Chapter 10: And so it begins
Harry woke up that weekend feeling happier than he had in a long time it had been a hard first week back for the pair with all the changes going on around them and of course Harry in the middle of it all. Draco woke to find that his husband was up and about already like he did most mornings and like this morning he found him in the kitchen cooking breakfast like he did most mornings when he got the chance.
"Mmm something smells nice." Draco whispered into his ear.
"Thanks love why don't you go set the table for Ron Hermione Sirius and Remus no doubt they will be here this morning." Harry said to him the blond nodded before disappearing from Harry's view a few moments late the blond was setting the table.
"So tell me what do you have planned for us both today more time in the vault?" Draco asked.
"Nope I thought a trip down to the village and oh a romantic dinner for two in the little Chinese restaurant that is there now." Harry said.
"Oh sounds romantic but who says I like Chinese?" Draco asked.
"You've never had it so how do you know if you like it or not." Harry said to the blonde eliciting a smile from him.
The door opened to their rooms as Harry looked to see Sirius and Remus come into the room soon followed by Ron and Hermione none of whom looked all that happy something was definitely up with them all this morning he could tell that they had seen or read something that had made them upset.
"Harry maybe you should sit down." Hermione said.
"I am cooking Hermione so no I won't sit down why don't you just tell me what the hell is going on and get it over with." Harry demanded.
"Their was a death eater attack last night the Dursleys were killed." Sirius said.
"And I would care why?" Harry asked the shock that registered in him internally did not externally.
"They were people you lived with." Hermione said.
"Yes lived with being the operative words there Hermione I can't stand the people why the hell would I care if they died or not." Harry said to her the cold tone of his voice letting his displeasure of the conversation be known to all in the room.
"How can you be cold about people you loved?" Hermione asked causing Harry to laugh out loud now his amusement at that statement as well as his disdain for the people he had lived with most of his life showing in his tone.
"Hermione I couldn't care less if they were strung up and gutted the bastards don't deserve to live as far as I am concerned its people like them that fuel people like Voldemort." Harry said to the girl.
Remus and Sirius didn't seem all that surprised by Harry's reaction to the news they had expected as much Hermione didn't seem to understand or Ron for that matter that the boy had a deep seated loathing for the Dursley's it was on Draco who had registered any kind of shock from his husband but it had been buried in a moment by the years of hate that Harry had built up for his former so called family.
"So you don't care that they are dead?" Ron asked.
"No couldn't give a flying monkey that they are dead." Harry said.
While they had been talking Harry had dished up food for them all taking his seat at the table which they had used a wood crafting spell to create from a fallen oak in the forbidden forest just the day before.
Harry sat down at the table with the rest of them before tucking into his own food as far as he was concerned the conversation was over he had no interest in what had happened to the Dursley's they had been dead to him for a long time now that they were actually dead it made no difference to him what so ever.
"Harry we need to talk you're the Potter heir and as such your still considered family to the Dursley's it falls to you to arrange their burial." Remus said to him Harry barely looked at the man when he called.
"Daniel can you come in here for a minute." Harry said.
Daniel is aide came into the room looking at Harry with a happy smile having no clue that his day was to be completely ruined by Harry.
"I need you to get the details of where my former families bodies are being held and contact my aunt Marge ask her where she wants them then arrange the funeral I will not be attending neither will Draco but if you would be so kind as to find some poor wretch idiotic enough to go on our behalf that would be great. Don't worry about how much you spend just take it out of my vaults." Harry had been completely cold during that little speech the boy disappeared from the room through the door moments later Hermione looked at him as if he had grown an extra head.
"You're not even going to the funeral?" Hermione asked.
"You want me to go pay my respects to people that I can't stand the sight of Hermione nor could they stand the sight of me so why should I waste my time going to the funeral of people that had no love or time for me. Or did you conveniently forget how bad they treated me in the fourteen years I spent there." Harry demanded of the girl who looked like she had just been slapped across the face by Harry his words had been hard and harsh.
"Harry there is no need to get angry with the messengers." Sirius said looking at his godson who was silently seething Harry simply glared at the man before vanishing in a puff of smoke Draco hadn't been shocked to see how angry his husband had got.
"Way to go Hermione." Ron said glaring at his best friend.
"Well it's wrong that he doesn't want to go to their funeral." Hermione snapped back at him.
"You want him to go to a funeral that is for the people that basically used him as a slave and physically and mentally abused him for fourteen years people that are not I might add his family in any shape or form." Draco said to her his silver eyes were as cold as steel looking into them. "Tell me little miss know it all considering his past with the Dursley's did you even stop to think that their being dead may have actually given him the closure he needs on that part of his life and actually served to reassure him that the headmaster would not try something as insane as sending him back there next summer." Draco all but snarled at the girl who was now sobbing into her hands.
"The headmaster couldn't do that anyway Draco the blood wards became void when Harry's heritage came through on his sixteenth birthday." Remus said though he understood the point that Draco was trying to make.
"And that would have made a difference to the man who has already screwed Harry's life up not once but twice." Ron stated.
"The headmaster did no such thing." Remus said.
"Well we shall start with the fact that Harry had a godfather that was innocent and did not even have a trial after he was caught he was just thrown in Azkaban that was a brilliant move by the way seeing as he was innocent. Then lets move on shall we to the decision to put my husband in the care of the Dursley's for ten years. That not enough for you then lets start with the fact that he let him face Voldemort in his first year then in his second year he faced a fucking basilisk then third year rather than tell him the truth about Sirius and try harder to catch him once again sorry Sirius he allowed my husband and his best friends to use a time turner to bloody well save his godfather when a pensive would have proven to all that night what would have been abundantly clear that wormtail was alive and well and still on the lose that alone would have gotten Sirius of the hook. No okay how about fourth year when he allowed Harry to participate in the triwizard tournament along with my other mate he was lewered into a trap one of them died that night. Then lets move on to the fifth year shall we my personal favorite of the five years before this one where Umbridge the bitch from hell who was a fucking death eater I might add was allowed to run this school as if she was in charge of the fucking thing tortured my mate with a blood quill and was a complete bitch to anyone who stood for what was right and almost made us all fail our DADA classes because she refused to teach. What did the headmaster do? I will tell you what he did fuck all he sat back and let it happen. Which by the way nearly killed Harry and Sirius and he hasn't been the same since he came back from beyond the veil. But the story doesn't end their does it lets continue on shall we to the fact that their was a prophecy that could have stopped most of the fucking mayhem and destruction that has followed Harry through school if he had fucking well known about it from the get go. I have lost one mate already thanks to that idiot of headmasters in actions I will not lose Harry and gods help anyone who gets in my way." Draco had ranted the entire time not noticing the headmaster or McGonagall or Elderon standing in the room the latter of the two looked shocked at the rant and verbal assault on the headmaster while the headmaster himself seemed to have shriveled up under the hateful words that had been said and the accusations all of which were true that had been thrown his way.
Hermione looked at her best friends mate in disbelieve she had been to taken with the headmaster to even bother to take into account that the man was partly responsible not fully of course but partly responsible for pretty much everything her best friend had suffered and endured over his life time.
"I think your being more than a little unfair on the headmaster Draco." Elderon said trying to placate his grandsons mate.
"That man has caused Harry more pain and hurt than anyone else including Voldemort and I am sick of it." Draco shouted Dumbledore for his part had looked like he had been slapped in the face with those words.
Harry had popped back into the room he sensed that Draco was angry and hurting he had been listening from the bedroom to most of the rant and he could here the pain in his voice it wasn't something that the others had picked up on but to Harry it was plain as day.
Harry slipped through the door without a word wrapping his arms around Draco's waist and bringing him into a bone crunching hug/cuddle which the blonde fell into for want of a better word Harry just stood their holding him without a word he glared at the headmaster who he had seen was the brunt of the rant.
The look he gave the headmaster was nothing compared to the one he gave Hermione the increasingly angry brunette seemed to be seething on the outside his mate was upset and angry and his Veela part of him was more than a little pissed of at the girl and the headmaster for the distress that they had been pilling onto Draco.
"Who the fuck are you to come into our quarters and cause him distress." Harry snarled at the girl the full force of his fury turning to her he would leave the headmaster out of it as he realized that the old man had been a victim of circumstance rather than the person that Draco's fury had been fully pointed at.
No Draco was angry at Hermione and Dumbledore but mainly Hermione.
"That wasn't what I intended to happen when I came down here this morning Harry I promise." Hermione all but whimpered under the glare of her best friend.
"Next time you come down here if there is ever a next time you will remember who you're speaking to I am not a child Hermione and I sure as hell don't act like one so show me the fucking respect I deserve rather than trying to show me to be the immature idiot that Ron is." Harry snarled before vanishing with Draco in his arms.
"Well then it seems that the Veela's wrath is something that we have both felt today." Dumbledore said breaking the shocked silence Ron was sitting their like a goldfish out of water.
"I guess that even quiet Harry has his moments." Remus said.
"Ziyon was the same as temperamental as Harry is it isn't really that much of a surprise Harry sensed Draco's pain and went to him." Elderon said to him.
"Veela nature is such that when they feel their mate needs them and that they are in some kind of pain whether it be physical or mental pain they need to protect them, Hermione and the headmaster for that matter are very lucky that Harry had enough reign on his powers and temper that he didn't just attack them outright to satisfy the urge that he would have had to protect his mate from those that were causing him the pain." Remus said.
"He wouldn't hurt his best friend though." Ron said.
"Ron if he loses control of his Veela side which I might add he looked like he was close to doing it could have been dangerous for all of us, his a weiver which means that he would have fed on the power of the others in the room and that could have easily led to Hermione and the headmaster's untimely death. There are laws and reasons why you do not attack or anger Veela and or their mates whether their Veela or not which I might add that Draco is in part anyway Veela." Elderon said.
"Hermione you need to reign in that mouth of yours it's going to get you into trouble I have not seen either of them that angry at anyone in a long time the last time I believe is when Harry all but destroyed the headmasters office after we had come back through the veil. Believe when I say the headmaster learnt his lesson that night the hard way that there are just something's that you don't do with Harry and he broke on of the biggest rules that Harry has that night he admitted that he had not been truly forthcoming with the truth and the prophecy had Harry been in Veela mode that night it is very possible that he would have killed the headmaster for what he didn't tell him." Sirius said.
"But he didn't do anything wrong." Hermione said.
"To Harry trust is everything he doesn't trust or love easily, he trusted the headmaster completely until that night when he learned of the lies and hidden truths that had surrounded him since his return to the wizarding world the headmaster had more than one opportunity to tell Harry the truth he didn't and it nearly got Harry killed. Whatever trusts Harry had for the man was destroyed that night and the rift between them is only now just starting to heal." Sirius said.
"Alas Sirius is right I made some big mistakes with Harry who isn't the most trusting person in the world as it is and I did only more damage to that when I didn't tell him what I knew in his first year as Draco said it may have saved Cedric's life and deep down even if he won't admit it to anyone Harry knows that to be true." Dumbledore said quietly looking infinitely older than he would normally.
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Harry and Draco meanwhile appeared in Diagon alley in the middle of the day the two of them had slowed down their anger though they were far from happy with the people in their lives right now they were at peace with each other and that after all was all that mattered.
"So where to first?" Draco asked.
"You ever been to see a movie?" Harry asked and got a shake of the head from Draco.
"Well then let's go change that shall we you've missed out on so much fun if you haven't watched a movie before now." Harry said leading the way into muggle London and the underground they arrived in the west end some time later all smiles and laughing happily as they exited the station into the square.
They brought tickets for some action film (insert title of your own choice here.) that they thought might be interesting when they sat down with popcorn which Draco was still giggling about even now they were in the cinema on their own the security had finally caught up with them and none of the guards were particularly happy with them about their disappearing act.
"Next time remind me to remove the trackers in our shoes." Harry said causing Draco to laugh.
The movie began causing Draco to jump when people appeared on the screen in front of them he spent the first ten minutes of the film reaching out trying to touch the characters or find out where the voices and people were actually at.
Harry for his part was in tears of laughter at his mate as were a couple of the guards who had been to the cinema before and knew that it would be confusing for a pure blood who had at one point been a blood supremacist so who had never so much as set foot in a muggle shop unless he had absolutely no other choice in the matter.
When the film was finished Harry lead the way out into the street again to the waiting limo Harry was getting rather intrigued about something and wondering whether his husband would consent.
"So Draco you fancy getting some tattoo done or piercing?" Harry asked.
"Your kidding tattoos hurt piercing sounds cool though." Draco said smiling at his husband the driver must have heard what they had been saying as the car pulled to a stop in Knockturn alley which was much to his amusement.
Jumping out of the car once more they walked into the tattoo parlor which was biggish and clean which was a surprise to Harry just one more myth about this little alley Harry thought the two of them sat down in the waiting room Harry looked around the walls at the tattoos which to him looked really cool he saw the horntail.
"Hey Draco I need you for something." Harry said.
Draco walked over looking where Harry was he smiled when he spotted the horntail and saw what Harry was thinking.
"Sure Harry if that is what you want then go right ahead." Draco said kissing his husband.
"You don't mind?" Harry asked.
"Tattoos look hot I just don't like the idea of having one bearing in mind how close I came to being forced to take the mark." Draco whispered Harry understood and wrapped an arm around his husbands shoulder.
"I think I'll have it on the right side of my chest say here." Harry said point to the point just above his nipple.
"Sounds good but we should get matching piercings as well don't you think?" Draco asked and Harry smiled broadly at him.
"Sounds perfect to me." Harry said.
The woman that came out of the office had a face full of piercings and more tattoos than Harry would know what to do with.
"So what would you like?" The woman said to them.
"Well we were thinking of matching piercings and Harry here wants a tattoo." Draco said they pointed out the tattoo which caused the woman to smile as she took the board that had that one on they went into the other room when they had told the woman what they wanted piercing wise one of which was a lip piercing (The other I will let your imagination run wild with.).
"I'd also like to get Draco and Cedric place on my back something nice and stylish writing wise." Harry said Draco smiled at this.
"Side by side of one below the other." The woman asked.
"Side by side." Harry said smiling.
"Well we need to get the piercings out of the way as they are relatively quick to do then we can do that tattoo's." the woman said.
By the end of the ordeal as they would later call it Harry wasn't in that much discomfort nothing that he hadn't felt before anyway Draco of course being yellow when it came to pain had been whimpering through most of it and Harry had to hold his hand during the worst of it which had both of them laughing.
They weren't finished yet so the next stop on the trip was to the barbers so that Harry could get a proper style done which meant back into central London and into a well known department store in Knightsbridge where Harry spent the better part of an hour getting styled before they went to the electrical department which was full of gadgets which Harry was fascinated in and Draco seemed to think was a bit of a joke Harry brought a state of the art Laptop which he took the time to make Hogwarts proof if the limo could go into Hogwarts then so could a laptop he said to Draco rather smugly.
"Hermione isn't the only one with a brain in this outfit." Harry said to Draco when they were finally done some five hours later having brought just about everything that a muggle could dream of.
When the two of them arrived back in the castle with their buys the others were waiting for them the group of friends that had been their that morning were still waiting for them all looking rather tired and Hermione looked like she hadn't stopped crying all day her face was swollen from the amount of crying that she had done either that or Pansy had decked her he wasn't sure which was which in this case.
"Where have you two been?" Sirius asked taking in the new looks of the boys.
"Knockturn alley to name one of the places we went today thanks Daniel." Harry said as the boy came in with some hot food and started to unpack the many bags and boxes that they had brought home with them.
"Are you both out of your minds?" Remus snarled.
"Yes Remus we decided on getting some new rings." Harry said.
Sirius burst out laughing at the look that Remus gave Harry who for his part was all smiles and laughing his head of when he saw the lip rings the pair now had.
"Is that all you had done?" Sirius asked.
"I had a couple of tattoos done." Harry said innocently.
"Well let's see." Ron said.
Harry peeled of his shirt to show of his chest which had the black horntail he had gone with non color representation of the dragon rather than one that had color then turned to show his lower back pulling his jeans down just enough to show the other magically healed tattoos.
"I see you have your mate's names on your back." Elderon said wincing that must have hurt to have done.
Harry nodded. "Draco and I both agreed that they looked hot on me but Draco who was I might add a complete wimp when it came to the piercings he got didn't like the idea of pain all that much." Harry said smiling good naturedly at his mate.
"He says that when the baby is born as we aren't going to give him Cedric as his first name his going to have it added to his back." Draco said smiling.