Chapter 18

Harry had walked back to the common room with a little bit more peace and joy. He was walking up the stairs when someone familiar stood in his way.

"Draco" Harry said.

"Harry" he said back.

Both men stood there staring at each other. Neither of them noticed that the stairs had changed direction. Harry was the first to break the awkward silence.

"Why didn't you ever remain in touch?" he asked.

"I try to but the Slytherins have made it very difficult for me" Draco said.

"Doesn't mean you can't write" Harry said with a little bit of a sour face.

"Don't give me that you are just as guilty for the same crime" Draco said giving a similar type of expression.

"Alright fine I'm guilty but either way we have to keep in touch more. I miss my friend" Harry said.

Draco made a very dramatic expression and put his hands over his chest and then said in a very girly voice "Oh my gosh Harry I never knew you cared this much. Come over here and hug me you fool."

Harry couldn't help but chuckle "Oh shut up you prat" he said

Draco just gave him a playful smile and carried on. Harry asked him one final question "I know you wanted to be in a different house. Which one would you have picked given the choice?"

Draco froze and then looked back at Harry "I would have chosen the same house as my father" he said.

"So wait you want to be in Slytherin" Harry asked with a confused face.

"No, you misunderstand. I don't mean my step father, the man who my mother is currently married to. I mean my biological father" Draco said.

Harry felt immediate sorrow for Draco at that moment. However he couldn't refrain from asking "What house was he in?"

Draco gave Harry one last sincere look and then said "Gryffindor" before turning around and walking away.

The thought about Draco's father was troubling Harry along his way to the common room. When he arrived at the portrait he was half expecting Ron and Hermione to still be fighting. When Harry entered the common room he was surprised to find the two of them talking casually on the couches.

They both turned towards him as soon as he entered. Hermione was the first to speak "Harry, where did you go?" she asked.

"I needed a place to think" he said before joining them on the couch.

"Well you could have told one of us" Ron said

"Well you two could have stopped your non-stop bickering" Harry spat back. It took him a moment to realize that he had offended them in some way and immediately said "Sorry"

"It's alright Harry, we won't bicker anymore" Hermione said.

"We're just worried about you mate" Ron said.

"I'm fine, really. Better yet I think I may have a lead on who it could be" Harry said.

"Really, who is it?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Well, it's a list of candidates but-" he began then his body suddenly gave up on him. He couldn't feel anything just like the last time. Sitting on the couch neither of them suspected anything until he didn't continue his tale.

"Harry?" Ron checked and knew immediately that something was wrong because Harry was trying to say something but a voice never came out.

Suddenly the similar pain took Harry's forehead which caused him to scream in agony. He placed his hand over his head as though he suffered a wound and was trying to apply pressure. The pain was even more unbearable however strangely enough Harry could hear Ron or Hermione who were trying to diagnose the problem.

Instead he could hear something or someone else screaming in pain.

"AHHHHH!" was all Harry could hear. For a while it distracted him from both the pain and from what Ron and Hermione were doing to him. Like last time his vision was fainting or by the least his vision was leaving him because darkness slowly crept over his eyes however he could still hear something.

"I know exactly what you're hiding Quirrell" a voice said.

"B-b-but I d-don't know w-what you're t-talking about" Quirrell said.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about. Now it's time to see where your loyalties truly lie" the voice said again.

"W-what have I d-d-done Severus?" Quirrell asked.

"Nothing yet, but it is what you are about to do. Believe me I won't let you will not succeed in obtaining it" Severus said.

"W-what are you t-t-talking about S-S-Severus?" Quirrell asked.

"STOP PLAYING DUMB WITH ME!" Severus yelled "I will be keeping an eye on you Quirrell"

All Harry could hear next was the storming of footsteps before his hearing left him as well and was finally engulfed in the darkness.

AN: From the comments it seem you guys want to have them together immediately. Well you wish will come true before the end of Book 1 or at the beginning of book 2. Haven't decided yet sorry. Anyways I hope you guys like this chapter. As always Rate and Review.