THE SHADOW PHOENIX
PROLOGUE
The black haired wizard with ridiculously round glasses sat alone in a compartment of the Hogwarts Express hoping he could somehow forgo travelling this way.
When it became painfully clear that there was no way he could do that without causing suspicion, the thirteen year old boy hero (yeah! Harry Potter) cast strong notice me not charms around his compartment to prevent his fans from ambushing his short but welcome solitude. He preferred contemplative silence to inane nonsensical chatter his so-called friends generally afflicted him with.
It wasn't that Harry considered himself above the useless people who called themselves friends. Never…..But it wasn't HARRY that had friends, only harry POTTER did. Even they were not loyal to him, he discovered the fact a few months ago.
FLASH BACK
Harry was utterly exhausted from the day's events. Of course, fighting a basilisk, saving a girl of nearly his age and enduring Lucius Malfoy's rant and death threat did that to anybody. So he gratefully sank into his bed.
It was around midnight that he was disturbed from his sleep. Looking around he found Ron's bed empty. Ever curious, he slipped into the shadows and went into the common room. What he found there, left him reeling.
"Bloody prat! Why should always Potter play the hero!I went to the chamber along with him. Then why am I not the hero? Even Ginny is singing his praises.." Ron was saying in a furious whisper.
"And remember it was I who figured it was a basilisk,then why didn't Dumbledore give me house points? It's all because of Potter. Till the time he is here, we can't get recognition."Hermione said in indignation.
"We almost had it when I spread the rumor that he is the Heir of Slytherin , but the idiot just had to rescue my sister and now we are in a life debt to him. I don't understand why all our plans go haywire."Ron said oblivious to the rapidly paling face of his so called friend.
"the only place where our efforts pay off is the potions class. I've managed to botch up every single potion of his,and the imbecile has no idea."Hermione smirked.
Harry was livid. So that's how all his potions went wrong. He wanted to throttle both of them for betraying him. But something kicked in telling him this was not the time and he went back silently to his bed feigning innocence.
Harry smirked at this memory. Those two had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. Sure, they had started the game but the end was in his hands. He would make them pay for it. It wasn't common knowledge that Harry was a Slytherin in disguise. And slytherins didn't announce paybacks. After all, revenge was sweet, but surprises were sweeter.
Oh yes, both of them were in for a horrific surprise.
Well, you couldn't expect any less from the son of the Slytherin head of house now, could you?