Harry Potter the Power Unknown By Priya Ashok

Chapter 14

Draco Malfoy was deep in thought as his mind kept going to the events of the last hour. Potter had called Zack, Severus and Kent had called Zack, Snape. Now, as far as he knew there was only one Snape and he had been killed by werewolves. He knew Snape had no children, so who was this? And why did they go under assumed names and different identities? It was all so confusing and for a moment he thought of going to his father, but immediately brushed it aside.

His father would bring it to the notice of Dumbledore and that would be a problem as, if it was really Snape and what had the other two boys been called? Merlin! Sirius Black and Remus, Black was the murderer of Potter's parents' and wasn't he dead and rotting in prison? And who the bloody hell was Remus?

All of them had shared Harry's, Merlin! When had Potter become Harry? Well all of them had shared Harry's mistrust of the Headmaster and if went to Dumbledore, they might even leave the school again. That would not do. In the two days they had been there they had turned the school on its head and definitely made it more interesting. And Williams and McGonagall had also known. What did they know was the question that was burning a hole in his head?

He missed classes for the rest of the day not bothered about the detentions he received or the points he lost. The others trooped in and Pansy seeing Draco ran to him asking him if he was all right and felt his head for a fever and any illness. The others too came up to him to find out why he had not been there tormenting the Griffindors.

"What is the matter Dray? Where were you and why did you not come to classes all of today?" Pansy sounded worried.

"You know you landed no less than three detentions and we lost fifty points, thanks to your absence and that put us in third place after the bloody Hufflepuffs." Zabini was irritated as he glared at Draco.

Nott was looking at Draco speculatively. It had to be big, big for him to miss classes and also not care a wee bit about the detentions and loss of points. "What is it that you have found out Draco? It has to be huge for you not to care about detention and the loss of points," and as Draco looked up sharply at Nott and relaxed a second later when he continued, grinning all the time, "Well, are you going to tell us or what?"

Draco grinned, "I will tell you in my own time. Okay, leave it for now." Shaking himself of the thought that had been running through him all day, he got up asking what had happened and he came to know Harry and Zack were still in the infirmary and would come to classes the next day.

That the Headmaster had used Black magic on Potter was the topic of the day and it only confirmed Draco's suspicions that there was no love lost between Harry and the Headmaster. He had to be careful while talking to Potter and the others.

At that point Kent walked in and went straight to Draco, "Hey! Are you quite all right?"

Draco nodded his head, "I am quite all right. I just felt like taking a day off, that's all. These people are making a big thing about it." And, calmly went on to ignore the indignant sputtering of his friends and their rants about loss of points and their sneers about his detentions.

He watched Kent quite closely and saw nothing untoward in his behavior that night. The next morning, Harry and Zack walked in, this time with Neville, Ron, Dean and Seamus, Hermione and Ginny.

Draco watched carefully as Harry scanned the first years and looked straight at Brent for a second and scanned the Hall carelessly before smiling at Kent, who was grinning like a fool.