Previously on: Catch-22: Charms and privileges:

It was his turn to sneer at the blond.

"Don't push her Malfoy. You've no idea how badly you deeply cut her last time when you chose Narcissa over her."

Lucius turned around in time so Severus didn't see the pang of guilt and pain shine through his eyes at those words. Not a day goes by when he doesn't regret that decision.

He just hopes his son listens to his advise and does not replay his own mistakes and have history repeat its self.

Diagon Alley was packed full of shoppers whose children will be either starting or returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

For Draco Malfoy it will be his last and final year. He intends to enjoy it and his form of amusement meant finding new ways to rile Weasel and Potter up. It was just too easy, he needed new challenges and try-outs and Hermione Granger was one of them.

True to his thoughts whilst is parents argued the morning of his seventeenth birthday, his mother hasn't been seen since and his father kept him self to himself. Draco almost liked it better this way, with out them there, but also felt like a weight had been lifted off the Manor, the air calm and cool instead of crisp and tense, like most of the time before this conversation.

As he strolled down the famous Alley deeply lost in thought. He headed for his next destination: Flourish and Blotts. It is Friday, the last Friday of the summer Holidays, this up-coming Monday, September 1st. He'll be returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; where he shall be completing his final year of Magical education before stepping fully into the Wizarding world as a man, not a student or boy, but a fully grown wizard with an almost clear path ahead of him.

When he woke up the next morning after his seventeenth birthday he noticed a few changes about him self. He walked, more glided smoothly with ease, almost walking airily. He felt lighter, and his blond hair, if possible, had brightened. His grey eyes held a soft blue, but turned grey when he became anger. And his skin looked more flawless than ever, he also noticed his body had muscled out a bit more, and that he grew a little over night too.

He is: Draco Abraxas Malfoy, the heir to the Malfoy family fortune, the son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. Soon to be Head Boy of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His rep at Hogwarts is: Slytherin Sex God and The Slytherin Prince. As of this moment he loved his life, he loved how everything was falling into place nicely. Could life get any more perfect than it is at this point in time? No. Something was missing and even though he still did not want to admit it, he new it was because he did not have his mate with him, by his side.

Once he reached his destination and entered the old book shop. He breathed in the smell of book and oak wood plus parchment and something else. A smell so strong that it nearly knocked him side ways, catching him off balance, a smell that over rode the smell of wood, the leather cover of books and parchment combined.

The smell smelt of fresh grass, roses and lavender including fruit. It smelt refreshing and felt like a breath of fresh air when he breathed the strong sent that overpowered every thing else in the room. His body moved of its own accord, taking him towards the intoxicating sent.

He walked towards the back of the bookstore. The very back, where the very best of the books where kept. Out of view of those who'd treat them with disrespect and not look after them well. Only those privileged could find them and claim the books amongst the shelves, not school books, mind, but other Magical means of books.

As he reached the very last books shelf in the very back of the library where it was a little dark and had a misty feel to it; he spotted a figure at the other end, the smell was stronger than ever with every step closer he took, his feet moving with out him directing.

The figure was of a girl, a girl who had long golden brown hair that flowed down her back in waterfalls of angel curls that looked like smooth velvet, her hair reached all the way down to her hips and her figure is slim and perfect looking. He slowly approached the girl, suddenly not wanting to frighten her.

His airy walk made no sound on the wooden flooring bellow, his previous thought of making noise almost seemed laughable. When he reached her, she still hadn't discovered or felt his presence and he was almost right next to her. Her nose was buried in a book.

Draco moved so he was standing directly behind the mysterious girl with the lush sent. He gently placed his arms either side of her head and rested his hands on the smooth wooden book shelves in front of them. Still, she did not move or acknowledge his presence and for some reason that alone irritated him a little. She still had her nose in that damn book of hers.

She was about half a head smaller than him so the top of her head just reached his nose. He breathed in her delicious flavoring, mouth watering sent discreetly again. Draco leaned in so his lips were at her ear, the ear she had her hair tucked behind, the hair he found himself wanting to bury his face in the waterfall of curls. He closed his eyes and concentrated, keeping the naughty thoughts and ideas that came flooding into his mind out as he spoke.

"Would you please inform me of your name?" He whispered huskily in a tone he knows makes girls week at the knees.

This grabbed her attention and he felt her tense, heard her breath hitch and her book slam shut as she slowly turned around to face him.

A/N: Another cliffy :-)

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