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Hope you like the second chapter in "A Second Chance"
Chapter 2: Meetings and a new way of lifeHarry pulled on a new pair of black jeans and tied the button; he looked over for a shirt to wear, pulling out an emerald green button-up shirt with a Celtic design on the back. Bending down to his feet, he pulled on some new socks and was thinking about putting on some shoes when someone knocked on his bedroom door
"Come in" Harry called out, Dudely walked in
"Come
on Harry Mums shouting" he smiled
"Okay give me a moment,"
Harry told him "Tell your mum I'll be right down" He added
He walked downstairs to find Petunia talking to three people in the front room; Dudely was sat quietly next to her watching the people in front of him.
Harry studied the eldest male, he stood at about 6,5" tall with waist-length platinum blonde hair and stormy grey eyes. He was wearing a black suit with a matching robe with snake claspings holding it round his shoulders.
The woman was petite with long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. She wore a long blood-red dress with a snake embroidered up the skirt wrapping round her middle.
The young boy was about Harry's stature with slicked back platinum hair and grey eyes like his father, he was wearing a simple black shirt and pants affair with a black and silver snake robe.
The eldest of the three turned to Harry and within a second he was bowing on one knee
"My Lord Xavier" he said "It is a great honour to have you back with us".
Harry was a little perplexed at this sudden change of demeanour with this man he didn't know
"Um my name is Harry…. Please, stand, I don't really know much about my Father I am hoping you can tell me" He finally asked him "but please, introduce the rest of the people here," he added as an afterthought
"My Lord" Lucius stood up "I am Lucius Malfoy, this is my wife Narcissa Malfoy and our only son Draco Malfoy" he introduced them all in turn. "My lord, your name is Xavier Salazar Riddle, not Harry James Potter"
"Oh right…. wow…. um…. Pleasure to meet you all" Harry nodded "Now please, seat yourselves so we may begin what I think will be a lengthy discussion, and please, call me Xavier"
He took a seat next to Dudely and waited for Lucius to begin to speak.
"Well my Lord, as your Aunt has probably told you, Albus Dumbledore kidnapped you and your mother from your father when you were barely a year old. Your father was at the height of his power back then and Dumbledore knew he wouldn't be able to stop him. So in taking you and his wife away from him, Dumbledore handed them over to the Potter family, with complex mind charms as well as what we call glamour's to make you look like their family"
"But why?" Xavier asked, "What could I possibly do?"
"Dumbledore is a powerful Wizard Xavier" Draco spoke up "He knew you would be powerful when you were older and didn't want the competition for power after he got rid of Lord Voldemort"
"Then why didn't my Dad kill him?" he asked
"Your father was afraid of Dumbledore at school my Lord" Narcissa explained "he gave him a rough time at Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort has always been unable to get revenge on him for making him try to kill you"
Xavier stared at the Malfoy's with a blank expression for a long time
"H-he tried to kill me?" He repeated, his green eyes clouding over in rage "I'LL KILL HIM!" He exploded; bright green sparks shot out of the end of his fingers as a ferocious wind was brought up
"Xavier please calm down" Narcissa pleaded with him, He wasn't listening to her though, as the magic storm increased
"Mother…." Draco stood up "Allow me" he turned to her and walked to him, passing through the storm.
Draco
grabbed him by the shoulders
"XAVIER!" he shook him hard
"PLEASE STOP THIS!" He told him "YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE
ANGRY AT DUMBLEDORE BUT STOP YOURSELF FROM DOING DAMAGE TO YOUR
PERSON AND EVERYONE HERE!"
Xavier blinked and looked at Draco, his vision cleared and he shook his head
"Whoa…. what did I just do?" he asked
After a long discussion about everything, Xavier turned to Lucius
"Mr. Malfoy…"
"Please, call me Lucius" He interrupted
"Okay. Um... Lucius" He began again "I would like you to re-move the charms placed on me by Dumbledore if you can, I don't want to put up with being someone I'm not" Xavier stood up
"As you wish my Lord" Lucius pulled out his wand and told Narcissa and Petunia to do the same.
He stood stock still in the middle of the living room whilst Lucius, Narcissa and Petunia worked on the glamour charm, it took them nearly ten minutes to complete the counter-curse and Xavier wasn't prepared for what would happen when they did.
He felt like his body was on fire all over. He had to bite his lip to stop himself screaming out as he grew in height, he threw his glasses off his face when he could no longer see with them on. Harry noticed his hair was now down his back as he dropped to the floor, breathing heavily
"My Lord?" Lucius helped him up
"Thank you Lucius" he struggled to breathe in the clothes he was wearing, with a flick of his wand however, Lucius had made them larger to fit his frame. Xavier turned to look at himself in the mirror
He had always been small, but now he was at least 5.7" in height with black hair running down his back in silky waves. His eyes shone more emerald than they had under his glasses, and he noticed that they had tiny flecks of red around the pupil, The scar on his head was less noticeable now that his hair was longer, it didn't look as prominent, and for that, Xavier was glad.
"Why have my eyes turned slightly red?" He asked, and with shock, Xavier noticed his voice had changed as well, it held more of a commanding tone when he spoke now than when he had before, he had sounded small and child-like, even for a 10 year-old.
"Well my Lord, your father has red eyes" Lucius spoke up "he under went many magical transformations to re-surface as Lord Voldemort that we're not sure how they will have affected you" he said, Xavier turned round
"Well that makes sense then. So tell me Lucius…. How long do I have before I go to this…. Hogwarts place and how can I defend myself against that meddling fool?"
When Xavier dropped into bed that night, he was exhausted beyond words. Lucius had taken no time at all in drawing up a lengthy timetable of lessons for him and Dudely in preparation for going to Hogwarts in a few months time. The next morning, Xavier started learning basic sword fighting with Draco, who had been doing it since he could walk. Then he was off to Diagon Alley to get his wand with his cousin and Aunt.
The thought made him sit up in bed, WHY hadn't his aunt told him before now? He got up to leave his room when there was a knock on the door
"Enter" He called out
"My Lord?" it was Petunia
"Come in Aunty" He said again, Petunia walked into the bedroom
"Is everything okay for you in here?" She asked timidly
"Its fine although it needs clearing out, for tonight its fine" he replied "Aunt Petunia? Can I ask you something?" He sat back on his bed
"Yes My Lord?" Petunia nodded
"Oh stop it with that, whilst im living in your house you address me as Xavier" He groaned
"As you wish" Petunia replied "What is it you wanted to ask me?"
"Why didn't you tell me about my heritage? Where you going to send me to Hogwarts un-prepared?" he asked her
"No Xavier I wasn't!" Petunia said quickly "its just that- well- your Uncle Vernon, he knew but he bullied me into keeping silent, I had lost my nerve after your Father disappeared and with your mother dead… I got too caught up in my grief," she explained hesitantly
Xavier thought about it, he nodded slowly
"Okay I understand, now im goin to get some sleep, ill see you tomorrow"
The next morning, Xavier got changed and found all his new clothes fit him without problem. He went downstairs into the kitchen
"Uncle Vernon?" he blinked when he saw him at the stove
"Yes my lord?" Vernon said in a monotone
"Ah Xavier good to see your up" Petunia smiled "VERNON!" she snapped, "Where is his breakfast?"
"Right here" he said in a monotone again, dishing up a fried breakfast for him
"Thank you" Xavier muttered as he tucked in
Dudley came down the stairs soon after and got his share of breakfast.
"So Xavier what are we doing today?"
"We've got sword training with Draco then we're going to get our stuff from Diagon Alley" He explained
"Excellent" Dudley grinned
Xavier was nervous about handling a sword in front of Draco; he didn't want to make himself look a fool nor did he want to hurt the blonde boy. He had been doing a lot of thinking that morning and wanted Draco to be his right-hand man when he was old enough to take over from his father. Who, he had been told, was at that moment sharing a body of the Defence against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts!
The three of them arrived at Malfoy Manor via Floo Powder and found Draco waiting for them in the main hall
"Ah welcome my Lord, to Malfoy Manor" he bowed respectively to Xavier
"Thank you Draco. Shall we begin?" Xavier asked quickly, he really wanted to get on with his training, the worse he was the more time he had to get better.
"As you wish my Lord. Follow me and we'll go in to the training room, Petunia? My mother is waiting for you in the Sun room" he told her
"Thank you Draco" She nodded and left the boys as they walked down a set of stairs under the manor.
Xavier had never seen a room like this before; it was as big as the house on Privet Drive! The stone walls were adorned with all sorts of fighting equipment, Draco walked over to the farthest wall and picked up a sword, he walked over to him
"Xavier... this is a training sword, its made not to hurt too much on contact" he handed it to him
Xavier stared as the sword touched his hand, it felt light as a feather, but he knew it was heavy, he walked into a space and swung it round to feel the momentum
"MERLIN!" Draco stared at him
"What?" Xavier asked, confused
"You're a complete natural Xavier," he said in awe "Not even I could swing a sword like that when I picked one up for the first time! Here Dudely, you try" he handed him a training sword and Dudely swung it round
"Impressive, but you'll need to work on it" Draco said, inwardly very pleased with the pair of them even though they had only just started!
