Disclaimer: I own nothing relating to Harry Potter I only own the characters that if you looked in the book you would never find. Everything Harry Potter related belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Author's note: This story just kind of jumped into my head while I was lying in bed. It covers the main character Theo's third year at Hogwarts and will start on September 1 1997, what should have been Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. Information about my characters will be posted in my bio at some point within the next week.
This is not your typical story. For most stories you may expect a hero and a villain epically duking it out to a final end all battle. This is not that story. This is a story of what it's like to be an outsider and the effect the big story has on you. This is the story of one Theo Fredrickson and his friends and how they experience Harry Potter's final year at Hogwarts and the effect it has on them.
Theo Fredrickson was mostly your average teen. At the moment he was thirteen years old and had just begun his third year at the esteemed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However this year was different. This year former headmaster the late, Albus Dumbledore would not be returning to Hogwarts. He was dead, supposedly killed by the new headmaster, Severus Snape. That coupled with the mysterious deaths and disappearances as well as the Ministry's new stance on muggleborns was enough to make most people nervous. However Theo was not worried for himself he was worried for his friends. You see, Theo was a pureblood, high class, Slytherin. However, he had his fair share of friends that weren't. In fact, none of his closest friends were in Slytherin. Most were even in Gryffindor. Many people in the school often wondered why he, a tall, not quite handsome but certainly not ugly, Quidditch star, high class, pureblooded, Slytherin would ever keep such friends. The answer was because that was Theo's biggest character trait. He was extremely loyal to his friends and once he chose them he never let go. Although that sounds like a Gryffindor he had many things that made him a Slytherin. He was devious, he was well liked in his own house but excelled at playing his housemates. In fact he was so successful that he managed to keep it so his true friends were never more than teased, never outright bullied. He was also very good at striking from the shadows. Those who did mess with his friends never found themselves in an all out fight. Theo would wage a psychological war on them. He was always there, and they were always waiting for him to strike. This game would drive his enemies insane with worry and eventually he would launch one quick strike that would end every fight without an actual battle.
At a glance, Theo looked the part of a proper Slytherin pureblood. He was tall, had long flowing dark brown hair that almost looked black, while his features were sculpted so one wouldn't quite say he was handsome, however he was good looking, he had dark brown eyes that turned reddish brown when he was enraged, and most notably he had a rather large scar that started just below his hairline on the left side of his head and ran sideways to just over the middle of his eye. The scar was from his only physical altercation at Hogwarts, when he met one of his best friends, Emilia Van Cross, early in their first year. She was a Gryffindor who was usually quiet and reserved however when Theo had decided that it would be a good idea to make some rather cutting remarks about her hair after one of his housemates had "jokingly" levitated his pumpkin juice over her head and let it drop, she punched him so hard she broke her hand. While they were in the hospital wing Theo apologized and they became fast friends. She was the friend Theo was most worried about this coming school year. Emilia was an orphan and no one could find any record of her parents. As such there was no proof that they were wizards. (Theo privately thought her parents were muggles who had abandoned her after finding out she was a witch) In many people's eyes she was considered a muggleborn. Theo was scared of what kind of treatment she would receive at Hogwarts. As it was, Theo had convinced his father to pay large sums of money to keep the ministry from investigating her. However, he knew that under teachers like the Carrows (a brother and sister many of his father's friends often spoke of) she would likely be subject to brutal discrimination.
As far as his other friends went, Theo was far less worried because all of them were either half or pureblood. First there was Timothy Invensive, a tall blonde boy with dark green eyes who Theo would probably consider his best guy friend. Next was Jakub Toffson, a boy of Slovakian descent whose parents had despised Durmstrang and sent him to Hogwarts. He was by far the best looking of the three boys but shorter than Timmy and Theo, however he made up for it with an ego the size of the school. Despite this he often could easily be brought down a few pegs when reminded that he was only a reserve on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team while Timmy started on Gryffindor and Theo started on Slytherin. The last member of the quintet was Kylie Connor, another Ravenclaw who was best friends with Emilia. She was cousins with Jakub and the two often pulled pranks on the remaining three. She was taller than her cousin and often enjoyed making fun of him for it. All of them had been friends since the day after Theo met Emilia and she introduced him. While Jakub and Kylie almost instantly accepted Theo, Timmy had taken several more weeks. It wasn't until the two of them had been chased through half the school by Filch that Timmy began to trust Theo. The two became incredibly fast and close friends soon after.
It was these friends that Theo was thinking about as he packed for Hogwarts. He held a picture of them that Kylie's parents had taken of them at the end of their second year. In the picture Theo stood laughing with an arm around Emila and the other around Timmy, while Timmy had his other arm around Kylie. Jakub stood in front of the group but, as the moving picture showed, had recently bitten into a Canary Cream from Weasleys Wizards Wheezes, they were all roaring with laughter at him. Theo remembered that moment clearly. After Dumbledore's death he and his friends had been in shock. He remember the service, Jakub had been quiet for the first time in what felt like forever, Kylie and Emilia had cried through most of the service and he and Timmy had awkwardly tried to comfort them. After the funeral however, most of the rest of the year passed in a fog. Theo remember stepping off the Hogwarts Express fresh from the quietest journey he'd had since he sat alone on the way there his first year. He remembered the good byes being said and in an effort to break the melancholy feeling Jakub had bit into the cream. Theo had had no idea a picture had ever been taken but was relieved when Kylie sent it to him. It was nice to be reminded of happy times with his friends, especially with the darkness that even he could sense looming. As his father knocked on his door to inform him that it was time to leave Theo took one last glance at the picture and whispered two words to his friends in the picture, "Good luck."