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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Three: A Sirius Problem
The next morning Harry and Hermione explained everything to Ron before going to breakfast, knowing it would be in the Daily Prophet. Ron listened carefully, spluttered, turned red, got angry, punched Harry and then calmed down. The three made it down to the Great Hall only to have the entire Hall turn silent upon Harry's arrival. Half the students had their copies of the Daily Prophet out, and were reading it as they'd taken so long to arrive.
Harry nearly groaned but kept his head held high with Ron and Hermione on either side of him glaring at the entire room as if daring them to say anything. They sat down in the middle of the table, surrounding themselves with Fred, George, Ginny, Colin, Seamus, Dean, Neville, Lavender, Parvati, Katie, Angelina and Alicia. All of them glaring at the rest of the room and making sure that Harry was in the middle.
Harry smiled cheerfully and said, "Good morning!"
He was greeted with a chorus of grunts and "morning Harry's" before everyone turned back to their breakfast. With the exception of Fred and George. They both smiled at Harry and Fred asked, "So Harry, read the Prophet yet?"
Harry shook his head no and said, "Why?"
George blinked and said, "Ay mate, best not to read that garbage. They'll cook up any story to sell the papers. Imagine, you and that slimy git of a Potions Professor, married and bonded! Ha!"
A cold voice with a slight sneer spoke from right behind Harry and said, "I seriously hope you rethink your choice of words, Mr. Weasley. Good morning Harry, Miss Granger, Weasley."
Harry smiled up at him and said, "Morning Severus, I take it Padfoot hasn't gotten a hold of you yet?"
Severus snorted, "Landed himself in the Hospital Wing trying to get past my wards."
Hermione and Harry exchanged a glance before Harry raised an eyebrow at Severus and said, "Now you didn't do anything, uh, that can't be reversed did you?"
Severus merely grinned wickedly and said, "Let's just say he'll not be having fun in the bedroom with his husband anytime soon."
Harry looked horrified, "I can't believe you'd punish Remus too. That's just down right torturous Severus."
Severus shook his head, "Remus, I'll have you know, got quite the kick out of it. The Headmaster wants you to be up in his office right after dinner for tonight, don't forget. See you later in Potions."
Harry smirked and raised an eyebrow knowing he had the attention of the entire hall and said, "What? No good morning kiss?"
Neville fainted to a dead thud, closely followed by Ron. Fred and George's jaws dropped, Lavender and Parvati gapped openly at Harry and the Professor while Hermione giggled. Severus raised an eyebrow and said, "You do realize you'll be chastised the rest of the day for this."
Harry just grinned and pulled him down and kissed him good morning, making sure that the kiss in itself showed the rest of the hall just how serious they both were about getting married on Friday. A few of the other girls fainted, several Slytherins fainted. Draco marched straight out of the room to write a letter to his father. By the time the two came up for air, you could hear a pin drop in the Hall. Seamus Finnigan broke it with, "HA! I won the bet! I knew it all along! I told you Dean! I told you Harry was gay!"
That sent most of the Gryffindor table into hysterics, Harry grinned at Severus and winked before swatting him away with a playful slap on the ass. Severus blinked but walked up to the table with the rest of the Professors and sat between Minerva and Remus. Harry smirked at the group and said, "You know, I'll bet the next few days are nothing but Severus sitting up there with howler after howler coming at him."
The rest of the day went by uneventfully and soon it was dinnertime. Harry explained to Ron and Hermione that he would be going out shopping with Severus and Minerva. Hermione spent at least ten minutes reminding him what colors to get and what kinds of clothes to get. Hermione even went so far as to suggest what kind of glasses he should get, and that he looked into getting contacts.
After dinner he was greeted in the Headmasters office by both his great- grandparents and Severus, all of which were smiling when he walked in. The Headmaster leveled a glance at Harry and said, "I trust the two of you will not be exchanging 'good morning kisses' every morning like that?"
Harry just grinned, no response, just grinned. Fifteen minutes later Severus, Minerva and Harry were all at one of the largest Muggle shopping centers around. Severus insisted on clothing first as he was down right tired of looking at Harry in clothes fit for a whale. After an hour and a half Harry had a completely new wardrobe full of perfectly fitting clothing, jeans, shirts, shorts, sweaters, dress pants, casual pants, leather pants, a leather jacket, a suit, boxers of almost every color, all new socks (he threw in a few for Dobby), a new pair of sneakers, dress shoes, casual shoes, leather boots, very comfortable sandals, and of course Minerva insisted that he buy some swimming trunks.
After that they went to get Harry an eye check up, which took roughly ten minutes and were told that he would have his glasses and his contacts ready in an hour. During which Minerva decided they would buy all new bedding for Severus's rooms, as a wedding present from Minerva and Albus. Together Harry and Severus picked out satin sheets, a set in gold and a set in silver, both sets king sized, as the bed Minerva and Albus had already selected was a king sized bed. They picked out a goose-feather down comforter that was an almost perfect match to the Slytherin green. They picked white sheer curtains for the bed, and red, gold and silver decorative pillows to put on the bed, all upon Minerva's insistence that the bed needed them.
Once done with that they picked up Harry's glasses and contacts, shrunk all of the purchases into one bag, which Minerva put a feather weight charm on and let Harry carry himself. After that they only had one stop, which was in Diagon Alley at one of the jewelry stores to buy their wedding and bonding bands. Harry and Severus went alone into the store, while Minerva rushed off to buy some Potions ingredients for Severus. Half an hour later Harry and Severus picked out their wedding bands, both gold, and thick enough to carve something on it later with their wands.
For the bonding bands they chose silver bands with charmed stones set in them, a diamond that would flicker to their bonded's heart beat, a ruby that if tapped by the wand would bring them directly to their bonded regardless of any anti-apparation wards, an emerald that would flash when their bonded was in danger and an opal that would flash when their bonded was in need of a medi-wizard or medi-witch. The band on these was also thick enough for engravements from their wands later.
They each kept one of each ring to engrave for the other before the ceremony. Minerva returned shortly after they'd chosen and gave Severus his ingredients before the three made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron to floo into Hogwarts. Sending Harry and Severus through first, Minerva made sure that no one heard where either were going with a few waves of her wand and then let herself floo into Hogwarts herself.
What they found waiting for them in the Headmaster's office was not a pleasant sight. Sirius was yelling at Dumbledore, seemingly unaware of their arrival. "THERE IS NO WAY I'M ALLOWING HARRY TO MARRY THAT GREASY DEATH EATER! NOT IF MERLIN HIMSELF TELLS ME THEIR SOULMATES! THERE IS NO WAY THAT GREASY PEDOPHILE IS TOUCHING MY GODSON! OVER MY DEAD BODY ALBUS! I'LL NOT ALLOW HARRY TO BE FORCED INTO THIS!"
Harry politely cleared his throat and said, "Sirius no one's forcing me to do anything, and I highly suggest you refrain from calling Severus such vile things."
Sirius paled and said, "Harry, don't tell me you're standing up for the git now? Harry he doesn't deserve you, and you deserve better than him!"
Remus was standing next to Sirius and said, "Padfoot, I know you're upset about who Harry's destined for but honestly even if they hadn't looked into that mirror Harry and Severus would have grown to love one another over time and throughout the war. You just need to grow up and deal with it Padfoot, Harry's not a little boy anymore and even the Ministry can't step between them. You know that as well as I do. Why make the situation worse by causing tension between you and Severus to rise higher and create tension between you and Harry over the matter?"
Severus smiled at Remus and said, "Thank you for that Remus. Black... Sirius, I want you to know I do not intend to ever hurt Harry in any way."
Harry smiled at Severus and intertwined their hands before glancing at his godfather. Sirius just sighed and sat down before saying, "Fine, just keep in mind that I don't like this one bit. James and Lily are probably rolling in their graves watching this."
Harry chuckled and said, "I highly doubt Mum is, from what I understand she knows exactly what I see in him. But I definitely would think that Dad would be able to see that we're soul mates and that alone would make him happy to know. And I'd rather hoped you would be too when you realized that I am okay with this, and like Remus said, even if the mirror hadn't intervened we very likely would have fallen in love with one another regardless of whether or not we knew we're soul mates."
After a good twenty minutes of arguing everyone decided that it was truly best if they just left well enough alone. Harry and Severus would be bonded that Friday surrounded by their friends, and Harry's great-grandparents. Sirius fully agreed that he would publicly for all rights and purposes support the marriage and the bonding but wouldn't pretend to like any of it in private.
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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Three: A Sirius Problem
The next morning Harry and Hermione explained everything to Ron before going to breakfast, knowing it would be in the Daily Prophet. Ron listened carefully, spluttered, turned red, got angry, punched Harry and then calmed down. The three made it down to the Great Hall only to have the entire Hall turn silent upon Harry's arrival. Half the students had their copies of the Daily Prophet out, and were reading it as they'd taken so long to arrive.
Harry nearly groaned but kept his head held high with Ron and Hermione on either side of him glaring at the entire room as if daring them to say anything. They sat down in the middle of the table, surrounding themselves with Fred, George, Ginny, Colin, Seamus, Dean, Neville, Lavender, Parvati, Katie, Angelina and Alicia. All of them glaring at the rest of the room and making sure that Harry was in the middle.
Harry smiled cheerfully and said, "Good morning!"
He was greeted with a chorus of grunts and "morning Harry's" before everyone turned back to their breakfast. With the exception of Fred and George. They both smiled at Harry and Fred asked, "So Harry, read the Prophet yet?"
Harry shook his head no and said, "Why?"
George blinked and said, "Ay mate, best not to read that garbage. They'll cook up any story to sell the papers. Imagine, you and that slimy git of a Potions Professor, married and bonded! Ha!"
A cold voice with a slight sneer spoke from right behind Harry and said, "I seriously hope you rethink your choice of words, Mr. Weasley. Good morning Harry, Miss Granger, Weasley."
Harry smiled up at him and said, "Morning Severus, I take it Padfoot hasn't gotten a hold of you yet?"
Severus snorted, "Landed himself in the Hospital Wing trying to get past my wards."
Hermione and Harry exchanged a glance before Harry raised an eyebrow at Severus and said, "Now you didn't do anything, uh, that can't be reversed did you?"
Severus merely grinned wickedly and said, "Let's just say he'll not be having fun in the bedroom with his husband anytime soon."
Harry looked horrified, "I can't believe you'd punish Remus too. That's just down right torturous Severus."
Severus shook his head, "Remus, I'll have you know, got quite the kick out of it. The Headmaster wants you to be up in his office right after dinner for tonight, don't forget. See you later in Potions."
Harry smirked and raised an eyebrow knowing he had the attention of the entire hall and said, "What? No good morning kiss?"
Neville fainted to a dead thud, closely followed by Ron. Fred and George's jaws dropped, Lavender and Parvati gapped openly at Harry and the Professor while Hermione giggled. Severus raised an eyebrow and said, "You do realize you'll be chastised the rest of the day for this."
Harry just grinned and pulled him down and kissed him good morning, making sure that the kiss in itself showed the rest of the hall just how serious they both were about getting married on Friday. A few of the other girls fainted, several Slytherins fainted. Draco marched straight out of the room to write a letter to his father. By the time the two came up for air, you could hear a pin drop in the Hall. Seamus Finnigan broke it with, "HA! I won the bet! I knew it all along! I told you Dean! I told you Harry was gay!"
That sent most of the Gryffindor table into hysterics, Harry grinned at Severus and winked before swatting him away with a playful slap on the ass. Severus blinked but walked up to the table with the rest of the Professors and sat between Minerva and Remus. Harry smirked at the group and said, "You know, I'll bet the next few days are nothing but Severus sitting up there with howler after howler coming at him."
The rest of the day went by uneventfully and soon it was dinnertime. Harry explained to Ron and Hermione that he would be going out shopping with Severus and Minerva. Hermione spent at least ten minutes reminding him what colors to get and what kinds of clothes to get. Hermione even went so far as to suggest what kind of glasses he should get, and that he looked into getting contacts.
After dinner he was greeted in the Headmasters office by both his great- grandparents and Severus, all of which were smiling when he walked in. The Headmaster leveled a glance at Harry and said, "I trust the two of you will not be exchanging 'good morning kisses' every morning like that?"
Harry just grinned, no response, just grinned. Fifteen minutes later Severus, Minerva and Harry were all at one of the largest Muggle shopping centers around. Severus insisted on clothing first as he was down right tired of looking at Harry in clothes fit for a whale. After an hour and a half Harry had a completely new wardrobe full of perfectly fitting clothing, jeans, shirts, shorts, sweaters, dress pants, casual pants, leather pants, a leather jacket, a suit, boxers of almost every color, all new socks (he threw in a few for Dobby), a new pair of sneakers, dress shoes, casual shoes, leather boots, very comfortable sandals, and of course Minerva insisted that he buy some swimming trunks.
After that they went to get Harry an eye check up, which took roughly ten minutes and were told that he would have his glasses and his contacts ready in an hour. During which Minerva decided they would buy all new bedding for Severus's rooms, as a wedding present from Minerva and Albus. Together Harry and Severus picked out satin sheets, a set in gold and a set in silver, both sets king sized, as the bed Minerva and Albus had already selected was a king sized bed. They picked out a goose-feather down comforter that was an almost perfect match to the Slytherin green. They picked white sheer curtains for the bed, and red, gold and silver decorative pillows to put on the bed, all upon Minerva's insistence that the bed needed them.
Once done with that they picked up Harry's glasses and contacts, shrunk all of the purchases into one bag, which Minerva put a feather weight charm on and let Harry carry himself. After that they only had one stop, which was in Diagon Alley at one of the jewelry stores to buy their wedding and bonding bands. Harry and Severus went alone into the store, while Minerva rushed off to buy some Potions ingredients for Severus. Half an hour later Harry and Severus picked out their wedding bands, both gold, and thick enough to carve something on it later with their wands.
For the bonding bands they chose silver bands with charmed stones set in them, a diamond that would flicker to their bonded's heart beat, a ruby that if tapped by the wand would bring them directly to their bonded regardless of any anti-apparation wards, an emerald that would flash when their bonded was in danger and an opal that would flash when their bonded was in need of a medi-wizard or medi-witch. The band on these was also thick enough for engravements from their wands later.
They each kept one of each ring to engrave for the other before the ceremony. Minerva returned shortly after they'd chosen and gave Severus his ingredients before the three made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron to floo into Hogwarts. Sending Harry and Severus through first, Minerva made sure that no one heard where either were going with a few waves of her wand and then let herself floo into Hogwarts herself.
What they found waiting for them in the Headmaster's office was not a pleasant sight. Sirius was yelling at Dumbledore, seemingly unaware of their arrival. "THERE IS NO WAY I'M ALLOWING HARRY TO MARRY THAT GREASY DEATH EATER! NOT IF MERLIN HIMSELF TELLS ME THEIR SOULMATES! THERE IS NO WAY THAT GREASY PEDOPHILE IS TOUCHING MY GODSON! OVER MY DEAD BODY ALBUS! I'LL NOT ALLOW HARRY TO BE FORCED INTO THIS!"
Harry politely cleared his throat and said, "Sirius no one's forcing me to do anything, and I highly suggest you refrain from calling Severus such vile things."
Sirius paled and said, "Harry, don't tell me you're standing up for the git now? Harry he doesn't deserve you, and you deserve better than him!"
Remus was standing next to Sirius and said, "Padfoot, I know you're upset about who Harry's destined for but honestly even if they hadn't looked into that mirror Harry and Severus would have grown to love one another over time and throughout the war. You just need to grow up and deal with it Padfoot, Harry's not a little boy anymore and even the Ministry can't step between them. You know that as well as I do. Why make the situation worse by causing tension between you and Severus to rise higher and create tension between you and Harry over the matter?"
Severus smiled at Remus and said, "Thank you for that Remus. Black... Sirius, I want you to know I do not intend to ever hurt Harry in any way."
Harry smiled at Severus and intertwined their hands before glancing at his godfather. Sirius just sighed and sat down before saying, "Fine, just keep in mind that I don't like this one bit. James and Lily are probably rolling in their graves watching this."
Harry chuckled and said, "I highly doubt Mum is, from what I understand she knows exactly what I see in him. But I definitely would think that Dad would be able to see that we're soul mates and that alone would make him happy to know. And I'd rather hoped you would be too when you realized that I am okay with this, and like Remus said, even if the mirror hadn't intervened we very likely would have fallen in love with one another regardless of whether or not we knew we're soul mates."
After a good twenty minutes of arguing everyone decided that it was truly best if they just left well enough alone. Harry and Severus would be bonded that Friday surrounded by their friends, and Harry's great-grandparents. Sirius fully agreed that he would publicly for all rights and purposes support the marriage and the bonding but wouldn't pretend to like any of it in private.
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