A/N: Hi everyone! Sorry for my absence, but school have been killing me. I didn't have the time to write! :( I probably should have let you know... but anyway! Here's chapter 7, hope you'll all enjoy it! Please review, I'm currently working on chapter 8 but I don't know when I'm going to have the chance to post it, but I promise that it will be as soon as possible considering I have summer holidays! YAY! XDAnyway, enjoy the chapter!

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Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series. J. K. Rowling does.

Title:Acta Non Verba

Author: Ossë Lady of Gifts

Rating: M

Pairing: Harry Potter/Damien Smith

Ages:

Harry Potter: 16

Hermione Granger: 16

Ronald Weasley: 16

Damien Smith: 16

Daphne Smith: 13

Daniel Smith: 5

Summary: Harry received his Hogwarts letter. Only, it wasn't the usual letter... It said that he was to start school one week before all the other students... And why does it say that he's going to have someone that guards him? Left with nothing but that as information Harry starts to wonder what's going to happen this year at Hogwarts...

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Chapter 7: Gnothe seauton

As soon as Harry walked out of Gringotts, he was met with angry stares.

"What?" He asked innocently.

"What!" Ron exploded as Harry had suspected he would, he was the only one of those standing there that had that kind of short temper… "Is that all you have to say when Hermione and I ran after you and you didn't even glance back or, or - anything! And then, then you just go into Gringotts and disappear for ninety minutes while we're stuck out here waiting for you!"

"I did not stop you from shopping your school stuff, Ron." Harry answered cool - headed and Ron who was just about to say something closed his mouth. An eerie silence followed.

"Hrm…" Mrs Weasley began, "Well then, we should get going! We have lots to buy and we have little time!" Everyone knew she was just faking the happiness, but nonetheless everyone took the opportunity to get out of the awkward silence. Harry saw Damien and was satisfied when he noticed that Damien's jaw was sporting a blue color. Harry looked from Damien's jaw up to his eyes and Damien met his, but after a second he looked down to the side, as if he was ashamed. Good, he should be.

Mrs Weasley started to bustle around Ginny and started to take her down the streets, Ginny's other guards scurried after.

"Well, what do we have here?" they all heard and Harry recognized the voice immediately, "A weasel, a bookworm and the Never – Dying - Boy." Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly turned around and saw Draco Malfoy was standing across Gringotts with a sneer on his face. "Lovely." Malfoy ended with sarcasm.

Harry and Ron were just about to respond to Malfoy but to their surprise Damien swooped by and stopped in front of the trio.

"Draco Malfoy." Damien said in a cold voice, which Harry was getting quite annoyed with since that was the only tone he had heard from Damien recently, "It would be wise of you to not start a shouting game here on the streets as it will draw unwanted attention to you and your friends that you have with you." And sure enough, from the shadows behind Draco several of his Slytherin friends appear.

"Oh, and who ever said I was going to start a shouting game?" Draco asked, smirking, "I was just stating facts and I believe it was the Boy – Who – Acts – Like – He's - God that was about to start shouting, not me."

"Oh yeah ferret boy?" Ron said, once again not able to hold his temper, "At least my family isn't being interrogated by the ministry because my father is in Azkaban for having a Dark Mark!" Hermione slapped her hand over Rons mouth to prevent him from saying something else but Draco didn't look at Ron when he answered; instead he looked straight at Harry.

"At least I have a family." Harry winced as the pain from watching Sirius fall through the veil and not able to do anything about it came flooding back into his body.

"Mr. Malfoy," Damien growled, causing Harry's head to swing towards Damien and his eyebrows to shoot to his hairline. Had Damien actually growled because of an insult from Malfoy? "You may want to watch your tongue as, I don't know if you've notice yet, there are several aurors accompanying us. They might get interested in what kind of information you might posses."

Malfoy took a step back and started to look around and noticed that indeed, there was several aurors that were listening to their conversation. After a few seconds he seemed to remember that Harry, Ron and Hermione were there watching him as well.

"And how come you would warn me against them?" He sneered as if everything was just a joke.

"Because I feel sorry for those people that have to bully others to feel good about themselves. It's really sad how you must clank down on Harry, Ron and Hermione by calling them names." Damien answered with ease and the next minute Harry saw something that he thought that he would've never seen – Malfoy, speechless. He gaped like a fish for a couple of seconds before he seemed to remember something.

"What about the Weasel then?"

"What about Ron?" It was Hermione that said something this time, but Malfoy choose to ignore her.

"Well, he called me… what was again… ah, yes. Ferret boy. If I'm a bully by simply calling them names, shouldn't he be one as well? And I believe that if both parts were throwing insults at each other, it shouldn't count as bullying then, should it? It is a fight, or a shouting match as you preferred, I would say."

"I do not defend what Ron did. I'm sure he's ashamed of calling you that." Neither one of those that stood watching the match looked convinced at this, and Hermione and Harry doubted along the others that Ron was ashamed of calling Malfoy a ferret. "I just wish that you, Mr. Malfoy, can drop this subject and move on with your life. What's the point of attacking other people? I see no reason to that. Now good day, Mr. Malfoy." With that Damien turned and nudged the trio into moving along. They did after they were sure that Malfoy was not going to attack them, he seemed much more interested in catching flies in his with his mouth gaping like that. Harry swept one last look over his shoulder before continuing walking. It felt like they had won a battle without having done anything.

"Now, then, where were we headed again?" Damien asked, this time his voice had lost the coldness and was replaced with warmth.

"Damien, I would like to talk to you." Harry said and Damien looked down at him and seemed to think about something before answering.

"Alright, but it will have to wait until we are at the Burrow. You don't want people listening in." Harry could see the sense in that and nodded to agree with him.

"Harry! Are you coming?" He heard Ron shout at him and Harry turned his gaze towards the sound and saw him outside Flourish & Blotts.

"Coming!" And with that Harry and Damien hurried over to where Ron and Hermione (who was tugging on Rons sleeve as she wanted to go into the store) stood.

As they arrived back into the Burrow, Mr. Weasley told them all to sit down. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Damien and Daphne threw themselves at the couch, ending up with Harry, Ron and Damien on the floor while Ginny, Hermione and Daphne sat in the couch with a smug look on their faces. Daniel walked up to Daphne with a puppydog face and she sighed and rolled her eyes, but she had a smile on her lips as she pulled Daniel into her lap.

"Damien!" Emily said in a stern voice, "What are you doing on the floor? Show some manners!"

"Sorry," Damien apologized, "But I was aiming for the couch, only she" he pointed to Daphne who was tickling Daniel, "pushed me off! And hey! Why aren't I allowed to be on the floor! I would like to be a teenager once in a while to, not just stand in some corner with a damn poker face on and, and, well just stand there!" Damien turned his back to his mother and helped Daphne tickle his little brother who was crying because he was laughing so hard.

Harry looked to Ron and Hermione to see if they were as shocked as he was. They were. This was the most, well, the only time they had seen Damien this normal. He was now acting as if he was just a regular teenager. Earlier he had only showed himself as a powerful vampire (or at least that's what Harry had felt) who had the power to kill you with just a snap of his fingers.

"Oh, honey," Emily swooped down and gave Damien a hug, "Of course you're allowed to sit on the floor if it is your wish! You just act so grown up all the time and I have the tendency to forget that you're only sixteen! I see that the recent guard duty have put a strain on you. Why don't you take a few days of and just enjoy the company of the others…" She whispered something into Damien's ear that he, nor no one else in this room except the vampires seemed to hear; because the others began to chuckle low to themselves while Damien blushed and exclaimed "Mother! That was totally uncalled for!"

Daphne starting laughing out loud now and she noticed how it only was the vampires that laughed so she gasped out: "Mother… told him… to… to… to…" It seemed for a moment as if she wasn't able to continue telling the others but eventually she managed to get out that last bit: "… to snog Harry!"

Harry now understood why Damien blushed as Harry could feel heat coming to his face in fact, he was convinced that he was redder in his face then Damien. Everyone was now laughing.

"Glad that some of you find it amusing!" Damien said before he stormed out of the room. The laughter subsided almost immediately. Harry looked worriedly at Hermione and Ron and they just shrugged their shoulders, they neither knew what was up with Damien's mood swings.

Mr. Weasley cleared his throat and got everyone's attention on him.

"Well, what I wanted to say was that I am proud over you guys…" he scratched the back of his head, "Especially when Malfoy turned up…" Everyone around nodded at this. Harry knew from the start that someone would have told the others about the Malfoy incident.

"Well, you didn't expect us to start throwing hexes at each other now did you?" Ron questioned as he leaned back against the back of couch. At this the others threw each other glances and then looked down at the floor.

"You did!" Ron flew up from the couch, "I can't believe it! You should know us that well that we wouldn't do anything reckless like that!"

"Well, honestly Ron, it was you that we were the most worried about…" Bill said. Ron didn't respond to that and just stood there gaping like a fish. Eventually he threw himself down once again on the couch with his arms crossed and with a pout on his face.

"Oh, grow up Ronald." Hermione scolded him as Harry looked on with amusement.

"I'm of to find Damien… there was something I wanted to talk to him about…" Harry said to everyone in the room as he stood up and stretched. "See ya guys later."

Just as Harry was about to walk out of the room he heard someone say: "Sure, go snog him… I think that will cheer him up!" He ignored it and the snickers that followed and began his search for Damien.


Harry had searched through the entire Burrow, but had not found Damien. He sighed and went outside as that was the only place left to look. As he came outside he walked around the Burrow but couldn't find him. Where the hell is he?

Harry sat down in frustration and started to pull up a fist of grass before throwing it away, repeating the motion several times before a voice stopped him.

"If you continue to do that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley won't have a lawn left." Harry turned his head around and saw little Daniel standing there.

"Oh… uh… hi Daniel." Harry answered and looked down at the grass in his hand. He heard Daniel sigh and then he sat down next to him.

"No luck in finding my brother then?" Harry simply nodded to him, "I see… well, have you looked everywhere?"

"Yes." Harry answered resigned.

"Really? Are you sure you looked everywhere?"

"Yes! I looked in every room inside the house, I even went up to the attic, I looked in the garden and I've walked around here outside! Where could he possibly be where I haven't already looked?"

"Oh… I see, you looked everywhere…" Daniel said and Harry simply grunted, he didn't want to be rude, but he simply couldn't help it – Damien was getting on his very last nerve. "… except the roof."

"Huh?" Harry blinked and turned to Daniel.

"Oh, yeah." Daniel said grinning, "Damien simply loves to sit on roofs. I dunno why, but I think it's his way of escaping the world and his job." Harry looked at Daniel confused before standing up and looking up towards the roof, Daniel was just behind him. Up there on the roof, Harry could see Damien sitting and gazing dreamily out over the field.


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