A/N:- alrite boys and girls? Quite impressed with the responses so far, keep it up, thanking you lmao

it's also been said about my spelling, I know its bad, but there are reasons behind it, reasons I wud rather not go into, but lets just say I missed a lot of primary school but if anybody wants to beta for me, it wud greatly be welcome, thanking you.

Chapter 1

Harry helped Hermione man handle their trunks into an empty compartment, together they managed to sling them on the overhead racks. They sat down across from each other and quietly watched the activity going on outside the train, it was quite the scene, really, people were rushing about, teenagers gathered in groups chatting with their friends and parents giving last minute instructions to eye rolling children.

"So then, which house do you fancy going into?" Asked Harry as he twirled his wand in his fingers, a habit that he had picked up while he was thinking. Hermione thought for a minute before answering.

"Well, it will almost be expected of you to go into Gryfindor, after all, the Great Golden Boy couldn't go into any other house."

Harry groaned, "Oh stuff it up you arse sideways." Hermione chuckled in response, flicking her newly straightened and streaked hair out of her face.

A couple of days before they had both gone and got a complete make over, they had got the clothes themselves weeks before, but they need to completely look the part. So Hermione had gone to a beauty salon and got her hair magically straightened so it wouldn't be bushy or frizzy ever again, while she was at it she got blonde streaks put through her hair, nothing over the top, just subtle so they didn't stand out unless the sun hit it right. When Harry went, on the other hand, he got his hair cut quite short and like Hermione, got it magically altered so that it would spike up as if gelled permanently, he also got a large streak of white blonde bleached around his head, starting above his scar on the left side of his forehead and curling round to end behind his right ear. He also got his left ear pierced and a small pure gold loop put in, while Hermione got both hers pierced and diamond studs put in. Harry also wanted to get a tattoo, but sadly, he was to young, you needed to be at least 15 before you could get one, but he decided he could wait.

Harry brushed down his white tracky's as he said, "Just for that reason I'm considering Slytherin, give the twats a heart attack, eh?" he pretended to be scary, waving his arms about, "I'm the new Dark Lord, be scared!" Hermione laughed at him, but shook her head, sadly.

"Yeah, that would be funny to see, but I think that it would be for the best to actually go into Gryfindor, from what I've read, they are supposed to be quite hot headed, and thick as pig shit as well, so they'd be easier to manipulate." Harry thought for a minute, then shrugged.

"What about Ravenclaw or Huffelpuff? If we could get the Huffelpuff's to be loyal to us, then we could convince them to do anything for us, and the Ravenclaw's would be a great source of knowledge, not that your not," he said with a cheeky grin at he look.

"The slytherin's should have a good connection network that we could use as well." Harry nodded, thinking for a bit.

"How about we go into Gryfindor, but make friends with the other houses," He thought for a second, "the slytherin's could be a problem to that, but we'll deal with that as and when."

Just as he finished speaking, the compartment door slid open and a blonde haired boy walked in, flanked by two big lads, Harry eyed their semi vacant look, muscle, nothing more, he dismissed them as a serious threat, then turned to the centre boy.

"I heard Harry Potter was on the train, are you him?" The blonde asked, his tone taking on superiority.

"Who wants to know?" Asked Harry standing up and turning to face the lad, Hermione slyly pulled out her wand but kept it out of sight, just in case Harry couldn't handle the situation, better to be safe than sorry.

"My Name's Draco Malfoy." the blonde held out his hand. Harry looked at it for a second before taking it.

"Harry Potter, and this is my good friend Hermione Granger, I know that the Malfoy's buy into this blood purity hype, but insult her because of her blood and the consequences would be rather . . . unpleasent," at that the two muscled lads moved forward a but, but Harry merely waved them off, "Oh, I don't mean anything by it I'm merely informing Draco here of the situation, please, sit down."

The blonde narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking hard before answering as he sat down, "How very . . . Slytherin of you Harry."

Harry smirked in reply before saying innocently, "I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, my friend."

Hermione smirked as well before asking, "So then Draco, which house are you wanting to go into?"

Draco stared at her for a second before answering, "Well, Slytherin of course, how about you two?"

At this, they smirked, "Well, all four houses have their uses, but I think we could gain more in Gryfindor." Hermione answered. Draco frowned a bit.

"Why do you think that?" Harry's smirk turned truly evil.

"Well, wouldn't you like to know? I'll just ask this of you, in public, treat us as if you hate us, understand?" Draco's eye's once again narrowed before widening, he returned their smirk as well.

"Ah, very well played Harry, very well played. I suppose you'll be doing the same for the other houses?" Harry shrugged.

"Maybe, maybe not, depends on how things play out." Answered Hermione. Draco opened his mouth again, but a crashing sound echoed from quite near their compartment. Draco got up and nodded to both of them, before opening the door and storming out, spinning on his heal and spat.

"Very well, Potter, you have made the biggest mistake of your life, enjoy your time with the mudbloods and blood traitors." he slammed the door shut and stormed off again.

Harry turned to Hermione and said, "Well, Slytherin down."

The door opened again and a red haired boy walked in, saying "Hi, can I sit here? Every where else is full." Harry nodded and he moved to sit down next to Hermione, "I'm Ron Weasley."

The introductions were made and time flew past, before they knew it they were getting changed into their robes, Harry and Hermione both noticed that Ron's robes were worn and frayed, they also noticed he got a jealous glint in his eye when they both pulled out expensive robes. 'Good' harry thought to himself as they headed off the train and where herded into the bouts by a man that obviously had some giant blood in him, 'If he's jealous, we can use that to control him.'

Harry, Hermione and Ron were joined by a boy that introduced himself as Nevielle Longbottom. All four of them were in awe of Hogwarts when they caught their first sight of the castle, though Harry and Hermione hid it well. As they're boats pulled up against the docks, a strict looking woman walked out of a door in front of them and said in a controlled tone, "Welcome to Hogwarts."

A/N:- bit of a short chapter, I know but i've got other things to do lmao oh, for the readers of Potter's Effect, I'm replaying Mass effect so I can refresh my memory of what happens, i'll update it ASAP.