"Hello Potter" He drawled
"Hello Malfoy" Harry drawled right back "can I help you? If you're not sure where to sit then I'd advise one of the empty chairs, preferably one of the ones away from me"
"Shut it Potter, do you think you're better than me?"
"I think I'm me, if I happen to be better than you then fine, if not then I've got better things to do then try and one up you"
"You Potters think you're so important, you and your brother are nothing but stupid half-bloods that came from a filthy mudblood" Malfoy spat out the last word with disgust, everyone who was in the class watched, wondering what Harry would do. What they did not expect was him to smile.
"Oh Malfoy" He said "sweet, uneducated Malfoy. My mother may be a muggleborn but the Potter line is a family that can be dated back by thousands of years. Your family's origins are much more interesting, let's me see if I can remember. A few hundred years ago, your ancestors who were farmers if my memory serves me right, came over to England. Then they gave birth to a squib who married another squib and produced a child, then the marriages kept on coming and your family kept on producing and earning money until they were rich enough that nobody cared or bothered to look up their ancestry.
Your family only really started becoming famous once there were no muggleborn or squibs left in your family, so I wouldn't badmouth muggleborns when your family wouldn't exist without them."
"You're lying!" Draco shouted
"Am I? Dear Merlin, I would've thought that someone who puts as much stock in blood as you do would at least look up your family history, nearly any book on old magical families can tell you the same thing Malfoy. Now I'd recommend you sit down Malfoy"
"Oh yeah, what are you going to do if I refuse?" He responded and Harry looked to be in thought, when suddenly he came up with an idea.
"I will tell your mother that you're misbehaving" He said with an evil grin
"My mother?!" Draco blurted out as a few people began giggling
"Yes, your mother" Harry nodded "who is descended from the Black family, which I am the heir of"
"I am the heir!" Draco shouted
"Yeah, slight problem with that, you're not. My godfather is the current head of the Black family, if he dies then it passes to me. I could absolve the marriage between your mother and father you know, he'd have to pay the debt and well, you'd be embarrassed beyond all belief"
"You wouldn't!"
"You're right" Harry smiled "I don't interfere with other families, so unfortunately that was a bit of an empty threat as I have no intention of following through with it, however the purpose of it was to get you to think. You don't know me Malfoy and you don't know what I'm capable of, if you were a proper Slytherin then you would observe and plan but instead you come charging in and trying to start a fight just like the stereotype of a Gryffindor. You're an embarrassment to the house and you're an embarrassment to purebloods, now you will go and sit down in your seat or else"
Draco couldn't help but back away and take a seat on the other side of the classroom, as far away from Harry as he could get. The other students looked at Harry with a sense of respect and surprise, except Hermione who was glaring at him for making a scene. Daphne and Tracy had their jaws dropped, Harry turned to the two and smiled before gently pushing their mouths closed.
After overcoming their shock, the rest of the class started taking their seats. Harry saw one boy, Neville Longbottom, deciding where to sit. Harry gestured the empty seat at his side and Neville looked very nervous but sat down next to him.
A few minutes later, Ron and Adrian burst into the room and smiled when they saw that no teachers were there.
"We're lucky" Adrian said to Ron "McGonagall would have killed us if we were late" This surprised Harry, did Adrian not know she was an Animagus? Surely he would have realised after all of these years if he really lived with Dumbledore.
"I know" Ron nodded "can you imagine the look on her face if we were late?"
"You won't have to imagine for too long" Harry said, catching both boys attention.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked
"She's right there" Harry pointed to the cat on the desk.
"Are you mental?" Ron laughed "that's just a stupid cat"
Before more could be said the 'stupid cat' jumped off the desk and transformed into the stern Professor McGonagall. Ron's jaw dropped and Harry looked very smug.
"Ten points to Slytherin for recognising I was an animagus Mr Potter" She said before turning to the other two "now may I ask why you were late?"
"We...woke up late" Ron admitted
"Well perhaps next time I can transform one of you into a pocket watch, that way at least one of you can be able to get here on time. Now find your seats and Mr Malfoy, that will be twenty points from Slytherin and two week's detention for your earlier remarks about muggleborns"
The pair sat down and McGonagall began explaining about transfiguration, and how dangerous it was and how it was important to obey her instructions. She handed everyone a needle and ordered them to turn them into matchsticks. Harry lazily waved his wand over the needle and transformed it into a needle, he then handed it back to McGonagall. Who looked amazed, she looked over the match before looking at Harry.
"That was quick" She said, she turned the matchstick into a needle and handed it to Harry "please show me it" Harry did so, except this time he remembered to actually say the incantation and the matchstick turned into a needle.
"My, that's impressive Mr Potter. I dare say that your father would be proud, he was excellent at transfigurations, take ten points to Slytherin."
"Thank you Professor" Harry smiled at her, and once she left he began helping Daphne and Tracy who had eventually got it as well. Granger came close, but not as good as Harry or his friends. Neville was still having difficulties and Harry couldn't seem to work out why.
After the class finished, Harry walked out of the lesson with Daphne and Tracy and they were talking when someone decided to walk up alongside them.
"How did you do that?!" Hermione demanded
"I've done a lot of things, can you please be more specific?" Harry replied
"You turned it before me" She pointed out
"And your point?" Harry raised an eyebrow
"How did you do it?"