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Chapter 3. Interviews
Draco went to the Great Hall early for breakfast. He saw Blaise already there and grabbed an empty seat before filling his plate with food.
"Uh, Carver, leave." The boy Blaise had been talking to looked between the two before getting up and leaving.
"This is business. I was thinking about it, and we need men from every house. Men that know most of the girls in their house. It's not just that I don't want to be someone from Hufflepuff, but we don't know everyone." Blaise nodded seeing the logic behind it.
"So how do we even spread the word that we need people?"
"Not the same way we sent the girls their notes. Too obvious. Too much of a pattern. We could send them by owl."
"That sounds good. What information do we want? I think we definitely want to know their sexual history. If they are sexually active, how long they've been sexually active, with how many girls, that sort of thing. We should definitely know how many girls they know, not just from their house but others as well." Draco nodded.
"Those are both good. We need to know if they can act. We need to know if they can name five facts about every house, or five facts about girls from a different house, or both."
"Their age. That goes along with sexual history." Draco looked around the Great Hall and saw couples everywhere he looked.
"We need to know if they are in a relationship. I'm not going to be a reason for them to break up." Blaise murmured his agreement. That would be disastrous.
"During lunch we'll send those out and tell them to reply as soon as possible." Draco gathered his things and walked with Blaise to their first class.
"We should have them send their replies to the Room of Requirement, that way they still don't know who we are, and there will be no prejudices."
"Business adjourned?"
"Business adjourned."
For the rest of the day the classes rushed by. Draco didn't remember the classes ever going by so quickly. At lunch he went immediately to the owlery and began making the notes.
Attention Boys:
If you would like to be part of a new tradition at Hogwarts, then send a reply to the Room of Requirements with: 1. your name
2. Your age
3. Your relationship history
4. How many girls you know in your house
5. Five facts about other house or five facts about the girls in other houses
6. Your sexual history
Thank you for your time
Shortly after he was in the swing of things, Blaise joined him with some food and they began making head way.
"Did you notice Malfoy's and Zabani's absence?" Ginny asked while sitting down.
"Oh yeah. They're up to something. I just know don't know what." The girls began discussing all the ludicrous ideas that popped into their head. The arrival of owls broke their conversation.
"What the-"Hermione nudged Ginny and nodded toward the Slytherin table. Ginny and Hermione grinned at each other.
"So, Harry, what is that?" Harry looked at Ginny and Hermione before quickly putting the note away.
"Nothing important." The girls exchanged glances.
"Whatever. We have to go." Both girls burst into giggles on the way out of the Great Hall.
Draco was setting up in the Head's common room for the interviewing that he and Blaise would be overseeing. Hermione was in the Griffindor Commons hanging out with friends, or around the grounds somewhere with friends. Either way she he wasn't expecting Head Girl back for a couple of hours.
"Hey, Draco, there are about a tome more than I thought were going to apply. Here." Blaise handed Draco the stack and began working on something else for the operation.
"He's out. He's too tough with his women in the heat of the moment." Blaise checked the name and information.
"I thought that was a rumor." Blaise threw the piece of parchment in the fire and looked at the application in Draco's hand. "He's out. He has trouble getting up and staying up." Draco grimaced and tossed the parchment into the welcoming flames of the fire.
"This guy thinks Slytherin uses bondage!" Draco disgustedly threw the parchment in the fire.
"That's something Ravenclaws do." Blaise finished the task he's started and took half the stack.
"Do you want Potter?" Draco held out his hand for the application.
"Sexually active since fifteen. Had three partners. One serious." Draco studied the other facts on the parchment. "Yeah. Actually, I think he'd be good." Blaise nodded.
"Weasel applied. I say no."
"Valid reason?"
"Couldn't act Slytherin or Ravenclaw. Not too much sexual experience, no relationships, and he's a blundering idiot in the sack." Draco couldn't contain his laughter at Blaise's evaluation of Weasle.
"I agreed with you Blaise. I just needed a valid reason." The boys worked in silence, only commenting occasionally about people they were on the fence about.
"Okay, final count is: seven Ravenclaw, fife Hufflepuff, eight Griffindor, and eight Slytherin. Let's start with Hufflefpuff. Remember, Blaise, we need at least on from every house."
"Gotcha." Blaise sent a quick note to the Hufflepuff common room using a school owl.
Within moment Jeremy Lancaster was standing front of Blaise and Draco.
"I didn't expect you two."
"Oh, why is that?" Draco was intrigued, not offended, but the boy not knowing Draco, was intimidated.
"Just, that, well, you don't like muggleborns, or Hufflepuff." Blaise and Draco exchanged looks.
"Once you begin to work with us, we may change your opinion. Now, it says here that you've had no relationships, but highly sexually active. That's good. What we want you to do is to sleep with girls. Of course, you'll be someone else." Draco saw the boys' confusion and handed him an extra note that had been sent to the girls.
"We want you to be part of that." Blaise gave him a measuring look and decided they needed nothing more. The boy had enough guts, was pliable, and good looking enough that if the potion wore off the girls wouldn't be upset.
"This would be awesome. Do I need to do anything else?"
"No." Draco held out his hand.
"Welcome to Friday Night Special." Blaise shook his hand after Draco and Jeremy left the common room.
The rest of Hufflepuff was found wanting.
"Onto Ravenclaw." Ravenclaw had barely anyone worthwhile. If the boy had the perfect look, he had the wrong personality for the job, if he had the right personality, he had the wrong look.
"Robert Wane. What brings you here?" Draco looked in the eyes and saw no fear. Good.
"You called me."
"Well, on your application, it says that you know for a fact that Hermione Granger wears nothing but lingerie to bed. How did you come by this bit of information?" Wane actually looked uncomfortable, and Draco's head snapped up at Blaise's question.
"It was during sixth year, and during a game, I think it slipped out, but some of us never forgot it."
"It says you have a girlfriend. How serious? Could you break up with her if you had to?" Draco wanted to find this boys weakness.
"She's a muggle. She'd never know about this if that's what you're asking. I'd never tell her because that would man revealing our magical world."
"What can you tell us about your sexual history?"
"That I'm good. No girl has ever faked an orgasm, and I can be anyone you need me to be."
"I've been faked on." Draco didn't mind sharing. He really didn't want to have sex with the girl and it showed. "Blaise, has a girl ever faked an orgasm on you?"
"Yeah. Once or twice. It's knowing when they're faking that's the trick." Both boys looked at Wane expectantly.
"I don't know if anyone's faked on me."
"Do you want to do this?"
"Yes." Blaise and Draco looked at each other before shaking hands with Robert Wane.
"Welcome to Friday Night Special." Wane left looking like a new man.
"Once or twice?" Draco had a grin on his face.
"More like five. You?"
"Same. Now for the Griffindors."
The boys interviewed the Griffindors not saying yes, and not saying no.
"So, Harry Potter, are you surprised?" Hermione was right, Harry thought looking at Blaise and Draco. He'd never tell her that though, she already knew.
"Is this a joke?" Blaise and Draco could have laughed.
"No, every Friday we intend to have sex-"
"No, is interviewing me a joke?"
"No. It says 'one serious relationship' but now single, who was the lucky girl and why did you split?" Harry narrowed his eyes but sighed and answered the question.
"Ginny. We broke up because we saw that it wasn't working. It was like we were going out with Ron because he would never let us alone."
"Sorry for your loss." Blaise and Draco were genuinely sorry.
"Can you tell us anything about the other houses?" Harry thought of what he should say. He knew it was a test and decided to say five things that weren't already on his list.
"Malfoy, you amuse yourself tormenting Hermione, but she amuses herself fighting and annoying you. Ravenclaw girls are into bondage, and Ron should have been sorted into Hufflepuff with the way he blunders in the bedroom." Blaise almost laughed and both Draco and Blaise settled on a grin.
"Good. Now tell me, does Head Girl always wear lingerie to bed?" Harry grinned.
"You live with her. You're going to have to find out for yourself, Malfoy; I've never seen what Hermione wears to bed." Blaise and Draco shook Harry's hand.
"Welcome to Friday Night Special." Harry left and the boys decided to take the Slytherin approach to the Slytherins and chose Daniel Mathers.
"Business concluded." No sooner were the words out of his mouth the door opened and Head Girl and friend walked in. The boys casually picked up their papers and looked like they had all the time in the world.
"Are we interrupting something?" Hermione hoped so. She'd been watching, alone with Ginny, and had seen all those guys from different houses entering and leaving the hallway. Of course that's all the girls could see with binoculars under a tree; the hallway.
"No. We were just relaxing."
"Oh. Okay." Hermione started walking up the staircase before stopping. "How rude of me. Zabani, have you met Ginny? Blaise didn't even look up from what he was doing.
"I've seen her around." Draco raised his eyebrow at Blaise.
"No matter. We're going to the bedroom. Stay out." Hermione and Ginny went into the bedroom and shut the door with a snap.
"That was close. Imagine if they had walked in when Potter was in here."
"And what are they playing at?" Draco didn't have to ask what Blaise was talking about.
"I know. Introducing your friend to your worst enemies' friend is so uncivilized." Draco said sarcastically walking out of the portrait.
"It is!"
"I knew they were in on it together." Ginny took Hermione's side of the bed.
"They were working on something today, just before we came in. And what was with those papers?"
"Weird how Harry was walking down the hallway as we came up. Where's the other bed?" Ginny had been looking around the room and just noticed this was the only bed.
"This is it." Hermione thought about Ginny's comment on Harry. "Harry is working with them."
"Makes sense. He's sexually active, knows girls from our house, and different houses. Besides, he's almost Slytherin sometimes." Hermione knew she was talking about his ability to be so sly and cunning.
"They were interviewing people today." Hermione thought about how they could figure out what the boys were doing, almost as they were doing it. "Is it just me, or are they being painfully obvious?"
"Painfully obvious."
The girls soon found themselves submerged in conversation, and decided not leave the Head's dorm, but order something up, so they could keep talking. They knew Harry wasn't going to slip them any hints. He was now working with Malfoy and Zabani, no way was he going to jeopardize that. Some male bonding thing. They didn't have to worry about Harry telling the other workers anything either because he was completely loyal to them.
Ginny finally went back to the Griffindor common room when Ron sent her an owl asking if he had to come to the Head's dorm and fetch her himself.
Hermione was so absorbed in the book she didn't hear Draco come in, or get ready for bed, so she nearly jumped five feet in the air when he spoke.
"Do you know anything about this thing the girls are calling Friday Night Special?" So they're calling it 'Friday Night Special'?
"No, I can't say that I do. Why?"
"Some Slytherin girls were talking about it, and when they found I was listening, they stopped talking." Of course there were no girls, he was fishing for information but since she wasn't at dinner tonight Draco thought he could use that to his advantage.
"I can't say that I know anything about it. I'll ask around, see what I can find out, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Friday's." Oh, she was only guessing was she? He'd see about that. Two could play this game.
"I wouldn't want you going out of your way or anything."
"It's no trouble. After all, Heads are supposed to know everything going on right?" Oh, she was good. She was very good. And how very Slytherin of her, that was okay though, he knew that she knew.
"Yeah. Night, Granger."
"Night, Malfoy." The two turned off their lights, and before going to sleep Draco decided his pillow smelled different. A good different. Both had dreamless sleep.