Disclaimer: Anything that you recognise does not belong to me; it belongs to the very talented J.K. Rowling. Lucky her! I am doing this purely to see if I can, I am not making any money off of this what so ever. Unlucky me!

Also, I have read a lot of stories on this site, so if anything is familiar, it is not on purpose… Could you simply take it as an homage?

Draco was not in a good mood. Sitting in the Slytherin common room after classes staring into the flickering fire, Draco thought back to that morning after charms. It had felt wonderful being pressed up against his mate like that, and he had felt Harry responding to the attraction, but then it had all gone wrong. Harry had pushed aside the attraction and pushed Draco away as well. Why had it not worked? What had gone wrong? His attention was diverted as Vince and Greg sat down across from him. Through the code they had worked out Draco told his two friends about what had happened in the corridor outside of the charms room and how his experiment had not gone as well as he had thought it would all the while talking about the charms quiz as to not attract any attention from the other Slytherins in the common room. Vince responded that maybe he was out of practice, while Greg wandered off to get something. Returning, he handed Draco an open book with something highlighted magically

The mate of a veela is impervious to the charms of their mate. While in the beginning of the relationship the mate might be susceptible to the veela's charms they can eventually throw the charms off. The veela's charms are mainly for attracting prey as they eat small woodland animals native to their habitat. In the case of part veelas, when the veela has mated with a wizard, the main use for their charms is to change the situation they are in to their advantage, as they do not eat small woodland animals.

Well, at least we know why my experiment did not work as I imagined, thought Draco, raising his eyebrows at Vince and Greg. Using hand signals and gestures Draco communicated with his friends, 'How do I get him then?'

After that prolonged contact with his mate Draco's veela instincts were getting stronger, all he wanted was to be with his mate, unfortunately his mate did not yet know that he actually wanted to be with Draco too. Draco had thought long and hard about his next move and he decided that, as he was not properly equipped or trained in the art of intrigue, he needed to go to the experts. And who better than the man who could manipulate the Dark Lord into believing he was a loyal follower, while reporting directly to Dumbledore the entire time? Draco knew things even his father didn't.

When he heard a knock at his office door Severus Snape raised his head

"Enter"

To say that he was surprised to see his Godson pop his head around the door was an understatement, but true to form Severus did not let his mental state be shown, hiding it behind the inscrutable mask he always wore

"Sev, I need help"

"Help?"

"Yes oh Godfather of mine, help"

With the use of the term Godfather, Severus knew that what Draco needed help with was a personal issue. Moving with swift, graceful movements he set his desk in order and stood, gesturing to Draco to precede him into his private sitting rooms. Once both men were sitting comfortably Severus posed his question

"So what is troubling you?"

"You know I am a part veela right?" Draco asked. A quirk of his Godfather's eyebrow gave him his answer and he continued, "Well I have found my mate."

"Have you told your father?"

"No, I would rather not at this present time."

"And why is that?"

Draco decided to put it bluntly, "Because, my mate is Harry Potter"

Draco was suddenly faced with a man whom he did not recognise as his Godfather. Gone was the carefully masked face, and in its place was a myriad of emotions, surprise and worry being most predominant. He also had the dubious honour of hearing his Godfather's extensive collection of profanities. Cataloguing a few words, phrases and suggestions away for future use he broke in on his Godfather's rambling monologue

"This is why I have come to you Sev. You are one of the best strategists I know and I need your help in this. My one plan did not work and I cannot think of how I am going to be able to get my supposed enemy to fall in love with me. I don't even know if he is gay for crying out loud! Come to think of it, I didn't even know I was gay until my sense of smell told me my soul mate is Harry freaking Potter!

During his rant, Draco had gotten more and more upset, eventually getting up to pace the length of the sitting room in front of the two chairs that he and his Godfather were sitting in. Severus decided to break in before his Godson got too hysterical.

"Draco! Calm down, you are going to give yourself an aneurism"

Draco collapsed back into his chair and buried his head in his hands.

"I just don't know what to do Sev, why can't I just date, and flirt, and find a partner that way? Why can't I just be normal?"

"My dear boy, when are you going to realise that being normal is not a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."

Severus leaned forward in his chair and steepled his fingers

"You are not normal Draco, and even if you did not have this particular gift you still wouldn't be normal. You are a Malfoy and they have never been considered normal by any standards. Now, we are going to apply ourselves to this particular problem you are having and we are going to solve it. You are going to get your mate and I am going to have a peaceful life, because hopefully you will then transfer your whining to him and not come to me for solutions to all of your problems."

Draco grinned, his Godfather's words might be harsh, but he had had enough experience with Severus Snape to realise that his Godfather loved him like a son and would go to the ends of the earth to ensure Draco was safe and happy. Even if it meant helping to play matchmaker for his Godson and his own enemies' son.

The next Monday in the morning Potion's class, Plan A went into effect. Severus, resplendent in his role of resident bastard, swept into the classroom holding his seventh year NEWTs class and announced an assignment worth fifty percent of their grade that was to be done in assigned pairs. Hermione and Harry clung to each other in desperate hope that they would be paired up, but Snape, being Snape, left them with no illusions that this could happen.

"The pairs are; Bones-Boot, Granger-MacMillan, Malfoy-Potter, Ruckman-Zabini, stop your groaning, the pairs are assigned alphabetically, this is not some personal vendetta I have against this class, no matter what you might believe."

Snape then continued on to outline the assignment, announcing that they were to use class time as well as time outside of class to complete the assignment and that it would be due three weeks after Christmas, six weeks from now. After giving the students the outline, Snape retreated behind his desk and watched his seventh year class look around in confusion with a smirk hidden behind the mask. Slowly Professor Snape's announcement sunk into the students' heads and they started getting into their assigned pairs. Harry deciding to take the initiative and grabbed his things and went to sit at the same desk as Malfoy.

"So, how do you want to tackle this?" Harry asked Draco

Draco smirked as he pondered how to answer the question, he could think of many ways he wanted to tackle Harry, but somehow he didn't think that is what Harry meant. Draco mentally sent large amounts of thanks to his Godfather for creating a situation in which he got to spend oodles of time with his mate, learning more about him, and hopefully getting the opportunity to show Harry that he wasn't such a bad guy.

Once again we are going to play "find the movie quote"! Ten points to whoever finds it, I was very upset that no-one found "Lets get in character" as was my Dad, who's favourite movie is Pulp Fiction... He says you all need to be educated in great movie lines!