Chapter Three

Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter

Warning: SLASH, Mentions of abuse and OOCness.

When Draco woke up he felt unusually warm and weighed down by a weight on his chest. He peeled his eyes open and saw nothing but a mess of black hair. Groaning he remembered everything. Sitting up he put his arms around Harry and lay him back down on the small bed.

He groaned again and stood up his back cracking from sleeping on half off a bed. He stretched before walking to a book self he looked through some of the books that Harry had. He couldn't help but scoff at the lack of variety. He jumped slightly at a noise from the other side of the room and he looked over to see Harry sitting up hugging his new silver dragon toy to himself.

Harry's eyes widened as he looked around the room, his eyes landed on Draco and he suddenly smiled widely.

"It wasn't a dream." He said happily before he climbed off of the bed and he walked around the room once gently touching the sofa and the toys as he past them.

"Are you hungry?" Draco asked as Harry reached him and Harry nodded biting his lip. "Shall we go down to breakfast then?"

Harry nodded and Draco led him over to the trunk of miniature clothes where he gave Harry something to change into.

"I'll be back in a minute get changed and then wait here." Draco said before grabbing some of his own clothes which were moved here by the house elves at the same time as things for Harry were moved in. He moved into a bathroom that he had noticed earlier and showered quickly before getting dressed and running his hands through his damp hair.

He hurried out of the bathroom to the living room where Harry was standing his dragon toy in his arms. Draco couldn't help but smile at the little boy but he realised that he was doing it and he quickly put his mask of indifference back on.

"Ready to go?" Draco asked and Harry nodded. Draco took Harry's hand and led him out of the dorm. It took him longer than usual to get to the Great Hall and when they got there much like the other day there was silence. Draco led Harry over to the Slytherin table and sat down; Harry climbed onto the bench next to him and stared at the empty plates as if waiting for them to explode.

"Hi Draco." Pansy said as she sat down next to Harry. "Hello Harry."

"Hello Pansy." Harry said quietly.

"So Harry what's this cute little dragon's name?" Pansy asked and Harry shrugged. "Haven't you named him yet?"

"No." Harry mumbled just as food appeared on the golden plates in front of them. Harry looked up at Draco who was piling food onto his plate.

"Here Harry let me help you." Pansy said putting some pancakes on Harry's plate.

"Pans, where's Blaise?" Draco asked.

"He was panicking over his hair last I saw." Pansy snickered.

"I was not." Blaise said indignantly just as he sat down opposite Draco. "I was merely looking after my hygiene."

"Hygiene? Since when does hygiene include spelling your hair until it sits 'just right'?" Pansy laughed. Harry looked around at the older children laughing and smiled happily. He picked up a knife and fork and cut up his pancakes. He began to eat slowly keeping his eyes on the Slytherins.

"Hi Harry." Someone said from behind him and he turned around to see Ron and Hermione standing there.

"Hello Ron, Hermi- Hermimi-"

"You can just call me Mione if you want Harry." Hermione said smiling and sitting down next to Pansy while Ron moved to sit next to Blaise although he moved further away from Blaise than Hermione was to Pansy.

"So Harry I like your dragon." Ron said. "I used to have a toy like that only he was red. What's he called?"

"He doesn't have a name." Harry said putting his knife and fork down.

"Hmmm, well we'll have to think of one soon won't we?" Hermione said smiling. Harry nodded before hugging his dragon close.

"How about Draco? That means dragon." Pansy said and Draco glared at her.

"He is not going to call that toy Draco!" He said indignantly.

"Well why not? It's a perfectly nice name." Blaise said.

"Because the toy is not worthy of the name Draco." Draco said angrily.

"Well don't you sound snooty?" Pansy said, "I think Draco's the perfect name for it."

"No!" Draco said frowning.

"Don't worry Draco, I won't call him Draco." Harry said quietly. "You don't have to be mad."

"I'm not mad Harry, well not at you anyway. I'm just annoyed at Pansy and Blaise." Draco sighed. "You can call the dragon anything you want."

"I don't want to call it Draco." Harry mumbled.

"Well that's good." Ron said. "I think Draco might have exploded if you did."

"What do you want to call it then Harry?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know." Harry said looking at his toy. "But he shouldn't be called Draco. Draco's called Draco."

"Ha, your plan backfired." Draco laughed and Pansy and Blaise pouted.

"We'll degrade your name somehow, someday!" Blaise said and Ron gave him a strange look.

"Hermione, I think the Slytherins just had some form of a joke between them. I'm worried." Ron said giving Hermione a strange look.

"Oh grow up Ron; I know for a fact that even Slytherins have a sense of humour. I have been talking with Pansy all year now, she and I happen to be quite close by now." Hermione said smiling. "I didn't really have any girls in my own year that I am friends with. Until Pansy and I started talking."

"You've been friends with a Slytherin since the start of the year?!" Ron yelped and Hermione nodded.

"Oh don't look so surprised Weasley. I don't hold the same views on muggle borns as my parents or the dark lord." Pansy said. "And anyway; Blaise, Draco and I don't support the dark lord anymore."

"Since when?" Ron asked glaring suspiciously.

"Since the summer." Draco sighed. "Now it's nearly time for Defence against the Dark Arts."

"Come on then." Blaise said standing up. Draco stood and picked Harry up. Harry leaned his head against Draco's shoulder. They walked as a group towards the third floor and into the D.A.D.A. classroom.

There were many whispers as Hermione and Ron sat with the small group of Slytherins.

The class began after the whispers had died down. Professor Vaughn the new defence against the dark arts teacher had given Harry some paper and pens to draw with. He had his head bent over the desk and was drawing rapidly.

Meanwhile all of the seventh years were doing offensive spells and defensive spells that they had learnt the previous lesson.

"Well done children, now next lesson we'll be learning about vampires. So read chapter's five and six of your guide to dark creatures books." Professor Vaughn said. "You are dismissed."

Harry looked up as the sound of scraping chairs hit him. He looked around and smiled up at Draco.

"Come on Harry, we have to go." Draco said and Harry nodded. He hurriedly grabbed his pictures and his dragon toy before running after Draco. They began to walk to transfiguration. Harry clutched his pictures to him as he tried to keep up with the seventh years.

"Urgh, come on then." Draco said holding his arms open. Harry walked into them and Draco picked him up.

"Thank you Draco." Harry mumbled rubbing his face against Draco's shoulder; Draco rolled his eyes at the coos this brought from practically all of the girls watching them. He glared at Hermione and Pansy who were both grinning almost sadistically at him.

"Leave off." Draco snapped before storming ahead. He stopped outside the transfiguration classroom and put Harry down on the floor. They were alone since Draco had walked rather quickly.

"Are you mad?" Harry asked quietly and Draco looked down at the wide green eyes.

"No." He sighed rubbing his hand over his eyes.

"Really?" Harry whispered and Draco nodded bending down to Harry's height.

"Why don't you show me what you drew back there?" Draco sighed leaning against the wall. Harry bit his lip before he nodded and gave the papers to Draco.

Most of them were of them were of the dragon toy but there was one picture at the back of the small group of seventh years that had been looking after Harry. Draco couldn't help but laugh as he saw the Hermione stick figure, it had mad curly hair. He smiled as he looked at the picture for a bit longer. They were all holding hands in the picture and smiling widely. It was very good (for a five year old).

"I like this picture." Draco said showing it to Harry and Harry smiled shyly.

"You can have it, if you want." He mumbled and Draco smiled.

"Thank you Harry." He said ruffling Harry's hair. Harry's smile widened just as Hermione, Ron, Blaise and Pansy came up behind them.

"Why are you thanking him?" Ron asked.

"He drew a picture and said that I could keep it. Here." Draco said showing them the picture.

"My hair is not that bushy!" Hermione said indignantly but with a smile on her face. Harry giggled and everyone turned to look at him.

"What?" He asked instantly afraid as if he'd done something wrong.

"It's just you haven't laughed yet." Ron said smiling. "It's nice."

"Hmm." Draco hummed just before the corridor began filling up. "Let's go inside."

They all filed through the door and Draco carried Harry into, they sat down at the back corner of the classroom. McGonagall gave Harry a look before carrying on talking about a mood spell.

Harry began to sort through his pictures until he reached a blank sheet of paper. He bit his lip before looking at Draco.

"Draco?" He whispered and Draco glanced down at him.

"Yeah?" Draco whispered.

"Do you have some pens I can use?" He asked and Draco nodded looking through his bag before finding a quill and some ink and giving it to Harry. Harry frowned and looked at it in confusion.

"Um." He mumbled then Hermione on his other side smiled and handed him a pencil. Even though she did use quills she liked to have muggle things as well.

"Thank you." He said smiling brightly at her. He began to draw while everyone else around him was changing colours due to the mood spell. A loud laugh caused him to look up and his eyes widened.

"Draco, you're purple!" He yelped and Draco glared at him before turning orange.

"Yeah, well noticed." He said dryly.

"But how?!" He asked his eyes wide.

"It's a spell. A mood spell, it makes you change colour with what mood you're in." Hermione said.

"Spell?" Harry asked his mouth dropping open. "But spells are make believe."

"No they're not. They're very real." Ron said grinning. "Malfoy, you feeling irritable today."

"Yeah well, when you turn purple on the first try it makes you a bit irritable." Draco snapped. Harry suddenly giggled and Draco turned his glare on him but it softened a bit; a fact that didn't go unnoticed by Pansy and Blaise.

"What do you find so funny?" He demanded but there was a jokey tone about his voice.

"You look funny when you're different colours." Harry laughed.

"Did young Mister Potter just dare to insult Mister Malfoy?" Blaise gasped and Draco glared at him. "By the way Drake, that glare stopped working on me the second day of first year."

"Shut up and take the stupid spell off of me!" Draco yelled loudly causing McGonagall to shush him. Finally Blaise took the spell off of Draco and turned to Harry.

"Why don't we see what young Harry is feeling?" He said grinning evilly and Harry shook his head while laughing. "Why not Harry?"

"I don't want to!" Harry said backing up away from Blaise who was now pointing his wand at Harry. Blaise was just about to cast the spell when McGonagall grabbed him by the ear and Blaise cowered.

"OW, OW, OW, OW!" Blaise cried.

"Pray tell Mr Zambini, what were you just about to do?" She said in a sickly sweet voice.

"Nothing Professor." Blaise whimpered and McGonagall 'hmmed' before leaving. Blaise clutched his ear trying to stand tall as his friends and the Gryffindors fell to the floor laughing.

"Oh shut up all of you!" Blaise said indignantly. Just then the class ended and Draco watched as Harry gathered up his new pictures and his dragon, his arms were bursting with all of his things.

"Harry, do you want me to look after your pictures and your dragon for you?" Draco asked and Harry smiled up at him before nodding.

"Thank you." He said as Draco put the pictures and the dragon in his bag.

"It's okay." Draco sighed. He swung his bag onto his back and picked Harry up. Following the others they made their way outside to Hagrid's hut.

"Wow!" Harry gasped as he saw the castle. "We were in a castle!"

"Yeah." Hermione said smiling at the little boy.

"Where are we going?" Harry asked.

"We have a lesson out here." Draco sighed.

"Oh." Harry said before just looking around him at all of the unfamiliar sights. They reached Hagrid's hut and sat down on one of the logs there. A few minutes later Hagrid came outside.

"Well 'ello there 'arry. I 'eard about what 'appened to you." Hagrid said. "Boy you are one cute little boy."

"Hello Hagrid." Ron said smiling.

"Hello Ron, Hermione." Hagrid said smiling. "Got a good lesson for all of you today."

"That's good." Hermione said and Hagrid nodded before moving away obviously getting the creatures ready.

"What dangerous creature do you think we'll be studying?" Draco asked. No one answered him because just then Millicent Bulstrode marched up to them flanked by Crabbe and Goyle.

"Well hello there traitors." Millicent said smiling in a sickeningly sweet way. "Your Daddy wasn't happy when he heard that you were baby sitting Potter Malfoy."

"Well I don't care what my 'Daddy' thinks anymore." Draco sneered.

"Well you should considering the Dark Lord might consider taking you back if you brought Potter to him." Goyle said.

"You really are as stupid as you look. I left the Dark Lord of my own free will. I would never join him again." Draco said.

"You might think that over Draco." Millicent said before leaving to the other side of the umm… outside? As Hagrid came back over.

"Right, today we'll be looking at griffins. They are a lot like hippogriffs but ten times more dangerous so instead of the big brutes you'll be looking after a baby in your groups. There are six baby griffins so split into groups of five." Hagrid said.

"Can we join your group?" Hermione asked Pansy who nodded smiling.

"Sure." Blaise said shrugging. Hagrid brought the class to the other side of his hut where a small pen was with six small griffin cubs in there.

"You'll have to feed and play with them to keep them happy. I'll be marking you on how well the griffin responds to you. Be mindful of their claws." Hagrid said. "Now each group pick a griffin."

"I'll go get one." Ron said before moving over and coming back with a small black griffin cub. It purred as it was put on the floor.

"It needs milk." Hermione said. "Come on Pans, let's go get some."

Draco watched the two girls walk off for a moment before putting Harry on the ground and bending down to the level of the griffin cub. It looked at him for a moment, tilting its head to the side before moving past him and to Harry who was watching it with wide eyes.

He giggled as it rubbed against him.

"Draco, look. It's a cat with wings!" He giggled as it leapt onto his shoulder and rubbed its head against his. Draco couldn't help but smile at the cuteness the scene.

"Yeah." He said. Then Hermione and Pansy came back with a bottle of milk each. They both cooed at the scene before Hermione gave Harry a bottle and Harry sat down with the griffin in his arms feeding it.

"This is the easiest lesson ever. All we have to do is let Harry look after the griffin." Blaise said lying down in the grass. Everyone watched as Harry fed the griffin with such care.

Once the griffin was fed it leapt into the air and flew around Harry's head. Harry giggled and chased the griffin for a moment. After a few minutes he fell to the ground exhausted and the griffin dropped down on his chest. Harry giggled and hugged the griffin. He stood with the griffin in his arms and made his way back over to Draco's side where he sat down and leant against the older boy.

"Having fun Harry?" Draco asked and Harry nodded before giggling. "What's funny?"

"Divina's having fun too." Harry laughed.

"Divina? You called her Divina?" Blaise asked and Harry shook his head.

"That's her name silly. She told me." Harry said and Draco was instantly alert.

"What did you say?" He asked.

"She told me her name. It's funny when she talks to me it tickles my head." Harry laughed again after a few moments.

"Did she talk to you again?" Blaise asked, he was sitting next to Draco and had heard everything.

"Yep, she said that my hair felt funny." Harry laughed and the griffin at that moment was sitting on Harry's head.

"Do you really hear her Harry, like really in your mind?" Draco asked and Harry nodded before biting his lip.

"That's not bad is it?" He asked his eyes wide and Draco shook his head.

"No, but I don't know what it is." He said turning to Blaise. "You ever heard of anything like this?"

"Yeah. I read it somewhere. Apparently griffins can communicate with humans but only if the human has power equal to the griffin itself." Blaise said. "Potter must be one powerful kid."

"Yeah." Draco said watching as Harry giggled again before lying down in the grass and closing his eyes a smile constantly on his face. "Harry?"

Harry didn't answer just kept stroking the griffin the smile still on his face.

"Harry!" Draco yelled moving over to his charge. He picked up the griffin who growled and struggled in is grip. "Harry!"

Harry opened his eyes slowly before sitting up and reaching for the griffin.

"Draco, Divina's not happy." Harry mumbled but Draco shook his head.

"Why didn't you answer me?!" Draco yelled causing Harry to shrink backwards.

"I-I didn't hear. Divina was showing me her home. She has loads of brothers and sisters." Harry said his eyes wide in fear.

"What do you mean showing you?!" Draco shouted his fear making him angry.

"Draco, calm down!" Blaise said angrily seeing how scared Harry was.

"She showed me pictures in my head." Harry whispered tears in his eyes. "I'm sorry Draco. Don't be mad at me."

"I'm not mad Harry." Draco whispered putting Divina down and hugging Harry, he felt Harry's tears soak into his robes but he didn't care.

"Then why were you shouting?" Harry mumbled into Draco's shoulder.

"You scared me when you didn't answer. I thought something bad had happened to you." Draco whispered before pulling away and wiping Harry's tears.

"I'm sorry Draco." Harry whispered before leaning forward and kissing Draco's cheek. Draco pulled back in shock before a tiny smile made its way across his face.

"Malfoy! Why the hell were you yelling at Harry?!" Ron yelled as he made his way over.

"Talk about missing the moment." Blaise mumbled. "Harry just gave us a scare. That's all."

"So you yell at him!" Ron shouted.

"It's okay Ron." Harry mumbled picking up Divina. He sat down on the grass and occasionally a chuckle would escape him.

Draco stared at him for a while before collapsing onto the grass in a heap.

"That kid's going to be the death of me." He groaned rubbing his hand over his eyes. "I'm growing old at seventeen!"

"You seem to be growing attached to little Harry." Pansy said smiling as she sat down next to him.

"And you're not?" Draco snapped before closing his eyes. After a few minutes Hagrid called for the end of the class and everyone had to give their griffins back. Harry bit his lip as Divina flew over to her brothers and sisters.

"Draco." He whispered tugging on Draco's sleeve as he was carried back to the castle for dinner.

"Yeah." Draco sighed. He wanted to just go to bed he was so tired.

"Divina told me that her Mummy and Daddy and their friends would help fight with me in the war. What did she mean?" Harry asked and Draco bit his lip.

"Um, I don't know Harry." He lied. How do you tell a seven year old that they were supposed to defeat a monstrous snake-like man?

"Okay." Harry mumbled before leaning his head on Draco's shoulder and promptly falling asleep. Draco rolled his eyes but carried Harry to the Great Hall for dinner. Once they were there he shook Harry awake and sat him down in between himself and Hermione.

"So Harry, have you had fun today?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah! I got to draw loads of pictures and Divina told me that I was her best friend!" Harry yawned and Hermione ruffled his hair.

"That's good." She said before she began to eat. Harry glanced up at Draco who rolled his eyes before he put food on Harry's plate.

"Eat." He said gently and Harry nodded.

"Where's Jeffrey?" Harry asked and Draco frowned in confusion.

"Who?" He asked.

"Jeffrey, my dragon. Divina told me to call him that." Harry said smiling brightly.

"He's in my bag." Draco said slowly.

"What a weird name for a dragon. Jeffrey." Ron said wrinkling his nose. Blaise nodded and they glanced to each other before stuffing down as much food as possible.

"You know, I think they're having a competition." Pansy said and Hermione nodded her agreement. Draco watched as Harry carefully cut everything small enough before eating it so he made sure not to make any mess and it made him think of what cold hearted people his Aunt and Uncle must be.

After dinner Draco picked Harry up and carried him to his rooms. He laid the now asleep Harry in his small bed before sitting down on the couch and just watching the flames of the fire.

Tap, tap, tap. The noise brought Draco out of his stupor and he frowned as he saw the regal looking eagle owl. Sighing he got up and let the owl in. It gave him and indignant peck before sticking out its leg. Draco untied the letter and the owl flew off.

Draco brought the letter back to the couch and stared at his Father's elegant writing on the front. He bit his lip before opening it.

Draco,

It has come to my attention that you have in your possession a young Harry Potter, now is your chance to regain the trust of the Dark Lord. You have until tomorrow to bring Potter to me, a portkey has been attached to this letter. It will activate at exactly seven pm tonight. If you are not here by that time I will assume that you have made your choice and the consequences will be deadly.

Lucius Malfoy.

Draco scoffed at the letter before throwing it in the fire. He didn't even bother to look in the envelope to see what the portkey was instead he looked at the time. It was Six fifty five. He shrugged before going over upstairs to the bedroom and collapsing on what must have been Harry's bed.

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