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Chapter 2: Decisions

When Harry awoke the next morning memories of the past days events came back to him. He remembered talking to Dumbledore about Lucius' change of heart and he had offered a truce with Malfoy.

Harry got up and headed towards the bathroom, hoping Malfoy wasn't in there he opened the door slightly, nope it was empty. Harry got undressed quickly and jumped under the warm spray. He realized that he had a lot of thinking to do. Did he want to be Malfoy's friend? Did Malfoy even want his friendship? And what about how they would treat each other in school time, would they be civil or should they act like nothing had changed? Harry was beginning to feel confused; he and Malfoy would definitely need to talk before they left for breakfast. At that moment the bathroom door opened. Harry jumped shocked.

"Ah, my eyes" Malfoy yelped

"Shut the door" yelled Harry desperately trying to cover himself. It was just like Malfoy to come in at the exact moment that Harry was getting out of the shower.

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Half an hour later both boys were dressed and sitting in the common room.

"Sorry 'bout before, Potter." Malfoy said, then he smirked, "Not that you've got anything to be ashamed of"

Harry blushed red at this and quickly looked down, he coughed, "'S okay, just knock next time. Anyway, I wanted to ask, how do I act towards you out there?"

"Uh, what do you mean?" Malfoy said

"Well, do I treat you like last year, you know ignore you or argue and whatever? Or…" Harry replied

"I'm not sure, I guess all the Slytherins know what happened so they won't want to hang around me, so I'll be on my own I guess so you don't have to worry about offending anyone"

Harry considered this, so Malfoy was alone, friendless. Should he… "Ah, Malfoy?" Harry looked directly at Malfoy wanting to see his response to his question, "Since you seem to think you'll be outcast, do you maybe want to sit with me and Ron and Hermione, I mean of course you don't have to…"

Malfoy looked stunned, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, but if you don't want to that's fine, it was stupid…"

"No, I'd really like that." Now Malfoy looked embarrassed, this shocked Harry, he had rarely seen Malfoy look anything but superior and with his trademark smirk plastered across his face.

"Okay then, we'd better get going" Harry got up and walked towards they door.

"Hey, Pot, er, Harry thanks" Malfoy murmured.

"Don't mention it, but, oh I gotta warn you Ron might not like this new arrangement…"

"Yeah, I guess I'll have to work extra hard to get him to believe that I've changed"

"Yeah, extra, extra hard, he doesn't let things go easy, good luck you'll need it" Harry joked. He felt pleased with himself, it seemed that Malfoy was glad to have someone to talk to, he guessed that it must be hard being in Slytherin and then having something like this happen, that meant they would all turn against him. Harry thought that Malfoy would really need a friend at the moment.

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Malfoy and Harry went to the Gryffindor table together and sat down. Ron and Hermione were already there. Ron chocked on his toast when he saw Malfoy and Hermione simply nodded to acknowledge his presence. Malfoy looked at Harry, uncertain as to what he should do.

Harry piled food onto his plate and indicated that Malfoy should do the same. He then launched into conversation with him about Quidditch, after Ron had got over the shock of seeing a Slytherin, a Malfoy, at the Gryffindor table he grudgingly joined the conversation, it was Quidditch after all, he consoled himself.

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Once they had finished eating, they headed off to the dungeons, double potions. Malfoy had managed to start up a conversation with Hermione about the year's potions syllabus. Harry smiled, Malfoy sure knew how to get people on his side, class work was Hermione's favorite topic of conversation. Harry noted that Ron was still a bit unnerved by having a Slytherin in their midst, Harry understood. If anyone had told him last year that he would be willingly walking to class with Malfoy he would have sent them to St. Mungos to get their heads checked. He smiled and shook his head and walked over to console his best friend.

Ron muttered, "Are you sure about this Harry"

"Yeah, give him a chance" Harry cast a meaningful look at his friend.

Ron sighed in resignation, "I'll try"

"That's all I ask" Harry said smiling. Although his smile was soon wiped off his face as they entered the potions classroom just behind Draco and Hermione. Most of the class had already arrived.

The first thing Harry noticed was the looks that the Slytherins were giving Draco. Evil. Harry noticed that Draco seemed to be shrinking away from their gaze. Harry went over and stood next to him.

"Don't worry about them", he muttered into Draco's ear.

Draco nodded slightly and plastered a look of utmost confidence and calmly walked over to an empty desk. Harry glanced at Ron and Hermione before following him. As he walked over to the table next to Draco he could feel all eyes on him.

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