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Draco was somewhat less than surprised to receive the warning to watch out for Dumbledore from his mother. It was a warning that he and the other Slytherins received on an almost daily basis from their parents, older students and their own common sense. The man hated them all and was only able to hide it from the people too stupid to look a little closer. Each school year the favoritism toward Gryffindor and the unfair treatment of Slytherin got just a little bit worse. It was already to the point where no member of Slytherin, even the seventh years, could wander the hallways by themselves. All the new warning meant to him was that he would have to make sure to stick with the higher years rather than just his own and he would have to shelve his normal playing with the mudblood and her flaming idiot.

(L)

"I had the most unusual dream that Sirius found me and told me that I wasn't Lily's son but his and Dad's." Harry felt like he had been hit by a two by four before being run over by a truck.

"Unfortunately, that is the truth." Severus was sitting in the chair beside Harry's bed and looking more than a bit put out. "My Lord had me test your paternity while you were unconscious, and it came back with the mutt and Potter as your blood parents with Lily as your magical parent. The Dark Lord has been generous with the two mutts and has put them up in a room halfway down the hall, but they are both resting from his interrogation." Severus sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Draco is the only person with valid Black blood that Dumbledore has access to and there are no blood Potters left. Narcissa already warned Draco so we should at least have some time before Dumbledore figures out a way to find you."

"Is there anything that we could do to make it to where he couldn't find me at all?" Harry really did not like the idea of being dragged back to Hogwarts, nor did he like the idea of leading Dumbledore directly to the Dark Lord. Of course, he firmly believed that Tom was more than capable of taking on Dumbledore by himself, but one could never be sure that the old man didn't have some sort of plan in action.

"Ancient blood magic is made to be unavoidable and was the primary reason that it was banned publicly by the Ministry. The only way to block blood magic is to fundamentally change the target's blood ancestry. Even though the potion changed our species, it did not change our genetic ancestry. The Headmaster cannot find me as I do not have any living relatives." Severus stood and stretched with a very embarrassed Harry turning away to avoid staring at the strip of skin that showed with the move. "The Dark Lord is currently having several Death Eaters look into possible ways to either keep the man from trying the spell again or removing the man entirely."

Harry hummed and thought about the situation from more than just one angle. "Dumbledore is the leader of the Light. Most people think that the sun shines out of his wrinkly arse. If he ends up dying at the hands of one of the Death Eaters or Tom's hands they will rally behind his death and continue to rebel. He has to be completely discredited before he can be taken care of. Surely there are enough skeletons in his closet to knock him off of his pedestal."

Severus nodded and thought about how best to unseat the old man. There were many questionable decisions made but very few of them that could be pinned to the slippery old man. It would require more thought. "I'll bring it to the Dark Lord's attention. You should probably take it easy for now, no doubt the mutt duo will be rousing shortly and will make a nuisance out of themselves."

(L)

"Wake up, Remy! My pup should be up by now and I want to see him!" Sirius jumped on the bed twice before flying off just in time to avoid the inevitable swing of claws as Remus was startled awake. The Dark Lord had been fairly light handed with their interrogation the previous night. There were only a couple minutes of actual torture, most of it was just threats of torture if the hurt Harry. As if they would hurt his pup! "I want to know what happened with my pup. How did he end up here and why is he a snake now?"

Remus groaned and levered himself out of the bed. He wished that he could blame Azkaban for Sirius's issues, but he was always just a little off. James wasn't all that well held together either, a little darker than one would expect and a bit more vicious. Both wizards had Black blood in them, so Remus tended to blame the Black Family Madness whenever either one of them had gotten on his nerves. "Of course, Siri. Just let me freshen up before you pull me around the home of the Dark Lord."

Remus was impressed that Sirius actually managed to wait until he had cast a cleaning charm on his clothes and the tooth brushing charm on his teeth before grabbing his hand and yanking him out of the room. Neither one of them had any trouble finding Harry, he still smelled the same with just a hint of snake over his normal smell. Thankfully the walk was short and there didn't seem to be any Death Eaters roaming this part of the Dark Lord's home.

Sirius opened the door and swept in without knocking to find his pup sitting in a very comfortable looking chair without the snake features of before. "Pup!" Sirius swept Harry into a bone crushing hug before releasing him into Remus's more gentle hold. "A little less snaky this time. I think some story telling is in order."

Harry resettled into his chair while Sirius and Remus shared the loveseat and slipped on the tea that one of Tom's house elves had brought him. "It was a fairly normal day. We had double potions and Ron was partnered with Parkinson and I was with Hermione. We were supposed to be making an Animagus Revealing potion, but Hermione was too busy glaring at Ron while he flirted to pay attention to the potion. When I tried to get her attention, she threw the whole snake heart into the potion without even cleaning it first. The potion exploded and got all over both Severus and me before he got the shield in place and it apparently transformed us both into our closest snake hybrid equivalent. That is what everyone has thought so far anyway."

Remus leaned forward and got what Sirius had penned as his 'professor' face. "So, both you and Severus were transformed into snake hybrids. Are you capable of switching forms at will or is there a potion or spell combination that you have to use to switch forms?"

Harry smiled and swirled his tea around in his cup. "The change is pretty easy now. I can go between full snake and back to human pretty quickly. Severus has to take a bit longer than I do, but that's because he's much bigger." Harry could see the curiosity in both of the men in front of him. "Somehow I ended up as a Lamia and Severus is a Naga. I stay pretty much the same size, but he gets bulkier when he transforms into his snake hybrid form."

"One would think that that old bat would have been able to come up with some way to reverse the process by now." Sirius may not like the man, but Snape knew his potions better than just about anyone else alive.

"He might have if Dumbledore hadn't have kept him sedated the whole time." Harry huffed and set the now empty cup down. "Apparently when Severus woke up he caught my scent and tried to get to where they were keeping me. Dumbledore realized that it was a Naga's mating drive that was causing it and put Severus under until right before we ended up here. Madam Pomphrey went to school with Tom and got a hold of him when it didn't seem like Dumbledore was going to do anything to help us. He gave her a portkey and here we are." Harry was hoping that they didn't catch the mating bit, but the look on both of their faces wasn't a good sign.

"Somehow I think that there's a lot that you aren't saying. What is this about mating drives? And why is the Dark Lord now housing you and not killing us where we stand?" Sirius was looking unusually serious about the whole thing and Harry was getting a very bad feeling about the whole conversation.