Countdown

Countdown Chapter 9


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A/N:

Don't like how we do things here, then get lost fools! Cause in this story, we do things our way. - God Of Mercy

Warning: Foul language in this chapter!

After things had settled down and the annoying trio were taken out, Harry decided he was to tired to do anything else. Besides he had plans to think about and how to go about getting them done. He wondered, as he pulled up the blankets to his chest as he laid down, if his slytherin friends would give him a hand at dishing out his revenge on those who have used him. Harry's eyelids started to close shut, his thoughts drifted off as sleep over took him.

The next time Harry woke, it was the next morning. As he started to come around he heard the sound of soft voices in his room, he stayed on his side turned away from them, as to not let them know yet that he was awake. He listened to what they were saying.

"I hope Harry is okay. I really wish we would have been there." That was Pansy, his friends must be here.

"Yeah me too. I hope he knows what happen or who did this?" The worried voice of Theo drifted to his ears.

"I don't know, but when we find out. We're going to get them back." That was Draco, his words filled with hidden anger. He then heard Blaise murmur his agreement to Draco's comment.

He then thought he would let them know that he was awake so he stretched and rolled over. Pansy heard him move and looked over at him.

"He's awake." She got up and walked over to his bed.

"Hey guys. How's it going?" Harry asked as he sat up so Pansy could sit down on the side of his bed. She leaned over and hugged him.

"Oh, Harry. Are you alright? We were worried about you." Pansy let go of him and sat back looking at him. The others came over as well to greet him. Draco taking up the other side across from Pansy on his bed the others standing beside each of them. They were looking him over to make sure he wasn't hurting from what had happened.

"Yeah I'm fine now. The healers here took very good care of me." Harry smiled at them and then looked to Draco, who was sitting on the other side of his bed.

"You were awake listening to us weren't you?" The blond young man asked with a cheeky smile. "You sound to awake to be just waking up." Harry just gave a small chuckle at him and smiled back.

"Yeah well you guys weren't as quiet as you thought you were. And to just let you know I don't really remember what happened or who attacked me. But when I do find out, I'll let you guys help me out in getting them back, no worries about that." The others nodded their heads.

"So how did you guys get permission to come to St. Mungos to visit?" Harry asked them as he surely knew that Dumbledore wouldn't have allowed them to leave Hogwarts to visit him, he wouldn't want Slytherins to hang out with him trying to turn him to the dark side.

"Ah, well we Slytherins have our secrets about getting what we want." Theo told him smiling. "But it was Draco's father that sent us a message that we could come and visit. You don't mind do you?" The boy asked feeling kind of hurt at the thought that Harry might not want them there.

"No! Not at all. I don't mind you guys being here. I'm all the more glad you guys would come just to see me." Harry let them know that he really did like them coming to see him for just for him.

"Well good. We wouldn't want to have to jinx you." Blaise said playfully with a smile, they were all relieved that Harry really wanted them there. He then playfully put a hand on his chest and pouted.

"You would jinx little old me? How mean." They all chuckled at Harry's playful acting. Once everyone calmed down, he then turned his eyes on to Draco once more.

"So Dray," Harry paused wanting to draw their attention a little more. "What's it like having the Dark Lord as a step daddy?" Draco nearly fell off the bed in shock at the blunt question about his father's mate.

"What!? How!? Who told you!?" Harry just laughed at the blonds’ shocked expression. The others laughed along with him as it wasn't often you could surprise the blond slytherin. Harry was laughing for the first time since waking up in the hospital. As everyone's laughing calmed down and Draco gathered himself back up from looking like a man who stuck his finger in a light socket. Harry decided that he would tell his friend who did.

"Your father, told me himself. I couldn't believe it myself when I found out." Before anyone could say any more there was a knock on the door. Then it opened to allow the head healer from yesterday to come in.

"Ah, Mr. Potter I see you have company. I don't mean to interrupt. I have come to check up on you and to see that you are well enough to leave today." The healer smiled at him as he stepped up as his friends got up and moved to the side to allow the healer to move closer.

"I'm feeling pretty good. I don't feel any pain and I haven't had any problems with anything." Harry told him as the healer waved his wand over him.

"Well Mr. Potter, from the results I say your completely healed and you can leave when your ready." Healer Castro said as he finished his examination, his gray-blue eyes sparkling with his smile.

"Thanks Healer Castro." Harry smiled he was ready to get back to Hogwarts but also dreading it at the same time. Healer Castro then said his good byes and as he was leaving Madam Pomfrey was coming in. They stopped and spoke to each other, the healer telling her that Harry could leave when he was ready. Then the healer left, leaving Poppy to take care of the children.

"Harry dear, just let me know when your ready and we'll go back." She told him as she went over and sat down in one of the chairs that the children had vacated off to the side. Then she went back to reading her book on mind healing.

"Yes Madam." Harry nodded his head to her. His friends once more gathered around him taking up their places by him, each of his friends seem to be smiling at him. He was wondering why until Pansy reached in to her pocket and pulled out a tiny wrapped box, covered in shining silver paper and an emerald colored bow tied on top. She unshrunk it and it became the size of his hand as well as the thickness and length.

"Here Harry, this is for you." Harry smiled, he couldn’t help the excitement that filled him. He reached out and took the box from the dark haired slytherin. He wondered what was inside, as he unwrapped it. When he did he looked inside, there was a sterling silver necklace with a Florentine leaf pendant that had a small emerald 'S' shaped serpent gem embedded into it. Harry's eyes went wide, he couldn't believe he would be given something so beautiful by one of his friends. He felt like crying.

"Thank You." He told Pansy who smiled as he hugged her. "The necklace is from Draco. The Box, that it's in, is from me. You can use it for anything and it can resize to any size you want. It also has protection charms and such on it so no one can get into it, if you don't want them to." After he broke away from the hug with her, Draco then butted in as Harry looked at him.

"When you're touching the necklace, it will allow you to mentally talk to us. We each have one and now that your a part of our group, we decided to give you one in case anything happens and we need to get in contact with each other." He pointed out to Harry as he thanked him for the necklace it was after that, that Blaise then stepped up and gave him his gift. The dark colored boy handed him a black wand holster with a green bow stuck to the top of it.

"Thought you might need this instead of always sticking your wand in your pocket all the time. If your wearing it and you drop your wand it'll automatically go back into the holster. Very useful in battle." Blaise told him smirking as Harry looked the holster over it was made of dragon hide with fine double stitching around the edges. He gave Blaise his thanks for the fine holster, he would most definitely put it to good use. Theo then took his turn and handed Harry his gift.

"Here you go. If your going to be one of us, you got to learn what kind of magic we use." Theo had handed him a set of Dark Arts books called 'The History Of Dark Arts And Magic By Salazar Slytherin'. He smiled again and gave Theo his thanks. These gifts would most definitely be useful. He had to say that these gifts were much better then the candy and cards he always got when he ended up in the hospital from his old friends.

"So Harry are you ready to go back?" Draco asked while handing Harry his wand he picked up off the bed side table, to put in the wand holster Blaise had just gave him. He wasn't really ready but now after all that he had found out, he had a million an one questions to ask. He wondered if Salazar would know anything or help him out, after all he did tell him about Tom.

"Not really. It was nice being able to relax without waking up to hear people talking about me. But alright, give me an hour to get showered and dressed and we'll head back to Hogwarts." He told them as he started to get out of bed.

"That's a lot less time then it takes Draco." Blaise joked smirking at the blond. Draco sharply looked at him.

"Hey!" Draco then playfully hit him in the arm. Everyone chuckled at their antics as Harry went off to shower.


An hour later found the five new friends and the medi-witch leaving St. Mungos, they were riding back in a carriage to get to Hogwarts. They had been riding for a couple of hours when Draco had an idea.

"Harry why don't you sit at the Slytherin table for meals from now on. Then one of us can be with you during the day. This way you are never alone and we can keep shit like this from happening again. There's no rule that says you can't sit with another house, after all we are encouraged to have inter house unity." Harry thought about this and once he remembered what the school rules stated, he nodded his head.

"Yeah, your right. From now on I'll sit with you guys I really don't want that to happen again either." They all agreed that this would be the safest way they could make sure he wasn't left alone except that he wasn't in Slytherin. Then Pansy had another idea.

"I wonder if you can be re sorted?" Pansy asked with a frown.

"We can ask Salazar when we get back to school." Blaise spoke up, knowing he would know. Harry and the others nodded, now that they had a plan hopefully everything would be alright.


The carriage arrived at the school, pulling up to the castle steps to let them out. Once they all piled out, they headed into the castle, walking into the entrance hall surrounded by his new friends, Harry was not expecting to see the Headmaster and his old friends waiting for him and by the scowls on his new friends faces, neither were they.

"Hello my boy!" Albus greeted him in his grandfatherly like voice putting his hands together in front of him his eyes twinkling like stars. Harry just rolled his eyes not smiling, this was getting old and annoying.

"Hello Headmaster." He drawled out at the old prune.

"How are you Harry?" The professor asked brightly, looking over his spectacles at him.

"Since I never gave you permission to use my first name, it is Mr. Potter to you!" Harry agitatedly told him. In the background Harry could have sworn he heard one of his slytherin friends snicker.

"Harry my boy, I was worried about you. Now that your back, we can have a proper conversation between me, you and your friends." He said while gesturing to the three beside him, he completely ignored what Harry had said to him. Hermione, Ron and Ginny all standing like they were the perfect little angel or obedient slaves as Harry thought.

"I'm sure you miss them. You all have been through so much together. You don't want to throw six years of friendship away for a misunderstanding, do you?" Harry looked at Draco and then at the headmaster.

"They were never my friends and you know it. They are backstabbing, manipulative, money hungry liars. I don't want anything more to do with them and as my Headmaster, not my Father, that is none of your concern about our ended friendship. I am allowed to be friends with who ever I want. Now if you will excuse me I have better things to do then waste my time talking to those stalkers." Harry and his new friends started to walk off.

"Harry my boy" He heard the old wizard call. They just kept walking not even bothering to look back. Harry was headed off to see Salazar down in the chamber. He wanted to show his Slytherin friends their favorite founders secret place. When they got to the moving staircases and up to the third floor, the Slytherins were wondering where Harry was taking them.

"Hey Harry, where are you taking us? I thought we were going to go talk to Salazar." Draco asked they all looked at Harry as they came upon the third floor girls bathroom.

"Isn't this where a girl was killed, you know moaning Mertle?" Blaise wondered out loud as they walked in to the bathroom, Harry didn't answer their questions yet. They were glad that she hadn't come out yet to bother them. They stood in front of the sinks as Harry looked around to make sure no one was around and warded the bathroom from anyone who wanted to come in.

"I'm taking you guys to the chamber, we'll be able to talk to Salazar with out anyone over hearing us talk. I hope you guys don't mind a little dirt." He smiled at them as he step back indicating to the others to do the same.

//Open.// He whispered and the sinks moved out and stopped leaving a gaping hole in the floor. Pansy and Draco stepped closer to it looking down.

"We have to go down that!?" Pansy exclaimed as Draco made a face at that. Harry just chuckled at his friends disgust.

"Alright down you go." He told them waiting for them to jump down. Then one by one they jumped in Harry going last to close the opening. When they all reached the bottom, Harry took them through the tunnels to the chamber where the head of Salazar Slytherin was.

"Wow! This place is so cool" Their faces were full of wonder as Harry took them over to the side to where the hidden room with Salazar frame hung. He whispered for it to open and they all went down to the inner chamber at the bottom of the stairs. Once they entered the chamber they walked in and looking around, Harry's friends were astound at the books that littered the shelf’s on the walls.

"Over here guys." Harry called to them wanting them to head straight to Salazar. His friends wandered over curious as to what Harry wanted them to see.

"Hello Salazar are you down here?" He called out wanting to see Lord Slytherin.

"Hello young Gryffindor, I'm in the mirror." Harry took a few more steps up toward where the mirror hung and turn to look up in to it.

"Salazar, can you come through to this realm again? I have a few people I want you to meet." Seeing Salazar stand from the chair he had been sitting in, Harry quickly stepped back to allow him through. Before he knew what was happening, Salazar had stepped into the room. Looking around at all the people invading his chamber before he could turn to Harry. The others stunned shouts got his attention.

"What the hell!?" Screeched Blaise and Theo.

"Oh Merlin's balls, I think I'm losing it!" Pansy exclaimed eyes wide as she put a hand on her chest. Draco even look like he was wobbling on his feet. "Draco is it just me or is one of the founders standing in front of us?"

"If your going crazy then so am I cause I see him too." Draco's eyes then rolled back in to his head. The next thing Salazar saw was both Pansy and Draco dropping to the floor in a dead faint.

"Well that was rude." Lord Slytherin remarked with a glare as well as with amusement shining in his eyes, at the two now passed out on the floor. Though it wasn't often he could make someone faint from entering a room.

"You can't be Salazar Slytherin. You've been dead for over a thousand years." Blaise now had gathered himself up but only enough to let those words slip from his mouth. Though Theo still had his mouth hanging open. Lord Slytherin turned his glare on to them.

"Are you questioning me little snake? I do know who I am or will this convince you." With that Salazar turned to hiss into the mirror.

//Nakeeta?// With that a large black snake appeared in the mirror, the two were stunned. The large snake came out of the mirror and slithered over the bodies of Draco and Pansy to get to Salazar. When she reached his side, she slithered up his body. Lord Slytherin then turned his attention back on to the two boys.

"Do you believe me now? Or do I need to glamor my eyes green for you to understand?" The two just shook their head dumbly not wanting to further insult the Lord of their house.

"Sorry Lord Slytherin" The two slytherin boys said feeling stupid, looking down. Harry was trying to wake Draco and Pansy from their stunned sleep. He was smiling at what had happened, his friends were a trip to hang around.

When Draco and Pansy were awake and back on their feet they still looked slightly pale, though for Draco he wasn't so sure but by the look on his face he knew the blond was still slightly stunned. Salazar then turned to Harry this time no one said anything to interrupt as they were still all stunned.

"How are you little Gryffindor?" He inquired, looking him over.

"I'm fine now. We have a few questions to ask you, if that is okay?" He gave Salazar a small smile.

"That's fine, I have a few things to tell you anyway. Why don't we move to the other room so we can get comfortable to discuss what is on your mind." He ushered them over to the room he and Harry had talked in before. After they arrived in the room they all settled in the arm chairs around the fireplace. Salazar conjured tea and pastries for the group to nibble on as he knew they probably hadn't had anything to eat yet.

"Now," Salazar leaned back in his chair. "Why don't you ask your questions and I'll see what I can do." He told Harry and the others, looking from one to the other. Harry cleared his throat to start, his mind running over the questions he had.

"Is there a way to be re sorted in to another house?" Lord Slytherin raised an eyebrow.

"So now you want to go into my house little Gryffindor?" Salazar smirked at him. "Well the only way you can be re sorted is if you are suppose to be in another house. We did not set any rules against a re sort. Do to the fact that you told the hat to put you in Gryffindor, you can be re sorted." Harry nodded his head thinking as to what he would have to do to get re sorted.

"When you do go to get re sorted, you should have someone from the school governor's board that can be with you in the headmasters office so he can't try to keep you in Gryffindor. If you can, see if Lucius or Racilla Highwater will accompany you. In fact, you should have them both there." Harry looked up from his thinking to the older man, Salazar smirk knowing what his new question would be.

"Who's Racilla Highwater?" The young Gryffindor, soon to be Slytherin, asked.

"Ah, well that is one of my mates, Morgan Le Fay. She's glamored as a school governor to keep an eye on Albus so he won't let anything like what happened to you happen again, as well as to keep you safe. And yes, Rowena will be in the school too disguised as Daiyu Amaya, your new DADA professor. As for me, well I have something to ask you Harry. Would you like me to train you? Your friends as well are welcome to join." The five of them nearly fell off their seats at the offer, to be trained by a founder would be amazing. Salazar just grinned at the looks on their faces.

"Really!? You would train us. Hell yes we would like you to train us." That was Blaise, the boy could really run his mouth at times. Pansy smacked him in the arm for being rude.

"That would be great Lord Slytherin, Thank You." Harry told him as Draco nodded his head.

"Now is there any thing else you would like to ask?" Salazar asked as he took a cup a tea from the coffee table, he had put it on. Harry thought about his next question then he remembered.

"Salazar, do you know anything about mind magic?" Harry's forehead crinkled in hope that Salazar did.

"Of course, who do you think taught Marvolo." Salazar said lightly rolling his red eyes, before taking a sip of his tea. Now that was news to Harry as he had thought Dumbledore had taught Tom mind magic, he went on.

"Is it possible for someone that is very powerful, to send you visions from a long distance?" He leaned forward wanting to take everything Salazar was fixing to tell him in.

"How long of a distance?" Harry wasn't really sure so he told the older Slytherin.

"Well I don't really know. I just know he is no where near by." Salazar took a second to collect his thoughts.

"The only way distance doesn't matter is in a mated couple. That is because a bond is formed between the mates, other then that the person would have to be close to you. He would have to be a master of the mind arts and be very powerful. However, the person could be as far as, lets say any where in Hogwarts but not outside of the school. Does that answer your question Harry." Harry's face had the look of concentration at what Salazar had told him about the mind magic. He wondered about his dreams that he had thought Tom had sent him.

"Could they send you dreams of themselves?" Salazar then thought hard for a minute and sat his empty tea cup back on the table in front of him.

"Again that is possible. However, they would have to be close to you. They can only hold them if they are close by. Mated couples can do it from any distance but only after they have bonded." He told Harry as he leaned back into his chair. Harry was silent thinking over everything, his friends were too. Each of them rolling Salazar's words around in their heads.

"Why do you ask about mental visions?" Salazar was curious as to why Harry was wanting to know so much about mind magic. Harry's head lifted from his thoughts to look at Salazar.

"Ever since Voldemort, I mean Marvolo came back, I have been having dreams about him killing and torturing people. Just last year, I had a vision of my godfather being tortured and I went to save him. When I arrived at the place where I thought he was and no one was there. Instead of leaving when I didn't find anything, I stayed to find the prophesy about Marvolo and I. Before I could find it though, the death eaters came for me and some of my former friends got into a fight with them. He fell through the veil when Bellabitch hit him with a spell. Then Marvolo came and he and Albus got in a battle." He explained to Lord Slytherin, who was thinking now. He would have to tell Marvolo about this. Then Harry pulled out his wand from his new holster and cast tempus when he saw the time he thought it best he go since it was close to dinner.

"Looks like we best be going, Sir. You don't mind if I take what's left of the pastries, do you?" He asked for he had tried one and it was delicious it was nothing like Hogwarts' pastries. Salazar smiled he to had a sweet tooth for the pastries his mate Morgan makes.

"Of course not, take what you like." Harry pulled out his box he had gotten from Pansy and resized it to fit the small hand size pastries in.

"Harry, may I see your box once you filled it?" Harry shrugged his shoulders.

"Alright but I don't know what for, Pansy gave it to me she told me it has protection charms on it and can resize to whatever size you need. I think it's kinda nifty." When he was done, he handed the box to Salazar. The older wizard took the box looking at it but in fact he was silently casting more charms to protect it and curses on it to hurt anyone who tries to open it with out Harry's permission.

"It's very lovely and well built it's fine craftsmanship." Salazar commented on it, handing it back to Harry as he finished his spells.

"Thank you Lord Slytherin." Salazar nodded his head to all of them, getting up to head back to the mirror.

"Alright on with you, you don't want to miss the rest of dinner." Lord Slytherin shooed them off, they all got up and headed out back up to the girls bathroom to head to dinner in the Great Hall. As they made their way towards the Great Hall, laughing and joking around none of them noticed the three people coming up the hall.

" If it isn't trader Potter and his new little friends." Before Ron could say another word, Ginny had elbowed him as hard as she could. Giving her brother a side glare then looking back at Harry.

"Harry, why don't you stop hanging out with those snakes. You know we have your best interest at heart, you know that what we do is for the greater good." It was as if those words were the trigger his mind needed.


**Flashback**


Harry had just made it to the top of the stairs leading to his bedroom. He wanted to change out of the clothes he was wearing to get ready for dinner with his slytherin friends. When out of no where, he heard a 'stupify'. Just like that his body went num and stiff hitting the floor, he couldn't move. What felt like hours but what could have only been minutes, he awoke surrounded by his so called friends.

"Oh look he's awake!" He tried to move but he quickly found out that his arms and legs had been magically tied together tightly. His mind quickly assessed that he wouldn't be getting out, unless they wanted him to.

"What the hell are you doing? Have you all lost your damn minds? This is a perfect way to prove just how good friends you are!" Just then Ron spoke up.

"It doesn't matter what we do to you, no one will ever know it was us. Hell, you won't even remember this night." With that Ron waved his hand at a table and Harry saw three different potions.

"What are those for?" Trying to hold the fear out of his voice.

"One is to remove your memory, another is to put you back in your place and the last and final one is to make you fall in love with Ginny, no matter what you prefer." Harry fought hard to swallow the bile that rose into his throat.

"What's wrong little Potty? No one here to save you now, is there? Hell, now that you are here why don't we take the time out to show you what we do to traders." Harry looked at Ginny and wanted to throw up. He couldn't ever imagine himself with a slut like her. He had opened his mouth to tell her that no matter what he would never love her when he felt a kick to his left side. Trying to catch his breath to say something to his former friends he was caught off guard when he felt a punch to his lower abdomen. Instead of wasting his strength on trying to get out, he just curled up in a ball as tight as he could. He knew that they wanted him dead but he never thought they hated him so much.

As tears fell from his eyes, he kept chanting over in his head that it would all be over soon. All the pain, all the lies, all the manipulations, ALL OF IT! He would let Voldemort do whatever the hell he wanted to this world. Before he fell into the blissful darkness he was familiar with, he heard the last of their words.

"This is for the greater good." Then he knew no more.


**End of Flashback**


Harry was shaking, his hands balled into fists at his sides when the memory came rushing to the surface of his mind. His magic started to swirl and twist around him, his eyes clenched shut. Draco feeling the crackle of wild magic turned and looked at Harry, his face was twisted into pain. He rushed over in front of him getting the others to do the same.

"Guys! Around Harry Now!!" He demanded, not sure what was wrong with him. But he knew if Harry was surrounded by those he cared for then he would hopefully calm down. Once they were circling him, Draco decided quickly to get Harry's attention from what ever was making him upset.

"Harry, Harry! Are you all right? What's wrong?" He reached out to touch the upset teen but before he could, Harry opened his eyes looking straight at him, they were filled with tears then he started to fall. Draco caught him before he hit the stone cold floor of the castle, he started to sob into Draco's robes, clenching on to the blond slytherin.

"Harry it's alright. Just let it all out and when you calm down we'll talk about what ever is bothering you. We'll be here for you." He tried to soothe the teen in his arms, rubbing his back. Draco and the other slytherins then turned, with Harry still within his arms, and glared at the three that had hurt him.

"What the hell do you want mudblood worm, weasel slut and idiot? Don't you think you have done enough? Besides, why would Harry want to be friends with a weasel slut, who everyone in the school has slept with. Or even the stupid weasel red head with no brains or money and his bitch mudblood that can't even perform half the spells she knows!?" Draco sneered with a hard twist of his lips, even his friends had the nastiest looks they could throw at the three. Ron was pissed, how dare he talk about his sister being a slut!

"Well, at least my daddy ain't a death eater scum sucking asshole, who doesn’t kiss ass for snake face!" Draco turned his head to his friends with a twisted sneering smirk, still keeping his silver eyes on the trio.

"The last time I saw Lord Voldemort, he looked like a twenty-four year old man. What did you think, Blaise?" The dark colored boy merely smirked and inclined his head in agreement. Then Draco turned his head back to the stupid trio. Ron's face was brick red, sheer anger radiating from him. Ginny and Hermione both had gone pale white, stunned looks upon their faces. Draco then went on wanting to push the red head as far as he could till he snapped.

"At least my father has a real job! What does your father do? Oh yeah that’s right, he goes to stop talking magic mirrors from being seen by muggles. Oh, and what does you Mother do? That's right, nothing! She just sits home, patching all your clothes together with scraps. I still don't know how your roof stays up over your head." The blond slytherin sneered haughtily at the weasel, while holding Harry closer to him. His friends sneered disgusted at the inflamed red head.

"Why you, you damn ferret!!" Ron shouted pulling out his twig of a wand and was fixing to curse the blond slytherin until out of no where, a dark haired woman stormed up to them.

"What do you think your doing!? To pull your wand out in the middle of a hallway fixing to curse someone is against school rules, young man!" Ron looked at the woman not sure who she was.

"Who are you!" The woman's electric blue eyes narrowed, the boy lowered his wand.

"I'm Hogwarts new DADA professor, Prof. Daiyu Amaya. Now young man what is your name?" Ron's face went from fiery red to pale white, he had been caught and now he was in trouble.

"Ron Weasley, professor." He quickly put his wand away in his robes. Professor Amaya then turned and looked at the group that Ron had pulled a wand on, seeing that one of them was holding another her eyes softened with concern at the group.

"Is he alright, Mr.," The professor trailed off looking at the blond boy holding the other boy.

"Draco Malfoy. Yes professor, he's fine." He told her with a blank face, even though his eyes showed he was curious about her.

"Mr. Malfoy." She looked the two over once more just to make sure. "Alright you may go about your business." Draco nodded his head in thanks and the four Slytherins and one Gryffindor continued down the corridor to the Great Hall. Behind them they could hear the professor giving Ron a detention and taking points, Draco looked at Blaise and they both smirked.

When they all entered the Great Hall, Harry had collected himself some and they all walked over to sit at the Slytherin table. As Harry was walking over there he looked up at the Head Table and saw that someone new was sitting up there, she had long honey blond hair and jade green eyes. In a word she was beautiful. She looked to be very curvy from what he could tell. Sitting down between Draco and Pansy, the Slytherin girl filled his plate.

"Harry what happened? What did the idiots say that made you react like that?" Draco and Pansy looked at him as did the others.

"I'll tell you later tonight when I join you. I don't want anyone to hear."

"Alright, later then. When you get to your dorm room for the night make sure you put a locking spell on your bed curtains when everyone is asleep so you can sneak off to Slytherin, don't forget to have all of your things. You can sleep with us snakes tonight." Harry nodded his head, he still felt like crap from what had happened in the hall. Those damn three morons were going to get it when the time came. He was picking at his food when he answered to what the blond had said.

"No problem." Draco nodded his head once, glad Harry would be staying with them tonight.

Once dinner was finish, Harry and his new friends headed to the stairs and parted ways after Pansy had given him a hug night and whispering the Slytherin password in his ear as she did so. When Harry got to Gryffindor Tower, he went straight up to bed closing and warding his curtains so no one would bother him, he laid down and waited for everyone to fall asleep. When everything became quiet and still, he pulled out his trunk and resized it, pulling out his invisibility cloak. Shrinking his trunk once more and shoving it into his pocket, he open his curtains and pulled his cloak on. He got off the bed and closed the bed curtains back and warded them so no one would pry. He then headed out, down to the dungeons to Slytherin territory.

Making his way down the halls, he thought about his new friends he had made in such a short amount of time. They were nothing like he thought that they would be. He noticed that when they were together they were a lot like him. They were playful, funny and protective. You had to be one of the group to see the different sides to them but once you were, you were like family. He could still remember the way Draco had stood up for him. Even when the whole school turned their back on him, Ron and Hermione never stood up for him. They had just went along with the rest of them.

Looking up he realized that he was standing at the entrance to the Slytherin dorms. He looked around to make sure no one was around before whispering the password. 'Magic has no Color' Then he walked inside to see his friends waiting for him. Pulling the invisibility cloak off, the others all turn their heads to him.

"Harry! Welcome to the Slytherin domain!" Draco greeted walking over to him, slugging an arm around his shoulders. Blaise and the other waited for them to join them on the couches in front of the fireplace.

"Thanks Dray." Harry gave him a small smile, as everyone was settling down.

"Harry are you going to tell us what happened in the hall?" Pansy asked wondering what had cause him to get so upset.

"I remember what happen to me when I went missing." Harry sighed rubbing a hand over his face, leaning back in to the leather black couch.

"Will you tell us what exactly happened, when you went missing and who did it." Draco persisted looking at him wanting Harry to tell him.

"I'm too tired to tell you everything but it was Ron, Hermione and Ginny. They are the one's that did it and I think it was Dumbledore who ordered them to do it." Draco and the other's were stunned, they couldn't believe the headmaster would do such a thing.

"Anyways guys, I need to write a couple of letters and after that I'm going to bed." They could tell Harry looked exhausted since the incident in the hall, it had taken a toll on the young Gryffindor.

"Who are you writing to?" Draco inquired, getting up and grabbing Harry some parchment ink and something hard he could write on.

"I'm writing one to Gringotts and to Draco's father to see if he'd could join me in getting re sorted and hopefully he can get Mrs. Highwater too." He told the blond as he took what Draco offered to him that he had gotten off the common room table for him.

"I'll help you write to my father." He told Harry, who nodded his head. He shuffled the paper around in his lap, slipping down to the floor to sit at the coffee table that was in between the couches. He began to write his letter to Gringotts.

SilverClaw, Head of the Potter Accounts,

I have received your letter and I thank you for all your help. I would like to make my appointment with you for next Saturday at about noon. If this time is not acceptable to you then please send me a letter with a better time. I would like to keep this meeting as quiet as possible so people that shall not be named in this letter for security purposes will not be able to stop me from my goals. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Harry James Potter.

Harry reread it one last time and sealed it into an envelope, setting it aside to write the other one. He began to write once more.

Dear Mr. Malfoy.

I am sending you this letter to ask you to please come to my re sorting. I will need two governors there to keep the headmaster from trying to keep me in the house that I currently reside in. I was informed by a very trustworthy person that you would be best for this task. I am trying to be re sorted as soon as possible. I feel that it is in my best interest to be placed in to another house. I recently have remembered my attackers and do not want to be in a place were they can easily accost me. I am slowly learning what it means to have true friends and that is another reason that I want to be re sorted. I am sending this letter through Draco as my mail may be being screened. If you are able to accompany me I will be most appreciative.

Thank You for your time
Lord Harry James Potter-Black

When he was finished with the last one he handed them both to Draco.
"Will you send these off for me?" The blond nodded his head and took both of the letters and wished Harry a good night as he slipped off to the owlery to mail them off. Harry and the other gathered themselves up and wished each other good night, they all slipped off to their rooms. Harry going to Draco's room for the night, he couldn't wait for tomorrow to be re sorted in to Slytherin.

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