Confession
By ALBA

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By ALBA

FANDOM: Harry Potter

RATING: G, I guess

SUMMARY: Draco thinks during the Flourish & Blotts scene in "Chamber of Secrets".

DISCLAIMER: Characters belong to JK Rowling and/or Warner Brothers. Am just borrowing them. No harm intended.

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Draco Malfoy did not like Harry Potter.

"Famous Harry Potter... Can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page, can you, Potter?" he sneered at the other boy. Potter's face flushed angrily and he opened his mouth to retort but was interrupted by the little red-haired chit beside him.

"Leave him alone, Malfoy!" she shot back.

"Oh, look, Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend!" Draco smirked annoyingly and Potter flushed again. But before he could say another word, Draco felt a familiar weight on his shoulder.

"Now, now, Draco, play nicely," his father's voice oozed into his ear as the weight of the familiar silver cane came to rest against his cheek. Draco rolled his eyes and stepped out of the way. Even his *father* was falling all over that annoying Potter creature! "Lucius Malfoy," his father then said to Potter, offering his hand. Uncertainly, Potter took it and was quickly pulled closer so Lucius could examine Potter's scar. What was so wonderful about a ruddy scar, anyway? It was just a mark on his forehead. Not like it was anything that made him better than anyone else. It wasn't like Potter got good marks in his classes. Draco always managed to get higher marks, even if that Mudblood Granger got higher marks than HIM, something he heard about often from both his parents. How a filthy little Mudblood could get better marks than him, a Pureblood, confounded them.

Potter and his father were arguing now about Voldemort, that damned scar, and how "brave" Potter must be to utter Voldemort's name out loud. Draco tuned them out. He had more important things to think about - Quidditch for example. His father had promised to buy him a new broom this year, a Nimbus 2001. Even *better* than Potter's Nimbus 2000. With him on the Slytherin Quidditch team this year, Potter and his Gryffindors had no chance at winning the Quidditch Cup. Or the House Cup, which had been stolen right from under the Slytherins' noses when Dumbledore-the old coot-had awarded some "last minute points". Obvious to everyone who HE favoured. That thrice-damned Potter. Potter wasn't even a model of good student behaviour! He'd only broken about a hundred school rules last year, most of which would have gotten any other student expelled on the spot. Nearly gave McGonagall fits over his antics, especially that last one with the Philosopher's Stone and meeting what Potter claimed to have been Lord Voldemort himself. It was actually fairly amusing watching stuffy Professor McGonagall run around, all worried about her precious Potter. Just thinking about it make Draco smirk.

Potter's *friends* were even worse than him! That Weasel kid was only hanging onto the coat-tails of Potter's fame. Being the second-youngest in a family of seven did have its disadvantages, Draco supposed. Weasel knew he'd never be anything on his own, so he found someone he could have his moment in the sun with, even if it was only from the sidelines. Pathetic, really. And the Mudblood Granger was almost too perfect to be real. Seeing her face when McGonagall had taken points from her after the Norbert incident had been one of the highlights of the year, even if he got into trouble alongside them. It was worth it, just for that one moment. As for Potter's hangers-on, Longbottom was a disgrace to Purebloods, hardly able to stand a cauldron upright. The Weasel's brothers were amusing sometimes, but most of the time they were just annoying. The teachers found them "cute" and hardly ever gave them the punishments they deserved. Blatent favoritism.

What was it about Potter that brought all these pathetic life-forms crawling around his robes? Anyone could sit like an idiot while someone else did all the work, so what was so special about "The Boy who Lived"? Nothing annoyed Draco more than glory-seekers, of which he was positive Potter was one. Sooner or later, everyone would figure out that he was fake and turn their backs on him. And Draco would waiting in the wings. He would be the first to laugh at Potter's fall from grace. Nobody, in his mind, deserved it more.

No, Draco Malfoy did NOT like Harry Potter. At all.

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