A/N: Wow, I'm actually updating at a normal rate again. School has been killer stressful, I'm just updating now because I'm already done my homework. Please review, I dunno where my reviewers went but I like feedback. I dunno, maybe my story just isn't popular. But oh well, I'm having fun writing.
Romance Blooms:
Harry threw his invisibility clock over his form as he neared the Slytherin Dungeons. He suddenly came face to…face with a painting of a very evil looking witch that he remembered from year 2. This was the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room. "Can you let me in?" he asked the witch, staying under the cloak.
"You are clearly not a Slytherin so no," she said in a huff and Harry rolled his eyes. Suddenly he noted a snake wrapped around her neck, staring directly at him. Suddenly he got an idea.
"Can you let me in my snake friend?" he began speaking Parseltongue to the snake and it began hissing back.
"Why do you need entry to this room that is not yours?" it asked and the witch stopped her ranting to look down at the snake.
"I must speak with one Draco Malfoy who I know resides behind your portrait," Harry was trying his best to be polite.
"You know you will be trespassing…I like you," the snake said before slithering up to his mistress's ear and she looked down in contempt at where he was standing.
"Fine, but don't tell anyone," she said before opening slightly to allow the invisible boy in.
"Thank you, thank you my snake friend," he added before slipping into the green and silver bathed common room. He looked around. He saw a few girls heading into one of the two corridors and he decided it was the girls' dormitory.
The one farther from the door must be the boys' dormitory so Harry quickly and quietly made his way around the couches and to the hallway entryway. He noted that on each door was a name in sliver plated writing, 'Lucky, they get their own rooms," Harry thought as he moved down the small corridor until he found a door with 'Draco Malfoy' written on it.
He looked around and when he was sure no one was in the hallway with him, he pushed open the door and closed it again with a light click, casting a Silencing Charm around the room and adding a few locking spells before relieving himself of the cloak.
"Bloody hell!" Draco yelled when he entered from another room and saw Harry standing there, "what the hell are you doing in here? How did you get in here? Get out of here!" he began yelling at the top of his lungs.
"Malfoy, calm down! I want to talk to you about Lizzie," Harry silently smiled when Draco immediately stopped yelling at the girl's name and looked at him worriedly.
"Why? What's wrong?" Draco motioned for the two chairs by the fire burning in the fireplace and Harry complied silently. Once they were both sitting, Harry took a breath. He would either be thrown out of the room after being cursed or be thrown out of the room after being cursed to hell.
"You need to do something about Lizzie, she won't listen to me," Harry looked at the blonde and noted a flash of guilt through his eyes before the Malfoy mask was placed once more upon his face.
"What do you know Potter?" Draco snapped at him.
"I know Lizzie is more or less in love with you and that I don't want her to get hurt any more than she already has because you are too much of a prat to show her how you feel. How do you feel Malfoy?"
There was a long awkward silence and Harry was beginning to get worried that Draco was simply taking the time to think of the most efficient curse to use on him. Draco opened his mouth, looked at Harry…and closed his mouth again, his normally pale face taking on a slight flush.
"If you're worried about her getting hurt, I think she'll be ok if we both watch over her and you're only hurting her now," Harry said sadly and noticed a look of extreme guilt in the boy's eyes. "Well just do something soon, I'm going to go see Lizzie, Ron and Hermione."
Draco looked up sharply as Harry took off the silencing charm and locking spells and then gave him a tight smile before grabbing his invisibility cloak. "Wait Potter," Draco said quickly just before Harry disappeared. "Where's Lizzie?"
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"Look who I picked up on the way back from the Common Room," Harry said as he and Draco neared the three positioned comfortably under the birch trees swaying hypnotizing in the breeze. Ron and Hermione looked up and said a quick 'hello' and then returned to their work but Elizabeth looked up and when she saw Draco, her face broke out into a beautiful smile.
Harry moved to sit beside Hermione and Ron, Elizabeth on his right under a separate tree and began chatting away with the other two Gryffindors but Draco just stood there for a few moments, trying to get his breath back from when he has seen Elizabeth smiling. The light shining through the branches of the trees made her practically glow and Draco couldn't help smiling back and sitting on her left, away from the annoying eyes of the Gryffindors.
Elizabeth returned to her book, unsure of why Draco was there and not wanting to bother him or something by flirting, 'there's no real point to flirting anyways,' she reminded herself and her smile quickly dropped.
Draco was looking at her and seemed to know he was the cause of her smile falling. What if Voldemort found out and took Lizzie? What if the Slytherins found out? He didn't want her to come to any harm but Harry's words rang in his ears, 'If you're worried about her getting hurt, I think she'll be ok if we both watch over her and you're only hurting her now…'
Taking a deep breath he slowly inched his hand closer to Elizabeth's and subtly took her dainty hand in his rough hands from years of Quidditch. Elizabeth looked down at their hands and then up into Draco's eyes, seemingly searching for something. Suddenly she smiled, supposedly she found what she had been looking for: commitment, trust, love. Draco was sure that was what she saw because he could feel those feelings radiating off himself.
"You sure?" Elizabeth wanted to be sure before she got her hopes up too high and Draco's squeeze of her hand told her everything she needed to know. She smiled brightly and leaned slightly into him so her friends didn't notice and continued with her book, still holding hands with Draco in the shade of the birch trees.
Draco let her lean on him and smiled to himself, this is what he wanted and it made Lizzie happy too. He wanted desperately to kiss her, to show her how much she meant to him but decided public affections were not the best thing at the moment, and Elizabeth seemed to understand that too because she seemed the happiest person in the world leaning against the platinum blonde.
Harry looked over and smiled when he saw Elizabeth smiling and their fingers intertwined. He would keep a watch over them in case Draco tried something but he had a strong feeling Draco wanted this as much as the muggle girl. He mentally patted himself on the back for a job well done and returned to the potions homework he was supposed to do.
"Hey Lizzie, what did you do to speed up that potion the other day?" Harry asked and Elizabeth moved Draco and her entwined hands between them where the Gryffindors couldn't see, understanding why Draco had wanted to hide his feelings with all the Death Eaters.
"I put in two fairy wing tips, why?" Elizabeth looked at him.
"We have to write about an ingredient that speeds up the process of a potion's making, didn't you do that already?" Harry looked at her and Elizabeth shook her head, her red hair bouncing with the movement.
"Nope, Snape wanted me to write more about that potion I made instead of doing that essay," Elizabeth smiled and everyone laughed, Ron throwing out a 'lucky you'.
Everyone went back to their own work, Elizabeth explaining some things to Harry when he needed help until the sun began to set. "We better go in for dinner," Hermione said as she packed away her books in her book bag. Everyone nodded in agreement and began packing up and heading towards the Great Hall.
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"Hey, do you guys want to have a sleep over in my room?" Elizabeth asked excited as she stuffed the last of her apple into her mouth, making Draco roll his eyes and Harry laugh.
"What's a…sleep over?" Ron asked and Hermione laughed, being the only other one raised by muggles.
"Its when people all stay overnight at the same house, sometimes for parties or celebrations but mainly just for fun," Hermione said before looking at Elizabeth, "that sounds like so much fun, I'll definitely come after getting my stuff from my room.
"Cool, anyone else?" Elizabeth smiled when Harry, Ron, and a hesitant Draco nodded. Draco knew he would actually be safer outside of the Slytherin Dungeons with all the Death Eaters but sharing a room with all those Gryffindors made him nervous also. "And if this is a success, we can invite more people next time!" Elizabeth smiled and stood up from the table.
"We'll all get our stuff from our rooms and meet you at your room," Hermione said as she dragged Ron off towards the Gryffindor towers, quickly followed by Harry. Draco smiled and headed off towards the dungeons to get his things and Elizabeth headed up to her room to get everything ready.
A/N: There is a plot going on, I'm just really enjoying writing the romance parts right now so stick with me, there is a plot hiding under all of this. Ok I want your opinions for this, who should I get together with Harry? I was thinking the normal Ginny thing but I want to know what you think.