At first, Harry had been a little worried that Draco would break his oath.
After all, whether it was contract magic or oath magic, if it could be established, it could naturally be broken. To look no further, Draco had Snape at his side.
Although Harry loathed Snape, he did not dare doubt his abilities. Back at the Quidditch pitch, the black magical flame he had seen around Snape had actually been larger than Professor McGonagall's or Professor Flitwick's.
That had put Harry in a very bad mood for a while, and had even made him somewhat afraid of Snape. After all, black! Just thinking about it, it hardly seemed like a good color.
Harry would not have been at all surprised if someone as powerful and strange as Snape could break Hagrid's contract magic.
But Harry soon discovered that his worries had been completely unnecessary.
Starting that night, Draco would shake off his two followers almost every evening-three, actually. Besides Crabbe and Goyle, there was that very annoying girl called Pansy.
When children disliked someone, they found that person repulsive to look at. Harry and Ron were still children, so they both shared that trait. Thus, when they had first started school, they had thought Pansy Parkinson was quite pretty. Now, however, they found her even more of an eyesore than a ghoul.
But that was getting off track. After that night, Draco would shake off his followers and hurry to Hagrid's Hut with all sorts of unusual food and drink. He even dressed it up as letting Hagrid check that the contract on him was still in place, to prove that members of the Malfoy family always kept their word.
But the real reason fooled no one.
"You've all seen it these past few days, haven't you? Malfoy