Ladies and gentlemen, due to the fact that I wasn't doing the character of Hermione Granger any justice by being a complacent little puppy I decided to redo some elements of the story, just bits and pieces nothing to worry about.
Chapter 1
sauron was defeated cast into the abyss, a shapeless-blasphemy plometing for an eternity.
until he opened his eyes. he saw light, felt warm, calm and safe, but then he heard, noise then a voice
"pleas severus you must take him tonight, he will be safe with you, please!"
frantic yet sad the voice became low.
"I can't, where will you have me take him, where is he safe from the dark lord?"
a different voice spoke also panicked also sad.
"take the key to our gringotts vault, I've made the arrangements, take him to america, it's too big to search to many places to hide!"
"why me? why now?"
"I trust you... his taken my husband he won't take my son!"
there was a pause for long ment and then
"goobye narccisa..."
10 years later, at Kings Cross station.
harry potter a black haired boy with a scar and blazing green eyes is being crushed in hug by two men, the first James potter who look like a older version of the boy, the other sirius black a black bearded and lean friend of the family, each smothering the others laughter, then a woman Lily Potter with long red hair and radiant green eyes smacks the two men away from the boy
"James, serius, get of him he'll be late" the lily shouts, as the men broke apart from the boy, they chuckle and pout but compley, then harry notices his friend neville longbottom just past the barrier along with his parents frank and alice longbottom following close behind smiling and giggling.
"sorry were late, toke forever to get out of work for this" frank said to the potters and sirius alice and lily exchange pleasantries while the two men do the same to frank, then the train wesile breaks through the rumbling crowd, the two boy barely having the time to say hello to each other before running up the train corredors, tearful farewells and crushing hugs are all about before the train creeks and streams forward,
"did you see that?" lily said, the others turn to face her and then sharply look where she's looking, the train speeds into the distance as the crowd starts to drain out of the station, lily spots him first and then the rest, a black haired tall well built man wearing black suit and a familiar face, briefly looks in their general direction then turns to leave, sinking into the crowd, an olive skinned woman with waist long black haired pulls his hand into her hip, he turns and she plants a kiss on his nose the man smiles his teeth peaking out and leans down for another kiss his hair tied in a bundle with a red ribbon, as lily and the others try to place a name to the face, the black haired man and women disappear into the crowd flooding out.
"was that?" alice said recognition spreads among her party, gasps and odd looks all around as they try and procese the revelation "Severus?"
"can't be his too tall!" sirius said, on his toes to see further into the mass of bodies.
"where has he been all these years?" frank said questioning at his wife who shrugs at him the same expression on her face.
"who was she?" lily finally whispered to herself, her heart filling with vinegar at the memory of him her stomach in knots at the site of him happy, all the while james looks at his wife, his heart stinging with old embers, but hr forces a blank face, something he hasn't done in years.
the hogwarts train.
"so your just gonna take it, for sympathy, or do you enjoy it?" sauron asked, Draco was alone in his compartment, except for his friend, "have fun then"
"The Last time after they did it they became good friends, and then they betrayed me to tom" draco answered, they were waiting for two lovely boys to come along "but they died at the end of it all, this way I'll have a due cause to be vengeful and decent alibi" draco started to lower his enchantments, as sauron began thinning his blood so he would bleed faster, draco then took out his books placing them on the table, and pretended to read 'Hogwarts: a history', "hope this works", he could now feel her approach.
"Here she comes" sauron said "good luck"
The compartment door opened and a bushy head poked in "excuse me have you seen a toad" she saw a boy buried in a book she recognized, then the boy lowered the book to reveal a pair of amber eyes on a porcelain face with long curtain straight bone-white hair that reached all the way to his chest, he had only a green muggle t-shirt on with the words "need for weed", a gleaming gold wrist watch, blue jeans and black shoes, "um... sorry have you seen a toad?" she manage not to stare too long.
"I'm sorry miss, but I haven't seen a toad" draco said making his voice sound as innocent as possible, "perhaps one of the prefects could help" he noticed two boys behind her
"Okay!, um I'm Hermione Granger", she stuck out her hand "pleased to meet you!" draco stood up and approached her.
"I am Malfoy, Draco Malfoy" he took her hand and shook it, smiling all the while.
"Your a malfoy?" the plump boy in the back said, "but aren't you supposed to be died?"
"Come on hermione, let's ask someone else if they've seen trevor" a boy with glasses over his green eyes took the girls by the elbow and pulled her back to the corridor, the plump boy shut the door, "why, what's wrong?" hermione was protesting muffled by the closed door.
An hour later the door opened again, and this time two boys entered, they were large for their age, already in their school robes.
"Hey we heard the draco malfoy was on this train!" the one said.
"That's right I'm draco!, who may I help you?" he said standing up and putting his book down, the next thing he knew there was surge of pain shoot from his face and jaw, he felt the world spine and his knees buckle, he didn't even feel hitting the floor.
He awoke in a bed a familiar scent of disinfectant and clean sheets were in the air, he was at the hospital wing, looked out with blurry eyes and a massive headache, he reach up and touched his face, there was bandages over his left eye, a few scratches here and there, and the taste of blood in his mouth.
"Don't move, you'll make it worse" he heard a familiar voice beside him.
"Where am I?" draco asked setting up and looking at his watch, "what happened?"
"You were attacked by two boys, Gregory goyle and vincent crabbe, they've been punished for their actions" prof. mcgonagall stood up and asked another woman, from the other side of the bed "poppy, will he be well enough to get to the sorting ceremony"
"Yes, but I insest you bring him in for regular check up, just to see if his eye is any better", madam pomfrey said, her hands clasped together "his eye is hurt badly, he won't be able to use it for a while" mcgonagall transfigures a chair into a wheelchair and livatates draco on to it, and with a bow to mediwitch, they went to the great hall.
"Do you know why they attacked you mr. malfoy?" minerva asked, not looking at him as the chair move beside her on it's own, she was seemed angry "she's not particularly surprised why they did it, she doesn't seem to blame the boys" sauron spoke in the back of his mind.
"I've been told I'm prettier than most of the girls, maybe they just didn't know how to express themselves" draco said, the professor made no reaction, "she harbors resentment towards you, a death eater kill her brother and husband"
The sorting began, it didn't seem that it was delayed that much, some of the first years were still being escorted in to the castle, they were now lined up in pairs, darco saw the grey lady looking at him curiously, draco bowed his head, seeing this the grey lady smiled and curtsied at him, harry was the first to notice, following her line of site, he saw him then neville and soon the rest was on him, draco was now in his robes having changed before entering the hall, the bandages over his eye was transfigured into a white medical eye patch and draco draped his hair over it, everyone was whispering as he stood from the chair and walked to the line,
"Still on your feet I see" a dark skinned boy spoke without looking at him, "blaise zabini, a good friend and meat shield" draco thought, he would not let him die this time.
"Still" was all draco had to say, eyes now looking intently at the sorting hat, "the other children think you're angry by the way you looking" sauron said, looking further into crowd "they've all heard of what happened to you"
"When I call your names come forward and you'll be sorted, abbot hana" a girl stepped up, sat on the stool and cover with the sorting hat, "hufflepuff!" the hat yelled and the girl ran to her new house table cheer and applause flooded the hall,
The sorting happened the same way it did last time, hermione harry and neville went to gryffindor, harry's sorting had raised so much noise for such a long time that the headmaster had to calm everyone down, but smiled all the while, "he must be glad to add another name on his list of pawns" draco thought.
"Malfoy, draco" mcgonagall said loudly, and the hall went dead silent, the name had not been mentioned for many years, not that it stopped many from writing books about him and his family, 'the failed death eater', 'coward', 'man-without-honor' many others they called his father, only because they couldn't write about the boy-Who-lived for fear of angering the potters, though the malfoys were still powerful, not having any reminders made people bolder and boulder publish more and more outrageous books, some even spiculating that he died at some point.
"Just like we planned" draco thought, "let me ease your worried head, little traveler" sauron jest, more and more he enjoyed watching draco's plan slowly unfold, it was strangely amusing to be an advisor again, as he gracefully walked to the stoll mcgonagall had a thin smile painted on her face, most of the staff looked curiously at him,
"Slytherin!" it shouted Before the hat graced his head, draco had been a master of occlumency and legilimency in the future, and with sauron's own mind ability, not even the fabled hat of hogwarts could penetrate the fortress he built in his head, so draco hopped off the stool, walked with confident steps sitting right next to a fourth year girl, he smiled warmly at her and she nodded, not noticing the absolute silence in the hall or the looks the others at table were giving him, but sauron did and he let draco know.
the first years were using their hands and scuffing their food down even the slytherin firsties were doing the same albeit at a slower pace. draco used the utensils offered and observed perfect table manners,the fourth year girl beside him smiled , "her name is alicia reeds, she is she is amused by your mannerisms but has decided not to say it out loud, what do you think", sauron commented about the girl, "never heard of her before but then again, I was not much for making friends back then, we'll see about it later" draco answered.
They were warned about the third floor and the forbidden forest, then were sent off to their dorms, as they stood up draco looked at the hufflepuff table and saw his cousin with pink hair nymphadora tonks she was looking at him, they smile, being watched by the staff and prefects he started for the dorms, the rumor mill well run about him all night, "tomorrow would be a long day" draco thought and sauron confirming, they reached the dorms deep in the dungeons, where the head of house was waiting, in the original timeline, severus was the head of house, now it was a tall thin woman wearing dark green robes, jet black hair reaching the base of her spine, framing a pale face with piercing blue eyes and blood red lips, her left hand clasped over her right in front showing a silver snake bracelet, she looked young enough to be a 7th year, draco did not recognize her.
"Good evening my new snakelets" she said smirking and stressing the s sound "I am your head of house, Eleanor of the ancient house of Blackadder, there are rules that you must abide by, Firstly, the house of snakes are a united house, we take care of our own, if you have any quarrel with a housemate, deal with it here not out there, slytherin is unfairly judge by the world and so we must look to our own for support," she walked into the mass of first years sittleling on draco, the blonde bows slightly, his professor lifting the corner of her lip "secondly, we are the standard by which the rest of the houses are judged, if you haven't noticed, slytherin has won both the house cup and the quidditch cup every year for 12 years I have made it my mission not to let that record slip, why you might ask" she raised her right arm gesturing to plaque above the fireplace "a snake can kill more than a lion can eat" everyone read in unison, "I will not tolerate cheating or laziness, if you need help go to your friends in the upper years or a prefects, if your need is dire, come to me" she paused again this time with a huge smile on her "beat them in everything, prove to the rest we are better!" she shouted, even the students in their dorm rooms could hear, "good night my children and dream of standing on the throats of your enemies" with a wave of her hand the new slytherins were dismissed and herded by prefects into the personal rooms.
Draco gave the common room a long look, before he entered his private room, his room was larger than it looked from the inside, it had been layered with enlargement charms and security wards, in the original timeline five slytherin first years shared a room, twice as big as this room, he wondered why such a change happened, he made a mental note of it and filled it away, time to get organized, he concentrates his magic and disappears behind the layer of perception, draco caked the room with detection, identity, and anti-theft wards, self sorting and cleaning charms all of which rendered undetectable by sauron's "shadow walk" ability, then with snap of his fingers, all his enchantments activate, draco then writes a letter to his godfather about the day leaving out the incident on the train.