Follow my lead

Chapter two – Hogwarts Express

Hogwarts students were buzzing with the news as they boarded the Hogwarts express, the secret organization was to be joining them at Hogwarts, including Harry Potter, or so they had been told, no one had seen a glimpse of this boy since he was one and now it was like he was officially coming into the wizarding world for the first time.

However what no one knew was that Harry had been given an alias to use while at the school, they were not to attend classes but to basically blend in. Harry's scar had been magically concealed so that he would not be distinguished from the others. Harry had picked out his own name, after much debate he had gone with Antonio Hunt. Trinity had even given him the nickname of Tonio.

The remaining members of The Allure had all arrived at nine, scouted out the platform and the train before choosing a compartment and settling themselves there before the other students had even made an appearance.

They were not bothered even when they did, most too nervous or too scared to disturb them; at a minute past eleven as the Hogwarts express was pulling out of the station their compartment door swung open.

Each of the six remaining members of The Allure stood, prepared for an attack but were forced to relax when they were confronted by four students wearing the school's uniform, green and silver ties were the only colour on their black robes apart from the crest on their left breast which read Slytherin and had the emblem of a serpent.

"I believe that you are in our compartment" The blonde one said, he was evidently the leader and had the snobbish attitude to go with it, at the first sight of him Harry had been a little taken aback by his gracious beauty but had never been one to be ruled by his emotions.

"This compartment is no property of yours; I believe you are Draco Malfoy, son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, both now imprisoned in Azkaban for practicing the Dark Arts in the name Of Lord Voldemort."

Draco sneered at this, "And you are?" He asked addressing Harry, "I don't believe that we have ever had an encounter before."

"I am Antonio Hunt and these are five other members of Allumer et L'amour."

"Yes, it was mentioned in the prophet that you were coming to the school." He commented, "This is Crabbe and Goyal" He introduced, indicating to the two boulder like teenagers on either side of him, "These two are Millicent and Pansy."

"It is very nice to meet you, I see that you two are prefects," Harry said noticing their badges, "Good, I'll need a word with you and the other prefects in half an hour if you wouldn't mind rounding them up for me."

"Excuse me, I don't know who you think you are but I take orders from no one." Draco Malfoy said, "Crabbe, Goyal, do as Antonio instructed." The stupid looking teenagers left." May we join you?"

"It is a free country" Harry said shrugging, secretly he was thrilled that Draco wanted to sit with them; it gave him a chance to admire the beautiful creature that little bit more. Trinity and Sydney, who knew Harry all too well, could instantly see that Harry had an attraction to the blonde teen and were happy for him but anxious about it as well. It was not their way to become emotionally attached.

"Do we not get to know your names?" Draco asked as he took a seat opposite Harry so that he could perhaps stare at him a little more.

"Sydney" She said, offering her hand to Draco, Pansy and Millicent in turn. Sydney had been left by the fountain of magical brethren in the ministry as a baby, no one was clear who her mother and father were or why they had left her there although it wasn't through lack of trying.

"Trinity, pleased to meet you" She said, her own parents had been deatheaters who had been murdered by Voldemort so she kind of related to the Slytherin's who all had similar stories to tell about their own pasts.

"Megan" She said without much emotion in her voice, she had her nose in a book and wasn't really paying much attention, she only just registered that they were doing introductions. She had always been like that; the ministry had taken her out of an orphanage at the age of eleven. Never one to make friends, Megan had actually stopped talking for a number of years and now was more content to sit and read than to socialise with others.

"I'm Nicholas." He said cheerily, "Or Nick for short." Nick was not one to be forth coming about his past, he knew very little himself, apparently he had run away from home after he was raped by an older brother, he had never told anyone the name of his family and was happy to keep it that way, as if mentioning them would bring back the memories he wanted to forget.

"And I'm Clayton or Clay as these guys like to call me." He said, Clay was the best fighter in the group, bar Harry of course, he lived for the fight and wasn't ashamed of it. Some where in the world he had a little sister and parents, they had disowned him when they had found out his sexual orientation he pretended like he didn't care, preferring to appear strong and emotionless.

"I'm guessing you guys aren't here to learn or anything as silly as that." Pansy said.

"Rumour has it that you're all at Auror level already." Millicent added.

They cast wary glances at one another; or rather they all looked to Harry for instruction. They had not been informed of how much they should tell people, obviously not a lot but it might have been helpful to know.

"We're really not able to say, only that we are all orphaned and were taken into the Ministry as soon as we were able bodied."

"But that girl, Megan, she's reading a book that's written in Latin."

"We are fluent in nearly all worldly languages." Harry said, "It makes information easier to learn if there isn't a language barrier."

Draco who had remained silent, staring contently at Harry now spoke, asking: "And how old are you all now?"

"We are all seventeen except Sid, she is a year younger."

"Is this all of you?" Millicent asked, "I mean I heard that there was more."

"How many more did you think there were?" Nicholas asked.

"The prophet said twelve but they were estimating." Pansy said to them.

"Close, there are ten." Harry said.

"Where are the others?" Pansy asked.

"That is classified information." Harry said.

"If you don't mind me asking" Millicent said even though she had realised that they were over stepping the mark by asking so many questions. "We were told that Harry Potter would be among you."

Harry smirked; the others joined him in this, "Don't believe everything your told." Harry said, he hadn't let it escape his attention that Draco had been staring the entire time, he vowed to follow that up, even if it was just to make sure his true identity was still a secret.

It was at that moment that Crabbe and Goyal returned with fourteen prefects and the head boy and girl. Harry stood up to welcome them in, he also asked anyone who wasn't in a position of authority to leave, this only included Millicent, Crabbe and Goyal.

After he had handled introductions of the six members of The Allure he was in turn introduced to the others. Head girl was Hermione Granger of Gryffindor and head boy was of course Draco Malfoy of Slytherin house.

"It's very nice to meet you Antonio" Hermione said shaking his hand and gazing at him lovingly.

"Who knew, a suck up and a know it all." Draco snapped glaring at the bushy haired girl.

"Shut it Ferret" A red haired boy snapped back.

"What is this?" Harry asked, "Your not children, why are you fighting?" He looked from Hermione and her red haired friend whom he did not know the name of to Draco, they all shrugged.

"We always have" The red head said.

"Well stop it, this is a time of war, I cannot have you bickering, what is your name?" Harry asked Ron, he hadn't bothered getting the prefects names, he couldn't be bothered hearing names that he wouldn't remember.

"Ron Weasley" He said.

"Right, Ron, Draco, I want you to shake hands."

"WHAT?" Both said in unison, voices full of outrage at the mere suggestion on it.

"I'm not asking, I'm telling you to, you can either do it willingly or I can force you, I am not here to fix petty arguments but I refuse to put up with non-stop bickering while I am forced to remain at Hogwarts."

Both remained glaring at each other, Harry through his hands up into the air and collapsed on his chair with an exasperated sigh.

"Trin, will you please reason with them while I take a break."

"Sure Tonio but someone should go with you."

Harry wasn't entirely agreed with this but he didn't want to kick up a fuss in front of the Hogwarts students. With Megan deeply engrossed in her book she was out of the question and since he needed to use the toilet Sydney wasn't an option either. This left Clayton and Nicholas, "Nick, stay and keep an eye on this lot with the girls, Clay and I will be back soon." Harry said after a moment, "We can discuss duties when I get back."

Harry wandered idly down the corridor of the train, occasionally glancing into compartments on the way past, whispering and muttering followed them all the way to the toilets.

"Can this be any more irritating?" Harry commented to Clayton who grunted in reply, Clay wasn't big with words, he had vampire genes, he was sullen and silent most of the time but a quick thinker and excellent in battle, the only person who could beat him with a sword was Harry.

By the time that they got back it looked as if Draco and Ron had begun battling out their differences, literally. Nicholas was standing between them holding them off, Harry recognized the point where he had to intervene. Sydney and Trinity apparently found it funny to watch the two go at it.

Draco had a split lip and a black eye but compared it looked as if he were better off, Ron, by the looks of it had a broken nose and a nasty cut on his head, his eyes were purpling nicely, swelling up as well.

"Sydney, will you please heal him, I'll take Draco outside to cool off, and the rest of you I want to see in the great hall after the feast, for now you can go."

Harry led Draco outside and sat him down on a conjured stool while Harry healed him, he had no need for a wand, his hands glowed white with magic as he healed him with the skill of a medi-wizard. Draco was impressed and thanked him.

"Why do you hate each other so much?" Harry asked conjuring another stool and taking a seat next to the blonde who smiled at him.

"We're in different houses." He stated as it if explained everything.

"So?"

"So, there is a lot of inter-house rivalry, Hufflepuff's, Ravenclaw's and Gryffindor's all pretty much get on alright but Slytherin are hated by all of them. The fighting between Gryffindor and Slytherin is legendry."

"That's stupid"

"To you maybe, we grew up with it, its always been this way."

"Well it has to stop, stand united or you will be defeated."

"Is that why you guys are all so close?"

"We grew up together."

"Oh, must have been hard for you."

"Not really, we got used to it, training wasn't so bad, pain endurance however is something that I don't want to go through again however it made be a stronger person in the end."

"Pain endurance?"

"You don't want to know."

"No, it really doesn't sound nice."

"It got easier" Harry stated, "Now, I know its hard but you are going to have to shake hands with Ron and call a truce, even if its only temporary, I don't have time to sort out petty things like this."

"You know we may not be your equals as such but your not that much superior to the rest of us, stop acting like you are." Draco said, "You're still human, just like me and every one else on this train."

"If that's your view then why are you so stubborn when it comes to shaking hands with someone?"

"That's different"

"It's only different because its you, now I'm going to give you a choice, I'm going to go back inside, I'm hoping that you are going to grow up, follow me inside and then shake Ron's hand, then maybe we could be friends. If you continue to be a stubborn brat and walk away, then you are going to make an enemy of me and believe me, you want me on your side."

Before Draco could nod his head in agreement Harry had disappeared back into the compartment, Draco sighed and stood up, apart of him wanted to walk away and forget all about Antonio Hunt but there was something about his vivid green eyes and ruffled ebony hair that made him want more. Against his better judgement he stepped back inside the compartment.

He shook hands with Ron, although it was rather reluctantly and then sat down casting a glance at Harry who was smiling. Ron left to find Hermione, he didn't look back, he couldn't believe what he had just done, on the other hand neither could Draco.

A bit of background information on the characters, the others will come in at a later date, Glad your all enjoying the story, I love writing this and already have five written chapters ready to post. Keep reviewing. xxxxxxxxxxx