Title: Truth behind the name and the lies P.2
Pairing: DracoxHarry,
Fandom : HP
Notes: An abused boy finds out he's a wizard and a hero; his tormented mind rebels. One person sees through the misconceptions to the real Harry and treats him the way he deserves. How does this change them both and those around them? Please read P.1 otherwise you maybe confused…

alice22-
'While I enjoyed the prologue of the next series, will you be writing about Lockhart's folly soon. It was great that 3 of the 4 houses declared a no confidence vote in Dumbledork and with his position suspended he is out. I bet that Harry will be better, if McGonagall gets her head ous of her butt and supports HArry then he will be doing alot better. I can't believe that Dumbledork stated that Harry was faking it and was denying him medical treatment when he was having an anxiety attack. What a jerk!' -Apologies for my mistake, I was falling asleep when I updated. Glad you enjoyed the accidental Prequel to Undeniable though. Yes the Vote of No Confidence was passed on to Lucius of course and the Board of Governors will have take it into consideration.

Evil Kitty Dictator-
'Wooot more chapters! I swear with Draco and Blaise in the group things go more smoothly. Stupid Lockheart thinks he can do whatever he wants like Dumbledor. Reality check, you can't do anything bad to Harry without Draco beating the shit out of you later. Can't wait for more. Will you do this for each year? I hope so. ^_^' - Yes, Blaise and Draco don't get upset and worry the way the Golden Trio did. they keep everyone focused. Lockhart is a moron. Yep, Draco destroyed an iron Bludger and told the school you try to hurt Harry I'm going to leave you in the same condition. I'm working as fast as I can. I plan on rewriting each year. Year four will be epic...Wrath of Draco is legendary.

AcadianProud-
'I wonder if Lucius will remember how Ginny got it and who made him do it...' - I'm not sure what Lucius' reaction will be. He was hit from behind with a jelly-mind jinx and then the imperious. Remembering would be difficult but he has two Occumentus around him that will be more then happy to figure it out. I wonder why the aurors weren't alerted?

TheIrisHeart-
LOVE this story! if i join the "I Hate Dumbledore" Club, do I get a button? xD so cute the way everyone's protective of harry... LOVE IT! can't wait for the next chapter! keep up the good work! xD- Don't have Buttons but the more members of the "I Hate Dumbledore" Club the better. Harry's been hurt enough and they all want him to experience life without fear and plenty of happiness. Anyone who places a child with abusers and insists they stay there are criminals.

Makurayami Ookami-
'well written. this was good. hope it doesn't get stolen back like in the book.'

Notes: Any objection to Remus having a crush on Severus?

Edit: Part 1 takes place in 1991. Part 2 happens in 1992, my mistake.

Chapter 22- Harry's first Christmas

Despite the trouble with the Basilisk and the petrified students, Draco and Severus insisted Harry have a real Christmas.

Blaisé had been invited, the twins promised to come on Boxing Day. Percy had been invited too, he finally agreed when the invitation was extended to Oliver. He'd seemed pretty happy about it, his relationship with Oliver was still new and he was happy his friends were happy for him and he had at least the twins' support. Hermione was invited and Severus offered to meet her at the

Narcissa took him shopping for Christmas, while Severus took Draco.

Lucius was busy with the trial before the Wizangamot and Board of Governors meetings, so Draco couldn't ask him about the Artifact. He locked it in the vault beneath the Drawing Room floor, he didn't want to examine it without knowing what it was. Knowing it was Dark and that Harry was uncomfortable with it was currently enough for him, though he was suspicious it had something to do with the Chamber. Finding it in the suspected entrance was clue enough….

They decided to have Christmas at the Manor, Draco's mother insisted on decorating the house. Harry was excited and insisted on helping…

He told them what he knew about Muggle celebrations and they told him stories about Draco's Christmases. for anyone to look it, no one would expect it to be in the girls lavatory." Draco nodded.

XoooooX

Harry woke up Christmas morning in Draco's arms at the Manor. "Draco…wake up…it's Christmas…"

Draco yawned looking into the boy's face, "Hey…Happy Christmas Adder."

Harry giggled, "Happy Christmas Draco."

Draco smiled at him, "You are just too cute…" he tickled the boy, because he couldn't resist the sweetness. How could anyone want to hurt him? Harry was just too sweet and seemingly innocent? To taint that seemed horribly wrong…

Harry laughed, wiggling, "Draco! That tickles…"

Draco ruffled his hair, "go get your bathrobe okay? Then we'll go downstairs. We'll open Presents and then have breakfast. After that we can play with our new toys or go chase the snitch if its not to cold."

Harry hugged him, "You're too good to me…" his eyes shining, "I'm so happy…I have my papa, my best friend, Blaisé and your parents. Our friends are coming tomorrow to spend Christmas. Your Aunt Annie, Uncle Ted and Tonks are coming to dinner."

Draco kissed his cheek, "We love you and all we want is for you to be happy."

After they were wrapped up in their robes, Draco carried Harry down to the Drawing room where the Tree was.

Harry clapped his hands, "I still can't believe I have presents…" it was only the second
Christmas he'd had friends or real presents. His voice went really soft, "it will feel like Christmas when everyone is here tomorrow…"

Draco curled up with Harry in front of the roaring Christmas fire.

Harry looked at the tree, "That's…a lot of presents…" he remembered Dudley receiving thirty-nine presents just for his birthday.

Draco smiled, "and many of them are yours my little snake."

It was about an hour before Blaisé, Narcissa, Lucius and Severus made their way to the Drawing room. They were smiling.

Harry waited until Severus was seated before he went and hugged him, "Happy Christmas papa…"

Severus hugged him back, "Happy Christmas Harry."

"Aww how cute…" Narcissa chuckled.

Lucius watched Harry, there was something special about the boy. Draco was so attached to him.

They opened presents but the sheer joy radiating from Harry made it seem impossible to believe that he could ever be unhappy.

Lucius called for Dobby to bring him Harry's present.

Dobby came in with a small puppy.

"He's yours, Harry. My Chesapeake Bay Retrievers had puppies and I thought you might like one."

Harry looked at him, "A puppy? Mister Lucius, he is so cute. Draco look your dad gave me a puppy."

Draco laughed, "I see. He is cute, but you're cuter. What do you want to name him…"

"What about Orion…"

Lucius laughed, "Naming him after a brave and mighty hunter is appropriate, he is a hound after all."

They ate a large breakfast with plenty of eggs, potatoes, toast, sausage, bacon and pancakes. Narcissa kept insisting Harry was too skinny and needed more meat on his bones.

Harry blushed and did his best to please her by eating. "I can't eat anymore…"

Severus smiled at him, "Did you like our first Christmas…"

Harry nodded, "Yes, I have papa, Draco, Blaisé, Miss Cissy and Mister Lucius."

Blaisé chuckled, "You're too cute for words…"

Draco smiled, "Blaisé, can you take Harry? I think he'd like to go flying."

Blaisé blinked, "Sure."

Harry asked softly, "I want to see what it's like when you fly."

Blaisé smiled, "I'm sure I can do that."

"Yay."

Blaisé led Harry away.

Draco crossed his arms, "Uncle Severus, Father. We need to talk about what is happening at school."

Narcissa smiled, "I'll let you talk. I'm going to listen to Celestina Warbeck."

Lucius sipped the last of his coffee so where do you wish to discuss this with us.."

"The Drawing Room vault."

Lucius blinked, "The Vault? Why there…"

"Because I found a dark artifact the day before the Christmas Holidays began. I put it there because it seemed safest. You were busy so I did the most prudent thing. Blaisé said it smelled foul and Harry can't be in close proximity to it without feeling faint. I recognized it. It used to belong to us. You sold it father, I know you did." Draco said as he made his way with the Drawing room.

His father and his godfather in his wake.

Lucius opened the vault, sitting on the table inside the vault was a book. It really was one of his former Dark Artifacts. He shook, "I forgot about that one. I just carted them all off to Borgin and Burke. I didn't realize I sold that."

Severus turned from looking at it, "What is it..."

"I don't know. It was entrusted to me by the Dark Lord. I wanted just to get rid of everything. I forgot about it until just now…"

As he spoke Severus noticed he was getting slightly agitated. "Draco, someone's cursed your father. I wonder why I didn't notice before."

Draco stiffened, "Cursed him? Cursed him with what…"

Severus pulled out his wand, "Don't know yet. Lucius, I'm going to enter your mind."

Lucius grimaced, "I hate that…I'm terrible at mental magic."

"I know which is why I've trained Draco since he was five. We need to know who cursed you so we can prevent it from happening again."

Reluctantly, Lucius agreed, "Fine. Just…get it over with."

"Draco do you want to do this…"

Draco shook his head, "I'm better at protecting my mind then entering another's."

Severus muttered pointing his wand at his friend, "Legilimens." his eyes staring into Lucius'.

Lucius stiffened, unable to move or protect himself from the invasion.

Severus searched through memories no matter how slight involving the artifact, he saw the Dark Lord entrusting it to Lucius, meaning to use it to create terror in Hogwarts which it had done. It must be very powerful to have been trusted to Lucius who like himself had been considered trusted and loyal to the Dark Lord. Only fear of Draco's power and perhaps even love for his son swayed Lucius' loyalty. Then he found the memory of selling it in Borgin and Burke's. Finally, he found a different memory, one from the day they went school and home shopping.

"Now, I think it's time to continue shopping for Severus and Harry's new home." Narcissa clapped.

"Yes. I'll go pay for our lunch." Lucius wiped his mouth and stood. "I'll meet you in a bit."

He paid and left the restaurant.

He didn't get far before he was hit from behind.

With a Jelly-brain jinx…

"My my…Lucius…I wondered if I would get you away from that group."

He was dragged off to the nearby Alley, "I was wondering how I would get revenge on you. Then you made it so easy by selling all of your Dark Artifacts in Borgin and Burke's. I found this book. A powerful little thing. Now, IMPERIO."

Lucius jerked and then stiffened.

"Lucius old chap, you're going to go act as if nothing wrong. Put this package in Ginny Weasley's cauldron and then go about your business as if nothing happened. Have a good day Lucius." a package was slipped beneath his robe and he was left behind by the sinister voice.

Severus managed to free the memory from the minor imperious tendrils that kept it hidden before withdrawing himself from his friend's mind. He cursed, "Slytherin's bollocks. Someone with a vocal glamour used the imperious curse on you in Diagon Alley and apparently no one notice. I know who you were supposed to give the artifact to."

Draco growled, "Coward! Using an Unforgivable Curse on my father while using a vocal glamour? Did you see their face…"

"No, they used a Jelly-Brain jinx on him from behind before taking him into an alley and casting the unforgivable."

"So who had the artifact before we found it in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom."

"Lucius was told to put it in Ginny Weasley's cauldron. I don't know what it is or what it does though."

"The Dark Lord didn't see fit to tell me that. He only mentioned that it would create terror and mayhem and would threaten Dumbledore's control of Hogwarts." Lucius said rubbing his temples, having someone poking around in his head like that was highly disconcerting.

"So Ginny, isn't that Fred and George's little sister? She's been attacking people? She's so quiet…" Draco said in shock.

"She is shy and doesn't seem to have many if any friends." Severus shrugged..

"So how do we deal with this? The monster is a Basilisk, it's a serpent and Harry can understand it."

"How do you know what Slytherin's monster is…"

"Well Harry's been hearing a murderous voice while Blaisé heard hissing, Veela have better hearing the most people. Blaisé thinks it's moving in the pipes, because the voice changes direction and doesn't follow the walls and hasn't been seen really.. No one has looked at the monster directly, so they haven't been killed yet. Without the artifact I think Ginny might be harmless. Hermione said the teachers were discussing that a student died last time. We think it was Moaning Myrtle she is the only one that is the right age to be that student. Slytherin was a conniving old man, who would think the Entrance to the Chamber of Secrets would be in the out of order girls' lavatory? We didn't get a chance to ask her how she died. We encountered the flooded bathroom and she was complaining because someone threw that book at her. She was upset thinking it was a cruel joke to make fun of her because she's dead. That ghost is very high-strung."

"So what are you planning on doing Draco…" Severus asked.

"We need to talk to Moaning Myrtle, then destroy the monster. I don' t know what the Artifact is but…there is the fact that somehow the Dark Lord managed to give the hereditary gift of Parseltongue to Harry. Harry isn't related to Slytherin so the ability isn't natural. The man who created the Basilisk created the darkest artifacts, the Horcrux. Do you think the Dark Lord would have dabbled in the Darkest Arts…"

Severus snorted, "He became something no longer human. A Horcrux is made by dividing the soul, which is something people like Dumbledore says happens when killing. It would make sense that a Horcrux could control young Miss Weasley. it's a book, washed out but perhaps she used it as a diary. She would be spilling her secrets and opening herself to its influence. I remember Hagrid mentioning that the roosters are being found dead."

"Well Blaisé did say that the cry of the rooster is fatal to it."

"I see. So, how do we find out if it's a Horcrux…" Lucius asked.

"The venom of a Basilisk can kill it. I was looking in the library to see what I can find out about Horcruxes. You missed a few books on Dark Arts thank Mordred. While the magical container is still intact, the bit of soul inside it can flit in and out of someone if they get too close to the object. I don't mean holding it for too long…I mean close emotionally. If Ginny poured her heart out into that diary, she would have made herself incredibly vulnerable. You're in trouble if you get too fond of or dependent on the Horcrux. Yet she threw it away, its growing control over her may have frightened her."

"So too much interaction with this Artifact would was be too dangerous, so we are assuming it's a Horcrux and aren't choosing to test it."

Lucius stared at it, "What if you'd found the Artifact, Draco? What it was you it was controlling…how could I have let something like that in the Manor."

"You were flattered that the Dark Lord trusted you with this Artifact. You wouldn't have considered such things." Severus shrugged.

"When the others arrive tomorrow we'll discuss this. I hate to have to take Harry with us but I'm suspicious that only a Parseltongue can open the Chamber of Secrets. Will you go in on your own like you did last year?" Severus asked, "I don't want Harry in danger. I'm supposed to protect him. He may not be my son by blood but it is hard not to love him." the guilt still racked him, someday he'd have to tell Harry how his son what led to James and Lily's death. Hopefully, Harry's love for him would still exist after that. He loved that little boy, the truth would hurt Harry and that made Severus hate himself more knowing that the truth would break Harry's heart.

Draco sighed, "You know what the centaurs said. We are supposed to do this, our fate is bound up in the fate of the Wizarding World. Before we go into the Chamber, we need a phoenix. Only a Phoenix's tears can heal a person bitten by a Basilisk. I'm not going in there without some countermeasure if one of us gets bitten. We need to learn a spell that can replicate the sound of a rooster's crow, I don't know if we can make a rooster crow on command. When we reach the Chamber I want a spell to make us all temporary blind to eliminate the danger of looking into the Basilisk's eyes. We can rely on Blaisé's hearing. I trust him and in his heightened senses."

Lucius' eye bulged, "You're willing to blind yourselves and put your lives in the hands of a Veela's hearing? A spell to replicate the crowing of a rooster? That is your plan? How will you protect yourselves if you can't see…"

"once we enter the chamber, we'll use the blinding jinx, cast a sound increasing charm and then the rooster crow charm. Hopefully that is the all we need. We'll have to bring back a fang to destroy the Artifact and if it is a Horcrux it will be destroyed. Hopefull we can get some venom and then Uncle Sev can attempt to create anti-venom. If anyone can he will."

"While I am grateful for your trust in my ability I don't like this plan anymore then your father." Severus said reluctantly.

"I understand your issues with my plan. I want to deal with this while the castle is empty. It is safer that way."

"When do you wish to deal with this…"

"Tomorrow I want to talk to Moaning Myrtle. I need that Phoenix…."

Lucius nodded, "Its very difficult to get a Phoenix to accept you as their master and become your familiar. There are only two domesticated phoenixes, one belongs to Dumbledore and the other I think is a Quidditch Mascot."

Draco was firm, "I have confidence that at least one of our number can convince a Phoenix to become loyal to us. I have to have a Phoenix. I won't go into the Chamber without one. Time is running out. Father I trust you to find one. We'll worry about making it a familiar."

"Very well I will find a Phoenix. This better be worth the trouble. I'm afraid the mostly like to know where to find them would be Xenophilius Lovegood. I don't think much of him, I'd ask Newton Scamander but he passed away recently. Perhaps, I can take Blaisé with me. They maybe more likely to talk to him. I doubt if I captured one it would be too predisposed to help us."

"I don't consider Blaisé, my Magical Creature expert for no reason. If he will go with you, I don't have an objection." Draco said pleased they were going along with his plan.