Something Different

Chapter Eleven

By: MissPatriciaPotter

Lucius lead Harry down the long, winding hallway. Lucius kept on glancing back at Harry. Harry was at least a foot away from Lucius and kept his gaze upon the ground. ' Stupid Muggles' Lucius thought angrily as he watched Harry limp along. It appeared that Harry had been told that he should walk at least a foot away from someone who had power over him. Power to tell Harry what to do. Several minutes later they arrived at the kitchen, Lucius opened the door and waited for Harry. Harry increased his pace, and limped through the door quickly.

The kitchen was a sight to behold for larger then any muggle kitchen; numerous house elves were attending to their daily chores. Some were preparing the evening meal, while others were sweeping the floor, and other such tasks. Harry was awestruck by the creatures he say before him. He had seen Dobby earlier but he had been hiding close behind Lucius at the time.

Lucius lead Harry to the large table. Before they managed to get there he asked one of the house elf 's to make a snack of chocolate chip cookies and Grape juice. Soon a house elf came with along with the largest plate of cookies Harry had ever seen along with a large glass of grape juice.

" One question before we eat. What's your favorite color?" Lucius asked. Harry thought about it for a minute then answered with a simple " green."

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After they finished the large snack Lucius lead Harry to the room that had been made for him. Lucius proceeded to climb up the large staircase with Harry following closely behind. Once they got up the stairs they took a right turn, and continued walking until they were at the end of the hallway. On the way there Harry spotted a cupboard that was just about the size of his old one. Lucius opened the door. A bright forest green was what greeted Harry. His eyes widened at the sight of the room, meant solely for his use. It was gigantic in comparison to his cupboard. The room had a large bed in the middle that was covered with a cream white comforter on either side of the large bed were beautiful lamps on top of side tables. The floor was covered with a gray carpet. On the left side of the room was a closet that covered the entire wall. On the right side of the room was a huge window that over looked the gardens that grew below in the courtyard in Spring.

"Do you like your new room?" Lucius was quite amused at how Harry kept on looking back and forth between Lucius and the beautiful room before him.

"I love it!" Harry replied overjoyed, he was happy that someone would do this for him. He had someone who cared for him; the one thing he wanted all his life was this one thing. Someone to have during the happy times, someone to lend a shoulder to cry on, to dry his tears, and comfort him.

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Night came quickly for Harry. He had spent the rest of the day exploring the Malfoy Mansion. The only room Harry was not allowed to go in was Lucius's drawing room. Harry knew he should heed to Lucius's warnings and stay away from that room. Truth be told Harry spent the whole time in the library.

Flashback: a few hours earlier.

"Here's the library." Lucius said as he gave Harry a little tour of the rooms around him. So far he had shown him where the kitchen was, the bathroom, his bedroom, Draco's room, and now the library.

Lucius opened the door and Harry followed. Harry looked around and was surprised by the numerous bookshelves crammed full of books. Near the end of the room there was a window that had a window seat. When Draco was younger often his Mother would sit him in his lap, and read stories to him.

"Do you like to read?" Lucius questioned, noticing Harry's glances around the room.

Harry nodded his head.

"Would you mind if you spent some time here today?" Lucius asked.

"I don't mind," Harry said slowly.

With that done Lucius took one look around and left Harry all alone in the library. Harry began to look at the books around the room. Most of them did not seem interesting to the eight year old. Then Harry found a book, well it was not a really a book but more a photo album.

Harry took it off the shelf and headed over to sit on the window seat. Once he got there he climbed up there, he then sat the book down on his lap. Harry ran his fingers along the front. It was made of a kind of leather and had the words my 'Hogwarts Years' on the front. Harry opened the album. His eyes were amazed because like the pictures in the numerous hallways these too moved. The first page was decorated in silver with a sort of crest in the background. On the first page there were numerous pictures of Lucius. There was one of playing some kind of sport, one of him sitting on a couch with another boy that had short black hair, and then one of him sitting at a table head bent and writing with a quill on what appeared to be some sort of exam.

Turning the page Harry noticed the header at the top read 'enemies'. There was only one picture on the whole page and was a picture of a group of people. There were five people who were sitting on steps. There were four boys, and one girl. On the top step the girl was in the middle with a boy with black hair and glasses on her right. On her left was a boy that had long hair that hung loosely to the side. On the next stair was a boy that looked like he did not want to be there, because he kept on glancing back and forth between the person beside him and the doorway. The person beside him looked more cheerful to be where he was. He had short soft brown hair, and sometimes if Harry stared at the picture the person behind the boy would mess up the boy's hair. Beside the boy was a stack of what appeared to be textbooks. For some odd reason they were all wearing the same thing. This was a black robe with a crest on the upper right hand corner.

The caption explaining who the people were read:

Top Row (left to right)- Sirius Black, Lily Evans, James Potter

Front Row (left to right)- Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin

End Flashback

Currently Harry sat by the bedroom window staring out at the countless stars. Harry loved astronomy and knew what a lot of the constellations were called in the night sky. His liking of astronomy started when Dudley had gotten a book about the subject. Dudley who hated to read through the book at Harry one day when he was mad. Harry who was six at the time began to memorize the patterns of where the constellations were in the night sky. Often when he was kicked out of the Dursley's for whatever reason he would lay down on the ground and look up at the sky. The stars brought him hope, like someone cared.

"There's Sirius, the dog star, " Harry said happily. Sirius, that name felt familiar like it was someone he used to know a long time ago.

Harry crept back to the bed and climbed in but he could not fall to sleep. The cupboard at the Dursleys brought him much comfort. Then he remembered the small cupboard he had seen on the way to his room. Harry picked up his picture and climbed off the bed. Once Harry was off he proceeded to the door that lead to the hallway.

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It was morning, the suns rays lit up Lucius's green room. Lucius opened his eyes and glanced around. It felt like someone was here watching him.

Before Lucius got the chance to talk, a small voice came from the end of his bed." Father?" It said softly.

It was Draco; Lucius breathed a sigh of relief. Recently he had been getting threats from 'fellow' DeathEaters. Lucius got out of bed and walked to where Draco stood. Draco had on his silver and green pajamas. On his feet were slipper socks with little golden snitches on them. Something was wrong because Draco was usually cheerful in the morning, but today he sounded sad.

Lucius tilted his son's chin up and looked into his bright baby blue eyes (1). "What's Wrong?" Lucius questioned.

"I-I-I heard crying in the hallway" Draco stuttered out in between breaks for air. Obviously this had scared Draco, and Lucius didn't like when he was scared.

"Crying…" Lucius muttered softly under his breath so Draco did not hear. There was only Draco, Lucius, and Harry here. ' It must be Harry' He thought quietly. Lucius stood up and ran to Harry's bedroom. He pushed the door open and looked around. Not a soul was within the beautiful emerald room. The bed was made up and had not been slept in. Lucius opened the sliding closet door and looked to both sides. Harry was nowhere to be found. Lucius strode out of the room. 'Wait a minute Draco said he heard something in the hallway not the room at the end of the hallway' Lucius muttered to himself. Then Lucius realized Harry had slept in a cupboard for eight years, Harry probably felt safe in a cupboard.

Lucius headed over to the cupboard that was between his and Draco's rooms. When he arrived at the door he opened it. Harry lay on the bottom of the small cupboard asleep. In his small pale hands was the photograph that Harry had dropped yesterday. Lucius picked up one foot and put it down softly. Harry woke up fear filled emerald eyes stared at Lucius. Once Harry saw Lucius's face he muttered, "I'm sorry." Harry was sorry, but what did Harry do that was so wrong? 'Curse those Muggles to Hell and back! ' Lucius thought angrily to himself. There was no way this would go unnoticed Lucius would not let it. Lucius grabbed Harry's hand and put it in his. It was the start of a new day.

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Draco was rather pleased at the fact that his friend had come over to stay with him. Draco would not be quiet about the countless things he could do now that he had someone to play with. The trio was currently sitting at the dining room table eating breakfast before they left for the trip that was planned for that day.

"We are to go to Diagon Ally today." Lucius said. Draco smiled at Harry and simply said, "We'll have a ton of fun."

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Harry thought it was rather odd to be standing at a brick wall. It was not like it would magically open, but Harry did not know half of it. Harry was wearing a pair of jeans, and a green long sleeved shirt that covered up multiple bruises on his arms. Before they had left the manor, Lucius had cast a glamour charm. This was to hide the scar that was so famous in the wizard world. Lucius did not want anyone to recognize Harry, if they did Lucius was still amazed that such a young boy had gone through what must people would never go through. Lucius took out his wand, and Lucius noticed that Harry flinched. It was rather quick, but Lucius felt sad that Harry had gone through this. Lucius walked over to the brick wall that would be considered a dead end by any muggle that came across it. He tapped the bricks and the 'solid' brick wall began to move to both sides thus making a pathway.

"Wow!" Harry muttered under his breath. Lucius said, " come on".

Both boys hurried up their paces to get into the amazing place. Harry wished he had more eyes because ever where he looked there was something interesting to look at. The place that the trio were heading to was Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions. Once they got there Lucius opened the door. The bell on the door ringed alerting Madam Malkin that she had customers. Sure enough she came rushing out from the back. She was wearing mauve robes, and looked to be about in her thirties. She was rather short and plump.

"Well, well come in." She said in a rather sweet voice.

"We are here to get some clothes for my son James." Lucius said pointing to Harry who trying to hide behind Draco. " He's rather shy." Lucius said as she noticed the witch's efforts to see Harry but it did not work because Harry would only hide more behind Draco. ' At least I did not say his name was Harry' Lucius thought to himself.

"Come this way." Madam Malkin said as she started to walk to a rack of clothes that had on the sign ' For five to ten year olds' above it.

"Do you like anything in particular?" Lucius questioned not knowing that all Harry ever had to wear was his cousin clothing. Harry shook his head and suddenly found the floor interesting. Lucius sighed and went to go get some stuff. If Harry wasn't going to do it he might as well do it. He looked through the section that was labeled shirts. He found a dark green shirt, a white shirt with a lion on the front, and a blue shirt with plaid stripes all over the front. Then Lucius headed over to the pants section, this was rather a difficult task The reason because Lucius did not know what size Harry wore. Lucius was happy when he found out that all the pants in the store would reduce to fit you. Lucius picked up a pair of black pants, white pants, and a dark green pair. Lucius then took Harry's hand and headed over to the changing rooms. Lucius waited until he was done with everything. He had told Harry if he liked something he could get it. Lucius thought that Harry might be a little apprehensive about spending Lucius's money, but Lucius did not care. He wanted his money to go to something worthwhile. Worthwhile a long time ago meant bailing convicted DeathEaters out of Azkaban. Not that it was done very often, but it could be done with a lot of gold galleons, silver sickles, and bronze Knuts. Whenever Voldemort wanted any of his really faithful DeathEaters out of Azkaban he would get all the others to donate money so they could free the DeathEater in jail.

The door opened and Harry stepped out the clothes on the hangers in his hands.

"So what do you like them?" Lucius questioned hoping that Harry would at least say something.

"I do, but you don't have to spend all this on me." Harry said quietly

"I don't, but I choose to now lets go pay for this and then go get some ice cream." Lucius walked over to the counter and Madam Malkin put the stuff in bags. Lucius paid while Harry looked at some socks that had little characters on them. Some had on little dragons, owls, and even golden snitches.

Just as Madam Malkin was about to ask Lucius for the money when Lucius said, " wait a minute."

Lucius walked over to where Harry was standing and knelt down to his level so he could see Harry directly in the eye.

"Do you want to get these?" Lucius said pointing to the socks that were in Harry's hands.

Harry nodded. "Which ones do you want?"

Harry looked over the socks and then held up two pairs of socks. They were the ones that had the little golden snitches, and the second one had little snowy owls. Before he got up Lucius walked over to the sock stand stood he picked out a pair of green socks with little tiny dragons on them. They were for Draco. ' He doesn't have this pair yet' Lucius thought to himself.

Lucius then headed to the counter with the three pairs of socks in his hand, to pay for all the purchases.

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Harry, Draco, and Lucius were sitting at a round table at Florean Fortescue's ice-cream Parlor. They were sitting comfortably under a striped umbrella. Draco was having an ice-cream sundae as well as Harry too. Lucius was having a small ice-cream cone with one scoop of vanilla. Lucius had a dislike for ice cream, the only way he stood it was that Draco loved it.

"How's everyone?" Lucius questioned wanting to know if Harry was really comfortable in the wizarding world.

"Good." Harry said while looking down at his ice cream.

"That's good." Lucius responded.

In about ten minutes the trio was done their snack, and were heading to the Magical Menagerie. It was a place that sold strictly sold animals of all kinds. Owls screeched loudly from their cages, cats purred, and frogs crooked. All the different creatures in the place amazed Harry. Draco was looking at the owls. He was looking at an owl that had stony black eyes, and black fur.

Lucius was looking around, he looked surprised. Apparently what he was looking for wasn't here. Lucius was looking for something for Harry an owl perhaps. Nope of these owls would suit Harry at all. All of these owls were so unusual, Lucius wanted something like a snowy owl. There were none here, but there might be at Eyelops Owl Emporium. It wasn't far from here, and the boys looked interested. ' It will be okay to leave for only five minutes' Lucius thought to himself. Lucius walked over to where the two boys stood and told Draco that he was going to gone for a while. Draco agreed, and also to the fact that he was to watch Harry because Harry did not know Diagon Alley was well as Draco did.

Unknown Death Eater's P.O.V.

I watched Lucius walk out of the Magical Menagerie. This is my change to grab the boy and run. I look in and see Lucius's brat Draco standing there with the boy. He looks defensive enough, I mean he isn't is armed with a wand or anything like that. There is no way that this little brat knows any magic at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lucius had taught him a couple easy spells. Even if he did I am an adult wizard, and a child is nothing against me. I open the door, and try to look to see where I'm trying to go. I'm such a good actor; well I now know where my loyalties lie. They lie with my Lord, the Lord Voldemort. Anyways back to the task at hand, I walk over to the task at hand. I pretend to look over the owls to see which one I want. Draco turns around and looks at me. I can't tell if he recognizes me or not, but I can tell he doesn't like me. He moves Harry more away from me, and more towards him. I sigh, and continued 'looking' at the owls while out of the corner of my eye I watch them. It appears that Draco is telling Harry something.

"What do you think?" Draco asks.

"I like this place. I love animals" Harry responds.

I then make my move, I walk closer to the pair and when I get there I lean down and look Draco in the eye.

"Would you be Lucius Malfoy's son?" I asked in a soft tone.

Draco was apparently thinking he finally said, " Why do you want to know?"

"Well.." I began " I was just outside and I heard your Father call for you." This is just too easy, one of my easiest assignments yet.

"Are you sure?" Draco asked me.

I nod my head, and then Draco leaves but not before he tells Harry to stay where he is. I simile as I hear the door close, I can now get Potter and run. I advance on him, and he backs up. He doesn't realize that soon he will run out of room. I have almost got him, I take out my wand and whisper a binding charm. Thin robes come out of my wand they go to Harry, and tie up his arms and legs.

It would have gone perfect if Lucius might not have come back. When he got there he had his wand out and shouts "Expelliarmus." My wand flies out of my hand, and almost pegs an owl in the beak. Lucius walks over and picks up Harry who was on the floor. Lucius unties the bindings.

End P.O.V.

The DeathEater went flying crashing into a shelve that had different kinds of owls on top of it. The storeowner who was stocking inventory in the back came rushing out. The storeowner was a middle-aged man that had black hair and bright blue eyes.

"Hey what is going on here?" The owner asked as he looked around at the mess that was before him. He then added, "I hope you guys were not fighting," The owner says as he saw the DeathEater over by the wall lying on his back trying to get up.

"Of course not," The DeathEater said sweetly.

"Well," the owner said as he took out his wand and waved it "At least you were not fighting." As the owner waved his hand everything went back to its proper place. "If you need anything, I'm out back." With that the owner headed back to do his inventory stocking.

"Father," came Draco's voice from the doorway.

Lucius took Harry's hand and led him over to where Draco stood. When he got there he took Draco's hand and then headed back to Eyelops Owl Emporium where Lucius had dashed off after paying for an owl. It was a snowy owl just like Lucius had wanted to get. ' I hope he likes it' Lucius thought to himself as he looked down at Harry who was staring at the ground. They took a right and were standing in the store where one of the assistants handed Lucius the cage that the owl was in. Lucius thanked them and began to head back home. Lucius didn't even hear that whispered voice, that one word that would change everything, that one word, Imperio.

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Draco was sitting in the living room with Harry. They were playing a game of chess. Draco had opted for regular chess because Draco thought that it would scare Harry. Draco sighed and moved his pawn foreword one space. Harry who was confused on how to play moved his nearest piece, which was his knight, this left his king open for an attack.

"Checkmate," Draco said while watching Harry's expression.

"What happened?" Harry asked confused still not knowing how to play.

"You just lost," Draco explained.

"Oh," Harry said looking down at the board. "I wish I could play really good." Harry

muttered not sure if Draco had heard him or not.

"How about I get my Dad, He knows how to play really good. Plus he is the one that taught me how to play." Draco said joyfully. He jumped off the chair and ran out the door towards Lucius's chambers.

Harry sat waiting for Draco to return. He looked around the room and saw multiple pictures of Draco and his Father together. 'I wonder where Draco's Mother is' Harry wondered to himself not having seen the woman before.

Footsteps alerted Harry, and Harry looked at the doorway and saw Lucius standing there. Lucius picked up his feet and walked over to where Harry was sitting. "So you want to learn how to play chess?" Lucius questioned as he pulled out a chair to sit on. Harry nodded.

"Okay, first choose a color." Lucius said as he gestured toward the board. Harry chose the black color and set up his pieces in their places.

Curious of why Harry choose black Lucius asked, "Why did you pick the black pieces?"

"It represents of what I'm which is nothing. White is for someone like you." Harry stated.

"Well then," Lucius stated trying to get that fact that Harry didn't think much of himself away from his mind and into the dark corners that held his worst memories. "Let's begin."

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Lucius was tucking Draco in. He pulled the covers over Draco and sat on the bed. Draco was silent for some reason. "Is there anything the matter?" Lucius questioned knowing that there had to be something up or Draco wouldn't be this quiet.

"I don't feel well." Draco said in a quiet voice that lacked Draco's usual tone of cheerfulness.

"Well then I think you should get some rest, good night Draco." Lucius said as he got up to walk towards his chambers to go to sleep for the night.

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"You're late again boy," came Uncle Vernon's voice from the top of the stairs. Harry looked down at the ground knowing the rules not to say anything when he was in trouble. Uncle Vernon came down the stairs. Once he got there, he picked up Harry and through him hard onto the ground. Harry cried out and begged for his uncle to stop but he would not listen.

Harry woke up with sweat on his brow. He glanced around and remembered he was at Lucius's and not at the Dursleys. Harry put his head down on the pillow, and tried to get back to his sleep but to no avail did it work. Harry sighed and got off the bed. He then walked over to the door. Once he got there he opened the door, turning the knob very slowly. The door opened and Harry walked into the hallway and ran toward Lucius's room. 'I will be safe there, Lucius will protect me. ' Little did Harry know how wrong he was.

Once he got to Lucius's room he opened the door and walked into the room. He looked around and spotted the bed he rushed over and when he got he got there he climbed on top of it. Sighing Harry lied down and began to drift off to sleep. Harry felt safe around Lucius after all he was the one that saved him from his dismal life at the Dursleys. Lucius gave Harry a ray of hope. It was a tiny ray but to Harry it was something else; it was something he hadn't experienced before it was caring adults. Sure Harry went to school but his teachers could only do so much for him. Countless times he had to explain to his teachers that everything was going great at home and he was loved. Harry always wanted to say the opposite but he felt like he was doing the right thing. Lucius turned and bumped into Harry by accident. Harry fell off the bed and landed with a soft thud on the carpeted floor. Lucius opened his smoky gray eyes and looked around it was then he spotted Harry on the floor curled up in a ball sleeping. 'Tell him to leave' said voice inside his head ordered.

"Harry you are not wanted here! Go now!" Lucius screamed he then raised his fist and then punched Harry in the shoulder. Harry stood up quickly ignoring his pounding head. 'I'm not wanted here, it was all a joke. ' Harry thought to himself tears steaming down his face. Harry ran down the stairs and then ran toward the front door. He was going back to the Dursleys.

Authors Notes- This is my longest chapter ever. It is ten pages long and it took a long time to get it out. Sorry for the sudden plot change but I need it there for what will happen. Don't worry he won't be there long. Sorry about the long wait.