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005. Exposed
Something terrible had happened. Someone had found out that the relationship between the Potions Master and the Gryffindor wasn't strictly teacher/student. Harry had no idea how anybody had discovered their secret. He whispered Sev's password and didn't take off his Invisibility Claok until the portrait was already closed behind him and he was standing in the middle of the sitting room. The only people that were aware of who he was in a relationship with was Hermione and Ron, though Harry suspected that Dumbledore knew that his feelings towards his hated Potions Master had changed. But that was different; Dumbledore knew everything, especially in regards as to what went on in his school. The-Boy-Who-Lived was certain that none of them had let slip their indiscretion to the press. While Harry wished that he knew who the informant was so that he could 'talk' to them while no teachers were around, except maybe Sev, the fact that it had happened, and dealing with its fallout, was more pressing to Harry right now.
The Howlers had poured in and Dumbledore had asked the Ministry to intercept both Harry and Severus' mail and send the piles that were Howler-free. The Ministry acquiesced and also sorted through Dumbledore's mail. Albus was sent Howlers for allowing that to happen in his school; Harry received them saying that he was Imperiused, had joined Voldemort, or was being lured to the Dark side; and the Howlers poured in for Severus claiming that he was tainting the Savior and since he was a Death Eater he was just getting Harry to trust him and then he would drag him to the Dark Lord. Even when they were dropped off in the Great Hall, the men just ignored the content. After about a week, the student population had calmed and stopped making comments. There was one upside to their secret coming out; he and Severus no longer had to hide their relationship. Harry smiled to himself at that. Huh, he thought, maybe being exposed wasn't the end of the world.
