ORDER ONLY: Draco Malfoy?

[alt_hermione]

Yesterday I had a queer talk with Draco Malfoy. He told me to stay away from Harry Marvolo for my own good.

I don't know how much he might've overheard Harry and me saying, but he told me to stop it and that Harry doesn't really want to talk to me. Only I'm pretty sure that Harry does want to talk to me.

He said I might get in trouble if we keep talking and I don't like that at all.

Harry's been coming around a lot more to the library and he's really a nice person. I wish that someone had told me he would be. He asks a lot of questions about my life lately, and what the camps are like, and whether I knew anything about half bloods and whether I thought that I would ever be a mum and if I did whether it would be magical since I stole my magic. And of course I told him that I didn't steal my magic, only now I wonder whether Harry told Malfoy that and whether that's why Malfoy told me to stop it. I don't think Malfoy would tell Harry anything, do you?

This morning Harry came round again and I told him to stop talking to me, I didn't know what else to do. What ought I have done?

Comments

Hang on....

[alt_sirius]

Malfoy said you'd get in trouble if you keep talking to Harry?

Well, you did all right, Hermione. There's no sense your getting between Harry and young Malfoy - best leave it between them. It just means Malfoy's figured out where Harry's going to all this time. I don't know if he told Malfoy what you said, though I suppose he might have done.

We may not like the little prat, but Draco Malfoy is Harry's best mate, I suppose, so it's natural that they'll tiff once in a while. It'll sort itself.

Besides, Harry said in his latest note to me that he wants Draco to help him spy on Macnair. And we want to know what Macnair's up to, so he'll need to be back in Draco's good graces for that. We might just have to put this part of the operation on hold while he does some skulking. I just hope Macnair's as bad at detecting observers as he used to be!

Re: Hang on....

[alt_hermione]

All right.

I don't know that Harry will give up though. He seems tennacious tenacious.

Re: Hang on....

[alt_sirius]

No, we don't want him to give up - at least, not to give up asking the questions and looking for the answers (the real answers, that is). But he may have to learn to be a bit more subtle about it. Or he may have to give up on talking to you openly. I don't know.

I wish there were a way to use these journals for better communication outside of what the Death Eaters can see. But it's risky enough using this "Order" lock and we can't very well put someone in the Order just because we want to talk to them privately!

No, I can't see a way round it. It's just going to have to be owls and whispers for the time being.

But at least if you're telling Harry he ought not talk to you, you've got that in your favour if Malfoy tries to stir up trouble. And you know Professor McGonagall would never really land you in hot water for doing what we've encouraged you to do. Well, not if she can help it, anyway.

[alt_mcgonagall]

I shall see what I can do, Miss Granger. I think you are quite right not to speak with Harry where others could see - although I could wish you would be more careful in your conversations with some other students.