Chapter 7: Trolls

Draco looked around in surprise as the entrance hole opened.

"How the hell did you stay out this long without a teacher finding you?" he blurted watching his twin walk into the common room looking like he didn't have a care in the world.

Harry shrugged grinning and threw himself onto the couch next to his brother.

Draco ran a hand through his hair as his essays went flying around him from the air that swirled when his brother dropped like a dead weight.

"Do you mind?" he said aggravated.

"Not really, what are you doing that crap for anyway? None of its due for another week or something," Harry said with his eyebrow raised.

"Charms is due tomorrow," Draco said dryly.

"But tomorrow is Halloween!" Harry protested.

Draco shrugged.

Harry pondered it for a moment. "Hang on father said he was taking us out of classes tomorrow to go visit Aunt Lily's and Uncle James' graves,"

Draco blinked. "You're joking?"

Harry shook his head. "We go every Halloween remember and he sent us a letter the other day saying everything was sorted and that he'd be collecting us from the entrance hall at nine in the morning,"

"That means I've just slaved over that essay for nothing!"

Harry snickered shoving his brother off the couch. "Tough luck bro,"

Draco pounced on his twin, like old times they wrestled.

Harry grunted as Draco pinned him.

"Do you give?" Draco asked pulling on his brother's leg.

Harry winced. "Never,"

Draco pulled again until his brother's leg was nearly parallel to his head.

"Fine, give," Harry yelped.

Draco released him instantly and Harry scowled.

"Lucky shot,"

"You're a sore loser," Draco said smirking.

Harry punched him in the shoulder.

The next morning everyone looked at them as they entered the great hall in their normal robes, Harry's a shocking emerald and Draco's a startling silver.

"When are you coming back?" Neville asked.

"Before the feast tonight," Harry answered. "Father doesn't want us to miss it,"

Out of the corner of his eye he saw movement in the doorway, he nudged Draco as he noticed their father.

Together they stood and made their way over to their father.

Lucius nodded at them before spinning and leading them out.

They used the floo in the Three Broomsticks to floo home and just as they stepped from the grate a curse hit them both together.

Draco screamed out and Harry whimpered, both of them sinking to their knees.

"You were both told to behave," Lucius snarled his eyes ablaze, "Getting caught is against everything I have ever taught the pair of you," he snapped lifting the curse.

The curse had been split between the pair of them so it hadn't been as bad as it could have but it was enough to get their attention.

They made no movements to get up knowing their father was far from done.

"When you return to school, if I receive just one more detention for either of you then I'm going to come and physically remove you from school and have you home schooled for the rest of your school career. Am I understood?" he demanded pacing in front of them.

He hated using that curse on them but if he was anything he was a man of pride and he wasn't going to be embarrassed by people because of his sons.

"Yes father," they murmured.

Hours later they were stood by the usual graves. Harry put his hand on his aunt's grave and traced the letters in the headstone.

He felt a bond with these people despite never once in his life meeting them.

"You are sorely missed, dear sister and brother-in-law,"

"Why do we never say we miss cousin Harry, father?" Draco asked seeing the smaller grave

Lucius blinked. "Because I never saw young Harry so I could never miss him,"

Draco accepted that, Harry traced the letters of the boy who had a similar name to his own.

"Was he named after me?" he asked.

Lucius blinked again before nodding. "Yes, except Lily called her son Harry, whereas you're Hadrian. Your mother calls you Harry as a way to remember them,"

Harry nodded.

"Where is mother?" Draco quizzed.

"Azkaban," Lucius said stoically.

Harry and Draco blinked they hadn't known.

"Enough of that it's getting late and you're to be back for three,"

Hogwarts was surprised when instead of making a grand show of themselves, Harry and Draco just sat beside their friends subdued.

"What's wrong?" Neville quizzed looking concerned.

"Nothing," Harry said turning away and glaring at nothing in particular.

"Father wasn't happy with our detentions," Draco clarified seeing Blaise and Neville share a look. "One more detention off either of us and we're being removed from school,"

"So did we miss anything in school?" Harry asked changing the subject before they could be questioned.

"Weasley made Granger cry. No one has seen her since this morning and I heard one of the girls say she was hiding in the toilets crying. The only person that has gone to find her was Indigo Vixen," Blaise said with a grin.

"Indigo Vixen? What on earth sort of name is that?" Harry spluttered.

"Says you Hades Malfoy," Draco said rolling his eyes.

Harry pondered it for a moment before shaking his head. "That name is way worse than ours, ours are passed down, hers just tells us that she's a dark blue anger child. How have I never heard of her before?"

"She's Ravenclaw with Granger, mate, except she usually hangs around with Padma Patil," Neville shrugged. "She's rather quiet unless someone rattles her,"

Harry shook his head bemusement.

He had no idea who they were talking about.

"Her that always comes even with Draco in Charms," Blaise pointed out.

Harry blinked still shaking his head. "She mustn't be very pretty if I didn't remember her,"

"Troll!"

The four Deviants looked up to see Quirrell run into the hall looking completely insane.

"Troll in the dungeon!"

Before anyone could even react he fainted.

Draco snorted. "What a loser,"

"Will prefects lead their fellow students to the common rooms please," Dumbledore said standing up amidst the panic.

"He does realise that the Slytherin and Hufflepuff common rooms are in the direction of the dungeons doesn't he,"

"Meh, I wanna go find me a troll anyway," Harry grinned rubbing his hands together before standing up and leading them out.

"Father-"

"We're not going to get detention," Harry said interrupting Draco. "Live a little Drake,"

Draco rolled his eyes but didn't say another word against it.

Blaise was rapidly searching every corner and shadow with his eyes looking uneasy while Neville looked nauseous.

The boys haltered watching as a huge mountain troll entered a bathroom just a few foot in front of them.

"I think he's left the dungeons," Draco whispered.

A scream erupted from the bathroom and the boys froze in place.

"Do we go in or run?" Neville asked looking terrified.

Another scream sounded.

"If it was me in there I'd want to be saved," Blaise muttered.

"Me too but I'd rather not risk my own neck," Draco grumbled.

"We can't just leave them guys, that's like murder or something because we know they're in there," Harry said chewing on his lip before darting forwards.

With a strangled yelp Neville followed.

Blaise and Draco looked at each other before running after them.

Harry barged into the bathroom and let his eyes sweep it.

Two girls were huddled in a broken stall under splinters and chunks of wood.

It was Hermione and a girl he assumed to be Indigo Vixen.

"Granger, Vixen, move!" he shouted before sending a stinging hex into the troll's eye.

It was bigger than he had thought but it was too late.

With a vicious roar the troll swiped at him.

Harry pushed Neville into Draco and Blaise who had just entered before jumping over the club and sending a powerful blasting curse at it.

The right hand of the troll exploded and Harry was startled slightly by it.

"Hades!"

Draco watched with fright as the enraged troll swiped his brother to the side.

Harry went crashing into the stall that the two girls had just left.

"Son of a bitch," Harry snarled wincing as he felt his shoulder pop out of its socket.

"What should we do?" Neville shouted sounding panicked.

"The club," Harry said through gritted teeth.

"Levitate it," Draco ordered knowing where his brother was going.

Harry watched with baited breath as his friends got aim on the club.

When he was certain their aim was gold he pounced at the troll shooting a fire hex at it.

It burnt the troll's face taking its attention onto him and as it tried to clobber him with its club the levitation charm kicked into play.

The club stayed hovering above it's head and Harry nodded to his friends.

With a swish movement the club slammed down onto the troll's head.

"It's going over!" Harry yelled before knocking the two girls back and wincing as the troll fell sending vibrations through his arm.

Voices were heard coming closer and before anyone realised Harry popped his shoulder back into its socket biting his lip to stop his yelp of pain.

Draco, Blaise and Neville pulled Harry over to them looking frightfully pale.

The professors chose that moment to rush in.

McGonagall was obviously furious.

"I demand you boys tell me what you're doing here, in the girls bathroom, at once!" she demanded.

"It seems Professor, that my students were merely saving two silly Ravenclaw girls who went looking for the troll," Snape said oily.

The four boys nodded their heads rapidly.

While the girls looked down.

Harry knew the two girls couldn't say the story wasn't right because of the fact they had just saved them from a horrid death.

He blinked as he caught sight of Indigo for the first memorable time.

Despite his earlier thinking she was possibly one of the better looking girls in their year, her indigo hair fell over her shoulders in luscious waves, her skin was porcelain and her eyes were a deep intense blue that seemed to inhale anyone they caught.

He allowed Draco to pull him along behind them his eyes staying on the quiet strange Ravenclaw.