The Twin Heirs of Gryffindor
By- Michael Lahanas
"Gryffindor!" The Sorting hat cried out.
The new Hogwart's first year walked to the table and sat down next to his sister, who had just gotten placed in Gryffindor as well. The smile on his face was unmistakable. It was a face of sheer joy, the face that Harry had on when he was sorted into Gryffindor.
"Forrester, Henry." Professor McGonagall shouted out as another, the last, "first year" walked up to the sorting hat stool. This boy was placed into Ravenclaw.
They all sat down and quieted as Professor Dumbledore got up and began his normal New Year announcement.
"Welcome, to a new year at Hogwart's. There are a few new rules and regulations that must be informed to all students. The first of which is that all students will begin battle training in light of recent events. Second, all 5^th years and up will be beginning Animagus training." At this there was a great cheer from all the 5^th year students.
"Yes, yes all good and well. As usual the Forbidden forest is just that, forbidden and before I begin my next set of amusements I would like to ask Harry Potter to come and have a chat with me at the end of the feast." , at this a few hundred heads turned his way but then Dumbledore began talking again and they all gave back there attention to him, "Now, on a lighter note, we have a new transfer student from America who I will now call to be sorted as a 5^th year student. Professor McGonagall, would you do the honors for me?" The Professor said, sitting down in his chair.
There was a noticeable smile on his face as he sat down. Harry couldn't back it up, but he had a strange feeling that it was directed toward him. What the Professor said next would change his life forever.
"Potter, Dylan" Professor McGonagall said holding up the hat. Harry almost fell over at the name. There were many gasps and he could hear people on the other side of the room said, "Harry has a brother?!"
The door opened and a tall muscular boy walked in. He was huge, and you never would have guessed that it was possible that he was Harry's brother. But after you looked at him you saw a huge resemblance. The only real difference between them was that this Dylan character had a light blue shade to his eyes, not an emerald green, and that his hair was a lot neater then Harry, parted down at the side of his head, straight almost as if it were wet. As the boy reached the stool he sat down, and McGonagall put the hat on his head.
The hat was on the boy's head for quite a long time when the hat spoke aloud to the head table, but the entire room could hear it.
"Humm..." the hat said.
"Is there a problem?" Dumbledore asked almost as if he expected this to happen.
"This boy, cannot be sorted..." The hat said, there was a gasp.
"Why?" Dumbledore replied, not the least bit shocked.
"He would make a perfect match for either Gryffindor, or Slytherin." The hat said puzzled. There were gasp from all around the room.
"Are you sure sorting hat?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes...He brave, yet sly, he's powerful, yet cunning, he is passionate, yet controls his emotions..." The sorting hat said puzzled.
"Then place me in Slytherin." The boy said. His voice was cold and almost screamed cunning. There were gasps from all over the hall.
"Slytherin? But why not Gryffindor? Your brother is in that house. Why Slytherin over Gryffindor?" Professor Dumbledore asked, finally shocked. Harry gasped, "So this was my brother."
"Well, my natural personality is more sly then anything else." The boy replied.
"All right..." Dumbledore said slowly.
"The boy got up and walked to the back room, instead of the Slytherin table. Dumbledore motioned for Harry to follow him, and after a few moments of sheer shocked he got up and did so. As he entered, he saw his brother standing in a frame of another door, his eyes closed. Dumbledore was sitting in a chair looking over some paper, but quickly put it down when he saw that Harry was there.
"Ahh, Harry nice to see you again. Well I suppose that you would like to meet your brother and that you have lots of questions that you want answered, and all that I want you to do it to hold onto them for now, for they will be answered in time. Oh, and I hope your not upset with him." Dumbledore said.
"Upset? Why would I be upset?" Harry said shocked.
"Well, your brother did just willingly choose to be in Slytherin..." Dumbledore started but then Harry cut in and said, "Professor, right now the house that my brother is in doesn't really matter to me, all that doe's is that I have found a real relative."
Dumbledore nodded and walked out of the room closing the door. For a quick second he saw all the people in the Great Hall eating, as if nothing happened. Then the door finished closing and the Potters were left alone. When he looked back at his brother he saw that he had moved from his last location and was now sitting in the frame of a window, looking out at the starlit sky. Upon closer inspection he saw that tears were welled up in his eyes, but he could tell right now that they were not tears of sadness.
"Harry," Dylan, his brother, started, but then stopped as if the words had been lost to him, "I umm..."
Harry seemed to say it for them when he walked up to Dylan and hugged him. Dylan, after a moment hugged back, and tears were now streaming down both of their faces.
Moments seemed to turn into hours as they stayed there. Dylan was quite a bit taller then Harry so it was almost as if he was holding Harry in his great big paws. Time seemed to stop as the brothers met for the first time. After what could have easily seemed like days for either of them, they broke the embrace.
"Umm, Hey, it nice to meet you, I'm Dylan Potter." Dylan said holding out his hand. He was noticeably speaking in sarcasm.
"Harry Potter, nice to meet you." Harry said shaking it.
"Oh, gee, lookie that we have the same last Name! We must be brothers!" Dylan said, continuing with sarcasm.
"Really?! What a surprise." Harry said.
"Ok, seriously, how are you? You okay with the whole twin brother thing? I know this must be kind of hard for you." Dylan said, voice jumping out of sarcasm.
"Well, yeah, for the most part. I do have a million questions. Like, where were you all my life?" Harry said.
"Well, I've been living with a foster family in America." Dylan said.
"Why didn't I hear about you? I had no idea I had a brother." Harry said.
"We were separated at birth to hide me from Voldemort. I guess there's a lot we need to talk about, but not now ok? I want to get to know the brother I though I didn't have." Dylan said sitting down, tears finally clearing out of his eyes.
"Sure." Harry said sitting, hesitantly.
*_*_*
Harry and Dylan had spent nearly four hours talking about their past. Harry told Dylan about his many adventures and happenings at Hogwarts. Dylan had told him about his foster family and about his other, "Brother." From the Foster family, who turned out to be mean like Harry's cousin, but the difference was when Dylan had gotten strong like he is now and he pounded that little brats face in.
That was a big question with Harry, how did you get so strong and such, but Dylan kept avoiding the subject for now. In many ways, in those four hours they had grown really close. When Harry asked him why he had chosen Slytherin, Dylan said it was because he like to act generally "evil" in a sense, and being around snotty Slytherins was going to help. When Harry told Dylan about Sirius, Dylan was shocked, mostly because he didn't know that they had a godfather at all.
After about four and a half hours Professor McGonagall came in and asked them to go off to bed. As they parted down the hall they hugged again. Then they just walked down the hall in different directions.
*_*_*
When Dylan walked in the Slytherin Common room, a whole bunch of people were there waiting for him. To name a few there was Draco, Crabbe, and, Goyle.
"Ahh, Potter. Nice to meet you, good choice choosing Slytherin over Gryffindor, you are turning out better then your brother already." Draco said, holding out his hand, Dylan didn't take it. Harry had told him how much of a jerk Malfoy was.
"Hold your tong Malfoy, or I just might pull it out." Dylan said walking past Draco. Draco's eyes when as wide as dinner plates at this and he turned around face in fury. Crabbe and Goyle moved to intercept Dylan but Malfoy stopped them. He wanted to handle this himself.
"Don't you talk to me like that, or turn you back on me. Do you know who you're talking to? I own Slytherin house and if you go to war with me you go to war with your house. I demand that you respect me, or..." Draco spat.
"Or you'll what?" Dylan said turning back to Malfoy. A crowd had gathered around the two of them now and the tension was building. "Malfoy, I suggest you watch who your talking to. Crabbe and Goyle may be good enough to scare off everyone else but It wont work on me. I could snap you all like twigs."
That's when Dylan exited the room and walked up to his dorm. Draco was in shock, no one had ever talked to him like that, when he decided that another Potter would just have to go.
*_*_*
When Harry walked into the common room he found, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Seamus, Dean, Fred, and George waiting for him. There was a whole bombardment of questions as soon as he walked in and it took Hermione's whit and screaming to calm them all down and to gain order.
"So, Harry. What's your brother like?" Ron asked as soon as everyone calmed down.
"He's really cool, very sarcastic, and easy going. He really nice guy." Harry said sitting down in one of the seats.
"Really? Then why did he choose to be in Slytherin?" Seamus asked angrily.
"He wanted to mess around with the Slytherins. That's one of his motives, he won't tell me the other. That's one thing that I don't like about him though he said, that there was a lot we need to talk about, but not yet, its as if he's hiding a lot from me." Harry replied.
"Well, I'm sure he'll tell you tomorrow. Ok, lets turn in now we need our sleep. There's a big day tomorrow." Hermione said pushing them all onto the stairs and into their dorm. To everyone's dislike Hermione was made a Prefect over the summer. This gave her power hungry mind more to push with.
*_*_*
The next morning Harry and the Weasleys were sitting at the Gryffindor table when Dylan walked in. Dylan walked over our table and said, "Good Morning Harry."
Dylan was about to turn and leave for the Slytherin table when Harry said, "Why don't you eat with us this morning and you can meet my friends. That is, if you want to."
"Sure, that would be cool." Dylan said turning around and sitting in an empty chair on the other side of George.
"So this is Ron," Harry said pointing over to Ron, "Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny."
Dylan took each hand and shook them, politely saying hello and good morning. Conversation centered on Qudditch at first, but then moved on to the Animagus training.
"So, Dylan, what animal do you think you will become when you change?" Hermione asked.
"Well, I already know. Hope you guys can keep that to yourselves." Dylan said.
"What? You mean you can tell before you change?" Ron asked shocked.
"No, I mean I have already transformed. I'm an Animagus already." Dylan replied correcting him.
"Really?! You're an illegal Animagus?" Harry asked shocked.
"Well, here yes. In America there are no laws that bind Animaguies to register. It was widely taught at my old school." Dylan said matter of factly.
"Wow, That's so cool," Ron shrieked, "I wish I could go to school in America."
"So, What can you change into? You never told me that you were an Animagus." Harry asked.
"There are a lot of things I haven't told you yet. But I will later today after dinner, when he have way more time to talk. But I can transform to a Black Leopard." Dylan replied.
"WAY COOL" The twins screamed to loud. Everyone in the room turned around.
"Dude, calm down. I don't want people to know yet. Its my little secret." Dylan hushed.
The seemed to calm down a bit as everyone else went back to his or her food. After a few more moments of conversation, Dylan got up and walked over to Slytherin table to get his class schedule. When Professor McGonagall gave Harry his he groaned. Double potions with Slytherin again.
By- Michael Lahanas
"Gryffindor!" The Sorting hat cried out.
The new Hogwart's first year walked to the table and sat down next to his sister, who had just gotten placed in Gryffindor as well. The smile on his face was unmistakable. It was a face of sheer joy, the face that Harry had on when he was sorted into Gryffindor.
"Forrester, Henry." Professor McGonagall shouted out as another, the last, "first year" walked up to the sorting hat stool. This boy was placed into Ravenclaw.
They all sat down and quieted as Professor Dumbledore got up and began his normal New Year announcement.
"Welcome, to a new year at Hogwart's. There are a few new rules and regulations that must be informed to all students. The first of which is that all students will begin battle training in light of recent events. Second, all 5^th years and up will be beginning Animagus training." At this there was a great cheer from all the 5^th year students.
"Yes, yes all good and well. As usual the Forbidden forest is just that, forbidden and before I begin my next set of amusements I would like to ask Harry Potter to come and have a chat with me at the end of the feast." , at this a few hundred heads turned his way but then Dumbledore began talking again and they all gave back there attention to him, "Now, on a lighter note, we have a new transfer student from America who I will now call to be sorted as a 5^th year student. Professor McGonagall, would you do the honors for me?" The Professor said, sitting down in his chair.
There was a noticeable smile on his face as he sat down. Harry couldn't back it up, but he had a strange feeling that it was directed toward him. What the Professor said next would change his life forever.
"Potter, Dylan" Professor McGonagall said holding up the hat. Harry almost fell over at the name. There were many gasps and he could hear people on the other side of the room said, "Harry has a brother?!"
The door opened and a tall muscular boy walked in. He was huge, and you never would have guessed that it was possible that he was Harry's brother. But after you looked at him you saw a huge resemblance. The only real difference between them was that this Dylan character had a light blue shade to his eyes, not an emerald green, and that his hair was a lot neater then Harry, parted down at the side of his head, straight almost as if it were wet. As the boy reached the stool he sat down, and McGonagall put the hat on his head.
The hat was on the boy's head for quite a long time when the hat spoke aloud to the head table, but the entire room could hear it.
"Humm..." the hat said.
"Is there a problem?" Dumbledore asked almost as if he expected this to happen.
"This boy, cannot be sorted..." The hat said, there was a gasp.
"Why?" Dumbledore replied, not the least bit shocked.
"He would make a perfect match for either Gryffindor, or Slytherin." The hat said puzzled. There were gasp from all around the room.
"Are you sure sorting hat?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes...He brave, yet sly, he's powerful, yet cunning, he is passionate, yet controls his emotions..." The sorting hat said puzzled.
"Then place me in Slytherin." The boy said. His voice was cold and almost screamed cunning. There were gasps from all over the hall.
"Slytherin? But why not Gryffindor? Your brother is in that house. Why Slytherin over Gryffindor?" Professor Dumbledore asked, finally shocked. Harry gasped, "So this was my brother."
"Well, my natural personality is more sly then anything else." The boy replied.
"All right..." Dumbledore said slowly.
"The boy got up and walked to the back room, instead of the Slytherin table. Dumbledore motioned for Harry to follow him, and after a few moments of sheer shocked he got up and did so. As he entered, he saw his brother standing in a frame of another door, his eyes closed. Dumbledore was sitting in a chair looking over some paper, but quickly put it down when he saw that Harry was there.
"Ahh, Harry nice to see you again. Well I suppose that you would like to meet your brother and that you have lots of questions that you want answered, and all that I want you to do it to hold onto them for now, for they will be answered in time. Oh, and I hope your not upset with him." Dumbledore said.
"Upset? Why would I be upset?" Harry said shocked.
"Well, your brother did just willingly choose to be in Slytherin..." Dumbledore started but then Harry cut in and said, "Professor, right now the house that my brother is in doesn't really matter to me, all that doe's is that I have found a real relative."
Dumbledore nodded and walked out of the room closing the door. For a quick second he saw all the people in the Great Hall eating, as if nothing happened. Then the door finished closing and the Potters were left alone. When he looked back at his brother he saw that he had moved from his last location and was now sitting in the frame of a window, looking out at the starlit sky. Upon closer inspection he saw that tears were welled up in his eyes, but he could tell right now that they were not tears of sadness.
"Harry," Dylan, his brother, started, but then stopped as if the words had been lost to him, "I umm..."
Harry seemed to say it for them when he walked up to Dylan and hugged him. Dylan, after a moment hugged back, and tears were now streaming down both of their faces.
Moments seemed to turn into hours as they stayed there. Dylan was quite a bit taller then Harry so it was almost as if he was holding Harry in his great big paws. Time seemed to stop as the brothers met for the first time. After what could have easily seemed like days for either of them, they broke the embrace.
"Umm, Hey, it nice to meet you, I'm Dylan Potter." Dylan said holding out his hand. He was noticeably speaking in sarcasm.
"Harry Potter, nice to meet you." Harry said shaking it.
"Oh, gee, lookie that we have the same last Name! We must be brothers!" Dylan said, continuing with sarcasm.
"Really?! What a surprise." Harry said.
"Ok, seriously, how are you? You okay with the whole twin brother thing? I know this must be kind of hard for you." Dylan said, voice jumping out of sarcasm.
"Well, yeah, for the most part. I do have a million questions. Like, where were you all my life?" Harry said.
"Well, I've been living with a foster family in America." Dylan said.
"Why didn't I hear about you? I had no idea I had a brother." Harry said.
"We were separated at birth to hide me from Voldemort. I guess there's a lot we need to talk about, but not now ok? I want to get to know the brother I though I didn't have." Dylan said sitting down, tears finally clearing out of his eyes.
"Sure." Harry said sitting, hesitantly.
*_*_*
Harry and Dylan had spent nearly four hours talking about their past. Harry told Dylan about his many adventures and happenings at Hogwarts. Dylan had told him about his foster family and about his other, "Brother." From the Foster family, who turned out to be mean like Harry's cousin, but the difference was when Dylan had gotten strong like he is now and he pounded that little brats face in.
That was a big question with Harry, how did you get so strong and such, but Dylan kept avoiding the subject for now. In many ways, in those four hours they had grown really close. When Harry asked him why he had chosen Slytherin, Dylan said it was because he like to act generally "evil" in a sense, and being around snotty Slytherins was going to help. When Harry told Dylan about Sirius, Dylan was shocked, mostly because he didn't know that they had a godfather at all.
After about four and a half hours Professor McGonagall came in and asked them to go off to bed. As they parted down the hall they hugged again. Then they just walked down the hall in different directions.
*_*_*
When Dylan walked in the Slytherin Common room, a whole bunch of people were there waiting for him. To name a few there was Draco, Crabbe, and, Goyle.
"Ahh, Potter. Nice to meet you, good choice choosing Slytherin over Gryffindor, you are turning out better then your brother already." Draco said, holding out his hand, Dylan didn't take it. Harry had told him how much of a jerk Malfoy was.
"Hold your tong Malfoy, or I just might pull it out." Dylan said walking past Draco. Draco's eyes when as wide as dinner plates at this and he turned around face in fury. Crabbe and Goyle moved to intercept Dylan but Malfoy stopped them. He wanted to handle this himself.
"Don't you talk to me like that, or turn you back on me. Do you know who you're talking to? I own Slytherin house and if you go to war with me you go to war with your house. I demand that you respect me, or..." Draco spat.
"Or you'll what?" Dylan said turning back to Malfoy. A crowd had gathered around the two of them now and the tension was building. "Malfoy, I suggest you watch who your talking to. Crabbe and Goyle may be good enough to scare off everyone else but It wont work on me. I could snap you all like twigs."
That's when Dylan exited the room and walked up to his dorm. Draco was in shock, no one had ever talked to him like that, when he decided that another Potter would just have to go.
*_*_*
When Harry walked into the common room he found, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Seamus, Dean, Fred, and George waiting for him. There was a whole bombardment of questions as soon as he walked in and it took Hermione's whit and screaming to calm them all down and to gain order.
"So, Harry. What's your brother like?" Ron asked as soon as everyone calmed down.
"He's really cool, very sarcastic, and easy going. He really nice guy." Harry said sitting down in one of the seats.
"Really? Then why did he choose to be in Slytherin?" Seamus asked angrily.
"He wanted to mess around with the Slytherins. That's one of his motives, he won't tell me the other. That's one thing that I don't like about him though he said, that there was a lot we need to talk about, but not yet, its as if he's hiding a lot from me." Harry replied.
"Well, I'm sure he'll tell you tomorrow. Ok, lets turn in now we need our sleep. There's a big day tomorrow." Hermione said pushing them all onto the stairs and into their dorm. To everyone's dislike Hermione was made a Prefect over the summer. This gave her power hungry mind more to push with.
*_*_*
The next morning Harry and the Weasleys were sitting at the Gryffindor table when Dylan walked in. Dylan walked over our table and said, "Good Morning Harry."
Dylan was about to turn and leave for the Slytherin table when Harry said, "Why don't you eat with us this morning and you can meet my friends. That is, if you want to."
"Sure, that would be cool." Dylan said turning around and sitting in an empty chair on the other side of George.
"So this is Ron," Harry said pointing over to Ron, "Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny."
Dylan took each hand and shook them, politely saying hello and good morning. Conversation centered on Qudditch at first, but then moved on to the Animagus training.
"So, Dylan, what animal do you think you will become when you change?" Hermione asked.
"Well, I already know. Hope you guys can keep that to yourselves." Dylan said.
"What? You mean you can tell before you change?" Ron asked shocked.
"No, I mean I have already transformed. I'm an Animagus already." Dylan replied correcting him.
"Really?! You're an illegal Animagus?" Harry asked shocked.
"Well, here yes. In America there are no laws that bind Animaguies to register. It was widely taught at my old school." Dylan said matter of factly.
"Wow, That's so cool," Ron shrieked, "I wish I could go to school in America."
"So, What can you change into? You never told me that you were an Animagus." Harry asked.
"There are a lot of things I haven't told you yet. But I will later today after dinner, when he have way more time to talk. But I can transform to a Black Leopard." Dylan replied.
"WAY COOL" The twins screamed to loud. Everyone in the room turned around.
"Dude, calm down. I don't want people to know yet. Its my little secret." Dylan hushed.
The seemed to calm down a bit as everyone else went back to his or her food. After a few more moments of conversation, Dylan got up and walked over to Slytherin table to get his class schedule. When Professor McGonagall gave Harry his he groaned. Double potions with Slytherin again.