"Haha! No, really Harry!" Fred laughed.

"Seriously!"

"What, like a REALLY girly scream?"

"Like this" Harry threw his head back and let out a mocking, high-pitched scream. Fred and George laughed again.

"Than what happened?"

"The class went hectic. All the snakes got scared so they curled tighter around everyone"

"Basically, we nearly all died. And at the end it took us an hour to convince Aleron to climb back down the tree" Ron said.

"It wasn't THAT funny" Aleron sulked, crossing his arms. Draco, seeing him, crept up behind him and ran his index finger slowly down Aleron's back and hissed.

"AHHHHH!" the boy shrieked. Draco laughed.

"Honestly, afraid of snakes" he said.

"Well there's something YOU'RE afraid of"

"No. I'm not scared by anything" Draco smirked triumphantly for the perfect revenge then walked away. Unfortunately, he had forgotten about Harry.

"Ahhhh…" Draco sighed as he slipped under his silky blankets.

"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family…" sang an eerie voice. Draco's eyes opened wide.

"With a great big hug and kiss from me to you, won't you say you love… me… TOO!" Aleron yelled and leapt out from behind the curtains. He pinned Draco on the bed.

"Hah! Scared of a soft purple plushie dinosaur!" he laughed, pulling Draco's right cheek.

"ARGHHHH! Get off me!"

"Admit it! You're afraid of a CHILDREN'S toy!"

"No!"

"Admit it!"

"No!"

"I'll sit on you"

"WHAT?"
"Okay, don't say I didn't warn you" Aleron said in a singsong voice then, whipping Draco's pillow away from under his head, plonked it on top of the blonde's face. Then promptly sat on the pillow.

"Mmmmm! Gerrof!"

"Admit!"

"Can't breathe!" Draco yelled; his voice muffled.

"What? Can't hear you…" Aleron laughed.

"You great lump! Get OFF!"

"What? Still can't hear youuuu"

"Fine! I admit!"

Aleron got up and took the pillow off Draco's face. "Admit what?" he asked.

"I admit, okay? I hate Barney. Now let me sleep"

"Hate? No, you have to say you're afraid"

"No"

Aleron sighed. "Well, okay, fine"

"FINALLY" Draco said, exasperated. He settled back under his blanket. Aleron jumped in next to him.

"Hey!"

"What?"

"Don't sleep here!"

"Why not?"

"Why not go and sleep in WEASLEY'S room? He always shares with you plus he's got a spare mattress"

Aleron pulled a face. "He's nice and all, but he SNORES"

"Well you're not sleeping here" Draco said firmly and kicked Aleron hard in the stomach.

"Ow!" the boy yelped and fell off the bed onto the floor. "You're mean" he whined, rubbing his sore behind.

"Yes. I know. Happy nightmares"

"Don't I get a pillow or something?"

There was a silence. "No"

"Please?"

Something soft fell onto Aleron's face. He peered at it through the darkness.

"'Night" Draco smirked. There was another silence.

"A TOWEL?" Aleron yelled. There was a light snoring noise from Draco who pretended to be asleep. Aleron waited patiently until he was sure that the boy was truly asleep. He grinned evilly. He crept up to Draco's ear.

"BARNEY!" he hollered. Draco shot two feet off the bed and landed on the floor.

"Ow!" he yelled. Aleron calmly took the boy's pillow.

"Yep. Revenge definitely is sweet, isn't it dad?" he asked sweetly.

Aleron woke up early in the morning. He got up off the hard floor, stretched, and yawned.

"Morning!" he chirruped cheerfully. Draco grunted in reply and pulled the blanket over his head. Aleron picked up the toothbrush and toothpaste he had bought and the change of clothes he had borrowed from George. He walked into the toilet, not bothering to close the door. He looked at his image in the mirror and grabbed Draco's hairbrush.

"He won't mind if I borrow it," he decided. He ran the brush through his long golden hair lazily, once, twice. He then replaced the brush and stepped back to see himself again. He felt something soft under his foot. Then something clamped onto his ankle. He looked down. A long green snake had sunk its teeth into his foot.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed in a high-pitched 'girly' voice. He leaped around the toilet screaming his head off. Then logic came back to him. Hold on, if this was a real snake, why didn't the bite hurt… He reached down and picked up the snake. It flopped over in his hand.

"FAKE?"

"You're right," a grinning Draco said, leaning casually against the doorframe "Revenge IS sweet"

Draco entered the Great Hall to find everyone on the Slytherin table laughing.

"Got a protector, Draco?" Blaise laughed.

"Protector of the breakfast!" Tony –a new kid in Hogwarts- laughed. Puzzled, Draco walked to his place at the table. Then froze.

"All hail the mighty Barney!" Blaise yelled, laughing, and saluted mockingly. A grinning Barney the Dinosaur toy stood behind Draco's empty bowl. Draco looked wrathfully at the Gryffindor table at a grinning Aleron and Harry, who saluted then broke into helpless fits of laughter. Feeling his cheeks burn, Draco picked up the Barney doll by its neck, squeezing it tightly. Harry yelped and stood up quickly. Draco put one hand on the dinosaur's foot and the other hand on Barney's head, as if to decapitate the doll. Then he thought otherwise. Still holding the dinosaur, he stormed to the window. He slammed the window open savagely then hurled the doll as far away as he could.

"Barneyyyyyyy!" Harry howled in anguish, alarming everyone on the Gryffindor table. Draco glanced casually out of the window.

"Whoops. Barney died," he said. 

"It's finished" Dumbledore said triumphantly. Aleron peered into the cauldron.

"It looks like tar"

"Don't worry, it will work"

"Do I really have to go back? I want to find out so much more about this time"

"Yes Aleron" Dumbledore said gently. "People miss you there"

Aleron's face dropped, then brightened.

"Well, okay!" he chirped perkily. Dumbledore smiled.

"That's better. And you can still keep in contact" he said. He took out a small bit of the potion and rubbed it on the door then opened it. Behind the door, everyone could see, wasn't what was normally outside. It looked similar, yet different. Slick glass walls had replaced the hard rock, and the floor was smooth and shiny.

"All you have to do is walk through," Dumbledore said. Aleron nodded. He shook Harry's hand enthusiastically.

"Seeya as soon as I can, okay Harry? S'been fun. And I'm sorry for what happened to Barney"

"It's… okay…" Harry said, somewhat sadly, mourning the loss of Barney's left foot, which had been eaten by one of Professor Sprout's Venus Flytraps, before Harry could save it.

"You too, Ron, Fred, George"

"We'll miss ya" Fred said, ruffling Aleron's hair.

"I'll miss you too" Hermione said, smiling. Aleron moved to her and gave her a big hug.

"Don't go cryin' on me now. I'll see you soon" he whispered into Hermione's ear.

"ENOUGH with the sentimentality already, yeesh. BYE, hope we never meet again, now GO" Draco said. Aleron smiled.

"Was nice meeting you dad. Well, to tell the truth, it wasn't VERY nice, but it was sizzlin'"

"THANK you. Now BYE!"

"We'll have to try and hook up sometime" Aleron said, putting his arm around Draco's shoulder.

"I mean, I still have so much I wanted to tell you about the future" he said, walking slowly closer to the door.

"Terrific, bye now"

"Right. Well. Bye" Aleron said. Suddenly he moved his arm forward and pushed a startled Draco into the portal. The image of the other place swirled in a circle, smaller and smaller, until the other side of the door showed the normal stone walls outside.

"Seeya soon!" Aleron called. He turned around to six shocked, gaping faces.

"He… uh… tripped?" he grinned sheepishly.

Draco's eyes opened slightly to see a short haired girl staring at him with wide, sparkling emerald eyes. Upon closer inspection Draco noted that the girl's hair was a light brown and messy.

"I don't think so Dan… he doesn't LOOK dangerous"

"Looks can be deceiving" grunted a deep male voice.

"Dunno… looks more like one of those rich kerks to me. Daddy's ickle boy" the girl said.

"Whatever. I say we stun 'im" the male voice said. Draco opened his eyes fully to see a red-haired boy holding something to his face. And in his hand was a small silver gun.

"ARGH!" Draco yelled and shuffled away as far as he could. The boy sighed in exasperation.

"See? We should've stunned 'im when we had the chance"

"Hold on" the girl said. She stared at Draco closely.

"You know what? He looks a LOT like Al" she said. The boy looked.

"Hey, yeah…" he said. He picked Draco up easily by the front of his robes.

"Where'd you come from?" he demanded. Draco glared at the boy.

"My name is Draco Lucius Malfoy. Now put me down"

"Draco Malfoy!" the boy burst into laughter. "That's a hoot! You really expect us to believe that?"

"Put him down Dante" the girl said, motioning with her hand. She looked at Draco closely. "I doubt he is Draco Malfoy, but he definitely looks related to Al. I don't think Al'd want to come back to find his cousin… or whoever this guy is… dead on the floor"

"THANK you. I feel so relieved" Draco said cynically. The boy scowled but put the blonde down. Roughly. Draco sprawled in a very undignified manner onto the floor, his rear being the first part of his body that hit the ground. The girl took the gun from the tall boy and pointed it at Draco's chest.

"Seriously now. Who are you?"

"Draco Malfoy!" Draco said.

"Quit lying"

"I AM!" Draco protested. I cannot be-LIEVE this, he thought. I tell the truth and no one believes me!

"I'll press the trigger. You'll be a very paralysed, very stiff kid"

Draco looked at the gun and snorted. "You won't"

"Why not?" the girl asked, frowning.

"That gun only shoots gas. That's why he was pointing the thing at my face and not putting it to my arm or something" Draco said, nodding to Dante. "Unless you're trying to paralyse my CLOTHES," he sneered. The girl scowled.

"No it doesn't. This gun works like an injection. The syringe goes straight in"

Draco arched an eyebrow. "I see no syringe"

"It's IN the gun"

Draco calmly took the gun by the nose and looked at it. "AND its empty too" he commented. He handed the gun back.

"Who are you two anyway?" he asked. The girl and boy exchanged glances. The girl nodded.

"Dante Ronald Weasley" the boy said gruffly.

"Jamie Harry Potter"

Draco smirked. "You realize that you have a male name"

The girl rolled her eyes. "So I've been told. About a million times"

Draco suddenly realized her full name. "Did you say Jamie HARRY Potter?"

"Yeah"

"You're Harry's… daughter?" Draco asked faintly.

"Nuh" Jamie sighed and rolled her eyes.

"So you're Ron's son?" Draco asked Dante.

"So I'm told"

Draco looked at the boy's silver-blue eyes. Upon closer inspection he also noticed a few silver-gold hairs.

"None of the Weasleys have silver-blue eyes"

"None of the Malfoys are SHORT" the boy retorted.

"Hey, I'm… wait, Malfoys? As in plural?"

"Tzch, yeah, duh" Jamie said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Draco glared at her.

"You know, you have a SERIOUS attitude problem"

"Well how 'bout you smart guy? You just appear out of nowhere and claim to be Draco Malfoy. Aleron is missing, you resemble him. What, you expect us to be FRIENDLY?"

Draco scowled. "Why did I even THINK I could get anything out of a POTTER?" he asked himself and stalked off. Jamie and Dante watched him open a door, walk into the room and slam it shut.

"Think we should tell him that door takes him to the waste disposal room?" Dante asked. Jamie shrugged.

"Nah, he'll find out soon enough," she said casually. She turned to walk away and looked over her shoulder.

"Two month old leftovers are so stinky too" she grinned.

Summary of the last paragraph: Draco got mad, stomped off and walked into a room stuffed full of two month old leftovers. Ewww…