Once again I quote: "Put me back in the fridge"
Draco Malfoy was not enjoying his life, instead of going to Hogwarts and taking lead in Slytherin house as he should, his father had forced him to attend that French school full of mudbloods, blood traitors and freaks like that Delacore thing, to think he was reduced to learning magic alongside filth like that!
Lucious knew his son was angry with him, but it was a small price to pay for taking Dumbledore down a peg or three, but if Draco continued to be upset it could annoy his wife and cause him no end of annoyance, he needed to buy his son's affections... make amends for hurting his proper... boy, but what would shut the brat ... mend the rift between them? he looked through some of his dark artifacts perhaps this? he picked up a small leather bound diary, it had been given to him by the dark lord himself and he did have instructions on what to do with it but his lord was dead so he didn't feel the need to cause problems at Hogwarts when things were going so well, yes this would do to shut the whiny little snot up.
Nick was still deep into his runes and enjoying every minute of it, thanks to access to the internet and studying some programming languages he was swiftly creating a rune computer, Harry was surprised at how much progress Nick had made until Elle reminded him Nick had been a researcher for 600 years so it wasn't that surprising, she had herself found the internet to be excellent for looking up muggle transport, specifically supercars to harry's great surprise his grandmother was quickly turning into a petrol head!
Harry had quite a sock when Sirius showed up, due to the fact he showed up being driven by Elle in her new Veyron, he was practically bouncing with excitement about the car but didn't get much chance to talk before Elle shoved Harry into the passenger seat and showed him the speed of light.
Draco looked at the little book, at first he was insulted that his father would give him such a beat up looking thing, it was only after Lucious had explained that this was given to him by Lord Voldemort himself that he realized what a great gift he had been given and thanked his father profusely before heading to his room to see if the small book had some sort of secret, it was after all a possession of Voldemort's so there must be something to it, he cast every detection charm he knew and used many of the expensive enchanted objects he owned but found that although the book was steeped in magic there seemed to be no real enchantment to it, although disappointed he decided to use it as a diary after all an empty book should be written in, on the first page he wrote his name,
Draco Malfoy
the name seemed to vanish as if the ink was liquid and being absorbed by the page until,
Hello Draco Malfoy, my name is Tom Riddle.
Harry was torn between really loving the speed of the metal beast his grandmother had bought, and terror at being smeared across the countryside, she turned corners like the car was on rails and he began to wonder how she could be such a good driver before he remembered, duh! she was over 600 years old, learning to drive wouldn't take too long and after being alive so long it was only natural that they would learn anything new that they could, and now that they had young bodies they were enjoying things to the fullest, eventually she pulled back onto the cottage property pulling a drift stunt to park the car perfectly in it's spot, after prying his hands off the seat Harry shakily got out yes he loved the speed of the thing it just felt way too dangerous, his grandmother chuckled,
"you really think i'd take you out for a spin if it wasn't safe kiddo?" she grinned, "The body frame is reinforced with impervious charms as is the bodywork itself, the inside has cushioning charms, and in the event of a crash the seats are portkeys with an arresto momentum boost,"
"and you didn't tell me this before because?"
"well the camera inside wouldn't have captured all these lovely expressions you made," she smiled and walked off laughing "you can thank your godfather it was his idea!" bus meet Sirius,
Leaving Harry to go after his godfather Elle went to check on Nick, who was really into his work and they got chatting about it, she mentioned that her new toy had a lot of muggle electronics to Nick's surprise, and that's how she wormed her way into helping with the research.
Sirius was exhausted after being chased around the property by his irate godson, apparently he had been tossed under public transport, and spent half an hour in dog form running away from the painful pecks of Harry in bird form before they both grew tired of it and stopped, Sirius then led Harry down into his little area where he was tinkering with bikes and began to explain to his godson how some parts couldn't be enchanted, the combustion area of an engine for example cause a slight change in the metal due to the heat and so runes would be disrupted, it didn't take long before he and Harry were bouncing ideas off each other and when Nick and Elle took a break and came looking for them they got pulled in too.
Many ideas came to light, like charms on every part of a car could be regulated like Harry's armor would be with a bit of tweaking on nick's part, Elle was able to point out some flaws and their collaborating took all the way up until the next term started, they had realised that enchanting muggle items was against the law but Nick had a few ideas about that but Harry had to go back to the academy, and was excited to see his friends again.
Brice had the best summer he had ever had, amusement parks, swimming, the cinema to watch all those films he had seen at home on the big screen, sneaking out at night to fly around the street as a parrot hadn't gone unnoticed but no one seemed to realize where this exotic bird had come from, his parents scolded him to be a bit more cautious but other than that didn't have the heart to stop him, his old aids such as the wheelchair had been given away discreetly, but none of the neighbours seemed to ask questions which Brice explained that the local magical authorities had made it so people simply forgot about his former disability and any governmental bodies were informed of his status and took the appropriate steps he wasn't the first young disabled wizard to enter the wizarding world and be cured by magic and he wouldn't be the last.
Finally the day arrived and Harry, Mina, Brice and Fleur met up at Merveille Carré waiting for the carriages to show up, Brice and Fleur's parents met Harry the Delacours were very impressed with the polite young man who had become their daughter's first real male friend and the Fleck's thanked Harry for helping their son come out of his shell, after a bit of smalltalk where harry mentioned some of his interests and hobbies which the Fleck's nodded politely to while the Delacours gaped that this little boy could understand such complex magics, as they watched the carriages fly up, up and away, both sets of parents briefly chatted and exchanged correspondence details as their children were in the same friend group it made sense.
Harry had the most to talk about, he had decided to open up more to his friends and give them each a contract to cover his secrets, he explained this was about protection not trust but Fleur and Mina knew that wizards had many secrets and a magically binding contract would protect the all, Brice would have signed his soul over to Harry if he asked which Harry found a little disturbing but vowed to never abuse such a large level of trust, after the contracts were signed and transported to Gringotts they waited until they had got to the academy and found a few hours of free time, the headed into the forest in their animal forms and found a nice clearing where Harry stood before them and took a deep breath,
"My name was Harry James Potter..."
Draco Malfoy was back at this place of freaks and unworthy scum, he went to his room and took out a quill.
Madam Maxine was taking a walk around the corridors, looking for stragglers who may have gotten lost, she usually found a few as well as some hiding in a corner rekindling their relationship from the previous year, to her shock she found Hagrid coming in looking panicked, in his hands was a small girl one of the new students, he explained he found her in the gardens curled up and whimpering, they rushed the girl to the infirmary where to their horror they learned the girl had been subjected to the Cruciatus Curse, the girl was not able to give any useful evidence as her memory had been removed, all except the pain.