Even When There's No Way, There's Always A Will
~* Hi guys, this is my first fan fiction, but my teachers say I'm a good writer, so please read and review it. Hope you enjoy the fic. *~
DISCLAIMER ~ I don't own any Harry Potter characters, or anything out of Harry Potter books.
Chapter 1 ~ The Hogwarts Express
Draco Malfoy was preparing for another year at Hogwarts. He was cleaning out his brilliant brown owl Quinton's cage, while planning things that he could do to make Harry Potter's life miserable. Draco and Harry had been enemies since the very first Hogwarts express trip, and Draco liked very much to make Potter's life miserable, along with his 'admirers'. Draco's father had bought Quinton for him for his 16th birthday. Lucious Malfoy had thought that Draco needed to have a better, stronger owl for his 6th year of Hogwarts, so that he could send letters to Voldemort. Little did Lucious know, dear old Draco had no intentions of communicating with Voldemort, nor did he of becoming a Death Eater like Lucious wanted him to.
It was September 1st, Lucious was unable to take Draco to the Hogwarts Express, so he sent Draco with a Ministry car and driver. This was much to Draco's dismay
'But father, why can't I apparate?'
'Because, Draco, if you are to be seen, you will cause a lot of trouble for me at the Ministry of Magic. Now you don't want that, do you?' Lucious sneered.
'Fine, I'll take the stupid Ministry car.' Draco had an anger outburst and kicked an antique coffee table. He stormed out of the living room and collected his bags to take to the car.
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On the Hogwarts Express, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle found a compartment with Millicent Bullistrode, Goyle's girlfriend, and Pansy Parkinson, who was still trying to get Draco to go out with her.
The five of them all watched as Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley walked past.
'Hermione! I can't believe you'd go do something stupid as use magic outside school!' Draco heard Harry say.
'I know! I know! Professor McGonagall said she's going to have a talk to me when we get to school.' Hermione wailed.
'It's not all bad.' Ron said, 'I mean, at least it's not Snape you have to deal with here.'
At this point, Draco decided to make his presence known. He, Crabbe, Goyle, Millicent and Pansy stepped out of their compartment.
'Malfoy! What do you want now?' Harry shouted. A few people stuck their heads out of their compartments to see what was going on.
'I heard the Mudblood's in trouble for using magic outside school, don't you realise that McGonagall can remove your prefect duties?' Draco sneered and put on a smug face. Hermione wimpered.
'Go away Malfoy.' Ron snapped, he and Harry both had their wands out.
'Ooooh, I'm scared, Pee Wee Potter and Weasel here are going to jinx me.' Draco mocked.
'No Malfoy, I believe the only weasel around here is you.' Hermione stated, referring to the pretend Mad Eye Moody turning Malfoy into a ferret in their 4th year at Hogwarts.
'I'd watch your back Granger, you of all people should know that Voldemort - Ron and Ginny flinched - is after all the Mudbloods.' Draco smirked smugly, as he watched Hermione's expression change to terrified. Ron, Harry and Ginny looked at her suspiciously, as if this had something to do with her using magic.
'Get lost Malfoy,' Harry said, and with that, he pushed past the five Slytherins, and led Hermione, Ginny and Ron away.
The Slytherin's resumed their seats in their compartment.
'Dracie, is there something you know about the mudblood?' Pansy asked.
'As a matter of fact, there is. I happen to have overheard a conversation between my father and Corneleus Fudge.' Draco said.
'Oh? What about?' Pansy asked.
'Granger. She was attacked by Peter Pettigrew, you know, Wormtail?'
'Really? Serves her right.'
'She tried to use the full body bind on him, but failed.' Seeing the looks on his fellow Slytherin's faces, he quickly added, 'Yes that's right, one of Granger's spells failed. Wormtail was too quick for her, he'd had a lot of practice avoiding spells.'
'Well well, it's about time the Dark Lord sent someone after the Mudbloods.' Millicent stated.
'I haven't finnished yet,' Draco snapped. 'As soon as the spell had been performed, Granger got a letter, and she's going to be stripped from her Prefect duties.' He laughed at the thought.
There was a knock on the sliding doors of the Slytherin gang's compartment. It was Cho Chang, Head Girl of Hogwarts.
'Draco Malfoy.' She looked at him with a cold stare.
'Yes.' He said ickle sweet.
'Prefects and Heads of Hogwarts are to sit in a compartment of their own.' She shuddered at the thought of being stuck with Malfoy for the whole trip to Hogwarts.
'Coming. See you at school.' He said to his friends, and went with Cho.
There was only one Prefect from each house. This had been Dumbledore's decission. The four Prefects were Hermione Granger for Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy for Slytherin, Hannah Abbott for Hufflepuff, and Terry Boot for Ravenclaw. The Head Boy was Roger Davies from Ravenclaw, and Head Girl was Cho Chang.
During the long train ride to the Hogwarts Castle, several conversations went on, including Hermione telling Hannah about her attack during the holidays.
'Well, I was just sitting there, in my room doing some homework for Professor Snape, when I heard a crack, so I looked behind me, and there he was.'
'Who, WHO??' Hannah cried, not liking this suspense thing.
'Peter Pettigrew.'
'Oh, isn't that the guy that Siris Black murdered?' Hannah asked suspiciously.
'No, Siris Black is innocent of his convictions, Pettigrew escaped, and is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's right hand man. I have reason to believe that He- Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is trying to kill the Muggle Borns in the Wizarding World.' Hermione stated. Cho, who had been listening in, had her say.
'That is so unfair! There aren't even that many 'Pure-Breds' left in the wizarding world anyway. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would have to kill over half the population before all Muggle Borns were dead.'
'Yes, but Cho, I don't think he's after people with Half Blood, only the Muggle borns.' Hannah said. At this point, Draco cut in.
'You're worrying too much. If everyone joined The Dark Lord, he wouldn't have anyone to kill. Well, I don't suppose he'd let Mudbloods follow him, it would be a great insult.' He looked at Hermione with great haterid. Cho slapped him for talking that way about Hermione.
'You need to watch your tongue Malfoy, Professor Snape will hear about this and deal with it as he see's fit. You should not be a Prefect, you don't have a responsible bone in your body.' Cho's words hurt Draco more than the palm of her hand. No, she's wrong he told himself. I'm responsible. I know I am.
There was silence for the next fifteen minutes, only to be interrupted by Harry and Ron coming to visit Hermione.
'Potter, Weasley, incase you haven't noticed, neither of you are prefects, so I advise you leave. You are not allowed in this first class cabin.' Draco jeered at the two Gryffindors.
'Sorry Harry, Ron, but this time, Malfoy is right, you two are not allowed in this cabin, but Hermione, you are welcolm to leave, and come back. But you must be back here before the train reaches Hogwarts.' Cho said.
'Sure, no problem Cho, I'll be back in time.' And with that, Hermione, Harry and Ron left the Prefects and Head's Cabin.
Cho glared at Malfoy. She didn't know how he could be so mean. If he was just a little bit nicer to students in other houses, he might actually be a good guy. No, what was she thinking? Malfoy could never be good, could he?
A little while later, Hermione returned. She looked content, and not at all worried about what Professor McGonagall might do to her about punnishment. She took her seat next to Hannah, and immediately struck up a conversation with her.
'Hannah, guess what?' Hermione said struggling to hide a grin.
'What?' Hannah asked suspiciously.
'I know someone likes you!' Hermione finally burst out.
'Oh my God really? Who?' Hannah shouted, causing Roger and Cho to look over and signal for her to keep it down.
'Well, I'm not sure I should.' Hermione was abruptly cut off by Hannah's death stare. 'Okay, okay, it's Justin Finch-Fletchley.' Hannah looked as if all the Christmas and Birthday presents had come at once.
'Are you sure? You're not just saying that are you Hermione? Because if you are I'll never speak to you again!'
'Calm down Hannah.' Hannah had actually gotten out of her seat while talking. 'Yes I'm sure, he was in the compartment with Ron, Harry and Ginny.'
'Was? Is he still there?' Hannah was fighting a losing battle to jump up and down in the cabin, once again causing Roger and Cho to look over at her with looks that plainly said If you don't settle down, there'll be major trouble. Hannah immediately calmed down and sat down.
'He was still there when I left Hannah, if that's what you're wondering.' Hermione told her calmly.
'Okay then, thanks Hermione.' Hannah got up to leave, but Draco stopped her.
'Listen, Abbott, we're almost at the school, so you have to stay here, remember what Roger and Cho said.' Draco spat. Hannah looked like she was about to cry.
'You don't have to be so mean all the time Malfoy, you should consider other people's feelings before snapping at them.' Hannah looked defeated, Hermione went over to comfort her, giving Malfoy an evil look.
Maybe Hannah and Cho are right? Maybe I am irresponsible, and mean. Draco thought. He found it impossible to stop thinking about Cho. Thus giving him a completely evil plan. Get in nice and cosy with Harry's lover girl. Yeah, that would work quite nicely. Draco decided that as soon as possible he would go talk to Cho. Quite fortunately, the opportunity arose within the next 10 minutes. Roger had left Cho by herself sitting near to the back of their compartment. Draco mosied over to her.
'Cho, look.' Draco was cut off.
'What do you want now Malfoy? I've had quite enough of your attitude today, save it for another time.' Cho snapped at him. Draco pretended to look taken aback, and quite offended.
'I'm sorry Cho, I was just wanting to appologise for my behavior today, towards Hermione and Hannah.' Draco had to admit, it was quite a struggle to say Hermione without spitting in disgust, but somehow, he managed it.
'Oh, well, in that case, thank you Draco. For this unexpected change of heart, I won't be informing Professor Snape of your crude mouth, this time. But you shall appologise to not only Hannah and Hermione for being rude, but also to Roger, and Terry, for interrupting their peacefull train ride.' Cho smiled smugly, thinking there was no way that Malfoy would do that, but, being after one thing, and one thing only, getting under Harry's skin, Draco did as Cho asked. Cho watched on not being able to believe her eyes.
'Once again, Cho, I'm sorry. And this occurrence of bad behavior will not continue as I am a Hogwarts Prefect.' Draco said, with a completely believable look of sincerity on his hansome face. Cho thought about how matture and hansome he looked when he was being responsible.
'I'm sorry Draco, for slapping you, and calling you irresponsible.' Cho said, looking quite sad and sorry for herself.
'Don't even worry your pretty little head over it.' Draco winked at her, and left.
The train jolted to a stop, telling everyone that they had arrived at Hogwarts. The Prefects and Heads were the first to leave the train, Draco, taking this as a perfect opportunity to get good with Cho, hopped off the train first, and offered her his hand to help her down. She gratefully accepted, taking his hand. Draco and Cho walked up to the great hall together, Draco ignoring Hagrid calling out to the first years, or he may have said something rude to Hagrid infront of Cho. That would have prooven disasterous.
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~* Well, there it is, my first chapter. I hope you all like it so far. Yes, I am fully aware that by this time in the Harry Potter series, Roger Davies has left school, but if you like, you can just pretend he failed all subjects and got held back. Thanks for reading so far! I'm in the mood so I'll write another chapter. *~
~Gryffindor Gal~
~* Hi guys, this is my first fan fiction, but my teachers say I'm a good writer, so please read and review it. Hope you enjoy the fic. *~
DISCLAIMER ~ I don't own any Harry Potter characters, or anything out of Harry Potter books.
Chapter 1 ~ The Hogwarts Express
Draco Malfoy was preparing for another year at Hogwarts. He was cleaning out his brilliant brown owl Quinton's cage, while planning things that he could do to make Harry Potter's life miserable. Draco and Harry had been enemies since the very first Hogwarts express trip, and Draco liked very much to make Potter's life miserable, along with his 'admirers'. Draco's father had bought Quinton for him for his 16th birthday. Lucious Malfoy had thought that Draco needed to have a better, stronger owl for his 6th year of Hogwarts, so that he could send letters to Voldemort. Little did Lucious know, dear old Draco had no intentions of communicating with Voldemort, nor did he of becoming a Death Eater like Lucious wanted him to.
It was September 1st, Lucious was unable to take Draco to the Hogwarts Express, so he sent Draco with a Ministry car and driver. This was much to Draco's dismay
'But father, why can't I apparate?'
'Because, Draco, if you are to be seen, you will cause a lot of trouble for me at the Ministry of Magic. Now you don't want that, do you?' Lucious sneered.
'Fine, I'll take the stupid Ministry car.' Draco had an anger outburst and kicked an antique coffee table. He stormed out of the living room and collected his bags to take to the car.
***
On the Hogwarts Express, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle found a compartment with Millicent Bullistrode, Goyle's girlfriend, and Pansy Parkinson, who was still trying to get Draco to go out with her.
The five of them all watched as Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley walked past.
'Hermione! I can't believe you'd go do something stupid as use magic outside school!' Draco heard Harry say.
'I know! I know! Professor McGonagall said she's going to have a talk to me when we get to school.' Hermione wailed.
'It's not all bad.' Ron said, 'I mean, at least it's not Snape you have to deal with here.'
At this point, Draco decided to make his presence known. He, Crabbe, Goyle, Millicent and Pansy stepped out of their compartment.
'Malfoy! What do you want now?' Harry shouted. A few people stuck their heads out of their compartments to see what was going on.
'I heard the Mudblood's in trouble for using magic outside school, don't you realise that McGonagall can remove your prefect duties?' Draco sneered and put on a smug face. Hermione wimpered.
'Go away Malfoy.' Ron snapped, he and Harry both had their wands out.
'Ooooh, I'm scared, Pee Wee Potter and Weasel here are going to jinx me.' Draco mocked.
'No Malfoy, I believe the only weasel around here is you.' Hermione stated, referring to the pretend Mad Eye Moody turning Malfoy into a ferret in their 4th year at Hogwarts.
'I'd watch your back Granger, you of all people should know that Voldemort - Ron and Ginny flinched - is after all the Mudbloods.' Draco smirked smugly, as he watched Hermione's expression change to terrified. Ron, Harry and Ginny looked at her suspiciously, as if this had something to do with her using magic.
'Get lost Malfoy,' Harry said, and with that, he pushed past the five Slytherins, and led Hermione, Ginny and Ron away.
The Slytherin's resumed their seats in their compartment.
'Dracie, is there something you know about the mudblood?' Pansy asked.
'As a matter of fact, there is. I happen to have overheard a conversation between my father and Corneleus Fudge.' Draco said.
'Oh? What about?' Pansy asked.
'Granger. She was attacked by Peter Pettigrew, you know, Wormtail?'
'Really? Serves her right.'
'She tried to use the full body bind on him, but failed.' Seeing the looks on his fellow Slytherin's faces, he quickly added, 'Yes that's right, one of Granger's spells failed. Wormtail was too quick for her, he'd had a lot of practice avoiding spells.'
'Well well, it's about time the Dark Lord sent someone after the Mudbloods.' Millicent stated.
'I haven't finnished yet,' Draco snapped. 'As soon as the spell had been performed, Granger got a letter, and she's going to be stripped from her Prefect duties.' He laughed at the thought.
There was a knock on the sliding doors of the Slytherin gang's compartment. It was Cho Chang, Head Girl of Hogwarts.
'Draco Malfoy.' She looked at him with a cold stare.
'Yes.' He said ickle sweet.
'Prefects and Heads of Hogwarts are to sit in a compartment of their own.' She shuddered at the thought of being stuck with Malfoy for the whole trip to Hogwarts.
'Coming. See you at school.' He said to his friends, and went with Cho.
There was only one Prefect from each house. This had been Dumbledore's decission. The four Prefects were Hermione Granger for Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy for Slytherin, Hannah Abbott for Hufflepuff, and Terry Boot for Ravenclaw. The Head Boy was Roger Davies from Ravenclaw, and Head Girl was Cho Chang.
During the long train ride to the Hogwarts Castle, several conversations went on, including Hermione telling Hannah about her attack during the holidays.
'Well, I was just sitting there, in my room doing some homework for Professor Snape, when I heard a crack, so I looked behind me, and there he was.'
'Who, WHO??' Hannah cried, not liking this suspense thing.
'Peter Pettigrew.'
'Oh, isn't that the guy that Siris Black murdered?' Hannah asked suspiciously.
'No, Siris Black is innocent of his convictions, Pettigrew escaped, and is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's right hand man. I have reason to believe that He- Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is trying to kill the Muggle Borns in the Wizarding World.' Hermione stated. Cho, who had been listening in, had her say.
'That is so unfair! There aren't even that many 'Pure-Breds' left in the wizarding world anyway. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would have to kill over half the population before all Muggle Borns were dead.'
'Yes, but Cho, I don't think he's after people with Half Blood, only the Muggle borns.' Hannah said. At this point, Draco cut in.
'You're worrying too much. If everyone joined The Dark Lord, he wouldn't have anyone to kill. Well, I don't suppose he'd let Mudbloods follow him, it would be a great insult.' He looked at Hermione with great haterid. Cho slapped him for talking that way about Hermione.
'You need to watch your tongue Malfoy, Professor Snape will hear about this and deal with it as he see's fit. You should not be a Prefect, you don't have a responsible bone in your body.' Cho's words hurt Draco more than the palm of her hand. No, she's wrong he told himself. I'm responsible. I know I am.
There was silence for the next fifteen minutes, only to be interrupted by Harry and Ron coming to visit Hermione.
'Potter, Weasley, incase you haven't noticed, neither of you are prefects, so I advise you leave. You are not allowed in this first class cabin.' Draco jeered at the two Gryffindors.
'Sorry Harry, Ron, but this time, Malfoy is right, you two are not allowed in this cabin, but Hermione, you are welcolm to leave, and come back. But you must be back here before the train reaches Hogwarts.' Cho said.
'Sure, no problem Cho, I'll be back in time.' And with that, Hermione, Harry and Ron left the Prefects and Head's Cabin.
Cho glared at Malfoy. She didn't know how he could be so mean. If he was just a little bit nicer to students in other houses, he might actually be a good guy. No, what was she thinking? Malfoy could never be good, could he?
A little while later, Hermione returned. She looked content, and not at all worried about what Professor McGonagall might do to her about punnishment. She took her seat next to Hannah, and immediately struck up a conversation with her.
'Hannah, guess what?' Hermione said struggling to hide a grin.
'What?' Hannah asked suspiciously.
'I know someone likes you!' Hermione finally burst out.
'Oh my God really? Who?' Hannah shouted, causing Roger and Cho to look over and signal for her to keep it down.
'Well, I'm not sure I should.' Hermione was abruptly cut off by Hannah's death stare. 'Okay, okay, it's Justin Finch-Fletchley.' Hannah looked as if all the Christmas and Birthday presents had come at once.
'Are you sure? You're not just saying that are you Hermione? Because if you are I'll never speak to you again!'
'Calm down Hannah.' Hannah had actually gotten out of her seat while talking. 'Yes I'm sure, he was in the compartment with Ron, Harry and Ginny.'
'Was? Is he still there?' Hannah was fighting a losing battle to jump up and down in the cabin, once again causing Roger and Cho to look over at her with looks that plainly said If you don't settle down, there'll be major trouble. Hannah immediately calmed down and sat down.
'He was still there when I left Hannah, if that's what you're wondering.' Hermione told her calmly.
'Okay then, thanks Hermione.' Hannah got up to leave, but Draco stopped her.
'Listen, Abbott, we're almost at the school, so you have to stay here, remember what Roger and Cho said.' Draco spat. Hannah looked like she was about to cry.
'You don't have to be so mean all the time Malfoy, you should consider other people's feelings before snapping at them.' Hannah looked defeated, Hermione went over to comfort her, giving Malfoy an evil look.
Maybe Hannah and Cho are right? Maybe I am irresponsible, and mean. Draco thought. He found it impossible to stop thinking about Cho. Thus giving him a completely evil plan. Get in nice and cosy with Harry's lover girl. Yeah, that would work quite nicely. Draco decided that as soon as possible he would go talk to Cho. Quite fortunately, the opportunity arose within the next 10 minutes. Roger had left Cho by herself sitting near to the back of their compartment. Draco mosied over to her.
'Cho, look.' Draco was cut off.
'What do you want now Malfoy? I've had quite enough of your attitude today, save it for another time.' Cho snapped at him. Draco pretended to look taken aback, and quite offended.
'I'm sorry Cho, I was just wanting to appologise for my behavior today, towards Hermione and Hannah.' Draco had to admit, it was quite a struggle to say Hermione without spitting in disgust, but somehow, he managed it.
'Oh, well, in that case, thank you Draco. For this unexpected change of heart, I won't be informing Professor Snape of your crude mouth, this time. But you shall appologise to not only Hannah and Hermione for being rude, but also to Roger, and Terry, for interrupting their peacefull train ride.' Cho smiled smugly, thinking there was no way that Malfoy would do that, but, being after one thing, and one thing only, getting under Harry's skin, Draco did as Cho asked. Cho watched on not being able to believe her eyes.
'Once again, Cho, I'm sorry. And this occurrence of bad behavior will not continue as I am a Hogwarts Prefect.' Draco said, with a completely believable look of sincerity on his hansome face. Cho thought about how matture and hansome he looked when he was being responsible.
'I'm sorry Draco, for slapping you, and calling you irresponsible.' Cho said, looking quite sad and sorry for herself.
'Don't even worry your pretty little head over it.' Draco winked at her, and left.
The train jolted to a stop, telling everyone that they had arrived at Hogwarts. The Prefects and Heads were the first to leave the train, Draco, taking this as a perfect opportunity to get good with Cho, hopped off the train first, and offered her his hand to help her down. She gratefully accepted, taking his hand. Draco and Cho walked up to the great hall together, Draco ignoring Hagrid calling out to the first years, or he may have said something rude to Hagrid infront of Cho. That would have prooven disasterous.
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~* Well, there it is, my first chapter. I hope you all like it so far. Yes, I am fully aware that by this time in the Harry Potter series, Roger Davies has left school, but if you like, you can just pretend he failed all subjects and got held back. Thanks for reading so far! I'm in the mood so I'll write another chapter. *~
~Gryffindor Gal~