Chapter 12: The Marauders; Second Generation
Gloomy was the school after word of Ginny's capture broke out. This was however, after all of the panic died down. Ron was in a right state; he never slept, barely ate and never talked anymore. His grades had slipped dramatically but He showed no signs of caring. Harry had to drag him up to the Hospital wing at least twice a week so Madame Pomfrey could force him to eat magically and give him a sleeping draught. Ron was pale all the time and looked if possible thinner. Hannah had taken it into her heart to try and comfort him for she was experiencing the same thing as he. Malfoy was going through hell. Pure, unadulterated hell. Word had gotten out that his father was still working for the dark side and everyone treated him like filth. Lucius had been sent to Azkaban with Crabbe, Goyle, Avery, Knott, and Rookwood. Lucius had been publicly sacked from his job at the ministry, and had lost all the dignity his family had gained while they had pretended to be on the good side. Some kids who where daring enough sent howlers to them, while others cursed at them in the hall, passed them jinxed notes in class, and even attempted to drown him in the lake. Harry almost felt sorry for Malfoy; because Harry knew what it was like to have almost the whole world hate him. One day Harry sent an anonymous letter to Malfoy saying
Malfoy,
I know what it fells like to be going what you're going through. If you are prepared to do anything to have a friend who believes everything you say and will stay your friend no matter what your family or friends do then meet me tonight. 8:30. Outside the portrait of Preston the Perfect on the fourth floor.
Harry had a very good feeling that Malfoy would be there. So at 8:20 Harry asked Moody and Lupin to escort him to the portrait of Preston. Sure enough at 8:30 Malfoy showed up.
"What are you doing here Potter?"
"Meeting you." Replied Harry calmly.
Malfoy stood aghast. Then a smile broke over his face. 'I should have known, why didn't I see it earlier? Of course it's him. He's gone through the same hell I'm going through."
"All right, you've got yourself a deal." Said Draco.
"Great, First things first, since we're friends we should apologize for all the years we, well, tortured each other."
"Ok."
Then they said sorry and patted each other on the back and walked off. If Harry thought this was tough telling Ron and Hermione was going to be hell, well at least Ron, Harry tried to picture it in his mind.
' "Hey guys, I have something to tell you" said Harry. Hermione looked up from her copy of Arithmancy through the Years and Ron put down his Quill.
"I, urm, I made friends with Malfoy." Said Harry.
"Oh, Wow Harry! That's really great! This could put an end to all of this inter-house hatred and fighting! You might have started something huge!" said Hermione excitedly.
Ron however was turning red. Fists clenched he dived at Harry. Yelling so fast Harry could only make out bits of what he was saying.
"TRAITOR...MALFOY...ENEMY...FATHER...GINNY!!!!!" he shouted.
Hermione pulled out her wand and stunned him with the full body bind.'
Harry ended the thought there and then. Ron wouldn't try to attack him would he? Then again losing Ginny had caused Ron to lose a lot of self control. Harry decided to tell only Hermione for now.
"Hey, 'Mione. Come here. Listen, you know how Malfoy is going through hell. Well I know what he is going through and kind of felt sorry for him. So I kind of made friends with him." Harry's prediction of Hermione's reaction was absolutely correct.
"Hey, Harry, you know how we are too young to be in the order? Well I have a family member from the original marauders, so do you, Neva, and Ron."
"What! He's not related to...,"
"No, Harry, he is not related to Pittigrew, he has an uncle who died in the first year (his mum's bro.) he was a member of the marauders but died and everyone forgot about him. So I was thinking what if we made a kind of well, army, like the DA was. You, Me, Ron, and Neva would me the Master marauders, you know the top rank, then Fred, George, and Ginny would be Marauder Gardians, you know others related to the marauders but not in the top four, and everyone else can be the Marauder Military!"
All of the DA members joined and so did Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.