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"I had it, I was just about to get a shot and that scummy..."Harry was ranting, aggressivly taking off his gear when Ron had to shut him up.
"Harry mate, please I'm not happy either but does it matter?, It's not like we lost the game besides we tied, we'll just play them again and we'll show them what for" Ron stated clapping a hand on Harry's shoulder.
He nodded but was still not particularly happy about it, he then left after showering and headed to the tower for quick break before the feast. Their was knocking at the door and Ron walked over to answered it, to find Hermione.
"Hermione what are you-"He leered as she walked in rather quickly.
"Where's Harry?" She asked, not seeing him there.
"He left about 10 minutes ago, why?" Ron asked her as she searched around the room.
"Malfoy was at the game" She stated angrly.
"Obviously Malfoy was at the game, everyone knows Hermione that Malfoy was at the game" He laughed pulling off his gloves and taking a seat on the bench when Ginny came in from the girl's side of the changing room.
"No Mafoy as in "Lucius Malfoy" Ronald" She looked down at him with her usual critical eye, his mouth fell open and eyes widened just like Seamus's face had done.
"I know" Ginny said behind them, taking a seat next to her brother.
"You know?" Hermione and Ron asked in unison.
"Yes, Blaise and I; we couldn't find the bloody snitch because we were too bloody caught up with the fact that Lucius Malfoy was in the Slytherin box next to Professor Time"
"The git was next to Professor Time, bloody hell" Ron's brown eyes was falling to and fro towards Hermione and Ginny.
"Not only that but they were laughing, gossiping, not forced it seemed natrual like they knew each other, merlin maybe even friends" Hermione stated, taking a seat on the opposite bench.
She began to explain to them what happened from her point of veiw and her scary interaction with Time at the changing rooms, her question of Malfoy knowing about his father surfaced.
"Blaise, he told me that Draco had no idea about his father, he never mentioned it to Blaise and well he tells Blaise everything, well it's what they started doing since after the war" Ginny answered quickly tucking her red hair behind her ears.
"Maybe that's why Malfoy fell, he was distracted and wasn't trying to kill Harry" Ron stated in disbelief. "How is Lucius even out of Azkaban?, I thought he was getting locked up for years?" He looked to Hermione.
"That's what I thought but by the looks of things though he is on parol, I saw a gold ban around his wrist, the same kind Kingsley started putting on the wrists of prisoners who are capable of parol, it informs the minitry where they are at all times and by no means can be tampered with, Kingsley said he got the idea after I told him about the enchanted galleons" Hermione said the last part with a smile, but realised what the conversation was about and it quickly vanished.
"Could you imagine that your father of which you haven't seen since Godric knows how long suddenly appears at a quddich game where you play against Harry Potter?, no wonder the poor sod crashed into Harry, probably in shock" Ginny said and Ron and Hermione nodded in agreement.
"We need to tell Harry, before he goes ranting and raving how much of a cheating git Malfoy is" Ron stood quickly but Hermione looked at her watch.
"To late it's already time for the feast and Harry's going to be down there already, let's just hope he doesn't bump into Lucius on his way down" Hermione sighed then walked out with Ginny letting Ron get finished dressing and soon joined, a very angry Harry at the Gryffindor Table.
Why was he so especially angry?, perhaps because Hagrid was missing due to a cold he'd caught a day before and who was seated their instead but non other than Professor Time and Lucius Malfoy of course.
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"Well well well.." Stated an angry Harry Potter.
"Harry we have something to tell you!" Ron, Ginny and Hermione said in unision practically running towards him, perhaps in an effort to stop him from letting his temper best him.
"Sod off you lot I'm in the middle of something".
"What are you talking about Harry?" quizzed a confused Ron.
"I know what you're all doing here, you're going to tell me that it wasn't really Draco's fault but it was his father's but frankly though I don't bloody buy it, I'm sick of him and his care free attiude, I won't stand for it any longer, that's why when he walks through those door's in about two minutes time I will give him my thought's to his face, if his crimanal father up there and ex love bird Professor Time try and stop me, they'll get a piece of it too!" Harry really begins to raise his voice exasperated from his rant.
"Harry please stop acting like this, this is more stupid than a Alarte Ascendare spell" Hermione quirks failing to see the serious of the situation.
"Hermione I thought I told you stay away from that bloddy git, yet here you are with Ron and Ginny defending someone who has never done you any good since you met him"
"Answer me this Ron and Ginny; she put you up to this am I right?" the both nodded growing more incomfortable by the minute, Harry continued "You know why that is?, she bloody likes him!"
"Harry!" Ginny shouted in response after hearing such a statement fall out the lips of Harry Potter.
"It's true Ginny and you know it, that's why she's doing all this" his skin grew red and his words become more cold by the minute.
"Regardless of Hermione and Draco's realtionship you have no right to childishly humilate a girl like that infront of all her house, especially one who is your best friend" she hissed angry at the statement which fell from Harry's lips.
"Harry look at me..." Ginny stated softly moving closer towards Harry.
"What is it Ginny?" He snarled.
"Look you might not believe your oldest friends but maybe you will belive me, I saw it all happen before my eyes, as you both went in to tackle for the qauffle you got out ahead of him and dropped lower, Malfoy was about to follow after you until he came to a sudden stop, I looked to see what his gaze was fixated on and it was non other than his father, you quickly turned and headed back towards their goal, you kept your head down however to maximize your speed like you aways do, however you where on a clear colision course with Malfoy, it was at the last moment Malfoy turned towards you but it was too late, he couldn't move in time and so that is how it happened, I swear you have to believe me!" she practically begged.
"Ginny of all you three I hardly belived you where going to betray me too and take sides with Draco Malfoy..." before she could reply the door's in the great hall opened slightly and everyone's eyes , Harry's, Hermione's, Time's, Lucius's and the rest of Hogarts eyes met with the grey souless globes of Draco Malfoy.
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Malfoy walked in innocently, for the first time in a long time he walked proudly, it was so unusual to see him behave in such a manor considering the circumstances he now found himself in. To the right of the Hall was Harry Potter who gave him a mean stare, a stare that definitely looked threatening, a stare reminiscent to that of a lioness fending off the predator that could kill her cubs, it was mean, cold and stubborn but overall it was protective, to the back of the hall sat his father.
There he was the "infamous" Lucius Malfoy. Hermione onced used that word to describe him but not being familar with the word, he read a dictionary to find the meaning behind it, it said and I qoute:
Infamous -(Adjective) Meaning :
- Well known for some bad quailty or deed.
_ Wicked; Abominable.
- (Historical) (of a person) deprived of all or some citizens' rights as a consequence of conviction for a serious crime.
He believed in himself once reading this discription of the word, that it coud easily be used to discribe him but more so his father, his father and him where well known for some bad qaulity or deed, his being the death of Dumbledore and his fathers being Voldermort's number two in many instances.
They both where sometimes wicked or ambominable to others throughout there life, Malfoy had treated the famous trio throughout there schooling years exactly like those words, his father however treated all people like that.
Sadly and lastly they have now both been deprived of some citizens rights after what they had done, his father was sent to Azkaban and deprived of being a citizen in general, Draco Malfoy was deprived of being a normal citizen, to feel welcomed and respected not because of the fear people had for him but for the love and friendship they shared with him.
His father gave a slight nod to which he just laughed at and shrugged off and then made his way to his table, almost reaching his table however his approach came to a sudden stop with the loud.
"Oi! Malfoy!" Which echoed around the hall.
The sharp clang of cutlery hitting the table which fell from the hands of most students, their fear then instigated the next stament.
"What is it this time Potter?"
"I think you know what it is Malfoy"
"Do you think that using our last names to address each other is getting a little old Harry?"
"Don't you dare call me that?"
"Why the hostilaty Potter?, What is it I've done this time?"
"You no good foulsome cheating oaff!"
"How am I that Potter?"
"You know you tried to kill me eariler during the game"
"Potter if I tried to kill you eariler would you not already be dead?"
"I don't think so Draco, you never seem to follow through do you?"
"How dare you say that to me! What is your problem Potter really?, Is it jelously?"
Harry scoffed before mocking.
"Jealous? of you!, a boy who has seen his criminal father and mother once in the last year, who is only good for tearing down good people to his level!"
"However messed up they are atleast I have a family Potter, what have you got? and if you keep acting they way you are your going to have not only no family but no friends either"
With every insult a step closer was taken bridging the gap between them.
"Another thing Potter, who is it that you believe I'm pulling down to my level?"
"You know who that is Malfoy don't act smart around me because clearly you aren't"
"If it is the girl I think you're refering to then clearly you have completely lost your marbles mate"
"Stay away from her Draco, stay away from my friends, stay away from my family it's for the best"
"I'm sorry but I wont"
Harry was amazed at his response, he was also amazed that no teacher had done anything to stop this, he was gad they didn't, later it was known that Time protested allowing it to happen.
"What do you mean you won't?"
"I mean that I won't put my life on hold because of you Potter, I have taken orders all my life, obeyed people who told me it was for the best and that it was for the greater good, where did that lead me?"
He then turns to scream to the spectators who watched on.
"Where did it lead me! all I want is to be normal!"
Harry was in a frozen state unable to rant any longer, the students head's sank lower and lower, his house the Slytherin's sank the lowest, his father was the only one in the hall other than the young men and a girl to be standing, he stood with eye's glistening, witnessing the distress his son had bottled up and then unleashed before everyone.
Ron, Ginny, Blaise, Theo and the rest of the usual 7th years felt an honest moment of sadness for Draco Malfoy, how must it feel that you aren't welcome, that you're name is spoken of around every corner you turn, your father and mother's letter's getting delivered from Azakaban instead of a warm home, how must it feel to not have a friend to cry salty tears on there shoulder, how must it feel to be so unloved, unsolved, unapreciated and underestimated.
How must it feel to be Draco Malfoy?, it was the question on everyone's mind that evening who listened to cries of a man who felt he had enough, who felt like he deserved once the right to speak, to be heard.
There was only one person in the Hall that wanted to do all these things more than anyone else, more than his father, more than his professor's, more than his now sorryful enemy, Hermione Granger wanted to show the boy without love, how to be loved.
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After the sad scene etch the hearts of many, Draco left suddenly bursting through the doors of the great hall, Hermione was the only one to follow even though McGonagal commanded no one to leave
She made her way through the old corridor which was silent, perhaps they too heard all the commotion in The Great Hall, they only thing heard was Malfoy's distant footsteps, she listened and tracked him down by hearing, she then found him sat on the same step's years before she had cried on with Harry.
"Draco?" she softly asks gaining no response.
"Draco are you here?"she quizzes and second time.
"What is it Hermione have I not went through enough embarrassment for the day, now you can see my crying" he sobbed.
"I don't mind seeing you crying, you shouldn't be embarrassed to cry it is actually refreshing seeing a more sensitive side of you for once" she slightly joked trying her best to cheer him up.
"Look I know what you're trying to do Hermione but stop"
"What am I trying to do?" she asked now sat right beside him resting her hand on his shoulder.
The feeling of the soft gentle hand that rested on him on which was also the same place all his burdens rested felt lighter, it was foriegn but yet so comfortable like it was meant to be placed there.
Malfoy turned and rested his grey glistening eye's on her's before saying "Hermione look there is nothing I want more in the world than to be with you right now.." he was cut off.
"Then be with me Draco, please" her voice cracking under the nerves.
"I want to Hermione"
"Want?" she sighed.
"Yes want but..." he stutters before finishing with the single word "can't".
"What is it Draco?" she asked leaning a little bit back now.
"What do you mean?" he qeustions a little less softly.
"Why do you lead me straight towards your heart before shutting the door on in it whenver I close?"
"Granger what can I say?, I hear'd once a saying.." again he was cut off from a slightly angry Hermione who had rose to her feet.
"No i dont want to hear another story or qoute, i want a real moment with you for once"
"Hermione please don't do this" he pleaded.
"Do what?, call you out on something?" she snapped now peering over him.
" I will call you out Malfoy on whatever i want, I'm going to call you out on something else before I leave"
"No please don't leave" he sighs hasitily.
"No I'm going but not before I say this"
"Say what?" he ask's confused.
"I'm going to call you out on the fact that you're a coward, you may have one on battle against it today with that scene earlier at the great feast, yet you have just let it win again so easily"
Malfoy sits silently listening to every word.
"You're still a coward because.. because.. uh" she huffs before shouting.
"You're a coward because you won't let yourself have feelings for anyone anymore, you won't allow me to show kindess to you, you wont allow us to share something even though I know you want that, you know the crazy thing at first I detested the thought of it, Granger and Malfoy what a joke!, after a while however you convinced me otherwise, you intised me and allowed me to fall for you, you played me Draco"
She too was now in tears and she turned to leave because the sight of him caused her heart to physically throb, she turned however and spoke one last thing.
"Draco that is what cowards do and I thought for a brief moment that you weren't one, I guess I was wrong about a lot of things tonight, I was wrong to like that maybe just maybe my 'Malfoy' would careabout me..."
With a tear hitting the floor that fell from her face, Hermione Granger left Draco Malfoy sitting on cold stone stair well.
Lucius stood with Time behind the corner. Watching Hermione go the opposite direction from them and they both had something on their minds. It seemed so fimilar about that scene; her leaving a Malfoy behind. It was so common that neither adults could look at each other.
"You should talk to him, let him crumble for a while, he's allowed too, let him know that" Time said to Lucius who silently agreed and left the corner and sat down where Hermione once did.
"She's right, about everything" Draco was ashamed to be found by his father in tears over Hermione, he waited for the him to say 'Never mind, she's just a mudblood'.
"I'm sorry, son, I'm so sorry" He wrapped an arm around Draco. Draco felt like stone by it and looked up to his father, the same cloudy eyes, the same blonde hair, the same inside anger.
"I know I look like a fool" Draco said pinching his face , rubbing his tearing eyes like it would stop them and gave a great sniff.
"I don't think you're one..." He said distantly, looking ahead of them. "I know exactly how you feel"
Time's heart felt bruised. Lucius had given it another hit and she deserved it.
"How?" Draco asked angrily and confusedly at the strange little kindness his father was showing.
"Believe me son, it's not something I want to repeat, I'm sorry again" He turned and looked at Draco for the last part, meaning it genuinely and Draco knew that. He heard previous sorry's from his father, the ones after he'd lost his temper and crossed the line from desipline and cruelty.
"How are you here?" Draco was more than eagerly wanting to know, sniffing trying to forget his woes.
"Parol" He stated. "Your mother, she spoke for me but it wasn't enough, someone from their side had too speak for me" He said removing his arm and showing the Ministry bracelet.
"Who?"
"Arthur Weasley"
"You're kidding?" Draco gaped. "When was this?"
"A week after you returned to school" He shrugged. "He talked about family, his son Fred died, did you know?" Draco sunk low in his posture and nodded somely."Talked about losing a son, how he'd give anything to proctect and give him a chance to live" Lucius looked to the dark mark that burned through his son's arm. "He said he would have done the same thing if he was in my position, my other deeds he couldn't exscuse but the protection of my family... now that he could understand, though I wasn't very good at protecting you was I" He sighed.
"No dad, you weren't but that's okay, now you can do a better job" Draco stated bluntly. Standing up once more, along with his father. "You're leaving soon aren't you?"
"I think it's for the best, yes" Lucius sighed. "You played brillantly, sorry I ruined that too" Draco couldn't help but laugh.
"It's alright, I'm used it by now" Draco lifted one hand out of his pocket and exstended it to his father.
Lucius shook it.
"Goodbye son"
"Goodbye father"
He turned on his expensive shoes and back to the corner from whence he came. Turning to Time Lucuis gave a small, slight kind of a smile.
"It's always going to be there..isn't it? You and Me?" He asked her. She did nothing but smile that familiar smile.
"You're one of few Malfoy, you are one of few" She stated, looking at him strongly, giving him a hug "I'm sorry" She said.
"It was a long time ago, no need to say sorry, I think it's time I go, goodbye Horatia"
"Goodbye Lucius" She touched his hand and sent him to the Malfoy Manor, where he belonged with his wife.