Disclaimer, Summary, Warnings and Important Notes are in chapter one.

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"speech"
'thoughts'
'letters'
books/information/files/newspapers

The holiday passed quickly, whilst the tension in the house didn't diminish completely, it did lessen. Draco refused to acknowledge Damien, much to the youths disappointment. But Damien did understand it.

"Dami!" He heard a voice from behind him shout and as he turned he was bombarded by crazy black hair and robes, his arms flailing madly in the air as his balance wavered.

"Bella, I would appreciate it if you did not suffocate my son." Drawled Tom's voice from behind the insane woman. After the Christmas debacle, Damien and Bellatrix were formally introduced, since then the woman had been rather attached to the boy. Sure, she was still insane -and after Azkaban even more so- as the reunion was never going to magically cure her insanity. Still, she was not as bad as one would expect…or that could just be because her enemy wasn't surrounding her. Either way, Damien couldn't help but like her, despite the fact that he was friends with Neville and Bellatrix was indeed the one who helped torture them.

"Awe, but he's so huggable!" The childish woman pouted, yet she released him and bounced back to her husband and brother-in-law. A smile spread across the youth's face before his eyes narrowed in confusion as he noticed his dad staring at him.

"Dad?"

"Follow me." He said bluntly. Worry and a flicker of fear raced through him, but he followed the older man to his office and took a seat as Tom did. "I didn't mean to worry or frighten you, I merely wanted to talk in private."

"About what?"

"…how's school? I understand that your Defence Against the Dark Arts professor is rather…useless."

"You should see the book she's basing the lessons on! It's full of absolute rubbish. All theory and no actual defence just plain reading. I mean I love to read, but all this book tells you is how to avoid conflict and how to flee! It's so ridiculously pathetic and cowardly!" He paused and blushed, "Sorry about my ranting."

"No no, it is fine. I trust that you have in fact been studying useful Defence Against the Dark Arts topics, such as spells, charms and curses, so should you find yourself in a fight, you can defend and attack?"

"Of course! Merlin, I spend the majority of my free time studying in the library and practising in the Room of Requirement! I often practise with Fred and George, occasionally Neville, Luna, Blaise, Theo and Dra…co would join."

"I am very proud of you for doing so. I must ask, Severus told me you have been getting a lot of detentions. But only from your DADA professor." He noticed that Damien stiffened and his right hand slid onto his left. The movements were so discreet that if Tom hadn't been watching for them, he probably wouldn't have noticed. "Yet when he told me, I noticed he was rather…angry at the professor, he mentioned something about it going on for ridiculous reasons and you not getting back to the common room until unusual detention hours."

"During my first lesson this year, I was a bit rude about the book we were reading. So she gave me a detention, I guess she enjoyed my suffering and kept giving me them." He murmured with a shrug,

"Suffering?" Tom asked noticing the little slip the boy had probably unknowingly said, he watched as Damien's eyes widened slightly,

"I…umm…she makes me write lines and…my hand always aches…because I have to write so many."

"I see. So it has nothing to do with the fact that she is a sadist and is making you use a very dangerous and highly illegal object during those detentions?" He raised an eyebrow at his stuttering boy, "Ssh. What she's done is very wrong and she will be dealt with. I, however, have one question. Just one." He gently took the boys left hand in his own and softly ran his finger against the scarred words 'I must not disrespect my superiors'. "Why did you never tell anyone? I can only assume that once she made the mistake of using the Blood Quill on a Slytherin -yes I do know that you are the only Slytherin to endure her detentions, she was rather clever in making sure not to get on Severus' bad side- and when you didn't tell anyone, she felt you would never tell and therefore she could continue to torture you."

"I…I don't know. I mean Fred and George…they told McGonagall but all she did was tell them to keep their heads down. So I felt that no one would believe me…and I didn't want to cause an issue…" He, himself, put his head down in shame. Tom stood and walked around to where his son sat and lifted his head.

"I will deal with her, don't you worry. But, if something like this ever happens, whether it's something small or not, you need to tell me or Severus. Please, Damien. Things like this could be life-threatening for you and I'd be none the wiser."

"I…I'll try, I guess I'm still trying to get used to people caring about me." Tom frowned at that but hugged his son, placing his head gently on top of the boy's ebony locks.

—LINE BREAK—

Soon enough January arrived in a gush of icy cold weather. It was true that the first month of the year was the coldest in the UK or more specifically London. Damien, wrapped up in his Slytherin scarf and a baggy jumper, made his way to Platform 9 and 3/4, following him was his dad and the three Malfoy's.

"Like when you first went back, I expect weekly letters and updates." Leaning in to give his son a hug, Tom whispered in the boy's ear, "Also I'd keep an eye out for the Daily Prophet, something big and juicy is on its way and that Skeeter woman is going to be in heaven."

"Will do, dad." Damien murmured back before hugging Narcissa and nodding to Lucius, he turned to look at Draco but found the boy had already disappeared, sighing slightly he bid goodbye before looking for an empty compartment on the train.

—LINE BREAK—

"Hey, Draco!" Called Blaise as he and Theo stepped into the compartment, "Where's Damien?"

"Tch. Don't know, don't care." Came the blunt response, Theo and Blaise shared a look,

"What happened?" Asked Theo,

"He told me who he was and…" Draco trailed off,

"And what? You didn't know already?" Blaise asked with a raised eyebrow,

"Excuse me?" Shouted the blond,

"You can't honestly tell me you didn't realise Damien was Harry Potter." Exclaimed Theo, his eyes widening, "Dear Merlin, you didn't, did you?" The two couldn't help but snort at Draco,

"Salazer Slytherin, Draco you can be quite dumb at times."

"How dare you!" He growled at the dark-skinned boy. The rest of the journey to Hogwarts was tense and silent.

Author's Notes: I know it's short but I felt that I shouldn't stop my 'two uploads a week' thing I have going, plus I've managed to write the next chapter and a bit of chapter 14, so look forward to those!

Updates might be a little weird next week, I have a week off from school but I want to get a lot of revision in. Still, I should be able to update on normal days!

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