The Deal

Thank you for your reviews to the last chapter. In case it wasn't clear all the survivors of the battle are in the castle still. No one really wants to face the outside world just yet, everyone has questions and the press want stories. Most just want to get their heads around what happened before leaving Hogwarts. The Malfoy's are staying there so they aren't persecuted by, well, everyone.

At the moment the houses don't really matter, people are just sleeping where there are rooms, including some of the classrooms. I hope that helps.

Also just a quick note it's only been one day since the battle ended. Now enough with my rambling, on with the story ...

Chapter Three

Later on the same day relatives and friends of the deceased came to collect the dead. Harry couldn't face the family and friends of the people who had died for him. They were the people he had failed to protect and he still blamed himself.

In his heart he knew that there was nothing to be done but he still avoided the Great Hall that afternoon. Harry instead allocated a classroom for Narcissa and Draco to share. He even made sure that no one who meant them harm could enter.

Draco knew why he was avoiding the Great Hall and didn't want to push the Gryffindor, not after he had saved him from the Cruciatus curse. His father had always been a complete bastard, too stuck up his own arse to really accept anything that wasn't as perfect as he was.

When Harry excused himself so that Draco and Narcissa could settle themselves in, Narcissa took the opportunity to speak to her son privately.

"You don't seem to be fighting this deal Harry made at all." She stated, her voice was kind as it always was away from Lucius. Narcissa was much more like Sirius than Lucius had ever cared to notice.

"It seems worthwhile so I don't have to owe him anything anymore." Draco returned as he transfigured a desk into a bed, complete with mattress.

"Is that the real reason that you are doing this?" She asked her son, watching him carefully as he threw some old clothes onto the bed and turned them into duvets, pillows and a bedding set.

"Mainly it is, yes."

"What are your other motivations? It's okay if you like him you know Draco, I won't hold it against you if you do." She said calmly, she really didn't mind if her son had a crush on the hero, after all her was a powerful wizard, from two powerful magical parents and he had a connection to the Black family. It was just a shame Lucius didn't see what she saw.

"Maybe a little but I'm doing it for us Mum. If I'm seen to be dating Harry then our family, at least the two of us, will be shown in a good light. At the moment our family name means nothing because of the side in this war that Father chose for us."

"You are admirable my Dragon, I think that Harry is going to grow on you more than you think. I can see it in his face that he likes you." Narcissa said.

"Yeah but the problem is, he thinks I'm someone that I'm not."

"What do you mean my Dragon?"

"There are certain rumours going around about me, I won't go into detail but Harry just thinks that I'm more experienced than I really am."

Narcissa smiled at her son, she truly did love him. Draco was the one good thing that had come out of her marriage to Lucius. She had wanted more children but Lucius had only wanted one, a son. Draco had actually supposed to be a girl until Lucius had changed his sex while in the womb. Narcissa had never told Draco that but secretly she thought that was why he favoured men to women.

"I am sure that it won't matter to Harry, he doesn't seem the sort to care very much about things like that. Don't concern yourself with it too much my dear Dragon. Just enjoy your month together and see what comes of it."

Draco nodded and then helped his mother to make a bed for herself across the other side of the room. It was a nice sized room and they were both aware that they were lucky that they didn't have to share with any others. Some of the larger rooms had several people.

While leaving them to settle Harry had thrown on his invisibility cloak, the only Hallow that hadn't had to be hidden, and he had gone and sat on the marble staircase so that he could witness what was going on in the Great Hall.

He was scared of the reactions of some people, he didn't want to be blamed by them, he was blaming himself enough. Ron and Hermione were helping Professor McGonagall showing people where their loved ones were.

Harry sat there for at least an hour, just watching. With his cloak on no one bothered him, that was until Draco sat himself down next to him.

"How did you know I was here?" Harry asked in a whisper.

"I can see through invisibility cloaks, they've never worked on me. I can't explain it."

"Fair enough." Harry said, everyone had their little quirks, Harry had worked up an immunity to three of the most dangerous and illegal curses, Draco could just see through invisibility cloaks.

"So what's going on?" Draco asked.

"People are reclaiming their dead." Harry told him.

"Oh, why are you watching up here under your cloak?"

"I can't face people looking at me and blaming me for the fact their dead."

"But they didn't have to fight, they wanted to, they all did. It isn't your fault. Besides, you died for each and every one of them. They won't blame you for anything."

"Yeah well I blame myself anyway. I haven't been able to face Molly, she's devastated about Fred."

"It isn't your fault. Stop blaming yourself. Do you want to be down there with them or not?"

"Not really." Harry said honestly, "I love them all but it's been so long since I've been able to not worry and just relax."

"The come on." Draco said getting up, this drew attention to him and Ron was now glaring at him. "Why is Weasley glaring at me?" Draco asked quietly so it wouldn't look like it was talking to himself.

"Ignore him, he's not great with change, I doubt he'll ever accept you, Ginny will be better, Hermione too."

"What about Ginny, I thought the two of you were an item?" Draco asked as Harry got up and they headed up the stairs.

"Everyone wanted us to be, we just got caught up in everything and what everyone was saying. We both just sat down and talked it out and I told her I thought I might be gay and she laughed, said she'd already figured that out. She's the only one who knows, apart from you of course."

"You haven't told your best friends?"

"I think Hermione knows but she's never said anything and Ron just doesn't notice those sort of things. So much has happened recently telling them just didn't seem that important. I guess I'll have to now, I won't keep us a secret from them."

"You don't need me there when you tell them do you?"

"Of course I do, I'm not going to tell them that we're dating without you with me, they'll never believe me." Harry said with a laugh.

"So when are you going to tell them?"

"This evening, before dinner because we're going to have dinner, just the two of us. Our first official date."

Draco was perplexed by that shock announcement but he took in his stride and nodded his head. So today was evidently going to be a busy day.