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CH 1
Harry Potter sat on his bed
waiting for the digital clock on his bed side table to show 12:00 and
signal his birthday. This summer was starting to turn out pretty
normal compared to all of his other summers since he started Hogwarts
the Dursley's ignored him as usual except when his aunt Petunia
would give him his list of chores for the day. Most people would
relax at the lack of disturbances but it only put harry more on edge.
Things had been pretty quite since fifth year after Sirius's death,
most thought Dumbledore had scared Voldermort of after the incident
at the ministry, but Harry knew that Voldermort was just biding his
time until he struck again Harry had the feeling something big was
going to happen and soon but he wasn't completely sure what it was.
Harry sighed and stood up to pace his room stopping in front
of his mirror that he had brought from Hogwarts to scrutinize his
appearance, Harry now stood at 5 feet 11 inches tall with a body
tanned from time in the garden and built from time on a broomstick,
and dodging curses, shoulder length hair that gravity allowed him to
tame, and a pair of emerald green eyes no longer hidden by a pair of
glasses after being magically corrected, but showed the pain of one
forced to grow up far too quickly.
Harry looked over at the
clock, 11:49 gleamed red one more minute and I'll be 17 ' Thought
Harry. The clock turned to show 12:00 Harry Smiled. An unexpected pop
came from behind caused him to, out of reflex, reach for his wand and
turn around to hold it at the intruder's throat.
"Not bad
Mr. Potter you may just live to see you 18th birthday after all"
came the familiar drawl of the potion's professor. Harry smiled at
his professor while sliding his wand back into his pocket.
"Hey
Sev come to wish me a happy birthday?" Harry asked
"I wish
this was to be a pleasant visit but under Dumbledore's orders I'm
to get you to Hogwarts without delay."
After the incident at
the ministry of magic Harry did everything, he could think of to
prepare himself for the final battle which meant back to occumulency.
Without any prompting from Dumbledore, Harry went and apologized to
Snape for invading his privacy and requested the continuation of his
occumulency lesson's. At first Snape had been inclined to turn
Harry away but Dumbledore pushed him into trying again. Both had
learned more about the other and saw each other differently Harry now
saw Severus as a mentor and as someone he could go to for Advice and
give him a non biased opinion on things. Severus no longer saw Harry
as the pampered little golden boy but as a child with far to many
expectations. Having had a father who expected the best and peers who
expected him to be evil Severus could relate to some of what Harry
was going threw he got to know the boy underneath the scar and saw
more of the boys mother than he thought to be there.
"What
happened?"Harry asked "Was there another attack?" Harry's
brow creased with confusion not having sensed anything from
Voldermort all summer.
"I can honestly say that I have no
idea why the headmaster wishes to see you all I know is that is has
something to do with Draco Malfoy, seeing as he arrived this
afternoon." Severus replied looking around the small room with
distaste. "It's worse than you described it."
Harry
moaned this was going to be a long day he could tell.
"Do I
need to Bring anything?" Harry questioned
"Yes bring
everything, you won't be coming back you're to stay at Hogwarts
for the rest of the summer." Severus answered while walking over to
the window to look out at the dark quite street.
"I don't
know if I should be happy or scared." Harry said while opening his
trunk and placing the few thing he had neatly inside.
"Knowing
Dumbledore it could go either way." Snape turned in time to see
Harry pry up the loose floorboard by his bed and take out his
invisibility cloak, an old looking piece of parchment, and a photo
album and stow them in his trunk.
"Well I'm ready, how
will we be getting there?" Harry asked standing up from his
kneeling position in front of his trunk dusting of his hands.
"We'll
portkey to Hogsmede and take a carriage up to the castle from there"
Snape answered while taking a pocket watch out of his Robe pocket "do
you want to leave a note for you're...Relatives?" Snape asked
sneer present on his face.
"They wont care that Im gone
they'll probably celebrate." Harry shrugged placing Hedwig's
empty cage on top of his trunk, She was still out hunting but Harry
wasn't worried she always knew were to find him. "Lets go."
Nodding Severus held out the watch Harry took one final look around,
grabbing his trunk by the handle he reached out and touched the
portkey, and immediately the hook behind his naval and was jerked
into swirl of colors before his feet hit the ground in front of the
three broom sticks.
Levitating Harry's Trunk Severus headed
to the front gates of Hogwarts, where a carriage stood being pulled
by a thestral. Harry didn't think he would ever get over the sight
of the horse like creatures. After stowing the trunk in the carriage,
Severus got in and sat down Harry Followed taking the seat opposite
of his teacher, they made idol chitchat about nothing and everything
on the trip up to the school wen they finally arrived at the castle
Minerva McGonagal was waiting for them.
"The house elves will
see to your trunk, Mr. Potter please follow me the Headmaster and Mr.
Malfoy are waiting." Was all she said before turning and walking
into the castle. Harry and Severus following close, behind Instead of
being lead to the Headmasters office, as usual McGonagal lead them
down a corridor not to far from the teaches room. After walking in
silence for a few minutes, McGonagal stopped in front of a portrait
of field.. Playing in the sky were a dragon and a griffin, McGonagal
Cleared her throat and the two magical beasts Finally Landed "Bound."
McGonagal stated the two creature nodded their heads and the portrait
swung open.
"Finally decided to show up Potter." Siad a
very bored looking Draco Malfoy, who was sitting on one side of a
Black leather couch that had a few silver and gold throw pillows
scattered on it.
'Ah Harry would please take a seat?"
asked Dumbledore, Who was sitting in a matching leather armchair set
directly in front of the couch. McGonagal took a seat in a chair of
to the side while Severus chose to stay standing leaning against the
wall with his arms crossed over his chest. Harry sat down placing one
of the gold pillows on his la and the resting hi arms across it. "I'm
terribly sorry to have called you all in here at such a early hour
but there is a matter of grave importance that must be dealt with
immediately."
"What's wrong Headmaster?" asked
Harry.
"Well nothing is wrong depending on how you look at
the situation." Dumbledore said the twinkle was in his eye full
blast, causing Harry to cringe, he could tell this was not going to
be good..
"Albus tell them whatever it is that you have to
tell them so we can all get some sleep.".snapped Severus, he would
never admit, it but the curiosity was killing him.
"Were
Here to discus the marriage between Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Potter."
Dumbledore said for once not beating around the bush. Every occupant
of the room had a different reaction to this
McGonagal eyes
went wide and her mouth dropped open. Severus eyebrows shot up to his
hairline. Draco shouted "WHAT THE HELL?" And Harry didn't react
at all except gripping the edge of the pillow in hi lap
tighter.
"What are you talking about?" questioned Severus
him being the first to get over the announcement. "I'll start
from the beginning." Dumbledore took a deep breathe before
continuing "I don't know if you are aware but your grandmothers
on your fathers side were good friends when they were in school they
couldn't stand the fact that their future husbands, Lucifer Malfoy
and Harold Potter, Always fought that all the Malfoy's and Potter's
fought so they came up with a way for the feud. to stop, they wrought
up a contract saying that one grandchild from the Malfoy line would
Marry a grandchild From the Potter line." Dumbledore paused to make
sure that the boys understood what he was saying. all he got was a
look of shock and anger from Draco and a blank stare from Harry,
Dumbledore decided to continue "Seeing as how you are the only
grandchildren from either side the spell has chosen going into effect
on Harry's 17th birthday since he is the youngest." Dumbledore
finished.
"This has got to be some sort of joke, a very bad joke
wait till my father hears about this." Draco yelled
"Please
calm down Mr. Malfoy this is no joke I have the contract here along
with letters from your grandmothers explaining there reasons behind
what they did." Dumbledore explained holding out a piece of
parchment. Draco grabbed the parchment an started to read threw
it.
"I cant believe my own flesh and blood would do this to
me." Draco raged throwing the contract back at Dumbledore who
caught it and rolled it back up.
"Do you have anything to
say Harry?" Dumbledore asked looking at Harry who had been silent
threw the whole thing, Harry looked at Dumbledore then at everyone
else in the room before taking a deep breath and bing the gold pillow
in his lap up to his face screamed as loud as his lungs would allow,
when he brought the pillow away from his face all he said was.
"No,
Headmaster I have nothing to add."
TBC
AN/ I hope
that the grammar was better in this chapter and that you enjoyed
reading it
I an so sorry for taking so long but my computer died and I lost the entire next chapter and that kinda put me off writing for awhile then I finally got it fixed when I realized I lost the plot, and the whole direction of the fic did a one eighty on me, Then I started school again and two other stories, but after rereading your reviews, I felt really guilty and now I'm back to finish this fic but I need a little help with the plot. There are a few things I can't decide and thought maybe you guy's could help since I always love it when authors let the reviewers have a little control.
So these are the things I need help with.
1. Should Harry and Draco fight for awhile or just grow up and except it
2. Do you guy's want me to be nice to Ron and Hermione or bash them I'm good either way.
3. Do you guy's want Sirius to come back I got a bunch of fun way's to do it.
4. How about Lucius, how should he react
5. How much Voldermort do you guy's want to see and in a good or bad way
6. Draco needs a patronus and I suck at that sort of thing and both of them need an animagi.
If anyone has any suggestions relating to any of the above please help. I also won't mind if you guy's yell at me for being gone so long I'd yell at me to.
Please
review. Thanks
