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Power of Will

By: Jodelle

"our lives are made in these small hours
these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate
time falls away, but these small hours,
these small hours still remain"

-Little Wonders, Rob Thomas

"Hmm...isn't this cheating?" Harry thought as he scribbled down the answer Draco supplied him with. Draco unlike Harry knew more about how to protect yourself from dangerous animals. Draco snorted upon hearing Harrys' question.

"So what if it is. Would you rather we let Quirrel get the job?" Draco thought scowling as he realized he'd made a smudge on him paper due to the distraction. "Potter, what's is the most dangerous aspect of an ashwinder?"

"The cause fires to break out. Although their eggs are valuable potions ingredients they are also rare as they are hard for the human eye to see."

"Right. What is a invisibilty cloak made out of?"

"Some kind of rare trees leaves..."

"You owned one and you don't know. That's sad Potter."

"It's Noir remember."

(Draco)-Talon let out an irritated sigh and put down what he knew. They'd thought that this would be a cake walk but it was a lot harder than they could ever have guessed. They were lucky they had a mental link or this could have gotten nasty.

An hour later two sleepy men sat in the Headmasters office and were slightly annoyed at the Headmaster who was clearly on something considering how cheerful he was. (Harry) Noir wondered briefly if it was the lemon drops and gleefully took one ever hopeful. He sulked a moment when there was no effect except a lemony taste in his mouth. (a/n: haha!)(Draco)-Talon sniggered as he caught on to what Harry was doing.

Dumbledore cleared his throat catching their attention. "Misters Norse you exceeded my expectations on the test. And while I don't condone sharing answers I also realize that doing so through your link must be as natural as breathing so I won't hold it against you."

(Harry) Noir and (Draco) Talon had gone milk white and had looked startled until the Headmaster finished his sentence. Afterwards they both nodded still looking nervous.

The Headmaster leaned forward and peered at them curiously as if trying to read their minds in turn. He instead handed them a list of what appeared to be a large calendar with a long list of names tacked on.

(Draco) Talon's brow furrowed a moment before he realized what this was. It was a syllabus of all the things they could cover and it was up to them to decide what to teach to each class. Merlin preserve he thought looking at how much he needed to do. But they had to prepared the students for the war so they'd do their best.

"I leave it to you. Good luck boys." Dumbledore said and they took their leave.

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The sorting went normally as everyone went to the same houses they had the first time. (Harry) Noir had been at the edge of seat wringing his hands when his younger self sat down on the stool. (Draco)Talon had looked at him curiously and clasped onto his hand to squeeze it comfortingly. (Harry) Noir sighed but still stared fixated at Harry Potter.

(Draco) Talon let go of (Harry) Noir's hand and started to speak in sign language to which (Harry)Noir replied. They didn't notice how many of the students were watching their display curiously. (Harry)Noir explained how he'd almost been placed in Slytherin his first year and (Draco) Talon snorted in response saying regardless of where he ended up the boy Harry would be fine.

As the sorting hat declared young Harry a Gryffiindor (Harry)Noir slumped in his seat in relief. After about seven other students went through the sorting it was Dumbledores' time to introduce them.

He first went through the banned item list, spoke of the forbidden third corridor, and spoke of the forbidden forest before saying something that would surprise Talon and Noir.

"Of course you may have noticed our new DADA professors Noir and Talon Norse. And as a surprise as they never attended Hogwarts we must have them sorted out of simple curiousity." Dumbledore said as the two new professors looked stunned.

"Norse, Noir," Professor McGonagall said and Noir jumped to his feet almost toppling his chair over. Noir blushed heavily running a hand through his hair and smiling nervously at the masses. He regained grace as he glided over to the seat.

"Hmmm...," Harry was surprised that the hat wasn't speaking in his mind but rather aloud for everyone to hear. "My-My aren't we smart although I suppose that you had to be to survive the war. The Ravenclaws would embrace you but you believe that there's more to life than studying. Yes, definetly not a Ravenclaw. Perhaps Hufflepuff. I'm surprised to see that you've never turned your back on anyone or for that matter betrayed anyone. But ah-- when you get mad you are rash and sometimes frightening...I don't think the Hufflepuffs would know how to deal with your darker side. You seem to think that you'd belong in Gryffindor. Maybe in your childhood you would have belonged there as the epitome of Gryffindor but I don't think you've realized how much the war changed you. You became cunning, cautious, angry at the world, a strategist who knew what sacrifices he could make without losing too much of himself. You know you're a Slytherin at heart don't you? Believe it or not oh sceptical one. SLYTHERIN!"

Noir stumbled slightly and looked thoughtful. He looked at Talon who mouthed, 'I told you so!' Noir stuck out his tongue making some of the students gap at him. Shaking his head he smiled at Talon. When he reached their table Noir kissed Talon on the cheek before sinking into his seat.

The students stared whispering to themselves until McGonagall called the name, "Norse, Talon." Talon smiled showing every shiny white tooth he had. Noir shuddered as that usually meant Talon had some mischeivous plan.

As the hat sat atop his head the hat shrieked. "Oh! Oh! You definetly have a dark side but it seems the other Mr. Norse has mellowed you out. Strange two as different as you being together. No kidding you say. You're most assuredly smart but you're also sneaky, cautious, and will do anything to meet your ends. I'd almost say Gryffindor but I hear you say you'd rather die than go there... ah you're very dramatic young one. Threaten me all you want but I have to say you could do well in Gryffindor. No I'm not taking that back. Very well...oh you're giving me a headache! SLYTHERIN!

Noir clapped the first and loudest as Talon made his way back to his seat. Noir grinned wildly at him as he plopped back into his seat. Talon reached down to grab his hand and kissed the back of Noir's fingers. He wasn't one to show much affection in public so this was normal in Noirs' mind.

They both ate with impecable manners athough Noir almost spat out his wine upon hearing Talon make a dirty joke that was very explicit. Blushing brightly he glared at Talon without much heat. What was startling was that they were both seated close to Professor Snape. Draco had changed seats with him and was talking up a storm about potions Noir had never heard of and had brought a smirk or was that a smile to the greasy professors face.

Noir found himself being stared at and looking up saw a young Draco Malfoy staring not at him as he'd first thought but at Talon. Discreetly Noir lightly kicked Talons' foot to get his attention. Talon turned to him with a questioning look and Noir pointed under the table in and whispered, "Draco Malfoy's staring at you."

Talon met Dracos' gaze and smirked. The young boy froze and let his gaze fall. "He probably thinks I look a lot like his father and I guess I do. I may be a muggleborn but even I've heard of and seen his father a couple times since we got here...I mean he's involved in the wizarding world heavily so it would be odd to not see him once or twice in all the hundreds of times we've been to the ministry getting our citizenship papers filed." Talon said and it was true. They'd had to pretend to be from rural France and homeschooled while telling a very intricate story of their lives in order to get citizenship.

Noir nodded before reaching forward for dessert that had just appeared. Oh the things they were going to do this year he thought as he then felt Harry Potter staring at him. Then it hit him...only oneself could see through glamour and technically Harry was him. That meant that the boy could see his scar etched into his forehead also, but perhaps he wasn't sure what he was seeing from a distance.

"Oh, ****!"

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"Calm down!" Talon snapped causing Noir to quit pacing infront of their fireplace. Pinching the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes Talon muttered, "we'll just use makeup on it or something."

Noir bit his lip and nodded. Talon snapped his fingers and a large case fell from the sky only to land in his outstreched hands. Opening the case Talon took out foundation and what he guessed was concealor. It felt nice as he spred the cool liquid foundation onto his forhead and he almost sighed in contentment. The concealor was like a pencil and he used it like one to draw lines over the scar to distort it.

"Okay." Talon said decicivily rubbing his hands together. "I think that'll do. We probably ought to use a charm the makeup to be impervious to sweat and water as a finishing touch though. Otherwise I think it's perfect."

"Perfect? Is it really?" Noir asked looking up at Talon from the seat he'd taken on one of the work tables in their classroom. Talon nodded handing him a mirror.

They'd had to take the glamour off entirely so as to work on covering up Noirs' scar and upon seeing it Talon had assured him that it had faded so much over time that it could only be seen up close. Therefore Harry Potter the first year could not have noticed it.

"Hey, Talon?":

"What not satisfied?" Talon drawled out sounding annoyed.

"No, it's not that." Noir assuered him before asking, "How did you learn to do this stuff?"

(Talon/Draco) flushed and wrung his hands. "My mothers' house elf secretly taught me how to dress people up. I always liked making things look nice. But I tried to hid that fact from my father who would sneer at me and call me a pansy when he noticed me behaving less than what was apparently sterotypically masculan."

(Noir/Harry) growled low in his throat and imagined choking the life out of the man who'd made young Draco as cold as he was. It was clear (Talon/Draco) loved the finer things in life but it had been unclear too what extent.

They were distracted by a knock on their classroom door. (Talon/Draco) quickly stood and walked over to the door letting in the first year Gryffindors and Slytherins. (Talon/Draco) smirked as he saw the houses separate themselves one sitting on the other side of the room while the others chose the other side.

He grinned maliciously and declaired, "Now-now-now. This won't do at all I insist everyone sit next to someone from an opposing house. He pointed to the first desk and started chanting; Slytherin, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Gryffindor... He walked through the entire room doing this admist groans.

(Noir/Harry) couldn't help but chuckle. He also noticed that their younger selves were seated by each other. They stared straight ahead scowling all the time. He came to his feet and clapped his hands. "These are your permanent seats until I say otherwise."

"Everybody stand up! Go stand by the closest wall near you." The students all spread out leaving the middle of the room for the walls and corners. They each looked surprised to be doing an actual activity when they should have been learning theory.

"Alright!" (Noir/Harry) said clapping his hands. "Today we will be sensing auras. You will be relieved to know this is like meditation rather than an actual spell. You may think that this would be something you'd typically learn in Diviniation in your third year but we are learning a different branch of aura reading. This branch of aura reading will tell you to recognise emotions."

(Talon/Draco) continued where Noir had left off saying, "This will help you recognise an enemy charging at you and perhaps notice common criminals like a rapist or thief."

The young Harry and Draco stared at each other with strain on their faces. Finally ending with Harry yelping almost falling out of his seat. "Wow! Yours is a bright Orange almost red. Which means..." Here Harry paused flipping through his text book and not being able to find anything on auras.

Young Harry turned and noticed the other students auras. Professor Noir had a bright emerald green aura while Professor Talon had a silver aura. Having heard his exclaimation the teachers turned toward them with pleased expression.

"So you've noticed them then. You are correct that Draco has a almost red aura at the moment which denotes confidence. From you staring at us I assume you've noticed our auras. Talon's aura means abundance in the sense of physical and spiritual abundance. Talon may I ask what color mine is at the moment?"

Talon grinned, "The color matches your eyes. An emerald green color which means grow, balance, possible change, and general love. You know Noir if I didn't know better I'd say you were in love with me as the second you looked at me your aura changed," Talon said teasing.

"Ah you caught me!" Noir said pretending to be shy and surprised then dropped the facade. "Of course I love you you dolt. We're married remember!"

Several of the students broke concentration to stare. Lavender Brown broke the silence with an, "Awwww! That so sweet!".

Talon and Noir blushed a little. Noir hissed in a loud whisper, "Damn, me and my big mouth."

Talon rememdied this by whispering in his ear, "Don't curse it it's a cute and very kissable little mouth." Noir looked very bothered for a minute before giving a faint smile.

"It's alright I guess the smart ones already figured it out at the feast."

They both wore wicked grins as they dismissed their class with instructions to practice aura readings for next class.

A/N: I know not all people like the whole they're gay bit in the story but please no flames.

(An Alternative Choice)

Jodelle: And remember if you don't like guy/guy I have several other stories that lack this aspect like Cunning Like a Fox which is (Draco/Ginny) OR Lestrange Manor (Hermione/Draco)

OR The Mute Mutt which isn't a romance but rather a story about young animagus Harry taking a trip into the past.

And: Iif you've read this and liked it please review so as to encourage others to read it. You know how some people only read stories with a billion reviews.