The Distraction (blarry story)

Chapter 3

"You're so stupid Blaise." Pansy said fixing her tie and pin. "now how are you going to distract Potter? You have to fix this today."

Blaise scowled, "and how exactly am I going to do that?"

"Treacle tart." Draco said as if it was the obvious answer. His friends gave him an odd look, "what? He likes them. Know your enemies."

Pansy shrugged, that was just the normal Draco. She took a plate and transformed it to a nice little container, "you can use this."

Blaise took the container and looked at her, "at breakfast? I think he can have one whenever he wants it."

Draco rolled his eyes, "we have potions with them today. You could give it to Potter after class."

"fine." he placed the tart gently inside the container and closed it placing it gently in his bag.

He had to get Harry to like him so he had to trust Draco on this.

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"Harry are you alright mate?" Ron asked concerned. Harry had been stuffing himself that morning at breakfast. It was so unlike him.

Harry nodded taking a big bite of his pancake. Hermione shot him a worrying look, "you can talk to us if anything happened Harry?"

Harry shook his head, "nothing happened."

"you keep saying that but you're acting different." Hermione said.

Harry looked at his plate. She was right, he was letting Blaise Zabini of all people affect him. He pushed his plate away listening to his stomach telling him he was already very full. "I'm just being stupid. I'm sorry."

His friends gave him a soft smile, "it's alright Harry." Ron said, "you're under a lot of stress but just know we are here for you."

"thanks."

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Stupid Potter, Blaise kept repeating to himself all day. He needed a way to get close to him to give him the bloody tart but he was always around those friends of his. Pansy elbowed him, "Blaisy concentrate."

Draco snorted, "now he gets it. This was a brilliant plan. If you don't end up distracting him at least you get me now."

Pansy rolled her eyes, "oh please. Blaise doesn't get it, Harry isn't his celebrity crush unlike someone else."

Draco shook his head, "not anymore. I like Astoria if you forgot and you have the hots for her sister."

Pansy scowled, "can't believe that I might end up being family to you." she fake gagged.

Draco gave her a playful smile, "hope that stings you."

"can you two shut up? I'm scheming here." Blaise said.

Pansy chuckled, "imagine you end up liking Potter after all of this. The horror."

"Don't wish that on anyone." Blaise told her with a serious voice.

The slytherins laughed at that. Harry wasn't that bad sure but he was the one gryffindor who actively asked to not be with the slytherins. Not to mention that they all had admired him until that point, it just added more hatred towards them. Some of the things were justified but they still received a lot of unnecessary hatred after that.

Blaise sighed, "we're not doing a potion or anything. How am I going to get him alone?"

They thought about it for a moment until Pansy grinned, "write a note and I can sneak it into his bag."

She gave him a piece of paper and waited for him to write. What could he write?

Potter, I am very sorry for what I said yesterday. I know it's not a lot but I hope this compensates for what I said. If not I could buy you anything you want. Please keep tutoring me, I want to get a higher grade on muggle studies than Draco.
-Blaise

P.s. Thank you for the pen, I like how it writes. If you do forgive me then meet me in the library at 5.

When he finished he folded it neatly and as silently as he could he casted a spell to stick the paper in the container. Pansy took it and waited for the perfect moment. She stood up and dropped what she was carrying making it look so natural. After she picked up her things she smiled at her friends and walked over to them againafter going for more ink.

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Harry plopped down on his bed after classes ended. Hermione was changing to her normal clothes and Ron went to the restroom so he had a few moments to himself.

He went to take out his potions book and found a small box with a note. He read the note and ate the cake, was he really going to forgive Zabini? He should at least do it to get information out of him, he is close to Malfoy after all.

He changed to his normal clothes thinking of a lie to tell his friends.

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Blaise waited patiently for Potter to show up and soon enough he did. Harry forced a smile, "thank you for the tart. Those are my favourite."

Blaise chuckled, "so I'm guessing you forgive me?"

Harry laughed, "not quite. You're on thin ice Zabini. However I will tutor you since you obviously don't know anything about muggles."

Blaise playfully rolled his eyes, why was Potter so hot with that spark in his eyes? Wait did he really just think that? He shook his head, "then let's start professor Potter."

Harry laughed at that last part, maybe this time it wouldn't be that bad.

Blaise showed him a graded parchment, "the professor had us write what we think a telly is and how it works according to us and now our assignment is to look for actual information about it and write how far off our guesses were."

Harry looked over what he wrote and smiled trying to keep his laughter in. "Well it's definitely not a tool for gardening that moves on its own. It's an electronic device to watch shows about this big," Harry opened his arms to show him how big they were.

Blaise gave him an odd look, "what's that?"

Harry pondered on how to explain it best. "well they're like plays in a sense. They entertain muggles in a the way."

"there's tini humans trapped in boxes and that's okay with you?"

Harry let out a small laugh, "no they're all prefilmed with cameras like the ones we have. They're actually a lot like how our pictures look but they last longer and have sound and sometimes color. Of course there's bigger ones and with better quality but those are for richer people."

Blaise slowly nodded writing it down, "I bet you have the biggest one."

Harry shook his head, "I actually don't have anything for myself. My uncle and aunt had theirs."

"but you're like very rich." Blaise pointed out.

Harry shifted uncomfortably in his seat. Blaise noticed it and chose to try and change the subject. "I'm sure you've caught at least a snippet of a show, so you have any favorite show?"

Harry thought about it for a moment, "I liked some shows my cousin used to watch. Now they don't really watch things that are fun. I do watch the news which is like reading the daily prophet but people are reading it to you."

Blaise smiled softly, "what types of shows are there?"

They continued talking about that as Harry finished other homework until it was time for dinner. Blaise was surprisingly easy to talk to and he somehow finished all of his homework quickly. Maybe this was beneficial for him as well.