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WHEN HARRY, RON, HERMIONE, AND LILY entered the Great Hall for breakfast the following day, the first thing they saw was Draco Malfoy, who seemed to be entertaining a large group of Slytherins with a very funny story; As they passed, Draco did a ridiculous expression of a swooning fit and there was a roar of laughter from his friends.
Lily gave them a disapproving look, before looking at Harry softly. "Ignore them," she said, sitting with them on the Gryffindor table. "Just ignore them, it's not worth it."
"Lily's right," Hermione agreed. "You'd only get into trouble if you do something more ridiculous than what that arrogant arse's doing right now."
"Hey Potter!" shrieked Pansy Parkinson from her table. "Potter! The dementors are coming Potter! Woooooo!"
"They must be after your pug of a face then, Parkinson," Lily retorted back.
Harry dropped into a seat at the Gryffindor table, next to George Weasley.
"New third-year course schedules," said George, passing them over. "What's up with you Harry?"
"Malfoy," said Ron, sitting over George's other side and glancing at the Slytherin table.
George looked up just in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again.
"That little git," he said calmly, "He wasn't so cocky last night when the dementors were down at our end of the train. Came running in our compartment, didn't he Fred?"
"Nearly wet himself," said Fred with a contemptuous glance at Malfoy.
"I wasn't too happy myself," said George, "They're horrible things, those dementors."
"It was a good thing we had a Professor in our compartment though," stated Lily, taking a bite from her liver pie. "Professor Lupin did show them what's what."
"Forget it, Harry," said George bracingly. "Dad had to go out on Azkaban one time. remember Fred? And he said it was the worst place he'd ever been, he came back all weak and shaking...They suck the happiness out of the place, dementors. Most of the prisoners go mad there."
"Anyway, we'll see how happy Malfoy looks after our first Quidditch match," said Fred. "Gryffindor versus Slytherin, the first game of the season, remember?"
The only time that Harry and Malfoy had faced each other in a Quidditch match, Malfoy had definitely come off worse. Feeling slightly more cheerful, Harry helped himself to sausages and fried tomatoes.
On the other side of George, however, Ron kept on pestering Lily about how 'Berkshire and Fletcher not being there' and how 'Berkshire must be snogging Fletcher'.
"I'd close your mouth if I were you, Ronald," said Lily hotly, taking her new schedule from George. "You don't want to be puking slugs again, do you?"
