When they told us it was safe to leave the train, they said that tere had been a massive pixie infestation. As we filed into the great hall, I felt someone's eyes upon me. I glanced up, and there was Malfoy, staring at me. I looked him in the eye, and strangely enough, I felt no hatred from him. He gazed at me as though he were uncertain about something. What in bloody hell is going on with Malfoy? We all hate him, and for good reason. It made me nervous. I was used to him being our bitter enemy. That I knew how to deal with. The way he is acting now is just too weird. I don't like it, not even one little bit. I glared at him and looked away as I sat down with the other Gryffindors. I noticed that Hermione and Ron were looking a bit sick and that their attention was fixed on the head table. There he was, Lucius Malfoy, sitting with the other professors just like he belonged there or something. This is a joke. Professor Dumbledore stood and began his yearly back to school speech. It was the usual welcome for the first years, warnings about the forbidden forest, and the grounds, blah, blah, blah. I could have given the speech myself, I'd heard it so many times. So I focused my attention on the Slytherin table to check on what strange thing Malfoy might be doing now. To my surprise, he wasn't there. Some terrible thoughts came into my mind. Was he off plotting some trick or something worse? He probably thinks that since his father is a professor now, that he can get away with anything. I glanced around the room frantically, and something caught my attention at the entrance. Lo and behold, there was that evil little ferret, beckoning me towards the door. I glanced back at the head table and saw that the sorting was about to begin and that everyone's attention was on the sorting hat, just beginning this year's song.

I slipped away from the table so stealthily, that not even Hermione, sitting right beside me, noticed my leaving. I met Malfoy at the door. "Hurry, and for Melin's sake, get that stupid Gryffindorkish look off your face. You'll look way too supicious if someone catches us," he whispered and quickly walked away. I stared at his back for a few seconds, shocked, but too curious not to follow him. I ran to catch up, bumped into one of the many suits of armor lining the hallways, and staggered backwards with the tremendously loud crash echoing through the hall. Before I could regain my balance, I was yanked up by the front of my robes by Malfoy, and found my face a mere inch away from his own. He looked me dead in the eye and whispered, "Merlin, Harry! Be quiet!" I blinked a few times and he gently let go of my robes, turned on his heel, and began walking again.

I raised an eyebrow, shook my head, and followed him carefully. We walked in silence for about two to three minutes; my thoughts drifted off. The the feast was now going on in the Great Hall, and I thought of how hungry I was, when suddenly I was sharply jerked by my arm into an empty broom closet. I yelped and a hand quickly covered my mouth. "Shut up you stupid prat!" he hissed. I felt him drop his hand and rolled my eyes. "What the bloody hell are we doing in here anyway, Malfoy?" I said. "Look," Malfoy said, "If I had my choice of people to be in a broom closet with, trust me Potter, you wouldn't be my first pick. But there's something going on, that I need to talk to someone about and to be honest--Yes, honest, Potter, don't give me that look, I am capable of it--I don't know who I can trust anymore. But I guess the famous "Boy Who Lived" is probably trustworthy if anybody at Hogwarts is." I was silent. I didn't know whether to thank him, or hit him in the head with a broom, but then I caught the look on his face. It was a look I'd never seen before, well, not on a Malfoy anyway. It was a look that can only be described as the look of someone on the brink of an emotional breakdown. I looked into his eyes and there was pleading in them. I sighed and said, "Go on,

then. What is it?"

"I have reason to believe that the pixie infestation that they told us about was a lie." he stated. I stared at him. "You're not the only one. Just about everyone in the school could handle a bunch of pixies, even some of the first years are probably capable." i said softly. He nodded. "I'm worried to say the least. I over heard father talking to some of the other death eaters a week before school started back up about getting inside the castle. I wasn't sure just how he was going to do it but, I guess now I know." he looked at the door and then back at me. "When the train was stopped to deal with the whole "pixie infestation" I knew something was up, they wouldnt keep us on a train for five bloody hours due to a few hundred pixies. I didnt linger on it too long. I already had enough troubling me. Anyway, i stayed in my compartment for the first few hours then made my way to yours. You know it from there. I told you the proffessor situation." he took a step closer to me. "So then when I left your compartment, I snuck in with the teachers. I used an invisibility charm to get in. The real reason was that the order was there discussing the fact that they think Dumbledore is under the imperious curse. They believe that is the only way he would hire my father." he opened his mouth to say something else but quickly shut it and pulled me towards him and away from the door. "The feast is over," he whispered in my ear. I nodded. I was so close to him i could feel him breathing. He still had a rather tight grip on my arm. We listened as the students all past by until it was dead silent. He finally let go of my arm and walked out of the closet. He turned to face me. "Keep in mind everything Ive topld you but dont do snything drastic." Find out anything you can, be careful dont get caught. I'll do the same. Until next time Harry." and with that he made his way to the dungeons. I stared at him till i could no longer see him and then made my way tot he Gryffindor tower.

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