The Journey of a Dark Phoenix

Summary-

Harry Potter is the younger twin brother of Andrew Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, and the favorite nephew of their aunt and uncle. After a beating from his cousin and older brother, Harry meets a strange man that is invisible to everyone but him. The man takes Harry as his apprentice and teaches him the ways of a Dark Wizard. When the boys are thrusted into the Wizarding World at the young age of 11, Harry turns the Wizarding World upside down.

Chapter 8-

When the Sorting Hat was lifted off his head Harry was meet with dead silence as everyone was shocked at the Sorting Hat's decision, you could have heard a pin drop. Harry turned and saw that Professor Snape was smirking, Professor Quirrell lifted his goblet in a silent toast, and Dumbledore looked upset with the hat's decision. He turned and walked pasted Professor McGonagall, who looked heartbroken, and began to walk over to the Slytherin table who suddenly stood up as one and clapped loudly and smirked over at the Gryffindor table, as if to say 'We got the other Potter, what are you going to do about it?' This seemed to snap the rest of the Hall out of their shock and they clapped politely; well the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws clapped politely, the Gryffindors were glaring at the Slytherin table. Harry walked over to Draco and Daphne silently scooted over and allowed Harry to sit next to Draco, and as Harry sat down he heard the next unsorted first year get called starting the sorting once again.

The Sorting Ceremony ended when the last first year, Blaize, was sorted into Slytherin. After he was seated Professor McGonagall rolled up the scroll and took the Sorting Hat and stool away. Dumbledore stood up smiling at everyone one, his arms wide open, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all sitting in the Great Hall. "Welcome!" He shouted, "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet I would like to say a few words, and here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" The new Slytherin students looked at each other with raised eyebrows, "Thank you!" As the old wizard sat down and the tables filled up with food.

Harry looked at one of the older students that was sitting near him and his group as Draco took the liberty of filling up his plate for him, he would have argued with Draco saying he was old enough to fill his own plate, but he was too tired to bother. "Is he mad?" Harry asked the older student nodding his head towards the Headmaster. The older student swallowed a piece of the steak and kidney pie that was in her mouth before answering him.

"Mad? Oh Merlin yes, he is mad, but sadly he is also very powerful and our Headmaster. Now I think you should eat before your boyfriend there has a fit, or bites my head off for having your attention." The teenager said and Harry turned to look at Draco to see that he was glaring at her while holding Harry's full plate of food out to him, Harry laughed and rolled his eyes as he took the plate.

"Thanks Draco." Harry said and kissed his cheek. Harry began to eat when he felt his magic tingle, signaling someone was staring at him, he looked up to see that the Gryffindors were smirking at him and Draco. Harry looked over at Draco to see that he was shaking and his lips were somewhat blue, confused he looked at the other side of Draco and noticed a ghost with blank eyes, a gaunt face and robes stained with silver blood was sitting next to him. Harry sighed when he realized what was going on, "Here, let me change seats with you." Harry whispered and then stood up, Draco quickly slid over to where Harry had been sitting and Harry took Draco's old seat. The cold coming from the ghost didn't bother him since he was used to sitting next to his Master.

"Thanks." Draco whispered as he switched their plates.

"Any time." Harry said then looked at the ghost.

"He's the Bloody Baron." He heard Draco whisper, "He's our House Ghost."

"I was wondering how you got killed." Harry said and saw the Bloody Baron's eyes widen before he turned to look into Harry's bright emerald-green eyes.

"I killed myself after I killed the love of my life." The Bloody Baron said, his voice filled with remorse.

"Who was your love, if I may ask." Harry asked.

"She is now known as the Gray Lady." The Bloody Baron said, Harry touched his cold skin in sympathy.

"I'm sorry." Harry said then went back to eating and talking to the others around him. Throughout the meal Harry learned that the teenager he had talked to was one of the sixth year Slytherin prefects, her name was Elizabeth Bell. He also learned that the Slytherin prefects would be the ones looking over them for the first couple of week until they got the swing of things and that all the other prefects, except maybe not the Gryffindor prefects that were not named Percy Weasely, would gladly help them if a Slytherin prefect was unavailable for some reason.

When everyone had eaten as much as they could, the remains of the food disappeared from the plates and in their place desserts appeared. Harry helped himself to some Banana flavored ice cream and the conversations turned to their families. "I'm a Pure-Blood," Theodore said so that only his group could hear him, "Me mum is a Death Eater supporter while father is still a Death Eater, loyal to the Dark Lord. I'm hoping that our Dark Lord will rise again so that I can serve him faithfully." The others smirked evilly at each other before looking at Harry who was enjoying his ice cream, not really paying attention. He looked up and raised and eyebrow at the looks he was getting.

"What about you Harry?" Draco asked interested in learning more about his Precious Dark Phoenix.

"What?" Harry asked.

"What is your family like?" Daphne asked.

"Well, I was brought up in the Muggle world by the Dursleys, my mother's sister's family, along with my older brother. The Dursleys hate magic and anything that they don't consider normal, like me for instance. They beat me when they saw fit, made me sleep in a cupboard until I got my first Hogwarts letter, that I didn't even get to open. They treated me worse than a house elf and treated Andrew like he was their second son since he never showed any signs of magic, and spoiled him and my cousin Dudley. I remember one time they punished me by not letting me out of my cupboard and feeding me stale bread for a whole month because I accidentally let a snake at the zoo free and it went after Andrew and Dudley on Dudley's 6th birthday." Harry said then took a bite of his ice cream and nearly squeaked when Draco nearly pulled him into his lap with an angry growl.

"You are never going back there." Draco growled out. Harry rested his head against Draco's shoulder suddenly feeling very sleepy. He glanced at the head table and saw that the giant, that he had learned was the grounds keeper and called Hagrid, was drinking deeply from his goblet, Professor McGonagall was talking to Dumbledore, and Professor Quirrell, with his turban that was hiding Voldemort, was talking to Professor Snape. A few minutes later, when Harry was about to fall asleep, the desserts disappeared and Dumbledore stood up, the Hall fell silent which alerted Harry that something important was happening. He tilted his head so that he could see Dumbledore and still keep his head on Draco's shoulder. Draco's arm, which had found its way around Harry's waist sometime during the meal, tightened a little.

"Ahem- just a few more words now that we are all fed and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you. First years should note that the Forbidden Forest on the grounds is just that, forbidden to all pupils, and a few older students would do well to remember that as well." Harry tiredly noted that the Sven twins, or better known as the Snake twins, were smirking at the Weasely twins who were smirking right back at them. "Mr. Filch has asked me to remind you all that no magic should be used in the corridors between classes. Quidditch tryouts will be held in the second week of term. Anyone interested in playing for their House teams should contact Madam Hooch. And also, I must tell you that this year the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to any and all who do not wish to die a painful death."

"He's not serious, is he?" Draco asked as his arm tightened around Harry in a protective way.

"Must be," Elizabeth said frowning at Dumbledore, "I wonder if that oaf put something in that corridor, but he should have told us prefects before the feast started."

"And now," Dumbledore continued, "Before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!" Harry groaned when he saw everyone stand up, Draco chuckled and forced Harry to stand up, but let him lean on him. Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it. The ribbon rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words. "Everyone pick their favorite tune, and off we go!"

Harry rolled his eyes and muttered along as the school bellowed. Everyone finished the song at different times until the only ones singing were the Snake twins and the Weasely twins singing along to a very slow funeral march. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. "Ah, music to my ears!" Dumbledore said wiping his eyes, "Now, bedtime. Off you trot!"

The Slytherin first years followed Elizabeth through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and down the marble staircase. Harry was thankful that Draco had decided to wrap his arm around his waist and let him lean on him, because he was so tired that his legs felt like lead. Harry didn't realize that he was falling asleep until he felt Draco lightly shake him and whispered in his ear, "Come on my Precious Dark Phoenix, wake up, we are almost there, we can sleep in a nice, soft bed when we get there. All you need to do is walk for me, just a little bit further."

"Mmmk, Dragon." He muttered sleepily before him and Draco caught up the others, they were standing near a statue with what looked like a Phoenix taking flight.

"This is where the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room is. The password to enter is 'Obscuram Phoenix surget'." After she said that a hole appeared in the wall and everyone scrambled through it to find themselves in a low-ceilinged, dungeon-like room with greenish lamps and chairs, and skulls all around. Across the room from them was a ceiling to floor window that opened into the lake, a mermaid and merman swam up and placed their webbed hands against the magical glass, on either side of the window were staircases leading down. "The left one goes towards the girls dormitory, the right leads to the boys dormitory." Elizabeth said. Draco lead Harry to the boy's dormitory and found their beds right next to each other, their trunks already resting at the end of their beds. Draco quickly helped Harry change into his night wear and into bed before he changed and climbed into his bed.

"Good night Harry." Draco muttered as Harry fell asleep.

Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because as soon as he fell a sleep he was pulled into the weirdest dream he had ever had. It started out with him sitting in a field of flowers surrounded by thick, dark, and twisted trees; they reminded Harry of something out of a science fiction novel. A mirror appeared in front of him and he noticed that he was not an 11 year old boy any more, he was now a man that looked to be in his late 30's with long raven black hair and moss green eyes. He was wearing white fighting robe out-line in dark blue, his hands were wrapped in white bandages, though he could feel that his hands were not injured. While inspecting his hands Harry noticed that laying beside him were two katanas, the hilts of the katanas were royal blue and gold with a silver S engraved on them.

Harry quickly grabbed the katana's and stood up, automatically getting into a defense position, when he heard someone walking closer to him. What happens now, you will not be able to change. A voice sounded throughout the field as a man who looked remarkably like Dumbledore stepped into the field, Harry looked at him closely and noticed that though the man looked like Dumbledore he was not Dumbledore, the man's magic and aura were different.

"I will not let you finish this potion." The old man said then sent a spell hurtling towards Harry, when the spell hit him he was blinded by the light. When the light faded Harry found himself in a crib glaring up at his Master as he pointed his wand at his older brother. His Master sneered at them before shooting a emerald-green spell at the. Harry felt his magic flow out of him and bounce the spell back at his Master and break his Master's magic. He saw the backlash of his Master's magic breaking and hit Andrew, knocking him over, leaving him with the scar.

Harry's eyes shot open, he was sweating, shaking, and panting. When he was able to focus his eyes and mind he saw the ghostly figure of a man with shoulder length hair, dull ghost gray eyes, and a long elegant cloak. The ghost gave him a sad, longing look before he rested a cool hand on his hot forehead. "It is not time for you to wake yet, go back to your rest my son. When the time is right you will awaken and take your rightfull place in this world." After the ghost spoke those words Harry's eyes drifted closed and he fell into a dreamless sleep.

The next time Harry opened his eyes, he didn't remember his dream, nor the encounter of the ghost, and Draco was jumping on his bed. "Come on Harry, get up, I want to eat breakfast early!" Draco cried sounding like the 11 year old boy he was.

"All right, all right, I'm awake." Harry said glaring at the boy who smiled at him before plopping down on the bed beside him with a loud laugh and placed Harry's glasses on his face, "Merlin, what has got you so excited this morning?"

"It's our first day at Hogwarts, how can I not be excited?" Draco said sitting up and grabbing Harry's hand and forced him to sit up, "I'm not the only one excited." Harry looked around and noticed that Blaize and Neville were looking at him with excited smiles, even Theodore's magic was swirling around him letting Harry know that even though Theodore looked bored he was actually excited. He also noticed that all of them had changed from their night clothes. Harry sighed before suddenly becoming confused, why was it that he seemed to be the only one in the room that was not excited?

"It is pretty exciting." Harry said forcing himself to look and sound excited, but for some reason he could not get excited, it was like something was wrong. What that something was, Harry could not put his finger on it. Harry shook himself out of that thought and got up, "Well, I'm going to go take a quick shower." He went to his trunk and got out some clothes for the day, then walked into the bathroom. As he passed the bathroom something caught his eye, something out of place, he whipped his head to look at the mirror and saw that nothing was out of place. Harry shook his head and took his shower.

When he was finished with his shower and dressed he was lead from the dorm room and to that Great Hall by Draco and their little group of Slytherins. When they got to the Great Hall Harry was lead over to their House table and was made to sit in between Draco and Daphne, Neville sat across from him, Blaize sat in front of Draco and Millicent sat in front of Daphne. Harry took his plate before Draco could even think about grabbing it and began to fill it with scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast.

As he began to eat he felt his magic tingle, informing him that someone was looking at him, he looked up to see that Andrew and Ron were glaring at him and his group. He smirked and blew them a sarcastic kiss before noticing that Professor Snape was going down the Slytherin table handing each student a sheet of paper. Assuming it was their schedules Harry turned back to his food while he waited for Professor Snape to get to them. When he was just a few students away Harry felt Professor Snape tug on his magic and turned to face him just as he got to them. "Thank you Professor." Harry said taking the sheet of paper from him, and noticed it was indeed his schedule.

With a sigh Harry turned back to his breakfast and had only taken a few more bits when he felt another tug on his magic, this time from his Master. Harry gripped the fork in his hand fighting back to urge to throw it down and scream for everyone to just leave him alone so that he could eat in peace. Harry closed his eyes to calm himself down, he swallowed the food that he had in his mouth before spinning to face Professor Quirrell, shocking all of the people in his little group, just as he came to stop behind him.

"M-m-m-mr. P-P-P-Potter, m-m-m-may I-I-I-I h-h-h-have a-a-a-a w-w-w-word w-w-w-with y-y-y-you a-a-a-aft-er b-b-b-break-fast?" Professor Quirrell stuttered out after a minute. Harry pinched Draco's leg when he felt him shaking in silent laughter at the Professor's stutter. He was angry that his friend would dare to laugh at the host that was holding his Master, his anger melted away a minute later when he remembered that Draco didn't know that his Master was possessing the Professor.

"Of course, sir." Harry said respectfully.

"W-w-w-wonder-f-f-ful. I-I-I-I sh-sh-sh-shall b-b-b-be i-i-i-in m-m-m-my o-o-o-off-ice." Professor Quirrell stuttered out before walking away and out of the Great Hall.

"What was that about?" Blaize asked as Harry quickly began to finish eating, he didn't want to keep his Master waiting longer than he needed to.

"Why did he want to speak with you? Did you already do something that would have gotten you in trouble?" Neville asked, his nervous mask perfectly in place.

"How. I've been with Harry since we got here." Draco said then took a sip of his juice, "So, if Harry had done something I would have known, and I would have also been asked to be spoken with." Harry stood up, his plate now clean and every in the group looked at him.

"Well, best not keep the Professor waiting." Harry said.

"I'll come with you and wait for your meeting with Quirrell to be over." Draco said as he started to stand up too.

"No, you stay here and eat. I'll meet you guys back in the Common Room. We will then look over our schedules and then study before classes start tomorrow." Harry said pushing Draco back into his seat before he walked out of the Great Hall, he kind of wanted, no needed, to be alone before he met with his Master. Draco watch Harry leave with a hurt look, what had that been about? Was Harry hiding something from them, from him? Weren't they a couple? Didn't couples tell each other everything? 'No, he didn't accept my proposal to be my boyfriend.' Draco thought. But he didn't deny it either. A voice whispered in the back of his mind.

Draco stood up, and only Blaize and Theodore (who had gotten there a minute after their group got there) noticed, he silently walked back to the Slytherin Common Room and found a chair near a dark corner. He was very confused and needed to be alone so he could clear his thoughts.

Was Harry his boyfriend or not? 'We act like a couple should, and last night at the start-of-term feast when Elizabeth call me his boyfriend he didn't deny it.' Draco thought, 'So does that mean he sees me as his boyfriend?' But shouldn't that mean that Harry would want him to walk him to Professor Quirrell's office and wait for him.

Harry is mine and I need to be there to protect him from everyone that wishes to take him from me. The voice said with a deep growl. Draco blinked and suddenly found himself in a dark cavern looking into glass like ice, but instead of his reflection he was looking into the bright, silver eyes of a Ice Dragon. Draco was not shocked, this had happened the first time he had touched Harry the first time.

"Harry is not an object to be owned, he is his own person." Draco told the Dragon.

No! The Dragon growled. Harry is MINE! Mine to hold, mine to touch, mine to protect, and mine to own! The reflection changed to show Draco ripping apart any and all who dared to even glance at Harry. No one shall have him, no one but ME! The cavern shook from the Dragon's rage.

"NO!" Draco yelled, "Harry is not mine, and will not be mine until he, himself, tells me from his own lips, with his own voice, that he is mine. And when he becomes mine, I will be his, we will be equals! Now leave and go back to your cage!" Draco growled and saw the Dragon smile a proud smile before his reflection finally turn into him and the cavern melted back into the Slytherin Common Room.