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[][]scene: interior train passenger seats. Draco, Blaise and pansey sit waiting to arrive at Hogwarts. on the other both beside them crabbee and goyle sit cuddling(they are gay because I say so)
[][]time: 6th year morning, day 1
[][]cast: Draco, pansy, Blaise, Harry(eves dropping), crabbe, goyle
Draco had entered the train to Hogwarts with an expected mission. A plan so stupid it has to be designed for him to fail. He doubts anyone cares but this is bullshit. the only good news is that failing, is what he does best
“Hogwarts, what a pathetic excuse for a school, I'd pitch myself off the astronomy tower if I had to continue for another 2 years. “
“What’s that supposed mean” pansley
“Lets just say, i don’t see myself wasting my time in charms class next year”
Blaise snorts
“Find this amusing blaise, we’ll see who’s laughing in the end” draco
“Stopping being asholes, What's going on draco” panley
“Nothing it’s fine” Draco start itching his harm anxiously
“don’t tell me they” pansley
“What, how, am I that obvious, whatever, I guess that’s what I get for being a prodigy. Can’t help but over achieve.” Draco replies.
“Damn, now I feel like an ass, sorry man. I thought you were just being dramatic. What happened i thought you had a few year left” blaise
“My father happened, that’s not important. This is, I need you two to stay out of it this year. I don;t want you getting involved” draco
“Draco no, what ever it is we want to help” pansley
“NO, no just stay out of it okay. If you want to help just pretend everything's normal this year. The more people that know the harder time I'll have pulling it off okay. I’m inevitably going to draw attention to myself. It’s just how I am. If anything it would be more suspicious if I was quiet. i’ve already fucked my self over enough, the last thing I need is you two acting differently also.”
“Okay, just be careful” blaise
There's a small pause where no one says anything. There's a soft noise from above as luggage shifts above them. Draco is the only one who hears it though. Someone is spying on them and he has a pretty good guess of who, It’s always her. Draco wonders what they did to already be suspicious. To his knowledge they haven’t even seen each other since last year. If harry didn’t know before she definitely knows now. .
“I try, we should get back to the topic of how hogwarts is going to shit.” draco
pansley and blaise want to help but they also want to respect Draco's wants. They both saw the shift in his personality during 5th year. It’s only gotten worse now so they help the only way they know how. A distraction. Pansy makes a mental note to bug him about this later. While Blaise reminds himself to keep Draco distracted this year.
“Yeah, like who’s in charge of hiring people. Do they go out of their way to find the insane or incompetent. No, I'm giving them too much credit, it’s normally both. At least Snape's not the potions teacher this year.” Pansley
“Omg, Snape has to be one of the worst teachers. He doesn’t even bother to explain it properly and then he gets mad when people don’t know basic stuff. Like sir, you were the one who was supposed to teach that. Then he has the audacity to use us as examples. Bitch of course we get it, we’re prodigies. We entered the room already knowing this stuff.” draco
“I’d settle for crazy at this point. I hope this new teacher is at least a little competent.” pansy
“What did he switch to though” blaise asks
“Defense against the dark arts” pansy
“Ahh so nothing changes about that class, I wonder how long he’ll last before he gets someone hexed" draco
“I bet he doesn't even make it a week” blaise
“Damn a week, your giving him way to much credit, it’ll before the first class is even over” draco (he was wrong it was before it started)
Bla bla, they continue talking about boring stuff that you don't care about. It’s mostly just them trash talking all the teachers. The train stops and everyone is preparing to leave.
“You two go on, I need to take care of something” draco
After everyone leaves draco charms the blinds down
“Didn’t mummy ever tell you it’s rude to eves drop pootttah, Petrificus Totalus” draco states as he cast the spell on harry
Harry falls from the baggage area frozen underneath the invisibility cloak
“Oh yeah, she was dead before you could wipe the drool from your chin” draco
He looks down at her after ripping off the invisibility cloak. He realizes that some and hates him self for even considering it. He could easily win right now, hide potter, ride back to londen with her and then turn her into the dark lord. The invisibility cloak would make completing the cabinet and killing Dumbledore so much easier. In fact he might not even have to do that. That’s not the plan though so even though draco hates her, she doesn’t want Potter dead.
“This is for my father, enjoy the ride back to London Pottah” Draco says as he punches Potter. He hides her underneath the invisibility clock and leaves.
------Vanishing cabinet-----
[][]scene setting: interior Hogwarts
[][]time: shortly after leaving the hogwarts express but before the sorting ceremonies
[][]cast: Draco, meemoop
He sneaks inside past the teachers to avoid the sorting ceremony. The higher year you are, the less they care if you show up to it. They’ve basically given up by year 6 and he’s taking advantage of that this year. He decides to take this time to visit the room of requirements. It doesn’t take long to find the mirror with it being exactly where they said it would be. He always found it odd that, even with Hogwarts slighting moving between each school year. It’s only the rooms, hallways and stairs that change but never the items inside.
He pulls an apple out of his pocket and places it inside the wardrobe. When he re-opens it, there's a chunk ripped off of it. So they were right about it being broken. He feels a rustling in his pocket.
“Mmmeeeeeee”
“Hello, have you finally woken from your nap meemoop” he asked looking inside one of the inside pockets on his wizardarding robe. In his pocket lays a black cat who’s looks back at him annoyed from being woken from her nap. She starts puring when he starts petting behind her ears. Reminiscing about how he found her.
------FLASHBACK 1 Cat--------
[][]scene setting: muggle world subdivision. interior: death eater hideout that clearly hasn't been taken care of.
[][]time: the beginning of summer before 6th year.
[][]cast: Draco, meemoop
The death eaters have multiple hide outs throughout the muggle world. Earlier that week draco might have taken a pin out from the hideout locator map. This was how he was going to find out. He needed to know. As he exits the disgusting hideout he sees a small muggle subdivision. It’s also clearly in a similar wage gap as the Weasleys. The houses are close together with little yard space. Yet they look strikingly similar to the malfoy manor in design and colors. Some houses even have the same door as he has.
Even with this he senses a different energy here. The smell of smoking meats, the sound of people chatting with their neighbors while their kids play together, it’s strangely peaceful. He wonders if they even knew how close they lived to danger. Would they be screaming in fear instead of joy? If they knew what he was, would they attack him? Just because he’s starting to consider these muggles not deserving of death. Doesn't mean he trusts or isn't scared of them. Rumors and old bed time stories have warned him about the witch hunts. He isn’t certain if they’re fake or not. As much as the idea of risking being burned at the stake isn’t appealing he has to know
He walks down the side walks, from his understanding there should be a village similar is diologe ally. Other than the occasional dogs barking at him from inside the houses and backyards. No one else reacts to his presents. He finds it oddly comforting to see that muggle dogs have the same personalities as wizard ones. Even without magic. He also overhears people referring to a god called Jesus Christ as if he’s their version of merlin. Muggles don’t seem to be different from him after all. They even have the same accent as wizards.
It didn't take long for him to get to the village and he was right. It’s almost exactly like doiloge ally. The only difference is that some things are named differently. Along with the obvious, no magical energy but they don't seem to be missing it though. Can muggles even miss something they don’t know about? Do they know about it? Hogwarts says they don’t but voldy says they do. So who’s telling the truth? How can he be sure they don’t have magic? He just saw someone walk up to a door and have it open for them.
They also seem to have invented stuff to work around, not having magic. Like cars, he’s heard about those years ago, when Potter and Weasley crashed one into the tree. These ones seem to not be flying though. Muggles are crazy for using those, they seem dangerous. You could make the same argument with most stuff that happens at Hogwarts though.
Muggles all seem to be under a mutual understanding he doesn't understand. They all seem to be all on their own journeys yet they work around each other pretty well. Whenever someone disturbs a social understanding people react annoyed. That shouldn't be surprising, it’s exactly how the wizarding work works. There are still some wizarding social situations Draco doesn’t understand. Like when to talk, he always seems to interrupt something or wait too long. Even when he tries to be nice it always seems to back fire.
it’s time for some answers and he knows exactly where to go to do that. The doors that open of their own. It seems simple. They just walk up to it and they open but how. He doesn’t sense any magical energy so how do they work? Okay enough with the questions, he needs to test them so after observing people for way longer than needed. He starts walking up to the door and as he gets up to it. It opens. He didn’t even have time to cast a spell, how is this possible? His thoughts are interrupted by a crash
Crash(noise hissing) draco turns towards the sound to notice it’s a spooked black cat who knocked over the trash can in the alley. It seems to have tried to run away but only got about 5 feet away before hissing in pain limping. The cat has scratches all over her as if she got in a fight and lost. The bite marks on her leg look concerning but not deadly. Her fur has dirt and blood noted in it.. Draco walks closer to the ally completely forgetting about the doors.
“Tah tah tah”
“Hisss” the cat looks over scared looking like all they want to do is run away
“It’s okay, I'm not going to hurt you. Are you hungry”
Draco slowly pulls some beef jerky(magic treat). Breaking it into small pieces on the ground. Slowly backing away leaving a trail of treats a foot away from each other. He then sits on the ground waiting patiently for the cat to take the bait. Slowly over what feels like hours but was probably only 10 minutes the cat slowly creeps to the first treat. Whacking it with its paws and then flinching back as if the treat will attack it any moment. Once she’s convinced it’s not, they hesitantly smell it before immediately gobbling it down.
After it’s gotten one it’s continued at this pace until it finally reaches the last treat laying beside dracos out reached arm. Hesitantly the cat sniffs his hand and proceeds to rub her cheek against his hand. Draco slowly starts petting the cat's cheeks. Moving from the cheeks to behind her ears. Eventually the cats starts moving to where it wants to be pet, purring up a storm. The cat then decides to crawl up Draco's sleeve to sit on his shoulder scratching him the entire way up.
The second the cats touched Draco, its personality made a 180 flip. She can’t get enough of him now and needs him attention 24/7. So any plans he had just got changed, he has a cat now so he turns back and goes home. Picking up some cat food in the wizarding world on his way. He slips her into the big inside pocket of his wizarding robes before going inside his house. She immediately claims it as her new nap spot.
He decides to name her Meemoop because that’s how her meows sound like.
He doubts anyone would care if he has a cat but he can’t chance them somehow finding out it's a muggle cat. Nor does he want to give them one more thing to use against him. The Malfoy manor isn’t as cozy as it once was. He used to love to run around these halls as a kid. The garden was his favorite spot though, he spent hours playing in the dirt to study bugs, plants and animal life. After his father got sent to askaban, they moved in and destroyed said garden and halls. He hasn’t dared to look to see the damage they caused to the garden since everything died and the animal life ran away
the halls are now full of the sounds of people's screams and strangers whose eyes are always on him. Waiting for an excuse to make the screams his instead. He retreats to his room hoping to not run into anyone on his way and he gets lucky this time. He can predict some of the death eaters but a lot of them are crazy so that complicates things.
(self harm idealization warning, just this one paragraph)
He can feel his arm stinging. Reminding him of the scratches left on them. He goes into his private bathroom finding his first aid stuff. Pulling up the sleeve of his arm he can't help but admire the small scratches going through his mark. It feels good having it messed up so he decides not to heal that portion of his arm
As he’s cleaning and healing the cuts on his arms it gives him an idea for a spell. One that could solve the problem of him not being able to cast the killing curse. He’s supposed to show off his skills next week. So if he could come up with a spell that killed someone from leaving cuts all over their body. It could probably get the job done fast. if he perfected the ratio. He opens next semester's Advanced Potion Making textbook and begins writing his idea down in the margins. making sure to mark it as ‘for enemies’. He names this spell Sectumsempra and hopes it works the way intended. (it won’t, much slower than he meant it to be and a lot more painful)
end of flash back and scene
-------Snape black mail --------
[][]scene: outside of hogwarts gates
[][]time: 6th year. morning of day 2.
[][]cast: Draco, snape, Hogwarts employee, Harry(evesdroping)
The next day Draco has to wake up early so he can get permission to get his stuff inside Hogwarts. Apparently his stuff appeared suspicious and wasn’t allowed past the front gate. He can’t really blame them for not trusting him. They're right not to want this stuff in the caste but he could have sworn he had a proper shield over his dark items. He’s arguing with the guy to just let his stuff in when a staff member notices and comes over.
Lucky and unlucky for him it’s Snape that comes to his rescue. If you're not willing to accept evil snape you should click off this fanfic now. I need someone to be the group's antagonist. Every character can’t be secretly good. Snape also doesn’t make the unbreakable vow in this
“Let this students stuff inside” snape demands
“But, the readings” the employee argues
“I don’t care about the readings. If i say to let this stuff in you let it in” snape
“Fine, but it’s on you when something bad happened” the employee argues
“It won’t, right malfoy” snape aks
“Yeah it won’t” draco
“very convincing Malfoy, so what was your plan to get this stuff in? don’t answer me i know you didn’t. You owe me one, you got lucky today” snape whispers in his ear
Unfortunately for Harry the last sentence wasn’t heard by her. She’s focused on what the employee said.
Later that day when he’s unpacking Draco notices a dark item he doesn't remember packing within his stuff. It’s weak enough it wouldn’t kill him but If he had touched it. it would have hurt.