Disclaimer: Don't own anything Harry Potter, wish I did though…
Diary of a Boy
By: rubber-ducky-lauren
Chapter 1: Everything is weird
Tuesday, September 2nd: 9:00 AM
Mphmmmmmm….. Oops, almost fell back asleep in my cereal again. I hate late night essays in the common room especially on my first night back at school! Hermione seems to find them fun though, almost like slumber parties. God only knows what goes on in that girl's head…
12:30 PM
Finally, lunch time. This morning was dreadfully boring, first we had double history of Magic with Professor Binns, in which I fell asleep. It was a nice nap actually, I feel quite relaxed now. I had a dream too, I dreamt that me and Ron were playing Quidditch when all of a sudden it started pouring rain- but it actually wasn't rain, they were little Snapes! AH! But then Ron picked up his beaters' bat and started whacking all of them within his arm's length, and then we heard a "DING DING DING! YOU'RE THE WINNER!" and tickets started streaming out of the bat just like in that muggle carnival that Hermione took me and Ron too (the Dursleys never let me go to one, so sadly I went to my first carnival when I was 16). But then I woke up to Hermione's repeated poking me in the shoulder (which now hurts by the way) and her cold looks. But when I looked around, everyone else in the class was asleep too! (Well with the exception of Hermione of course, and Ron, who was also rubbing his shoulder)
6:00 PM
I just LOVE dinner at Hogwarts! I think Ron does the most, he just keeps shoving food into his consummation hole (it's not even a mouth anymore) like there's no tomorrow! Best not talk to him for a while…
7:00 PM
Back in the common room, don't feel like starting my homework yet and don't plan on it till Hermione gets back from the library and makes me. Honestly, why are we friends with her again? Her and Ron are constantly bickering, although Ginny says it's because they like each other and it's their way of covering it up or something. Well I've known for a while now that Ron liked Hermione, but if Hermione liked Ron why doesn't she just tell him? What's with this "playing hard-to-get" crap?! Girls… humph.
8:50 PM
Still in the common room, Ginny is distracting Hermione in the library for as long as possible (bless that girl). It was weird though, when I was talking to her she didn't really seem like she was listening to anything I was saying, she just kept looking at me funny. Maybe it's the "latest thing" in girl-world. If any guy could figure out girls, I'd pay him a million galleons.
9:00 PM
Well it turns out that the reason Ginny was looking at me all funny was due to another truth-or-dare game in the Gryffindor girls' dormitories. Ginny's friends told her to act all funny around me to see what my reaction would be. Turns out I was as interesting as they hoped, as Lavender and Parvati just informed me. Why must I be their source of amusement?
Wednesday, September 3rd: 12:30 PM
Once again, its beloved lunch time. Potions was first period in the morning… the whole day is downhill from there. At least lunch is good, well until you see Ron eating… Hermione's in the library again, I wonder why she spends so much time there so early in the year? Well she is a girl, and girls do weird things….NEVER will I understand girls.
2:10 PM
We are presently in transfiguration which we so unfortunately ended up taking with the Slytherins. Honestly, I think every year we end up taking more and more classes with them, and every year they just get more and more unbearable. As we speak, Malfoy is poking me in the back with his wand. I wouldn't be surprised if I caught fire anytime soon… HA! DETENTION! IN YOUR FACE MALFOY! Oh damn it… I shouldn't have said that aloud, now I've got detention too, with Malfoy! PERFECT! Humph.
5:00 PM
Time for my detention with Malfoy… oh the joy rolls eyes.
5:02 PM
So now I'm in detention with Malfoy, we were both told to copy out lines (which is at least better than doing detention with Hagrid in the forbidden forest- yeeh). But we had only been writing for less than a minute when Malfoy turned to me.
"Potter, I've got to talk to you," he said as he put his quill down.
"Erm… alright," I replied.
"I wasn't poking you during class just to be a git, I really need your help," he said, looking me straight in the eye. Something about the way he was looking at me made me really believe his words, but what could he possibly need me for? Wasn't I the reason his father was in Azkaban? He did break out over the summer though… but still- this is Malfoy we're talking about!
"Well, you know how you've beaten Voldemort loads of times before?" He asked me wearily, I have no idea where this is going.
"Yeah… but what does that have anything to do with you?" I asked him.
"Well as you know, my father was a death eater, and one of Voldemort's more loyal servants too, but…" he broke off, his voice shaking.
"But…" I prodded him, I really want to know where this is going!
"But when he escaped from Azkaban and returned to him, he was so angry about not being able to get the prophesy back… and he… he… he killed them all, including my dad," he managed to get out, through his shaking voice. I looked up into his silvery-blue eyes which were now welling with tears. I have never seen Draco like this before- and when did I start calling him Draco anyways?
"That must've been hard," was what I managed to get out, after a short but awkward silence.
"And now I'm scared he'll go after my mother and me as well. I never realized until now how truly beyond evil he was. No, I can't let him go through with this, I want him dead!" he said in a much stronger voice.
"We all do," I said.
"I know you've managed to temporarily disable him, but maybe… together..." he trailed off. So that's what he wanted, he wants me to help him get rid of Voldemort. I don't know what to think.
"But how?" I asked, almost as if I had made up my mind to join forces with Draco- there I go again- and finally finish Voldemort off.
"Well that's why I came to you," he said, but just then Professor McGonagall came in and dismissed us from our detention.
"We'll continue talking about this later," he informed me as we walked out of the classroom and into the great hall for dinner. I ate in silence and then went up straight to my dormitory and pretended to be asleep, but I know by tomorrow morning Ron and Hermione will be suspicious.