The Journey of a Dark Phoenix

Summary-

Harry Potter is the younger twin brother of Andrew Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, and the favorite nephew of their aunt and uncle. After a beating from his cousin and older brother, Harry meets a strange man that is invisible to everyone but him. The man takes Harry as his apprentice and teaches him the ways of a Dark Wizard. When the boys are thrusted into the Wizarding World at the young age of 11, Harry turns the Wizarding World upside down.

Chapter 11-

The days passed rapidly, quickly turning into weeks. Draco had finished out his detentions and had sent his father a letter explaining his actions in the hall and had gotten a cold letter from not only his father but Harry's Master. The letter from Draco's father said that the next time they saw each other they were going to have a long talk about his behavior and that he would be informing Harry's Master about this. The letter from Harry Master only had one sentence 'I'm watching you', when Draco read this his face paled in fright.

The morning after Draco received the letters the first year Slytherins found a notice pinned up in the Slytherin Common Room that made all of them groan. Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday at 3:30 and they would be having it with the Gryffindor first years.

"Typical, Dumbledore wants us to suffer with the Gryffindors during our flying lesson." Harry growled and went to rip the notice off the board but was stopped by Daphne grabbing his hand. Draco glared at her and pulled Harry to his chest.

"Wait, I have an idea, lets play with them." Daphne said.

"How?" Harry asked interested.

"Well, everyone knows how Andrew's pet, Weasel, has been bragging about how good he is at flying and Quidditch, but I have it in good word that he sucks at flying." Daphne said with a smirk and the others smirked along with her.

"So, how are we going to play with them?" Neville asked, while in the Slytherin Common Room (or Snake Pit as the whole school likes to call it) he shed his nervous act and was his real self, this allowed the other Slytherins to finally accept him as a Slytherin.

"Well, Neville, dear, my plan involves you taking one for the team, can you do it?" Daphne said and everyone looked at her with a confused look while Neville just gave her an annoyed look. He leaned against the wall in annoyance before glancing at the notice, he turned his eyes back to her and gave her his answer.

~The Journey of a Dark Phoenix~

At 3:20 on Thursday on the dot, the Slytherin first years arrived early for their first flying lesson, they found two rows of school brooms on the ground, ten in each row. The Slytherins took one row, leaving the other for the Gryffindors, and waited for their Professor and classmates to arrive. At 3:30 the Gryffindors and Professor Hooch made their way to them, she had short gray hair and yellow eyes like a hawks. "Stand by a broom, hurry up." She told the Gryffindors. "I am Madame Hooch, I am the flying instructor." She said after everyone had gotten a broom. "Now I want you to stick your right hand over your broom and and say 'Up'."

"Up!" Everyone shouted, Harry's broom instantly flew into his hand, but he wasn't the only one to get his broom into his hand the first time, Draco, Theodore, Blaize, Daphne, and Millicent had also gotten their broom up the first time. Neville's broom seemed to hate him because it kept rolling away from him every time he said 'up'. Ron snickered before Harry wordlessly and wandlessly sent Ron's broom, that was still on the ground, flying up and hitting him on the nose. The Slytherins laughed at him as he stumbled back holding his nose, he glared at them and held out his right hand and yelled 'up', his broom jumped up and hit him on the nose again, this time with out Harry's help, this caused the Slytherins to laugh harder.

Once everyone had managed to get their brooms, Madame Hooch showed them how to mount their brooms properly and how to grip it with out sliding off. She walked up and down the rows correcting grips, the Slytherins were delighted when she told Ron that he had been going it wrong for years.

"Now," She called once everyone was griping their brooms correctly, "When I blow my whistle I want you all to kick off the ground hard, keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet in the air, then come back down by leaning forward slightly." Neville and Daphne shared a look and Daphne gave him a discreet nod. "On my whistle three-two-" Before she could blow the whistle, Neville 'nervous' and 'frightened' at being left on the ground kicked off hard and rose into the air. "Get back down here Mr. Longbottom!" Madame Hooch yelled, but Neville was rising up like a cork out of a bottle.

Harry looked up at Neville's 'scared' face a second before he 'slipped' off his broom when he was a good 10 feet in the air. While he was falling through the air he saw that Neville 'accidentally' dropped his remembrall that his gran had sent him a few days ago. Harry gripped Draco's hand tightly as he watched Neville getting closer to the ground, he wanted to close his eyes but knew he couldn't, it would ruin their plan. Harry tried not to flinch when Neville hit the ground with a loud thud and a sickening crack. Draco's grip on Harry's hand tightened when he felt him try to run over to their fallen friend who was laying face down on the ground, unmoving. Suddenly Madame Hooch ran over to Neville, her face as white as his was.

"Broken wrist." Harry heard Madame Hooch say, "Come on Mr. Longbottom, get up." She helped Neville turn over and stand up, she then turned to the rest of the class. "None of you is to move while I take Mr. Longbottom here to the Hospital Wing! If I see anyone of you in the air, you will be out of here before you can say Quidditch." She said then left with Neville clutching his wrist. Draco squeezed Harry's hand before letting go of it to start the next phase of the plan.

"What a pathetic imbecile, how did he ever get sorted into Slytherin?" Draco asked once he was sure that Neville was out of earshot, just because Neville knew that he would be talking bad about him didn't mean he actually wanted his friend to hear him. "He's such a crybaby."

"Look!" Harry said darting over to where the remembrall had fallen and picked it up "He dropped that stupid thing that his gran sent him."

"Give it back." Andrew said, not really knowing why he was sticking up for the Slytherin boy. Harry smirked at him before calling his broom to him, and did a fancy tick as he got on it, not knowing that had gotten over him.

"No, I think I'll leave it somewhere for him to find," Harry said and inwardly panicked, this was suppose to be Draco's part in the plan so why was he doing it, "At the top of a tree perhaps." Harry quickly flew to the top of the tallest oak tree.

"Give it here!" Andrew shouted, Draco looked at Harry worriedly before quickly hopped onto his broom and flew over to him.

"What are you doing?" Draco asked loud enough so that only Harry could hear him, Draco looked into Harry's eyes and noticed that they weren't their normal emerald-green but a light moss-green.

"Here Dragon, play catch with me." Harry said and threw the remembrall at Draco who easily caught it.

"You sure?" Draco asked, Harry nodded and Draco tossed the ball back to Harry who caught it and tossed it back. They played catch with each other for about five minutes, Draco relaxing and the two of them getting higher and father from each other with each toss. Draco threw the remembrall at Harry when the wind suddenly picked up and made Harry miss causing the ball to fall towards the ground at a shocking pace. Without a second thought Harry dove after it, leaning flat against his broom to catch up with the ball.

The wind whistled in his ears and mingled with the screams of everyone around him, but Harry didn't hear them, nor did he see the ball anymore everything around him had changed. Now a young girl in an expensive dress had taken her place, she looked about five and was screaming in fear as she fell; the ground had turned into a lava pit. Harry moved his body and closed his wings in an attempt to gain more speed, he had to get to the girl before she fell into the lava. He had given his word to her mother that he would keep her safe, that he would not let her die, and he always kept his word.

He was so close now, he could feel her dress brushing against his face, he reached his hand out to her out stretched hand and closed his hand around the cool glass of the remembrall and everything came back to him and he noticed that he was a few feet from the ground. He quickly pulled up on the broom stick, safely coming up from the dive, before he lost his grip on the broom and landed on the ground rolling to keep from being injured.

When he stopped rolling his found him in a ball laying on his side, he uncurled from the ball and turned so that he was now on his back spread eagle. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down as he tried to wrap his mind around what had just happened. Suddenly an angry and worried Draco appeared in his vision, Draco noticed that Harry's eyes were back to being emerald-green, he was about to say something when a angry voice cut him off.

"HARRY POTTER! DRACO MALFOY!" Harry shot up and everyone turned to see Professor Snape storming towards them and Harry's heart sank faster than his dive, and with Draco's help he stood up on trembling legs. "Never in my time at Hogwarts-" Professor Snape started but couldn't finish, his black eyes flashing dangerously, "How dare you-could have broken your neck! What were you thinking!" Professor Snape roared. "Harry, Draco follow me, NOW!" Professor Snape ordered before turning and storming into the building with Harry and Draco following right behind him.

Harry and Draco looked at their group to see them looking at them with apologetic looks, they also caught Andrew and Ron, and all the other first year Gryffindors, looking at them with triumphant looks. Harry sighed and tried to figure out what had gotten over him out there, well what ever it was it got both him and Draco in trouble, and now there were both going to be expelled. As Professor Snape stormed down the hallways he didn't look at them and they had to literally jog to keep up with him. They stopped outside the Charms classroom and Professor Snape opened the door. "I need Flint." Was all he said. Harry and Draco looked at each other wondering what, or who Flint was.

It turned out that Flint was a person and a troll-blooded fifth year boy. He came out of the classroom confused and kind of scared that he had done something wrong. Professor Snape said nothing as he turned and began to sweep down the corridor, Flint gave Harry and Draco a hard look before all three of them followed the Professor. They followed him into an empty classroom, well it would have been empty if it weren't for Peeves who was busy writing rude words on the blackboard.

"Peeves, out. Or I will get the Bloody Baron to kick you out!" Professor Snape yelled, Peeves glared at him before he threw the chalk into a bin, which clanged loudly, and dived out of the room cursing. Professor Snape slammed the door shut, Harry tired really hard not to flinch in fear as Professor Snape turned into his Uncle in his mind's eyes. Draco wrapped his arms around Harry's shoulder and glared at his god father as he turned to face all three boys.

"Harry, Draco, this is Marcus Flint, he is the Slytherin Quidditch Captain. Marcus Flint, this is Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy." Professor Snape introduced them they looked at each other an nodded to each other.

"What is this all about Professor? If these boys have said I did something, depending on what it is I may or may not have done it." Marcus said and Draco rose and eyebrow at that.

"I have just found you a Seeker and a Chaser for our team. Harry here will be our Seeker and Draco will be our Chaser." Professor Snape said and Marcus suddenly looked like a kid in a candy store with two pockets full of money.

"Are you serious?" Marcus asked.

"Absolutely," Professor Snape said, "Harry and Draco here are naturals, I have never seen anything like Harry's flying it is like he is made to be in the air, it almost looked like he had wings." Harry blushed at that.

"It was also Harry's first time on a broom." Draco said.

"That makes it even more impressive." Professor Snape said and Harry's blush deepened.

"So what did Harry do that impressed you so much Professor?" Marcus asked. Professor Snape quickly grabbed the Remembrall that was still in Harry's hand.

"Harry caught this ball after a fifty foot dive, and pulled up a foot away from the ground. Though he did fall off his broom after he had pulled up, he did not get a scratch on him, he seemed to know exactly what to do to keep from getting injured. And Draco here is an excellent chaser, I watched them throw this ball back and forth to each other from a good 20 feet apart." Professor Snape said and Marcus looked impressed and then began to circle them.

"Ever seen a game of Quidditch Harry?" Marcus asked.

"No." Harry said and Marcus kept circling them, Harry tried to keep his annoyance at bay, what was this boy in another life, a vulture?

"Harry here has the build of a Seeker; small, light weight, and speedy, this will allow him to follow the snitch no matter where it goes. And Draco has the build of a Chaser, light weight and speed, and because he is not as small as Harry he will not be able to go as fast as him, but his bigger body will help him put more power into his maneuvers. With training both will be able to out fly and out play the best of us." Marcus said and Draco smirked and Harry who cutely smiled at him. "But of course to practice they will need their own brooms, say, Nimbus Two Thousand?"

"Done." Professor Snape said, "And I shall speak with Professor Dumbledore and see if we can bend the first year rule. We really do need a better team this year or every single one of you will be serving detentions." He said before leaving the room.

~The Journey of a Dark Phoenix~

"You're kidding me!" Blaise cried out and Harry shook his head with a smile as Draco filled his plate up, "Well that is a relief."

"I had honestly thought that my plan had back fired and had gotten both you and Draco expelled." Daphne said with a relieved sigh.

"Yeah and me breaking my wrist and falling off my broom and dropping my remembrall had all be for nothing." Neville whispered, "Oh, thank you for catching it by the way."

"You're welcome Nev, it is what got me on the Quidditch team." Harry said smirking. It was dinner time and Draco and Harry had just finished informing their little group of what had happened after Professor Snape had taken them from the flying lesson.

"Wow, I can't believe both of you are now on the Quidditch team, and you're both still first years. You two must be the youngest Slytherin players in about-" Blaise started.

"In a century. Yeah, Flint told us about it." Draco said before holding his fork out for Harry to take a little bit of the kidney pie that Harry had wanted to taste before actually eating it. He ignored Daphne as she cooed at them, and glared at Pansy who was glaring at Harry.

"We start training next week, but don't tell anyone okay, Flint and Professor Snape want to keep this secret until our first game." Harry said before pushing the kidney pie off his plate and onto Draco's, he had not liked it. Suddenly two older Slytherin's came over to them, they were the Sven twins (or better known as the Snake Twins) Nikki Sven and Myari Sven.

"We just heard from Marcus." Myari said throwing an arm over both of their shoulders.

"Well done, worthy of a true Slytherin." Nikki said.

"As you probably know, we are on the team, we're beaters." Myari said.

"Our job is to make sure that you don't get bloodied up too bad. Can't make any promises, of course. Rough game, Quidditch." Nikki said.

"Brutal. But no one's died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally-" Myari started but stopped at seeing the glare Draco was giving them and Harry's white face.

"-But they'll turn up in a month or two." Nikki finished smirking and Harry looked at Draco with a worried face.

"Anyway, we've got to go, we need to help the Weasely twins play pranks on the third year. See you." Myari said and the two of them left.

"Don't listen to them Harry, they're just teasing you." Millicent said, Harry smiled at her and nodded. He was just about to go back to his dinner when he felt his magic tingle and looked up to see Andrew and his pet Weasel walking up to them with a smirk.

"Enjoying your last meal before you are shipped back off to our dear relatives boy?" Andrew asked before he 'accidentally' knocked Harry's plate into his lap. Harry looked at the food that was now on his lap and slowly breathed through his nose to keep from jumping up and killing his brother, no that would be for later. Once Harry knew he had his emotions in check he calmly turned to look at Andrew with his innocent face, best to make Andrew look like the jerk he is without looking like he was provoking him.

"Oh look guys, by dear brother had come to show us his little pet Weasel." Harry said so that only they could hear what he said.

"What a cute looking pet, what's her name?" Daphne asked jumping into Harry's innocent act. Ron sneered at the both of them and cracked his knuckles to look intimidating.

"What are you going to do? Beat us up in front of everyone?" Harry asked tilting his head just a little. "How about we do this properly?"

"Properly?" Andrew asked.

"Yes, with a Duel, a Wizard's Duel between you and me. Tonight, say midnight. Wands only, no contact." Harry said and Andrew looked confused, "What's wrong, never heard about Wizard's Duel before?"

"Of course he has," Ron said jumping in to try and save him, Andrew threw him a look that clearly showed he had know idea what this Duel was. "I'll be his Second, who's you-"

"Draco Malfoy of course." Harry sad cutting Ron off, "We will meet you in the Trophy Room. And make sure to be there." Ron and Andrew glared at Harry as he innocently waved at them as they headed towards their own table before turning to look at Draco and the others.

"What was that about?" Draco asked confused, and a little concerned as Harry magically removed the food in his lap. Draco quickly began to fill up another plate for him.

"Sorry about that, he just really pisses me off." Harry said and stopped Draco from putting some food he didn't like on his plate.

"So, are you really going to be silly Gryffindors and go fight them at midnight?" Daphne asked giving them both a disapproving look and Harry gave her a mock hurt look.

"Of course not. We're gonna be little snakes and after we eat dinner we are gonna go and inform Professor Snape about some trouble makers sneaking around the Trophy Room tonight at midnight." Harry said smirking as he took his plate away from Draco before he could put a kidney pie on his plate.

~The Journey of a Dark Phoenix~

After dinner Harry and Draco made their way to Professor Snape's Office while the others went to the Snake Pit to wait for them before they finished their homework and studied. Harry felt Professor Snape's magic and lead Draco to him, he was in his ingredient room taking stock. "Professor Snape," Harry said and Professor Snape turned and looked at them both with a worried look. The only time any Slytherins came into his office it was to usually tell them about abuse they had to him. "There is something I think you need to know." Harry said and Professor Snape's fear rose, one or both of them were being abused. He was already looking in on Harry's life with the Dursley's as he was suspicious with the way his Uncle spoke about Harry when he had picked them up, and if he found out they were abusing him he would easily take them to court. But if it was Draco who was being abuse then he would have to bring Lucius into this.

"What?" Professor Snape asked hoping it wasn't what he thought.

"We've heard from a reliable source that Andrew and his pet Weasel will be in the Trophy Room tonight at midnight." Draco said and Professor Snape gave an inaudible sigh of relief, so this was just about Andrew and Weasely.

"Oh, and who or what is this reliable source of yours?" Professor Snape asked turning back around to continue taking stock.

"Me," Harry said and Professor Snape glanced at him before turning back to his ingredients, "I challenged Andrew and his pet Weasel to a Wizard's Duel with Draco as my second." Professor Snape turned and glared at them both, "Of course tonight at midnight Draco and I will be asleep in our rooms." And Professor Snape nodded approvingly.

"Worthy of a true Slytherin." Professor Snape said then turned back to continue taking stock, "Very well, I shall in form Filch to check the Trophy Room at midnight tonight for some students out of bed." Harry and Draco shared a look before saying goodbye to Professor Snape and going back to the Snake Pit to finish some Homework and study with their little group.