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The other side of the Veil	By : yaoiboydaisuke Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Tom Views: 14288 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Harry stared at the future evil Lord's hand, he'd been warned to tread carefully with his actions, that he couldn't talk about the future to anyone, the Minister had stopped him before he could tell him about Tom. The man did hint to Harry that as long as he didn't tell anyone anything, if it was for a better future, if it was done quietly, Harry could do whatever he wished; he did warn against abusing the Wizarding and Muggle stock market as a half joke. He took the hand and faked a smile, as far as his knowledge was, Tom hadn't actually killed anyone yet, and maybe he could stop it from ever happening.
“Nice to meet you, I'm Harry Potter.” He released the hand, he had been told he could use his real name since there were a few Potter's and with him being an orphan with all the dark Wizard Grindewald had killed already, it would be hard to track which exact Potter family he was from. He didn't know anything about Tom's school years, only that this was the year the Chamber of Secrets was opened, and Moaning Myrtle had been killed.
After lunch was finished, Tom stood and looked at Harry. “Come with me, I'll show you around the school.” Tom waited for Harry to stand and they left The Great Hall. “It is strange to have someone get their magic so late.”
“Yea...no one at the orphanage wanted to adopt a Squib. The Orphanage was pretty excited when I started showing my magical abilities.” Harry walked slowly behind Tom, he could kill him right now, but he'd be the one going to Azkaban.
Tom's lips pressed together into a thin line. “I see, you were in a Wizard orphanage then.” Harry blinked confused by Tom's voice sounded bitter about him having gone to a Wizard orphanage. “If...” Tom took a deep breath, he turned and looked at Harry. “If you don't mind...can you tell me what it is like....in a Wizard Orphanage...” the look in Tom's eyes shocked Harry, the boy looked like he'd heard the worst thing in his life.
“Um, why would you want to know about the Orphanage?” Harry watched Tom look at the floor, the other boys hands balling up into fist.
“I go to a Muggle Orphanage.” Tom's fist twitched. “I've asked to be able to live at the school or be transferred to a Wizard Orphanage, but they keep sending me back there!” his voice got higher, he looked up at Harry. “Why! Why are you able to be at a Wizard Orphanage when up till last year you were basically a Muggle!” he started to shake. “Was your family special? My from what I've heard about mine my mother was a witch who fooled my father into marrying him and he wanted nothing to do with me when she died. The Orphanage told me my mother was just a dimwitted whore, they didn't know she was a witch.” he took a couple deep breaths. “No one will tell me anything about my mothers family or why I was left in the Muggle's Orphanage, even after that old fool Dumbledore came to see me and opened my life to this world!”
They were alone in the hall, Harry didn't know what to do, he had no idea Tom Riddle was this type of pitiful person. “The Minister of magic has sort of adopted me....” Harry saw Tom twitch. “Maybe..I can get him to tell the Headmaster to let you and I live in the school year round till we graduate.” there was a spark of hope that crossed Tom's dark eyes. “The Wizard Orphanage isn't very good for either of us, I don't know what the Muggles are like, but being in a building of depressed Witches and Wizards of all ages under seventeen...their emotions cause random magic to happen and all of us get blamed.” he lied.
“At least there you are somewhat normal, being around Muggles every day, unable to talk to them about how special you are or how school was....” Tom shook his head. “Sorry, I shouldn't be bothering you with my own problems. Lets go back to the tour of the school.” the subject of the Orphanages was dropped and Tom showed Harry around the school, he was very enthusiastic about the school, and Harry could tell he loved it there; what had happened to make him go insane. “Do you really think the Minister will let me live in the school?” they had just finished the complete tour and were walking toward the Slytherin Dungeon.
“I will send and Owl in the morning, it doesn't look like being with Muggle children is healthy for you.” Harry still couldn't believe that Voldemort was actually a kid, not the evil cocky Tom he'd met from the Diary. Tom smiled a real smile instead of his usual 'it is expected of you' smile, Harry felt a shock go through his body and he watched Tom walk off to his private Prefect room. “What the hell was that....” he mumbled to himself, his eyes wide as Tom vanished around the corner.
Harry had sent the request to the Minister about Tom not returning to the Muggle Orphanage, that the school is a better environment for both of them, that he also didn't want to go to a Wizard Orphanage once school was over as he didn't have a home. It took a few days to hear back, during that time Harry saw a side of Slytherin that he wasn't able to see as a Gryffindor student, all the other houses had it drilled into their heads that Slytherin was full of Dark Wizards; so they were influenced in seeing them only as such, not thinking about how they were with each other in their own Common room.
They were happy students, still stuck up and didn't socialize with the Muggle-born students in their house, but they each knew how to play different instruments, and some even were really good singers. Even with being the outcast and looked down on, the Muggle-born students seemed to be enjoying themselves with each others company and listening to the others having a good time. One of the Slytherin boys was showing how good he was with juggling and balancing, a girl was twirling a baton of fire, and Tom was playing the piano along side a girl playing a violin. Harry knew they were showing off their talents to try and prove they were more talented than the rest of their housemates, but it didn't mean it wasn't also for fun.
Suddenly, Tom had started to sing a Muggle song and playing the tune on the piano, while the Purebloods believed it to just be a song they never heard, the Muggle-borns kept it to themselves that it was indeed a Muggle song. Harry watched in complete shock, Tom's voice was really good, he was smiling and his friends were huddled around him. Harry felt a hand grab his arm, everyone was looking at him, Tom had stopped singing and playing the piano.
“Are you alright?” It was a first year girl that had grabbed his arm, she stared at him frowning.
“Huh?” Harry was confused till he realized he'd started to cry, his cheeks were wet, and he quickly wiped his face with his sleeve. “Oh! Yea, I’m fine, I guess the song was a bit too powerful for me.” it was really because he couldn't help his growing like for Tom, even though the boy was going to grow up to kill many people.
The song had been about the war, to the Purebloods it was about Grindewald, and to the Muggle-borns they knew it was about the Muggle war going on. Many of them had lost family members in both wars, even a couple friends from the school had died in both, Grindewald attacking random people, and the Nazi's shooting them down thinking their wands they rose to protect themselves were guns. Thanks to Harry freely showing his emotions and not hiding them behind a mask, those who'd lost people felt their mask break, and started to cry. Most muttered about the Ministry sitting on their asses, they could stop Hitler and the Nazi's whenever they wanted, but refused to interfere with Muggle business, and others blamed the Ministry for not trying hard enough to stop Grindewald; with Grindewald, they were mostly upset that he was killing Purebloods instead of just Muggles.
When the Owl from the Ministry finally came, Harry took it to Headmaster Dippet. “So the Ministry believes it is in both you and Mr. Riddle’s best interest to live in the school until graduation....” Dippet placed the letter on his desk. “Well, I suppose if you both help out around the castle, it could be like a summer job.” the old man sighed. “This is a special case, I don't normally accept such request, even by the Ministry. But Tom has asked since his first year to live in the castle and he is a good student, you both can work on your homework together as well...I'm sure that even though you went to a Wizard Orphanage, thinking you were a Squib you probably don't know much of our history besides what you were taught over the last year. You can go inform Riddle about the news.”
Harry quickly left the room, almost running into Dumbledore. “Ah, sorry sir!” he ran down the hall, Dumbledore frowning slightly and entering Dippet's office. Harry knocked on Tom's bedroom door, it was early morning and the other boy had been asleep. Tom was only wearing a pair of boxers and a open button up pajama top, Harry felt his cheeks start to burn, but shook his head. “We were given permission to live at the school all year round till we graduate.” he said it very quickly.
Tom's eyes moved around sleepily, he squinted, then the words finally registered and his eyes widened. “Really? I don't have to go back to that hell?” he cheered and pulled Harry into a large hug. “Thank you so much Potter! You are now officially one of my favorite people!” Harry bit his bottom lip and he was released. “Seriously, this has to be the best day of my life to get away from those bastards.”
Harry was having a complete mental freak out, he stood there silently, but in his head he was screaming. 'Who the hell is this! Is this really Voldemort!' he took a couple breaths. “Y-ea...you are one of my favorite people here too.” his and Tom's eyes went wide when Harry was shoved forward and his lips touched Tom's.
“Hahaha! Potter and Riddle sitting in a tree!” Peeves yelled. “K-I-S-S-I-N-G!” he quickly shut up as he was chased out of Slytherin by the Bloody Baron for trespassing and harassing his house's students.
Luckily, Slytherin's were mostly all heavy sleepers or didn't care to go investigate. Harry and Tom, however, were frozen, both of them had been brought up primarily by Muggles, which had told them homosexuality was wrong; it was worse for Tom because open homosexuality was illegal in the Muggle world at that time period and many Muggles had been thrown into jail for being gay. Neither was pulling away though, which, once Tom snapped out of his initial shock, he pulled Harry into his room.
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