Countdown

Countdown chapter 12


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A/N:

I am happy with the reviews for Countdown, it really makes me happy to know that people like my story. Just so that all of my fans know, I will never leave a story unfinished. It may take me a while to update but it will never be left incomplete. So please keep reviewing the story so I know that people are reading it. Now I do have something to say to the people that have been leaving me reviews about the spelling and grammar. I am completely blind for those who don’t know. I use a reading and speech program called JAWS. This program reads and speaks everything to me. Sometimes JAWS may pronounce a word as being right and it might not be. Please forgive me for mistakes me or my beta may not catch. I do try to get them all but I do miss a great deal of them sometimes.

It had been two days since the confrontation with Lucius and Tom, Harry was learning quickly that even his new friends hid things from him. This made him want to just leave the wizarding world. I mean if everyone was going to keep stuff from him then what was the point of staying in a place that he wasn’t wanted.

He learned that when ever he brought up Lucius one of his friends would change the topic or they wouldn’t say anything. He knew that he was becoming just a little obsessed with trying to find out everything he could about the blond man but he couldn’t help it. Every time he tried to stop thinking about him he would remember the look in his eyes before Tom came back in the room and for some reason thinking about Lucius made him want to walk around with a silly smile on his face. He didn’t know why he couldn’t get the man off his mind but he couldn’t and to make it worse, he would be going to the bank with him later on that day. Though there was the fact that he was already taken, he really hated that. He wondered if he was in the position of their submissive mate if he could love or want to be with Voldemort he meant Tom, he really had to stop calling the man Voldemort. He took a second to gather his thoughts, he had to confess the man was gorgeous. He was intelligent and damn powerful, the only reason he didn’t like the man was because of lies told by the headmaster. Hell, he found him attractive in his second year, so could he really treat the man like an enemy when he hadn’t done a damn thing to him? He really had to get himself together before he saw Lucius, he would think about his Tom problem when he got back. Was there even a Tom problem? Besides the man having Lucius, if he was honest with himself which he really didn’t want to be at this moment Lucius was never his. Damn, he really needed to focus he also had that meeting with him tomorrow night so he had to be calm.

On the other hand the training with Salazar was going amazingly well. During the training he was taught stronger protection spells and stronger attack spells. Salazar was hard on them but he never made them feel stupid or worthless. Salazar made them learn how to strengthen their bodies and push their magic out like a physical force. He had learned a lot in the last two days, he was even learning how to block his mind. His grades were going up in all his classes and he was starting to understand more about the wizarding world over all.

He was able to sit back and watch how the school was really run, he was able to notice for all the crap people talked about slytherin they were the only house that stuck together no matter what. They protected one another and kept all in house problems among themselves. He learned this the hard way when he found his friend Luna being picked on by members of Ravenclaw. For that to be the supposed house of intelligents, they were some of the stupidest people he had ever met. Now don’t get him wrong they had book smarts but that was it. You would think with all of their brains they would know that to survive they would need to work together. He also noticed that Hufflepuffs were only loyal when it was to someone that would protect them from someone else. Don’t even get him started on Gryffindor, they were everything he once thought about slytherin. They were arrogant, unintelligent, childish, irresponsible bullies that enjoyed causing others pain.

He really had to take some time out to think if he once acted like that. When he came to the realization that he was once just like them he hung his head in shame. No wonder his new friends wouldn’t trust him with anything. He had just became a member of their house and that didn’t mean that he wasn’t going to act like the reckless Gryffindor they had known for the last six years. He wanted so bad to tell them that they could trust him but he knew that even though he was in slytherin he was still acting like a Gryffindor. No self respecting slytherin would have went off in the headmasters office like he did, they wouldn’t have let the headmaster see all the cards that they held like that. They wouldn’t have let themselves go off and reveal to their so called friends that they know that they were only using them. If he wanted his friends to trust him, he would have to show them that he was worthy to be in the house of the snake. He would have to show them that he could be trusted. The first thing he would do is take care of his business with the bank and then he would take care of his business with Tom. He would find out the truth about his life and then join the side that wouldn’t lie to him, well he would either join the dark side or become neutral.

Making up his mind he jumped up out of bed and headed toward the bathroom before Draco could wake up and take it over. He really hated sharing the bathroom with the meticulously neat boy, although Draco was much better then sharing a room with the loud and unclean Ron.

Arriving down in the common room he was surprise to see Professor Snape sitting in front of the fire place. Hoping the evil git hadn’t seen him yet he slowly tried to make his way back up the stairs. However some how the fates hated him because right as he lifted his leg to put it on the stair behind him the professors eyes narrowed in on him.

"And just where do you think you are going Mr. Potter!?" Sneered the greasy git.

"I forgot something in my room and I am going back up stairs to get it sir."

"I don’t think so, you cant tell a lie to save your worthless life!" With those words Harry saw red.

"Well I didn’t want to say I was going anywhere but near you," He sneered. "Oh but that would have been something the arrogant little prick that you are would have said. I really don’t know why you are in my house but I will make sure you regret it. As you are not the great Salazar Slytherin or the heir of slytherin Lord Voldemort this is not your anything!" Harry shot back with a smug smirk.

"How dare you even open your mouth and talk to me like that!!? Have you lost what little brain you have!?" Before Harry could come back with a retort Draco did it for him.

"Oh why don’t you shut up already. I am sick and tired of hearing you berate Harry, you are suppose to be the teacher so act like it!! If you don’t lay off I will report you to the governess myself!!" With that, he took Harry by the arm and pulled him out of the room, Harry just gave the professor a smug look and then followed his new friend out of the dorm.

Making their way toward the great hall Harry noticed that Blaise and Pans which was his new nickname for Pansy weren't with them.

"Hey Dray, where are the others?" Draco turned to him and spoke quietly.

"They are getting ready for the Hogsmeade trip. I wanted to get some breakfast before we left so I came down before the rest of them."

"Oh! I thought they were going to sleep in and skip the trip." Draco gave him an are you crazy look and kept walking.
"Why would they want to stay in the school when they can go to Hogsmeade and stock up on candy and other things they may want or need?" Harry looked sheepish.

"I don’t know. They are just usually up by now." After reaching the table and filling their plates up with food Draco spoke again.

"No it is just they have things they need to buy that they need to plan for. That and they are going to see my step Dad during the trip." Harrys head shot up like a bullet at those words.

"Why are they going to see him?" Draco gave him a funny look but went on anyway.

"He always calls for the juniors during Hogsmeade trips. It is the time when he can tell us what he wants us to do or the time when we have to give reports on what our progress is. However for me it is a time when I can see and spend time with my step Dad." As soon as Harry and Draco had finished their breakfast their other friends came walking through the great hall doors.

"What’s up, Blaise, Pans and Ted? You are up late." Pansy came over and pulled out her brush and began to brush his hair.

"We never eat on Hogsmeade weekends because you never know what you will see at the death eater meeting and we don’t want to get sick. The Dark Lord may be fighting for magic but that doesn’t mean he is all nice and sweet." With those words Draco fell out laughing. Pansy then reached over and slapped him on the back of the head.

"I don’t know what you find funny. Just because he is that way with you doesn’t mean he is that way with his other followers." Draco didn’t get a chance to reply because Luna walked up across from the group.

"Hello Harry, I see you have finally found some real friends with the Slytherins. Do you mind if I talk to you for a minute?" Pansy was about to say something when Harry cut her off.

"Sure Luna." Walking over to a corner in the great hall Luna put up a silencing charm.

"Keep an open mind to night when you find out who the white wolf and the silver snake are, for if you do not then you will never find the love and happiness you are looking for. Don’t try to come between the two or you will have neither." With that she broke the charm and walked out of the great hall. Harry took a second to try to understand just who the white wolf and silver snake were. When nothing came to mind he made his way back over to his friends.

As soon as he reached his friends they started asking questions about what she wanted. Holding up a hand he told them about the silver snake and white wolf. Draco hearing this paled significantly. Harry looked at Draco with a strange expression.

"Do you know what she is talking about Draco?" Harry asked moving closer to the blond. Draco noticing everyone in the groups eyes on him stood up straighter and shook his head.

"I don’t really know, it is just that hearing that brought up a memory in my mind." Harry gave him another strange look but let it go.

"Shouldn’t we be going?" Pansy asked trying to clear up the uneasy silence.

"Yeah, yeah." Harry said absentmindedly. Making there way out of the school the five friends began to talk about all the things they were going to buy. They had planned to get as much shopping done before they had to head to see the Dark Lord and before Harry had to meet with Lucius at the bank.

"Lets head to Honeydukes before we sneak into Diagon Alley." Making there way to the carriages that would take them into the small wizarding town they checked to make sure that they were all wearing their necklaces.

"If any of us get separated then we can find each other easier now." Harry touched his necklace and felt a warmth spread through his body, he for the first time felt an unwavering friendship and he loved the feelings it gave him.

The friends had spent two wonderful hours shopping. They brought bags and bags of candy and other sweets. They also wanted to get some other shopping done so they quickly shrunk their purchases and made there way to the Three Broomsticks so they could floo to the Leaky Cauldron.

Arriving at their destination none of them saw the pair of onyx eyes watching them.

"Hey Harry?" Pansy shouted over the loud group of people in the pub.

"What Pans?" He looked over at her.

"How many compartments does your trunk have?" Harry gave her an are you stupid look.

"What do you mean? Trunks only come with one compartment." Do to the fact that they were now in the alley all of his friends heard him. Draco was the first to respond.

"Are you serious? No one told you that you could have trunks with more then one compartment?" Harry just frowned.
"No, Hermione and Ron told me that trunks only came with one compartment." Pansy wanting to get back on topic turned back to him.

"The reason I asked is because I thought you could use one with rooms like the one that Dray has." Harry opened his mouth to say something but Draco cut him off.

"My trunk has a training room and a library. Before we use to train with you down in the chamber we would go down into the room and train every night after everyone else was in bed. I know you didn’t think we all became great duelers just by training over the summers. If I only had summers I would never be aloud to join the juniors. We all had to be able to beat one of the adult death eaters before we could join." Harry just looked at his friends in shock.

"How did you get a trunk with rooms?"

"Hey Dray, why don’t we take Harry to that store you got your trunk from, that way if Salazar is not able to keep Harry over the summer, he could have rooms in his trunk to hide all of his books and his other magical stuff."

"Sure Pans lets take him now so we can get back in time so we can walk him to the bank and then make our way to see my step dad." As they walked Harry thought about all the things he had been told by Ron and Hermione, he now wondered if any of it was true.

Reaching the store, Trunks for every day, they walked in and Harry was speechless. He had never seen so many different trunks before. There were truncks of all shapes colors and sizes. Before he could get lost in them Draco pulled him to another room.

"This is were you find the trunks with the different rooms, all of these trunks also have magical blocks that keep the ministry from knowing if you are doing magic, they also have special keys that open them so they can't say you are doing magic out of school. Now all we need to know is how many rooms you need?" Harry took a minute to think about this seriously, he knew he wanted a training room and a library like Draco's but what else did he want? Instead of wondering he decided to ask his friends.

"What kind of rooms do you all think I will need? I already know I want a training room and a library like Draco's so what else?"

"Why don’t you just get an eight room compartment?" Blaise asked.

"What would I do with an eight room compartment?" That was when Ted spoke up.

"You could have one as your training room, one as your library, one as a bedroom, one as a game room, one as a kitchen or dining room. You could also have one as a potions lab now that you are understanding potions better. How else are you going to get better if you don’t practice? You can also have one as your ritual room. Then the last room could be left over for if you need it later." Harry tried to look at this logically, he knew he would have to keep his training up if he ever wanted to keep himself safe, not to mention he would have to have some place that could hold food because that was the only way he would get anything to eat. It would also be nice to have a really nice and comfortable bed to sleep on. Then having his own potions lab meant he could make his own healing potions. He looked up at his friends and saw that they really wanted him to get the trunk with the eight compartments.

"There has to be another reason you want me to get this trunk." Pansy spoke up for the rest of the group.

"Well duh. How else do you want us to be able to decorate?" All of the boys started laughing.

"Fine I will get the trunk with the eight compartments but I get to pick what it looks like on the out side." Draco folded his arms over his chest looking at him.

"Deal but only if we all agree."

It only took Harry ten minutes to find the perfect trunk, it was black with a large silver snake going around the outside. It also had the snakes head eating the tail until you unlocked it. Harry thought it would be perfect to be able to add parseltongue spells to it.

Taking the trunk back to the front of the store Harry saw something out of the corner of his eye that caught his attention. Making his way over to it he was shocked to hear the voice behind him.

"Oh so I see you have noticed our book trunk. It holds only twenty books but they will be very secured." Harry picked it up off the shelf and took it with him to the front counter, he didn’t know why but something told him to get it and he was going to listen to his instincts more then he use to. Maybe now he could keep himself out of trouble. Reaching his friends they were all waiting for him. He placed the book trunk on the counter beside the other one and pulled out his money bag.
"How much is this going to cost?"

"Nothing it has already been paid for." Harry spun around and looked at all his friends who were all giving him innocent looks. He narrowed his eyes and put his hands on his hips.

"Which one of you did it?? And don’t try to play innocent cause I am not falling for it!" Draco walked over to him and put his arm around his shoulder while Blaise gathered up both of the trunks.

"You don’t have to worry about not falling for it cause we ain't telling you nothing anyway!" Harry just huffed and walked out of the store with his friends. On the out side he was huffing but on the inside he was as happy as he could be. His new friends always found a way to make him feel like he was one of them. When they stepped out of the store they ran right into Lucius Malfoy.

Harry looked up into the stormy silver eyes and for a moment he couldn’t breathe. Lucius was just so gorgeous, with his long perfect blond eyelashes, his full rosy red lips and his chiseled aristocratic facial features. The man was just sex on legs. Before he could analyze Lucius more, he opened his mouth and started to speak.

"Hello, where are you all going?" His lips tugged to the side in a light smile.

"We were headed toward the bank." Draco said moving closer to his father.

"We wanted to walk Harry there so no one would be able to harm him, like they would try if he was alone. I noticed someone watching us when we were in the candy store. I don’t know who it was but they also followed us to the Three Broomsticks. In order to keep them from following us further, I took Harry with me into the floo and just thought about where I wanted to go instead of saying it out loud. It also helped that Harry and I were the last of our group to leave." Lucius waved his wand around the group to check for any tracking charms or any listening charms. When the test came back cleare, he put a silencing bubble around the group.

"I know who was following you and that is one of the reasons that I came over here. Severus is the one following you, he is a spy for the light side and he is trying to find out what Harrys next move is. I don’t want you to leave him alone with Severus because as you know he can read Harrys mind because he hasn’t learned to block it completely yet. If he tries to get him alone then make up something to get him out of it. That also means, Harry you need to stop talking back to him during class or after class." Lucius said while looking at Harry sternly. Feeling like a child that was just reprimanded Harry hung his head. Lucius moved over and lifted his head so their eyes met.

"I don’t want anything else to happen to you Harry. You are very important to me and my family so please just try to stay out of trouble." Harry gave a small smile, for Lucius he would try to stay out of trouble and not argue with the dungeon git.

"Now all of you walk with me and Harry to the bank and then we will meet you after we take care of business." The group smiled and nodded their heads as they began to walk toward the bank chatting and talking about things for Harry's trunk that he could add or decorate with. Harry just enjoyed his time with his friends before they split up and headed where they needed to go.

Harry and Lucius walked in to Gringotts with purposeful steps not letting anyone stop them from doing what they came here to do. Walking up to the first available goblin teller, Harry gave the goblin a small smile. The goblin looked down at the young man in front of him.

"Hello sir, how may I help you today?" The goblin looked grim as he did not like to be interrupted from his work of counting galleons.

"Hello, I would like to speak with the manager of the Potter accounts, Silverclaw."

"Do you have your key sir?" Harry handed over his vault key. When the goblin looked it over he looked back at the young wizard in front of him.

"One moment, Mr. Potter." The goblin gave his key back and got down from his seat, wandering off to the back of the bank to seek out the Potter account manager at Harrys request. When the goblin came back he had another goblin with him when they reached the two wizards the new goblin gave a sharp tooth grin. As the other goblin went back to work at his desk leaving the three to their business.

"Mr. Potter, I'm the account manager of the Potter vaults, Silverclaw. If you will follow me to a private room we can discuss your accounts and all your holdings." Silverclaw gestured with a clawed hand for them to follow him.

"Do you mind if I have Mr. Malfoy come with me? For I wish to have his advice and I trust him with the information that will be given. I also know that he will not allow this information to be given to anyone I do not trust." Harry asked the goblin as they walk down one of the side halls of Gringotts.

"Not at all Mr. Potter. Who ever you wish to accompany you is fine so long as you let us know he is trustworthy of your accounts information." Silverclaw explained to him as they approached a large door. Harry looked around amazed as he had never been down any of Gringotts halls.

The three of them walked into the large office like room, each taking a seat. Harry and Lucius sitting in each one of the two chairs in front of a large wooden desk as the goblin Silverclaw took the seat behind the desk to face the two wizards before him.

"Now Mr. Potter, I have received your letters with your requests for your bank statements and your emancipation papers, all of these important documents have been drawn up for you." Silverclaw reached into his desk and pulled out the documents laying them before him on the desk.

"These papers here are your vault holdings and these here are a list of all the properties you have in both Potter and Black names." Harry reached and pulled the parchments to him to look over. What he saw made his eyes go wide.

The Potter account held seven vaults. In which his school vault held alone 2,685,897 galleons as for the rest he had one that held books an another held rare magical weapons for it seem that its sole purpose of the two were for battle and knowledge. He also found that one vault held family jewels and dowries. Two vaults seem to have nothing but money as it all totaled up his money included with his school one was 69,857,479,286 galleons. For his last one he read that it held family documents and which probably held information on the family and events that had happened.

The Potter properties had ten all spread out around the world. A penthouse in New York, a castle in Italy, a villa on the Island of Majorka off the coast of Spain, a manor house in Paris, France and a mansion in Tokyo Japan were just half of the list.

For the Black accounts he had ten vaults. In two vaults held magical weapons and two that held books of all types but of course the Black family probably had more dark arts books then any other kind. Two more held both jewels and dowries of the old house of Black which Harry couldn't blame them for having separate volts for them from the rest of the things they had once owned. Three vaults held nothing more then money which Harry let his eyes wonder to the total sum of the Blacks wealth and he nearly fell out of his chair. The total sum was 954,768,946,345 galleons. Harry just shook his head and moved on to the next one which the last vault held the Black family records and documents of the things that happened in their life times.

For the Black family also held eleven properties they too were spread around the world. The first was number twelve, Grimmauld Place, A castle in Russia, Town house in India, A hotel in China, A Bungalow in South America and a large horse Ranch in Mexico were just a few to name the many.

For the Total sum of what he had all together was 1,024,626,425,631 Galleons. He didn't want to know what with the jewels and dowries would be added with that for he probably would pass the hell out if he knew. He handed the papers over to Lucius to look over for he knew the older Malfoy would take care of his accounts. He looked back up at the goblin to nod his head for him to continue.

"Now as for your inheritance." Silverclaw pulled out a piece of parchment and a silver dagger placing them down in front of Harry.

"I'll need you to add a few drops of blood on this parchment to read your blood line heritage to give you full detail as to what you are Mr. Potter." Harry picked up the dagger and carefully cut into the palm of his hand letting a few drops of blood to drip down on to the parchment, his hand healed right back up as if he never cut it. The drops of blood that dripped on to the parchment disappeared making the paper ripple with color then dark lines like a tree began to sprout out across the parchment and along those lines names began to appear.

On the parchment before him appeared the real names of his parents Asaia Abha Potter and Alaric Maxwell and those of his adopted parents, Lily Evans Potter and James Potter. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, some how the Potter family had gotten a hold of him and not only that, he was still actually related to them. It looked like he was also the last living heir to the Gryffindor line as his real mother was the last one before him. She was also James' older cousin and a middle classed demon that had very powerful demon blood. From what he could tell, his mother's line had many sex demons littered through out it, from very powerful ones to average ones.

Looking over to his real father's side Alaric Maxwell seemed to have a mix of every type of elemental demons from very powerful to the weakest. Harry looked even closer and saw that back along the line he was a Malfoy, he blinked no that couldn't be right. How or why would a Malfoy ancestor be in his father's line and with a average mind demon at that. He followed his father's line again and found that it was correct. He, Harry Potter, was a distant relative of the Malfoy line. Harry wanted to go and rub that in Draco's face, oh how he would like to see the blonds’ face if he did. Getting back to the parchment in his hand, Harry then saw that his father was too a middle class demon with powerful demon blood as well as a elemental mix of fire and air demon.

Harry just couldn't believe this how could the headmaster have hidden this so easily from him, the old man had much to answer for. As the words sank into his mind he realized that he would probably be a sex demon as well. He wondered what his mate would have to do to keep him satisfied.

Then he looked at Lucius to see what he thought about this but noticed his eyes were out of focus. Lucius was talking to his love.

** Tom?** Tom had just finished with a death eater meeting when he heard his love call.

** Yes, my love?**

** I am at the bank with Harry and I just found out that his mother was a lust demon and the last Gryffindor heiress. Now that title goes to Harry. His father is a mix of elemental demon of fire and air. You do know that he will have to be told soon about us being his mates do to the fact that his demonic blood is manifesting sooner then his birthday. We both will have no choice but to be there when his inheritance hits.** Lucius' mental voice sounded a bit amazed at what he found out about his little love.

Tom took a second to gather his thoughts before speaking. **If his mother is a lust demon and his father is a elemental demon when he comes into his power he will need to be outside. He can not be inside because it will stifle his power and may cause problems later on.**

Lucius eyes widen at that. **Does he need his mates so when his lust takes over we can help him push it back down?**

**Yes my love. I will need to dominate him and so will you. If his demon side thinks we are to weak then he will become the dominate and we can't have that. Though, it will not hurt him. It will be like when I dominated you for the first time.** Lucius licked his lips at the mental image it caused thinking about when Tom had taken him for the first time. Harry seeing Lucius lick his lips made his body react.

Feeling like he was missing something, he leaned over to get the mans attention. Tapping him on his arm he watched as his eyes cleared and focused back on the people in the room.

"Yes, Mr. Potter what is it?" Lucius tried not to purr the question out as he still had the mental image of what Tom had done to him when he first took him running through his mind.

"I was wondering what you thought of all this, Mr. Malfoy." Harry wanted to know what Lucius thought of all that he was finding out about himself. With him finding out that he was a demon and some how ended up in the care of the Potter family. Damn, he couldn't ever be normal. He couldn't just be a normal wizard he had to be a demon. Then to top it all off he couldn't even be a normal demon. He had to be a damn lust demon and an elemental demon to boot. Damn, he better get very amazing power from this. Hopefully not to freaky because he knew even his powers wouldn't be normal either.

"Well Mr. Potter, it is amazing to say the least but I do give you credit for taking it so well." Lucius gave him a sexy smirk as Harry believed it was. Harry just smiled back bringing his thoughts to a halt with the smirk the older man gave him.

"Thank you Mr. Malfoy." Lucius just nodded. Harry looked back at Silverclaw who was waiting for them to let him continue.

"And for your final request Mr. Potter, your documents for your emancipation. All you have to do is sign your name and have a witness for you to be seen as a full fledge wizard adult in the Wizarding World." The goblin smirked his sharp tooth smile at him. Harry reached for the quill sitting on top of the document he signed his name on to the line at the bottom. When done the document rolled itself up and disappeared in a small poof of smoke.

"Mr. Potter you are now seen by the Wizarding World as a full fledge wizarding adult. Congratulations." Silverclaw congratulated him, he just turned to look at Lucius who was smiling at him and maybe from what he could see, a bit of pride in his eyes. Harry turned to Silverclaw, now that he was a free wizard and free to use his accounts he wondered if the goblins had something much more easier to buy things with then coming to the bank all the time.

"Is there a way I can have something that I can take money from my accounts without having to come back to the bank every time I need to buy something?" Silverclaw just reached in his desk and pulled out some papers and another dagger.

"Sign your name and then cut your thumb and then press it to the parchment." After Harry had done what Silverclaw told him, there was a small puff of smoke and the only thing left was a gold card with Harrys name written on the bottom.

"Mr. Potter this card is connected to your school vault and will withdraw money right out of the account. The card is also charmed to your magical signature and will come back to you if you lose it. It will also not let anyone else use it." Harry then reached down and picked up the card and put it in his pocket.

"Mr. Potter you can use this card in both the magical and wizarding world." Harry nodded his head in thanks and shook the goblins hand.

"Thank you, Silverclaw." Silverclaw gave him a very sharp grin in turn.

"It is a pleasure to serve you and your family, Mr. Potter." Harry then turned to Lucius.

"So Mr. Potter, ready to go?" Lucius asked the now adult wizard standing before him.

"Yes, Mr. Malfoy. Lets be off shall we." Harry couldn't help the ear splitting grin that was stretching across his face.

After leaving the bank, Lucius and Harry made their way to Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, the Weasley twins store. He had told Draco and the others to meet them there. He wanted to get some ideas from the twins for pranks to use on those damn ex best friends of his and the headmaster to get back at them for the shit they put him through. Harry looked over to Lucius as he had a curious look on his face as they approached the bright looking store.

"I told Draco and the others I would meet them here to talk to the twins about some ideas." Harry didn't go into detail as he was probably sure that Mr. Malfoy wouldn't like the idea of him causing trouble in school.

"Are you sure that they won't turn on you, like the others?" Lucius voice was fill with a bit of concern as he was really worried what might happen to his little one. Harry just looked at him and gave him a smile making his worry ease a bit.

"I believe that they would stick by me no matter what I do, Mr. Malfoy." Harry told him as he opened the door to the shop walking in. Lucius nodded his head, trusting Harry that he knew what he was doing.

Walking into the shop they found themselves in the mist of things flying over head and noise as the twins inventions moved about twirling and whirling around the floor to the ceiling. Products being displayed about in bright colors on every available space around them. Harry moved around groups of people that crowded around things, looking back every now and again making sure Lucius was keeping up with him as he searched for his friends and the twins for which ever he ran into first. Lucius was receiving odd looks from some of the people that had noticed him but he merely ignored them and kept his eyes on Harry.

"Hey Harry over here!" Hollered a voice over the noise of the crowds somewhere to the side and back.

Harry turned looking over heads of the crowds, Lucius seeing what Harry was doing turned to look too and found Draco and the group coming towards them. Harry also headed towards them to meet halfway Lucius was right by his side.

"Hey guys. Have any of you spotted the twins yet?" Harry looked from Draco’s face to the other faces of the members of there group. Before they could answer him they heard a voice shout for Harry.

"Harry!" Harry hearing his name turned and looked behind him. Harry saw one of the older Weasley children walking up behind him and greeted him.

"Charlie! Hey how are you? What are you doing here?" Harry shot off to the taller Weasley giving him a bright smile.

"Good. I've come to talk to the twins. How've you been?" Charlie smiled back at the younger man as he reached him and gave him a one arm hug.

"Alright. Have you seen the twins?" He asked Charlie as they released each other.

"Yeah, they're up stairs. Who's the group of Slytherins, Harry?" Charlie asked wondering why Harry would be hanging around Slytherins and a death eater.

"Uh, these guys are my new housemates and friends. And Mr. Malfoy is a friend helping get my accounts fixed and secured." Charlie hearing that took a good look at the group standing together in front of him. He could see that Harry's new friends stood protectively close on all sides as if they were his personal body guards.

"You switched houses?" He raised an eyebrow with curiosity in his eyes.

"Yep and I'm quite happy where I am now." Harry then started to say something more but then he caught sight of two more red heads bounding up behind Charlie.

"Forge, Gred, I've been looking for you guys."

"Harry." One twin said. "We are glad to see you." The other one spoke "We've been expecting you." Back to the first one that spoke.

"Come this way." Both twins said at the same time with mischievous smiles and a small bow together. Harry and Charlie just smiled while the others around them blinked trying to keep up with who said what.

The twins then took the lead with the others following closely behind them. They went up the stairs to the second floor and to the back where the twin's apartment was as they lived above their store. When they all entered the twins living room they all took seats on the couches that were there. Charlie and Lucius sitting on one of the love seats as Lucius summoned tea and pastries for everyone, the others all sat on the other couches around the room.

"Fred, George, Charlie. I need to know if I can trust you guys as your younger siblings Ron and Ginny along with Hermione have been using me. I want to know if you guys are in on Dumbledore's plans to use me or are you guys really my friends?" The twins and Charlie could tell that Harry was serious and wondered if something had happened to their younger brother. They knew that their family was in on Dumbledore’s plans on using their little brother but they were not as they thought what they were doing was cruel on how they were using the boy for their own gain.

"Little brother we,"

"are against what Dumbledore,"

"wanted us to do to you."

"We are with you,"

"for what ever you want to do."

"We are friends with you because,"

"we want to be friends with you,"

"not because Dumbledore ordered us to." Harry could hear the honesty in their voices and that made him mentally sigh in relief that he would have the twins support through this.

Harry then looked over at Charlie. "What about you Charlie? Are you my friend because of Dumbledore or are you my friend because you want to be?"

"I'm with you Harry and I disagree entirely with Dumbledore and his manipulations with you." Charlie smiled at the teen over the top of his tea that he was holding close to his mouth fixing to take a sip. Harry nodded his head in thanks at the older Weasley then looked back at the twins.

"Alright now that we got that out of the way. I've come here to ask you guys about some ideas as to what pranks would be great to get back revenge at your younger siblings and that bookworm. Got any ideas?" Harry looked at them expectantly from one to the other waiting for ideas to spill forth from their mouths. Fred and George looked at one another then looked back at Harry.

"What did they do to you, little brother?" This time it was George. Fred looked on as they both watched Harrys face shift and his eyes dim even more then they usually were. Even Charlie, who was sitting a bit away on the love seat looked over to listen to Harry.

"The idiot trio attacked me and sent me to the hospital." Harry went on starting at the beginning telling the others in the room what exactly happened that night he went missing till he woke up in the hospital.

As Harry finished his tale of what happened, he saw all of their faces were fill with anger at those that had hurt him. He could tell that he would not be alone in getting back at Dumbledore and the new trio of idiots. The twins frowned then looked at Harry as their frowns turned in to devious evil smirks and Harry knew he had come to the right place to get back at the morons. Though, he did wonder how the twins even got into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin when they were in Hogwarts.

"Alright little brother, we're in." And so the group of Slytherins and red heads began to plot their schemes to pull on the bastards that hurt their little brother. Everyone throwing in their bits and ideas, even Lucius and they were impressed that the ex Slytherin would know a thing or two about pranking.

When Harry and his friends had decided on what pranks to pull the twins made sure he had what he needed to get the job done and a few new products to try out. Harry said his goodbyes along with his group he arrived with as they left the twin's store with smirks of sinister things to come.

** Earlier that day**

Tom stormed down the hall to his throne room, it was time for another death eater meeting and yet his mind would not let him focused but he had to get this done. He needed his army no matter how incompetent they were. Right before he entered the room he threw up his hood so no one would know how he looked, pushing the door open he walked up to take his seat upon his throne. As soon as he did he called for the vermin that called it self a being.

"WORMTAIL!!" The worthless creature came scurrying in to his master's feet.

"Y-Yes Master?"

"Give me your arm Wormtail." Lord Voldemort sneered nastily down at the vile thing as it gave him his left arm with his mark. Pressing the tip of his wand to it he concentrated on calling to him his most loyal and trusted, making the disgusting rat whimper at the pain that seared through his arms as he did so.

"Leave!" Wormtail clutched his arm to him and bowed his head and hurried back out the same way he came in.

Tom didn't have to wait long as a few minutes later his Inner Circle started to file in. His most trusted were those that really knew what he was really fighting for although he did have one that he did not trust and that one will be taking care of when the time came. Looking around at those that have gathered before him he smirked as he stood making his followers kneel down with their heads bowed.

"Welcome my most faithful. I have news that the young Potter is starting to turn against those he once considered his friends." His death eater started to murmurer about what their Lord had just told them.

"Silence!" He snapped at them and they all quieted down at once. Tom looked around glaring down at all of them.

"Now that, that is out of the way. Give me your reports." With that Lord Voldemort sat back down as his followers started to rise back to their feet. The first of many coming forward to give him their report.

Lord Voldemort was sitting on his throne twirling his wand around in his fingers almost like he was bored but really his thoughts were preoccupied with the night of finally seeing his young love and Lucius, wondering when it would be the right time to tell their little love that he was their mate. Oh how he smelled so wonderful and felt so right in his arms that night. The Dark Lord sighed quietly not wanting to let his death eaters know he was listening to their reports with half an ear. He then noticed that one of the few juniors was moving forward to give their report, when they were close enough, he realized it was a young girl. What was her name again? He soon found out as she began to speak.

"My Lord, the black panther will soon find out that the silver snake and his white wolf are his as he is theirs. If you wait to long white wolf the black panther will not be pleased and surely begin to disregard himself which will cause grief and thoughts of being unloved." The young Lovegood girl spoke with a sad and dreamy air at the end of her words. Lord Voldemort frowned at this, looking the girl over.

"And how do you know this?" Her eyes looked off unfocused as she merely smiled at him.

"Black panther is a close friend of mine, My Lord." Voldemort's eyes narrowed at her, more in thought then anger. He nodded his head at her to dismiss her back to her place. His thoughts once more began to swirl about in his head. Once everyone gave their reports he dismissed them from his throne room and back to where ever they had came from. He had to get ready to see his young love the next day.

**Back at Hogwarts**


Harry and the rest of the group headed right down to the slytherin common room after they had returned from the twins shop. They were looking forward to getting back at some of the people that had hurt Harry. It would be fun to see just how they will react to having some of the pranks played on them.

Thinking that his friends were going to bed, Harry made his way to the room where he had talked to Draco the first time. He wanted to talk to Salazar, the man was one of the only people that Harry could trust. Thinking about some of the pranks Harry missed the eyes of one of his friends watching him. He turned the corner and froze.

"Salazar I want to tell him!!" Draco said frustrated while pacing in front of the painting.

"It is not your place young Dragon." Salazar said calmly.

"If Father or Marvolo don’t tell him then that Ravenclaw girl will!!" He irritatingly told Lord Slytherin.

Salazar raised an eyebrow. "What Ravenclaw girl?"

"Her name is Luna Lovegood and I think she maybe a seer. She was telling Harry earlier about the silver snake and his white wolf. Just how long do you think it will take Harry to realize that Tom is the white wolf and Father is the silver snake. Hell, anybody that knows them really well know that is what their animagus form is. When he asked me about it I told him that I didn’t know anything about it, but I think he knows that I was not telling him the truth. I don’t think he will figure it out as fast as you think. How many people would ever think Lord Voldemort was a white wolf?" Draco was just plain frustrated his mind was warring with it self. He so wanted to tell and he couldn't and in not telling his friend he felt frustrated that Harry would feel hurt and he just didn't want to loose Harry's trust in him.

"Give me some time Draco to talk to them and see what they want to do." Draco started to walk back and forth faster.

"I really hate not being able to tell him because he will think we are doing the same things that his old friends did to him. I don’t want him to think we are keeping things from him!" Salazar cocked his head to the side.

"And just how do you think he will react if you tell him and he isn’t ready. You already see how he acts around Lucius and if he tries to come between them, Marvolo will kill him instead of having him as a mate. Harry isn’t ready, he still holds so much hate for Marvolo for something that Albus did. I don’t want Harry hurt but I also won't let him hurt Marvolo. As much as I love him, Marvolo is family and it isn’t right to let Harry try to take Lucius. Besides, Lucius will never leave Marvolo for Harry and if Harry tries to take him from Marvolo then he will only end up hurt when Lucius rejects him and then he will never find someone to love him. He will also die if he doesn't bond with his mates do to the kind of demon that he is." Draco hung his head because he knew Salazar was right.

"I just hate seeing him look so unhappy Salazar." Draco just looked lost looking down at the floor.

"I don’t like it either young Dragon but he will be more unhappy if you tell him and he does something that will cost him both of his mates because he can't have Lucius without Marvolo and vice versa." Harry took in a sharp breath, Lucius and Tom were his mates, they were the white wolf and the silver snake.


A/N: This chapter was a lot of fun to write. However I need ideas from the readers. I and God of Mercy are also going to be putting up some one shots from this story that will be on affn only. They are just smut and have no story plot behind them. If you want to find them then send me a private message and I will send you the link. You can also find them by looking for the same pin name. They will be under the Harry/Voldemort category.