A/N: As always thanks for reviewing and reading, thank you for pushing this fanfic to nearly 200 follows, it'd be great to get there. Alright this chapter isn't parts or anything like that, it's completely normal. It'll have shared bits about Harry, Canes, Dudley and Athim and maybe even a private excerpt in Draco's POV. So let's go...

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THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO 'SPLASH OF SILVER ON MOUNTAIN'

J.K ROWLING OWNS EVERYTHING; I DON'T GET ANY MONEY FROM THIS. I CLAIM ONLY THE RIGHTS TO ANY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS, NOTHING ELSE.

CHRISTMAS EVE SPECIAL

CHAPTER 11

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Harry was most confused through the small confrontation in the middle of the common room and as such didn't know what to do and he did what he could do best and kept completely silent. And when Athim turned on his heel towards the boys dormitories. Harry also started to walk there, along with Draco but Ryouichi remained in the common room, not moving one step and glaring at the last spot Athim was and every now and then he would glare at the Granger girl.

Harry entered through the boys dormitory door with Draco at his side who was silent and calculating. Harry could almost hear the cogs in his brain turning and turning with ferociousness. Upon entering Harry looked up to notice that there were two more doors. One with two names carved upon the door and one with three. The first one, on the left had the names Harry Potter and Athim Babineaux and Neville Longbottom. The door on the right had the names Draco Malfoy and Ryouichi Kazuki Sato.

Harry was quite disappointed that Draco was not in the same room as him although he supposed that Athim was okay although he seemed quite a bit scary as well. Neville seemed quite okay as well but he had been quite silent all through the confrontation, he might be a terrible person for all Harry knew.

Draco looked up at the doors, then looked back at Harry with a smile.

"I guess I'm paired with the moody cow." He says while rolling his eyes.

"I guess you are Draco, have fun with him. Maybe he might be funny."

"Yeah, Harry, I'm sure he's hilarious." Says Draco in a voice dripping with sarcasm. "Well anyway, I guess I'll see you in the morning, I have to write a letter to my father and I don't want it to be late, I might not get my sweets package if the letter is..." Draco says with a smile.

"G'night Draco see you in the morning..." Harry replies "If Ryou-whatever hasn't killed you in your sleep." Harry chuckles out and with those words Harry runs into his room with Draco only getting the chance to slap him on the ear.

Harry shut the door behind him to find that Athim and Neville had already taken their beds, which were decorated in different colours of gold, silver, blue and red. They had both taken the far beds leaving Harry with the bed in the middle. And so Harry went over to his bed and was surprised to find that his trunk was there and so was Hedwig and Sarseen.

Sarseen seemed quite relaxed about the situation in her cage as she had curled up and seemingly gone to sleep while Hedwig was clawing at her cage and hooting as if she was going to release herself. Harry quickly opened her cage and the window to let her out and as he did, Hedwig gave him a peck and bite on his index finger and left speedily through the window.

Before Harry even had a chance to sit down and gather his thoughts about the situation Athim had started to talk.

"Thanks for that Potter. Can I call you Harry? The owl was really getting on my nerves."

"No problem...Athim?" Says Harry hesitantly

"Yes, my names Athim, and as it looks like Mr. Longbottom over there isn't going to introduce himself. I believe he is Neville, am I right?" Questions Athim

"Y...yeah, I'm Neville." He says and quickly looks down at the ground as if searching for something.

"Come on guys, don't be shy. We're going to be living together for seven years after all. There's no point in acting like the other doesn't exist." He kindly says "I mean, I'm not as scary as it may have seemed like out there with Sato, I just can't stand for that pureblood nonsense."

"What even is that, I mean I don't actually get what it means." Asks Harry

Athim gets up off of his bed and sits down on the floor between all three beds. It was a big space with three desks, which Harry supposed was for each of them. Athim patted the ground as if asking the other two boys to come sit with him. Harry got up much faster than Neville although he was hesitant as well and Harry sat to the right of athim while Neville sat to the right of Harry and left of Athim, making an almost circle of sorts.

"So, before I get into all that. Let's just introducd ourselves, I don't want to not know you after all so. My name is Athim Babineaux and I am of French and Arab descent. My fathers the French one. I pride myself in my knowledge of languages, it is much better than just using a spell. I live in France and I am pureblood but I don't think it means anything as you already know. Now your turn Neville." Says Athim.

"Um...I'm Neville, Neville Longbottom. You already knew that, S-sorry. I'm English and I have been for hu-hundreds of years. I'm pureblood like you...Athim. And I don't think that muggles are bad at all. I live in England with my nan, because...because...it's your turn Harry." Says Neville with a bravery to muster up the words even though it was hesitant.

"Well, I'm Harry Potter. Apparently most people know me by name but not many actually know me. To be honest I probably know less about myself than you do. I'm English and I don't know how pureblood fully works, Draco said it had something to do with generations of magic or something and I don't know about my family generations so yeah. I used to live with my aunt and uncle but that has changed a bit over the past few weeks. I personally don't think anyone with magic should be treated any differently than one who knew about it long before. We all have it and that is all that matters." Said Harry as well.

"Yes, that is exactly it Harry but I'm afraid I don't know enough to shed light on your family, maybe one of the teachers would, certainly McGonagall looked old enough and don't get me started on Dumbledore. But I think I can shed some light on your doubts about pureblood ancestry. Well first of all there are three kinds of wizards, Pureblood, Halfblood and Muggleborn. Muggleborns are born from Muggles, you know, people without magic. They are usually born because of some lost squib line or something like that, I can tell by your face Harry that you don't know what a squib is so I'll tell you about them in a few minutes but anyway. Muggleborns are no less powerful than the other wizards but they are often less successful in the wizarding world because of what they don't know and that is only because no one bothers to teach them about it. Like for example the Granger girl, it was quite clear to us that a leader was being chosen and that is something quite important in our world and due to her lack of knowledge about it, she got involved and Ryouichi got a bit disgustingly foul-mouthed. I mean he could at least be kind enough to tell her the traditions...I'll give her a book tomorrow to get her on the right track, she does look like a bit of a bookworm after all."

"But I'm straying off of course. A halfblood wizard is either born of a muggle and a wizard or witch. Or born of two first generation wizard and witches or any 2nd or 3rd generation wizards. So this means that even though magic may have been in the family for generations they still can't be classed as pureblood. Personally I think that the pureblood halfblood and muggleborn titles should be abolished like in America and Egypt and Italy and Greece which are pioneering for wizarding future, after all magic has been in those countries for thousands of years. But when a fourth generation and fourth generation get together and have a baby it makes that baby a fifth generation wizard which means 1st generation pureblood. So do you get it. I'm guessing you do. I hope."

"And now for the purebloods, they are a bit terrible, with inbreeding and the such, they believe that this will just make them stronger and better while it is actually just making them crazy like for example Bellatrix Lestrange the crazy bit-"

Neville cut in with a cough and excused himself to go to the toilet for a minute and he rushed there and Harry swore he could hear fast breathing and maybe even crying. But he left him to it, after all Harry had cried many times before and he knew it was embarrassing to be found out.

After a few minutes or so, Neville came back a bit red and puffy eyed, but seemed to be breathing okay and he gave them a smile and sat back down although he did stare at the ground, without making any contributions to the conversation.

And so in this dormitory friendship started and grew but in the other room it was a much more different situation.

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Draco walked over to his door and opened it up walking into the dormitory, instantly choosing the bed on the left as it was close to the only window in the room which meant that letters would be easy to receive and send. As soon as he had decided that it was his bed he noticed his bags and other belongings appear, the work of house elves no doubt.

Draco quickly jumped onto his bed and opened up his trunk pulling out a long piece of parchment and some ink and a quill, all of them of the finest quality from a Chinese store in one of the side alleys from Diagon Alley. Draco then closed his bag and stuffed it under his bed while also letting his black eagle loose to fly.

He then rushed over to the desk which he assumed was his as it was also on the left side. And he took his place on the wooden chair which was surprisingly comfortable and then he immediately set to it. Set to writing a letter for his father. And one for his mother of course.

Dear Father,

As you expected I have been sorted into a great and noble house but quite surprisingly and please do read on. It isn't Slytherin. I think it would be easiest to explain to you from the train ride. As I told you before I had made a friendship with Harry and as such I was with him in the compartment on the train and only him. We had started to discuss the houses, I myself had made it clear that I planned for Slytherin but Harry being unacquainted with our world was unsure but I was able to convince him the Gryffindor was a terrible house. We continued on in conversation mainly about quidditch and I don't seek to bore you to death so I'll spare you the details, I know how you despise Quidditch, I still think I can change that point of view of yours. Anyhow.

Upon arriving at Hogwarts, we were lead into the great hall and something most intriguing happened. As I'm sure you must know, the hat started to sing, and it was a most interesting song and when the students started to clap and cheer it silenced them once more with a second part of the song. That is what was intriguing, I don't remember enough of it to recount it on parchment but it introduced a new house to Hogwarts. House of the Dragon. It goes by the name of Vipertooth. As I'm sure you must have guessed by now, I was sorted into this house along with Harry, Neville Longbottom, Athim Babineaux, Ryouichi Kazuki Sato, Shannon Burton, Daphne Greengrass, Luna Lovegood and a muggleborn...I won't mention her name to you as I don't want to spoil this letter to you.

Upon finding our new common room which I must say is beautiful, we started a conversation as a house in which we were going through the tradition of finding a leader. I commenced it, and I am aware that you said that this should only be attempted at my fifth year or so, I felt that because we were all first years I could attempt it. Ultimately I would like to apologise for that as it didn't turn out too well as Athim Babineaux also showed himself to be a uitable leader as well and Sato also seemed to want it but I don't believe many in the house would be willing to help him there, after all he made some dashing statements and was very much ruined by Athim who seems to be a very good ally if I can get him.

As for now, no girls have stepped up to the role of leader but by the look in Daphne's eyes I think she just might do tomorrow morning and I believe she would have if Athim and Sato hadn't gotten into an argument. I still think I have a chance no matter who gets involved and I will not disappoint you.

And now to the more important crux of the letter. As you told me after I told you about Harry, I aimed to make Harry my ally but I think it will become more than that as I now view him as a very good friend just like you and uncle Snape, I hope you don't mind but I just wanted to make it clear with all respect that I will not stop being friends with Harry if you tell me to.

Now, about Aquila, I know she will be sending you her own letter but I will just say so as to not spoil her surprise for you that she is very happy and I believe I am in a suitable position to take care of her just like you told me to.

Now I think I will end my letter with a simple few requests. If you could I would like a camera so as to show you the common room and what it looks like so you have knowledge of it. Also if I may ask, could I have a few books on the more special kinds of magic that you told me about. I think that I am of suitable age now but if you do not agree I am completely sharing in your point of view.

Next is my letter to mum.

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Mum,

Dad has probably read out his part of the letter to you so I will skip writing out the details for you, I'll just get straight to what I usually talk to you about.

Well I think you'd like to know about Harry so here it is. I think he will become a very great wizard just like me so I think he is a great friend to have but even if he was as magically incompetent as the two buffoons who follow me around. Yes, even if he was as incompetent as them I would still be friends with him and even at this early stage in school I would plan to help him into the customs of the wizarding world so if you could send a few books about that it would be great. I don't want anyone to catch him out about traditions or something when I'm not around especially due to how he isn't roomed with me. He's in a room with Longbottom and Babineaux. I got stuck with Sato. He's a bit of a blabber mouthed annoying wizard.

Now here is the bit which can't be shown to Dad. It's about the train ride, I lied. It wasn't just me and Harry in the compartment, there was also Harry's cousin. A muggleborn wizard. I know dad would be outraged so I didn't say but I hope that you can understand. He's not even that bad, I mean I know you've told me to be at least a little kind to them but it was tough although I did play one or two games of chess with him. I hope this pleases you as maybe just like you wish, dad would strip off his cold demeanour against muggleborns. Don't take this as meaning I like them, they are still quite scummy to me, especially the one in Vipertooth. Her name is Hermione Granger and she is most terrible with wizarding customs and even if you were to see her you would hate her. She is terrible. I still don't think they should be allowed in the school and I don't think that wizarding studies as a lesson would help as you do.

Anyway enough about muggleborns, it's a bit terrible thinking about them. I'll get straight to it. Please, please, please send me some sweets and loads of prank material. The younger Weasley twins seem like a prime target.

Also I did notice that Canes Black you told me about and that Cygnus Tonks, why did you want to know about them anyway. Canes was sorted into Ravenclaw and Cygnus (what kind of a name is that) was sorted into Hufflepuff. I know that Canes is Sirius Black's son but who is Cygnus? Who are the Tonks? Why do you want to know about them? Could you please answer these questions with the sweets you send me, it would be great.

With Lots of love,

Draco,

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A/N: Well that is that, I know it has been ages since an update but I've had GCSE assessments to do and have been very busy. But as it is the Christmas holidays, quite a few chapters will be released over the next few days, especially the one tomorrow which is the CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. That will be my present to you, what do you think about Cygnus by the way? Drop a review as your present to me. Thank you for reading. Go vote on the poll as well. So don't forget Fav, Follow, Review, Poll!

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