Chapter 33

Let it Out

Dumbledore turned his head to stare at the Queen of the vampires. How had she known there was a Veela in his school and he hadn't? He turned to eye the blonde haired Ravenclaw and looked at her in her entirety for the first time since her sorting. She had the pale platinum hair that was indicative of a Veela, the same pale porcelain skin that had nary a blemish, though she was still in her teens so those few mark would clear as she aged. The pale blue eyes that glittered with lust, though this soon after her mating they were dulled slightly.

His mind drifted to the amount of times he'd herd his staff talk of the girl the other students called 'Looney'. She had been caught out of bounds and out after curfew more times that filch had cared to admit but the squib had never given her much punishment. Had she used her lure on the poor creature? Most likely, his eyes drifted to his Potions master, he had never herd the man complain of her and she was said to be rather whimsical.

He sighed and shook his head, had she had him under her spell as well that he hadn't noticed till now? Who knew.

'Lord Dumbledore we need a sect meeting.' The vampire queen stressed as she took in the smug look of the Veela and the distressed look of her nephew. 'I implore you to beseech Adriana and Badrin to stop stalling, something is at work here!'

'I am aware Milady.' Dumbledore said and Harry thought that perhaps the headmaster was trying not to snap at the undead woman.

'What are we to do with the boy headmaster? He molested a girl in my classroom! Whilst in detention!' Snape blared, his eyes wide at the two teens as he spoke.

'I don't believe that it was the girl who was molested here, Severus' Dumbledore said slowly. Looking between the two.

'I didn't really get much of a choice in any of these marriages Professor…' Harry mumbled his eyes glued to the desk in front of him. 'Except maybe Hermione…' he added as an after though.

'And what did you do with Mrs Granger-Potter that was different from the others POTTER?' Severus snapped.

'HE's a teenage boy, the wolf is not unattractive, I doubt he said no when she threw herself at him, or have males changed much in twenty years Severus?' The vampire said with wicked eyes and a smirk directed at the potions master.

Snape's eyes widened in rage and Harry could almost feel the pain from the mans clenched teeth. But he otherwise said nothing.

'Mrs Potter.' Dumbledore began slowly, avoiding the young girls eye.

'Don't worry Professor I can't lure you until the bond settles you can look me in the eye if you wish.' Luna said brightly.

Dumbledore chose to ignore the girl. 'You may leave and enjoy the rest of your Saturday, you will have detention with Professor McGonagall for the next two weeks for inappropriate behaviour during detention.' He said, slowly, his mind still reeling at the fact he hadn't noticed a Veela lurking in his school.

The girl nodded contentedly. She wasn't two concerned about the detentions, it was worth it to have her mate within her grasp as last. She had been fed up of watching the other mates have time with what was also rightfully hers.

'I wish to speak to my nephew, lord Dumbledore' Dacia said as she looked at the boy whose eyes were still glued to the desk before him. 'And You Severus will not speak another word about this to him do you understand?'

Harry's gaze lifted a fraction at this and he watched as Snape jerked his head in agreement, teeth still clenched tight.

Dacia turned to Harry and gestured for him to follow her, he stood and glumly following her, not even looking at his new mate.

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Dacia lead the boy to an old classroom, and perched her self on the teachers desk waiting for the boy to settle himself into a chair before her. When he had she spoke.

'You seem displeased with your situation.' She said. She knew this was a statement and not a question but she hoped it would get the boy to talk about whatever it was that was ailing him.

'Wouldn't you be if your teachers all thought you were trying to sleep with every girl in the school!' Harry snapped like a child and Dacia had to stop herself from snapping at the boy to act his age.

'But you are not Nephew you are consummating your mate ships, numerous though they maybe.' Dacia said silently vowing to give Snape a tongue lashing, he knew as well as any that creatures couldn't be helped when there mate was found.

'Yea and I'll bet even the headmaster thinks this is my fault at this point! I'm sick of it, I keep being dragged into marriages I don't want with girls I barely know and some how because I'm a guy it's all my fault!' Harry yelled, standing from the chair he was sitting in and pacing in front of his mate.

'When will everyone realise I have not control or choice over this, sure I could have said no to Hermione but I didn't want to! What guy would when the girl they've liked for a year makes a move? I didn't know it was gonna end up in a marriage but even then I was happy because I love Hermione' the boy ranted whilst she patiently waited from him to finish.

'But then Daphne asked me to go with her and I was being polite, I didn't think she'd pounce on me, and I tired to push her away but then she had her mouth on….well she was you know,, and I couldn't think! Then she sunk her fangs into me!'

Dacia's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open. 'Not the usual place for a mateship suckling…if it gets the job done though…' she said uncertainly and Harry gave her a withering look.

'Of course then Hermione's all pissed at Me as if I HAD A CHOICE! I didn't even know Daphne at that point and suddenly she'd my all but wife?'

Dacia nodded she could see how that would be a little irritating.

'Then there's Susan, pure Susan, who didn't even want to find her mate but by some fucked up twist of fate ended up finding me, and again the girls thought I was MY FAULT! How was I to know she was an elf and that bleeding on her would cause a bond? Neither of us wanted it but we sucked it up and dealt with it, even if the other two yelled at me for it!'

' and don't even get me started on Dean Tomas, I stole his witch? I mean come on if Lupin hadn't taken Hermione to the Black pack she wouldn't have gotten injured and I wouldn't have been in the stupid infirmary to get Ginny's blasted Feather! I didn't choose Ginny, she choose me! Though I can't really be mad at that one since she'd have died if I hadn't but still! Dean had no right to punch me for something I had no control over!'

'Then there's Pansy… the prefects bathroom should not have bloody well opened! Neither Sue nor I knew she was in god dammed water and the next thing I know I'm kissing her under the water! I have no idea what happened between getting in the bath and ending the kiss with her….how can I be blamed for something, hell she thought she was fucking gay! How fucked up is that?'

'And then today It was soo clear Luna knew I was her mate, she knew! Did she give me any warning? Did she ask me before she lured me into having sex with her? No! she didn't she fucking didn't and SNAPE BLAMES ME? I am done with fucking creatures and stupid mates and I am not going back to any one of those girls if they are going to chew me out for Luna when it's Luna they should be mad at!'

'I wouldn't even be in detention if It hadn't been for Ginny and her stupid bloody burning!' he finished with a heavy sighed as he once again collapsed into the chair before his aunt.

'Dacia looked from her nephew to the doorway of the classroom where Severus Snape stood.

'I assume you herd that?' the Vampire queen asked the Professor as she stood and watched the man nod. 'Seek Aldrick, inform him to go the stone on Lewis I would speak with Badrin myself' she said slowly and watched as the man departed once more.

'I believe professor Snape will give you a touch more leniency from now on, though knowing him not much…' she said turning to the boy whose cheeks had coloured upon realising that his most hated professor had herd his rant.

'Tell me, have you told any of your mates this?, she asked looking down at the boy. Who shook his head. 'I suggest you do, you can't keep all this bottled up, you'll only recent them if you do' she said placing a hand on the boys shoulder.

'if it makes you feel any better then your mates would have had little control over their actions as well. Your wolf I believe had no idea of what she was never mind her mating heat, she would have only know the desire to have her mate rut with her.'

'As for Miss Greengrass, well I can say from experience that the scent of Mates blood will drive any vampire mad with desire, we relay on instinct, its rare that we even have time enough to explain during the lust'

'She did apologise at the time come to think of it….' Harry mumbled and Dacia nodded, smiling fondly at the memory of her own mates blood call, had she even managed that much?

'AS for the firebird, you are right, the girl had but two options open to her, and you simply happened to be in the right place at the right time, though perhaps explaining that not waiting till the last moment during a burning might better serve you both as save you from the ire of your professors.' She said with a smirk and Harry scratched his neck sheepishly.

'The mermaid, from what I recall experiences a terrible pain if they try to stop their song, it's something instinctual that they have little control over, I wouldn't blame the girl, as for being gay well, magic works in mysterious ways, but I believe that something is pushing it in your direction'

'Does that mean that Pansy might not actually be my mate? That she might be a witches mate?' Harry said with a quiver of panic in his voice.

Dacia smiled gently seeing that despite his frustrations, her Nephew cared for each of his girls. 'No, if she sang her song for you, then you are hers, not magic can force or change a mate ship, but I can't help but wonder if something is speeding up the process a little'

Harry nodded frowning at his aunt as she ponder her own thought. The queen shook her head slightly, that was a thought for another day.

'You seem not to resent the Elf so perhaps she should be the one you talk to regarding your feelings on the others?' Dacia suggested. 'I would be too hard on the Veela, talk to her before you push her away.'

Harry Nodded and rubbed a hand down his face.

'is it bad that I wish I was back in the days were my biggest problem was Voldemort?' He asked his aunt who blinked at him and chuckled slightly.

'funny, when I took over the coven I often wished I could return to the days were my brother and his friends were my biggest worries, but now I wouldn't give up my crown, not even if it would bring Jamie back to me, for I know that in these troubled times the place I can best serve my faction and our world as a whole is as a queen.' She said with a sad smile. 'Perhaps you will find that your mates, troublesome though they are may help you more with Voldemort than your realise.'

Harry nodded his eyes shinning with the beginnings of tears as he realised that this woman was his aunt, and she missed her brother as much as he missed his father.

Dacia frowned at the classroom door and her nose twitched, her lip curling at one corner to revel a small fang. 'Severus' she muttered a moment before the named man came into view. A hand pressed to his neck.

'Professor!' Harry gasped, standing from his chair as Dacia stepped forward using her speed to reach the man. She pulled his hand away from the wound and assessed it.

'Alarick?' she questioned and the often sour man shook his head. Dacia Narrowed her eyes and cocked her head to the side. 'Then who?'

'Noran, and Yevette, they believed me an attacker.' Severus groaned.

Dacia opened her mouth to ask another question but her eyes flicked down to his covered left arm and she closed her eyes in regret.

'An oversight, forgive me.' She said placing her palm against his cheek, Harry watched at the Professor leaned into the touch.

'Always,' the older man mumbled as Harry watched his aunt put her self on her tip toes to literally kiss away the wound on the man's neck. Harry watched at the wound closed in the same way that Daphne's wounds always did when she bit him. He Gasped.

The pair, who had clearly forgotten he was the turned to face him.

'Not one Word Potter.' Snape Growled as he stepped back from the Vampire queen.

'But…You…How….WHY'D YOU YELL AT ME?' Harry said loudly causing Dacia to wince.

'Because he's an ill tempered man' Dacia answered smirking up at her mate and daring him to say anything but. 'And Most likely you remind him to much of Jamie.'

'All of his fathers arrogance none of his mothers brains' Snape muttered.

'if you gave me half a chance' Harry muttered under his breath looking away from the pair.

Dacia rolled her eyes.

'Yes well, I think it can be agreed that neither one of you will ever get along, and that from now on Severus will attempt to be more understanding of the fact that Harry often doesn't understand what is going on, since Lord Dumbledore insisted him being raised by blood bags'

'Muggles.' Snape corrected.

'As I said.'

Harry Snorted and he was sure even Snape's mouth cocked at the corners.

'Go talk to the Veela, nephew and remember what I said.'

'Yes Aunt' Harry said obediently and made to walk past the pair of mates.

'I believe Mrs Lovegood-Potter is in the courtyard.' Snape advised as Harry reached the door.

'Thanks sir.' Harry said politely and hurried out of the way.

'You could be nicer to him you know.' Dacia said as she turned to face her own mate. 'You are his uncle after all.'

'I stay at this school teaching halfwit children that don't wish to learn to watch out for him at your request, do not take what little joy I have from me woman…' He deadpan and she couldn't help but giggle.