Slytherin

7.Detention

I knocked on Snape's office door, glancing at Malfoy, whom was standing beside me lazily.

The door opened, revealing a man with greasy long black hair.

He moved aside, allowing more room in the doorway for us to enter.

We walked inside and I gazed around the room.

"Sit down Potter, Malfoy." Said Snape, moving towards his own chair.

I sat down on the nearest chair, Malfoy taking the one next to mine.

"You know why you're here." Snape said, staring at us.

I didn't say anything but stared back.

"For your detention, you are going to clean up the mess the fifth years have done to my classroom." Snape said curtly.

There was a pause.

"You are not allowed to use magic."

Another pause.

"Off you go now. I will come by to check your progress in half an hour." Snape said, nodding to both of us in turn.

Malfoy and I stood and left, making our way through the corridors and staircases of Hogwarts towards the Potions classroom.

We entered the room, gazing around us at the mess for a bit.

I moved towards the cauldrens, wiping them clean.

Malfoy working on cleaning the desks.

We cleaned in silence for a while.

"So  Malfoy." I started.

"Look Potter, if you're going to bug me for an answer.. I'm not giving one, alright?" Malfoy sighed.

"I wasn't going to say that.." I said, wiping the last cauldren clean and moving towards putting away the unused potion ingredients.

"Then continue." Malfoy said.

"There's no one else in this detention with me and I've become bored." I said, gazing at an interesting looking ingredient before shoving it into the cabinet.

Malfoy scoffed, "you want to talk to me?"

I frowned, "well, yeah."

"I thought you didn't want to be friends Potter." Malfoy said lazily.

"I don't. I just want to talk." I said, shoving multiple items at once into the cabinet.

"Sounds to me like we're getting into the first stage of becoming friends." Malfoy began, with a small laugh.

I stayed silent. He's not wrong

We were silent for a bit until I tried starting conversation with him. It took a funny turn and we started joking about stuff and telling stories. Snape would come to check on us every once in a while to make sure we were doing our jobs, which we obviously were.

"There." Malfoy said as he got rid of the last stain on the floor.

We had just cleaned an entire Potions classroom, by hand, in under two hours.

Snape entered the room at that moment, looking around for something to criticize. He found nothing. He nodded and let us pass.

We walked together down towards the dungeon, joking the whole time, until we stopped in front of the portrait.

The man in the portrait looked at us expectantly.

"Pureblood." Malfoy said, the portrait swung open and we climbed inside.

We took out our homework and sat down on the nearest armchairs.

"So..." I said, looking down at my Transfiguration homework.

"Are we friends?" Malfoy said, a little quietly.

I watched him, "yeah." I replied. I could see a smile forming on his face, which made me smile.

We continued our homework and talked about nonsense.

I checked the time, 12:28 am.

I picked up my homework, "we better get to bed." I said.

Malfoy did the same, "yeah."

We climbed the dormitory stairs together, quietly changing and climbing into bed.

Wow.

I thought.

I've just become friends with Draco Malfoy.

...

That's a crazy thought.

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