I am Not My Father

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Chapter 3 - Dumbledore’s Surprise

Harry and Ron both knew that Hermione had to have a meeting with Dumbledore and Malfoy and as they got up they both gave her a sympathetic look and a bit of a puzzled frown, Hermione knew that they were both wondering about her weird behaviour but there was no way in hell, would she ever tell them about what had happened in the History of Magic Classroom. Smiling she tried to comfort them and show she was fine but they still didn’t seemed reassured, swallowing hard she knew they cared about her and knew her better than anyone in the world, so she wasn’t angry at there constant looking at her out of the corner of their eyes to see that she was alright.

Standing she made her way to the teachers table and waited while Dumbledore finished talking quietly with Filch as she nervously stood there she started to feel a tingling on her neck and she knew Malfoy was coming up behind her. Hermione didn’t know what was worse the fact that she would have to pretend everything was alright or that she could feel him approaching and could tell where he was in the room at all times. Taking a deep breath and sighing it out she bit her lip and tried to prepare herself, Hermione swallowed hard again and thought to herself how at this moment she would much prefer to be duelling with Deatheaters or even facing Voldemort again.

As Draco moved alongside Granger he looked over and saw her biting her lip and once again memories about what had happened a few hours ago flooded into his mind and he shifted uncomfortably and realized his pants were starting to feel a little tight. Closing his eyes briefly Draco took a few deep breaths and cringed inwardly, he only had to stand beside her and he got distracted, gritting his teeth he felt a burst of hot anger fill his body. ‘who did she think she was, why did he act this way’? Straightening his spine Draco resolved not to let this mudblood affect him any more, he was going to be immune to any more of Granger’s tricks. Noticing that Dumbledore was looking at them and Filch had gone Draco started to pay attention, Dumbledore gave them a infectious grin and looked back and forth between him and Granger finally he said in a happy sing song voice “I have some great news for you two, it’s a new idea and we have never tried it before but I know it is going to work beautifully this year”.

Standing still both Hermione and Draco didn’t move a muscle, they were both to afraid of what Dumbledore’s Great News was, they started at him in a kind of defeated disbelief because they both sensed that they weren’t going to like the next words that came out of Dumbledore’s mouth. He seemed to be waiting for one of them to ask what the news was about and slowly Hermione’s head turned just as Draco’s did and their eyes met, each dreading the answer finally Hermione cleared her throat “Ahh and Ah this Um, News Professor”.

Beaming at her, Hermione felt a cold shudder go down her spine “we have set aside you and Draco a study of your own, in past years Head Boys and Head Girl have found it hard to organise dances and what ever else is on because they are not usually in the same house. So this year we have set aside a room for you two to have just to yourselves” Dumbledore’s eyes twinkled and he couldn’t help but chuckle at the twin looks of disgust on their faces. “I am sure you will find it very useful Hermione, you can use it to study for you NEWT’s in silence and privacy” ignoring the stupefied looks on each of their faces “now let me lead you to your new common room and then I will let you get to class”.

Silently Hermione and Draco followed after him both were thinking the same thing ‘well that’s not so bad, I just wont spend anytime in there” to their disgust the room was on the same level as the History of Magic classroom and they knew they would have to pass that dreaded room whenever they were forced into going to the common room. Draco saw Granger stiffen when they passed the room and he forced his mind from dwelling on what had happened a few hours ago and quickened his step to come alongside Dumbledore. Frowning Dumbledore looked down at Draco and then at Hermione and he felt the tension in the air and he wondered what had caused it, deciding to worry about it another time he stopped outside a statue of three headed dragon. “now the password is Hens Teeth, and you can come here when ever you want”.

Draco and Hermione stayed silent as the statue wobbled and then sprung aside, but neither of them could contain their little gasps of amazement. Inside was the most comfortable looking, cozy common room either had them ever seen, Hermione swallowed hard and ran a hand over her disbelieving face, the common room looked exactly like those romantic holiday getaways she had seen advertised, for a better word it looked like a love nest, there was comfy lounges and long plush carpet that your feet sink into and rustic old fashions lamps, two great old oak tables side by side looking out the windows. Slowly walking in they both stared about them slowly turning around but neither said a word, standing behind them they didn’t see the look of amusement and delight on Dumbledore’s face.

Dumbledore slowly walked in and stood beside the both of them, after a few seconds he placed a gentle hand on each of their shoulders to get their attention “I will have to go soon, Hermione your desk is the one on the left and yours Draco is on the right, now just let me have a word with you Hermione”. Dropping his hand from Draco’s shoulder he lead Hermione further in and he lowered his voice, making out that he thought Draco couldn’t hear but he had said a spell earlier on ensuring that Mr Malfoy did in fact hear every word but to him he would think he was just eavesdropping.

Clearing his throat lightly Dumbledore looked very serious “Hermione last night we uncovered a plot to attack and kill your parents”. Dumbledore watched Hermione’s eyes widen in fear and he noticed Draco stiffen out of the corner of his eye “It’s okay we got there early and moved your parent, but we left watchers and no more than 10 minutes later they arrived, it was a very near thing. We have hidden them again and I would like to bring up their safety at our next meeting” Pausing he watched as Hermione’s eye flicked over to check that Draco was not close enough to hear. Clearing her throat “Are my parents okay? They have been very worried especially since Voldemort and his Deatheaters attacked us last year, sir they saw what Lucius Malfoy did to us, are you sure they are fine”?

Dumbledore patted her shoulder and looked again at Draco, frowning he noticed his shoulders slumped and he felt a pang of guilt, he had no idea that she was going to say anything about Lucius “its okay they are safe for the time being but there must be a traitor amongst us, for their location was a complete secret” Frowning Hermione’s quick brain made her ask “if that is so and we do have a traitor then how did we get a warning? Who was it that saved my parents” looking down at her with affection Dumbledore gave her a comforting smile and turned his head to look directly into Draco’s eyes “it was someone at this school that foresaw the attack and saved your parent, and only he can tell you who he is” noticing her frown he said in a happier voice “now the meeting is going to be in the same place on the last Friday of this month at Midnight, now you better run along Professor Sprout know that you are with me, now go” and as he watched her rush out the door he saw Draco standing there frozen and he smiled at him and whispered the spell disabling the voice projection.

Walking over Dumbledore gave Draco a smile and acted like he thought Draco hadn’t heard a thing, smiling down at him Dumbledore put a gentle hand on his shoulder
“I just thought you should know, Hermione’s parents house was invaded shortly after we arrived and moved them. I hope you realise that you saved two innocent people last night and I am very proud of you, it took courage to come and tell me like you did and I thank you for it, I am sure Hermione would like the chance to thank you as well, you should tell her” giving him one last nod and Dumbledore left, leaving a very confused Draco Standing in the silence, Draco tried to understand what he had just heard but there was so many details that his mind didn’t seem to be able to comprehend them all at once.

One thing was for sure thought Draco my father was going to torture Grangers parents, Draco swallowed and he walked forward and shakily sat down in one of the comfortable lounges. Leaning forward he placed his head in his hands and sat there for some time, Dumbledore’s last words kept repeating in his mind, about him being proud of what he had done, it made Draco feel confused, shifting uncomfortably in the chair he tried to work out what his feelings were. Sitting up he stared straight ahead and he admitted to himself he was feeling happy and warm inside, Dumbledore was proud of him and Draco thought ‘I am proud of myself’.

Still staring Draco sat quietly and then he frowned puzzled as he remembered the rest of the conversation he had overheard, he shifted again feeling a little guilty he hadn’t meant to eavesdrop but he couldn’t help it, what had they meant about the meeting at the end of the month? What would they be meeting about at 12 o’clock in the middle of the night and what did Dumbledore mean by, the usual place? Realising that he was sitting up straight and he was feeling excitement stirring within himself, he tried to reason it out logically but he knew curiosity would eat at him for years if he didn’t follow Granger, Potter and Weasley on Friday night. Nodding Draco made up his mind he knew what he had to do and he felt better now that he had made the decision, realising he was very late he picked up his bag and ran out the door.

* The last Friday of the Month – Morning time

Draco made his way up to the Great Hall to have breakfast and he looked vaguely ahead as he tried to remember the last few days but they were a blur, he had been keeping an eye on Potter, Weasley and Granger to see if they gave any hint about this mysterious meeting on Friday but nothing happened accept for a few embarrassing moments when Granger and he would meet accidentally in the corridors and they would have to pretend that nothing had happened between them. Groaning softly Draco remembered that it was double Potions with Gryffindor straight after breakfast and there was no way he was going to be able to avoid spending the majority of the day in the same room as her.

Frowning Draco walked on, not really aware of what was going on around him as he neared he kept an eye out for the mysterious threesome and when he noticed them already seated he decided they couldn’t be up to something and all he had to do was wait till midnight tonight and all these pesky little questions would be answered. As he settled down and heaped his plate with food he felt in unusual good cheer. Noticing that Pansy was sitting in between Crabbe and Goyle he realised that she hadn’t really annoyed him since he had been so nasty to her, the thought of being free of her idiotic attempts to attract him made him smile happily. But his smile was wiped off when the little voice in the back of his head told him that a certain long hair beauty attracted him, but he viciously squashed that thought before he started to day dream again.

As they made their way down to the dungeons for Potions, Draco felt increasingly distracted and determined not to look at Granger for the entire lesson, just to show to himself that she didn’t matter and that he wasn’t attracted to her. Hermione kept glancing over her shoulder as Harry, Ron and her walked into their Potions class, over the past few days she had noticed Malfoy staring at them and she was nervous, ‘what if he confronted her or worse what if he said something to Harry and Ron?’ cringing at the thought Hermione couldn’t imagine what her best friends reaction would be if they had learnt about her little episodes of mental idiocy with Draco, for the life of her she didn’t know what they would say, feeling skittish Hermione sat and sneaked a peek out the side of her eye and found Draco sitting down and reading his text book, feeling somewhat deflated Hermione couldn’t understand why she was feeling disappointed.

Hermione, Harry, Ron and Neville set up their cauldron and prepared their ingredients for the lesson, ever since year 5 when Neville had nearly had a mental breakdown from all the stress Snape was putting on him, Harry who at the time was the only one that knew of Neville’s parents had decided that Neville should do potions with them and much to everyone’s surprise once he had settled down and knew Snape couldn’t blame him because Hermione was a genius and all their lessons went correctly. They all found that he was surprisingly good at Potions, if anything this only made Snape even more vicious and vindictive. Draco didn’t know but Neville also attended the meetings and when they all started whispering Draco tried to listen and was straining to hear and bit of information.

It was half way through the lesson when Snape made his way to the back tables to do his regular gimmick of making fun of Harry and his table, when something strange and extremely unsettling happened that shocked the entire class. Snape was making his usual remarks about Harry and his fan club and he then went on to say if it wasn’t for the know it all Hermione than they would always fail. This wasn’t the thing that surprised the class because they had heard it repeatedly for years, no, what really surprised them was that only a few of the Slytherin’s laughed, pointedly it was Draco’s laugh that was missing and because he hadn’t laughed his two goons hadn’t either. The entire class turned and stared at Malfoy in amazement because he had always laughed and taken pleasure at any badmouthing of Harry and his friends.

Draco heard all of Snape’s insults but he no longer thought them funny, if anything he was angry at Snape for bringing up Hermione’s name when all lesson he had been concentrating on not looking at her and not thinking about her and now the annoying Jackass directs all attention on to her. Noticing that everything went quiet Draco raised his head and looking at him was dozens of eyes, blinking Draco focused on Snape who was staring at him in surprised “are you feeling okay Mr Malfoy? Queried Snape, Frowning, Draco snapped in irritation “I’m fine Professor, why wouldn’t I be”? still looking stunned Snape just shrugged and they continued with the lesson, but Draco could feel the curious looks he was getting and noticed Pansy turn around and look at him in concern every five minutes, this made Draco’s temper turn foul and Draco couldn’t wait till this night was over and he had figured out this whole mystery and then he could forget all about Granger.

After Potions was finally over Draco found that he was feeling increasingly edgy but also was feeling slightly excited, it had been a long time since had felt this excited about something and smiling wickedly to himself Draco knew it was because he was going to break school rules and he was in danger of getting into serious trouble cause he was Head Boy and he was suppose to set an example. He tried to argue with himself by saying Granger was also breaking the rule but he kept hearing this little voice in the back of his head reminding him that Dumbledore himself had told her to go to this secret meeting and squaring his jaw Draco decided he to wanted to be trusted and he was going to show them all that he was just as good as any of them.

The rest of the day passed in a blur and it was dinner time before Draco realised that even though he had stuck near Potter and the others all week he hadn’t learnt even a hint about where the meeting was going to be held, so Draco didn’t know how he was going to follow them. Frowning Draco stayed silent all dinner time and he realised he had two choices he could follow them back to their common room and wait hidden till they came out or he could hid by the front entrance because the likely hood was that the meeting was outside and not in Hogwarts. Concentrating Draco finally decided it would be to dangerous to wait outside the common room because he was to well known and questions were going to be asked, nodding to himself he made up his mind and decided he would wait near the entrance and gamble that the meeting was outside.

As the hall slowly emptied of its people Draco looked at his watch and decided that he would go get a black cloak and come back down when there would be less people. Making his way to his dorm, Draco changed and then slowly made his way down to the entrance hall and noticed a cupboard, walking forward he opened it and found only brooms, deciding this the best place to hide he looked at his watch and saw that it was now 11.25 standing there he wondered how long he was going to have to wait. Up in Gryffindor tower Harry and the others waited till the common room emptied and then made their way down stairs quietly passing through the entrance doors and made their way outside. Two people were aware of their passing Draco in the cupboard heard their quiet footsteps and sitting up in his office Dumbledore watched the marauders map and saw them and then he saw Draco and he smiled.

As Draco stood there waiting he started to fidget and then he would make himself stand still so that no one heard him, come on thought Draco whats taking so long? Just as Draco was about to lose all patients and open the door to check his watch, he heard it ! There was the sound of muffled foot steps, no one was talking but Draco could tell that there was more than one person walking past and he was taking the bet that it was Potter, Granger and Weasley. In fact it was Harry, Ron and Hermione but Neville was there to the years had changed him from a frightened little boy and with Dumbledore’s trust and with these meetings Neville finally felt he was worth something and was a valuable help to people. They quietly made their way down to Hagrid’s hut but when they knocked he wasn’t there, deciding he must already be there they walked slowly into the forbidden forest.


Draco who had waited about 30 seconds slowly opened the door and peeked out there was no-one coming into the hall so he snuck out and peered out of the front doors and spotted a group of people almost down to Hagrid’s hut, frowning Draco hesitated a few seconds and then quietly opened the door a little wider and slipped through and crouched down and walked down the stairs in a bazaar crab like manner, anyone watching would of thought him mental but Harry and the others never saw him. Waiting at the bottom of the stair, Draco saw them knock on Hagrid’s door and wait then after a pause they slowly made their way into the forest as they disappeared into the first few trees, Draco straightened up and keeping the hut between him and where he had saw them disappear, he sprinted down to the hut.

Slowly peeking around the edge of the hut he saw no movement so he crept around the side and jogged quietly into the forest hoping to catch a glimpse of them through the trees, and sure enough about 50 metres away he could see the light of a single wand. Grinning Draco congratulated himself and walked on it was completely dark but he was able to make his way with out using his wand and he even gained on them slightly. Hermione had her wand out and was lightening the way for the others but she felt like there was something wrong her instincts we trying to warn her something, turning to the others she whispered “do you feel like we are being watched”. Startled Harry nodded and so did the others and Harry whispered back “I have been feeling it to, do you think we are being followed”? but before Hermione could answer they heard a scraping noise from behind the and they froze, Hermione muttered a word and her wand went out, pitching them all into darkness.

All of them froze and strained their ears to see if they could hear anything more but everything was quiet, leaning in Hermione whispered “there is someone back there but we can’t use magic this close to the meeting place if one of Voldemorts followers are watching we could give away the meeting place and endanger many lives, here’s what I want you’s to do, wait until I hide around that tree then I want ya to light your wand and look all around then start walking again, but walk huddled up so he can’t tell if one of us is missing”.

There was a brief pause and then Ron asked in a staged whisper “Hermione have you been drinking? We cant leave you here by yourself it could be anything in this godforsaken forest, werewolves are the least of our problems” there was another pause this time longer and it made the boys unsettled but eventually Hermione spoke in a flat tone of voice “it could also be a Deatheater, do you want to risk everyone’s lives Ron? I am the best at seeing in the dark and if you say anything about being a girl and to dangerous I will knock you out right now. Having a pare of tits doesn’t make me any less dangerous Ron, in some cases it makes me more, now no more arguments I will talk to you about this later Ronald Weasley, now let me hide and GO!”.

They hardly even heard her move but they waited a few seconds and then in a angry mutter Ron lit his wand and they group together and made a show of looking around and then they slowly continued, Hermione had picked up a large half broken branch when the light was on and then she closed her eyes so she could hear better and to let her eyes become accustomed to the light. Draco was not far behind them and was silently saying every swear word he knew, he had nearly ruined everything when his boot scraped on the bloody root just in front of him, he waited till they had started moving again and he let them get a little further ahead and then he slowly straightened and crept forward.

Hermione heard it, the moment he stepped forward she knew, she had been in to many near death encounters not to know how to listen properly and the slight thump told her that they were indeed being followed. Gripping the branch more tightly around the end she tensed all her muscles she knew that she only had one chance to make the him unconscious because if the person was working for Voldemort then they would not care about using magic and she could very well die if he cursed her. Swallowing hard, Hermione felt the back of her throat go dry and she gripped the branch even hard, making her knuckles ache.

Draco tried to be as quiet as possible and he was sure that they wouldn’t hear him again, he cautiously walked forward making sure not to bump into any more roots and to step carefully cause if he stepped on a twig they would definitely come back and investigate, he made it to the spot where they had stopped before, and keeping all his attention on the light that was moving about 20 metres ahead, he wasn’t even aware that he was no longer alone.

Hermione heard the person getting closer the slight crackle of the leaves and the soft thump of his boots on the ground, as she heard him get nearer her heart started to pound and the blood pumped through her veins, her body now taught with tension. Hearing the steps come up beside her, she raised her branch and waited straining her eyes to see any movement in the pitch black darkness, there she saw it, the swish of a cloak over the leaves, know exactly where he stood she step quietly forward and brang the branch crashing down on the shadows head. There was a sickening thump as the wood hit the persons head and then a strangled yelp that was cut off and then a great crash as the body hit the ground. Hearing the crash Harry and the others turned around and rushed back and Hermione stood there shaking slightly but she also felt triumphant cause she had knocked the spy out all by herself.


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i just re edited this, i had double posted chapter 3....i will try to post more and finish this story, you all have my apologise, my dad passed away from cancer and i havent felt like writing
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