A/N: This will not be a SLASH just to let you know that.

"Speaking"

Thinking

Friendship

The chill of the night air bit at Harry, keeping him awake.

But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing as he was presently flying through the clouds on a broomstick.

Harry glanced back at his companion behind him, the boy's teeth were chattering, he was obviously cold as well.

"Let's head down" Harry said to him, as they began a slow descent through the clouds.

They headed for a clearing in the forest they were over.

Harry stretched out his numb limbs, shaking them to warm them up.

Harry sat down against a tree and sighed.

I'm expelled from Hogwarts…

What can I do now…?

Dumbledore will let me come back!

"So…"

Harry jumped at the sudden sound unconsciously reaching for his wand.

The boy held up his arms in surrender, "I didn't mean to startle you".

Harry grinned and put away his wand.

"I didn't get to introduce myself, we were…ah…preoccupied" the other boy said grinning.

"My name is Drake Falon, pleased to meet you" Drake said politely.

Harry shook Drake's hand, and rested his back against the tree.

Drake was still looking at him expecting, Harry raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"And you are…" Drake asked gently.

"Oh! Sorry, my name is Harry Potter, I just get used to people recognizing me" Harry apologized.

Drake grinned, "Actually I did know who you were, I just thought you would rather introduce yourself than me just look at your scar".

Harry laughed, "Yeah, thanks. I get so sick of everyone staring at me".

Harry's laughter died, and he sighed again.

"This is about that letter isn't, Hogwarts?" Drake asked solemnly.

Harry nodded, "I'm expelled for underage use of magic".

"But wouldn't Aurors come to take your wand?" Drake asked surprised.

Harry sat up, eyes shining with hope, "you're right!"

"Well you get used to it" Drake joked, breathing on his knuckles than polishing them on his shirt.

Harry laughed at his antics, "ha ha, very funny, but I do wonder why they haven't come".

Drake shrugged "beats me".

Harry absently rubbed his hands up and down his arms to warm them up.

Harry longed for a big, warm fire right now.

What the hell, I've already been expelled.

May as well make a fire

Harry collected sticks and logs and arranged them into pyramid, with a circle of stones surrounding it.

Drake looked on, confused by what Harry was doing.

Harry drew his wand and pointed it at the collection of wood, and muttered a few words, immediately there was a roaring fire.

Harry grinned and pocketed his wand and sat down again, he glanced at Drake who was now surprised and a tiny bit amazed.

"I got to learn that spell!" Drake gushed, Harry frowned.

"You haven't learnt it? I learnt this spell ages ago" Harry asked.

Drake looked away and mumbled something, before turning around to face Harry.

"I've heard about your adventures but I'm not sure I believe them…"

Harry sighed, and leaned back onto the tree and stretched out.

"What do you want to know?"

"Well, how does an 12 year old take down a basilisk?" Drake asked skeptical, Harry smirked.

"Well, you see I had a bit of help"

Harry opened his eyes wearily, and blinked a few times.

He had slept with his glasses on, not to mention an awkward position.

He stood up and glanced around at their makeshift camp, the fire Harry had made was burning still, but it was only embers now.

Harry could see Drake just waking up as well.

"I'm going for a walk, be back in a bit" Harry called over to his new friend.

Drake just nodded yawning.

Harry had only been walking for two minutes when he heard running water, excitedly he rushed over to where he thought the sound was coming from, and found a small stream that led down to little lake down the bottom.

Harry happily raced down to the small lake to inspect it.

What a score!

It was a beautifully clear lake with a sandy bottom, it wasn't very big only about 5 meters square.

Harry grinned and ran back to their clearing.

"Hey! I found a lake!" Harry yelled happily, as soon as he stepped foot in the clearing.

"Great, let's go" Drake said grinning, happy to be able to get the fine layer of grime of him from his journey through the clouds.

Drake slipped a foot into the lake, yelped and jumped back.

"That water's freezing!"

Harry ran his hands through his hair, "I think I remember the heating charm, it should be able to heat this whole thing".

Harry took out his wand and muttered something as he pointed at the water.

Drake gingerly slipped a toe into the water, and stepped out cringing, "nope, still freezing".

Harry frowned, and made a gesture with his wand muttering furiously.

Drake, again, put his foot in the water, before leaping out.

"Ah! Hot way too hot!" Drake yelped clutching his burnt foot.

Harry took a deep calming breath and did the same spell, but this time with grace and calm of mind.

"Test it" Harry growled fustrated.

Drake, finally, after a long pause put his foot in.

"Ah, luke-warm, could be a tad hotter but right now this is perfect" Drake complimented.

"Tell me when you're done so I can wash" Harry called over his shoulder as he walked back to camp.

Harry sat down with a sigh,

I need to learn more spells, spells I can use…

Now with both boys washed and feeling clean, they set off into the sky again.

"No offence or anything Harry, but can we…ah…travel some way else" Drake asked gingerly.

Harry grinned, "We should get you a broomstick".

And Harry then began his descent, they seemed to be at the edge of the woods.

"What did you say?" Drake asked.

"We need to get you a broom, and I won't take no for an answer" Harry said mock-sternly.

"So that means we need to get to Diagon ally as that is the only place I know where we can buy broomsticks" Harry said rummaging around his pockets.

"Ok…but we shouldn't go there like this, we don't know how far the Deatheater's will go to get us back" Drake said to Harry, Harry looked skeptical.

"You really think they would attack Diagon ally to get us? They never resulted to that before to get me".

Drake shrugged, "they didn't have the numbers before, and with Fudge only beginning to believe that Deatheater's are out there…The war will start soon, I for one don't want to be in a Deatheater camp for the start" Drake explained, Harry grinned, "That was quite a speech".

"What shall we do to disguise ourselves?" Harry asked.

Drake stroked his chin, "we could use one of the charms I know, I can't remember the name of it but it should change our visage enough for no-one to recognize us".

Harry nodded at Drake to continue.

Drake glanced around to make sure no-body was watching, he didn't really need to, they were still far enough into the forest that no-body could see them from the street.

Drake pointed his wand at Harry and made a complex movement with his wand.

Harry first felt his hair…tingle…Harry couldn't really describe it, but he felt as is something was happening to it.

Then the tingling moved to his face, making his nose itch.

Once Drake was done he did they same for himself, but to Harry it seemed like Drake's transformation was a lot shorter.

Harry almost laughed when he saw Drake after he had finished he seemed so different, he had sand coloured hair with brown eyes, the body hadn't really changed except his muscles were less noticeable, and he seemed younger.

"Want me to describe you?" Drake joked, "You are blonde and blue eyed and look younger than you are, I couldn't get rid of the scar for some reason so I just grew your hair out".

Harry raised a hand back and felt what seemed to be a ponytail which traveled half way down his back.

"Let's go" Harry said to Drake and started to walk away.

Drake hesitated, "Ah, Harry, there is something I have to tell you before we buy this broom…"

A/N: Hehehe, sorry couldn't resist, you'll find out what his secret is next chapter.

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