Harry Potter looked at Draco Malfoy, and then deliberately looked down at the papers in his hand. At the sight of Granger trying to turn her head (and scootch over) to see what they were, Draco Malfoy had a most marvelous idea. Perfect thing to share. Harry Potter looked up again, steadily, at Draco, and Draco felt the brush of a cat's tail on the edge of his mind. There you are! he projected, a rather gleeful (and quite young) Draco pulling Dobby out of a half-clean cauldron by his feet (which had been sticking out). I've got something I need you to do...
Don't! It was a sound of defiance, and one that Potter was sure to recognize, that was Neville's rememberall, from way back at the beginning of Hogwarts. And then there was almost a bird's eye view, with Potter passing a book that Granger was pining to see. Draco repeated the entire thought-chain - and then he felt Potter do something odd, and he was remembering them on the pitch, nodding at each other - two captains ready to play a game. Uncharacteristically impulsively, Draco projected, Five galleons she can't last three minutes, before flushing slightly. Potter summoned another memory, Draco and Zambini saying, You're on! as they started a game of broomstick tag.
Suddenly, there was a loud, insistent tapping that seemed to reverberate like echoes trailing off forever, rebounding upon the person in the center, as each tap made all the other echoes grow louder. Owww... That was Draco Malfoy, age two, having fallen and hit his head on a crystal skull, his scarlet blood pumping over his platinum hair. Potter broke the contact, looking at Ron mildly, though Draco suspected Potter's head had to be hurting just as much as his own.
Ron, it turned out, was currently tapping the paper that had been recording ... his thoughts. Or rather, his most intemperate words, that he had been shouting out as if anyone could hear. Rather than risk Granger grabbing for this, Draco swiftly snatched it out from under Ron's hand. What did the mangified whelp have to say?
[Read and review, it'll mean more chapters. Taking polls on what Ron should be called - be creative!
This whole thing does read differently from Potter's angle...
Anyone figured out what Ron's going to go off about?
Feel free to use your imagination to figure out why Draco's flushing at the three minutes thing... Or you could review, and then maybe I'd show you from Potter's side.]