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Chapter 8

"So... now that they're gone…." Draco said indicating the closed door with a disgusted scowl. " What do you guys want to do?" He asked nonchalantly. The bitterness and distaste he had shown at the beginning of the night was gone and he looked around at the circle showing acceptance of all of them, but perhaps he was just drunk, who knows.

"Why don't we just talk?" Harry said simply. Most people seemed satisfied with the idea.

"About what?" Morag said skeptically.

Harry shrugged. " I dunno, just about us. I mean we've hated each other for so long, and we don't even know why. "

"I think we know why." Ron said from across the circle. A look of distaste on his face. Harry looked at him, surprised. " Why Ron?"

Ron sighed in exasperation. " Because they treat us like dirt. They think they're so much better then us so they act as if were all some sort of blast-ended skrewt." Ron finished triumphantly. There was silence.

"WELL?" Harry said loudly to the Slytherins. "Are you guys going to reply or what?"

"We don't think we're better…" Draco started. Ron snorted.

" We just want to be. We try so hard to be the best. The reason why we hated you guys so much is because we weren't the best. No matter what we did or what we had, you did it better even if what you had wasn't as good as ours. We're ambitious by nature and constantly loosing does not make us like you very much now does it?" Draco said matter-of-factly.

This was followed by dumbfounded silence from the Gryffindors. No wonder there had been so much malice in their actions. They had been jealous.

"I guess being rich and powerful doesn't always get you what you want." Harry said softly.

Draco stared at him. It had never occurred to him that this might have been why he never beat Harry. He had always trusted his wealth, his father's power and his pure blood to get him what he wanted. Up until he entered Hogwarts, it had.

Yet now that he thought about it, only his own strength, intellect and integrity were going to get him anything. He sighed.

" You're right." He said heavily. Harry, who was still sitting next to him turned towards Draco.

"What?" Harry asked.

"I said you're right. I've trusted my social status more then myself. Look where that's gotten me." Draco said bitterly.

For perhaps the first time since he met him, Harry felt sorry for Draco Malfoy.

He didn't how to reply to this. Draco seemed completely uninterested in what seemed to be his "place" is society. "Where has it gotten you?' Harry asked curiosity getting the better of him.

Draco looked up surprised. "No where." He answered miserably. "My dad wants me to go into the ministry. I don't want some bloody office job no matter how much power it gets me." Draco said angrily.

Harry just stared.

" I want for once to do what I want." Draco finished. A note of sadness in his voice.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know." Harry muttered. There was another awkward silence. This was finally broken when Hermione finally burst out irritably, " Ron will you stop bloody fidgeting!" Ron scowled.

"I'm sorry but I'm currently to drunk to handle sob stories peaceably." He said in a huff. Hermione rolled her eyes, "Unfortunately I think we'll have to excuse ourselves." She said politely but sounding rather relieved to have an excuse to exit.

She stood up and Ron followed suit. She indicated one of the doors. And Ron walked forward into the empty room while she grabbed a condom from the box in the middle of the circle and gave the group a wink before disappearing after Ron.

Harry sighed, Hermione and Ron his two best friends in the world were going to be getting it on in the next room, and based on the rather grotesque sounds that were now emitting from Pansy and Blaise's room, he assumed they would be able to hear Ron and Hermione too. He shuddered. This was going to be a long night.