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This chapter was hard and I'm still not confident with it, but I know me and I don't think I will ever be happy with it, so this is the best version I could make. At least, what I love about HBP is that nothing happens except Harry obsessing with Draco and a lot of 'teens being teens' and emotional drama, which is pretty much what I wanted to do and with no need to worry about book plots. Still, I hope you like it!

A good solution for Draco's cabinet problems came by convincing Flitwick to teach him how to do advance charms on objects, fixing an enchanted object was usually more difficult than making it from scratch, but if he knew how to make it, it would be a lot more likely he would understand how to fix it. So, he thought his week was going to end really well, that was until his hands got a lot of red rashes and he knew it was Potter, what could the boy possibly be doing already.

He went out searching for him, in the end of the day, he was still bonded to the other boy and if Potter intended to punish Draco for the mark and their last conversation, he was not going to let him. He heard from Blaise that Slughorn was going to do a little dinner and Potter was most likely invited, so he tried to be around, but all he found was Granger and the girl Weasley.

"I know you are following us" said Weasley at some point, he had been trying to get them to an empty corridor.

"Where is Potter? He can't be in trouble already!" he said to them and Granger was startled to see his hands.

"He is in detention with Professor Snape, he was going to be sorting Flobberworms"

"Why the hell is he not using protective gloves?"

"It's part of the detention"

And Draco cursed Snape and his stupid vendetta against Potter, he really wanted to know If the man knew he was hurting the both of them and was doing it on propose to punish Draco as well since he was ignoring the professor and his attempts to find out about his plans.

"Is that part of the bond?" said Weasley pointing at his hands.

"Does he tell everyone about this?" Draco said annoyed.

"We were with him last year when you decided to throw a tantrum" the girl said spiteful.

Draco had completely forgotten that other people were in the infirmary on that day and he cursed again, he had a vague memory of Longbottom being there, but there was someone else he had no idea who it was.

"You know nothing Weasley"

"You only care about yourself!" she accused and Granger tried to tell her to stop, but Draco was not going to take it from her in silence.

"You're just sore that he chose me instead of you!" he said impulsively, not even knowing where that had come from, because Potter hadn't chosen him either, in fact they had been ignoring each other for the past week.

But apparently it made no difference for Weasley and she took out her wand, prompting Granger to get in between them.

"No! we need to work together!"

And Weasley's face was full of anger, but she just turned and left.

"You shouldn't provoke her" said Granger

"She was the one throwing accusations at my face"

And Granger's face was conflicted, almost sad.

"She is angry and confused, Harry officially came out this summer, everyone took it very well, we all kind of knew after… but feelings don't just… go away" the girl said and then she looked at Draco as if expecting him to say something, he didn't have any opinion on Potter's coming out, he knew Fred was out and no one seemed bothered by it, they had no reason to have an issue with Potter, so noticing he wasn't going to react, she just shocked her head "she also doesn't want to forgive you, she still remembers all that happened because your father gave her that cursed diary"

And that took Draco completely by surprise, not that he couldn't see his father doing it, he just didn't know anything about it.

"What are you talking about?"

"You don't know?" she said shocked

"If I did I wouldn't be asking" he said with irony and Granger took a deep breath to control herself.

In the end Granger ended up telling him all about the real thing that caused all the trouble in second year. He was impressed to learn Potter killed a basilisk and tried to remember if he felt anything in particular about that day, but so much had happened since then, that he wasn't sure. He also could admit that the girl had gone through a lot, she was just eleven at the time, but none of it had been his fault, sure, he had said Potter and his friends should all die, but if Granger could look him in the face and have a civilised talk, then Weasley should be able to do the same. He still suspected that her feelings for Potter were the real issue here, but he decided to not insist with Granger.

"A lot of people will have issues with you and Harry being together, after all the stuff the Prophet said last year, Harry is pretty used to it, but you should prepare yourself for it"

"Well, there is no me and Potter, so nothing to worry about. And don't you have an issue?"

"I do, but we like who we like and I think everyone should be allowed to change, if we don't believe people can change then what is the point of anything?"

Draco was a bit confused with the girl, but he just agreed with her and went back to his room, hoping it would be all gone in the morning, but he did wonder if Potter had kept secret his mark, Granger had acted just as she usually did, which was actually quite friendly (also the girl had toned down her bossy attitude over the years). Maybe the war would make her actually learn wizard culture, last thing they needed was another uneducated muggleborn trying to move up in politics and he had no doubt that was where she was going.

On the next few days, Draco found himself fully dedicated to his studies and his mission, it was almost easy to believe the bond didn't exist. And yet, he had expected some kind of reaction from Potter, even if it was a confrontation.

"You're doing it again" said Theo next to him as they ate in the great hall.

"Doing what?"

"Staring at Potter"

And then Draco turned to look at his friends.

"I'm not"

"Yes you are, he's been doing it too. Did something happen?"

"I suppose" said Draco vaguely, not really knowing what to say, but he noticed Theo was still staring at him "what?"

"There was a time I always knew what you were thinking, but now, not so much, you barely even talk to us" the boy said, a pained expression on his face.

"Things are different now"

"No, Draco, you are" said the boy before standing up and leaving. Theo didn't sound mad, but he wasn't really good at expressing his caring side and it was clear the boy was worried about Draco, all their friends were.

It hadn't sunk in until now how much he had changed in the past two years, but Theo was right, he was the one that was different, being constantly sick, questioning everything and then finding out he was bonded to Harry Potter had turned his life upside down and all his plans were gone, he was basically improvising as he went along.

He eventually left the great hall to go back to the room of requirements, but his head was still far away, which was why he was surprised to be grabbed by invisible hands and shoved into a cupboard.

"What the hell, Potter?" asked Draco, there was only one boy he knew that had an invisibility cloak.

"Dumbledore showed me something… he has a guess about why Voldemort is so interested in the Black family" Potter said immediately and Draco was taken by surprise, he had expected the boy to be confrontational, not agitated and sharing information.

"Do tell"

"Voldemort is a collector, kind of like Slughorn, but he used Sirius' mother as a way to get into society and make contacts, so he kind of dated her for appearances when he was in school, it is why the first person he recruited was Bellatrix, but he wanted to keep the Blacks as his and Sirius was the oldest male, the heir! In fact, he went after all the heirs of influential families, not the people he went to school with. Dumbledore thinks Walburga might have actually promised Sirius to him or something, he showed me Bellatrix wedding, it's where Sirius met Voldemort, his mother wanted him to be a Death Eater before he even started Hogwarts!"

Draco's mind was spinning, in his head there was never a time where the Dark Lord had 'dated' anyone, even if it was fake, but all of that actually made a lot of sense and fit quite well with his character. In fact, it matched with the conversation he overheard between Rabastan and Snape, the Dark Lord would be aware of him because he is the Malfoy heir.

"…the Dark Lord keep closest to him are not the most talent, but the ones he doesn't want out of his sight"

And Bellatrix had said the same about Rabastan, about how the Dark Lord kept him around because, although he was the second son, his father had made him the heir, so not only he had the money, but apparently there was some kind of debit between them. Everything fit very well and Draco felt silly for not noticing that before, it was also a bit insane to think the Dark Lord wanted to recruit children, but it explained why Regulus got dragged into it even though he didn't want to, Draco would not be surprised at all if their mother had indeed promised Sirius, he knew Mr. Crabbe and Nott wanted their sons to be with the Dark Lord.

"That makes sense" said Draco

"But it sounds more personal with Sirius, there is something missing, everyone made it sound like he still wanted Sirius even when he had Regulus" he thought but then something else came to mind, about how Dumbledore would have even known the Dark Lord had a special interest in him "Snape is reporting to him then?"

"I don't think he knows about the bond, but Dumbledore… well he knows" said Potter looking at Draco's left arm "we talked… he has been looking for something that could explain the bond but… he hasn't been very successful"

Draco was not surprised the Headmaster had been so unsuccessful, to see Bella's wedding, he must have asked Andromeda, but she is the least likely person to know anything and if Lupin had any knowledge, he would have said something already. He knew Snape had been trying to get information out of Rabastan, but the man had been really good at avoiding such a thing.

"Dumbledore must be frustrated with the lack of progress, he is probably sharing things with Potter to see if he can spot something he didn't"

Draco was lost in thoughts, but eventually he just stood there looking at Potter and the situation was immediately uncomfortable, he wasn't sure what to do, this was not the confrontation he had expected from Potter, he thought the boy would scream at him, not act all awkward.

"He hasn't talked to me about it and if he is waiting to hear things from Snape, he will wait a long time, I don't trust Snape, I won't tell him anything"

"Would you tell me?" said Potter looking Draco in the eyes.

"No"

Potter recoiled as if he had been hit and then looked away, Draco took a deep breath, thinking about what he should say, but there was nothing in his mind, they could have this conversation millions of times, it would always end the same an he would just get himself in another circle of hope and disappointment with Potter, so he moved to leave.

"Why did you kiss me that day?" said Potter in a small voice and Draco froze on the spot.

"You seem in desperate need of some help and I felt like it" Draco said, but he didn't look at the boy, he waited a moment for an answer and then, just decided to move on "I'm sorry if you're offended to have kissed a Death Eater" he said bitter.

"No! That is not… you said that with Fred…" Potter tried to say

"It's different" said Draco automatically, but he cursed himself in his head, he didn't know why he said that, kissing Potter had been just as impulsive as kissing Fred, he had just been more invested in the golden boy because… well…

"Was it though? Did you… did it meant something to you?"

Draco was confused, so far the boy had not acted at all like he expected and he didn't know what to do, or what to think.

"What do you want Potter?" he asked directly, because he was done playing this strange game.

The other boy released a heavy breath and ran his hand on his hair, a habit Draco had noticed when Potter was nervous. He reached out his hands to Draco's face, his own full of angst, and looked him in the eyes.

"I want to help you! You said you don't want this and I believe you, so I don't want to ignore you, the bond… or…or the way I feel"

Draco was absolutely lost, but Potter, it seemed, was horrible at expressing himself and decided to just go ahead and kiss Draco like his life depended on it. There were millions of questions that could be asked, but at that moment Draco just didn't care, he just kissed back and let himself enjoy whatever this was. The kiss was passionate and it felt for Draco as if he was washing away the troubles and worries of the past few months, for a moment he could breath an air that was not heavy and deadly.

"I want to trust you, trust the mark is not you" Potter whispered, still breathless.

Draco wanted to call him a fool, wanted to protest with all the reasons this wouldn't work, he was trying to survive and kissing the Dark Lord's biggest enemy was not a good way to lay low. But Potter was kissing him again and he just wanted to be selfish, to keep the one thing he desired, forget the war, his mission, and the Dark Lord and family secrets… he just wanted to have something all his and for some reason the universe had given him Harry Potter in a silver plate. He had no idea how Regulus just walked away from this, he had happiness and love in his hands and was able to let it all go to fight, Draco was never going to follow on his footsteps, because he only had a mere promise being offered to him and he already wanted to take it, to keep it, even if he knew Potter was going to break his heart in the end.

They didn't talk for a while, looking at one another every now and then, but no words would come out and they would just go back to kissing, delaying for as long as they could the inevitable moment they would need to talk.

"If this is because of the bond…" Draco started to say, but Potter gave him a quick peck.

"It isn't, the bond… we don't even know what it is… but now that it brought us together, it's the only thing I can think about…"

"We're a disaster waiting to happen, Potter" Draco said, but the boy's heavy breath was still hitting his face and he just had to kiss him again before this ended.

"It already happened" Potter whispered and actually took a step back so they would talk to one another instead of kissing "unless you don't want more…?"

Draco just snorted, obviously he wanted, but none of this was about what he wanted.

"I still need to complete the mission, that is not changing, I'm already in trouble as it is" Draco said firmly

"Let me help you, then!" said Potter frustrated and Draco started to suspect the boy was actually serious.

"Don't be ridiculous"

"I mean it! You don't want to do things my way, so we will do things your way! We can… do it and then sabotage it or something, you don't have to face him on your own"

Draco took a deep breath and closed his eyes trying to think things through, but his thoughts were all over the place.

"We are not doing anything except making out" and Potter snorted "I will do it and… fine… when it's set up… we figure out something" said Draco, partially sabotaging his own plan was not a terrible idea, he didn't actually want any student getting hurt when the Death Eaters were in the castle "And we will keep this all a secret"

He had no idea what he was doing, he didn't even know if his plans were going to work and now he apparently was accepting a secret relationship with Harry Potter like he wasn't in enough trouble.

"Hermione knows"

"Not Weasley?" Draco asked curious

"Kind of… we… disagreed about it… but they won't tell, they know about the bond too"

"Yes and right now there are an awful lot of people that know about it, we can't let it spread"

"I wasn't going to tell anyone"

"This" said Draco pointing to the two of them "also needs to be a secret"

"I know"

And they were silent for a moment, thinking.

"I will do things to complete my mission you won't like"

"I know"

"No you don't" Draco wanted to scream.

Draco wasn't sure why he was trying to push Potter away, this was exactly what he wanted just a few months ago, but no matter how much the boy promised he wasn't going to hurt Draco, until he proved it, they were just empty words and Draco had to admit there was a part of him that was afraid this would blow up on his face somehow. He knew Potter would do something stupid again or simply give up when he really realised Draco is a Death Eater, so he just knew this would end badly.

"When did I become this idiot that wants Harry Potter so badly?"

"Ok" said Draco, giving in and grabbing the other boy again, hopefully his lips wouldn't be too swollen by the time they left the cupboard.

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Draco couldn't point it out exactly how he ended up trying to find a way to sneak in Death Eaters in the school so he could get an opportunity to kill Dumbledore or have them do it and at the same time he had started to make out in cupboards with none other than the Dark Lord's biggest enemy. But somehow those two things were happening together and the world had not ended yet, in fact, it was all working quite well.

And that was actually way more scary.

But Draco had decided to put a blind fold on and pretend for as long as it lasted that he could have nice things again, that he could study and date a boy he liked and not worry about his life every other second. He knew it wasn't going to last, either because of the Dark Lord or because Potter would have to face the truth he was ignoring at the moment, Draco didn't believe for a second the boy had really accepted what he would have to do, somehow he was sure Potter was still trying to save him or whatever. So this time, he would not trust blindly, he would enjoy things, but he was not letting Potter get him away from his focus, because he knew that at the end, he still needed to go back to the Dark Lord (and without getting caught).

It's not like he didn't know Potter was going to hate him when he killed Albus Dumbledore.

Draco received a note to meet with the boy on the second floor, they had been secretly meeting there for a few days now, but he was surprised when he was presented with a galleon coin.

"Hermione enchanted them last year to send messages for the DA, this ones' work both ways, so we can use it to set up meetings, it doesn't work for long messages, but you can send a date, time and place" said Potter and Draco loved the idea even if those were not the words he used to tell the boy that.

He told the boy he had an idea to mix the room of requirements as their meeting place, going to the second floor all the time would get them caught and because of his project, he was supposed to be at the room anyway and no one would find it suspicious.

"I still think you should let us help with your… project"

"And the answer is still no. I will try to think of another thing to do, a distraction… I will think of something before Christmas, so he can't say I'm lazing around, my main plan will take a while yet, I need to do a lot of work and see if Flitwick will unknowingly help me with some of the charms, because he was teaching me control before we started manipulation of material, which is the part I like the most, but I will need to jump straight to advance object enchantment, which I'm sure he will make me to the arithmancy calculations for each one he teaches me even though the spell already exist"

It was not a situation to laugh, but Potter did anyway.

"I don't know half of what you're talking about, but I'm sure Hermione does"

"I hope you don't mean I should ask her for help"

"She is the best witch in our year!"

"Only if you take her overall results, I'm the best in charms and everyone knows Longbottom has more knowledge in Herbology than half of the school and you're best in defence. I will give her credit for Arithmancy because she must be the only one who has patience to look at each book to double check, I just made myself a cheat sheet with the most common cases and I always try to apply those and I ask Pansy to check my math"

"I think you two would like each other" said Potter with a fond smile, so used he was to those kinds of rants.

"Absolutely not. Also it is not like I can go to her and say "Hey Granger, I know you are called a mudblood and all, but do you want to help me do something for the Dark Lord?"

"Don't call her that" said Potter serious.

"I won't do it to her face, but if I say nice things about her, someone will realize things are not right"

"Or you can start to change your vocabulary" said Potter still crossed.

"Sure… still... You got the point"

"Actually I kind of lost it halfway through your charms' explanation"

"I have a lot of complicated work to do which will take me time, so I need to find something else to do before Christmas, so when I go back he won't be mad at me"

"You're going back there on Christmas?" the boy asked horrified.

"He will want me to return and I don't want to leave mother alone"

Potter clearly wanted to protest, but there wasn't anything they could do, so there was nothing he could say. The boy ran a hand through his hair as he always did when he was nervous and Draco eventually decided that if nothing could be said, they should at least kiss.

Draco wondered if after the adrenaline ended and this turned into a routine if he would get tired of Potter, if maybe the only reason they were together was because this was new and exciting and he had wanted it for so long. But he found he actually liked kissing Potter, even when it was not full of passion, he always felt wanted even on the little pecks on his lips, because even though Potter was shy over his inexperience, he kissed like a thirsty man drinks water, like every drop is a miracle.

"I just remembered, Pomfrey wanted us both to go to the infirmary at some point, she wants to do a test" Draco said after a while.

"Wanna go now?" asked Potter

Draco thought it would be better to get that done so they agreed to meet there in a few minutes, he would go first and Potter would follow. As usual when you need the infirmary to be free, it never is. Pomfrey had a boy on a bed drinking potions and two girls in another, one of them with a bleeding knee.

"Thanks goodness you're here, can you check Miss Lewis for me"

Draco approached the girl and politely asked her friend to step aside for a moment.

"You're not a nurse!" said the friend, but she did what she was told and Draco was able to clean and close the bleeding wound.

"Is it still hurting?" he asked and the girl seemed surprised it wasn't, but he went ahead and pressed the area and sure enough it was a bit swollen.

He went to the cabinet to get a cream when Potter came in.

"What now Mr. Potter?" asked Pomfrey coming forward, she was done with the boy, who was completely passed out on the bed.

"I was told you wanted to see me?" he answered, looking not too discreet at Draco and soon the woman made the connection.

"Sit there, I will talk to you in a minute" she said pointing to an empty bed

She checked the girl, but there was nothing there anymore and Draco got the cream and spread on the girl's knee.

"Should be good in an hour or two" he said.

The girl thanked him and then the two looked at Potter and that was the cue for Pomfrey to tell them to leave, which they did easily, giggling all the way out.

"I'm assuming you're both here to run some tests?" she asked and they both agreed "took you long enough"

She cast an alarm on the door and made them be together and separate, asked them to cast spells and then did a little cut on Potter's hand, all of it casting a lot of spells and half of it were things Draco had no idea what it meant. Eventually she seemed to get to some sort of conclusion.

"Everything that is unexpected, makes magic react, even a little cut, because magic will immediately try to heal it, what you're feeling are the spikes on Mr. Potter's magic, but when it turns stable, you suddenly lose the connection, so your magic is left trying to deal with things you did suffer, but suddenly it's not there anymore, which is why you suffer for longer on more dramatic events, but adapts more easily if it just a cut.

"But he doesn't feel when I'm casting" said Potter unsure.

"No, because you want to do it, it is your body willing it, so your magic doesn't spike or react, no matter how big a spell you cast. I suppose however that if you two are connected when you're casting, Draco's magic will sync with yours enough to feel it, he has been slowly getting more tuned to you because you two spent so much time together around the castle"

"What do you mean?" Draco asked.

"Proximity, you two attend classes together, eat on the same room, so your magic had time to connect more, it's why your episodes got stronger over the years, you got used to being somewhat in sync and then suddenly there is a spike" said the woman and then took a moment to think "Hold hands" she said and neither of the two reacted more than looking at one another, Potter even blushed "just do it!"

They did and then Pomfrey told Potter to cast a Lumus.

"I don't feel anything" said Draco

"Now cast a Patronus, Potter"

And then Draco did feel it, a warmth that spread through him, like the feeling one gets from a warm hug or drink of cocoa when it's cold.

"Are you ok?" asked Potter concerned.

"Yeah... I actually felt that"

"Sorry" said Potter, releasing his hand in a hurry.

"No… it wasn't bad… just… different"

"It's because it wasn't a spike" said Pomfrey smiling at them "More advanced spells tend to manifest more on the body of the caster, which is why touch can help you tune in just like magic wants. Bonds are a flow, it's why one is aware of the other, but don't feel every single thing they do, with you two, however, there is no flow, but it doesn't mean that your magic is not seeking Potter's constantly and it will get a hold of any magic leaking from his body."

"So me not feeling anything is bad?" asked Potter confused.

"Yes and no, as I said before, bonds don't manifest out of nothing, the only cases of spontaneous bonding are with twins, because their magic is formed together when they are still in the womb and they usually grow together as well. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's relatively common. So technically speaking this bond should not exist at all and nothing bad will happen to you, because your body is not 'programed' to expect a bond, but Draco's magic is constantly seeking yours, so you not being bonded to him, makes things harder for him"

"Can we fix it?" asked Potter

"I have no idea" she said defeated "I don't know why or how you're bonded. Understanding it means we will know what to do when things go wrong or find better ways around it, but that is pretty much it. There is a chance this will fix itself at some point, your magic has a lot of other interferences and they might be acting as a block. But also you were hit by a killing curse, whatever caused this bond might have happened before that, there is no way to know if that is what destroyed your side of the connection"

"So there is a lot of theories and without knowing which one is it, there is no way to fix it" said Draco

"Pretty much" said Pomfrey "But if we can find out what this bond was supposed to do, we might be able to fix it even if we don't know how it was made and how it got broken"

"I don't think that will happen anytime soon" said Draco

"Have you asked your parents?"

"They don't know about the bond"

"But they are the most likely people to know how it could have happened. From the notes I got from Healer Parsinton your mother had a difficult pregnancy, it might just be a coincidence, but the only person who will know is your mother, I don't have access to her files since I don't threat her, so I don't know what caused the issue, but it was certainly something she was worried would affect you, Parsinton did a complete check up on you when you were born"

Since Sirius, Draco had been curious why no one had ever mentioned to him that his mother had any kind of health problems, but he had noticed recently how his mother blamed herself for Draco's illness and that apparently his parents thought whatever this was, it was a consequence of that, even if his healer said otherwise.

"I don't want to worry my mother and I don't want her to keep that knowledge when she is alone at home"

"Well… at the moment you are our only source of information since Mr. Potter has no relative or medical documents to help us"

"I don't?" asked Potter

"You were born at home, if your parents made any records, it stayed on your house" the woman said kindly

"Oh… I didn't know that"

"I asked Mungus for your files in your first year, they didn't have it and then Dumbledore confirmed it. But you are not likely to have any health problems except for your myopia, which might take a while to stabilise so you can fix it, if I'm not mistaken, your father was still having issues with it and he was 21"

"You know my parents medical history?" Potter asked looking very interested, it was quite sad that something like this would be so significant because he knew so little about his family.

"…Sirius must have been the first person that told the boy something substantial about his parents, even if it was a very biased version of them"

Draco had thought he understood how much Sirius meant for Potter, but this actually showed him how little he understood, he knew his grandparents history, he knew Malfoys from generations before, but Potter barely knew about his own parents.

"Not fully" said Pomfrey "your mother was rarely here, her biggest issue was really bad cramps, but I recommended her to go to St. Mungus instead of a muggle doctor and I believe it solved her problem. I saw your father much more, a lot of spell damage, usually messing around with transfiguration, and quidditch accidents. But I saw him for a while after Hogwarts, he needed his medical exams for the aurors and he was never sent to Mungus after Mr. Lupin accidentally hurt him, usually you are supposed to report werewolf attacks and since we never did, explaining that to any healer would get a lot of people in trouble"

"My dad got hurt? When did that happen?" Potter asked and Draco too was curious about it.

"I don't want to break anyone's privacy, but I had assumed you had heard there was a little something between Mr. Lupin, Mr. Black, you father and Professor Snape" The woman said carefully

"Yeah, I know, Professor Dumbledore said my dad saved Snape, he never said he got hurt doing it"

"Well… he did, the claws sunk on his left shoulder, he lost a lot of blood and because it was a werewolf, the wound got heavily infected really fast, it's what usually give then time to reach their prey and bite"

"How come people didn't find out?" Draco asked.

"They did, no one knew what kind of magical creature had attacked him, but the story that James Potter had saved Severus Snape from a deadly creature ran in the school like fire"

"Snape must have been furious they were bragging about it" Said Draco amused

"Oh he was furious, but they didn't brag, they were very quiet about it actually, Mr. Lestrange was the one that caused the story to go around"

"Lestrange?" asked Potter

"You're talking about Rabastan?" said Draco almost together

"Yes, Rabastan Lestrange, was the one who told the teachers what was happening, he brought Potter here from the headmaster's office and then, for the shock effect I'm sure, he went back to the common room still covered in blood and made sure everyone knew what had happened. Lestrange was not a very popular boy, he was magically strong, but one of the worst students Hogwarts has had on the past few years,so the story obviously made him very interesting for a few days, but you two know how gossip on this castle go, at some point people were even saying Potter had proposed to Lestrange and slowly the story got lost in a sea of nonsense, it was around then that people started to consider the Shrieking Shack was haunted"

Draco was very surprised and curious about what had really happened, Lestrange was apparently always full of surprises.

"How did Lestrange even know what was happening?" asked Potter and it was indeed a good question.

"Your father met him when he was running to get to the tree, I think Potter thought he wasn't going to make it in time and told Lestrange to get a teacher. I believe they were friends for a while, but eventually your father and Black got back together and Lestrange had always been tight with Regulus Black and the two brothers did not get along. Unfortunately I don't have much details to tell you, I don't follow the students doings as much as the teachers and although Potter was a very smart and popular boy, at the time, he was just another student"

"Do you think my parents would know anything about the bond?" Potter asked in a small voice.

"I think, and that will be very unfortunate for you, that they might be the only people that ever knew about it"

Draco thought many times about how the bond had come to be, but had never occurred to him to think who might have cast it, he usually thought it was some inheritance, at some point he even thought it had something to do with Sirius, but both him and Potter had been babies at the time this was likely cast and at least one of his parents had to know about it. Considering how messy all of this had been so far, it would be the icing in the cake if the only people with answers were already dead.

Harry is not insane, I promise, we will see more of what is going on inside his head in the next chapters.