A/N: Well I hope you guys are happy, I'm starting a new chapter when I
really should be working on my projects and papers! Oh and Selina I can't
help it because seriously this happened to me and my friends when we first
got asthma. It's a hard disease to control and being sick like that when
you first get the disease is always harder on the system than anytime after
that. I think I'm going to lay off the 'harry constantly ending up in the
hospital wing' bit. So here's the next chapter you guys and I think I'm
going to have a bit of fun with Draco and Harry now. So ENJOY!!!!!
Chapter 34
Draco and Severus stayed with Harry the entire night. During the night Harry started to steadily improve. He took another dose of the cough supressing potion just after 8 o'clock that helped him through half of the night. Harry woke up at about 2am coughing since the potion had worn off. Severus successfully got Harry to go back to sleep until it was time to take more.
Harry spent all of the next day sleeping, only waking up to eat a bit and to take the potions. The only time that Draco left was when it was time to eat and to get cleaned up.
Draco wasn't exactly sure how to be around Harry and Severus. He'd never been in that situation before. It was very obvious that Harry and Severus were used to being in their respected roles.
While Harry was sleeping Severus had explained to Draco the other times taht he had been in this situation with Harry. After that Draco had a much better idea from then on how to be around Harry.
It was strange for Draco because he had a slight naievete about Harry. He didn't want to think that Harry could get hurt by his own body working against him. It was one thing to make fun of Harry for how something like the Dementors affected him, but it's not Harry's fault that an actual organ in his body wasn't working the way it was meant to.
What really made Draco angry was the fact that it was all because of Harry's dratted muggle relatives that the boy had this problem. It was because of them that Harry was physically and mentally scarred. They were the cause of everything that was wrong with Harry.
Draco knew what Severus and Harry had done for revenge but he thought that that was all good and fine but he thought that legal action should be taken against them. All of them were guilty of mistreating Harry one way or another. Draco knew that he would have to wait to bring it up though.
By tuesday morning Harry was completely healthy again. He was incredibly bored having to stay in bed and Madame Pomfrey constantly bearing down on him like an overprotective mother hen.
Harry was happy that he didn't have to spend actual Christmas in the Hospital Wing. It was the morning of Christmas Eve the day that Madame Pomfrey released Harry.
Harry had already bought all of his friends christmas presents during the last Hogsmeade Weekend. He had sent Hedwig off with Hermione's gift which was a book on rare curses, hexes and charms.
He had sent a school owl off with the Weasleys gifts. For Ron he had found a book on every keeper that had played for the Chudley Cannons and their stats. For the twins he had found a book that he was sure they wouldn't mind reading titled "The Trick to Developing your own Tricks, Gags and Jokes".
For Ginny, Harry had found a claddaugh ring in a shop and immediately bought it. Harry had always been fascinated and intrigued of the story associated with it. He included a copy of the story and the instructions on how to wear the ring.
Harry was also relieved to see, upon returning to his father's rooms, that Draco and his father had not found their presents. For his father Harry had worked very hard to look through each and every book in his father's collection and had actually found a rare potions book that his father didn't have.
Draco was a lot harder to decide. Since he didn't know him very well but felt that if they were going to be kind of like brothers in a sense that he should get him something. He noticed that Draco liked to wear necklaces and rings so Harry ended up getting draco a small silver dragon pendant on a thin silver chain. He hoped that Draco liked it and that he didn't have anything else like it.
Harry cast an invisibility charm on the presents and brought them out, crawled under the christmas tree that his father had set up in the main chamber, took off the invisibility charm and put them under the tree under the pretense that he was looking around.
Severus couldn't help but smile when he saw Harry peeking at the presents under the tree as if he was 5 years old. He hated to think that this was probably the first time that Harry had been able to do something like that.
Harry extracted himself from under the tree, sat back on his heels and said,
"Dad, did you have any christmas eve traditions when you were growing up?"
Severus was slightly shocked at Harry's question but soon got over it and said,
"As a matter of fact Harry we did. On Christmas Eve we all picked one present from under the tree and opened it. But only one."
Harry got a distant look in his eyes and said,
"Every Christmas as the Dursleys Aunt Petunia always made christmas cookies which Dudley would eat as soon as they were cooled off enough. On Christmas Eve, after locking me in the cupboard, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon would sit with Dudley in the lounge in front of the fire and read "The Night Before Christmas." Then Dudley was allowed to open all of the presents under the tree for him." Harry paused for a moment and continued with the same far off look.
"Then the next morning there were usually twice as many from "Santa" for being 'such a good boy' Dudley would usually laugh at me at the pathetic excuse for presents I got since 'Santa never brought nice gifts to naughty little boys'." Harry finished in a whisper.
During the story Severus had moved over next to Harry and Draco had turned from his seat on the couch to watch Harry. Harry finished the story and Severus had put his arm around Harry's shoulders and drew the boy closer to him and said,
"You shouldn't be thinking about that Harry. That's all behind you. And you're letting them win when you get upset and think about it."
Harry nodded, looked into his father's eyes and said,
"You're right. As usual. So are we going to keep with your parents tradition?"
Severus smiled and said,
"I don't see why not. But you can't touch any of them before 9 o'clock and you both have to be in bed by 10. And don't you dare protest because my parents made me abide by that rule up until I was 18 years old. When I left home."
Harry and Draco both closed their mouths and pretended to sulk but quickly got over it. The rest of the day was whiled away with Harry and Draco using some prank charms that Lei had taught to Harry, on Severus. It very quickly turned into a joke-a-thon. Severus wasn't that bad at joking and still had quite a few tricks up his sleeve.
The 3 decided that they were going to eat dinner in Severus' rooms that night instead of venturing up to the Great Hall to eat. True to Severus' word the boys got to open 1 present at 9 o'clock. Harry opened up one of his father's presents. It was a new pair of Seeker gloves with his initials stitched onto the back. His real initials.
Draco's present was also from Severus and it turned out to be the same thing. Severus knew that the boys both needed new ones since they had been using the same ones since they had joined the team and were getting worn down.
Severus was happy to see the wide grins on each boy's face. He was enjoying it so much that he missed seeing Harry launch himself onto him in a fierce hug saying,
"Thanks Dad, they're great!"
Severus squeezed Harry, kissed his forehead and ruffled his hair and said,
"You're welcome Harry. Now why don't you take a shower and get ready for bed since you haven't had one one a couple of days."
Harry nodded, got up off his father and disappeared into his bedchambers to emerge a moment later carrying a set of pajamas and disappeared into Severus' bedchamber. Draco looked over to Severus and said,
"Thanks Sev, I needed a new pair."
"You're welcome Draco and I knew you needed a new pair, I have seen the state of your old one. Now I want to talk to you about something."
Draco nodded and reajusted himself on the couch and nodded,
"Draco I wanted to ask you if you just wanted to continue living with me as your legal guardian or if you want me to legally adopt you so that you're my son. You don't even have to get rid of the Malfoy name, you can hyphenate it if you want to. I wanted to ask your opinion though. Your father said that he wouldn't be upset if you did want me to."
Draco was happy to hear that his father had said that he wouldn't be upset because he knew how important it was to continue the Malfoy line but it would be nice to have a parent and a brother for that matter. Draco looked at Severus and said,
"I would like you to adopt me then." Then with a grin he said, "I've always wanted a brother."
Severus grinned and put his arm around Draco's shoulder and ruffled the boy's blonde hair which Draco immediately pulled away and moved to the other end of the couch with a wide grin on his face.
A few minutes later Harry emerged from the bedchamber in a pair of green flannel pajamas. He narrowed his eyes a little bit with a grin on his face and said,
"What are you two up to?"
Draco and Severus immediately put on a fake face of innocence and Draco said,
"Whatever do you mean Harry?"
"I can tell you two are up to something." Harry shot back
Severus got serious and Draco copied and Severus said,
"Harry come here, there's something I need to tell you."
Harry got a confused look on his face and went over to the couch and sat down next to his father and nodded.
"Harry." Severus began, "I'm going to adopt Draco but I want to know what you think."
Harry shrugged and said,
"I'm perfectly fine with it. I've always wanted a brother to be honest."
Draco burst out laughing and Harry looked over at the boy and back to his father like he thought Draco was nutters and Severus said,
"That's exactly what Draco said."
With that Harry and Severus joined in with Draco laughing. After they had stopped Severus said,
"Well I'm glad that you two are happy now it's time for bed. Now go and no touching presents before 7am and everybody is up. Is that understood?"
Draco and Harry furiously nodded and disappeared into their bedrooms where they both, surprisingly, fell immediately asleep.
A/N: I'm going to stop there, I'm sorry if the chapter is kind of short but I wanted to get something up in case I wasn't able to write for a while. I'm incredibly tired right now and just wanted to finish this and this seemed like a good spot to stop and I'll get the next chapter up so we can see a 'nice family christmas' the next morning. I'm still sick so if the chapter sucks then I'm sorry. Now push the button and leave me a review but don't flame me, my stressed out brain can't take it right now. TTFN!
Chapter 34
Draco and Severus stayed with Harry the entire night. During the night Harry started to steadily improve. He took another dose of the cough supressing potion just after 8 o'clock that helped him through half of the night. Harry woke up at about 2am coughing since the potion had worn off. Severus successfully got Harry to go back to sleep until it was time to take more.
Harry spent all of the next day sleeping, only waking up to eat a bit and to take the potions. The only time that Draco left was when it was time to eat and to get cleaned up.
Draco wasn't exactly sure how to be around Harry and Severus. He'd never been in that situation before. It was very obvious that Harry and Severus were used to being in their respected roles.
While Harry was sleeping Severus had explained to Draco the other times taht he had been in this situation with Harry. After that Draco had a much better idea from then on how to be around Harry.
It was strange for Draco because he had a slight naievete about Harry. He didn't want to think that Harry could get hurt by his own body working against him. It was one thing to make fun of Harry for how something like the Dementors affected him, but it's not Harry's fault that an actual organ in his body wasn't working the way it was meant to.
What really made Draco angry was the fact that it was all because of Harry's dratted muggle relatives that the boy had this problem. It was because of them that Harry was physically and mentally scarred. They were the cause of everything that was wrong with Harry.
Draco knew what Severus and Harry had done for revenge but he thought that that was all good and fine but he thought that legal action should be taken against them. All of them were guilty of mistreating Harry one way or another. Draco knew that he would have to wait to bring it up though.
By tuesday morning Harry was completely healthy again. He was incredibly bored having to stay in bed and Madame Pomfrey constantly bearing down on him like an overprotective mother hen.
Harry was happy that he didn't have to spend actual Christmas in the Hospital Wing. It was the morning of Christmas Eve the day that Madame Pomfrey released Harry.
Harry had already bought all of his friends christmas presents during the last Hogsmeade Weekend. He had sent Hedwig off with Hermione's gift which was a book on rare curses, hexes and charms.
He had sent a school owl off with the Weasleys gifts. For Ron he had found a book on every keeper that had played for the Chudley Cannons and their stats. For the twins he had found a book that he was sure they wouldn't mind reading titled "The Trick to Developing your own Tricks, Gags and Jokes".
For Ginny, Harry had found a claddaugh ring in a shop and immediately bought it. Harry had always been fascinated and intrigued of the story associated with it. He included a copy of the story and the instructions on how to wear the ring.
Harry was also relieved to see, upon returning to his father's rooms, that Draco and his father had not found their presents. For his father Harry had worked very hard to look through each and every book in his father's collection and had actually found a rare potions book that his father didn't have.
Draco was a lot harder to decide. Since he didn't know him very well but felt that if they were going to be kind of like brothers in a sense that he should get him something. He noticed that Draco liked to wear necklaces and rings so Harry ended up getting draco a small silver dragon pendant on a thin silver chain. He hoped that Draco liked it and that he didn't have anything else like it.
Harry cast an invisibility charm on the presents and brought them out, crawled under the christmas tree that his father had set up in the main chamber, took off the invisibility charm and put them under the tree under the pretense that he was looking around.
Severus couldn't help but smile when he saw Harry peeking at the presents under the tree as if he was 5 years old. He hated to think that this was probably the first time that Harry had been able to do something like that.
Harry extracted himself from under the tree, sat back on his heels and said,
"Dad, did you have any christmas eve traditions when you were growing up?"
Severus was slightly shocked at Harry's question but soon got over it and said,
"As a matter of fact Harry we did. On Christmas Eve we all picked one present from under the tree and opened it. But only one."
Harry got a distant look in his eyes and said,
"Every Christmas as the Dursleys Aunt Petunia always made christmas cookies which Dudley would eat as soon as they were cooled off enough. On Christmas Eve, after locking me in the cupboard, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon would sit with Dudley in the lounge in front of the fire and read "The Night Before Christmas." Then Dudley was allowed to open all of the presents under the tree for him." Harry paused for a moment and continued with the same far off look.
"Then the next morning there were usually twice as many from "Santa" for being 'such a good boy' Dudley would usually laugh at me at the pathetic excuse for presents I got since 'Santa never brought nice gifts to naughty little boys'." Harry finished in a whisper.
During the story Severus had moved over next to Harry and Draco had turned from his seat on the couch to watch Harry. Harry finished the story and Severus had put his arm around Harry's shoulders and drew the boy closer to him and said,
"You shouldn't be thinking about that Harry. That's all behind you. And you're letting them win when you get upset and think about it."
Harry nodded, looked into his father's eyes and said,
"You're right. As usual. So are we going to keep with your parents tradition?"
Severus smiled and said,
"I don't see why not. But you can't touch any of them before 9 o'clock and you both have to be in bed by 10. And don't you dare protest because my parents made me abide by that rule up until I was 18 years old. When I left home."
Harry and Draco both closed their mouths and pretended to sulk but quickly got over it. The rest of the day was whiled away with Harry and Draco using some prank charms that Lei had taught to Harry, on Severus. It very quickly turned into a joke-a-thon. Severus wasn't that bad at joking and still had quite a few tricks up his sleeve.
The 3 decided that they were going to eat dinner in Severus' rooms that night instead of venturing up to the Great Hall to eat. True to Severus' word the boys got to open 1 present at 9 o'clock. Harry opened up one of his father's presents. It was a new pair of Seeker gloves with his initials stitched onto the back. His real initials.
Draco's present was also from Severus and it turned out to be the same thing. Severus knew that the boys both needed new ones since they had been using the same ones since they had joined the team and were getting worn down.
Severus was happy to see the wide grins on each boy's face. He was enjoying it so much that he missed seeing Harry launch himself onto him in a fierce hug saying,
"Thanks Dad, they're great!"
Severus squeezed Harry, kissed his forehead and ruffled his hair and said,
"You're welcome Harry. Now why don't you take a shower and get ready for bed since you haven't had one one a couple of days."
Harry nodded, got up off his father and disappeared into his bedchambers to emerge a moment later carrying a set of pajamas and disappeared into Severus' bedchamber. Draco looked over to Severus and said,
"Thanks Sev, I needed a new pair."
"You're welcome Draco and I knew you needed a new pair, I have seen the state of your old one. Now I want to talk to you about something."
Draco nodded and reajusted himself on the couch and nodded,
"Draco I wanted to ask you if you just wanted to continue living with me as your legal guardian or if you want me to legally adopt you so that you're my son. You don't even have to get rid of the Malfoy name, you can hyphenate it if you want to. I wanted to ask your opinion though. Your father said that he wouldn't be upset if you did want me to."
Draco was happy to hear that his father had said that he wouldn't be upset because he knew how important it was to continue the Malfoy line but it would be nice to have a parent and a brother for that matter. Draco looked at Severus and said,
"I would like you to adopt me then." Then with a grin he said, "I've always wanted a brother."
Severus grinned and put his arm around Draco's shoulder and ruffled the boy's blonde hair which Draco immediately pulled away and moved to the other end of the couch with a wide grin on his face.
A few minutes later Harry emerged from the bedchamber in a pair of green flannel pajamas. He narrowed his eyes a little bit with a grin on his face and said,
"What are you two up to?"
Draco and Severus immediately put on a fake face of innocence and Draco said,
"Whatever do you mean Harry?"
"I can tell you two are up to something." Harry shot back
Severus got serious and Draco copied and Severus said,
"Harry come here, there's something I need to tell you."
Harry got a confused look on his face and went over to the couch and sat down next to his father and nodded.
"Harry." Severus began, "I'm going to adopt Draco but I want to know what you think."
Harry shrugged and said,
"I'm perfectly fine with it. I've always wanted a brother to be honest."
Draco burst out laughing and Harry looked over at the boy and back to his father like he thought Draco was nutters and Severus said,
"That's exactly what Draco said."
With that Harry and Severus joined in with Draco laughing. After they had stopped Severus said,
"Well I'm glad that you two are happy now it's time for bed. Now go and no touching presents before 7am and everybody is up. Is that understood?"
Draco and Harry furiously nodded and disappeared into their bedrooms where they both, surprisingly, fell immediately asleep.
A/N: I'm going to stop there, I'm sorry if the chapter is kind of short but I wanted to get something up in case I wasn't able to write for a while. I'm incredibly tired right now and just wanted to finish this and this seemed like a good spot to stop and I'll get the next chapter up so we can see a 'nice family christmas' the next morning. I'm still sick so if the chapter sucks then I'm sorry. Now push the button and leave me a review but don't flame me, my stressed out brain can't take it right now. TTFN!