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Angelika - Yay, you were officially the first reviewer for this story! I'm glad you like my portrayal of Narcissa, I really like her charact6er for some reason even though she can be a bit of a bitch! Sev is gonna be back soon! Her and Lucius will continue to have their incredibly complicated relationship and you will indeed see her reaction to Ginny getting Tom Riddle's diary, I'm particularly fond of that part of the story! There's a little way to go before we get there though! Narc, does have a bit of Gryffindor in her, she's not as ruthless as she has seemed in the past as you will see later on in this story the woman is not wiling to 'use any means to achieve her ends' (from sorting hat's song). She can be manipulative though! LOL! Thanks for the review!

Chi - *Blushes horribly* Gosh, I'm flattered! I'll try to make the pauses between the chapters too long but I don't think I can post two at a time all the time because I'll very quickly run out of chapters. Wizarding Christmas would be the best! I love the idea of Draco building a snowman with his mother! You're the second reviewer who said my stories had given them ideas for artwork, I wish I could see some of these pictures, I'm just glad to be providing some sort of inspiration. Thanks for reviewing!

J.L. McD - Wow, a new reviewer! Glad you like the story so much, I will definitely keep going as I have sixteen chapters written now. Thank you for reviewing!

Serepidia - I'm glad this made you happy, warning though this story will be pretty angsty! I hope you do think it's as good as Wedding Bells, I hope the update was soon enough! I'll try not to leave it too l,ong between updates. Thanks for reviewing!

Mugz83 - Gosh another reviewer who makes me blush with their nice comments! Glad you like the thing with the rose. The wait for more is over, here's the next chapter! Ah yes, how much Draco is like his father, something that will cause poor Narcissa pain later on, the big question being how much is he really like Lucius? Thank you for the review!

Professor Charlotte Snape - I don't like to keep my readers waiting, that and I'm addicted to reviews so I keep posting in hopes of getting more! Glad you liked it, thanks for reviewing again!

honest_iago - ah, you're always so complimentary. Have been thinking about your little criticism of that thing I gave you to read the other night and I'm trying to come up with a way round it which changes the line but doesn't raise that issue. This fic will indeed be longer than Wedding Bells, I've got about 17 chapters so far, not including the end that I've practically written in full, but I'm not even into third year yet! Actually I am by about a week I think! Gosh I hope I can get this out before Order of the Phoenix but with exams and everything I'm not sure that I can! I'll give it a go but I would like to actually go to university next year so I'll have to take a break from writing at some point if not from updating.

T.A. Skywalker - Hey thanks for reviewing hope the "life change" was nothing traumatic! Glad you liked the end of Wedding Bells and this so far. I did get Wedding Bells up pretty quickly but I don't know if this one will be as quick! Thanks for putting me on your favourites list!

A/N: The stuff in the **[ ]** is Narcissa's thinking while reading the letter, they are not part of the letter!

I Built My Life Around You

**Narcissa's Thoughts**

-Howler-

Chapter Three

Dear Mum,

You won't believe what happened! That bloody Weasel gave me a black eye! **[What?! Damn that child!]** He just attacked me during this quidditch game **[Hmm, why is it I doubt he was unprovoked]**, clearly attention seeking, I mean it's obvious he's jealous of Potter the boy wonder. **[Sure that isn't you dear?]**

Anyway he just totally got away with it, they claim he was provoked, can you believe that!? **[Yup!]**

My face is still sore, can't you get dad to have him expelled or something?! **[Hmm, let me think about that one...NO!]** Just to top it off Gryffindor went and won the bloody game as well!

Everything else is ok, thanks for the sugar quills again. I got another A in potions and I'm the best in my class at charms. Defence against the dark arts is a joke though; I mean this teacher seems to actually be afraid of us! No kidding, it is the single most ridiculous excuse for a class ever!

Anyway, I've got to go explain the concept of reading the recipe before making a potion to dumb and dumber, bye for now.

Draco

P.S. Really, can you not go and threaten the Weasel's parents or something?!

**Ah, the joys of motherhood! Wonder what he did to annoy the Weasel; I mean Ron, I am not stooping to that childish level! Threaten his parents? With what? Sending Lucius round to eat their first born? Well, just sending Lucius round is enough of a threat but I don't think it's advisable he'd only create a fuss.** Narcissa shook her head deciding that her son needed to learn to fight his own battles, **still, that horrid boy hurt my angel whether he was provoked or not!**

She grabbed a piece of parchment and her raven feather quill and drafted a strongly worded letter to Dumbledore along the lines of how could he let any harm come to her precious baby, she then re-read it and threw in the bin deciding that if he had not already punished the evil child who'd tried to harm her angel then he probably considered the matter closed, **stupid old fart! If only I could get my hands on that spawn of Satan, I'd teach him to harm my baby!**

Instead of going and killing the child, she wasn't sure how she was going to do that but she would have found a way, she decided on a shopping trip, returning hours later with a new book for Draco she knew he'd wanted and a huge parcel of sweets which she gave to her owl to take to the school along with a letter reassuring him that the Weasley child was not worth him wasting his time on and insisting that he must tell her if he felt he was being bullied by the Gryffindors.

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This was not the only letter her son sent her regarding the Gryffindors, well all his letters seemed to mention them somewhere but a few weeks later Narcissa received another letter from her son that was exclusively about them and the games keeper. It made little to no sense and appeared to talk about a dragon and a plot to spirit away said dragon to Romania. Also something about tipping off teachers or catching them in the act or something. **What on earth is he on about? I think he's had too much sugar!**

She dismissed the letter as her son's wild imagination until another one came a few days later.

Dear Mum,

You may find this unbelievable but right at this moment I am cowering under the bed covers trying to slow my breathing, you are never going to believe what I've been through tonight! **[What is it now, a combined attack by a Weasel and a dragon or did dumb and dumber blow half the school up in their latest potions lesson?]**

You know I told you all about that dragon, **[So that really happened then, I was beginning to wonder of I'd imagined that letter!]** Well, I didn't exactly manage to catch them with it. **[Hmm, big surprise, I think someone's being pulling your leg dearie.]** I did get McGonagall to catch Potter, Granger and Longbottom out of bed though, only problem being she caught me as well and took twenty points from Slytherin and gave us all a detention, but that wasn't so bad as Gryffindor lost 150 points. **[Way to go kid! How'd you manage that?]**

Anyway, our detentions were tonight and they made us go into the forbidden forest. **[What!!!]**

Narcissa put the letter down for a moment and sat down heavily on the window seat in her room before re-reading the last line, it hadn't changed since the first time she'd read it. **They sent my little boy into the forbidden forest!!** She turned back to the letter.

They forced us to go in, that great oaf said something about if I thought you and father would rather I was expelled then I should get back up to the castle. **[I'd rather you were expelled! How could they send you into that place?! And at night as well! They should be ashamed of themselves!]** We were looking for this unicorn that was dripping blood everywhere or something and we split up, I got stuck with Potter and Hagrid's big dog thing and Granger and Longbottom went with Hagrid. **[Oh God, I'm starting to feel faint, how could they put you through that? Whatever harmed that unicorn could have still been out there! What would have harmed a unicorn?]** Anyway, we found it alright! It was dead, it was horrible mum, I mean it was just awful, this beautiful creature just lying there so lifeless. That wasn't the worst of it though, there was something else there too, or someone I suppose. A figure hooded and cloaked it appeared to have been drinking the unicorn blood. **[What? Surely not? Who could be that desperate?]** Anyway, I have to admit I ran, **[Good!]** I sent up some red sparks and the others came and then Hagrid sent us all back to the school. I don't know what that thing in there was but I'd bet anything it wasn't friendly. Oh God mum it was horrible! I don't believe I'm still shaking. I'm going to go to sleep now after I send this letter to you.

I love you,

Draco.

Narcissa dropped the letter into her lap. She could hardly believe what she had just read.

"Lucius!" she hollered stepping out into the hallway, this was one time she felt she needed her husband's support as she was clearly unable to go and kill Dumbledore herself. However the only response she got was from Dobby who came racing up to her.

"Madame Malfoy, Mister Malfoy is gone out he is saying he will not be back until late tonight."

"Damn, the one time I actually want him to be in the house!" she muttered, "Thank you Dobby, that will be all I'll deal with this myself."

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Albus Dumbledore was sat in his office in the late afternoon the next day, enjoying a cup of tea and a sherbet lemon, when an owl flew in through the window and deposited a howler on the desk before shrieking at Fawkes and flying out again. It was a Malfoy owl and Albus had been expecting it, he opened the howler to hear a surprisingly female voice yelling at him, he had expected the howler to be from Lucius but clearly it was Narcissa who'd sent it.

-Professor Dumbledore!

I cannot believe you sent four children, first years at that, into the forbidden forest at night! Your behaviour is criminally negligent and my son could have been killed! If you ever pull another stunt like this I will not hesitate to come and withdraw him from the school immediately! Oh and should you ever feel as though it is a choice between that and expulsion again then I suggest you expel him because I swear that if you ever send my son back in there I will kill you with my bare hands you stupid, mindless, cruel, sadistic, worthless old man!-

The howler fell silent. Dumbledore stared at it. He then realised that it might be wise to send a letter to Mrs Malfoy before she sent him Dragon's dung through the post.

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Narcissa received a reply to her Howler at breakfast the morning after she'd sent it.

Dear Mrs Malfoy,

I am sorry to hear you are so upset and I would like to assure you that we take the safety of our students very seriously indeed. Your son is unhurt and I have full faith in Hagrid's ability to protect students. I am sorry you feel you would rather have had your son expelled but he broke the school rules and the punishment was perfectly usual, having attended this school yourself you know we like to have the students do something useful in detention. I apologise for upsetting you but assure you Draco is fine.

Albus Dumbledore.

"Bloody fool!" Narcissa swore at the reply, Lucius had already left the breakfast table and so she sat there alone and fumed, considering how to get revenge on Dumbledore without getting herself a term in Azkaban. She was ultimately unable to come up with any ideas so gave in and made up her mind to tell Lucius everything. He was a Hogwart's governor; let him make the old fool's life hell!

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A/N: I feel I must apologise for the Ron bashing but Narcissa is an over protective mother. I love Ron and think that Draco was asking for that black eye but Narcissa, though she realises this, is still angry that her son got hurt.

As for the Dumbledore thing, well I think he was horribly irresponsible to send them into the Forbidden Forest in their first year like that, and I don't think Narcissa would take the news that her son had been sent in there and scared witless particularly well. She used to like Dumbledore well enough when she was at school but he's begun to annoy her since she left. She thinks he's a bit incompetent, after the whole Lucy getting away with being a deatheater thing she thinks everyone involved is incompetent. She also dislikes his pro-Gryffindor bias and isn't fond of the way he looked at her at Lucius' trial as though he were disappointed with her. Her dislike of him back then was irrational but was founded in the fact that it was him Sev was spying for and she felt personally betrayed by that incident. Sorry to any Dumbledore fans but I think that man is pretty damned irresponsible and put yourself in Narc's shoes, after that letter from Draco what would you do? I think he was asking for it.

I am still horrified at hearing that Oliver will not be in the next film! How can they be allowed to do that?! I'm considering suing for emotional distress!

Anyway, please review!!!! I'll update again soon!