CHAPTER 11: DRACO'S PLAN
It was a full moon that night. The night he was planning something very, very awful. He had to do it, after all it was his family. He was going to kill him tonight, and that was that. He couldn't do it any other time anyways, so he might as well. It was a day after Dea's birthday and he was planning to strike at about 10 o'clock at night so no one would see. This was the hardest thing Draco would ever have to do, this was payback to his father for all that he would have done, this would be it. But he had no time to lose, there was about an hour before ten o' clock and that was just enough for him to get ready and make up a way to get his father to Hogwarts. This was it.
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No one saw it coming. It was horrible, maybe not so horrible for the Slytherins, but it was horrible. Rumor said that last night at ten-thirty, Ron Weasly was magically attacked and is supposedly dead. Everyone thinks he is dead, but no one knows for sure. Draco is nowhere to be seen, and some suspect him of killing Ron. But people don't know the whole story behind this situation, so they can't be sure.
"What, are we going to do?" Harry mumbled with his head down in grief.
"We have to find out who did it!" Hermione exclaimed, with a tear streaming down her cheek. She was back to normal now, looking like her old self.
"That's not so easy Hermione, we don't know why it happened."
"Draco told me he had some business to take care of last night," She said still sniffling, "That was after I sneaked away when you and Ron were arguing. But it's not like Draco to do something like this!"
"We can't count anyone out, Hermione, it most likely is him! He got jealous or something." They were talking about it all morning, and they were very nervous. Especially all the Weasleys, Ginny was sobbing in all her classes. Harry couldn't concentrate in class and quidditch practice didn't go well. Hermione stopped raising her hand and just sat there staring into space trying to think of who would have done this.
At dinner in the Great Hall everyone was chattering, and all heads simultaneously turned as Dumbledore spoke these words, "Attention students, a strange event happened last night. The grief is horrible, but it still has not been proven that someone has died, please do not worry and pay attention to your classes, everything is going to be taken care of." Everyone ate in silence after that, except for some chatter in the Slytherin section.
After dinner someone tapped Hermione on the shoulder.
"Psst, come here now. Don't say a word, bring Harry!" Draco whispered. Hermione did as he said and they went near the porthole to talk.
"Ron is not dead." Draco said with precision. "I can prove it."
"Tell us what happened Draco, please." Hermione begged.
"Okay then. Last night, I was planning to break your curse, so you could stay as Dea, and everyone would know you are my sister. I looked up the counter-curse in the library and I set off to cast it. It said that a family member must spare their life, I chose my father. I was going to kill him, for all that he had done to my family."
"Yeah, but what does Ron have to do with this?" Harry questioned.
"I'm getting to that Potter. I told my father I had something important to tell him so that he could come to Hogwarts. I said the words to the spell but my father blocked it and was about to cast something on me. It just so happened that Ron was right behind me, it missed me, but it got him. Nothing really bad happened to him. My dad changed his hair and appearance, I knew he wanted to do that to me, I love my hair."
"I can't believe he used something that simple to block himself, he probably didn't know what you were doing, he didn't know you were trying to break the curse. As for the block. There are many ways to block spells, and there is always one way that works for many of them. He probably just thought you were playing around and you wanted to get him mad!"
"Yes, he probably did. Ron is off with Charlie. My dad sent him there once he found out what he did, he didn't want to get caught doing anything bad. I wish I would have killed him! I wanted to break the curse!"
"Listen Draco. I am a Malfoy. I will always be, no matter how I look like. If the curse would have broken, all that would have changed would be that I looked different, that's it! Your father, mine too, changed my personality permanently, you can't do anything about it. Draco, I would still be the same person, as long as you know who I am, then you should be happy."
"Okay."
"Hermione, we're going to be late for class, maybe we should go." Harry said while looking at Draco. "It seemed weird how they talked to each other. Harry wasn't used to him being so nice. Maybe that's how you act when you are around someone you love and trust. Even if it isn't a boyfriend or girlfriend. Now Harry figured it out, he had never been able to experience real love, because he didn't have a sibling or a girlfriend. His family hates him and all he has are his friends. 'Ron has tons of people to care for him, he's lucky.' He thought. 'I hope I will find the one I love soon enough.'
