Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin

"So what's her deal?" Draco asked Walter as they started walking back into the castle.

"It's not really my secret to tell, Draco." Walter shrugged, "But I have never seen Arya this serious before. All I can tell you this moment is that we can only trust her, besides I don't know the full story about what is going on as well."

Draco stayed quiet seeing Walter didn't want to reveal things, though he had some suspicions he didn't exactly know what was going on, so he didn't continue bothering him. After a while, when they reached the boy's dormitory Draco finally broke the silence, "Do you at least know where is his room, at least?"

"You mean Ryans?" Walter asked, "I do know about it but didn't Arya tell us to not do anything for now?"

"Are you really expecting me to put all my trust and faith in someone who I haven't met in years?" Draco said frowning a little, "I don't even know if I can trust you here-- So are you going tell me where he lives or not? If not, I can figure things out on my own."

Walter took a deep breath as he sighed heavily, "He doesn't live here with rest of us, due to his condition Karkaroff granted him a separate room on the ground floor where he can live without bothering all of us."

Draco nodded and headed outside the dormitory with Walter following behind him crazily soon after.

"What are you doing here?"

"Don't you remember what Arya said to us?" Walter said breathing heavily, "You can't win this fight alone, though I can't do much, with me here at least you are not alone so at least according to her you wouldn't die."

"Your girlfriend might be really mad at us." Draco teased a little with a smile on his face.

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"What do you mean?"

Lucius was back in Romania in the same auction shop he was before with Draco. He was sitting in front of Merc, the owner of the place who was casually sitting with his leg crossed.

"As I said, Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Black is sure to be in deep trouble." Merc said, "The threat that I was talking about when we last met is sure to attack back."

"Get to the point!" Lucius said frowning, "What threat are you talking about?"

"The Veela Queen, of course." Merc said with a monotone voice, "Though I don't know why? I heard the Queen is looking for something precious that was stolen from her and now she wants it back."

"But what does any of that have to do with Draco...unless."

"My suspicions are as good as yours, Mr. Malfoy." Merc said taking a deep sigh, "For now, she is moving very slowly as she can't exactly take big steps without alerting the Ministry, but slowly but surely she is likely to attack."

"I have to warn Draco..." Lucius stood up from his seat wanting to leave as soon as possible.

"Mr. Malfoy, the queen has yet to leave Romania but I am not sure how long is she going to wait." Merc said, "Since you came here back again, I shall give you a good suggestion for your shopping last time. Mr. Black is likely to be safe in Durmstrang for now-"

"How did you..."

"It is my profession, of course." Merc said cutting off Lucius, "As I was saying, Mr. Black is safe back in Durmstrang but others around him aren't, so you should use this time trying to think of a way to stop her instead and protect those around him first."

"You mean..."

Merc just shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything else on the topic, "I have been thinking about moving my business to London as well, so next time when I have some information I can inform you if you like it."

"Send me an owl." Lucius said walking out of the room. As much as he thought about it, Merc was right, for now, Draco was safe in Durmstrang and as he remembered Draco didn't want to be bothered when he was there. Now that he thought about it, he now figured what Draco said about learning the Fidelius Charm was really important, especially considering Narcissa and the twins.

Lucius made up his mind to first transfer them to a safe place and go about dealing with this Veela Queen.

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*Knock* *Knock*

"Are you sure he is in there?"

"How would I know that?" Draco said as he tried knocking a couple of times again, but wondering why he was being so gentle towards an enemy he turned towards Walter and asked, "Open the door for me, will you?"

"Alohomara!" Walter chanted taking out his wand, "What can't' you do it on your own?"

"It's a long story." Draco said opening the door and walking in carefully. He looked around the place to find just an ordinary room. There were books around the place neatly kept, but none of them were exceptional in any way.

"Seems like he isn't here."

"Well, I guess I have to leave a message then." Draco seeing no one was around, he took out his wand and wrote on the wall with huge bold letters.

FOR SOMEONE WHO TALKS BIG YOU SURE LIKE TO HIDE A LOT. I KNOW THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE HEARD ABOUT ME BEING HERE, SO WHY HIDE. LET US SETTLE THINGS QUICK AND GET OVERWITH IT.

- YOUR OTHER HALF

"Your other half?" Walter said raising his eyebrows, "What does that even mean?"

"Well, no idea." Draco shrugged, "I just replied the same way he did but now that I think about it... it seems a bit weird."

"Do you think he's like into boys?" Walter said with different emotions written on his face, "I mean, is that why you're really here."

"Shut up!" Draco said checking the place carefully once again, "There isn't any magical enhancement anywhere..."

"So what do you think this guy's deal is?"

"I don't know." Draco said as he turned back around and started walking out, "I mean, I don't even know what this guy wants. The way he acts around this place is very unlikely to how I expected his personality to be when I first got his letter. I thought he would be some sort of tyrant wanting to be famous but the way he has presented himself to the people here is completely unexpected. It feels like the word 'Average' is just meant for him."

"Now that I've noticed it, it's really creepy." Walter said, "I mean, I have seen some weird and peculiar wizards and witches but even compared to then he seems just too out of place. So perfectly average."

"I have kept wondering why he is even here..." Draco mumbled, in fact to this day after he got the letter he couldn't figure out why Ryan was in Dumstrang in the first place when he could've easily gone to Hogwarts if he wanted to. Even if his parent's forced him to, considering the power of control he has shown it should be really easy to just force them to change their opinion or even kill them.

Draco had Snape look at Ryan's profile before but even then the signs of his parents were nowhere to be seen. It was like they never existed in the first place, first Draco suspected that Ryan had killed them but the theory didn't hold any proof to support it.

"Walter, if you had all the knowledge in the world but lacked the power to use it, what would you do?"