Their Promise

For as long as Draco could remember he had both Vincent and Gregory around him. Their parents had been friends and so they had grown up with each other. Over that time they had made the promise that they would protect each other. Protecting each other meant that Vincent and Gregory protected Draco and that Draco would allow them to protect him.

So it was natural for them to find each other first thing when they went to Hogwarts for the first time and terrorize all the mud- and half bloods they could find. As it was normal pass time according to their upbringing. They had the most fun terrorizing Potter and his band of misfits.

At first at school things went great for Draco. Grades were good, he was making friends besides his two favorite bodyguards and he was terrorizing Gryffindors when he felt like it. That wasn't the case for some other people. Recently both Vincent and Gregory had been asked to go to Snape's office, gossip was going around about what it could and might be. Draco of course wasn't really interested, after all the world revolved around the young Malfoy scion and not not for two inbred products.

One night when the two came back from another office visit Draco finally decide to ask what was going on, as he had planned to get Potter into trouble that night. ''Vincent where were you two tonight?'' Draco demanded. His demand was only replied with some uncomfortable shuffling from both boys. ''Well what is going on here,'' Draco demanded once again'. ''I don't have all day to wait for you two to learn how to speak.''

Finally Gregory mumbled something inaudible, pissing Draco more off than he already was. '' What is wrong with you two?'' He said. Again Gregory spoke up, now more clear and Draco could understand what he was saying. ''We were made to go to Snape for tutoring. If we do not get our grades up we will be expelled.'' Gregory mumbled his cheeks tinting pink from embarrassment.

In pureblood circles it was unacceptable to have bad grades, as they were supposed to be superior to mudbloods like Granger. So having to have tutoring to prevent being expelled was a very embarrassing for the two boys. Now Draco finally understood what was going on and he didn't like it very much. ''Why haven't you said anything earlier?'' He asked all annoyance gone from his voice. ''We made the promise of protecting each other, how am I supposed to be able to help the two of you when you don't tell me stuff like this.'' Draco finished sternly.

''We were just that ashamed, and we also thought you wouldn't care about it if we told you.'' Vincent said. ''Of course I care,'' Draco said. ''Now get your books and let's go find a spot in the library. We have a lot of studying to do.''

From that day on the trio were to be found regularly in the library studying and Draco helping Vincent en Gregory with their school work. It wasn't long after Draco started helping that their grades went back up and they were out of danger to be expelled. So the promise to protect each other was returned, Vincent and Gregory would protect and help Draco terrorize Gryffindors and in return Draco would help them study to stay at Hogwarts.

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This fiction was written for the Prompt of the day Challenge from The Golden Snitch forum.

For this fiction I used the prompt: (Quote) a friend in need is a friend indeed (March 1st)

Word Count: 567

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