4Early the next morning, Harry got out of bed, after having a shower and getting dressed, he headed out of the Griffindoortower and straight to Dumbledoor´s office. After saying the password and walking up the spiral staircase, Harry knocked on the door of Dumbledoor´s office, „come in", said a gruffly voice and Harry entered the room. „Morning headmaster, i´d like to talk to you about something", Harry said as he took a seat in front of the desk, „sure, what is it", Dumbledoor asked, „well it´s about Draco Malfoy", Harry said, „oh, did he do anything bad", the headmaster asked, „nono, nothing like that, it´s... well i read his mind, trying to find something that could get him into trouble, but i found out something else", Harry said, „okay what did you find out", Dumbledoor asked, „well, i found out that he is very upset, he hates being a Slitherin, and he told me that he´d love to be a Griffindoor, i want him to be happy, so please make him a Griffindoor", Harry said, „what about your friends and the others, they won´t be happy about it", Dumbledoor said, „let me handle that, so will you help us", Harry asked, „it´s not going to be easy, only the hat can put people in houses and since the hat stuck him into Slitherin there is nothing i can do", Dumbledoor said, „yes there is", said a voice from the shelves and both of them turned, it was the sorting hat, „i stuck him into the wrong house", it said, „what do you mean", asked the headmaster, „well, his parents threatened me, they said if i wouldn´t put their son into Slitherin they would not only destroy me, they´d also never want to see their son again, he would be dead for them, so for the boys sake i stuck him into the wrong house, i don´t want the boy living on the street, or worse", the hat ended, Dumbledoor and Harry looked at each other and suddenly both smiled, „headmaster, the hat can tell the houses tonight at dinner that Draco is a Griffindoor, and Draco doesn´t have to live on the street, he can live with me, i have enough money and besides that i have a huge house, and i´d be happy to have company the house is any way to big for me, so what do you think", Harry said, „let´s do it", Dumbledoor said, Harry smiled at the headmaster, he got up and opened the door, then he turned around, „sir, one last favor, could you please excuse me from the classes, and could you free me and Draco from the afternoon classes", Harry asked, Dumbledoor nodded, „i shall call the teachers and excuse you and Draco for the rest of the day, i´ll call Snape to let Draco out of class", he said, „okay, tell Snape to tell Draco to meet me in „you-know-where", Draco will know what i mean", Harry said, Dumbledoor knew when Harry didn´t want to let him in on secrets, but he didn´t mind, he was only happy that Harry has secret places to go, so he nodded and with a smile Harry left the office, closing the door behind him. Harry left the office and headed to his secret chamber to meet Draco, „Draco, after today your life won´t be the same, it will be better", Harry said to himself with a smile on his face.
Draco got up and after washing and dressing himself he headed to the great hall to have breakfast. He sat down at the Slitherin table, 'i hope this will be the last time', he thought, then he looked over at the Griffindoor table, he saw Harry´s empty chair and on the faces of the friends he saw bewildered looks, 'it seems Harry snug out very early, i wonder where he is', Draco thought, after breakfast Draco and the other students went to their classes. Draco was sitting in potions class, he kept looking at his watch, 'still a long time to go', he thought, „Mr. Malfoy", a grumpy voice said, Draco looked up to see a bad tempered Snape, „yes sir", he asked, „the headmaster just called me", Snape said, „oh okay", Draco said, 'I hope i´m not in trouble, the others think it though, look how dirty they are grinning', he thought as he looked around, „he told me to tell you that you are free of all upcoming classes including this one", Snape said, „did he say any reason", Draco asked, „yes, he said that you are supposed to meet Potter in „you-know-where"", Snape said, „okay", Draco said, so he packed his bag and walked to the door, all other students watched him, Harry´s friends looked questioningly at each other, Draco opened the door, then he turned around, „thanks sir", he said, „don´t thank me, thank Potter", Snape said, „i will," Draco said, „good, now get lost", Snape said, Draco nodded and closed the door behind him, em„what the hell is going on, why does Harry want to meet the Ferret",/em Ron asked Hermione, Hermione just shrugged, em„i have the feeling that we´ll find out soon enough what´s going on, now get on with your work".
As soon as Draco closed the door behind him he headed straight to Harry´s Chamber. When he arrived at Moaning Murtles bathroom he went to the sink, got out the note with the password and hissed, the sink slid up the hole to reveal the tunnel, 'damn, i sounded scary, but i loved it', Draco thought and jumped headfirst into the tunnel and the sink slid down the wall. Draco shot out the tunnel, made a somersault and landed on his feet, he memorized the tunnel that led to Harry´s chamber and he headed down it. He run down the tunnel and after an hour he burst out into the chamber, „Harry, are you there", Draco called, „yeah i´m up here, you can use the stairs, you´ll find them left in the corner, or i can call „Slither"", Harry called back, „i´ll use the stairs", Draco said, so he walked up the stairs, when he reached the top he saw Harry sitting on the couch playing Playstation, Harry looked up and smiled at Draco, „hey Draco, come have a seat", he said and put down the controller. Draco sat down next to Harry, „so what´s the news, am i a Griffindoor", Draco asked with a hopeful look on his face, „hahaha, straight to the point", Harry laughed, „you´ll know soon enough, i hope you can wait untill dinner", he said, „i´d like to know now", Draco said, „i know you do, but please trust me on this", Harry said, „ok", Draco said, Harry smiled, then he checked his watch, „it´s past lunchtime and we have six hours until we have to get to the dining room for dinner, do you want to have something to eat, i can make us a pizza and we could play some Mariocart", Harry suggested, „sure, but when will you start teaching me snakelanguage", Draco asked, „we´ll start tomorrow, what sort of pizza do you want", Harry asked, „i´ll like a Salami pizza", answered Draco, Harry nodded, he got up and walked into his kitchen, „you can put the game into the player, it´s in the drawer under the TV", Harry said, „okay", Draco said and got out the game, he put it in the player and took a second controller out of the drawer and plugged it in, then he went back to the couch and waited for Harry, „okay the pizza is in the oven let´s start the game", Harry said, so that´s what they did, during the game Harry teached Draco some words and sentences in Snake, after 15 minutes the pizza was done and they ate. When it was time to go Draco was already pretty good at „Snake", he could speak long sentences and Harry was proud of him, „great Draco, you´re a fast learner", Harry said and Draco smiled, Harry checked his watch, „we should get going", he said, „would you call Slither while i take the plates into the kitchen", Harry asked, „sure", Draco said and hissed, soon the huge snake´s head was in front of him, emi should have known, so you are Harry´s knew friend, /emthe snake asked, emum, yeah i hope i am his friend, /emDraco said, emyou shouldn´t worry, he is your friend, he knows if he can trust people or not, one more sign that he is your friend, he teached you my language, you are the only person who he teached in that language, in other words he trusts you with all of his soul, /emSlither said, emwow, i trust him too, i owe him a lot, /emDraco said, emoh wait until tonight, after dinner you might owe him your life, /emthe snake said and winked, „enough talk let´s get going", Harry said behind Draco making him jump, „geez Harry, you scared the hell out of me", Draco whined, „scaredy cat", Harry said and then they all laughed, they got onto Slither who brought them to the tunnel and soon Harry and Draco where on their way to the great hall, 'i am so nervous, i wonder what´ll happen at supper', Draco thought.
"Draco, i need to talk to the headmaster, go to your table", Harry said as they entered the hall, Draco nodded and walked over to the Slitherin table, Harry stepped up to Dumbledoor, „sir, after the hat had said it´s stuff i would like to come up here and say something", Harry said, Dumbledoor nodded and Harry walked to his table. em„Where the hell have you been all day, why did you walk in with the ferret and most importantly: what the hell is going on", /emwhispered Ron, em„you´ll find out soon enough", /emwas all that Harry said, Ron opened his mouth but suddenly the hall got quite as the headmaster stood up. „Good evening to all, normally i say some boring stuff, but this is a special evening, there are a few important matters to settle, so let´s start", Dumbledoor said, a wizard carried a chair onto the stage and set it in the middle, then a other wizard came and he was carrying the sorting hat, there was a mutter among the students, Draco threw Harry a questioning look, but Harry just smiled and winked. The hat started to move, „dear students of Hogwarts, i have a message to tell all of you, i made a huge mistake, but it was the only way a certain boy would live a normal life, today i will take back that mistake. The boy who i mean is Draco Malfoy", the hat said, all heads turned to Draco who started feeling very uncomfortable with all of the eyes upon him, „stop staring at him and listen to what i have to say", the hat called out and all heads turned back towards the stage, the hat took a deep sigh and continued, „you all know that i stuck Draco into Slitherin, his parents threatened to destroy me, but the worst part was that they threatened to kick Draco out of the family and deny that they ever had a son, their words were this: „if you don´t stick our son in Slitherin, he´ll be dead for us, we wouldn´t want to see him again, we shall kill him", so i had no choice", the hat paused to let the words settle in, the hall roared in disbelieve, Draco looked towards Harry, 'is it true', he asked in his mind, knowing Harry would hear it and saw Harry nodding, tears started filling his eyes up, „SILENCE", the hat roared, the hall fell quite, „like i said, that was a huge mistake, his true house is GRIFFINDOOR", the hat shouted the last words and felt silent, then it got carried away, „WHAT", the hall roared, „yes it´s true Draco Malfoy you are sitting at the wrong table, so please go to the right table, there is already an empty chair for you", Dumbledoor said, Draco got up and walked over to the Griffindoor table with his head sunk, he sat on the chair, he felt a hand on his shoulder, he looked up and saw a smiling Harry, „hey Draco, don´t look down, everything will get better", he said, „how, i have no home and family", said a miserable Draco, „don´t worry, wait and see", Harry said, „now we shall hear a few words from Harry Potter", came Dumbledoor´s voice, Harry got up and walked onto the stage, „listen all of you, yes it is true, everything the hat had said is true, Draco is a Griffindoor, i expect that everyone of you, especially the people from my house, will treat him correctly", he said and paused, he looked around, the tables all nodded even the Slitherin table nodded, „good, now Draco, the hat said that your parents don´t want you as their son anymore and that they will kill you", Harry continued and Draco hung his head, „fuck them, those aren´t true parents, true parents would love their child, no matter what house he or she is in, you deserve better", Harry said, Draco´s head snapped up and the great hall clapped, Harry raised his hand and the hall silenced, „Draco, i own a mansion, my parents left it to me, it´s way to big for one person, you are welcome to live with me, i have enough money for both of us, i am a trillionaire, also thanks to my parents. This summer you´ll be coming home with me, i´m not doing this out of pity, no, i am doing this out of friendship, like i said: you deserve better, and you deserve to be happy, so what do you say", Harry finished his speech, there was a long pause, then suddenly there was a crash as Draco jumped up from his chair, which fell to the ground, Draco run up to Harry, tears running down his face, he run into Harry and both boys crashed to the ground, Harry slowly sat up rubbing his head, Draco had his arms around Harry´s waist and was sobbing into Harry´s shoulders, „autschi", Harry said, then he patted Draco´s back until he calmed down, „you-you-you mean it", Draco sniffed, „yes i mean it, from this day on you belong to my family", Harry said, „th-th-thanks Harry", Draco sniffled, the two boys got up from the floor, Harry stuck his hand out, „welcome to my family and world, brother", Harry said, Draco couldn´t believe it, he knocked Harry´s hand away and wrapped his arms around his waist and started to cry again, the great hall was so quite that you could hear a pin falling, then suddenly the hall erupted into applause, everyone, even the headmaster, teachers, yes even Snape and the Slitherins were clapping and standing and cheering, and everyone was smiling. Harry and Draco walked back to their chairs and sat down, „welcome Draco, to Griffindoor", the Griffindoors said, Draco kept on sobbing into Harry´s arms, „it´s okay Draco, let all of the pain out, make room for happiness", Harry said, „Harry, you are so kind, how come the change of mind", Hermonie asked, „yeah mate, how", Ron asked, „well, let´s just say, i opened my mind to see Draco´s true self, let´s leave it at that", Harry said with a smile, the others nodded in agreement and smiled, „okay, let´s settle back down and start eating, Draco you don´t need to worry about your stuff, all of your goods have already been moved to Griffindoor", Dumbledoor said, Draco looked up and nodded, then he dried his eyes, „Draco, you soaked me", Harry whined, „sorry", Draco said sheepishly and all of them laughed, soon they were tucking into the food, chatting and laughing together, as though Draco had been there since day one, after dinner Draco and the Griffindoors went to the tower, Draco had gotten the Griffindoor uniform after dinner from the headmaster, soon he was laying in bed, 'what a day, i have never been happier, thanks Harry, Slither was right: i owe you my life', Draco thought, he closed his eyes and with a happy smile on his face, for the first time, he fell asleep.