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Chapter 19
Classes the next day passed quickly. Draco and Harry had exactly the same classes, their elective, Ancient Runes (they had been taking that since third year), was that afternoon. Draco had gotten the Daily Prophet that morning and had recently gotten around to reading it. He wouldn't let Harry read what he was laughing at, telling him that he would have to wait and see. It was dinner time when Draco found his mark. Weasley and Granger were standing in line to get into the great hall. The two Slytherin made their way closer before Draco broke the silence.
"Weasley! Hey, Weasley!" Draco said loudly, trying to get his attention.
Even though he didn't know what Draco was going to do Harry put on the façade of knowing, "What?" Ron replied, turning to face them, he didn't look happy about Draco calling him.
"Your dad's in the paper." He said, holding up the paper, a wicked smile on his face. He spoke loud enough for everyone to hear, "Listen!" With that he began to read.
FURTHER MISTAKES AT THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC
It seems as thought the ministry of magic's troubles are not yet at an end, writes Rita Skeeter, Special Correspondent. Recently under fire for its poor crowd control at the Quidditch World Cup, and still unable to account for the disappearance of one of its witches, the Ministry was plunged into fresh embarrassment yesterday by the antics of Arnold Weasley, of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
Harry chuckled softly, "Imagine them not even getting his name right. It's almost as though he's a complete nonentity, isn't it?" He said mockingly. Every pair of ears was listening to Draco as he continued reading.
Arnold Weasley, who was charged with possession of a flying car two years ago, was yesterday involved in a tussle with several Muggle law-keepers ("policemen") over a number of highly aggressive dustbins. Mr. Weasley appears to have rushed to the aid of "Mad-Eye" Moody, the aged ex-Auror who retired from the Ministry when no longer able to tell the difference between a handshake and attempted murder. Unsurprisingly, Mr. Weasley found, upon arrival at Mr. Moody's heavily guarded house, that Mr. Moody had once again raised a false alarm. Mr. Weasley was forced to modify several memories before he could escape from the policemen, but refused to answer Daily Prophet questions about why he had involved the Ministry in such an undignified and potentially embarrassing scene.
Draco smiled as he finished reading, "And there's a picture!" He said, flipping the paper and holding it up for all to see, "A picture of your parents outside their house, if you can call it a house! Your mother could do with losing a bit of weight, couldn't she?"
Weasley looked angry, ok, maybe angry is an understatement, he looked totally enraged, "Stuff it Malfoy! You should be the one talking! Look at your mother!"
Draco scowled, "What about my mother?" He replied, "And if you say anything bad about her you will not be happy."
Weasley sneered, "The way she looked at the match, does she always look like she's disgusted or was it just because you were there."
Draco growled, "Don't you dare insult my mother." He hissed angrily.
Weasley stuck his nose in the air and turned his back, "Draco, no!" Harry said quickly as the blonde pulled out his wand, Harry grabbed his arm.
The blonde looked over at him, eyes narrowed, "He insulted my mother!"
Weasley was still shaking in anger, his back to them, "Come on." Harry said, pulling on his arm gently.
He sighed softly, turning his back to the red head. A loud bang echoed through the hall and Draco felt something fly past him, barely grazing the side of his face, leaving a shallow cut. His grey eyes narrowed angrily and he reached to pull out his wand when there was another bang.
The sound of someone shouting rang through the hall, "OH NO YOU DON'T, MISSY!"
Draco and Harry turned, Draco's wand was out. At their feet was a red weasel. Moody came walking down the stairs toward them, his wooden leg sounding against the floor. He looked at Draco, "Did he get you?" He growled, looking at him intently.
"Just slightly." He replied, running his finger over the thin cut.
"LEAVE IT!" He shouted again.
Granger was half bent over, reaching for the frightened looking weasel on the floor. He hobbled over to the weasel, who was shaking in a little ball on the floor.
"And they say Gryffindors are brave." Harry whispered to the blonde, causing him to snicker.
"Never attack someone with their back turned, that's a cowardly thing to do!" He said angrily to the weasel, pointing his want at it.
Suddenly the little red weasel began bouncing, flying into the air only to come crashing back down. Moody continued with his rant as he bounced the pathetic creature. The fun was interrupted when McGonagall came down the stairs with books in her arms.
"Professor Moody!" She said in shock, moving quickly over towards them.
"Hello, Professor McGonagall." Moody replied, continuing to fling the weasel into the air.
"What are you doing?" She asked, watching the little bouncing creature.
"Teaching." He said calmly.
"Teach…Is that a student?" She asked, looking shocked, dropping the books.
He smiled, "Yep." Was all she got in reply.
"No!" She shouted, running over to them, her wand drawn. In a moment Weasley was back to normal, crumpled on the floor. He slowly got to his feet, a pained expression on his face, "Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment! Surely Professor Dumbledore told you that?"
"He might've mentioned it, yeah, but I thought a good sharp shock…"
"We give detentions, or speak to the offender's Head of House."
"I'll do that then." He paused, "That would be you then, shall we go talk about what happened?" He questioned, glaring at Weasley.
The three of them left the hall, Granger looked after them worriedly. Harry smiled and chuckled softly, "That was fun." He said, looking over at the blonde. He cringed slightly, seeing the cut on his cheek, "Does it hurt?" He asked softly, concern rich in his eyes and voice, "I hate seeing your hurt. We should go get it looked at by the nurse."
He shook his head, "I'll fix it after dinner." He said, smiling, "Let's get something to eat." He said, pulling him into the great hall.
They took their seats and ate, talking happily back and forth about what had happened with Moody. Soon the entire hall knew and everyone was talking about it. The Gryffindors looked hurt, feeling as though they were being picked on. Granger ate quickly and left, not sticking around for anything. Harry wondered what she was doing, curious to know what was going on.
"I wonder what Granger is doing?" He whispered to the blonde, "Last night she didn't eat and tonight she's eating quickly and leaving. She's planning something."
"We'll keep at eye on the Mudblood. Shouldn't have anything to worry about."
"What if she finds out about my father and tells Dumbledore?"
Draco smiled, "He doesn't know that you know so we have the advantage. Have you read your book yet?" He shook his head, "Well get started, you need to know about it."
He sighed, "I'll read it tomorrow." He said, getting to his feet, "Now let's go get your face fixed, I hate seeing you cut."
The blonde nodded and got up as well, going with him. The two of them walked up to the hospital wing to get Draco's cheek fixed. It didn't take long for the fine cut to be healed, it didn't scar, both of them were happy about that. When they returned to their dorm Harry pulled out the book Lucius had given him while Draco changed and crawled into bed.
"Don't stay up too late." The blonde said, stretching and yawning, "We have class tomorrow."
"I know." He replied with a smile, changing for bed, "I'll likely fall asleep reading." He said, opening the large book and beginning to read.
If you still want the bonus chapter and didn't get it I will mail it out to those who ask for it right before I post the next chapter. You have to actually say you want it in a review or e-mail or you won't get it because I'll assume that you either don't want it or already got it. Parts of this chapter came from the book, starting on page 202. The next chapter will be parts from the book Lucius gave Harry so you'll get a look at his history and family, might even get to find out who his mother is :P (if I can decide that for myself). Any ideas on that feel free to tell me. I'll be starting on the next chapter soon. I hope to have it done by the next couple days. This chapter was hard to write because I didn't want to turn Draco into a ferret. Well, I hope this turned out alright and I look forward to hearing what you think.
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