Just on the day before the first Quidditch match Shen returned. Thought not alone. Everyone was having dinner, when Madame Pomfrey entered the hall. She quickley walked up to Dumbledore whispering something to him.

While this occured Shen entered the room as well, together with a smaller figure that hid behind him.

Harry was the first to notice his almost-twin and quickley signalled his friends to look as well. Just when Shen was about changing his direction towards the Slytherin table, Dumbledore rose and asked for the attention of everyone.

„I'm pleased to be able to announce the return of Shen Drake Liang from Slytherin.", he said, quickley followed by a thounderrous applouse, which only made said boy rise an eyebrow. „I'd also like to welcome our other guest. Draconius Black-Malfoy."

Now the hall was completely quite. Surely they had missunderstood their headmaster. „Before either of you jumps on conclusions...", Shen spoke into that silence, which made him the center of attention. „I'd like to say that Draconius has never been in Hogwarts before... And I'd also like to add that Draconius Black-Malfoy and Draco Malfoy are NOT the same person... Anyone who has a problem with him being here or other complains may contact me..."

A strange glimmer was in his eyes when he said the last sentence. „Also take note that I am the boys guardian... Any treats or negative behavior towards him won't be tollerated!"

He stood for a few more minutes in the silence before he looked behind him. „Oi! Are you alright? I know you don't like to meet so many strangers at once, but you will have to get used to it and the earlier, the better."

Nothing happened for a moment then carefully a head peeked out from behind the Slytherin. The similarity to Draco Malfoy was defenitely there. Draconius was a boy around the age of 12, had a long blond – almost white – ponytail down to the waist and was about a head shorter then Shen himself. His grey eyes displayed nervousness, curiosity and innocence as well as a bit of distrust.

And he was obviously shy as hell too, for he blushed when he noticed so many eyes on him and hid himself again.

The chinese boy only rolled his eyes, grabbed the boy from behind and put him in front him, while hugging him from behind. „Everyone, this is Draconius. Be nice to him!"

‚If you know what's good for you' hang unspoken in the air.

The new Slytherin didn't seem to like this much and quickly turned around to hide his face into Shens robe. A Malfoy-smirk appeared on the dark haired one's face before he gently took the boys hand and lead him over to their table.

There he simply sat down with the boy next to him and started eating.

After a few moments Dumbledore cleared his troath. „That was all. Please enjoy your dinner..."

His words seemed to lift the spell that lay over them and they continued eating, sneaking glances over to the one that beared quite much resemblance to a certain hated person.
Their center of attention however didn't seemed to comfortable with his situation and was starring onto his plate of food the whole time. At last until Shen bend slightly down and whispered something into his ear, which of course sent him into another blushing fit.

This in turn made the girls giggle stupidly and exchange many words with one another. Noone noticed the strange expression that crossed Snapes face everytime he took a look at the blond one.

The highlight of the next day was of course the Quidditch match! Almost everyone was there, even thought it was only Ravenclaw vs. Huffelpuff.
The golden trio managed to find Shen and his 'little one' - as many now called him - on coincidence. "We'd like to talk to you about Draconius after the match.", Harry told him. Shen hesitated for a moment then nodded. "An half hour after the match in the room of requirements.", the boy offered before returning his focus on his charge and the match.

Thought the Huffelpuffs were beaten quite obviously (270:30) everyone (except the Huffelpuff team) was in good spirits and ready to celebrate. Harry and his friends almost didn't manage to leave on time because the others wanted them to join their little party, but they declined politely, saying that they really needed to take care of something very important.

Once the three teenager reached the room of requirements there were already two persons awaiting them.

Shen quickly bussied Draconius with a book and gestured them to take a seat while taking a sip of his tea. "You wanted something from me?", he asked politely, but in his eyes they clearly saw a warning that they should think before they speak.

"We would like to know... Who exactly is he?", Harry finally said, signalling to the preoccupied boy. "And afterwards we would also have some questions about you..."
"... Well, let's see what I can do for you then... What do you want to know about Draconius?", Shen requested, putting his tea down and crossing his arms.

The trio exchange a slightly confused look, before Hermione took the word. "You said that Draco Malfoy and him aren't the same persons, yet the resemblance between the two are quite astonishing and I'm not even talking about their names here... So what is or was the relationship between the two of them? What have they to do with each other?"

"You are really stright-forward, aren't you?", Harrys dark twin smirked, before a sigh escaped his lips. "Alright, since you fought so bravely against Voldemort I'll tell you. But don't you dare telling this to anyone! I'll personally carry out the worst punishment I can think of, if I notice that you couldn't keep you mouths shut!"

After a few moments of silence and a quick glance to the young one he looked at them again. "You just mentioned those words I said when I returned... To be honest they are not completely true... It's a bit hard to explain, but luckily two of you are from the muggle world so this makes things easier... Have you ever heard of cloning?"

Hermione as well as Harry nodded, but Ron didn't had a clue, so he got a quick explanation from his friends. "Well, you see, the thing is, that Draco Malfoy never existed." The trio gasped and looked at each other weirdly. "You probably already guessed it, but he was a clone. A clone from Draconius Black-Malfoy. His papers were fakes, but damn good ones!

The clone was also made four years older then the real Draco was, in order to make him old enough to attend school at the same time as you.", here he looked at Harry. "They altered his personality so it fit Lucius idea of the ideal son and also took measures to make sure that in case something went wrong they wouldn't have to deal with it..."

"What do you mean?", the girl wanted to know.
"The clones only lived one year each, thought every new clone would get the memories of the one before them. It was some kind of experiment at first, they probably wanted to use it in battle, but they soon saw that it was not a good idea. You might be able to create the same body over and over again, but not the soul, nor the magic.", Shen explained.

"What they didn't know was, that each time a clone died, his knowledge and only his knowledge would also be passed on to Draconius, not only to the new clone. That's also the reason as to why he will be in class with me even thought he is only 12.", he added.

"You mean Dumbledore allowed this?", Ron gapped.
"Why shouldn't he? After all the knowledge is there, so why not make use of it? Thought I had a harder time explaining things to him, than to you. He just wouldn't believe me!"

"How do you know about all this anyway? I mean, you were in China when all this happened, so how can you know about it? And if a clone was at Hogwarts all the time, what did HE do in the meantime?", Harry now wondered.
Shen took once again a glance at the blond boy, who was obvious to all the talking and engrossed in his book.

Finally he directed his eyes back to the Gryffindors. "I'm a Seer. I can see the past, the present and sometimes the future. Dray too, that's why they wanted to clone him in the first place... Also the two of us share some kind of connection. We used to see each other in our dreams, where we talked a lot. It was only a month before I graduated in China, that I found out what was really happening over here trough my abilities. I decided, that I couldn't accept a person like him to be used like that, so I came to rescue him..."

He frowned a bit. "That sounded so cheesy somehow...", then he shrugged. "Oh yeah, you wanted to know what he did while Draco was here, didn't you?"
When the nodded Shen starred into the fire of a candle for a while. "He was locked up in a small cell in the dark dungeon of Malfoy manison where Lucius took out his frustrations everytime something didn't go as he wished it... The only thing keeping them from killing him was the fact that they wanted him to bear Voldemorts children."

I revealed a lot more then I orignially intended first, but I thought I'd clear some confusion right now before I'd forget about it. Don't worry that the story will end soon thought, the plot will thicken, yeah, but there are still many chapters for me to write and you to read before we will reach the end. Until then: Enjoy!