Que Sera Sera
By Aldesina
Chapter 3
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Disclaimer: You know the drill, I own, nada, neda, niddle, zip, zoop, zap, zomp, dittle, diddly, dit, squat, nothing, zero, nil, zilch……………need I say more?
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Back to the present
"Hermione!" Harry spoke to her again, this time placing a hand on hers "Come on, if we're going to go in, it's now or never."
"No wait," Hermione said, pulling Harry back, "What about Draco, he doesn't think you're going crazy, in fact he said that he would help you in any way that he could, why don't we go back and.."
"No he wasn't a friend of Ron's, well I can't say that…" Harry said after some afterthought. "He has changed from the fourth year after all."
"Not that much," Hermione said nudging Harry gently. It was true. Draco had changed, not entirely, but right now instead of being prone to do evil, he remained pretty much neutral. Although if prompted and prodded correctly, he will occasionally join the side of good, which delighted the other teachers at Hogwarts but would have caused his father to be more then a little cross at him, it would cause his father to kill him, That is, if Lucius ever found out.
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At the end of the fourth year of school, Draco had seemed to be the most evil horrid person in the school. However something about him changed in the summer, not much but enough so that Harry, Ron and Hermione noticed it and were intrigued by it enough to keep it in the back of their minds. Though he still treated Ron and Hermione as second class wizards and hated Harry with a passion, he seemed to have lost his delight in torturing other Gryffindors and students from the other houses. Draco Malfoy was acting very odd all fifth year, and it didn't ease the trio's minds either to see Lucius Malfoy strutting in the castle halls once or twice a month all that year. Not only that, but it seemed that the only time that Draco was particularly rotten to anyone was when Lucius was around.
" Wonder if someone beat the crap out of him and now he only has the guts to insult someone when daddy's around" Ron said during breakfast one morning.
" Now that is something that should definitely happen, Malfoy being beat up I mean" Harry had replied, " Isn't it about time that spoiled brat got what he deserved after all those years of being an asshole?"
"It seems that he still is an asshole, even when his father isn't here, I overheard some Slytherins talking the other day saying that Draco had dumped Pansy. Publicly! Right before a Hogsmead trip and everything." Neville added in.
"Yeah but then how the heck do you explain the fact that he's no longer bothering Harry, heck he didn't even bother to taunt Harry in the Quidditch match yesterday!" Ron said
"No he just played dirty as usual" Lee Jordan said, they all laughed at that
"Oh come on Lee do you really expect the Slytherins to play fair?" Seamus asked " It'd be like Snape handing out sweets and not giving us detention.!"
"No, no, no, it'd be the day Snape started handing out sweets in a frilly pink dress!"
" Snape in a frilly pink dress with bows, and ribbons and purple plastic birdies!!" Seamus shouted through the gales of laughter pouring out from his fellow Gryffindor's mouths .
"Care to tell me what's so funny at this table that it's making you all laugh so loudly that we can hear it up at the teacher's table Mr. Finnigan?" The laughter died and suddenly everyone was completely engrossed with the contents on their plates.
"Don't look down so quickly Mr. Jordan, I plan to hear your explanation right after I hear Mr. Finnigan's."
"Well, you see Professor Snape, er, we were just, we were just………" Seamus started.
"You just thought it would be amusing to make a mockery of me over your morning meal didn't you?" Snape cut in .
"No, no, not at, all, all not, not.." Seamus said shaking his head violently.
" Jordan! What do you have to say for yourself?" Snape swiveled his head around to look at the other boy.
"Er well, um, hmm.."
"Well, you can continue thinking after class today in detention. You will report to my office at eight o'clock with quills, ink, and scrolls ready. And while you sit in detention you will think about why it will not do you any good to insult a teacher. You will produce the most well written essay on that subject that I have ever seen. I want four scrolls each and it shall be handed to me before you can leave tonight. If it is not the best writing that I have ever seen you will be serving another detention the following night." With that said, Snape sneered at them once more, and walked back up to the teacher's table to finish his breakfast. Seamus and Lee groaned, they had just sealed their fates for the next two nights; detention with Snape.
By the sixth year Draco had practically become a saint compared to the other Slytherins. No more shrewd remarks, no more jests, tricks or crude jokes. He didn't even bother Harry anymore, no more Weasley jokes, and Hermione had not been called a mudblood since. It had made the trio very, very nervous.
They had a run in with Draco one afternoon during their sixth year; he was sitting by himself by a fountain that Harry, Hermione and Ron were passing though, when he suddenly called out a hello to them.
"Hey guys," he said, as though it was the most normal thing in the world for him to do.
"Um excuse me but did you just say hi to us?" Ron said scrunching up his face
"Yeah, I said hi, and usually when someone says hello to you it's polite to answer them back." Draco said nonchalantly shredding a leaf between his fingers.
"Manners?" Ron spat, "You want to teach me something about manners? Why you little…"
"Calm down Ron" Hermione broke in, "What do you want Malfoy, I see that you lack the usual cronies by your side, what's the matter? They couldn't stand your stench anymore?"
"Oh you wound me!" Draco said mockingly, "Look here buckteeth, if you think that remark was suppose to be a clever insult you're more off your rocker then I thought you were"
"Just what the hell do you want Malfoy?" Harry cut in before Hermione decided to kill Draco.
"Nothing, just a chat with a few fellow classmates, that's all. It's not a sin now is that?" Draco smirked "Well Saint Potter, is it a sin?"
"Why you…….." Ron made a lunge for Draco but was pulled back when Harry and Hermione grabbed his robes.
"Sod off Malfoy; it's only the unfortunate time of your birth that made us into classmates." Hermione scoffed "Come on Ron, Harry, let's leave."
"Now, now wait a minute." Draco said running around them to cut them off
"I said back off Malfoy!" Hermione pulled her wand out and stuck it in front of Malfoy's face, "Unless you would enjoy becoming the amazing bouncing ferret again?" Harry and Ron also had their wands drawn, Hermione might have loosened up over these past years, but she was a prefect this year and would never go around threatening people just like that. It worried them slightly, plus the fact that if Hermione happened to miss Draco when cursing him, they could always back her up, but they doubted that she would miss.
Draco smirked slightly
"Aren't you going to slap me first?" he winked at her, but stopped when Hermione's wand made contact with his chest.
"Hermione I want no hostility between the two of us, ok, the four of us when you include Potter and Weasley, you know that I do not like being bounced up and down…."
"That's precisely why I suggested it to you" Hermione cut in smoothly flicking her wand ever so slightly.
"The thing is……." Draco said, now slightly exasperated, "That I would like to call a truce." His arms were raised in slight surrender.
"A what?" The three of them asked together, wands still aimed at Draco.
"That's right, you heard me, A truce. Do I have a deal?"
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