This is the first chapter that I changed for those of you who read the old story and become completely confused when you start reading Chapter 6 and it doesn't make sense.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. They belong to the great JKR. I'm simply taking them and making them virtually unrecognizable.

This is SLASH; the last chapter was completely misleading.

Chapter 3

A Confusing Family Tree

Harry Potter stood, mouth gaping as his brain ran a mile a minute. I'm in Riddle Manor and Voldemort has yet to show up and kill me.

"Voldemort is not going to kill you Harry. He has no intentions of killing his hopefully future partner in crime." Chrystal said.

"How did you know what I was thinking?" Harry asked genuinely curious and completely oblivious to the last statement Chrystal had said.

"Cause I can read minds. I'm sorry, but I can't help it when you scream the thoughts for all mind readers to hear, especially seeing as I'm standing right next to you."

"But how? I thought that only Legilimens can do that."

"Who said I wasn't a Legilimen. But I can read minds because of my inheritance, not because of Legilimency." Chrystal stated. She turned to the massive stairway leading to the second and higher floors. "Grandfather, he's here."

All of a sudden her face took on a panicked look as she turned to Harry and started to mumble alot of words in a language Harry didn't understand. He felt a tingling on his forehead but it soon stopped and Chrystal pouted. "Grandfather give me a minute. I have to save your grandson from passing out in agony at the close range." She then turned back to Harry before a look of pure joy passed over her features. "Of course, the Glamour charm." She quickly said another few words in what Harry could only think was the same language that she was talking in earlier. The tingling sensation returned. This time stronger and it spread all over his body before immediately stopping. He heard her gasp and turned to his left to look in the mirror on the wall.

He was shocked. In a matter of moments Harry grew several inches in height, his malnourished body filled out into a healthy figure that emphasized all the muscles years of Quidditch had given him, his facial angles sharpened slightly, giving him more of an aristocratic look and his hair had shortened to become far less unruly then it had before. In fact the currently spiked hair looked as if he had spent hours doing his hair that morning.

"You look so much like your dad now, it isn't funny." Chrystal stated.

"Actually I looked more like him before this."

"No, you didn't." Harry gave a look like he didn't quite comprehend (which he didn't). "You'll see. We have to wait for everyone to get here first." She turned back to the stairs and quickly yelled. "Okay you can come down now but get everyone here while you are at it, would you."

Just then, Remus and Sirius appeared with Harry's things. They dropped the bags upon looking at the sight in front of them. "What is going on here?" The both asked, looking more confused then possible.

"I had to remove the Glamour in order to remove the spell on his scar. We wouldn't want him passing out from being in the same room as Grandfather now would we?" Chrystal answered. They seemed to take the answer.

Three figures were currently walking down the stairs and Harry instantly recognized them. It was the Malfoys and they were shortly followed by three people he never thought he would see having the civil conversation they appeared to be having. Severus Snape, Lily Potter and Voldemort.

Chrystal just smirked before dragging Harry into one of the sitting rooms behind them. Everyone else soon followed.

Chrystal shoved Harry into one of the seats before flopping herself on the couch across from him. The Malfoys sat in three armchairs stationed slightly out of the circle giving Harry the impression that they were not there as main contributors to the conversation that would take place. Voldemort sat in an armchair to the left of Chrystal and the two other couches were soon occupied by Remus and Sirius, and Lily and Severus.

"Now that everyone is comfortable, let's get to the topic at hand...Harry, I have brought you here so that you can hear the truth. The truth that Dumbledore has kept from the entire wizarding world, or at least he thinks so. See, Dumbledore used me to do a complex version of a mass obliviate on the wizarding world. He made everyone forget who your real father was. Then he set it up so James was watching youthat Halloween night. James was a faithful follower of Dumbledore but his friendship with Remus and Sirius was threatening to break that bond. He killed James so he wouldn't turn on him and then he gave you that scar. The obliviate cause the world to be far more excepting of stories, so Dumbledore made up this big story about how you were the chosen one, son of James and Lily Potter. But he didn't realize that not everyone was actually in the range ofmy spell. You see there is a world underneath this one where creatures live in peace. Your mother and Lucius Malfoy were in that worldon a mission at the time. They weren't affected by the spell but they knew they couldn't do a thing about it. Not without finding the caster. I didn'ttrack down your mother until late last year.Lucius took me into his protection and I felt it was safe enough to lift the spell."

"Ever since then I have been trackingkey people down and telling them the truth. Sirius and Remus decided that their liveswere best spent in hiding so theyfled to the Underworld and then made their way here. They've been here ever since. The Malfoyscame here at the end of the summer. See I don't actually live with them, I live in an orphanage for wizarding children. I stay here as much asI can without raising suspicion. Now Harry I think that you should hear your family story from your mother." Chrystal finally stopped. She glanced at Lily who waited a moment before beginning.

"Okay, where to begin? Tom Riddle left school and fell in love with two women. Now this is not an uncommon or even frowned upon thing. He had two daughters, one by each woman. Now he didn't raise either of his daughters since it wasn't necessary and his work was too dangerous. His eldest, Violet Carmen Riddle Cibaron lived with her mother Liliette Virginia Cibaron. His youngest wasme,Lily Gloria Riddle Carin. I livedwithmy mother, Evaline Narcissa Carin, untildied whenI was still young.I was sent to a wizarding orphanage but somehow that is still yet to be determined, ended up in a muggle orphanage and was adopted by Aunt Petunia's family. Yes Harry, the blood protection spell wouldn't work. In fact,I nevercreated one.If you haven't realized it yet, you've been in no danger. Dumbledore was just being his usual manipulative self.I was raised as Lily Grace Evans and to both the muggle and wizarding worldsIam still known as that.Mostly because I'm supposed to be dead.I gotmy Hogwarts letter whenI was eleven, and went off to school.I meet five people on the train and all six ofus became instant friends. Lucius, Narcissa, Severus andI were all sorted into Slytherin. Due to plans already created Sirius got himself sorted into Gryffindor and Remus went along for the ride. They remained good friends with us despite the different, and supposedly rivalry, houses.As you saw, all six ofus were followers of Voldemortthough until recently, few knew that Sirius and Remus were. After school Severus andI got married as well as Lucius and Narcissa in a combined wedding. Narcissa and Igot pregnant right around the same time and had two beautiful boys, Salazar Sirius Snape and Draconis Lucius Malfoy. But soon afterward, Dumbledore discovered the power Salazar, you,had and decided to raiseyou on the side of light to get rid of Voldemort, not having a clue that you werehis own grandson.I was powerless to stop him and he took you away to live with my dreaded adopted sister after he made my sister believe that we were blood related and it was the only hope ofyour survival.He had you raised badly so that you would be easily moldable and forced the Sorting Hat to put you into Gryffindor. It was also told to putChrys into Gryffindor to watch over you." She stopped to catch her breath and allow the information to sink in.

"He hoped that putting me in Gryffindor might change me," Chrys stated, picking up the conversation again, "He thought I might become a pawn to, that I wouldn't break the spell. He was wrong. People from Slytherin saw through my disguise. I was welcomed into the fold before they even learned I was Riddle's granddaughter. See only the most high of the Death Eaters knew that Tom Riddle wasn't a half blood but a legitimate pureblood. His father came from a long line of Seers that lived in the Underworld. His father was a squib that got banished to this world, so it makes him a pureblood."

"Oh. So my dad is Snape, right." It wasn't a question, more of a shaky fact.

"Yes, Snape is your father. You really do look like him when both of your glamours are off." Chrys commented lazily.

Harry turned around to see what appeared to be an older version of his current self, only with Onyx eyes instead of his emerald.

"Now I know where Harry gets the good looks from." Draco piped in.

"Malfoy, can it before I hurt you." Chrystal said with detest.

"And I thought they were finally starting to get along." Narcissa commented, watching the malice between the two fill the room. "Chrystal, you have to get going if you want to collect the others before nightfall."

"What others?" Harry said the same curiosity he had shown days before returning.

"You'll see tomorrow. And you have definitely pretended to be a Gryffindor too long. You're too curious for your own good." Chrystal observed before disappearing into thin air.


Another chapter gone by, I hope I didn't put anyone to sleep. That was the facts for the family tree. See why it's confusing. There will be more family tree knowledge next chapter and creature backgrouds that include the Slytherins.The next few chapters will touch upon the things that weren't explained in this one but they should do it in a much more appealing manner. Life at the Dursleys will also be explained and a much more Slytherin Harry will begin to emerge. Hope ya liked it, I promise it will get better.