Title: Clandestine
Rating: T (or PG-13 whichever you prefer to follow). Rated for language and certain content.
Warnings: Slash (Boys/Boys & possibly Girls/Girls but not likely) and Bad writing ;)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned in the story that you recognize, those are all the property of J.K. Rowling. :) So please no suing! Storyline and all original characters are mine. :)
Clandestine
Prologue
A young boy was sleeping peacefully nestled snugly in his oversized bed, while hundreds of miles away, another young boy was quietly counting the number of spiders he felt crawl over the back of his hand in the dark cupboard where he lived.
Draco Malfoy was the son of two aristocratic parents, brought up having anything and everything he could ever desire, except the unconditional love of his father. Harry Potter was the son of two aurors whom were killed shortly after his first birthday. He was brought to live with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, who were not fond of the quiet boy. They gave him the castoff clothes of his oversized cousin Dudley and made him sleep in the cupboard under the stairs.
These two boys, whose lives were so dramatically different, were going to find some very interesting things about themselves within the week before their eleventh birthday. Things that showed they have a lot more in common than one might think. Both boys were about to receive letters by owl post informing them of the acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Both boys were, in fact, wizards and very powerful ones at that. A fact that young Harry was completely oblivious to in his dark cupboard.
Informed his parents were killed in a terrible car wreck, Harry was brought up to believe he was a normal English boy, incapable of anything special whatsoever. His aunt and uncle were so terrified of magic, that they chose to simply ignore that it existed and did everything in their power to ensure Harry never learned of its existence. He always wondered why certain things would happen when he was very sad or angry, but never in all the wild things he could imagine, would he have come to the conclusion that he was capable of magic. That letter would explain all the things in Harry's life, all except why his family treated him so horribly and why, above all else, his parents had to die before he even knew them.
Draco, however, was very aware of his magical abilities because his parents had instilled the ideals and "requirements" of being a pure blooded wizard into him since he was a very small child. He was a child who had many expectations placed on him by his parents, expectations he was currently unaware of and that would drastically change his life and how he views people around him forever. However, at the moment he was just wonderfully excited at the prospect of finally going to school at the very same place his parents had attended. One of Draco's greatest faults, he would soon learn, was how much he idolized his father. But for now, his excitement could not be dampened.