AN: Here is my first attempt at a one shot with slash in it. I wanted to see what it would be like with this pairing and I hope people like it. Please read and review thanks love Angel x
"That Umbridge is mad completely. What does she want us in the hall for now? I bet you anything its more rules!" said Ron in fury as Harry hid his hurting hand where the lines I must not tell lies were just beginning to fade. They went down to the Great Hall where everyone sat at their tables waiting for her to address them.
Good evening everyone. We at the Ministry feel that with all these lies being spread by Harry Potter and the like that depression is bound to set in if we let it which won't be happening any time soon. In four weeks' time we are holding a ball which everyone must attend with a partner. If you haven't got a partner you can still come but it might make dancing. This ball is a celebration of the fact that Voldemort is not back in any way shape or form. Enjoy it. You will now have the rest of classes off tomorrow and the weekend so you may go shopping for your gowns in Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley. This is a rare opportunity you are being given so don't blow it or you'll never be allowed to Hogsmeade ever again! She snapped as everyone gasped. Harry had taken just about all he could of Umbridge and thought of a revenge plan in his head smirking. He looked at Ron in shock to see that he looked very depressed indeed.
"Ron are you ok?" he asked his friend worried for him.
"I'll talk to you later on Harry in um private ok?" he asked which Harry said was fine. Excusing himself to use the loo he headed into the bathroom and called Dobby to him.
"Harry Potter calls his Dobby sir. This is the greatest honour of my life! How can I help you" he asked Harry bouncing up and down on both legs.
"Dobby I need to know would you still be willing to help protect me. It's just someone has hurt me and I want justice!" he said as Dobby gasped aloud.
"Harry Potter sir Dobby will help you always!" he said as Harry smiled at him.
"I need you to do two things for me. Number one, please make yourself invisible and find any and all blood quills in Madame Umbridges' office and drop them off at the ministry to be investigated for blood and DNA which are on them. Secondly I need you to heal my hand and other injuries you may have!" he said as Dobby gasped again at his hand tears falling out of his eyes.
He called out in gobbledegook as Fawkes came to his side. He seemed to be able to communicate with the animal a thing which all house elves can do but do not express unless asked.
"Harry Potter sir I need to heal your scar too but Fawkesie says I have to cut it open with magic so he can cry into it for you. He will heal you!" he said as he did so without warning as Harry called out in shock. His forehead was sliced open and the skin surrounding his scar pulled back as Fawkes cried into for five minutes until the bird was exhausted and some wailing Black stuff came out of it and then it resealed once more. Elsewhere in the castle and around England items were expelling black wailing stuff as the love and healing nature of Fawkes tears contained so much love it was able to overwhelm totally all of the objects whilst leaving them intact. Voldemort himself hadn't even noticed his snake wasn't with him right now assuming he was out hunting. The snake who really had been hunting was now minus the horcrux in her body but still very much alive. Harry felt very sick indeed now. He needed a pepper up potion which dobby didn't have but knew he'd be fine after that.
He watched as Dobby conjured a sack full of blood quills and wrote a note in magically altered writing.
To whom it may concern,
Delores Jane Umbridge has been using these to punish the students in her class and I want them tested for DNA at once. It will prove I am telling the truth. It doesn't matter who I am because I won't stand for this. See to it that this is investigated at once or there will be severe consequences for all involved!
He attached them to the sack as an idea popped into his head. "Dobby can you change my appearance and voice for a while I need you to take me to Diagon Alley as I have a purchase to make!" he said as Dobby did so. They arrived and he went into the writing supplies shop there.
"I have need of classroom supplies and so I will require all of your red ink self- inking quills in this sack!" he said as the shop owner looked at him in suspicion but then glee.
"Here you go sir. We only had enough to fill the sack and no more than that. It will be two hundred galleons sir!" he said as Harry handed over the money smiling. Umbridges quills were replaced at once without her knowledge. He was still feeling rough when he returned so went to Madam Pomfrey about it. His scar was now very feint and his vision was quite blurry. Fawkes had intentionally focused her magical tears on all of the dark items so had only healed his scar and hand nothing else. He stumbled into the hospital wing knocking into the door as his vision seemed to go black and fell down. Madame Pomfrey rushed from her office to see what the matter exclaiming when she saw Harry on the floor. She levitated him onto the nearest be and revived him slowly.
"Mr Potter you're in the hospital wing please can you tell me what's wrong with you?" she asked as he exclaimed in shock.
"I have an awful pain in my tummy and I can't see. I'm telling you it's all blurry and I don't understand what's wrong but it's making me dizzy!" he said as she looked him over.
"I'll give you a pepper up for the stomach pains and I'll need to remove your glasses to check your eyes out!" she said doing so as he shrieked giving her a fright.
"I can see fine without them ma'am. I don't know why but I can!" he said as she gasped. He was handed his glasses in a magical protective case and fed a pepper up before she determined he was ok to return to his dorm. He came back and saw Ron who looked at him confusion.
"Harry mate where are your glasses?" he asked as Hermione who'd been in there getting her book back from Ron looked up in shock.
"I don't know what happened but I collapsed in the hospital wing as I'd gone there with an extreme upset tummy and when I woke up she took of my glasses as I could no longer see clearly with them. When she removed them I could now see without them. I don't know why but I could!" he said as she regarded him suspiciously before exhaling loudly, ordering him to study and wishing them both good night.
"So Ron are you going to tell me what's the matter!" he asked as Ron blushed.
"Stupid question I know but do you ever feel like you can't be who people want or expect you to be?" he asked as Harry looked thoughtful.
"I feel like that a lot yes. Why do you feel like that?" he asked sipping on his pumpkin juice he kept by his bed and handing Ron a chocolate wand who graciously accepted the offer.
"About this ball, I can't ask a girl to go with me!" he said sounding desperate altogether.
"Oh Ron don't be silly. I'm sure you'll be fine. I mean it's not the yule ball and we have time to find and ask people. You could even ask Hermione if you wanted to!" he said as Ron exhaled loudly looking more depressed if that were even possible.
"Harry you don't understand me. I could ask a girl no problem but I can't go with a girl because well…I'm gay! There I said it. Go on you're going to laugh at me and stop being my friend aren't you! It's just that everyone expects me to be with a girl and I can't do that. I've always felt different but I thought it was inadequateness which comes with being from a large family and not always noticed but it isn't. It's something I've recently come to know about myself and I can no longer hide it anymore" he said as tears fell from his eyes shocking Harry.
"Ok but Ron seriously you need to stop always fearing the worst because it's not going to do you any good. I have no intention whatsoever of leaving you as you so nicely put it. I thought in all my years of friendship with you you'd have noticed that I have never had a girlfriend. I'm gay as well. I just don't broadcast it to everyone because it's my own personal business what I choose to do and not anyone else'. I'll be damned if I'm going to get judged for it by anyone and especially not by you. For god's sake I really can't do this! Have you any idea what can of worms you've just opened. I….I….. OH FOR FUCKS SAKE! I LOVE YOU RON!" Harry said storming out of the room and into the bathroom to take a bath. He was sick of people assuming he felt nothing or would abandon them at the slightest change in their lives. Ron was sat on the bed in the biggest state of shock he'd ever been in. Had he been so self-consumed with worry that he'd not even noticed how different his friend was? He wasn't in anyway camp much like Ron who really didn't display any camp-ness at all. Ron had loved Harry for many years now but bottled up those feelings terrified of what Harry himself and or society and his family would say to him about it.
Harry emerged from the bathroom much calmer but with red eyes like he'd been crying. Why was it he always felt so vulnerable all the time. I guess getting no love whatsoever from his so called relatives could leave even the strongest of people highly insecure. I mean he didn't have their love or anyone's really. Also what was now on his mind was the fact that he felt so fractured and hurt that he wasn't even sure he knew how to love. Could he give Ron or any man the kind of love life they deserved. He couldn't be romantic, was emotionally constipated and had no true example of love to go on. His parents had loved him but he couldn't remember them. It didn't mean he didn't think of them every single day because he did but it wasn't the same. When someone has been so used and abused by everyone like Harry had it was no wonder he not only felt he couldn't give Ron the love he deserved but didn't deserve the love in return. What had he done to even earn it? "Ron I'm so…."
"Harry listen I love you too. I have done for many years I've just been so terrified of what you or my parents or society would say about it so I told no one!" he said in a rush as Harry watched him in awe his mouth hanging open in shock.
"You know what Ron fuck everyone. I'm no longer going to be pushed around by Voldemort, Vernon or Dumbledore. I'm not going back there either. I have enough money to buy and ward my own home which I will be doing make no mistake! I just hope I can love you the right way as I've had no true experience of love and so I may not be good at giving it. Oh Ron I'm so sorry and you deserve so much better then me" he said crying his eyes out the emotion literally pouring from his soul as Ron smiled slightly swiping the tears out of his own eyes.
"You know Harry this is all knew to me too and don't worry as I'll never leave you. I don't know how to love a man either but maybe we can go slow and learn together. I'll always be here for you. I'm so sorry you've been so abused your whole life. This sucks and I promise you now that I will protect you as well as I can no matter what and no matter what that may mean" he said looking sincerely at Harry and truly seeing him for the first time in his life. It felt like an emotional wall was crumbling between them with something highly frightening and exciting at the other side of it. Going over to his bed and sitting beside him, hugging him close while checking no one else was in the room Ron leaned capturing Harry's lips in a heated kiss and breaking apart blushing. They were both still crying emotional tears when they'd pulled apart too shocked about the warm feelings the kiss had given them to say anything else. He'd never felt so happy nor had Harry to be honest. One thing was for sure his life would be very different from now on and he'd see to it. He knew with Ron at his side things were bound to stay strong as only they could. He now knew that no matter what happened in the future his best friend would always be at his side and knowing this meant that facing tomorrow was a hell of a lot better then it had been yesterday.