Disclaimer: looks around Anyone been living under a rock lately? Raise your hand if you REALLY think JKR would publish stories on when she could get these published and make money off them Looks around to see no hands raised Now that that's out of the way this WILL be SLASH, it WILL take a while to get to the actual "Romance" part of the story, Harry and Draco will NOT be jumping into bed to have hot slashy sex in the first 5 chapters – however the rating will stay as R so that I don't have to change it later.

A/N: I'm not going to do the whole Ron/Hermione thing, I don't write het well, however Ron WILL have a pairing as will Hermione evil grin And now on with the story

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"Huh? Wha-" Harry broke off his confused burblings when he realised that the noise he had heard was Errol – again – missing the open window and crashing into the wall.

"Bloody crazy bird, why don't you just show up at breakfast with the rest of the owls?" Ron muttered, extracting himself from the sheets of his bed.

"Maybe Weasley, he didn't want to wait that long"

"Sure Malfoy, there's suddenly something desperately urgent going on at the BURROW that couldn't wait another 2 hours"

Malfoy? Here in Gryffindor? Harry was confused now like never before and fumbled towards his dresser looking for his glasses. Not finding them he sat up and opened his eyes

"Holy mother of god"

"Potter? What's wrong?"

Now things were getting VERY strange, Ron was calling him Potter, Malfoy was in the room, he could SEE without his glasses on and the décor looked decidedly, well, blue, and silver not the usual scarlet and gold.

"I think I'm just going to stay here in bed until I'm properly awake"

Malfoy and Weasley exchanged a look, Weasley not really understanding what was going on with our Harry at all, then all of a sudden it was like someone had switched on a light – funnily enough because that's EXACTLY what happened.

"Bloody hell Zabini, did you HAVE to do that, we've got to get Potter back up to speed on what's going on, he's forgotten our wise headmasters newest plan AGAIN" Malfoy drawled at the French boy.

"Again? Cripes Potter that's the fourth time this week and we've only being doing this for 2 days"

"Alright alright just will SOMEBODY explain to me why you two are here, why the hell Ron's calling me Potter and WHY AM I IN RAVENCLAW?????"

At this Blaise and Ron fell on their respective beds laughing and Draco made his way slowly across to Harry's bed.

"Ok Harry James Potter, listen and listen WELL this time. Our esteemed headmaster took what the silly bloody sorting hat said to heart and he decided that the best way to foster that Interhouse unity crap was to shuffle everyone up all over the bloody castle. We were all assigned new dorm mates, the castle somehow reshuffled itself so now instead of having four houses having separate dorms, we have about a hundred separate, 2 bedroom dorms, each with shared bathrooms, common rooms and believe it or not, kitchens. The way this whole system works is that each student was given a choice of partners to be roomed with, you and Weasley chose each other, I chose Zabini because there was no WAY I was getting stuck with Crabbe and Goyle they're thicker than two planks, and across the hallway we also have Abbot and Bones from Hufflepuff and Brocklehurst and MacDougal from Ravenclaw. As to why the usage of surnames, it's how it seems to work in the dorms, we call each other by first names in the hallways and classrooms because we don't have a choice, Bloody Dumbledore has put a charm on them meaning we call EVERYONE by their first names outside of our dorms, so we rather like using surnames in dorms as it was decided that it was rather less confusing, and so that we still remember them"

Harry was, by this stage looking rather dumbstruck.

"For the sake of all of our ears Malfoy, I think I've figured out why Potter gets confused. Baby steps is what you need to take here" Blaise drawled.

"Potter. We're rooming in Ravenclaw because Dumbledore said so ok?"

Harry focused on Blaise, still looking rather spaced out.

"Bugger this, I TOLD you guys it wasn't a good idea to fix his eyesight while he was sleeping" Ron exclaimed "Harry mate, these goons have somehow, and I don't really want to know how they did it, but they corrected your vision, that's why you don't need your glasses, Dumbledore shuffled the entire school around for that inter house unity crap, and we're not really in Ravenclaw, but you and I refused to sleep in a room full of Slytherin colours, they wouldn't sleep in a room of Gryffindor colours and they kinda clash so we went with Ravenclaw colours as it's fairly neutral territory – you're not telling me you'd prefer Hufflepuff would you?" at this Ron looked at Harry in pure horror

Harry blinked as what the three boys told him finally sank in to his sleep fogged brain, then burst out laughing.

"Harry mate?"

"Potter?"

Draco looked at Harry in amusement "Potter if you don't knock that off I'm going to be forced to snog you senseless"

Ron and Blaise looked horrified at this but Harry, our poor misguided Harry pulled Draco to him and laughed harder

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End Chapter One

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A/N: Mwahahaha You though I was lying and I was going to get into the slashy goodness early didn't you? Nuh uh!