Ch. 4 A Plan
I slept more peacefully that night. It was Monday so I got ready quickly, and met Draco and Pansy in the Common Room. Today, Draco and I would start planning how to get Potter.
"Good morning." I said hugging Pansy.
"Good morning, Draco." I said and kissed Draco full on the mouth.
"Alright, alright! Enough snogging!" Pansy joked.
I pulled back and smiled at Draco.
"Let's go eat, now. I am starving!" Pansy complained.
Draco nodded in agreement, and I followed them through the castle.
When we entered the Great Hall, Draco and I looked around the room to find Potter. Then I found him, sitting at the middle of the Gryffindor table with his weird friends, Weasley and Granger.
I pulled out a piece of parchment and my quill.
"What are you doing?" Draco asked.
"Taking notes." I answered.
"On what?" He asked.
"Harry Potter." I grinned. Draco laughed.
"Wow." I said.
"What?" Draco asked again.
"You." I replied.
"Me what?"
"You laughed." I smiled.
"I did." Draco said with realization.
"Let's start planning." I said to Draco as we sat down.
"Alright." Draco said and pulled out a piece of parchment with notes already written on it.
I raised an eyebrow, "I'm not the only one taking notes."
Draco laughed again. The sound was like an antidote to my sadness.
"I wrote down all the ways people have tried to capture Potter before. There was Quirrel." Draco stated.
"Who made himself seem innocent so he could trick Potter into trusting him." I continued.
Draco nodded.
"And in our second year there was the diary," I said.
"Which put someone Potter cared for in danger," Draco's voice grew more elated, "so that Potter would do anything to save them!"
"Draco, you're amazing! This is it!" I exclaimed in excitement and kissed his cheek.
"Or," Draco looked at his notes again, "we could use a Portkey to take him to the Lestrange Mansion."
"But he would just Portkey himself back." I disagreed.
"But remember in our fourth year? Potter stayed to fight the Dark Lord." Draco continued.
"We couldn't be sure that he would stay, though." I said, "What if he left?"
"You're right. The other idea does seem more stable." Draco agreed, "So we will put someone that Potter cared about in danger so that Potter would do anything-such as going to the Dark Lord-to save them." Draco restated the plan.
"Okay. Who will we use?" I asked with evil excitement.
"Maybe Weasley," Draco said slowly, "but he wouldn't let Potter save him."
"Oh." I said, realizing that this might be harder than I thought.
"And Granger," Draco's face twisted on the Mudblood's name, "might let him, but we couldn't be sure." Draco said.
"What about Neville Longbottom?" I suggested.
"Longbottom, Lovegood- all the people from Potter's Dumbo Military Club," I smiled at Draco's joke, "-wouldn't want to keep their lives if they were in the way." Draco explained.
"What about a parent?" I asked doubtfully.
"He doesn't have any." Draco reminded me.
"But Weasley and Granger do." I said with more enthusiasm.