((So sorry this has taken so long, if anyone is still reading here is chapter 2 of the rewrite. I am working but real life is not kind at the moment)

Chapter 2

Hermione had dragged Ron through the carriages until she had found Ginny, she forced John inside the compartment and pushed him into a seat next to his sister. She huffed, all Ron had said as they had moved through the carriages was that, leaving Harry with that 'snake' was a bad idea and that 'they' (the Malfoys) were defiantly up to something fishy. She had rolled her eyes and stated that if the order trusted them then they should to.

Ginny looked up in surprise and mentally counted, one short. "Wheres Harry?" She questioned, she had gotten over the boy who lived when Hermione had gently informed her that Harry was gay. Ron huffed and opened his mouth to say something undoubtedly mean and derogatory about Draco but Hermione cut him of with a glare. He snapped his mouth shut and crossed his arms sulking back in the seat and resolutly looking away from the bushy hair girl. Hermione gave a long suffering sigh before answering. "He's back in our original compartment, with Draco." She paused and kicked Ron in the shins for the muttered slur against the boy he had uttered. "They are talking, I think Draco is asking Harry out." She said with a knowing and proud smile. She had thought this would happen. Ginny's eyes brows vanished into her hair line and she ended up letting out a light chuckle as a smile made her cheeks bunch up. "I always said he would find love in the hardest place, never could do anything easy could he." She murmured before shifting Nevile up a few inches so that Hermione could sit down. "Don't worry, I'm going to go and check on them. See what is going on." Ron made to stand. "No. You stay here. You won't have anything nice to say so I can't see the point in you coming." She said abruptly before turning on her heel and slipping from the compartment. Ginny gave her brother a sympathetic smile and rested her hand on his shoulder. Ron just stared out the window at the passing scenery.

Harry and Draco had spoken at great length after the declaration of love and loyalty from Harry. The pair were currently sat on the pulled out seat, it made a version of a bed. Harry was sat leaning on the wall by the window and Draco sat in his lap leaning on the other boys chest as he listened to Harry talk about his summer before the order. He could feel his eyes drooping and he felt his head tipping forwards. "Draco?" Harry asked quietly, worried that Draco was becoming ill. He jumped and looked up at the boy, he shook his head fractionally to try and clear some of the sleepiness. "Sorry, that was rude of me. What were you saying?" He asked as he forced his mind to concentrate. Harry gave a small smile. "I asked if you were okay, you seem really tired." Draco nodded and scrubbed at his eyes. "I am just tired. My night of late have been restless and full of worry about this." He gestured to the pair of them. "I worried that you would not accept me because of how I acted or because of the fact that I was a dragon and not a human…" He trailed off and gave a small and quiet laugh. "Seems all rather pointless now. I think it has all just caught up with me." He closed his eyes, he couldn't help it. Harry gently raised a hand and stroked a hand through Draco's long hair. "Sleep, you must need it and we have a life time to talk." He said kindly letting Draco drift off. Harry pulled a check blanket off the seat and lay it across the pair of them. He was happy enough to just watch the dragon sleep, after all how many people could say they were mated to a genuine water dragon.

Hermione peeked into the cabin and smile at the sight that greeted her, Draco and Harry obviously together. She tapped lightly on the window to get Harrys attention, He looked up at her and smiled. He waved her in but pressed his fingers to his lips in the universal sign for quiet. Nodding she opened the door just wide enough and slipped in. She knelt by the side of the bed and gazed in awe at Draco. "A water dragon, I thought all though were in the amazon or arctic." She whispered, she made to reach out to touch but stopped short as her logic reigned in her curiosity. She then stood her attitude taking a turn for the serious. "Harry, you do know what it means to be a mate. I mean you are mates now, yes?" She gave him a stern look waiting for the answer. Harry swallowed, he hated that look always meant that there was a lecture round the corner. He nodded. "I do and we are" He said answering her questions in short quiet sentences. He brushed Dracos hair away from his eyes as the dragon shifted on Harrys lap. She sighed and relaxed a little. "He looks exhausted poor thing." She murmured. Harry nodded. "He got himself too worked up to sleep. He needed me, he needed his mate and I promised him that I will always be with him. When he needs me and when he doesn't" Hermione gave the dragon a soft look and was about to comment when there was a pop and Snape appeared into the compartment.

Harry jumped violently at the sudden appearance of the professor and it joggled Draco awake, silver eyes sluggishly slipped open and he cast them sleepily over the compartment. They fell on his godfather and he sat up trying to make himself more presentable to the older man. "Godfather?" He questioned as he looked at him and sat back against Harry getting as much contact as he could. Snap sat precariously on the seat across from the pair and raised an eyes brow, it wasn't judging just of appraisal of the situation. "I was informed by the monitoring charm on you that you had approached your mate." He said softly and with an oddly kind tone in his voice, it was only ever reserved for Draco. He leant forwards and pressed a boney hand to Dracos forehead, he frowned at the unusual heat there. "Draco, I think we apperate you and Mr Potter to the castle. The journey is only half done and I doubt that you are going to last until somnus takes you." He said with concern. Harry frowned but Snape clearly knew what he was talking about. Draco blinked and eventually nodded carefully, He could feel it creeping up on him and taking over him slowly. Snaped nodded and stood holding out a long fingered hand to his god son to take. Draco used the hand to keep himself steady as he stood. "Can you stay awake for me while we apperate?" He asked softly worried that if somnus took too quickly then Draco would be forced to stay on the train. He nodded and held out his other hand to Harry. The boy stood and gently wrapped his arm around Dracos waist to help support him. Finding his voice he swallowed and asked professor Snape. "Is this normal? Is he okay?" His voice was soft but shot with worry. Snape nodded, he may not be the president of Harrys fan club but he was not so cruel as to keep the boy in the dark about the condition of his mate. "Yes Potter, completely normal. We will be appearing him to school via side along, with you of course." He added the last bit when Draco whined. "There are rooms prepared for the pair of you." Harry nodded and tried to take the entire situation in but gave up and just held onto Draco as Snape started to prepare himself to apperate. Harry gave one last look to Hermione who was just standing a little stunned in the corner before he felt the pulling on his stomach as they apperated to Hogwarts.

The pair were lead (Harry carrying a sleeping Draco) by Snape to a large open portraite and into a set of rooms that resembled a mini version of the gryfindor tower with subtle hints of the slytherin dungeon. Harry was directed to the bedroom where he gently and carefully deposited the now fully asleep dragon onto the large and plush four poster bed that was waiting there. He made sure that Draco was comfortable and covered before slipping into the main room where Snap was talking in hushed tones to one of the portraits on the wall. The pair quieted the second Harry entered and Snape turned on the spot to stare piercingly at the boy. "Mr Potter… Is my godson settled?" He asked reasonably but the gaze said that there were consequences should he be lying or do wrong by Draco. Harry nodded. "Yes, in bed." He clarified for the potions master. Snape nodded. "I must be leaving but here is a little parting information. When you get a chance, massage between his shoulder blades. He will be quite thankful and you might learn a thing or to about dragons." Leaving Harry stood in the centre of the room stunned he slipped out of the suite of rooms letting the portrait swing shut.

Dumbledore paced thoughtfully across his office, the purring and ticking of the various magical artefacts not penetrating the thoughts of the elderly wizard. He had just been informed of the interesting events of Draco's approach to his mate. No matter the joy that the event would bring to Draco and his family, there was a list of issues the it would cause, not in the least the fact that his careful planning to get to Voldemort was not completely superfluous. He paused in his pacing to rub his forehead with a tired hand, there was so many things. There was the general fact that it would have to announced to the school that the pair were involved, it was common practice when magical creatures were mated off as there were always issues with the bonds the were created should others try and pursue either half of the pairing. Then to top his list off there was the new defines against the dark arts teacher, One Doloras Umbridge. He was not the sort of man that would speak a bad word about most people but she was a problem.

Upon her arrival the the school earlier in the summer to prepare and orientate her self with the school she had questioned his rigorously about Hagrid and his breeding, she had more than hinted at her dictates at having half breeds at the school. She was clearly aware of the fact that she could do little to nothing about the muggle borns at the school but any student with the blood of a magical creature in their veins would be subject to her ways. It worried him that Draco in particular would be under her less than kind gaze as he would be instantly classified as an beast that was dangerous.

There was a light knock at the large wooden door that was accompanied with a breathy and forced cough, he sighed. It seemed when you thought of the devil she was bound to appear. "Come in" He called, gliding across the floor robes russling to sit behind the crowded and ornate desk. The door creaked as it opened and she slipped in. He gave her a once over glance and mentally steeled himself, she was as usual dressed in a sickly shade of pink with a cardigan and clicking heels. "Ah Doloras, To what do I owe this pleasure of such a fine evening." He asked with polite and jovial tone. The witch found herself a seat and perched primly on the edge as she coughed again. "Headmaster, I wish to convey my concern at a recent development that has come to my attention. There is a certain half breed, I daren't call it a student, I do not think it wise to place such a dangerous animal with other pure students." Her simpering tone did little to hide the way she was persecuting and threatening Draco. Albus leveled her with a guarded gaze that was calculating. "Dolores, I can assure you that Draco Malfoy is in no way a danger to any of the students here at Hogwarts. He is a calm and intelligent student with good grade and promising future. I will keep him with the other students and in lessons as long as he proves to be so." He said sternly giving her no room for reasoning. She huffed and stood quick brushing imaginary dust from her clothes and giving Albus a glare. "The minister will hear of this" She hissed angrily. "Then, then we will see what happens to the half breed brat." She turned and headed to the door, reaching a hand out to open it she stumbled back when it was opened from the other side and Snape appeared in the doorway. He raised an eyebrow and looked at her, stepping back to allow her to leave with out a word to her. She composed her self quickly and with a waddling stride left the office.

Snape advanced into the office and took the seat that she had alighted from. "I have directed Potter and Draco to the rooms that have been prepared for them. I believe that the next action is to inform Lucius that Draco is entering Somnus and let him and Potter discuss exactly what it is and what is going to happen" Albus nodded. "Right you are Severus" He gave a sad look to the other professor. "Watch out for you Godson Severus, that woman is on a crusade and it is not going to end well" He warned. Severus nodded and stood again. "I will headmaster." He left the office in a billowing of black robes.

Harry had moved back into the bedroom and had spent a good while just watching the sleeping dragon, trying to take in everything that had happened that day and move forwards. He now moved close and gently started to pop the buttons of Dracos shirt and undress the dragon a little to make him more comfortable in the bed. He didn't understand why Draco was in such a deep sleep or what part it played in his biology but he trusted in Professors Snapes care for his Godson that he would be worried if he didn't know what it was. He paused in his undressing of his mate to just gaze at the alabaster skin that had been unloved. It was clear of any blemish and seemed to shimmer like he was underwater, that at least made sense to Harry's frayed mind. Remembering what Snape had said he arranged pillows and rolled him carefully to expose the dragons back. He ran a gentle hand over the skin between his shoulder blades and pressed carefully. He watched in awe as large wing extended and flexed from his shoulder blades. Harry felt a smile drift over his face as he watched the shimmering colours that moved over the membrane of the wings. "…The joints…" He murmured to himself when he thought back to the rest of what Snape had said. Opening one hand muttering a charm he summoned a bottle of massage oil and poured a little into the palm of his hand and warmed it before moving to the joints. Clasping one in his hands began to carefully stroke over the muscles that were around he bones. The wings quivered and relaxed into the touch, as Harry continued drakes skin shimmered and glistened beautifully. Harry's eyes widened when a set of gills started to appear out of his neck, then a shiver moved down his spine and his tail shifted into existence. Harry couldn't help but whisper out. "Draco you beautiful." Draco's eyes slid open, they were misty but focused on him. "That feels nice, no one has ever done that." He breath, sounding distant like he is flying. Harry looked over Draco, unaware of how much pleasure he was giving the dragon under his hands. "I didn't know this would happen, I didn't mean to take advantage of you. Your godfather said that you would like it." He quickly explained worried that it was something that wasn't good to do. As Harry tried to take his hands away Draco pushed his wings into them and smiled. "Don't stop. It feels good. Your meant to do things like this." He took a breath and tried to wake enough to explain as Harry continued to massage. "This, this is called Somnus, it means sleep. You could do anything and I would be powerless to stop you…." He trailed off as he was taken again by the sleep. He curled against Harry and made small noises of comfort at the touch of Harry. Harry thought at he massaged, he thought about the implications of what Draco had said to him. 'Powerless to stop you…' He knew that there were people who used dragon in potions, he had never considered where the ingredients had come from but now it made him feels sick as his mind created the story.

Across the castle and in a tower office Doloras Umbridge sat furiously scribbling at the parchment before her. Face set an a grin of malice and perverse joy.

Dear Minster

I have evaluated the school and so far find the results upsetting and wish to convey the swelling concern that I feel for the safety of the pure students at the school. The current head master seems to show a complete disregard for the fact that he has a class one half breed in this school, this potentially lethal student….