The Golden Arrow
Chapter 4: The Unexplainable Truth
Draco's POV:
(where we left off…)
It was midnight. Two days after the "incident." Nobody could explain what had happened to me. Dumbledore didn't understand how I got better. I acted as though I didn't know what had happened and that I didn't care because now it was in the past.
But I secretly did care. I cared very much.
That voice, that person in the room with me. That was my mother. She had risked a lot to come to Hogwarts. To stop whatever business she was doing and appear to me. Just because she was the goddess of love made her even more fond of me Me, her only son. Me, her only heir to her throne. Me. The god of love. Cupid himself.
Of course I had been alive for millennia. I got bored up there in Olympus. Just shooting random arrows at people who didn't care one bit about anyone else and then comes the arrow of love and BOOM – "Oh, they love so very much, now."
Of course that was all my doing. I've been doing it since the beginning of time. I am an immortal. But I got bored with just shooting random people and making them fall in love.
So I decided I would make myself look like a teenager again, (last time I did that it was the 60s) and go to Hogwarts. Me, not be able to handle mortal magic. Yeah, right. I was a God you know.
And then I meet that Harry Potter. Of course, I secretly thought he was a really cool kid, and that I had seen his parents fall in love (I had made them fall in love), but I couldn't express that to him. So he went in Gryffindor. And I was put in Slytherin. I guess posing as a mortal wizard was a bit deceitful, and the hat must have seen that.
When my mom, Aphrodite, found out what I had done, she had been furious. But then she said that she probably would have done the same thing and agreed to let me continue as long as I kept my job at least once every two weeks. She works with that job a little since I'm out. And oh, yeah, work on that all summer long.
Things were great! I acted my part and learned a lot of magic. I had to act like a bastard, because I was in Slytherin. But I feel as my life is falling apart, once again. Life is getting boring again. I will complete Hogwarts and then, who knows what. Pansy follows me around, but I don't like her. Those two goons Crabbe and Goyle whom I was testing to see if they would ever change, didn't. I want to be with Harry and Ron and their group so much secretly. If only I couldn't keep secrets from them. Like who I really am. And Hermione. Ahhh, Hermione. I never thought I'd fall in love with a witch. But she is the princess witch of my dreams. And she came to my rescue. She caught my fall.
And why did I fall? Not for Hermione. For those goons who stuck that stupid potion into my food. Thank – god it was diluted. I could have died. It was meant for the most powerful beings. And what was I? A God. The reluctance was there.
I'm glad she's around though. She has hardly left my side, and I think Harry and Ron are starting to suspect something.
I am in the astronomy tower right now. Leaning out the window. Not supposed to be up here, but who cares. If anything ever happens I am a god.
Here, tonight, Saturday night, it is my assigned job to do. Look under this mortal bed, and pull out the invisible trunk. Change out of my robes and don my "loin cloth" look. Get out the golden arrows, let the wings grow out of my back. Jump out of the window and get back to Hogwarts tomorrow afternoon. Excuse – I went to see my dad.
Jump out the window and do your job, "Cupesy-pie." I wish she'd stop calling me that.
All right, ready to go. Just jump out the window and…
"Draco?" asked Hermione. She was standing right behind me.
Chapter 4: The Unexplainable Truth
Draco's POV:
(where we left off…)
It was midnight. Two days after the "incident." Nobody could explain what had happened to me. Dumbledore didn't understand how I got better. I acted as though I didn't know what had happened and that I didn't care because now it was in the past.
But I secretly did care. I cared very much.
That voice, that person in the room with me. That was my mother. She had risked a lot to come to Hogwarts. To stop whatever business she was doing and appear to me. Just because she was the goddess of love made her even more fond of me Me, her only son. Me, her only heir to her throne. Me. The god of love. Cupid himself.
Of course I had been alive for millennia. I got bored up there in Olympus. Just shooting random arrows at people who didn't care one bit about anyone else and then comes the arrow of love and BOOM – "Oh, they love so very much, now."
Of course that was all my doing. I've been doing it since the beginning of time. I am an immortal. But I got bored with just shooting random people and making them fall in love.
So I decided I would make myself look like a teenager again, (last time I did that it was the 60s) and go to Hogwarts. Me, not be able to handle mortal magic. Yeah, right. I was a God you know.
And then I meet that Harry Potter. Of course, I secretly thought he was a really cool kid, and that I had seen his parents fall in love (I had made them fall in love), but I couldn't express that to him. So he went in Gryffindor. And I was put in Slytherin. I guess posing as a mortal wizard was a bit deceitful, and the hat must have seen that.
When my mom, Aphrodite, found out what I had done, she had been furious. But then she said that she probably would have done the same thing and agreed to let me continue as long as I kept my job at least once every two weeks. She works with that job a little since I'm out. And oh, yeah, work on that all summer long.
Things were great! I acted my part and learned a lot of magic. I had to act like a bastard, because I was in Slytherin. But I feel as my life is falling apart, once again. Life is getting boring again. I will complete Hogwarts and then, who knows what. Pansy follows me around, but I don't like her. Those two goons Crabbe and Goyle whom I was testing to see if they would ever change, didn't. I want to be with Harry and Ron and their group so much secretly. If only I couldn't keep secrets from them. Like who I really am. And Hermione. Ahhh, Hermione. I never thought I'd fall in love with a witch. But she is the princess witch of my dreams. And she came to my rescue. She caught my fall.
And why did I fall? Not for Hermione. For those goons who stuck that stupid potion into my food. Thank – god it was diluted. I could have died. It was meant for the most powerful beings. And what was I? A God. The reluctance was there.
I'm glad she's around though. She has hardly left my side, and I think Harry and Ron are starting to suspect something.
I am in the astronomy tower right now. Leaning out the window. Not supposed to be up here, but who cares. If anything ever happens I am a god.
Here, tonight, Saturday night, it is my assigned job to do. Look under this mortal bed, and pull out the invisible trunk. Change out of my robes and don my "loin cloth" look. Get out the golden arrows, let the wings grow out of my back. Jump out of the window and get back to Hogwarts tomorrow afternoon. Excuse – I went to see my dad.
Jump out the window and do your job, "Cupesy-pie." I wish she'd stop calling me that.
All right, ready to go. Just jump out the window and…
"Draco?" asked Hermione. She was standing right behind me.