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Melissa Pitt - Thank you for the nice review! Don't worry I'll keep going.
Serepidia - Sorry I kept you waiting for the update, I'll try not to leave it so long in future, still I did put up two chapters at once. Glad you liked it, don't worry I'm 'keeping up the good work' honest_iago practically puts a gun to my head and makes me write so I won't be allowed to stop any time soon!
Darcel - Glad to have interested you, thanks for reviewing. I like Narcissa but I can see why she would annoy people.
Dark Comet - Did you poke me with a sugar stick? LOL! Well that certainly made me smile! I gave you two chapters because of the unforgivable wait, unforgivable because they were all ready to go up and I just decided to go out instead of posting! Did you like, 'reflections of their souls'? If so you should try the ones by Cairnsy that are on my favourites list they're both really good! Revision stinks! I've got a tonne of it to do myself at the moment! That's why you usually only get one chapter at a time on this story as if I posted as many chapters together as I did in Wedding Bells I'd run out of chapters before my exams were over and then I'd have to leave you waiting for ages for something new! Oh I read your story 'A change of attitude' by the way and I really liked it! I left you a review with more detail. Thanks for reviewing me again! Since I read your profile I too have wondered why sheep don't shrink in the rain. Oh and thank you for reviewing Turning Point, I love it when that fic gets reviews, glad you liked his reasons for turning spy!
Professor Charlotte Snape - Thank you for reviewing, I'm glad you like the updates. I must say that I love Colin Creevey in the films, that kid is just so sweet!
Sunrise-chick - Glad you like it, sorry about the lack of Snape, he will be in Chapter 12. I know that's a long wait but it's difficult to work him in often, he's not exactly Lucy's favourite person so he isn't about to call round for afternoon tea! As for meeting Harry, well it isn't really in at the moment. The only times she sees him are in Flourish and Blotts and at the quidditch world cup. She might see him again sometime but I haven't really got a meeting in mind. I don't know how they'd get on, bear in mind she's Snape's friend and a Slytherin so she'd probably take her son's point of view. She feels sorry for Harry but he annoys her a little as well. Partly because she feels it should be his mother who got the credit for defeating Voldemort, not because she knew Lily particularly well, just because it was Lily who died and all that, personally I think Lily should have got the credit bugger the boy who lived what about the poor woman who died? Mainly though because she's heard too much about him from her husband and son and also the press and she's pretty sick of the sound of his name. I doubt he'd like her either, she's Slytherin to the core and well she knows Sirius is innocent, as she mentions in Wedding Bells, and she does nothing, she can be a pretty cold woman. I don't think she'd dislike Harry too much if she met him but I don't see that happening. That and she can't just walk into Hogwarts without good reason, Dumbledore probably wouldn't let her, she is a deatheater's wife after all. She will see Snape though and soon! Well, chapter 12. He's very important in that chapter if that's any consolation. After 12 you next see him in 17, I know another long wait but believe me you will not want to miss chapter 17, much Snape! Draco would have done better beating Potter on skill and talent but he's turning into his father's son! Thanks for reviewing.
A/N: Not such a long wait this time, but unfortunately a short chapter, so I'm giving you two of them! I'm in a rotten mood because of exams and revision so I'm trying to make others who may have exams to work for happy by updating two chapters at once, speaking of exams good luck to Dark Comet with that Physics one!
I Built My Life Around You
**Narcissa's thoughts**
A/N: The stuff in the **[ ]** is Narcissa's thinking while reading letters, they are not part of the letters!
Chapter 8
The next letter from her son arrived a few days after the first, before she had even had time to reply, **Goodness me, not that I'm complaining but when did Draco become this dedicated a correspondent? Ten to one he wants something. Gosh, I'm getting cynical!**
She opened the letter out in the garden where she was sat under a tree enjoying the last of the summer sunshine.
Dear Mum,
I'm the new Slytherin seeker!!! **[Yes! Knew you could do it sweetheart!]**
Anyway we had our first practice the other day and you wouldn't believe the shambles it was! Not because of us but because of the gryffindors. **[Since when do the houses go to each other's practice sessions?]** Anyway Marcus must have known they'd booked the pitch so he got a note from Professor Snape giving us permission to practice so he could throw them off, **[Very Slytherin! I like it!]** you can guess how fond they were of that! **[Not very I'd wager!]**
You should have seen the looks on their faces when they saw the Nimbus 2001's! But you should have heard what that Granger bitch said to me, **[oh God I think I can guess, please don't tell me it was something about buying your way onto the team!]** she said at least no one in the gryffindor team had to buy their way on! What on earth is that supposed to mean?! **[I knew those broomsticks were a bad idea!]**
Then again it was completely worth it for what happened next! **[I don't even want to know do I?]** The Weasel jumps to her defence because I called her a mudblood, **[You said what?! To the girl's face?! I don't believe this!]** and his spell backfired and he ended up coughing up slugs. You should have seen it, it was just the funniest thing! And that kid with the camera was there taking pictures! The whole thing was just too funny! Flint surrendered the pitch after that because we all laughing too much, Wood (that's the gryffindor captain) wasn't very pleased when he saw his seeker had buggered off with Weasley either! So nobody actually ended up doing any practicing after all!
I can hardly write for laughing even now!
Bye for now,
Draco.
Amusing as the image of the young red head coughing up slugs was Narcissa couldn't bring herself to laugh at it. She was too preoccupied with her son's comment to the girl, **he just threw it in to the letter as though it were no big deal. And in this house I suppose it isn't. Oh, how on earth do I reply to that letter? How can I tell him off? He's only doing what Lucius brought him up to do.**
She went inside, no longer caring much for the sunshine, and climbed up to her study on the second floor. She sat down at her desk and began to draft a reply.
Dear Draco,
Congratulations on being made seeker, I knew you could do it and it is not because you bought your way on to the team, you're a really good player so don't listen to what anyone else says about that.
Now about this incident with the muggle born, you shouldn't have called her a mudblood, no matter how wound up you were or what she said, if any of the teachers had heard you you'd be in serious trouble! Also I have asked you before not to sink to profanity and what if that Weasley boy had got the spell right? I don't think you'd have enjoyed coughing up slugs, I remember having to deal with an incident like that when I was head girl, there's no way to stop it you just have to wait for the spell to run out of steam, trust me it isn't pretty!
Don't call people that Draco, please. Just humour your mother and don't do it.
Love as always,
Mum.
There, it would have to do, she could write no more without annoying him and risking him writing to Lucius, this would have to do for now.
She waited a week or so before he replied.
Dear Mum,
Sorry about the swearing, suppose you're right it was hardly my wittiest comeback. Still, I was only stating the facts. **[Oh bugger this for a game of soldiers, fine you say what you bloody well like, you will anyway!]** She was asking for it as well.
Thanks for the congratulations, we've actually done some training since that incident and we're doing pretty well.
Don't really have anything else to add right now. How are you and dad doing? Write again soon.
Draco.
**I give in! This is hopeless! I guess only time and experience are going to change his opinions.**
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A/N: Bugger this for a game of soldiers is an English phrase which basically means it isn't worth it I give in, just in case anyone didn't know. I don't know the origins of this phrase but I suddenly realised anyone not from Britain reading this may not know what it means.
When Narcissa thinks that the use of the word mudblood is no big deal 'in this house' she means Malfoy Manor not Slytherin House.
I know this was short and the next one is too but I promise they do get longer again and that's why I put them both up at once! For anyone wondering when on earth Severus will make an appearance he's in chapter twelve, he is important in this story he just takes his time making an appearance.
Please review, it keeps me going!
Review Responses:
Melissa Pitt - Thank you for the nice review! Don't worry I'll keep going.
Serepidia - Sorry I kept you waiting for the update, I'll try not to leave it so long in future, still I did put up two chapters at once. Glad you liked it, don't worry I'm 'keeping up the good work' honest_iago practically puts a gun to my head and makes me write so I won't be allowed to stop any time soon!
Darcel - Glad to have interested you, thanks for reviewing. I like Narcissa but I can see why she would annoy people.
Dark Comet - Did you poke me with a sugar stick? LOL! Well that certainly made me smile! I gave you two chapters because of the unforgivable wait, unforgivable because they were all ready to go up and I just decided to go out instead of posting! Did you like, 'reflections of their souls'? If so you should try the ones by Cairnsy that are on my favourites list they're both really good! Revision stinks! I've got a tonne of it to do myself at the moment! That's why you usually only get one chapter at a time on this story as if I posted as many chapters together as I did in Wedding Bells I'd run out of chapters before my exams were over and then I'd have to leave you waiting for ages for something new! Oh I read your story 'A change of attitude' by the way and I really liked it! I left you a review with more detail. Thanks for reviewing me again! Since I read your profile I too have wondered why sheep don't shrink in the rain. Oh and thank you for reviewing Turning Point, I love it when that fic gets reviews, glad you liked his reasons for turning spy!
Professor Charlotte Snape - Thank you for reviewing, I'm glad you like the updates. I must say that I love Colin Creevey in the films, that kid is just so sweet!
Sunrise-chick - Glad you like it, sorry about the lack of Snape, he will be in Chapter 12. I know that's a long wait but it's difficult to work him in often, he's not exactly Lucy's favourite person so he isn't about to call round for afternoon tea! As for meeting Harry, well it isn't really in at the moment. The only times she sees him are in Flourish and Blotts and at the quidditch world cup. She might see him again sometime but I haven't really got a meeting in mind. I don't know how they'd get on, bear in mind she's Snape's friend and a Slytherin so she'd probably take her son's point of view. She feels sorry for Harry but he annoys her a little as well. Partly because she feels it should be his mother who got the credit for defeating Voldemort, not because she knew Lily particularly well, just because it was Lily who died and all that, personally I think Lily should have got the credit bugger the boy who lived what about the poor woman who died? Mainly though because she's heard too much about him from her husband and son and also the press and she's pretty sick of the sound of his name. I doubt he'd like her either, she's Slytherin to the core and well she knows Sirius is innocent, as she mentions in Wedding Bells, and she does nothing, she can be a pretty cold woman. I don't think she'd dislike Harry too much if she met him but I don't see that happening. That and she can't just walk into Hogwarts without good reason, Dumbledore probably wouldn't let her, she is a deatheater's wife after all. She will see Snape though and soon! Well, chapter 12. He's very important in that chapter if that's any consolation. After 12 you next see him in 17, I know another long wait but believe me you will not want to miss chapter 17, much Snape! Draco would have done better beating Potter on skill and talent but he's turning into his father's son! Thanks for reviewing.
A/N: Not such a long wait this time, but unfortunately a short chapter, so I'm giving you two of them! I'm in a rotten mood because of exams and revision so I'm trying to make others who may have exams to work for happy by updating two chapters at once, speaking of exams good luck to Dark Comet with that Physics one!
I Built My Life Around You
**Narcissa's thoughts**
A/N: The stuff in the **[ ]** is Narcissa's thinking while reading letters, they are not part of the letters!
Chapter 8
The next letter from her son arrived a few days after the first, before she had even had time to reply, **Goodness me, not that I'm complaining but when did Draco become this dedicated a correspondent? Ten to one he wants something. Gosh, I'm getting cynical!**
She opened the letter out in the garden where she was sat under a tree enjoying the last of the summer sunshine.
Dear Mum,
I'm the new Slytherin seeker!!! **[Yes! Knew you could do it sweetheart!]**
Anyway we had our first practice the other day and you wouldn't believe the shambles it was! Not because of us but because of the gryffindors. **[Since when do the houses go to each other's practice sessions?]** Anyway Marcus must have known they'd booked the pitch so he got a note from Professor Snape giving us permission to practice so he could throw them off, **[Very Slytherin! I like it!]** you can guess how fond they were of that! **[Not very I'd wager!]**
You should have seen the looks on their faces when they saw the Nimbus 2001's! But you should have heard what that Granger bitch said to me, **[oh God I think I can guess, please don't tell me it was something about buying your way onto the team!]** she said at least no one in the gryffindor team had to buy their way on! What on earth is that supposed to mean?! **[I knew those broomsticks were a bad idea!]**
Then again it was completely worth it for what happened next! **[I don't even want to know do I?]** The Weasel jumps to her defence because I called her a mudblood, **[You said what?! To the girl's face?! I don't believe this!]** and his spell backfired and he ended up coughing up slugs. You should have seen it, it was just the funniest thing! And that kid with the camera was there taking pictures! The whole thing was just too funny! Flint surrendered the pitch after that because we all laughing too much, Wood (that's the gryffindor captain) wasn't very pleased when he saw his seeker had buggered off with Weasley either! So nobody actually ended up doing any practicing after all!
I can hardly write for laughing even now!
Bye for now,
Draco.
Amusing as the image of the young red head coughing up slugs was Narcissa couldn't bring herself to laugh at it. She was too preoccupied with her son's comment to the girl, **he just threw it in to the letter as though it were no big deal. And in this house I suppose it isn't. Oh, how on earth do I reply to that letter? How can I tell him off? He's only doing what Lucius brought him up to do.**
She went inside, no longer caring much for the sunshine, and climbed up to her study on the second floor. She sat down at her desk and began to draft a reply.
Dear Draco,
Congratulations on being made seeker, I knew you could do it and it is not because you bought your way on to the team, you're a really good player so don't listen to what anyone else says about that.
Now about this incident with the muggle born, you shouldn't have called her a mudblood, no matter how wound up you were or what she said, if any of the teachers had heard you you'd be in serious trouble! Also I have asked you before not to sink to profanity and what if that Weasley boy had got the spell right? I don't think you'd have enjoyed coughing up slugs, I remember having to deal with an incident like that when I was head girl, there's no way to stop it you just have to wait for the spell to run out of steam, trust me it isn't pretty!
Don't call people that Draco, please. Just humour your mother and don't do it.
Love as always,
Mum.
There, it would have to do, she could write no more without annoying him and risking him writing to Lucius, this would have to do for now.
She waited a week or so before he replied.
Dear Mum,
Sorry about the swearing, suppose you're right it was hardly my wittiest comeback. Still, I was only stating the facts. **[Oh bugger this for a game of soldiers, fine you say what you bloody well like, you will anyway!]** She was asking for it as well.
Thanks for the congratulations, we've actually done some training since that incident and we're doing pretty well.
Don't really have anything else to add right now. How are you and dad doing? Write again soon.
Draco.
**I give in! This is hopeless! I guess only time and experience are going to change his opinions.**
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A/N: Bugger this for a game of soldiers is an English phrase which basically means it isn't worth it I give in, just in case anyone didn't know. I don't know the origins of this phrase but I suddenly realised anyone not from Britain reading this may not know what it means.
When Narcissa thinks that the use of the word mudblood is no big deal 'in this house' she means Malfoy Manor not Slytherin House.
I know this was short and the next one is too but I promise they do get longer again and that's why I put them both up at once! For anyone wondering when on earth Severus will make an appearance he's in chapter twelve, he is important in this story he just takes his time making an appearance.
Please review, it keeps me going!
