Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Warnings: SLASH [Two men in a sexual relationship with each other. If you don't like it, LEAVE. Don't bitch at me or you'll be torn to shreds. Fuck Off. Tankies ] Violence, Mast., and I may add other warnings on later on.
Summary: An accident in potions class leads Harry down a road of new possibilities with people he wouldn't have expected to help, and a bit of a physical change...like being a cat.
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I were, I'm not J.K. Rowling, nor do I own anything of hers. -sighs- Any ideas that you see here that you think I took from someone else, please let me know so I can read their fiction and give them credit for having the idea first, but I did come up with the majority of it from my own demented mind, though different things...inspired me.
When you start going to school and you look up at the older students, you often think it will take forever to be that old. Children always want to be older than they are and to have more privileges. They want to leap out of their childhoods and into the real world.
Well, in truth, it came way too fast. No matter what happened during the last siz years of his life, they still went far too quickly. The privileges, while nice, wern't all they were cut out to be and they came with the lesser known thing called 'responsability'. As for jumping out of his childhood? Well, personally, he would like to have one first.
He had never been given the chance to grow up and have the real chioldhood he so craved. The weight of the world had been forced onto his shoulders at the tender age of one, when his parents had been killed and he had killed their murderer by reflecting the curse meant to kill himself. Fame laid onto his shoulders like an untwanted mantel.Then he was placed with the Dursleys, his anti-wizard muggle relatives. He stayed in their abusive home until he was eleven years old, living in a cupboard under the stairs at that time. Then came Hagrid, the half-giant, whom rescued him in the name of Hogwarts. And so he found out about his heritage, which he had been lied to about his entire life up until that point.
Being who he was, he of course had an interesting school career. First year was a shock. He made friends in Ron and Hermione, became the youngest Seeker in a century, and rescued the sorcerors stone after recieving an invisibility cloak that was his fathers. Second year he realized that he could speak pareseltongue, saved Ginny from a Basalisk and Tom Riddle's younger self, and found the Chamber of Secrets. Third year he found out the truth surrounding his parents death, gained the Marauder's map, and faced off Dementors. He also met and saved his wrongly convicted god-father, Sirius Black, and met his father's old werewolf friend Remus Lupin, who was the new DADA teacher.
Of course, the next three years were all much worse. Fourth year he was submitted into the Tri-Wizard Tournament by Barty Crouch Jr. who was disguised as Professor Moody. He faced of Dragons, Mermaids, and a maze. He watched Cedric Diggory get killed before his eyes and faced off against Voldemort as well. Fifth year he began Occumulecy lessons with Snape, though they ended because he lookeed into SNape's pensieve without permission. Umbridge took over the school, he was banned from Quiddich, and was forced to carve 'I Will Not Tell Lies' into the back of his hand. He had horrid Visions through Voldemort's eyes, one of which that tricked him into going to the Department of Mysteries with his friends. It was there that he witnessed the death of his god-father. Later on he found out about the prophecy that had ruled his life without his knowing.
Sixth year was just as bad as the year before it. The summer of fifth year he had been beaten horribly, like every year before, but he ceased caring. During the year he apologized to Snape and rebegan his Occumulecy lessons again. Eventually this led to their mutual, though grudging, respect for each other. His grades improved and his friends drifted apart from him, though he became closer to Neville and Luna. Even Malfoy had ceased bothering after his father was put in prison after fifth year. Then it happened. Ginny was captured by Voldemort while in Hogsmead. While Harry had perfected his Occumulecy at night, it was hard to maintain during the day, and he couldn't if Voldemort tried hard enough. He sent Harry a vision of what he would do to Ginny if Harry didn't come. So of course, Harry went. Hermione informed the Headmaster, who sent aurors after him. Harry distracted Voldemort while the aurors began arriving, and then he freed Ginny and escaped before he got caught in the crossfire. Colin Creevey, who had followed Harry, had not been so Lucky. He was hit with a Crutacius curse, followed up by the killing curse.
Barely seventeen and he already had three deaths on his head, and yes he blamed himself for each and every one of them. So yes, he would like a normal childhood, but he knew he would never be given that chance. He was born to kill Voldemort, and he doubted he would survive the encounter. He had no motivation, nothing to live for, that could convince him otherwise.
Author's Note: Alright, now just to note a few things.
1. None of my chapters will be this short.
2. Harry is going into his 7th year right now.
3. I completely made up all information about his 6th year
4. Sadly I'm very bad at keeping my characters in canon, gomen nasaii.
I REALLY need a beta. ANy offers would be lovely.
I'm putting the next chapter on in just a moment, as I have already finished typing it. [And I'm exhausted so everything may be typed absolutely horridly, I apologize, but I'm really running on empty]
Any questions? Ask me in a Review! I will try to respond to any and all reviews.
While I have written many fictions, I never type them up because while I have good ideas, I write quite...oddly and can't stay on track. I don't plan on this fiction being more than 10 chapters long, give or take one or two. Either way, Enjoy and I'm ALWAYS welcome to critisism. [Not Flames - -;;] And suggestions for that matter. I always take into account what my reviewers say.
-Strmbringr