Voldemort and Severus were looking very comfortable together sitting on one of the sofa's inside the Riddle Mansion, Narcissa and Lucius were also looking comfy on the other sofa, Harry and Draco were sat on the chair, Harry was sitting happily on Draco's lap.
"So what is it that you want to talk to us about?" Lucius asked his lord.
"As you know Harry Potter is no more, he became my son Harry Riddle, he is no more. We have been thinking that we need to get rid of Harry Potter and introduce Harry Riddle, all without making Harry look suspicious." Voldemort explained.
"How are we going to do that? Harry Riddle and Harry Potter are the same person." Draco said. He was stroking Harry's hair, this made Harry begin to purr and snuggle further into the blond wolf.
"Well we have thought about that. We are going to introduce Harry Riddle at the same time Harry Potter is at school. We are going to take one of the prisoners from the dungeons, Poly-juice him to look and sound like Harry and then use the Imperio curse to make them act like Harry." Voldemort said.
"Then Voldemort will attack Harry Potter a week into the school, while Harry Riddle is in full sight of the teacher's so he is of no suspicion. A Death Eater will then kill the Harry Potter look a like, this will mean that in the eyes of the light there only hope is dead, and Harry Riddle will not be suspected." Severus finished.
Lucius thought of the plan and nodded his head. "We could say that Harry was home-schooled by the Malfoy's, this would explain why he and Draco are together and act so close. This means that there will also be no suspicions of where he learned his magic." Lucius said.
Narcissa took over. "As for the wand we will say the truth, there were no wands that were made that would balance Harry therefore he had to have a custom wand. Ollivander did what he should have and Harry chose the cores, he is so powerful because he is an Heir of Merlin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. We will not mention that he is also the Heir of Potter and Black as that would give them hints." She said, earning smiles from the others.
"And if any of the girls take an interest in him we will tell them that he has always been gay, that he is a creature and that I am his mate." Draco said, tightening his hold possessively around Harry, causing Harry to giggle and snuggle more into the blond.
"Harry of course will have to pretend to listen in the classes, over the summer Death Eaters are going to be training him in all of the spells and more that school teach, this means that he will know everything through to the end of the 7th year. He will show his skill as will Draco and some of the other people that Harry choses will also be trained as well." Voldemort said. Harry and Draco smiled, knowing that most of their Summer was going to be spent with each other.
"He will also have to pretend to be with the light, like most of the Slytherin's are doing, he must not give any of the teachers any hint that he is not with them. When the time comes for the war to begin then Harry, Draco and all of the others will reveal their true feelings." Severus finished.
"Wow you two have really thought about this. Yes I think this will work." Lucius said. He looked over at his son to get his opinion and smiled. Harry was curled up on Draco's lap like a cat, purring and arching like a cat, while Draco was stroking the boy's hair.
"Harry have you any idea who you want to join?" Narcissa asked.
Harry did not answer her but Draco did, so he stopped stroking the boy's hair earning him a groan of disappointment. "Harry love, Mum wants you." Draco said, moving his hand down Harry's back.
Harry turned to look at the blond and black haired woman. "Yes I have. Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Lavender Brown, Fred and George Weasley, Fleur Delacour and Cedric Diggory. Fred and George have already chose to be with me, but I haven't marked them or anybody, the others are definite candidates that I will talk to over the summer and they will train with me. When I go back after summer I will see if there is anybody else that we can add to that." Harry then turned to Draco. "I also want to ask you if you would look at the Slytherin's and see if there are any that I would mark rather than my father." Harry said, earning a nod from his lover.
"What do you mean, you will mark and not the Lord?" Lucius asked, he didn't know that the young prince would have a mark, he thought that he would take the lords mark.
"Well if Harry and the others that were still in Hogwarts were to take my mark then they would easily be identified as Death Eaters and arrested, so we decided that those in the school would take on the mark of Harry, even Fred and George who go to the school will take Harry's." Voldemort explained, earning a nod of understanding from the others.
"If you would like to be present in the marking of Draco then Harry can do it now. He has a design that he created last night, so he can make Draco his right hand." Severus said.
"Yes if it is no bother then I would like to see and be present. But thank you, I knew that Draco taking the Dark Mark would put him in danger from the school, this way he is pledged to someone and he will not be suspected." Lucius said, giving a true and rare smile.
"Another thing we would like to discuss father." Draco said, looking to his father. "Me and Harry want to be bonded before we go back to school. The students and the staff may think that Harry was forced because I am 'dark', if we wore the bonding bands and the rings then everyone would see he entered willingly as you have to be willing for the bands to appear." Draco said.
"That is a good idea son. I will see if we can hold the bonding ceremony for 2 months from now. This will give us time to plan the wedding/ceremony, write and learn your vows, pick the rings and other things. Do you two want to enter into just a bond or a soul bond?" Lucius asked.
"What is the difference?" Harry asked, paying more attention to this conversation than to what Draco had been doing to him.
"A simple bond is just a wedding, it will bond you together through matrimony and is a definite bond. However a soul bond is different. In a soul bond you share your blood and your magic, this means cutting your hands and holding each others allowing your blood and magic to mix together, this is the definite part as this will bond you together through blood and magic. However there is a rare case where more than the bonding of blood and magic take place, in the strongest of bonds the souls become one, meaning that these two are soul mates, just because you have mate doesn't mean they are your soul mate." Lucius said, pausing to allow Narcissa to finish.
"During the ceremony if you two glow a red colour then you have just performed the second strongest bond, which is the blood and magic bonding. But if you glow a silver/gold colour then that means you have performed the strongest form which is the blood, magic and soul bond. There has only ever been one recorded soul bond." Narcissa explained.
"What else does this soul bond entitle?" Draco asked, not knowing much about the soul bond.
"Well it will allow you to live forever. The last and only soul bond was made 500 years ago and they are still alive now, and when I say stay alive forever I mean that you will grow to a certain age, if you are not at that age, and then you will stay that way. That age is 20, as soon as this age is reached then you will not change in appearance." Narcissa stopped and Severus picked up.
"The only way that a soul bonded pair could be killed would be with a Basilisk Fang into one of the couple, this would kill that one person. In a soul bond one cannot live without the other, meaning that once one dies then the other will shortly follow. No other weapon would kill a member of a soul bond, only the Basilisk Fang." Severus said.
And at this piece of information Harry, Severus and Voldemort smiled, although Severus and Voldemort looked a bit upset.
"Well then I guess that all soul bonded are safe then as there is no more Basilisk's left. I am sorry to say that I killed the last one in the world in my second year when I went into the Chamber of Secrets." Harry explained.
"Well that is good. Voldemort and Severus have yet to bond so they do not know what they are. Me and Narcissa are a blood and magic bond, which means that we will live forever, but we can be killed by any weapon that would kill a normal person. So unless one of us gets stabbed, shot, poisoned or shot with the killing curse then we will also live forever with you." Lucius explained.
"I'm happy to hear that. But just start planning soon as I want to bond to Draco soon." Harry said, snuggling into his love.
"We understand that, and we will do our best to make it happen within the next few months." Narcissa said. She was so happy that her son had found the one that he was meant to be with, Draco was scared that his mate would not like him and now that he had found his mate he looked happier than he ever had.
"Mum, Dad is it okay if I stay here for a while? I want to get to know Harry as I didn't in school and since he is my mate I think I should be with him." Draco asked. He was blushing as he wanted to stay with Harry, but he was also nervous that his parents would try and keep him and Harry apart from one another.
"Of course you can honey. We know what it is like to want to be with your mate all of the time, and we also know how little you really know about your mate so if it is okay with the lord and Harry then you can stay." Lucius said smiling.
Draco and Harry then turned their puppy dog eyes on the dark lord and the potions master, both of who could not stand the pretty sight. "Of course you can Draco, but before your parents leave you have to take Harry's mark, and then you can stay." Voldemort said.
Lucius and Narcissa were thinking the same thing, who would have thought the most feared wizard, the Dark Lord and the strictest Potions Master, would fall to the puppy dog eyes of two 16 year olds.
"Of course my Lord." Draco said excitedly.
"Draco since you and your family will soon become my family then I insist you all call me Voldemort, and in time for you Draco you will call me father too." Voldemort said.
"Yes me too Draco, when you bond to Harry you will call me dad, until then you will call me Uncle Severus or Sev." He turned to look at Harry. "Son, if you want to call me dad in school then you can, but you may be better of calling me Uncle Sev as well, this will support the theory of you staying with the Malfoy's." Severus said.
"It will be weird but it will better if I called you Uncle rather than dad." Harry said, though he was a bit sad that he would have to stop calling Severus his dad.
A few moments later Draco was kneeling in front of Harry, who now held his wand. "Harry where are you planning on putting the mark?" Voldemort asked his son.
"Well I thought that if I put where yours goes that would cause suspicion, so I thought that I would put it on the forearm of the right arm and not the left like where yours goes." Harry said, earning him a nod of understanding and agreement.
Harry kissed Draco softly, knowing that this was going to hurt a bit, he had placed the mark on himself beforehand which showed him as a member and the leader. Harry placed the tip of his wand on his lovers left forearm, whispered 'Morsmordre' and the mark began to form.
The mark itself was a green snake and a red snake intertwining around a sword. The sword was silver with some emerald and ruby jewels around the hilt, it was actually a very beautiful mark.
Draco did wince in pain, but it passed straight away, he then looked at the mark. "It is beautiful." Draco said. "It just looks I have a tattoo." Draco said, admiring the mark.
"Thank you my love." Harry said smiling, kissing Draco softly.
"Well we best be off, we will leave you to whatever you are planning to do." Lucius said. Lucius and Narcissa then shook hands with Voldemort and Severus, before hugging their son and Harry. They then flooed to their own manor.
"Alright boys, we will have food, then Harry can give you a tour of the manor and then you will be going to bed." Voldemort said, easily falling into the roll of father.
Harry and Draco did as they were told, after a lovely meal they went exploring, Harry did not even know the full area of the house that he was living in so he too was exploring a little bit. Then they went to bed, Harry and Draco were given permission to sleep in the bed as long as they did not do anything intimate until the night of the bonding.
"Goodnight Draco, I love you." Harry said, snuggling into Draco, whose arms were wrapped around his lover tightly.
"Goodnight Harry, I love you as well." Draco replied, tightening his hold on Harry a little more.
They both fell asleep not knowing that they were being watched. Severus and Voldemort were standing at the door smiling at the scene they were witnessing.
"I am so happy for the both of them, they deserve some happiness after what they have been through." Severus said.
"Yes I know I am proud to call him my son." Voldemort said, they shared a soft kiss with one another and then moved to their own bed for some rest of their own.
