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Sudden Changes (Re-write)	By : Darkalli Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 9884 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Title: Sudden Changes (re-write)
Author: Darkalli
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Warnings: Slash, violence, mentions of child abuse and language. Alcohol consumption.
Pairings: HP/SS, DM/BZ, LM/RL, FW/AJ, GW/OW

No one can make you inferior without your consent.

Chapter Four: Explanations

Harry had met up with the Malfoys at his second apparition point, he had then given them the directions to the where his family Manor was located. Within twenty minutes they had finally made it to the starting point of the wards, they were just able to see the Manor from where they were standing. Harry crossed over the wards first and then turned to watch as the two Malfoy men crossed over as well.

“The wards are very weak; they should not have let Draco or I through without verbal consent from you.” Lucius Malfoy informed the young wizard as he turned to look at the ward barrier line.

“Can you fix it?” Harry asked as he moved to stand next to the elder blonde.

“We will need to find the centre of the house, that is where the wards would have been centred when they were first set. It would be better if you did the warding as it is your family home and if I tried to add to them the wards would collapse completely.” Lucius informed him.

“I have no knowledge of wards; I wouldn’t even know where to start.” Harry informed them as they made their way up the path towards the house.

“I will instruct you on how to repair the wards, as head of the Malfoy family it is my job every year to strengthen the wards on my family Manor. Once I teach you the basics the rest will be easy to you, it is harder to start from scratch then it is to build on wards that are already present.”

The three wizards walked up the steps to the front door, the yard looked in very good condition which led Harry to believe that there was someone keeping the house in good repair. Well, at least the outside anyway. Taking a deep breath, Harry pulled on the handle and pushed the door inwards. He let the breath out with a stunned whistle when he saw the entry way of the house. It looked as though whoever was in charge had kept the inside of the house in very good condition as well. The floor was made from a bright white marble that had traces of blue throughout it, the walls were painted a light burgundy and there were table and chairs lining the left side of the room.

As they entered the main room, a house elf popped in. It was dressed in a red and gold coloured uniform with the Potter family crest on the pocket on the top left side and it made Harry wonder why the Malfoy house elves wore rags.

“Young Master Potter, it is good to be seeing you after so long, my name is Harper and I am the head House Elf at Potter Manor. How may I be serving you sir?”

“Hi, Harper. Well to start off with I need you to show me where the centre of the house is so I can strengthen the wards. There are some rather unscrupulous characters who would like nothing more than to find me right now and I would like the wards to keep everyone out who isn’t keyed in.” Harry informed the House Elf, he would wait to find out about the uniform later.

“Of course sir, please follow me.” The House Elf bowed to the three wizards before leading them into the cellar off of the kitchen.

“The is the centremost point of the house, Master Potter before you always came here to strengthen the wards for the house.”

“Thank you, Harper. Can you also inform the other House Elves of our arrival and have four rooms set up? Remus Lupin will be arriving later to spend the rest of the summer here; we’ll also need to find somewhere safe for him to transform during the full moon.”

“Young Master Lupin already has a room here, he spent many summers here during his school years. Your grandfather also had a room set up specifically for his use during the full moon, the wards on it will need to be re-enforced but other than that the room should still be in good condition.” They were informed by the Head Elf.

“As long as he takes the Wolfsbane Potion he won’t need to be locked up, it renders the dangerous beast into an ordinary, sleepy wolf. As long as Lupin takes the potion he’ll spend the night sleeping so there will be no need to lock him in a room like some kind of animal.” Lucius informed them, the sneer on his face showed what he thought of the idea of locking Remus up. Yet another thing for Harry to explore later.

Once the accommodations were sorted, Harper went to inform the other House Elves of their master’s return. While the Head Elf was seeing to the task set to him, Malfoy senior went about teaching Harry how to strengthen the house wards. Five minutes into the lesson Draco got bored and decided to go off and look around the house.

“Don’t go touching anything.” Were the last words he heard from his father as he ascended the stairs.

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While Harry strengthened the wards on the Manor, Draco wandered around the large house. It was roughly the same size as Malfoy Manor but unlike his childhood home Potter Manor was more open and light as opposed to the dark and dreary setting of Malfoy Manor.

The first set of stairs he came across he decided to climb, maybe he’d find something more interesting than a bunch of empty room. As he walked along the hallway at the top of the stairs he opened up each door he came upon, those that would open anyway. He came across a few bedrooms and bathrooms and it wasn’t till he got to the end of the hall and opened the first door he came to.

Upon entering the room Draco’s jaw nearly dropped to the floor. There were shelves upon shelves of books, the library was at least twice the size of the Malfoy one. All four of the walls were covered from floor to ceiling with built in bookshelves, the wall opposite to the door was half covered in picture windows that reached from the floor to half way up the wall and in front of the windows were, arranged around two low lying tables, were four very comfortable looking lounges.

Draco was in heaven; he was definitely going to be spending the rest of the summer in this room. He walked further in and picked a bookshelf at random and reached for the first book he saw, it turned out to be a book on Transfiguration; specifically, the Animagus Transformation. He walked over to one of the lounges and sat down to start reading.

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While Draco was keeping busy in the library, Harry and Lucius were both still in the kitchen cellar working on the wards. The wards weren’t too badly degraded so it wasn’t going to take too much time to fix. Harry had already strengthened the anti-apparition wards as well as the ones that prevented anyone who wasn’t keyed into the wards from flooing into Manor. He was waiting on doing the barrier wards until Remus turned up or he wouldn’t be able to get onto the property.

“Alright, the next one you need to strengthen is the muggle repelling ward. That’s the same one that is on most wizarding buildings to keep muggles from coming too close.”

“Ok, how do I find that one?” Harry asked as he started to concentrate on the magical core of the house that all the wards were tied to.

“It should be a light green colour; it will be tied in with the barrier ward.”

It took Harry five minutes to find and enforce the ward that Malfoy was talking about. The wards were rather easy to repair, Harry thought that the task would be a lot harder than it turned out to be. With only the barrier ward left to fix, Harry and the senior Malfoy left the cellar in search of Draco.

It took them twenty minutes of searching for the younger Malfoy before Harry just called for Harper and asked him if he knew of the blonde’s whereabouts. They found him still sitting on the same lounge with the same book he had picked up earlier, in the time he had been gone he had managed to read nearly half of the book.

Lucius was impressed by the vastness of the Potter library, then again his own one is only filled with books to do with the Dark Arts. His father never saw any use in books that weren’t to do with the Dark Arts, he had all the other useless books removed when Lucius was a young boy.

“Find anything interesting, Draco?” Harry asked as made his way over to the other teen.

“I just grabbed the first book I saw, this one is about the Animagus transformation.”

“I can’t believe the amount of books in here, the room doesn’t seem that big from the outside.” Harry said as he made his way over to one of the bookshelves to the left of the room.

“It’s an enlargement charm, most wizarding homes have them on certain rooms.” Lucius informed him as he too went and looked at the nearest shelf to him.

“Yes! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, the one’s I got from my family vault weren’t the ones I thought they were.” Harry exclaimed as he pulled a book off of the shelf. It read ‘The History of the Potter line: Volume One’.

“All pure blood’s keep the history of their family line, it’s sort of like their family tree only with much more detail. Every time a new member is added to the family the newest volume updates itself.” Lucius explained as he slowly walked along the right wall looking at the titles of the books.

Harry walked over to one of the lounges and, after taking his shoes off, curled up on it to start reading the book. He did, however, have the foresight to call for Harper and ask for drinks for everyone before asking when lunch would be ready. Once the answer was given, all three wizards became engrossed in their selected books.

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Three hours passed with the three wizards sitting in the library reading their respective books, they only stopped long enough to eat the lunch that the house elves had prepared for them before going back to their books.

They never would have noticed Remus’ arrival if one of the house elves hadn’t of escorted him into the library where they were all sitting. It took them a few minutes to realise that there was someone standing at the doorway, in the end Remus had to clear his throat rather loudly to get the attention of the other wizards in the room.

“Remus, you’re here.” Harry closed his book and put it on the table next to the lounge he was sitting on before he got up from his seat and headed over to give said wizard a hug.

“Took you long enough to notice I was here.” Remus said as he hugged Harry back.

“Sorry, I was kind of engrossed in the book I was reading. I found the books on my family history so I’ve been catching up.” Harry told him as he leads him over to the seating area.

“Harry, do you want to tell me why the Malfoy’s are here?” Remus asked as he spotted the father and son sitting near the window.

“Yea, that’s a long story. Why don’t you sit down and I’ll get Harper to bring us some drinks?” Harry hedged as he sat between the Malfoy’s and Remus.

“Harper is still alive? He was old when I was a teenager, last time I saw him was at your parents wedding.” Remus was shocked to know the Head Elf was still alive.

Harry called for Harper and asked him to bring some tea and biscuits for everyone, Harry thought that this conversation would need something stronger but he didn’t trust himself to not over indulge. He hadn’t even had a chance to sneak away for a smoke yet and he’d been dying for one all afternoon. Looked like he would have to make a bathroom break again.

Once Harper had returned with the tea tray, Harry started the explanation of why the Malfoy’s were at the Manor. Remus was shocked to find out that the Malfoy patriarch had been a spy for the Order of the Phoenix all along. Lucius was in his senior year at Hogwarts when Remus was only a first year so he never really knew anything about him, just what he’d learned in passing from other wizards. He did, however, notice that his inner beast seemed to come to attention in the elder blonde’s company. It was rather odd as he had never felt the beast stir in any other manner than being blood thirsty on the full moon.

Finding out the younger Malfoy had no desire to become a Death Eater was an even bigger shock. Seeing how he acted around and treated anyone who wasn’t a Pureblood, especially with what he called Hermione in their second year, made Remus wonder why he acted that way if he didn’t believe in their goals.

“What are you going to do when Voldemort finds out Draco has run away? He’s going to take it out on you, especially since you have been trying for the last month and a half to delay his initiation.” Remus asked the question that Harry had yet to ask.

“I do not know; it will be dealt with once it comes up. I will not be able to get out of receiving the Cruciatus curse but I have a supply of potions that Severus makes for me every week to counteract any spell cast upon me during those meetings.” Lucius was willing to endure anything to keep his son safe. He may not have wanted to marry Narcissa, nor does he feel anything but contempt for the woman, but the best thing to come out of the arranged marriage was his son.

“I don’t want you to get hurt because of me!” Draco exclaimed when his father so casually referred to suffering the Crucio because of him.

“You’re my son, Draco. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to keep you safe, even if it means suffering from that spell.” Lucius informed his son.

“I can find out if he suspects anything, whether it’s safe to go to the next meeting you’re called to or not.” Harry informed the elder wizard.

“Harry, I thought you had learned how to block him out of your mind last year when you resumed your Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape?” Remus asked.

“I did, but I also learned that if I concentrated enough that I could sneak into his mind without him knowing.”

“What are you on about, Potter?” Draco asked, looking at his year mate with a confused look.

“I’m connected to Voldemort through the scar on my head. Before I learnt to block him out, he was able to pull me into his mind and feed me false images. That’s how my godfather died in our fifth year. Voldemort had sent me a vision showing that he had kidnapped Sirius and was torturing him because he refused to get him the prophecy.” Harry explained.

“I didn’t know that the vision was false because I hadn’t yet mastered Occlumency. I first started getting the visions in fourth year during the Tri-wizard tournament, but they came more frequently during fifth year and I’ll admit I didn’t even try the exercises that Professor Snape told me to do every night before bed.”

“My stupidity cost the life of my godfather because I was too stubborn to trust Professor Snape. If I’d concentrated harder instead of slacking off the I would either never have gotten that vision or I would have been able to tell the difference between it being true or fake. Even though I had found out about the extent of Dumbledore’s manipulations last year I was determined to learn Occlumency so that he could never get into my head again.”

“Harry, I really wish you would stop blaming yourself for Sirius’ death. You had Umbridge and Dumbledore to contend with that year, from your past experiences with Severus it’s no wonder you didn’t trust him. I’m just glad you listened last year and mastered it, though I’m not happy about you purposefully sneaking into his mind to spy on him.” Remus admonished.

“I don’t do it all the time, I only do it when he has been quiet for too long. A quiet Voldemort does not bode well for anyone.” Was Harry’s reply as he looked at his honorary godfather with a sheepish look.

“If you feel comfortable enough to go into his mind the next time he calls a meeting then do it. I’m not called to all of the meetings but he will call one as soon as Narcissa tells him that Draco has left.”

“Alright, let me know when Narcissa finds out that Draco is gone and I’ll look into it. Now, over to you Remus, what happened at Hogwarts today?” Harry changed the topic because he saw how uncomfortable Draco was becoming with the conversation.

“Well, like we suspected, Dumbledore is still not impressed with your lack of cooperation. When the two Order members who were in charge of following you around Diagon Alley turned up to inform him that you had managed to give them the slip he was livid.”

“That man has never liked not being in control, the fact that you are rebelling against him is just going to make him madder and it’s only a matter of time before he gets either Severus or I to let slip about you no longer being at your relative’s house.” Lucius informed them.

“Hang on a minute, I received a letter from Dumbledore yesterday demanding that I return to my relatives because Voldemort had found out I was no longer there. He said that Professor Snape had told him of Voldemort’s knowledge and that he had yet to issue any orders.” Harry told them.

“Voldemort isn’t concentrating on you at the moment, he knows you have no training so he is concentrating on gathering more followers at the moment. He is recruiting the seventh year students whose parents are Death Eaters and he has sent several of them out to try and sway the Vampires.” Lucius informed them.

“He already gained most of the werewolf packs thanks to Greyback and he has nearly all the giants on his side. He tried getting the Goblins but all they care about is money, not the fickle affairs of wizards. He got the Dementors when he broke his loyal followers out of Azkaban.”

“Well that’s more information than I’ve been given by the Order. I was sent out last year to try and gain the trust of the werewolves but Greyback had already gotten to them and those who hadn’t sided with the dark refused to fight in a battle for wizards who treated them as nothing more than mindless beasts.” Remus added.

“I’m tired of information being kept from me, especially when it involves me. Looks like there will be some things that we’ll have to do before school starts up. Mr. Malfoy, will you be able to get Professor Snape to come here? I’m really hoping that he’ll help us out and not turn us down just because he doesn’t like me. The information we have the better.” Harry asked as he summoned a piece of parchment and his self-inking quill.

From the astonished looks he received from the other wizards over his little display of wandless magic, he was curious as to their reaction when they found out the extent of his ability to perform the rare art. Right now there were more important things to be worrying about, he’d leave the explanations till later when/if Professor Snape turned up.

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