The Silver Snakes

Chapter 12 - More about Durmstrang and Meeting New People.

Harry and Draco had a decent nights sleep which came as a surprise to them, they thought that they would be missing home so much that they would not be able to sleep. It turned out that they slept very well, they had talked to their parents before they went to sleep letting them know that they had all arrived safely and that they would see them in a few weeks.

Harry and Draco had an elf from the school come and tell them that they had to go to the great hall to learn more about the school and get their new timetables, and Harry was excited.

Harry and Draco were the first ones that arrived at the hall, the headmaster was not even there yet, but there were others that were obviously students from the uniforms that they were wearing.

"Hey there, you must be the new students that are joining 5th year?" One of them asked.

"Yeah I'm Harry, this is my boyfriend Draco." Harry said. He was scared that people here would find them being together wrong as they were both males.

But to the surprise of the boys all of the students smiled at them. "Hello. My name is Viktor." The boy with the thin brown hair and blue eyes said. He then pointed to the boy next to him, who had blonde hair and blue eyes. "This is Gellert, he was named after Grindelwald." There was a girl with red hair and brown eyes. "This is Poliakoff. We are the most powerful in the school, we do not talk to the others around here." The man said.

"I know who you are, you are the old seeker for the Bulgarian team. Why are you quitting?" Harry said. He may be trying out for the team but he was surprised when he heard that the seeker was one of those quitting.

"I thought I would let someone else have a go. I have been playing for a long time, so I have been made captain of the team this year, this means that I am not playing just training the team. Why, are you wanting to try out for a spot?" Viktor asked.

"Yeah I'm a seeker and Draco is a chaser." Harry said.

"Well try-outs are the Monday after school starts. If you make it onto the team then you are going to be working very hard as you will be going to the World Cup later on." Viktor said.

"So are you light or dark?" Draco asked. His father and the Dark Lord wanted, as well as the other Death Eaters, wanted them to start asking those at the school about joining their side.

"What do you think? All of us are dark here and support Voldemort. You will find that all of the light students go to Hogwarts, and if they end up changing then they come here. So what are you two and your friends doing here?" Poliakoff asked.

"Well I was betrayed by my friends and the people that I trusted, so I went back home where I was then beaten to the inch of my life. I had managed to contact Voldemort through the bond that we share through my scar and I told him that I was dying. He came and got me with some of the Death Eaters, and we talked he ended up blood adopting me, we had a plan to go back as Harry Riddle and Imperio a Harry Potter and kill him in front of everyone. But they changed their minds and we came here, we go back with you lot for the tournament, they will recognise the others and I will be introduced as Harry Riddle, they will not know me till the final battle. We will be staying in the Slytherin room along with you." Harry explained.

Those that were listening were shocked, all students may not like one another at Durmstrang but they would never turn their backs on someone just for money or fame, and they would never allow someone to be beaten by their families. "Did the headmaster know about what this sad excuse of a wizard family was doing to you?" Viktor asked.

"Oh he did know about it, he encouraged it, I later found out that my family was paid with money from my own account to do it. When I heard it he said that he needed me weak so that I would be willing to be his puppet with no complaint. I had already begun doubting Dumbledore and the light, what I heard clenched my decision. And they were not wizarding, the ones who beat me were my muggle aunt and uncle, as well as their son, they hated magic and took it out on me. Dumbledore did nothing to help." Harry said, he got a bit upset, he may have learned to deal with it and that he would be getting revenge on all of them later, but it did still hurt to think of what his life was like before he joined the right side.