Blackmail
Chapter One
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns the Harry Potter universe. Not me.
"Draco! Get down here! Now!"
Draco Malfoy was spread out on his bed when he heard his father holler at him. A few seconds later, a terrified house elf came charging into his bedroom. "Hurry, Master Draco, your father is wanting to talk with you."
Draco sighed, then stood up and went to speak with his father. "Do you realize that last year you had the second lowest mark in Transfiguration?" asked his father before Draco had even reached the bottom of the staircase. Draco cringed as he remembered his mark-seventy-five, only five marks higher than Neville Longbottom. His father had been murderously enraged, and apparently still was.
"Yes Father, I do." Draco replied. "I will do better this year," he added, in an attempt to placate his father.
"You won't just do better, you will have at least the second highest marks in the class!" Lucius said, seething.
"Yes Father." Draco waited for his father to say something more, but the conversation was apparently over. Draco went quietly back to his room.
How on earth am I supposed to get my grades that high without cheating? No one in Slytherin was smart enough to help him, and he wouldn't sink so low as to ask someone from any of the other houses.
But then again, he didn't have to ask. He could do it the Slytherin way- blackmail.
Now whom would he get to tutor him? Of course-it was too obvious. Hermione Granger! She was the top of the class; with her help, he could easily bring his grade up to second highest! Now whoever said mudbloods had no use? Draco thought, smirking. A plan formed in his mind. If he caught her doing something she shouldn't, he could threaten to tell Snape if she wouldn't tutor him. She was always out after dark trying to get a book from the library-he could tell Filch that someone was going to be there. Then he could go in his invisibility cloak and save her. She would owe him, or risk being expelled. He was a genius, plain and simple!
Thanks to salamander for help with my story!
Chapter One
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns the Harry Potter universe. Not me.
"Draco! Get down here! Now!"
Draco Malfoy was spread out on his bed when he heard his father holler at him. A few seconds later, a terrified house elf came charging into his bedroom. "Hurry, Master Draco, your father is wanting to talk with you."
Draco sighed, then stood up and went to speak with his father. "Do you realize that last year you had the second lowest mark in Transfiguration?" asked his father before Draco had even reached the bottom of the staircase. Draco cringed as he remembered his mark-seventy-five, only five marks higher than Neville Longbottom. His father had been murderously enraged, and apparently still was.
"Yes Father, I do." Draco replied. "I will do better this year," he added, in an attempt to placate his father.
"You won't just do better, you will have at least the second highest marks in the class!" Lucius said, seething.
"Yes Father." Draco waited for his father to say something more, but the conversation was apparently over. Draco went quietly back to his room.
How on earth am I supposed to get my grades that high without cheating? No one in Slytherin was smart enough to help him, and he wouldn't sink so low as to ask someone from any of the other houses.
But then again, he didn't have to ask. He could do it the Slytherin way- blackmail.
Now whom would he get to tutor him? Of course-it was too obvious. Hermione Granger! She was the top of the class; with her help, he could easily bring his grade up to second highest! Now whoever said mudbloods had no use? Draco thought, smirking. A plan formed in his mind. If he caught her doing something she shouldn't, he could threaten to tell Snape if she wouldn't tutor him. She was always out after dark trying to get a book from the library-he could tell Filch that someone was going to be there. Then he could go in his invisibility cloak and save her. She would owe him, or risk being expelled. He was a genius, plain and simple!
Thanks to salamander for help with my story!
