The Tale Of Two Malfoys

Chapter Three

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

The Great Hall bustled with noise as Hermoine Granger entered through the large wooden doors. She walked the length of the long Gryffindor table to her usual seat beside Harry and Ron. The two boys were engaged in an intense conversation of Quidditch. She greeted both and they back, but strained as far from the conversation as possible. Hermoine wasn't a Quidditch enthusiast. She blew out a long sigh and looked up in time to catch Malfoy taking his usual seat at the Slytherin table.

He was looking better now, she noticed, but that creepy look in his eyes was still there. She watched as Crabbe and Goyle fussed over him obviously concerned and Pansy Parkinson try to feed him a glass of pumpkin juice... But he was having none of it.

Malfoy seemed to stare into oblivion as if replaying some horrible deed over and over in his head. She observed as his eyes skimmed the room still in their smokey haze, searching for nothing at all.. until his eyes locked with hers. Hermoine watched as the cloud floated away from his eyes and they seemed to brighten a bit. She thought she saw him smile at her. Not the usual Malfoy smirk but a genuine smile.

Hermoine held his gaze for a moment transfixed until his eyes widened in disbelief at their intentions. She watched his mouth pop open in surprise and felt hers do the same. Hermoine dropped her head and stared intensely at her empty dinner plate. She glanced up to see Malfoy doing the same.

"What the hell was that all about?" she wondered as she scooped a serving of mashed potatoes on her plate.

Dinner oozed on as usual with no more exciting events since the Malfoy stare down. Hermoine was now enveloped in figuring out where Ron stored all that food in his gangly body. He was currently eating a chicken leg with one hand while scooping peas with the other.

"Gross." Hermoine stated as peas rolled out of Ron's overstuffed mouth. "Lavender is really going to find that appealing." She was referring to Ron's current obsession whom he was always trying to impress.

"Imff tiffin fru...." Hermoine cut him short.

"That's okay Ron." Hermoine offered "Please don't let me pull you away from your peas."

Ron shrugged his shoulders and returned his attention to his food. Hermoine tapped her finger vigorously against the table as she contemplated stealing a glance at Malfoy. After a minute of personal encouragements, she bored her eyes from her spasmodic finger to the middle of the Slytherin table. Her eyebrows furrowed as her gaze rested upon a disturbed Malfoy.

Malfoy was standing alert next to the Slytherin table with a look of wild anxiety on his face. His attention wasn't focused on anyone or anything in the Great Hall but on the doors that led to it.

As soon as Hermoine redirected her gaze to the source of Draco's interest, the wooden doors to the Great Hall exploded open. Immediate silence fell over the students of Hogwarts as a small hooded figure upon a Nimbus 2000 rocketed into the Great Hall.

The heavily cloaked intruder swayed uneasily into the room until about half way when the broom was left behind to continue on foot. The hooded stranger's destination was obviously the teacher's table as it pursued at alarming speed. Then suddenly, about a third of the way down the hall, the hood floated back to reveal a wild bob of silver curls. The Great Hall gasped in unison. The intruder was a girl and a cute one at that!

With her destination reached, the young girl skidded to a stop. With a hand clenching her side.. her large hazel eyes full of tears... a freckled bloody button nose and her dimpled cheeks she dropped to her knees to speak to an alarmed Dumbledore. With all of the breath in her body she cried..

"Death Eaters! They're coming!"

Then she collapsed into the waiting arms of a silver haired Draco Malfoy.

This is where I'm going with this story... Mayla has been locked away for going against the Malfoy Family Legacy... the whole crazy death eater thing... Luscious sees her as a disgrace and a bad influence for Draco... She's been stored away at Wanda Wyndells School of Magic (for girls).. Nice huh?..hehe.. She's a good kid with good intentions and will hopefully bring Draco back to the good side of things... She's pretty much his opposite.. I'm going to have fun with this... Brother and sister fights are priceless..ecspecially twins (and magical twins at that)... and maybe we'll find out a couple of Draco's embarrassing childhood secrets!..hehe.. okay.. I'm finished...later!