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I don't own a thing..J.K Rowling does and Warner Bros....
Harry awoke the next morning to the smell of bacon wafting up the stairs. A glance at Ron's bed told him that he was the last one up. Harry started down the stairs after pulling on clothes. He stepped into the kitchen and found that indeed he was the last one up. Fred and George were sitting on one side of the table looking at their forms which were slightly different then the one's that he others received as they were graduation form Hogwarts this year. Ginny was sitting on the other side of the table trying not to fall into her porridge. Next to her, Ron was stuffing his face with bacon. Harry ate his breakfast and then returned with Ron up to Ron's room to finish packing their trunks for the school year. At quarter after ten, Harry and the Weasley's headed off for King's Cross station and the Hogwarts express.
They arrived at Platform Nine and Three quarters with fifteen minutes to spare before the train departed. Harry and Ron stowed their trunks in an empty compartment and went out to find Hermione and say goodbye to Mrs Weasley. As they stepped form the train they found both Hermione and Mrs Weasley very easily as they were chatting along with Ginny. They gave their goodbyes to Mrs Weasley and climbed on the train. Ginny went off to find her other friends and Harry, Hermione and Ron grabbed a compartment to themselves. In all the confusion of the morning Harry had forgotten to tell Ron and Hermione about the dream. Harry filled the other two in on it and what Dumbledore had said. Their reactions to this news not exactly like he had expected.
"Harry do you really think You-Know-Who would go after the Dursley's. I mean why would he bother?" Hermione asked.
"Really." Said Ron "and even if he did, I can't have much sympathy for the Dursley's, not after the way they have treated you, your entire life." Ron said fiercely. Harry looked at Ron dumbfounded. Hermione spoke up before Harry had the chance.
"Ron that kind of attitude is abdominal! They don't deserve to die for that!" She said sharply. Harry looked at Ron thoughtfully.
"Ask me a year ago Ron and I would've agreed with you, but seeing Cedric murdered that way, the same way my parents were well I would never wish that on anyone, not even Malfoy." On that cue Draco Malfoy entered the room and looked at the trio.
"Oh God! Why is it that the only compartment that isn't totally full, has to have you three in it." He said quietly. All three of them looked at him oddly, like he had grown three heads like Fluffy.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry asked harshly. For a second it looked like Malfoy flinched form the harshness in Harry's voice.
"If you don't mind Potter, there is no where else on the train for me to sit so I have no choice but to sit her with you three." Malfoy replied. Harry gave him a very surprised look at the lack of a sneer in his tone.
"What's wrong Malfoy no one else would sit with you, what about your Slytherin friends." Ron said menacingly Malfoy gave them a sad little lood.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked the trio. There was a hint of pleading in his voice that Harry had never heard before. It threw him off guard.
"Yes we would like to know Malfoy." Hermione spoke softly. Malfoy gave her a soft smile, which shocked the other three.
"Well first off you really shouldn't call me Malfoy." They all gave him startled looks.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked
"Well I found out over the summer that Lucieus Malfoy is not my father." Harry, Ron and Hermoine's mouths all fell open in surprise.
"Wait!" He said, "let me explain that better. This simmer my fat...." he stopped in the middle of the word. " the man I thought was my father, was training me very harshly in the Dark Arts. My mother was hardly ever home. I know what you all think about Lucieus but my Mother is just the opposite, she really loves me, not like him, he just used me." He said harshly and continued on with his story. "so my father wanted me to be initiated into the Death Eaters before school started." Harry, Ron and Hermione all gasped at this prospect. "my Mother said I was too young they got into a terrific argument about it and at one point Lucieus yelled that I would do what he said that I would because I was a Malfoy. My Mother yelled back that I was not his son and not a Malfoy. Well needless to say this shocked Lucieus and when she wouldn't give him the name of the man who fathered me so he beat her so severely that he almost killed her. Then he turned on me, when I woke up I was locked in my room with no food until my uncle Will, he is my Mothers brother came and rescued me from the Manor." He finished his story with tears in his eyes. The other three were looking at him quite differently now that they had the story. Hermione looked at Draco.
"Ummm Mal...I mean Draco do you know who your real father is?" She asked quietly.
"No mud...Granger I don't, my uncle didn't know." Ron opened his mouth and Harry and Hermione would make fun of Draco.
"Draco." Ron said with a strangled voice. "If you hare not related to Lucieus then why do you look so much like him?" Ron asked.
"I'm not sure Weasley, I think it is some kind of enchantment to make me look slightly different, or it could me a potion she gave me over the summer holiday's." He said with a perplexed look. Harry was the only one of the three that had not yet spoken up and Draco looked at him uncertainly.
"Is your mother ok Draco?" asked Harry quietly looking in the other boys eyes. At this question Draco stared at his hands in his lap.
"She is alive but just barely and the doctors have placed her in an magically induced coma so she can heal faster but we still don't know when or if she will be fine." He said and silent tears fell onto his hands. Hermione moved over beside Draco and put her arm around him comforting him. When Draco had stopped crying he looked at them.
"Um thanks for listening to me you guys. I know I haven't always been nice to you and yet you still listened." He said all this as though he was surprised at their attitudes. Ron looked thoughtfully at the blonde boy.
"So I take it all of the Slytherins know all this now?" He asked. "at that is why you are here, they are snubbing you for this." Draco nodded at Ron absentmindly. Ron hit his fist on the window and the other three teens jumped.
"Damn them, they are supposed to be your friends and they drop you at the dime of the hat, God! Great friends they were." Ron said. Harry thought of something and looked at his best friends and they both understood what his was asking and nodded. Harry turned to Draco.
"Draco, you can hang out with us if you would like to at school and you could even eat with us at our table if you would like to. Draco gifted the trio with a rare smile.
"Thanks guys that would be great." They could feel the train slow down at they neared the Hogsmead train station and another year at Hogwarts, but this year would be different then the last, they were friends with Draco Mayfoy.
I don't own a thing..J.K Rowling does and Warner Bros....
Harry awoke the next morning to the smell of bacon wafting up the stairs. A glance at Ron's bed told him that he was the last one up. Harry started down the stairs after pulling on clothes. He stepped into the kitchen and found that indeed he was the last one up. Fred and George were sitting on one side of the table looking at their forms which were slightly different then the one's that he others received as they were graduation form Hogwarts this year. Ginny was sitting on the other side of the table trying not to fall into her porridge. Next to her, Ron was stuffing his face with bacon. Harry ate his breakfast and then returned with Ron up to Ron's room to finish packing their trunks for the school year. At quarter after ten, Harry and the Weasley's headed off for King's Cross station and the Hogwarts express.
They arrived at Platform Nine and Three quarters with fifteen minutes to spare before the train departed. Harry and Ron stowed their trunks in an empty compartment and went out to find Hermione and say goodbye to Mrs Weasley. As they stepped form the train they found both Hermione and Mrs Weasley very easily as they were chatting along with Ginny. They gave their goodbyes to Mrs Weasley and climbed on the train. Ginny went off to find her other friends and Harry, Hermione and Ron grabbed a compartment to themselves. In all the confusion of the morning Harry had forgotten to tell Ron and Hermione about the dream. Harry filled the other two in on it and what Dumbledore had said. Their reactions to this news not exactly like he had expected.
"Harry do you really think You-Know-Who would go after the Dursley's. I mean why would he bother?" Hermione asked.
"Really." Said Ron "and even if he did, I can't have much sympathy for the Dursley's, not after the way they have treated you, your entire life." Ron said fiercely. Harry looked at Ron dumbfounded. Hermione spoke up before Harry had the chance.
"Ron that kind of attitude is abdominal! They don't deserve to die for that!" She said sharply. Harry looked at Ron thoughtfully.
"Ask me a year ago Ron and I would've agreed with you, but seeing Cedric murdered that way, the same way my parents were well I would never wish that on anyone, not even Malfoy." On that cue Draco Malfoy entered the room and looked at the trio.
"Oh God! Why is it that the only compartment that isn't totally full, has to have you three in it." He said quietly. All three of them looked at him oddly, like he had grown three heads like Fluffy.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry asked harshly. For a second it looked like Malfoy flinched form the harshness in Harry's voice.
"If you don't mind Potter, there is no where else on the train for me to sit so I have no choice but to sit her with you three." Malfoy replied. Harry gave him a very surprised look at the lack of a sneer in his tone.
"What's wrong Malfoy no one else would sit with you, what about your Slytherin friends." Ron said menacingly Malfoy gave them a sad little lood.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked the trio. There was a hint of pleading in his voice that Harry had never heard before. It threw him off guard.
"Yes we would like to know Malfoy." Hermione spoke softly. Malfoy gave her a soft smile, which shocked the other three.
"Well first off you really shouldn't call me Malfoy." They all gave him startled looks.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked
"Well I found out over the summer that Lucieus Malfoy is not my father." Harry, Ron and Hermoine's mouths all fell open in surprise.
"Wait!" He said, "let me explain that better. This simmer my fat...." he stopped in the middle of the word. " the man I thought was my father, was training me very harshly in the Dark Arts. My mother was hardly ever home. I know what you all think about Lucieus but my Mother is just the opposite, she really loves me, not like him, he just used me." He said harshly and continued on with his story. "so my father wanted me to be initiated into the Death Eaters before school started." Harry, Ron and Hermione all gasped at this prospect. "my Mother said I was too young they got into a terrific argument about it and at one point Lucieus yelled that I would do what he said that I would because I was a Malfoy. My Mother yelled back that I was not his son and not a Malfoy. Well needless to say this shocked Lucieus and when she wouldn't give him the name of the man who fathered me so he beat her so severely that he almost killed her. Then he turned on me, when I woke up I was locked in my room with no food until my uncle Will, he is my Mothers brother came and rescued me from the Manor." He finished his story with tears in his eyes. The other three were looking at him quite differently now that they had the story. Hermione looked at Draco.
"Ummm Mal...I mean Draco do you know who your real father is?" She asked quietly.
"No mud...Granger I don't, my uncle didn't know." Ron opened his mouth and Harry and Hermione would make fun of Draco.
"Draco." Ron said with a strangled voice. "If you hare not related to Lucieus then why do you look so much like him?" Ron asked.
"I'm not sure Weasley, I think it is some kind of enchantment to make me look slightly different, or it could me a potion she gave me over the summer holiday's." He said with a perplexed look. Harry was the only one of the three that had not yet spoken up and Draco looked at him uncertainly.
"Is your mother ok Draco?" asked Harry quietly looking in the other boys eyes. At this question Draco stared at his hands in his lap.
"She is alive but just barely and the doctors have placed her in an magically induced coma so she can heal faster but we still don't know when or if she will be fine." He said and silent tears fell onto his hands. Hermione moved over beside Draco and put her arm around him comforting him. When Draco had stopped crying he looked at them.
"Um thanks for listening to me you guys. I know I haven't always been nice to you and yet you still listened." He said all this as though he was surprised at their attitudes. Ron looked thoughtfully at the blonde boy.
"So I take it all of the Slytherins know all this now?" He asked. "at that is why you are here, they are snubbing you for this." Draco nodded at Ron absentmindly. Ron hit his fist on the window and the other three teens jumped.
"Damn them, they are supposed to be your friends and they drop you at the dime of the hat, God! Great friends they were." Ron said. Harry thought of something and looked at his best friends and they both understood what his was asking and nodded. Harry turned to Draco.
"Draco, you can hang out with us if you would like to at school and you could even eat with us at our table if you would like to. Draco gifted the trio with a rare smile.
"Thanks guys that would be great." They could feel the train slow down at they neared the Hogsmead train station and another year at Hogwarts, but this year would be different then the last, they were friends with Draco Mayfoy.
