Ch 2
A/N: sorry, going slightly off cannon for this one but assume that (young) Harry and Draco already have their wands and supplies.
Harry PoV:
When my eyes clear, it is to see a pristine Hogwarts Castle standing proud without any of the scars of war, almost bringing tears to my eyes. I turn to Draco, only to see him thinking the same. I turn back and wait until he says,
"Hey Potter, don't you think we should think up some different names before we go to the Ally? I mean, as an 11 year old, having someone who looked like me and had the same name as me would seriously screw with my head."
"Right, I knew we were forgetting something. I think I'll be Harrison Potter, different, but not too different, right?"
"Yeah mate, I guess I'll be Drake", he responds hesitantly.
"Nah, too close to Draco, you'd be outed really easily", I point out, trying not to be too Captain Obvious but failing.
"You literally named yourself Harrison, the nickname for that is Harry," Draco points out, slightly exasperated.
"Ha, you're right. Drake it is!" I responded
He just sighs, shaking his head as we apparate to Diagon Alley.
Drake PoV:
I land in a secluded alley next to Madam Malkin's, Harrison just moments behind me. I see myself enter the robe shop with my nose in the air. Hmm, I really was a pretentious little brat when I was younger.
Checking around the corner I see both my parents disappear into shops down the street and Hagrid leading little Harry down the Alley. I go into the shop and Harrison follows.
The young clerk at the counter looks at us suspiciously but decides she didn't really care because no wands were in sight. Young Harry enters and this time the clerk does a double take and faints behind the counter. Harry rushes over and quickly obliviates the witch before she comes to and we stun both kids before running out of the store.
We run down the alley whilst looking as inconspicuous as we can, dragging two stunned kids behind us and eventually make it to Knockturn alley. We both draw our wands and enter a seedy looking establishment run by what appears to be a vampire and werewolf. Harrison pays for a private room and I start dragging the two children up the stairs to room 17.
Harrison meets me at the landing of the second floor and hoists Harry up on his shoulder. We enter a dingy looking room containing a dirty bed, a single sofa and mismatched chair, and a small table. We set the two boys on the sofa while I offer Harrison the chair. He declines so I make him sit while Harrison taps each child gently on the temple with the tip of his wand, reviving them. They stir and come to wakefulness within a minute. Draco is visibling panicking, Harry is too, but trying hard not to show it.
"Where are we! Who are you!" Draco is screaming, almost having a full out panic attack. I almost feel embarrassed for myself but thankfully I conceal it.
"Don't beat me. Please don't beat me, Uncle Vernon. I promise I won't be a Freak. Please don't beat me," Harry seems to have gone into blind panic, not even there was a second child in the room and that there were two adults, neither of whom were his uncle. In a moment of startling clarity, I suddenly realized why Harry was always so painfully shy and always seemed to come back to school with fresh bruises every year. I beat up both physically and verbally, an abused kid for close enough to 6 years. God, I feel horrible now, we really have to fix that before it could happen again.
Harrison POV:
Merlin, I forgot how tiny I used to be, I could see almost every bone in my body, my skin was translucent, eyes wide. No, it wasn't me. This kid will never grow to have the same hardships as I had.
"Harry calm down," I say while reaching down into a pouch on my belt containing different potions, poisons, and antidotes, for a Calming Drought. I bring the potion to Harry's lips and force him to drink. He immediately calms down and out of the corner of my eye I see Drake do the same to Draco.
"I am Harrison and this is Drake. You notice that me and Harry look very similar and the same with Drake and Draco. Well, that's because we're the same person. I am Harry from 8 years in the future. Because of events in your near future we came back in time to train you. We will be going to a special room in Hogwarts where we can spend as long as we want inside and only a short while will pass outside. Now Draco, I need you to call your House-elf, Dobby"
"Why?"
"We need Dobby because House-elves are immune to the temporal magics of the room, sohe can bring us supplies."
"Dobby!" POP "Now listen Dobby, This is Harry, Harrison, and Drake, if they make a request of you, you are to obey it as if it is my own, alright?"
"Yes Little Master Draco, Dobby bes listening to new masters and you bes calling Dobby if yous needs" Dobby replied bowing to each person in turn before disappearing with a pop of house-elf disapparation.
"Now that's settled, can you hand out the runestones Drake?"
Each runestone was a perfect sphere of pure white quartz, which had excellent magic-retaining properties, marked with miniscule runes hanging from a thin golden chain that went around each person's neck.
Drake started speaking,"these runestones will make you effectively invisible to the wards of any building and need to be charged with your magic. I've already charged mine." and indeed, Drake's stone had a dark, forest green light in the middle of his stone. "Harrison will show you how to charge them"
"First what you want to do is get into a comfy position where you feel relaxed, then close your eyes. After a few minutes, you should start to see a ball of fire, this is your magical core and it can be any color." Harrison took over for Drake. "Now enter your core, this part feels different for everyone, but because we have the same magical core Harry's will be warm, like a fire and a cozy blanket on a cold winter's day. Draco's will be cool, like the air above the quidditch pitch, but not uncomfortably cold." Harrison could see their auras coiling like smoke from their fingers and knew that it was time for the next step.
"Now, focus on your hands, feel your auras leaving through your fingers," I place their quartz runestones in their hands and see the first trickles of their auras enter the spheres. Draco's is a pure emerald green, while Harry's is a bright red, not a dark red like mine. "Intensify this feeling and you should start to notice a small drain on your core, this can be bad if the drain is too big, but these runestones only need a small charge because you only use them once."
Drake PoV:
It was odd to see Harrison interact with our past selves, he seemed like there was something about himself and Harry that he didn't want them knowing. I think though, it's about Harry's earlier outburst, he was yelling at his uncle not to hit him and it makes me think he was abused as a kid.
I looked down at my wrist watch that I received from my parents on my 17th birthday and knew we had to go to Hogwarts in the next few minutes or we would have a very strong likelihood of being discovered. I look down and see the boy's runestones are fully charged so I start talking knowing it would break them out of their trances.
"Time to leave guys, I will be apperating with Draco Harrison and will be apperating with Harry. Our destination is Hogwarts front gates"
Harrison starts speaking now, "Harry, I am going to be side-along apparition you, we will disappear and reappear in a different place and it will feel like you are being squeezed through a straw."
After seeing Harry nod that he was ready, I wrapped my arms around Draco's shoulders and landed in front of the gates. Harrison and Harry join us only seconds later and we all activate the runestones with a whisper of, "Activate" before starting our journey to the school.
A/N: Hope you like this, sorry about the short first chapter, it was really more of an intro/prologue. We will be seeing more of Harry and Draco next chappie. Please vote in the poll if you want them to train for 1 or 3 years. I can't decide between the two.