A FRIEND TO TALK TO

CHPT 12: DELETED MEMORY

DISCLAIMER: I dont own the Harry Potter series.

Harry's emotionless gaze was fixed on Hermione.

"Hermione. Why did you burn my letter?"

Her eyes were wide, palms were sweaty, and for the first time, her mind was blank.

"Hermione..." Harry repeated slowly, irriated. Why would she do that?

Her mouth was open and she made herself speak. "Harry, I-"

Harry glared at her. "Did you intercept my other letter's too!" He shouted.

Hermione's lips trembled. "N-no!"

"Why did you do that!" Harry shouted. "She's mad at me as it is and she could have been telling me something important!"

Harry wipped around with his invisibility cloak in hand. He walked away, mildly pissed.

"She's moving back." Hermione called softly. Tears brimmed her eyes and she looked to the floor.

Harry turned around. "What?"

Hermione's face was hidden. "She moving back to... wherever she came from..."

His heart dropped.

"No!" He whispered to himself. He threw a quick glare at Hermione before running off.

"Thank you so much, for everything." A girl said.

"You're welcome, Princess." Draco smiled sadly. He was worried.

The Princess smiled. "Dont call me that, im not in the Republic."

He shrugged.

"I hope you are not in any kind of danger." She added.

Draco bit his lip. "He can read my mind." He was talking about Voldemort.

The Princess went wide-eyed. "Is he reading you write now?" She gasped.

He shook his head. "No, i know when he is. When i was in detention with Potter, i had to think of silly things to make him get out. Like i had to get annoying songs stuck in my head and think mad thoughts." Draco sighed.

Her mouth was slightly opened. "But... what would he do if he would out im gone?"

Draco looked at her with sad eyes.

She gasped. "Oh!"

"Im suprised he hasn't tried to read your mind." Draco said.

"He cant. Occlumency." The Princess said.

(a/n: occlumency is that thing from the 5th book where u can block people's minds from entering yours)

Draco nodded. "Good thing." The Princess nodded and looked at Draco sadly.

"I'm sorry i put you through this..." She said.

"Not your fault. I got myself into helping you. It was my way of trying to... i dont know, redeem myself."

"From what?" She asked.

He looked at her. "My father's past deeds. And well, im like third hand for the evil guy now." He sighed.

The princess bit her lip. "I think i can help you."

Draco looked at her. "How?"

"I can teach you occlumency!" She said.

He shook his head. "He'll notice if he cant read my mind anymore."

"Well...I can erase any memory of me you have." She said.

"You can do that? But i dont want to forget you." He said seriously.

She smiled. "Well i dont want you killed. Your not really a bad guy, you know."

Draco shrugged. "It was all just a mask. All for my father..." He glared at nothing.

"But still. I dont want you hurt just because you protected me."

"I dont want to forget you." Draco repeated.

"Malfoy! I will see you again, i promise. I'll just be any other normal person."

"Call me Draco, please. My father has that- that other name..."

The princess sighed. She held out her wand to his forhead. "Sorry, and thank you."

Draco stared at her. "Your not really going to-"

"Dimentichilo" She whispered.

x

He saw the girl Voldemort was going to manipulate. She was stunning. To her side was a young boy, her brother. She looked a bit sad and Draco knew why.

He walked over to the girl and "Hello." Draco smiled.

"Um. Hi." She said. She looked around.

"You look like you can use some company."

"I have company." She gestured to her brother.

"Well, i mean..." Draco started. "I'm Draco. You look new here, i was wondering if you'd like me to show you around. Have a native british guy show you London."

She smiled. "Sure, that would be great. I'm kinda lost anyway."

x

The memory was gone.

x

It was the first Hogsmeade trip of the year. Draco had ditched his gang of Slytherins and meet up with a friend.

"Wow." The girl said, looking around.

"Hmm? What's wow?" Draco asked.

"This! Hogsmeade! This is so cool! I wonder if Harry's here... Look at all the little shops! Oh! Can we go over there?" She exclaimed, and twirled around. Her hair swirled past her face, and Draco noticed some string that was in her ear.

"Princess, what's that in your ear?" Draco asked.

"Arg! You dont have to call me Princess! Its- Oh. This?" She removed the string from her ears and at the end was a shiny bulb. "These are headphones to my iPod." She smiled.

Draco blinked as they walked into the candy shop. "What?"

"You dont know what an iPod is?" She asked, suprised. Draco shook his head slowly.

"Oh, right. Brithish wizard dont have anything to do with cadder technology..." She slapped her forehead. Draco was still confused. "Its... a music player."

"Really?" Draco asked, interested.

"Yeah! Wanna listen?"

"Sure." The girl stuck the "headphone" in Draco's ear and he listened to the music, curiously.

"So... Whats a cadder?" Draco asked. Music was coming from the bulb.

If i was a rich girl, nanananananananananananananana! See i'd have all the money in the world, if a was a wealthly gi-ir-rl...

"Fasinating! I want one of these!" Draco gushed. The girl laughed while picking up a bag of candy.

x

The memory was gone.

x

Draco was reading over Harry's letter.

'Anyways, we can meet at Hogsmeade any time you like. Since i'm am after all The Harry Potter, i can get away with certain things.'

'Bloody priss.' Draco thought. 'When one of Voldemort death eaters reads this, he'll wait for a response and read that. Then he'll be there when they meet and hurt her.' Draco thought bitterly.

He took out his wand and burned the letter. A snowy white owl screeched in a cage next to him.

"Sorry bird, i cant have you delivering anymore messages like these."

x

The memory was gone.

x

"Draco!" A girl called. She was angry and sad. It was Halloween and it was time for him to get back to the castle.

"What Pan-? Oh! Hello! You're actually here, i thought you were joking."

"That stupid priss!" She scowled.

Draco smiled at her cuteness. "Harry Potter?" He guessed.

She smiled a little. "How'd you know?"

"Just a guess." He laughed.

"Good to see you though." She said.

"You too! Well, i have to go now. We should get together sometime. There's a feast going on and i need to get back before i get detention." He said.

She laughed. "Alright. Happy Halloween."

"You too. I'll talk to you later." Draco said. "But feel free to trash Potter with me anytime."

"Alright." She laughed.

That memory was gone. And every other memory dealing with her.

Draco was by the lake. It was snowing a little and he was alone.

What was he doing here? Draco shrugged it off and walked back to the castle and into Slytherin tower.

"Hey Draco!" A girl said. It was Pansy.

"Hey." He walked right past her and into the boys dorms. By his bed, there was a white owl sleeping in a cage.

"What the- why is there a bloody bird by my bloody bed?" He called out. The boys around him shrugged.

"You should know, you put it there." A gaunt boy said.

"Shut up. I dont want to hear it from you." Draco snapped.

"Your in a bad mood." Another boy said.

Draco raised his eyebows. "No i'm not. I'm always like this."

He woke up the bird and let it outside. Weird.

An: Edited version of Chapter Twelve. Tell me if i missed something, yes?