had this almost finished last night but decided sleep was more important LOL
right now I am making each scene break a new chapter, and I am not sure how many will be combined into larger chapters once it goes through the editing and polishing phaze
hopefully today I can reach the halfway point for the NaNo goal, though with all my stories it seems this one will be far longer thatn 50,000 words needed to complete the NaNo challange
so without further
Waking up the next morning in the loving arms of his cousin Harry felt truly relaxed for the first time since arriving back in his world. Knowing that there was not time to relive any pent of energy as his body so wanted Harry placed a gentle kiss on Katre’s forehead waking him form slumber.
“We need to get a move on if we do not want to get caught by my friends when they come looking for me looking for answers.” Harry whispered as he started to get dressed this time with something that actually fit.
Laughing at the disgusted look Harry was giving to his clothing Katre quickly joined Harry in getting dressed just in time as the door to the boy’s dorm flew open with a bang as Ginny and Hermione barged in waking the others in his dorm as she loudly called out “Harry what happened to you? Why did you not come back to the dorm last night? What did Dumbledore and the minister want?
Not giving Hermione a chance to ask further questions Ginny interrupted “Harry are you alright? Were you hurt?”
Turning around in irritation as he buttoned up his pants Harry glared at eth two before in a too calm voice saying “I don’t bang into your dorm first thing in the morning waking up your dorm mates asking questions a mile a minute without giving me a chance to answer them, let alone staring at you while you are dressing.”
“Boy’s aren’t allowed into the girls dorm, you know that Harry.” Hermione rattled out confused about why he was ignoring her questions and harrumphing in irritation that he was attempting to derail her questioning.
Pulling his shirt over his head Harry sighed in irritation and glanced at his dorm mates who were silently staring between the two of them in the hopes of getting information on what happened or seeing a fight not caring which it was. “Hermione go downstairs so the rest of them can get dressed; at least have some common decency.”
“Harry…” Hermione started as Ginny pulled her out of the dorm whispering to her all the way downstairs.
“Hermione enough, leave him be before he clams up and refuses to tell us anything.” Ginny told her bushy haired friend as she dragged her down the stairs.
Shaking his head at the hypocrisy Harry turned towards his staring dorm mates and told them coldly “The cup was a port key that took me to a graveyard and I witnessed Voldemort’s rebirth after one of his minions killed Cedric, don’t ask me anything else on the subject.”
Turning and seeing Katre standing at the door and winking at him as he grinned Harry shook his head and sighed, it was going to be a long morning.
Following Katre into the hallway Harry closed the door and with a quick look both way of the staircase and finding that they were alone grabbed the back of Katre’s shirt and pulled him into a passionate kiss before releasing him groaning in frustration at not being able to go further. Glad that he was wearing the way to large clothes Harry followed Katre down the steps and stopped to see the scowling visage of his friend.
“That was really uncalled for Harry,” Hermione started to rant.
Holding his hand up and interrupting her before she could build up steam Harry told her coldly “Do not boss me around Hermione, you would not like what will happen if you do.” Staring at her until she looked away “As I told the rest of them the cup was a port key which took me to a graveyard where Cedric was killed for being extra when all they wanted was me as an ingredient to help bring back Voldemort, which by the way he is back now. I do not want to talk about it anymore so drop it.” He told her as he walked through the portrait.
Hermione stood there for a moment before processing what Harry told her “The nerve of that boy how rude.” She stormed off towards the portrait intent on tracking him down and getting her questions answered.
Whispering to Harry that he was going to check out the Slytherin table Katre watched Harry stalk up towards the head table and his head of house. Keeping an eye on Harry as he talked with his head of house Katre stopped behind Draco and looked at the blond with a critical eye. Deciding that he just might work for what he planned he headed back over to where Harry was glaring at his friends snagging some sausage and toast on the way. Biting into the hastily made sandwich and grimacing at how fatty it was Katre nevertheless forced it down as he listened in.
Stopping in front of McGonagall Harry waited for her to turn her attention his way before starting, “Professor I wish to lodge a formal complaint, the hypocrisy of this school knows no bounds it seems. As a male student I am forbidden from going up the stairs into the girls dorms I think it well past time to make sure the girls stop barging into our dorms whenever the feel like, especially when we are attempting to get dressed.”
Frustrated with the gob smacked expression on her face “Professor?” Harry asked.
Blinking as she tried to gather her thoughts Minerva finally spoke “Mr. Potter it has long been tradition that the young ladies are expected to comport themselves in a lady like manor and we have seen no need to institute a policy of enforced segregation like we do with the girls dorms. I assure you that you are the first ever to bring a complaint like this.”
Shaking his head “Then maybe you need to have a long talk to the female Gryffindor's then, I do not appreciate being barged in on while getting dressed and then having them staring at me as I get dressed, not even having the common decency to blush.” Walking away and raising his voice loud enough that Hermione and Ginny could hear him “I assure you if this is not corrected and the girls banned from our dorm that I shall institute a hex first policy. Tell Madame Pomfrey to brush up on the counter to the blinding curse.”
Grabbing some toast off a plate as he walked by the table Harry made eye contact with his cousin and made for the front doors. Double checking to make sure he had his shrunken belongings and no one was looking Harry started to walk towards the Quidditch pitch. Facing away from the castle and knowing he was out of range of anyone attempting to listen in he sighed in frustration “Only two more hours before we can leave to go back to London.”
“Why don’t you call Hedwig down and we will set up the filter on the portal to allow her to travel to Fairy and set the mirror up in the forest tree tops “ Katre suggested trying to offer a diversion before adding “Afterwards we can go ahead and walk down to the train station and board the train early.”
Thinking that it was a good idea Harry thought for a moment about wanting Hedwig to come to him and not really surprised saw a white blur in the sky getting closer and held his arm out so his first friend had a place to land. Gently petting Hedwig harry started to follow Katre out of sight of those watching him from the front doors. Looking around and seeing no one in sight Harry willed himself to disappear and joined Katre at eth edge of the forest all the while talking softly to Hedwig and explaining everything that happened to him.
After a half hour Katre stopped and looked at the mass of tangled trees and announced “this is prefect, I can place the mirror about half way up there by that huge limb,” he pointed at the monstrous limb about 5 meters up. Holding the mirror out so Harry could key his magical signature in it as an owl redirect he waited until Harry had finished instructing Hedwig on its use as a portal before placing it back in his pocket and climbing the tree.
Taking the mirror out of his pocket and changing the size so that was back to the original size Katre placed the frame against the trunk of the tree and hands glowing with magic merged the frame into the wood of the tree before standing back and examining it. Satisfied that it would do he climbed back down and listened while Harry told his owl to check it out.
When Harry was satisfied that the portal would work for Hedwig and any owl really He told his friend to go on through the portal he would catch up with her later. Making sure Hedwig made it through without problems harry turned and smiled as he held out his hand for Katre to hold on the walk towards the train station. Climbing aboard the train a good half hour before the rest of the castle would start arriving they chose a compartment near the middle in a section Harry usually did not sit in and dispelling the illusion of them not being there sat back and talked until the first students started to arrive.
Hermione frantic with worry over the way Harry was acting dragged Ron from the carriage and boarded the train near the end and started throwing open the doors to the compartments “Come one Ron, Harry must be here somewhere and we are going to find him. He has so much to answer for.” The bushy haired witch gritted out as she was furious that he embarrassed her this morning by complaining to McGonagall.
Not seeing what was so important Ron shrugged his shoulders and followed along while pointing out “Harry is pretty good at hiding when he does not want to be found, not to mention you should not have barged in like that this morning while he was undressed.” Seeing the furious expression settle his way Ron hastily added “but I reckon going to McGonagall was a bit much.”
Frustrated as more and more students were pushing and shoving their way around the aisle way “Let’s go back to our compartment until the train takes off, then we can try again.” Hermione sighed out frustrated that her attempt to corner Harry failed.
Draco hearing a voice he was not expecting to hear in his section of the train threw open the door he was passing and confronted the occupants. “Potter what do you think you are doing in the Slytherin section. Go back where you belong with the other blood traitors and mud bloods.”
Looking u pat the arrogant intruder Katre noticed it was the blond from earlier and commanded him with power in his voice “Step in and close the door.” Then added ‘Shut up,” for good measure.
Fighting the command Draco very quickly lost the fight and stepped into the compartment closing the door behind him, mouth moving and no words coming out.
Walking over to the door and darkening the windows and fusing the door Katre turned back and slowly walked around Draco inspecting him closely.
Not liking the situation Draco attempted to pull his wand and hex either one of them but as he was distracted by the taller one running his fingers down his cheek Potter grabbed his wand from his hand before sitting back down.
“What are you thinking,” Harry asked Katre as he smirked seeing Draco shiver at Katre’s touch.
“I’m thinking he might make a good Thrall or maybe even a Brooder.” Katre answered as he played with the blonde’s hair, or attempted to as Draco kept fidgeting and trying to move out of reach. “What do you think about Blondie here?”
Sitting back and contemplating his answer Harry simply went with what he was knew about the Slytherin “Well Draco is a stuck up git with delusions of grandeur, besides his daddy being a Death Eater and him wanting to follow in daddies footsteps,” Harry looked at the squirming teen and shrugged his shoulders “We have never gotten along really other than to say I don’t like him too much.”
Laughing “Don’t hold back tell me how you really feel about Draco,” Katre smiled as once again Draco tried to escape but was cornered near Harry’s knees.
“Stop and don’t move Draco,” Katre commanded putting some extra power behind the command before looking at Harry and then commanding “Draco remove your outer robes and shirt.”
Not able to fight the command Draco was purple with frustration from being treated as an object, Malfoy’s were not anyone’s toys the commanded others not commanded themselves. Slowly as he was not able to fight the command Draco unbuttoned his robe and let it slide to the floor and removing his shirt he held it in his hand as he had not been told what to do with it.
Pulling the shirt out of Draco’s grasp Harry reached around and pulled both arms out from the teens body “Well he is not marked yet, thought I doubt it will be to long before he is, after all that’s what he dreams of.”
Reaching around Draco from behind Katre slowly undid the button and zipper of the teen’s pants and pushed them down followed by his shorts. Reaching around and grabbing the lads equipment to position it fully in view he moved around and sat down next to Harry and examined the teen with a critical eye, “not bad, he has some potential it seems.” Flicking his finger towards Draco’s crotch he asked “what do you think?”
Grinning evilly inside and smirking on the outside Harry reached out and fondled his school rival for a moment and smiled when he felt Draco start to plump slightly. Letting go Harry sat back and stared at the expression on Draco’s face “Well he does look like he has potential, then there is always the fact that by taking him we keep out of Voldemort’s clutches.” Looking at his cousin King of the Sidhe “The question is which will be the better use for him?”
“Pull up your pants and put your shirt on.” Harry commanded following Katre’s led by using his magic with his voice. Pointing to the seat across form them “Sit down Draco and don’t move from that spot unless told.”
Still unhappy to be ordered around Draco nevertheless was very happy to follow that command and quickly pulling up his shorts and pants buttoned his pants and hastily pulled his shirt over his head and sat down on the bench seat.
Gazing into the fear filled eyes of the young teen across from him “how long does the trip to London take anyway?” Katre was interested I the answer wondering if they had time to relieve a little tension, or more to the point cause a lot of tension in the teen that had started down the wrong path.
Shrugging his shoulders “five hours give or take,” Harry told him before sensing intense panic being given off from Draco and turned to him, ”you may speak in a soft voice Draco, don’t yell or make threats and be respectful.”
Feeling the binding that was controlling him change slightly and release him just a little Draco’s panic rose to a new height as he did not understand the magic that was controlling him so easily. Clearing his throat he whispered as he looked at Katre “who are you and what are you going to do with me?”
Ignoring Draco’s question in favor of spreading a little terror Katre turned to Harry “Do you think I should make him mine now or wait until we get back to the Sithen?”
Seeing Draco get frustrated as his mouth moved and no words came out, Harry smiled knowing that the bitter diatribe was curtailed and wondered how long it would be before Draco broke, “is there a benefit for making him yours in the Sithen verses right now?” he asked somewhat enjoying the panicked look on Draco’s face out of the corner of his eye as they ignored the teen and discussed his fate.
“Other that the possibility of being interrupted, not really, oh I suppose that being in familiar surroundings where he has no chance to run would make it easier. Though it is a given that he will be mine before the night falls completely.” Katre said as he gazed at the teens face before adding “we can cloak him in light and illusion while out and about and in Gringotts, that way as far as the world is concerned he will have disappeared shortly after arriving on the train. I suppose all those in his house will assume he joined dear old dad for training.”
Embarrassed like never before and frustrated and fearful for his safety Draco whispered out “please sir will you tell me who you are?”
Smiling as the walls of arrogance were breaking down, but if asked he would have said it would take longer, nevertheless Katre dispelled his glamour while looking at Harry and turned his tri-colored eyes back towards Draco “I little wizard, I am Katre high King of the Sidhe.”
Staring into the tri-color eyes Draco’s fear took a new turn as he muttered out “the Unseelie left this world long ago how…?”
Frowning in disappointment “why little wizard surely you should know that if the Sidhe truly left the world that would mean Fairy had suffered true death and magic would flee the world forevermore.” Katre scolded him like an errant child found with hand in the cookie jar.
Harry wanted to laugh at the confused look on Draco’s face and asked him point blank “Draco do you truly believe all that stuff you spouted over the years?” putting up a hand to stop Draco’s ingrained response he simply told him “Think on it I will ask you to answer it later on.”
Snuggling in close to Katre, Harry smirked as he watched Draco “So cousin whatever shall we do to pass the time until we finally reach London?”
Draco mouthed cousin several times trying to wrap his mind around the information before asking “how can you be related to the Sidhe your mother was a m…m…muggle born?”
Dropping the glamour on his eyes Harry turned and looked at the blond “my mother was not as muggle born as one would think.”
Staring into the mesmerizing gold, green and silver eyes Draco felt his breath catch “Merlin help us all, the dark lord is going to end up getting everyone killed,” he whispered
“When I was little I would sneak books out of the library and read all the fanciful stories and myths around the Unseelie court and I would fall asleep at night dreaming about serving the court, being sought by others for my opinion, I was more important than the minister.” Draco whispered lost in memory not realizing that what would not have been loud enough for others to pick up was more than loud enough for Harry and Katre to hear.
Hearing someone attempt to open the compartment door before moving off Harry shifted and felt the heavy bag of gold in his pocket, the bag that was shoved into his hands last night by the minister before he stalked off muttering to himself. Coming to a quick decision Harry stood “I need to go meet with a couple of people,” jingling the coins in the pouch as he reapplied the glamour hiding his eyes.
“The Slytherin’s will not like it when they find you in our section Potter” Draco whispered out loud as he watched in awe as Harry’s eyes darkened as the once more became dark green.
Placing his hand on the compartment door and feeling the keystone of the energy field keeping it closed Harry did not even bother turning around “They will see exactly what I want them to see and nothing more.”
As Harry closed the door behind him and reapplied the energy filed keeping the door from moving he heard Katre ask “so Draco tell me do you have full access to the Family Vaults?”
Not wanting to be bothered Harry faded from sight on his third step as he made his way down to train in search of the Weasley twins. Finding them near the end near the compartment he and his friends normally spent the trip back to and from Hogwarts Harry glanced in his normal compartment to see Neville, Ginny and Luna sitting talking quietly about how Hermione was going round the bend. Shaking his head he continued to the next compartment and opened the door stepping in.
Hearing the compartment door open Fred looked over and not seeing anyone moved his hand towards in wand and nudged his brother. Freezing in shock as Harry appeared as soon as the door closed. “Blimey Harry how’d you do that?”
“Harry lad you might want to watch out Hermione has gone bonkers and is searching the train for you,” George shifted in his seat making room for Harry to sit down.
“Neat trick that whole being invisible thing,” Fred told his brother with a wink.
“To what do we…” George started in the twin’s most annoying trademark.
“Owe the honor of your gracing…” Fred picked up the thread of the twin speak.
“Us with your presence oh…” George smirked at the look on Lee’s face.
“Powerful one?” Fred pretended a courtly bow from a sitting position which made it look ridiculous.
Smirking Harry pulled the sack of Galleons from his pocket sand dropped it painfully in Georges lap in subtle retaliation for having to deal with twin speak.
Grabbing at his nads and checking to make sure nothing was broken George cried out “Oi, bloody hell that’s the future generations of Weasley you are abusing mate.”
Laughing at the expression on George’s face Harry turned to face him “that’s alright mate, your brother’s not damaged and since the two of you do everything together.” He waggled his eyes at him and smirked in a job well done as the others laughed at the verbal sparring match, seems the twins had met their match.
Pointing at the sack that George was opening Harry told them “I do not want nor need that. The git of a minister refused to turn it over to the Diggory’s, insisting that it was mine. So use it wisely, open that joke shop the two of you are always talking about, I have a feeling before long that the world will need more laughter.”
“Blimey Harry there must be a thousand galleons in here, we can’t accept this.” George paled as he looked in the sack and then up to their now standing benefactor.
Placing his hand on the door ready to open it “You can and you will George, you and Fred use that wisely to create as much mayhem through pranks, target Snape or Dumbledore for all I care, just use it to follow your dreams.”
Opening the door and fading from sight Harry’s voice echoed cryptically “despite what you will hear this summer I can always be found by those that solemnly swear…”
Looking over at his twin in confusion George looked back towards the empty doorway muttering “he’s gone all Dumbledore on us.”
Spending the next hour or so walking the aisles and finally spotting his two friends Harry snuck up behind them and listened in as he tried to decide if he should make himself visible.
“Really Ron, Harry has to learn not to bottle up things, I mean we are his friends so we should be telling each other things like this,” Hermione finished as she and Ron walked up and down their section of the train performing their prefect duties.
“I don’t know Hermione, Harry can be right moody at time. Not only that but he has the right to his secrets just as we do. He will tell us after awhile as long as we don’t badger him about it. If there is one thing I have learned in the four years of rooming with Harry is that he can be right stubborn when he wants to and pushing him just makes him that much more stubborn,” Ron told her as he tried once again to derail his friend from ruining their friendship with Harry, afraid that if she continued he would have to choose between the girl he fancied and his best friend, after the rocky start to the year and the right git he was to Harry he did not want to go down that road again.
Shaking his head Harry moved off as Ron was once more telling Hermione to lay off as it had not been even a full day since eth third task and of course Harry had every right to be acting strangely after what had happened last night. Maybe after having the summer to think about Hermione might grow up he though as he made his way back into Slytherin territory and the his cousin, he could not wait to finish this day and relax.
Friday, November 9, 2007
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Just finished reading the latest. Got to say that this is looking very interesting. I'm anxiously awaiting the next part. Also, I like to point out, for when you clean up and post the story, that at this point, Harry hadn't met Luna, and Ron and Hermione weren't prefects yet. Anyway, keep up the good work.
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