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The next morning found Aries down in the great hall eating breakfast and awaiting for the mail. He nudged Harry in the stomach and pointed over at the Gryffindor table.

It was then that the owls swooped in bringing the daily mail. Both Harry and Aries watched as a brown owl that belonged to the Potter's glided to a stop in front of not Harry, but Alexander.

It was a rectangular package and could only be one thing.

As Alexander opened a very obvious brand new Nimbus 2000, Aries glanced over at Harry out of the corner of his eyes. Harry tried hard to hold back the tears, but was unsuccessful and ran out of the great hall, nearly crashing into Hermione, who was coming back from the hospital wing.

"Hey…Harry?" She asked confused.

Daphne and Blaise saw Harry leave, and looked over at the Gryffindor table. They both frowned and calmly got up and followed Harry out, followed by Susan and Hannah.

Hermione came over to Aries, "what happened?"

Aries simply ignored her and walked over to Alexander, with her following. "What's the new broom for, Alex?"

Alexander sneered at Aries, but it was Ron who answered. "Alex is the new Gryffindor seeker."

Aries clenched his fists. "Yeah…what did you do to earn that…buy yourself a place on the team? And what about Harry? Where's his new broom?"

Alexander narrowed his eyes at Aries, "say what you want Aries." He got up and came over to whisper in Aries ear, "everything my brother touches gets destroyed. Everyone knows it. Sooner or later you'll figure it out. I don't know what you see in him anyway…he's nothing but bad blood."

Aries couldn't take it anymore. He brought his fist back and punched Alex straight in the nose. Alex of course just hit back and soon both boys were rolling on the floor throwing punches and kicks left and right, ignoring the world around them.

"Potter!" "Black!"

They were finally pulled apart, and Aries turned to see Severus Snape. His mouth was in a very thin line and both Aries and Alex knew how angry he was so they wisely stopped.

"My office…NOW!"

He dragged both boys out and down to the dungeons, where upon arrival he threw them onto separate couches. A wave of his wand and both boys were placed in some kind of invisible barrier. There was a light from the fireplace and Juliet Snape stepped out, she helped out Promfrey in the hospital wing.

She took one glance at them and sighed, going over to Alex first. Aries took this time to see the damage done. Alex had two black eyes, a cut lip, and probably a few broken ribs.

He himself had a few broken ribs, and a black eye as well. She finished up with Alex and came over to fix Aries up. When they were both healed, they sat and glared at each other, when the fireplace lit up again. This time out stepped their fathers, both with grim looks on their faces.

James and Sirius went to stand in front of their sons and waited. When no information was forthcoming, James spoke up. "Would someone like to tell us what's going on?"

Alex pursed his lips, not wanting to meet James' eyes.

Sirius glanced at Aries, "Aries…"

Aries looked up at Sirius, and for some reason couldn't help the tears. Sirius sighed, and even though Aries was eleven grabbed him and set him in his lap, rubbing circles in his back.

Alex snorted and mumbled under his breath, "crybaby."

James hit him on the head, "Alexander Potter! I did not teach you to act this way."

"Ow!" He clutched his head, "it's all Aries fault, anyways."

Aries pushed away from his father, "don't tell lies, Alex…" he turned to James. "I simply went to ask Alex why he got a new broom and why Harry didn't."

James and Sirius were now both confused. "Why would Harry need a new broom? He didn't make the quiddtich team."

Aries shook his head, "I don't know what happened to the letter that he sent, but he did…Harry is the new Ravenclaw seeker."

Aries crossed him arms, he decided not to tell what Alex had really said. The truth would come out eventually and when it did, that would be Aries reward, so he lied.

He swallowed. "What's more…Alex called me a name that I didn't agree with, so I decided to fight with my fists."

James seemed to take this excuse but Sirius was more sharp and could tell that his son was lying. He glared at Aries but Aries didn't budge.

Sirius shared a glance with James, who nodded. "Well in any case, we've decided to give you over to Severus and Juliet." Both boys groaned, punishment with Severus meant cleaning nasty cauldrons and other gross potion necessities while Juliet would make you clean the hospital wing…both without magic.

It was also clear which punishment would go to which boy. As Aries liked potions, he would be with Juliet, while Alex who wanted to be a healer would be with Severus.

James shook his head, "none of that…your lucky we came instead of the mothers."

Sirius nodded. "We're letting you off easy to what they had."

Alexander and Aries both winced. Maybe this was an easier punishment.

A ruffle of the hair and both James and Sirius were gone. Both Alex and Aries looked over at Severus who had sat there quietly, "a week's worth of detention, starting tonight at 8 sharp, and 20 points from Ravenclaw and Gryffindor."

He shooed them out, and Alex glared at Aries who glared right back. "It's over Black," and with that he stalked away.

Aries walked back up to the Ravenclaw common room and as soon as he entered, he was bombarded with questions.

"What happened?"

"Why did you hit Alex Potter?"

"That should be considered treason."

Aries glanced around, looking for Harry. Padma caught on, "if your looking for Harry, I think he went to the library."

"Thanks Padma." He turned, right back around and went to the library.

He was indeed in the library, along with a few others. Aries walked up, and took the empty seat next to Harry. They all looked up, "what?" He got out his homework and started to work on it. Daphne and Blaise simply knew better then to ask, while Susan, Hannah and Hermione were just confused.

Harry turned a page in his book not even bothering to look up, "did it feel good?"

Aries blinked, then grinned as he knew what Harry meant. "Why yes, Mr. Potter…it did feel good." Harry smiled, and placed a bookmark in his book. "Thank you, Aries."

Aries just kept on doing his homework, but he knew that Harry knew that he had heard him. Aries finished his homework in record time as did Harry and Hermione.

Aries suddenly grinned just had he had a great thought, and it must have showed on his face.

"What's that look for Aries?" Susan asked.

Aries turned to his friends, "I was just thinking that maybe, now is a great time to pull off a prank."

Harry grinned evilly, "why Mr. Black…I like the way you think."

Blaise joined, "I assume Mr. Potter and Mr. Black that this will be directed at the gryffindorks."

Aries nodded, "Yes Mr. Zabini, although we will have to prank other tables, including ours so that we remain hidden."

Hermione rolled her eyes, and slammed her book shut. "Boys." She got her stuff together and made to leave. Daphne, Susan and Hannah followed her lead.

"Don't drink the pumpkin juice tomorrow then…" Aries called out.

So all three boys put their heads together, and came up with a plan. At 8, Aries got up, "well I'm off to do my time."

"I'll just leave the rest to you." Harry and Blaise nodded. Aries made his way to the hospital wing, and when he got there Pomfrey and Juliet immediately put him to work. They kept him there until at least 1 in the morning before he was let go.

He was making his way, when he heard voices around the bend. He jumped behind a statue of armor and waited. It was Alex, with Ron and Neville. Aries frowned…Alex must have finished his detention early to be out at this time. They seemed to be going somewhere so Aries followed them.

They came to a stop in an empty classroom, and waited for someone to come. Time passed and out in the hallway a meow came.

Alex hissed, "its filch's cat."

They ran out the door, and Aries didn't need to follow to know where they were going. Tonight they would make Fluffy's acquaintance so he just went back to his dorm.

He walked up the stairs and pushed the door open, going to the one bed with the closed drapes, he ripped them open and crawled into Harry's bed.

"Harry," he whispered.

Harry rolled over, "your bed's the one over there."

Aries rolled his eyes, "yeah, yeah…I just wanted to make sure you were ok. Remember, you have a lot of people who care for you now."

Harry nodded. "I know…it's just sometimes I wish…" He didn't have to finish before Aries had wrapped his best friend in a hug. They sat there until they fell asleep.

The sun was just rising when Harry nudged Aries awake. "Get up goofball…I cant believe you slept in my bed last night."

Aries gave a goofy smile, "but you love me anyway."

They got ready and Aries grabbed the cloak from his trunk. They went down the stairs and as soon as they had left the common room, Aries threw it over both their heads.

They met up with Blaise at the foot of the stairs coming up from the dungeons and he joined them under the cloak.

"Do you have the stuff?" Blaise nodded.

They made their way to the fruit bowl painting, Blaise was confused. "I thought we were going to the kitchen's?"

Harry and Aries both grinned, as Harry went and tickled the pear. A handle appeared, so Harry pulled it to reveal the kitchen's with the house elfs running about.

They stepped into the kitchen and immediately they were surrounded by house elves. "What can we's be getting you?"

Aries ripped off the cloak, and grabbed the vile from Blaise. "Can you put this in a few goblets on each table, this morning?"

The house-elf looked used to this and just nodded, "of course Master Black." He ran off, and soon all three boys were laden down with food and sitting at a table eating said food.

Blaise was impressed. "I didn't know it was so easy to get to the kitchens, and what's more that house-elf didn't even blink an eye when we asked him to help prank the school."

Aries grinned while Harry smirked. "That's because of our father's legacy."

Blaise didn't understand. "What do you mean?"

Harry pointed to himself then to Aries, "our father's were pranksters back in the day…you noticed that the elf knew who Aries was just by looking at him."

Blaise nodded, he had seen that so it had to be true. Aries looked at his watch, "well we should get going…don't want to miss the fireworks."

They made their way to the great hall and took a seat at the Ravenclaw table. They were soon joined by the girls. The food appeared, along with the juice and Hermione made to take a drink.

Harry stopped her just in time. "What?" Harry just shook his head, and held up a finger to his lips. Soon the great hall was alive with noise, some people started acting like animals. Whats more, they started to interact with the other infected people, almost like real animals.

Aries, and Harry tried not to laugh as they saw Alex acting like a monkey. Aries also got great enjoyment to see his cousin acting like a ferret.

As the prank wore on, the professors tried to find a way to stop it but they were proving unsuccessful. Dumbledore calmly took a sip of his juice, "reminds me of old times…eh Minerva."

Minerva McGonagall clicked her teeth together, this had Potter and Black written all over but without evidence there was no way to punish anyone. They would simply have to let it run it's course.

Run its course indeed…whoever had planned this prank, planned it in such a way that it lasted almost the entire day. It had the teachers running ragged, and the students not effected, found great joy.

Later that night, Aries and Harry were sitting in the common room working on homework. Aries closed his book as he just had a great thought, the perfect way to get some extra money and put his plan into action. It would have to wait until tonight.

That night Aries made sure that Harry and the others were asleep and wouldn't know that he had left. He grabbed the map and the cloak, and made his way to his destination.

Looking around and making sure that no one was around he made his way over to the sink. He squinted to see the snake by the tap, when he was interrupted by a cry.

"What's a boy doing in the girls toilet?"

Aries spun around to see Moaning Myrtle behind him. "None of your business." He waved her away, "now go away and don't bother me."

"Hmph! She didn't seem to be leaving, so Aries decided to ignore her. He walked over to the tap, and concentrating on the snake, "open."

The tap began moving and resifting around until a large gap was between the sinks. Aries took a deep breath and jumped down the shaft. He landed at the bottom, and grimaced at the skeletons he walked over.

Soon he came to the door, and spoke again, "open." The door swung open to revel the hidden chamber of secrets. Aries summoned a sword and a rooster, and made his way to the statue of Slytherin.

"Speak to me Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four!"

Aries closed his eyes, waiting for the snake to drop. He heard the great body and was about to raise the rooster when he heard it speak.

"Who's there?"

Aries was stunned…it spoke.

"My name is Aries."

"A speaker…I haven't seen a speaker in a very long time. My name is Godric."

Aries had to laugh.

"You were named after Gryffindor?"

"Yes…I was hatched when they were still great friends. I sense a rooster…have you come to kill me?"

Aries quickly got rid of the rooster.

"well, I thought…you see, I'm not from this time and last time I battled a basalik, it tried to kill me."

Godric seemed outraged at this.

"What! I am meant to protect this school, not harm students. How old were you?"

"Twelve."

"Impressive, young speaker. You may open your eyes for I have closed my inner eyelid."

Aries gathered his courage and opened his eyes. All in all Godric was rather pretty, it was a shame that Voldemort had made the other one go crazy. Aries was confused.

"When was the last time you spoke with a speaker?"

"Since Slytherin died."

Did that mean Voldemort had never found this chamber when he was at school? What about the diary? If Voldemort had never been here then how did Myrtle die? He filed that away for later thought.

"I'm curious…why did you come down here?"

Aries shrugged.

"I needed some extra cash…I was planning on selling your venom."

"Very well…I will allow you to milk my venom sacs if you will come visit me from time to time."

"Of course!" Aries got out several bottles and filled them to the brim and spent some time talking with Godric. The snake had told Aries of Slytherin's private library and he made a vow to come back and find it at a later date. It was only when he yawned that he bid the snake goodbye and made his way back to his bed. On his way he stopped by Severus' office and placed a bottle along with a note. Hopefully he wouldn't wonder to much about where it had come from.

He placed the rest carefully in the bottom of his trunk, making plans to visit Diagon Ally the next day.

Morning came too soon and with it the first quidditch game of the season…Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. Even though Alex would be playing it didn't stop Harry from being excited for his first Hogwarts game. He bounded over to Aries' bed and pulled open the curtains and just decided to leave the lazy boy there. Of course that was before grinning evilly, "Levicorpulous" he thought.

Aries gave a yell as he was pulled into the air by his feet. His yell awoke the other boys who laughed at his predicament.

He glared at Harry, "funny Mr. Potter…now let me down."

Harry was shaking with silent laughter. "No can do Mr. Black, " and went into the bathroom.

His other roommates couldn't hold their laughter in, and were rolling on the ground as Harry came out dressed and ready to go. He walked in a manner that suggested that he wasn't going to fix this soon, so Aries decided to play dirty.

He summoned his wand and Harry was hit with a tickling charm. What started was a great battle that had all five boys breathing deeply and laying on the floor.

After what seemed like hours, Harry got up, and brushed himself off. "Are you coming to the game?"

Aries shook his head, "I have something to do…if I finish in time, I might catch the end."

Harry bit his lip, "you do realize that the family is coming. They'll want to see you."

"Well they're going to have to wait…this is more important." Aries patted Harry on the shoulder, "beside the only Potter I want to see play is you."

Harry smiled, "fine…you win. I'll keep them distracted."

Aries threw his arms around Harry, "thank you…thank you." Harry shoved him off with a laugh, and left. Aries went to his bed and pulled the curtains closed, waiting for the other boys to finally leave.

He got dressed, then made his way outside, making sure that no one saw him, and once outside the gates, he apperated to Diagon Ally.

Once there he hopped into a dark corner, and glamoured himself, into that of a young man of 21 years old with blonde hair and blue eyes. He double checked to make sure that the viles of venom were still safe in his bag and made his way to the apothecary.

He opened the door, and a voice from the back rang out, "hello, there." The owner of the apothecary came in from the back, "what can I do for you young fellow?"

Aries came forward and set his bag on the counter, "can you keep a secret?"

The man narrowed his eyes, "depends…what kind of secret?"

Aries gave a sly smile, "in this bag I have something that would be of great importance to you."

The man eyed the bag, somewhat warily.

Aries went on…"what I have…is basalik venom."

The man's eyes bugged out so much as Aries gave him a glimpse of the viles, and he wished he had a camera. "Where did you get those?" The man demaned.

Aries smirked and closed the bag. "That's my secret. If you don't tell anyone where you got these then I'll sell them to you. If you can't agree then I'll go elsewhere."

The owner looked at the bag with a greedy eye and Aries knew he was sold. They hashed out a price, and Aries left the shop, went to Gringotts to open a new account, deposited the money and left with more money then he knew what to do with.

His last stop before going back to Hogwarts was to stop at Qudditch Quality Supplies to pick up a new broom, that would be delivered the next morning.

When he arrived back at the school he made his way over to the quidditch pitch to see if the game was still going on. It must have just ended, because the Gryffindor team was rushing to the ground. They must have won.

He decided against running through the crowd to find his friends, so started heading back towards the castle.

He didn't get very far when his name was shouted, "Aries!"

He glanced to see Jamie running as fast as she could towards him, Elara not far behind.

"Why weren't you at the game? It wasn't as fun without you."

Aries shrugged, "I had things to do." She pouted, but seemed to accept his answer because she started going off about the details of the game. Elara came over and gave him a big hug and a smile. "Big Brother!"

He patted her on the head, and soon the family had caught up with them, exchanging the usual pleasantries. Harry must have noticed because he drew away from their friends and came over to join.

Aries gave him a smile, but saw the looks come over Jamie's and Elara's. It had been a sore subject of being friends with Harry, and they weren't happy.

"Hey Harry!" Aries gave a wave.

"Aries." As he stopped, Alexander started walking over to his family, and pretty much the group migrated over to Alexander, leaving just Aries, Harry and Lily.

Harry just sighed, he was used to it. Lily ignored the guilt building up as she glanced at her son. They were doing it to protect Harry but sometimes she thought it was more damaging then protecting.

"Minvera says your doing well in your classes." Lily tried to keep the conversation light.

Harry just nodded, not meeting his mother's eyes. Lily sighed, "well…keep up the good work." She said goodbye to Aries and went to join the others.

Harry looked at his family, and clenched his fists before stalking away angrily. Aries shook his head, why couldn't they see the goodness that Harry had. Before following Harry back to the castle he went over to say his goodbyes.

He knew that Harry would need time by himself so he decided to find Blaise. He found said boy in the great hall and he made a beeline to his friend.

Blaise looked up as Aries approached. "Aries." Aries simply sat by his friend and placed his head on his shoulder. "Hard day?"

Aries closed his eyes trying to ward off the coming headache. Blaise knew of Harry's troubles within his family, so he figured it had to something with that. "Harry knows that you care, and that he has friends."

Aries opened his eyes, "yeah, I know. I just wish that I could make them see how great a person he is."

Blaise just shook his head, "in the end…it's their loss. Harry will have moved on."

They sat there for a few more minutes talking quietly before Aries had to leave for detention.

More to come!