A/N: Thank you for everyone who reviewed, followed or fav'd, your great guys! This chapter features Dumbledore, Remus and a little twist for Harry when he get's to Hogwarts; hope you enjoy!
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Warning: Swearing and light slash
Parceltongue
Chapter 5
Harry was in an awful mood in the morning, he was up at 6:30 and he was like a bear with a sore head. He was absolutely exhausted and it was showing, he threw on his clothed and stomped down the breakfast blindly grabbing food than smelt appealing.
"Good morning Harry, you look tired." Narcissa greeted cheerfully and Harry wished she wasn't.
"Hmm,"
"Ignore him mother; when Harry doesn't sleep he turns in to a joyous person to be around." Draco told his mother with a smirk, Harry snarled at him under his breath and jabbed him with his wand, Draco dodged the hex and laughed.
"Did you not sleep last night?" The Dark Lord asked sweeping in, Harry glared at the man who smirked as he sat down, Harry glowered before gaining a glint in his eye, he was leaving tomorrow might as well make the man want him even more for the next time he saw him. He wolfed down his food and disappeared from the table, Harry went to his bedroom and changed his clothes, he pulled on the tightest black skinny jeans he owned, a skin tight white top and some coal black shin high boots tied loosely, he ran his hand through his hair messing it slightly and he bit his lip giving them a bruised look, Harry smirked in to the mirror; he looked good. Harry picked up his black leather jacket and the eyes and ears parchment and left the room, he followed his scar to where the Dark Lord was, the man was in his study which Harry knocked on. He was told to enter and smirked before blanking his face and walking in to the study, the Dark Lord was working over something and he glanced up to see Harry, the man looked back down before his head snapped up to Harry and the teen withheld his smirk and the crimson eyes darkened.
"I decided as I was leaving tomorrow I would show you my aids today." He told him lightly inviting himself to sit down; Harry kicked his legs over the arm of the chair tilting his head slightly.
"Oh?"
"Yes, they are rather impressive, the twins are amazing when there given a task they deem worthy of there attention." Harry said with a shrug, the Dark Lord raised an eyebrow and Harry pulled out the parchments and placed them on the desk, he touched them each with his wand and the welcome massage appeared Welcome Snake to the Burrow/HQ. Harry activated them with the passwords and watched as they opened in map form of the burrow and HQ, the Burrow was empty as they were all at HQ and it looked as if a meeting was taking place.
"These are good," The Dark Lord murmured looking at the maps with interest, Harry grinned.
"Wanna see what makes them really interesting?" Harry asked rhetorically, he tapped the HQ map and muttered the eyes and ears password, it altered to a birds eye view and he zoomed in to the kitchen where the Order were sat around the table waiting for Dumbledore, Harry chanced a glance at Tom who was gazing at the map with glowing eyes.
"Now this is impressive."
"I do try." Harry placed his wand on the side of the map and dragged it upward, they could now hear exactly what was being said, the Dark Lord blinked.
"You say you created these?" He asked watching the order discussing what Dumbledore may want to speak about.
"Yes, I have the marauders map which my father and his friends created to help them get about the castle without being seen. We based the idea off of that but I've explored the castle more than they did and we found more passageways and hidden rooms, so we created a new map. I had the idea that it would be good if we could actually see and hear what was going on in a corridor and Swift had the idea of using listening charms placed secretly on the portraits whilst myself and the twins created a viewing charm, rather than a device which had already been made, to be merged with the listening charms. Paws, who takes arithmancy and runes, linked the spells throughout the entire castle to our new map and placed the correct spells to the correctly drawn corridor. Then on places where there were no portraits like the chamber and the newly discovered hidden places we carved stabalising runes to lock them in place before linking them to everything else." Harry explained and the Dark Lord looked impressed.
"That must have taken the best part of the year." Harry nodded.
"Especially with the obliviates, looking back now we probably could have done it in half the time we did. The twins obviously made good time without the hindrance of Dumbledore." Just then headmaster floo'd in to HQ and the room when silent, Harry activated the recording charm as the meeting began.
Thank you all for coming so swiftly, Dumbledore began in his usual grandfatherly fashion, as one Tom and Harry sneered.
I have had some disturbing news from Aribella about Harry. The order broke out in muttered and whispers, Harry rolled his eyes.
"Oh look, I'm famous." Tom smirked at the scathing tone.
I do not believe it is anything to worry about at the current time, however tomorrow I wish for Alastair and Remus to go and check on him. Harry's eyes widened and he cursed.
"What?"
"Remus is a werewolf, he will smell I haven't been there for a month and because he is currently locked under layers of obliviates himself he will tell them." Harry told him thinking of a way to relieve the situation, he summoned a sheet of parchment ignoring the raised eyebrow and quickly scrawled a note.
Moony,
Do not mention what you do not smell tomorrow, it is in your best interest and mine.
Cub.
Harry hoped that for once the man listened to his werewolf which is why he signed it 'cub' instead of his name, Harry then proceeded to rub the parchment down his face and licked it to seal it so it was drenched in his scent, Tom was looking at him as if he had grown a second head.
"What! I said he was werewolf, how else am I going to get him to understand unless the letter reeks of his cubs scent?" Harry pointed out.
"That was odd." Tom informed him and Harry rolled his eyes, he called Dobby and told the elf only to give the letter to Remus when the man was completely alone. They went back to watching the meeting where they were speaking of the Dark Lord's movements and how he had been quiet, Harry smirked at that, the man had distractions. When Dumbledore left the rest of the order diminished each speaking about a number of things but nothing of interest, Harry turned the volume down and cleared the map, he sat back with a small smirk.
"Quite handy I would say." Harry commented lightly and the Dark Lord hummed in agreement.
"It is a very impressive piece of magic especially the viewing charms you created."
"I know," Harry cast a tempus and blinked, it was almost lunch.
"Wow, time moves fast." He muttered getting up and stretching, he felt his t-shirt ride up revealing flawless pale flesh, and he could practically feel the eyes raking him.
"I'm going to eat, I don't fancy having to charm Narcissa again, I don't think it will work all that well." Harry said and Tom chuckled.
"As impressive and original as that was, I do not believe it will work again."
"Ah well, at least I'm probably one of the only ones who can say they've made Narcissa Malfoy blush." Harry shrugged and left the room, he ate a quick lunch before tracking Draco down in his room.
"Sorry about last night, Draco," Harry said walking in to the room, he wasn't surprised to see the blonde preening his looks, he sat down in the sofa.
"S'alright," He muttered distractedly and Harry's eyebrows rose, the ever perfect Malfoy just slurred a word, Harry jabbed him with a stinging hex making him yelp.
"Oh, Harry, sorry, didn't see you there." Harry rolled his eyes.
"I was trying to apologise for last night but you missed it." this time Draco rolled his eyes.
"I was more interested in the scream of insults just when I was nearly asleep." Draco said dryly and Harry smirked.
"Do you really want to know?" Harry challenged and Draco looked at him before shaking his head.
"No, I really, really, really don't."
"Come on, I wanna go flying before I'm forced back in to my masks." Harry sighed but then grinned, "Wronski Feint here I come." Draco matched his grin and they both ran to the Quidditch pitch, as soon as he was in the air everything left Harry, everything was forgotten it was just him and the freedom of the air.
"Race you," Draco yelled and Harry smirked, he pointed his broom in to a nose dive and plummeted to the earth, the ground was coming up alarmingly fast and at the very last possible second he yanked up the handle and his knees scrapped the grass before he spiralled off, he jumped of the broom with bright eyes.
"Its official, you're trying to kill both me and yourself." Draco landed next to him and punched him in the arm.
"Obviously not enough," Harry replied dryly and received another punch, they traipsed in and played chess until Harry got bored with losing after the 6th time.
"I have never seen someone so bad at chess." Draco said with a laugh, Harry scowled.
"I suck at strategy, play Swift and have your ass handed to you, he's my chess player."
"I'm not stupid enough to play him, I would lose worse than you just did."
"Screw you Malfoy." Harry growled and left to the sound of Draco's laughs, he went to the library to do one last check to make sure he had copied all the books, the Malfoy library was impressive but his own was better with all the books he had acquired. Harry scoured the room but found nothing until he did a ward and spell check, he found a repellent and some serious wards in the back corner of the library and went to investigate, they were layered over something he couldn't see. Harry smirked and began to unpick the wards just enough so he could slip though without Lucius knowing, it took a while as the Malfoy lord obviously didn't want anyone getting passed them and had laid many faux pars. After half an hour of intricate picking Harry had a gap be could slip around and went through; he hit a gold mine. There was a door that led to a dark room with around a hundred rare priceless books and scrolls, Paws would be salivating if she saw this and Harry was close, he began coping them carefully making sure not to damage the old texts, some were for Malfoy eyes only but with the coping charm he overrode the blood magic turning it in to a ordinary book; he loved magic. Harry hadn't been able to do the same with the Black library yet and the Peverell library was in the vault, the Gryffindor books were somewhere in the castle like Slytherin's and the Potter library was done, he didn't know how long he was sat their but when he had copied everything there was 3 minutes until he was expected at dinner. With a few choice curses he shrunk his copies and slipped back out through the wards careful to replace them as before, he sprinted to the dining room and fell around the corner just in time slipping a little with the momentum, the Dark Lord raised an eyebrow and Harry smirked.
"Good evening Harry, you look dusty." Narcissa greeted with a pointed look, Harry waved a hand to remove the dust and sat down.
"Is there any reason you were dusty?"
"Library," He explained with a shrug, he had to keep the smirk from his face as Lucius stiffened slightly before dismissing the thought, the man underestimated him or put to much confidence in his wards; both Harry assumed. His final dinner at the Malfoy's was a pleasant affair, the house elves had outdone themselves with the food and it was relaxing, a stark contrast to what was approaching. After dinner Harry followed Tom out as the man had caught his eye to come, they went to the study and Harry kicked his legs over the arm with a sigh.
"The real reason you arrived dusty?" Harry grinned.
"Why, its almost like you don't believe me Tom?"
"I wonder why?" was the bone dry reply he received.
"I wasn't lying, I just wasn't in the part of the library meant for others outside the Malfoy family." an elegant brow rose in silent question.
"Have you been to the back corner of the library, where the windows stop?"
"No, I haven't needed to, most of the books there I have in my own collection." He motioned to the shelves in the study where there was obviously a spell around them so they could hold more.
"Well in that deep corner I found an unusual amount of wards and I was wondering what could dear Lucius want to hide in a library? So obviously I had to see what was there." Harry began,
"Indeed,"
"Imagine my surprise when I discovered hundreds of priceless scrolls and books, some for Malfoy eye's only."
"Oh,"
"Yes, now I thought it was rather selfish for Lucius to hide these books, I mean, yes most of them are Malfoy legacy but there really isn't any harm in sharing." Tom was starting to look amused and Harry smirked, he pulled out the stacks of books and scrolls and placed them on the desk.
"So I decided to make them available to other curious eyes."
"Even the Malfoy books?"
"I didn't think it was fare to keep knowledge locked in to ones blood." Harry stated seriously.
"Copying spell?"
"The chamber was very helpful,"
"It has that quality, you are using a parcel copying charm to override the blood scribe also."
"Yes, I found a book which was possibly the best thing I have ever found, the spells it contained were immense. I have yet to finish it but even so far it has helped a great deal." The Dark Lord waved his hand and a book landed on the desk, Harry looked at it and nodded.
"That would be the book,"
"I did find it a brilliant book, I believe it was written by Salazar himself."
"Wouldn't be too much of a surprise, the man was said to be a genius. I have yet to find the Gryffindor chambers, if Slytherin's are anything to go by then the Gryffindor ones will be interesting in the least."
"True, you can look in the school year, I'm sure you will find time." Tom said and Harry nodded.
"We were searching before but due to some unexpected circumstances we were withheld from completing the task." Harry's eyes narrowed at the reminder of what Dumbledore had done, the man was going to suffer when the time came.
"Ah the head chicken, as you so quaintly put it." Harry had to grin at that.
"It was nicely put if I do say so myself." Tom rolled his eyes, Harry got to his feet and sighed again.
"I have to now charm everything I own before I return to the delightful company of the order and school." Harry grumbled.
"It is to be advised, you do have a lot of secrets."
"Ugh, I know," He moaned and left, in his room it still looked a mess from where he had thrown his books everywhere the night before, he couldn't be bothered to clear it up so he just put the newly copied in the compartment and began charming everything that would be on show to look as it did before and when he was done he showered and led on his bed watching the maps until he fell asleep.
Harry wasn't happy on the morning when he was set to leave, he stalked in to the dining room grumbling to himself and threw himself in to his chair; he really wasn't looking forward to having to keep up a constant act.
"You must eat full meal; I don't trust that order not to spike all your food Harry." Narcissa said and Harry smiled a bit, she was ever the mother.
"I will," the meal was silent which was unusual and Harry could feel the tension, finally Tom asked the question.
"When are you leaving?" Harry was pleased to note that no matter how much he tried the Dark Lord could not hide the fact he wasn't happy about Harry leaving, although Harry would probably see him every week when term started.
"Around lunch, I have yet to clean up after that incident." Here Harry threw the man a look to which Tom looked a little sheepish.
"Ah yes," he cleared his throat, "You haven't forgotten I see." Harry scoffed.
"Not likely, anyway I have yet to clear up and my room looks like something exploded in there. I'll eat here and-," Harry abruptly stopped talking staring in to space.
"Clear," he murmured much to the confusions of the rest of the table. Before anyone could question his stability, purple flaming letters appeared writing them selves where Harry was staring.
Cornered, LR, their coming
Harry blinked,
"Received," he muttered and the words disappeared.
"What in Merlin's name was that?" Draco burst out and Harry blinked again.
"I believe Swift and Paws couldn't send me a message the normal way so they used that as a last resort, the order are on their way to get me apparently." Harry told him with a shrug then it seemed to click in his own mind.
"Oh shit," he cursed and bolted from the room, Harry threw open his door and began throwing books in to his open trunk, he would sort them out another time they just had to be sealed away. He also sealed away his nice clothes and pulled out his hand-me-downs and Gryffindor cloak, once he was changed and everything packed in record time he ran back downstairs pulling on some trainers as he went trying his best not to cringe. The Malfoys and the Dark Lord were in the lounge when he had finally got his trainers on, Harry began waving his wand his intricate patterns weaving his glamours around him, his features softened and his eyes dulled, the silky raven locks changed in to dead looking flyaway hair and his stature shrunk falling in to the famous Harry Potter he was to the rest of the world; he grimaced and paled his skin to a sickly colour, for a final touch he make himself unhealthily thin like he usually was when returning from the Dursley's. The Malfoys were looking at him in shock and Tom in slight distaste, not that he blamed him Harry looked awful.
"Glasses," Draco told him and Harry nodded conjuring the usual ugly glasses placing them in his face.
"Run through?" The blonde scion asked with a grin and Harry smirked even if it looked misplaced.
"Of course,"
"Harry, my dear boy, what happened." Draco asked in a scarily good impression of Dumbledore's kind grandfatherly voice. Before their eyes Harry's whole demeanour changed, he held himself slumped and submissive shaking slightly, his eyes wide and pleading filled with tears but with an odd glazed look, when he spoke Narcissa gasped in shock.
"I-I-I don't know headmaster," he shook his head furiously, his voice no longer the smooth cool tones, it was weak, small and shaky. Harry curled in to himself and carried on speaking.
"A-aunt Petunia sent me out for sh-shopping and when I got back the door was open. I went inside and i-i-it was a mess, blood everywhere and they were just led there." Harry was crying now looking at 'Dumbledore' begging for him to understand.
"Th-they were dead but I tried, I did, I-I had to try, there're my family a-and now their gone. I- wha- its-" Harry swayed before collapsing in balls of tears.
"It's ok my boy," Draco chimed and Harry got himself under control slightly, his shoulders were still shaking but the sobs had stopped.
"It's my fault," he said in a dead sort of voice, "There dead because of me, I killed my only family."
"This is not your fault Harry, you did your best. You can understand why it is unsafe for you to continue your friendships with the Weasley's and Miss Granger."
"Of course headmaster," Harry answered hollowly, "Keep them away from me, it's too dangerous."
"I'll let you rest," Harry looked up at Draco with a smirk, he had stopped shaking and crying, the blonde laughed and motioned around the lounge, both Malfoy elders were gaping at him and Tom was blinking in a state of shock.
"And that is the golden boy mask." Harry told them with a grin, he pulled himself up.
"How-, what-," Harry patted himself on the back; he had made Lucius Malfoy speechless.
"That was something else." Narcissa made up for it.
"I know I'm good." Harry shrugged and snapped his fingers.
"Do you have the blood?" Kreacher handed him a phial of muggle blood and disappeared with a crack, Harry ran it over his hands smearing it on his face and hair, he rubbed some down his shirt and vanished the phial.
"Finished, now I have to leave, I'll contact you about the goblins." Tom smirked in a way that raised questions in Harry's mind but he didn't have time to ask them which the man knew.
"I hate you." Harry muttered to him and apperated away forgetting he wasn't supposed to do that, landing in an ally he muttered an apology to Lucius and began stumbling his way to the Leaky Cauldron. Harry fell in and rushed up to the bar tugging his trunk making it look heavy even though it had a feather light charm on it, he immediately caught a few peoples attention being covered in blood and Tom the barman looked up.
"What in Merlin's name happened?" He gasped.
"I need a room, please," Harry begged desperately and the bar man nodded hurriedly.
"Room 10," he ushered the 'panicking' teen up the stairs and in to the room, Harry began pacing furiously muttering to himself and wringing his bloody hand.
"Shall I call the headmaster?" Tom asked him unsure and Harry nodded quickly.
"Please, I need him." Harry hopped the bar man repeated those words to Dumbledore; it would make the man watch him less. Not ten minutes passed before there was a knock at the door and Albus Dumbledore swept in, in ghastly orange robes, Harry questioned the mans sanity.
"Harry, my boy, what happened." Harry had to forcefully bite back the laugh because of those words, Draco's interpretation of Dumbledore was spot on. Harry's acting was perfect, he did the exactly the same as in Malfoy Manor and Dumbledore lapped it up comforting him when he broke in to sobs.
"You have been through a great ordeal but you are safe now Harry, just rest. Tom has said it's ok for you to stay here until school begins in two days. I only ask you don't leave the pub." Harry nodded gratefully, he hadn't expected anything else.
"Thank you sir," Harry told him in a grateful voice with his head bowed, "I was just so scared." Dumbledore nodded in understanding.
"I will see you on September 1st, after the feast if you could wait behind you will be escorted to your rooms." Dumbledore told him before leaving, Harry stayed rooted to the spot until he could no longer feel the headmaster or his magic, he then swept the room for spells and surprisingly found none, not even hidden ones, only then did he relax and let out a groan he had been holding in. In all honestly he didn't mind staying in the room until school, he didn't want to deal with the attention he was going to receive from the public after the scandal at the ministry, they were calling him the chosen one now something that had actually made the Dark Lord laugh, it had scared all the Malfoy's out of their wits much to Harry's amusement. He decided against dropping his glamours no matter how much he wanted too, he did jot down a note to Swift and Paws to say he arrived safely and he wrote to Manic and Panic congratulating them on whatever they did. Harry led back on the bed and read, he ordered lunch making sure to check it before eating and went back to his book, he had found a perfect shield to place on himself that would protect him and his friends, it was a parcel spell and would save them from all obliviate attacks, compulsions and even the imperious, it didn't counter potions but they were working on that. It was a shame he couldn't practice it before the train tomorrow, he made a note of it though and continued reading, Tom knocked and reminded him of dinner and Harry was shocked the day went that quickly.
Remus Lupin was a strong man. He had been bitten by a werewolf at a young age and survive, he endured the monthly transformations with and without the wolfsbane potion, he fought hard in the first war for the light despite he himself being a dark creature, he got through the pain of losing two of his best friends, his cub and the thought of the man he loved betraying him in the worse possible way. He had also got through the shock of discovering that Sirius had been framed and he had the joy of being reunited with his love and seeing and teaching his cub, he managed through the shock and horror of discovering the person responsible for his best friend's death had returned from the supposed death and had nearly killed his cub but this time he didn't know if he was strong enough to get through the latest blow. Sirius, his friend, his love, was dead. In the battle of the ministry, where Harry had been tricked by Voldemort in to retrieving the prophecy, Sirius had fallen through the veil thanks to Bellatrix Lestrange. Remus Lupin was a strong man but there were only so many things one can take. He had spent the time since the incident in a zombie like state, he was so oblivious he didn't even feel the pain of the transformation that month but he remembered howling for someone who would never return to him. Remus truly believed the only thing stopping himself from jumping through the veil to be with his family and love was his cub. Harry, sweet, strong, powerful and smart, Harry. The boy was alone and Remus couldn't leave him out of his own selfishness; not for his own needs. Although Remus was in a zombie like state Moony wasn't and he could feel something in the air so he kept his sense alert at all times, he noted that there was a lot of talk about his cub and how he had been separated from his pack, Moony didn't like that. Remus dragged himself to the emergency order meeting and sat in the back corner waiting for Dumbledore, he owed a lot to the headmaster but there was something missing and Remus couldn't put his finger on it. He didn't care much to what Dumbledore was saying until Harry's name was mentioned, Remus' attention was full on for the first time in a month as Dumbledore explained that their may be something wrong with his cub, the urge to growl had to be fought down hard.
"I want Alistair and Remus to go and check on him tomorrow." Remus nodded immediately, he had to make sure his cub was as safe as possible with those awful people. He went straight back to where he was sat starring at the wall after the meeting, Remus jumped a mile when a house elf, that wasn't Kreacher, popped in dressed in a neat suit.
"Dobby has letter for Mr Moony," he squeaked handing over some rolled up parchment and popping away, the first thing both Remus and Moony noticed was the letter reeked of his cub, he all but ripped it open.
Moony,
Do not mention what you do not smell tomorrow, it's in your best interest and mine.
Cub.
It was from Harry, but how did Harry know what was happening tomorrow? What wouldn't he smell tomorrow and why would he mention scent? Remus was confused but as it was from his cub, who he would protect with his own life, he would listen and hopefully tomorrow he would understand more but for now he had wall to stare at. In the morning he went with Mad eye to number 4 Privet Drive and immediately knew something was wrong, the door was open and everything was too silent, they moved swiftly and froze at the sight. Blood was the current décor in the house and the three Dursley's were clearly dead after some torture Remus noted with disinterest, they swept the house for signs of magic but came up clear meaning it was a muggle attack, a vicious one, but a muggle one. Remus took a deep breath, he didn't want to panic because Harry wasn't here but it was hard not too, it was then he realised he couldn't smell any traced of Harry at all, the teen would have had to been constantly away from the house for about a month for that to happen, he was about to mention that fact to Moody when he froze remembering the letter from Harry yesterday. 'Do not mention what you do not smell tomorrow' it had stated, Harry knew he wouldn't be able to smell him when they came here, how the teen knew they were coming Remus had no clue but Harry had a lot of secrets. Going solely on what his instincts were telling him, Remus stayed quiet and continued to scan the house with Moody until the ex auror had deemed it ok to leave, they rushed back to HQ to alert the order that Harry was missing. The news had caused uproar and in the panic Remus was sure he was the only one who noticed the smirks exchanged between Ron and Hermione and he was sure that he was the only one who noticed the look of complete concentration on the witch's face as she chanted quickly under her breath; he wouldn't mention it. Moony wasn't the only one who could feel it now, Remus could feel the change in the air and he couldn't help but believe it would change everything. Remus Lupin was a strong man and he would get through whatever was coming as long as his cub was safe.
On September 1st Harry was practically buzzing to get out of the grubby pub, turned out there was only so much he could read before needing to see the light of day and 3 full days was enough for him. He donned his Gryffindor cloak and left the room, unfortunately he wasn't prepared for the mob of reporters that had found out where he was staying, he ducked and ran for his life back up the stairs, there was no way in hell he was getting through them and to the train on time. Tom kindly allowed him to floo to the platform where, thankfully, there were no reporters just curious kids and their parents. Harry hurried on to the train discreetly nodding to the Malfoys as he passed, he found a compartment near the back and settled for a silent journey, it was too risky for Ron or Hermione to chance a pop in just in case anyone saw. Harry saw them out of the window with their own glamours in place and looking flushed, he chuckled quietly, he could tell they hated it as much as he did and for that he was thankful for, his friends were the best anyone could have, the things they had been through and still they were stuck together like glue; nothing would change that; ever. The whistle blew and there was a rush for everyone to get on the train before it pulled away, Harry sat back with a sigh, this was it, he just knew this year would change the entire wizarding world and he would be in the centre of it, surprisingly Harry couldn't wait. As he was read out Harry led back with his eyes closed letting the clicks of the train soothe him in to a light doze. Around an hour in to the journey Harry awoke to hear someone entering his compartment, he was up with a wand to their throat within a second, Harry released a sigh when he registered it was only Luna.
"I'm sorry, I should know better." She told him seriously gracefully sitting down on the bench across from him, Harry gave a sharp nod.
"You should." He felt no need to hide around Luna as she wasn't hiding around him.
"I believe I could be of some help to you." Luna stated and Harry smirked, he loved this Luna, crazy Luna was great for laughs but the true Luna Lovegood was something to be admired, she reminded him slightly of Narcissa.
"I know you can which is why you are still here with your memories in tact, I have no doubt that you are powerful, you would never betray me and being yourself you probably know what's going on anyway." Harry added the last part with a grin, Luna returned the grin.
"Of course, did have fun playing games Harry?" She asked lightly and Harry chuckled.
"Most definitely Luna," She shook her head and sat back, they fell in to a comfortable silence which Harry enjoyed, human company wasn't something he craved in general but he did like to be around certain people.
"Do you have any other solely trusted?" She questioned out of the blue, the trolley had came and gone and Harry was sucking on a blood pop as was she.
"Swift, Paws and Bleach currently in the school, I cannot give a veritable opinion on others as I have to get reacquainted with everything."
"Out of school?" Harry smirked.
"Many but at the same time few." He replied evasively, his flaky answer was lucky because the compartment door slid open to reveal Ginny Weasley, it took all of his control not to retch or curse her and Luna seemed to know by her covered smile.
"Oh Harry, here you are, I've been looking for you everywhere, I was so worried." She simpered and Harry bit his tongue in effort to stop the scathing reply, he shifted uncomfortably sagging a little.
"Sorry Ginny, just-just preoccupied you know?" He said with a small weak smile, she positively beamed at him.
"Of course I understand, I just thought I would say hello and to say I'm here if you need anything." She was obviously trying to sound sympathetic but it was bad, she left with what Harry supposed was a sultry smile towards him and that was it, Luna shut the door and warded it before bursting out laughing, Harry allowed the disgusted look to come to his face as she rolled with laughter.
"Oh Merlin," She gasped clutching her sides, Harry glowered at her but she didn't stop.
"That was the funniest thing I think I have ever seen."
"I have to deal with that this year." Harry groaned in self pity, Luna patted his head in mock sympathy.
"Poor baby, you will have to see a friend to cheer you up." She gave him a knowing look and he smirked.
"I do not know what you speak of Miss Lovegood." The announcement sounded telling them they were nearly there, Luna came in her robes and Harry just flicked his wand to change his clothes. They got out of the train and managed to get a carriage together without being noticed, somehow Draco slipped away from his friends to get in to their carriage so he could speak to them.
"Potter,"
"She's fine," Harry waved him off and Draco allowed a smile.
"I thought so but you cannot be too sure with who is pulling the strings," He said and Harry nodded, "Two things, I want to see the actual memory and I have a message."
"You can see the memory when we have everything in my rooms sorted, what's the message and who's it from?" Harry was curious to who needed to send him a message through the Malfoy scion.
"How many people would send a message through me prat," the blonde rolled his eyes and Harry admitted he did have a point.
"So what does he want?"
"I've been told to tell you; do not choke." Harry's eyebrows shot up.
"Excuse me?"
"That's it; Do not choke. I'm confused too but that was it, he seemed rather amused about something. You're a bad influence, he laughed, the Dark Lord actually laughed because of you and Harry I am not ashamed to admit I was terrified." Draco said it so seriously that Harry cracked up, the blonde was ever the dramatic.
"It wasn't that bad." Harry got out between laughs.
"Harry, how many times have you heard of a Dark Lord laugh?" it was meant to be a rhetorical question but the raven head answered anyway.
"Quite a few actually, he has a rather wicked sense of humour." Draco and this time Luna looked at him as if he had completely lost it.
"What?"
"Yo-, never mind, just do not choke, whatever that means." Draco left with one last roll of his eyes, they were at school now and Harry mentally prepared himself, he slipped in to the golden boy mask easily as he exited noting Luna slipping away without notice. The great hall was as grand as ever but he kept his head down as he walked quickly to the end of the Gryffindor table, when he was seated his eyes did the usual sweep of the staff table, he was looking for the new defence teacher when he suddenly understood the message Draco had given him. Harry began violently choking on air in utter disbelief; it was simply not possible he thought sucking in a sharp breath through his nose. Harry would recognise that arrogant smirk anywhere, on any face, the Dark Lord was sitting, rather grandly if Harry were to point out, in the defence Professors seat, the man had gotten himself appointed as the DADA teacher by Dumbledore. Harry's mind was completely blank with shock, how in Merlin's name Tom pulled this off he had absolutely no idea, Harry wanted to break down in hysterics about the irony and then scream about the completely insane idea. He chanced a look at the table again to find Tom, in his disguise of light sandy hair, silver blue eyes, less sharp features and yet still managed to look devilishly handsome at the same time, looking at him with a raised eyebrow and a smirk, there was a promise in that smirk that sent a shiver down Harry's spine for very good reasons. One thing Harry was sure about; the man was a complete bastard. He glanced up the table and spotted Ron and Hermione sat a distance up from him, he caught Ron's eye to make sure he had his attention before turning away. Harry rubbed his arm where the basilisk had bit him in second year casually looking around the hall, he then tapped his head making it look like an itch, finally he drummed his hand on the table and withheld a smirk when Ron immediately turned to Hermione muttering in her ear, they both turned to look casually at the head table and Harry knew they had seen what he wanted by the stiffening of their shoulders. In the same casual manor they turned away, he could clearly see the same thing in their eyes as he was thinking; what the fuck. The great hall doors swung open and the first years walked in led my McGonagall, Harry tuned out the sorting because he honestly didn't care and instead turned to scour the hall, he felt two sets of eyes on him and he knew exactly who they were so he ignored them. The sorting finished and the headmaster rose to his feet, Harry kept his face relatively blank but admiring when he looked up at the man.
"Welcome, welcome to another year at Hogwarts." The mans arms were open as if he wanted nothing better than to hug all of the students, Harry cringed at the thought.
"A few start of term notices before we get befuddled by out excellent feast." He announced cheerfully, "You will have noticed, of course, that Professor Umbridge is no longer with us." A huge cheer erupted from the entire hall even they Slytherins were on their feet with many of the staff, Harry grinned as Tom blinked, he did say Umbridge was hated.
"Yes, I am sure she will be missed," Harry covered his snort, "Which is why is am please to announce the new defence teacher Professor Drield." Tom rose elegantly with a nod and there was rather enthusiastic applause, mainly from then female population, and he sat back down, Harry mentally scoffed at any of them catching his attention while he was around then he blinked at that; where had that come from? Then he realised the name Dumbledore had used and rolled his eyes, the man was really fond of his anagrams.
"And on a more subdued note I would like to remind everyone that while inside these halls you are safe, there is a war raging outside so I implore you to take your studies seriously in these dark times." It took everything that Harry was to brutally crush the hysterical laughter that wanted to spill out, he locked his jaw firmly and ducked his head so no one saw the glowing hilarity in his eyes, they had the Dark Lord sat at the table and they were worried about the outside world.
"Now, I do not want to keep you from your food any longer; let the feast begin." The tabled erupted in food but Harry wasn't interested, he was still in slight shock in finding out the Dark Lord sat at the head table, he picked at his food like he usually did after coming back from the Dursley's and stayed silent. The feast seemed to last forever and Harry was starting to get impatient when the last of the pudding disappeared, Dumbledore rose again to give the usual notices and dismissed them, there was a mass of scraping of benches and people flooded for the doors. Harry stepped back and walked toward the head table where Dumbledore was stood waiting for him and when the last of the students had disappeared the head master turned to Harry.
"I've placed you on the same floor as the Defence classroom because I've asked Professor Drield to tutor your privately." Harry internally scoffed at the irony and blinked a few times before nodded tentatively.
"Ok sir," He answered quietly, he could practically few the Dark Lord's amusement.
"Now, the rooms are yours so you can do what you wish within reason and if you have any more dreams I want you to come straight to me. I don't think Occlumency would be the best idea." Harry bit his tongue to stop the snort wanting to escape.
"Yes sir,"
"If you will follow Professor Snape, he will take you to your new accommodation."
"What?" Harry asked before he could stop himself, Snape sneered at him.
"Sorry," Harry ducked his head and then cursed in his mind when he actually felt the Dark Lord's amusement, Snape swept out of the room in his usual billowing style and Harry trailed behind him. As soon as he was free of the hall he straightened himself up and picked up speed, he was muttering himself as he went and he watched with amusement as Snape's eye began to twitch.
"I cannot believe that bastard," Harry hissed to himself and Snape span to face him.
"Who in Merlin's name are you muttering about Potter?" Harry merely raised eyebrow, he went to speak but was beaten to it.
"That would be me Severus," Tom came in to view with his ever present smirk in place, Snape bowed.
"My Lord,"
"You-, wha-, wh-, ju-, argh!" Harry threw up his hands and glared at the Dark Lord.
"Speechless, it's a first."
"You're such a bastard," Harry told him, "How are you even here?"
"Through Dumbledore's lack of judgement," Harry shook his head.
"And you thought no warning was necessary?"
"I passed a message through the Malfoy boy." Tom was looking entirely too cheerful.
"Yes, do not choke. Thanks for that by the way. I still cannot believe you placed yourself here, when I said someone in the ranks I didn't mean the leader." Harry pointed out and Tom shrugged, he actually shrugged, it was strange.
"Who else to gather information than myself, besides, Harry Potter needs specialist training to defeat the Dark Lord." Harry rolled his eyes.
"The thought is looking more appealing." Harry muttered.
"Ah Snake, then how could we continue this lovely game." Harry smirked.
"You have a point,"
"You look strange." Tom stated and Harry scoffed.
"Coming from the person who emerged from a cauldron looking like half a snake?"
"Touché,"
"At least I don't have to pick the wards to get to you now I suppose," Harry gave a long suffering sigh.
"You are entirely too dramatic."
"HA, hypocrite. Now are you going to allow me to go to bed now?" Harry saw Tom open his mouth for a smart innuendo and cut him off. "Don't even think about it, we do have company." Harry had just remembered Snape was still there, Tom blinked and turned to Snape.
"Ah yes," Harry snickered at him getting distracted knowing it would have been worse without the glamours, Tom glared at him. "I will escort him from here." Tom dismissed him with a wave of his hand.
"Of course My Lord," Snape's black eyes were glittering in confusion as he turned and left, Harry rolled his eyes and carried on down the corridor.
"Do you know where you're going?"
"Yep, there's only one place on the defence corridor for private rooms." Harry stopped looking at a portrait with a grim, a wolf, a stag and a lily, Harry hissed venomously.
"I'm gunna kill him," Harry snarled placing his hand on the portrait and sent a pulse of magic through it and it swung open. Harry stalked in and immediately swept the room for spelled, there were quite a few and Harry snarled to himself.
"Great lady if you could?" He asked quietly and was surrounded by a warm comforting feeling before it vanished and Harry smirked, he ran the test again and the room was clear and protected.
"The castle likes you,"
"Yes, she called to me and has helped me out of a few situations." Harry waved his wand and let his glamours melt away, he waved his wand to switch his clothes and then he finally looked around. He was stood in a reasonably sized living room but the décor was not for him, it was awful shaded of red and gold, he sighed.
"Greens, blues and black if you would?" He asked again and the room changed before their eyes, the walls were different shaded of green and black with a deep blue carpet that was very soft, the furniture was black leather and the fireplace changed in to dark wood.
"Much better," Harry sighed and flopped down on the sofa face down much to the Dark Lord's amusement.
"I still hate you by the way."
"Yes," Harry pulled himself up with effort.
"This makes things easier with you on the staff," it sounded weird for him to even say, "Dumbledore doesn't suspect anything and Moony kept his word and didn't mention my scent not being present, he will obviously ask you a lot of questions because of you privately tutoring me, I still cannot believe I got handed over to the Dark Lord." Tom chuckled.
"I does make watching Dumbledore easier and it does make for a rather amusing turn of events when he his giving me hours with you alone to do anything as I please." His voice turned seductive and Harry shivered.
"Hmm, I wonder what could happen in those hours?" Harry questioned innocently tilting his head to the side, he rose slowly walking over to where the Dark Lord was sat gracefully and began to circle the chair lightly running a finger across the pale skin of his neck.
"You wouldn't be thinking about doing anything inappropriate to your new student, would you Professor?" Harry smirked when the silver blue eyes bled crimson and the rest of the glamour fell away, he definitely preferred the man like this.
"Because I can be a good student," Harry continued, "Such a good student." He wasn't all that surprised to be pulled in to a searing kiss, he was straddling the man and again his hand had found their way in to the dark hair.
"I could issue detention," Tom murmured lowly as his bit Harry's neck, the teen hummed, "To punish you," Harry's grip tightened considerably and he sucked in a sharp breath, in retaliation he rolled his hips and Tom hissed before claiming his lips again much more rough this time, Harry knew the man wouldn't wait much longer. The teen pulled himself up with a smirk at the dark crimson eyes watching him, he stepped back as the Dark Lord rose gracefully.
"I will have you at my side," was his last words before leaving and as Harry trudged up to his room he couldn't help but agree.
I updated early because I have a new rule of updating when a chapter is ready! Did you like it? I wanted to add real spice to the school and what better way that have the Dark Lord under Dumbledore's crooked nose? The little games between Harry and Tom are kicking up a notch too, let me know what you think and if you have any ideas or whatever feel free to post them or PM and I'll try and get back to you ASAP!
Jess*