A/N: Betaed by: azntgr01. Thanks very much! Of course, HP and related characters aren't mine, I just use them.

Chapter Six: The Talk (No, not that one, another one...)

Slowly the Common Room was frequently visited by the first years. Some had come to him when they were homesick, while some had told him about some bullies. If Harry knew the bullies, he would tell them off, otherwise he advised the first years to go to their Head of House. So far only the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff first years came to him, but he was sure the other students would trust him more when time passed.

Harry had appointed a Ravenclaw by the name of Zoe Branches as the one the others could go to on weekends if they had problems. She is a very responsible student and is used to comforting or helping others, as she hadseveral younger brothers.

Harry was quick to learn the names of all the students, but it was difficult as some of them had really difficult names. He tried to be in the Common Room at least three nights a week. Luckily on two of those nights Ron and Ginny had Quidditch training and apparently Hermione always met with some Ravenclaw students when there was Quidditch training. Harry always told them he was somewhere quiet in the school studying. And for the one night left, he said he was with Remus. Of course, he did visit Remus then, but only for an hour at most.

Right now Harry was walking back to Gryffindor Tower after having visited Remus, when he bumped into someone who came from around the corner.

"Damn, watch where you're going you...oh, it's you." The voice suddenly sounded much nicer.

Harry looked up and smiled slightly. "Hello to you, too. Seeing as how it's only us two right now, shall we go somewhere quiet and talk some? We haven't been able to do so for a while."

The other one nodded and together they walked up to an unused classroom. Locking the door behind him, Harry took a seat. "So Draco, how's it going?"

Draco smiled. "Quite well actually, Harry. We should try to stage a fight soon though. I heard someone comment that it was too quiet between us."

Harry laughed. "For goodness sake, it's never good enough is it? We've finally become friends this summer, and even though hardly anyone knows, now they want us to fight? Tell me was it Blaise or Pansy?"

"Both," Draco groaned. "You really have learned to read them well. I shall have to mention it to them you know, before they retaliate or something."

Harry smirked, "Ah well, it's your own fault for making me more Slytherin. You shouldn't have done so then if you regret it now."

Draco sat up "Regret it? Never, we like you too much, even though you were foolish enough to have yourself sorted into Gryffindor. You should have been a Slytherin from the start and you know it."

"Aye, that is true. However, I believe the Sorting Hat might not have a clue of where to put me know, as I have noticed that I gained some other traits from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw as well. Perhaps they should create a new house. One for the misfits!" he laughed.

"Sure, and you're the biggest misfit that we have now, Boy-Who-Lived."

Harry hit Draco on the shoulder, which apparently was some unspoken signal to start a slight wrestling game. Of course, Draco didn't know Harry was ill and had lost some weight already, so it came of no surprise (to Harry at least) that Draco won. "Ha, at least I can now beat you on two fronts. At Quidditch, though that's not your fault, and with wrestling."

Harry pushed at Draco to get him off, as he was getting heavy. "Off you, big bad bully or you'll choke me to death. Now that would be difficult to explain, hmm?"

He grinned. "Oh no, Headmaster, we are really just friends, no my father didn't order me to wrestle with him and kill him by sitting on top of him. How was I supposed to know I was so heavy?" he imitated Draco's voice.

"Shut up you," grumbled Draco, but he stood up anyway and offered a hand to Harry.

"Besides, you shouldn't talk about my father, you know how I feel about him, and that I don't live in the Manor right now."

Harry turned serious. "Of course, I know. How is life with your godfather by the way? I'm just glad I don't have Potions anymore."

Draco smiled again "Yes, it seems he is missing his favourite person to belittle, too, as he doesn't have Longbottom either. He's now into a Ravenclaw who still manages to make stupid mistakes."

"And you didn't have anything to do with those mistakes, hmm?"

"Me? How ever could you say such a thing, Harry. Tsk, you should know me better than that. Although I never said Pansy didn't do anything." He smirked, having told it in a very 'innocent' voice.

"Sure Draco, and you're an angel?"

"Actually.. when I went to visit you this summer, there was a girl who whispered something about looking like angels…" his grin grew smug.

"Yes well, I'm sure they were talking about someone else completely. Honestly, seeing you as an angel? Nah, they must of had too much to drink."

Together they laughed about their own crazy banter.

"So Harry, be serious for a moment now. How's your aunt doing?"

Harry sighed. He would just have to tell Draco how he – Harry - was really doing, without mentioning it was himself he was talking about. "Well, she had to have lots of chemotherapy, and it will last till the Christmas holidays. As we're only in October now, so she still has a lot of treatments to go. Right now it's not going so well."

Draco gave his friend a hug. "What will happen if she doesn't make it? What will you do and where will you stay?"

Harry didn't know how to answer this one, after all there was a chance he was going to die. "Ehm, I don't know really, after all Sirius is dead, and Vernon isn't an option. Besides he hates magic even more now. Remus would have been an option, but as he's a werewolf he's not going to be allowed. Hell, Sirius tried to make him my godfather as well, but he couldn't because of the laws."

Draco hugged Harry harder. "Just don't worry Harry, I'm sure your aunt's is going to be fine."

Harry pulled back. It was very difficult for him to be sick and to have to pretend it was really his aunt who was ill.

"Let's talk about something more cheerful. Let's talk about the SL. Have you had any chance to practice the defence spells we went over last week? And how's Vincent doing with them? I noticed he couldn't get enough strength in them."

Draco sighed quietly. He didn't like the fact that his friend tried to avoid the more difficult subjects in their conversations, but he would let him be for now.

"Well, as you know he and Gregory find it more and more difficult to act so stupid both at home and at school. They were wishing they could have more hours of the SL, as they can behave normal there. But they're improving a lot, and Pansy got some nice hexes to throw at us when we're going to practice duelling the next meeting."

Harry smiled. He knew Vincent and Gregory were real Slytherins, having decided from a pretty young age to act stupid, only thinking about following Draco and eating. However, behind the facade they hid two very intelligent minds that could analyse every situation within ten seconds, and could turn into action mode as soon as it was needed, sometimes even before others noticed action was needed.

"Very well then, I look forward to the next meeting. Have you thought of other students from Slytherin who could be included, I am sure there are more who would like to be in our group."

Draco nodded. "Yes, but until we're sure they are safe, and not just pretending, we keep another meeting without you there, for safety. If they aren't sincere in their wish of going against Voldemort, at least they wouldn't know about our friendship."

Harry agreed, and after talking about small things for a little while, they realised it was going to be curfew soon and so they left, to go their respective common rooms.


A/N:

The room where the first years come together will be called the Common Room (or CR) while a common room from each house will just be written like this: common room.

Also here follows the entire list of names from first year students:

Gryffindor: 6 students in total.

3 girls:

Annabela Wood (Yes, a niece of Oliver)

Fiona Fledge.

Aileen Brumbles.

3 boys:

Michael Keanes.

Simon Bell (Family of Katie Bell)

Alwyn Fledge (Yes, they are twins, but not identical ones).

Hufflepuff: 10 students in total.

6 girls:

Aubry Alberiks

Lilian McIntosh

Sally McIntosh (Identical twins)

Amelia Throngarms

Eileen Sufters

Lucy Amacians

4 boys:

Sean O'Donnell

Tristan Powells

Cynric Offheads.

Foran Perkins.

Slytherins: 6 students in total.

4 girls:

Mathilda Gobblestones.

Gaia Bucklehorst

Zahra Contestance.

Evelyn DeMajeure.

2 boys:

Arvid Zabini (Yes, Blaise's little brother)

Selwyn Silvas.

Ravenclaw: 8 students in total.

3 girls:

Karen Frights

Iris DeLaFleur.(Inspired by Fleur Delacoure of course)

Zoe Branches.

5 boys:

Yf Matcher. (say: Ief)

Dylan Butchers.

Mark Stefansson.

John McCullen.

Keith O'Neill.

Now don't laugh at some of the names, you try to come up with so many last names (especially if you're not from England or America, many of the last names from my own country would be unusable, though I could use my own, it's Potter (no joke).

I took the first names out of a book with girls and boys names (you know those books if you wish to pick a name for your baby). The rest I made up, thinking Wizarding names should sometimes be a bit eccentric. After all, Butchers, Branches? When I ran out of names, I decided there could be twins around. Hope you liked to read this anyway, although I might not use all those names.