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A/N: So yeah, what to say. I am happy about the people who review and the people who put me on alert. Regarding the pairing, it will eventually be HarryxDraco. Nothing that would get me kicked out, but some small things in the end. It'll be a few chapters until then. I haven't even started with my main idea for the story. Just read and review and I'll come to my plot.
II. Living with the dark side
The next day, Harry came running into the meeting room, while Voldemort was in a meeting.
„Get your annoying people of me. Their saying I need new cloth, a new hairstyle and lessons on my behaviour!" The dark cloaked group in the hall was stunned. Just right then came Bellatrix and Malfoy rushing into the hall. Bellatrix grumbled something about green dark cloth and longer hair would do. While Malfoy tried to explain to Bellatrix where they were.
„Why are you running around and interrupting my meeting?" Voldemort asked anger clearly to be heard in his voice. Bellatrix blinked and looked around, then if she just realised where they were she bowed.
„My Lord, we wanted to change the appearance of Potter so he is worthy to be standing in the same room as you. Look at him, he is too thin, his clothes are too big and his hair is a mess." She said, still bowing low. The dark lord chuckled and looked at Potter who was now standing behind him.
„I am not too thin and the next person who says I am will be kicked." Potter said and then Fenir Grindelwald had him captured.
„You are too thin Potter, look at you. We can see your rips!" he said but at the same time Harry somehow managed to free himself and tackled Fenir.
„Maybe I am thin, but I like my hair." Potter was now pouting. But it was no use. Bellatrix used a spell and let his hair grow longer and put it into a braid, while Malfoy was working on Potter's eyes. When they were finished everyone in the hall gasped. Potter looked good, no scratch that. He looked sexy, even better than Malfoy. The only thing that didn't fit to his new appearance were his clothes.
„Go take him shopping. But don't interrupt my meeting when you come back!" Voldemort said. He couldn't look at Harry. That Boy just looked too sexy and if Potter didn't go soon he wouldn't be able to control his body.
When they came back Harry was stressed out and laying on Voldemorts chair in the Meeting Hall. He was wearing a dark greenish shirt, black pants and a black cape with gold and silver strains on it. Sitting there he seemed to be asleep but as Voldemort stepped near the chair Harry opened his eyes.
"I knew it was you Tom. Only you, Snape and Malfoy can walk this silently." Potter smiled tiredly. "You know, they are really some freaks. Telling me to eat more. They behave like they are my parents."
"Well, I think they adopted you into their hearts. They are worried about you. And don't forget you chose to come. Now get off my chair and eat dinner with me. I want to talk to you. And you said you only wanted to talk in privat." They walked to the dining room where they met Lucius, Draco, Bellatrix and Fenir.
"It seems you have invited people to listen in." Potter said raising his right eyebrow.
"Yes, I invited them so that you wouldn't be afraid and just to be safe if I should lose my nerves. We don't want to anger you away." the dark lord said almost smiling at Potter, but only almost. They ate their food in silence, only sometimes a cloaked person would appear and whisper things into the ear of the dark lord. To Harry's surprise they seemed to believe that he couldn't hear what they were telling Tom. But Harry had good ears. He had never told anyone about it and it came in handy at some times. The information he heard weren't really interesting, half of them he knew already and the rest was just rubbish – made-up stuff just to please their lord. Harry hoped, that Tom didn't believed those false in information. Because if he actually did Harry had to reconsider if he really wanted to hang around here. Tom wouldn't be any better than the old fool Dumbledore. So he tried pointing it to Tom after they finished dinner. They were sitting now in a living room in front of a fire.
"Tom, how do you know that your followers aren't lying to you? Or worse making up some information just to please you?" he hoped it wasn't too offending to ask.
" Well, let's see. Most of them are afraid of me. So those wouldn't dare lie to me. The rest, well I sense it if someone wants to lie. You know I am good at legilimence. Why do you ask? Are you trying to figure out if you could lie to me?" Now it was the dark lords turn to raise his right eyebrow, well yes he had now a face that made him look like a twenty year old Tom.
"Why would I lie? It's too much trouble. And I was just curious. I happen to have heard some of those information your followers were telling you about. And I know that some of them, let me put it so. They weren't the truth, as well as not real. They made them up or heard those from someone who knows that the person is a Death Eater." Harry tried to sound as if it wasn't all so important.
"What? Made up?" Tom got up walked over to Potter glared at him and stormed out of the room. The others started to breathe again. "What? Did I do something wrong?" Potter asked the others.
"No. Nothing is wrong. You just said to the dark lord that you were listening in his information he thought were not to be heard by us. And also telling him that some of those information are made up! You can be lucky he didn't use the cruciatus on you!" Lucius said and stormed out of the room after his master.
"Well I just wanted to know if he was the same as the old fool. And If he really didn't know this than I have to say he is and I would like to go. I give you three days to convince me of the opposite!" Now Potter stormed out and to the library, the only place he knew where it was and how he could get there on his own. And by the way, he enjoyed reading books of all kinds. Not like in school. In school he was supposed to read books, books he almost knew as his own hand. He found an interesting title and took the book and placed himself in front of the fire onto the couch. Harry fell asleep in no time. Draco found him laying on the couch with a book in his hands. Harry was almost through and Draco doubted that Harry had had read the book somewhere else before. It wasn't really as if Harry had read for hours. To be honest he had two hours and then Draco was ordered to look if Harry was still there. Draco wondered if Harry had been this eager reading books from the beginning. Because it didn't look like it in school. But he could be wrong. Maybe Harry had performed being the innocent Gryffindor for the world. He decided he needed to ask Potter some questions when Potter was awake.
Harry woke up the next morning laying in a really comfortable bed. And he felt really good just laying in it and not opening his eyes or even moving. But then he smelled something really delicious. And then he heard footsteps coming towards him. Potter opened his eyes and formed a spell in his head when he saw that it was just Draco bringing him some coffee. Draco smiled at Potter, just for a second he saw something really frightening in Potters eyes but as Potter recognized him it left the eyes and Draco saw the normal mask Potter wore while he was around others. Draco knew that it was a mask, because he had seen him sleeping and he had heard of his father that Potter could look really relaxed if he had fun being around people.
"Here some coffee. Thought you might like some. See you always drinking coffee with milk and one sugar at breakfast." Draco said and gave Harry the mug.
"Thanks. How did I end up in this really comfortable bed? Last I know I was reading a good book in the library. And how come I didn't wake up when you moved me into this room?"
"Oh, that's simple. My father used a silence spell so you wouldn't be disturbed by us. The dark lord said that he saw you in the meeting hall looking rather tired. We decided to move you to one of the guest rooms." Harry had gotten out of bed and looked now around for some clothes to wear.
"The clothes they bought you are in the next room. This here is the sleeping room, then the left door leads to the bathroom, the door in the middle leads to the closet with your stuff in it and the door on the right leads to the hallway. There are guards in front who will bring you to the dining room from yesterday for breakfast. You should hurry, the dark lord doesn't like to wait long. I would say you have around thirty minutes to take a shower and get dressed." Draco said and walked out of the room.
'How am I supposed to do this all in thirty minutes? Oh well, better start and if I'm not ready then they just have to wait for me. They were the ones telling me to have long hair. And what can I do if I haven't a clue how to manage my hair?' Harry moved to the closet and took some comfy and good looking robes out. Then he went to the bathroom and took a long hot shower. As he was drying his hair he heard people talking outside in the sleeping room. It was quiet but he was able to understand it anyhow.
"The dark lords waiting."
"I know. I told Potter that he had thirty minutes.", Draco said to the other man.
"Then we should tell Potter that he is late." The other man sounded impatient and it seemed as if he didn't know how dangerous it would be for himself if he was to disturb Harry right now. Even without a wand Harry was strong.
"You shouldn't go in there. What if he is naked? Or worse doing something we don't want to see?" Draco said panic coming into his voice.
"Don't be a baby. It's not like you haven't seen a man naked and doing it. Anyway I'll open this door now." As the man said it Harry was trying to dry his hair and Harry knew that the man would suffer while trying to open the door. Magically or not. At the thought a smile crept up his face.
"Ouch! What the fuck! Ouch! Ouch! Stop that you little piece of shit monkey.!" the other man yelled. Harry smiled to himself. The spell had worked. His monkey was protecting him. Well he just put his monkey amulet on the door and hexed it so every person who wanted to get in without permission would be attacked by it. Harry heard them firing spell after spell at the monkey. When it went quiet he decided to step outside. Smiling he saw his monkey on top of the man and Draco hiding at the door.
"What did you do? You're not supposed to be able to do magic." the man spat out which earned him a smack from the monkey on the head.
"Dean. Let the man be. He has suffered enough by being beaten by you." Potter said and pointing the monkey to go back to his amulet.
"And for you. I don't know who you are. But never underestimate me. What if I don't have my wand at me. I usually only use it at school were people expect me to use it. Don't tell me Voldemort has never done any wandless magic in front of you!" Potter said, the man was shuddering hearing the Dark Lords name spoken so casually by this boy who was standing in front of him.
"Draco, I haven't got a clue on how to spell my hair like Bella did. Can you do something about it?"
Now the man was even more surprised. He was being ignored by this insolent boy, as if he wasn't even there. He got up and pointed his wand at Potter who turned to the man looking at him with a look asking him if he really wanted to do what he was about to do. And this got the man even more angrier.
"You insolent boy. How dare you attack me, ignore me and then underestimate me!" he screamed and fired a cruciatus at Potter. Potter just pointed his index finger at the man and reflected the spell. The spell hit the man, it wasn't strong but it did its job perfectly. At this moment the guards came into the room and saw the man on the floor. They thought about what to do. The Dark Lord told them to protect Potter and to listen to him. One then decided to ask what happened.
"Well, this man was foolish enough to try to force me out of the bathroom when I wasn't even finished. Then he foolishly insulted me and underestimated me and shot a cruciatus at me which I reflected back to him." Potter said gesturing Draco to help with his hair and moving out of the room.
Arriving twenty minutes late they walked into the dining room. Voldemort was sitting on the table looking ready to kill the first person to say a wrong word.
"Well Tom. Excuse me for being late. I had some trouble with this damn long hair, Bellatrix never taught me the spells required for it and then one of you man was a fool and attacked me after somehow getting angry and screaming that I insulted him. But really I haven't a clue why he was angry." Tom jumped up. He was halfway to Potter when he understood what Potter had said.
"Who attacked you? And I will let your tardiness slip this time."
"What I wasn't tardy. If you forgot it. I am NOT one of your followers." Potter was getting angry and Lucius jumped and took the left arm of the Dark Lord and indicated him to stop. It wasn't good to make Potter angry and Lucius tried to show his lord his thoughts with his eyes and a look at Potter. The Dark Lord seemed to understand and calmed himself. When he turned around he saw Potter sitting at the table looking at him. Then they heard a stomach growl. Potter flushed a little.
"Well, sorry. But I am hungry and if you don't want to eat then be it. I'll start now." Voldemort thought that this boy was rather arrogant or really blind of his surroundings. Didn't Potter knew he was in his enemy's lair? Wandless? As if sensing the Lords mood Lucius started to avert the attention from Potter to himself.
"So my lord. What to you plan to do today? We successfully did all the request you gave us. Potter is here and all your men are at standby. Ready to do whatever you want them to do."
"Ah yes, well I wanted to have a nice walk with our Harry there. Harry you don't mind. Do you?" Harry looked Tom into his eyes trying to read in them what Tom wanted to achieve while walking with him. But Tom had a mask on and Harry wasn't able to read his face.
"Sure, is there a lake near? Then we could also enjoy the nice weather and go swimming." True he liked swimming. It was like his second nature after flying. Only he knew why he was good in flying and all those things. Having the ability to change into almost every animal he wanted to. And on the end of the summer holidays he would turn seventeen and come off age, and also coming into his inheritance. Last year while his "friends" and him researched many things he found out about him being the next prince of the elves, not the house elves but the real elves who aren't living openly.
As they walked Voldemort was reluctant to ask Potter any questions, he didn't want to annoy the boy with his interest in information only he could give. But as he knew nothing good comes from waiting too long.
"Harry. I assume it is now a private time without anyone interrupting us."
"Hm, I have to agree. So I guess you want to ask me some questions? And not spoil it when we are swimming?"
"Yes, well how to start? As you are already here with me willingly I have no need to invade Hogwarts. But it would be better to know about all the wards of the school."
"You know, that wasn't really a question. But if I remember correctly there are only three people who know about all the wards of the school. The old fool, the minister of magic and oh who was that again? Ah yes it was Bill Weasley. Because of his knowledge. I would say you should try it with Bill. But don't hurt him. He has to give this information to you willingly. He was one of the only ones who liked me truly because of who I am and not for my fame. In fact he was the older brother I never had."
They were now able to see the lake in front of them so Voldemort had to think fast of which question to ask next. But there was no question, only those which would in this state insult Potter or annoy him. He thought 'I have to show him that he can trust me even more and maybe that works if I can help him finding his mate. I know that he is not only a mere wizard, I believe he has a mate and only this person will make him happy. Oh how I hate this word.'
"Do you like the view of this lake? I learned here how to swim."
"Well it's nice and so but it can't rival the view of Hogwarts lake. Did you know Tom? I love swimming."
Potter said and jumped into the lake. He had changed out of his clothes while he had talked to Tom. The dark Lord didn't join him. He preferred to be on land and sat down under a tree.
The boy looked like he was a fish or maybe a merman. Swimming, diving and then surfacing. And then the boy was out of sight. 'Great, now I have to save the boy-who-lived or else I would never get all those information.'
Meanwhile in the water
Harry had seen a merman swim in the depth of the lake and he had decided to swim down, well he could now be under water the whole day. On the last day of school he had learnt a spell which helped him underwater. As he dived deeper into the lake he couldn't see a lot anymore, it was dark and many plants hindered the view. But eventually he got to an open space where a village was. It looked really amazing, almost like he thought Atlantis looked like. And then just before he could enter the village/city the merman whom he saw earlier swam towards Harry and stopped right in front of him.
"Get away, humans are not permitted entrance to our city!" the merman told him and made a gesture which underlined his statement. Wait. How come Harry understood what the merman had said?
"Err, well okay. If you won't let me in I can swim back to the surface and behave like I never saw your city or even you." Harry pouted and turned. The merman's mouth was wide open. In his whole life did he never got to know a human who could understand him or even talk to him. Just as Harry wanted to swim up did the merman got a hold of his arm and turned Harry around.
"No, I'm sorry. I didn't know you could speak merman. Stay. It is a rule to show humans who can understand us the city."
Above the water three hours later
Voldemort was still panicking and contemplating what to do. He had send a patronus to Malfoy Sr. And Lucius arrived here twenty minutes later gasping for air. But even when Malfoy was there they had no idea what to do. Neither knew what had happened to Potter. They only knew that if Potter was dead because he couldn't breathe any more his body would float somewhere on the surface but there was no body. The only solution to what that boy was doing was that the boy had decided to dive to the ground of the lake. Only god knew what had caught that boys attention for doing so.
They were about to call all the death eaters to jump into the lake and go look for Potter when Lucius saw something shimmering in the water. And finally Potter surfaced. He had a wide grin on his face but as soon as he saw the two man standing on the beach with worry written all over their faces the grin disappeared. He waved to them. Hoping he could limit the worst damage of his actions. Hoping for a scolding but not too harsh. As he walked towards his clothes he saw that Malfoy was staring at him holding a towel. The towel was probably for him so he grabbed it and went on to put his clothes on. After five minutes of Potter ignoring the men to his best he turned and faced them. Voldemort took that as a sign to start his scolding, or whatever it was.
"What did you think you were doing? Vanishing like this for almost four hours into the depth of the lake and then surfacing and behaving like you just swam around the lake?" Voldemort almost shouted. But only almost, because it wouldn't be good for him if his followers would hear him worrying over Potter.
"Did you know that merman live in this lake?" He wanted to see how far he could go before Voldemort decided to explode. Voldemort blinked, opened his mouth but closed it again and just stormed away to the mansion leaving Potter and Malfoy alone.
"It seems he didn't. But Potter." Lucius started and sneered for what he would say next. "Did you know that he was really worried over you? And I would be a little more sensitive about what you tell him about his followers or his property." And with this Malfoy left Potter standing alone by the lake.
'What is it with these people. First they hate you. Then after they spent maybe two days with you they start to worry. They aren't some pregnant women who have a problem with their mood, or are they?'
And so the day ended.
A/N: Like always, I would like some reviews. Bad and good. If you see mistakes please point it out. If you liked it tell me and if you don't like it then just stop reading and spend time reading things you like. And if there are questions concerning the plot or even ideas of what you would like to see review, please.