Getting his jacket he tired it around his bleeding wound and sat down. Waving at Sirius to get closer to him as he pulled off his gloves he used his elbows to hug Sirius and avoid touching him before disappearing into the shadows.

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3rd Person POV

Draco was currently panicking as he heard the prefect of this year walk along the boys bathroom that he teleported to by accident. When he thought of getting somewhere in Hogwarts he expected to be in the forbidden forest but instead got here. It was nice that he didn't have to interact with people, so as Sirius walked away and plumped down on the cold floor to rest for a while he went ahead and tried to get himself fixed up. Washing his face and hands he untied the sweater that he was using as a form of bandage for his wound.

He opened up his shirt to reveal four long slashes of the skeletal fingers of the dementors, seemed like the thing loves to mark up its food, he opened the water faucet and waited until the water became lukewarm to wet his jacket wet and use it to wash his wound so that he could look at it properly and eat some ambrosia to heal his wound. It should count as a monster attack so it should work properly and heal him. His train of though was cut off when Sirius barked. Sirius bit the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him into a bathroom stall. "Wha—" he shut up when he heard the door to the bathroom open. "If someone is here then please know that people aren't allowed to wander of in the halls at this moment," a voice said.

Silence followed before a tired sigh was heard and the guy, who Draco could guess was a prefect or a Headboy, started to walk and look inside each and every stall in the bathroom. Draco could only hold his breath when he got to his stall. The person outside tried to open the door but stopped when he realized it was locked. "Please come out when you're done, I'll need your name and house, do not try to get off as I'll confiscate your wand if I have to."

Draco didn't answer but knew that he had to do something to ensure that Sirius wasn't seen. He looked at himself and got an idea, it was risky, but it'll ensure all the focus on himself so that Sirius can find a place to hide. Standing up he unlocked the door, and put down his glamour to reveal his dyed black hair, he doubted that whoever was outside could recognize his real appearance anyways. He hesitated opening the door but peeked through a crack and lo and behold there stood Percy Weasley who was staring at him with an annoyed expression. He faked an anxious look in his face before opening the stall door more. The annoyed look on Percy turned from annoyance to horror to concern, "What happened?"

"W—well I was just in the train and when the dementors came. I guess I just looked a bit too tasty because the dem tor went up to me a—and well...," he gestured to himself. "Didn't think that it'll claw me up mid-meal but here we are," he shrugged. "Least I'm not dead, so that's good..."

Draco stopped rambling and looked at the awfully silent prefect as he has his hand up clasped together as if using it for prayer before twisting his wrist, "You need help, okay? Okay, so, I'll get you to Madam Pomfrey and have her look at you and stitched you up." Percy Weasley carefully grabbed his shoulder before pushing him forward towards the door. He glanced back and gave Sirius a look while mouthing 'stay.' Before going the grab his jacket and tying it again to try and hide some of the blood on him. Draco didn't really wish to concern anyone else with this.

Once outside Percy went on and asked for his name and house and told him that he'll personally write a note in case Draco got into trouble. Draco had to give a fake name and house before they got to the great hall, it seemed the Percy forgot that there was still and orientation going on and that students where still making there way towards the great hall and went to hold Draco close to him before he grabbed air. Looking behind he saw that Draco was gone.

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"That was close, a bit too close for comfort," Draco said as both he and Sirius made their way outside towards the train who seemed to somehow still be outside waiting. It seemed that the workers are taking in the damages of the train to form a report before they fix them. It didn't matter to Draco since that just meant that he was able to get his stuff and most importantly, his wand, going inside with Sirius he lead the way to their train compartment to find his stuff gone, but luckily his wand was still somewhere between the seat cushions with that he made his way with his 'dog' towards his room in the Slytherin dungeon, skipping the ceremony, eating some ambrosia before he went to sleep.

In the morning he actually saw his friends and introduced them to his 'dog' Moony. "What breed is he?" Lucas asked looking less weary than before now that he saw the Sirius wasn't barking or growling at Elizabeth as she played with his tail. "I'm not actually sure, I found him when I was taking a walk around the forest near my house and took him in. He was very dirty and had a lot of matted hair. Poor thing was practically starving, but he looks much better now," he said patting Sirius's head which he saw him huff in annoyance. "Cool, what did you guys did this summer?" Blaise asked as he also ruffled Sirius's fur.

"I went to Paris."

"Went to Italy to visit some family."

"Stayed home but got to practice on my magic."

"I just did nothing if you don't count finding Moony."

The guys talked some more and lamented on the fact that this was going to be Lucas's and Markus's last year here in Hogwarts. "If I get someone I don't like as a roommate I'm suing the school," Draco said seriously. Laughing at the absurdity of what he said they started to finish up and went to eat some breakfast.

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Draco was surprised to see that they start with three classes this day as he had Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, Defense Against the Dark Arts. He wondered who the new unfortunate teacher they were going to have as their DADA teacher. His question was answered when a tired looking man came and closed the door to the classroom after the bell rang. He was the perfect picture of professor, tired face, short but wavy brown hair and hazel eyes. The only thing that normal people wouldn't see as "teacher material" would be the scars that littered his face. Draco just saw someone that must've survived through many battles in his life. He knew he would like this teacher the moment he saw those scars. It seemed that this week was all about introductions before they would go to the real lessons later on the week.

Later that day*

"So, there was this prefect that almost caught us that was worried about me when I was injured. I feel a bit bad about just disappearing like that, but I just had to deal with the injury myself y'know? Anyways, there was this one new DADA teacher Professor Lupin he—" Draco stopped rambling when he saw how Sirius, who wasn't on his dog form anymore, got attentive when he mentioned the new teacher. "Remus..?" He unconsciously said, Draco pretended not to noticed before he said "Yeah, do you know him?" Draco continued to polish the spear that saved his life.

"Yeah... I think I mentioned him to you before, but I doubt that I mentioned his name...," Sirius sighed before he continued "We were very close back before I was falsely accused and committed. He was the last person of the Marauders club that remained dead, jailed, or "missing"" he quoted the last part with a sneer. "Speaking of that rat, you said that he should still be alive right? I have some connections so maybe I could ask them to keep and eye out now that we're here out in Hogwarts," Draco said glancing through the blinds to ensure that they were the only ones in the room. "Just tell me what was his name again and any identifying marks that I should remember."

"Sure so first his name is Peter Pettigrew..."

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"You had a map that had everyone's location?" Sirius nodded taking a bite of a red apple that Draco had cut for himself. "Yes, it was charmed to tell where everyone was at all times. It was how we discovered multiple secret passages in Hogwarts—"

"Secret passages? How many? That's sounds so cool I've had my fair share of them but to have them at a school? Annabeth would've gone crazy by now if she knew about this place haha," Draco let out a laugh as he thought about his cousin but it soon turned into a sad smile as he longed to be there with them. He was regretting taking up the quest and not being there when they needed him the most. "Yeah, there's about six? Seven? I'm not sure... it was confiscated by Professor McGonagall during my time here, so I've never really thought about it as of now. I think she got rid of it though...," he looked off to the side in thought.

"Hey... could the map have my real name on it or would it appear as Draco Malfoy?" Draco asked as he snapped Sirius out of it. Registering Draco's words Sirius hummed, "We only charmed it by having the school names appear so only staff and students names should appear."

"Well that's a relief."

"I'm sure it's—" "shhh!" Draco shushed Sirius as the door opened. He peaked through the curtains and saw Theodore coming in with a worried Blaise behind him, Theodore's arm was in a cast and his uniform has a tear on it. Draco looked to Sirius and once he saw that he was in his dog form before he opened the curtain and stepped out to look at his friend's condition. "What happened?" He asked as he looked at the cast and then at Theodore's startled expression as he basically popped up out of nowhere.

Blaise, who was a bit more used to Draco popping out of nowhere, replied, "A Buckbeak attacked him because this dumbass," he pointed at Theo who looked away innocently, "Wasn't paying attention and was picked to approach it. He kept eye contact and got squared up." Draco let out a chuckle, "Hope you feel better soon, and try to pay attention when dealing with animals."

Theodore just nodded before he asked, "Where were you? Classes started and you weren't here this afternoon, you missed Care of Magical Creatures with the Gryffindors." He shrugged, "I stayed up yesterday putting my stuff away and got distracted, I didn't even know the day started." Draco presented his bed who was in the wall and presented his new bed look. He placed some shelves with a stick charm and put all the books that he had on him on the shelves. "And I guess I fell asleep at some point too, but enough about me. How many classes do we have left?"

"We have divination left, but Theo was allowed to stay here if he feels like it," Draco hummed and started to dress up to at least go to the last class of the day.

During Divination, Professor Trelawney was fawning over what Harry's cup was saying about an 'oath of death' that he would see and Draco could only have his ear twitch at that. It seemed that with the dementors being the ones guarding the school from Sirius meant that this year would be like all the previous ones: a mess.

A/N: Shout out to @/Ruffy09, @/roseblue1232, @/Phoenix828, @/Winterling_Starfall, and everyone else for being some of my longest readers and having survived my many hiatuses and giving me ideas in the comments through out these years. I like reading you guy's comments when I'm sad, so it makes me happy to see new and old people comment here!

Someone asked about Draco's mask, and I also decided to change that too. So now his mask is only a mask that covers his eyes and nose it has a V shape peak. Draco normally wears a cloth on his mouth so that people don't see his mouth in the summer in the winter he just uses a scarf. (If you have no imagination like me just think about a mask that one character from Genshin Impact wears. I think his name was "The Doctor" or something like that idk but it basically covers his eyes and nose.)

Here's a new and improved age chart!

Normal people on HW Draco's age

1st years- 11-12 10-11 (Sea of Monsters)

2nd years- 12-13 11-12 (Titan's Curse The Battle of the Labyrinth)

3rd years- 13-14 12-13 (The Last Olympian)

4th years- 14-15 13-14 (The Lost Hero)

5th years- 15-16 14-15 (The Son of Neptune Mark of Athena House of Hades)

6th years- 16-17 15 (The Blood of Olympus)

-D.