Crimson Ink

Sewn in Secrets

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Draco winced as he got a good look at that limp, but then smirked, "I have my work cut out for me just trying to keep you safe at Hogwarts. Glad it won't be just me watching your back." He said effectively bringing his brother figure out of his daze. After all Draco was right ... Harry wasn't alone ...

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"You're going to have to hide at Hogwarts, Vesta." Harry said as he watched the black fox roll onto her back playfully on the library floor as he tickled her belly. "Very cute, but seriously be careful."

Draco snorted from across the table without looking up from his own book, "You're the one who needs to be careful. She can hide herself better than you."

Harry chuckled, "You're right, but I'll worry any way ... actually where's that book on hiding your magic? It might come in handy." Harry said as he stood up and looked around the bookshelves.

"You're a Ravenclaw!" Draco announced teasingly as Harry disappeared behind the bookshelves.

"Someone as loyal as you should be careful. You may become a Hufflepuff!" Harry shot back enjoying Draco's yelp of horror at the thought. He went deeper into the library to find hat book he knew he saw once before, but didn't read because it was too advanced, at the time, he was only 9 and only just started using magic. "Ah ha! Found it!" Harry exclaimed and raised his hand to wandlessly levitate it down to his hand, but he stopped when he realized he would have to get used to his wands eventually. After all, it would be strange if he displayed wandless magic on the very first day. Peter gave him special holsters, a shoulder and calf holster, that would hide his wands from Knockturn Alley, but he knew he could not use those at Hogwarts so he pulled out the wand in his belt he got on his traumatic trip with Hagrid and aimed at the book he wanted. "What the ..." The book wobbled before shooting off the shelf. A quick wandless spell caught the book before it hit the floor. Harry grabbed the floating book and looked at the wand completely baffled as to why the spell backfired.

Draco frowned as he saw Harry looking at the wand in his hand as if it did something weird, "Something wrong?"

"Draco, have you ever heard of a wand screwing up a spell?" Harry asked as he absentmindedly set the book on the table and continued examining his wand.

"Only if the wand isn't right for that person. Why? What spell did you try?" Draco asked now quite curious at what was going wrong before they even got to school.

"I tried the levitation charm and it was seriously unstable. The same spell worked fine without a wand." Harry said feeling a bit concerned.

"That's odd ... wait that's the newest wand, right? The one you bought with the half giant?" Draco asked.

"Yeah, this is the first time I tried it." Harry said as he pointed the wand to try an even simpler spell. The spell was a basic light spell and, like the levitation spell, it backfired in a big way. The ball of light splintered and sent sparks everywhere.

"Oh shit!" Draco yelped and used his own book to slap some of the sparks out before they started a fire. Vesta hopped onto the table and used her own magic to remove the rest of the sparks. "Ok ... we need to talk to father and Tom about this now." He said and Harry simply gave him a look that said 'no shit' ...

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"It's not fair to Harry." Lucius murmured solemnly as he stared at the roaring fire with Tom, Severus and Peter.

Peter frowned, "I don't like it either, but what choice do we have. If he acts like his usual self Dumbledore will know something is wrong. After he was in contact with the squib up until we interfered so there's no way he'd expect a well adjusted child with the knowledge of what's been going on." He said logically.