Intertwined Lives

Title: Intertwined Lives

Status 2/?

Author: cathankitten

Email: cathanthekitten@yahoo.co.uk

Rating: NC17

Pairings:????/????, Remus/Sirus, Lucius/Severus, Lucius/????, ?????/Draco.

Spoilers:possible 1-4

Warnings: Slash, mpreg, angst, au, ooc

Disclaimer:This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Summary: When Harry turns 13 he receives a letter from his parents. He reads it, and finds out he is not who he thought he was. Friends become enemies, enemies become family. Draco also has rather strange summer, and is dealing with problems of his own.

Beta: slytherin_snow and b

(Hogwarts Express)

It has been several weeks since Harry found out that the Potters aren\'t his parents. Harry has somehow survived another summer with the Durselys, and is finally going back to Hogwarts. He has been searching the train for his friends for several minutes now. He needs to tell them about what happened. He hopes they wouldn\'t be angry about his decision to be resorted.

Dumbledore replied to his letter and told Harry he would allow him to be resorted, but also asked him not to retrieve the letters telling who his fathers are until after they have had a chance to speak about it, and he has been resorted. He also told Harry he would do the resorting at tegineginning of the school year, before the first years.

\"Harry!\" Ron calls to him, as he ran down the hallway of the train.

\"There you are, Harry! I thought that you were going to meet us at the platform,\" Hermione says as she, too, comes up to meet him.

\"My uncle dropped me off early, and I decided to go ahead and boare tre train. I didn\'t feel like standing by myself that long, sorry,\" Harry replies.

They stand there for a few moments, then head into one of the cabins. Harry sits by the window and looks out of it. The others settle themselves on the bench seat opposite to him.

\"So, how was your summer?\" Ron asks him. When Harry doesn\'t answer after several moments, he tries tt hit his attention again, \"Harry? Harry?\"

Harry isn\'t listening though. He is busy thinking about the events of the summer and the resorting. \'If I am sorted into Slytherin, I wonder wwoulwould happen with Draco and me? You\'re not supposedfighfight if you are in the same house. Maybe we could…\' he thinks. Ron moves over to sit beside Harry, and taps him lightly on the shoulder causing Harry to jump and lose his train of thought. \"What? Oh, sorry, I was thinking\"

\"Harry, is something wrong?\" Hermione inquires, concd. d.

\"Something happened this summer. I\'m not quite sure how to tell you this,\" he replies hesitantly.

\"What, did your uncle do something to you?\" Ron asks.

Harry doesn\'t answer that question. He sits for a few more moments and finally says, \"I\'m not Harry Potter after all. The Potters aren\'t really my parents. \"

\"What!!!?\" his two friends both exclaim.

\"I said, I am not James and Lily Potter\'s son,\"he informs them. He pauses for a moment to compose himself, then continues, \"I am biologically the son of two wizards. I don\'t who they are yet, though. Just that I have two fathers, no mother, and Lily Potter only carried me for safety reasons. She wrote me before she died, incase something happed to her, and James Potter. The letter that she wrote was delivered to me this summer.\"

\"Oh, Harry, that\'s awful!\" Hermione says then goes over and puts her arm around him.

\"Why don\'t you know who they are? Didn\'t she tell you in the letter?\" Ron asks.

\"No, she didn\'t tell me who they were. She left me a key and told me their letters were in a vault at Gringotts. Dumbledore asked me notretrretrieve them until after I was resorted and-\"

\"Resorted!!\" Ron yells, then jumps up and stares at Harry for a long moment. \"What do you mean, resorted? What are you doing, Harry? Just because they aren\'t your parents doesn\'t mean you have to go and get resorted. You belong in Gryffindor!\"

\"Ron, calm down!\" Hermione snaps at the yelling redhead.

\"He\'s being ridiculous! Just because his parents aren\'t really his parents, he now thinks he has to abandon-\"

Harry can\'t listen to anything else Ron has to say. He pushes his way past them. Runs down the hallway, and into another compartment. He stands by the door, trying to compose himself before sitting down.

\"What are you doing in here, Potter?\" someone behind him asks.

Harry turns around and growls, \"None of your business, Malfoy!\" \'Great, of all the compartments to pick,\' he adds silently to himself.

\"Shouldn\'t you be with the weasel and that mudblood?\" Draco asks.

\"Shouldn\'t you be with your pet idiots?\" Harry replies and sits down.

\"I wanted to be alone for a while. Not that it\'s any of your concern,\" Draco replies. \"So why don\'t you run off and find your sidekicks, Potter? I am sure they\'re looking for you.\"

\"I don\'t want to find them. I don\'t want to talk with them right now.\"

Draco looks over at his rival. \'I wonder why he doesn\'t want his friends to find him, and why he seems so upset. What am I thinking? This is Harry Potter here.\'

The door to the compartment slides open; Ron and Hermione look back and forth between Harry and Draco, then Ron steps inside.

\'Oh, great, now they\'re coming in, too. Why did he have to come here?\' Draco thinks irritably.

\"Well, it didn\'t take you long to run to the enemy,\n san says.

Draco raises one eyebrow and studies the others carefully. \'I wonder what\'s got Weasel all riled up,\' he thinks.

\"I didn\'t run to the enemy. I simply wanted to get away from you for a while, and he happened to be in the compartment I ended up in. You\'re beunreunreasonable, and I can\'t stand any more pressure right now. Sodly dly leave me alone,\" Harry replies and glares angrily at his friend Ron glares back at him for a few moments, then storms back out of the compartment and heads down the hall.

\"Harry, why don\'t you come back with us? Im sure we can help you if you will just discuss this with us,\" Hermione implores.

< \"D \"Discuss what? I am not changing my mind about being resorted. If he can\'t deal with the fact I might not end up in Gryffindor, or let me explain my reasons for doing it, then we have nothing further to discuss,\" Harry tells her harshly.

She starts to say something, but stops when she notices he is looking out the window, and not paying any attention to her. \"Fine, Harry. I\'ll see you later,\" she says, then goes back to the other compartment to be with Ron.

\"Wait, did you just say re-Sorted?\" Draco asks after a few moments.

\"Yeah,\" Harry says carefully.

\"Why are you going to be resorted? Don\'t you enjoy being . . .\"

\"Look, I really don\'t want to talk about this. If I end up in Slytherin, then maybe we will talk about why. Until then, it\'s none of your concern. \"

\"Fine,\" Draco replies, and they spend the rest of the train ride in silence.

The train finally arrives at Hogwarts and they both to get ready to leave. They are both daydreaming, and take a long time to head off. By the time they got to the carriages, they end up together again in the last one.

(Inside the carriage)

\"This is turning out to be a thrilling year,\" Draco mumbles.

\"Well, it\'s not my fault you took so long yourself to get off the train. I don\'t know why you didn\'t have those two idiots help you, or why you were hiding from them,\" Harry replies.

\"I wasn\'t hiding from them, Potter. Malfoys do not hide from pe. I . I simply wanted to be alone. My summer was awful, and I wanted to be alone.\"

\"Oh, really? How horrible was it? Did you have to go a few days without bothering anyone?\" Harry says sarcastically.

\"I might tell you if you end up in Slytherin,\" Draco smirks.

Harry doesn\'t reply to this and they ride the rest of the way to Hogwarts in silence.

~*~ ~*~

(The Great Hall )

Harry sits at the Gryffindor table waiting for Dumbledore to make the announcement about his resorting. He looks over at his friends and sees that they are both mad at him now. He had thought Hermione would understand about this, but she looks mad, too.

\"Attention, students. Welcome to another year at Hogwarts,\" Dumbledore announces. \"Before we sort the first years, we need to resort one of our other students. Sometimes a student feels that he or she was sorted wrongly, and needs resorting. Harry Potter, please come forward.\"

The Great Hall explodes in cries of shock, surprise, and even anger. Several students stand up and glare at the tousle-haired boy.

\"Silence!\" Dumbledore holds up his hands in an effort to catch the students\' attention. \"We are going to allow Mr. Potter to be resorted and he will go to whichever house the Sorting Hat selects for him,\" Dumbledore informs them, and the hall is quite again.

Harry sits down and the Sorting Hat is placed on his head. +So we meet again. I thought we might. So Gryffindor doesn\'t suit you, then?+

~I- I\'m not sure. I don\'t know where I belong.~

+Very well, let me see.. Mmmm, yes, well, you aren\'t Hufflepuff material, and although you have a fine mind, you aren\'t a Ravenclaw. I think... I will put you in Slytherin.Yes, you
will do well in Slytherin.+

The Sorting Hat yells \"SLYTHERIN\", and Harry sits stunned for a moment. He figured he might be sorted there, but wasn\'t really expecting it. He walks slowly over to the Slytherin table, and sits down next to Draco Malfoy and the other third years.

The other Slytherins all look over at him, but don\'t say anything, as the rest of the houses explode again with yells of protest and anger.

\"Harry Potter has been resorted. There is nothing further to discuss. Now, let us get on with the sorting of the first years,\" Dumbledore informs them.

Things settle down and everyone begins to eat the feast. Harry is sused sed that the members of his new house are not acting coldly toward him anymore. They aren\'t really trying to talk to him, but they aren\'t being mean, either.

\"So when are you going to explain to me why you wanted to be resorted?\" Draco asked.

\"Later,\"Harry replies.

They finish eating and head off toward the dungeon and Harry\'s new common room.

tbc