Chapter 10

A.N. I'm overwhelmed by all the reviews, thank you so much. There was some brilliant responses to the question I posed last chapter but the best was from "katiemarie x3" and the animal she wanted to be was "i'd want to be a patronus. your totally blissful thought and you make that person relive that thought. it also saves people from one of the lowest scum of the earth". I thought that was a cool and original idea, the most popular creatures were Veela's (which I don't really understand but nevermind!) and phoenixes which I would love to be.

On with the story and enough of my drabbling!

Hermione and Draco looked at each other, Hermione not really understanding what was going on and Draco who knew exactly who was going to be coming through the door, got up and began to drag Hermione with him.

"What's going on?" Hermione protested, but complying and going along with it anyway. Draco led himself and Hermione to a little alcove, where no one would know they were there but they had full view of the room. Urgently he clapped a hand over Hermione's mouth and whispered fiercely

"Hermione, you're going to have to shut up and be quiet, you don't want to get messed up with these people, do you understand and whatever you hear about me it's all false, do you understand? Just nod or shake your head." Hermione nodded, her eyes widening though at the possibilities of what she was going to hear. Was Draco involved in an amateur theatre group? Was he in fact a die-hard Gobstones Club member? Or was it something more sinister?

The door opened wider and ten figures came in, all dressed head to toe in black. Their faces had an obscuring charm on them, so anyone who walked past them wouldn't be able to realise who they were. Hermione realised all of this in a matter of seconds and knew suddenly whatever was going to happen in this meeting, it had nothing what so ever to do with Gobstones. One figure, male by the look of his build and a tumble of black hair stood up. In fact it looked a lot like Harry from the back but when he spoke, it wasn't full of laughter like Harry's, it was a cold sneering voice. He rapped the side of a podium that seemed to come out of nowhere.

"This meeting will come to order!" He said and everyone who had been chatting fell silent until someone put their hand up.

"What is it Parkinson?" The boy who was obviously the ringleader asked, looking slightly bored. Pansy (Hermione had identified her surname) flushed slightly and said in a whinging and nasal tone.

"Shouldn't we wait for Drakey to come, after all he is the leader in our plan, unlike you Zambini…" Blaise (another person Hermione had now identified from hearing his surname) stared coldly at Pansy till she turned away

"Draco wasn't invited to this meeting because this meeting involves Draco whom I do say has crap taste in women if he chooses you Pug faced Parkinson." Pansy gasped and even though Hermione couldn't see her face clearly, she could guess her eyes were filling up with tears, though when she spoke again her voice was steady.

"Have you got no comebacks you have to use an unimaginative Gryffindor one?"

"I've got plenty of comebacks Pansy but lets just say I don't spend my time thinking ones up for you. Anyway it's safe to remove the Concealment Charms now we are here." With that every single person below where Hermione and Draco were crouching pulled out their wands and all their identities were revealed. Hermione tried to gasp but Draco's hand was still firmly over her mouth. Down below was all the scum of Slytherin, the oh so pure bloodlines that were in that house. Pansy began to speak again, this time with a sardonic smile on her lips.

"That's right Blaise, you spend the whole day thinking about the Weasley girl…" Fury flashed in Blaise's eyes but he composed himself and said quietly but with menace in his voice

"Let's just get down to business. Now it's come to my attention that Draco, the supposed leader of this group dedicated to the Dark Lord, has declined in his duties over the past few weeks and put himself forward to public ridicule that links both him and that Mudblood. So we are here tonight to discuss two things. First of all whether he's fit to carry on as leader and two what is the connection between him and mudblood Granger." Pansy looked very miffed at the possibility of something going on between her beloved Drakey poo and in her words "that disgusting mutant rat that manages to look like a human occasionally."

Theodore Nott who had been casually standing in the corner of the room spoke up in a crystal clear voice.

"Our mission is clear, with or without Draco, we must complete the task the Dark Lord has set us. The fact that Draco might want to break away just proves how weak and worthless he is. He is not worthy of the honour the Dark Lord gives him. In fact he knows to much, he might become a traitor." There was a silence then Blaise spoke up, a little lost for words at this.

"And what do you suppose we do Nott?" Condescendingly Theodore Nott looked at him

"We kill him of course." There was an almost electric silence at this and Hermione could feel Draco's grip around her tighten then someone whom Hermione had never had much contact with but knew by face and name as Angela Curtis spoke up if slightly shakily.

"I say Theodore isn't that a bit excessive and it could ruin all our plans." Pansy looked at her and then said bitchily.

"Excuse me, Miss-I-have-a-thumping-great-crush-on-Draco I'm his girlfriend and I should be playing the concerned part of the girlfriend. So yeah Nott isn't it a bit excessive and it could ruin the plans?" Angela looked at her and responded in a patronising tone

"Pansy, honey, when you use big words, make sure you know what they mean…" Hastily seeing as there was going to be a fight between the two girls Theodore spoke again.

"I've thought of that which is why we won't kill him, Potty will."

"Potty?" Pansy asked stupidly and Theodore scowled at her

"Harry Potter, you dolt! I say we Imperius him then get him to kill Malfoy, that way we don't get in any trouble and the girls get to buy new outfits for the funeral which I'm sure they will like. Pumpkin juice anyone?" At this he conjured a full jug of it out of the air. Blaise who was stunned by the callous side of Nott, whom he had always regarded as a sort of imbecile spoke up

"One tiny problem. He's surrounded by his little worshipers all the time, round the clock."

"Thought of that! Polyjuice potion, we disguise ourselves as Weasel and Mudblood, Pansy I thought you could be Granger and then do it." Pansy squealed and began to recite, to which everyone joined in as hearing it so many times before

"Hermione Granger, is an insult to all the good looking girls out there. She is degrading has no sense of feminity and looks like something dragged out of a hedge backwards."

Angela spoke again.

"I like the idea Ted but it's to risky anyway, just because he hasn't called meetings and seems of key over the past couple of weeks or whatever we're going to kill him? That doesn't make sense and should the next time you get detention Ted should I kill you because you are openly flouting the rules? Give him one more chance and after that see what happens." Everyone murmured in agreement and Blaise rapped the podium again

"Everyone in agreement with Angela's proposal say I!" Everyone apart from Theodore (who was glowering at being called Ted) said very heartily

"I!"

"That's settled then now moving onto him and Granger, they've both been doing very strage things over the past couple of weeks, which seem linked, one of them does one thing then the other does another. It doesn't make sense and it's casting a clout over the Slytherin name. I suggest we intercept his mail and hers and Pansy I want you to dog every move he makes. Angela seeing as no one apart from us really knows you I want you to dog her. Then we will know what is actually going on. Now we've got that settled, lets go back to the common room before that mangy cat Mrs Norris finds us."

Everyone departed in their two's or three's and presently the only people left in the room were Hermione and Draco. They got down from their hiding positions and Hermione turned to Draco.

"Draco Malfoy, you've got some explaining to do…"

Draco sighed and looked at her, thinking that this really wasn't the way he wanted Hermione to find out and simply said

"Oh boy…"

A.N. Slightly different chapter once again, I've decided to go dark and evil (cue that evil laughter that is found in sitcoms). Tell me what you think, drop me a line or two, it can even be one word, as long as I get a review, I don't mind! By the way I'm going to Madrid and Canada over the next couple of weeks, so won't be able to update, sorry!

Question: JK Rowling has developed the main characters in the books significantly but there are a few that not much is known about them (for example Blaise Zambini, Romilda Vane etc.) so my question is pick one of these background characters and put something random about them for example

Colin Creevey: A devout reader of Witch Weekly

Something random like that! Or containing past information to do with Voldemort, the possibilities are endless!

I know it wasn't really a question, but it's a point of interest!