday. The champions, I hope, have been studying and practicing spells that may be able to help them in this first task. The task will take place at noon. The place will be announced on Friday, during dinner. Enjoy." He said, taking his seat.

Pansy turned to Harmony. "Torture, huh? This is going to be fun." She sneered.

"Um, no." Draco said. "Only I get to torture the Mudblood." He said.

Pansy pouted. If Pansy looked ugly before, pouting made those features even more horrifying, Harmony thought. "But Drakey, I'm your girlfriend. Don't I get to torture her?"

"No." he replied. "I planned this entire thing, I get to torture her. If you had planned it, which would have been a miracle, (Harmony smiled to herself), then you could have tortured her, but since you didn't you can't have any of the fun I will."

"Fine. No more kisses for you." Harmony had to control herself from laughing.

"Shame. Since I liked them soo much." He remarked. At that, she couldn't hold it any longer.

Pansy looked at her. "What's so funny?" she sneered.

"The two of you." She replied, still laughing.


Draco decided that it would look suspicious if he didn't play along. "Why are we so funny?" he said.

"Well, it obvious that you don't like her both as a friend or your 'girlfriend'. So why do you even pretend that she's your girlfriend when you obviously hate her?" Harmony said, putting air quotes around girlfriend.

She definitely had guts to embarrass me and Pansy like that, even if it's true… Draco thought.

"Who says I hate her?" he replied.

"Don't even to try to put out that innocent 'I have no idea what you're talking about' attitude. You know perfectly well, along with the rest of the Slytherins and the school that you don't like Pansy as girlfriend or friend." She replied, speaking perfect truth.

"So what if the school thinks that…I don't. The rest of the school is a bunch of losers anyway." He replied.

"Ok, you can keep denying it or whatever you are doing, but somewhere you know what I'm saying is true."

"Who the heck do you think you are?" he sneered, hoping that she would know this was fake, "We are supposed to torture you and that's it. You are not supposed to help us with our relationships! I'll just have to invoke more torture than I had planned." He replied.


I have absolutely no problem with that she thought, though she said, "Great, torture with Draco. I'm so scared." She replied.

"Oh trust me you will be." He replied.

"What are you going to do? Feed me to Fluffy? Or wait; maybe throw a Malfoy curse at me? Bring it on." She looked him right in the eyes, which was hard to do without swooning on the spot , and said, "I can take whatever you dish out and serve it right back at you." She said, they had both stood up a little while back. Harmony knew the entire school was watching this little fiasco like a tennis match, their eyes going back and forth between herself and Draco.

His face was inches from hers and she could feel his breath on her face. She had to control herself or else she would have flung herself into his arms and kissed him then and there…well except for the fact that the entire school would be watching.

"I'll believe it when I see it." He replied.

"Oh trust me," she whispered, "you'll have no choice but to believe it." Turning on her heel, she walked out of the Great Hall, knowing Draco would follow eventually.

She took the Grand Staircase to the second floor and waited.


Draco waited at least ten minutes before getting up, muttering something that sounded like "homework" and walked out of the Great Hall. He looked around for her but didn't see her. He walked up the Grand Staircase and walked down the deserted corridor. He saw a figure leaning against the wall at the end of the corridor but couldn't see if it was female or not. He kept walking and saw that it was indeed female, and it was Harmony.

"Well it took you long enough." She said, still leaning against the wall.

In an instant , he was beside her. "Well I couldn't make it look too suspicious." He replied.

"You know, you make it very hard for someone to argue with you." She said.

"Why?" he replied.

"Well, because any girl who looks into your eyes has a risk of swooning or fainting to the floor, at least I do." She said. "I think you should come with a warning sign: Danger!! Risk of fainting at sight of me! Or something like that."

"Oh really? I thought you were having problems at the end." He smiled.

"Not really….okay so I was. I was thinking how much trouble I'd get into if I had just kissed you in front of the entire student body." She said, blushing.

His eyebrow flew up. "Oh really? That's pretty gutsy! I would have love to see what the reaction of everyone would have been, then again I'd be too busy." He smirked.

"Of course you would have…though I would have also loved to see the reaction on Pansy's face..." she smiled.

"That would have been priceless." He replied.

"So now that nobody is here..." She implied, looking around to make sure no one was actually there.

"What?" he teased, opening his arms. She flung herself into them and he lifted her chin and kissed her.


Harmony felt the butterflies in her stomach as he kissed her. It was nothing compared to anyone else who had kissed her before. It was one of a kind. It was Draco Malfoy. If someone had told her her first year at Hogwarts that in three years, she would be kissing Draco Malfoy she would have laughed at them..and then cursed them with a spell of some sort. His kiss was like nothing she had ever imagined. It was perfect. It was…indescribable. She didn't want it to end, but she was running out of air…so she pulled away.

"I'm going to say this anyway, but has anyone ever told you that you are an amazing kisser?" she said, as she leaned against the wall, catching her breath.

"Yes, but hearing it from you is definitely better. " he replied.

She laughed. "Thanks. But I'm serious. Your kisses are like…I don't know..better than I've ever imagined." She blushed.

"Thanks, but your kisses are amazing as well. I think you're almost up to my level." He smiled.

"Almost? Are you kidding me?" she replied.

"Yes, of course you're amazing." He replied, as she walked up to him and hugged him tight. He in turn, placed his hands around her waist.

"So, how are you going to play off this whole torture thing?" she said, looking up at him.

"I have no idea." He replied.

"Well, you'll have to think of something because people will become too suspicious if you don't." she said.

"Thanks, teacher. I know that." He said.

She glared at him. "I'm not that old…

She never finished because Draco had kissed her again. Minutes later, she pulled away. "If you keep this up, I'm going to need a SCUBA air tank with me at all times." She teased.

"A what?" he replied.

"Oh. An oxygen tank. So I can just take oxygen from that because you make me lose my breath every time you kiss me." She replied, forgetting the SCUBA was a Muggle thing.

"So I do make you lose your breath every time you see me." He smirked.

"No, yes, I guess so." She said.

"There's no problem with that."

"Draco, shut up." She replied, slapping his arm.

The bell rang. "I'd better go. I have class and you have class and if we get caught up here together without you 'torturing' me, you're going to get in trouble." She said, turning to leave to go to her Muggle-Studies class.

"Hey," he said, making her turn around. "I'll see you later after class, okay?"

She smiled. "Of course." She replied, going down the corridor to her class with a smile on her face.


The bell rang and the students filed out of the classroom. Harmony made her way down to the Slytherin common room when she remembered she didn't know the password, since it changed every week and the other password had been last weeks'.

Harmony didn't want to ask another Slytherin, so she sat at a table that just happened to be placed in the corridor to the common room.

She worked on a couple essays for various teachers; she glanced up for a moment and saw Draco. "What do you want?" she said, just in case anyone else, meaning any Slytherins, were around.

"Well, I was going to give you the password, but if you prefer I could leave you out to work on homework through the night, and even lose some house points if you want.." he said.

"Of course I want the password." She said, putting away her many essays and gathering her things.

"It's Malum sceptrum." He said.

"What does that mean?" she replied.

"It means, Evil rules." He said.

"How original." She remarked.

"Yes, since Slytherin was the epitome of evil." He said.

"Whatever. Save your Slytherin pride for someone who cares." She said, as the door to the common room opened.

She walked through and placed her things on a table. Surprisingly no one was there. "Well, that was a wasted act." She said.

"Yep." Draco replied.

"So where am I supposed to sleep, I doubt any of the girls will move for me..." she said.

"Well…." He said.

"Uh, think again." She said, knowing what he was going to say.

"I was thinking." He said.

"Sure you were…dirty thoughts." She replied.

"Well, I guess you'll have to sleep on the couch or the floor…" he replied.

"Great, then everybody will be able to torture me." She replied.

"No. Don't you remember, only I can do that." He said.

"How many fifth, sixth and seventh years actually listen to you?" she replied.

"All of them. Since my dad is well-known at the Ministry, he could have any one of their parents fired." He said.

"Ah, black-mailing. Lovely." She said.

"I have to do what I got to do." He smiled.

"Well," she said, looking at the clock, "I should get to bed since it's late."

"Okay." He said, as she put away her homework and things.

He pulled out his wand and pointed it towards the common room entrance, "Lockquetus."

"What was that for?" she said.

"Well, every Slytherin who isn't in this common room or up in their dorms, has to find somewhere else to sleep." He smirked.

She laughed, "You're evil. You know that." She replied.

"So I'm told..."

"Of course."

He turned around to walk up the stairs to the boys' dorms. "Where are you going?" she said, making him turn around.

"Upstairs, to my bed." He replied.

"You're forgetting something." She replied.

"What?" he smiled.

She tapped her lips.

"Oh, I'm an idiot." He said, jumping the steps and going over to her.

"I second that." She replied, as he kissed her. It was brief and then he walked up the stairs.

"Goodnight." She called up to him.

"Night." He replied.