All around Hogwarts everyone was scowling and glaring at him wherever he went, his friends wouldn't talk to him and Harry wouldn't even make the slightest sign of any recognition. Everything had been going so well then it was all destroyed by him. He felt so horrible he had even considered asking out Pansy again… this thought had quickly been dismissed when he remembered how hard it was to get rid of her last time, it all ended in him making an absolute fool of himself in front of the entire school.

The Quidditch match had been a disaster, Rita Skeeter had been thoroughly informed of 'the break-up' and the catastrophe that was the Hufflepuff vs. Slytherin match soon enough. The new double spread of 'Howlers at Hogwarts' was now a regular thing in the Daily Prophet written by the apparently 'charming' Rita Skeeter. The latest issue has a double page spread of 'Draco's Dilemas' with subtitles including 'Malfoy Causing Mayhem' and 'Slytherin's Dreadful Defeat' They really didn't help Draco's mood in the slightest.

Rita Skeeter would pop up next to him pretty much everyday asking for an interview, she said it would 'widen the readers knowledge of the insides of Hogwarts' but knowing her she would probably twist his words to make everyone hate him, or at least hate him more than they do at the moment… which according to the scathing looks and harsh remarks he gets just by walking down the corridor couldn't be much worse.

Draco had even considered saying yes, maybe they would feel sorry for him, yeah right, they all hated him just because he broke up with the most annoying girl in the school, he didn't know she had taken it so seriously.

He found himself snapping at everyone, or at least those people who would ever talk to him which was basically just Crabbe and Goyle… not that they do much talking but they keep the conversations short because Blaise 'disapproves.' Whenever Pansy comes within a 100m radius of Draco she will burst into tears and he's beginning to think she's merely doing it for attention now, there's no way someone can be that upset for this long, can they?

Argh he was so annoyed with himself! Why did he have to go and ruin everything for everybody?! But I guess that just runs in the family… his parents didn't exactly have a history of making the right choices at all…

Draco saw harry walking alone at the end of the hall, what should he do? Should he say anything? It was only them in the corridor… should he do something? His throat choked him and made him cough and splutter as harry approached.

"Are you okay?" harry asked, he looked genuinely concerned which surprised Draco and would have left him speechless if he wasn't having a coughing fit.

"yeah, I'm fine" he managed to get out between coughs, harry nodded awkwardly and continued down the corridor. The coughs died down and Draco walked over to the wall and leaned his back against it. He sunk to the floor and leaned his head back against the cold stone of the old castle wall.