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Tangled Relations

Chapter 19 - New enemy

For the rest of the Christmas holidays Harry and Draco got to know each other better. The headmaster arranged for Draco's mother to be placed in hiding under the fidelis charm with only the secret keeper and Draco knowing the location. While the Slytherin still was reluctant to let his guard down, Harry's personality went a long way towards bridging the gap. Draco promised not to call Hermione a mudblood when she came back and Harry promised that he would try to get Ron to stop being such a git all the time.

Draco also helped Harry decide what charms to put on his new ring. Harry didn't tell Draco whom it was from because he wasn't ready to tell any of his other friends besides Ron and Hermione. Even though he trusted Draco he treated him as he would treat Neville or Dean or Seamus. There are just some things that have to be kept between only the closest of friends.

They followed his grandmother's suggestion and put the patronus charm on one band. Harry tested it and a small silver wisp came out of it. "I guess I'll have to practice alot Draco. Let's just get the other charms on. Next they added a strong shielding charm. It took them a while to come up with the third charm. It was Draco who came up with the idea. Seeing how it was a charm Harry was naturally good at, they added a summoning charm on the last band. He figured that if he didn't have a weapon he could summon whatever he needed.

It was the Monday after Christmas that the train got back carrying his friends. Harry waited for them in the common room. When they came in they immediately ran over to him and thanked him for their gifts. He whispered to Hermione that his uncle really appreciated her giving Harry the amulet. "I've all ready used it once." He told them all about his grandmother and he showed them the ring. Hermione immediately said that she wanted to look it up in the library tomorrow.

That night most of Gryffindor sat around talking about their holiday. Everyone was talking about how good of a time they had. Suddenly Harry noticed a warmth on his chest. He didn't realize what it was at first but then figured out that it was the amulet. 'So someone is lying about there vacation.' "So everyone had a fun vacation?" He asked. As everyone nodded Harry felt the warmth again. 'Well maybe someone didn't get all of the gifts they wanted.' Harry went to sleep without giving it another thought.

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Over the next few weeks Harry noticed that the amulet was often warm when he had classes with the Slytherins and when he was in the great hall. He also noticed it almost every time during defense club meetings. He told Remus and Uncle Sev about and they said that they'd try to figure out who was untrustworthy. Harry managed to get his uncle to help out in defense training on a few occasions. He even dueled Remus a couple of times. It was a great show. Both of them were excellent duelers. Unfortunately for Remus most of them ended up with him stunned on the floor. There's a reason everyone thinks Severus wants to be the DADA teacher.

Harry also spent time with his uncle during detentions. Uncle Severus helped him with practicing using the ring. It took a while to get used to it. It didn't focus the magic perfectly like a wand so you had to have a very clear picture in your mind of what you wanted. Especially the summoning charm. Every time Harry tried to summon a particular book half of the bookcase would fly towards him. Luckily he eventually got the hang of it, but not before Severus took to removing anything expensive from the room.

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The next Hogsmead weekend was in the beginning of February and Harry, Ron, and Hermione all went together. Although Harry had become friends with Draco they tried not to hang out together very often. The news about Draco defying the dark lord was not common knowledge yet so Draco would remain safer if no one knew. He also didn't start coming to the defense lessons yet, so Harry and Severus gave him private lessons instead.

In Hogsmead the trio did the usual; bought candy from Honeydukes, bought jokes from the twins joke shop, and then a relaxing afternoon at the Three Broomsticks drinking butterbeer. Harry could feel the warmth in his amulet once again as they sat there talking. He scanned the tables around them looking for the possible culprit. Seeing no one unusual he chalked it up to someone lying about doing his or her homework.

When it started to get dark out the trio headed for the carriages to take them back to school. When they were getting in one of the carriages someone tapped Harry on the shoulder. "Harry, I wanted to give you this list of spells that I think we should start learning in defense class. Could you look over it?"

Harry smiled back "Thank you. I will look over it and let you know what I think tomorrow."

"Thank you Harry." The blonde haired Hufflepuff walked away and Harry folded up the paper and stuck it in his pocket.

"What was that about?" Hermione asked.

"Zacharias was just giving me a list of spells he wants me to teach. I'll look at it later."

"Don't forget to check with Professor Lupin about them."

"I won't. Hey Ron, want to go flying around the pitch when we get ....."

Before Harry could finish his sentence he felt a familiar pull from behind his navel. After several seconds he felt cold wet grass beneath him. He pulled out his wand and looked around. There was a magnificent manor in front of him. He heard a noise behind him and spun around and his eyes widened.

"Welcome to my home Harry Potter"

"Voldemort"

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