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Imagine that Harry was never friends with Ron and Hermione and that he WAS put in Slytherin. Actually DON'T imagine, because I'm gonna tell you what happens.
Harry Potter was an 11 year old boy. He was a very strange looking boy; he had pitch-black hair, emerald green eyes and a strange looking scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. Harry had no parents. They had died in a car crash when he was only 1 year old and was now living with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. Once upon a time Harry was a sweet innocent young boy who is aunt and uncle hated, but since Dudley accepted him into his group because of Harry's scar popularity he had turned into a stuck-up spoilt bully even though Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon still didn't like him that much though Dudley always got his way. He and Dudley were like twins (apart from their appearance). They had the same stuff and the same mean personality. Everyday they would choose one of the school nerds to pick on. Whenever they got in trouble though they blamed in on the other members of their group and so they always got away with it. After the last year of primary school Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon were planning on sending them both to the school Vernon had gone to when he was in high school-Smeltings. The only problem was, was that Harry had now turned even more snobbish than Dudley. He now wanted to go to the best high school in the whole of England. Uncle Vernon was very angry with this and decided that Harry would now be going to the WORST school. Harry was VERY angry when he was told. Especially since his birthday was very soon and that the school year would follow soon after. He stormed off up to his room and started chucking things out the window onto the neighbours' roofs. Soon after Harry got tired of this and fell asleep on his bed.
He was awoken by someone knocking on his door, he got up and opened it. It was Uncle Vernon and with him were two strangers-a tall, thin blonde haired mad with cold grey eyes and pale skin and a boy of about Harry's age who was a spitting image of the man which was most obviously his father. They were both dressed in black cloaks that Harry thought were very stupid-looking.
"Harry, this is Lucius Malfoy and his son Draco. They were sent here to discuss which school you are going to" and he left the strangers in Harry's room and walked out.
"Hello Harry Potter, my son and I were to deliver this to you" he said handing Harry an envelope with a wax seal on the back.
He opened it and read it.
Smiling wickedly, he asked "Are you serious?"
"Yes" answered Mr Malfoy "My son is going there also. We were sent by Professor Albus Dumbledore-Head Master of Hogwarts. We are now to take you to town to get you your school supplies, but before we can do that I must tell you that you will we very recognized in the wizarding world. Harry, the truth must be revealed. Your parents did not die in a car crash. They were killed by Lord Voldemort-the most powerful of all darks wizards."
"Why did he kill them?" asked Harry suspiciously.
"He was afraid of them. He was afraid that you would become the most powerful dark wizard of all time with the help of your parents, so he killed them. He tried to kill you too, but you were too powerful for him and he lost nearly every bit of power he had and is now somewhere out there awaiting your arrival to restore him to full health".
Harry just stared at Mr Malfoy's wicked grin, grinned maliciously back and said "Let's go" with a hint of evil in his eyes.
Harry fixed up his hair, didn't bother to change as he was still wearing his clothes from yesterday and went downstairs with the Malfoys following him. He told Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia that he was going to go into town with the Malfoys. They didn't really care, but Dudley asked why and if he could go too.
"No" said Harry.
"Why not?" asked Dudley.
"It's none of your business" said Harry starting to get annoyed an walked out the door waiting for the Malfoys to follow. Dudley tried to follow, but Mr Malfoy took out his wand, waved it about and Dudley went back inside screaming as a pigtail had just sprouted from his behind.
"Cool" said Harry "Will I be able to do that?"
"Yes, but you'll have to learn the basics of wizardry first" Mr Malfoy replied.
"How are we getting there?" asked Harry.
"By magic. What else do you think?" remarked Mr Malfoy while Draco hid a smirk.
Harry, feeling very stupid kept quiet as Mr Malfoy murmured a few words, waved his wand and Harry and the Malfoys were suddenly transported instantly. As Harry opened his eyes he could see that they were in a bar. He looked around and found out that it was called 'The Leaky Cauldron'. Draco walked over to Harry and said "This is a wizards bar. Only withes and wizards are able to see this place. So there are no Muggles in here".
"What are muggles?" asked Harry curiously, not knowing this was another stupid question.
"Are you serious?!" cried Draco, "You don't know what Muggles are?!"
"Nope. Should I?"
"Of course you should!"
"So tell me"
"They are non-magic people-people who don't even have a streak of magical blood in them"
"Oh," said Harry, "So they're just normal people then?"
"Depends on what you call normal. For witches and wizards, they are normal.
"Oh" murmured Harry once again feeling quite stupid.
Draco's father motioned them to follow him as walked out a side door which lead to a small area outside with just an endless brick wall in front of them. Once again Mr Malfoy got out his wand. This time he tapped a certain brick. For a second nothing happened, but then... the brick wall moved bricks to the side and some disappeared, but in after everything was finished it left a walkway big enough for a large human to walk through. Mr Malfoy walked through first with Draco and Harry following suit. Everywhere people wearing black cloaks just like the Malfoys were walking about talking about what seemed like nonsense to Harry. Mr Malfoy lead them to a tall building with the word 'Gringotts' on it.
"This is the bank," Draco whispered to Harry as they walked in, "And those are goblins that are working everywhere".
Mr Malfoy walked up to a desk and asked "Can we please take some money out of Mr Harry Potter's account?"
"Certainly. Do you have his key?" replied the goblin.
Mr Malfoy looked at Harry. Harry wasn't sure why, but he took out an old key which Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia had given him one day without saying what it was for.
"That's the one" smiled Mr Malfoy taking the key from Harry and handing it to the goblin.
The goblin jumped down from behind the desk and beckoned them to follow him to a cart. They all jumped in and the cart took off down a deep dark tunnel. The cart was turning this way and that that he had no idea where they were heading and started feeling dizzy and sick. When they got out they followed the goblin to a door. The goblin put Harry's key in the keyhole and the door opened. Inside the room Harry saw piles and piles of gold, silver and bronze coins. Mr Malfoy helped Harry to put some of the wizard money into a small bag and explained that the gold coins were galleons, the silver were sicklings and the bronze being knuts. After that they went to the Malfoy's account and were then whizzed back up to the surface. They walked out of Gringotts and Draco told him that this was Diagon Alley and that all wizarding equiptment could be bought here.
"The first place we're going to is to get our school robes" explained Draco.
"OK" replied Harry as they walked into a shop with a sign on the front saying 'Madam Maulkin's Robes For All Occasions'.
They walked up to the counter and a short, plump witch came out from the back room holding a tape measure.
"Robes for these two," said Mr Malfoy.
"Certainly," smiled the witch "This way please" she told the two boys as she walked back into the back room.
She got each of them to stand on a stool while she went to get another witch to get Harry's measurements.
"Do you know what house you want to be in yet?" Draco asked Harry.
"Umm which ones are there?"
"Seriously. You don't know much"
"It's not my fault I had to grow up with Muggles"
"OK I guess. Well there are 4 houses," explained Draco "Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. All my relatives were in Slytherin and so I probably will be too. It's also the best house. That's what Father says. And he said if I don't get in Slytherin he will go and have a talk with that stupid old Professor Dumbledore, or I'll have to change school".
"Oh OK" thought Harry "Well I want to be in Slytherin with you then."
"Good choice" remarked Mr Malfoy as he walked in.
"Err thank you" said Harry.
"Here are your robes" said the plump witch.
"Thank you" said Mr Malfoy taking the robes from her and giving them to Harry and Draco. "Now we'll go and get your cauldrons so you have somewhere to put all your school supplies".
After they had bought their pewter cauldrons the next shop they visited was 'Flourish And Blotts' to buy their textbooks.
"Hmm," thought Mr Malfoy "What else do you need? Oh of course! How could I forget? We need to get your wands!"
So they hurried off to 'Ollivanders'-the only place to buy wands. They entered the shop. Harry felt that the walls were closing in on him. There were shelves all along the walls with boxes and boxes of what Harry realised were the wands. Suddenly out of nowhere a short man with glasses appeared at the counter.
"Can I help you?" asked the man.
"Yes. These two need wands for their first year at Hogwarts" replied Mr Malfoy pointing towards Harry and Draco.
"Alright. Both of you come here." Beckoned Mr Ollivander. "Try these ones then swap wands"
Harry and Draco tried wand after wand after wand! At last Draco had found his perfect wand-10 inches, maple, unicorn tail hair.
Suddenly with no warning Mr Ollivander blurted out "Why you're Mr Harry Potter aren't you?"
"Yes," said Harry quite startled.
"There is one wand that I was keeping, waiting until you came" he said as he handed Harry yet another box with a piece of paper stuck to it saying 'Harry Potter' on it.
Harry opened it, picked it up and at once a swirl of blue, red, green, orange, gold, silver, yellow, pink came out of the wand and then after it has disappeared in its place a giant swirl of grey and black circled Harry then as suddenly as it had appeared it had vanished back into the wand. Everyone was staring at Harry as though he had just turned into a ghost. Ollivander gasped, Draco his behind his father and Mr Malfoy just stared with an evil grin on his face. Harry just stared at them all with a very blank look on his face. Finally Ollivander spoke.
"Please spare me Harry Potter. I have given you your ultimate weapon. I have done you a favour. Just remember that"
"Umm OK" said a very puzzled Harry.
And with that Mr Ollivander disappeared.
"Good work!" it was Mr Malfoy congratulating Harry and shaking his empty hand. "Let's go now"
"But I haven't paid that man"
"Who cares" grinned Mr Malfoy.
"Alright then" agreed Harry putting his wand back in the box and putting it in with the rest of his school things inside his cauldron.
"Can you please tell me why that man was scared of me and why all that smoke was swirling around me?"
"It’s a sign" answered Mr Malfoy "A sign that you will become the most powerful dark wizard of all time. Even more powerful than Voldemort"
Draco stared at Harry with a scared expression on his face.
"Really?!" asked Harry with another wicked grin on his face.
"Yes."
"Cool!" grinned Harry looking at Draco who was still whimpering behind his father.
A strange man then came up to Mr Malfoy started talking to him.
"Don't worry Draco. I'm not going to hurt you. You're my friend"
"OK. But you'll have to learn the basic of wizardry first. So I'll help you cos you don't really know that much about our world".
"OK. That's good." Smiled Harry.
"How about we celebrate by getting you a pet to take to Hogwarts?" asked Mr Malfoy.
"OK" answered Harry "Can I have a bull terrier?"
"Umm no...you can only take rats, toads, cats or owls to Hogwarts" replied Mr Malfoy.
"What are you taking Draco?" Harry asked him.
"Well...toads are out of fashion, I'm allergic to cats and I HATE rats. So I'm going to get an owl".
"Well let's hurry up and buy you two owls before all the good ones are bought" said Mr Malfoy and rushed them off to but their owls.
"What type of owl are you getting?" Draco asked Harry.
"I dunno. Which one are you getting?"
"I'm getting an eagle owl" smiled Draco "They're the biggest of all owls".
"OK. I think I'll get one too" thought Harry.
They both chose their eagle owls-Harry a tawny coloured and Draco a grey one. After that they went to sit on a bench while they thought of names for their new owls.
"Are they both male owls?" asked Mr Malfoy.
"Yes" said Draco "Why?"
"I just didn't want either of you to get a weakling female owl".
"Oh OK" Harry said.
"Have you thought of a name for yours yet Harry?" wondered Draco.
"I think I'll call mine...hmm...umm...let me think...Salazar!"
"How did you come with that?" asked Draco.
"I dunno, it just popped into my head" replied Harry.
"Do you know who Salazar is?" asked Draco.
"No. Why?"
"That is who the Slytherin house is named after" Mr Malfoy butted in "He was the greatest of the four Hogwarts creators".
"Cool" grinned Harry "So what are you gonna call yours Draco?"
"I think I'll call mine Smoke," decided Draco. "Because it's grey"
"Very good Draco" smiled his father. "Come, let us go to get Harry's belongings"
"Why?" asked Harry looking puzzled.
"Well you'll be living with us now since you're a wizard. And you can't go to Hogwarts without knowing absolutely nothing about our world"
"Cool" said Harry once more.
"Does Harry have to share my bedroom?" whined Draco.
"Of course he does!" snapped Mr Malfoy as Harry glared at Draco "Your room is big enough to fit the whole of the soon-to-be Slytherins in it!"
So they walked the rest of the way back to The Leaky Cauldron in silence, Draco staying out of sight behind them whimpering about how it wasn't fair.
"Don't worry Draco" said Harry as he dropped back in line with Draco to talk to him "It's not like I'm gonna hurt you or anything".
Harry grinned, winked and went to talk to Mr Malfoy.
When they reached The Leaky Cauldron Mr Malfoy asked them "Should we apparate again or go by Floo Powder?"
Neither Harry nor Draco answered.
"OK, well I think we should go by Floo Powder so Harry can find out what it is. Even if it is a very dirty trip" said Mr Malfoy looking disgusted.
He pulled a bag out of his pocket and undid the tie.
"Take a handful of the Floo Powder, step into the fireplace, drop the Floo Powder into the flames and say "4 Privet Drive". That is where you live isn't Harry?"
"Yes" replied Harry.
"OK. Draco you can go first so Harry can see what you have to do"
Draco took some of the Floo powder and did exactly what his father had told him. In a second he was gone.
"Your turn Harry" said Mr Malfoy.
Harry copied what Draco had done and he too disappeared.
When Harry emerged he found himself in the Dursley's lounge room with Draco sitting patiently on the sofa with his owl and school things at his feet. He brushed off the soot that had collected on his clothes, put his cauldron full of school things and his owl next to a lamp and went to sit next to Draco. A few seconds later Mr Malfoy also emerged from the fireplace.
"Oh, you're back," said Uncle Vernon.
"Yes, but not for long. Harry will be living with us from now on" Mr Malfoy smiled.
"How long for?" asked Aunt Petunia who had heard everything from around the corner who was now sitting on another sofa.
"It's his choice" Mr Malfoy replied looking around the room "Well he'll be living with us until he goes to Hogwarts of course, but when he comes back then he can decide"
"Oh, OK," said Aunt Petunia.
"Well hurry and get your things boy" said an annoyed Uncle Vernon.
So Harry hurried up the stairs and came back now a few minutes later with a giant suitcase packed with things like clothes, his Discman, CDs, gameboy and gameboy games and his toothbrush and toothpaste.
"Remember to write," said Dudley looking a bit upset that his cousin (his best friend) was now leaving for a new life as a wizard.
"Don't worry," said Harry "I promise I will. I'll use my new owl Salazar to send it to you"
"OK" said Dudley and he ran out of the room with tears in his eyes.
"All ready? Let's go!" smiled Mr Malfoy taking Harry's suitcase.
Harry and Draco carrying their cauldrons took some Floo Powder and both disappeared.
This time when Harry emerged from the fireplace he saw a huge room opening onto everlasting green fields. Draco took his owl to one of the many windows and let Smoke fly free. Harry took Salazar to the window and let him join Smoke who seemed to be waiting for him. Then when they turned around Mr Malfoy was standing there with Harry's suitcase. Mr Malfoy put it down and sat on one of the dark blue sofas in the room. Harry went to pick it up but dropped it when he jumped from Mr Malfoy shouting "DOBBY! DOBBY! Come here NOW! Take Harry's and Draco's belongings to Draco's bedroom!"
In a few moments a small, ugly thing, which Harry realised must be "Dobby" came hurrying into the room picked up their belongings and panted "Yes master. Right away master"
"Follow Dobby. He will show you the way to Draco's room. Draco, if Dobby dares not to do what you, Harry or I say, punish him"
"Yes father" smiled Draco looking happy for the first time since getting his owl.
So off Harry went following Draco and Dobby up many stairs and through many halls finally reaching Draco's room. Dobby opened the door as he tried to hold all their belongings and went inside to put them on Draco's huge bed. Harry looked around the room and found that it was a rather big room-bigger than Harry's and Dudley's rooms which were considered big in the Muggle world put together. Draco sighed and fell onto his bed.
"Put all our things away Dobby" he told Dobby.
As Dobby scurried around put away books and other school things Harry was walking around inspecting all off Draco's things asking questions about everything in his room every few seconds.
"Why do you have a broomstick?" asked Harry looking at it as though Draco had a pile of soft toys sitting on a bookshelf.
"It's for flying" Draco said.
"Why do you fly it?" asked Harry.
"For playing Quidditch!" Draco said angrily grabbing it from Harry. "Here I'll show you how to fly one" and he walked out of the room.
Harry followed him all the way back downstairs until they were once again in the room they had come from. Draco opened a door that led to the green fields and walked a fair distance from the house.
"This is how you get on," said Draco First of all you have it on the ground, stand to the left of the broom and put your right hand over it. Then you say UP!... and with that the broom shot up into Draco's hand.
"Cool!" said Harry looking amazed.
"Then you get on and just kinda lean toward the way you wanna go" Draco mounted and then kicked off from the ground and he was up in the air soaring around like a bird.
Harry just stood there staring mouth open watching Draco circling around and around the fields. After a long time of watching Draco finally landed and got off his broom.
"Wow!" Harry said "How cool! Can I have a go?"
"Alright, just try not to wreck it"
"I won't" said Harry slightly offended by the thought of Harry breaking Draco's broomstick.
"Up!" said Harry to the broomstick and up it went into his hand.
He mounted Draco's broomstick and took off into the air. It was the best feeling in the world. Just flying through the air like a bird. The wind whipped his face as flew around and around the fields. After a while he soared back down towards the ground and got off. He picked the broomstick up and walked over to Draco who had been sitting on a chair watching him.
"Did you have fun?" asked Draco.
"Yeah! It was great!" replied Harry.
"That's good," said Draco taking the broom from Harry.
"So what do you use it for?" asked Harry again.
"For Quidditch" repeated Draco.
"What's Quidditch?" asked Harry looking puzzled.
"It's a wizard sport," explained Draco.
"Can you teach me how to play?" asked Harry excitedly.
"I guess, I mean someone has to teach you and it may as well be me. OK. Firstly there are 2 teams, each with 7 players on each team-2 beaters, 1 catcher, 3 chasers and 1 seeker. There are 3 hoops at each time. There are 3 types of balls-1 Quaffle that the chasers have to try to get in the hoops while the catcher on the opposite team defends the hoops. Whenever someone scores they get 10 points for their team. There are 2 Bludgers that chase after players trying to knock them off their broomsticks. The beaters have to fly around and hit them towards the other team's players and make sure none of their players are hit. The last ball is called the Golden Snitch that is the most important ball in the game. It's really small and flies very fast. The seeker has to try and catch it before the other seeker does. The seeker's team that catches it gets 150 points for it and the game ends when it is caught. So do you get it?"
"I'm pretty sure I do" Harry said still considering what Draco had told him.
"What do you want to do now?" asked Draco.
"Can you show me some more wizarding things that I need to know?" Thought Harry.
"Sure. I'll just get Dobby to take my broomstick to my room. DOBBY!" shouted Draco.
In a few seconds Dobby was standing in front of them.
"Take my broom up to my room and don't you dare mess up my room of break my broomstick" ordered Draco.
"The first thing you need to know," Draco explained, "is that some wizarding families are better than others. Unlike us purebloods-"
"What's a pureblood?" interrupted Harry.
"A witch or wizard whose parents are both a wizard and witch. A non-pureblood is someone with a Muggle parent and a magical parent; so in other words, they're Mudbloods. Though some pureblood families are almost as bad as Mudbloods. They are the ones who actually think that Mudbloods are worth teaching magic to. There are also the ones like the Weasley's-"
"Who are the Weasley's?" Harry interrupted again.
"I'll show you," said Draco "Follow me".
Harry followed as Draco took them inside.
"What are you two up to?" asked Mr Malfoy.
"Father, can you please show Harry the Weasley's?" asked Draco.
"Why?" asked Mr Malfoy looking as though something had just crawled out of the dumpster and asked to spend the night.
"So I can show Harry that some pureblood families are nearly as bad as Mudbloods," replied Draco smirking.
"Of course then" Mr Malfoy replied copying his son by smirking in the exact same way.
"We'll go by floo powder again" said Mr Malfoy.
He took out his wand once more, said something that to Harry sounded like nonsense and they were in another wizarding home. Harry was disgusted by this house. It was a pigsty! There was junk all over the place and since the room was so small you could hardly walk. A red-haired man walked in.
"What are you doing here Lucius?" asked the man.
"Just teaching Harry that some pureblood families are a disgrace to the wizarding world" smirked Mr Malfoy as Draco did the same.
"Harry?" asked the man not retaliating to the comment.
"Yes. Harry Potter will be living with us until school starts" drawled Mr Malfoy.
"Harry Potter?!" the man was so shocked by this that he stumbled over the junk and fell over.
Mr Malfoy grinned while Draco and Harry laughed.
"What's going on in here?" asked a red-haired woman who had heard the commotion and come from the room next to the one they were standing in.
"I was just introducing Harry Potter," replied Mr Malfoy still smiling.
The women gasped.
"I don't think Harry needs an introduction," the man said as he stood up. "Every witch and wizard knows his name and what happened"
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