Accidently becoming the good guy
Just a cute chapter. Not the best, but still decent. Pinterest inspired.
Luna had been off wandering on her own again. She had her glasses, and she was looking for something Draco Malfoy had never heard of. Despite this, the insults that his friends were throwing around were harsh.
"Look at her ugly glasses! They don't match a single thing she's wearing!"
"And her father is a complete idiot! Her father thought there was a cure for the death curse! Everyone knows there isn't a cure for that!"
"No wonder her mother died of a spell when she was nine!"
Ever since the war ended, Draco had stopped fighting people. This included first years, anyone who hadn't done anything wrong, and a certain dark haired boy whose last name was Potter. His friends had thought this was because he was depressed. So each time they saw someone that Draco would have insulted before, they would now insult for him to try to encourage him.
In reality he had just come to an epiphany. Being rude didn't help anybody. Not usually anyway. With his father in Azkaban, there was no use in pretending anymore. Finally Draco could be himself. Once he found out who that was, that is. For now, he was going to hang around his friends until he figured out what he wanted.
Insulting had been his thing. He didn't remember his friends ever insulting people that much. Usually they would just stay in the side with a wry smile or a smirk. Now on the other hand, it was like his friends had taken over. They were harsher than he ever was.
"Such a freak Looney is!" They continued.
He wanted it to stop. He'd had enough bullying in his life. From his father, the dark lord, he'd done it to far too many people, and he'd seen it lots. How could he make his friends stop?
"Her ugly pale skin, and her ugly shade of white, yellow hair!" That was when it stopped. Blaise, Pansy and the other people there mocking Lovegood went silent. They had basically insulted Draco.
Now, Draco was touching his own hair, and looking offended.
"Wait, Draco, I didn't mean it!"
"If it helps, the pain of bullying hurts less if you realize it isn't true," Lovegood spoke kindly. Why was this girl being kind to Draco? All he had done was bully her. Never had he even muttered a kind word to her.
Running, Draco grabbed Luna and raced out of there. He brought her to where he knew the Gryffindor tower was and left after saying a swift, yet kind goodbye.
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His friends had realized bullying was not the way to help Draco. They had different ideas from what had occured yesterday.
The next day, they sit around Draco quietly, and they don't mention what happened. They knew Draco preferred to act like things like these never happened.
Unbeknownst to Draco, they had put a bunch of anti-bullying campaign posters up. By the attention he started to get when people came in, he knew something had happened. Something to do with yesterday's ordeal.
"What did you guys do?" Draco demanded.
"You'll have to look at the walls outside the great hall," Pansy smirked.
Swiftly Draco stood up and raced out. When he saw the poster, he debated what to do.
On the Posters, there was a lovely print that said,
Anti-bullying campaign
We are done with bullying and will listen to your problems. We too have been bullied, and we let it out in the wrong way. To make up for it, we are fighting for you.
Come talk to us, about issues you have, and we'll be happy to help.
First anti-bullying meeting Friday night at four on the quiditch pitch.
Casual clothing that you can move around in preffered
Helpers: Pansy, Blaise, Theodore
Led by: Draco Malfoy
There were a few things he could do in this situation. He could take the Posters down and say it was a joke. Another was just pretend it never happened, or he could just go with it. He would have about two days to figure it out.
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It was Friday. He hadn't told people it was a joke, so he kind of had to go. Draco was also curious what Pansy, Blaise and Theo had come up with.
A lot of people had been watching him these past few days. In the past, Draco had been jealous of all the attention other people got, but now he was just annoyed. He vaguely wondered if this was what Potter felt like.
Going outside, Draco found a group of nine people. Being fifteen minutes early, this surprised him. There was Pansy, Blaise, and Theo as expected. When he found the golden trio speaking with his friends along with Neville, Luna and Ginny.
"This is a wonderful idea!" Hermione told Pansy. "How do you plan on getting people comfortable with each other?"
"I have my ways." Pansy replied.
When it was time to start, there was a total of sixty seven people. That was far more than anyone had expected. Apparently people had heard that the golden trio were both supporting it and coming. Thus the large amount of people.
"Alright people! Let's start with a name game!"
They started by having everyone around the circle introduce themselves. It starts with a person throwing a stuffy to a person and saying their name. Then that person throws the stuffy to another person while saying their name. Then it continues until every one has had the stuffy passed to them. It becomes a circle. Then you add as many stuffys as possible. It got quite chaotic. By the end everyone was giggling.
"Can we play it again?" A second year asked.
So off they went again. When they finished, Pansy sat them all down in a circle.
"Unfortunately, we're not here today to play games. All of us here have been bullied some way or another. Some of us here have bullied. That includes me." Pansy looked around at all the people. "For that, I am sorry. I know I can't make up for all I've done, but I've realized what I've done is wrong. In the past, I had it done to me as a child, and I learned that that was the way things went."
"Something most don't realize, is that they often bully others themselves," Hermione spoke up. "Like how we've all treated Slytherins since day one. You know how your own sortings went. You were all nervous yet excited. Imagine if you got booed at by a good majority of the school. Then ignoring them, or hoping they lose in quiditch games. They're known for cunning. Not cheating. We all need to stop bullying to get the bullying to stop."
This caused a lot of people in the circle to look guilty.
"Despite this, we're not here to talk about that," Pansy started. "We're here to talk about how we've been bullied. I'll tell about my own, and then we'll go in a circle."
Hermione spoke of how people made fun of her interest in knowledge, and learning. How people thought her strange, and how she struggled to make friends.
Blaise spoke of the struggle of being in Slytherin while being a half blood.
Having so many siblings made Ron always feel like he wasn't enough.
As they went in a circle, there were tales of older sibling using control in negative ways, manipulative friendships, and adults using the 'I'm older than you, so you have to listen!' Card.
Eventually they got to Draco.
"Go on Draco. I know you don't like sharing, but we're all here for a reason," Pansy encouraged.
Taking a deep breath, Draco began, "well, the first peer pressure in my life came from my father. It was hard to get acceptance and emotion from him. Looking back on it, it's like he was a psychopath. At the time, I couldn't see that. All I knew was I wanted his acceptance. So I worked hard for that acceptance."
At this point, Draco refused to look up, and just continued. "I kept that need to be accepted when I went into school. To be accepted into Slytherin you had to obviously hate the other houses, be a pureblood, and to uphold my 'status', I attempted to do all this plus please my father. Later, my father attempted to use this need for acceptance to get me to take the dark mark. I didn't want it. So he bullied me into taking it, and wouldn't let me leave. This year has been the first that I'm not under his influence, and haven't cared as much about being accepted. As most of you have all seen, I haven't been bullying as much this year."
Once he finished, a few people decided to pat him on the back, or nod to him. Then the next person went.
A few more people went, before it was Harry's turn.
"So, umm, not many people know this about me, and I wasn't planning to share this, but may as well. Everybody seems to think that my family worships me for whatever reason. That's not true. They hate me, and bully me all the time. Hermione has been trying to get me to share this since fifth year, but they basically abuse me. Anyway, that's all I wanna share, now lets move on." Everybody was shocked, but they listened nevertheless.
Once they'd finished going around the circle, it was dark. They all headed back to their houses.
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The school had literally changed in two meetings. The third had almost the whole school going. Mcgonagal had a schedule made for the meetings, and they had eight sessions in the weekend. They were also getting extra credits for them.
Lots of people were coming up to Draco now to talk about their problems. It turned out Draco had wonderful solutions for all of them.
The amount of people that approached him just to say that they were 'proud of him for making such a big change' was astounding. Within two weeks, he became incredibly popular with everybody, and the bullying stopped.
Being friends with Harry was definitely a plus. The way he had asked was quite funny too.
One day when Draco was on the steps in front of school, Harry had come up to him and said, "you'll soon find out some wizarding families are better than others Malfoy. I can help you there." Then Harry held out his hand with a smirk.
Draco replied with, "apparently I need that help." Before shaking that hand.
He had accidentally become the good guy, and there was no way of getting out of it now. If he was honest, then he'd say he was quite happy with being the good guy too.
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