Meeting Malfoy

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To GinnyLover14: This chapter has some character reations to DH. I hope you like them!

Here's chapter three! Not my favorite chapter ever, but…oh well.

For the first time, Lizzy wasn't the first one to the park.

Lizzy shouldn't have been as surprised as she was; after all, she was ten minutes late. She had (somewhat cruelly, she realized) expected Draco Malfoy to be at least half an hour late, ridiculously basing this assumption on his actions in the seven Harry Potter books. Very ridiculous, she thought.After all, there had been plenty of time for Malfoy to grow up since then.

But still. Draco Malfoy, on time to meet a little girl and talk about a Harry Potter book?

This was very strange.

With this in mind, she walked towards Draco.

"Hi! I'm Elizabeth Nicole Parker, but you can call me Lizzy."

"Draco," Malfoy said, sticking a pale hand out, which Lizzy grabbed and shook enthusiastically.

"I know." Lizzy smiled at him.

"So…" Draco said,tapping his feet.

"So…" Lizzy repeated. "Wanna talk about the book?"

"Deathly Hallows? Sure!" Draco sounded very relieved that Lizzy had thought of something to do.

Lizzy desperately hoped that he would become slightly less timid as time went on.

"So, what was your favorite part, Draco?" Lizzy asked, trying to get the conversation rolling.

"Oh, um…" Draco paused for a moment to think. "When Weasley gives Potter the book."

"Really?" Lizzy grabbed her copy (which Hermione had returned to her the previous week) and flipped quickly to the page. "Oh, the birthday present book! The one about how to make Hermione fall in love with Ron! Why?"

"Because it was the most ridiculous piece of s-" Draco shot a glance at Lizzy and coughed, "-lime. It was very…slimy." Draco looked slightly uncomfortable.

"Really?"

"Really. The only reason Ron is suddenly perfect for Hermione is because he learns how to not insult a woman from a stupid book. If Hermione fell in love with someone because they complimented her and were nice to her, she would have fallen for Harry in first year. Which I'm assuming she did. In real life, at least. Put any girl with Weasley and Potter, and they're going to choose Potter. Not just because he's a Potter, but because he's a halfway decent human being. Everyone except Loony, but we all know she's, well, loony. Anyway, Ron's book was just…funny. "

"Oh." After a slightly uncomfortable silence, Lizzy started speaking again. "My favorite part was…um…Oh! When Harry and Hermione were in the graveyard! It was sad, but really cute."

Draco gave a small grin. "Yeah, that was Hermione's favorite part too."

"Really?!?" Lizzy said, very excited to have something in common with Hermione.

"Yep. She, Harry, Ron, Luna, and Ginny –basically everybody- were talking about the book yesterday."

"What did they like?"

"Potter liked the part with the locket where the Voldie-Harry and Voldie-Hermione were snog- I mean kissing."

Lizzy rolled her eyes. "I'm twelve. Not five. You can say 'snogging'."

"Oh. Well, um, okay." Draco just looked more uncomfortable. Obviously, kids were not his forte.

He coughed awkwardly, then started up again. "Ron liked the part where Mrs. Weasel went after Bella."

"I thought it should have been Neville," Lizzy shot out quickly.

"Me too! Or Potty, at the very least." Dracos eyes were wide, as if the thought of having something in common with a twelve-year-old girl was just too much to handle.

"Exactly! Bella killed Sirius and did really bad things to Neville's parents! How does having Mrs. Weasley off her make sense?"

There was silent for a few more seconds until Draco cleared his throat and started again.

"Luna liked the description of her room. She actually went out and redecorated the spare bedroom at her and Weasel's house to look exactly like the description. She's definitely loony."

Lizzy smiled. I hope I get to meet Luna sometime.

"What about Ginny?" she asked.

"She loved how Harry kept looking at her dot on the Marauder's Map. She thought it was funny how that was the only way they continued their 'relationship' while he was gone was through a dot on an old piece of paper."

Lizzy laughed. "He showed his love by staring at her dot," she managed to get out before breaking down in a fit of giggles.

For the first time, Draco started laughing too.

"You know, Parker," he addressed her (Lizzy loved that he called her by her last name. It made her feel like he was accepting her), "this book had some really dumb parts."

"Like the Ron and Hermione kiss," Lizzy offered.

"Like that kiss, and Hedwig dying, and me naming my kid Scorpius. But the dumb parts were very entertaining."

"Like the name Albus Severus!"

"Exactly."

Lizzy thought for a moment. "You know, I'm glad that book was so dumb."

"Really?" Draco looked at her.

"Yep. I only met Hermione because the book was awful, and I threw it at the ground."

Draco laughed. "Thank goodness Deathly Hallows was awful, then." He paused. "Oh, and Hay told me to ask you to come over to her house next week."

"Hayden? Hayden Potter? REALLY?!?"

Draco nodded.

Lizzy was going to the Potters'.

I didn't like this chapter much…please review and tell me what you thought.

In the next chapter, Lizzy will obviously be going to the Potters'!