Up Jumped the Devil

O My O My
What a wretched life
I was born on the day
That my poor mother died
I was cut from her belly
With a stanley knife
My daddy did a jig
With the drunk midwife
Who's that yonder all in flames
Dragging behind him a sack of chains
Who's that yonder all in flames
Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me..

Draco Malfoy was born on December 31st, exactly six months after Harry Potter was born, and exactly ten months before the fall of Voldemort on Halloween of the next year. Lucius Malfoy presented a proud face to the Wizarding World in general, but within the Malfoy Manor he was frustrated that his only child within four years of marriage had produced this tiny, sickly, shrieking...thing. On the night when Draco turned one week old, Voldemort stopped by after a Death Eater gathering to see the child. He pronounced that he felt a very strong magical talent in the squalling baby.

Lucius found himself to be much more affectionate to his heir after that.

O poor heart
I was doomed from the start
Doomed to play
The villians part
I was the baddest Johnny
In the apple cart
My blood was blacker
Than the chambers of a dead nun's heart
Who's that milling on the courthouse steps
Nailing my face to the hitching fence
Who's that milling on the courthouse steps
Up jumped the Devil and off he crept

When Draco turned eleven and prepared to enter society by attending Hogwarts, his father announced that Harry Potter would be one of his classmates. Draco was told in no uncertain terms to either befriend the boy and draw him to Slytherin, or become his enemy-- there would be no fence-sitting in the Malfoy household.

For the first four years, Draco obeyed his father quite willingly. The Potter boy and his Weasel compatriot had humiliated him in front of the other Slytherins, something that no Malfoy should stand for.

When Draco saw Potter at the beginning of fifth year, however, he noted that the boy looked withdrawn and exhausted, as if he hadn't slept all summer. Draco, who had spent the summer training in the Dark Arts with his Father and Lord Voldemort himself (which was supposed to be an honor, except that Draco knew that Voldemort was desperate for strong wizards to join him), found himself commiserating with Potter for once. Both boys' minds began to disintegrate under their equal but opposite pressures; Harry's being saving the wizarding world, and Draco's being destroying it.

In sixth year, Harry and Draco agreed on a truce, which the entirety of both houses ended up participating in. Without Slytherins tricking them into losing points, Gryffindor won the House cup with the highest lead in over two hundred years. With suspicion rising throughout the Wizarding World, Slytherin found itself with the lowest score the house had ever received.

In seventh year, Harry kissed Draco, and told him that he loved him and that he should turn from Voldemort's side. Draco kissed Harry back, and told him that he loved him too, and that he should turn from the side of Light that was using him to a near-deadly point of exhaustion. And the two boys struck a deal and clung to each other with all their might.

O no O no
Where could I go
With my hump of trouble
And my sack of woe
To the digs and deserts of Mexico
Where my neck was safer from the lynching rope
Who's that yonder laughing at me
Like I was the brunt of some hilarity
Who's that yonder laughing at me
Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3

Draco wrote a note to his father, saying that "I'm in trouble and have to go to France. Please send money-- will explain when I get there." He was mildly surprised to find that his father had done as asked, and he and Harry disguised themselves and bought fare on a Muggle boat to Tijuana, Mexico.

Ha-Ha Ha Ha
How lucky we were
We hit the cathouse
And sampled their wares
We got as drunk
As a couple of Czars
One night I spat out
My lucky stars
Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof
Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof
Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof
Up jumped the Devil and said "Here's your man, I got proof"

Draco and Harry, posing as Muggle teens taking a semester off from Cambridge University, started out following Mad-Eye Moody's mantra of constant vigilance. Before long, however, they found themselves diving into the local club scene, drowning their memories of their past lives in alcohol and sex, living on an almost constant high. They began throwing fiestas in the small apartment that they rented together, and often woke up naked in their bed with broken bottles and other naked bodies around them.

That was the scene that was found by the Aurors from England, who had been assigned by Dumbledore to find the missing Harry Potter. Standing behind them was Lucius Malfoy, explaining that he had evidence that Draco had forced Harry to go with him to Mexico using the Imperious curse. "I am ashamed at my son's actions," he said smoothly, allowing one (fake) tear to fall from his eye, "But I feel that it is my moral obligation to save the Boy who Lived."

O no O no Don't go
O slow down
To the righteous path
I straight as an arrow
Take a walk
And you'll find it too narrow
Too narrow for the likes of me
Who's that hanging from the gallow tree
His eyes are hollow but he looks like me
Who's that swinging from the gallow tree
Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me

Punishments are not always given for the purpose of correcting behavior. Sometimes the public demands it. And no matter how much Harry fought the public, telling them that he wasn't under the Imperious curse and that Draco hadn't done anything, the Wizarding world wanted vengeance against the man who stole their boy hero. Despite all his efforts, Draco was given the Dementor's Kiss and abandoned at Azkaban, where he wasted away within a week.

Harry, feeling like he was being eaten alive by his rage, severed all his ties to the Wizarding World. Let Voldemort have it, he thought. It's no longer worth fighting for.

Down we go Down we go Down we go
The Devil and me Down we go down down down
Hell fire and flames Down we go Down we go
To Eternity Down we go We go down down down
Down we go we go down down down
Down we go the Devil and me to Eternity
We go down down down down down...