Disclaimer: I'm not JK Rowling (unfortunately). I do not own Harry Potter or any characters from Harry Potter. Just this fanfiction…
A/N: This chapter is dedicated to Aaron Gordon-Uppall
Back to School
The remainder of the summer was fairly simple. Draco grew closer to Hermione and Ginny and he and Ron were both trying their best to be civil towards one another. Harry was quickly growing fond of Narcissa and also had an increasing amount of respect for his potions professor.
Harry and Draco could often be found in each other's company, but aside from a few longing looks and lingering touches, nothing romantic had happened between them.
On the night before their return to Hogwarts, Harry was busily packing his trunk when Draco strutted in wearing only a towel. Draco smirked upon seeing Harry blush.
"Like what you see?" Draco asked flirtatiously, closing the door. Harry swallowed and dropped the book he was holding, causing him to blush harder. "I'll take that as a 'yes' shall I?" Draco asked cockily.
Harry averted his gaze from the blonde and bent down to pick up his book. When he stood back up, Draco was stood right in front of him, licking his lips suggestively.
"I think you're a little overdressed, Harry." Draco said as he gazed up at him with lust-filled eyes.
The rate of Harry's heartbeat tripled as Draco began to remove his T-shirt. Draco's breath made Harry shiver as he leaned closer to whisper in his ear.
"You're sexy when you blush." Harry's cock twitched with excitement at Draco's words and he momentarily forgot how to breathe.
Draco trailed his fingers down Harry's quidditch toned chest before he began to unfasten his jeans. Left in only his pants, Harry felt very vulnerable. Like the sneaky Slytherin he was, Draco slipped his hands into Harry's pants and squeezed his arse. Harry gasped and looked down to see a satisfied smirk on the blonde's face.
Harry allowed himself to be steered to his bed and felt himself grow immensely hard as Draco straddled him.
"Third time lucky right?" Draco whispered as he leant forwards, only to have Ron walk in and squeal in disgust.
"Fuck off, Weasel!" Draco yelled in a dangerous voice. Ron fled the room instantly.
As Draco turned back to face Harry, his confident exterior melted and in his place, a nervous boy leant forward uncertainly to capture the lion's lips. Harry placed his hand behind Draco's head, pulling him closer, whilst his other hand rested on Draco's thigh. Draco moaned when Harry slipped his tongue inside and tenderly explored every inch of his obliging mouth.
When the need for air became absolutely essential, the two boys broke apart, panting for air. Harry grinned goofily as he stroked the Slytherin's sleeky blonde hair. Draco smiled shyly as he rested his forehead against Harry's.
"That is sooo cute," a voice said from the doorway. The boys looked round to see Hermione, Ginny, Narcissa, Sirius and Remus at the door.
"It's fucking hot, that's what it is." Sirius said, earning himself a slap round the head from Narcissa. Sirius glared at her as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Perhaps," said Remus in a serious voice, "Harry should finish packing."
"And perhaps Draco should start." Narcissa said, fixing Draco with a 'do-as-you're-told' glare.
Draco stood up carefully so as not to drop his towel and smiled coyly at Harry before walking to his own room.
Without Draco sitting on his lap, Harry's erection was all too obvious. He blushed in embarrassment and resumed packing.
The next morning, everyone was rushing about, trying to get organised. On the occasions that Harry and Draco bumped into each other, both boys blushed yet smiled as they remembered the kiss that finally happened.
When everyone was finally ready, they said their final farewells to everyone and were escorted to the train station by Moody, Tonks, Remus and Sirius whose name had finally been cleared.
For perhaps the first time in his school career, Harry arrived at platform 9¾ at a reasonable time; they still had 20 minutes before the train left.
Moody and Tonks loaded their trunks onto the train before saying goodbye.
Harry vaguely noticed that they were getting a lot of stares. Although it annoyed him slightly, he could see why. After all, he and Draco were supposed to hate each other. Harry supposed Sirius was another cause for curious eyes. Despite his innocence being declared, it seemed some people weren't quite convinced. A timid looking girl – probably a first year – cast Sirius a very frightened look. Sirius stared at her for a moment before yelling, "BOO!" right in her face. The girl squealed and hid behind her mother as Sirius laughed. Harry, Ron and Ginny laughed along with him, while Hermione and Remus scolded them for such childish antics. Hermione gave him a stern look for a few seconds before she too cracked up. Draco looked as though he wanted to laugh but he was able to master himself.
When the voice of an elderly woman spoke him name, Sirius stopped laughing immediately. His face paled and he turned around to come face to face with Neville Longbottom's grandmother.
Mrs Longbottom seized Sirius by the ear and started yelling at him, which gained the attention of everyone present.
"Sirius Black! How dare you behave so poorly! That's hardly a fine example to set for your godson! Apologise at once!"
Sirius seemed to shrivel up in embarrassment as he quietly muttered an apology to the girl.
"You ought to feel ashamed of yourself," Mrs Longbottom said. Sirius had the decency to look ashamed as he hung his head and stared at his shoelaces. "I will not witness such behaviour from you again, I trust?" Mrs Longbottom asked as she glared at him.
"No, Mrs Longbottom." Sirius said, sounding far younger than he was.
"You and Remus will join me for tea tonight at precisely 7.30." Mrs Longbottom said in a businesslike tone.
"Yes, Mrs Longbottom," the two marauders answered robotically.
"Be sure to have a shave," Mrs Longbottom commanded as she pointed a long bony finger at Sirius. "And do something with your hair. I won't have you entering my house looking like some punk. And make sure you use some mouthwash, you have dog breath."
"Yes, Mrs Longbottom." Sirius answered embarrassedly.
After planting a kiss on Neville's forehead, Mrs Longbottom left the platform, leaving a stunned silence in her wake.
For a few seconds everything was silent until Draco roared with laughter.
"You got told off by a granny!" Draco declared in amusement as he cried with laughter. Pretty soon, everyone else was laughing too, but no one laughed harder than Draco who was rolling about the floor in fits of hysterics.
"Shut up," Sirius said lamely.
"Oh, my belly hurts," Draco announced, clutching his stomach.
A large proportion of the people on the platform was staring at Draco in sheer amazement. Hermione however, positively beamed at seeing him display such emotion in public. It was really quite an achievement. She even felt quite proud of him.
"Well, I erm… I think me and moony should be going," Sirius said, obviously still embarrassed. They said their goodbyes and left, with Sirius glaring at anyone who dared to look at him.
Red in the face from laughing, Draco sat up wiping his eyes.
"You know what, Longbottom," Draco said in a perfectly friendly tone. "I've got to send your gran a gift or something. That was the biggest laugh I've had in ages."
Neville's mouth fell open and he looked totally bewildered.
"I'll explain," Ginny told him kindly as she took his arm and led him onto the train.
Just as Draco stood up, Blaise Zabini, a very tall black boy walked over to them and smiled in a way that could only be defined as 'sweet'.
"Blaise!" Draco yelled excitedly as he jumped into the arms of the taller boy. Harry felt an immense surge of jealousy and beckoned for Ron to follow him onto the train.
Blaise seemed startled by the hug, but hugged back nevertheless.
"Hey, where'd Harry go?" Draco asked confusedly before boarding the train and leaving Blaise in the company of Hermione.
Hermione instantly noticed how messy Blaise's collar was and her fingers itched to put it right.
"Erm … well, er … maybe we should," Blaise sought of said as he gestured to the train.
"Oh, erm … er … well … yes we … yeah," Hermione sought of said just as lamely.
They walked to the door of the train and Blaise held it open for her as he permitted her to get on first. She smiled gratefully before searching the compartments for Harry and Ron.
She found them somewhere around the middle of the train. Poor Neville looked completely lost as Harry and Draco stood opposite each other arguing. Whilst Ginny was attempting to calm the boys down, Ron was making things worse.
"Why don't you go back to your woman-beating father ferret!" Ron snarled.
"Shut up, Weasel!" Draco spat back in a fierce voice.
"Don't call him Weasel!" Harry defended.
"Sorry," Draco said very sarcastically, "shut up, Ronald!"
"Don't call me Ronald!" Ron whined.
It was at this point that Harry noticed Hermione and Blaise, the latter of which he threw a death-glare. Noticing the threatening looks he was receiving, Blaise stepped behind Hermione and tried to look innocent.
"Hey look Malfoy, it's your boyfriend," Harry said angrily as Draco's heart clenched at the use of his surname. "Why don't you go straddle him and shove your tongue down his throat you little whore?" And with those harsh words, Harry removed the dragon medallion from his neck and let it fall to the floor as he stormed off towards the back of the train.
A triumphant smile crossed Ron's face, but it instantly faded as Hermione and Ginny glared at him mutinously.
Looking utterly lost and defeated, Draco bent down and picked up the medallion.
"You should go talk to him." Blaise said as he took a seat next to a very confused looking Neville. Draco nodded before heading to the back of the train.
On the way he bumped into Pansy. After a quick "hello" he directed her to the compartment that Blaise was sat in.
A little further down, he bumped into Luna Lovegood.
"Harry looked rather upset," she informed him in a dreamy voice. "He must have heard about the death of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack." Draco gaped at her dumbly for a few seconds, before continuing on his way.
Finally, he came to the last compartment, which had its curtains pulled shut. Draco licked his lips nervously before gently sliding the door open. What he saw made his heart sink and his blood run cold. There was Harry, his Harry, locked lip to lip with none other than Cho Chang.
As Draco digested the sight he was seeing, he felt hot tears burning in the corners of his eyes. Cho had heard the door open so she broke from the kiss and turned to look at him, but he paid her no mind. It was Harry he was looking at.
Harry smiled pleasantly before pulling Cho back into another heated kiss. Draco slammed the compartment door shut with such force that the glass shattered.
Draco walked away, squeezing the medallion in his hand so hard that his hand began to bleed. The physical pain went unnoticed by Draco, who was far too emotionally damaged right now to feel the blood dripping from his hand. He staggered into the compartment with the others and sat silently between Pansy and Ginny.
"Draco?" Pansy asked, searching his eyes for some kind of reaction. Draco just stared blankly into space for the entire train ride, not once making a single sound.
Meanwhile, back in the end compartment, Harry was still making out with Cho. As he closed his eyes however, it was Draco's face he imagined.
In the middle compartment, Draco was completely unresponsive. He looked so broken that even Ron felt a knut's worth of sympathy for the fragile looking boy.
It was Ginny who first noticed that Draco's hand was bleeding. She tried to remove the medallion from his hand but he only clutched it harder, causing his hand greater injury.
"What d'you think happened?" Blaise asked, looking sorrowfully at his friend.
"He saw Harry kissing Chang." Seamus said from the door in his thick Irish accent.
"What?!" Ginny demanded, furiously rising to her feet. "Where are they?" Ginny asked darkly with a deadly glint in her normally kind eyes.
"End of the train." Seamus said automatically.
Ginny stormed down to the end of the train in a fiery temper before kicking open their compartment door.
A piercing shriek sounded throughout the train as Cho was hit with Ginny's trademark Bat Bogey Hex. Ginny then grabbed Harry and marched him back to the others. She pushed him roughly into a seat as she sat beside Draco again.
Seeing Draco's fragile state made Harry's insides squirm with guilt. There was a tense silence within the compartment before the Irishman cautiously tried to break it.
"So, good summer everyone? You look good Ron." Blaise sniggered slightly, which earned himself a glare from Ron and Seamus. Blaise hung his head and, though he made no more sounds, his body shook with laughter.
Silence within the compartment resumed and, feeling awkward, Seamus said goodbye and returned to his own compartment.
What seemed to be an exceptionally long train ride finally came to an end at Hogsmeade station. Ginny took Draco's arm and guided him off of the train and into a carriage. Hermione forced Harry into the same carriage before she and Ginny left, leaving the two boys alone.
"Draco, will you please look at me?" Harry asked desperately. Draco gradually met Harry's eye with a look of brutal betrayal and heartache.
"Blaise isn't my boyfriend." Draco said quietly. Harry shifted in his seat uncomfortably. Now he was the one not looking at Draco. "Why did you kiss her, Harry?" Draco asked tearfully, no longer able to hold back his sobs. Harry mentally slapped himself as he saw Draco crying as hysterically as he had been laughing on the platform only hours before.
"I wanted to make you jealous," Harry answered quietly. "Like you made me feel when you hugged Blaise." Draco cried harder and wrapped his arms around himself.
"W-well it w-worked," Draco choked out between sobs. "I … I did-didn't m-m-mean to make you m-mad when I … when I hugged my best f-friend." Draco sobbed, annoyed at how weak and pathetic he was being. "Y-you hug your friends." Draco murmured in a low voice.
"Yeah, I know," Harry said quietly in a voice full of shame. "I'm sorry for what I did," Harry said in a strangled voice, as if he were about to cry himself.
Draco let out a shaky sigh before wiping away his tears. Harry moved beside him and kissed the blonde's tears away.
"I'm sorry," he repeated as he wrapped his arms around the blonde. Draco smiled and pecked him on the lips to show he was forgiven. Draco held up the dragon medallion and fastened it back around Harry's neck.
"I forgot to tell you," Draco said in a much stronger voice, "I placed a protection charm on the necklace so you're safe wherever you go."
"So Draco Malfoy cares about the Boy Who Lived's safety?" Harry asked teasingly.
"No," Draco said as he fixed the Gryffindor with a serious gaze. "I care about Harry Potter's safety." Harry smiled and tilted Draco's chin up to meet him in a tender, loving kiss.
The carriage came to a stop too soon for Harry and Draco's liking, but what could they do? Harry tucked a strand of hair behind Draco's ear before taking his hand. He paused abruptly as he heard Draco wince. Harry smiled apologetically and gingerly wrapped Draco's hand up with his handkerchief. He then took Draco's other hand and threaded their fingers together before leading him up to the castle of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
As they entered the Great Hall together, they were greeted with a stunned silence. Harry sought out his friends and smiled at them before giving Draco a final kiss before he sat down. The Slytherins, minus Pansy and Blaise, had their mouths hanging open in horror as the Slytherin prince blushed after sharing a kiss with the Boy Who Lived in plain view of everybody.
On the Ravenclaw table, Cho's face was sulky and thunderous but she dared not say anything for fear of Ginny hexing her again.
The silence in the hall was broken by Luna saying "awww". Then the gossiping started, but it was soon punctured when Professor McGonagall led the first years inside.
Like always, the sorting hat sang its song and then, one by one, the new students were sorted and, as usual, Ron's stomach rumbled with impatient hunger.
When the last student had been declared a Hufflepuff, the same girl that Sirius had frightened earlier, Dumbledore rose to his feet to give his usual welcome speech.
"Welcome first years, and to the rest of the students, welcome back. Please allow me to introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Maher," there was polite applause as the new teacher stood up. Harry couldn't help but notice that he wore odd shoes, one brown and one black. He wondered if he was perhaps related to Luna Lovegood in some way. "May I also point out," Dumbledore continued, "that the forbidden forest is strictly out of bounds and magic is not to be used in the corridors. Also, I have the distinct feeling that this year will be a good one in terms of house unity." His twinkling eyes flickered between Harry and Draco as he said this. "Now, I do fear that Mr Weasley will have a heart attack if we do not eat soon, so … tuck in."
Ron cheered as the plates before them filled with food and he dived in eagerly, causing Hermione to throw him a disgusted look as he stuffed his mouth with food.
Seamus on the other hand, didn't seem the slightest bit put off about Ron's eating habits. He actually spent most of his time gawking at Ron, rather than concentrating on his own food.
"So, you're finally going to tell Romeo how you feel this year?" Dean asked Seamus.
"Yeah, I play Quidditch," was Seamus' answer. Dean laughed at his love-struck friend and shook his head as he continued eating.
That night as the other Gryffindor boys lay sleeping, Seamus sat on the edge of Ron's bed stroking his hair lovingly as the red-haired boy snored peacefully.
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