Draco was snooping around, walking through a hall downstairs from the entrance hall. He was dragging his finger along the wall, letting it rub against all the paintings of food down in that dimly lit hall. He was startled when he suddenly heard giggling, and he turned around quickly, only to see a pear in a fruit bowl giggling, as he had accidentally brushed his finger against it. The pear then turned into a doorknob, and Draco cautiously opened it out of curiosity.
He was surprised to see the Hogwarts kitchen, complete with tables in the center in the exact same positions as the ones upstairs in the great hall. "So that's how they do it!" Draco thought as he saw a house-elf set a dish on a table, with the dish suddenly disappearing soon afterward. He couldn't help but scowl at the house-elves but smelling all the food was starting to make Draco hungry, and he had a lot of time to kill.
Draco saw a plate of turkey legs sitting on a counter by the wall, and he decided to grab it, only for a house-elf to grab his arm. The house-elf said, "Students aren't supposed to be down here. You don't want to lose house points, do you?" and Draco said, "You aren't using it, are you?" and the house-elf said, "It's an order that a student changed their mind about." and Draco said, "Then what's the problem with me taking it?"
The house-elf said, "Fine, but what's the magic word?" and Draco nearly snapped at being treated like a child, but he said, "Please" through his teeth. The house-elf let his hand go, and he said, "Thank you." and the house-elf said, "That's better!" as Draco took the plate and tore into a turkey leg, enjoying the great taste that he came to expect from something cooked in the Hogwarts kitchens.
He sat at a nearby table and gorged himself on the turkey legs, finishing them down to the bone, leaving a small pile of leg bones. He belched loudly and patted his full belly, which was starting to press on his robes. The house-elf from before said, "You sure polished that off, kid! If you ever want to take an unwanted dish off our hands, help yourself! We could use the extra counter space!"
Draco nodded as he looked around the kitchen, seeing quite a few dishes of various types of food dotted about the counters that wrapped most of the way around the kitchen. Draco decided to...