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I Built My Life Around You

**Narcissa's Thoughts**

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

Chapter 19

MUM!

I got that letter when I was in the common room! Pansy got hold of it and read it out to everyone! Now they're all laughing at me and they think you're completely crazy! Life stinks, Potter's got a Firebolt, I'm the joke of the Slytherin common room and even you can't be nice to me!

Draco.

Narcissa sighed upon reading his letter, she found it funny on one level but on another rather disturbing. **Good for Pansy (whoever that is) it serves him right for doing something so daft in the first place! I could have been a lot worse, I let him off pretty lightly and it's hardly my fault that Potter has a Firebolt! Now he's mad at me, fantastic! Well, he's not getting an apology he'll just have to calm down on his own.**

It wasn't two weeks though before she received yet another disgruntled letter from her son, only this time his anger was purely directed at Harry Potter rather than herself.

Dear Mum,

I'm still angry with you, just for the record, but I needed to tell someone about how weird and deeply unfair my life is! **[My son, ever the drama queen!]**

I went into Hogsmeade today and Crabbe, Goyle and I were looking at the Shrieking Shack, minding our own business, when Weasley comes along. Next thing we know there's someone we can't see hurling mud at us! Then Potter's head appears in thin air! We cleared off pretty quickly after that and headed back to school. **[Translation, you ran for it!]**

I told Professor Snape and he said he'd speak to Potter, he's not allowed to go to Hogsmeade you see because of the whole Sirius Black thing. He doesn't seem to have got in trouble though! **[Ahh, were you disappointed that the nasty Potter boy didn't get told off? Grow up Drake!]**

Life just isn't fair; it took me forever to get that mud out of my hair! Stupid Potter gets away with everything!

Draco

**What on earth is that all about? Why is it that everything connected with Potter is so wholly unbelievable? It must have been a spell of some sort, an illusion or an invisibility spell gone wrong? Maybe even an invisibility cloak though that seems unlikely! Throwing mud at people who couldn't even fight back seems a bit of a low trick, sounds like he's growing up to be just like his father!**

In a few days time she heard from her son yet again before she had even replied to his first letter.

Dear Mum,

You won't believe what's happened now! **[Try me!]** That mudblood Granger slapped me! I want you to write a strongly worded letter to Dumbledore complaining about her, her kind shouldn't be in the school in the first place! It was all because I laughed at that idiot Hagrid as well, he was blubbing like a baby because they're going to execute his hippogriff, probably the closest thing he's ever had to a friend! Stupid mudblood I should have hexed them all into next week!

Draco.

P.S. Do something, for goodness sake they always get away with these things!

Narcissa had kept every single letter her son had ever sent her but this one she simply screwed up and tossed into the bin, thoroughly disgusted. **If that's anything like what you said to her I can't say I'm surprised she slapped you! Hagrid was crying? Oh the poor man! I can't believe I thought so badly of him, he seems almost childlike sometimes! Oh the idea of him being so upset is horrible! Damn why did I let Lucius deal with the Hippogriff incident! Because I couldn't be bothered! Well, that's the last time I get him to take care of something! As for Draco, well he can bloody well handle this himself, there are days when I'm ashamed to admit to being his mother!**

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Easter came and went and Draco's letters were few and far between, they told her little about what was going on and instead merely complained about anything and everything. Narcissa grew tired of reading about the same things over and over again, it seemed Draco was satisfied with nothing. His favourite things to complain about being, Potter, Professor Lupin, Dumbledore, Weasleys and Gryffindor, not necessarily in that order.

Draco said he was training hard for the final of the quidditch cup, he tried to sound confidant but reading between the lines of his letters Narcissa realised he didn't think they were going to win even though they were up on points. She received a very downtrodden letter on the day of the match informing her that they had indeed lost. She couldn't help but feel some sympathy for him then, Draco sounded quite depressed at their loss, it was also the most civil letter she had received from him in months.

Relenting she boxed up some chocolate frogs and sugar quills and wrote him a very sympathetic letter back.

He responded with the usual complaints about his broomstick and Potter and Gryffindor and managed eventually to all but blame her for not buying him a new broom. Narcissa threw her hands in the air in a gesture of surrender, **I give in, it's all my fault well of course it is! What was I expecting, God he just gets worse lately!**

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Two chapters because the fifth book's out soon and my exams are nearly over so I'm feeling generous!

Reassurance to any Pansy haters, there will be no Pansy/Draco romance. I have to admit though that the way I have written her in this story I like her. However, everyone on fanfic seems to hate the girl with a passion so before anyone complained about the two of them I promise no romance between them!

The growing up to be like his father comment from Narc was because she was a Slytherin Head Girl and a friend of Sev's do you think it's likely she'd like them or they'd like her? No, they didn't and the feeling was mutual but there will be more about that in a couple of chapters time. I just thought I'd explain here.

Alright I've decided that the next update of this story will be on Wednesday the 25th June. That should give people time to buy and read the fifth book as I doubt anyone will be reading Harry Potter fanfic this weekend! After that I might update on the Saturday (28th June) it depends on whether anyone's read the other update or not by then. I go away for two or three days on the 29th so I won't update again until I'm back which should be the 1st or 2nd of June. Hope everyone enjoys the fifth book and my deepest sympathies to those who can't get it yet! (Lune Project my thoughts and sympathies are with you in this difficult time!)

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