𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓

Chapter 16

Mother Knows Best

Chapter Sixteen

Tactics

Draco had learned from years of experience in spreading rumors that you can only ever believe about half of what you hear, if that, but as he sat back on his heels, going over everything in his head, he was still completely unable to make any sense of it.

He didn't do it, was Draco's immediate, and okay, somewhat mulish thought. Though, applying the situation to Potter's refusal to speak of his past would signify a possibility of the article being factual, Draco couldn't quite bring himself to seriously question it. Maybe it was out of some skewed sense of loyalty, but he just wasn't capable of being objective about the raven. Unexpected loyalty or not, the only thing he knew for certain was that Potter wasn't capable of doing something like this. He didn't have it in him to be that person.

Something happened, he was positive, but he couldn't be sure of any details and he wasn't taking the Profit's word for it. Call it being biased, but Draco was hesitant to say the least when it came to believing anything the Daily Profit had to say. Call it having common sense.

In a nutshell, the article said everything Draco expected it to and a hell of a lot more.

First came the introduction, dramatized to a degree that would've better suited the newest Pope instead of a highschooler. The headline itself was in bold, capital letters, followed by a severely overblown announcement that Draco Malfoy's "enigmatic lover" had finally been named.

'HARRY POTTER.

We all know this young man has been filling up the headlines

lately, but what we didn't know, what will be exclusively

revealed to you here at the Daily Profit, is that this isn't the

first time Harry Potter has made the headlines.

It all started when the Daily Profit's very own Rita Skeeter took

a personal interest in the youngest Malfoy's tantalizing,

in-the-making, star-crossed love story, like so many of us have.

We're sure you all remember the various work Skeeter has done

involving Mr and Mrs Malfoy and the tantalizing drama they've

been known to circulate, but this time around, Rita Skeeter has

decided to focus all of her attention on the youngest member

of the Malfoy family, take this story under her wing and give all

of our lovely readers out there the heads-up of what exactly is

going on in the lives of these two young lovers, this unraveling

love story.

Like all good reporters, Rita Skeeter started with highly in-depth

research and, after many hours of tireless digging, managed to

find several newspaper articles containing Potter's unfortunate

and shady past.

The first of these newspaper clippings were the obituaries of his

late parents, Lily and James Potter.'

Finding out this way -from a slanderous website- about Potter's past, regardless the fact that it most likely wouldn't have been revealed otherwise, felt like intruding on something sacred. Which, knowing how much Potter revered the memory of his parents, it probably was.