Draco's Time | By : knj4k4 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 11363 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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An: This chapter was originally two but i decided that it wasn't long enough. Lucky you.
Chapter 5 The Plan begins to take form
When the Daily Prophet reported someone had broken into Gringots Harry had been frantic. He pulled Draco aside at first chance and told Draco about the package Hagrid had pulled from the very vault that was broken into.
Because of this Draco was reminded of his duty. It had shocked him that Harry’s destiny began forming so quickly. Though he wouldn’t let Harry be harmed for what was ultimately nothing but a transfigured rock, Draco decided he would help Harry figure out the secret. He told Harry that they would go visit the oaf later and they compared class schedules.
Harry’s was:
--Astronomy :F 9:00 pm Hufflepuff and Gryffindor
--Charms : M/W:8:05-9:00 amHufflepuff and Slytherin
--Defense Against the Dark Arts T/R 8:05-10:00am : Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw
--Herbology : W/F1:05-2:00 pm Hufflepuff and Gryffindor
--History of Magic : M/W 3:05-4:00 pm Hufflepuff and Ravneclaw
--Potions : T/R 1:05-2:00 pm F 8:05-10:00 am Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw
--Transfiguration M/W/F 11:05-12:00am Hufflepuff and Slytherin
Draco’s was:
--Astronomy F:10:00 pm Ravenclaw and Slytherin
--Charms W/F 11:05-12:00 am Ravenclaw and Gryffindor
--Defense Against the Dark Arts T/R 8:00-10:00am : Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff
--Herbology :M/F:8:05-9:0 am Ravenclaw and Slytherin
--History of Magic M/W 3:05-4:00 pm Ravneclaw and Hufflepuff
--Potions T/R 1:05-2:00 pm F 8:05-10:00 am Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff
--Transfiguration T/R/F 10:05-11:00 Ravenclaw and Gryffindor
They were rather happy with it.
When Flying lessons were posted Draco took Harry aside and explained a few things. Draco knew how to fly and assured his friend that it was all in desire; the will to fly.
Harry’s fears fled and Draco felt his job was done. He wasn’t sure if it was really necessary for the boy to join the Quidditch team early. On one hand, Hufflepuff needed it and it may give them a reason to approach the twins, on the other; Harry nearly died that first game. In the end Draco decided to do nothing and see what happened.
It was a good choice.
For one reason or another Hufflepuff was paired with Gryffindor and Ron Weasley stole Longbottom’s Rememberall instead of Draco. The blond decided it was a work of destiny and so other then congratulating his friend on his new position on the Hufflepuff team did nothing. This didn’t interrupt his plans at all and Harry was beautiful in the air.
The first game Harry played was against Gryffindor and unlike last time, the pitch had clear skies. Draco made an enormous amount of money betting on Hufflepuff. Harry caught the snitch, made possible with the help of a few quick tickling charms cast at Quirrell from Draco’s position as close to the man as possible. Harry was uninterrupted and Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff for the first time in years. Draco thought that it was mostly due to Harry but Diggory was a much better keeper then a seeker.
This event sparked an unprecedented idea in Draco. He hadn’t yet solved the issue of money. Draco knew that there were some things he just couldn’t by with his father’s money because the man occasionally checked. He would need a separate account and separate money. His plan had been to ask Harry but it had always rankled Draco, he was used to being self sufficient. But with gambling…
Draco slipped out of Hogwarts one night after curfew through the tunnel to Honeydukes Harry had told him about and took the Knight bus to Gringotts. The first time through the Weasel had a bit of a gambling problem, so Draco knew that the goblins took care of things like this. He used the money won from the twins on the Hufflepuff game against Gryffindor to win his first bet. Draco was many arguable things, but anyone who knew him would say that he was a quidditch fanatic. He kept track of teams’ wins, players’ stats, injuries, and the like. All these things could be bet on. He even remembered who new players were and when they joined the team.
He decided that in order to keep the goblins from becoming suspicious he would win big, placing bets on the score at end game had higher odds then just betting on which team would win, so he put more money there. Then he would loose a small amount for the next two games. If he won every bet, they wouldn’t take his money for very long. He would eventually need to have a different system, but this would work until the summer when he had time to really change it.
Halloween was no where near as eventful this time. Draco kept Hermione close all day and since Gryffindor’s had charms with them Draco partnered with Granger and kept the Weasel away from her. There were no hurtful words and when Quirrell announced that there was a troll in the Dungeons she was sitting next to him. When Dumbledore told the Slytherins to go in the direction of the troll Draco cried out, “That’s stupid; telling them to go towards the troll. You’d think Dumbledore had it in for them.”
All the students stayed in the great hall that night and the troll was found. It injured no students. Draco pointed out Quirrell’s miraculous recovery to Harry and with that, added to Draco’s report of his attempts at hexing Harry’s broom, they decided to watch the man.
Draco had no definitive plans for outing Voldemort. He figured that Quirrell would out himself when he couldn’t get the stone out of the mirror and the Professors found him there. Since Draco had the stone there was no real danger. He was helping Harry figure out the mystery because that was ultimately his destiny. Harry needed to be curious and suspicious and so Draco would help him. The knowledge the voices imparted to him told Draco that there would be dire consequences if he messed up Harry’s destiny to the point that Harry was no longer needed. In Draco’s plans there was a final confrontation where Harry was strong and defeated Voldemort, but Draco had already taken care of the Horcurxes.
Classes were boring so Draco spent a lot of time quietly teaching Harry and Longbottom how to do the spells. After a month of personal attention Longbottom got over his insecurities and Draco decided he was tolerable. Still, Draco relished the chance to have Harry to himself.
He found that Harry was also desperate for alone time on occasion and it served to create a very strong bond between them.
Draco had started on his core strengthening exercises and quickly brought Harry into the practice as well. Harry learned quickly and soon Draco had Longbottom doing them too. He had the three of them on exercises to increase their magical potential, strengthen their spells, and enlarge their magical core.
Granger was constantly on him to do his homework and to help her with hers. Draco frequently blew her off, but when he and Harry witnessed her true feelings, Harry was overcome.
Granger was second in everything, a fact that made up for Draco’s past years in Hogwarts, but she tried very hard.
Her hand was up on every question and her attitude when she was awarded points was unbelievable, soon not even the Hufflepuffs could stand her.
One of the Ravenclaw prefects pulled her aside one day, near where Draco and Harry were hiding.
“Granger, you are very smart and everyone here knows it. But you aren’t as smart as Malfoy and you aren’t going to be better then him by answering stupid questions directly out of a text book.”
Draco stifled a chuckle and Harry elbowed him with a grin; much of their time together past with Draco’s complaints about Granger.
“Every Ravenclaw knows the answers you constantly sprout off. Your year mates hate you for acting like your better then them. You need to learn that it’s having and using the knowledge not spouting it off that gives you power. If you can’t shape up you’ll never make it.”
Draco disagreed, she had done the same thing the first time, passing by sprouting off textbook answers in all her classes, and she’d done fine. Perhaps to Ravenclaw standards she was sub par but..
The sound of her tears made him sigh but it was Harry’s forlorn expression that pushed him into action.
He left their hiding place and approached her once the prefect left.
By now Draco had gained a reputation. He wasn’t interested in knowledge from first years. Anything they could possibly know, he already knew. Draco wanted favors.
He’d been fairly Slytherin about it. The first first-year who asked him for help in return for gossip was turned down. Instead Draco asked the boy to run to the kitchens and get him some food. He didn’t tell the boy where the kitchens were but a few minutes later the boy returned with a cupcake. Draco ate it with gusto and helped the boy with the assignment. After that it was as if a dam had broken, just as he suspected.
He sent the next few, some of whom were upper years, to the kitchens and another had to carry his things to class. Eventually Draco “ran out” of things for them to do and so he created a sign up sheet. He’d help two people a night in return for an unnamed favor from each of them. Of course, to insure that the children wouldn’t back out of the agreement, Draco had used contract paper. They were honor bound to do him an unnamed favor at a time of his choosing, and most of them owed him more then one.
His first three months of time had filled up after only a week with first and second years before one of the prefects caught on and talked to him about it. He assured the prefect he wasn’t interested in sex for at least a few years but that was all. And there wasn’t anything the prefect could to. Because of this assurance even some of the third and fourth years had asked him things and Draco was forced to create another sheet. One for homework help and another for answered questions.
On the second the contract was, “If Draco Malfoy answers my, the name underscored, question in its entirety then I will owe him an favor to be decided later by Draco Malfoy, at a time of Draco Malfoy’s choosing” They were to sign under the oath.
When unrest got to great Draco would ask people to do odd things for him, clean his room, and turn the pages of a book he was reading while he ate. Carry Harry’s things. One time he had four of them carry he and Harry down the hallways in a man powered carriage but Flitwick said that was the line.
He so far, hadn’t used even a quarter of the debts owed him and really didn’t plan on it. He hoped that eventually they would get so used to obeying his request that they would do it, just assuming that they were paying off a debt.
As long as he didn’t get to suspicious to quickly, no one had any complaints.
Because of this, Granger’s response to his presence was less then cordial.
“What do you want Malfoy?”
She was the only first year that had not signed up for his help. Though she argued now that it was because she didn’t want to owe him an unnamed favor, Draco thought it originally was because she was too stubborn to accept his help.
“Nothing much. I heard what the Prefect was saying.”
He sat next to her on the wall and waved Harry out. There was no way he was doing this alone.
By now, Harry was proficient in hiding his true nature behind the innocent Hufflepuff mask, but Draco was sure that behind the mask was a boy who truly knew the power behind knowledge.
Harry had become a friend much closer then they’d been, even as lovers. This Harry understood him on a level Draco hadn’t ever known, and the knowledge was mostly reciprocated.
“I am not going to owe you a favor, Malfoy.”
Draco snorted. “I am not always after favors Granger, besides, it was Harry that made me come out here.”
They’d long discovered that most of the school had a soft spot for the boy hero. They all saw him as completely innocent and so if Draco blamed their ideas on him, Harry could usually get them off. All the teachers, with the exception of his Uncle, let them get away with nearly murder.
Harry had become a standard of Hufflepuff no one had witnessed for some time. He was always willing to help others, always willing to listen, and Draco followed behind with answers to the problems they presented to Harry. They were quite the team.
A few of the older and more observant Slytherins had discovered that if they got Harry to ask Draco, he wouldn’t say no. They boys had talked about it and decided that for now they would allow the Slytherins to believe they were using them.
Power in the truth.
Granger was just like the others and with Harry’s presence, relaxed some. She ignored Draco completely and sobbed out her woes to the not so innocent boy hero.
“I just wanted to make friends, but everyone hates me. I thought in Ravenclaw, they would like me for being smart but…I just don’t know what to do.”
Harry rolled his eyes over her shoulder and Draco suppressed a giggle.
“Well Draco,” Draco frowned at him but Harry grinned and continued, “Do you think you could tell her what she’s doing wrong”
Draco glared at him but he grinned, unrepentant.
“I think the prefect just did that Harry.” The emphases in his name didn’t faze him and Harry worded his request differently.
“But she obviously still doesn’t understand…” He trailed off and Draco rolled his eyes, consoled by the slight to her intelligence.
“Fine. Your problem is that you’re going about it the wrong way. You’re trying to make friends by making them think you’re so smart, so they should want to have a smart friend. We’re Ravenclaws, we’re all smart. You need a different angle. What knowledge do you have that they don’t?”
She glared at Draco but at Harry’s prompting considered it. When she had been silent for a while Draco tried again.
“What do most Ravenclaw’s have in common?”
She sniffled pathetically.
“They’re all smart?”
Draco nearly snarled, “No, see Harry this is why this is a waste of time. She is only telling us what we already know.”
He straightened her back, “I know plenty of things you don’t know!”
“Oh? Like what?” He challenged.
“Like, like,…” she broke off in sobs again and Draco decided he was done, he stood up and begged Harry with his eyes but the boy hero shook his head. They’d been having quite the argument about her throughout the year. Harry saw himself in her; trying so hard to make a friend, ridiculed at every turn.
“I bet Draco doesn’t know about muggle things.” Draco sat back down in near shock and made frantic plans to order as many muggle books as he could get. That was unbelievable and he would lick Hagrid’s shoe before letting Granger have one up on him.
His shocked face was enough to convince Granger and she grinned. It wasn’t long before she left them, muttering under her breath about how she could use this.
A week past before Draco fell asleep in DADA. Harry wasn’t far behind him but he at least struggled through the first day of learning a new spell.
“MMMr. Malfoy!”
Draco’s head shot up at the sound of a pop from the end of Quirrell’s wand.
“DDDetention tonight with PPProfessor MMMc-GGgonagall 8 ooo’clock.”
Draco sneered at his back and then turned to a giggling Harry.
“You could have warned me.”
“But you looked so cute sleeping; I didn’t want to disturb you.” Draco rolled his eyes, and the student population thought this boy was innocent and nice. This was proof that he had a sadistic streak.
An: more review replies, thank you all of you for your reviews and votes and hits.
I do try and keep my stories original and keep all the characters in character. I do not think Hermione and Ron will react well to this Harry or Draco. It is unfortunate that it is in mass with other stories of a similar nature.
I always thought hufflepuff got a bad rap.
I am so honored you like it that much.
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