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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
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story

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Harry was outside the castle, near the forbidden forest. He waited there for two hours every day for the past month and a half, waiting for the black owl from the ministry to deliver a letter to him. Normally he waited in the Great Hall for his owls, if the Minister had something important to tell Harry, he'd use a code word or mention something that never happened; they didn't want to risk someone trying to intercept the owls. But, it had been a month and a half since he sent out his last owl to the Minister and he had not received any response. Harry was starting to wonder if the Minister had even gotten his letter, he hadn't revealed anything in it, all he'd asked was for him and Tom to stay at Hogwarts during the summer.
It was snowing, Christmas was a week away, and they had till June to get a response from Diggory. Harry rubbed his arms, breath showing as he breathed out, and he turned to go back to the castle; he didn't know what Tom would do if he had to go back to the Muggle orphanage. Tom was going to the Chamber of Secrets, Harry knew this, he could hear the Basilisk moving around the school; no students had been attacked, yet. Harry didn't know what the Diary was, he didn't know about the Horcrux's to be able to insure that Tom wouldn't split his soul, nor did he know that him coming into Tom's life had distracted Tom from even asking Slughorn what a Horcrux was.
The snow crunching under his shoes, Harry walked back to the castle, cursing himself for really thinking the Minister would help him.; after all he saw how Fudge was as a Minister. As Harry walked, he felt as though someone was watching him, it started a month ago, and it had only made him paranoid about his surroundings. As he'd learned in his time period, Dumbledore didn't need an invisibility cloak, the man could turn invisible with a spell, and it also made Harry wonder how many other Wizards used that spell.
Harry had told Tom about being followed, he'd used a detecting spell in Tom's room, then a silencing spell to make sure they were alone. The result of telling Tom, was Tom going into a rage, going into deep paranoia, though Harry too was getting paranoid, and saying that he should just get rid of Dumbledore to be free of him. It took Harry hugging him to calm him down, he'd tried to shove Harry away, but the other boy wouldn't let go, and he gave up.
They decided it would be bad for Harry to keep coming and going from Tom's room all the time, limiting it to a few times a week and not for very long; had they completely stopped having Harry go into his room, it would have looked suspicious. Tom had also had to be more cautious about going to the Chamber of Secrets, he couldn't risk Dumbledore or someone seeing what he was doing.
Tom was a natural with Occlumency, he'd been able to keep people out of his mind for years, and after Harry told him about the odd feeling he'd get sometimes, he told him about Occlumency and Legilimency. Finding out about Legilimency sent a cold chill down Harry's back, placing everything together, and then another sickening thought came to him, what if those weren't the only spells that were used on him, what if he'd been Obiviated to forget certain things, he couldn’t exactly put it passed them now. But what confused him was why he use to zone out when the feeling would happen, what had changed to make him be able to use Occlumency naturally, was it because he actually had something he needed to hide? Or was something else going on?
Harry knew he was being used to fight Voldemort, all because he'd lived when his parents died, he knew a lot of pressure was being placed on his shoulders, and a lot of hope. His anger was building up inside him, Dumbledore had been treating him coldly in his time, ignoring him, and making Ron of all people Prefect over him. The only reason Dumbledore had even shown up around Harry was because of his hearing with the Ministry, he didn't want Harry to be expelled from Hogwarts.
There was no way for Harry to return to his time, get back to his friends, get back to Sirius and Remus, and there was no way for him to ask the older Dumbledore questions, the Dumbledore who actually knew him. However, Harry wasn't sure if he returned to his time if he would ever trust Dumbledore again, and he was very confused if his mind had been messed with, besides Dumbledore reading it. Was everything in his life a lie fabricated by the Order? Was him staying with the Dursley's really for his best interest? Or was it a tool to keep him under control? When Harry had those thoughts, his scar would hurt.
Now, with only a week before Christmas, it was Christmas break, and only a few students remained at Hogwarts. He wanted to be with Tom, he wanted to finally tell him about who he really was, and he hoped it would go well; being followed had ruined his chances to do so. Harry continued down the hall, the hair on the back of his neck sticking up, and he just wanted to spin around and punch whoever was following him. They could have used the Room of Requirement, if it wasn't for Dumbledore knowing about it, and if it wasn't Dumbledore, they would end up just revealing the room to the person.
Harry's fuse was burning up, he just wanted to enjoy Christmas with his boyfriend, and the pressure of being watched was straining their relationship. The only reason both boys had been trying to hide their relationship was because they didn't want to risk being told they couldn't be alone together in Tom's room, that they would be given detention or expelled if they were caught having a sexual relationship. Just as he was about to finally blow and tell off the person following him, they were gone, he could feel it, and he was alone in the hall.
It was time for supper now, he entered the Great Hall, and sat at the Slytherin table. There were a few other students at each table, but most had returned home to their families. When Tom walked in, he sat down beside Harry, letting out a big sigh. “Hey.” the dark eyed boy said low, glancing up at the Professors table.
“Hey.” Harry replied, moving his hand to Tom's.
Tom took Harry's hand, holding it tightly. “I really want to talk to you about something...when we are done eating, lets go to my room.” Harry nodded, squeezing Tom's hand lightly.
Releasing each others hands, they began to eat, talking with the few housemates that had decided to stay at school for the break. Tom had a dislike for the Muggleborn Slytherin students, well all Mudbloods, but Harry had taken his mind of many of the things he believed. Thanks to Harry, he'd seen that there was some value in some of the Mudblood students, Harry pointing out how some of them were quite talented. Tom still despised Muggles, finding them to be useless beings, and had discovered while talking to a few Muggleborn Slytherins, that they too disliked Muggles; with only a few saying that they loved their parents still.
As Tom talked with the Muggleborns, he was told all the horrible experiences they had to go through, being the only magical beings in their families. How many of them were sent to orphanages,convents,asylums,had priest come to their homes to preform exorcisms, were locked up inside their homes till their letters arrived and were still locked up away from their families friends once school was over, and others had even heard that parents had killed their children for being magical; those sent to the asylums and convents were eventually saved by the Ministry and sent to Muggle orphanages, but their lives were only slightly better after that.
It wasn't just Slytherin students either, after hearing them out, Tom decided to ask other Muggleborns about their home lives. He couldn't understand how the Ministry didn't save the children before they were given their Hogwarts letters, why they hadn't helped them when they were obviously in dangerous situations, and when he'd told Harry about it, Harry brought up that it sounded like how Muggles reacted in America, during the Salem Witch trials. Harry knew that in the past people had been much more intolerable to those who were different, they were after all locking up anyone for just small mental problems and their sexuality in asylums and prison, but hearing Tom tell him in detail about what students were going through, it made him sick to his stomach.
It was the 1940s, asylums were dirty, no one cared about the patients, and families forgot about those they had locked up. Both Harry and Tom had asked a young wizard from Hufflepuff about the asylum experience, the boy was thin and pale, and he flinched at having to recall his memories. He had been lucky to have been ten when he was sent to the asylum and didn't have to be there long before the Ministry came for him, he'd witnessed so much cruelty, patients walking around naked and bruised, the screams of patients being “treated”, and the aftermath of those given lobotomies. The Ministry didn't make it in time for many Wizards and Witches, the boy had heard them say “At least we were able to save this child.” as they walked him out of the asylum.
There were many reasons the Ministry had been late, sometimes they didn't care, sometimes they misplaced the paper work saying that a student that was sent a letter hadn't shown up to school. With the Muggle war going on, they had been busy and disorganized, more than they would have liked to have admitted. So many had died in different ways and in different places, with those who committed the crimes getting away with it because Wizard and Muggle affairs being separate, the Muggleborn's parents were Obliviated as if they never even had a magical child.
After they finished their meals, Tom and Harry left the Great Hall, then quickly made their way to Tom's room before they could be followed. Tom shut the door and sat on his bed, letting out a groan. “I need to tell you what I've been doing, so that you will be safe.”
“I already know Tom...I also need to tell you something important...” Harry sat beside him.
“You know? How would...” Tom frowned at Harry. “Have you been spying on me?”
“No, I..” Harry swallowed. “I haven't been completely honest about who I am and where I come from...or what I know about you. I really care about you Tom and I want to come clean about everything.”
TBC
AN: Last update of the year! Happy new year everyone and I will write up chapter 6 with more Harry x Tom relationship stuff in the new year. Hope this chapter wasn't bothersome, I wanted to give some insight as to whats going on with what both Harry and Tom are learning about things that will influence their actions for the rest of the story.
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