A/N: None here.
Disclaimer: Harry doesn't belong to me, blah, blah, blah. I only own Amelia, Ebony-Crested Dragon snakes, Silecia, and any and all Dark Woods harps. Oh, and I do use some of the same techniques Rowling uses with some fun lines I always enjoyed, so please don't sue me! I need all the money I can get for my student ambassador trip!
Parseltongue will be "~...~"
Chapter 19: Unsettling News for Severus
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"Gods, how long is this line?!" Draco practically yelled as he, his father, and Harry had just passed through the Animagus section. They'd been waiting in line for almost an hour, and Draco was becoming extremely frustrated. Harry looked up from the Animagus book he had picked up from one of the shelves (which he decided to buy along with his school books later) as Lucius turned a cold eye on his son.
"Draco, act with a little more grace, if you will. You are not some common half-blood," whispered Lucius, though throwing a quick glance in Harry's direction. Harry didn't notice, however, as he had already gone back to his book. "Now, I need to go look something up very quickly upstairs, so if you two will continue without me, I should be done by the time you leave."
"That's fine, Lucius," murmured Harry, still reading. This part about personalities and the Animagus form was very interesting...
"Harry, I'm going stir crazy. Get an extra set of books for me if I don't come back in time, okay?" asked Draco, and he too departed out the door to the sweet air outside the crowded place.
"That's fine, Draco," murmured Harry, still reading his book. He walked forward as he subconsciously noticed the line moving and bumped into quite a few people before he finally looked up.
It seemed in his occupation with the book, he had brushed past people to the front of the line and was now face to face with the man who had to be Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart took one look at Harry, and his eyes widened and his face broke into a blinding smile.
Harry heard Gilderoy say, "Lord, it's Harry Potter!" before finding himself being ushered right next to the man and a camera flash.
"Come on, Harry," said Gilderoy, "You and me are worth the front page. I've read all about you over the year, you know, in between answering my fan mail of course!"
Harry grinned devilishly and spoke through the grin so no one else could hear but Lockhart, "Yeah, I'm sure you have. However, if you would like to live to see next year, let go of me, or I swear, I'll make sure your life becomes a living-"
"Hey Harry, hurry up! Father's waiting to leave!" shouted Draco over the crowds, and this interruption in the speech Gilderoy was making about Hogwarts was enough to let Harry escape with two sets of books swiftly tucked under his robes along with the Animagus book with no one the wiser.
"Can you believe our luck?" groaned Draco, walking back up the street to the Leaky Cauldron. "That grinning idiot is going to be DADA teacher next year!"
"What?!" gasped Harry, nearly dropping the books he was carrying.
"He's teaching, yes, a scary thought. I'm guessing you weren't listening to a word he was saying in there. Wish we had Lupin back. Have you heard from him?"
Harry looked down and said, "No, but they said Dumbledore was sending himm somewhere for something. Load of lies! Stupid MOF... He'll get his comeuppance eventually. I'll personally make sure of that."
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"So that boy is still following the Dark path, is he?" asked Dumbledore, sitting in his office, stroking the head of his phoenix thoughfully. The other person raised his head.
"Yes, he is. Tom's death has fueled him forward and given him more drive. As you have seen from the Evening Prophet picture, he is well on his way to becoming a great Dark Lord, possibly even greater than Voldemort himself. Tom Riddle surely didn't start out so young, did he?"
"No. He may have been Darker than most students, but he wasn't murdering people. Harry Potter is a great loss to this side, as were his parents. However, I'd rather see an ally dead than their powers in the hands of an enemy. This problem needs to be corrected before the boy can get too powerful. However, we need someone on the inside of the student body to get information we cannot receive otherwise," said the wizened headmaster, and the shadowed person nodded though their posture showed they were uncomfortable with the conversation.
"We'll give Harry one year to come out from the Darkness. If he does that, we will spare his life. However, if he continues following the current road or travels on it again, we will have to kill him," spoke Dumbledore, though at that the person in front of him flew out of the chair, clearly outraged. The manipulative old fool got the first word, though.
"I know the boy is like family, Severus, and I know you are not happy about having to spy on him for me. However, if you would like to keep your job, you will continue going to the loyals, and if the time comes that we have to kill the boy, you will not interfere. No one would hire an ex-Death Eater, and you wouldn't be able to live off of your Gringotts money very long. Look out for your best interests, Severus, and I'll look out for mine."
As Severus left the headmaster's office, the man stroking the phoenix smiled slightly. All Severus could think of was Harry. Dumbledore knew what the boy had done. He knew that the Dursley's residence had been intentionally set on fire. He knew of the torture done by Harry the night before that. He knew that Harry was currently lodging in the Leaky Cauldron. The man had eyes and ears in both the wizarding and muggle worlds. And the worst thing was that he would not have cared if it was not eventually going to effect the power he had in the world.
"The man's worse than Voldemort," sneered Severus, throwing open the door to his private study. "At least the man didn't present a mask to the world like Dumbledore. The headmaster is more power-hungry than I ever thought before now. I must find a way to protect Harry."
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It was the last day of summer, and Harry had gotten up early to put away all his things in his trunk. Today was the day he would be going to King's Cross and going back to Hogwarts. He fondly looked at the Animagus book he had "borrowed with no intention of returning" as it was put with the rest of his books.
"Draco and I definitely have to try out some of that stuff in there. It would be highly useful to be an Animagus. Tom always could sneak up on me in his snake form," he said aloud to no one, though his mirror tutted.
As the book was placed securely in the trunk, Harry turned at the slight tap he heard coming from the window. Opening the window, he noticed it was Blaise's new owl, Van. Harry eagerly opened the letter from his friend in the hospital, only to read:
Dear Harry,
I hope Van will reach you before you leave for King's Cross. The hospital has decided to release me. The symptoms I had (sore throat and coughing blood) seemed to disappear as quickly as they came a few days ago. Very odd, but I'm just happy I'll get to go back to Hogwarts on time and out of this bed!
I want to hear all about your holidays on the train along with Draco's. I'm actually going to be arriving there quite early so I'll make sure to save us a compartment.
Your friend,
Blaise
"Well," grinned Harry, "That's good news." Sighing slightly that he couldn't put a spell on his trunk to levitate, Harry picked up one end of it and pulled it to the door. He then called to his room, "~Okay you two! We're leaving! Hurry up!~"
And two figures crossed the room to meet their master and friend, Amelia from under the desk and Mithra from the closet. They began to assume their regular places hidden under his robes, but he stopped them, smiling, while saying, "~I can't hide you forever, and now that people know who I am this year, they might need to know my familiars.~"
With that happy thread done, the Hungarian Horntail on his left shoulder and the Ebony-Crested Dragon snake around his neck and laying on right shoulder, the Dark Heir now continued pulling his trunk downstairs into the main bar area. Tom turned from his roudy customers and said, "The transportation you're taking is just outside, Mr Potter. Is there anything else I can help you with before you leave?"
Harry layed his payment for staying in front of Tom and said, "No, that's all. Hope to see you again!" And the ebony- haired boy crossed the way through the crowded area, pulling his trunk, grinning at the stunned faces staring at Amelia and especially Mithra. Harry opened the door and gazed out at the bright sunlight and his friend's smirking face.
"Come on, Harry! We need to get there on time, you know!" said Draco, helping him lift his trunk into the back of the stylish anitque car. Both boys sat in the back on the velvet seats, and the chauffer took off, weaving in and out of the London traffic.
"So, did you get a letter from Blaise, too?" asked the blonde boy. His friend nodded and remembered something. Not wanting the driver to hear, he put up a Silencing Charm and turned to Draco.
"You know that Animagus book I was reading when we were waiting in that line?"
"What about it?"
Harry grinned and murmured, "Well, let's just say I'm borrowing it with no intention of returning it. However, I was looking it over this past week or so, and it's fascinating! A load of Dark ways to manipulate the Animagus form along with instructions to become one! It would be to our advantage to have a form, you know."
Judging by the twisted smile on his friend's face, Draco needed no more convincing on the matter. All he said was, "When do we begin?"
"As soon as we can find a suitable place. It's quite complicated and there is only one way of going about it. You have to know the enemy of your Patronus animal, which is complicated in itself and why a lot of people aren't Animagus. The Patronus Charm, from what I've read, is extremely difficult, and most cannot prudce the corporeal form needed for the next step."
"You realize you sound just like Granger, right?"
"Shut up. I'm not that bad. Anyway, for most people, it takes years to become an Animagus, but the end result is completely worth it. Let's just hope it doesn't take us until fifth year."
Draco snorted and said, "Harry, you're a genius with me at a close second, both in theoretical and practical magic. It probably shouldn't take us past third year if we try hard."
Harry sighed and muttered, "Let's just hope there aren't any distractions like last year."
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A/N: Yeah! We're back to Hogwarts! Something tells me there will be distractions this year. Does anyone agree with me? The Chamber of Secrets will cause more than enough problems. Oh well! Oh, I should say this right now so I don't forget.
SHORTY!!!! I need to talk to you! Without being able to bounce ideas off of you for the last two weeks, I've been getting in dire straits for ideas! You better have read the last two chapters and be ready on Monday, because this lack of updating is killing me!
Review responses:
SilverKnight7- As you have seen, MOF is a nasty, power-hungry jerk! Oh, Lockhart will get what's coming to him by the end of second year, no worres about that! You know, when I was in New Mexico, and my family was driving through this little town, I saw a car license plate that said, "Lokhart". Someone obviously likes the coward!
Mirie- Oh, I so wanted to pull the Hannibal touch and have him hanging by his intestines, but I decided against it simply because I didn't want to copy that idea. Great idea, however. Ah, the question of Harry being Darker than Tom. I suppose it's only because we see Harry and not Tom all the time. Oh, if I could write Tom....
ReflectionsOfReality- Laugh, laugh, laugh! Amelia _could_ swallow McGonagall in Animagus form, couldn't she? And since one of Amelia's magic strengths is being able to withstand very hot fires for however long she wants, she could hold down a phoenix! No, it is not wrong for you to think of these things! When people write stuff like that, it gets my brain working and ideas appearing!
bitchkitten- We all want to drool over Dark Harry. Dark is so much more appealing for him, isn't it?
hermionegreen- MOF and Snape know, yes. No, Draco didn't stay with Harry at the Leaky Cauldron. They got together quite often, though.
GunSmoke2- Glad you like!
Maxx77- Lookie, I updated!
Solaris Isa- I'm not going to let you borrow my spare restraining jacket if you gnaw through yours!
ER- I personally love embarassing Aurors or the Ministry in general. It is hard to find good evil Harry stories.
Celtic Serpent- Ah, you'll have to find out the questions to your answers pretty soon, won't you?
Nicoletta- Glad you like where I hung Harling's body. Boy, his son isn't going to be happy with Harry, is he?
Falafal- Watch you necks is good advice for disloyal DE's, isn't it?
Rogue1615- A fellow believer in my Chamber theory! I try to convice my friends, but they say it was called the Chamber of Secrets because it sounded better! Something so much deeper is going on down there!
Sea-Turtles- I'd like to blow up my house, too, sometimes. Postive reinforcement makes me happy!
RaistlinofMetallica- I couldn't resist smooshing Draco's face into the ice cream!
mc2rpg- You know, your reply of giving him a rival has been spinning all my thoughts on this in a good way. Not Ron, no, he's too obvious and no match for Harry... Anyone have suggestions? OC or existing characer? Ooh, I have an idea! Nah...
C.M.Aeris Queen of Insanity- I'm happy you could traumatize your little cousins if you wanted to! My youngest cousin is like 30, so it wouldn't work so well for me! Yeah, my parents adopted me a _wee_ bit later than their siblings had kids, huh?
Sword Wielder-Firebreath- So many issues with Ginny! You know what Jack Sparrow said about that thin line between brilliance and insanity...
Chozen1- Tom will come back, no worries. I see Tom as more of an older brother figure. Really older brother.. I mean, the man's about in his sixties. However, he is immortal and he is using a Glamour Charm, so a 20 year old Tom could pass as Harry's brother.
jbfritz- I'm honoured. Thank you.
oxpearxo- I will continue up through seventh year.. perhaps beyond if necessary. If that was the case, however, it would be a seperate story.
Queen Cari- Wow, you are desperate for a review if there's no joke, aren't you? I personally think ReflectionsOfReality is a way better author than myself from what little I've been able to read of their work so far, but whatever. Thank you!
Saman007uk0- Wow, what _does_ your name mean? It always makes me smile when I ear this tory is one of a person's favourites!
(December 31, 2003 - January 3, 2004)
Disclaimer: Harry doesn't belong to me, blah, blah, blah. I only own Amelia, Ebony-Crested Dragon snakes, Silecia, and any and all Dark Woods harps. Oh, and I do use some of the same techniques Rowling uses with some fun lines I always enjoyed, so please don't sue me! I need all the money I can get for my student ambassador trip!
Parseltongue will be "~...~"
Chapter 19: Unsettling News for Severus
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"Gods, how long is this line?!" Draco practically yelled as he, his father, and Harry had just passed through the Animagus section. They'd been waiting in line for almost an hour, and Draco was becoming extremely frustrated. Harry looked up from the Animagus book he had picked up from one of the shelves (which he decided to buy along with his school books later) as Lucius turned a cold eye on his son.
"Draco, act with a little more grace, if you will. You are not some common half-blood," whispered Lucius, though throwing a quick glance in Harry's direction. Harry didn't notice, however, as he had already gone back to his book. "Now, I need to go look something up very quickly upstairs, so if you two will continue without me, I should be done by the time you leave."
"That's fine, Lucius," murmured Harry, still reading. This part about personalities and the Animagus form was very interesting...
"Harry, I'm going stir crazy. Get an extra set of books for me if I don't come back in time, okay?" asked Draco, and he too departed out the door to the sweet air outside the crowded place.
"That's fine, Draco," murmured Harry, still reading his book. He walked forward as he subconsciously noticed the line moving and bumped into quite a few people before he finally looked up.
It seemed in his occupation with the book, he had brushed past people to the front of the line and was now face to face with the man who had to be Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart took one look at Harry, and his eyes widened and his face broke into a blinding smile.
Harry heard Gilderoy say, "Lord, it's Harry Potter!" before finding himself being ushered right next to the man and a camera flash.
"Come on, Harry," said Gilderoy, "You and me are worth the front page. I've read all about you over the year, you know, in between answering my fan mail of course!"
Harry grinned devilishly and spoke through the grin so no one else could hear but Lockhart, "Yeah, I'm sure you have. However, if you would like to live to see next year, let go of me, or I swear, I'll make sure your life becomes a living-"
"Hey Harry, hurry up! Father's waiting to leave!" shouted Draco over the crowds, and this interruption in the speech Gilderoy was making about Hogwarts was enough to let Harry escape with two sets of books swiftly tucked under his robes along with the Animagus book with no one the wiser.
"Can you believe our luck?" groaned Draco, walking back up the street to the Leaky Cauldron. "That grinning idiot is going to be DADA teacher next year!"
"What?!" gasped Harry, nearly dropping the books he was carrying.
"He's teaching, yes, a scary thought. I'm guessing you weren't listening to a word he was saying in there. Wish we had Lupin back. Have you heard from him?"
Harry looked down and said, "No, but they said Dumbledore was sending himm somewhere for something. Load of lies! Stupid MOF... He'll get his comeuppance eventually. I'll personally make sure of that."
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"So that boy is still following the Dark path, is he?" asked Dumbledore, sitting in his office, stroking the head of his phoenix thoughfully. The other person raised his head.
"Yes, he is. Tom's death has fueled him forward and given him more drive. As you have seen from the Evening Prophet picture, he is well on his way to becoming a great Dark Lord, possibly even greater than Voldemort himself. Tom Riddle surely didn't start out so young, did he?"
"No. He may have been Darker than most students, but he wasn't murdering people. Harry Potter is a great loss to this side, as were his parents. However, I'd rather see an ally dead than their powers in the hands of an enemy. This problem needs to be corrected before the boy can get too powerful. However, we need someone on the inside of the student body to get information we cannot receive otherwise," said the wizened headmaster, and the shadowed person nodded though their posture showed they were uncomfortable with the conversation.
"We'll give Harry one year to come out from the Darkness. If he does that, we will spare his life. However, if he continues following the current road or travels on it again, we will have to kill him," spoke Dumbledore, though at that the person in front of him flew out of the chair, clearly outraged. The manipulative old fool got the first word, though.
"I know the boy is like family, Severus, and I know you are not happy about having to spy on him for me. However, if you would like to keep your job, you will continue going to the loyals, and if the time comes that we have to kill the boy, you will not interfere. No one would hire an ex-Death Eater, and you wouldn't be able to live off of your Gringotts money very long. Look out for your best interests, Severus, and I'll look out for mine."
As Severus left the headmaster's office, the man stroking the phoenix smiled slightly. All Severus could think of was Harry. Dumbledore knew what the boy had done. He knew that the Dursley's residence had been intentionally set on fire. He knew of the torture done by Harry the night before that. He knew that Harry was currently lodging in the Leaky Cauldron. The man had eyes and ears in both the wizarding and muggle worlds. And the worst thing was that he would not have cared if it was not eventually going to effect the power he had in the world.
"The man's worse than Voldemort," sneered Severus, throwing open the door to his private study. "At least the man didn't present a mask to the world like Dumbledore. The headmaster is more power-hungry than I ever thought before now. I must find a way to protect Harry."
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It was the last day of summer, and Harry had gotten up early to put away all his things in his trunk. Today was the day he would be going to King's Cross and going back to Hogwarts. He fondly looked at the Animagus book he had "borrowed with no intention of returning" as it was put with the rest of his books.
"Draco and I definitely have to try out some of that stuff in there. It would be highly useful to be an Animagus. Tom always could sneak up on me in his snake form," he said aloud to no one, though his mirror tutted.
As the book was placed securely in the trunk, Harry turned at the slight tap he heard coming from the window. Opening the window, he noticed it was Blaise's new owl, Van. Harry eagerly opened the letter from his friend in the hospital, only to read:
Dear Harry,
I hope Van will reach you before you leave for King's Cross. The hospital has decided to release me. The symptoms I had (sore throat and coughing blood) seemed to disappear as quickly as they came a few days ago. Very odd, but I'm just happy I'll get to go back to Hogwarts on time and out of this bed!
I want to hear all about your holidays on the train along with Draco's. I'm actually going to be arriving there quite early so I'll make sure to save us a compartment.
Your friend,
Blaise
"Well," grinned Harry, "That's good news." Sighing slightly that he couldn't put a spell on his trunk to levitate, Harry picked up one end of it and pulled it to the door. He then called to his room, "~Okay you two! We're leaving! Hurry up!~"
And two figures crossed the room to meet their master and friend, Amelia from under the desk and Mithra from the closet. They began to assume their regular places hidden under his robes, but he stopped them, smiling, while saying, "~I can't hide you forever, and now that people know who I am this year, they might need to know my familiars.~"
With that happy thread done, the Hungarian Horntail on his left shoulder and the Ebony-Crested Dragon snake around his neck and laying on right shoulder, the Dark Heir now continued pulling his trunk downstairs into the main bar area. Tom turned from his roudy customers and said, "The transportation you're taking is just outside, Mr Potter. Is there anything else I can help you with before you leave?"
Harry layed his payment for staying in front of Tom and said, "No, that's all. Hope to see you again!" And the ebony- haired boy crossed the way through the crowded area, pulling his trunk, grinning at the stunned faces staring at Amelia and especially Mithra. Harry opened the door and gazed out at the bright sunlight and his friend's smirking face.
"Come on, Harry! We need to get there on time, you know!" said Draco, helping him lift his trunk into the back of the stylish anitque car. Both boys sat in the back on the velvet seats, and the chauffer took off, weaving in and out of the London traffic.
"So, did you get a letter from Blaise, too?" asked the blonde boy. His friend nodded and remembered something. Not wanting the driver to hear, he put up a Silencing Charm and turned to Draco.
"You know that Animagus book I was reading when we were waiting in that line?"
"What about it?"
Harry grinned and murmured, "Well, let's just say I'm borrowing it with no intention of returning it. However, I was looking it over this past week or so, and it's fascinating! A load of Dark ways to manipulate the Animagus form along with instructions to become one! It would be to our advantage to have a form, you know."
Judging by the twisted smile on his friend's face, Draco needed no more convincing on the matter. All he said was, "When do we begin?"
"As soon as we can find a suitable place. It's quite complicated and there is only one way of going about it. You have to know the enemy of your Patronus animal, which is complicated in itself and why a lot of people aren't Animagus. The Patronus Charm, from what I've read, is extremely difficult, and most cannot prudce the corporeal form needed for the next step."
"You realize you sound just like Granger, right?"
"Shut up. I'm not that bad. Anyway, for most people, it takes years to become an Animagus, but the end result is completely worth it. Let's just hope it doesn't take us until fifth year."
Draco snorted and said, "Harry, you're a genius with me at a close second, both in theoretical and practical magic. It probably shouldn't take us past third year if we try hard."
Harry sighed and muttered, "Let's just hope there aren't any distractions like last year."
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A/N: Yeah! We're back to Hogwarts! Something tells me there will be distractions this year. Does anyone agree with me? The Chamber of Secrets will cause more than enough problems. Oh well! Oh, I should say this right now so I don't forget.
SHORTY!!!! I need to talk to you! Without being able to bounce ideas off of you for the last two weeks, I've been getting in dire straits for ideas! You better have read the last two chapters and be ready on Monday, because this lack of updating is killing me!
Review responses:
SilverKnight7- As you have seen, MOF is a nasty, power-hungry jerk! Oh, Lockhart will get what's coming to him by the end of second year, no worres about that! You know, when I was in New Mexico, and my family was driving through this little town, I saw a car license plate that said, "Lokhart". Someone obviously likes the coward!
Mirie- Oh, I so wanted to pull the Hannibal touch and have him hanging by his intestines, but I decided against it simply because I didn't want to copy that idea. Great idea, however. Ah, the question of Harry being Darker than Tom. I suppose it's only because we see Harry and not Tom all the time. Oh, if I could write Tom....
ReflectionsOfReality- Laugh, laugh, laugh! Amelia _could_ swallow McGonagall in Animagus form, couldn't she? And since one of Amelia's magic strengths is being able to withstand very hot fires for however long she wants, she could hold down a phoenix! No, it is not wrong for you to think of these things! When people write stuff like that, it gets my brain working and ideas appearing!
bitchkitten- We all want to drool over Dark Harry. Dark is so much more appealing for him, isn't it?
hermionegreen- MOF and Snape know, yes. No, Draco didn't stay with Harry at the Leaky Cauldron. They got together quite often, though.
GunSmoke2- Glad you like!
Maxx77- Lookie, I updated!
Solaris Isa- I'm not going to let you borrow my spare restraining jacket if you gnaw through yours!
ER- I personally love embarassing Aurors or the Ministry in general. It is hard to find good evil Harry stories.
Celtic Serpent- Ah, you'll have to find out the questions to your answers pretty soon, won't you?
Nicoletta- Glad you like where I hung Harling's body. Boy, his son isn't going to be happy with Harry, is he?
Falafal- Watch you necks is good advice for disloyal DE's, isn't it?
Rogue1615- A fellow believer in my Chamber theory! I try to convice my friends, but they say it was called the Chamber of Secrets because it sounded better! Something so much deeper is going on down there!
Sea-Turtles- I'd like to blow up my house, too, sometimes. Postive reinforcement makes me happy!
RaistlinofMetallica- I couldn't resist smooshing Draco's face into the ice cream!
mc2rpg- You know, your reply of giving him a rival has been spinning all my thoughts on this in a good way. Not Ron, no, he's too obvious and no match for Harry... Anyone have suggestions? OC or existing characer? Ooh, I have an idea! Nah...
C.M.Aeris Queen of Insanity- I'm happy you could traumatize your little cousins if you wanted to! My youngest cousin is like 30, so it wouldn't work so well for me! Yeah, my parents adopted me a _wee_ bit later than their siblings had kids, huh?
Sword Wielder-Firebreath- So many issues with Ginny! You know what Jack Sparrow said about that thin line between brilliance and insanity...
Chozen1- Tom will come back, no worries. I see Tom as more of an older brother figure. Really older brother.. I mean, the man's about in his sixties. However, he is immortal and he is using a Glamour Charm, so a 20 year old Tom could pass as Harry's brother.
jbfritz- I'm honoured. Thank you.
oxpearxo- I will continue up through seventh year.. perhaps beyond if necessary. If that was the case, however, it would be a seperate story.
Queen Cari- Wow, you are desperate for a review if there's no joke, aren't you? I personally think ReflectionsOfReality is a way better author than myself from what little I've been able to read of their work so far, but whatever. Thank you!
Saman007uk0- Wow, what _does_ your name mean? It always makes me smile when I ear this tory is one of a person's favourites!
(December 31, 2003 - January 3, 2004)