Serverus Snape glanced at his rather battered pocket watch and set down the empty mug that had previously held his tea. "Well Remus, I must be going. Tell Luke and Si that I'll see them soon."

"I will. They should be home later. It's a pity that the day you visit they're on a concert. Well maybe it will have lightened Si's mood." Unlike what everyone thought, Remus Lupin and Serverus Snape got on quite well. Especially now that they had settled their differences. Serverus let himself out of the flat and apparated to the front door of Grimmaulds Place. He stocked, the blond boy that came towards him, definitely wasn't the same one he had seen out of the house at midday. Serverus was not usually one lost for words, but he wasn't quite sure what to say to Draco. Grinning broadly Draco stepped through the door,

"Are you coming uncle Serverus?" He ask cocking an eyebrow. Serverus followed Draco through the door. "What do you think?"

"About what Draco?"

"Me. Tony convinced me to do it. I think it looks good." Serverus had to smile, it was good to see Draco happy again or at least forgetting his troubles for a moment.

"Yes, it suits you." They heard voices coming from the sitting room. "You know there's a meeting tonight. Come on." They entered the already filled living room and the conversation died down.

"What you bring that mini Death Eater here for Serverus?" growled Moody. "You want us all to get killed early? He'll give us away to the Dark Lord the second he gets the chance." Draco who still hadn't forgiven Moody for turning him into a ferret, sneered.

"You are an old codger, honestly. And stop referring to me as a mini Death Eater, it's really not appreciated." Fixing Draco with his magical eye, Moody growled again,

"You should've seen him. Damned little bastard. He grew a spider and then killed it with a forbidden curse."

"Draco! Why on earth did you do that?" Serverus was glaring at him now. Draco just shrugged,

"Well Moody said that if the whole class did an Avada Kedavra on him we'd only give him a nose bleed. I only did it to proof that we aren't all complete imbeciles with no hope of defending ourselves."

"Only Death Eaters use Avada Kedavra."

"So that means your one then, since you used it in class." And with that Draco strolled smirking, out of the room, leaving a seething Moody behind. He threw himself onto his bed, lifting the sheet a bit he pulled out his Ancient Runes text, he still had some translations to do and now was as good a time as any. He started, it was easy really, all the school stuff was, after all he had been taught since he could speak. His father had put a lot of emphasis on education plus he always said that Draco had great potential. The subject content came easily to him, he had been top in his owls, but hadn't made a big show about it. Not like Granger who thought she was the best, let her think that if she wished. The Gryffindors were just so arrogant.

He pulled out his wand, mahogany and unicorn hair, 15" it had been one of the best days when he bought that. His 11th Birthday and everyone had been doting on him. They had done that on all his birthdays, until he thought sourly, his 17th this year. That had taken a nasty twist, his father had wanted to "talk" to him. Now that was a ridiculous notion, he had as good as ordered Draco to join the Death Eaters, and he had been unusually persistent about it, as if it was the most important thing ever. He'd gone totally ballistic when Draco had refused and locked him into the dungeon nicely suspended from a wall. Draco didn't want to think about what had happened next, it was bad enough having to relief the nightmare nearly every night. Thank goodness for Professor Snape and his Wolfbane potion. At least he hadn't ripped himself to shreds on the night of his first transformation but the pain had still been excruciating, but then what had he expected with a giant monster battling to get out. Remus had warned him that it would be painful but he'd never been able to imagine that pain. He wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even Potter and that was saying something. He sighed, the runes forgotten, instead he got up and sat down at the little writing desk. He felt like writing a letter to Remus, at least he understood a bit. He'd been so patient with Draco, letting him come to terms with everything at his own pace. He was using a muggle ink pen which Serverus had given him. He had broken so many quills during his initial rages that Serverus had opted for a sturdy build. Sighing, he wished once again that he had already finished Hogwards, they were going to notice that he was different and Crabbe and Goyle would surely already be informed by their parents that he's refused to join, so would many others. This last year was going to be anything but easy.

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Kanui d'Astor : Remus only put Draco in his place cause Draco was really rude in his first letters. But he's really nice actually and trys to help him a lot. We'll see what happens next.

Biblehermione: Have fun, thanks for the review.

Server13: Snape, did have a shock poor man. Still he took it quite well.

all since my net hasn't been working for a while your getting three chapters now. Enjoy.