Oh, this was a great chapter!  It will be interesting to see Harry and Draco together. 

I really liked how you had Harry yet again, disobey Snape and taking his wand and not wanting him to go to the meeting.  Brilliant!  Can't wait to see how Harry get's punnished for this one!

Thank you for the update, and you are right this is short but absolutely not bad, I think is great and the issue with Snape´s wand is incredible, very funny. Please don`t make me wait so long for the next chapter I hate your cliffhangers.

You've got a talent for cliffhangers, you know that, don't you? :-)

Glad to see Harry developing a conscience... He's come a long way from the boy that used take responsibilty for things he had no business meddling in and deny responsibility for things he was responsible for. Loved the way he gently reached down, picked up the wand and offered it back to Snape. When he voluntarily fetches the ruler and offers it to Snape, he *will* have come a long way.

The Draco angle... I wait in anticipation! Draco is an interesting character (and far more sympathetic in my eyes than Harry Potter) At first he didn't interest me much. We were told he was a bully but we were show that he never won in anything from Harry. Draco wanted a broom in the first year, Harry was the one that got it. Draco wanted to get Harry in trouble, Draco got detention. Etc. etc. A bully might be interesting, but a loser bully is not. But then I discovered more and more the Reality Gap. We are constantly *told* one thing and *shown* another. So I started to look at Draco's actions without being influenced by Harry's and the narrator's view of him and I got a totally different person. Harry's view is, after all, skewed. Harry measures people on the Dursley Scale. When he first met Draco and Draco said that he was bullying his father into buying him a new broom, Harry automatically put him into the 'Dudley-slot', but does this fit? The more and more I reread Draco's dialog troughout the books, the more I'm convinced that Draco is simply a good storyteller. Every group of kids has one of those. They're usually the ones that come up with the good games to play. They tell stories so convincingly, that they even believe them themselves. I can just imagine pre-Hogwarts Draco playing with Vincent and Gregory and having to make up all the games. What games do wizard children play? Not Cowboys and Indians. Aurors and Dark Wizards perhaps. Or Silly Muggles. That's why I'm not taking 12 year old Draco boasting about wanting to help the Dark Lord seriously. He's still living in fantasyland. I mean, how many kids playing Cowboys and Indians when they're kids grow up to murder real life Indians? When he grows older Draco starts to understand the issues and we see him in great turmoil in HBP. Draco is an intriguing character, not because he's and evil bully, not because he's secretly good, but because he's a reasonable normal, intelligent and creative child that grows up finding out that his beloved father, who is such a nice, if strict, man, might possibly be *wrong* about things and basically in over his head. That's the scary thing about evil really: nice people can do evil things too.

Harry's view is skewed. Harry is a seriously f*cked up boy, really. I love your fic because you show that in order to become a worthy and happy human being, Harry will have to change his behaviour and the way he looks at things. I'm waiting in anticipation for the second half of your story... Draco and Harry will be fun to watch. Especially if Harry is in disguise and Draco will approach him without preconcieved notions. Harry will be shown the *real* Draco, warts and all but probably without so many warts as he thought.