A/N: Ok well here is chapter 2. I know my chapters are not very long but my friends want me to write a chapter a day and I found it is kind of hard to do when I don't know exactly what is happening and I have my phone ringing off the hook. But I don't think I'm going to be able to do a chapter a day anymore. But read chapter 2 and tell me what you think all the good stuff that everybody says. And I don't own any of the characters except for Sarin.
The next day came all to early for Sarin. Well she thought so anyway. Since she was now a student at Hogwarts she had responsibilities to get up and go to her classes. And today would be the start of the long year. Sarin groaned into her pillow when she say what time it was. 'You have got to be kidding me. I know I can't go back to sleep once I'm up damn I really didn't have to get up 2 hours early.' Grumbling all the while she get up took a shower and got ready. She went over all the things she would need for classes that day twice just to waste time. Then with nothing else to do and half an hour till breakfast she decided to make her way slowly towards the Great Hall while reading. Grabbing an advance potions book from her trunk she headed to the hall. It took her the half hour to make it to there and when she entered found the teachers already there but no other students. The professors were all speaking quietly with each other about this and that. Sarin nodded to Dumbledore when he looked at her as she took her seat next to him again and started back on the potions argument she and Severus started last night. She knew she was right and she had brought her advance potions book with her and pointed it out to him. The other professors laughed at the sight of Snape pouting because he wasn't right. But soon the students where making there way into the hall for breakfast and all the teachers went back to their breakfast, all except four who handed out the schedules to their respective houses. Dumbledore handed Sarin her schedule which he pulled out from the inside of his robe. One was a schedule for regular classes another had to do with training that she, Potter, and Malfoy were all to receive. Though she already knew how to do a lot of the stuff on the second schedule she still couldn't wait till that afternoon when she would join the to other teens in Dumbledores's office.
Sarin ate her breakfast slowly and kept switching from looking at Draco to Harry. 'It's amassing' she mused 'that these two are on the same side and they still don't know it. If they would give up there stupid rivalry and called for a friendship there would be so many more people on the light side. People follow Draco though yes he would be put in more danger because he has joined us Dumbledore can protect him like he did my mother.' She sighed and stood nodded to the teachers and headed off to her first class of the year which happened to be double potions Slytherin and Gryffindor. She was again the first to arrive and took a seat in the front of the class. Sitting back in her chair she closed her eyes while thinking about her mother and father and how they were doing. Soon she picked up the slight sound of talking and laughing from the students which meant that classes would start soon. Opening her eyes and sitting forward she got her stuff ready for one of her favorite classes. The students finally piled into the classroom and Sarin was surprised to see that Draco Malfoy had sat next to her. She turned her full attention to him when he held out his hand to her introducing himself.
"Hello you're the new girl are you not. My name is Draco Malfoy" Draco smiled a genuine smile at her and she couldn't help but smile back while shaking his hand.
"You are very observant Draco. But dear cousin my name is not 'new girl' it is Sarin." Sarin couldn't help but smirk when she called him her cousin. But she started laughing at the incredulous look she received. Draco opened his mouth but whatever he was going to say was cut short when the door to the dungeon swung open with a band. With a mischievous smirk on her face Sarin raised and eyebrow to the professor who glared back at her but there were traces of mirth in his eyes. Then it was covered and the potions master glared hatefully at all the students except Draco and Sarin.
"Today you will be working on a difficult potion. I assume you all are old enough to complete it. Any of you that utterly fail this potion will be kick out of my class and will not return to it again. The instructions are on the bored now get working." Snape all but growled out at the students and turned, his robes flaring out around him, and sat at his desk to look over papers. Draco and Sarin were the first up to get their ingredients. Draco started on his potion while Sarin made notes from the bored in her potions notebook. She recorded any potions she needed. And this type of healing tonic could definitely come in handy. After it was written down she started on her potion and made notes here and there on the page that would help with the potion. She would occasionally look at Draco but more times then not her hair would fall around her face to create a curtain. So she just gave up and put her full attention onto her potion only to stop ten minutes later for Snape to berate Potter on how he was cutting something up. But she easily tuned him out and went back to work. The rest of the class time whirled past them and it was time the potions were to be turned in. Draco, Hermione, and Sarin got perfect marks. Though Snape didn't look happy about giving Hermione perfect mark but none the less did. The rest of the potions were acceptable and no one was thrown out of the class.
The bell rang and everyone was off to their next class. And the day went the same for all her other classes as it did for potions. They got an assignment, there were occasionally small interruptions that were dealt with accordingly, then class was over. After transfiguration, charms, herbology, divination, and double DADA the day was over and all the students found themselfs in the Great Hall for supper. Sarin had a headache from the amount of homework she had. She had homework from all her classes except potions and divination. But since she begged the headmaster she now had arithmancy and ancient runes work though she didn't actually take the class. There was not enough time for her to go to all these classes along with her extra training so the headmaster said the teachers could give her work like the other students got and when NEWTS got there she could take the tests if she wanted to. She was looking forward to this year but now she just wanted to go take a potion to get rid of her headache.
She muttered angrily to herself all through dinner cursing her headache to hell and back again which only seemed to make it worse off. Finally supper was over and she made her way to the headmaster office said the password and walked in sitting in an empty chair. No one was there yet and she had not expected them to be. 'I always seem to be early everywhere I go'. Just as she thought this Dumbledore came into his office with Draco and Harry trailing behind him in obvious confusion as to why they were needed. Sarin stood and greeted the headmaster while watching as the boys finally got over their confusion and started glaring at one another. She walked over to both boy who had just taken their wands out and pointed them at each other and stood between them taking their wands. Smirking at both of them she led them to two other empty chairs and pushed them into the seat. Then sat back down in her chair that was in the middle of both of theirs to stop any fights that might break out between the two rivals. Though she seriously doubted there would be any fights but she just wanted to be safe. Dumbledore sat at his desk while Sarin gave the boys back their wands.
"I called the three of you here so that we may clear up how Sarin's last name is Potter-Malfoy. I know everyone thinks that it is impossible for these two lines to have ever crossed and that some of the students think it is a trick but I assure you that is not so. Sarin is you please will you tell Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy how your last is as such?" Sarin nodded and cleared her throat while Dumbledore sat back in his chair and watched the boys to see their reactions.
"I can not just outright tell you how my last name is as it is. So I might as well give you the whole story as it was told to me by my parents. And I knew the headmaster knows this story well." Sarin thought for a second then took a deep breath to start what might be a long story. "Many believe that Lucius and you Draco along with your mother are the only Malfoys. Well they are wrong. When Lucius Malfoy was born he had a twin sister. Because she was not a male she was not made a fuss over. She was raised to be a dutiful wife to whichever pureblood she was arranged to be married to. You know how there is yin and yang, light and dark. Well that was here. Lucius was born with dark feelings. He was born to follow the muggle born that he is following now. His twin sister, Karen Malfoy, though she look like the perfect Malfoy girl wanted nothing to do with the darkness of the Malfoy's. So when she was accepted into Hogwarts and sorted into Slytherin she secretly made friends with those of other houses. She was not talked about much as everyone was focusing on her brother." She sighed and cleared her throat again deciding to start on her fathers side so Harry didn't feel left out. Dumbledore produced a glass or water and handed it to Sarin which she graciously thank the headmaster for and took a sip before continuing. "One of her friends was a Potter from Gryffindor. And no Harry it was not your father James. Yes James was one of her friends but that is not the Potter that I am talking about. His name was Nathan Potter. Younger brother of James Potter, heir to the Potter line. Nathan Potter and Karen Malfoy had a lot in common. They were both ignored for the heir that was alive. Nathan was a year younger then his brother James. And though he came from the Potter line he was still slightly ignored by his parents. But it suited him just fine. James spent a lot of time with him and always included him in everything they did. Nathan and Karen became good friends. But when it got out to both of the families they were friends in their seventh year they were torn apart. It's kind of like what happened in Romeo and Juliet except the ending is a little different. Anyway back to the story. Karen was finally fed up with her family for taking away Nathan so she joined the light side like she had planned to do right after they graduated. Because of this the Malfoy's were outraged that one of their own would betray them like that and Karen Malfoy was put in a lot of danger. Nathan on the other hand was still with the side of the light and vowed to protect Karen with his life. Nathan told James he had done this and James told their parents and tried to change their minds about Karen. But it was to no avail and they to went after Karen to get her away from Nathan. Dumbledore was a step ahead of everyone as he always it and sent Karen and Nathan into hiding. They stayed hidden for years and everyone thought they were dead. Only the Potter's and the Malfoy's knew otherwise. After living with one another and hiding for 5 years they decided to get married. Instead of giving up either of their sur names they joined them. Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape were there to witness the marriage while Albus Dumbledore himself." She motioned to the headmaster. "Performed the marriage. It was a nice little thing from what I was told. And on March 5th a girl from the Potter and Malfoy lines was born. That little girl was named Sarin Potter-Malfoy." Sarin collapsed into her chair after such a long story and drank from the glass over water she still held in her hand. After a few moments of silence she looked over and Harry and then at Malfoy and almost burst out laughing. She did not mean to put them into shock but she apparently had from the looks of it. Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy sat there with their mouths hanging open and their eyes wide. It was a funny sight to see. Looking at Dumbledore told her he was highly amused as well with their expressions. Sarin and Dumbledore sat back and waited for one of them to come out of their shocked state. They didn't have to wait to long but it was long enough when there was nothing but silence. Harry opened and closed his mouth several times and looked like a fish. While Malfoy had a thoughtful expression on his face.
"So you're saying that your mother is my fathers twin sister. So three of the four people my father wants to kill are you, your mother, and your father. I remember him saying something about having clues to finding them but he has not found them as of yet. I wanted to ask him who he was talking about but he would never tell me. He always said if something happened to him I would take up trying to find you three and ultimately kill you. But after hearing this story I don't think I want to kill someone who is family." Draco smiled and stood up, walking over to his cousins seat and pulled her into a hug. "Welcome to the Malfoy family cousin.". They both smiled and hug each other like friends who had not seen one another in a long time. Soon they pulled apart and started at Harry who had finally stopped looking like a fish.
"Well this really wasn't expected. I didn't think I had family other then the Dursleys. I was kind of in denial for a bit but I think it would be nice to have more family. It is just hard to think that I'm actually related to the Malfoy's it's like a nightmare come true." Draco and Sarin sent him death glares at that comment.
"Potter it's not like all of us are evil just because most of them were. Yes Malfoy's are a dark family who follow Voldemort. But not all of us want to. For one thing my mother doesn't follow him. She doesn't have the Dark Mark and plays her part to fool my father into believing that she adores the Dark Lord. I may look like my father but I have taken after my mothers brains and I despise that snake faced bastard." Draco was seething because he was insulted like that by Potter but some of his anger drained away when Sarin put her hand on his shoulder. He then looked at Potter again and waited for him to say something.
"Are you saying that you follow the light side Malfoy?" Harry was confused. One minute he has no family and Malfoy is a Death Eater in training. Now he has a family, he is related to the Malfoys, Draco sounds like he wants nothing to do with Voldemort, and he was RELATED to the MALFOYS. 'Not to mention I'm related to the Malfoys.' He could think of nothing else except that he was related to his rival. But got over it when he say Draco nod saying yes he supported the light side. Harry sat back in his chair and ran a hand threw his hair. "Well I guess this is cool. I have a bigger family then I though. It is definitely going to take some getting used to." Harry stood and gave Sarin a small hug as well as Draco which surprised everyone in the room, well except for Dumbledore of course whose eyes twinkled all the more. The three cousins sat down and all got to work on what they would do in order to train and defeat Voldemort. They planned to pull all of their strengths together and would help one another with their weaknesses. No one was to know of the extra classes. Not even Ron and Hermione to Harry's displeasure.
A couple hours later and after a couple moments of silence Sarin asked Dumbledore if all of them could move into rooms that were close together. They were family now and it only seemed fair. She looked over at Harry and Draco and they nodded as well. Harry pointed out that it would be safer to have rooms near one another. One reason was that they could not go barging into common rooms to houses they did not belong to it was also against the rules. Dumbledore stared at the three family members in front of him and decided to let them have room near one another. They all rose from their chair and followed Dumbledore to Sarin's rooms where when they entered there were two doors off of the small common room that was where she stayed. "I had thought that you would all want to stay near one another so I took it upon myself to add two new rooms to your's Sarin. They are the same as yours Sarin." Dumbledore motioned to the two new doors. Harry chose the room decorated in Gryffindor colors while Draco chose the other which was in Slytherin colors. Dumbledore bid them goodnight and told them to rest up for tomorrow they were to be expected in Snape's office after dinner.
The cousins walked into their rooms and changed into the night clothes. After that was done they laid out on the common room floor and talked about what they had missed out on for so many years. Right before they all went to bed Draco asked if they wanted to go to the Malfoy Manor for Christmas. "Hey you guys why don't you come with me for Christmas break back to the manor. Mother is terrible bored and has nothing to do in the manor all by herself. I was planning on asking her to stay here with Christmas break with you two but I think it would be nice for her to meet you guys. After all you are family so I don't see what the problem is. And since you are family while you are in the manor you are safe. Not even Voldemort can touch you there Harry the wards on the estate are ancient and no one not even snake face can get through them so you are perfectly safe." Draco asked looking at both of them hoping they would say yes. Which both did right away. They were glad to have a family again. Draco offered to have Sarin's parents join them but she declined the offer to have them for it would be very hard to communicate with them and it was still not safe to come out of hiding for a reason she would not give. They hugged once more and headed to their rooms for a good nights sleep.
Like? Don't like? Good? Bad? Come on review and give me ideas. I'm only one person I need a little help you know.