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I'd like to apologise to my readers. My keyboard was, quite literally, taken away by my mom so I barely got it back yesterday. Otherwise, this would have been posted on last Weds. The evilness of moms everywhere.

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Chapter Nine:

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Harry was currently wondering if he should tell Draco about his parents. Harry desperately wanted to be able to talk to someone, other than Dave, about it. Harry sighed as he sat by Seamus in their Transfiguration class.

He was relieved when Neville sat on the otherside of him before Draco had arrived.

To Harry, Tranfiguration was easy, being a son of Marauder and all, they had taught Harry and Dave: Transfiguration, Charms, and Defense. Lily taught them Potions.

McGonagall seemed to be pleased with his Tranfiguration skills anyways, but she was a bit reluctant to give Slytherin pts.

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Draco was a bit miffed that he couldn't sit by Harry in Transfiguration. So, when the bell rang, Draco was the first out of class. He rushed down the hall and turned into a secret passageway.

He waited for several minutes before Harry passed by him, Ron and the other Gryffindors were walking slightly ahead of Harry.

Draco reached out, and covering Harry's mouth with his hand, he pulled Harry into the secret passageway. He turned Harry to face him, Harry seeing who it was looked away, finding the floor strangely interesting.

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Harry felt Draco lift his face to look at him. (Draco is several inches taller than Harry.)

"Harry, I'm sorry if I pried too deeply. I never meant to. " Draco whispered softly not quite sure if he was apologizing rightly, he is a Malfoy after all and Malfoys never apologize. Supposedly.

Harry could feel Draco's warm breath on his lips, their faces only inches apart.

Harry shook his head. "It's fine. I'm just not sure if I should tell you. I want to, but..."

Draco smiled understandingly. "Would it help if I gave you a Wizard's Oath to never repeat what I hear at this moment?"

"Would you really?"

With a flick of his wand, Draco casted the spell saying, "I, Draconis Lucius Malfoy, give an oath to Harry James Potter, to never repeat what I am about to hear unless I am relesed from my oath."

A soft gold light surrounded them before fading into them, binding Draco's oath to Harry.

Harry smiled at Draco. He then leaned into Draco. When his mouth was by Draco's ear, he whispered. "James isn't my bilogical father."

Harry pulled away from Draco in time to see the shock on Draco's face before it was gone.

"Harry-"

"We need to get to DADA. Otherwise we'll be late." Harry interrupted grabbing Draco's hand and pulled him through the secret pasageway, hoping draco would leave it be for now.

A minute later, they stood outside the DADA classroom.

"How-" Draco began to ask.

"Explain later. Must get to class before the professor decides to take points." Harry cut draco off.

They entered the classroom and took thetwo remaining seats in the front of the classroom.

Right after they sat down Sirius Black walked in. "Hello class, I am Professor Black. This year you will learn spells, dueling, swordsmanship, and wizarding, as well as muggle, legends. Oh, and as Mad-Eye Moody puts it. CONSANT VIGILANCE!" Saying this, Sirius shot a spell at Harry, turning Harry's hair gold and his robes red.

"Now if that had been anything else, what would you have done Mr. Potter?"

The lesson continued in this fashion. Harry scowled at Sirius thinking, 'Just turn around mutt. You wait. I'll get you yet.' But, he did update his notebook.

Of course Harry was so deep in thought that Draco had to discreetly elbow him. Looking up, Harry realized two things. 1) Sirius was looking quite smug, meaning Harry had been asked a question. 2) Everyone was waiting for Harry to answer.

Harry decided to just wing it and answer the unknown question.

"According to the muggle witchcraft, known as wiccan, a salt circle can be used for several things. One of the main ones being to keep out bad or negative energies. A protection circle."

Sirius' smug look was wiped off his face. "Good job Mr. Potter. I see you were paying attention. Five points to Slytherin." Sirius then continued on with the lesson.

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'Damn! I was so sure I had Harry there with that question! Oh well, I'll just have to keep trying!' Sirius thought to himself.

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When the bell rang, Harry, as he was leaving with Draco, tossed a prank spell over his shoulder so that Sirius' hair would flash green and silver while the words "Slytherins Rock" flashed in neon green on the back of his robes. When he heard Sirius curse, Harry knew he had hit his target.

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The rest of the day passed without much more excitement. At least until dinner time in the Great Hall.

Harry had gone to the owlery to deliver a letter using Hedwig of course.

On his way back to the Slytherin dorms, Harry once again bumped into Tom Riddle. 'I have to stop doing this. Maybe, I'm cursed...NOO! Damn I fell. Stupid bloody stone floor.' Harry thought as he pulled himself into a sitting position.

"Hello Tom," Harry said politely although he felt uneasy around the older Slytherin.

"Hello Harry, here let me help you up." Tom offered his hand to Harry. (That sounds disturbing even to me.)

"Thank you." Harry took Tom's offerred hand politely. (Again, doesn't that sound weird?) 'Why me?' Harry asked himself.

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Tom was ecstatic (giddy) that he had, literally, bumped into Harry. He was even more happy to help Harry into a standing position. Of course, like all Purebloods, Tom masked his emotions quite easily.

"No problem." Tom replied casually.

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'Eww. He's hitting on me. Where's Draco when you need him? Where's Dave for that matter?' Harry thought as he carefully backed away from Tom.

"Tom, I would love to stay and chat but-"

"Harry?" Draco's voice called out.

'Oh thank the powers. The cavalry has arrived!' Harry inwardly snickered.

Tom immediately disappeared into the shadows.

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Tom watched as Draco approached HIS Harry. (Note the emphasis.)

"Harry, why weren't you in the Great hall for dinner?"

Harry smiled. "I wasn't hungry and decided to write home instead."

"Oh. Well let's head back to the Slytherin dorm."

Harry shook his head at Draco's casual wording before nodding in agreement.

Together, Draco and harry walked back to the dungeons.

Tom, who had been there the whole time, decided to let things be for a while before making a move.

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So, what did you think? And again, I'm sorry it took forever to post.

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