Disclaimer: I don´t own Harry Potter.
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Chapter 2
Silently Draco walked back towards his compartment, deep in his thoughts. 'Back to square one, who is the..?' His train of thoughts stopped when was passing Harrys compartment. 'Wow!'
Draco saw that Harry was changing to his robes and was just taking of his shirt. Dracos mouth started to water when he saw the lean muscles move beneath the tanned skin of Harrys back. In the middle of the golden-like skin was a big red spot. 'What the.?'
Dracos jaw almost dropped to the floor when he realised that it was a scarlet snake, curled up in a ball. 'Well well.' Grinning like a wolf Draco opened the compartment door silently and stepped in.
"A snake? That´s very un-Gryffindor of you."
Harry spun around and gasped in surprise. "Malfoy?! What do you want?" Harry wasn´t exactly angry or embarrased but more likely curious.
"Oh, just got curious seeing a Gryffindor with a snake tattoo. It´s almost like seeing professor Snape in pink tutu." Draco answered and sat down, measuring Harry from head to toe. 'Yummie! He has been working out.'
Harry stared Draco with his mouth wide open. 'If he doesn´t close that mouth, I might not control myself.'
"Snape.. In pink tutu.. Well, when that happens hell freezes over." Harry chuckled and forget that he still was only half-dressed, gripping the shirt in his hands. He woked Asia up with his chuckle and she slithered to Harrys shoulder to see what was so funny. ~Mmmm. That guy is CUTE!~ Harry burst laughing and didn´t notice the shock in Dracos face. 'So that how it is..'
"A wizards tattoo.." With those words Draco left Harry and walked straight to his own compartment. 'Maybe this isn´t as bad as it seems.' Smiling like a hunter Draco started planning. 'How to make your arch enemy love you? Hmm.. Difficult.. Very difficult but not impossible.'
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'Well, that was weird.' Harry thought putting on his school robes. He smiled little when he put on his Gryffindor Prefect- bagde. 'Though, I didn´t mind.' He shooked his head chuckling.
Hermione and Ron returned to the compartment, both looking little ravished. 'Must been snogging somewhere. Good for them.' Hermione and Ron looked questioningly at Harry and his rather pleased smile.
The train stopped and Harry heard Hagrid calling the first years to follow him. 'Has it been really six years?' Harry sighed and stepped out of the train. There were carriages waiting for them and they headed towards one of them, failing to notice Draco following them few steps behind. He got in the same carriage with them and caused Rons bloodpressure to increase to alarming level.
"Ferret!! What the hell are you doing here?!" Ron yelled at him, ignoring Hermiones 'shushes'.
"Ain´t it obvious? I´m sitting on a carriage, on my way to Hogwarts." Draco was as cool as a block of ice.
Ron was going to blow up, but Harry shook his head to his best friend and he looked clearly amused. Asia slithered to Harrys neck, to take a look what was causing the noise. ~It´s the cute guy again!~
Hermione looked at Harry with question in her eyes and saw smiling Asia on his neck. "Oh my God! You´ve got Wizards Tattoo!!" She was staring at it and Asia flicked her tongue at Hermione. Rons eyes widened when looked at the tattoo. "Cool."
Harry smiled widely at them. "She´s gift from Moony."
Draco chuckled at them. "You´re acting like they would be that rare." He rolled his sleeve up, exposing his pale arm and a green dragon in his arm. They all looked at it and Harry smiled.
"Figures." Harry said.
"What?" Draco put his sleeve down and looked at Harrys eyes.
"You with a dragon. It figures."
Surprising the Trio completely Draco laughed. "It does, doesn´t it?" Draco had wide smile on his face.
Hermione furrowed her brow and stared at Draco. "You´ve changed."
"Well, ain´t it a shame?" Draco grinned at them and jumped out of the stopped carriages. 'Well, it´s your move now Harry.'
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"What´s up with him?" Ron asked confused. "He´s our number one enemy and he acted towards us like.. well a human!"
"I don´t know.." Harry said and grinned widely. "..but I kinda like it." Laughing he jumped out and was followed by smiling Hermione and puzzled Ron.
Professor McGonagall was waiting for them and Harry saw Draco walking behind Professor Snape. 'Why he had changed?'
They all went to the Great Hall and sat down to their House tables. Remus and Sirius were sitting on the staff table and they waved to Harry with big smiles on their faces. They teached the DADA classes together. Harry waved back at them with equally big smile on his face. Dumbledore smiled too at Harry and looked Draco widening his smile. 'He truly knows it all.'
Draco noticed the looks he was getting and he raised his head to look at Harry. He smiled to Harry and Dumbledore and continued to chat with his housemates.
The sorting ceremony went by and Dumbledore gave them the usual warnings. Then he smiled to all of them.
"I would like to introduce to you all your House Prefects. Gryffindor: Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Hufflepuff: Susan Bones and Justin Finch- Fletchey. Slytherin: Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy. Rawenclaw: Cho Chang and Terry Boot. Would you come here so everyone could see you?"
They raised from their seats and walked towards the staff table. Standing in front of the school they were a bit nervous.
"Thank you. Now let the feast begin!" With small hand movement from Dumbledore the tables were filled with all sorts of food. The Prefects were about to return to their tables when Dumbledore stopped them.
"I asked you here for another reason too. Because the House dorms are filled to the maximum, there aren´t room for two separate rooms for Prefects. So we made few arrangments. Now there are own rooms for you all, but they aren´t in your Houses. You will have to share a common room with your pair but you have your own bedroom. Does this soung okay to you?"
They all nodded so Dumbledore continued. "I sorted you in pairs as follows: Ms. Granger and Ms. Bones. Ms. Chang and Ms. Parkinson. Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy. Mr. Boot and Mr. Finch-Fletchey."
The nearest teachers clasped their hands over their hears, fearing the coming burst of Harry and Draco. When it didn´t come they stared at the two boys who just nodded to Dumbledore.
Remus´ and Sirius´ eyes were almost the size of a plate when they stared at Harry. "Who are you? What have you done to Harry?!" Sirius managed to stutter.
Harry shrugged his shoulder little. "I guess I´ve matured." He returned to his seat and Hermione followed him.
"Are you okay Harry?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"You´ve dreamed about Malfoy, you´re almost happy about your little fights with Malfoy and now you didn´t even flinch when you were paired with Malfoy!"
Ron looked like lightning would have struck him. "PAIRED UP WITH MALFOY!?! What the HELL does that mean?" The entire Gryffindor table, few of the Rawenclaws and Hufflepuffs and one certain Slytherin was watching the situation slosely.
"The House Prefects are going to live in pairs. ´Cause girl-boy pairs are out of the question Dumbledore put as together. I don´t know why me and Draco, but I don´t really mind." Harry explained to his friend.
"Draco? Since when he was Draco instead of Malfoy?!"
Harry grinned at Ron and looked over to Slytherin table. "Since I have to live with him."
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Draco felt giddy. 'I´ve got Harry as a room mate, I´ve got Harry as a room mate.' Almost chanting it out loud Draco smiled. 'Harry didn´t even protest! He had even stood up for me, against the Weasel.'
Dumbledore announced the ending of the feast and the Prefects giuded the first years to their Houses. Draco was absentminded, when he took the first years to the dungeons, stopping in front of portrait of a blackhooded man.
"Password?" it snarled.
"Unicorn Blood!" Draco spoke loudly enough to everyone hear him.
Draco told them about the House rules when he stepped into the Common Room and then he and Pansy showed them their dorms. Returning to the Common Room, where Snape was waiting, Draco was getting nervous. 'How will Harry react when we´re alone? I´m not waiting that he would pounce on me (allthough, who am I to stop him?), but what if that cool attitude would turn out to be just an act?'
Snape gave the first years his 'welcome'- speech before guiding the Prefects to their new rooms. Stopping in front of a portrait of a knight Snape looked at Draco.
"This your room. The Password is 'Lair of snakes'." The knight nodded and revealed the hole.
Draco stepped inside chuckling. ''Lair of snakes.' Now that was funny.'
Harry was allready inside, sitting on a black leather couch, wearing the same clothes that he had on the train. 'Keep it together, control yourself. Oh, why he had to look so sexy?!'
Harry looked at Draco and smiled. "Aah, Draco.."
Harry stood up and headed towards Draco. 'Oh my God, what is he doing?' Harry took two bottles of butterbeer from the table and uncapped them.
"Will you accept my peace offering?" he said and offered the other bottle to Draco.
Grinning Draco took it and he proposed a toast. "To the truce!"
"To the truce!" Harry repeated and they drank their bottles empty. "Come, I´ll give a tour around."
Harry showed him the bathroom, which had one shower stall and one enourmos tub. The colorscale was mostly creamywhite, but there was also deep oceanblue. Next Harry showed him Dracos room. It was colored with Slytherin green and silver. There was a mahogny four-postered beth with dark green hangings and silk coverlets.
"Cool. What is your room like?"
Harry showed his own room, which was exact copy from Dracos room, except the colors were scarlet and gold.
"Nice."
The Common Room was rather cosy with the big marble fireplace, two mahogny study tables and diningtable and the leatherfurnitures around the fireplace. There was two couches and two chairs.
"Hope you don´t mind?"
Draco snapped out of his thoughts. "Mind what?"
"I changed the color of the couches. They were very ugly yellow."
"Urgh, yellow couches. Thanks Harry."
"You´re welcome." Harry settled on one of the couches and Draco jumped on the another.
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"How come you didn´t protest when Dumbledore put us together as roommates?" Draco was biting his lower lip, fearing for the answer but couldn´t help to keep his hopes down.
"Well, first of all, I knew he would put us together, two as stubborn and so on. Secondly, at the carriage you behaved nicely, on your standards. So I thought that we might become friends after all."
Draco thought about it. "Yeah, we could become friends." Then he laughed, in a nice way. "Have you any idea how long I´ve waited those words from you?"
"When you put it like that, a long time?"
"Yeah, about six years by now."
"That´s a long time, but why? I mean, all those years you were mean to me and my friends. You wanted to be my friend?" Harry rolled over on his stomach and looked straight to Dracos eyes, resting his chin on the armrest.
'Oh my God, those eyes.' Draco sighed mentally. "When you rejected my friendship you hurt my feelings. I was mad at you but at the same time I admired you.. And thanked you."
"Thanked me?"
"Yeah, you rejected me for my actions. You didn´t want to be my friend just for who I am. You weren´t impressed by my family name."
"You being a pampered brat it would been hard to be impressed. But now you´re.. Draco and that´s impressing.
Draco sighed and smiled at him. "Thanks."
"You´re welcome." Harry returned the smile, making butterflies fly around Dracos stomach. Harry got up and yawned.
"Good night Draco."
"G´night Harry."
Looking after Harry Draco smiled. 'See you tonight, I hope.' He also went to his bedroom and changed into his pyjamas. 'I hope I see pleasent dreams.' Chuckling he slipped between the sheets.
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A/N: aww, my poor fingers. I´ve typed this and someother things whole day and my fingers are like sausages now. : (
So, there was another chapter, I´ve got four another ready, but I have to type them.. *moans for the agony to come*
ciceronian: thanks. And I will update, both the story and the settings. Who could I´ve miss such a thing?! *smacks her forehead, loudly* :/ Now there´s also possibility to leave anonymous (spelling right, dunno) rewievs. But rewiev anyway!! : )
freaktheangelofdarkness: here you are! : )
xx Dodo xx: Glad you love the snake, I love her too.. It´s a pity that she´s just piece of my imagination. :/ And here´s another chapter for you..
Pyrefly: He will, he will.. there´s so much to come, this is juuuuust the beginning.
aut0m4t1cfl0w3rs: they will.. eventually. *evil grin* but not in this chapter. And what´s wrong with long hair?! *chuckle*
Keep on rewieving, I see if I can post the next chapter tomorrow.. or tonight, if I can. See you soon! : )
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Chapter 2
Silently Draco walked back towards his compartment, deep in his thoughts. 'Back to square one, who is the..?' His train of thoughts stopped when was passing Harrys compartment. 'Wow!'
Draco saw that Harry was changing to his robes and was just taking of his shirt. Dracos mouth started to water when he saw the lean muscles move beneath the tanned skin of Harrys back. In the middle of the golden-like skin was a big red spot. 'What the.?'
Dracos jaw almost dropped to the floor when he realised that it was a scarlet snake, curled up in a ball. 'Well well.' Grinning like a wolf Draco opened the compartment door silently and stepped in.
"A snake? That´s very un-Gryffindor of you."
Harry spun around and gasped in surprise. "Malfoy?! What do you want?" Harry wasn´t exactly angry or embarrased but more likely curious.
"Oh, just got curious seeing a Gryffindor with a snake tattoo. It´s almost like seeing professor Snape in pink tutu." Draco answered and sat down, measuring Harry from head to toe. 'Yummie! He has been working out.'
Harry stared Draco with his mouth wide open. 'If he doesn´t close that mouth, I might not control myself.'
"Snape.. In pink tutu.. Well, when that happens hell freezes over." Harry chuckled and forget that he still was only half-dressed, gripping the shirt in his hands. He woked Asia up with his chuckle and she slithered to Harrys shoulder to see what was so funny. ~Mmmm. That guy is CUTE!~ Harry burst laughing and didn´t notice the shock in Dracos face. 'So that how it is..'
"A wizards tattoo.." With those words Draco left Harry and walked straight to his own compartment. 'Maybe this isn´t as bad as it seems.' Smiling like a hunter Draco started planning. 'How to make your arch enemy love you? Hmm.. Difficult.. Very difficult but not impossible.'
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'Well, that was weird.' Harry thought putting on his school robes. He smiled little when he put on his Gryffindor Prefect- bagde. 'Though, I didn´t mind.' He shooked his head chuckling.
Hermione and Ron returned to the compartment, both looking little ravished. 'Must been snogging somewhere. Good for them.' Hermione and Ron looked questioningly at Harry and his rather pleased smile.
The train stopped and Harry heard Hagrid calling the first years to follow him. 'Has it been really six years?' Harry sighed and stepped out of the train. There were carriages waiting for them and they headed towards one of them, failing to notice Draco following them few steps behind. He got in the same carriage with them and caused Rons bloodpressure to increase to alarming level.
"Ferret!! What the hell are you doing here?!" Ron yelled at him, ignoring Hermiones 'shushes'.
"Ain´t it obvious? I´m sitting on a carriage, on my way to Hogwarts." Draco was as cool as a block of ice.
Ron was going to blow up, but Harry shook his head to his best friend and he looked clearly amused. Asia slithered to Harrys neck, to take a look what was causing the noise. ~It´s the cute guy again!~
Hermione looked at Harry with question in her eyes and saw smiling Asia on his neck. "Oh my God! You´ve got Wizards Tattoo!!" She was staring at it and Asia flicked her tongue at Hermione. Rons eyes widened when looked at the tattoo. "Cool."
Harry smiled widely at them. "She´s gift from Moony."
Draco chuckled at them. "You´re acting like they would be that rare." He rolled his sleeve up, exposing his pale arm and a green dragon in his arm. They all looked at it and Harry smiled.
"Figures." Harry said.
"What?" Draco put his sleeve down and looked at Harrys eyes.
"You with a dragon. It figures."
Surprising the Trio completely Draco laughed. "It does, doesn´t it?" Draco had wide smile on his face.
Hermione furrowed her brow and stared at Draco. "You´ve changed."
"Well, ain´t it a shame?" Draco grinned at them and jumped out of the stopped carriages. 'Well, it´s your move now Harry.'
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"What´s up with him?" Ron asked confused. "He´s our number one enemy and he acted towards us like.. well a human!"
"I don´t know.." Harry said and grinned widely. "..but I kinda like it." Laughing he jumped out and was followed by smiling Hermione and puzzled Ron.
Professor McGonagall was waiting for them and Harry saw Draco walking behind Professor Snape. 'Why he had changed?'
They all went to the Great Hall and sat down to their House tables. Remus and Sirius were sitting on the staff table and they waved to Harry with big smiles on their faces. They teached the DADA classes together. Harry waved back at them with equally big smile on his face. Dumbledore smiled too at Harry and looked Draco widening his smile. 'He truly knows it all.'
Draco noticed the looks he was getting and he raised his head to look at Harry. He smiled to Harry and Dumbledore and continued to chat with his housemates.
The sorting ceremony went by and Dumbledore gave them the usual warnings. Then he smiled to all of them.
"I would like to introduce to you all your House Prefects. Gryffindor: Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Hufflepuff: Susan Bones and Justin Finch- Fletchey. Slytherin: Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy. Rawenclaw: Cho Chang and Terry Boot. Would you come here so everyone could see you?"
They raised from their seats and walked towards the staff table. Standing in front of the school they were a bit nervous.
"Thank you. Now let the feast begin!" With small hand movement from Dumbledore the tables were filled with all sorts of food. The Prefects were about to return to their tables when Dumbledore stopped them.
"I asked you here for another reason too. Because the House dorms are filled to the maximum, there aren´t room for two separate rooms for Prefects. So we made few arrangments. Now there are own rooms for you all, but they aren´t in your Houses. You will have to share a common room with your pair but you have your own bedroom. Does this soung okay to you?"
They all nodded so Dumbledore continued. "I sorted you in pairs as follows: Ms. Granger and Ms. Bones. Ms. Chang and Ms. Parkinson. Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy. Mr. Boot and Mr. Finch-Fletchey."
The nearest teachers clasped their hands over their hears, fearing the coming burst of Harry and Draco. When it didn´t come they stared at the two boys who just nodded to Dumbledore.
Remus´ and Sirius´ eyes were almost the size of a plate when they stared at Harry. "Who are you? What have you done to Harry?!" Sirius managed to stutter.
Harry shrugged his shoulder little. "I guess I´ve matured." He returned to his seat and Hermione followed him.
"Are you okay Harry?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"You´ve dreamed about Malfoy, you´re almost happy about your little fights with Malfoy and now you didn´t even flinch when you were paired with Malfoy!"
Ron looked like lightning would have struck him. "PAIRED UP WITH MALFOY!?! What the HELL does that mean?" The entire Gryffindor table, few of the Rawenclaws and Hufflepuffs and one certain Slytherin was watching the situation slosely.
"The House Prefects are going to live in pairs. ´Cause girl-boy pairs are out of the question Dumbledore put as together. I don´t know why me and Draco, but I don´t really mind." Harry explained to his friend.
"Draco? Since when he was Draco instead of Malfoy?!"
Harry grinned at Ron and looked over to Slytherin table. "Since I have to live with him."
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Draco felt giddy. 'I´ve got Harry as a room mate, I´ve got Harry as a room mate.' Almost chanting it out loud Draco smiled. 'Harry didn´t even protest! He had even stood up for me, against the Weasel.'
Dumbledore announced the ending of the feast and the Prefects giuded the first years to their Houses. Draco was absentminded, when he took the first years to the dungeons, stopping in front of portrait of a blackhooded man.
"Password?" it snarled.
"Unicorn Blood!" Draco spoke loudly enough to everyone hear him.
Draco told them about the House rules when he stepped into the Common Room and then he and Pansy showed them their dorms. Returning to the Common Room, where Snape was waiting, Draco was getting nervous. 'How will Harry react when we´re alone? I´m not waiting that he would pounce on me (allthough, who am I to stop him?), but what if that cool attitude would turn out to be just an act?'
Snape gave the first years his 'welcome'- speech before guiding the Prefects to their new rooms. Stopping in front of a portrait of a knight Snape looked at Draco.
"This your room. The Password is 'Lair of snakes'." The knight nodded and revealed the hole.
Draco stepped inside chuckling. ''Lair of snakes.' Now that was funny.'
Harry was allready inside, sitting on a black leather couch, wearing the same clothes that he had on the train. 'Keep it together, control yourself. Oh, why he had to look so sexy?!'
Harry looked at Draco and smiled. "Aah, Draco.."
Harry stood up and headed towards Draco. 'Oh my God, what is he doing?' Harry took two bottles of butterbeer from the table and uncapped them.
"Will you accept my peace offering?" he said and offered the other bottle to Draco.
Grinning Draco took it and he proposed a toast. "To the truce!"
"To the truce!" Harry repeated and they drank their bottles empty. "Come, I´ll give a tour around."
Harry showed him the bathroom, which had one shower stall and one enourmos tub. The colorscale was mostly creamywhite, but there was also deep oceanblue. Next Harry showed him Dracos room. It was colored with Slytherin green and silver. There was a mahogny four-postered beth with dark green hangings and silk coverlets.
"Cool. What is your room like?"
Harry showed his own room, which was exact copy from Dracos room, except the colors were scarlet and gold.
"Nice."
The Common Room was rather cosy with the big marble fireplace, two mahogny study tables and diningtable and the leatherfurnitures around the fireplace. There was two couches and two chairs.
"Hope you don´t mind?"
Draco snapped out of his thoughts. "Mind what?"
"I changed the color of the couches. They were very ugly yellow."
"Urgh, yellow couches. Thanks Harry."
"You´re welcome." Harry settled on one of the couches and Draco jumped on the another.
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"How come you didn´t protest when Dumbledore put us together as roommates?" Draco was biting his lower lip, fearing for the answer but couldn´t help to keep his hopes down.
"Well, first of all, I knew he would put us together, two as stubborn and so on. Secondly, at the carriage you behaved nicely, on your standards. So I thought that we might become friends after all."
Draco thought about it. "Yeah, we could become friends." Then he laughed, in a nice way. "Have you any idea how long I´ve waited those words from you?"
"When you put it like that, a long time?"
"Yeah, about six years by now."
"That´s a long time, but why? I mean, all those years you were mean to me and my friends. You wanted to be my friend?" Harry rolled over on his stomach and looked straight to Dracos eyes, resting his chin on the armrest.
'Oh my God, those eyes.' Draco sighed mentally. "When you rejected my friendship you hurt my feelings. I was mad at you but at the same time I admired you.. And thanked you."
"Thanked me?"
"Yeah, you rejected me for my actions. You didn´t want to be my friend just for who I am. You weren´t impressed by my family name."
"You being a pampered brat it would been hard to be impressed. But now you´re.. Draco and that´s impressing.
Draco sighed and smiled at him. "Thanks."
"You´re welcome." Harry returned the smile, making butterflies fly around Dracos stomach. Harry got up and yawned.
"Good night Draco."
"G´night Harry."
Looking after Harry Draco smiled. 'See you tonight, I hope.' He also went to his bedroom and changed into his pyjamas. 'I hope I see pleasent dreams.' Chuckling he slipped between the sheets.
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A/N: aww, my poor fingers. I´ve typed this and someother things whole day and my fingers are like sausages now. : (
So, there was another chapter, I´ve got four another ready, but I have to type them.. *moans for the agony to come*
ciceronian: thanks. And I will update, both the story and the settings. Who could I´ve miss such a thing?! *smacks her forehead, loudly* :/ Now there´s also possibility to leave anonymous (spelling right, dunno) rewievs. But rewiev anyway!! : )
freaktheangelofdarkness: here you are! : )
xx Dodo xx: Glad you love the snake, I love her too.. It´s a pity that she´s just piece of my imagination. :/ And here´s another chapter for you..
Pyrefly: He will, he will.. there´s so much to come, this is juuuuust the beginning.
aut0m4t1cfl0w3rs: they will.. eventually. *evil grin* but not in this chapter. And what´s wrong with long hair?! *chuckle*
Keep on rewieving, I see if I can post the next chapter tomorrow.. or tonight, if I can. See you soon! : )