As they got closer to the table, Ron Weasley looked up and the smile he sent Potter quickly faded as he caught sight of Draco and said, "Your alive then? I kind of hoped you wouldn't be."

Draco would have sneered, but he really just was to exhausted for it, so instead he simply replied, "the feelings mutual, I assure you."

Ron turned a little red in anger, and he turned to Potter and said, "You're going to let him talk to me like that?"

Potter sighed and said, "You started it, Ron. Hermione, could you take a look at Draco's feet? He actually went outside and ran through the snow, I think he might have frostbite."

Ron looked a little horrified by that prospect, and Hermione looked like she wanted to do a case study on Draco. Draco gave Potter a look and asked, "Its Draco now, is it? Since when are we on first name basis?"

Potter had a seat as he sighed and said, "He also seems to have lost his memory of the last few days." Noticing that Draco was still standing, Potter added, "Come sit down next to Hermione, let her take a look at your feet."

Draco felt like screaming, because he didn't want to sit next to granger, he didn't want to sit at all, but his body seemed to be taking orders from Potter. So he grumbled, "I don't know what you mean by frostbite, but I can assure you my feet are fine."

Granger gave his a look and said, "You went out in below freezing weather barefoot, I'll be the one who determines if you're feet are fine or not."

With that she grabbed up Draco's feet. Draco winced and said, "It's not like I was just standing in a pile of Snow, I was moving, and I can feel all the nerve endings. Besides, it wasn't that cold."

Granger just ignored him in favor of poking at his sensitive feet. Weasley frowned and asked, "Do you often go running around barefoot and sub-freezing weather?"

Draco gave him a glare and said, "It's not something I enjoy, but yes, I have experienced it on several prior occasions."

Potter looked a bit horrified as he asked, "You've gone running outside in sub-freezing weather before? Why?"

Draco winced as Granger continued to probe his feet, and said, "Turns out that it takes practice before you can pull clothes through the magic of an animugus change."

The Golden Trio froze, and all three of them looked up with disbelieving eyes. Weasley finally asked, "How do we know he's not lying to us?"

Granger glanced down at his feet one last time before saying, "Your right, your feet should be fine, if a bit sensitive for a while. How do we know your telling the truth?"

Draco rolled his eyes and said, "I don't really care whether you think I'm telling the truth or not, to be honest I normally would have lied to you a dozen times by now."

Potter leaned forward and asked, "Tell me the truth, have you lied to me since you woke up today?"

Draco growled out, "I just told you Potter that I haven't!"

Granger seemed to analyze Draco for a moment before saying, "I think the bond might be pushing him to not only tell the truth but to answer your questions with the full answer and not just a partial answer."

Draco went wide eyed and his voice was a little rough as he asked, "Bond?"

Potter looked down, not meeting his eyes, and Ron was suddenly very interested in the book sitting in front of him. Granger sighed and said, "About two nights ago, your mother contacted Harry and informed him that she was calling in the life debt he owed her, she made an unusual request, one that I didn't even think was theoretically possible. To fulfill the life debt she asked Harry to call in the life debt you owed him, and take you as his bond slave. I wasn't sure she was serious till we showed up and she already had the runes set. Before she left she told me that it was the only way she could think to save you."

Draco stared at Granger for a minute, before leaning back in his chair and saying, "Fuck! I should have known she'd do something that dramatic."

Granger frowned and asked, "So you know what she was talking about?"

Draco sighed and said, "Replacing a master with a master, it's the oldest trick in the book, it shouldn't have actually worked though."

Granger said, "That's what I said, there is no way it should have worked."

Draco rolled his eyes and said, "It's theoretically possible, I've seen it done on paper a hundred times but it shouldn't have worked."

Granger froze and said, "Wait, you've seen it done on paper?"

Potter asked, "If you've seen it done on paper than why shouldn't it have worked in real life?"

Draco glanced at the two of them and said, "Have neither of you read The Theory of Bonding?" Granger bristled and Potter just gave him a blank stare so he said, "The Theory of Bonding goes over in great detail how exactly someone could replace one master with another, but there are a lot of factors involved. The biggest one the book goes over is Sex, and since I'm not a virgin and have never had sex with you, than that shouldn't have worked. Unless… Oh shit, what name is on the Bond?"

Ron said, "Obviously it was Harry's name on it."

Draco gave Ron a glare and asked, "Not what I meant, when the bond wrote itself out, what did it say my name was?"

Granger seemed a bit puzzled for a moment as she thought back, then suddenly her eyes went wide and she said, "It said Draco Lucius Augustus Black."

Draco groaned as he leaned back into the chair. He was so screwed. At that moment Potter asked, "What's wrong?"

Granger sighed and said, "If his last name is now Black, then that means that he somehow was cut off from the titles of Malfoy. Since he's no longer a Malfoy that makes him a Black, and since you're the Lord of Black, you can rightfully claim him as yours."

Potter frowned and seemed to be considering this when Ron asked, "Why would you be cut off from the Malfoy titles?"

Draco snorted and said, "My father was not pleased when he discovered I had been branded a traitor to his little group."

Granger asked, "Wait, you were branded as a traitor? Why?"

Draco shrugged and Potter snapped out, "Answer the question."

Draco sat up and glared at both of them before saying, "Because I was a traitor." When they all just gave him a look, Draco sighed and said, "Since father was locked away I had full control over the Malfoy fortune for several months, in that time I pulled all of the funding for the Dark Lord, and I funded a group that helped get those who didn't want to take the mark out of harms way. So not only did I leave the Dark Lord penniless but I also cut the number of new recruits down to less than a third of what is should have been. I also leaked his location to a few underground mobsters who were not happy with him being in their territory."