Author Note: I was thinking about where I'm going to take this story. I think I'll go through all seven years as well as what happens after Harry leaves Hogwarts. Although, a lot of authors say that and it never happens. Still, it can't hurt to try.

In the short term, I think I'll have Harry trying to make money and doing dirty work for Tom. He wont have too much to do with the Philosopher's Stone though. Next year should be more exciting. Harry will also be setting up his own territory. He'll be controlling Hogwarts from behind the scenes.

Harry woke up, yet again, in complete darkness. "What the hell, I wish I knew how to get this light to turn on when I wake up," muttered Harry.

As he got dressed he looked at the clock on the wall. 6:19am. He slept in...

"Tom? Tom, where the hell are you?" he muttered as he left the room.

What did Tom think he was doing. He had literally vanished. The last thing he had done was follow Quirell and that was hardly life threatening. So where did he go? This was just stupid. He finally got to school and found all these books on the Dark Arts which he needed Tom's guidance to use safely and Tom vanishes.

Pathetic, Harry continued to complain to himself all the way to his hideout where he sat down and started brewing his "headache relief potion."

* * *

"So Albus, you're sure it was him?" asked Severus Snape.

"Oh yes Severus, I'm quite sure it was him. He was obviously trying to kill Professor Quirell. We shall have to act fast," replied Albus Dumbledore.

"Where do you think he is then? The Dark Lord isn't going to be easy to find, especially not if he can disappear like that," said Snape

"I'm fairly sure that he would be in the Chamber of Secrets, because we don't know where that is. We shall have to wait for him to make the next move. Keep an eye out for anything unusual wont you?" said Dumbledore.

"Yes, I suppose I'll have to, grumbled Snape and he left the room.

"... Where are you Tom, and why have you come back?" Said Dumbledore to himself after Snape had left the room.

* * *

Harry was finishing his brewing and anxiously looking at the clock. He had missed breakfast and was going to be late for Tansfiguration. Being late in the first lesson wasn't a good idea. Still, he needed to bottle the potion and store it. That was more important than whatever the teacher had to say.

Harry had brewed a full cauldron of potion. He got twelve full vials out of it and stashed all but one in a crate in the storage room. He slipped the potion he didn't store into his pocket and left for Transfiguration.

* * *

"Mr, Potter, explain your lateness," asked Professor Mcgonagall as Harry entered the classroom.

"I could not find the classroom, I apologise," lied Harry.

"Five points from Slytherin, future lateness with result in a detention. Take a seat," said Mcgonagall as she started to speak.

Harry took the only untaken seat, it was next to Theodore Nott, from what he had seen of Nott, he knew Nott was quiet, almost as quiet as he was. Nott also was extremely ambitious and had a sort of "lust for power". It wasn't hard to figure these people out. But Harry had a plan. He needed a partner for his "business", someone to be the distributor. Nott would make a good partner.

"... and so, students who decide not to follow instructions in this class, will be removed. Never to come back. Is that clear?" finished Mcgonagall.

"Nott," said Harry.

Nott ignored him.

"Nott," Harry repeated.

"What is it Potter?" asked Nott, sounding irritated.

"Would you be interested in making a large sum of money?" asked Harry, knowing that Nott would be.

"I might be, what does it involve," replied Nott, trying to sound bored but his interest showed.

"Meet me in the Common Room at seven-thirty tonight," said Harry.

"Fine," said Nott.

"... turning matches into needles. the instructions are on the board. Anybody who manages to turn their match into a needle will achieve a passing grade. Begin," said Mcgonagall as she sat at her desk.

Harry looked at his match. He didn't really know what to do. After several failed transfigurations he imagined the match turning into a needle. He kept the image in his mind as he cast the spell and... half the match turned silver. Well, at least it did something.

Eventually he managed to turn the match into a needle. But not before that Granger and her friend Longbottom. They had each recieved five points for Gryffindor.

"Well, it's quite a good job Potter, well done," But she didn't give him points.

Damn Mcgonagall... she's just as biased as Snape.

* * *

Goblin Wars. Who cared about them? Other than Binns anyway, History of Magic was terrible. he wasn't sleeping like the other students were but he sure wasn't listening to Binns. He was looking over maps of the dungeons. and marking out rooms which were safe to use. He wanted a large amount of territory. Sadly, for this he would need allies. Nott was a possible ally, Nott might know people who he could use. Harry took a swig of his potion and continued working.

"Maybe I should stop using this stuff so often... no... what's the point. It keeps the memories down"

In the mean time, he might as well put his time to good use.

* * *

It was 7:20 and Harry was sitting in the common room waiting for Nott. He had two vials of "the stuff" and a poisons testing kit with him for Nott to use, he would be stupid if he just drunk anything Harry gave him.

He saw Nott approaching his table and he waited for him to sit down. "So, Potter, what's this money making scheme you have?" Nott said as he took a seat.

Harry smirked, this kid loved money. "Well, I have developed a potion which acts as a sort of drug. It makes you feel completely calm and at peace. It calms you down and stops you from feeling pain. It's impossible to get a feel for it unless you try it though," Harry began.

"And? You want to sell this right? How does this benefit me?" asked Nott.

"Well, I plan on having you gather allies and you will be the face of the... corporation. I will make the potions and make decisions and you will be my second in command. In return you get twenty percent of all profits, which I assure you, will be a substantial amount of money. But you are not to tell anyone that I run the show. You will look like the boss," said Harry.

"Well... it does sound like a good idea, Let me try the stuff and I'll give you my answer," said Nott as his head filled with the thought of galleons.

"Not here, somewhere else. This room is full of people who might notice,"

They left and Harry took them to a room near his hideout. He cast a spell to clean up a table and some chairs and they sat down. Harry handed Nott a vial and took one himself. He took the lid off and swallowed the entire vial in one gulp. Nott looked at him and didn't even bother testing the potion. He just took the lid off and swallowed just like Harry did.

10 minutes later

"Whoa... Potter, this stuff is great. I just don't care about anything anymore. I feel... at peace. Like nothing could go wrong," said Nott as he swayed in his seat. The drug seemed to affect him more than it did to Harry. Like it was stronger.

But Nott was coming off the potion, the effects were wearing off and he was returning to his normal self.

"I'll do it Potter, this stuff is good. People will want this, and I want the money" said Nott.

"Good, now, we need to find clients. And people to work with us. Maybe someone who can stand around during deals and make sure that it all goes well," said Harry

"Marcus Flint would probably do it just for some of this stuff. He has problems with other stuff. He's always drinking alcohol in his spare time." said Nott thoughtfully.

"Good, I'll leave that to you. I'll do the brewing and planning," said Harry.

"Yeah, yeah, you said that Potter. We're first years who plan on brewing and selling drugs. What freaks we are..." said Nott, in a rare moment of insight.

"Freak... worthless, should just kill you"

"I... need to go, I'll meet you here in two days at the same time," said Harry as he walked out of the room. He watched Nott go back in the direction of the common room while he walked to his brewing room/hideout. He sat down and started reading his book, but he couldn't concentrate.

"What have I got myself into, can I actually do this? I really need Tom's advice, but he isn't even here," Harry thought as he got up. he walked over, into the storeroom and opened up a fresh bottle of potion. He savoured the aroma and downed it in one gulp. Harry moved back to his chair and sat down. He couldn't be bothered reading anymore, so he promptly fell asleep.

* * *

Tom Riddle sat in the Chamber of Secrets. He needed to get to Harry, Harry could help him. If he told Harry what to do Harry would do it, there was not doubt. But what if Dumbledore was there? He could be... Dumbledore could be waiting. Dumbledore could be watching. No, he couldn't leave. He was trapped.

But then he felt it. He hadn't asked Harry for energy for quite a while. He was fading. He would be returned to the diary if this kept up. He would be powerless.

This was not good.

Yet another Wordpad chapter. Sorry to the guy who said he doesn't like the emphasis on Potions and Herbology but that's a fairly majoy part of this story. Harry loves Potions in this story. They're his one real skill.

Anyway, Tom is stuck in the Chamber with severe paranoia and Harry is taking his own product to stop memories of the Dursleys from surfacing. Neither are in a good spot. Harry still has his party which Dumbledore organized to go to and potions to brew and sell. If he stops drinking them all anyway.

I chose Nott as his ally because Nott was always described as a sort of loner. He and Harry wouldn't need to communicate much to get the job done and neither of them want to be best buddies. They just want the money. They already plan on manipulating their own house into working for them.

I hope you like the way this story is going, I'm writing this the way I want it because almost every other story I have read about Slytherin!Harry is a cliche. Harry is in Slytherin but acts just like Gryffindor Harry. Harry is in Slytherin and then "falls in love" with Malfoy. Things like that. It's almost always the same. I can't find anything that remotely resembles this story. Maybe some of the depressed Harry storyies slightly resemble the way Harry is acting but that's it. The rest is all unique as far as I know.

Anyway, Soon enough the chapters will move along faster. The chapters are around a day but soon they will be much broader.