A/N: Sorry this took so long to post, I had it done Friday but I had a
fieldtrip for the weekend and couldn't post till today. Just to make it up
to you I am posting Chapter four as well but its really short.
Chapter 3: Marge
Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: to pi, you have a great point about Draco not accepting this right off the bat. At the moment, he's accepting it cause he's still in shock and needs Harrry's help to survive the Dursleys. It'll be harder once he gets to Hogwarts and has to face the fact he has to work for everything. Remember he's only known about this for three days now. He lost his parents(or what he thought was his parents) and was sent to a house where no one even pretends to care for him except Harry. Harry is the first person to accept him for who he is and care for him throwing him into more shock at the moment. Later when both boys get time to think I will reflect both their feelings about this but for now they are forced to stay together at all times for fear of the Dursleys throwing them out one at a time. It's a good point but Draco hasn't had much of a chance to think about it nor has Harry had the chance to think about Sirius a still rather fresh wound. I will add it in soon enough.
"She's coming to visit. I can't believe my bad luck. She will be here for at least a week. And now you have to suffer her wrath as well." Harry spoke as if in denial of the truth.
"Harry! Who is coming and what is so bad about this person?" Draco took Harry's upper arms and shook him.
"Marge. Uncle Vernon's sister and her evil dog. Even Dudley doesn't like her. She spoils him and buys him everything while telling me to act more like him and how good a child he is compared to me and even he doesn't like her. He pretends because Uncle Vernon slips him money for it but he doesn't like her either. And that dog. It wants to eat me alive every time its here. Its treed me a few times. Its evil. Last time she came I accidentally inflated her because she said that dad was a worthless unemployed bum who got himself in a car accident because he had too much to drink. I hate her visits. I have to hide everything magical in my room while she's here and Hedwig has to spend the time at Ron's house. She's evil." Harry shook himself out of his daze.
"We better get started if we want to finish by nightfall." Harry said as he looked at the garden. They began to mow the grass and line large rocks around where the plants would be. Planting the bushes and flowers was easy but planting the trees was a bit harder. After that was done they began to water the flowers and paint the fence. By the time the Dursley's were eating dinner the two boys were done and exhausted. They made their way upstairs and took their turns in the shower before grabbing a few peanut butter sandwiches from under the loose floorboard. After they ate they got ready for bed and Harry sent Hedwig to Ron's for the week.
"Hey why don't we see if Remus can get us out of here by tomorrow?" Draco suggested picking up the mirror and calling for Remus.
"Hi boys. You look exhausted, what have you been doing all day." Remus looked concerned.
"Landscaping the garden." Harry answered simply.
"Hey Remus can you get us out of here by tomorrow?" Draco asked the man who seemed to be distracted by something out of their view.
"What for?"
"Marge is coming. I told you what she's like last time." Harry said with a little bit of fear coloring his voice.
"I'll try and get you out of there. You know its up to Dumbledore not me. I will talk to him about it and try and get you tomorrow morning. No guarantees." Remus looked at Harry and Draco one last time before closing the link to go talk to Dumbledore.
"Let me tell you about the Order. Its full name is actually the Order of the Phoenix but most of the members just refer to it as the order. Its made up of Witches and Wizards that want to fight the reborn Voldemort. Much of Dumbledore's information comes from that order and they act when the ministry refuses to. Its also made up of people the ministry wouldn't trust for information. Snape and Lupin being the main ones of those and Mad-eye. The headquarters place though has this painting that screams every time someone makes a noise. The weasleys spend a lot of time there so it might be tense at first." Harry sat on the floor and told Draco what to expect if they didn't get out of the house by the time Marge arrived.
"She sounds horrible. Hey Harry we better get to sleep if we want enough strength to deal with the relatives in the morning." Draco said gesturing to the clock which read 12:47.
The boys fell into a heavy sleep only to be woken a few hours later by Tonks tripping over something and cursing at her luck.
Harry pulled his glasses on. "What are you doing here? Did Dumbledore say yes?" he asked quietly.
"No. I just brought you a lot of food because we won't be able to take you till July. Dumbledore says until he's sure Headquarters is safe after what Kretcher might have told Lucius we can't have you near. At least you are protected here. Well from Voldemort. I gotta get back now. Bye." She disapperated after setting a big box down.
Harry peeked in the box. There was a note from Remus on top of a large amount of food. "I put a non perishing charm on the food so you could eat what you want. Don't tell molly I snuck in Junk food." Was all the note read. Harry grinned and moved the box into the closet before covering it with clothes. Harry crawled back in bed and slept till the alarm went off.
Draco awoke to Harry shaking him. He had not heard the commotion the night before and yawned as he sat up. "Do you think they're going to pick us up today?" he asked as he slowly got dressed.
"They're not. Tonks popped in last night and told me that after the house elf left to Lucius they don't know if Headquarters is safe enough for any kids to be there. We have to stick it out until July. Meaning we better be on our best behavior while Aunt Marge and Ripper are here. Oh, Tonks brought us some food as well. Its charmed to be non perishable so we can eat it any time. I must restate that we have to behave or they'll throw us in the cupboard under the stairs and we won't be able to eat the food up here."
Harry took out some cheese cake and handed a piece to Draco. "Eat its going to be a long day."
Harry and Draco began cooking breakfast before the Dursleys awoke that morning. Harry had the plates ready the moment the Dursleys entered the kitchen.
"Uncle Vernon, can we have the time until Aunt Marge gets here to do our homework. We already finished the garden and we can do our other chores after she gets here but we really need to get our homework done." Harry looked at his uncle as if he actually respected the man. Truth was he just wanted time to prepare Draco for what was coming.
"You can do your homework while Marge is here. She doesn't like to see you anyway so you'll have plenty of time to work on your homework then. I want this house clean by the time Marge gets here. Your aunt will be here at one." Vernon refused much to Harry's horror.
"Yes, sir." Harry started to walk down the hall when he heard Vernon yell "and we'll be in town all morning so I expect it clean by the time we return with Marge."
Harry could have danced with joy. He grabbed Draco and pulled him into the living room.
"Do you know how to dust? Harry asked while handing Draco a rag.
"No the houseelves used to always do that. I've never done any work for myself."
"I'll show you." They had dusted half the living room by the time the Dursleys announced they were leaving. Vernon glared at the boys before slamming the door. Harry waited till he heard the car leave before taking out the mirror. "Remus." He stated and the werewolf appeared. "What's wrong?" he asked very much aware that Harry should be doing chores. "Can we get some help cleaning the house and maybe a few of the weasley twins pranks? If aunt marge is coming it will at least be a memorable visit. Most likely we're going to get locked in the cupboard under the stairs for the whole visit. Thus we need help preparing." "Be right over." Remus closed the link and Harry put the mirror away. "what was that about?" "We aren't allowed to use magic. Adults are. If we're going to be trapped in this house with aunt marge it had better have something to keep me calm." "Really. I always thought you were always calm and collected. You wouldn't think that the great Harry Potter would have a tantrum so big he would inflate his muggle aunt." "Shut up little brother." Harry was stopped from saying much else by the arrival of Remus and Tonks. "Hey so what do we need to help you with?" Tonks asked as she looked around the house. "Cleaning house and getting the cupboard under the stairs ready for when Marge is here. Marge thinks its bad enough that I get to see sunlight once in a while. If she had her way I would be living on the street or in the sewers. I can almost guarantee that we'll spend at least one night under the stairs during Marge's stay. It's a bit cramped for two." "I'll do that bit. Remus can clean." Tonks smiled at him and moved towards the stairs. Tonks looked into the cupboard. "They made you live their for ten years? They have been mistreating you. Well lets see what we can do." Tonks waved her wand and a trapdoor appeared. She reached out to open it and slipped through it. Suprisingly enough it led to an apartment like area. It had a kitchenette, a bathroom, two bed rooms, a stereo with chairs to sit around a fire place. It was quite amazing. "This is a neat little place that my mother showed me. Its an apartment where time moves slower and no one but those who know how can enter. Come on lets get out of here." Tonks led him up the ladder and as soon as he stepped out the trapdoor disappeared. "How are we supposed to get into the place if the trapdoor disappeared?" Harry exclaimed. "Keep your pants on. Look these necklaces belonged to Sirius and myself. It was in his will that his went to you and I am willingly giving mine to you because you and Draco need it more. I also think that it would be better if you have it because I don't use it all that often." Tonks handed Harry two chains with the weirdest pendant he had ever seen. It was a skeleton key with a clear blue rock at the end of it. If you looked close enough you could make out a little room with a fireplace and chairs. The other pendant was the same exept the stone was red. "How do they work?" Harry asked as he turned placed the blue locket around his neck. "The wearer has to state the password while thinking of the little apartment. The password right now is penut butter but that was Sirius' choice. You want to change it?" Harry could see the tears she was holding back st the thought of Sirius. "No. That password works good." Harry caught himself thinking of Sirius again and quickly turned to another subject. "Can other people come in if I want them to?" Harry was trying to keep his thoughts from straying back to Sirius. "Yes. As you saw it creates a trap door or a door depending on where you are and it disappears once the wearer walks through it. If you send your companion in first they can join you." ****Meanwhile**** Remus was using his wand to clean the Dursleys house which wasn't all that dirty. "So Draco how are you reacting to all of this? You moved from one family that treats you bad to another one that is almost as bad. You just found out the guy you have this rivalry with is your brother. Its got to be hard. Probably harder than my accepting I'm a werewolf." "I haven't had much of a chance to think about it. I think I'm still in shock about my parents or well my adopted parents finally being out of my life." "True enough. If I'm right you'll have more time to think when we leave. So do you want to talk about the changes and what we can do to help you adjust." "I don't think anything will help me adjust. It'll take time to get used to everything but that's all. Harry may have been my rival in the past but now I don't know. He's been so accepting of this and I don't know how he can just accept me after what I have done to him the past five years." "Harry can forgive people. It was a trait Lily had. No matter how mad a person made her she would forgive them. Harry forgave Sirius for switching secret keepers. There are some things he can't forgive though. Voldemort, Pettigrew, and Sirius' cousin who killed him. Most of all though he has a problem forgiving himself. Maybe he can help you accept this change and you can help him through Sirius' death and the guilt he feels about it." "Maybe." They finished the rest of the work quietly. All the work was done by the ten and Harry and Draco were stocked with Weasley Wizard Weezes. Tonks and Remus left. They were quickly becoming like Harry and Draco's adoptive parents. "Harry if you need one of us to talk to tell Remus and we can meet you in the secret place. I have one more necklace. It was my mothers. Take care both of you." Tonks smiled and disapperated. Remus waved and followed suit. "So what's this special place she speaks of?" Draco asked looking at his brother. The talk with Remus helped him understand more about Harry and he wanted to have a nice long talk with Harry about the last term of school. "I'll show you." Harry concentrated hard and stated "penut butter". A door appeared in the wall next to them. Harry opened the door and gestured for Draco to go in. Draco walked in followed by Harry who sealed the door. "This is amazing!" Draco exclaimed as he looked around. Harry handed him the blue necklace and explained how to open the place. "Time goes slower in here. One hour here is the same as one minute in the real world. I explored part of it earlier but from what I saw there are two bedrooms, a kitchen with a fridge that never empties, a bathroom, a library filled with books like the Hogwarts library and of coarse the sitting area you see before you." Harry sat on one of the chairs. Draco sat across from him and thought about how to bring up Harry's godfather without bringing too much grief to the surface. He couldn't think of one. "Hey Harry. Who is this Sirius character Remus was talking about?" Harry immediately felt the grief and the guilt come up. "My godfather. Sirius Black and James Potter were the best of friends throughout school. Sirius was framed for murder and spent 12 years in a wizarding prison before escaping to save me. He has protected me and kept in contact for 2 years now until..." Harry broke off. He wouldn't cry. He swore to himself that he wouldn't cry in front of others. Everyone expected him to be the couragous Harry Potter afraid of nothing and loyal to the very end. He couldn't cry. Draco watched Harry's battle for control. Maybe if he shared some of his experience with the malfoys Harry would feel more confortable with emotions around him. "You know, I thought that I had it good living with the Malfoys. I had a ruthless father but he was rich. I never had to do anything for myself. Most of my grades could be bought. I always had the best of everything. I thought that all parents hurt their children as much as I was hurt. Then I got into Hogwarts. I saw that other students had no fear of doing bad in school and had no fear of going home on break. I saw everyone else had friends that cared what happened to them. When I went home that first summer, father was angry. He said I didn't act ruthless enough to be a malfoy. He said that I should have been hexing every mudblood on sight and not talking to anyone in the other houses. He told me I shouldn't have spoken even a word to you and should have just cursed you into oblivion. That's when I made a mistake. I asked him why. Why I couldn't do what I wanted while I was at school. I was hurt so bad that I was incapacitated for a week. I didn't say a word all summer. I was punished when I didn't answer correctly or if I didn't answer at all. Then people began suspecting me in second year. I was heart broke on the inside that they would suspect me. Even my own goons thought that I was the one opening it. I never did find out who opened it." "Ginny Weasley had opened it. I know I opened it once as well. Your "father" had given Ginny a diary that had belonged to Voldemort in the past. It took a hold of her and forced her to open the chamber. I almost died that day." "What year didn't you almost die in?" "Shut up." They talked for a bit about what life was like. Draco was about to bring Sirius up again when Harry decided they had best eat and get back into the Dursleys living room. While they ate Harry asked Draco what he planned to do when he got back to Hogwarts. "What do you mean?" Draco asked looking at his older brother curiously. "I mean are you going to stay Draco Malfoy, enroll as Draco Potter, change houses. The Slytherin's won't accept you once they find out you're my twin brother. So my question is what are you going to do?" "Probably try and change houses. I'm going to enroll as Potter because I don't want to be known as a Malfoy and I no longer look like a Malfoy so lets just worry about the changing houses." "What house do you think you'll be in if you're resorted?" "The sorting hat told me I'd do well in the house of my parents and then put me in Slytherin after much arguing in my head. It knew all along that I was a potter. I figure it will put me in Gryffindor with you." "The sorting hat is smart." Harry looked at his watch. "We'd better get back. Aunt Marge will be here in an hour and we still have to de-magic our room." Harry opened the door and followed Draco out. The boys made their way upstairs to their bedroom. Harry began taking down everything off his wall. Books were hidden in the closent and parchment put away. Pictures were put in his school trunk with his broom and servicing kit. Draco rolled up posters of Quidditch teams and folded his invisibility cloak shoving it in his trunk with his books and sneakascope that he had been forced to disable due to his constant deception. The boys finished leaving only a dogeared muggle book and Harry's countdown calander on the wall. The beds were made, all signs that magic existed in this room hidden from sight. By the time they were done and had had a shower, changed into clean clothes, and went downstairs, Marge had arrived. "Oh Dudly you look so grown up. You look just like your father. I always knew you'd turn out right. Now this one," Marge said as she glared at Harry not even noticing Draco yet. "He could use a good beating and some lessons from you." Marge said shoving her bag at Harry. Harry gasped as the air got knocked out of him. Marge ignored it having just noticed Draco. "Well hello. Are you one of Dudly's friends?" Marge just assumed as Harry had no friends near Privot Drive and Draco was dressed in better clothes than Harry's usual huge clothes. Harry was dressed in better clothes as well but Marge could care less. "No ma'am. My name is Draco Mal- I mean Potter. I'm Harry's twin brother." Draco smirked at her shocked expression. "There's two of you? Vernon how on earth could you accept to raise another one? That worthless bum Potter must have not wanted him so why on earth would you?" "Dad did want Draco! It wasn't his fault that he was sent to live with someone else." Harry was unable to keep from defending his only brother. Marge looked at Harry. "Vernon I don't want to see this dilinquent again. As for the other one. If you got stuck with him he's probably just as bad as the first. Petunia your sister never should have had any kids. They are all disrespectful and dilinquent." Harry was seething. He knew it would be like this the whole week but for it to be this hard to keep his mouth shut so soon during the visit showed how hard a week it would be. Draco looked at this overgrown woman who had just called him a dilinquent. No one called him a dilinquent. This meant war. Her last statement just made her the official target for the Weasley's jokes. No wonder Harry never wanted to come home. Just then a small dog came through the door and growled at Harry. Harry glared at the dog and growled right back. He wasn't going to let Ripper get him treed again. Before he was completely terrified of the little dog but now he just ignored most of its growling. Draco looked at the little dog. It looked vicious. Draco backed away as it growled. To say he was shocked when Harry growled right back showed that he was used to the dog trying to scare him. "To your rooms now. I don't want to see you again until tomorrow morning." Vernon was turning purple with anger. "Yes Uncle Vernon." Harry said before pushing Draco in front of him towards their room. It was going to be a long week.
Chapter 3: Marge
Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: to pi, you have a great point about Draco not accepting this right off the bat. At the moment, he's accepting it cause he's still in shock and needs Harrry's help to survive the Dursleys. It'll be harder once he gets to Hogwarts and has to face the fact he has to work for everything. Remember he's only known about this for three days now. He lost his parents(or what he thought was his parents) and was sent to a house where no one even pretends to care for him except Harry. Harry is the first person to accept him for who he is and care for him throwing him into more shock at the moment. Later when both boys get time to think I will reflect both their feelings about this but for now they are forced to stay together at all times for fear of the Dursleys throwing them out one at a time. It's a good point but Draco hasn't had much of a chance to think about it nor has Harry had the chance to think about Sirius a still rather fresh wound. I will add it in soon enough.
"She's coming to visit. I can't believe my bad luck. She will be here for at least a week. And now you have to suffer her wrath as well." Harry spoke as if in denial of the truth.
"Harry! Who is coming and what is so bad about this person?" Draco took Harry's upper arms and shook him.
"Marge. Uncle Vernon's sister and her evil dog. Even Dudley doesn't like her. She spoils him and buys him everything while telling me to act more like him and how good a child he is compared to me and even he doesn't like her. He pretends because Uncle Vernon slips him money for it but he doesn't like her either. And that dog. It wants to eat me alive every time its here. Its treed me a few times. Its evil. Last time she came I accidentally inflated her because she said that dad was a worthless unemployed bum who got himself in a car accident because he had too much to drink. I hate her visits. I have to hide everything magical in my room while she's here and Hedwig has to spend the time at Ron's house. She's evil." Harry shook himself out of his daze.
"We better get started if we want to finish by nightfall." Harry said as he looked at the garden. They began to mow the grass and line large rocks around where the plants would be. Planting the bushes and flowers was easy but planting the trees was a bit harder. After that was done they began to water the flowers and paint the fence. By the time the Dursley's were eating dinner the two boys were done and exhausted. They made their way upstairs and took their turns in the shower before grabbing a few peanut butter sandwiches from under the loose floorboard. After they ate they got ready for bed and Harry sent Hedwig to Ron's for the week.
"Hey why don't we see if Remus can get us out of here by tomorrow?" Draco suggested picking up the mirror and calling for Remus.
"Hi boys. You look exhausted, what have you been doing all day." Remus looked concerned.
"Landscaping the garden." Harry answered simply.
"Hey Remus can you get us out of here by tomorrow?" Draco asked the man who seemed to be distracted by something out of their view.
"What for?"
"Marge is coming. I told you what she's like last time." Harry said with a little bit of fear coloring his voice.
"I'll try and get you out of there. You know its up to Dumbledore not me. I will talk to him about it and try and get you tomorrow morning. No guarantees." Remus looked at Harry and Draco one last time before closing the link to go talk to Dumbledore.
"Let me tell you about the Order. Its full name is actually the Order of the Phoenix but most of the members just refer to it as the order. Its made up of Witches and Wizards that want to fight the reborn Voldemort. Much of Dumbledore's information comes from that order and they act when the ministry refuses to. Its also made up of people the ministry wouldn't trust for information. Snape and Lupin being the main ones of those and Mad-eye. The headquarters place though has this painting that screams every time someone makes a noise. The weasleys spend a lot of time there so it might be tense at first." Harry sat on the floor and told Draco what to expect if they didn't get out of the house by the time Marge arrived.
"She sounds horrible. Hey Harry we better get to sleep if we want enough strength to deal with the relatives in the morning." Draco said gesturing to the clock which read 12:47.
The boys fell into a heavy sleep only to be woken a few hours later by Tonks tripping over something and cursing at her luck.
Harry pulled his glasses on. "What are you doing here? Did Dumbledore say yes?" he asked quietly.
"No. I just brought you a lot of food because we won't be able to take you till July. Dumbledore says until he's sure Headquarters is safe after what Kretcher might have told Lucius we can't have you near. At least you are protected here. Well from Voldemort. I gotta get back now. Bye." She disapperated after setting a big box down.
Harry peeked in the box. There was a note from Remus on top of a large amount of food. "I put a non perishing charm on the food so you could eat what you want. Don't tell molly I snuck in Junk food." Was all the note read. Harry grinned and moved the box into the closet before covering it with clothes. Harry crawled back in bed and slept till the alarm went off.
Draco awoke to Harry shaking him. He had not heard the commotion the night before and yawned as he sat up. "Do you think they're going to pick us up today?" he asked as he slowly got dressed.
"They're not. Tonks popped in last night and told me that after the house elf left to Lucius they don't know if Headquarters is safe enough for any kids to be there. We have to stick it out until July. Meaning we better be on our best behavior while Aunt Marge and Ripper are here. Oh, Tonks brought us some food as well. Its charmed to be non perishable so we can eat it any time. I must restate that we have to behave or they'll throw us in the cupboard under the stairs and we won't be able to eat the food up here."
Harry took out some cheese cake and handed a piece to Draco. "Eat its going to be a long day."
Harry and Draco began cooking breakfast before the Dursleys awoke that morning. Harry had the plates ready the moment the Dursleys entered the kitchen.
"Uncle Vernon, can we have the time until Aunt Marge gets here to do our homework. We already finished the garden and we can do our other chores after she gets here but we really need to get our homework done." Harry looked at his uncle as if he actually respected the man. Truth was he just wanted time to prepare Draco for what was coming.
"You can do your homework while Marge is here. She doesn't like to see you anyway so you'll have plenty of time to work on your homework then. I want this house clean by the time Marge gets here. Your aunt will be here at one." Vernon refused much to Harry's horror.
"Yes, sir." Harry started to walk down the hall when he heard Vernon yell "and we'll be in town all morning so I expect it clean by the time we return with Marge."
Harry could have danced with joy. He grabbed Draco and pulled him into the living room.
"Do you know how to dust? Harry asked while handing Draco a rag.
"No the houseelves used to always do that. I've never done any work for myself."
"I'll show you." They had dusted half the living room by the time the Dursleys announced they were leaving. Vernon glared at the boys before slamming the door. Harry waited till he heard the car leave before taking out the mirror. "Remus." He stated and the werewolf appeared. "What's wrong?" he asked very much aware that Harry should be doing chores. "Can we get some help cleaning the house and maybe a few of the weasley twins pranks? If aunt marge is coming it will at least be a memorable visit. Most likely we're going to get locked in the cupboard under the stairs for the whole visit. Thus we need help preparing." "Be right over." Remus closed the link and Harry put the mirror away. "what was that about?" "We aren't allowed to use magic. Adults are. If we're going to be trapped in this house with aunt marge it had better have something to keep me calm." "Really. I always thought you were always calm and collected. You wouldn't think that the great Harry Potter would have a tantrum so big he would inflate his muggle aunt." "Shut up little brother." Harry was stopped from saying much else by the arrival of Remus and Tonks. "Hey so what do we need to help you with?" Tonks asked as she looked around the house. "Cleaning house and getting the cupboard under the stairs ready for when Marge is here. Marge thinks its bad enough that I get to see sunlight once in a while. If she had her way I would be living on the street or in the sewers. I can almost guarantee that we'll spend at least one night under the stairs during Marge's stay. It's a bit cramped for two." "I'll do that bit. Remus can clean." Tonks smiled at him and moved towards the stairs. Tonks looked into the cupboard. "They made you live their for ten years? They have been mistreating you. Well lets see what we can do." Tonks waved her wand and a trapdoor appeared. She reached out to open it and slipped through it. Suprisingly enough it led to an apartment like area. It had a kitchenette, a bathroom, two bed rooms, a stereo with chairs to sit around a fire place. It was quite amazing. "This is a neat little place that my mother showed me. Its an apartment where time moves slower and no one but those who know how can enter. Come on lets get out of here." Tonks led him up the ladder and as soon as he stepped out the trapdoor disappeared. "How are we supposed to get into the place if the trapdoor disappeared?" Harry exclaimed. "Keep your pants on. Look these necklaces belonged to Sirius and myself. It was in his will that his went to you and I am willingly giving mine to you because you and Draco need it more. I also think that it would be better if you have it because I don't use it all that often." Tonks handed Harry two chains with the weirdest pendant he had ever seen. It was a skeleton key with a clear blue rock at the end of it. If you looked close enough you could make out a little room with a fireplace and chairs. The other pendant was the same exept the stone was red. "How do they work?" Harry asked as he turned placed the blue locket around his neck. "The wearer has to state the password while thinking of the little apartment. The password right now is penut butter but that was Sirius' choice. You want to change it?" Harry could see the tears she was holding back st the thought of Sirius. "No. That password works good." Harry caught himself thinking of Sirius again and quickly turned to another subject. "Can other people come in if I want them to?" Harry was trying to keep his thoughts from straying back to Sirius. "Yes. As you saw it creates a trap door or a door depending on where you are and it disappears once the wearer walks through it. If you send your companion in first they can join you." ****Meanwhile**** Remus was using his wand to clean the Dursleys house which wasn't all that dirty. "So Draco how are you reacting to all of this? You moved from one family that treats you bad to another one that is almost as bad. You just found out the guy you have this rivalry with is your brother. Its got to be hard. Probably harder than my accepting I'm a werewolf." "I haven't had much of a chance to think about it. I think I'm still in shock about my parents or well my adopted parents finally being out of my life." "True enough. If I'm right you'll have more time to think when we leave. So do you want to talk about the changes and what we can do to help you adjust." "I don't think anything will help me adjust. It'll take time to get used to everything but that's all. Harry may have been my rival in the past but now I don't know. He's been so accepting of this and I don't know how he can just accept me after what I have done to him the past five years." "Harry can forgive people. It was a trait Lily had. No matter how mad a person made her she would forgive them. Harry forgave Sirius for switching secret keepers. There are some things he can't forgive though. Voldemort, Pettigrew, and Sirius' cousin who killed him. Most of all though he has a problem forgiving himself. Maybe he can help you accept this change and you can help him through Sirius' death and the guilt he feels about it." "Maybe." They finished the rest of the work quietly. All the work was done by the ten and Harry and Draco were stocked with Weasley Wizard Weezes. Tonks and Remus left. They were quickly becoming like Harry and Draco's adoptive parents. "Harry if you need one of us to talk to tell Remus and we can meet you in the secret place. I have one more necklace. It was my mothers. Take care both of you." Tonks smiled and disapperated. Remus waved and followed suit. "So what's this special place she speaks of?" Draco asked looking at his brother. The talk with Remus helped him understand more about Harry and he wanted to have a nice long talk with Harry about the last term of school. "I'll show you." Harry concentrated hard and stated "penut butter". A door appeared in the wall next to them. Harry opened the door and gestured for Draco to go in. Draco walked in followed by Harry who sealed the door. "This is amazing!" Draco exclaimed as he looked around. Harry handed him the blue necklace and explained how to open the place. "Time goes slower in here. One hour here is the same as one minute in the real world. I explored part of it earlier but from what I saw there are two bedrooms, a kitchen with a fridge that never empties, a bathroom, a library filled with books like the Hogwarts library and of coarse the sitting area you see before you." Harry sat on one of the chairs. Draco sat across from him and thought about how to bring up Harry's godfather without bringing too much grief to the surface. He couldn't think of one. "Hey Harry. Who is this Sirius character Remus was talking about?" Harry immediately felt the grief and the guilt come up. "My godfather. Sirius Black and James Potter were the best of friends throughout school. Sirius was framed for murder and spent 12 years in a wizarding prison before escaping to save me. He has protected me and kept in contact for 2 years now until..." Harry broke off. He wouldn't cry. He swore to himself that he wouldn't cry in front of others. Everyone expected him to be the couragous Harry Potter afraid of nothing and loyal to the very end. He couldn't cry. Draco watched Harry's battle for control. Maybe if he shared some of his experience with the malfoys Harry would feel more confortable with emotions around him. "You know, I thought that I had it good living with the Malfoys. I had a ruthless father but he was rich. I never had to do anything for myself. Most of my grades could be bought. I always had the best of everything. I thought that all parents hurt their children as much as I was hurt. Then I got into Hogwarts. I saw that other students had no fear of doing bad in school and had no fear of going home on break. I saw everyone else had friends that cared what happened to them. When I went home that first summer, father was angry. He said I didn't act ruthless enough to be a malfoy. He said that I should have been hexing every mudblood on sight and not talking to anyone in the other houses. He told me I shouldn't have spoken even a word to you and should have just cursed you into oblivion. That's when I made a mistake. I asked him why. Why I couldn't do what I wanted while I was at school. I was hurt so bad that I was incapacitated for a week. I didn't say a word all summer. I was punished when I didn't answer correctly or if I didn't answer at all. Then people began suspecting me in second year. I was heart broke on the inside that they would suspect me. Even my own goons thought that I was the one opening it. I never did find out who opened it." "Ginny Weasley had opened it. I know I opened it once as well. Your "father" had given Ginny a diary that had belonged to Voldemort in the past. It took a hold of her and forced her to open the chamber. I almost died that day." "What year didn't you almost die in?" "Shut up." They talked for a bit about what life was like. Draco was about to bring Sirius up again when Harry decided they had best eat and get back into the Dursleys living room. While they ate Harry asked Draco what he planned to do when he got back to Hogwarts. "What do you mean?" Draco asked looking at his older brother curiously. "I mean are you going to stay Draco Malfoy, enroll as Draco Potter, change houses. The Slytherin's won't accept you once they find out you're my twin brother. So my question is what are you going to do?" "Probably try and change houses. I'm going to enroll as Potter because I don't want to be known as a Malfoy and I no longer look like a Malfoy so lets just worry about the changing houses." "What house do you think you'll be in if you're resorted?" "The sorting hat told me I'd do well in the house of my parents and then put me in Slytherin after much arguing in my head. It knew all along that I was a potter. I figure it will put me in Gryffindor with you." "The sorting hat is smart." Harry looked at his watch. "We'd better get back. Aunt Marge will be here in an hour and we still have to de-magic our room." Harry opened the door and followed Draco out. The boys made their way upstairs to their bedroom. Harry began taking down everything off his wall. Books were hidden in the closent and parchment put away. Pictures were put in his school trunk with his broom and servicing kit. Draco rolled up posters of Quidditch teams and folded his invisibility cloak shoving it in his trunk with his books and sneakascope that he had been forced to disable due to his constant deception. The boys finished leaving only a dogeared muggle book and Harry's countdown calander on the wall. The beds were made, all signs that magic existed in this room hidden from sight. By the time they were done and had had a shower, changed into clean clothes, and went downstairs, Marge had arrived. "Oh Dudly you look so grown up. You look just like your father. I always knew you'd turn out right. Now this one," Marge said as she glared at Harry not even noticing Draco yet. "He could use a good beating and some lessons from you." Marge said shoving her bag at Harry. Harry gasped as the air got knocked out of him. Marge ignored it having just noticed Draco. "Well hello. Are you one of Dudly's friends?" Marge just assumed as Harry had no friends near Privot Drive and Draco was dressed in better clothes than Harry's usual huge clothes. Harry was dressed in better clothes as well but Marge could care less. "No ma'am. My name is Draco Mal- I mean Potter. I'm Harry's twin brother." Draco smirked at her shocked expression. "There's two of you? Vernon how on earth could you accept to raise another one? That worthless bum Potter must have not wanted him so why on earth would you?" "Dad did want Draco! It wasn't his fault that he was sent to live with someone else." Harry was unable to keep from defending his only brother. Marge looked at Harry. "Vernon I don't want to see this dilinquent again. As for the other one. If you got stuck with him he's probably just as bad as the first. Petunia your sister never should have had any kids. They are all disrespectful and dilinquent." Harry was seething. He knew it would be like this the whole week but for it to be this hard to keep his mouth shut so soon during the visit showed how hard a week it would be. Draco looked at this overgrown woman who had just called him a dilinquent. No one called him a dilinquent. This meant war. Her last statement just made her the official target for the Weasley's jokes. No wonder Harry never wanted to come home. Just then a small dog came through the door and growled at Harry. Harry glared at the dog and growled right back. He wasn't going to let Ripper get him treed again. Before he was completely terrified of the little dog but now he just ignored most of its growling. Draco looked at the little dog. It looked vicious. Draco backed away as it growled. To say he was shocked when Harry growled right back showed that he was used to the dog trying to scare him. "To your rooms now. I don't want to see you again until tomorrow morning." Vernon was turning purple with anger. "Yes Uncle Vernon." Harry said before pushing Draco in front of him towards their room. It was going to be a long week.