Fallen Grace

Chapter 4

The next morning Harry woke up early and quickly got dressed while the other boys lay dormant. Looking at the clock and seeing that there was another hour and half before breakfast. Shrugging he took out his set of knives to polish and sharpen them. He was onto the fifth one when Draco and Theo got up. They looked around the room getting adjusted before their eyes widened at the eleven year old sitting on his bed surrounded by knives, guns and small bags given to him by Crowley.

"Don't worry these aren't to kill you with" he snickered without looking up causing the two boys to gulp before getting ready.

"Why have you got those knives?" Draco asked looking at the raven haired boy curiously.

"Dad's a hunter. He says I quote 'That hocus pocus shit isn't going to help you when you lose that twig'" he said impersonating Dean before smiling slightly when thinking of his dad before going back to his work.

"Oh. That's actually quite right" Draco said with a grimace before laughing and telling him they need to go. Harry nodded before shoving a knife into each of his socks, the guns into the two holsters on his hips, the hex bags attached to the holster and the rest of the knives attached to the inside of his robe.

"Let's go" he smiled before leading the way out with the three boys trailing after him, though Rufus was still trying to put his sock on and was currently hopping down the corridor getting his shoes on. Though he was completely composed as they made their way to the Great Hall.

They sat at the Slytherin table and waited for their schedules to be handed out. He looked through it quickly before sneaking a look at Draco and Theo's timetables. He turned to his right as he heard a groan and looked at the boy named Blaise Zabini groan before slamming the paper on the table and grumbling about gryffindorks.

"What? Have first period with gryffindorks on a Monday Zabini?" He chuckled as the boy in question nodded his head and groaned as if hearing it out loud made it so much more real.

"Dunno what your laughing about Winchester. Your in the same lesson" he smirked as Harry looked at the timetable in his hands causing the others around him to laugh at his grimace. They soon finished breakfast and made their way to their herbology lesson. They arrived at the greenhouse with a couple of minutes to spare. They stood outside taking the mick out of Theo who had tripped over a root and fallen head first into the mud when a redhead came up to them. Ron stood before coughing to catch they're attention. Harry turned and raised an eyebrow at the boy.

"You shouldn't be hanging around with those snakes! Your the boy-who-lived!" He exclaimed loudly causing a scene.

"I'm sorry but after the train ride, how did it go Draco like 'Apparently Harry Potter's on the train. Can you believe it! We'll probably be best mates!'. Please at least try subtlety" he sneered after he'd made an impression of Ron causing the other Slytherins to laugh as the redhead flushed.

"Please Harry, he probably never heard of the word, doubt its in his vocabulary" Draco added causing the laughter to increase as the redhead stormed away.

The rest of the day passed without incident and soon enough the boys were in bed.

The next day the first years made their way to breakfast when the newspaper landed in front of them. Curious Harry picked it up to read the front page missing the twinkling eyes trained on him as he was absorbed into the reading. GRINGOTT BREAK IN-LATEST. Curiously he read the article and realised the vault was the one vault Hagrid went to. Pensive, he put the paper down before making his way to potions with Draco, Rufus, Crabbe and Goyle, grabbing a slice of toast on the way out.

They made it into class and sat in the back rows unsurprised as Granger sat at the front eagerly awaiting the lesson to start. There was a door opening before a greasy haired head of house walked to the front with his cloak billowing around his ankles.