1 Chapter 4

Christian turned around and looked at Draco with a puzzled expression on his face.

"If you want to," he replied. Draco swallowed his frustration at the other boy's stupidity.

"I overheard him earlier," he began, but was interrupted.

"Who?" said Christian, still looking befuddled.

"Him, you know.. him?" said Draco, almost laughing out loud at the expression of realisation that slowly grew over Christian's face.

"Oh my god! Him?" he said incredulously. "And you.. and you.."

"I overheard everything," said Draco, trying not to sound too impatient.

"He likes.. he likes.. he likes me?"

"Of course. He expects an owl from you tonight." Draco, having expected Christian to be happy about this, was surprised when Christian's face fell and he dropped onto a log with his head in his hands.

"Oh no!"

"Erm, Christian?" He looked up. "That's a bad thing because…?" Draco waited for Christian to fill in the gap.

"I'm so stupid!" Christian eventually cried in an anguished voice. "If I owl him he'll realise that and he won't like me anymore! You're clever; I wouldn't expect you to understand! I wish I had your brains," he added bitterly. A thought occurred to Draco.

"Well why not borrow them?" Draco could have predicted the look of confusion on Christian's face, but was so absorbed in his idea he didn't feel the need to laugh.

"I don't think I quite.." Christian began. Draco cut him off.

"Harry likes you. Harry wants you to owl him. You don't think you can do that. Why not get someone else to do it for you?"

"I still don't quite…"

"Ok. I'll put it simply. I'll write letters. You sign them. Harry thinks they're from you. Everyone's happy." Except me, thought Draco.

"I think I see! You write letters to Harry from me!" Draco thought a light bulb wouldn't look out of place on top of Christian's head.

"That's right. Now, I'm going to go up to the dorm to get started on your first letter. I'll give it to you later to sign, alright?" Without waiting for an answer from Christian, he strode off, wondering why on earth he had done what he did and what his father would think if he knew.

Christian set off happily for the library to get started on the potions essay he knew would take him at least three hours longer to do it than anyone else. Draco was going to write letters to Harry from him, so Harry would continue to like him. Things just didn't get better than this!!