Draco Malfoy sat in the Great Hall watching the owls swoop overhead, it had been a week since he had been sorted into Gryffindor and he had been anxiously awaiting his fathers reply.

He watched as the Malfoy owl flew over to him and dropped a letter on his empty plate.

"Draco,

I'm very disappointed to hear you were sorted into Gryffindor, you come from two pure blood families who have been Slytherins for centuries. You have caused your Mother and I great shame and we can no longer call you our son. We have spoken about this a great deal and we can't have a blood traitor as a son. You cannot change your house, you were sorted as a Gryffindor and must now live with the consequences.

Lucius Malfoy."

He sat there reading the letter over and over again, fighting back tears and trying desperately not to scream.

He flinched as he felt a hand tap his shoulder and looked up to see one of the boys from his dorm, Neville, smiling at him.

"Are you ok? You look a bit upset" he said

"I'm fine" he sneered before getting up, and walking quickly to his dorm.

Harry Potter, who had been sitting across from Draco had noticed he hadn't eaten anything so he quickly wrapped some food into a napkin and told his friend Ron he was going to bed early. When he reached the dorm he noticed the curtains around Dracos bed were closed but he could hear faint crying coming from behind them.

"Um, excuse me? I noticed you didn't eat anything and I thought you might be hungry, so I bought you some food" he said, as he walked slowly up to the bed.

"Go away"

"I, er, I noticed you was a bit disappointed after the sorting ceremony, did you want to be in a differant house?" Asked Harry, he heard a sigh come from behind the curtains and they were drawn back, he saw the blond boy leaning against the bed rest, his eyes were red and a crumpled letter lay next to him.

"I wanted to be a Slytherin, I am a Slytherin" he said quietly

"Oh. The hat let me choose mine" said Harry thoughtfully

Draco looked up at him in shock "What?"

"The hat wanted to place me in Slytherin, but I asked for anything but Slytherin, so it put me here instead"

"I wasn't aware the hat gave choices, it certainly didn't let me choose" Draco sulked "I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy" he said after a moment

"I'm Harry Potter"

"Yes, I know, your famous in the wizarding world. I saw you talking to that boy with red hair. Your not actually friends with a Weasly are you?"

"You mean Ron? He's nice, you'd like him" said Harry he handed Draco the food, and Draco seemed to relax a bit more thanks to the distraction. It had been the first time he had had a conversation with anyone since he arrived at Hogwarts.

The next day in their Charms class, Draco almost ran to sit next to Harry, but Ron got their first, he sneered at him behind his back before going to sit next to the bushy haired girl who had been annoying everyone.

If his father had seen him sitting next to a muggleborn Gryffindor he'd have Crucio'd them both into oblivion he thought as Professor Flitwick began talking.

He repeated the levitation spell and was quite pleased with himself as his feather lifted a few centimetres off the table, he heard talking next to him and saw the Gryffindor girl holding down Rons wand

"Stop Stop. You're going to take someone's eye out. It's LeviOsa not LeviosAr" she said.

Draco smirked as she demonstrated the spell properly to the sulking redhead.

Perhaps Gryffindors weren't all bad after all...