Draco walked up to care of magical creatures in a considerably better mood, the cheering charms hadn't let him stay upset for very long. Pansy, Crabbe, Goyle and Blaise were already sat on the grass with an animal each when he arrived; he didn't have a clue what these bear-cub look-a-like creatures were, he was trying to figure out what the white thing in his hands did.

He sat on the grass and fiddled around with the shiny box for a minute, pulling the wires out then putting them back in. Pansy and everyone crowded around just as interested and curious as he was. Blaise tutted, continuing brushing the little cub. He too had no idea what it was but he didn't think it was wise sitting there.

"I wouldn't sit there if I was you." He had warned them earlier not to and Draco had just plopped right down in it.

"Why, Zabini? I'll sit wherever I want." Draco snarled, he was only playing but immediately he regretted not jumping to his feet earlier. His friends scattered away as they remembered what Blaise had said about 10 minutes ago.

"I'm just saying, watch the-"

"Arrhh!" Draco yelped wiping his bum and dancing around, dropping the metal box on the floor. Draco wriggled around screaming and scratching everywhere he could reach. "GET THEM OFF! I'M BEING EATEN ALIVE!" The whole class burst out laughing at Draco's antics again.

"Red ant's nest." Blaise finished, sighing, that boy was just so stupid.

Hagrid came running over at the sound of the screams. "Oh, it's you. Malfoy, calm down, they ain't gunna 'urt ya. They're only ants."

"THEY'RE RED! THEY'RE BITING ME!"

Ron, who Harry seriously thought had been hit with a cheering charm, was laughing until he couldn't breathe again. "Someone, gimme a camera, please! I'll pay you; he looks like he's dancing the funky chicken!"

"Is anyone going to help me? S.O.S. please someone help me. It's not healthy... for me to feel this way Y.O.U. are making this hard, I can't take it, see it don't feel right. S.O.S. please someone help me! It's not healthy... for me to feel this way! Y.O.U. are making this hard-" Obviously, Draco was slightly stressed as he was trying to dance and sing, and get ants off him all at the same time. So he kind of looked like he was jumping in circles, twitching, with a look of pure terror on his face.

"Arhh!" Draco stripped off his jumper and started unbuttoning his shirt.

"WOW! MALFOY! What are ye doin?" Hagrid yelled. "Yeh can't be doin that?"

"Watch me!" And surely enough in front of all the class Draco stripped down until his black boxers and everyone could clearly see the amount of red ants crawling over him. Blaise grabbed him by the ear and dragged him crossly away from the class and to the lake. He waved to him sweetly a second before he pushed him in.

Draco rose to the surface and spat some water out his mouth. "Aww, my hero." He said sarcasm dripping from his voice. A flash made Draco almost sink back under the water, he looked to the left to see Harry holding the little white box he had been fascinated with earlier.

"Potter, did you just take a photo of me with that, that…"

"Phone." Harry finished for him.

"Phone?" Draco asked curiously.

"Phone, it's a mobile, a white Sony Ericson, where did you get it? Steal it?"

"Actually, yeah, fair and square so give it back." Draco climbed out of the water and tried to look threatening but it really wasn't working with a huge red rash all over him and sopping wet, covered in lake water, especially since he was only in his boxers.

Harry didn't reply to him, he simply made the phone flash again and Draco scowled before marching off, Goyle skittering after him with his clothes.

Harry knew the phone was Hermione's, he had gone through the contacts and it was mostly people he didn't know, but he had got to 'Harry Home' and 'The Burrow' so it was obvious it belonged to her. He was just wondering how Draco had got it. He wouldn't have taken it from any of her possessions, and he'd never even seen it before. It was fairly new and was packed with music, it all suited Hermione so perfectly. He would be sure to show Draco how it worked, he would love it. Well, as soon as he found out where he had got it. So instead of having a half an hour break in the hall, which was always available between 2nd and 3rd lessons, he went back to the Tower, where Draco obviously would be getting dressed. Ron still hadn't shut up about the ant incident and had decided to tag along.

"Oh Merlin, Malfoy's hilarious today." Ron said taking a bite of a sandwich he'd grabbed out the hall.

"Are you sure he's the only one with a cheering charm?" Harry asked side glancing at Ron, who flushed a little.

"What makes you say that?" Ron muttered swallowing thickly.

"Sure, we're friends with Malfoy now. But you've never found anything he's done funny before."

"Well, I guess I'm starting to see him in a new light. The guy's pretty decent."

"Yeah, if you're not on the receiving end of his ego."

"Exactly." Ron agreed. Harry rolled his eyes, oh well, it was better than Ron hating him.

"So, what's that box?" Ron said taking it off Harry. "What are these little wires?"

"They're head phones."

"HEAD phones? What on this earth do you mean?"

"Ron really, you won't get it."

"Okay, try me."

"Fine, it's a portable phone, which you can play games on, go on the internet, like a computer. And it has a built in camera and a music player, you put those things in your ears and music plays."

"Why do you put them in your ear? And how's it a camera, how do you develop anything?"

"Ron, just, be quiet." Harry said taking it back off him before he broke it.

"Yeah but…"

"I would love to have this conversation with you, but I want to find out where in the hell Draco got this. It's Hermione's and I've never seen it before. I don't even understand how it's working. Its muggle, the magic should be sending it haywire." Ron didn't know many things about muggle devices but he knew that much, magic broke muggle things like this. That's why muggleborns couldn't bring things to school.

"I've never seen it before; surely Hermione would have shown us."

"I know Ron, slytherdor, that's why I wanted to speak to Malfoy." The portrait opened a second later and revealed Draco lying on Hermione's bed hugging what appeared to be a teddy bear. Ron and Harry exchanged looks and walked cautiously over to Draco. They sat on Blaise and Harry's bed and Draco looked up, he didn't say anything but pulled his knee's up to his chest and held the bear tighter.

"You alright mate?" Ron asked, Draco had been bouncing around the school less than half an hour ago.

"Yeah, just miss her." He mumbled before covering his face with the bear.

"It'll be alright Dray, come on, I've got something to show you anyway." Draco peeked over the top of the bear at Harry who was waving the walkman phone at him. Draco's sat up and brushed his wet hair out his face. He had just got out of the shower and looked through the box, he'd found a few shrunken items, and this bear had smelled of her, so he'd got a little sad.

"What is it?" Harry smiled and sat down next to him. And for the next half an hour explained the muggle phone to him. After about twenty minutes Draco could use it and was just asking loads of questions about how it worked. Harry was no expert but had told him everything he knew.

Once Harry had taught Draco to use the phone and little history on it both of them were curious to why it was working and Harry had pointed out it hadn't lost any battery. They had both come to the conclusion this was Hermione's phone they were trying to decipher, it wouldn't work, that girl was a genius when it came to magic.

"I was wondering," Harry asked as the three of them walked out of their tower a little later. "Where did you get this?" Draco's face immediately fell into a pained expression.

"Her box." He answered after taking a deep breath. "Her parents gave it to me." Harry looked confused for a second but then decided not to push it as Draco seemed on the verge of tears.

"Oh, I did miss out one thing." He said remembering, he was trying to keep the blonde happy, and apparently his soul expression was becoming more powerful than the cheering charms. Draco was playing a game on it as they walked to herbology. "It plays music, that's what the wires are for. Here…" Harry took the phone off Draco and put the head phones in the others boys ears.

"What are you doing?" Draco tried to bat his hands away.

"No, trust me." Draco was waiting for something to happen, and then jumped at the sudden sound in his ear.

"ARRH! There's music in my head!" He yelled before snatching the phone back of Harry and flicking through the tracks.

"Talk about melodramatic!"

"This is amazing, muggles are so cool!" Draco practically sang. Ron almost walked into a bench.

As the last few minutes of Herbology ended, everyone thought Professor Sprout was going to start dancing she was so happy. The teachers weren't allowed to punish anyone with a soul expression and in the 6th year Herbology, five people had one and they were bouncing off each other's bad behaviour. Draco had took the dignity of playing air guitar with a plant, power sliding down one of the huge desks breaking all the plant pots. Harry had started crying because they were apparently hurting the plants and they were screaming for help, therefore he'd been sneaking around trying to steal everyone's plants and was discussing plans to ship them out of the country with Pansy who was starting to get really passionate about it. This of course had annoyed a few people, which had made Blaise defensive of Harry; this obviously got a few weird looks from everyone. So basically, it had been the funniest day so far in 6 years for Ron. Potions had been, just excruciatingly funny, Care of Magical Creatures had been mad and this lesson had been… Interesting. He just couldn't stop laughing today; he was in such a good mood!

That was until last minute when Pansy had been complaining to Draco how he was always mean to Ron, when Draco jumped up yelled across the greenhouse. "HEY HEY YOU YOU I DON'T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND! NO WAY NO WAY I THINK YOU NEED A NEW ONE!" Ron had gone bright red and Pansy looked like a deer caught in headlights. The whole class put two and two together and was more shocked than anything else.

Ron stood up annoyed their secret had been revealed. "Oh... Burn in hell Malfoy." He spat Draco's last name but Draco didn't care. He just broke out into a really cheesy theatrical dance much to the enjoyment of Harry and Goyle, who seemed to recognise the song and dance.

"I'll be fried and flambéed, baked and sautéed, steamed and stewed and barbecued and grilled and roasted, lightly toasted AND THEN THEN THEN!" Draco did a fake drum roll on some upside down plant pots.

"THEN FUCKED UP THE ARSE WITH BARBED WIRE!" Harry and Goyle yelled, both laughing. Until Harry realised that he had to save Draco from going to hell, he shook it off after arguing with himself out loud for about 2 minutes.

Thankfully, at that moment the bell rang and everyone gratefully left the greenhouses. Draco and company made their way up to the tower knowing Harry and Ron would be following them shortly, Pansy was refusing to speak to Draco even though he had tried to explain in was a soul expression, and therefore he couldn't help it. But she was having none of that, she was going to make him feel rotten, then she'd feel better. So Draco was having a hard time on the way up to the tower. So he shoved in the headphones and turned the volume to max, knowing Pansy had no clue he couldn't hear her rants.

Harry wasn't having much fun either, Ron hadn't shut up about how much he hated Draco yet. Thankfully for Harry, Ginny bumped into them, knocking all three of them to the floor. She was hoping it wasn't too obvious that she had done it on purpose.

"Ginny! You're so clumsy, watch where you're going!" Ron yelled standing up and holding out a hand to Harry.

"Oh, so you've noticed me know have you? I've been trying to talk to you for weeks now!" She hissed grabbing Harry's arm and leading them closer to the wall.

"Sorry Ginny, we've been… busy." Harry said looking down guiltily. He'd completely forgot about her, everyone had.

"I can tell, what the hell are you two playing at? For weeks I've been sending notes to you telling you to meet me. There's crazy stuff going on round here, Harry, you and Ron have been ignoring me!" An angry Weasley wasn't a pleasant one and Harry decided never to get on the bad side of Ron.

"I am here you know Ginny, don't talk about me as if I'm not." Ron snapped. She scoffed.

"Yeah and so have I been, what's going on with you two? You're never in the tower."

"Ginny, just stay out of trouble and keep yourself on a low profile, we don't want you to get hurt." Harry said, he was trying to walk away slowly while saying this. Another person couldn't get involved in this, it was dangerous.

"But Harry, Ron, I've noticed something, the Slytherins, they-"

"Gin, we don't want to hear it, go to lunch and just forget anything you've seen." Ron and Harry turned away and walked as fast as they could away from her. They both exchanged looks as they got around the first corner.

"What the hell was that about?" Ron said to Harry as quietly as possible. Everyone was at lunch, but there are ears everywhere.

"I have no idea, I can't help but want to know what she was going to say, but she's probably got her wires crossed." Ron looked confused. "I mean, her potions switched." Harry corrected. Ron nodded, after all they were fraternising with the enemy, all of them. And to be perfectly honest, Ron hadn't spoken to his sister since almost the beginning of the year. Come to think of it, Harry and himself had completely isolated themselves from the Gryffindors. They were… across enemy lines, almost… He suddenly felt a little guilty. Ron didn't noticed for about ten seconds that Harry had stopped walking, and when he finally did, Harry broke out into a sprint down the remainder of the corridor.

"Oi, WHAT YA DOIN'!" He yelled after Harry, shaking his head and tutting before he jogged down the corridor after him. When he got to the portrait he found it had been left ajar and he closed it properly behind him.

Harry was pushing the couches closer together in front of the fireplace. "Potter, what are you doing?" Draco was asking, he had refused to move off the couch and was being pushed closer to the table full of food as he spoke.

"We need to talk. All of us, Crabbe and Goyle com'ere and Pansy, where's Pansy?" He said ordering everyone around.

"Here!" Her voice called from the bathroom.

"Pansy, get out the shower! Have you got OCD or something?" Harry yelled crossly. Everyone scrambled to the sofas and Draco sat up. He leaned over the table and grabbed a plate.

"Hey? Is this vegetarian? Where's my food? Merlin, the house elves know I won't eat meat. First year was hell, I lived on potato-"

"Oh yeah, I remem-"

"MALFOY! Shut the fuck up, the lasagne is veggie." Draco actually felt hurt for a second and his best mate noticed. Blaise actually gave Harry a dirty look. Most times, he would have agreed with Harry, but Draco was only asking where his food was! Blaise stood up and sucked his teeth, everyone went quiet as a look of distaste covered his face as he stared at Harry. Harry turned around and suddenly felt a little intimidated; Blaise hadn't been in that stance since last year, especially directed at him.

"What?" He asked starting to get a little annoyed at him staring.

"Apologise." Draco avoided looking at the two; he served everyone's lunch for them. Dobby had started serving them lunch in the tower, they only had to request their dinner, as sometimes they went to the hall, other times they were too busy.

"W- what?" Harry was genuinely confused and a little scared. Blaise took a step closer.

"Apologise to Draco now. Stop being an arse and calm down as well while you're at it." Harry went to argue but Blaise held up a hand. "Okay, I understand you've got an expression and on top of that a hero complex but what happened to your expression being caring?" Harry looked a little hurt. "Draco won't admit it, but you just hurt his feelings. Now apologise and calm down. And don't yell at Pansy either, if she wants to shower three times a day, leave her to it. She was naturally hygienic before her expression; it's just made it a little worse. Don't yell at my friends Harry because they don't do it to you. If you're going to go back to how you used to be to them. We'll do the same to you. And we won't be the ones who are left hurt Harry. Apologise."

Harry folded his arms and refused to look at Blaise because there were tears in his eyes. "Oh," Blaise said. "You're going to be stubborn are you?" He raised an eyebrow. "Do you realise what's happening? You're letting the stress get the better of you." Blaise raised his wand and Harry took a step back eyes wide. Ron and Draco stood up to grab him.

"Joyeusement." Blaise said before putting his wand back in the case on his belt then glaring at Draco and Ron. "Come on, as if I'd actually hurt him, I'm in love with him for fucks sake." Draco and Ron sat down sighing with relief and grabbing their food again.

Harry was still staring at Blaise, still a little teary, but no longer stubborn or angry. "Come here Harry." Harry wiped his nose and walked over to Blaise and buried his face in the crook of his neck. He grabbed a firm hand around Harry's thigh before pulling up him and hugging him tight as Harry hooked his knees onto Blaise's hips. He pulled away and Blaise kissed him on the nose. "Go on, what have you got to say to Draco?" Harry leaned his chin on Blaise's shoulder and looked at Draco.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you, Draco." He said in a slightly timid voice.

"It's fine Harry really, we all get a little stressed." Everyone nodded and Harry was surprised to see Pansy was sat on the couch toweling her hair, he hadn't even heard her come out of the bathroom.

"Good boy, Harry." Blaise said dropping his legs slowly.

"Love you." Harry sniffled, looking down a little guiltily.

"And I love you." Blaise kissed his lips softly and Harry sighed. Blaise grabbed his hand and lead his over to the sofa. "Didn't you want to speak to everyone?" Harry nodded and started talking to everyone as Blaise served him some lunch.

"I was wondering, when was the last time we had mail?" Everyone immediately stopped eating. And Draco went wide eyed.

"My mother hasn't written since I've been in the tower." Draco looked slightly horrified.

Ron nodded, "Mum always sends me a prophet, I completely forgot, I ain't been getting it."

"Same." Crabbe and Goyle agreed.

"The last piece of mail we had, had been from Lupin. I think our post is being withheld or intercepted."

"God, how didn't we notice?" Draco said still a little wide eyed.

"I wouldn't have figured it out if it wasn't for Ginny, she-"

"Weasley." Draco snarled. "She attacked me this morning, accused me and my dad of the kidnappings."

"Really?"

Draco nodded, "I fell on the floor and everything but I think I scared her a little because it was just after potions and I burst out laughing in her face because, dunno, it was just funny."

"You got attacked and you laughed."

"It was hardly an attack-"

"Guys! Anyway," Harry redirected the attention to him. "Ginny said she'd been sending me and Ron notes for weeks telling us to meet her but obviously we didn't get them."

"This is getting stupid and far too serious for us six to be handling." Goyle said, suddenly not very hungry anymore. No-one answered but they all knew it was true. They shouldn't be handling it on their own. Harry and Ron disagreed with the Slytherins.

"Guys, we can't give up. It will be alright, honestly. You'll be surprised what we can do."

"Yeah you will, seriously, Harry kind of rubs off on you." Ron explained. "I mean, I'm a Weasley I'm no-one important and I've faced a ten foot spider and helped save the philosophers stone and been inside the Chamber of Secrets." Ron pointed out.

"Well, if Weasley can do it, then we'll be pro." Crabbe said smiling, he was only joking after all. But it left everyone reassured.

"Grilled & Roasted" is a song from Jerry Springer the Opera written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee. 'Girlfriend" is by Canadian singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne and and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, from her Album "The Best Damn Thing". "SOS" is sang by Rihanna.

Fanfiction is by Faith Valconbridge. This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.