Fallacy

By: TheeMissKitty

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and related characters.

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"I heard that you can hear all these weird sounds coming from his room at night," one first-year Hufflepuff whispered to the other. The other girl gasped loudly, her eyes wide, her eyes moving to the Gryffindor table.

"Really? Like what? And how do you know, you're not a Gryffindor!"

"I heard it from Marcus Dertmart, you know that Gryffindor boy in our Potions class? And it's just weird whisperings, I heard, like he's speaking that…Parseltongue language the You-Know-Who likes. I don't know…"

One table over, a group of young Ravenclaws were discussing the same vein of rumors.

"Did you know that he sleeps with a snake?" one boy muttered to his girlfriend. "A live snake, that whispers into his ear and everything!" He shuddered violently. "I can't imagine…"

"What kind of snake is it?" one second year leaned forward. "Is it poisonous?"

"Oh, absolutely deadly! One bite and you're dead…"

Across the Great Hall, Draco Malfoy looked as smug as the cat that just ate the canary. "Draco what is it?" Pansy asked him after she could no longer deny her curiosity. "You look exceedingly smug this morning, love."

"Oh it's nothing Pans," Draco replied airily. His eyes drifted away from the Hufflepuffs and the Ravenclaws and strayed to the Gryffindor table, where green eyes and a matching smug smile stared back. "Did you know I was a poisonous snake?"

"Oh Draco," Pansy sighed, "I always knew that!"

"Oh but Pansy," Draco smirked, his tongue trailing across his lips. Emerald eyes burned into him as Harry Potter dropped his toast and stood in one rough jerk from his table. "You just don't know who I bite."

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