"DRACIE!! " said Pansy

"Oh hi... " said Malfoy. "This is Harry!" he said to her

"I know what are you doing with him!!" she said curling her long black hair around her finger and staring in space.

" None of your business! Move along Parkinson!" he said walking to the other side of the common room.

It looked like a dirty dungeon barely lit, almost dark in some parts.

They talked for a long while and Draco continually told him he was sorry. Not until 10:30 did he escape from Malfoy.

He had a better time with Malfoy then he would with Ron and Hermione though. He walked in the Gryffindor common room staring around. He saw Neville, Dean, Seamus and Ginny that he recognized.

Feeling quite tired he went up to his bedroom. Since he didn't see Ron and Hermione he thought they were probably outside sneaking around. He walked in to the room and thought he didn't see anyone until he turned on the light and saw Ron and Hermione making out on Ron's bed!

"HARRY!" said Ron who looked rather startled and grabbed his shirt.

Hermione thankfully was dressed except she was in a skimpy tank top.

She quickly put on her sweater.

"Sorry Harry!" said Hermione and she kissed Ron and walked out.

"Sorry it wasn't me!" Harry said to him self. Harry had never felt more alone.

***

The next days, classes were all boring, but it was always Divination he was reluctant to attend.

Trelawney had already predicted his death 3 times.

Mrs. Figg's class was probably his favorite. He would sit as the same table as Hermione and Ron but felt as if they were really far away...just then a thought came to Harry as they mixed some love potion together. He looked at Hermione...she was looking nervously around...

What if she's taking love potion? Harry thought but then he told himself that he didn't care and thought about spending later that day in the Slytherin common room...

***

"You are doing an excellent job, Lucius." spoke Voldemort, his cold, bone- shivering voice echoing off the walls in the building's basement.

"That son of yours is magnificent. Harry's mind says to him that he is having a better time with Draco than with that Weasley boy and that smarty- pants girl. Hermonia or something... Your potion worked perfectly. His two best friends are madly in love with each other, which lead Harry to feel left out with them. I reward you my full trust, Malfoy."

"Oh, thank you, my lord! Thank you!" Lucius Malfoy had tears in his eyes. "I am so grateful!"

Voldemort sniggered. "Of course you are. Now sit." Lucius went and sat in his chair again, and not one of them said another word for the next two hours.

After dinner he saw Malfoy talking to Crabbe and Goyle. He pushed them away.

I thought they weren't friends! Harry though looking at Hermione and Ron gazing at each other like there was no tomorrow.

"Do you guys actually want to do something?" said Harry who acted like he didn't care that they had been staring at each other for almost 10 minutes.

"OH! Harry sure..." said Hermione who acted like she had just got out of a trance.

"Well we could go sneak out tonight , that's always fun." said Ron who continued to stair at Hermione who giggled . Harry had had enough.

"Oh, yeah so you guys can make out? So you don't have to worry about teachers? Or so you can ditch me like you have been since we got to Hogwarts? " He got up and continued:

"If you find something to do that doesn't involve you two kissing maybe it'll be too soon!" he walked to the fat lady and pushed it open. He heard the fat lady say:

"No respect from these kids.. in my days" but Harry walked faster, he had never be so mad ....then he stop, he wasn't mad..... he was jealous and lonely.

Ever since he was born he had been alone until he met Ron and Hermione, now that they were gone he was back where he started. Yes it was true he had Sirius, but it just wasn't the same. He sat on the step outside the common room for a good hour.

"Hey ... Hey HARRY!" it was Malfoy

"Oh hi" he said as he watched Malfoy walk closer.

"You want to do something?" he said sitting next him on the stairs.

"Like what?" he said. Malfoy was being nice but he was still a stupid git.

" Well how about we go and. see Hagrid ?" said Malfoy

"Umm ... you hate him ... you made a fool of him last year and the year before almost got him fired!" Said Harry looking at Malfoy as though he had a Giant Monster right behind him.

" Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow then!" he said walking away.

Malfoy sure is weird , wonder what made him ... er ... nice

*** Harry looked at the fat lady and said:

"I have to face them some time ....." right before he said the password, the door flung open. It was Ron:

"Harry .. I was just going to come look for you... " he said sadly.

Harry wanted to say sorry but he couldn't! His anger and jealousy came back.

"Don't bother" he said walking in the common room and heading straight for his four poster board bed . It had been a long depressing night.

***

" LUCIUS!" yelled the cold harsh voice of Voldemort . " YOUR SON IS FAILING US!" he roared at him .

" My lord, the impediment curse is just warring off, if only he were more like me, he refused to lure Potter to us and we used the curse, it's not as good as the real thing..." he said shivering.

" Well maybe.." started Voldemort calmly "If you weren't such a failure as a wizard he would be succeeding! " yelled Voldemort .

"Please sir ... I'll give a 100% this time I swear ..." he said begging for a second chance.

"FINE! Your last chance!"

***

The next morning at breakfast, an owl came in and gave Harry a letter. When he looked down, he was surprised to see that it was from Dumbledore. Harry quickly unrolled the parchment and began reading the letter, desperate for anything to take his mind off of Ron and Hermione who were once again staring deeply into each other's eyes. The letter said that Dumbledore wanted to see Harry in his office at Noon.

Before Harry knew it, it was 11:45 so Harry set off towards Dumbledores office. A storm of questions swirled about madly in Harry's mind. What had he done now?? He couldn't recall breaking any rules lately. Mainly because of his friends' infatuation he thought furiously.

Maybe Dumbledore would tell him something about his parents? Or maybe, he wondered, it was something about Malfoy's sudden kindness towards him.

Harry felt like he had just left the great hall and he was already standing in front of the passage to Dumbledore's office.

Dumbledore suddenly appeared from around the corner and walked briskly towards him.

"Follow me Harry!" They went up to his office where Fawkes was in the rebirthing stage once again.

"Harry, I have something very important to tell you about your father and about yourself!"

Harry was bursting with excitement that he could barely contain.

"What?"

"Well, as you may have already guessed, Harry, you are the heir of Godric Gryffindor. You pulled the sword from the sorting hat in the Chamber of Secrets and as I told you then. Only a true Gryffindor could manage that."

"Are you serious? Harry said completely amazed and bewildered.

"Yes, Harry you are the true heir of Gryffindor, however, although it may shock you. You are also the heir of Salazar Slytherin." Dumbledore said solemnly.

"What!" yelled Harry in disbelief.

"As hard as you may find it to believe, it is true. You can speak Parsletoung which was not just because of Voldemort'ss failure to kill you."

Harry was bewildered. Him heir of Slytherin. But how?"

Wait, Harry just remembered when he first came to Hogwarts, when he was sorted. The sorting hat said that is was a tough decision, but put him in Gryffindor only after he had repeatedly asked not to be in Slytherin. Was he supposed to be in Slytherin?

"Professor Dumbledore, how am I heir of both of them?"

"Well, Harry, as you know Tom Riddle was an orphan. However, he did have an older sister that even he didn't find out about until much later. When his sister received her letter from Hogwarts, Tom Riddle Sr left his wife, which later died giving birth to Tom. Tom's older sister went on to marry a man named Alexander Potter, your grandfather."

"But that means...that means that I'm related to Voldemort" Harry stammered.

"Yes you are Harry!"

"As I was saying" Dumbledore continued "Your grandfather and Tom's sister later had a son, your father James Potter."

"Wait, that means that my father had Slytherin Blood in him, too" said Harry

"Yes, your father like yourself was heir to both Gryffindor and Slytherin. As you know Voldemort's ultimate quest is immortality. I suspect that in his seventh year at Hogwarts he was already learning how to do this and the first step was killing his father and all of his descendants (except of course for himself). So Tom Riddle went and killed his father.

But this didn't seem to work. Only later did he find out why, his sister of course. So Voldemort killed your grandfather and grandmother Potter and targeted your parents next."

"So that's why they went into hiding!" Harry exclaimed.

"Yes, that is why. Did you ever wonder why he never meant to kill your mother and only did so because she blocked the way to you?"

"Later I went and talked to James and told him everything about Voldemort killing all of his fathers' descendants and about the truth about himself. Came as a bit of a shock for James. Anyway, your parents realized what they had to do, have a lot of children and have them fast."

"But, why??" asked Harry.

"The more descendants, they more people Voldemort had to find, they did it for all of the good people of the world. Harry, you have an older sister. As soon as she was born, she was sent to live with foster parents in hope that Voldemort would never find out about her. And so far he hasn't. She is less than a year older than you and is currently attending Hogwarts. The name of the foster parents was Granger."