Hadrian's True Potential

Chapter Ten

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does.

There were no more attacks by the time Christmas came around and Hadrian was looking forward to Christmas as he could relax, as most people went home for the holidays. Draco was also staying in the castle for the holidays, as his parents were going to France. Most days the duo would explore the castle in the mornings, trying to find secret passageways, and in the afternoon playing outside in the snow, they got really good at magically making snowballs. At the end of the day they would often go down to Severus' quarters and have hot chocolate and biscuits.
One day a few days before Christmas they had a snowball fight and after a while the were tired and lay down in the snow, Hadrian was lying down looking at the clouds when Draco dumped a huge pile of snow on his face. To Hadrian this meant war. Hadrian dug himself out and looked for Draco, he was standing behind a tree about ten feet away. Hadrian threw a snowball at the tree branches and the snow on the branches fell on Draco.
They both spent the next half hour building their own snow forts for protection, after they were done they started throwing snowballs at each other in rapid succession. Draco got distracted and Hadrian come up behind him and dumped snow down his back, to which Draco replied by throwing a snowball right in Hadrian's face. They both fell backwards and started laughing.
Once they were both thoroughly cold they went down to Severus' quarters, trailing snow behind them. Severus smiled at the sight of them, both of their cheeks were rosey and their coats were covered in snow, Hadrian even had the streaks of his hair pale blue to match. They got their winter gear off and sat in front of the fireplace to warm up, each with a cup of hot chocolate in hand.

On Christmas Eve the boys were really excited, they spent some of the day decorating cookies, singing carols, surprisingly they weren't actually bad, and Hadrian drew some pictures of winter scenes. Later Hadrian asked if Draco could sleepover, as he had no dorm mates to open presents with, Severus agreed and Hadrian transfigured a bed for Draco. Hadrian didn't realize he had done it wandless until Draco stared at him in shock.
"Did you just do wandless magic?" Draco asked, surprise evident in his voice.
"Yes, I will tell you more once we're ready for bed. Go and brush your teeth, I just need to ask my dad something." Replied Hadrian.
"Yeah, Okay."
Hadrian left the room to find his dad, he wanted to make sure it was okay if he told Draco about everything, and after he said it was okay, he went back to his room.
"Okay Hadrian, how did you do wordless wandless magic?" Asked Draco as Hadrian entered the room. Hadrian sat on his bed that was parallel to Draco's and began explaining.
"Well, I might as well tell you everything, so I will start from the beginning. In February my Aunt and Uncle kicked me out of the house for doing accidental magic, I had no idea how I did it as they never told me I was a wizard, but as my Aunt was my mum's sister she knew I was a wizard. I went to my neighbours house and she is apparently a squib and called Dumbledore, and he sent Dad to bring me back to my relative. When I told him they wouldn't feed me, he took me with him instead. I spent most of my time reading and drawing during the day while he was teaching. I managed to read all the textbooks on core subjects from first to seventh year, and when I got my wand all I had to do was practice, and I became rather good. I started to learn how to duel my dad and do wordless magic before I came to Hogwarts. Over my first year I worked on my studies and my dad and Professor McGonagall helped me with Latin, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy. When we went to Gringotts to fill out the adoption papers we did an inheirantence test, and I not only had 6 titles, but Dumbledore had put magical blocks on me, for example me metamorphmagus abilities, and Occlumency abilities. Also he blocked off 60% of my magical core, so I had to relearn how to control my magic, which was great. And then over the summer I worked on my wandless magic as I had nothing else to do. Then you came along and I had someone to hang out with and practice dueling with. So ya." Said Hadrian.
"Wow, wait, you have six titles, which ones?"
"Potter, obviously, Black, Peverell, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin."
"You actually are the heir of Slytherin? How are you the heir of so many titles?"
"Yes, technically. I haven't been petrifying people though. And the Potter, Gryffindor, and Peverell cam from my dad, James, and the Black title is because Sirius Black is my Godfather. And the Slytherin is from conquest."
"Dumbledore put magical blocks on you? But that illegal!"
"I know, he still did though, I guess he didn't want me to be so powerful, or at least that's what my dad said." Hadrian said with a shrug.
"That man is mental, I can't believe you can do wandless magic though, I doubt the teachers are that good."
"I don't believe they are, I am better than my dad at it, and Professor McGonagal, but there the only ones I am sure about."
"They're like the most powerful teachers!"
"I know, I can try to teach you wordless magic if you want, you might not get it, but we can always try."
"I look forward to it." Draco replied with a smile.
The boys spent a while talking before they were both tired enough to go to sleep.

The next morning Draco woke up first, he went over to Hadrian's bed and climbed on top of him to wake him up. Hadrian felt the weight of Draco sitting on him and woke up.
"Happy Christmas!" Draco said when he saw Hadrian's eyes open.
"Yeah, happy Christmas." Hadrian said with very little enthusiasm.
"Come on, get up. We have presents to open!" Draco exclaimed happily.
"I'm awake, but I can't get out of bed very well with you on top of me." Hadrian said as he grinned.
"Fine, let's go." Draco said as he rolled off of Hadrian.
The boys then went to the sitting room and Severus was already there drinking coffee. The boys both wished him a happy Christmas and started opening presents. Draco got many presents from his parents, and some from, Blaise, Pansy, Greg, Vincent, and Theodore. They got him an assortment of candy and clothes. Hermione and Ron got him a book and chocolate, respectively. Severus got him a book on potions and a broom repair kit. From Hadrian he received a box of chocolate frogs and a new wand hollister, with a snake engraved onto it. He gave Hadrian a brilliant smile and Hadrian smiled back.
Hadrian got some books on healing and warding, and sketching supplies from his dad, some chocolate from Ron, a book from Hermione, a box of chocolate frogs from Blaise, a red polo shirt from Pansy, with a note explaining that it will go getter with his school robes. At that Hadrian started laughing, and his dad and Draco gave him a questioning look, at which he gave the note to Draco. He smiled and explained it to Severus.
"She is right though, Ri. This will definitely go better than your purple shirts." said Draco.
"She may be right, but I like my purple shirts. They're my favourite colour." Replied Harry.
"Yes, but you don't always need to wear purple. Purple is a good colour to wear without your robes." Explained Severus.
"You can't speak dad, you only own black, with the exception of one navy blue shirt. I alternate between colours at least."
"You got me there."
"Open the rest of your presents Ri!" Draco cut in.
Hadrian opened his last few presents, and when he got to Draco's he took a very long time to open it, as he knew it would drive him crazy. When he finally opened it, he found a book on drawing techniques, a fictional muggle book, and a box of chocolates. Hadrian gave both Draco and his dad a hug and thanked them both.
They spent the rest of their holiday much like the beginning, Hadrian also worked on teaching Draco wordless magic, and by the end of the holidays he could do some basic charms wordlessly.