Harry and Draco had a decent nights sleep which came as a surprise to them, they thought that they would be missing home so much that they would not be able to sleep. It turned out that they slept very well, they had talked to their parents before they went to sleep letting them know that they had all arrived safely and that they would see them in a few weeks.
Harry and Draco had an elf from the school come and tell them that they had to go to the great hall to learn more about the school and get their new timetables, and Harry was excited.
Harry and Draco were the first ones that arrived at the hall, the headmaster was not even there yet, but there were others that were obviously students from the uniforms that they were wearing.
"Hey there, you must be the new students that are joining 5th year?" One of them asked.
"Yeah I'm Harry, this is my boyfriend Draco." Harry said. He was scared that people here would find them being together wrong as they were both males.
But to the surprise of the boys all of the students smiled at them. "Hello. My name is Viktor." The boy with the thin brown hair and blue eyes said. He then pointed to the boy next to him, who had blonde hair and blue eyes. "This is Gellert, he was named after Grindelwald." There was a girl with red hair and brown eyes. "This is Poliakoff. We are the most powerful in the school, we do not talk to the others around here." The man said.
"I know who you are, you are the old seeker for the Bulgarian team. Why are you quitting?" Harry said. He may be trying out for the team but he was surprised when he heard that the seeker was one of those quitting.
"I thought I would let someone else have a go. I have been playing for a long time, so I have been made captain of the team this year, this means that I am not playing just training the team. Why, are you wanting to try out for a spot?" Viktor asked.
"Yeah I'm a seeker and Draco is a chaser." Harry said.
"Well try-outs are the Monday after school starts. If you make it onto the team then you are going to be working very hard as you will be going to the World Cup later on." Viktor said.
"So are you light or dark?" Draco asked. His father and the Dark Lord wanted, as well as the other Death Eaters, wanted them to start asking those at the school about joining their side.
"What do you think? All of us are dark here and support Voldemort. You will find that all of the light students go to Hogwarts, and if they end up changing then they come here. So what are you two and your friends doing here?" Poliakoff asked.
"Well I was betrayed by my friends and the people that I trusted, so I went back home where I was then beaten to the inch of my life. I had managed to contact Voldemort through the bond that we share through my scar and I told him that I was dying. He came and got me with some of the Death Eaters, and we talked he ended up blood adopting me, we had a plan to go back as Harry Riddle and Imperio a Harry Potter and kill him in front of everyone. But they changed their minds and we came here, we go back with you lot for the tournament, they will recognise the others and I will be introduced as Harry Riddle, they will not know me till the final battle. We will be staying in the Slytherin room along with you." Harry explained.
Those that were listening were shocked, all students may not like one another at Durmstrang but they would never turn their backs on someone just for money or fame, and they would never allow someone to be beaten by their families. "Did the headmaster know about what this sad excuse of a wizard family was doing to you?" Viktor asked.
"Oh he did know about it, he encouraged it, I later found out that my family was paid with money from my own account to do it. When I heard it he said that he needed me weak so that I would be willing to be his puppet with no complaint. I had already begun doubting Dumbledore and the light, what I heard clenched my decision. And they were not wizarding, the ones who beat me were my muggle aunt and uncle, as well as their son, they hated magic and took it out on me. Dumbledore did nothing to help." Harry said, he got a bit upset, he may have learned to deal with it and that he would be getting revenge on all of them later, but it did still hurt to think of what his life was like before he joined the right side.
This again shocked those in the school, many including dark wizards, believe that a wizard giving a child to muggles is horrific as most muggles did not want anything to do with magic, many are abused or neglected. The students were happy that Harry had people who truly loved him, and a real family that would not harm him.
"And what is the story of you and Draco?" Gellert asked. Draco chose to answer this one, as he was busy holding Harry and trying to calm him down.
"Well Harry had been with the Dark Lord for a little while before we met. He was in Diagon Alley, I had just come into my inheritance and found out I was a wolf, and that I had a mate. I was hoping that it was Harry as I had had a crush on him since first year, I never said anything because Weasley's corrupted his mind and made him hate me, the only way I could talk to him was by insulting him. But then Harry went and found out that he was part Vampire and part Veela and that he had a mate too. I was to meet my father, who was with Harry and his father, outside but as soon as Harry saw me he launched himself at me and began to sniff at my neck, he smelled like home to me so I returned the gesture. Turned out that Harry had also had a crush on me since first year no matter what anyone else had said, and that he was happy that we were each others mate." Draco explained. He was not shy about telling the students here that they were gay, that they were dark or that they were dark creatures, this was because most of the students in Durmstrang had at least one of those traits.
"Oh wow, but if you are blood adopted, and have a wolf mate then maybe your whole person could change Harry." Viktor said.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked. He had not heard anything like this before.
"Well it happened on the light side, but there was this boy who was a Vampire, his mate was a wolf and he was blood adopted by a dark wizard. A month after the blood adoption and finding out who his mate was he changed, he was no longer a vampire. No he became something more rare, a Hippogriff. It is said that if bonds are strong and the creatures are compatible then they can join together to create whole new being. When did you get blood adopted? And when did you find out Draco was your mate?" Viktor asked. He could sense that Harry and Draco were incredibly powerful, on top of that his adopted father is the dark lord, there is a chance that the boy could become even more powerful than he was now.
"I was blood adopted just over 3 weeks ago, and I found out Draco was my mate the day after." Harry was nervous yet excited. He was nervous because he did not know what he could turn into, but he was excited to know if he could become more powerful.
"Well in that case in the next few days you could become something else. It will not change the fact the dark lord is your father or that Draco is your mate, all it will change is the animal of your animagus and the creature that you are." Gellert said.
"Oh well looks like we will have more drama huh?" Harry said, earning a nod from Draco.
By this time the rest of their group had joined them, as well as the headmaster taking his place at the front to address them.
"Good morning. For a little while I will tell you about Durmstrang for a bit and put to rest any questions that you may have. Then I am going to give you your timetables for the next 5 weeks, when the school year begins in 5 weeks, then you will get another timetable for the 5th year." The headmaster said, earning nods from those in the group before him.
"Yes headmaster!" They all said together.
"Well Durmstrang is actually older than Hogwarts itself and is a lot more full than that school too. There used to be many who were light, but Dumbledore became too power hungry and started taking credit for things that he did not do. Many of those who were light decided that they would be better of on the dark side, this was because on the dark are free to do as you wish as long as it is not going against what the dark stands for. The dark allowed you to be free and it allowed you to practice any and all magic, the unforgivable were not always just used on the dark side, they were all invented for light purposes. The imperious curse was designed to make marionettes move on their own and was one of the ways theatre was made, the Crucio curse was designed to stimulate the receptors in the brain it helped a lot of people who had brain damage or who were in a coma and the killing curse was designed for the death of prisoners it was a quick and painless way of dying, many did this to themselves to end suffering painlessly. This shows us that there is no light and no dark spells, it is the intent of the person, on the dark we do use these to kill or harm, but we do it in a way that is painful when we need it to be and also painless as well. Light spells could be used as dark spell too, diffindo causes fire and that is dangerous." The headmaster said.
This made sense to Harry, there were many light spells that he had been taught in Hogwarts that could have been used to harm or even kill someone, just like some of the dark spells could be used to help people. The more time Harry spent with the dark the more that he learned, and this was making him regret not joining them sooner than he had.
"Durmstrang was created to combat the Hogwarts light, it is true that we have more dark than light but that is what makes us the best school. We teach all spells and show that they can be good or dark. The dark also use healing spells, spells for food and spells for mending things. Raise your hand in this room if your parents are dark?" Only Harry, Lucius, Daphne, Theo, Blaise and Viktor raised their hands.
"I know who Draco's is, both of his parents are Death Eaters. Daphne, Theo and Blaise are also children of Death Eaters, all of whom I know as I was and still am one. I also know that Viktor's father is dark while his mother is light, he had chose when he was old enough and he chose to side with his father. But I have no idea who your dark parents are Harry." The headmaster said looking at Harry. The boy did look like the child of someone he knew but he could place the name to the face.
"Well all of us used to be a part of Hogwarts, I was trained to combat the dark lord, but I was being betrayed. My friends only wanted my money and fame, Dumbledore only wanted me to kill Voldemort and then he would kill me to take credit and the Order of the Phoenix wanted me to be a weapon. I left and went home to where I was beaten to near death by the magic hating muggles that Dumbledore sent me to after every year, although he knew and paid for it to happen. He wanted his weapon to be weak. I spoke to Voldemort and he gave me a new family, as well as finding my mate in the process. If you are wondering who my dark parents are, their names are Severus Snape and Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle." Harry said, gaining shocked looks from the headmaster and the students that he had not spoken to.
"Well we are happy to hold you and your friends here my boy. Anyway many who had light parents went to the light because that was what their parents were, but many of those numbers decreased when they saw what it entitled to be light and they became dark. There are very few with dark parents who turn light, but there have been some. As you can see, this school is twice the size of Hogwarts both in size and in population. We do not place you in houses as that would cause school rivalries and that is something that we do not like here, you do have to where a uniform as seen by the older students here, you will be given yours when the school year begins."
Here the Headmaster took a breath. "Until then you just where normal clothes. There is no Quidditch teams, just the one as we like to promote new people joining each year, we hope that some of you join and you get to play in the tournament. Everyone in 5th year are able to take part in the Triwizard tournament, however the whole of 5th-7th years will coming to the castle to support the champion. You are able to practice all dark and light spells, but they must not be fired at one another. I think that is all I have to say, please come to the desk to get the timetable for the next 5 weeks." The headmaster said, he turned and sat at the teachers desk where there was a pile of papers in front of him.
The students all lined up, there appeared to be about 30 in for first 5 weeks but Harry knew that it was going to pick up when the school year really began. "Now I want you to approach me, say your name and tell me if you want to do dark or both dark and light. In dark you will just learn about the dark arts spells, but in the light and dark you will be taught light spells however you will be taught them in the way of the dark not for the use of good." The headmaster said.
All of the Bulgarian's went first as they were more confident and most of them chose just dark, except Viktor, Poliakoff and Gellert who chose them both. Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Lavender, Luna, Neville, Cedric, Fleur and Draco all chose both light and dark. Harry was the last one to chose.
"Name?" The headmaster asked.
"Harry Riddle." Harry said, he already knew what he wanted to.
"And what is it you would like to do? Dark or both?" The headmaster asked, he looked a bit bored, then again he had done this about 29 times before him.
"I would like to do both pls." Harry replied politely, he was had learned more about pureblood etiquette since living with Voldemort and being around the Malfoys, he was now the son of Tom Riddle, he had to act like the pureblood that he was.
"Very well, here is your timetable. Please go to one of the older students if you ever have trouble finding your way. However have this map and it will show you where you are supposed to go." Harry nodded his head and shook hands with headmaster before joining with his friends.
"I chose both, what about you lot?" He asked, earning nods from all of them.
"Although I wish we could have our uniforms now, I heard from one of the older students that they are moving up the World Cup, we will still be in our 5 weeks here if we get onto the team. They also need two more beaters, seeker and chaser." Fred said.
"Headmaster, would it be possible to get out uniforms straight away, we are wanting to partake in the World Cup and we have to be in uniform?" The headmaster nodded his head and told them that they would be delivered to their rooms by the end of the day.
"This means that we are going to see the traitors before we wanted to. You are lucky Harry they are not going to recognise you, but us we will have to suffer them." George said.
"Sorry guys." Harry smiled.
"Well you lot the try-outs have moved up to. You can try out on Monday and be given your place, if you get on, in the next few days. The World Cup is going to be held 3 weeks from the try-outs tomorrow, meaning that you will 3 weeks training before you will compete." Viktor said, earning nods from everyone else.
"Right, you may return to your rooms for the rest of the day, you will have no lessons or anything until next Monday. I bid you good-day." The headmaster said.
Harry and Draco, as well as their friends went back to their to do who knows what. Harry and Draco spent the day talking whether it was about each other, their families, Quidditch or other things.
At night they went to bed and fell asleep snuggled together happily after bidding one another goodnight and saying their 'I love you.'