Read seventh chapter if you think there's still a note there. Mean Ron won everyone but don't worry, hopefully my story's still good. Thanks for voting.
This chapter is deticated to Shades who wrote the story that inspired me to write this one, Opacre.
It was six in the morning and Breakfast was at seven thirty and classes at five past eight. It had been two and a half weeks since Harry got to Hogwarts and now Harry stood in the chilly air on a Friday morning waiting for something. He looked around while his teeth chattered. He was standing behind Hogwarts where, instead of the view of the Forbidden Forest, you had a view of the nice open country side. Birds chirped loudly and the sun was just beginning to rise. Harry rubbed his arms up and down his sides trying to get warm. He backed up and slid down the wall of the old castle.
The sky now looked like a battle between red, yellow, and white. Where the colors met they made new ones. Orange, Pink, and pastel yellow created boarders between them. Harry looked at his watch. Ten past seven. He put his hands over his eyes trying not to cry. He thought he was being stupid, maybe he was just running late, or maybe he wasn't coming at all. Harry pushed harder on his eyes as tears leaked through. Maybe he thought Harry was a freak and forgot about him. Maybe he hated Harry. Harry now let out a choked sob just at the thought. Suddenly something grabbed him around the shoulders and tackled him to the ground.
Harry let out a gasp of surprise but smiled as he heard Azi laughing as he hugged Harry tighter. Harry sniffled and tried to wipe away his tears, angry at himself for think that Azi would forget him. Azi looked up as he heard Harry, he frowned then took Harry's head in his hands, and used hid thumbs to wipe away the remaining tears.
"What's wrong?" Azi asked worriedly. Harry just shook his head; not trusting himself to talk with that lump still berried in his throat. He tried anyway but on the first word his voice squeaked and sounded too high pitched and tears now freely flood from his eyes. Azi had a heartbroken look on his face as he hugged Harry's head into his chest.
"Oh, Harry." Azi sighed. "I'd never leave you, I'm so sorry. There are some kind of wards around the school and forest so I had to go to the nearest town and run from there. But don't worry; I know that with a couple more tries I can get here directly." Azi now looked like he was going to cry as he rocked Harry and himself back and forth. He hated seeing Harry upset but even more when he cried and when ever Harry was upset, Azi was upset. And when ever Harry cried Azi would cry, or at least feel like crying and vice versa.
"I know," Harry's voice cracked. "I was just worried." He hugged Azi closer to him.
"Good." Azi whispered and laid down, taking Harry with him. They now laid in the damp grass, Harry's head on Azi's shoulder and Azi's arm around Harry. The top of the sky was just now showing a little blue indicating that there wouldn't be any rain, at least not that day. Harry looked like he was starting to fall asleep but Azi didn't mind, even though they had been separated for the longest time since they met, being close together was all that mattered.
Azi absent mindedly ran his hand through Harry's hair and stared at the now fully risen sun. Harry sighed in his sleep and mumbled a string of words that didn't make sense. Thirty minutes past as they laid in the morning sun. Finally Harry let out a yawn and crawled closer to Azi's head. Azi smiled and kissed Harry cheek and Harry smiled back.
"I slept through our meeting didn't I?" He said guiltily, sitting up.
"You can sleep whenever you want, I could always come tomorrow when you don't have class. How about seven p.m. Right after dinner and I could stay as long as you want." Azi said.
Harry smiled and nodded. "I'm sorry; I was just so exited last night that I couldn't get to sleep."
Azi smiled too. "Like I said it's ok."
"It's getting too late. Draco will be waking up soon. I'll see you tomorrow ok? Oh, and thanks Azi." Harry stood up and was about to turn around.
"Harry wait, about Draco..." Azi said, spitting out Draco's name like a curse.
"Oh come on Azi, Draco's nice." Harry said pleadingly.
"Yeah, and Woppie Goldberg is funny. Just bring this Draco guy tomorrow night and we'll see."
"Good, maybe if you actually talk to him you'll see how nice he really is" Harry said looking up at the sky, frowning.
"Ok Harry, I'll see what he's like, but only because you said so." Azi looked at Harry admiringly. He stepped forward and gave Harry one last kiss on the cheek and turned around and started running back out of the wards. Just before he was out of sight, Azi turned around and waved. Harry waved back and they started back on their parting ways. But one thing Harry had noticed about Azi was that every time he kissed Harry, they always seemed to be getting closer to his mouth, not that Harry would mind Azi doing that. Harry blushed and started walking a little bit faster, back to the Slytherin common room, back to Draco.
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When Harry got back to the common room, he climbed up to the dorms and in to his bed. He still had a whole seven minutes before he had to get up and he was already dressed so that means he had more time to sleep. Harry swore that the minute he closed his eyes, Draco's alarm clock went off. So he did what he normally did. Rolled over, groaned, put the pillow over his head, and went back to sleep, in that order. Then Draco did what he did every morning. Turned off the alarm, got up, grabbed Harry's pillow out of his hands, and hit him with it, in that order.
They met with Blaise and they all headed down to breakfast together. Harry was just a little nervous about tell Draco about the meeting tonight, afraid how he would act.
"Hey Draco?" Harry started nervously.
"Yes." Draco finished up his conversation with Blaise who turned to his side to talk with a girl named Pansy.
"I'm going to meet Azi tomorrow night," Harry could already see Draco's face darkening. "But I want you to come with me, will you?" Well, I wasn't a complete lie. Harry could actually see Draco's face lightening again and he smiled.
"Of course, I'll come with you, if that's what you want."
"Thanks." Harry whispered.
"It's nothing." Draco whispered back, pulling Harry into a light hug.
Up at the head table the black haired Care of the Magical Creatures teacher frowned.
'Of all houses he had to be sorted into Slytherin and of all friends to make, he make one with a Malfoy!' Sirius Black thought angrily. 'And it doesn't help that Snape's the head of his house.'
Snape saw Black looking at his godson, so just to rub it in his face, Snape leaned over the table and sneered in his face "Can I help you with something?" Snape said mockingly.
Sirius Black growled. "Not if it was dripping your grease on my food and in my drink." Sirius spat.
Severus Snape sat back in his chair and rolled his eyes. Would he ever think of a new insult.
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The Slytherin and Gryffindor first years stood out on the Quidditch pitch excitingly, waiting for their flying professor.
"Can you believe it Harry, our first flying lesson!" Draco said with awe, but straitened up as he realized people were looking up at him. "But not that I need it." He added. "I've been flying since I was old enough to walk." He said the last part a little louder so everyone could hear him.
"Cocky, aren't we." Harry smiled up at him then sighed and sat down. He looked around the field and admired the stands as Draco sat next to him. Then he yawned and lay down, putting his hands behind his head as a pillow.
Everyone, looking at him followed suit and sat or lay down to. Within the next ten seconds Harry yelled and jumped. Draco, not knowing what was wrong, looked over there as a huge grasshopper fell off Harry's chest. Draco smirked and dove after it but it just slipped out of his hands.
Everyone looked up at the yell and saw the hopper. All the girls screamed and started running into small groups and all the boys, excluding Harry, all followed Draco and chased the vermin. Harry laid back down and looked to the side and saw an even bigger one.
"What's up with you guys?" Harry asked it. The hopper didn't answer so Harry grabbed it and threw it toward the group of boys.
"Look!" He yelled, "There's another one and it's even bigger!" All the boys yelled with glee and started chasing that one instead.
"What's going on!" A loud voice yelled. Everyone looked up to see Professor McGonagall and Madam Hooch. The hopper jumped in front of McGonagall and all the boys stopped chasing it. "Well!" She asked again.
"There was a hopper." A voice said quietly from the back of the group.
"Oh, really." McGonagall looked down at the bug and stepped on it.
"You killed it!" Another little voice from the back yelled.
"Good," Madam Hooch stepped forward. "Now everyone get back by your brooms and calm down. If I see another person chasing a grasshopper during my class, they can have detention, so chase grasshoppers on your own time. Thank you Professor McGonagall."
The professor nodded and headed back to her own class.
During the next ten minutes Harry and Draco got their brooms to come up on the first try, they got to fly even if it was a little bit off the ground, and some Gryffindor fell and broke his arm. Go figure, right? So now the teachers gone.
When the kid fell he dropped some clear ball with red stuff in it. That red head boy, Ron, picked it up.
"Look what we have here." He picked it up looking at it from all angles. He leaned over to the blonde hair boy next to him. "It looks like some dark devise." The blonde kid nodded.
"No it isn't, stupid." That really smart, brown haired girl said. "They wouldn't let us bring dark devises to school. It's just a-"but Harry cut her off.
"A rememberall" Harry finished, smiling proudly.
"Yeah" The girl finished, smiling back at Harry.
"Well," Ron stuttered. "If you want it so bad, Jr. Dark Lord, come and get." Then he jumped up on his broom and flew about twenty feet in the air and waited.
Harry looked at Draco, who just raised his eyebrows. "Ok" Harry shrugged and got on his broom too and flew up to Ron's height.
Harry rolled his eyes. "Come on Ron, give me the Dark devise so I can take over the world." Ron just scowled.
"Go and get it." Ron smirked and threw it.
"Oh no." Harry said with the least enthusiasm as he could. Then he dived after it, and pulled up right before he hit the ground and gave the rememberall to Draco who just smiled.
"Mr. Potter!" "Mr. Weasley!" Two voices shouted at once. Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall glanced at each other then headed toward their students. McGonagall grabbed Ron by the ear and pulled him back towards the castle. Snape put his hand on Harry's shoulder but walked him over to the Care of Magical Creatures class by the gamekeepers hut.
Harry looked at the ground. Upset because he had disappointed his professor and head of his house. When the hand squeezed his shoulder lightly, he looked up. Snape smiled at him.
"Good job with Weasley." He said quietly and Harry smiled back.
"Excuse me Professor Black." Snape sneered. "May I borrow Flint for a moment?"
Professor Black just looked at Flint then pointed to Snape. Then the three walked back to Professor Snape's office.
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"Can you believe it Draco? Me, on the Quidditch team, as a seeker, youngest player in a century!" Harry said jumping up and down in the common room.
"Yes." Draco smirked.
"But, I have detention with Professor Snape in about two hours, because, either way I broke the rules and he couldn't let that go." Harry sat down on the couch next to Draco.
"Don't worry Harry," Draco slipped his arm around Harry's shoulders, pulling the smaller boy closer. "I heard Weasel got a week detention with Flitch." Harry laughed Happily.
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Harry knocked on Snape's door at five till seven.
"Come in" He heard his Professors voice call. When Harry went in he was surprised at how his teacher looked. Snape's hair no longer looked greasy and was pulled into a loose ponytail behind his head. His eyes weren't cold but reflected his emotions clearly.
"You're a bit early but that's a lot better then a bit late." Snape looked up from the papers he was grading. "You'll be sorting these potion ingredients, if you don't know what one is you can look it up in that book, on the desk over there." He gave Harry a small smile. "When your done, feel free to leave."
Harry nodded and got to work.
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It was Saturday night and Azi just got through the wards but now was ten minutes early. He sat in their usual meeting spot and wait for Harry and Draco. As he was sitting he noticed something jump in the grass. As he looked out even farther he saw lots of somethings jumping in the grass.
"No way, hoppers! Yes!" Azi got up and began collecting them. Five minutes later he had about seven rolled up in his shirt and was working on the eighth when he ran into something. He looked up. Or some one. All the grasshoppers had jumped out of his shirt .An old man with a long white beard looked down at him, his eyes twinkling. Azi blushed as he realized it was the headmaster of this school.
"Good evening young man, and may I ask who you are?" The man said kindly.
"Um..." Azi said. Finally Azi stood up and held out his hand. "Aziraphale Devono, sir." He said in a bussinuss man like voice.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Devono, my name's Albus Dumbledore, now I think Mr. Potter is coming soon so you might want to go and meet him." The old man said happily.
Azi blushed. "Thanks" he muttered and Dumbledore held out a closed hand to him, when he opened his hand there was a grasshopper in it. Azi smiled and grabbed it and then ran to where he was going to meet Harry.
The longest chapter I've done. 2,600 words. I'm going to try to make the rest of them like that, maybe three thousand, just for you guy. but for a warning, I headed back to school tomorrow and if you are to, well congrats. thanks for the reviews.
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A.J.