AN: I do not own any character's apart from Thomas, Skylar, Lightning, Davie, Jessie, Ashley, Sasha, Gracie and Sadie. Any lyrics used are also not mine.
The ball was one word: boring, it was full of suck ups and fakes. James was quite happily talking to Kingsley Shacklebolt,a broad shouldered coloured skinned man, and Lily was animatedly talking to Severus Snape, a scowling man that Harry had worked with before. The man was good at what he taught, potions at Hogwarts, but Harry would avoid working with the man again. He had a sour disposition towards Harry, some of the revenge pranks he and the Twins had set against Severus had gone wrong a couple days ago, Severus ended up neon green for a week and addicted to Polo's - a muggle sweet Severus had a vendetta against. Sirius and Remus were missing, probably sneaked out the room to snog somewhere, never mind that this was Lucius Malfoy's childhood home, knowing Sirius they were snogging in Lucius's bed. Ashley was tucked safely in Harry's arms, he'd fallen asleep after taking a drink from the twins, Harry grinned mischievously, the twins were going to be surprised on the first day back, after all if your going to humiliate someone do it in front of people they know. All the pure-blood suck-ups have not one once of humour in them, so whatever genius prank Harry could come up with would be wasted. Harry leaned back on his chair, staring at the ceiling as if to say 'why me?'
A sneer fell upon Harry's face with the thought of mingling with these girl-who-lived worshippers. His gazed slid across the room landing on a blond Adonis, untouchable to all, the foul scowl on his face did nothing to shatter the anything Harry would say it enhanced it. A mighty God among mere mortals. A rather pug-faced girl clung to his side barely concealing her jealousy to towards Harry and Ashley when they caught the Adonis's attention. It wasn't normal to bring children to such a social function, to do so would be social suicide, but of course this was a member of the Potter family, they were put on pedestals and exempted from Laws made by the Wizengamont just because they were the family of the great Girl-Who-Was-Fake.
In wizarding society children were generally kept out of political functions such as this until the age of 15. After all it wasn't often a pure-blood family was blessed with a child; it took a combination of good health and excellent potions to be able to conceive a child which is why Sirius Black was disowned instead of disinherited - disinheriting a child under the age of 16 had a 75% chance of killing the child. If the Blacks had disinherited Sirius the bonds tying him to the family would of snapped resulting in serious harm or death in most cases. The practise was forbidden in 1981 unless the bond turned on the child which would have killed them anyway with no chances of or abusing a child had serious consequences in some cases the abusers were given the kiss.
Families such as the Potters were extremely lucky, the Weasley family was discredited from pure-blood society when Arthur Weasley's great-great-great grandfather killed his second child based on Weasley disliked having a daughter-she couldn't work the land and cost money to feed so he had her eliminated thus earning the Weasley's the title of 'Blood Traitors'
Jessica slumped in the seat opposite Harry, finally tired of meeting and greeting various supporters or 'boot lickers' as Harry called them.
"So Brother death eater jr. caught your eye? Of course your kind must stick together, you never know what accidents happen."
"Did it hurt?"
"What?"
"Using that big word, I imagine it took a couple weeks to be able to pronounce it."
"Why you! I'm telling Daddy!"
"Go on then child, go tell Daddy what the big mean Harry did to you."
"I'm not a child!"
"Yes, you are. You have a long way to go before your an adult."
"You're under 17 - still a child as well."
"Nope, that's were you're wrong dear sister, I have full adult status in several countries thank you very much, and remind me to thank your Father, without him abandoning me I wouldn't be as rich as I am."
"I'm still telling Daddy."
Jessica stood up, scraping the chair back loudly and stomped off to find James in the crowd. Harry stared at the ceiling again having stopped to look at the girl who was related to him biologically, but was not his sister in heart.
"Oh the joys of having a sister."
"So your the brother everyone said was missing a couple years ago?"
The question was from the Adonis that had captured Harry's attention earlier. He spoke in a loud drawling voice with a slight Yorkshire accent which caught Harry's interest, he wanted to know more about this boy and he wanted to know now.
"And you are?"
One of Harry's eyebrows rose with the question, why was this boy talking to him when he had an entourage of people to talk to? Harry didn't want to talk to this boy, content to watch afar and find out his information a different way. He preferred to know who he was talking to before he talked to them, Harry knew most people here, the Minister of Magic and Lucius Malfoy personally. He had dinner with the Minister and his advisers a few times, assuring alliances with the most influential people he could, after all he didn't know what could happen with this preferred to stay neutral in most conflicts, only entering when the conflict threatened his family and what limited friends he had.
"Malfoy, Draco Malfoy at your service."
"Well Mr. Malfoy what relation I am to Jessica Potter is none of your business."
That explained why Harry had never met the teen even though he had dined with his Father a couple times, Lucius Malfoy kept his personal life and professional life separate. Harry had never been within Malfoy Manor's walls before the ball, this was a first and probably the last unless this teen proved himself able to keep up with Harry's life. Harry wouldn't mind keeping this teen to himself in future.
Wow, 61 views and not one review. I admit this did take ages to upload and I'm not giving any excuses such as I had revision and babysitting for the past couple months even though they both did happen. I am counting on you readers to review and tell me where I messed up and what you wish to see in the next chapter otherwise it's going to be awhile before I get the next chap up, because unlike everyone seems to think I do have other things to do which are more important like my newborn nephew
Thank you Trax! Thanks for pointing out where I went wrong on the grammer, you seem to be the only one able to do that.
