How It's Supposed To Be

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 

After lunch was Double Potions and as usual Snape walked in saying, "Settle down." But as usual, Snape needn't to do that as everyone was quiet as soon as they heard the door open. He didn't even acknowledge Harry. Harry wasn't sure if he should be relieved or worried. He guessed relieved as Snape went about class as usual, but he didn't call Harry out or make fun of how bad he was at Potion's. Actually, Harry wasn't that bad now that Snape didn't hover over him like he did in first year and most of second year. Harry was actually forced to be paired up with Malfoy but he saw this as an opportunity to start things over with the Slytherin. "Don't mess us up, Potter." Malfoy said scowling at him, not sneering Harry noticed. Well it was now or never... 

"Can we start over?" 

"What do you mean, Potter? We haven't even started the potion yet." 

"No, I mean us, as friends and not enemies." 

"Why?" Malfoy asked narrowing his eyes. 

"The only reason why I refused to be your friend in the first place was because the first thing I heard about Slytherins was some bad stuff and you acting the way you do didn't exactly help." 

"But now you want to be friends all of a sudden?" 

"Well, I've done some thinking," 

"That's a first." Malfoy scoffed but Harry ignored it. 

"And I think things would've been different if we became friends. So I want to start over, what do you think?" Malfoy looked stunned and for a full three minutes neither of the two said anything as they started their potion. 

"Alright, Potter. We can start over." Harry smiled. 

"Hi, I'm Harry Potter." Harry said holding out his hand. 

"Draco Malfoy." Draco said shaking Harry's hand. Harry felt some eyes on the two of them but ignored them. 

"You do know that when I say starting over, I mean we call each other by first names right?" Draco snorted. 

"Of course and I'll lay off on the Weasleys and Granger." Harry smiled. 

"That's all I ask for." 

"You do know the whole school is going to think your Slytherin or something, right?" Harry shrugged. 

"Let them, but you know the Sorting Hat almost put me in Slytherin." Draco froze, almost dropping the wrong ingredients at the wrong time, had it not been for Harry's quick thinking and putting an empty bowl under Draco's hands, catching the ingredients. 

"It did?" 

"Yeah but I asked it to put me somewhere else because of the false things I was told about Slytherin. So I'm in Gryffindor." 

"Do Weasley and Granger know?" 

"Nope, no one knows, well except you that is..." 

"Why didn't you tell anyone?" Draco asked honestly curious. 

"No one ever asked and I didn't feel the need to bring it up." Harry was used to not talking about himself and stuff like that. The Dursleys were never interested in Harry's life, so Harry never shared and he seemed to have carried that on into his Hogwarts life. 

"So why did you have the Weasley twins prank those two?" Harry frowned. 

"We're not exactly on speaking terms and they've done some really horrible things that I'll never forgive them for." Draco seemed to accept that and dropped it, which Harry was shocked. He guessed he was just so used to Ron and Hermione nit picking at him when he got like this.