Don't Speak

Tittle: Don\'t Speak

Author: Deaths Silent Dragon or Angel Shinigami

Warnings: slightly AU and a lot of OOC-ness going on. Other than that, fluff, humor, Darkness, Language, and other warnings to come.

Pairings: Harry and ???

Summery: After a curse gone wrong, Harry is left deaf and Voldermort know exactly where he is. Dumbledore hears of Harry\'s problem and makes him and the Dursly\'s come to Hogwarts a few days early. When the term starts Harry and the others find out that Malfoy\'s father, Lucius, is the new DADA teacher.a year full of odd things abound.

Chapter 2
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Duddly Looked from Harry to the pretty, young, blond boy standing on his cousins other side, theck tck to Harry.

\"Harry, is this the boy you are always saying hates you for choosing your red-headed friend over him?\" Duddly was now looking at Draco out of the corner of his eye and raising his eyebrow at his cousin.

Harry laughed and shook his head, winking at his cousin slyly. \"Of Course not Duddlykins. I\'ve never met him before, but seems like a nice boy. Don\'t you think?\"

Duddly had to think about what his cousin had said for a moment. Despite everything they had accomplished over the summer, Duddly was still slow in catching on to things. Suddenly, as if someone had turned on a switch, Duddly\'s face lit up and he smiles a bright smile.

\"Of course, from the way we\'ve spoken he does seem like a interesting conversationalist.\" Duddly grinned at Draco and, in turn, Draco gave Duddly a friendly smile.

Harry laughs at the two and looked at his uncle and Lucius. \"Ummm.Lu-.I mean, Mr. Malfoy, would you like to stay here and explain things to my Aunt and Uncle while we take Draco and show him around the house?\"

Lucius nodded and waved the three boys off as he sat and gestured for Vernon to do the same.

Harry, not wanted to be stuck there for to long, just in case Lucius changed his mind and wanted him to stay in the room and explain the story while he threw things in here and there, Hurried off with Duddly and Draco in toe and rushed upstairs.

When they reached the top stair they all giggled at Vernon\'s face when he had realized that Lucius Malfoy, Biggest client he\'s had all year, was a wizard. A rich wizard non the less.

\"Harry, You\'ve always said that your relatives were horrible and abusive.. What happened? You seem to have a.interesting relationship with Duddly here, who is not as lard-ish as everyone has said, and a nice. if some what tense, relationship with your uncle.\"

Draco gazed at Harry and waited for the boy to compose himself enough to answer. As he waited, Draco took in Harry\'s new look and nodded to himself. \'Potter has really changed over the summer.I didn\'t know someone could change that much. Dark-haired guys aren\'t really my thing, but even I am willing to jump him. .Now Duddly on the other hand.I wasadinading even meeting him. I was picturing a 290lb. Pig-boy with a hideous fashion scenes and positively repulsive attitude. But he quite a nice looking boy.\'

Draco was pulled out of his thoughts when Harry started speaking.

\"Let\'s talk about this in my room.\"

Harry then turned and opened a door to his left and ushered them in. Closing the door, Harry crossed over to his bed and hopped onto it, bouncing in place for a moment and folding his legs underneath himself when he had stopped moving.

\"Please have a seat Draco. Welcome to my room.\"

Draco looked around the small room and noticed that even though it was smaller than his house-elves sleeping quarters, that it was arranged so that it looked bigger than it really was. Draco took in the loud and bright Gryffindor colors displayed over the far right wall and the tasteful splashes of Slytherin colors along with a fair share of black. A small black and silver couch was settled in one corner of the room and a soft looking over-stuffed red chair was in another.

Duddly stretched and flopped into the chair leaving Draco the couch and allowing him the freedom to stretch out and relax.

\"So.I really don\'t know where to start,\" Harry said looking over at Draco from his perch on his bed.

\"The beginning is always a good place to start.and when you get to the end.stop.\" Draco replied, earning him a muffled laugh from the direction of the red chair.

Grinning, Harry nodded and started from his early childhood all the way till sta start of the summer.

\"And that\'s what happened, then I walked in on Duddly and his boyfriend snogging like there was no tomorrow.\"

Draco nodded and laughed slightly. He wasn\'t to happy with the way that thrslyrsly\'s had treated him like he was lower than the house elves that served in his own home, but he figured that he hadn\'t been much better to him at Hogwarts, so he didn\'t say anything.

Duddly was about to say something when all three boys heard Patunia call up the stairs that they had scarce time to get ready to go out for the rest of the day.

Harry looked over at a full-length mirror that he had hanging up on his wall, nodding to his image, he smiled at Duddly who was smoothing down his shirt and looking at his shoes.

\"What do you think Harry? What do you think we\'ll be doing?\"

Draco looked over at Harry, who was getting off his bed and stretching way that would turn the head of the pope. \"We shouldn\'t be going anywhere to specific.Maybe a nice restaurant for lunch and then to a library so that father and Mr. Dursley can talk business and we can do what we like.\"

Duddly and Harry nodded and decided to stay in what they had on. Harry grabbed a pair of black boots out of his closet and put them on, letting his jeans hang loosely over them.

Duddly looked at him and Harry sighed at his silent question.

\"I swear Duddly, Piers is going to start to get tired of you if you take him with you everywhere. I\'ll call him but you have to ask Uncle Vernon.\" and as an after thought Harry added, \" And Lucius. It would be rude not to sense I think he\'ll probably insist on paying.\"

Duddly grinned and nodded as he rushed out of the small room leaving Harry and Draco alone. Draco looked around alittle nervous at what Harry would be like while they were alone. After all the years of hating each other, Draco didn\'t expect Harry to forgive him for it all in an hour and a half.

\"So Draco.shall we go see see how my cousin is fairing against your father?\" Harry had noticed the blondes change in attitude and decided to help the boy out by getting them around other people so that they wouldn\'t have to talk about what Harry knew was on both of their minds.

As Harry moved across the room to let them out, Draco\'s voice stopped him.

\"Harry, how can you act like everything is ok and we\'ve been friends sense the beginning of time?\"

Harry, turned to face his once enemy and sighed. Tossing himself into the chair that Duddly had been in, Harry thought for moment before he answered the lingering question.

\"Draco, You and I have had our many, many differences, but you seem like you\'ve changed. I don\'t know how, but you seem different. And you once said that you could help me find the right people. I turned you down, because you were saying that who I wanted to hang out with wasn\'t good enough. If you hadn\'t said that I might have taken your hand, I might have let the hat sort me into Slytherin, and I might not be who I am today.

Allot of things have passed between us and we have done allot of things to the other, not to mention we\'ve gone on multiple adventures together. Weather you were there or not. And I believe that its time to go on a new adventure. We have become somewhat friends. and I think it\'s about time that we did. With the war coming up we can\'t say that we\'ll have all of our lives to try and be friends. This is what needed to happen, lets run with it!\"

By the end of Harry\'s rant Draco\'s eyes had grown wide. \"Harry do you always go on and on like that? Because if you do I think we really need to sit down and have a talk about when to stop!\"

Both Harry and Draco laughed and got up at the same time. Nothing needed to be said as the two boys walked out of the room and down the stairs side- by-side. Both knew things would change between them and everything would be fine.

As the boys reached the last step they saw Duddly standing outside of a set of closed doors and looking confused. Harry thought that this was nothing new for Duddly, but then noticed that the said boy was biting his lower lip and twisting his hair around his hand.

\"You know that can give you a wicked case of split ends.\" Draco drawled as he tried to repress a smirk at the panicked look that crossed the darker blonde\'s face.

Duddly automatically smoothed his hair out and turned to look at Harry and Draco.

\"Duddly what\'s wrong? Did they say maybe again?\" Harry asked; taking a step forward and placing his slender hand on one of his cousin\'s broad shoulders.

\"Actually Harry, I haven\'t asked yet, I was listening to Mr. Malfoy tell my parents about you, your past, and your second year.did you really speak to a snake?\" Duddly was no longer looking confused, he now looked excited and like he was about to laugh at the expression on his brunette cousin\'s face.

\"Well.I.. Um.you see.\" Harry stammered trying to get him mouth to work.

Suddenly the door behind Duddly opened and a tall silver haired man laughed at the scene.

\"Yes, Duddly, he did. He also fought a snake that can kill you instantly if you look into its eyes, saved his red headed friends sister, killed a living memory, and freed one of my house-elves.\"

Harry\'s eyes flew to the silver blond and then to his Aunt and Uncle before letting out a breath that he didn\'t even know he had been holding. The two older Dursly\'s didn\'t seem to care that much about what they had been told. They looked slightly shocked, but nothing more than that.

\"I was just going to tell them about your fourth year, my dear Harry, but we can discus that over lunch or dinner witch ever one we see fit to eat first.\"

There was a mass nodded at the older Malfoy\'s words and as Harry went to get his coat he felt a hand on his shoulder. As he turned he saw both Draco and Lucius looking at him with a look that Harry couldn\'t really place.

\"Harry you know that fourth year will bring up some painful memories, but its necessary, you know this right?\"

Lucius\'s stormy blue eyes churned with emotions Harry had never known the Malfoy monarch to posses. Draco\'s owl gray eyes were looking at Harry the same as his fathers were and Harry nodded to the two of them.

\"I know, It\'ll be hard but I can get though it.\" Harry smiled at the two blondes and went to get his coat.

As he did, he nudged Duddly in the side and glanced over at Vernon and Patunia as well as Lucius Malfoy.

Nodding Duddly took a deep breath and straightened his back. Walking over to his parents, he quietly asked them if it would be alright if he asked Piers to come along. Vernon looked from his son, to Lucius, to Harry, then back. \"Duddly, you know we\'d love to have him with us, but we aren\'t sure that Mr. Malfoy would enjoy having another person with us considering he will be paying.\"

Even this was said at a low whisper, said blond still heard it and smiled. Walking over, he placed a hand on Duddly\'s shoulder and chuckled.

\"Who would you like to bring Duddly?\"

Duddly looked alittle nervous about asking the man behind him anything. He didn\'t seem like a bad person, but for some reason he didn\'t settle right with Duddly and made him feel like he shouldn\'t be aloud to breath. Luckily for him, Harry stepped in right then and helped him out.

\"Duddly wanted to know if he could bring his \'best friend\' along with us. If it was alright with you of course sir.\"

Lucius turned and looked at Harry and smiled as he caught the stressed words. He figured that Duddly had not told his parents he wasn\'t totally straight and nodded at Vernon with a smile.

\"Oh if that\'s all, he is completely welcome to invite his friend. The boy\'s will want to go out for awhile after eating, so I don\'t mind.\"

Patunia smiled a bright smile that sparked a soft light in her eyes. \"Thank you Mr. Malfoy, he is a vary lovely boy. Quite well behaved.\"

Duddly also thanked him as he rushed off to call his boyfriend.

Lucius looked at everyone in the hallway. \"I would like it if you all called me Lucius, especially you Harry, you have never before called me Mister and I do not want you starting now.\"

Harry, as well as Vernon and Patunia, nodded at the order. There was no tone of request in the blonde\'s statement and Harry didn\'t want to know what he would do to him if he did do what he was told.

Just then Duddly bounced back into the hallway with a big smile on his face. \"He said he\'d love to come and that he thanks you.\"

\"Well, shall we go then? I called ahead and reserved us a VIP table for seven.\" Draco stated as he opened the door and gestured for everyone to exit the house.

As they stepped out the door Vernon, Patunia, and Duddly froze at the sight of a black stretch limousine parked along the sidewalk.

The car had a silver and green crest upon one of the doors made up of snakes. Harry gave Duddly a slight push and, along with the owners of the limousine, walked over and waited for the doors to open for them.

\"Well? Aren\'t you coming?\" Harry called to his frozen relatives.

The three looked at each other and nodded to Harry as they, as one collective clump walked over to the car and one-by-one got in.
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Ok you guys, It\'s a page shorter than last time, but I took me quite awhile to write. I hate to be one of those authors that never update, but this chapter took me longer than I thought it would. Thank you to everyone that reviewed. I was extremely please to get that many. I hope you like this chapter just a much, I really tried to make it work.

Please review and be patient, I\'ll get everything flowing right. I promise. I will explain why Vernon and Patina are nice to Harry and everything. So tell me what you think!

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Angel Shinigami or Kat =^_^=