Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter.

Warning- This is a slash. (Place witty statement here.)

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Chapter 1: He's WHAT?

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"Harry! Oh my! I've missed you so much!" Hermione squeals and runs up to me on platform 9 ¾. She grabs me and gives me a rib-shattering hug. I pat her back.

"Did you miss me?" I joke when she let go. She blushed.

"Leave me alone! Hey I have a few minutes before I have to go to the Prefect meeting. Let's get on the train and find Ron." She says and we head toward the train.

We walk on and down the hall. We caught sight of Ron looks out the window, looking very bummed out. We open the door and he looked over and smiled. "Hey! How are you?" He says and gives Hermione a huge hug like the one she gave me.

"Ron...I...can't...breathe..." She managed to squeak out. Ron let go and grinned.

He patted me on the back and then frowned. "Harry, I'm realy sorry about not inviting you over this summer. Mum has been busy taking in dear old gram and I spent time down at the joke shop with the twins." He says.

I shrugged. "It's ok, mate. I understand." I try to assure him. He smiles down at me and sits down. I sat next to him.

Ginny came in, very out of breath. "I...forgot...your broom...in the...car and I...had to run back...and grab him before...the train left." She says. She collapsed onto my lap.

"Well did you get it?!" Ron asked, panicking.

"Yeah." She says, still breathing heavy.

"You better." Ron grumbles.

"Ron! I didn't see you getting off your ass and grabbing it!" Ginny exploded.

I look over at him with a sympathetic smile. "She's got a point there." I say.

Ron hit my arm and huffed. He looked out the window, pouting. I shake my head and sigh. "Am I crushing you, Harry?" Ginny asks.

I look up at her and smile. "No, you're fine." I say.

"Well, well, well. If isn't the Gryfindorks." We hear at the door. I look over and the Slytherin gang, led by Draco Malfoy, was standing there grinning evilly. Our eyes locked and I had to look away. For some odd reason, when I went to think about school this summer, I thought about Malfoy. Don't ask me why.

"I think that's the most action Scarhead's had...EVER!" Malfoy says, looking over at me.

I rolled my eyes. "It's 6th year, I'd expect better insults than that, Malfoy. Or is the gel in your hair rotting your brain. If they're realy was a brain there to begin with." I say and get 'Oh's' from my friends.

Malfoy glared at me and looked over at Ron. "Well, Weasel, what did you do this summer? Probily sat at home cause I know that your family couldn't afford a vacation even if they saved up their money for 50 years!" He says and the whole Slythrin gang laughs. I feel my insides bubbling. He couldn't piss me off so he went on to the weak.

Ron shot off his seat and pointed his wand at Malfoy's chest. He yelled, "Turgantallea!" and Malfoy was shot across the hall. My heart screamed for him to be alright, but my brain said 'Eh, he deserved it.'

"I'll get you for that, Weasley!" Malfoy squeaked out and weakly stood up.

"You do anything to him and I will come back at you 600 times worse." Ginny growled, glaring at the blond.

Pansy helped Malfoy up and the Crabbe and Goyle carried him away. "What a git!" Hermione snapped and huffed.

I shook away all my thoughts about Malfoy away. "Anyone want anything off the trolley?" I ask.

Ron and Hermione stood up and headed for the door. "Sorry, Mate. But we got the Prefect meeting to attend. But could you get me a thing of Bernie Bots?" Ron asks.

I smile at the two. "Sure. I'll see you two later." I say and with that, they disappeared down the hall.

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Hagrid greeted me at Hogwarts with a toothy smile. He now has scars from where Guarp had hurt him last year. But other than that, he looked exactly the same. "How ye doin' Harry?" He asks, bringing me in for a hug.

"Pretty well. How's Guarp?" I ask.

"He's gotten his 'nger under control and is now fine." He says. Then he jumped like he remembered why he was there. "I'll talk to ye later. I've gots to round up thee 1st years."

I nod and head toward the old buliding I look up at it and I got this warm feeling in the pit of my stomach. I sigh. I'm finally back home. After a stressful summer after Sirius's death, it was nice to be in a place where I know I belong.

I stopped in front of the front hall and smiled. I see the sorting hat on its stool. I was the first one to enter the room for the Griffindors and sighed.

"What are you waiting for, Potter?" I hear Malfoy growl. My heart flutters but I force myself to get into my 'I-hate-all-Slythrins-expicaly-Draco- Malfoy' mood.

I look back at him and glare. "Why are you in such a hurry to get in?" I snap.

"Play nice. I was only trying to get you moving." Malfoy says, adding an evil smirk on his face. I can Not resist that frickin' smirk!

"Well it doesn't work." I say. I look over at Ron. He was helping Hagrid. "Don't you have Prefect duties?"

"Pansy said she had it." He says. His eyes widen. "Why don't we skip dinner. I have something I need to show you."

I wasn't hungry but there was no way in hell I was going to go anywhere with him alone. "No thank you. I'd rather go fuck Snape that go anywhere with you." I snap and walk to the Gryffindor table.

Ginny sat next to me. "Why where you talking to that asshole?" She asks.

"He wanted to show me something. With my luck, he'd take me to an ally and jinx me." I state and grab a roll.

Ron and Hermione came in and sat across from the red-head and me. "I saw you talking to Malfoy. You should have cursed his ass." Ron says.

I laugh. That's Ron for ya; taking any chance he can to hurt Malfoy. "I know but I realy don't feel like getting a detention the first day back." I say.

"Eh, as long as Malfoy's in pain, I could care less if they expelled me." Ron says. He sits there for a moment and shakes his head. "I take back my last comment."

I laugh again and smile. Boy, I've missed being here. I look down at my food. I realy don't feel like eating. "Hey I'm gonna go up to the tower. If any teachers ask, tell them I'm in the bathroom or something." I say and leave the Great Hall.

I started down the hall and I went into my thoughts. What did Malfoy want to show me? Probily some kind of spell he learned over the summer that can kill me with one blow.

I felt a tug on my robe. I turned to see Malfoy. "Hello, Potter." He says.

I look around. Ok now where's the rest of the Slythrin gang? "Just jinx me and get it out of your system." I say, not even caring anymore.

"No, thank you. Even though it's very tempting, I need to show you something. Have you read the Daily Profit lately?" Malfoy asks.

I roll my eyes. "No any why do you care?" I growl. Where's he getting at?

Malfoy held today's paper in my face. "Seems like my dear ole' Dad broke out of Askaban last night. He left a little note. He said he was in search of someone." He says, with an evil glisten in his eyes.

I snatch the paper and scan the article. My heart leapt in my throat. No. That can't be. "W-Why?" I ask.

"I don't know why. But all I have to say is that I hope when Dad does find you, I hope he kills you in the worst of ways."

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Author's Note: Hey everyone! Here's the first official Chapter to Darkening Days. I expect this to be a long story. (Way longer than BackLash.) I mean you gotta figure, I gotta go through all of the past and a little bit back into the present. Well I haven't even started on the next chapter but I must tell you, it probily wont be very pretty. Whelp, I gotta go. Please review and tell me if you're liking it. (and if you don't, I don't care. I'll keep updating it. LOL!) Later!