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A/N Thanks for all those who read the first chapter and to those who reviewed. To Koppe and tumshie I will gladly take any help due to horrible spelling. To put it simply even my spell checker can't help me. Well on with the story.

Chapter 2: To school we go

He stood in the doorway as if he had done this before. The date had come and he could not feel any thing other than it was about time. It had taken to long in his mentors minds. They were his uncles and they just could not wait to show him off in a way. A thought echoed in his head. 'When we get together we tend to one up each other.' And he had two very proud uncles who could not wait for him to make his first appearance in there fellow professors' presence. He had been missing form the world for well over a decade and it was time to show off their prize. Not that he felt their love any less it was just how it was. He knew that in truth only his mother and his uncle Remus loved him for him. They could spend time with him just to spend time with him. That could be because they had no one to show him off to since they were both social outcasts in a world that felt their very presence was the cause of aggravation the beast that haunted their very dreams became angry for. Yet Harry also knew that he could not end any of this if he wanted to since they had been this way for well over seven hundred years. The fact he had his Uncle Remus was a blessing in its self.

So he shut the lid on his trunk and dragged it down the hall to the front door. His Uncle and mother tried to hide the kiss they held out for only moments when they were completely alone for. They only allowed themselves to be happy in the dark and isolation both afraid of what might come of it. Harry knew this and never asked his mother about it. She probably didn't remember him opening her bedroom door six years ago only to find her and his uncle wrapped together in each other and the sheets both breathing peacefully and with slight smile on there faces. He had shut the door just as quiet as he had opened it and went into his room to read a book he had gotten the day before. And much like than today nobody noticed him if he didn't want them to notice him. So he let his mother and uncle calm themselves in private. He could hear his mother stressing her worries about him leaving her sight. And he promised her that Sirius would watch over him. Than he proceed to remind her that Harry could take care of himself.

Harry let his presence be known by the grating of his trunk on the floor. He watched as they broke apart and waved for him to hurry up. His mother acted annoyed that he was taking to long and they might be late, but Harry knew it was an act. Yet he allowed it and made a slight fuss at how she was worrying to much. They wandered out the house after she told him he was to old to act like that and the train left in an hour and it was going to take at least thirty minutes with no traffic.

The ride was different in the respect nobody talked. No light conversation about the coming year or how he would be missed. Harry left it alone. He knew it was just his mother's fears creeping back up to her and if she spoke he might not get to the train station. However he felt a pull for him to go. It was as if the school its self would not allow him to be anywhere else. The car stopped and Harry watched as his uncle grabbed his trunk from the boot with one arm while his mother grabbed a trolley for him to push it with. She was reluctant and Harry grabbed her hand and walked her back to the car so his Uncle could place the trunk down. They walked on to the barrier and suddenly he ran forward leaving his mother and uncle behind so he could have a moment to himself. He knew he would get scolded for the sudden burst of independence yet he couldn't help himself. Here he was the beginning of what he couldn't tell, all he knew was that the beginning was upon him and he wanted to be there with it alone as long as possible just to let it be absorbed into his features and maybe it would not be nearly as bad as his mother screamed it would be in the middle of the night. Harry ran his hands across one of the trains compartment hauls. It felt warm to the touch and the pricked his fingers like thousands of microscopic brail dots.

He was pulled back for a suddenly by a hand on his shoulder. "What do you think you are doing young man?" Harry looked up at the vision that was undoubtedly his mother. "You can't just run off like that Harry. I mean what if somebody decided to just grab you."

"I'd curse him." His tone is quiet and silent to the point of nonexistence. "I know you worry mom. I can take care of myself though. You made sure that you and my uncles taught me enough to take on most things that would harm me at the school. Besides I knew that you and uncle Remus were here along with at least a dozen Aurors and three times as many parents off to see there children off to school. How much safer could I be unless you lock me in a trunk and throw it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean." Harry stopped for a second. "I promise to be careful mom."

She looked down at her son and gripped him in to a hug. "I know I'm just being paranoid." her voice cracking at how low she spoke. She released him and made a little bit of distance to help her cope with the soon to be timed separation. "Here comes your Uncle Remus. So get ready to say good bye." She raised her hands to her face brushing off the tears that had slide down her face. She felt Remus grab her shoulder to comfort her.

"All ready to go Harry?" Remus spoke down to the child he had come to think of as his son much like his friends had.

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Yeah, I think I am." Harry felt his Uncle pull him into a good bye hug.

"You take care of her for me." His words where silently relayed in to his Uncles ear. Remus pulled out of the hug and nodded his head that he would. "Well if I'm going to find a good compartment I need to get going guys." He spoke the last words with a true feeling of anticipation.

"Just take care of your self and try not to bother your other uncles to much."

"I will mom." He gave them both one last hug and jumped on to the train. He rolled his trunk behind him and quickly found an empty near where his mom and uncle were standing allowing them to see him off. After a few minutes of sitting there the door opened to reveal a pair of red headed twins. "Can I help you two?" Harry's question came out blunt and stern.

The twins turned to the small first year and smiled. "What do we have here George it appears to be a little first year who doesn't know us. Our reputation must be slipping."

"I agree Fred. Something must be done about this. We can't have people thinking we are losing our touch."

With that comment Harry drew his wand and pointed at the red haired twins. "Look here George the first year can stick up for himself. I like this one George."

"I agree Fred. Spunk it is. I mean to charge forward like that willing to accept all punishments his actions. However I think he needs a little training." With that Harry looked at the two and raised his wand a little higher. "I think he needs to be trained on how not to be caught. Sure taking the punishment is a must, but to get away with it with out a punishment is so much better."

"I'm Fred and this is George. We will talk to you later." They both bowed and left the compartment with smiles on there faces. Harry was a little disturbed by the interaction between him and the twins.

Something was telling him they were harmless, but be careful all the same. He dug into his trunk and looking for something to do when he heard the sounds of a fight outside his compartment.

Stepping out he saw a group of boys surrounding two girls. One was one the ground her brown bushy hairs covering her face while the other had copped black hair. The black haired girl was standing over the bushy haired girl with a look of fear stenciled in her eyes as all the wands were pointed at her. "You, I thought your parents taught you better than that. How could you not tell this filth was a mudblood on sight? Are you so stupid that you actually thought that thing could be one of us?" The blonde haired child voiced his opinions of the girl in front of him until he reached out and slapped her in the face. "I plan on telling my father all about this. You family will die with you, because I refuse to be married to someone that can't tell inferiors apart from the true rulers of this world."

At this point Harry had heard enough. He lightly tapped the shoulder of the blonde haired boy. "What the bloody hell do you think you are doing pointing your wand at two defenseless witches?" His voice got the reaction of all four of the boys in the hall.

"What is this, another mudblood? I saw your muggle mother help you on to the train. My god! Father was right you do all come out of the wood work when one another are in trouble." With that he pointed his wand at Harry.

Harry just laughed for a second unnerving all those who were staring at him He noticed the girl on the floor struggling to get to her feet by pushing herself up with her trunk. "And you claim she can't see blood right in front of her. I will have you know both my parents are magical. So maybe you need to go back to your father and beg for more lessons since you are obviously a worthless student. In fact I don't like you pointing your wand at me." With that Harry quickly reached out and grabbed the wand right in front of him. "If you screw up lessons you think are important to you like blood purity detection I would hate to see how bloody awful you are with wand work."

The whole group seemed stunned at the raven haired boy in front of him. "How dare you speak to Draco like that! Who do you think you are?" A slightly taller and chubbier boy demanded.

"I believe I am someone who can at least keep a hold of his wand." He stopped for a second as if trying to remember something. "Draco. Draco. Draco. Why does that name sound familiar. Oh yes I remember it's the name of Lucius Malfoy's son. So your father taught you how to distinguish blood on sight. I doubt that. What I know of your father is he is a week minded individual that has couldn't think for himself if his life depended on it."

"Take that back you have no idea who my father is." Draco raised his arm back out as if forgetting he no longer had his wand.

"Oh I know who your father is. He is a fool who got caught up with death eaters for years. And when he got caught he started claiming he was being controlled until he finally broke free. So that tells me he is ether a weak minded fool or a liar and still works for Voldemort as a spy." The who group in front of him flinched at the name he announced and Harry heard a few screams of terror farther down the hall indicating he was talking louder than he thought he was. "Now I would advise you leave those two alone or I will make you." Harry raised his own wand at the group. They all lowered their wand more in fear that he had said the dark lord's name than anything.

Harry walked over and helped the bushy haired girl to her feet and grabbed her trunk dragging it to his own compartment. Than turning to the black haired girl in front if him he spoke. "I would recommend that you grab your trunk and come with. Something tells me you would not be in safe company if you didn't." She just nodded and grabbed a trunk that was laying with four others. She had some trouble lifting it over the others so Harry helped her out and got it to the point where she could drag it on her own. Harry turned back to Draco throwing the blonde's wand to him. "Next time you point that thing at me I will take it and I break it." With that Harry reentered his compartment looking at the two girls sitting on the bench next to each other.

The black haired girl spoke first. "Why did you help us? Even the prefects turned around not wanting to get on Draco's bad side." She looked around the room as if expecting something bad to happen.

"Simple, you needed help. I don't care about popularity so to lose Draco as a friend does nothing to me." Harry sat down and stared out the window not bothering to keep the conversation going. The only sound in the cabin for close to ten minutes was that of the train picking up speed as it pulled out of the station. "If you guys want you can look for other sitting arrangements I'm sure the coast is clear now and I doubt I'm going to be very good company." He spoke with out turning from the window.

"If it's all okay with you I would like to stay here." The bushy haired girl finally spoke.

"I don't mind if ether of you stay." Harry continued to drift of in to the passing landscape. While the two girls spoke between themselves quietly. They only stopped when a knock indicated that the treat trolley was there. Harry turned and saw the girls looking at the treats, but refraining from purchasing anything. "Madam, can I get a little of everything?" The trolley runner looked at him weird for a sec than shrugged it off granting his request. The girls watched as Harry pulled out enough galleons to pay for the purchase than just let the candy sit on the bench beside him. Harry just let it sit there and turned his gaze back to the landscape. "Are you guys going to help yourselves or are you going to let it melt there? "

Both the girls looked at him strangely before one of them spoke. "You expect us to believe you bought that all for us?" Harry didn't turn to see who spoke to him he just waved his hand at the pile on the bench indicating that was exactly what he wanted them to believe. "Why? You don't know us."

Harry just shrugged his shoulders and grabbed the book he had pulled out his trunk before the whole incident started. He watched as the girls slowly accepted his offer and munched on the candy as the trip slowly progressed. After a while he noticed that the raven haired girl began reading a charm book and the brown haired girl was devouring a transfiguration book. He just smiled at how both girls seemed to have forgotten he was even in the room. He used the time to look them over trying to figure out where he knew them from. However he didn't let the thoughts roam to long since he was use to the feeling almost everyone in the magical world caused this feeling. Dropping his head back into his book he let his mind wander around the story in front of him. Unlike his roommates he felt no reason to study before they reached the school so he allowed himself the time to enjoy some leisure reading time. Most would laugh at his choice of material, but he just brushed them off. He knew that looking into something as strange as a comic book would be stupid, but hey most people would think the same at looking into a magic book so he shrugged the thoughts off. Glancing back up out the window Harry noticed that the sky had turned dark and they could be no farther than fifteen minutes from station. "Well ladies as nice as the company has been I believe we part company soon."

His voice brought back the girls form there self imposed exiles in the books. They watched him get up and pull his robe over his body. "Are we there already?" The brown haired girl spoke. And Harry just nodded while pulling his trunk down of the rack. "I guess we will see you later. Maybe we can ride in the boats together?"

Harry felt a small smile come across his face for some reason. "Sure I'll wait for you two just off the train, but for now I'm sure you want to be left alone to get ready since neither one of you is wearing your uniform yet." He got to the door before exiting he looked back at the two girls as a thought grazed him. "I'll see you later Hermione. And you're welcome to come along to Pansy." With that he let the compartment door shut behind him.

Hermione just stared at the door as he left. "I never told him my name." Her tone showed just how unnerving his comment was. "And I don't remember you telling him yours ether."

Pansy nodded her head in agreement in the same position as her new friend. "Maybe he heard them from the hall earlier." All thought she had trouble believing her own thoughts. "No matter how he knew we need to get ready or we will be later to the boats." With that both girls began stripping and putting on their uniforms. Both wondering who they had just spent a good part of the day with and how he knew their names and they really didn't know anything about him.

On the train station loading area Harry waited like he said he would. The two girls came off the train right after he did, but he waited off to the side watching as most of the students passed by. He didn't feel like answering the questions he had heard whispered in their conversations about him. Evidently his confrontation with Draco had been more meaningful than he thought it would be. Or maybe they were all talking about how he had spoken Voldemort's name out loud. Ether way he had made an impression he was positive would follow him for a while. After most of the crowd had left he walked over to the two girls. "Well you two ready to go to the boats?" They jumped at the sound of his voice. They both turned to see him right behind them. He let out a slight chuckle to their reactions and started walking over toward the loud voice screaming first years over here.

When he finally got to the creator of the loud voice he was startled at the size of the man. Nobody had told him that Hagrid was so large. Harry noticed he verily came up to the man's knees. "There you are Harry. Professors Black and Snape told me to keep an eye on you and not to let you get in to any trouble on the boat ride." With that said Harry felt most of the first years bore their eyes into him from every direction. He felt the two girls stop just behind him as Hagrid made the announcement as well. So Harry just moved forward ignoring the glares and sat down in the nearest boat. Hagrid finally got everyone else moving allowing the trip on the lake to the castle to get under way.

Hermione and Pansy sat with him along with a red headed boy who seemed to unnerved to start a conversation with the boy who had basically shouted the wizarding world greatest threat out loud on the train. The girls kept quiet as they could see all the attention was getting to the boy who had stuck for them. They just watched him fiddle with his wand making little light displays indicating he knew to a degree what he was doing with it. And suddenly the boat stopped with Hagrid ushering all the first years up the stairs until he passed on responsibility to a professor standing at the top of the steps.

"Students my name is Professor McGonagall. I am your transfiguration teacher and the Gryffindor house head. In a few minutes we will go through these doors and you will come forward as your name is called to be sorted in to your houses. Please remain here until summoned." She entered back into through the large double doors leaving the first years to talk among themselves.

"My brothers told me we have to fight a troll. I told them that was rubbish, but sometimes I can't tell whether they are joking or telling the truth." Harry chuckled at the statement the red haired boy made. However his amusement brought back the attention he had earlier lost. He stopped as soon as he felt the crowd look at him for answers.

"What do you find so funny?" Harry glared at the creator of the sound. Draco however did not back down. "I said what did you find so funny? While I will agree it is always entertaining when a Weasley is in the room as you watch them bubble about, but nothing he said was remotely funny except pointing out his own stupidity."

"Nothing that you would find amusing I'm sure Draco. And he had nothing to do with it. I was just remembering the look on your face when I took you wand from you like earlier." With that Draco went right for his wand. "Remember Malfoy you point your wand at me again and I will break it." Harry's voice dropped making Draco hesitate. Yet just as he regained his nerve the doors opened summoning the group in to the great hall.

Harry watched as all the first years' eyes went to the ceiling. The view was of a spectacular meteor show that must have been going on outside. Harry even caught himself transfixed with scene. That is until a voice started singing to the group. With that he noticed the rest of the schools students stare at the group of first years.

Come forward one and all.

I have all the time to see what you are made of

I'm one hundred percent painless I guarantee

I shall see if you are made of ambition and cunning

You maybe created for the vast ability to handle knowledge

Loyalty and willingness to work for what you want may be the traits

that define you

Or do you feel that desire to protect and stand tall against all odds

Ether way I can decide where you go.

I just sit a top your small heads and whisper sweet thoughts to your

character

I promise that you can be what you want no one looks down on a

selection

So come forward and place me gently on your brow.

Together we shall decide the best place for you even if it takes a while

to fit in

Harry watched the hat speak to the room and he could tell who was muggleborn and who knew what to expect from the hat. However suddenly he realized that the sorting had started and they were coming to Hermione. She slowly sat on the stool provided and allowed the hat to be slipped on to her head. She seemed the longest one so far, but suddenly the hat screamed out Gryffindor. She was greeted with applause of her newly made house mates. Everyone was excite to get new members for there house. Harry zoned out again until Pansy's name was called out. He watched the girl barely sit down before the hat screamed out Ravenclaw. However for some reason this sat wrong with Harry. A passing thought bounced around his head saying that her sorting should have taken longer. However she seemed very happy with the outcome so he let it slip past his thoughts.

"Evans, Harry" He glanced up at his name being called and realized the room had gone quiet. Well quiet except for the newly sorted first years all pointing him out as the guy who said You-know-who's name on the train. Harry glanced up at the staff table and saw the glare Snape was giving him and the proud smile Sirius was giving him as well. Harry moved to the stool with a quickened pace much like that of a model on the catwalk. He just wanted to getup there and get the whole mess done with so he could get to bed.

Once at the stool the darkness of the hat covering his head allowed him to forget the looks everyone was giving him. "So my dear boy you seem to have gained a small bit of attention already." Harry knew the hat was looking for an answer, but didn't reply. "Fine be that way. Well you seem to have a love for books, but noting the way that would make you a great Ravenclaw. You strive to get farther ahead than anyone else just to do it and see what next challenge come to you. So I doubt you would excel well in Slythern. You know to get anywhere you need to work to get there. You are extremely devoted to those who get close to you. So Hufflepuff would be a nice place for you. Than you have this spot that shows that you would do anything for your friends and family. A true charge ahead and deal with the consequences later kind of person very Gryffindor of you. The last two is where I think you would do the best in, but with a little more self motivation Slythern would be just as great. However I doubt any Slythern would appreciate this protective nature you have." Harry just nodded mentally agreeing with the hat. "So let place you in Gryffindor."

Harry didn't realize that the hat had spoken the last part aloud. He noticed that while his newly found table was happy to have him in their collective. Not that he cared it just looked like he might have some problems in the future. Allowing his eyes to scan the table he found the twins form the train sitting at his newly assigned table. He realized this meant that they would want to talk to him in the common room at a later date. Looking around even more he found Hermione and sat next to her. He noticed that she was looking at him funny, but than turned her attention back to the sorting. He was grateful for the way she was not walking on egg shells around him like everyone else seemed to. However so lost in his thoughts he almost missed it when Dumbledore spoke and the feast was laid out before them. Grabbing a few tidbits of food Harry realize he needed to be more careful at what he said since the prospect of being ostracized by the school did not appeal to him. So he slowly ate a bite of mashed potatoes hoping that his newly found notorious fame vanished quickly, but he doubted that it would.

A/N okay I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Yes I know the song needs work, but I didn't want to take one from the book since they wouldn't make sense in the case and I figured Albus would be trying to promote house unity. Any way review, flame, or just move on to something else your choice. Till the next time later.