A/N: So here's theeeeeeee…

A/N: So here's theeeeeeee….i've lost count…is this eleven?? I think so…yeah, let's just go with that. Here's the eleventh chapter of A Family of My Own…that is the story…right? WAIT! This is chapter twelve….

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Harry's POV

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My father, sister, lover and I all looked at the most exotic animal store in the entire wizarding world. Sure they had all the typical animals but they were best known for their rare animals.

Draco immediately started pulling me towards the snake section, hoping to find one that would bond with him. I already figured mine would be a snake since I could speak Parseltongue but I really didn't mind. I was practically dragged down the length of the wall that contained the snake cages until Draco finally gave in with a huff and moved to a different part of the store.

I laughed and took my time, looking in each cage, marveling at the many different types of snakes. 'You.' One hissed. 'You are the one I've been waiting for.' The snake it came from was a deep green color with black eyes that seemed to drill through my head to my thoughts.

I reached my hand into the cage and the snake wound herself around my arm. 'What shall I call you?' I wondered as I went to find Draco and Hermione, who insisted that she keep her own name, to see how they were faring.

'My name would be nice.' She retorted and I chuckled. There was a hissed laugh from the snake before she elaborated. 'My name is Oriana. I am glad to make your acquaintance Griffith.' I resisted the urge to ask her how she knew my name, knowing that I probably didn't want to know the answer.

I found Hermione looking at the selection of wild cats. Currently she was holding a baby panther with a loving look in her blue eyes. "Look at her Griffith!" She exclaimed when she saw me. "Isn't she just adorable?"

"The cutest." I agreed. "Is that your familiar?"

She frowned. "I'm not sure. I think so, but I don't really know how I'm supposed to tell." Before I could answer the baby panther licked her cheek.

"I'm thinking that she's your familiar." I laughed and together we went to find Draco. Oriana coiled around my arm and Hermione's familiar walking calmly next to us.

"Harry!" I heard Draco call from the depths of the store. "I can't find my familiar." Suddenly a shot of white passed my by and went in the direction of Draco's voice. "You've got to be kidding me!" I heard him exclaim.

As we approached him I found him holding a pure white ferret who was trying desperately to rest on his shoulder. I tried holding back a laugh and could tell that Hermione was doing the same. "It's not funny, you guys!" He objected as small giggles escaped my lips. "It brings back such bad memories."

No matter how many times he put the ferret back in its cage it kept finding a way out and back to Draco. "Harry," he complained after a while, "help me keep this thing away from me."

"No." I flat out replied, wincing at the sound of my old name. "Not until you learn that my name isn't Harry anymore. It's Griffith." I stalked away, opening the door to the ferret's cage on my way past it.

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Back home I went straight to my room to make sure that Oriana knew that Topaz wasn't a threat to me and was almost like another familiar to me, stressing the almost so that the dangerous little snake wouldn't attack it while I slept.

Draco had ended up getting the ferret, cursing under his breath as his father paid for it, Hermione giggling on the other side of me were the blond couldn't get at her.

Topaz suddenly flew out of my room when Draco passed by and plopped herself into his robe pocket, frantically flying back to me so that Draco was pulled along. I laughed at the sight of Draco stumbling backwards down the hall.

When he got into my room I waved my wand and the door shut. Topaz removed herself from the pocket and flew onto my pillow where she usually sat when the bed wasn't being occupied. "You really are a little ball of trouble, did you know that?" The golden ball fluttered her wings at me.

"Is there a reason she brought me in here?" The blond asked, his familiar poking his face out of one of his pockets.

"I don't know." I tilted my head in question at Topaz but she was unresponsive, her wings curled up so that she simply looked like a ball of gold. "But I suppose I should apologize for before while I've got you in my evil clutches."

"Evil. Ha!" Draco snorted. "You don't have an evil bone in your body Griffith." He stressed my name and I felt my heart swell with delight.

I laughed. "That's not as true as you think it is."

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In the kitchen house-elves were scuttling around trying to prepare for dinner. Few of them noticed the three of us standing in the middle watching the chaos but those who did gave us dirty looks and started to push us back out into the Dining Hall.

"Well, that was useless." Draco scoffed. "We didn't even get any food."

"Oh really, dinner's in an hour." Hermione rolled her eyes. "Can't you just wait until then?"

"No." We replied in unison. "An hour's too long." Draco whined.

"You boys are all alike!" She laughed. "You can't last two hours without food. Ron was…" She trailed off. "An idiot." She finally said firmly.

"Duh. I can't wait to get him in the final battle." Draco said, an evil glint in his eye.

"Alright, but whatever the two of you do, leave Dumbledore to me."

"And I get Ginny." Hermione nodded. "The bitch put me through too much torture over the years for her to get away with."

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"Draco!" I heard a feminine screech echo throughout the manor. "Keep your thieving little ferret out of my room!"

I turned my head and saw Draco smirking. "What did you take this time?"

"Nothing of importance." He said as he took notes from a book with what I know recognized as Hermione's favorite quill."

"You do know that you can't keep taking things from her." I pointed out. "She'll find a way to get you back and it won't be pretty."

He twirled the quill around his fingers and looked at me, smiling. "I can and I will. She has no proof it was…" His words faltered as we watched Hermione stalk into the library with revenge written plainly on her face.

"Draco Lucius Malfoy, you will give me my things back." She held out her hand. Draco smiled guiltily and placed the quill gently in her outstretched palm. "All of them." He winced slightly, stood up, and dug around in his pocket before unearthing a small notebook that looked to be a diary and one of Mindy's collars.

I bit back a laugh until Hermione had left the room. "I'd watch your back from now on."

"That's what I have you for." He said, reseating himself on my lap. "You're much better at all that defensive magic."

I sighed. "But Hermione's magic is just as strong as mine if not stronger so I'm not much help to you."

"If you're not much help to me then how am I supposed to defend myself?" He panicked, eyes wide.

I shrugged. "If I were you I'd offer up my services before she decides to take revenge."

Draco all but scrambled off my lap and out of the library. I chuckled as I opened the book that my boyfriend had been reading.

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"Harry, you have to tell her to free me from this torture. It's been two weeks and she already has all of her things back." The blond whined one night as he massaged his hand. Hermione had been making him groom Mindy and take notes from the few White magic books she could find.

"I'll try to convince her but you know how well that worked last time." I said and the blond shuddered. The last time he had sent me to Hermione she had worked him twice as hard the next afternoon.

"You know what. Maybe I'll just talk to her myself." He said and scurried out of the room, Dash, his familiar, on his shoulder.

When he came back he sighed in relief. "She's let me off for good." He announced proudly.

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"Draco!" A yell resounded off the walls of the manor. "You better keep Dash out of my things if you want to see him alive again!"

I turned to Draco who was lying next to me on my bed. "So on from Hermione to your father?" I asked him and he nodded gleefully. "You just better make sure that Dash steers clear of my father's things. If he finds anything missing I doubt Dash will live mere seconds after laying his little white paws on it."

Dash chose that moment to scurry into the room and run up Draco's shoulder holding a thin notebook. "And Severus?" I raised an eyebrow. "What is it with you and digging through other people's stuff?"

He shrugged. "You can learn a lot about a person from what they keep under their bed and around their rooms."

"That's it; I'm warding my room from now on."

"Don't worry. I haven't taken anything from you." He said.

"Then why do I see Dash gnawing on one of my encrypted galleons?" I pointed to the ferret trying to eat the gold.

"Dash!" Draco exclaimed. "You were supposed to put all of his things back where you found them!"

"All of my things?" I raised an eyebrow. "What did you take?"

The blond smiled and made a run for it but I put wards on the doors and he bounced off, right back to me. "I didn't take a lot." He said by means of excuse. "And I put it all back before you'd miss it. Please don't hurt me."

I laughed. "Why would I hurt you?"

Draco looked up from where he had curled protectively in an armchair. "I-I don't know. It seems as though you've been getting angry easily lately."

I frowned and thought back over the past few weeks. It was true that I was on the edge with my eighteenth birthday so near but I didn't recall hurting anyone. "I haven't hurt you before have I?" I worried, tears threatening to spill down my cheeks.

Draco looked uneasy. "No, you haven't really hurt anyone but a few things have exploded in your presence." He said, squirming in the chair.

"I think I need some time alone." I said dazedly, leaving the library without another word.

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Dinner came and went and I hadn't seen Draco since I had left the library. I called Itsy and asked her where my boyfriend was. "He's in the library Young Master." She said and popped away.

I travelled down to the library and found Draco wondering aimlessly among the shelves. "Have you been here this whole time?" I asked, amazed.

"Duh!" He almost flew at me when he heard my voice. "You forgot to take the wards down you idiot!! Even the house-elves couldn't get them down! How could you just leave me here?"

I cringed, realizing he was right. "I'm sorry Draco." I said, collapsing into his strong arms. "I didn't mean to."

The blond seemed shocked at my reaction and held me stiffly until he realized what a distressed state I was in. He curled his arms around me and held me close to him. "It's alright. I'm not angry with you Griffith."

We stood there and stood there until I felt my eyelids begin to droop. "I'm heading up to bed. I'll see you in the morning." I stumbled out of the library, remembering to remove the wards, and up to my room.

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A/n: I know there were a lot of non-important events in this chapter but I promise that the next chapter should be more interesting. THIS STORY SHALL BE ENDING SOON…I'm getting kind of sick of it….