The Broken Slytherin

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// Hey Ollie here-
(i just updated this again) Surprise it's a fanfic that's not one direction though it is Harry Potter- I'll give you an angst warning now. I hope u enjoy reading //

All of Hogwarts was asleep. Well all but one.

Draco Malfoy.

Dont get it wrong, he had tried to sleep hours ago but it had miserably failed over and over again. It was currently 3:47am and everyone to Draco's knowledge was asleep, but he just lay there wide awake eyes open and staring at the ceiling.

"Why am I like this" he muttered his voice so quiet it was lower than a whisper.

His thoughts continued;
"useless"
"Unwanted"
"Foul"
"just like your father"
These are the thoughts that kept him up most nights. The last one made his ears ring and eyes water, it may seem like he wanted to be just like his father but it was actually far from it. Draco acted like his father to please Lucius though it never fully worked, he got yelled at for not being top of the class, for not knowing every spell and so much more, he even got hit.

He got hit alot.

Draco was Lucius' little puppet.

Draco had came back with quite a few bruises on his stomach from the punches his dad threw at him holding back no mercy. Lucius had also cast far worse spells on him.

There was many times Dracos father had used the torture spell on him. Lucius had repeated Crucio alot of times, the pain increased every time it was said.

When learning about the three unforgivable spells at hogwarts Draco soon learnt that one he had known since he was eight, was one that shouldn't be as commonly used as he had thought.

Either way the flashbacks, nightmares and genuinely bad and concerning thoughts, had kept Draco up most of the night. He closed his eyes once again and tried to sleep. Though soon enough his alarm went off at 7:30am and he was basically still awake, he must of got two hours sleep at most.

Draco was exhausted though he always hid it well.

Everyone was getting changed into thier robes in the large room not really caring that the others were in there, but Draco didn't want to change infront of the others so he picked up his uniform and made his way to the bathroom to get dressed. He walked out gracefully, though he was tugging on his sleeves. He put on a smile before walking down to the common room, as everyone had disappeared out of the sleeping quarters. He smiled slightly wider over at Crabbe and Goyle before basically dragging them down to the great hall for breakfast, he was always worried about being late.

Once in the great hall Draco looked at three gryffindors longingly, wishing to be part of their close binded friend group.

'The Golden Trio' he often called them, it came of as snarky to his friends though it wasnt ment to.

It had kept up his reputation though and that was important.

The blonde soon snaped out of his little gaze before sitting at the long slytherin table behind the gryffindors, he was talking to Crabbe and Goyle who were stuffing their faces with food. Draco got some food on his own plate before eating it rather quickly, it was only two pancakes and a sausage it was easy to scoff down.

He had been fairly shaky and panicked since he 'woke up' this morning, little...well no sleep and anxiety really dont mix well. Remembering the horrible flashback like nightmares didn't help his case much either. He stood up stumbling as he had moved to fast, he bidded his goodbyes to his friends before basicly running out if the great hall, his head down and tugging on his sleeves.

"What's gotten into him?" Ron muttered under his breath, though still hearable to both Harry and Hermione who were sitting next to him.

"Who?" Hermione asked intrigued, interested like normal.

"Malfoy" Ron said before stuffing another slice of his stack of pancakes into his mouth.

"Malfoy? As in Draco Malfoy?" Harry questioned.

Ron swallowed his pancake before continuing "yeah Draco Malfoy, what other Malfoy would I be talking about?" He rolled his eyes at Harry's stupidity "I was waiting for some sort of snarky comment from him, as he always does that he didnt even say one when he sat down. He was in eyes view so I kept giving him hateful glances, though he wasnt facing me, but he just ran out of here" Ron explained further.

"What do you mean 'ran'?" Harry asked confused.

"Well he didn't like run but he walked super fast and his head was down and he didnt make any snarky comments before leaving, I never thought I'd say this about that stupid blonde ferret but I'm actually concerned for him" Ron said very little sarcasm in his voice for once.

"Should we check on him?" Harry spoke again.

"On Malfoy? No, hes a spoilt brat hes probably just mad his Daddy didn't give him £100 to spend on what he wanted" Hermione laughed at her own joke, even though Malfoy may not be okay she didn't care it wasn't her problem.

"Well Ron if your in then we can just go see just us, we just need to go grab my invisibility cloak" Harry said cockily knowing this would make Hermione join them.

"Fine I'll come and help!" She spoke annoyed. Harry smiled and they all stood up going to the gryffindor common room grabbing the cloak.

Mean-while Draco was in the slytherin common room, his eyes blurry with tears and breathing heavy. Hee kept tugging on his sleeves and trying to wipe the never stopping tears away as he muttered things, mainly things his father had said to him. He eventually gave in his breathing quickening and his whimpers becoming small sobs.

The door opens and he panics wipping his tears quickly and bolting to his bed, he didn't care who it was he would not let them see him like this. Draco tried to stop crying wipping his tears everytime one fell, he took a few deep breaths before checking the time.

The clock read 8:15am his first class starts at nine o'clock, he had potions with Snape. If he was late he would never hear the end of it not to mention he would get detention. he really hoped to be calmed down by then. The golden trio took off the invisibility cloak and slowly made thier way up to the room that Draco had run off to, Harry entered first.

"Malfoy?" Harry spoke softly trying not to startle him. Draco started to panic again but slowed his breathing he wiped the tears of his face before speaking back and looking up.

"What do you want Potter, and where are your dumb friends huh?" He tried to be snarky and tough hiding the fact that he was just crying. He was good at putting on a mask when it was planned but right now his mask had a crack in it.

Granger and Weasley both walked in with pitty looks on their faces. "Here-" Hermione stated.

Draco took another deep breath, "well as always, horrible to see you mudblood" he rolled his eyes and tried not to curl into a ball, he felt so weak he knew there was still tear tracks down his face, instead of crawling into a ball he decided to stand up and lean against the bed frame.

"Right, guys nows not the time to argue" Ron protested lightly.

"What do you mean 'nows not the time' Weasel" Malfoy said wipping his eyes with his robe sleeves again.

"Well you were just crying" Harry said his voice semi sarcastic.

"Shut it Potter, why would I, a Malfoy be crying I'm not a weakling like ginger over there" Draco spoke anger coming through in his voice.

"Draco...we all saw you crying" Harry used his first name for once, it may seem awkward but after four years of resenting eachother and now might having a reason not to, he wanted to test it.

"I...well..uh...I wasnt...i " Draco stammered not being able to find the right words. His mask was slowly cracking more and more.

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