Authors Note: Thanks for the support and everything. Here is the next chapter, I hope you'll like it!
Dear Me
Chapter 10
The three boys stay down there until past dinner and only leave when then founders remind them that they should leave for the day. On their way back Blaise asks, "Are you going to show dad?"
"Maybe." Harry replies, "Maybe you can ask him if he's ever been down there and maybe even find out if he knows that this rooms exist. You get along with him better than I do."
"And if he has no idea?" Blaise questions.
"I'll probably take him either way eventually." Harry sighs, "He'd kill me if I don't let him harvest some of that snake down there. But I'll go down tomorrow night when Draco and I are back and search Gryffindor's rooms to see if there is a tapestry too that could have told Dumbledore about his son. Once I found out where the entrance from the castle is I'll tell you Blaise, that way you can get into Slytherin's rooms from there. But now I better head back and go to bed. It's way past dinner and I have the feeling that someone is going to be cranky if I sleep in tomorrow."
"Harry darling," Draco grins and takes Harry's hand to kiss the back of it before looking deeply into his eyes, "Cranky won't even begin to cover what I'll be."
"Whatever." Harry sighs, "By the way, did you have a time limit on your I'll let you kiss me bet with Blaise?"
"Yes, and it'll end after this weekend." Draco replies.
"We didn't though." Blaise points out towards Harry.
"I would have gotten you a broom anyway so who cares." Harry says before kissing Draco again. "I'll see you tomorrow around noon."
"Nine!" Draco grumbles, "And be happy I didn't say eight."
"The shops don't even open that soon." Harry complains.
"But we also still have to walk there and that will take some time too and I bet I'll still have to help you manage that mop of hair before I can let myself be seen with you." Draco grumbles. "You know what, let's just meet at half past seven."
"Go to hell." Harry grins cheekily and gives him another short kiss. "I'll be down at nine but not a second sooner and now good night."
Harry leaves and Draco watches after him until Blaise asks, "Don't forget to wipe off that drool and remind me to warn the house elves that we might drown in drool when your done with him tomorrow, I mean imagine how the student body will react to the boy who lives actually dressing to look good?"
Draco pales and Blaise just walks off chuckling to find Tracy while Harry walks to his friends.
"Hi Harry." Hermione replies when she sees him come into the common room. "Are you going to come with us tomorrow or are you going with Malfoy?"
"Oh please, tell me he wasn't serious about kissing the blond the other day?" Ron replies, "I mean he can't like Malfoy, it's Malfoy we're talking about, the ferret!"
"Sorry Ron." Harry replies, "I was dead serious and I did what I said I would and I will go with him tomorrow but if you're lucky I'll break up with him by the end of it."
"Why?" Hermione asks while Ron is relaxing a little again. "You just got together and let's face it you've been obsessed with him since just about forever."
"First of all, I'm not obsessed." Harry complains.
"No not at all." Ron replies ironically. "Now tell me why are you already thinking about leaving him so I can try to speed things up."
"I'm not thinking about it but might if he annoys me too much tomorrow." Harry grumbles before adding, "And he wants me to be ready to go by nine so we have enough time for shopping since he claims that I'm wearing rags. I mean honestly do I look that bad?"
"You're sure you want an honest answer?" Hermione grins, "Harry darling, I'm not saying it's really bad but, you really do wear deplorable clothes. I know it's only because of your muggle family and not your fault but to be frank, it looks really bad."
"But I don't look like a beggar and that's what he said." Harry complains.
Ron and Hermione look at each other before Ron says, "I can't believe I'm saying this Harry, but maybe you should go with him on this one. Just have a look around and maybe you'll even enjoy having something to wear that fits for once."
"I like my stuff." Harry grumbles.
"Then don't wear the new ones." Hermione calms him, "But it can't hurt to try it out. And honestly I doubt it's really a reason to break up with someone you've been obsessed with for as long as you were with him."
"I've never been obsessed with Malfoy." Harry complains a little louder this time.
"Yeah keep telling yourself that." Ron replies while halve the common room chuckles. "You're the only one to believe it anyway mate."
"Whatever." Harry grumbles, "I'm off to bed and if you two are good I'll show you something really cool tomorrow night but then again, you don't really deserve it right now."
"Sorry Harry." Hermione calls after him laughingly, "And have fun tomorrow."
The next morning Harry manages to come down to the great hall at five past nine and is just about to enter it when Draco storms out. "You're late." Draco complains and grabs Harry's hand and pulls him towards the main entrance saying "Let's go I fix your hair on the go here eat this." He pushes a sandwich into his hand. "Enjoy while you walk."
"Calm down Draco we've got more than enough time." Harry tries to calm him.
"No, we don't, especially after what Blaise reminded me of." Draco complains. "And don't even bother asking what it is because with your non-existing fashion sense you wouldn't get it anyway."
Harry just rolls his eyes and eats his sandwich while Draco uses all the grooming spells at his disposal only to achieve nothing with Harry's stubborn hair. After their walk, they arrive at a shop that is a little outside of the main shopping area and looks a little more expensive than most students can afford.
Harry follows Draco inside with an eyeroll and hears the blond say, "Jenny, you have to save me it's an emergency, a life and death situation. My boyfriend's wardrobe is a disaster."
"Honestly Malfoy, it's not that bad." Harry complains.
A girl that is clearly working there just looks at Harry and then towards Draco saying, "We better hurry, I can't have anyone see him in here like that." A little later Harry is standing on a podium and fabric after fabric is spelled around him and quickly turned into clothing.
By lunch Harry is getting more than a little annoyed and grumpy since so far nothing seems to satisfy Draco and even the shopkeeper Jenny seems to be getting annoyed and at three in the afternoon Harry finally snaps, "Honestly Draco I'm not going to stand here all day so either you tell that Jenny girl what exactly you want that nothing is good enough or I'll walk out that door right now."
"I want something that makes you look good enough to be seen with me but not too good." Draco complains, "Half the school is probably already dreaming of you again since that last article and I'm not going to tempt them to steal you from me."
Harry stares at him before he comes down and gives him a kiss and says, "How about I promise you that I won't let me be stolen."
"Yeah right." Draco grumbles, "You're only here because you liked the kiss and that was just an experiment so who's to say no one else will talk you into experimenting and that they kiss better."
"Hermione, Ron and apparently, the rest of Gryffindor will confirm that I was obsessed with you for ages but if you ever tell them I said that I'll kill you. Trust me a little." Harry promises, "The only thing that can make me leave you is if I don't get some food soon so you better pick something."
"You mean it?" Draco asks looking sceptical.
"I swear." Harry replies just to get the hell out of there.
"Fine." Draco says, "Before looking towards Jenny. "I'll take everything he was trying on so far and don't worry my father will cover the bill."
"Oh no, he won't." Harry grumbles. "I'm paying. How much is it?"
"Harry please be reasonable." Draco sighs, "You might be able to afford better then you are wearing but most certainly not this standard. Just let me take care of it."
"How about we bet." Harry grins glad that he took more than enough gold when he found out that he's Merlin reborn. Even with all the brooms for Ron and the twins and the rest he bought, he still didn't even spend half of it. "If I can pay for it right now with what I have with me you'll not only let me pay but you'll have to help me with my potions homework for the rest of the year."
"If I win you'll stay with me all night and never complain when I want to pay again." Draco insists.
"Deal." Harry replies praying that it is enough.
"245 Galleons." Jenny says and Harry's jaw drops. That is nearly as much as a firebolt cost.
"You see," Draco says seeing his reaction. "My father will cover it don't worry."
"Not so fast." Harry grumbles. "I'm just not looking forwards to counting that much." After that he takes out his wallet and turns it upside down making a small mountain of gold appear in front of him. Some smaller change from his last shopping trip in diagon is also in it but not nearly as much as the gold and hardly noticeable.
Harry grins toward Draco who stares for a moment and then frowns, "Why are you carrying around all your money? I thought you have a vault."
"I have two vaults." Harry grins, "This is not even a quarter of what I have in the tiny one and trust me, I have way more in the other one." Harry knows that the mountain is actually a little bigger than what he saw in the Weasley's vault before second year and just hopes that Draco finally knows that he really is loaded. "I told you I have enough money to buy new stuff I just never saw a reason to do so and to be frank I still don't get why everyone says I need new outfits."
"Because you're actually hurting my fashion sense with those rags you dare to call outfits." Draco replies with a grin before he uses a spell to count out the money Harry must pay from his money and spells the rest back into Harry's clearly expandable wallet. "And now pic one of them to wear for lunch before we go buy you some more."
"No way." Harry argues. "I mean lunch sounds great, more than that actually, but no way will I enter another clothing store for the rest of this year, possibly my life. Especially not with you."
"But we're not even half way done!" Draco whines. "That was just casual wear. You still need new school robes and dress robes and considering the kind of money you have you probably need some business robes."
"Honestly Draco I don't even know where to store all of those we just bought never mind more." Harry complains.
"Just send them home." Draco replies, "I have nearly all of my robes at the manor and have an elf deliver it whenever I need it. I can borrow you one of ours whenever you need it."
"I have an elf but no home that can be used for storage." Harry grumbles, "And anyway, I might have money but no business so you can cut those from the list, also what the hell would I need dress robes for there is no yule ball this year and the other feasts don't require dress robes and I can order school robes just fine so I don't have to go and stand around for hours."
"You need the dress robes for dates with me and the business for dealings with the Goblins." Draco points out, "And ordered robes never fit as perfectly as those that are fitted to our body."
"I still refuse." Harry complains. "And I also refuse to shop anything else today other than sweets at Honeydukes and jokes at Zonko's. And even that only after I got some grub."
"Grub?" Draco says with a teasing grin, "Honestly Harry, you are an uncultured swine!"
"You only think that because you, dear Draco, are a spoilt brat!" Harry replies teasingly.
"I'm not spoilt." Draco replies, "I just know how to use my gold unlike you."
"You mean your daddy's gold." Harry points out grinning. "But if you want you can try and teach me how to use mine. That spell you used to count out my gold would be a good start."
"How am I supposed to teach you how to spend it if you refuse to let me take you shopping?" Draco wonders.
"Of course you can take me shopping. Just not for useless robes that I'm never going to wear." Harry replies, "But we can go sweets shopping or jokes or whatever but something fun."
"Buying new robes is fun." Draco replies and Harry just rolls his eyes. "And now pic an outfit so we can use the floo in the three broomsticks to go to a proper restaurant."
"Why not just eat a quick lunch there?" Harry asks "Going to a fancy place and eating a big lunch will take ages and I'm getting tired already please Draco."
"I never eat there because the food there is barely edible." Draco complains.
"Really?" Harry asks surprised "How do you know if you never tried? The least you can do is give it a chance and if you do I'll try the fancy one if we aren't as late for lunch as today."
"Fine." Draco grumbles "But only because that means you have to go with me again next hogsmead weekend."
"Unless you annoy me to death I don't mind." Harry grins. "And now you pic an outfit for me to wear, because otherwise you'll just complain about it for the rest of the day."
After Draco picked an outfit both boys went to the three broomsticks and went to an empty table in a corner and set down. "I can't believe I'm forced to eat in this dump." Draco grumbles.
Harry just grins and says "Stop whining and pick what you want to eat and don't worry I eat here every time and I've never been poisoned."
"Considering that you look half-starved at times you might not die from it but it can't be all that nutritious." Draco points out.
"That is because my aunt and uncle lock me up in my room with a slice of toast a day and a bit water every summer." Harry admits leaving out that a whole slice would be a good day considering that he had to go a week without any food once.
Draco frowns and then says "I'm sure you won't have to go back there. Neither of your parents would allow it."
"I won't believe that until I'm not back at the start of summer." Harry says "I don't want my hopes crushed again."
"I won't let you go there and get you to the manor if I have to." Draco insists.
"Don't worry Draco." Harry replies "They didn't kill me anymore than the food here and now pick something before someone overhears us."
"You pick." Draco sighs "That way you can finish the garbage when I can't stomach it anymore."
"You really are a drama queen." Harry says rolling his eyes. And as soon as Madam Rosmerta comes by orders two butterbeers and two different sandwiches so Draco can pick which of those he wants.
They just got their Butterbeers when Ron and Hermione show up and join them without asking. "Harry mate, I can't believe you haven't gotten rid of Malfoy yet. Don't tell me he didn't annoy the hell out of you during your shopping trip."
"He did." Harry replies, "But since I decided not to go on with it I'm still with him and we'll go to Honeydukes and Zonko's next."
"Honeydukes got new flavours for sugar quills." Ron says happily.
"Honestly Harry," Hermione replies, "You should be grateful that he helped you pick that outfit. It looks very good."
"I look the same just with fancy robes." Harry grumbles.
Hermione rolls her eyes "You mean something that fits for a change since apart from your uniform nothing ever did. Honestly stop whining and appreciate it that he used his time to help you pick something really nice."
"Who's friend are you?" Ron says while Harry grumbles.
"Harry's of course." Hermione replies "But I'm still able to think myself and say it. I personally still like muggle cloth better but this really suits you" Hermione turns to Draco "But that reminds me, why do purebloods always wear robs and not shirts and pants. I find robes too airy and I'm always worried that the long and wide sleeves get into a potion or such."
"You do have to be more careful with them I admit that and sure you could say that they are in the way but it does force you to move more carefully and it helps in a duel. The wide fabric hides part of your body due to that a spell can hit the robe instead of you on occasion. Especially if you move a lot. The longer the robe the more stays hidden and once you're used to them even long but fitting robes won't make you stumble. Which is also why robes are usually made in a way that won't let you alter them once they are done. Otherwise a simple growth spell could bring you down. I doubt your muggle clothes have that protection so tell me, what would happen if I'd double the size of your outfit Granger."
"I'd rather we don't test that." Hermione replies. "It kinda makes sense but gives us muggleborns a disadvantage since I'd probably stumble in longer robes."
"That's why school robes are spelled to help avoid it." Draco replies "That gives you seven years to adjust."
Much later Harry rushes through Honeydukes and Zonko's since Hermione talked to Draco about pureblood customs for ages.
Authors Note: Next chapter you'll find out how much Severus and Voldy know about Voldy's parentage. Do they know? If yes why didn't they say anything? Is Voldy really fighting his own father when he so strongly refuses to fight his own son? What if they didn't? How will they react? And what about Albus? Does he know or not? And if not, was Draco right and he'll get a heart attack? And before I forget, what do you think Godric's chambers will be like? Because Harry is going to explore them next chapter too.