Disclaimer: Much as I'd like to, I don't own Draco Malfoy, or any part of the magical world that J.K. Rowling has all the copyrights to ... please don't sue me. There are some parts of this story that are quotes from the book - it can't be helped - events are the same as in the book, but Draco's opinion of these events may vary from Harry's.
Author's Notes: People have been asking me what Draco will do when he finds out he's related to Sirius Black. People have also been asking me if Draco spies on Hermione undressing. The answers to both of these (sorta) are in this chapter. Enjoy.
Hrei-siesn: Thank you, glad you like Theo - he's one of my favourite characters ... but why do you think Hermione's attitude is curious?
angelkas: How far did he pull up his shirt? Just enough to show the bruise - which wasn't far above his waist - why, did you think it could in any way be interpreted as obscene? Erm, rules were made to be broken, deary. Well, I heard the line on TV somewhere about henching - it's not a real word, it's a joke on the word henchmen. Erm, one personal project is the Animagus thing, the other you'll find out about when everyone else does.
Bob: About Hermione keeping track of the hours ... she was a bit distracted with getting to her classes on time and homeworks and stuff ... plus at the time I wrote that, I couldn't be bothered adding it up ... then mom did the math for me, so it'll be in ch15.
jinjo: Thank you. I actually don't like And The Hay Said Slytherin much - I'm still debating taking it off ff.net. I do plan to keep writing, but when I finish OotP I will have to wait for the next book ... and may have to go back and edit again. Draco's reaction at the Hallowe'en feast is funny (I've written it already). Glad you liked Theo/Luna - I wrote Theo's character before I read Luna, and they just seemed perfect for each other.
Starre: huh?
Devi: Nah, not cutting anything out, just adding more in. You must have been thinking of something else. Five rolls of parchment isn't that bad an assignment length, actually - History's had them doing a roll a week. Hermione was too distracted to keep track of how many hours she'd turned back after the first couple of weeks. It's Ron's birthday that's in March.
duochang97: Huh? What do you mean about teeth? Luna will be featured in this fic more, don't worry.
Exodia Himself: No, she is not a year older - she didn't use it every hour, twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, did she? She's about a month older.
Princess of Darkness: Possessive? Huh? Oh ... um, yeah. Glad you liked.
dstrbd child: *shrugs* I like Draco better too.
Elizabeth: I actually like Cho as a character, just not as Harry's girlfriend ... she will be appearing in this fic, again - you have been warned. You know, I actually know a man named Maurice Savage, and he is a professor - he's who this character is based on.
Corundum Advance: Thank you muchly - that's sorta where my math led to, but it helps to have someone confirm it.
"My greatest contribution to this world could very well be the decision NOT to breed." -Odyssey 5
Chapter 10 - Family Trees and Blood Traitors
'TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT
The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be
arriving at 6 o'clock on Friday 30th October. Lessons will
end half an hour early. Students will return their bags
and books to their dormitories and assemble in front of
the castle to greet our guests before the Welcoming Feast.'
"That's next week." Theo said grinning.
"Only a week away!" a random Hufflepuff nearby said loudly, "I wonder if Cedric knows ..."
"Diggory shouldn't enter." Cat said quietly.
"Why not?" Theo asked.
"He just shouldn't." Cat said shrugging.
"That idiot, Hogwarts champion?" Weasley shouted for everyone to overhear.
"He's not an idiot, you just don't like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch. I've heard he's a really good student - AND he's a prefect." Hermione said almost as loudly, and nodded as if that was that.
"You only like him because he's handsome." Weasley said nastily.
"Weasley noticed?" Theo whispered to me, trying not to snigger.
"Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" Hermione snapped.
Weasley coughed something that sounded distinctly like "Lockhart."
Potter made a quick exit at this point, leaving his friends to make a scene without him.
"I do not like Lockhart anymore!" Hermione snapped loudly.
"Yeah, right." Weasley replied sarcastically.
"If I liked people just on looks, I'd be in love with Malfoy!" Hermione retorted.
"Hey, I'm standing right here!" I shouted at her, then added for good measure, "I don't need a Mudblood drooling over me, thank you very much."
Weasley turned to glare at me ... Hermione blushed slightly but recovered her composure quickly, "I said IF I liked people just on looks ... no sane person would ever want a rotten ferret like you!" Hermione said coldly.
"Aww, well, Draco ... looks like you're stuck with me." Theo said grinning.
"Shut up, you." I muttered to Theo, then shrugged, "That's your opinion, Granger. Not everyone's as self-righteous as you." and I walked off - I had the last word, even if it was admitting that I am an evil git. Because everyone knows I'm an evil git, anyway.
* * *
"This is the first time in my life I've deliberately not attended a class I'm supposed to." I said, a little bit nervous of getting caught.
"Technically it's not a class." Theo noted.
"Yeah, it's after school hours, it's extra-credit for those who WANT to do it." Blaise agreed.
"And we don't want to." Pansy added, cringing.
"Definitely not." Milli confirmed. Crabbe and Goyle nodded dumbly in agreement. Cat shrugged, she wasn't in that class anyway.
"I mean ... we won't get detention for it." Theo added, sounding like that was a negative side to the situation.
"Theo's right." Blaise said, "He can't force us to do extra credit just because he wants someone to help him baby-sit his pet monsters."
"Let the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors do it, I'd rather fail Care of Magical Creatures." Pansy said firmly.
"I'd rather not fail ... but I refuse to go near those things." I said.
"Exactly." Milli agreed.
We were skipping the extra time with the Blast-Ended Skrewts that Hagrid had asked us to do. I don't care if he threatened to impersonate Moody and turn me into a ferret, he can't do magic anyway. Besides, we needed to finish our other homework, as well.
* * *
That Wednesday, I was sitting in the common room - I was just finishing the last homework on my list (Transfiguration), when the Slytherin Mudblood came in leading two terrified looking first year girls. Reana De Vil and Darla Vance. He looked around, seeing no one else here, and led them over to me, "Help me."
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I have no clue how to deal with hysterical girls."
"Neither have I." I said simply. I looked at the girls - Darla was whimpering, and Reana was muttering something about evil Squibs. "What happened?"
"I heard Filch yelling, and when I looked around the corner, I saw these two like this, being yelled at. Snape told Filch to leave them alone, Filch wasn't happy about that - dunno what he thought they did. But Snape had to go because some fifth year Ravenclaw came and told him one of his fifth years was in the Hospital Wing after a Charms class gone wrong ... so I was the only Slyth left anywhere near the scene, and these two were in hysterics." the Mudblood said, very quickly.
"You talk a lot, don't you?" I muttered.
"Yes."
"What is your name, anyway?" I asked him.
"Jake Browning."
"Right ... go up to the Great Hall and try to find one of the girls - preferably Pansy." I said. He nodded and left the room, glad to be rid of the responsibility of trying to calm hysterical first year girls.
I directed the two girls to sit down near the fire, "Reana?" I asked the slightly less hysterical of the two.
Reana looked at me, "How do you know my name?" she asked quietly.
"I listened to the Sorting ceremony this year." I answered, "Why was Filch yelling at you?"
"We ... we forgot to wipe our feet coming into the castle." Darla whimpered quietly.
"That's all?" I asked, surprised.
"He was shouting so loud I thought my ears were going to explode." Reana added.
"The Squib is getting worse every year." I muttered.
"It was terrifying." Darla whispered.
"You need to remember something, when you're dealing with him." I said quietly, "You can use magic, and he can't - you're better than him. Even if you're only first years. That's why he hates students - he's just jealous." I said.
"He's horrible." Darla muttered, she had pulled her knees up in front of her, wrapped her arms around them, and was rocking back and forth like a scared three year old.
Reana gave Darla a worried look, then looked back to me - she at least seemed calmer, "Who are you?" she asked me.
"Draco Malfoy."
"Oh, you're related to me." she said, smiling.
"Yeah." I said distantly, watching as Pansy appeared, and started cooing over Darla, quickly leading her off to the girls' dorms, Darla was already smiling and giggling happily. I swear whatever it is about Pansy that makes her giggle like that is contagious. That's why I don't let her get too close to me when she's giggling like that.
"Your father's great great great grandfather's sister was my great great great great grandmother ... and my paternal grandfather's sister married your maternal grandfather's brother." Reana told me, when Pansy and Darla were gone.
"Huh?" I asked, "I knew about the connection on my father's side ... but I didn't know about the other one."
"My father, Damien De Vil's aunt, Cruella, married Tiberius Black - Tiberius' younger brother, Veridius, had three daughters - one by his first wife Kiara Moon, and two by his second wife, Nala Nymphadora. His youngest daughter is your mother."
"I never knew anything about my mother's side, beyond the fact one of my aunts is in Azkaban - all I really know is the Malfoy line." I said quietly.
"I memorised all the family trees related to me, even the blood-traitors." Reana said proudly.
"Can you tell me about my mother's family?" I asked quietly.
"Sure." Reana said, sitting up straighter, and seeming very pleased that someone showed an interest in the information she had memorised, "Her half-sister Bellatrix married Rodolphus Lestrange, and they both got sent to Azkaban, along with Rodolphus' brother Rabastan, and Bartemius Crouch Jr, for torturing some Auror and her husband after You-Know-Who vanished. Your mother's sister Andromeda married a Muggle-born Auror named Tonks, and had a daughter who was named after her grandmother."
"Nala?" I asked.
"No ... Nymphadora."
"Poor girl."
"She's older than you are."
"I still pity someone with that -" I thought for a second, "You said Tonks?"
"Yep."
"I think I've met her."
"Oh."
"Tell me more." I said hopefully.
"Well, your great uncle, Tiberius Black, had two sons ... Regulus - he died in the service of You-Know-Who ... and Sirius -"
"Sirius Black?" I asked, surprised.
"Yes, you're his first cousin once removed."
"You learn something new every day." I muttered, surprised.
"Do you want me to tell you any more?" Reana asked.
"No thanks. Any more surprises I might die of shock." I said quietly.
She giggled, "And I thought you were supposed to cheer me up?"
"It worked, didn't it?" I asked, smiling.
"Yes, it did. Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"I hope to talk to you again soon. Now, I have some dungbombs with Filch's name on them." she said grinning evilly as she left the common room.
* * *
Cat kept giving me dirty looks as I watched my spy ball, "Who are you spying on, anyway?" she asked - the way I had carefully put my book around the spy ball, no one could see what I was watching.
"Nothing you'd be interested in." I muttered.
"You're not watching Moody undressing, are you?" she asked with an evil grin.
"Not Moody, no." I said, with an equally evil grin.
She blinked, "You're watching Granger?"
"Yes."
"What's she doing?" and suddenly Cat was looking over my shoulder.
"Nothing interesting - making those stupid badges again." I said, smirking at her reaction, "Why, did you think I was watching her doing something obscene?"
"I wouldn't put it past you."
"Then why were you so keen to see what I was watching?" I asked, still grinning.
She shrugged nonchalantly, "She's not bad looking."
I blinked, "Are you gay?"
"No. I think I might be bi, though."
"Cool."
"Don't get any ideas, Draco." she said, smirking.
"I won't, don't worry ... I just found out the other day - you're my cousin."
"I'm your what, now?"
"You're my second cousin - my mother is Sirius Black's cousin."
"I never knew that." Cat said quietly.
I shrugged, and turned off the spy ball - what sane teenage girl goes up to her room, late at night, to make badges that say 'SPEW' on them?
* * *
End of chapter 10
Author's Notes: People have been asking me what Draco will do when he finds out he's related to Sirius Black. People have also been asking me if Draco spies on Hermione undressing. The answers to both of these (sorta) are in this chapter. Enjoy.
Hrei-siesn: Thank you, glad you like Theo - he's one of my favourite characters ... but why do you think Hermione's attitude is curious?
angelkas: How far did he pull up his shirt? Just enough to show the bruise - which wasn't far above his waist - why, did you think it could in any way be interpreted as obscene? Erm, rules were made to be broken, deary. Well, I heard the line on TV somewhere about henching - it's not a real word, it's a joke on the word henchmen. Erm, one personal project is the Animagus thing, the other you'll find out about when everyone else does.
Bob: About Hermione keeping track of the hours ... she was a bit distracted with getting to her classes on time and homeworks and stuff ... plus at the time I wrote that, I couldn't be bothered adding it up ... then mom did the math for me, so it'll be in ch15.
jinjo: Thank you. I actually don't like And The Hay Said Slytherin much - I'm still debating taking it off ff.net. I do plan to keep writing, but when I finish OotP I will have to wait for the next book ... and may have to go back and edit again. Draco's reaction at the Hallowe'en feast is funny (I've written it already). Glad you liked Theo/Luna - I wrote Theo's character before I read Luna, and they just seemed perfect for each other.
Starre: huh?
Devi: Nah, not cutting anything out, just adding more in. You must have been thinking of something else. Five rolls of parchment isn't that bad an assignment length, actually - History's had them doing a roll a week. Hermione was too distracted to keep track of how many hours she'd turned back after the first couple of weeks. It's Ron's birthday that's in March.
duochang97: Huh? What do you mean about teeth? Luna will be featured in this fic more, don't worry.
Exodia Himself: No, she is not a year older - she didn't use it every hour, twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, did she? She's about a month older.
Princess of Darkness: Possessive? Huh? Oh ... um, yeah. Glad you liked.
dstrbd child: *shrugs* I like Draco better too.
Elizabeth: I actually like Cho as a character, just not as Harry's girlfriend ... she will be appearing in this fic, again - you have been warned. You know, I actually know a man named Maurice Savage, and he is a professor - he's who this character is based on.
Corundum Advance: Thank you muchly - that's sorta where my math led to, but it helps to have someone confirm it.
"My greatest contribution to this world could very well be the decision NOT to breed." -Odyssey 5
Chapter 10 - Family Trees and Blood Traitors
'TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT
The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be
arriving at 6 o'clock on Friday 30th October. Lessons will
end half an hour early. Students will return their bags
and books to their dormitories and assemble in front of
the castle to greet our guests before the Welcoming Feast.'
"That's next week." Theo said grinning.
"Only a week away!" a random Hufflepuff nearby said loudly, "I wonder if Cedric knows ..."
"Diggory shouldn't enter." Cat said quietly.
"Why not?" Theo asked.
"He just shouldn't." Cat said shrugging.
"That idiot, Hogwarts champion?" Weasley shouted for everyone to overhear.
"He's not an idiot, you just don't like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch. I've heard he's a really good student - AND he's a prefect." Hermione said almost as loudly, and nodded as if that was that.
"You only like him because he's handsome." Weasley said nastily.
"Weasley noticed?" Theo whispered to me, trying not to snigger.
"Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" Hermione snapped.
Weasley coughed something that sounded distinctly like "Lockhart."
Potter made a quick exit at this point, leaving his friends to make a scene without him.
"I do not like Lockhart anymore!" Hermione snapped loudly.
"Yeah, right." Weasley replied sarcastically.
"If I liked people just on looks, I'd be in love with Malfoy!" Hermione retorted.
"Hey, I'm standing right here!" I shouted at her, then added for good measure, "I don't need a Mudblood drooling over me, thank you very much."
Weasley turned to glare at me ... Hermione blushed slightly but recovered her composure quickly, "I said IF I liked people just on looks ... no sane person would ever want a rotten ferret like you!" Hermione said coldly.
"Aww, well, Draco ... looks like you're stuck with me." Theo said grinning.
"Shut up, you." I muttered to Theo, then shrugged, "That's your opinion, Granger. Not everyone's as self-righteous as you." and I walked off - I had the last word, even if it was admitting that I am an evil git. Because everyone knows I'm an evil git, anyway.
* * *
"This is the first time in my life I've deliberately not attended a class I'm supposed to." I said, a little bit nervous of getting caught.
"Technically it's not a class." Theo noted.
"Yeah, it's after school hours, it's extra-credit for those who WANT to do it." Blaise agreed.
"And we don't want to." Pansy added, cringing.
"Definitely not." Milli confirmed. Crabbe and Goyle nodded dumbly in agreement. Cat shrugged, she wasn't in that class anyway.
"I mean ... we won't get detention for it." Theo added, sounding like that was a negative side to the situation.
"Theo's right." Blaise said, "He can't force us to do extra credit just because he wants someone to help him baby-sit his pet monsters."
"Let the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors do it, I'd rather fail Care of Magical Creatures." Pansy said firmly.
"I'd rather not fail ... but I refuse to go near those things." I said.
"Exactly." Milli agreed.
We were skipping the extra time with the Blast-Ended Skrewts that Hagrid had asked us to do. I don't care if he threatened to impersonate Moody and turn me into a ferret, he can't do magic anyway. Besides, we needed to finish our other homework, as well.
* * *
That Wednesday, I was sitting in the common room - I was just finishing the last homework on my list (Transfiguration), when the Slytherin Mudblood came in leading two terrified looking first year girls. Reana De Vil and Darla Vance. He looked around, seeing no one else here, and led them over to me, "Help me."
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I have no clue how to deal with hysterical girls."
"Neither have I." I said simply. I looked at the girls - Darla was whimpering, and Reana was muttering something about evil Squibs. "What happened?"
"I heard Filch yelling, and when I looked around the corner, I saw these two like this, being yelled at. Snape told Filch to leave them alone, Filch wasn't happy about that - dunno what he thought they did. But Snape had to go because some fifth year Ravenclaw came and told him one of his fifth years was in the Hospital Wing after a Charms class gone wrong ... so I was the only Slyth left anywhere near the scene, and these two were in hysterics." the Mudblood said, very quickly.
"You talk a lot, don't you?" I muttered.
"Yes."
"What is your name, anyway?" I asked him.
"Jake Browning."
"Right ... go up to the Great Hall and try to find one of the girls - preferably Pansy." I said. He nodded and left the room, glad to be rid of the responsibility of trying to calm hysterical first year girls.
I directed the two girls to sit down near the fire, "Reana?" I asked the slightly less hysterical of the two.
Reana looked at me, "How do you know my name?" she asked quietly.
"I listened to the Sorting ceremony this year." I answered, "Why was Filch yelling at you?"
"We ... we forgot to wipe our feet coming into the castle." Darla whimpered quietly.
"That's all?" I asked, surprised.
"He was shouting so loud I thought my ears were going to explode." Reana added.
"The Squib is getting worse every year." I muttered.
"It was terrifying." Darla whispered.
"You need to remember something, when you're dealing with him." I said quietly, "You can use magic, and he can't - you're better than him. Even if you're only first years. That's why he hates students - he's just jealous." I said.
"He's horrible." Darla muttered, she had pulled her knees up in front of her, wrapped her arms around them, and was rocking back and forth like a scared three year old.
Reana gave Darla a worried look, then looked back to me - she at least seemed calmer, "Who are you?" she asked me.
"Draco Malfoy."
"Oh, you're related to me." she said, smiling.
"Yeah." I said distantly, watching as Pansy appeared, and started cooing over Darla, quickly leading her off to the girls' dorms, Darla was already smiling and giggling happily. I swear whatever it is about Pansy that makes her giggle like that is contagious. That's why I don't let her get too close to me when she's giggling like that.
"Your father's great great great grandfather's sister was my great great great great grandmother ... and my paternal grandfather's sister married your maternal grandfather's brother." Reana told me, when Pansy and Darla were gone.
"Huh?" I asked, "I knew about the connection on my father's side ... but I didn't know about the other one."
"My father, Damien De Vil's aunt, Cruella, married Tiberius Black - Tiberius' younger brother, Veridius, had three daughters - one by his first wife Kiara Moon, and two by his second wife, Nala Nymphadora. His youngest daughter is your mother."
"I never knew anything about my mother's side, beyond the fact one of my aunts is in Azkaban - all I really know is the Malfoy line." I said quietly.
"I memorised all the family trees related to me, even the blood-traitors." Reana said proudly.
"Can you tell me about my mother's family?" I asked quietly.
"Sure." Reana said, sitting up straighter, and seeming very pleased that someone showed an interest in the information she had memorised, "Her half-sister Bellatrix married Rodolphus Lestrange, and they both got sent to Azkaban, along with Rodolphus' brother Rabastan, and Bartemius Crouch Jr, for torturing some Auror and her husband after You-Know-Who vanished. Your mother's sister Andromeda married a Muggle-born Auror named Tonks, and had a daughter who was named after her grandmother."
"Nala?" I asked.
"No ... Nymphadora."
"Poor girl."
"She's older than you are."
"I still pity someone with that -" I thought for a second, "You said Tonks?"
"Yep."
"I think I've met her."
"Oh."
"Tell me more." I said hopefully.
"Well, your great uncle, Tiberius Black, had two sons ... Regulus - he died in the service of You-Know-Who ... and Sirius -"
"Sirius Black?" I asked, surprised.
"Yes, you're his first cousin once removed."
"You learn something new every day." I muttered, surprised.
"Do you want me to tell you any more?" Reana asked.
"No thanks. Any more surprises I might die of shock." I said quietly.
She giggled, "And I thought you were supposed to cheer me up?"
"It worked, didn't it?" I asked, smiling.
"Yes, it did. Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"I hope to talk to you again soon. Now, I have some dungbombs with Filch's name on them." she said grinning evilly as she left the common room.
* * *
Cat kept giving me dirty looks as I watched my spy ball, "Who are you spying on, anyway?" she asked - the way I had carefully put my book around the spy ball, no one could see what I was watching.
"Nothing you'd be interested in." I muttered.
"You're not watching Moody undressing, are you?" she asked with an evil grin.
"Not Moody, no." I said, with an equally evil grin.
She blinked, "You're watching Granger?"
"Yes."
"What's she doing?" and suddenly Cat was looking over my shoulder.
"Nothing interesting - making those stupid badges again." I said, smirking at her reaction, "Why, did you think I was watching her doing something obscene?"
"I wouldn't put it past you."
"Then why were you so keen to see what I was watching?" I asked, still grinning.
She shrugged nonchalantly, "She's not bad looking."
I blinked, "Are you gay?"
"No. I think I might be bi, though."
"Cool."
"Don't get any ideas, Draco." she said, smirking.
"I won't, don't worry ... I just found out the other day - you're my cousin."
"I'm your what, now?"
"You're my second cousin - my mother is Sirius Black's cousin."
"I never knew that." Cat said quietly.
I shrugged, and turned off the spy ball - what sane teenage girl goes up to her room, late at night, to make badges that say 'SPEW' on them?
* * *
End of chapter 10