The Cold-Blooded Killer

Chapter 1

I hate stupid Potter- Draco thought as he paced the Slytherin common rooms- He ruins everything. It's his fault that i'm in detention! If he had given me the bat wings for our potion in class then maybe i wouldn't have pulled it out of his hands and then he wouldn't have fallen into Neville's  cauldron and burnt his leg from the wrongly made potion. But now i'm stuck in detention with Slughorn  for three Saturdays starting this week. Just thinking about Potter made Draco's blood boil. Potter got out of everything in Slughorn's class just because he was Slughorn's favorite student. It was completely unfair, but then again Snape always favored Draco in his class. It was getting late and Draco had detention all day tomorrow so he needed his rest. Draco walked back to his dormitory and got into his black and green pajamas. Everyone was already asleep so he quietly went into the dormitory bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face for bed. Draco crawled into bed and pulled the soft duvet up to his chin and drifted off to sleep. 

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Draco woke up and realized that everyone had gone down to breakfast in the great hall so he got dressed and ready then decided to skip breakfast and head strait to professor Slughorn's classroom to serve his detention. he sighed* today was going to be a long day he thought. 

"Ah, Mr.Malfoy"-Slughorn said-" here early I see. Well please come, sit down you've got work to do." Draco sat down and waited further instructions. Slughorn walked into his office to retrieve something and Draco sat at a desk waiting. He returned with a stack of papers and a quill and red ink. He set them down on the desk Draco was sitting at and said " You can start by grading these for me. When your done with that you can  help me organize the ingredients cabinets."  

"Lovely" Draco mumbled under his breath, then he got to grading the students papers. Draco hated detention but he hated having to grade papers for detention. He didn't know how the teachers could deal with all the papers to grade. It almost made him feel sorry for them, almost. A few hours passed and Draco finally finished the papers. He checked the time and saw that it was almost 1:00. He got up and went over to Slughorn's office to see he wasn't there. He checked outside the classroom and around the hall. He walked back in and spotted a note on Slughorn's desk. Draco walked over and picked up the note, it read                                                                                                                                                                 Dear Draco,                                                                                                                            I apologize for leaving without notice but you were so engrossed in your work I didn't want to bother you. I left because I have to deal with something urgent. When you finish grading the papers you may leave detention early, and try to stay out of trouble please.                                                                                                                                                                           - Professor Slughorn 

Draco put down the note and left the room. Finally, i'm free! He thought to himself. Draco headed straight for the lake, he needed to do some thinking by himself and the lake was the best place for thinking. Draco was out in the grassy fields of Hogwarts now, he was almost to the lake when BAM! He walked straight into someone and he toppled onto the person he ran in to. "Owww...watch where you're going" Draco groaned he looked down at the body he fell on top of. oh god he thought Potter. he ran into bloody Potter! Harry's eyes widened when he realized who he ran into. Draco immediately got off Harry and regained himself. Harry got up and quickly apologized " Sorry, I didn't mean to run into you. It's my-  " Draco cut him off " Watch where you're going Potter" he spat. Harry looked embarrassed, his cheeks were a rosy pink. "Sorry" Harry mumbled looking down, ashamed. That's weird- Draco thought- he normally has some smart remark which usually ended in a fight with Harry and Draco in detention. Draco kind of felt bad for Harry. what was he thinking, he can't feel bad for potter! Harry was Draco's sworn enemy, he can't feel sorry for him! Draco ran off before Harry could say anything else and make him feel guilty. Draco ran  all the way to a shaded willow tree by the water. He crawled over and leaned against the the tree's trunk. Oh god, he was going crazy. First he was constantly thinking about Harry and now he was feeling bad for him. He couldn't go on like this. Draco heard leaves crunch and a twig snap near him. His head shot up and what did he see? A tired out Harry panting as if he just ran a marathon and his hair was even messier than usual. " ... just ...*pant*.. ran.. tried to keep up..*pant*... i'm so- sorry...*pant*.." Harry took a deep breath and started again "I ran after you when you took off to come and say sorry for knocking you down. You seemed really upset about it and I felt bad." " That's not even why i took off!" Draco said looking annoyed. "Oh-" Harry sat down in front of Draco "-then why did you run off?" Draco sighed "Beca - wait... I don't need to answer that, or even talk to you! Bug off Potter!" Draco then got up and again, he ran off towards the castle entrance and disappeared through the doors. Harry gave a look of disappointment and watched Draco go. Tomorrow Harry thought We'll talk tomorrow. Then he got up and walked back to the castle.