Chapter 17 – Gryffindor vs Slytherin

Harry got up from the hospital wing; he managed to get some more sleep after Karis had left him in the early hours of the morning. He had happy dreams, one where he imagined Karis holding him as a baby, and nearly dropping him on his head. But instead of Albus running to aid her it was Professor Flitwick and Luna Lovegood.

Luna was telling Karis off, saying that if she touched baby Harry again she would turn her into a Nargle. Harry never did ask Luna what a Nargle was, something that infested Mistletoe if he remembers rightly, well in Luna’s world anyway!

Excellent, Quidditch today Harry thought to himself while walking back up to the GryffindorTower, feeling excited about the match and looking forward to seeing Ron and Hermione.

“Not so fast Potter!” came the snide remark of a voice Harry recognised well.

He turned around slowly, while rolling his eyes. “What do you want Malfoy?”

“Just wanted you to know, that you better watch that back of yours!”

“Oh really…..?” replied Harry slowly, with a surprised mocking frown. “Draco, If you are referring to your Father escaping from Azkaban, I already know, and I can assure you, his freedom won’t last long!”

Malfoy sneered but laughed nonetheless. Crabbe and Goyle joined in.

“It won’t be long until all our Father’s are free of Azkaban, and then the fun really will begin Potter, just mark my words!” shot Malfoy in jubilation.

“What makes you think I care?” replied Harry, keeping calm.

“Because Potter, that is where you are weak! You care too much, and he knows it, and so do we!” Draco then walked closer to Harry, sneering at him in hatred. “You’ll be next, and that new little friend of yours!”

Harry felt his stomach start to turn into knots, he knew exactly what Malfoy was imposing. “You leave her alone!” shot Harry, his face now matching his rival.

Malfoy again let out a cold laugh, while throwing his head back. Crabbe and Goyle as usual stood there and grunted.

“You can’t beat her anyway, she is more powerful then you could ever imagine, she’s a Dumbledore, and we all know who’s scared of the big bad Albus now don’t we Draco!” Harry said steadily. “You think you know, but Draco, you know Nothing!” Harry said this last word right up-close in Draco’s face, resulting in Malfoy taking a step back.

“Is that what you really think Harry? Well if you say so…” Draco said, with a smirk.

Harry frowned, while feeling a slight pang of dread in the pit of his stomach. “What do you mean?” Harry questioned.

“Let’s just say, I think that mad old man Moody doesn’t have much longer!” shot Draco, laughing.

Harry saw red, he knew now that Draco had contact with his Father, probably telling him to spy on Harry. Lucius also knows about the Order, which means Draco must know everything.

Harry pulled out his wand and stuck it up close to Draco’s neck. “Tell me what you know or I will hurt you so bad Draco, you will wish you were dead” spat Harry with venomous hatred.

Draco however remained staring into Harry’s eyes, defying him.

“Well, I guess you really should see what I can do.” said Harry

Without giving it a second thought and without thinking of the consequences, Harry lifted his wand and cried “Legilimens.”

Draco started to scream, holding his head in pain. Crabbe and Goyle stood there in shock, not knowing what to do next; they didn’t understand what Harry was doing, or what was going on for that matter.

It was cold, Draco was standing in a classroom, Harry recognised it immediately. Standing there in front of Draco was Severus Snape.

“Now, I take it you have spoken to your Father Draco?” asked Severus

“Yes, I will be happy to direct any messages from you to him about the happenings in this place.”

Snape smirked.

“Very well. Tell Lucius that I will get him out soon, tell him to hold tight!”

Draco smiled at the Professor. “Yes sir, I will tell him. What about Potter and that old crackpot Albus, won’t they suspect anything?”

“Don’t worry, I will deal with them, you just relay the messages I give you, and don’t ask questions!”

Draco nodded “Yes, sorry Professor.”

“Now leave me!”

Draco exited the Potions classroom.

Harry was then immediately looking directly in the face of Luna Lovegood, his friend who helped him at the Ministry, who Harry found to be quite unusual, but he liked her nonetheless.

“Tell me Luna, or my Father and his friends will kill you and that nutcase of a Father of yours!”

Luna stood tall. “I don’t know what your talking about Draco, if you don’t mind, can you get off of my rope, you are standing on the hem!”

“Think your smart do you? If that’s the case then why does everyone call you Loony Lovegood?” said Draco nastily.

“Well, maybe it’s because I am, never really thought about it!” replied Luna, expressing another dreamy expression.

“My Father told me you were there, he recognised you, now tell me what happened, what did you see? I’m warning you Luna!”

“I didn’t see anything, I got knocked out by some mental woman with wild hair – does that answer your question?”

Draco threw her a triumphant smile. “Ahhh, I take it you met my Aunt Bella then!”

Luna scowled and gave a sarcastic little laugh. “Nice family you have there Draco, now get out of my face before I turn you into a bouncing ferret… Oh, sorry, that’s already been done hasn’t it!”

Draco grabbed Luna by the neck and threw her onto the ground, she started to cough. “Tell Potter, that his friends can’t protect him forever.” spat Draco, he then quickly turned on his heel and stormed away.

“Moron!” Luna shouted after him. But Draco continued down the hall.

Harry released his spell and disconnected himself from Draco’s mind. He was amazed at Luna and her actions, she kept so calm and didn’t tell Draco anything, she kept her promise and Harry felt a wave of admiration for the dreamy eyed girl who everybody called Luna Loony Lovegood.

Part 2

“What..? How…?” stuttered Draco, confused, looking up at Harry.

“Legilimens Draco!” replied Harry. “You see, the thing is, when Voldemort tried to kill me, he passed on some of his powers onto me, allowing me to speak parceltongue and have the wonderful gift of Occlumency. Like I said, you know NOTHING!”

Draco looked dazed and very distraught at the prospect, the intrusion into his mind was, he felt, inconceivable and a violation of his whole being, he wanted to be sick but thought better of it, not wanting to show Potter any hint of weakness.

“You have also showed me something extremely important.” said Harry in delight.

“You’re going to tell Albus aren’t you!” stated Draco, going paler by the second, knowing that he had just let down his Father and Voldemort.

“Yes, imagine what Voldemort will do to you now, knowing you failed him and you’re Father.” Harry paused for a few seconds, looking down at Draco with searching eyes. “You have failed them both!”

Draco put his head down and closed his eyes, not wanting to think about the consequences.

“Don’t panic right away though mate, I always knew Snape was a lying cheat, you just confirmed it!”

“So what was the extremely important thing?” asked Draco.

“Get up Draco, get your act together and get out while you can, you’re not cut out for this, you are not DeathEater material and your Father knows it, and deep down he despises you for it!”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about, I will become a DeathEater and I will worship the ground the Dark Lord walks on, like my family, I will make them proud.”

Harry shot Draco a look of pity “Then you will simply die!” He said quietly.

Harry continued staring at Draco; he could see he had scared him, as he was now shaking a little and his face was very pale.

“You also showed me something else, and now I must go. said Harry matter of factly. “Please think about what I said!”

“I don’t take advice from you Potter!”

“Very well, it’s your funeral!”

Harry then turned and headed straight back down the hall.

“No Harry.” Draco whispered to himself. “It’s yours!”

*

Harry arrived within minutes at the entrance of the Fat Lady; he said the password “Mandrake Root.” and entered. He ran up to the boys’ dormitories and noticed Ron had just got up, his hair was up on end and his eyes looked blurry.

“Where have you been Harry, we have been worried sick!”

“I’m alright, bloody intense last night though, Karis knocked us both out!”

“Yeah I know she is really strong; she’s scary!” replied Ron, with a vacant expression across his face.

Harry laughed. “She is great Ron; I have never known anyone like her!”

“Ohhhh, you really do have a crush on her don’t you!”

“No I don’t actually; I care for her very much, Love her even, but not like that.”

Ron frowned, he found that quite hard to believe, loving someone so inspiring but not in that way! But he shrugged his shoulders and got up from the bed, he couldn’t be bothered to press Harry about Karis, only time would tell he thought.

“C’Mon Ron, get up we have Quidditch after breakfast and the great thing is, its Saturday, no lessons!”

“You seem in a good mood for someone who was knocked unconscious last night!”

“Yeah, well I found out something a minute ago, I bumped into Draco, and let me just say it was rather interesting!”

Ron shot out of bed and started to get dressed. “Tell me and Hermione everything at breakfast, give me two minutes!”