Chapter 24 what is it with Malfoy

Harry was walking to his final lesson of the day when he heard two boys argue in a classroom. "You take that back. My sister isn't a freak."
"Yes she is." said the familiar voice of Malfoy, "She was scratched by a werewolf so she will be one to. That makes here also a freak."

Harry opened slowly the door and he could see Mr. Bayley and Draco Malfoy standing wands out at the ready. "Your sister will be doomed for a life as beggar and outcast as the freak she is." "Stupefy!" Draco called and the spell flew towards the ravenclaw boy. "Protego!" Harry called and the spell rebounded on his shield.
"20 points from Slythering for attacking a fellow student," Haary said furious. "And you will report to your head of house to find out how long your detention will be. Further more the girl you are talking about was scratched but the werewolf was not changed and there was no contamination so she will be perfectly alright." "But you can not do that," Began Malfoy, "I won't take detention from you."
"Like professor McGonnagal explaint to you at the beginning of the year I can and just did, now get out of here or I will make it 60 points." Was all Harry said.
Malfoy now remembered his small fight he had with Harry on the first day of the school year. McGonnagal had told him that Harry could give out detentions and give or take points.

"Good day Mr. Malfoy." Harry said to him.
"Good day professor." Malfoy replied and left the classroom.
"Thanks professor." Said Damien Bayley, "I think I need more practice on my protection charm."
"Yeah you do," Said Harry with a smile, "but you stood up for yourself and your sister to one of the most dangerous students here at Hogwarts. Take 20 points for ravenclaw. Also I want to know what happened."
Damien told Harry he had received a message to come here for some news about his sister. He had thought it was Harry who had send the note so he went to find Malfoy sitting on a table and when he entered Malfoy started on him about that his sister was a freak and would be a werewolf and that he better could kill her now when she was still young and weak.
When Damien had finished his story he had tears in his eyes of anger.
"All right," said Harry, "you go to your lessons and after diner you come to my office understood. Now off you go and get to class."
"Yes Sir, and thank you professor." Said Damien.

Harry also went to his own teaching lesson and was not looking forward to that evening.
At diner he sat at his normal spot beside Minerva and she could see he had something on his mind. She could only guess what it was but she had a good idea of what it could be.
"I heard you finally put Mr. Malfoy in detention, but I see you have some thoughts about it?" She said to him.
"Well I do," Said Harry, "the person he was with and well terrorizing was Damien Baley, so if you don't mind could you please come to my office after diner to talk to Damien and hear his story? I have told Sirius about his detention so that is covered but I want your opinion about what to do next."
"What did Sirius say that you placed one of his house in detention?" Asked Minerva with a smile.
"Well he wondered why it took so long for me to do, and if I had something cruel in mind to let Malfoy do." Harry said with a smile.

Minerva smiled at that comment. "I knew I was right when I made him head of Slythering house." She said. "Well I will be there and I assume Sirius will also be there." After that Harry could get through his thought and ate and talked like there was nothing wrong. When he looked around the great hall from the teachers table he only could feel joy and pride, but also he could not wait for the Halloween feast because than he would eat with his friends again.
He missed Ginny with the meals but he knew there was no other way. He was glad that he could sit with them at the feasts but he thought they had way to little of them.

After diner he walked over to Ginny to tell her he would be later in the commenroom when he could see Malfoy plotting something. He thought how great it would be if Malfoy was hit by the sonorus charm so everybody knew what he was planning.
Than he felt something like a electric jolt go through him and at the same time he could hear Malfoy as if he was standing next to him.

"Professor Potter what a joke. You wait when I get his blood traitor girlfriend how great the professor really is."
Malfoy looked up as the whole great hall went silent. Harry walked over to him his eyes on fire. "Mr. Malfoy you will follow me right now!" Minerva was there faster than he would have thought. When Harry was there to he looked at her and she just shook her head.
Halfway through the great hall Ron, Ginny and Hermione were on their way wands out. Harry could see them coming and knew he had to stop them or they would be in more trouble than Draco.

"You three stop." He said Hermione stopped but Ron and Ginny kept going. "Ron, Ginny stop!" He yelled again. "MR AND MISS WEASLEY YOU STOP RIGHT NOW." He bellowed and this time Ron and Ginny stopped dead in their tracks. They looked at him and could see the fire in his eyes. He walked over to them. "You return to your seats right now." He said in a tone that left no room for discussion. "Yes sir." The two said and with their heads bowed they returned to the Griffindor table.

Harry walked towards the door where he could see McGonagall waiting with a shaking Malfoy. He walked passes them straight to the headmistress office. He waited outside the door and when they arrived he walked in with them.
"What do you have to say for yourself," McGonagall asked Malfoy. "You have been caught plotting against a teacher and a fellow student." Malfoy spoke 1 word but McGonagall cut him of. She pointed her wand at him and said the counter curse for his hard voice.
"I don't know what you are talking about professor." He said. McGonagall looked at him as if he had slapped her in the face.
"Sorry, you were sayin?" She said to him. "I think we all heard very well what you had said in the great hall."
"Professor may I say something?" Harry asked her.
"Sure what is it?" Was her reply.
"Well I would suggest you," Harry began, "to ask Mrs. Malfoy and if he is available mr Malfoy to come here. There are some issues I want taken care if in case of young Mr. Malfoy here. He doesn't want to take my word for it but perhaps his parents can shed some light into his darkness."
"What is this Potter afraid of me and need my mommy and daddy to help you." Malfoy sneered.
"50 points from Slythering," Snapped McGonagall, "it is professor Potter for you Mr. Malfoy and I don't like the tone you speak to ther one of us. Also you can go directly to your head of house and tell him you have detention until I say it is enough did I make my self clear."
"Yes, yes professor McGonagall." Malfoy stuttered he left the office as fast as his feet could take him and when he was outside they could hear him swearing out loud.

Harry had a hard time not to laugh.
"Well it seems it isn't a very good day for Draco Malfoy, he lost 70 points in 1 day and I don't think his fellow Slytherings will like that." He said. "Minerva what are we gonna do?" He asked.
"You go and take care of your friends because I think you have some explaining to do. I will do as you advised and get his parents here as soon as possible. We need this sorted out soon before people get hurt. Be careful because I don't think young mister Malfoy is giving up that easy."
"I will." Said Harry. He called for Kreacher and asked the elf to take him to the commenroom.

McGonagall looked at him with a smile on her lips. "Smart move MR. Potter a true maraunder after all." She said.

Harry and Kreacher appeared in the commenroom were Ron, Ginny and Hermione were waiting for him. "Kreacher could you please get us all a butterbeer please." he asked the elf. "Yes master right away." And the elf was gone. "What in merlin's name did you think to protect that worm. He was plotting against my sister and you protected him." Ron yelled at Harry. "You should have let us get him."
Ron looked furious Harry looked at Ginny and Hermione and they also looked really angry.
"What did you think would happen if I had let you get to him and attack him?" Harry asked now getting angry himself. "Did you look at me when I stopped you or were you to busy being angry at me. He wasn't only talking about my best friends sister you know that, and I can tell you this it is that McGonagall was there sooner than I was because I think Moody would have looked mild at what I was gonna do to him." Harry was talking louder and louder and at the end was yelling at his friends. The rest of the commenroom was dead still as the rest of the students went running when Harry kicked off.
"I told you once and I will tell you again Ron, nobody in his right mind will lay a finger on Ginny, Hermione, you or anyone who I call family or they will be very very sorry. So tell me what were you thinking when you were running across the great hall?" He asked them all and in a normal voice. Ron, Ginny and Hermione looked at Harry and didn't know what to say. They felt embarrassed for how they had felt about him.
"Well I am waiting." Said Harry.
"We wanted to," Ron began, "we could see you walk over towards him and well we wanted to help." Hermione finished.
"Help with what? Give him a detention?" Harry sneered.
"That is unfair Harry." Said Ginny, "I could see the fire in your eyes you were as mad as we were and I think you would have done more than give him a detention."
Harry smiled at her. "Like I said love I would have made Moody's ferret look dull and I think it is lucky for Malfoy that McGonagall was there sooner than I was. But please never do this ever again will you three promise me that?"
"No Harry I won't." said Ginny, "And I think Ron and Hermione can't promise that either because you know us we stick together no matter what. So professor Potter are we in trouble or not."
Harry walked over to Ginny and took her in his arms. "Yes young lady," he said, "you are." He picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Ginny let out a scream as Harry started spinning her around.
"Promise me." He said.
"No I won't." Ginny screamed and she laughed out loud.
Harry put her back down and they both laughed out loud. He took her back in his arms and asked her again to promise him that she at least would try to control herself when something like this would happen again.
"Alright," She said, "that is something we can promise we will try to not get in trouble." He kissed her on the lips and than felt someone pull on his cloak. "Kreacher has brought master his drinks sir." the elf said in a small voice as if he had done something terrible. Harry caught on.
"What is wrong Kreacher, you did well." He asked the elf.
"Master and Mistress were occupied and Kreacher interrupted them. Kreacher very sorry master and as I is returning to the kitchen Kreacher will punish himself as a good house elf should."
"What no Kreacher you don't." Said Harry in shock. "You did well and I think we made you wait very long. So you had made the right decision to get my attention. You did well Kreacher and I don't want you to punish yourself understood."
The elf's ears went up as he heard this.
"Thank you master you is really great wizard. Kreacher is glad you is my master. Sorry Mistress," He said to Ginny, "me is not trying to disturb you anymore."
Harry nodded to Kreacher who took this sign as his cue to go and he was gone.
"What was that all about and what is gonna happen to Malfoy?" Asked Ron.
"Well," Said Harry, "I asked for his parents to come here so we can knock some sense into him. As for your first question I don't know what you mean."
"So he will not be expelled from school for contempting murder?" Ron said angerly, "And what I meant with my first question was simple, why did Kreacher call Ginny mistress? You two are not married so why is he calling her mistress."
"Well I don't know how or why he does that but he is doing it all year long already so we are used to it." Harry explained to Ron.
"Harry, when did he start doing it?" Asked Hermione.
"Well the first time was when we were attacked at the burrow. Why do you ask?"Harry asked back.
"Well," Said Hermione, "I thought he might have started it when you gave Ginny a key to your vault but he started it some weeks earlier. That is curious."
"Why is this such a problem?" Ginny asked. "It is not that Harry and I have no plans for the future."
"Well it is a big deal because when Harry gave you that key he well almost married you, and from that moment all his possessions became yours. From than I would understand but sooner that is strange." Hermione told Ginny
"Well I am glad he does because it was Ginny who thought of him and to ask him if he could help us." Harry said.
"Can we please focus on something else please. I don't mind he does it so please." Said Harry. "Alright," Said Ron, "so tell me why get the Malfoy's here and not expel him?"
"Because he needs to get a grip on his life and I do believe that his parents do care what happens to him or the school." Said Harry. "I have told you that it was Narcissa Malfoy who checked me if I was dead and she did not tell I was alive because she wanted to get Draco out of here safely, she knew I could defeat Voldemort and that she and her son would be able to get a better life. Thats why I wanted his parents here, so they can tell him what they did in the final hour of the battle of Hogwarts and what side they eventually took."

"Wow," Said Ron, "that is heavy, so you are telling me that you want to help Malfoy to get a better life after he made our lives here almost a living hell because his mother didn't sell you out to Voldemort? What about his father he didn't do anything to help or what so ever he just wanted you dead so his master could rule the world."
"Well I have seen him struck death eaters at the end of the battle. So yeah he did help." Harry said. "Why did you think he and his wife remained here at Hogwarts at the end of the battle." "They wanted to get out. That is why." Said Ginny in a small voice. "I would never have believed that I would hear myself saying this or think it for that matter. But I feel sorry for Draco when he meets with his parents."
"You what!." Said Ron in shock.