Hermione stared in curiosity and shock at the hickey on Harry's neck. She said,
"Harry?"
He turned to her and sighed,
"Yes?"
She pointed,
"What is that?"
Harry looked down at his neck, the bright red mark. He said offhandedly,
"Oh. That is a hickey."
She paused.
"Okaaay. And... who gave you that hickey?"
He sighed again,
"My boyfriend."
The hall stopped. Cups dropped to the ground. Cutlery ceased mid air. Eye brows were raised. Mouths hung open.
A single gruff voice broke through the quiet.
Ron.
"What?"
Harry sighed for the third time in as many minutes,
"My boyfriend. Draco Malfoy."
Suddenly the hall was back in action.
People continued to eat.
So it was a joke.
-o-
They sat in Charms, practising spells they already knew for the up and coming OWL exams. A single rose was delivered to Harry Potter's desk.
The class stopped.
Who could it have been from?
Hermione nudged him,
"Who sent it?"
Harry smiled sheepishly,
"Draco, he's such a sop."
She simply rolled his eyes. If he didn't want to tell her he could have just said.
-o-
One year later.
Pansy sat alone out by the edge of the Forbidden Forest. She was working on some blasting charms and didn't want to be disturbed.
A figure walked over to her.
She turned.
Draco.
He stopped right in front of her and asked,
"I was wondering, since you're a prefect, if it would be okay for Harry to stay in the dorms. As an exception, of course."
She simply chuckled and nodded.
-o-
The whole school realised that Potter and Malfoy must have struck up some kind of truce to prank the school.
Potter actually stayed at the dorms.
But they weren't going to be so easily fooled.
-o-
Harry walked casually over to the Slytherin table and took a seat. Facing opposite Draco.
The hall stopped in shock.
The Slytherins started to insult him in the hope that he would leave.
What was surprising was that he didn't. He just stared into Draco's eyes.
They took pranking seriously.
-o-
2 years later
Hermione untied the letter from an owl's leg.
Hmm.
Who could it be from.
Dear Hermione,
My fiancée and I are happy, yes happy stop scowling, to invite you to our wedding. It will be on the fifteenth of August, this year, at Hogwarts.
We thought it would be fitting.
Your long time friend,
Harry Potter.
She dropped the letter.
Fiancée?
-o-
About twenty Hogwarts students arrived at the school at the fifteenth of August. They crowded around, excited to who their peer was marrying.
They did not expect the prank to still be going.
The group scowled and left.
Harry and Draco stood alone at the alter. Why did there friends object so much? They hadn't cared in school. What was different?
-o-
Another year later an announcement in the paper made Ron spit out his scolding coffee.
THE BOY WHO LIVED TO MARRY
The famous Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter, has been found married with a child on the way. He said the use of fertility potions and powerful magic made it possible, something not seen done for many years. But the public fully supports its same sex saviour, seeing as how the support from his friends have been missing for years.
Read more on page 5.
Who was this secret husband?
-o-
After seven years of Harry and Draco being together Hermione was starting to have doubts that it was a prank.
So she called them.
To get the truth.
Plus she thought there baby was adorable.