Chapter 4: Ron's Jealously
When Draco got Harry up to his room, they both sat down on the bed. Neither of them knew what to say, although they both had many thoughts running through their heads (some more dirty than others).
"So…." Harry started, "What do you want to do now?" he asked Draco. All Draco could think of was pushing Harry on his back and making sweet love to him, but he didn't dare tell Harry that, at least not yet, anyway. "Ummmm…I don't know. Talk? Get to know each other a little better and stuff?"
"Okay! You go first. You ask me anything you want and I will answer as truthfully as possible." Harry said, hoping Draco wouldn't ask anything about sexual acts.
"Well, if you insist," Draco had to think for a few seconds before he could decide which question to ask first out of all the one running through his head. Finally he asked, "Why were you attracted to me in the first place?"
"Well, that is a good question." Harry thought for a moment and then replied. "I guess it was because I thought you were a good person, trapped behind an evil personality that was created by your father. I wanted to free the real you and to see you for who you really were, not the evil person you show people you are."
Draco was a little surprised by that answer, but then again quite content. "Okay, that wasn't something I was expecting to here, but sounds like you have thought about it many a time."
"That's cos I have" said Harry
"Really, wow! Okay, now it's your turn. Ask me something and I will try and answer as best I can."
"Hmmmm…let me see…if you were attracted to me, why did we keep fighting? Like I mean, I thought you hated me and that's why I never asked you out or anything" (NB TO SELF: have a shout out for Camille for giving us this question for Harry to say, with a lil changes made by me to suit story)
Draco knew the answer to that question. It was quite simple really…he was surprised Harry didn't know already. "Well, you know my family is a well-known and respected pure-blood family?"
"Yeah, I know that…what has that got to do with anything?"
"Come on Harry…don't play dumb with me. You know that my father is a ruthless bastard and if he knew that I was anything but mean to you he would come down to the school and belt the living crap outta me."
"Wow, I didn't know he was that bad to his own flesh and blood…yet again, he was a death eater."
They both laughed at Harry's comment and after a few seconds Draco continued "Well, it was not like I wanted to be cruel to you, in fact it was quite the opposite, as you now know, but I had to if I was ever going to have a chance with you later on in life.
"And now that my father is safely being guarded by the Dementors of Azkaban there is no reason for me to be unkind to you." Unless it is if I decide to torture you when we are playing around later and I just want to hear you beg for mercy thought Draco, looking into Harry's brilliant green eyes and trying to stop himself from being tempted into throw himself at Harry.
"Well, that's good to hear," came the reply that snapped Draco back to reality. There was an awkward silence. Both Harry and Draco wanted to be together but neither had the courage to be the first one to say it.
"So…" was all Draco could think of to break the silence.
"What do you want to do now?" asked Harry.
"I don't know…what do you want to do?"
"To be honest…I want to do a lot of things to you right now" Harry said, hoping Draco would catch on. "But I don't want to rush into anything"
"Yeah!" Draco said with excitement "So, you want to be in a relationship with me?"
"Of course Draco. How could I not want to be after what has just happened?"
"I was just making sure, don't want any misunderstandings now, do we?"
"No, I guess not."
"So, boyfriends?"
"Boyfriends!" Harry confirmed and gave Draco a big bear hug. They lay back on Draco's bed still arm in arm, heads on the pillows and cuddled each other until they fell asleep in each other's arms.
When Draco woke up the next morning with his arms empty. Harry must have slipped out of my arms, back to Gryffindor tower, to his own bed. Probably didn't want Ron waking up without him there. Might ask questions he doesn't particularly want to answer just yet Draco thought and got out of bed. He got dressed and went down to breakfast all ready for Herbology that morning.
In the Great Hall, he sat next to Blaise Zambini (a fellow Slytherin) and started to put a couple of eggs on his plate when the owls came with the morning post. Draco looked up and to his surprise Raven came through one of the windows. Hmmm… that's odd; mum doesn't usually send post on a Tuesday. As Raven come closer Draco could see that he was carrying the Daily Prophet and another letter in a red and gold envelope. Now he knew it definitely wasn't from his mum, her envelopes were black.
Raven dropped the mail into Draco's lap. He gave to Daily Prophet to Blaise to look at while he looked at the back of the red and gold envelope. It was blank with no seal. Whoever it was must have been in a hurry if they forgot to put a seal on the envelope. Draco took the letter out and unfolded it. He was pretty sure it was from Harry, but just to make sure Draco looked at where the sender had signed their name.
He was right. It was from Harry. But couldn't he have just told me face to face? Ah well, I guess this is better. At least until we talk about telling people about our relationship. He looked back up to the top of the page and started reading…
Sorry I wasn't there when you woke up. I would have liked yo have been, but if Ron had of found me gone he would have gone looking and the first person he would have ask was Hermione and she doesn't know I would like to keep us a secret for a while, if that is okay with you of course. So, what do you think…keep us hush hush until we get to know each other a bit more closely?
Signed
Harry
Draco had had a feeling that's what Harry was going to say. Or else it could have waited until their next meeting alone. Draco turned to letter over and wrote Harry and quick note back. It read..,
Dear Harry,
Of course, I was thinking to same thing myself. What do you say we have a night out on Saturday? Down at the lake or something. Talk to you at lunch.
Draco
He folded to note and put it in Ravens beak, then told it go over and give it to Harry and then go back up to the Owlery. So it did just that. Draco finished loading his plate with his breakfast and then looked up to see Harry give him a wink from across the Great Hall.
"Welcome to you second and last year of study for Herbology before you sit your N.E.W.T.s" said Professor Sprout "I hope you had a nice rest over the summer holidays and are ready to dedicate this year to studies."
The class grumbled, "Doesn't sound like it, but for those of you that want to do well, you will not let the work load get on top of you. Okay, now for the first task today I shall like you to get into pairs"
Ron looked around, all the people he would have liked to be partners with were already paired up with some else. Then he saw Draco moving in his direction. "Hey Ron!" Draco shouted. Ron hoped he was dreaming and pinched himself. Ouch! No not dreaming, bummer!
"Yeah, I'm talking to you. Want to be partners?"
"Ummm…" Ron didn't think he had a choice, everyone else had a partner. "Okay…" came Ron's answer.
"I'm not going to poison you," said Draco trying to be friendly to his boyfriend's best friend.
"How do I know that for sure?"
"Ron, I'm not that evil little cockroach that I used to be. I've changed. I'm different"
"Yeah, whatever…can we just do what we have to do and be done with it?"
"Okay, have it your way"
Sprout set them the work and they didn't speak to each other unless they had to.
After Herbology, Ron had a lot of questions that needed to be answered. He knew Harry had gone to see Draco the night before and hadn't got back up to bed until late. He hadn't wanted to ask Harry what had happened unless it was too personal to talk about. But now Draco had acted so weird towards him in Herbology he knew that there had to have been something happen last night to change Draco's attitude all of a sudden.
Hermione and Harry had had Transfigurations together and gotten a stack of homework due the next day. Ron dumped his books on his bed and joined them in the common room for a class of pumpkin juice and a couple of muffins from the Head Boy and Girl's kitchen that Hermione had brought over.
"How was Transfigurations guys?" ask Ron trying to get Harry and Hermione talking.
"Oh, it was alright I guess." Hermione said not looking up from her work
"Yeah, what she said. How was Herbology?"
"Good, apart from the fact that I had to be Draco's partner and he was NICE to me," replied Ron with more than enough emphasize on 'nice'. "Would you have any idea why that is Harry?"
"Why would I know why Draco is nice to you? Maybe he just wants to star over. Did you ask him why he was nice?"
"No…"said Ron and before he got to say anything else Harry came in with "well, then go ask him. I'm sure he would be quite happy to tell you why he is being nice to you."
"But can't you ask him? What happen last night anyway? You didn't get back until late"
"What happen last night is none of your business Ron," declared Harry and Ron got the feeling that he shouldn't have asked about last night because something had happened that Harry was very emotional about, "and if you are going to be such a wimp then I'll ask Draco for you, but this is the one and only time I'm going to ask him anything for you. You have got to get the stupid idea 'that all Slytherins are bad' out of your head and try to be friendly with them. That is probably what Draco is trying to do. We need to unite as a school if we are ever going to get end this war with Voldemort." At some point Harry had stood up, he looked back at his chair and sat down.
"Okay then…" Ron didn't want to disturb Harry anymore so he went back up to they dormitory and started doing the questions Professor Sprout had gave them to do that night.
Back in the common room Hermione was very surprised by Harry's outburst. "So, are you going to tell me what that was about or do you want to avoid the subject forever?"
"Oh, Hermione…" Harry didn't know what caused that outburst "I just…" he didn't know how to explain it to her. He knew she knew that last had either gone as she had hoped or horribly wrong. He finally said "Thank you."
"What do you mean, 'Thank you'? I didn't do anything"
"You know you did Hermione. If you hadn't have written those letters then me and Draco would still be enemies instead of friends."
"So, are you two going out?"
"Well, yeah…" Hermione gave Harry a great big hug, knocking a bit of wind out of him. "But you can't tell Ron. I have to talk to Draco about when we are going to telling people about us. I'm sure he wont mind you knowing, but I don't know whether he would like Ron to know or not."
"Okay, I won't tell Ron." Hermione said in a serious tone and then had to squeal with joy. She checked her watch and then said "we better get moving if we don't want to be late for History of Magic. Harry groaned and packed his books back into his bag.
"Well, we have Charms afterwards, so that's not too bad" Hermione said trying to make history of magic not sound so boring
"Yeah, I guess at least we have something to look forward to" they both laughed and walked through the portrait towards Professor Binns' class.
After Charms, Harry went straight to the Great Hall, ate lunch as fast as he could and went to meet Draco down by the lake. (Draco had sent Harry another note during charms telling Harry to meet him there after he had had lunch) When He reached the lake Draco was no where in sight. They Harry felt a pull on the back of his robes. The force pulled him over behind the tree next to the lake where a rug was lying on the ground with a jug of pumpkin juice and a few familiar looking muffins.
The force let go of Harry and walked over to the opposite side of the rug. Draco took of the invisibility cloak and Harry stood, jaw dropped in amazement.
"Well, are you going to sit down?" asked Draco taking a seat himself.
"Are you going to tell me how you got my cloak?"
"I thought id would be a neat surprise. But if you must know, Hermione got it for me"
Satisfied with that answer and knowledge that Draco had not been in his room, Harry took a seat. "So, what did you want talk about?"
"Well for starts, for how long we want to keep our relationship 'hush hush' as you, so kindly, put it"
"Okay…I told Hermione about us but Ron acted really weird after you were nice to him in Herbology this morning"
"Really, I thought he might but I had to try. I hoped you might have been able to tell him why"
"I would, if I knew myself"
"What do u mean?"
"I mean, I don't know why you were nice to Ron."
"I was nice to him cos he is your friend and whoever is your friend, is my friend. I think you need to tell him we are together. No matter how badly you think he will take it, he needs to know"
"Yeah, I guess he does. After all, he is my best friend"
"Yes that he is." Draco paused and looked down at the food in front of them. No point letting it sit there any longer "Would you like a cup of juice?"
"Yeah, I didn't have one at lunch. Rushed straight down here after a few sandwiches"
"Did you want to see me that badly?"
"No, I just wanted to know what surprise you had install for me. I love surprises"
"I'll remember that for future reference" said Draco with a glint in his eye.
"You do that…in the mean time, can I get a glass of juice?" Harry asked bringing Draco back to the present.
"Oh, yes. Of course Harry. Anything for you." Draco poured the juice and handed it to Harry. "So…what do you wanted to do before we have to go back up to the castle?"
Harry finished taking a gulp of his juice and answered with "I can think of a few things I wanted to do last night"
(Author Note: if you don't like kissing scenes scroll until you see another set of brackets with an Authors Note. I'll do this for sex scenes as well)
"So can I…that's why I asked" Draco lent over and gave Harry a long-a-waited kiss. Harry answered back by putting down his glass and pushing Draco to the ground.
"You wanna play rough, do ya?" asked Draco when he pulled out of the kiss.
"No, just thought it would be more comfortable" replied Harry and then he pressed his lips back on to Draco's. Harry's hands moved down Draco's side and behind his back. Draco took that opportunity to roll Harry on to his back, making him on top. Harry didn't like that very much but didn't want to pull away to tell Draco off, so he just brushed his hand through Draco's hair.
Surprisingly Draco loved this and urged Harry to do it again by making his way across Harry's face, with butterfly kisses, to his ear and whispering "Do it again Harry. Your hand going through my hair really turns me on." Hearing this Harry couldn't resist putting his hand through Draco's hair. It felt so soft and looked to perfect. It needed to be messed up a bit. They went on kissing for a more minutes with Harry brushing his hand through Draco's hair until Harry felt Draco go hard.
(Authors Note: kissing over)
"Ummm…Draco, I think we should stop now" Harry suggested as he pulled away from Draco.
"Why? What's wrong?" Draco asked with a puzzled look on his face "did I do something wrong?"
"No, its just…I don't think we should be doing this now. We have to get to class." Harry said trying to hide his discomfort. Harry had not meant to arouse Draco that much and he knew that he didn't want to move the relationship up to the next level just yet. He still needed time to get used to the idea in his head and tell Ron. Harry needed Ron to be okay with this relationship he was having with Draco. Ron was Harry's best friend and he needed to know about Draco ASAP if it was going to remain that way.
"Thanks for the juice Draco but I have got to go find Ron. You understand, don't you?"
"Yes, of course. He is your best friend and from what I saw in Herbology, he is a pretty confused at the moment. You go and ill pack this up. Oh, and what do you want to do on Saturday?" ask Draco; hopeful that Harry might want to continue from where they had left this get-together.
"Ummm…how about I meet you in your room and we have a quiet night in?" Harry winked at Draco.
"Sounds fantastic!" replied Draco and then Harry turned and walked back up to the castle.
Care of Magical Creatures was after lunch. Hagrid was taking them into the paddock that was set up in a clearing in the forbidden forest. Hagrid kept a few different creatures in this paddock. There was a Hippogriff, a Unicorn, a Thestral, a few Nifflers and a couple of Salamanders.
The walk to the paddock gave Harry just enough time and privacy to tell Ron about him and Draco, with Hermione's support of course. When they arrived at the entrance to the forest Harry and Hermione pulled Ron aside and Harry spoke. "Ron, there is something I need to tell you. It is important that you listen to me fully. We're going to walk at the back of the class as to not tell anyone else hear what I have to tell you. Okay, is that clear?"
"Yeah, it's clear" said Ron puzzled as to what Harry had to tell him that he didn't want anyone else to here. Hagrid called the class forward and to stay as a tight group. Harry, Ron and Hermione had been with Hagrid into the forest so many times to see the paddock, they knew the way off by heart. Hermione called out to Hagrid "Harry, Ron and I will stay at the back of the pack to make sure no one gets separated"
"Good idea Hermione. Ten points to Gryffindor for your suggestion and bravery." Hagrid shouted back at them.
After hearing the reply Hermione gathered close to Harry and Ron. "Okay, know that that is sorted Harry can continue to say want he needs to. Harry, if you will…"
"Thank-you Hermione. Can't believe you got Gryffindor points, but anyway…Ron I need to talk to you about why Draco was acting so nice to you during Herbology."
"Oh, so you asked him about that did you?" said Ron in a didn't-think-you-would tone.
"Yeah, I did as a matter of fact I did." Harry asked back think that Ron should be grateful he was telling him anything.
"Well, spit it out. We haven't got all day you know." Ron was getting impatient. Whatever Draco had said to Harry about being nice to him during Herbology must be important to say in a certain way or else Harry probably would have spat it out be now. He hated dragging things out to be longer than they had to be.
"Well, it's like this Ron. Draco was nice to you because you're my best friend."
Stopping Harry midway through his explanation Ron said "That has never stopped him from being an evil little cockroach before." He was trying to think why that had anything to do with Draco being nice to him.
"If you would let me finish…" Harry was starting to get annoyed.
"Oh sure, go ahead," Ron said pretending to zip his mouth shut.
"Thank you. Draco was nice because you are my best friend and because he believes that it would be wrong for him to treat his partner's friends badly." Harry braced himself for what would come after the shock and comprehension of what he had said wore off. Ron didn't know if he had heard Harry correctly.
"Did you say…'partner's'?"
"Ah yeah, I believe I did" replied Harry just waiting for Ron to burst out.
"Does that mean…you had him…oh my goodness Harry, you didn't, did you?"
"I didn't what?" Harry didn't know what Ron was talking about.
"You haven't done anything…" Ron didn't know quite how to put it. He didn't want to come right out and say it, but he knew he had to ask it somehow. He settled with a word and continued "…sexual with him, have you?"
"Ron, don't be a fool!" Harry couldn't believe what Ron was thinking.
"What, there is no harm in asking." Ron stated
"Well, I suppose not, but still…even if I had, would you really have wanted to know?"
"Yes, he used to be your enemy for goodness sake. You don't go around sleeping with your enemy."
"But he is not that enemy now." Harry said, trying to convince Ron
"I don't care, its Draco Malfoy! Harry, have you gone completely looping? Has he put a curse on you or something?"
"NO! Ron he hasn't done anything of the sort! What is your problem with me seeing him?" Harry was angry at Ron, why couldn't he see that Draco was making him happy?
"I don't…." Ron choked. He couldn't bring himself to say what he really felt. He couldn't tell Harry, that after all these years, he too had loved the blonde headed boy. He forced the thought out of his head and tried to think of something else to say to Harry.
"What, Ron, what?" Harry couldn't stand Ron being so stubborn, that he couldn't let go of what had happened in the past and move on.
"Fine, be with Draco. Just don't talk about it to me. I don't want to hear about it. He will always be a stupid evil bastard to me." Ron said with a convincing enough act.
"Oh Ron, why can't you just be happy for Harry?" Hermione hadn't wanted to butt into the boys conversation be thought she needed to talk some sense into Ron. He was acting like a baby that couldn't get his own way.
"Don't 'oh Ron' me. I am happy for Harry; I just don't think it is right. Now can we please change the subject?" Ron really didn't want to talk about Draco anymore.
"No, we can't! Ron, please promise me that you will try to get along with Draco" Harry said with pleading eyes.
Ron couldn't stand it when Harry did that. "Fine, I promise to try. He wasn't that bad in Herbology anyway."
"You never know Ron, Draco just might have a friend that is interested in you." Harry said trying to cheer him up.
"Yeah, right, whatever Harry. You can stop trying to make it better. I have said ill try and that's it"
"Bummer!" Harry said with the biggest grin on his face. They moved back up to the class and didn't speak again until they got to the paddock.
The next day in Herbology Ron was working by himself while Draco was mucking around with one of his Slytherin friends. Draco thought it would be better not to upset Ron again by being nice because Harry had told him what had happened on the way to the paddock.
Ron really wanted to be happy for Harry and Draco but he could not let go of the anger and jealousy that he felt. He wanted to be the one with Draco but now Draco was with Harry that would never happen. And he didn't want to ruin their relationship just because he was a little jealous. Instead he had decided to put Draco out of his mind and focus on finding a guy of his own, one that he could have all to himself.
Professor Sprout was teaching them about plants with different medicinal uses and she asked everyone to get into a group of three. One person was to be the one that does the hexes to make other one sick and then the last person was to use the plant to heel the sick person. Draco automatically grabbed Blaise and pulled him over to where Ron was. Having no hesitations Draco introduced the two. "Ron, this Blaise Zabini. Blaise, this is Ron Weasley"
Ron and Blaise both said "hello, nice to meet you" and went quiet.
"Do you mind if me and Blaise pair up with you for this activity?" Draco asked politely, making sure that Ron was okay with the idea.
"Yeah sure. Got no one else to go with" Ron replied. Blaise smiled and the Professor Sprout spoke to the class. "Is everyone in a group of three?" she looked around greenhouse 12 and then continued with giving instructions. "Okay, now between the three of you, choose who is to be the hexer the healer and the sick. I will come around to your group, one by one, giving you the hex you are to preform and the plant you use to take the hex off." Professor Sprout finished and greenhouse 12 filled with the noise of people chattering.
"So…who wants to be what?" Blaise asked, not caring what he did.
"Can I do the hexing?" asked Draco with a keen grin on his face.
"Sure Draco, you would be the best out of us. You have had the most practice at it" Ron playfully joked. They all had a bit of a laugh and then Ron said "Ill be the healer if you want"
"Okay, looks like I'm the one you have to hex Draco. Hope you know what your doing Ron…Draco's hexes are good" Blaise winked and spoke in a flirtatious tone towards Ron. Draco could see what Blaise was doing. He had done the same kind of thing to Draco when they had first hooked up in the third year. Blaise was trying to crack on to Ron, but Ron was too stupid to notice.
When Professor Sprout finally got around to their group, Ron had just noticed Blaise flirting with him and he had gone a little red in the cheeks. "Did your friend hex you already?" asked Professor Sprout.
"Oh, no" replied Ron "I'm just a little hot in this greenhouse, that's all."
"Well, if you need some fresh air you may step outside for a bit" she told him and the gave them the hex Draco was to preform and the plant, that when crushed into a powder, would remove the hex if placed on the forehead and chest of the one who was hexed.
"Draco, do you want some time to practice the hex?" Blaise asked, giving Draco a little nudge.
"Oh, yeah…" Draco said catching on, "…that would be good. While I practice you two can go and get some air like the good Professor suggested." He winked at Blaise and then Ron headed for the exit with Blaise following close behind.
Once they were outside in the cold breeze Ron didn't feel so bad. "So, are you ready to be hexed then healed?" Ron asked trying to make conversation.
"Yeah, as ready as ill ever be. I just hope you and Draco know what you are doing and don't fuck up." Blaise laughed at first and then had a worried look on his face.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Madam Pomfrey can sort it out if we muck up. And I promise if I don't heal you, I will stay by your bed side until you are healed" Ron said very sincerely.
"Really…you would do that?" Blaise asked in surprise.
"Yeah, it would be the least I can do for not healing you in to first place" Ron laughed.
"Hmmm…I guess so…" but Blaise still wasn't that was thinking of when he said it. Blaise had really grown fond of Ron from the time Draco had introduced them. There seemed to be something that just clicked and connect the two together. "Should we go back in now? I think Draco has had enough time to practice."
"Yeah, lets just hope I can fix you after he is through" Ron joked and they walked back into greenhouse 12 together.
"Hey, you two…over here" called Draco from the far corner of the greenhouse. He had cleared a bench for Ron to grind the plant and a few cushions for Blaise to fall back onto. When they reached Draco he looked them over and asked, "What did you to get up to out there? Nothing naughty, I hope."
"No, what are you on about Draco? We just went to get some fresh air," replied Blaise, appalled Draco would think anything else.
"Yeah Draco, not like if you had Harry had have went out there together" Ron whispered, making sure no one else heard except for Draco and Blaise.
"Well, I always say. You got to make the best of the opportunities you get." Draco smirked and added, "Well, you ready Blaisey boy?"
"Yeah, just get over and done with, will ya?"
"Sure!" and with that Draco made a few waves of his wand, said the incantation and Poof! Blaise fell back, hitting his head on the cushions and then burst out in big red bumps all over his face and arms. Ron had only just started crushing to plant and it took him another three minutes before he was able to rub the powdered plant onto Blaise and say the proper incantation.
Luckily it worked straight away and there were no side effects. There were high fives all round. Blaise felt compelled to give Ron a hug, but restrained himself. He didn't think it was appropriate after that had only been introduced to him about an hour ago. Instead, he thanked Ron for taking to hex off and made a joke about it taking so long. They all had a good laugh and promised that they would be Herbology buddies from now on.
While they were walking back up to the castle from greenhouse 12 Blaise took Ron aside after Draco started talking to one of his other Slytherin friends. At first he didn't know what he was going to say and they just kept walking together. Finally Ron chose to act on his feeling and say, "Blaise, you know how we were acting in that class…were you serious or just playing around?"
"Oh, I was serious." Blaise blushed and went as red as Ron had earlier.
"Well, I know this is a little sudden, seeing we were only introduced about an hour ago, but did you feel a bond between us…like something just saying 'I want to be with you'?" Ron had gone out on a limb, hoping that what he was feeling was reciprocated.
"To be totally honest…" Blaise had to think, because what he said now would have a great effect on anything that happened afterwards. The pause was killing Ron, not know whether it was a good or bad thing that it was taking Blaise so long to answer him. "…I did feel something, and I believe I would like be with you" Blaise finally replied.
Ron was didn't know what to think. "So…does that mean you want to have a relationship with me?" he asked just to clarify what Blaise was saying.
"Yes, I believe that is what I am saying" Blaise surprising even himself with those words. They had a small embarrass and then decided to meet up during the weekend to make it official.
Author's Note: That is the end of chapter 4 and so ends another holiday from school. Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as I did writing it. Please review, and taking on board what Kei did, no less than four lines for my friend :P. You know who you are ;-). Anyway…I promised that I would give my friend Camille a shout out for helping me at the start of the holidays get over a writers block and giving me the question that Harry asks Draco at the start of this chapter. So, THANKS CAMIE!