Warning: Contains swearing, sexual content and Harry/Draco Slash later on in the story. It's just friendship to begin with. If you don't like pleaseee don't read! Thanks :D All Harry Potter characters belong to J.K but the plot is mine! This is written for fun and not for profit.

New beginnings:

Chapter one: What happened first?

It was early morning and freezing cold. People were just starting to wake up and collect their newspapers from outside the front door. A woman rubbed her eyes sleepily, trying to balance a cup of coffee, a small child and the paper in her hands, when she started to look around trying to locate a persistent and annoying scraping sound. She jumped a little when she saw a small, scrawny, raven haired boy clearing leaves off the driveway opposite her house. She gasped loudly, and the young boy looked up, his little face was obstructed by a large pair of broken glasses, but he quickly hid his face in his unruly mop of messy black hair.

She shook her head sadly and hurried back inside.

'ROBERT!' she called as she shut the front door.

'THOSE HORRIBLE PEOPLE HAVE GOT THAT LITTLE BOY OUT IN THE FREEZING COLD AGAIN!'

She had seen the same sight since the weekend, every day without fail, she was beginning to feel angry as it was obvious the young lad wasn't being cared for. The man named Robert was running down the stairs trying to put his trousers on, as well as attempting to tie his tie and brush his hair. He looked at his wife and frowned.

'There's something not right about that whole family, if it carries on for much longer i'll contact the police or something, poor chap.'

He grabbed his travel cup of coffee and kissed his wife and daughter goodbye as he rushed out the front door. He noticed he'd forgotten his coat but was running too late for work to head back. His wife was right, the young boy was outside , and he looked frozen to the core, he felt guilty, so ignoring the thoughts of his screaming boss ran back inside, and grabbed his coat and a fleece jacket. He left no explanation for his wife but for the second time left his home. He walked over the road toward the boy and held his arm out for the child to take the jacket from him.

He made no movement to reach out for the coat so Robert placed it on the pavement and started to walk away, he turned round to tell the young boy to keep it and already the boy had wrapped it around himself. After throwing Robert a grateful smile, he got back to work with the leaves.