Disclaimer: All characters (except for all the perfects and the darkness characters) belong to an author named JKR.

Note: so thanks for all the Reviews I got. I'm sorry about the cursing on Hermione's Part. And I want to say the Hogwarts express is Red, Harry's Scar is red. Sorry it took so long to come out.

Chapter 2

The Battle for the Past

"I Know who you are, you are Harry Potter" Said the strange boy.

Harry looked at the kid in amazement

"How did you know my name?"

"Oh. Um." at this the kid hesitated for a moment.

"Um, my teacher- I mean my dad told me about you."

"Well, duh. Everyone knows the great Harry Potter! He defeated the Dark Lord! Twice!" Ron said sarcastically.

Hermione threw a look at Ron that said "Behave" and said

"Well since you know Harry. This is Ron Weasly. Say hello Ron"

Ron threw back a look that spoke volumes.

"Hi"

"And I'm Hermione Granger."

At this the boy did a double take

"WHAT? Um, can you repeat your name?"

"why?"

"It just reminds me of something."

"Oh, My name is Hermione Granger."

The boy smiled a strange smile and waved them in.'



"Please do come in."

Harry and Ron raised their eyebrows and put away there trunks. Then they sat down across from the boy. Than Harry thought of something.

"So, what's your name then?"

"Oh, I didn't introduce myself? Once again I apologize! I'm doing that a lot.... It's just so strange here, don't know.........."

"Your name? And what do you mean so strange?"

"Oh right, My name is Salender Darren. And I mean so strange is that I never been on a trai- I mean I never been on the Hogwarts express."

"You haven't been on the Hogwarts express before?" asked Harry

"No I never attended Hogwarts before."

"You sure? I'm sure I've seen you somewhere!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Unless you came by my house and looked in my widow. I have been Home schooled for my whole life."

"Then why did you come now?" asked Harry

"Well, because I uh, just wanted a new challenge. That's all.'

Hermione looked at the boy, no his name was Salender, and he had the strangest accent............

"Where are you from Salender?" she asked.

Salender Jumped up from his seat, eyes narrowed, yet through the slits, Hermione could see green eyes blazing .

"What do you mean?"

"I meant um....."Hermione was surprised. Why had Salender jumped like that? Did she some how offend him?

"I meant where do you live? You have a weird accent and I wanted to know where you got it."

And to Hermione's eye Salender relaxed.

"Oh, I grew up on a farm near London."

"A farm?" Harry said skeptically.

"Yeah, a farm. That's were I learned all I know about magic and such."

"And I bet that's not a lot." Ron muttered under his breath.

For the first part of this conversation Ron had been staring at Salender. With his eyes narrowed. Almost if he was jealous of him.

"Well, there you are wrong, Ron, is it? I'm acutely very good at everything, except, maybe potions. That I can't do for my life."

"Really? Wow, I'm not very good at potions either. Also it doesn't help that Snape hates my guts. Do you play Qudditich Salender?" Harry asked. There was some promise of Friendship in this boy

"Um, no."

"Oh."

Hermione had been going over the conversation in her mind while Harry and Salender talked. And she realized that Salender didn't talk like a 16 or 17 year old.

"Salender, how old are you?"

Salender looked up at Hermione. He raised his eyebrows and said

"16. Same as you."

And then she asked a question that she didn't know she was going to say, until she said it.

"Salender, when were you born?"

***

Salender thought that the conversation was going quite well. He got a little nervous when Hermione had asked him were he was from. But other then that he was comfortable about it. And He had even told her his age. He was 16. But the last question stopped him cold.

"When was I born?" he had a strong urge to say April 7th 788 AD.

"Yes."

"April 7th."

"But what year?"

"Same as you." He could see why Master Onyx needed her. This was so easy! Both of the people he had to get were friends. All he had to do was convince Harry and Hermione to come with him.

"I'm sorry. I- it just seemed that you were older then you seemed."

"Oh, don't apologize! In my house every one grows up quickly." At this his voice broke. His father had been killed by Ray McEvil. And he had yet to avenge him.

"So um, what houses are you in?" Salender asked. He wanted to cover up the awkward silence that had grown and remembered what Master Onyx had said about houses.

"Oh, Were all in Gryffindor."

"Thanks" Salender said. This was even better!

"So you sure you don't play Qudditich Salender?"

" no, I don't. I don't even know the rules or how it's played."

Ron's eyes widened, almost comically.

"You don't know the rules or QUIDDITICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT all??"

"No, were I live we are kind of cut off......."

"You said you lived on a farm outside London! That's the biggest wizarding city in England! How can you not know what Quidditch is!" Ron yelled

"Ron, calm down, just calm down......." Hermione started

"

Salender blinked at Ron, Raised his eyebrows and said to harry

"Is he always this excitable?

"Only when he's talking about quidictch. You can tell he gets offended when some one knows nothing about his favorite sport."

"Well, can you tell me about it?"

"Um, oh. Okay. It's played on broom sticks, there are two chasers, two beaters, one seeker, and one keeper. It's played with a Snitch, Bludger, Quaffle............."

"Oh, that. I know that game!" Salender exclaimed.

"But, you just said............." harry started.

"Oh, um. My dad comes from another country and he calls it something else." Salender lied. He had better go to another topic or Hermione was going to get a little suspicious.

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"So uh, can you tell me about the houses? I know that there are 4 but I don't know what they are"

"Okay. The first house is Gryffindor. Their symbol is the Lion. Next house is Slytherin. There symbol is the snake. Next is Ravenclaw. Their symbol is of corse, the Raven. And the last is Hufflepuff, their symbol is the badger. (A/N sorry if I got Hufflepuff wrong.)" Hermione said.

"That's all?"

"Well no. Not really. There is a sort of war between Gryffindor and Slytherin. In Quidditch we always play the Slytherin team. But it is kind of deeper then that. One of the biggest Jerks in the world is in Slytherin his name is Draco Malfoy.........."

"Ah, look is this not a wonderful picture?" a sneering voice said.

Salender turned at the sound of that voice, and looked in to the face of a person he knew very well............

"Draces? Draces Malfoy?"

"Draces? No, my name is not That! I'm Draco Malfoy. I see that you have made your self known to The mudblood and the weasel. I tried to save Potter, but, he seemed not to want my help."

Salender smiled a strange smile and got up.

"I don't like the Malfoys, in fact, the very name annoyes me."

"It does? It shouldn't! It commands respect." Draco said

"Why?" Salender replied.

"Because we are the purest blood family in this land."

"Pure blood! You aren't pure anything!" Salender said with a laugh and a slow smile.

"We are so pure blood."

"Stop acting childish. Now, not only does the Malfoy Name annoy me, you do to. You will go now." Salender said.

"What if I don't want to?" Draco asked

"Then I'll do this." Salender took out his wand and pointed it at Malfoy. He also lifted his hand and in his mind he focused on a picture of Malfoy flying out the door and down the train.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" shouted Malfoy as he was blown out of the room.



Once again Salender smiled , turned around and sat down. He looked at the faces of his compartment mates and was met with two open mouth gazes (Harry and Hermione) and raised eye brows from Ron.

"Malfoy's name annoys me." Salender said, as an explanation.

Hermione's mouth closed, then opened again.

"What did you mean by 'you aren't pure anything'?"

"Oh, I just know that they aren't pure bloods." Salender said, he had to make up a story about how he knew what he knew...........

"But how and what do you know about the Malfoys?" Harry asked.

"I know that they aren't pure bloods, originally. Way back in the middle ages the first wizard Malfoy was a Basterd. "

"How do you know this?" Hermione asked

"Um, well, my family is very old, very old. And we kept records of all the births and deaths for the families in the middle ages, and we still have them. Not just that his ancestors was a Basterd, but also the basterd's mother was a muggle!"

"Really?" Harry and Ron said at the same time. Hermione raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah."

"Well, well, well. Won't we have something to do for a while." Ron said

"Oh, don't tell him."

"Why not?" Ron asked

"Because this is kind of a secret, of the family." Salender lied quickly.

"DAMN!" Ron said.

"I'm sorry............" Salender started, but a whistle interpreted him. And the train stopped.

"What happened?" He asked

"Oh, nothing, we are here that's all." Hermione said.

"Thank Thee." Salender replied. He then flinched, he caught his mistake to late, he had said Thee!

"Thee?" Hermione said, her eyebrows raising.

"Uh, my mother liked to talk in the style of the middle ages that's all."

"Hmm........" Harry said as he walked out the door.

"What will happen to our trunks?" Salender asked

"Oh, they will be put in your house."

"Do you know who handles them?"

" no," Harry answered. He never thought who handled them.......

"Hmmmmm" Salender answered.

They all got out of the compartment and they reached the exit, Salender Jumped gracefully and landed on his feet. Ron Sneered and said

"Why did you do that? There are steps you know.,"

"Really?" Salender asked

"Yeah." Ron answered.

Salender shrugged and moved out of the way so the rest could step down. They did and they all started to walk out of the train station. Hermione was in the middle, Salender on one side, Ron on the other, Harry on the other side of Ron.

They walked until they reached the place were the Horseless carriages were.............



"What are they?" Salender asked

"Our ticket to Hogwarts. Come on." Harry said, he was hungry and wanted to get to the feast that awaited them.

"How do they work?"

"I don't know, some kind of Magic. But can we go?" Harry said again.

"yes, let's go."

They climbed into the carriage and it took off. Hermione and Ron started talking and Salender looked out the window, un aware that Harry was watching him.........

After twenty minutes the carriage stopped and opened it's doors. Harry Ron and Hermione got out. Salender stepped out he was amazed by what he saw. So this is Hogwarts he thought. And with a sudden tug at his Heart, he knew he was home