He had watched over the conversation with a sneer locked in place at his company, Potter, the Weaselette, Cormac Mclaggen and a few other seventh year students. Luckily Theo and Blaise had also been invited and they spent the entire meal kicking the Gryffindor's under the table and sniggering at their salty looks. Slughorn had only spent a moment talking to Draco about how he had known his grandfather Abraxas, Draco politely nodded and said something like. "He spoke very fondly of you Professor." Although his grandfather had done nothing of the sort and died many years ago from Dragon Pox, Draco knew that sucking up to his new teacher would somehow benefit him in the long run.