Harry Potter and the Dragonline

"Harry!", a female voice shouted. Several heads turned into the direction of it. It was Hermione Granger and she was directly running up to Harry, Ron and Ginny.

"I was worried when you didn't answer my last letter.", she told him.

"Uhm yeah, I would have, but Hedwig got into some trouble on her way back to me and hurt one of her wings.", the black haired boy explained.

"Oh, I see. I hope she will be alright soon.", the girl replied.

"The doctor said that she should rest for about a week.", Harry said.

"That's good. I'm glad." Hermoine breathed relived.

"I hate to interrupt, but we are here for a reason beside chatting, aren't we?", Ron finally spoke up. "Yeah, we still have some shopping to do!", the boy-who-lived nodded. "Why don't you come along?", he suggested to the girl.

"Sure.", she answered. "I have to go somewhere else, see you later.", Ginny excused herself.

When they left the bookstore just a few minutes later, something caught Harry's eye and he took a closer look.

On the other said of the street a white mop of hair was quickly moving through the masses of wizards, as if running away from something.

Suddenly a dark cloaked figure stepped out of a shadow and right in the path of the white haired one. This one instantly stopped and tried to run into the other direction, when another being stepped into his way.

"Guys...", Harry started, already walking over. "Someone needs our help!"

Meanwhile a third one had appeared and the strange dark trio was cornering the smaller one.

"Oi! What do you think are doing!", a voice shouted suddenly, startling everyone. A huge man was standing in the middle of the street.

"Hagrid!", four voices shouted in unison, three belonging to Harry and his friends, one to the white haired boy. Using the opportunity he slipped through the grasp of his pursuers and run up to the giant.

This one quickly scooped him up, noticing Harry out of the corner of his eyes. "Come with me!", he told the them and started to run away, quickly followed by the three teenagers and in some distance the three strange figures.

Just when they were running out of breath Hagrid stopped and waited for them. "I think we managed to lose them.", he gasped, carefully putting the boy down.

"You alright?", he asked. "I think so...", the boy replied, a strange accent in his voice. "Harry, Ron, Hermoine... meet Yule Wu. He will be an exchange student this year and hopefully many years long.", the giant introduced the teenagers.

"It's a pleasure to meet you.", the white haired boy said and bowed slightly.

"Uhm... Nice to meet you too...", Harry and the others said.

"If you want, you can join us. I was just about to bring him to Hogwarts anyway.", Hagrid offered.

"Thank you, but we aren't finished shopping yet.", Harry declined. "Oh, I see. Guess I'll see you in Hogwarts then...", the giant was about to leave with Yule, when suddenly the boy spoke up. "I know you saw the ones casing me... Should you see them again, you better do you best to avoid them...", he warned them. Hagrid nodded his agree. "He is right, they are ruthless. You better stay out of their way..."

"That was weird.", Harry said once the three of them were once again alone. "Yeah. Especially that hair color. I have never seen anyone with white hair before, except old men and women!", Ron called out. "True, me neither... I also haven't read about such a thing... Well, except for one...", Hermione started.

"What is it?", the boys wanted to know. "Well, I once read, that if being put under great stress of if something really really really terrible happens, then it can happen, that the hair turns white overnight.", she told them.

"If I think about it... He didn't exactly looked very well, did he?", the boy-who-lived thought out aloud. "Yeah, he was kind of pale and Hagrid even carried him...", Ron agreed.

"I wonder... what's his secret...", the girl said. "Huh? What do you mean?", Ron asked. "Well, he must have some special reason for suddenly transferring to our school... You heard his name, didn't you? I would say it's chinese..."

"Maybe he just moved.", Harry voiced. "Yeah right, that's probably the same reason why he was cased around by shadowy figures and Hagrid has come to pick him up.", Hermoine said, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Let's not think about this now, we have got many things to do.", Harry started, when all of sudden he was cut of. "Oh yeah? Like searching for your little girlfriend?", a voice sounded.

It was Draco Malfoy and his two companions.

"Malfoy...", Harry growled out. "Potter...", Draco replied arrogantly, then with a sound of disgust. "Weasley... Granger..."

Before any of them had a chance to say more however, Draco's father Lucius appeared. "My, my... So we meet again... Potter...", he said. "But I fear this time I have not the time to chat with you... We'll see again... Draco"

With those words they were left alone again.

"Let's go! I want to finish this soon!", Harry sighed and the trio moved again.

On the next day, everyone arrived via Hogwarts Express at the school. Of course everyone was happily chatting, exchanging news and rumors along each other.

It wasn't until the end of the welcome ceremony, that Dumbledore suddenly stood and left the room, only to return in company a bit later.

It was Yule Wu, the white haired, silent boy Harry and his friends had met in Diagon Alley. The headmaster quickly talked to Professor McGonagall before leaving the boy in her care.

She said something to him before leading him over to her houses table. There she quickly talked with Percy who nodded and took over from there.

He leaded Yule directly to the opposite side of the table where Harry and his friends sat. "Everyone.", he called the attention of those close to him. "We have got an exchange student who has been sorted to our house. His name is Yule Wu, be nice to him!"

Immediately there was made place for the newcomer and dishes simply appeared in front of him. The boy blinked, but then smiled shyly when the ones around him started to ask questions.

Percy smiled satisfied and returned to his own place.

Harry took the chance to exanimate the new one closer.

Yule had long white hair, that was tied up in a ponytail, which ended somewhere in the middle of his back. His eyes were bright brown, but sorrow and uncertainty seemed to shadow them. For a moment he even thought to see fear shining trough, but when he blinked it was gone.

The foreign boy also seemed to be rather thin, similar to himself when he first entered Hogwarts.

Dinner finally was over and everyone returned to their dooms.

As always the schedules were handed out at breakfast and many of Harry's class couldn't help but groan when they read the first lesson they would attend.

History of Magic. Not many liked this subject, because is was always such dry stuff, as they said. People like Hermione of course loved the subject, because they only had to study those stuff to get an good mark.

Still they had to sit through it and everyone was on time when the bell announced the start of the lesson.

Binns appeared not much later. "This year we are going to learn about the most famous, oldest, tallest and richest wizard families from all over the world!"

Of course this included the Malfoy family for it truly was an old one and Draco Malfoy loved the attention that he got from it.

Finally Seamus had heard enough about the Malfoys and spoke up. "Isn't there any other family that can match them?!", he asked kind of annoyed and desperate.

The ghost teacher thought this over, while Draco snorted. "There is NO family that could match the Malfoys!"

"Ah, that's not exactly true, young Malfoy.", Binns finally spoke up. "There is one, that's even older then the Malfoys and just as aristocratic and rich if not more."

"WHAT?!", Draco even jumped up in surprise.

"Please retake your seat, then I will continue.", Binns told him calmly. Once the boy had done so he continued. "This family is often overlooked or forgotten, because they pretty much keep to themselves and are very enigmatic. Also they are quite far from here. The family's name is Wuxing and they are from China. The main family line is called 'Dragonline'. Why we are not sure, but there are a few hints that they have dragons as their pets and actually are able to control them."

Many gasps came from the students. Someone to be actually able to control dragons was unheard of - at last by the students.

"If they would associate more with other wizards or wizard families they probably would be one of the most powerful ones! I believe, that they would even be a good match against You-know-who's forces!"

The way Binns was talking, you could actually believe he was adoring this family.

"That's not true.", suddenly a voice said.

Everyone turned to the new student, who simply stared blankly ahead. "The Wuxing family is controlling the only wizards school over there... And since there is a new head of the family, this isn't a good thing.", he explained slowly.

"And you would know how?", Binns asked a bit miffed, because of the interruption. "Because I am from there.", Yule stated and shrugged his shoulders.

Harry starred over to the boy with one eyebrow furrowed. There was something he wasn't telling them. Maybe he would have a chance to speak with him later about that.

The bell signaling the end of lesson rescued the boy from any further questions about his knowledge and everyone else from another boring lecture.

The rest of the day passed relatively uneventfully until dinner.

Everyone was seated onto their respective tables when suddenly a strange voice sounded through the halls.

It was Parseltongue as most noticed. Having heard it before, many heads turned towards Harry who tensed and looked around. "What the...", he only said.

"What is it? What is it saying?", Hermoine asked.

"It's...", he started but broke off. "We are coming to get you... Just wait... You can run and you can hide, but in the end we will get you... Enjoy your little freedom while you can...", Harry translated silently so only his two friends could hear.

"I don't like the sound of that.", Ron shuddered. "It sounds almost like that thing with the Secret Chamber..."

"Ron is right. It sounds similar.", Hermoine agreed. "Anything else?" Harry shook his head. "No, that's all it said..."

They never noticed the look they got from the white haired boy across them.