Harry's Comfort

Draco's legs snapped together while his arms slapped to his side after he had been hit by a body bind, he was lying on the cold wooden floor on his back, several cuts all over his body plus two on his face, one being under his right cheek while the other was on his forehead. His right arm was shattered and his wand broken in half and laying besides him, his arms snapping to his sides did not help the pain. Draco had also lost three teeth which were several feet away from him now.

It was at this point that Draco had developed a very profound fear of Apophis, even more than before, Apophis was now calmly walking over, the man may have Potter's blood in him but as far as Draco was concerned it was the dark lord's blood that reigned supreme. Draco had lost count but he was pretty sure that Apophis had already knocked him out at least two times already and revived him both times before forcing him to continue.

"Is that it?" Apophis asked as he placed his foot on Draco's chest without even a hint of the word 'gentle', causing Draco to wince. "You said you were better than Potter," Apophis said in a voice that screamed out how disappointed and angry he was. "Potter lasted longer than this, Potter managed to challenge me, you did not." Apophis said. "You lied to me." He hissed "Where was my challenge?!" Apophis demanded.

"I...I..." Draco tried to respond but could not due to a combination of being tired and in pain.

"Pathetic." Apophis aimed his wand at Draco's head as the tip glowed green.

"No!" A voice cried, Apophis did not move any part of his body apart from his head and neck. He looked towards Narcissa Malfoy who was on her knees, tears falling down on her face. "P...please, please don't!"

"Why not?" Apophis asked, sounding almost confused.

"Ah do tell Narcissa," Voldemort said. "why should my heir spare yours?"

"He...he will not repeat his mistake my lord!" Narcissa said quickly. "I...I promise!" She looked to her husband for support but Lucius had kept his head down and refused to look up.

"Hmm, I do believe you Narcissa, unfortunately the choice is not up to me." Voldemort said as he gestured to Apophis. "The choice is up to him."

"Please!" Narcissa begged Apophis. "I will do anything! Anything! Please! Spare him!" Apophis looked at her for several seconds, Narcissa stayed still, feeling like she was having her soul judged.

"Fine." Apophis grunted, he removed his foot and cancelled the body bind, he kicked Draco hard and Draco moved several feet until he was by Narcissa.

"Draco!" She quickly began checking him over.

"Tomorrow," Apophis said in a voice that was loud enough to get her attention. "you will bring him here at four o clock."

"For what?" Narcissa asked, not sure if she wanted to know.

"If you thought his punishment was over then you are about as smart as the male members of your family." Apophis replied. "He will live but his punishment is far from over." For a moment Narcissa looked like she was about to protest but knew that this was probably the best she could get, and hopefully she could come up with some way to stop this before tomorrow, she slowly nodded.

"May I please take my son away to get medical attention?" She asked in a low voice. Apophis grunted in an uncaring way while Voldemort gave a small nod. Narcissa stood up and levitated Draco up into the air, she walked out as quickly as she could without hurting him.

"I trust that I will not have to have enthusiastic young Apophis repeat this lesson with anyone else?" Voldemort asked everyone in the room.

"No my lord." They all quickly said.

"Good, good." Voldemort said before he hissed at Apophis, Apophis hissed back before nodding and turning around right before he exited the room.

"Oh this is so nice." Astoria said for what felt like the hundredth time.

Daphne rolled her eyes at her sister, she along with Tracy, Harry, Astoria and her two friends Jean and Scott were all outside by the lake. Jean and Scott Smith were a pair of brown haired, brown eyed twins and Ravenclaws in Astoria's year, apparently the three had become good friends. Harry, Daphne and Tracy had originally come out to the lake to complete their homework while enjoying the nice and peaceful atmosphere of the outside. Harry had just finished his when Astoria came by and introduced her friends.

Daphne did not remember exactly how it ended up happening but now Harry was in his tiger form, lying down like a lazy house cat with Astoria and the Smith twin's resting against his side. She turned to Tracy only to find that Tracy was no longer there, she looked around before spotting her.

"Traitor." Was Daphne's first response to seeing Tracy on the other side of Harry and also resting against him.

"What?" Tracy said in a defensive voice. "It does feel really nice, come and join me."

"Fine," Daphne sighed. "that alright with you Potter?" She asked Harry who nodded in response. She got up and picked up her stuff before waking around and sitting down next to Tracy, she leaned her back against Harry's side and was pleased to find that it did feel rather nice.

Harry, meanwhile, was not exactly sure how he felt being used as a massive pillow but decided that it was not a massive bother so there was no point in being angry about it.

"Oh hello." A dreamy voice said, everyone including Harry looked to see Luna Lovegood standing in front of them. "I did not know that the school allowed pet tigers in."

"They don't Luna," Astoria said. "this is Harry, he's an animagus remember."

"Oh yes." Luna said after a moment of thought. "May I pet you?" She asked Harry. Harry grunted which Luna took to mean 'yes', she kneeled down and began stroking him under his chin and behind his ear. Admittedly Harry was quite enjoying it. "I just want to say thank you for all of your help." She added, Harry made a chuffing sound which caused Luna to smile. "Yes, I suppose Karma does have her moments."

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