Chapter 4 – Earlier days, Malfoy, Hogwarts!
[3rd November – Malfoy Manor.]
What should he do?
That was the biggest question Lucius Malfoy was thinking over right now, it had been wholly like this since he had discovered his Death Eater Mark disappearing two years ago – so, it was right of him to finally do something that his son could be proud of.
Sitting here wasn't it, he knew that but he also had to think for himself for the first time in his life now that the Dark Lord wouldn't come and ruin it, he was free to do whatever he wanted – he was alive. Voldemort was dead, all he knew was that his mark had disappeared and his oldest friend came to him those years ago to tell him what the girl had told Dumbledore of his death.
It was clear to him that he would never actually have a clear thought about how it happened, but he was simply happy that no one in his family had been killed because of it. Making it interesting was that Severus came to him with a smile and a frown, and that frown on his face was because Dumbledore didn't seem to have believed the girl was telling the truth.
All of a sudden he was simply optimistic about his family's future – a wonderful feeling!
It was nothing new about his son sending a letter to him, not it was not usually done in such a hurried manner right after his last one. Also, it was unusually long, and he also sent it directly to him, and not to his mother though that may be because of something completely different.
Draco had somewhat always been closer to her than to him, because of how he had thought of the muggles as repulsive, oh, not like that but of the fact that there should be stricter separation alternative to the muggle world. As he knew for a certainty that we were getting a lot of attention, even with the help of the crown.
Also, with the thought of Draco's crush on the Girl-Who-Lived has always been cute with his obsession to befriend her each year becoming crazier than the last, though, it was fun hearing that Hermione had punched him in his nose at thirteen. Establishing that the letter was nothing new, he began to read it from start to finish.
Dear father,
It's weird. Hogwarts is still the same as ever, nothing is really happening but even then, things are going well as they can be. The tournament is still going on without any difficulties other than Potter seemed to have gone missing.
With her name coming out of the goblet, and with everyone going against her it is no wonder that she has tried to hide herself away or walked away from the wizarding world because of it. If anyone had looked closely enough, they would have seen her pale face and that she did not want to compete at all, it will be a miracle if anyone even get wind of her before the start of the tournament at all.
Why does this always happen to her? You would have to be blind not to see how she shrunk in on herself when her name was yelled out after what should have been the last name, with the whole school against her, it was no wonder that no one could find her later on – I even heard that she had been thrown out of Gryffindor house!
I had hoped to use this whole thing now to apologize to her, but with her gone nothing could be done of that.
Even the teachers have gone against her in this, and with that whole thing, I am glad that she has seemed to be gone and created something for herself in another part of the castle that no one seemed to have knowledge of.
There is also the usual school stuff, and with the death of the dark lord Crabe and Goyle seemed to have vanished as my shadows, though, there are still Parkinson – oh, how I hate and love that girl.
I will write soon as I get some more information.
Sincerely, your son
Draco.
Oh, son, you a simply reading the situation and it is no wonder with a friend like Parkinson – as she seemed to be the newest gossip queen together with you in that school. Lucius just had to shake his head in the expiration of the whole thing, but it was great to see that maybe the girl could put some sense into his son.
The same could be said for the Girl who lived, was she finally coming to her senses that the light side with Dumbledore wasn't as people told her or were there something else entirely.
Nevertheless, he would keep his ears peeled for information about the girl and her whereabouts.
[Hogwarts – Headmasters Office]
Albus Dumbledore was furious, all of his careful plans were falling apart by the seems and because of the girl's refusal to play his game. How had she found the original tournament rules? Because that has to be what happened when the next day, they did not find her anywhere in the school.
It was good that other than the teachers and the Slytherins seemed to have noticed the girl's disappearance, it made it obvious that he needed to find her and maybe even compel her to go through with the tournament.
Even Moody had disappeared from the face of the earth, even going to his quarters they could not find him – so, they didn't even have a decent DADA professor nowadays.
People still have to believe that Voldemort is still alive and see him kill the dark lord. Everything was exactly right about okay since there was time!
AU: 04. Jan 2021