"": dreams.
Italics:thinking.
Bold:Letters and notes.
-/-: time lapse.
Chapter nine- The Plan
Ever since Harry had received his inheritance he had expected not to hold a Hogwarts letter ever. Yet here he was, standing in the middle of the largest drawing room the Malfoy manor had to offer, holding just that. He flipped the letter over in his hands making sure his imagination wasn't tricking him and was in actual fact holding his letter. Feeling an arm wrap around his shoulders, he looked up and into the face of a very surprised Draco. It seems he wasn't the only one surprised by the fact Harry had actually received his Hogwarts letter.
"Never thought they would actually send you one. But then again, they probably still think you're on their side." Draco said, taking the letter from Harry's hand, waving his wand over it checking for spells and curses making Harry roll his eyes. Sliding out from under Draco's arm Harry moves to the window sill seat, which was now home to one of his many easels. He watched as Draco finally opened the letter apparently deeming it safe. Unfolding it slowly Draco looked up to see his father and Lord walked through the door, watching with a smirk as his father went straight to Harry and his Lord came over to him. Handing the letter over to him, he walked to one of the single seats in the sitting room, finally opening his own letter to what its contents held.
Dear Draco Malfoy,
We hereby welcome you to another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As this your seventh and final year, you will now be able to participate in subjects you may wish to peruse outside of Hogwarts. These subjects will be classed as extra-curricular activates, and will count towards any internships and traineeships you wish to partake in. Be advised however, that due to recent complications within the Wizarding world, there will be subjects which have been taken off the school curriculum, if you are enrolled in any of these you will be notified immediately of your transfer. If you have any problems, please contact your head of house.
We look forward to seeing you in class when the semester starts.
Albus Dumbledore,
Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Items you will be required to possess for this year:
· 7th-year Potions textbooks- Advanced Potion-Making and Moste Potente Potions
· 7th-year charms textbooks- Extreme Incantations and Guide to Advanced Occlumency
· 7th-year defence against the dark arts textbooks- Confronting the Faceless and Voyages with Vampires
· 7th year Arithmancy textbook- Numerology and Grammatica
· 7th-year Magical Creatures textbooks- Most Macabre Monstrosities, Blood Brothers: My Life Amongst the Vampires and Lupine Lawlessness: Why Lycanthropes Don't Deserve to Live
· 7th-year Divination textbooks- The Dream Oracle and Unfogging the Future
Extra-Curricular Subject Textbooks:
· Study of Ancient Runes- Ancient Runes Made Easy and Spellman's Syllabary
· Herbology- Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and Ingredient Encyclopedia
· Chemistry and Physics- Alchemical Duodecimo, A Collection of Above Three Hundred Recipes in Cookery, Physick and Surgery and A Brief History of Time
· Theology and Religion- The Bible and Shrieking Book
· Cooking and Housecare- Cooking the Muggle Way and One Minute Feasts- It's Magic!
· Education and Academic Matters- An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe and Preferred Preface for Perfect Prefects
· Healing and Healthcare- Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions and The Healers Helpmate
· Muggle Studies- Moronic Muggles, When Muggles Attack, My Life as a Muggle and The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know
· Magical Law- The Dark Arts: A Legal Companion, Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans and Legal Loopholes and Leprechauns
If you wish to enrol in any of the above-stated classes, please contact your head of house straight away, either via flu or owl, so they can make adjustments to your timetable.
Again we cannot wait to see you back in classes when semester commences.
Minerva McGonagall,
Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Draco looked up and sighed to himself, he knew just by looking at the textbooks set that this was going to be a very stressful year. Looking back up to his Lord he noticed the glare his face held, his gaze moved over to Harry who now sat between his father's legs as they spoke quietly. A few days after Harry had come to live in the manor his father had sat him down and asked if Draco felt left out now that his attention was more on Harry. Draco at first had felt left out, but as he thought about he didn't really have the right to feel left out. Harry was his father's mate and he knew that his father had been lonely for so many years. Even though the three dominants had found each other, they were nothing without their submissive. At the end of the day he was happy for his father, uncle, and Lord, having Harry here made them very happy, so he was happy.
"It seems they have decided to step up the level of education this year, going by looking at the textbooks we are supposed to have anyway," Draco said softly not taking his eyes off of Harry. Seeing the green eyes raise to meet him and seeing them roll in annoyance. Draco gave a soft chuckle at Harry's antics seeing his eye roll change into a full body slump into his makeshift leg seat.
"I have to agree with Draco here, this year will most likely be harder than most other seventh years have had it, I put this down to Dumbledore trying to prepare you for the war, meddling bastard." Voldemort retorted, only just now taking a seat in the single chair across from Draco. "Are you thinking of taking any of the extra-curricular activities Draco?" He continued, which made Draco look back towards his letter in contemplation.
"Actually My Lord, I was thinking about either taking Study of Ancient Runes, Healing and Healthcare or Magical Law." He responded, happy with the choices he had made. Voldemort nodded, apparently satisfied with the choices Draco had made, however decided to test him.
"Tell me, why did you decide to pick those three choices?" He asked, seeing Draco's eyes snap to his not having expected the question.
"Well, I was thinking of taking Study of Ancient Runes because runes are a very important aspect of today's society, and when you are to take over the Wizarding World I feel you would need as many rune experts as you can. I was thinking of taking Healing and Healthcare for much along the same reasons and for the simple fact that if Harry were to bare your children I would like to be able to help in any way possible. Lastly, I was thinking about taking Magical Law because I have always enjoyed the law aspect of the work father has given me, and would like to pursue it as a career." Draco explained clearly, leaving everyone in the room silent. He looked between the three adults, His Lord held a blank expression which made him feel uneasy, His father held a proud expression which made him feel as though his answers were appropriate and Harry held one of surprise and happiness which made him smile on the side for his choices.
"All good choices and very thoroughly thought through, I am very proud of you Draco," Voldemort said calmly after a couple of minutes, leaving Draco very shocked and speechless.
"T-Thank you My Lord." Draco stuttered, causing Harry to give a small chuckle.
"Voldemort or Marvolo Draco, you have proven yourself countless time to be able to call me by my name by now," Voldemort responded easily, smiling softly as he watched Draco's jaw drop.
"well isn't that nice, bout time you let him call you by your name, was getting sick of all this My Lord stuff when we talked about you," Harry piped up, making Voldemort look over at him and sigh.
"Yes I know; you have told me at least once or twice before Harry."
"Well, It's about time you listened to me then," Harry responded just as quickly, making Voldemort sigh again and run a hand down his face. Harry just laughed at his mate's antics, knowing full well he would get punished for it later.
"Anyway, I am very proud of you Draco for putting a lot of thought into the extra subjects you chose, given you have just received the list. I also am very proud that you would consider choosing subjects that will help us in the future." Lucius said joining the conversation, making Draco smile.
"So, am I actually going to Hogwarts this year?" Harry inquired, making the two adults look at each other then back to him.
"Well, that's actually what we came to talk to you about. We have come up with a plan." Responded Voldemort.
Hermione sighed, it had been several days and they still hadn't heard anything from Harry or had seen Hedwig. They had no idea if their letter had even reached their friend or if anything had happened on to stop the owl from reaching her goal. Hermione currently sat at the kitchen table, cold coffee in hand as she gazed out the window. Ginny sat next to her reading her Hogwarts letter and looking over the books that the family already possessed to see what books the still needed. Ron and Mrs. Weasley had gone out about an hour ago and Mr. Weasley had gone into work earlier this morning. This meant that just her, Ginny, Fred and George were in the house, Bill and Charlie had left the day the letter was sent. Bill having gotten a call from Gringotts about a mishap in the bank and Charlie having gotten a call about an escaped dragon. They would both be back at the end of the week however, for the Weasley family dinner that happened every Friday night, something Hermione was not looking forward to now that Harry was not here.
"Well aren't you two just bundles of sunshine." Said a voice from behind the two girls, making Hermione's gaze turn from the window to the smiling ginger standing at the bottom of the stairs.
"I thought you guys were working on something, what are you doing down here?" Hermione asked, taking a sip of her coffee and immediately spitting it out, causing Fred to chuckle softly.
"We're taking a break to get lunch and I was wondering if you wanted to join us," Fred replied, walking further into the kitchen to look over Ginny's shoulder at her school list.
"Lunch would be great." Ginny piped up, looking up at Fred with a small smile, before looking over at Hermione for her response. Hermione seeing the two siblings now looking at her thought it over, she did feel kind of peckish, lunch would be nice.
"Where did you want to go?" She said, seeing the two light up. Apparently, Fred had not thought far ahead enough to actually know where to go, so she watched as he and Ginny discussed options for lunch.
"What kind of plan?" Harry inquired, wondering what the two men could have possibly come up with to make it safe for him to go to school.
"Well, as it turns out Dumbledore is looking for yet another Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher." Said a voice from the door, making the four men turn towards it, seeing Severus leaning against the door frame. Harry smiled seeing Severus, now having all three of his mates were in the same room, seeing the smile Severus returned it, moving into the room to sit next to Lucius and Harry.
"Ok, well how is that going to work? Lucius would never be allowed to-No, you cannot be serious." Harry said amazed, looking over towards the smug looking Voldemort.
"It seems our little mate caught on quite quickly, yes Harry Marvolo will, in disguise, of course, take up the position of your new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and since Hogwarts has had a new teacher every single year, the Ministry is putting a representative into the school to keep an eye on things, which is where I come in," Lucius explained, wrapping his arms tighter around Harry's waist as the realisation came to both Harry and Draco.
"That means that all three of you will be in the school all year?" Draco whispered, surprised at how brilliant the idea actually was. Harry looked between the three men hoping for some sign that it was true and receiving nods from all of them.
"But that's brilliant, absolutely brilliant!" Harry exclaimed, causing everyone to chuckle.
"Well now that we are all up to date, Severus, Lucius and I need to leave for a meeting. Draco if you could stay here with Harry, maybe go over what extra subjects he will take for us?" Voldemort said, already standing up and heading towards the door, knowing full well Draco would have no problem staying with Harry.
"Of course Voldemort," Draco responded, moving to sit next to Harry as the men left the room, sighing softly as he leant against the other boy. "So what do you want to do?" He continued, looking up at Harry from his new position.
"Well it is about lunch time, we could go out to lunch, we haven't had time to just the two of us lately?" Harry mumbled, leaning his head against the blondes. Draco thought it over, lunch actually sounded good.
"Sounds good, so where should we go?"
-The Leaky Cauldron-
"You know I haven't been to this place since I was young," Draco said as their meals were placed before them, smiling as he noticed his favourite meal hadn't changed since he was last here.
"It's been a while since I've been here to actually, been missing their food, glad I chose this place," Harry said as he started to cut up his perfectly prepared chicken.
"Although I was hesitant at first I am glad I decided to trust your judgement," Draco said with a mouthful of food, causing Harry to laugh at his lack of manners. "Oh shush you, can't I be normal for just one day?" He asked teasingly.
"No, no you cannot Malfoy."
"Your one to talk Potter, you would think after living with such high-class mates you would have learnt something about manners." Draco retorted, sticking his tongue out showing he was joking. Both boys laughed loudly, before a small cough to the side of them drew their attention, causing both of their eyes to widen in surprise.
"Harry?"
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