Hey everyone! First of all, fable2112, thankyou so much for your interview. And also thankyou for reminding me how to spell "Gryffindor" again, I haven't read the books for a while, sorry! I can't believe I've been spelling it wrong since I am a serious Harry Potter fan *blushes*. And also the idea of Victoria's character is actually to be a Mary-Sue, since it's the first time she's been introduced. She'll change in the sequel though, don't worry! She grows up a bit. This is my first fic, so go easy on me :s. Thanks again for reviewing though!

Rita Skeeter's Exposure

Five days had past since the attacks by the death eaters, and everything was back to normal. Well almost everything, it seem that ever since Draco Malfoy laid eyes on the girl of his dreams Victoria his life had changed. At first he had been disgusted with himself for even looking at this mud blood; it went against everything he believed in, and of course the fact that she hung around the "Potter bunch" was enough. But now nothing mattered but her, and although he still detested Potter, Weasley, and Granger, his attitude towards muggle-borns had been changed by Victoria.

Draco was walking to joint potions class with Gryffindor when he heard a familiar voice. "Hey Draco, wait for me" it was Victoria. He stopped and waited for her. She greeting him with a peck on the check. "You weren't seriously going to class without me, were you?" Victoria asked.

Draco smiled "Of course not, but we'd better hurry or Snape will take points off if you're late." So the two of them walked into class and sat down near Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Snape walked in staring at Potter in disgust. "Potter, you know that Victoria belongs to Draco, you'd better be careful boy," Snape spat. "Today class we will be blending a basic antidote for temporary blindness. Everyone except for Malfoy And Miss Dreanadia get into threes. It's only fair that we give our heroes a rest."

Snape was about to continue when Draco, who had caught Victoria's eye, said, "Professor Snape sir? I may have helped save the day, but without the help of Potter, Weasley, and Granger I wouldn't have been able to pull it off. They deserve the same amount of credit as I do, sir." Draco said this in his usual contemptuous voice, but he meant every word of it, surprisingly. The whole class stared. Was this the real Draco Malfoy?

"Fine. Potter, Weasley, Granger go. The five of you are dismissed," Snape said, slightly irritated. The five of them stepped outside. "I'd never thought I say this to you Malfoy, but… thanks," said Harry.

"Yeah, thanks," Echoed Ron and Hermione. Malfoy smirked.

"There's no need to smirk about it Draco," said Victoria sternly. "That was a very decent thing you did though."

"I know," said Draco, who was very surprised at himself.

They all went off to their separate common rooms.
It was late in the afternoon and Draco, who was quite sleepy decided to call it a day. He was walking back to his dormitory only to be greeted by the usual teasing, "Hey Draco, heard your girlfriend was willing to die for Potter, too bad, I don't think she would have done it for you," from Pansy Parkinson.

Draco sneered at her. "I never liked you at all Parkinson, you're the ugliest thing on two feet that ever lived. Go get jealous over some other guy, 'cause I really don't care!" he said. When he finished he saw Pansy's eyes fill with tears, and she when running off to the girls bathroom to cry it off. "She deserved that," Malfoy said to himself and continued on. Ever since that Rita Skeeter put out her article everyone had been giving him a hard time. All his friends had deserted him and everybody teased him about being with Victoria. Until his and Victoria's letter came out, he had no choice but to hang out with Potter, Granger and Weasley. Well, least this way he could be with Victoria.
Draco finished getting ready to sleep and then wondered where his parents where, they would not want anything to do with him now, since he had helped bring about the downfall of Lord Voldemort. But he knew too well that Voldemort was still alive and that Potter and Victoria would once again seek revenge. Knowing this, he had come to the decision that he might as well help. Draco climbed into his bed and slept.

* * *

The following day, Draco and Victoria's letter came out on the front page of the Daily Prophet. Harry, Ron, and Hermione came rushing up to Victoria at breakfast, with Ron waving a copy of the newspaper above his head. "Why didn't you tell us?!" he yelled, half irritated and half excited.

"Yeah, and when did you and Malfoy write it?" said Harry, plopping down beside her.

"The other night at about midnight," she replied. "We, er, we went down to the library." She did not want to tell them that Draco had come into the Gryffindor (hee hee I spelled it right!) common room, she had a feeling that Ron would explode with joy at a chance to get Malfoy expelled.

"Tell you what though," said Hermione excitedly. " I think we can expect a few apologies today. Look, whoever wrote the article about the letter even put in how shocked and outraged the Minister for Magic and the owner of the Daily Prophet are! I think she might be sacked as a reporter!"

"Let us pray for that!" laughed Ron.

Sure enough, as class progressed throughout the day, one by one almost all the students who had teased them came up and said sorry. "I don't know what came over me," Justin Finch-Fletchly said. "I had everything wrong." Susan and Hannah nodded with him.

"Glad you finally noticed," said Victoria nastily. "I mean, what are you, blind? I'm only fifteen for goodness sake! And do really think that Hermione would say those things about Harry? Please, get with it Justin!"

"Um, Vic, that was very unlike you," said Harry.

"Can you blame me?" she replied, rounding on him. "I am so sick of being teased about this kind of stuff, it's never happened before. I mean, what do you think I am, Little Miss Perfect? I'm tired of that, I want to have some fun for a change!" And with that, she stormed off.

"Geez, what's with her?" said Ron, puzzled.

"Dunno," said Harry. "Come on, we'd better get to class. Divination first, darn it!"

* * *

Victoria walked quickly at first then she slowed down. What had just come over her? That was not like her at all. But then, maybe it was. After all, when she had come to Hogwarts she had sworn to make a fresh start. So she had developed a reputation of being Miss Absolutely Perfect In Every Way. She thought that she had changed. But then, she supposed that you could not really change a naturally bad temper. But no! She must not let it get her in trouble again! Calming down, she put on her brightest smile and climbed the ladder to the Divination classroom.

* * *

Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy was having the time of his life. People had been crawling up to him, one by one, and apologizing over and over again. And he was far from gracious about it. When Pansy and Blaise came up to him and simpered, "Oh Draco, we're so sorry about all those mean things we said to you," all he said back was, "What did you do to yourselves, drink some of that antidote for temporary blindness that we made in potions yesterday? Or did you suddenly wake up this morning and decide to actually use your brains for the first time ever? Get out of my sight you two, and get a life!" They had walked off, sobbing. Draco smirked to himself. When people said that Draco Malfoy was a lady-killer, they were not being metaphorical. Besides, he knew that they were just trying to hit on him again.

Well, there is chapter 12 finished. Not many more to go now! And I would just like to give Kelvin a lot of credit since he wrote the first part of this chapter. You're a legend! Gosh, I have to decide when to finish this story, in two chapters I think. So, please review for me!