Ferinus Consanguinitas

Beta'd by Night The Storyteller

Harry sat for a long time, lost in his thoughts that had once again drifted to the blond haired boy. He finally snapped out of it when Ron punched him in the arm and began laughing, obviously at a joke he just told. Harry just sat there with a confused look on his face as Ron continued to laugh obliviously, and he was the only one doing so. Hermione was looking at Harry with a worried expression and he smiled at her then waved it off sheepishly.

"Oh Harry before I forget I need to get a vial of your blood, so we can tune the wards at the new headquarter to your magic. They have decided not to use a secret keeper this time, so each person has to be added individually." Hermione said as she pulled a small vial out of a beaded handbag she had with her. Harry held out his hand and she ran her wand down his palm making a small shallow cut, Harry cringed and tried not to think about a similar incident in a graveyard as she collected the small amount of blood in the vial.

"Okay there Harry?" she said after she muttered a healing charm over his hand, and he watched as the skin neatly came together leaving only a trace of red where the cut had been.

"Just fine, so where is the new headquarter located at and why did it switch anyway?" Harry had stood and began to put all the dishes from their snack back on the tray, which Hermione levitated neatly into the kitchen without leaving her seat, a moment later the dishes could be heard cleaning and drying themselves.

"Well actually we can't tell you that mate, well about the new place anyway, we've had to take a wizard's oath, and you'll have to wait till you get there to see, security issues and all." Ron was shaking with the effort of holding back this information.

"And as for the old headquarters, well with Dumbledore's death the Fidelius Charm was broken and all who knew about that place became secret keepers" all three friends bowed there heads, the headmaster's death was still hard to think about for them.

"So we can't really be safe there unless we can find a way to guard it from Snape and whoever he told about it, we have been researching ways to put up the same kinds of wards around it that we have at the new place, but it would require all the living relatives of the Black family and the heir to perform. Tonks and her mom are all for it, but I don't think Bellatrix would want to help us out, Narcissa is still lost in her own mind after what her sister did to her, and Draco is still missing." Hermionie's frustration showed though, she had looked all over the library at the new headquarters and this ritual was the only one she could find to allow Grimmauld place to be safe again.

"So... we have to kill Bellatrix, get ferret back and somehow get his mom to be sane again for Harry to get his house back, sounds like a simple plan to me." Hermionie rolled her eyes at Ron's comment.

"Come on guys, I want to show you the information on this potion Lyra wants me to take before my Aunt and Uncle get back." Harry led them up to his room, both Ron and Hermionie eyed the many locks on his door with guarded faces. His friends sat on his bed as Harry picked up the book and papers on the potion, handing them to Hermionie. Harry brought his chair over from his desk to sit on and Ron read the passage in the book out loud while Hermionie looked over the papers.
"Wow the brewing of this potion is extremely complicated, some of these ingredients I haven't even heard of. Not to mention the only reference I can ever remember finding about shadow demons was in the restricted section that said their hairs are to be used by wizard hunting parties to attract werewolves so they could kill them."

"That is awful, you don 't think I'll start attracting werewolves after I take it, do you?" Harry still wasn't sure if he wanted to take this potion or not and he could really use the second opinion.

"I don't know, Harry, it doesn't say anything on these papers about it. Are you sure you want to do this, Harry? I mean…are getting rid of those visions worth the risk?" Both her and Ron looked up at him, trying to read his face.

"Yeah Harry you need to be careful or you might have Professor Lupin hitting on you after this" That broke the tension in the room and they all had a good laugh before Hermione's wand began to vibrate telling them it was time to leave before the Dursleys returned.

"You charm your wand to do that often, Hermione?" Harry asked not able to keep the smirk off his face, Ron and Hermione both turned beet red and they all made their way downstairs. They both grabbed floo powder from a bag which Hermione had brought with her for Harry, with a few mutual promises to stay in touch they were gone. The Dursleys weren't home yet and Dudley would still be out for another half hour at least, so Harry sat on the couch and decided to watch TV. It was something he had ever dared to do before. He really didn't understand how someone could sit there all day, but he was quickly getting the allure. It was just so easy to lose yourself in the mindless stories and not having to worry about the life outside of that room. He probably would have sat there the rest of the night had he not felt a prickly sensation on his neck. He jumped off the couch and turned to face the doorway, wand out, only to throw his hands over his ears as Petunia shrieked at the top of her lungs, Vernon's scream wasn't quite as loud, but surprisingly high pitched as well.

"Potter you put that thing away at this instant." Vernon's voice was very loud, but held no conviction, instead he sounded pleading. Harry couldn't hide the bit of a smile that crossed his features.

"Sorry Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, you scared me." He said a bit smugly and placed his wand back into his pants’ pocket as he walked towards the kitchen.

"Don't let it happen again boy, now get in the kitchen and start on dinner." They had both edged a bit closer to the couch as Harry moved to pass by them.

"Sorry again Uncle Vernon, but I don't feel like cooking tonight, I'm just going to grab a sandwich and head to my room, you know growing boys and their sleep. Perhaps Dudley could make you both some food when he wakes up." He went into the kitchen, leaving the two Dursleys to make rather good impressions of fish. His sandwich was made quickly with a few waves of his wand, and then he went up the stairs, not even bothering to look back at his very surprised relatives. He was in bed early that night, hoping for a good night's rest.

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"Please my lord, he is still young, he will learn his place if you would give him another chance." The room was dark around him, the only light emitted from low burning torches in a semi circle around the throne, Snape was kneeling at his feet, his mask lying beside him on the ground. Other death eaters were standing just inside the ring of torches, two of the groups were holding Draco up between them. The gray-eyed boy’s face was calm but his whole body was shaking with pain and fear, his clothes were filthy with blood and dirt, no more than rags hanging off his body. Through what was left of his clothes it looked as if he had been hit with multiple cutting curses and then healed only enough to stop the bleeding.

"His family has been given enough chances Severus, they need to suffer for their failures, and since I do not have his parents here to pay the price for him, he will be made into my example. You should not have kept him hidden from me this long Severus, but for your loyalty in other areas I will let you off easily. Crucio!!" Snape rolled on the ground in pain, biting through his lip in an effort not to scream, blood poured down his chin and cheeks as he thrashed, pooling onto the floor. The curse was released after a few minutes and the potions master got back to his knees.

"Don't worry Severus, I won't kill him yet, after I get rid of his parents he will be most useful to me as the sole heir to the Malfoy fortunes, and I wouldn't want to put his pureblood to waste. No I think we will find a nice witch for him to breed with, and after he has sired a few more future death eaters, then I will allow him death. Bella, take young Mr. Malfoy back to his room, make sure he learns the price of failure" Draco kept his composure throughout Voldemort's speech but began to thrash and scream when he spoke to Bellatrix. Snape didn't move nor look up at his lord as Draco's aunt dragged him from the room, his screams echoing through the halls.

Harry woke up with tears in his eyes, the blinding pain from his scar was nothing compared to the pain he felt seeing Draco like that. He sat there for a moment, going over everything in his dream to see if there were any clues to where Voldemort was or how he could help Draco, but he couldn't think through the pain in his head. He blindly reached for his bottle of pain killers, but instead a potion bottle was pushed into his hand, startled he backed away from the bottle and heard light laughter beside his bed.

"Here Harry, it is only a headache potion." a female voice said from the darkness, he could just make out a shape of a person through the streetlights shining though his bedroom window. He pulled his wand out under his pillow and cast lumos in her direction, the person who had been standing near his bed recoiled with a hiss of pain, shielding her eyes from the light.

"Warn a girl would you Harry?" she said as the woman he now recognized as Lyra turned back towards him, dark eyes blinking heavily in pain.

"I'm sorry Lyra, you just startled me, what are you doing here?" she leaned back close to him and held out two small bottles in her hand.

"Here this one is for pain, and this one will help you get some sleep." He took both bottles from her and drank them gagging a bit at the taste, the pain in his head receded quickly.

"Better now?" He tried to say yes but he was so tired to form the words. Lyra helped him with his sheets where they had tangled around his body during his vision.

"Don't worry, Harry, we will talk in the morning" he nodded his thanks to Lyra as sleep overtook him.

a/n yay another chapter down, so do you guys want longer chapters and longer time between updates, or these shorter chapters and short updates?

MadnessWithin Me no i didn't get Lyra's name from that, her name does have relevance though.

thanks for all your reviews!!