Chapter 2
The next week is strange for Harry. Draco Malfoy, the hated enemy of Harry Potter, was being civil! Even Snape was nice for a change. People were starting to notice that the two Slytherins were being nice to Harry, so they decided to confront him about it.
"Harry? Why has Snape and Malfoy been so nice to you this past week?" Ron asked his best mate.
"Yea Harry, why is the dungeon bat so nice? Are you repaying him for him being nice?" A fifth year Gryffindor sneers at Harry.
"Oi! Leave him alone! Maybe Snape and Malfoy grew up, unlike you." Fred Weasley, coming to Harry's rescue.
"Whatever." The mean Gryffindor leaves the common room.
"How are you..."
"Holding up..."
"Harry?" The twins ask in their unique twin speak.
"I'm fine, just wish people would leave me alone."
"Ah, we understand."
"We'll make sure that they..."
"Don't bother you again, little brother." The twins had adopted Harry as the school year went on, and now considers him to be their youngest brother.
"Thanks." The rest of the common room is empty because everyone else is trying to get their thrunk together at the last minute. Harry has had his packed for a few days. He laid down got to sleep.
Harry woke up before everyone to store his trunk in the Potions classroom then went back to the common room and waited for everyone to get ready. Hermione came down with the twins following her, Harry smiled at them and they went to breakfast. They were laughing and promising to write each other when Ron stomped in. Harry turned to smile at him but Ron looked pissed. "Hey Ron, you okay?"
"Am I okay? You are suppose to be my best friend, that means you wait for me." Ron snapped. Everyone stopped to watch the two.
"I was hungry, you were asleep and you are not my only friend Ron." Harry stated. Ron growled and before anyone could stop him, he backhanded Harry across the face. Fred and George stood and pulled their wands on their younger brother as Hermione jumped over the table to help Harry on the floor.
"You hit him..."
"He is your friend..."
"What were you thinking?" The twins demanded of their brother.
McGonagal appeared beside them, "Boys, enough." The twins lowered their wands but continued to glare at Ron. "Mister Ronald Weasley, I will be joining you on the platform to talk to your parents. Now go back to the common room."
"But I haven't eaten." Ron shouted.
"You should have thought about that before you hit Mister Potter." She pointed out, Ron growled and stomped away. McGonagal knelt and reached for Harry, he flinched for her. "Mister Potter, let me see your face please." Harry slowly looked up at her, his lip was busted but nothing more. "I am sorry that he hit you. I will watch him more closely."
"Thank you Professor." Harry whispered as the twins helped him into his seat. They sat beside him but Fred moved over so Hermione could sit with them too. "Thanks guys."
"It was nothing..."
"He was wrong..."
"And you are our brother..." The twins smiled at Harry.
Hermione laughed at them, "What they mean, Harry, is that you are worth it."
Harry smiled as he felt accepted for the first time in his life. He nodded and stayed with them the whole day until it was time to leave. He made some excuse and told him he would find them on the train. He felt bad for lying but he had to. He pulled his Invisibility cloak on and hid in the Potons classroom. He sat in a corner and read a book that he had borrowed form Hermione for the summer. He lost track of time because Snape and Draco walked in the classroom, magically locked the door and turned. "Potter?"
Harry looked up, "Professor?" He stood and flipped back the hood of the cloak.
"Wow." Draco whispered, Harry blushed and looked down.
"Come, we must hurry." Snape stated as they walked to his office. Once inside he magic locked it and turned to the fire place. "Draco you first, I will bring Harry alone with me."
"Yes sir." Draco nodded. Snape shot a spell at it and it lit up in green fire. Draco stepped inside, threw some kind of dust down and yelled out, "Malfoy Manor." He dissappeared in a flash of light.
"It is called Floo powder, Potter." Snape stated as he grabbed some, stepped him with Harry at his side, "Hold your glasses." Harry took them off and held them. "Malfoy Manor." He threw the powder as well and they were gone. Suddenly the ground was gone then it was back again but when Harry stopped coughing and put his glasses back on he was in a different room. He looked around until he noticed two people staring at him, he got nervous and looked down. Severus let go of him and walked farther into the room. "Lucius, Narcissa."
"Severus." The women smiled, "He looks so small."
"He was abused," The male growled. "He needs to see a healer."
Harry flinched at the growl, Draco stepped to his side. "It is okay Harry. Father is just mad at what was done to you, he isn't mad at you." Harry looked up at him, Draco smiled. "Let's let them talk, I'll show you where you will sleep tonight and then you can shower and then we can have some of my mother's chocolate cake."
"Chocolate! Cake can be chocolate?" Harry asked excited, everyone looked shocked. He looked down, "Sorry."
The women ran to him, lifted his head. "There is nothing to be sorry about Harry. It is prefectly fine to ask questions." He looked shock but nodded. "Now we were all shocked at your question because most kids all about what kind of sweets there are."
"The firsts sweets I had were on the Hogwarts Train, Mrs. Malfoy." Harry stated. "I wasn't allowed sweets because I am a freak and freaks don't get sweets."
The women gasped as the man threw something at the wall. He walked over to Harry and turned him to him. "Harry James Potter, you are not a freak. You are a wizard. You are to call us Narcissa and Lucius, do you understand?"
Harry nodded in shock, "Yes si... Lucius. But... um..."
"What is it sweetie?" Narcissa asked.
"My middle name is James?" Harry asked, "Like my dad's?"
"You don't know your middle name?" Draco asked.
Harry shook his head, "I didn't know my name was Harry until they let me go to school. I always thought it was boy or freak."
Narcissa had tears running down her face as Severus sat on the couch on shock. Narcissa hugged him softly, he tensed but then relaxed for her. "Your name is Harry James Sirius Potter. Your mother's name was Lily Anne Evans until she married James Charles Potter. Your godfather is Sirius Orion Black but you can't meet him yet because he was falsely out in Akaban, a wizard jail."
"Why?" Harry asked.
Lucius sighed, "Harry?" Harry pulled out of the hug, turned to him and sat on in the chair that Lucius pointed to. Everyone sat down and looked at Harry. "What do you know about your parents death?"
Harry frowned, "Only what I forced out of Hagrid. On Halloween, Voldemort came to my home. Broke in killed my father and mother then tried to kill me but somehow I survived and he disappeared. Most people believe he is dead but some people think he is still out there somewhere, which after this is year. I can honestly say, he is still out there somewhere."
Lucius nodded, "We heard about that and will get back to it but first." Lucius sighed as he showed Harry his arm, "This is the Dark Mark, all the followers of Voldemort called Death Eaters, wear it." Harry nodded, telling himself he would not judge until he heard everything. "Now both Severus and I both have one. There was a prophecy about you and Voldermort. Well in the begining it didn't name you, it was between You and Neville Longbottom. Voldemort chose to mark you, not Neville. The Death Eaters chose to attack Neville, they tortured his parents into insanity. Your parents found out that Voldemort was coming after you and hid away. They had a secret keeper, to protect them but their secret keeper was a traitor. He was a Death Eater and he told Voldemort where your parents were. Voldemort killed your parents, failed to kill you because your mother sacrificed herself for you to live. Voldemort can't touch you, for the power of love."
Severus sighed as Harry took this in, "Harry. Your father had three friends in school, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. They were always together, I didn't get along with them at all. Sirius was your father's best friend, almost brothers. Remus was next, he is a werewolf." Harry nodded, smiling softly. Severus chuckled, "Then there was Peter. He followed them around like a lost puppy, he hid in their shadows but eventually it pissed him off. He become a death eater and betrayed his friends and got two of them killed and one thrown in jail."
"Sirius was thrown into jail because everyone believed that James made him their secret keeper but he was. Peter was." Narcissa stated. "Sirius went after Peter to capture him but Peter had a plan. He shouted out in front of people that Sirius had betrayed James, Blew up thirteen muggles, cut off his finger and dissappeared down a sewer drain."
Severus growled, "Your father, Sirius and Peter became animagus'. That is a wizard that can turn into an animal, like Professor McGonagall. They did so they could help Remus during the full moon. Your father was a Stag, Sirius was a giant black dog and Peter was a rat. So after Peter cut off his finger, he transformed into a rat and ran down the sewer but no one believes Sirius because The three of them were unregistered, whisch means they kept it a secret. It is against the law but they did it anyways."
"Oh. So Peter is out there some where?" Harry asked.
Narcissa smiled. "Yes, one more thing. Your father and his friends had nicknames. James was Prongs, Remus was Moony, Peter was wormtail and Sirius was..."
Harry cut her off, "Padfoot!" He jumped up and laughed. "That is perfect."
Severus looked confused, "Harry how did you know?"
"The twins!" Harry laughed as he sat back down, "They are always saying that they couldn't have found their way around Hogwarts with the help of Messers Prongs, Padfoot, Moony and Wormtail. They must have something that belonged to them in school. Just like my dad's Invisibility cloak."
Severus nodded, "Speaking of the twins, what happened this morning? I was in a meeting with Dumbledore and have only heard rumors."
Harry suddenly stopped smiling and looked sad. "You were right about the Weasleys, or atleast Ron. I went to breakfast with the twins and Hermione, Ron got all angry because I didn't wait for me. He said... You are suppose to be my best friend, that means you wait for me. When I said that I was hungry and he wasn't my only friend. He growled and hit me across the face, backhanded me. The twins stood up and pointed their wands at him as Hermione jumped over the table to check on me. McGonagall said that she woud join Ron on the platform and talk to his parents. Later I heard Fred tell Hermione that Molly had Ron that he had to be my best friend or it wouldn't work. What wouldn't work?"
"What ever plan they have to try and get you money." Narcissa growled. "Harry, Molly has always been after money. She was a bit... loose in school. No one wanted to marry her. Some how she convinced Arthur to. When Arthur did, he changed and his parents cut off his money until he disowned Molly. Her brother's, the Prewett Twins, cut her from their family money as well. She demands her kids to fit in this plan that she has set for them. I know her first two moved out and live a life that she doesn't approve. I have about the twins, they sound like their uncles, which means Molly hates them." Narcissa growled. "It seems that she has trained Ron perfectly, you will have to watch out for her daughter next year."
"Ginny." Harry shivered. "She screamed when Fred mentioned me, wanted to meet the great Harry Potter. Why can't everyone just see that I am just Harry? I wish I had listened to the Sorting Hat."
Lucius frowned, "What do you mean?"
"It told me that I would have fit in any house, expectially Slytherin but both Ron and Hagrid talked bad about it and Draco's first and second impression weren't helpful."
Draco frowned, "I remember meeting you when getting robes but not on the trian. I was suddenly sitting on the ground and Goyle was complaining that Ron's rat had hurt him and Harry should shaken my hand."
"You don't remember?" Harry frowned. "That is wired. You came in, Ron laughed at your name, you dissed him and his family then stuck your hand out saying 'I can show the right people to hang around' when I didn't shake you hand. You glared and said that I would meet the same end as my parents. Goyle tried to still our food, Ron's rat bit his finger and Goyle flung him against the window. The rat really was patheti..." Harry's eyes got narrow and his mouth thinned out.
"Harry?" Severus asked.
"I want them to suffer." Harry shouted as he stood. "I am tired of being lied to and manipulated!"
Severus growled as Lucius smirked, "We can meet your grandparents, meet with the healer, get you healthy. Then we can free Sirius."
"Lucius?" Harry asked.
"Yes?" Lucius looked at him.
"I need to go to Gringotts. I can't explain why but after I meet my gr... grand.. parents, I need to go there." Harry stated, Lucius nodded and Harry blushed as his stomuch growled. "Sorry, didn't eat at dinner because Ron kept stealing my food."
"Dobby!" Narcissa called out, a small creature appeared beside her. "Harry is hungry, please set some food out for him and Draco, includ the chocolate cake."
"Yes Mistress." The creature bowed and disappeared.
"What was that?" Harry asked.
"That was a house Elf. He is kind of like a servent or butler." Severus explain, Harry nodded. "They don't get paid but they are happy because the magic form the family they join keeps them alive. Without a family, they would die."
"That is terrible." Harry whispered. "I have a question, no one get mad." They nodded, "Will I being doing any chores?"
Lucius and Narcissa shook their head, Severus sighed. "The things you so called Aunt did to you, was not chores. It was slave labor, Harry."
Harry nodded, "Okay." Draco pulled him away to go eat as the adults planed Harry's new life. Harry and Draco eat until they were stuffed, they laughed and joked until Narcissa said it was bed time. Harry cried at the room they gave him, he took a shower then climbed into bed. He had the best night of sleep in life.
Miles away, at his Aunt's house. Vernon beat his wife because the boy was gone and the money they were getting would soon follow. Petunia laid there on the ground and prayed that where ever Harry was, that he was safe and happy.
