Chapter 3: We're all mad here. Part 1
A/N Hello again! Enjoy!
From now on Harry Potter will be Harrison Porter.
I don't own Harry Potter!
They didn't question Harrison on his (admittedly weak) backstory. He described himself as an orphan from a little known wizarding family that had home-schooled him up until sixth year education. Harry Potter had been in fifth year but he decided being close to Voldemort Tom Riddle might be better for the light. His parents had been killed by Dark wizards-true enough-and he had made his way to Hogwarts using a portkey before he was killed as well but not before he was injured; thus accounting for his pyjamas and injuries. Unfortunately or fortunately as the case may be, the school could neither deny nor verify this due to Gringdelwald's attacks.
After Harrison had finished his brief explanation it was decided that he would attend Hogwarts at a sixth year level until the war was over, then he could decide to stay or go to relatives who were "in hiding" until it was safe. Dumbledore was of course suspicious; he thought that he knew of all light families and the name Porter wasn't familiar.
Next was sorting. Harry may have been a Gryffindor but in this time he was determined to complete his self-appointed task, even if it meant that he had to become a Slytherin. The hat was the same as he remembered (if a little less crinkled with age) and it was brought to the hospital ward. No stool or tables lined with expectant faces; just Headmaster Dippet, Tom Riddle, Harrison Porter, and Professor Dumbledore. It was actually kind of disappointing and mundane.
Harrison was now a Slytherin, as expected the Sorting Hat had given him a choice between the lions or the snakes. It was somewhat laughable; Harry Potter had hated the slimy Slytherins but Harrison is now one himself.
Tom Riddle was not amused. That…Hufflepuff was polluting the noble house of Salazar Slytherin! Tom didn't trust him in the slightest; Porter's story was weak at best and his injuries had not been consistent with an attack of the nature he was describing. In short Harrison Porter appeared to be a fraud.
Tom never voiced this however. It wouldn't do any good to set himself against Porter if his story did check out. So, he took Porter to the Slytherin common room then showed him his room. Porter knew his way around the school perfectly, as if he had been attending for years, but when he reached the common room he seemed lost. Tom decided not to dwell on it, he would receive his answers tomorrow.
A/N This is ridiculously short but I don't have much time today and I wanted to get his next chapter out. I'll call it Chapter 3 Part 1.
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