Welcome!
Here's the first chapter.
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So hello everyone. This is my new
story, I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. It all belongs to J.K.Rowling.
The long lost Twin
Chapter one: Changes and Discoveries
On
his sixteenth birthday, Draco had a few changes to go through. It was
the 31st of July and he had started to look different. His hair
became black and untidy, his eyes were now a deep emerald green and
the strangest; he had a scar, right on his forehead. This look was
very familiar to him. Potter.
"This can't be! I look like
Potter!" He exclaimed very concernedly to himself, as he stood
in front of the mirror. "I have to go to Dumbledore, before my
parents notice. He knows everything!"
He went to his
fireplace, grabbed some Floo powder from a container on top of it and
threw it in. The flames turned green and he commanded, "Dumbledore's
office!"
Draco landed on his feet in the Headmaster's
office. Unlike others, Malfoys had managed to control themselves so
that they did not fall on their knees after flooing. It was too
disgraceful.
"Harry?" the Headmaster said with a
confused face.
"No, I'm Draco! And I am sure that you have a
perfectly good explanation why I look like Potter." On other
days, Draco would have remembered his manners, but right now, all he
wanted was an explanation.
"Yes, I think so. Right, as you
have discovered you look like Harry-"
"I know, Sir,"
Draco replied angrily, rolling his eyes, "I have a mirror at home.
I come to you to learn WHY!" Draco interrupted.
"Yes,
okay. You are Harry's twin brother. Your original name is Draco James
Potter."
Draco laughed mirthlessly, "You have to be
kidding me." However, he remembered that their headmaster did not
joke at times like those. "I can't be Potter's brother! You
can't prove it either," Draco folded his arms stubbornly.
The
aged headmaster merely retrieved a slip of paper from his desk,
"Here's your real birth certificate."
Draco unrolled the
paper he got from Dumbledore, dreading what he would read.
Name:
Draco James Potter
Mother: Lily Annabel Evans-Potter
Father:
James Jack Potter
Birthday: 31st July 1979
Sibling(s): Harry
James Potter, Twin brother
"NO! This cannot be! I am not the
brother of that worthless prat! I am not! I refuse to be!" Draco
yelled and run to the door, but it was locked.
"OPEN THE
DOOR!" Draco demanded, his nostrils flaring angrily, his chest
heaving.
"Draco James Potter! Listen to me!" Dumbledore
nearly shouted.
"NO! Don't call me that!" Draco yelled
back.
"I will explain everything when Harry arrives."
Dumbledore said, warning signals flashing in his eyes.
"No,
you can't do this to me. He hates me. I hate him! He will kill me!"
Draco ignored the fury in Dumbledore's eyes.
"No, he will
not! He is your brother! Now sit down!" Dumbledore yelled. Draco
finally kept quiet and took the proffered chair.
Dumbledore walked
to his fireplace and fire-called Harry.
"Harry James
Potter!"
Harry's face appeared in the fire.
"Yes,
Sir?" Harry questioned.
"Firstly, I have to wish you
Happy Birthday. Secondly, I want you here for a quick word. Please
come as soon as possible. I'll connect your fire to the Floo network.
I have somewhat of a… surprise for you."
"Yes,
Sir."
Exactly one second later, Harry was present. He thought
he was looking into a mirror.
"Sir, have you got an invisible
mirror in your office?" Harry asked, confusion in his eyes.
"Are
you that stupid, Potter? Look closer!" Draco said.
Harry
would recognize that spiteful tone anywhere. "Malfoy? What is he
doing here, Professor? And why does he look uncannily like me?"
Harry asked Dumbledore.
"Like I said to your brother before,
I will tell you the whole story."
"Whoa, whoa, slow
down, Professor. My BROTHER?" Harry laughed. "I don't have one.
Did I hear you correctly? Malfoy is my brother? I don't believe it
and I won't until I see proof." Harry said.
"You see?
You both have similar personalities. Mr. Potter here," Dumbledore
gestured to Draco, whom Harry stuck out his tongue at, "also asked
for proof."
Draco handed the birth certificate in his hand to
Harry.
Harry rolled his eyes and read it aloud.
"Sibling:
Harry James Potter, TWIN BROTHER?" Harry yelled.
"SHUT UP,
POTTER! I'M NOT EXACTLY DANCING HAPPILY AROUND, THROWING FLOWERS IN
THE AIR EITHER! SHUT UP SO PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE CAN EXPLAIN!" Draco
stood up and pushed Harry into the chair next to him.
"Stop
this foolishness, boys. And please don't call each other Malfoy or
Potter, because both of you are Potters and have normal names. So can
I start now, and you promise me not to interrupt, till I have
finished the story?"
"Yes, Sir," they both
mumbled.
"Ok, then I will explain it to you. On the day, when
your parents died, you both destroyed Voldemort, thus both of you
have a scar. As Sirius and Hagrid arrived, they could only see Harry
crying on the bed. You, Draco had fallen from the bed onto the floor
and when they saw you, they thought you were dead like your parents,
because you didn't move. As fast as they could, they got out to bring
Harry to a save place immediately! Then, when the Ministry searched
in the house for things, that were alright, they found you crying on
the floor and took you to a Wizarding orphanage. There you've been
adopted, by no one other than Lucius Malfoy and he put a spell on you
that you look exactly like him, because Malfoys never adopt children.
He didn't know that you were James' and Lily's son. The only thing he
knew about you, was that you first name is Draco. He kept the name.
Lucius also didn't know that glamour charms wear off after sixteen
years." Dumbledore finished
Both boys were shocked and Harry
was the one, who first found his speech again.
"So- so," Harry
began, pointing at his twin and himself, he only managed to utter,
"Twins?"
Dumbledore smiled and nodded.
"Then you are
really my brother. I always wanted a family and now I have a twin
brother, I can't believe this!" Harry went to hug Draco, but
immediately stopped. Take it slowly, Harry, slow…
"So you
are not mad at me, that I have been so rude to you for the past five
years?" Draco asked, hope shining in his eyes.
"No, you
are my brother and I forgive you! As long as you don't do it
again," Harry said and this time it was Draco who hugged and
Harry responded to it.
"Who is my godfather?" Draco
asked and Harry got tears in the eyes by mention of their
godfather.
"Remus Lupin! Remember our previous DADA teacher?
Normally he would be in charge to take care of both of us, but at the
moment he is busy with the Order and we can stay here for the rest of
the holidays. On September the first, we can drive with the Hogwarts
Express, like all the others!" Harry replied.
Draco opened
his mouth to ask a question and Dumbledore knew what it was
immediately, "The Order will be explained to you later."
"But
Professor, do I have to be resorted?"
"Yes, I nearly
forgot that. If you want, we can do it now, or will be sorted with
the new first years, but I think you prefer now. Am I right?"
"Yes,
give me the hat!"
Dumbledore fetched the sorting head and put
it onto Draco's head.
"So now, you have discovered your real
appearance. I think you are just like your brother, so where would
you like to be?" The Hat asked Draco.
'Gryffindor please', Draco
thought.
"So be it," the Hat said.
"Gryffindor!" the
hat shouted.
Meanwhile, Harry realized that he could read Draco's
mind as he heard the conversation between him and the Hat. He decided
to keep it a secret first. Perhaps it could be useful…
The two
had great summer holidays lying before them, where they could get
closer to each other and know the other better. It seemed like a
bright new beginning for the
twins.
So this was the
first chapter of my new story. What do you think?
I couldn't
think of a better title!
Morgaine
