Harry had to resist the urge to flick one of his wands into his hands and blast Draco with a reducto to the face.
He barely managed to resist the nearly overwhelming urge, though only because Draco never pointed the wand at him. Harry kept reminding himself that he and Draco had never met on this world, even if Draco had basically been raised as a death eater from birth. He felt his magic welling up within him, as if ready to lash out at the slightest permission from him.
To Harry's surprise Draco turned to the door and cast several silencing, and notice me not spells at the door.
Harry watched with curiosity and decided he should speak up. "I'm sorry, is there something I can help you with, Mr….?" He kept his tone polite, and his instincts under control at Draco's behavior.
Harry didn't think he could get away with killing Draco immediately but was relatively certain that Draco was going to be the same exact bigoted git in this world as he was in the other world,
Draco finished his casting and turned back to look at Harry. "Cut the crap Potter. You have NO idea how glad I am to see you." Okay… maybe not. Harry blinked in stunned surprise at Draco.
After several moments of shock, Harry moved in a blur, snapping one of his wands into his hand as he stepped forward, his wand was between Draco's eyes and sparking threateningly before Draco could do anything more than blink.
"How do you know who I am?" Harry demanded, his voice nearly a growl. There was no way that Draco could have looked at him and seen a resemblance to James Potter and put the pieces together. Certainly not that quickly.
"Whoa whoa! I come in peace, Potter" Draco sputtered, holding up both his hands, making it clear he wasn't pointing his wand at Harry or defending himself at all. "Ten Seconds for you to tell me how you know that, before I obliviate you." Harry responded, his eyes narrowed to slits. Harry's mind was racing, wondering if he had misread the Flamels and if there were ways around the oaths that they may have exploited.
Draco narrowed his eyes, "I came through the Mirror just like you did."
"What?" Harry asked, his brow furrowing, but his wand didn't so much as twitch. He had not expected that answer.
"The Mirror he was using for the ritual. He went through it. So did you. So did I." Draco replied, his eyes crossed as he looked at the wand pointed between his eyes, still sparking.
"You're claiming that you ... Prove it." Harry said, not moving as his mind tried to process what Draco said. At the same time, his magic was surging with his anger, wanting to be let out and Harry had to fight back the urge to obliterate the person in front of him.
"Prove it… how?" Draco demanded.
"If you came through that world, you know what happened there." Harry responded, his eyes narrowing to slits at the delay in Draco's answer.
"What part? Your parents dying? You being the Boy-Who-Lived? Me spending years tormenting you and the rest of the Golden Trio? Your name coming out of the goblet of fire? The Ministry takeover?" What?" Draco began listing things that had happened as quickly as possible. Harry's eyes had begun to glow slightly and it was intimidating as hell.
Harry's eyes widened, realizing that Draco was telling the truth. "How did you come through the Mirror? I've not seen you for years as far as I recall Draco. I always assumed that your mother took you and you found yourselves the deepest hole possible to hide."
"Could you lower the wand, so we can talk?" Draco asked, still staring at the sparking wand between his eyes. He didn't even respond to the comment about himself or his mother.
"No." replied Harry flatly. Once more he had to restrain the urge to allow his magic to cut loose. Though the thought was incredibly tempting, given how he felt and how volatile his magic seemed at the moment, it was likely to not only obliterate Malfoy but a section of the train car as well.
Draco swallowed, seeing the flatness in Harry's eyes. "Okay… You're right. You haven't seen me in years because I was killed."
"How? You were still around after the fall of Hogwarts, and despite all the dead death eaters I'm pretty sure I'd remember killing you." Harry replied, not having moved from his stance, nearly his entire body vibrating with tension, but the wand between Draco's eyes didn't so much as quiver.
"I was killed by Voldemort, almost two years ago." Draco said, swallowing once.
Harry's eyes narrowed to slits once more. "Don't even think of telling me that you were trying to betray him. You were too good at kissing arse to even think of betraying him."
Draco winced a little but swallowed his angry retort at the bootlicking comment, and shook his head. "No. I… He was… upset that a trap he and… my father had set for you had failed. He took it out on me. He hit me with the killing curse."
"If he killed you two years ago, how did you go through the mirror?" Harry demanded.
"I died, but I stayed around as a ghost. I was determined to haunt Voldemort and my parents for what he did." Draco replied.
"You went through the Mirror as a ghost." Harry deadpanned.
Draco started to nod slightly but remembered the wand a hairsbreadth away from his forehead at the last moment and swallowed before quickly replying. "Yes."
Harry didn't say anything to that for several long moments, he remained silent and stood there. "You went through the Mirror and now you're here. Alive. Explain."
Draco swallowed again, he had never been at the wand point of Harry like this. He continued to speak quickly, answering Harry's demand. "Yes, I followed Voldemort through the Mirror pretty much the same time you crawled through. Entered this long bright tunnel. I heard screaming, I think it was Voldemort…. And the next thing I know, I'm waking up, in this body, in my home, with the memories of both me and… me… the Draco of this world."
That revelation was met with complete silence from Harry. He stood there, still as a statue, wand still pointed at Draco's head. His expression was completely blank save for the gleaming of his eyes.
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