Disclaimer: I certainly do not own Harry Potter. That belongs to J.K Rowling.

I'm actually quite pleased to realise not only Drarry fans are reading this fiction but fans of other pairings are too. That made me smile.

I've had the biggest laugh today.

I didn't realise a friend of mine in my class knew about fanfiction and not only that but yaoi and slash as well.

She may not have been on fanfiction before but read them on other sites about MCR.

This poor guy was listening in and when he heard that fangirls wrote about two guys kissing each other.

He was like: Wait what? O . O" Err they write about that.

I'm sorry but I burst out laughing, my friend now knows about this website etc. And I kinda had to explain to the guy about the yaoi thing even though he was weirded out I think he understood when I said it was the same with a guy about two girls thing.

Chapter Seven

Revenge, Secrets and Plots

Draco was more than pissed.

He was livid.

He marched straight past the classroom ready to hunt down Cormac McLaggen.

Blaise for the very first time felt fearful of the sinister look in Draco's eyes and began to get worried if his friend was going to end up in Azkaban very quickly if he carried on this rampage.

"Whoa Draco," Blaise said hooking his fingers onto Draco's shirt collar bringing him to a halt.

"What!" Draco hissed at Blaise eyes filled with rage.

"Dude, what exactly are you planning on doing?" Blaise asked voice laced with worry.

A couple of first years and a few older ones decided to linger about to listen in on the commotion.

"You know what I'm going to do? First I'm going to find something very sharp,"

"Oh god," Blaise paled considerabley in the face.

"Secondly, I'm going to hunt that bastard down,"

A third year Ravenclaw covered her first year sisters ears.

"Thirdly, I'm going to pin him down by his scrawny neck, and cut him very slowly," Draco continued.

A few students began to walk away starting to get slightly scared of the conversation.

"And lastly I'm going to use whatever sharp instrument I can find and use it to chop off his di-"

"OKAY Draco! Enough information, lets go before people start getting the teachers," Blaise said pushing Draco away to a quieter area.

He managed to find a broom cupboard and quickly forced Draco in there.

Blaise took a deep breath, "Look Draco, stop and think before you act."

Draco was about to loudly respond before Blaise held his hand up for silence.

"Think about it, you've just gotten into Potter's good books, he if he doesn't know about this already don't you think it'll be better for you if you were the one to tell him about it?"

"Why?" Draco raising an eyebrow.

"Who was the usual suspect for humiliating him and his friends?" Blaise asked pointing to Draco.

"Oh damn, your right," Draco said.

"Cormac would most likely blame you, the Golden trio will most likely believe it and you my friend are guaranteed to be out of Potter's good books leaving you without a mate,"

"So if I attack Cormac right now will only just make it seem like I've lost the plot," Draco said solemnly.

"Yep, so stopping pissing about and go and inform Granger," Blaise said bluntly shoving the young Malfoy out of the cupboard.

"Then go to Snape and-"

"Snape? He hates Potter!"

"He's a teacher its his job to sort out crap like this, he can be unfair to some students sometimes but outright shit like this, he will sort it out,"

Draco still looked unsure.

"Plus you're a prefect you need to report stuff like this too,"

"Good point,"

Malfoy stormed towards the lesson where he knew that the Golden Trio were at next, he quickly found Hermione near the Charms Class.

"Hermione!" Draco shouted to her.

Hermione looked at Draco in surprise "Malfoy?"

The young Malfoy looked relieved to see the young witch make her way towards him.

"Hermione I really need to talk to you," Draco whispered urgently.

"What about?" Hermione asked looking worried.

Draco showed her the awful poster when she looked at it Hermione's hair seemed to crackle with electricity and her eyes filled with rage.

"Who the hell has done this?" she demanded in a shrill voice.

"Apparently Cormac McLaggen," Draco said in a dark tone.

"You wouldn't have anything to do wit-"

"No, I'm over that now," Draco said bluntly cutting her off.

"Are your sources reliable?" Hermione asked crossing her arms.

"Yes, Malfalda knows alot and unlike most gossips gets her facts straight first before opening her mouth,"

"McLaggen needs to be punished," she said darkly staring at her charms book in deep thought.

"We should do the proper thing and report it to Dumbledore, but first Harry needs to know," Hermione said finally.

"You can break it to him, Weasley would most likely find a way to pin the blame on me," Draco muttered.

"Don't worry, I'll tell him it was you who informed me," she put a hand on Draco's shoulder in a comforting way.

"Hermione...he will be punished but I'm going to do it my way," Draco said walking away.

"No," Hermione said grabbing the Slytherin's arm.

"We are going to work together on this," she said firmly with passionate eyes.

"If for some reason you want Cormac punished for this I'll work with you, I'll tell Harry about this and then I'll meet you here after class,"

"Very well, till then," Draco nodded.

Deep inside Draco was very pleased he was getting somewhere in the golden trio's good books with this.

Hermione hid a faint smirk as Malfoy left, because deep down she had a feeling why Draco was so angry.

When Hermione told her friends about the incident, she was certain that both Harry and Ron were ready to kill.

Harry ripped the poster in half.

"How dare he," Harry said in a low tone.

"So you sure it's Cormac?" Ron asked Hermione.

"Apparently," Hermione nodded.

"How many people has seen this?" Harry asked placing his hands over his face.

"...I'm not sure..." Hermione muttered shifting in her sitting uncomfortably.

"Now, class I know sometimes I let you speak during class but this time I really need you to concentrate," Flitwick said softly.

"What did he say?" Seamus asked Dean while he was performing his spell.

This made Seamus lose concentration and a powerful stream of water burst out of his wand and knocked Flitwick over.

"Seamus detention!" Flitwick muttered picking himself up from a pile of books.

"To pay attention," Dean smirked focusing at filling up his gold bowl with water slowly using the spell aguamenti.

Seamus glared at Dean.

"But what I don't understand is, why would Cormac do something like that?" Harry said thoughtfully focusing on his gold bowl and water.

"I'm not sure...a dare maybe?" Hermione asked also focusing on her work.

"You sure it isn't Malfoy setting him up?" Ron asked bluntly not even bothering picking up his wand.

"I don't think he is, he seems really genuine and actually angry at Cormac," Hermione stated filling up the bowl perfectly.

"Angry? You'd think he'd have a right laugh at Harry's expense," Ron muttered finally trying to fill his bowl.

"That's what I thought Ron but if he was to laugh at it he wouldn't even mention it to us at all and carry on laughing,"

"Least he's mentioned it or I wouldn't have never known that probably half the school thinks I'm some sort of slut," Harry grumbled.

"Don't worry Harry, I'm sure not that many people has read it," Hermione comforted.

"Um..." Padma shifted beside Hermione.

"What?" Hermione asked sharply.

"Actually...I've seen a load of posters like that around the seventh floor," Padma said meekly.

Harry's buried his head against the desk.

"Thanks mate," Ron muttered to Padma who looked very sheepish.

Draco waited for the Golden Trio outside the Charms class, he then them emerge from the crowd with a very furious looking Harry.

"I want to kill that prick!" Harry stated loudly to Draco.

"Don't worry, I have a plan," Draco comforted Harry.

"Which is?" Ron asked.

"If we do anything rash we'd be the ones in trouble, we have to get Cormac to admit it and.."

"And since me, Ron and you are prefects he'd be the one in trouble!" Hermione realised.

Ginny marched towards the group.

"Have you seen thi-"

"Yes," was the simultaneous response the red haired girl had received.

"He is so going to get Bat Bogeyed," Ginny muttered darkly.

Draco shuddered in the memory of him receiving the bat bogey hex from Ginny. He almost felt sorry for McLaggen. Almost.

"Okay, so here's what going to happen..." Draco whispered to the others.

Cormac strutted out of his lesson and into the corridor.

"Oi, McLaggen," Draco called.

Cormac's head swiftly turned to Draco.

"What do you want?" Cormac asked looking up and down at Draco in disgust.

"I want to speak with you, but I'd like it to be somewhere private," Draco indicating to a nearby empty classroom.

"Very well, but make it quick," Cormac muttered marching inside the classroom.

Draco closed the door and silently whispering.

"Colloportus,"

"Well what is it?" asked Cormac crossing his arms.

"I want to talk about those posters regarding Harry Potter," Draco said trying to hide the anger in his voice.

"Ah, so you liked my prank then?" smirked Cormac.

"So it was you," Draco confirmed.

"Yeah, its time that little bitch was taught his place, when my mate dared me to post it everywhere I couldn't refuse," Cormac boasted.

"Oh yeah..." Draco nodded breathing slowly to retain his anger.

There was a faint sound of a chair scraping against the floor to which McLaggen didn't register so Draco carried on.

"But what I don't get is why turn against your own?" Draco asked.

"Why not? I mean you of all people know that Potter has been sticking his nose in the air and looking down at others for a while,"

'Thats a bit rich,' Draco thought to himself.

"I'm pleased that I finally found something to humilate like this, but you know this could be the perfect blackmail," Cormac smirked.

"Blackmail?" Draco asked stunned.

"Well think about how desperate Potter will be for me to stop making these posters...very desperate,"

Draco did not like where this was going.

Cormac got a picture from his cloak pocket and shoved it in front of Draco's face.

It was the one with Harry in chains in nothing but a pair of boxers

"You and I both hate Potter, but have you seen him lately? He's turned out to be very beautiful,"

Cormac's fingers caressed the picture gently.

Draco glared at the Gryffindor.

"I can see it now, him at my feet like the bitch he is, calling me master,"

Cormac was actually joking, as he chuckled a bit after but to Draco this sounded deadly serious.

Draco's fist clenched up.

"Say if I get Potter into bed with me would you like to ride?" Cormac smirked.

Draco saw red.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Draco yelled and punched Cormac square in the jaw sending him flying against the desks.

Draco quickly whipped out his wand as Hermione blasted "CONFUNDO!" from the cupboard at McLaggen.

"Stuperfy!" raged a pretty pissed off looking Harry emerging from his invisibility cloak making Cormac fall to the ground.

Ron sent a stinging hex towards Cormac coming out from underneath the desk.

"Chiroptera mucous!"* Ginny roared also descending from the cupboard.

Several yellow like mucus creatures with bat wings emerged and began attacking Cormac's face.

"Who's the bitch now?" Harry smirked glaring at the fallen McLaggen.

Eventually Cormac ended up in the Hospital Wing.

While Madame Pompefry was tending to Mclaggen's swollen face, Snape loomed over the five students who looked furious.

"I see you've taken student's arrest a little too far..." Snape muttered eyeing Cormac's swollen eye.

"But Professor Sna-" Ginny started.

"I am fully aware of McLaggen has done and believe me, he will be punished," Snape interrupted.

A look of relief swept over Harry's face.

"The posters will be taken down by today, but perhaps you can take time to tell a professor, instead of taking matters into your own hands,"

"I don't regret what I did," Draco muttered.

"Fifteen points from Gryffindor and Slytherin, now get out of my sight," Snape snapped.

The five students walked away from the Hospital Wing, it wasn't until they were finally out of Snape's earshot Hermione spoke up.

"You know that was lenient for Snape," Hermione said thoughtfully.

"He doesn't blame us for how we've reacted, in fact he seems very angry at Cormac," Draco pointed out.

"Least that Flobberworm is getting punished," Ginny commented kicking a stone along the ground.

"Don't insult flobberworms, Gin, they're ten times better than Cormac," Ron muttered.

"Hey Draco," Harry called out slightly touching his arm.

"Yeah?" Draco suddenly feeling much happier Harry was paying attention to him.

"Thanks for your help," smiled Harry.

Harry wouldn't admit it, but part of him felt very happy when Draco defended him.

"No problem," Draco replied.

"By the way, why did you get so angry when Cormac was slagging off Harry like that?" Ginny asked.

They all stared at him waiting for him to answer.

"Well..." Draco started off.

'Oh shit, don't give away your true feelings yet,' Draco thought to himself.

"Well no one gets away with mistreating people who I consider friends," Draco said finally.

"Hm, who'd have thought..." Ron muttered to himself.

Hermione was smiling ear to ear along with Ginny.

"Wow, Draco I feel really honoured, thank you," Harry smiled.

"Hey, why not join us in Hogsmeade this weekend?" Ginny asked.

'YES!' inner Draco cheered.

"Sure why not?" Draco smiled deciding to play it casual.

"Its a date then," Hermione smirked.

Draco could've sworn that Hermione gave him a wink but then again she could have something in her eye.

"Well, I'm going to see Hagrid," Harry said to the other four.

The other Gryffindor's went to join Harry but Draco stayed back knowing full well he wouldn't be in the half-giant's good books just yet.

"So how'd it go?" Blaise asked Draco finally catching up with him.

"Blaise...I'm repressing the side that wants to run down the corridor and shout out to everyone that I'm in Harry's good books," smirked Draco.

Draco looked so overjoyed Blaise thought the young Malfoy really was going to skip down the corridor and do just that.

"I'm glad the little bugger didn't get away with it!" Hagrid said loudly.

Hagrid was feeding a bunch of puffskeins a jar of dried up spiders in a crate while the Gryffindors stood there and watched.

"Yer see these Puffskiens? I'm gonna show 'em in me next lesson. Little tykes," Hagrid half cooed at the humming balls of yellow fur.

"The question is...who the hell is the person taking these pictures of Harry?" Ron asked clearly not interested in the Puffskeins...or the jar of dried up spiders.*

"The photographer for the Witchy Warts magazine...no one knows who they are really 'cept the people in charge," Hagrid revealed.

"How can we find the people making them?" Harry asked determined to lay this whole 'Lets molest Potter!' to rest.

"You can't its an anonymous company...you think its just you they've photographed and written about without their permission? They've been doing this for many years, alot of famous wizards and witches are angry about it," Ginny revealed.

"Why is this allowed? Isn't there a law against it?" Hermione pondered out loud.

"There is but they've managed to find a loophole as long as they keep their identities secret from the public then they're allowed to do it," Ginny explained.

Hagrid straightened up after his jar was empty.

"Listen Harry, eventually this will all pass, someone else other than yerself will be gettin' their attention and they'd 'ave forgotten yer by then," Hagrid comforted Harry giving him a pat on the back.

"I hope that's soon," Harry muttered.

"Anyway, me ears must be goin' funny by the puffskeins hummin' but I could've sworn you said that Malfoy helped yer,"

"He really did Hagrid," Harry confirmed.

"No one is more surpised than me," Ron concluded.

"Now, I can yer can handle yerselves but I warn yeh...Malfoy's are a devious bunch," Hagrid warned as he slightly frowned from the memory of Lucius.

"For now I trust him that he's changed," Harry said stubbornly.

"Ah...an Erumpent don' change its horns, but I hope for yer sakes that he has," Hagrid muttered stuffing bunch of dried leaves into his jar.

Harry thought to himself 'This weekend is going to be interesting...'

A/N:

*I couldn't find a incantation for the Bat Bogey Hex so I made up one using the words from the classification words.

*I actually have a similar experience to Ron of becoming arachnophobic because of your siblings. But strangely enough I found Aragog in the Gamecube version scarier than the one in the movie.

Cormac's dialogue had alot of editing. Because enough he's pompous he's not bad, he's more of an idiot. Cormac did this deed more for the dare than to hurt Harry even though he enjoyed it.

BTW

Thank you to all your feedback regarding Snape. I would like to clarify unless a fanfic author would totally change the personality I don't think Snape would ever really be evil.

I personally feel that Snape would indeed be a dark wizard without the demise of Lily. But evil I don't think so.

From the moment it was revealed that Snape bullied by James Potter immediately everything about his character made sense to me.

I understood why Snape hated Harry so much (although it was already mentioned it was more clearer), why he hates Sirius and Remus, why he treats Slytherin better than the other houses and why he has a disdain for Gryffindor.

The Dark Arts seemed to me like a comfort almost to Snape at the very thought of himself overpowering his enemies. Without Lily's demise then he wouldn't have a limit of how far to go with people.

But I don't think he'd be evil like killing children and such.

But he'd be very misguided in my opinion.

Till Next Time

~Blazenix