Draco's Time | By : knj4k4 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 11363 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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New year.
By the time September first had come along Draco had finished Harry’s journal and returned it at the first opportunity.
The train was no more crowded then usual and though his father made more of an effort to appear ‘warm’, the send off was exactly like all the others.
The compartment Draco found was near the back and Greg and Vince’s timely arrival prevented Draco from needing to defend it. Harry and Longbottom arrived at nearly the same time and joined them promptly. They conversed of un-enlightening things as they had spent the majority of the summer together only to be interrupted by the addition of a blond first year’s entrance.
“Oh my! There is quite the congregation of rackspurts in this room. I think I’ll sit here.” She then proceeded to load her trunk over the protesting grunts of Greg and Vince.
Draco thought she looked vaguely familiar, though he couldn’t place her. Longbottom was the only one to know her and his quiet welcome jogged Draco’s memory. Luna Lovegood.
He nodded to himself and Harry took that as acceptance for he introduced himself.
“Yes I know. You seem to be their home. I wonder if it’s your scar or if your head is just unusually abstract.” Harry blinked in confusion. “You know they’re attracted to abstract thoughts.”
“Um, who is?”
She giggled airily, “The Racksurts of course.”
Draco rolled his eyes, remembering why she had aggravated him so. “Of course.”
That seemed to be the end of her attention span as she pulled out that magazine her father published and promptly turned it upside down.
Harry slowly shook his head and blinked at Draco repeatedly. Draco simply shrugged with a wry smile. He’d explain later.
The rest of the train ride was uneventful. People made short appearances, Granger, The Weasle, the Weasley twins, and a multitude of first years wanting to get a look at the boy-who-lived, including the Weasel chit. None of them could find a place to sit in the crowded compartment.
Lovegood and the Weasette were the only sortings Draco paid attention to and when Lovegood joined his house he decided he’d have to at least look out for her. The groans around the table and hushed conversations amongst his year mates convinced him she would have a hard time. Ravenclaw wasn’t a house that cultivated friendships, but the students did so anyway. The pride in their house created a bond and study partners as friends didn’t require quite the cunning. Not that Draco had or needed such friends. The house already scooted away from her and when Granger saw his calculating expression attempted to circumvent him. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the patience needed to sift through Lovegood’s ridiculous comments to find the genius as Draco did.
Harry did not understand Draco’s patience with her and slowly began showing jealousy over the weeks that she fascinated him, which Draco tried not to exacerbate but couldn’t help but be proud of.
This jealousy caused an unforeseen complication in Draco’s plans. Harry saw Granger as a way to regain Draco’s attention and began a nearly flawless adolescent relationship with her. He always sat by her and held her hand and told her she looked nice every day. Granger lapped up the unexpected attention. She hadn’t expected Harry to pay her any mind since she shouted out his secret.
Draco was forced to watch out for Harry incase the wretch tried anything untoward and couldn’t focus on the chamber problem.
Fortunately for Draco and his plans, Luna put an end to it. She always seemed to be watching Draco and Harry’s interactions and then Harry’s relationship with Granger with an unseen clarity. One day, as Draco was concentrating on holding in his lunch While Harry was giggling obscenely with Granger beside Draco in the library at a table adjoining he and Luna, she said, “You know, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone as stupid as Harry.” Draco immediately gave her his attention, about to fiercely defend his love and friend despite the fact that he might have agreed with her.
“What the bloody hell Luna?” Harry exclaimed standing up, eyes wide with hurt and shock.
She merely frowned and ignored him, “He chooses to allow the Gerbnuckles to whisper lies in his ears. I have seen them buzzing around his head, eating the rackspurts and giving him false perceptions. I don’t blame them though, it’s their nature. He, however does not have to act on it. He’s hurting you Draco.”
Both Harry and Granger turned to look at Draco, who was gaping in undisputed shock at Luna’s fierce defense. Their reactions were polar opposites, however. Granger’s face was rapidly turning red in preparation for a loud and obnoxious disagreement while Harry’s eyes tear’d.
“The Rackspurts have fled him and sought refuge with you. Because of this you are not able to do what you need to.” Draco turned a startled and calculating glance at the odd girl, “I had wished that we could be friends Harry Potter, but I’ll make do with only being Draco’s friend.”
She turned to skip off as though she hadn’t just turned Draco’s reality around and given Harry a stern but flighty lecture. Granger tried to brush off Luna’s words but Harry wasn’t having any of it. He fell on Draco, who caught him immediately, apologizing and sobbing.
“I’m so sorry Draco. I’ve been a horrible friend and after you always take care of me. I was just so jealous. You were spending so much time with Luna I was afraid you’d be her best friend instead of mine.”
Draco huffed, annoyed. “Harry. You’re not my best friend.” Harry froze and then flinched backwards, looking at Draco with wide broken eyes. “You’re my Harry. There won’t ever be anyone who can replace you. There isn’t a word to describe what you are to me, my most precious person.”
Granger ran off and Draco only vaguely saw her, entranced by teary green eyes.
“Oh Draco.”
Again Draco was forced to catch the boy hero as he launched himself in sobs.
This marked a new level of security in their relationship. Harry didn’t feel the need to be near Draco all the time to ward away other friends and remind Draco that Harry was the best. Instead Harry spent time with Draco because he truly enjoyed being with Draco, but he also made other friends. He spent more time with Longbottom who enjoyed the attention and blossomed under Harry’s friendship. Longbottom began to stand up for himself when The Weasle and his goons, and shockingly Smith from Hufflepuff. Harry also continued with quidditch. Though he tried to get Draco to join him, Draco was to busy.
Despite Draco’s independent projects and other research he found classes utterly boring after only the first few weeks, so Draco broke out the stone so he and Harry could work on it.
Harry had simply rolled his eyes when Draco pulled it from his pouch and sighed, “I knew it.”
Draco hadn’t even needed to explain that he took it from Hagrid rather then from the third corridor as Harry thought.
He worked on it during classes which gave him the appearance of working furiously over classwork and prevented the Professors from giving him independent projects for at least three months.
They made no progress on the stone and so Draco gave up on it and sent an anonymous note to Flamell saying that he had it and would like to return it. He had hoped to crack its secrets and replicate it, not deprive the Flamell’s of their life.
They started on the strengthening exercises and live conjuring as soon as Harry tearfully confessed to hearing voices.
“Do you think it could be a snake in the halls? Only you would hear that.” Draco pressed.
“Well I guess but…its so evil sounding. Kill. Tear. I think I’m going crazy.”
“No Harry, there has to be an explanation.”
Granger confused Draco. She was very different in this time line and seemed to be the only one. The Weasle was still as loud mouthed, small minded, and prejudiced against Slytherins as ever. He seemed not to know what to do with Draco since he was in Ravenclaw. When his campaign against him to Harry had no other effect then to have him ostracized from the boy hero, he gave up, content to send Draco glares that were easily ignored. Surely Draco’s limited exposure to Granger couldn’t have caused her to have this extreme paradigm shift. After Harry ended their false relationship he had convinced Draco to give her another chance at friendship when he noticed she still didn’t have any friends but her competitiveness and aggravated nosiness quickly changed Harry’s mind.
Her grades started slipping, not that anyone but Draco noticed. The twins had upped their pranking and included Harry often; this completely distracted the school population from Granger’s withdrawn countenance. She didn’t have any friends or even study partners so no one seemed to care if they did notice. With all of Draco’s projects and plans she was a mystery he simply didn’t have time for.
As Halloween approached and Draco still hadn’t made any kind of decision regarding the chamber he became flustered. Though his class work didn’t suffer, Harry often found him mumbling to himself.
When Harry told him of Hagrid’s complaints that the roosters were all dead his stress level skyrocketed. Harry still wasn’t getting conjuring right and all his attempts to break into Gryffindor and steal the diary from the Weasette had failed.
An: huh..this was shorter then i thought it was...anyway I'm particularly proud of the next chapter so it will be up tomorrow or the next day at the latest Yay me!!
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