A/N: Thanks Wolves, but I looked it up and found out that they arrive mid October and the choosing of champions happens on Halloween.

I guess that all of the people that read this story are all the silent type. Excluding my two reviewers of course. *Sigh*

I guess I'll try writing other stories along with this one. Maybe I'll have better luck next time. Oh well, I'll write this in the meantime.

I made Ron less immature a bit. Also has anybody noticed that the people of Hogwarts need some serious decorating tips. I mean their statues have some serious horror issues, why would that be in a school for children.

Also as it is a fanfiction the opening feast will be written in a different order from the book.

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Chapter 12: New Beginnings

As the summer ended and relationships of all types bloomed and flourished. The school year began.

Adrian had decided to let Harry ride the train to school, since the teen told his father that it was the best part of coming to school besides the feast.

Adrian gladly let Harry go as he would hardly deny the teen anything he wanted, unless it was stupid and dangerous. In which case, he would not allow Harry to go or do it without him. As if he would deny the teen adventure, he spent four years on one himself.

Harry was lucky for many reasons. Besides getting to ride the train after having a good summer, he would not have to haul any luggage as his things were already at the school. His father had retrieved his things from the Dursley's or should I say Evans, as Petunia had divorced Vernon and sent him to jail. Dudley became a fine person on the removal of his main source of bad influence.

Harry was also lucky that his father would be protecting him from any attacks on the train, Adrian was extremely livid to find out that Dementors attacked Harry on the train in his third year.

Adrian also wanted to ride the train for himself, he never been on one and would like to see how it would feel. Since the train allowed pets to ride with passengers, Adrian would be with Harry as an animal. He would teleport onto the train after he would seemingly leave the platform.

As the duo arrived at the platform early, Adrian had dumped his plan to teleport and just got on the train with Harry. The platform was empty save for the train crew that was busy on one side of the train. Adrian was kind of put out by the fact that he went through all the trouble to make illusion luggage and such to spare Harry the questions of why he would did not have his things.

Harry had a bag like Adrian's to hold his clothes for him to change later. He brought Hedwig for appearances and Archimedes came along out of curiosity, *Cough, mother hen, Cough*.

All four of them boarded that train as Harry found a compartment in the middle of the train. Hedwig and Archimedes flew up to the luggage rack overhead and perched on it. Adrian transformed and settled beside them.

After about of hour of Harry and Adrian talking, Adrian had mastered the ability to speak in animal form, if Archimedes could do it then as a human so could he. They finally saw other people arrive at the platform.

Harry watched the families as they said their goodbyes. He was no longer sadden by this site as Adrian and Lance now filled the roles of his parents. Harry looked up at Adrian and smiled, who returned it with a noise of affection. No animal can really smile, that's just crazy people imagining things.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity, Harry saw the Weasley and Granger families arrive through the barrier. The Malfoys had also arrived uncharacteristically late and sparks flew between Mr. Weasley and Mr. Malfoy.

Draco was silent and didn't join in his father's prodding. Mrs. Malfoy and Mrs. Weasley only tried to diffuse the situation.

All of the three families children boarded the train, ignoring their parent's situation. Minutes later Ron and Hermione open the compartment door and join Harry and the three animals. Hermione lets Crookshanks run up and sit on the seat across from Harry, while Ron lets his owl Pig fly off to sit next to the three animals on the luggage rack.

The two sit on the seat opposite of Harry as they know that Harry enjoys having the entire seat to move around on.

The two tell Harry that the twin and Ginny went off to find their own group of friends. They talk about their summer as they wait for the train to leave.

Before they could talk further on other things, Hermione asks why there are two extra animals on the luggage rack. Before Harry could answer and explain the compartment door opens again and reveals Draco Malfoy standing alone.

Hermione and Ron glare at him while Harry says, "Come on in Draco."

Harry's two friends stare at him in shock as Harry lets Draco sit next to him.

Before Ron could speak, Hermione beats him to the punch and exclaims, "Why the bloody hell are you being nice to Malfoy!"

Everybody stares at her, shocked at her uncharacteristic behavior. She notices the looks and blushes, then quickly glares at the two across from her.

Since Hermione said what was on Ron's mind, he was able to re-evaluate himself and look at the situation in a different way.

Harry calmly opens his mouth and explains. "It all started at the World Cup when dad told me to try and bury the hatchet with Draco."

The purebloods in the room appear confused by the muggle expression while Hermione says, "But what about all the things he has done to us? Surely you couldn't have forgiven him that easily?" Draco looks away ashamed while Harry just pats his shoulder to cheer him up.

Harry responds, "I didn't. I waited for a while and thought it over. It was only after meeting Lance that I figured out that I did something wrong."

Ron and Hermione already knew about Lance, having met him one time at the Burrow when Adrian brought him over, they thought of him as a really funny guy since they were able to see Adrian hit him repeatedly for doing or saying something stupid.

"What could you have possibly done wrong that would excuse what he has done to us?" Asked Hermione while Ron nodded a bit.

"Guys, I rejected his friendship in front of our entire year, embarrassing him. I know what he said about Ron was wrong and he apologized to me, still making him apologize to you by the way." He pointed at Ron and continued. "He was wrong to say it, but I was somewhat wrong to reject his offer so rudely." Draco smirks a little, but wipes it off when Hermione sends him a look.

Harry continues to say, "When Adrian and Lance told me that, when Adrian had rejected Lance's friendship at first, he became an insufferable git and picked on Adrian a lot. Just like Draco. I sent him a letter during the summer and we got together and made up." Draco glares at Harry for the implied git comment and Harry just smiles cheekily at him in response.

Ron sees the interaction and thinks silently, while Hermione gets a look of comprehension on her face and says, "And since Lance liked Adrian since the beginning and turned into a bully, Draco is the same. Wait, does that mean he wants to be your boyfriend?"

All three boys stare at her in horror, while Adrian snickers internally at the question.

"NO!" Screams all three boys, they look at each other and laugh.

Draco quickly settles down and sneers while addressing Hermione, "No it does not Granger, I was… I was…" he drifts off and looks away while blushing.

Harry rolls his eyes and says, "He was mad that I ruined his dream of me being his best friend since he was a child that read the stories about me." He grins at Draco's miffed expression. Harry laughs and says, "Aww don't be mad, I for one think it's adorable."

Hermione and Ron laugh at Draco's scandalized look and he says, "I'm a Malfoy, we are not adorable." He crosses his arms and turns away with his nose in the air.

Ron finally says something. "Alright mate, he can stay. Just train him not to bark at us and will be fine." Says Ron with a big grin.

Harry smiles while Draco says haughtily, "I am no dog weasel."

Ron rolls his eyes and responds, "I know you're not you ferret."

They remain silent for a moment and break out laughing and shake hands, silently making a truce.

Hermione rolls her eyes and says, "Boys."

All three teenaged boys look at her cheekily.

They all settle into a comfortable conversation, to which Draco starts off by apologizing. Ron and Hermione just accept it and they all try to move on with their lives. The two are still a little wary of Draco and his intentions, a Slytherin must have a hidden agenda ya know, but they put it aside as it benefits them all and especially Harry.

Harry looks at them all with a happy smile. His group of friends grows ever bigger. He looks up at Adrian and mouths, "Thank You". Adrian nods and turns back to listening the group talk.

After about three hours of them bonding, Hermione looks up and notices the two extra animals again and asks Harry, "Harry?"

He turns to Hermione and says, "Yes, 'mione."

She continues, "Where did those two other owls come from?"

She points to the two new owls, one white like Hedwig, but clearly masculine, the other one is black.

Harry looks up and says, "Well the white is Archimedes, dad's owl."

Archimedes says, "Hello."

The three other people jump in shock.

"The bird, it talked."

"That's impossible!"

"It's magic Granger, of course it talked."

The last one was Draco responding to Hermione, telling her in a way that asked if she was stupid. She picked up on the implied insult and kicked Draco in the shin. He rubbed it and glared at her smug expression.

She then coughed and asked, "So who does the other bird belong too."

Harry smiles plainly and says innocently, "Well that's my dad of course."

They all say at once, "HUUUUH!?"

Harry rubs his ear at the loud noise he looks around and sees that all of the animals plus his father were all spooked at the sudden loud noise.

The questions start up again.

"Your dad is cool mate."

"Adrian is a bird!?"

"He's obviously is an animagus."

Again Draco said the last one at Hermione who went to kick his shin again, but he moved out of the way. His victory was short lived as Harry smacked the back of his head and Hermione smirked in triumph. He looked at Harry with a betrayed expression, who returned it with a "You deserved it" one.

Adrian chuckled and spoke up, "Yes I am what you call an animagus Mr. Malfoy, and I suggest that you all keep that information to yourselves. I heard about Professor McGonagall's trick that she plays on the first years and I want to do the same."

Draco knew about Adrian as he took Harry to see Draco over the summer. He nodded and sat back and relaxed. Ron and Hermione doing the same, Harry was already in the loop so he never moved from his comfortable position.

Adrian hooted and told them, "Also you should refer to me as professor in school from now on, alright." They nodded and he continued.

"Now you should all get changed, we are nearing the castle." He hooted and he and Archimedes flew onto Harry's shoulders.

The boys left the compartment to allow Hermione to change. When she was done she let them change as she waited outside with the two talking owls.

When they were all done the group settled into comfortable silence as the castle came into view.

As they all got off the train, the four owls flew towards the castle, Crookshanks was left with the trunks in a pet carrier.

The four new friends made their way through the crowd, people whispered at how close Draco was to the Golden trio. His friends looked on with looks of interest or disgust in the case of one Pansy Parkinson. She made to stop them, but was blocked by the crowd of onlookers.

They quickly made their way to the carriages and headed for the castle. They talked briefly about what to do about their new friendship and decided to just go with it. If worst comes to worst Adrian had assured them that Draco was always welcome to stay with them. Draco was afraid of his parent's reactions when they learned of his new friends.

They entered the school before anyone else and sat down at their respective houses. Snape watched with a horrified expression, but quickly schooled it into a mask of indifference as the rest of the student body filed in.

Their housemates quickly questioned the four, but they made no comments on their new status. Harry and friends were soon shielded by the twins and Ginny and deflected all of the houses attempts at questioning them. Draco's own reputation also kept his housemates at bay, that and his two closets friends, Blaise and Theo.

Adrian watched with concern as did Archimedes who sat on his shoulder, the Headmaster quickly called for silence in a booming voice and silenced the hall. He called for McGonagall to bring in the new students.

As the first years were sorted, Harry was deep in thought. He hated all of the whispering, but it was worth getting rid of an enemy and gaining a friend, now all he had to do was make it through the year without incident.

As the sorting finished, everybody clapped and Headmaster Dumbledore rose to give his start of the year speech.

"Good evening students new and old. I welcome you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am Headmaster Dumbledore and these are your teachers." As he said this the charmed ceiling thundered and the candles went out.

The students minus the ones we know, started screaming and panicking. As the thunder looked as if it would strike the students a figure burst through the door behind the head table and shot a spell at the ceiling, returning the scene to a serene sky.

The Headmaster clapped his hands and the candles lit themselves. The students calmed down and the teachers put away their wands.

The figure was a very scarred man and… oh for Pete's sake, we know who it is. Its Alastor Moody and the students started whispering and pointing.

Harry and friends stared at him and he turned and looked straight at Harry. He quickly turned away and Headmaster Dumbledore moved and greeted the man.

"Ah Alastor, its good to see you. I trust you had safe travels?"

Moody responded, "Yes Albus, I did. Now can you point me you my seat, I would like to get to a safe spot with no blind side."

The Headmaster pointed to a seat at the far end of the table, the man moved quickly and sipped something from a silver flask.

Adrian narrowed his eyes in suspicion and sensed a great deal of magic surrounding the man, he focused on the man's arm and sensed some very dark magic. Not cold like death magic, but evil like dark and dangerous magic, it felt like poison and Adrian promised himself to keep an eye on the man and whispered to Archimedes to do so as well.

Back with Harry, Ron had told him that the man was called Mad-eye Moody, an ex-Auror and supposed barmy man. Harry's scar throbbed as the man sent him another look. His thoughts were interrupted by the Headmaster.

"Students, I would like to introduce our two newest professors." He paused and gestured to Moody and then Adrian.

"First our new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Alastor Moody." Moody stood up briefly and nodded, he plopped back down in his chair and took another swig from his flask. Professor Snape who sat next to him sniffed and narrowed his eyes and glared at Moody. Moody saw the look with his eyes and grinned. Adrian saw the exchange and raised an eyebrow.

The Headmaster continued unaware of the exchange behind him.

"Second our newest and youngest professor, Adrian Ambrose." Adrian stood up gracefully and bowed slightly as he had Archimedes on his shoulder.

The Headmaster continued. "He will be teaching our newest class on Spiral Magic. It will be taught to fourth years and above. Times and location will be on your time tables."

The second and third years frowned, they wouldn't be learning about the subject, all except Ginny who would see Adrian in her spare time. She might even bring her friend Luna Lovegood and have her learn as well.

"I must also regretfully inform you that we will not be hosting the Inter-house Quidditch tournament."

Everybody paused at this and all of the Quidditch teams players mouthed wordlessly in horror. Harry looked up to his father appalled. Adrian smiled mischievously and lifted a finger to his lips. Harry knew this as a sign that there was more to the situation and sat quietly, he was still miffed.

"This year we will also be hosting an Ancient tournament, the Triwizard Tournament. It will start in October and take up most of our teacher's time. We will be home to two other schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang."

As he said this the Fred Weasley burst out, "YOU'RE JOKING!"

The tension from Moody's entrance broke as the hall filled with laughter.

"I am not joking Mr. Weasley. Although, over the summer I did hear an excellent joke about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun who all walk into a bar and…"

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly and sent the Headmaster a pointed look.

"Err–but maybe this is not the time…no…" said Dumbledore.

"Where was I? Ah yes, the Triwizard Tournament…" The Headmaster gave a short explanation of the tournament. He gave them a brief mention of the previous death toll to which everybody, but the staff paled at. He also gave them a brief summary on the age restriction to which many people booed loudly until he cast a sonorous charm and called for silence.

He revealed the Goblet of fire and told them that it would be used to select the champions.

Harry was just glad that he would not have to participate in the dangerous tournament and was grateful for when the Headmaster allowed them to eat.

As dinner appeared on the table, Nearly Headless Nick floated over and started a conversation that led to Hermione finding about House elves. She was going to stop eating when Adrian sent her a small paper snake that slithered up her leg and into her lap. It took all of her willpower to not make a noise.

The snake unfolded itself and read "Do eat the food. You will make the House elves sad and punish themselves for thinking that they did something wrong. I will explain later in class, just raise your hand."

She bit her lip in thought then reluctantly resumed eating. She thought she heard a squeak after she took a bite but she waved it off and dug into the delicious food.

At the head table Adrian smiled and mentally gave himself a pat on the back and resumed eating and feeding Archimedes some meat.

As dessert rolled in, so did Peeves the poltergeist. The staff was informed that he was barred from attending the feast by the Hogwarts ghost council. It looks like he had enough and came anyways.

As he wreaked havoc on a few students, Adrian stood up and used one finger to draw a small rune of life. He made a swishing motion and the green rune turned into a green bolt of magic that zapped Peeves in arse.

Peeves turned around to face his attacker, but was met with another shot to the face. He clutched his nose and flew to the nearest wall squealing in pain.

Adrian blew on the tip of his finger like a gun and everybody, even the teachers applauded Adrian and stared in awe of his magic. Even Snape clapped a little with a smirk on his face.

Moody however, narrowed his eyes. An action that did not go unnoticed by Archimedes.

As Adrian sat down and the feast ended, the Headmaster gave his yearly announcements and warnings. Adrian made a note of them and realized that he was making a lot of mental notes lately, he should make a mental list to keep them all.

The students got up and headed to there dorms. Harry decided earlier that he would sleep in his dorm room for now and return to his room when he needed some alone time.

He and Draco were not able to meet up after the feast so he decided to find him later.

The golden trio quickly made it to the common room and headed to bed before they could be questioned by their housemates.

As the day winded down and the lights went out, Adrian stayed up late and planned out some things. He and Archimedes would definitely watch over Harry this year and protect them as best they could.

Adrian told Archimedes to watch over the Goblet when it will be brought out when the schools arrive.

He planned for his lessons and went to sleep. He would not allow for Harry's year to be ruined. Unfortunately there are some things that Adrian cannot control.

A/N: The students have arrived on a Monday and will begin classes the next day.

Some things are taken straight from the book and are not my property.

I have also decided to write some Harry Potter crossovers that deserve more fics.

Adrian's owl form is a Black Sooty Owl native to Australia and New Zealand, two of my favorite countries in the world.

I forget what else I needed to say so I will write it in later.

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