Harry\'s New Dad

Jason couldn’t believe it, that little runt was Draco’s mate. How could that happen? He and his parents had it all planed out. First Draco was going to realize that Jason was his mate. Then he would be at beckon call, like every one else. Eventually they would marry and he would start a career while Draco stayed home with the kids, and eventually they would grow old together, right?

James on the other hand was confused. He thought he had seen the other boy before, but for the life of him didn’t know where. He was even more confused when he thought about the “conversation” he walked in on. This other boy was Draco Malfoy’s mate. He thought Jason was supposed to be. Jason was the boy who lived, the savior of the wizarding world. This was not how it was supposed to be the Potter and Malfoy families were supposed to merge and become one of the most powerful families there were. This couldn’t be good for the plan his family had.

Harry unfortunately did not catch up to his dad and Draco before they made it to his uncles and as a result spent the rest of the trip trying to explain things to his dad and trying to get Sirius to stop laughing about the situation. Harry honestly couldn’t see what his godfather found so funny. He was thanking God that Remus stayed calm, he just wished his dad would calm down.

Needless to say if a Malfoy could be scared Draco would have been. Harry’s dad, though shorter than Draco by a couple of inches, was terrifying. And now he was talking about training Draco in hand-to-hand combat. Well that was something he hadn’t been taught yet. Could be fun.

Soon enough the train was slowing down, and Draco was thankful he was already in his robes when he boarded the train. He ended up riding in the last carriage up to the school with Harry, Logan, Remus, and Sirius, and to his surprise he was allowed to sit next to Harry.

Logan told Harry that the students from Xavier’s school were supposed to sit at the different house tables with the Hogwarts students so they could get to know each other. That said they all entered the hall and Logan, Remus, and Sirius all went to the head table while Harry and Draco went to the Slytherin table. Harry noticed that Kurt and Jamie were sitting there too while trying to avoid making eye contact with Kitty and Lance. When everyone was seated the first years were brought in to be sorted.

Harry didn’t really pay any attention to the sorting until he heard, “Potter, Corben” called out. He looked up just as the hat yelled “Slytherin” and watched his younger brother go sit with his housemates.

When the first years were sorted Dumbledore stood up and the school automatically quieted. People were wondering why no one had put the sorting hat away when Dumbledore spoke. “It is my pleasure to welcome the students and staff of Xavier’s School for the Gifted. However I have been informed that one of the students is a wizard and has been home schooled by professors Lupin and Black. The professors, student, and the father of the student have asked that the student be educated with his peers here at Hogwarts for the duration of his stay. That said will Harry Potter come up and be sorted?”

Harry stood and walked to the front of the hall ignoring the whispers of:

“Is he any relation to Jason Potter?”

“I didn’t know the Boy Who Lived had another brother.”

“It is probably not his brother, maybe a cousin.”

He sat down and waited as the hat was put on his head, never seeing the shocked look on his once parent’s faces. Nor the surprised and confused look on Caleb’s face, he didn’t know he had another brother, and where had he been all these years? He didn’t have to look a Jason to know there was a look of loathing on his face, after all he had stolen, sort of, the person Jason thought himself to be in love with.

When the hat was put on his head he nearly jumped a mile high when he heard a voice that didn’t belong to him or professor Xavier. “Interesting, well you have enough brains to be a Ravenclaw, and enough loyalty to be a Hufflepuff. However it is you courage and cunning that stand above all other traits. The question is where shall I put you?”

Harry wasn’t going to be too much help here, on second thought he was, “well I wouldn’t mind being with my new friends.”

“And your mate.” The hat responded causing Harry to blush. “Well I think you just might to better in… SLYTHERIN.”

Harry smiled when he heard the applause coming from the Slytherin table, and ignored how shocked the rest of the hall looked. He looked at the head table and found his dad who winked at him. Sirius gave him a thumbs-up to let him know he was ok with his placement, and Remus just couldn’t stop smiling.

He saw the looks of disapproval on his once parent’s faces, but found he didn’t care as they were not his parents anymore. His dad was proud of him. He looked over at Draco who put his arm around him, until Draco noticed Harry’s dad glaring at him. Harry really had to have a talk with him to get him to mellow out a bit. It wasn’t like they were getting married any time soon.

He decided to push those thoughts aside when he heard Dumbledore start talking again. “While this is highly unusual the hat has decided it wants to resort one of the students.”

Everyone was quiet praying it wasn’t them, then the hat called out, “Hermione Granger.” Hermione looked shocked, but somewhat pleased as she walked to the front of the hall and put the hat on her head. It didn’t take long for the hat to yell, “Slytherin” and Hermione walked calmly over to join her boyfriend at the Slytherin table.

Once again Dumbledore started speaking. “Well now that every one is at their right table let the feast begin.”

When the feast was over and announcements were made everyone returned to their common rooms for the night. It wasn’t long before every one in Slytherin were saying goodnight as they needed to sleep to be prepared for classes tomorrow. So Harry said good night to every one and gave Draco a small kiss on the cheek and got ready for bed.