Disclaimer: I do not own harry potter. I am just borrowing the characters for my pleasure.
Chapter 2
Ten years had passed since then. Tom had visited him frequently without anyone being the wiser.
Harry lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. Then he heard a knock from his window. He got off his bed and opened the window. From the window came Tom Marvolo Riddle with a big smile and a gift and an envelope in his hands.
"Happy birthday, Love." He said then kissed Harry on his cheek. He then gave Harry the gift.
Harry slowly opened the present, being careful not to ruin the wrapper. Inside the wrapper was a small box. He opened the box revealing a ring. The ring was silver with a red gem.
Tom took the ring and put it on Harry's left ring finger. "I am the first of your mates and I deserve this finger." He said then kissed the ring.
Harry smiled at tom then hugged him. He then looked at the letter with a raised eyebrow.
Tom gave the letter to harry and said, "That's your Hogwarts letter. I saw the Hogwart's owl on my way here and thought that I could give you the Hogwart's letter since I was coming here anyway."
Harry sighed then spoke, "I guess I have to meet my so called 'family' some time."
Tom hugged harry and said in his ear, "Don't worry. You'll have your other mates to help you or at least keep you distracted."
Harry could feel the grin in tom's lips at the last part. He couldn't help but smile.
XX
Harry was staring at the family of redheads in king's cross station, or more like, staring at the redhead twins. The twins were looking side by side as if searching for someone.
Harry stepped out from the shadow he was encased in and the twin's eyes zeroed on him. They stared at each other then the twins tilted their heads in an unnoticeable bow and smiled at harry.
Harry nodded his head then waited for the family to go through the barrier to platform nine and three-quarters before going himself.
Harry entered the Hogwarts express and found an empty compartment. After a while the compartment door slid open and the twins entered. The twins then slammed the door close in their little brother's face who was following behind them.
The twins then knelt in front of harry and each took his hand. They kissed the back of the hand and said, "Finally we meet."
Harry smiled then put his hands on the back of their hands. The twins hissed in pain but the pain quickly vanished. When harry removed his hands, the twins both had the same tattoo. In the middle was a 'H' with a griffin on one side and a green-eyed snake on the other.
It was harry's turn to hiss in pain when a tattoo appeared on the right side of his neck. The tattoo was of two lines crossing each other, one was black and the other was white. Blood flowed from the tattoo but it was soon cleaned by the twins.
When the twins had touched him, their names had appeared in his mind. So Fred Weasley and George Weasley were the mates that unlocked his power over dark and light, just like tom, who had unlocked his power over lightning.
XX
The ride to Hogwarts had been peaceful. Harry and the twins were not disturbed by anyone, they had just sat there with harry in their arms.
When the train reached hogsmeade, harry gave the twins a kiss each. They then exited the train and went their own separate ways. The twins went towards the carriage waiting for them and harry went towards a half giant man calling for the first years.
XX
The first years were waiting in a room for professor McGonagall to take them to the great hall.
Harry was looking at his fellow year mates when he felt a pair of eyes on him. He turned towards the eyes to see a blonde haired boy with an aristocratic face. They stared at each other for a while than the blond gave a bow just like the twins had given him. Harry nodded then turned towards the door where professor McGonagall had returned.
"From a line and follow me." Professor McGonagall told them.
They followed McGonagall into the great hall. Harry's eyes immediately went to the gryffindor's table where the twins were sitting; they were also looking at him. They nodded towards each other then harry turned towards the front.
At the front, McGonagall was standing beside a stool with an old hat on top, holding a parchment. Behind her was the teachers table.
Harry met the eyes of the teacher sitting on the far right. Harry recognized the grease in his hair as something that potion masters use to protect their hair from potion fumes. So he knew that he was their potions teacher. Black eyes met emerald and after a while the black tilted their head. Harry nodded back and then finally, he looked at his surroundings.
He looked at the students. He spotted a boy with red hair, brown eyes and an 'L' scar on his right cheek. It was his brother. He looked at the teacher's table again and spotted his father and mother. Emotions welled up inside him but he pushed it down and applied a blank face.
The old hat on the stool then began to sing. After it finished, McGonagall started to call out names to be sorted. Harry watched it all with a blank face. When the blonde boy that had bowed to harry was called out as Draco Malfoy, he looked at harry before he went to the front. Before the hat had even touched his head, the hat screamed out 'Slytherin'. A smile appeared on harry's face and Draco beamed then he tilted his head towards him and went to the Slytherin table.
The sorting then continued. When harry's name was called, the entire hall went silent. After all, nobody knew that the 'chosen one' had a brother. On his way to the stool, he looked towards his parents. They had blank faces but he could see the anger in their eyes. He then looked at the headmaster and saw disappointment in his eyes.
Harry knew that they were expecting a skinny, weak boy that would worship the people who rescued him from the abusing household. Harry could tell that they did not like him, because harry was a fit boy who was strong, both physically and magically. And the abusing household had stopped being abusing when Vernon, his uncle had hit harry when he was 4 and had been electrocuted to an inch of life. And later when tom had visited again, the Dursleys had been tortured to near insanity. After that the Dursleys had avoided him at all cost.
Harry walked towards the stool with his shoulders straight and head held high. When harry turned around to sit on the stool, he could see the confusion in all the students faces. He knew the confusion was because he looked nothing like the potters. He had a pale aristocratic face that was handsomely framed by straight black shoulder-length hair. Bright emerald eyes and red-rose lips decorated his face along with a straight perfect nose. He wore expensive robes that had been a gift from tom and held himself like a pureblood.
The sorting hat was then placed on his head, covering his eyes.
"Ah! What do we have here? An elementalist, Eh? It's a second time since I have been in an elementalists mind. The first one was Salazar Slytherin himself. When he was testing me. But he had only one mate therefore only one element but you… you have 7 mates, the total number of the elements meaning you will get all the elements meaning you will be the most powerful wizard alive and you have already marked 3 mates and found 2 mates. You are the greatest! Since you have 2 unmarked mates in Slytherin then you better be in 'SLYTHERIN'." The sorting hat shouted the last part and McGonagall took off the hat.
The Slytherin table, the potions teacher and the Weasley twins clapped politely while the great hall remained silent. Harry made his way to the Slytherin table and sat down next to Draco. He smiled towards Draco then looked at the Gryffindor's table where the twins were smiling at him and showing thumbs up, signaling that they did not mind him being sorted in another house. He also smiled towards them and nodded his head then he looked towards the potions master. He was sporting a small victory smile and looking at his parents, who were furious, and Dumbledore, whose face was blank but he could see the anger in his eyes.
After Harry, Lexus Potter was called. Everybody, except the Slytherin table, leaned forward to see the boy prophesied to be the only one able to kill the dark lord.
When a plump boy walked forward, they were thoroughly disappointed. He was the exact opposite of Harry. Harry had a slim, well-muscled body for a eleven year old while Lexus was a bit fat. His red hair contrasted terribly with his tan skin. And his face looked like his father's, he even wore glasses. The only good thing about him was his expensive robes.
Lexus sat on the stool for a long time. By the look on his face, it seemed that he was going to throw a tantrum when suddenly he smiled and the hat, obviously in an annoyed voice, screamed "GRYFFINDOR."
The Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs table broke out in cheers whereas the Ravenclaws and the Slytherins clapped hesitantly. They had not liked Lexus Potter the second they had seen him. He looked arrogant and horribly spoiled.
The sorting finished with Blaise Zabini being sorted into Slytherin and Dumbledore stood up. He was beaming at the students, though his eyes didn't twinkle like it usually did, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.
"Welcome!" he said. "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! Thank you!" he then said back down and the twinkle in his eyes appeared.
'So I was right,' Harry thought. 'He is a bit mad.'
Everybody clapped and cheered, though most of the Slytherins including harry and Draco only clapped to avoid increasing the bad reputation of their house.
Foods appeared in front of them and they dug in. after they finished their food, the headmaster stood again.
"Ahem- just a few more words now we are all fed and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you. First-years should note that the forest in the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well." Dumbledore's twinkling eyes flashed in the direction of the Weasley twins. "I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in corridors.
"Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of term. Anyone interested in playing for their house should contact Madam Hooch. And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death."
'Looks like he's mad and stupid. He shouldn't have mentioned that if he didn't want people to go there. Now people will be curious.'
And indeed, he could see the curious face on Lexus. He had no doubt that Lexus would go to satisfy his curiosity as soon as he was able to. Beside him, he saw the twin's younger brother from the train, sitting with a smug look on his face. 'No doubt, he thinks himself higher than others for being the friend of the 'chosen one'"
They sung the school's song, they meaning everybody except for the Slytherins and some teachers. Then the prefects, from each house, stood up and guided their houses to their dorms. The Slytherins made their way towards the dungeons. They walked deeper and deeper under the school until they reached a stretch of bare, damp stone wall. It looked bare but Harry could see a small silver snake in the middle of the wall. He looked at Draco and was proud to see that he had also noticed it.
"This is the entrance to our dorm. And I hope that at least half of the first-year noticed the small snake in the middle. That is the only thing that differenties this wall from others in the dungeons. You need to say the password to get in. the password changes every week and the prefects will tell you that week's password. This week's password is 'Infinity'". The door slid open and they entered the common room.
The common room was the exact opposite of the dungeons outside. The room was warm and inviting. There was a fireplace on one side of the room and 3 comfortable looking chairs next to it. There were table and chairs on one corner and one door in each of the three walls. The boy prefect stood in the middle of the room.
"The door to your right leads to the boy's dorm, the door to your left leads to the girl's dorm and the door in front of you and behind me is the door that leads to Slytherin's head of house, Professor Severus Snape's office."
The girl prefect then stood in the middle of the room. "All Slytherin's must stick together. If you have a fight with one of your fellow Slytherins, it must be inside the Slytherin common room. Outside the room, you must show unity with your fellow Slytherins, no matter how much you hate them. We already have a bad reputation, we don't need more."
Then the boy prefect again spoke, "You can go to your dorms, where your name will be written on the door of your room along with your roommate's. Tomorrow, before you go to the great hall, you must gather in the common room and walk together and then go to the great hall together with your house mates in a show of unity. You may go now."
The first-years went to their respective dorms and searched for their name. Harry's room was the first room and he was happy to see that his room-mate was Draco. He entered his room and saw his trunk along with Draco's in front of a king sized bed. He chuckled when he realized that Severus had designed his room.
After Harry entered his room, Draco followed and blushed when he saw the bed. They sat on the bed and waited for their head of the house to come. They didn't have to wait for long because just after 5 minutes, Severus was striding through the door.
He stopped in front of Harry and knelt down while taking one of his hands in his. Draco got off the bed and knelt beside Severus while taking Harry's other hand. Then they simultaneously kissed the back of the hand they each held.
Harry smiled at them then put his hands on top of their hands. There was a sharp pain but it quickly vanished. They each had an 'H' with two snakes wrapped around them. They heard Harry inhale sharply and looked at him.
There was blood coming from the pulse point in both of Harry's wrist. They turned his hands and saw two tattoos newly engraved there. On the hand that Severus had held was a flame that moved when the hand moved and on the hand that Draco held was three blue wavy lines that also moved when the hand moved.
They cleaned the blood then lay on the bed with Harry in between them.
TBC