Harry was looking at the stars from the Astronomy tower, thinking about the events that had taken place. He had finally set into place his revenge against the Dursley's, his only regret was that he would not be there to see their faces. Harry had recently found that they had known about his money all along and been taking money out of his account for years. Harry had not only been neglected and abused but he had been stolen from the people he hated the most in this world. He had contacted Gringotts and they had started the process of getting the money back, the best part was that a goblin would personally stopping by to inform them of their debt and if they couldn't pay it all back they would become Harry's personal slaves.
'That will teach them for messing with me' Harry thought.
He also mentioned to the Goblins that he wanted to be emancipated, and have Dumbledore's right over him stripped. The goblins gave the kick the Ministry needed to get that started. When Dumbledore had been informed it hadn't been a pretty sight, he had come bursting into the hall, with Molly trailing not far behind, and both were red in the face and looking like they would murder anyone who got in their way.
Molly had shrieked that he was a disgrace to wizard kind and how he had gone too far by discrediting Dumbledore. Dumbledore had nodded with Molly but not commenting, knowing it wouldn't be wise with witnesses. Basically Molly had made a fool of herself. Harry had sat there completely calm, ignoring the hag and the old coot. He just continued as they were not there, talking and laughing with his friends. When he insulted Ron and Ginny, Molly really lost it, spit went flying as she screamed, but Harry still ignored her however she still continued until she was blue in the face. Everyone was looking at her and Dumbledore, from the moment they walked, and that was how everyone found out that Harry was breaking away from Dumbledore because, he had left Harry with abusive Muggles.
But this was not why Harry was alone with his thoughts. No it was because Ron and Ginny had ambushed Draco in a dark corridor while he was alone, just because they knew it would hurt Harry, plus they hated the blonde boy. Because of them Draco was in the hospital wing and hadn't woke up yet, he had long since been forced away from Draco's side by Madam Pomfrey, he was waiting for the matron to fall asleep so he could sneak back in. Despite what everyone told him, he blamed himself and hadn't spoken a word to anyone since he heard about Draco's attack. Harry thanked Merlin that Pansy had headed down that corridor and spotted the two Weasley's mid-torture and was able to overpower them and bring him to the Hospital Wing.
The memories of Ron and Ginny had been examined and the reason they had been able to overpower Draco was because Ron had ran up to him screaming spells, and while he was concentrated on Ron, Ginny had stupefied him from behind and then began the torture. McGonagall had been disgusted and expelled them and banished them from the grounds, despite Dumbledore's argument they had nowhere to go.. Rumour had it that Dumbledore had payed for their stay at three broomsticks. It had been lucky that McGonagall had been in charge of punishment being their head of house and as they nearly killed a student, there was no question of them being thrown out of the grounds, no matter how much Dumbledore didn't like it.
Harry looked at his watch, deciding that it was late enough he headed down to the hospital wing, where he could be there when Draco woke up.
On the way down Harry wished with all his might that Draco was going to be okay that he was going to wake up. He forced a tear as he thought about losing Draco, he shook his head, he had to think positive!
Draco was the only patient there when, Harry arrived, and he looked really pale in the moonlight. Harry walked toward him quietly, he sat in the arm chair and held the other boys hand.
"I am so sorry Draco, this is my entire fault, I didn't mean for you to get hurt! You were there for me when I needed it, so I'm going to stay here all night by your side"
Tears slowly trickled down his face as he stared down at the injured boy; he let out soft sobs for a while until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
He looked up to find Hermione standing there, she too had tears.
"I knew you were going to come back so I waited, oh Harry this isn't your fault! Draco won't blame you, none of us blame you"
Hermione wrapped herself around Harry in an embrace.
"Draco is going to be fine Harry, he would never forgive himself if he died at the wand of Ron, and he will fight this"
Harry returned Hermione's embrace after a while, and cried into her shoulder. He was glad that he had Hermione as a best friend, she just knew him so well. They stayed like this for what felt like an eternity; Harry clung to Hermione like a life line.
"Hermione what happens when someone else gets hurt or worse killed because of me, I have lost too much already, I can't lose anyone else! I couldn't bare it if I did!"
Hermione pulled Harry away so she could look at him in the face.
"Oh Harry this isn't your fault, none of this is! we all love you and I swear none of us are going anywhere, you're stuck with us so that's that!"
She raised her hand and caressed his cheek, Harry lent into the touch.
"Remember that we are all here for you Harry, we wouldn't be standing next to you side by side, if we didn't want to be there, you mean the world to us, you were my first friend, I'm sticking with you until the very end and even longer."
Despite still having the small voice in the back of his mind still telling him this was his fault, he nodded sadly to his best friend.
Hermione moved to sit next to Harry, they sat like that for hours just in silence watching after the blonde. Hermione then demanded that they get sleep, she tucked him into one of the hospital beds and then joined him. She kept him in a comfortable embrace, knowing that he was still here if Draco needed him and Hermione was there to help, he fell into a calm sleep.
When they woke up they were greeted by an angry Madam Pomfrey.
"What the devil are you two doing here, female and male students have separate dormitories for a reason, I will not have you defiling my wing as a secret rendezvous, this is a hospital not a sleazy motel!"
Harry laughed; he just couldn't help it, soon enough Hermione joined in.
"Madam as beautiful Hermione is and that any guy is lucky to have her, she is my best friend and I would never date her, she is my sister in everything but blood."
Hermione nodded.
"Harry snuck down here last night because he was worried about Draco, I knew he would come back so I waited, he refused to leave his side so I compromised and made him sleep here, I didn't want to leave him so I stayed with him."
Madam Pomfrey stared at them in disbelief.
"Why share a bed then? I dare say they is enough to be in separate beds?"
"Harry tends to suffer nightmares, I spared us both the lack of sleep by sleeping next to him."
The Matron still didn't look like she believed that Harry and Hermione were innocent. So Harry said the one thing that would convince her.
" IM GAY!" He shouted
Madam Pomfrey looked shocked.
"Merlin's beard, even though I have tried to deny it in the past, I thought the whole school knew this fact."
Harry then remembered why he was here he looked over at Draco and saw that he still hadn't woken.
"Is there any improvement?"
Madam Pomfrey nodded. "He is healing fine, he should wake up when he is ready."
She then gave Harry an odd glance.
"Are you and Mr Malfoy...?" She pointed between the two.
Harry sighed "Not that it's any of your business, its complicated at the moment."
The Matron nodded and left Harry and Hermione with the sleeping Draco.
"We should probably get ready for class, Dumbledore won't let us have the day off after yesterday."
Harry didn't want to leave Draco but he knew Hermione was right; a year ago Dumbledore would have given him all the time off he wanted but now? Dumbledore would probably have him thrown out of the school.
Harry left with Hermione, but they soon went their separate ways, Harry to Slytherin and Hermione to Gryffindor. Harry walked slowly down to the dungeons, when he arrived he was bombarded by Pansy, Theo and Blaise. They all wanted to make sure he was okay because he hadn't come back last night, after he told them that he had spent the night watching over Draco, they wanted to know how the blonde was doing.
"Pomfrey says that he is healing fine, and that he will wake up when he is ready."
"Oh thank god" Pansy sighed in relief.
"Well that's good then" Blaise stated.
Theo didn't say anything but did let out a sigh of relief and ran a hand through his hair.
Harry stated that he would join them at breakfast after he had a shower, they all agreed and left without him.
Once finished, he made his way back to the common room to find an angry looking Tom.
"Do you know what I did last night?" He paused waiting for Harry to answer,
Harry's eyes widened at the calmness of his voice but didn't say anything just stared at Tom, not sure why the other was angry, when silence only followed Tom continued.
"No? Well I spent the whole night worried that what happened to Draco happened to you! I spent half the night looking for you, until I saw you leaving the Astronomy Tower, I followed you all the way to the hospital wing."
Tom pulled Harry into a tight embrace.
" I heard you talking to him, I was about to go and comfort you but Hermione was there and I thought she would be better suited in the moment so I went back here and waited for you but you didn't come back... Harry I was so worried, if something were to happen to you I don't know what I would do..."
Harry returned the embrace tightly, enjoying the feeling of Tom's arms around him.
"Please next time, don't wander off on your own."
Harry nodded "I won't."
Tom kissed the top of Harry's head.
"Sometimes I think you will be the death of me, Harry."
Harry chuckled, "Destined to kill you remember?"
Tom messed up Harry's hair as he pulled away. "Come let's go get breakfast."
They walked down to breakfast together, once they met up with friends they noticed that the talk of the hall was the attack on Draco and how Ron and Ginny where expelled. Harry wasn't that hungry but Pansy made him eat two pieces of toast and a cup of coffee.
"Can't have you falling asleep in the middle of class can we?"
The day was long and Harry was exhausted he spent lunch and his free period, doing all of his homework, so he could visit Draco without consequences. This time Madam Pomfrey put up a charm to alert her if Harry returned after he was sent back to the common room.
Harry did last minute touch ups to his homework before going to bed.
It wasn't hard to say that Harry didn't sleep well; restless sleep was what he was given after a very tiring day.
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