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As Harry was sitting at the table in the great hall for breakfast, he realized that he was nervous. When you find out you have some potion induced sexual bond with the person you love to hate can bring out those kinds of responses in a person.
Ron and Hermione both asked Harry why he was so nervous, but he just grinned and shook his head telling them he had an odd dream. Hermione immediately asked if it was about Voldemort but all he told her was he got to snog someone. Ron bugged him for a while about who it was and Harry didn't say so he gave up and started talking to Dean about Quidditch.
Harry felt eyes on him and he looked around the hall before his eyes fell onto the Slytherin table. Draco was looking at him weird then looked at the doors leading to the entrance hall and held up two fingers. Harry gave a slight nod and went back to eating his breakfast. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Draco get up and leave.
He excused himself from the table telling Hermione and Ron he had to go up and get his homework assignment for potions that he left in the common room. In truth it was in his bag, but they didn't have to know that.
He walked out of the room and looked around for Draco. A hand grabbed him and pulled him into a broom closet off of the hall that Harry never knew existed. He was about to yell out except a strong hand covered his mouth and turned him around to face them.
Draco was standing there in his black school robes, looking smug as he always did. He looked a little embarrassed and afraid to be alone with him.
"I don't know about you, but I had a very odd dream last night about the two of us," Draco said.
"If it was about us the prefect's bathroom doing. things, then I had the same dream," Harry said answering the questioning look in Draco's eyes.
"Well I'm not sure if the. feelings were real or just the potion playing tricks on our minds. We need to go to Snape and get the antidote just in case it is the potion. Although it felt. well, real, I don't want some spell controlling me and I don't think you do either. The question is, if they are real, what then?"
Harry thought about it for a moment before answering, "I like the feeling. I've never really had any kind of real relationship with anyone because I figured I would be putting him or her in danger. But now that the war is over, I think it's time I dated someone. I realized that I was gay last year and I'm surprised I haven't thought of you as a possibility. Tell me, do you like boys or girls?"
"Boys. I have ever since I can remember. My father always nagged me about being with Pansy so I stayed with her for the time before the war, but I could never understand why I never liked her liked her. She pretty and quite a few guys from all four houses wanted to go out with her too. When the war was over I told her I didn't want to be her boyfriend and I think that she guessed I was gay.
"I thought about you a couple times before and I figured since we hated each other that we would never be anything so I kind of just put you out of my mind."
"I've never hated you. Disliked you immensely maybe, but never hate. Hate is to strong of a word for anyone," Harry told him.
"Well, we ought to go and get the antidote potion from Snape before everyone gets out of the hall and goes to their first classes," Draco suggested.
Harry agreed and they quietly made their way out of the closet checking to make sure no one would see them. The walked down to the potions classroom silently, hoping that Snape would be there as he wasn't in the great hall.
They knocked on the door and we glad to hear a voice tell them to enter.
Draco opened the door and motioned for Harry to go in front of him. Harry smiled and walked into the room greeting their professor.
"Good morning Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy. Is there anything I can help you with this morning?" Snape asked in a cool voice.
"We'd like the antidote potion please," Harry said in his best neutral voice he had. He may dislike the professor, but he tried his hardest not to show it.
"Ah, I was wondering when the two of you would be in here. Here you are," he said, handing them each a vile that he pulled off of the shelf.
They both uncorked them and drank the blue potion. A tingling feeling went through them and then went away.
"Thank you professor," they both said.
All of a sudden a wave of lust took hold of both the boys and they launched themselves at each other hungrily devouring the others mouth. Snape gasped and stepped back away from the snogging pair and pulled out his wand. He said a few words and they were torn apart from each other.
Draco tried lunging back to Harry but there were invisible bonds keeping him away. Snape laid a hand on his shoulder and gave him a vial with a pink liquid in it. He handed one to Harry too, who in turn gave him a dirty look.
"It's an anti-lust potion. It should last for about three to four hours I believe. I'll give you some more of it now in case something happens before class which I highly doubt will happen, but you never know with these kinds of potions. For some reason the antidote didn't work but this should. I'll do a little research after class today and find out what went wrong and tell you what I find.
"There is still another twenty minutes until class starts so why don't the two of you go back to breakfast and come back down with the rest of your classmates."
Harry and Draco nodded their head and took the bottles from Snape as they were leaving the classroom on their way back to the great hall. Draco stopped and Harry looked back at him with a questioning look.
"How are we supposed to know if it's going to work for three to four hours? What if it only worked right then and then we get to the great hall and end up jumping each others bones?" Draco asked.
Harry shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, there is really only one way to find out."
He walked forward and stopped inches away from Draco's face, silently asking permission. They both leaned forward and let their lips touch. It was a sweet kiss, nothing like any of the heated ones they had shared before.
Harry's heart clenched in his chest and felt like his whole body was going to explode. Draco on the other hand wasn't too different. His eyes fluttered shut and his head was swimming in unfulfilled fantasies. They both reluctantly pulled away and looked down at their pants exclaiming "still there" at the same time. They laughed and headed up the stairs into the entrance hall.
"Where does this leave us?" Harry asked.
"Well if I were positive these feelings were real then I would want us to be together but I don't really know if they are or not. I think that we should just start out with being friends and then see where that leads. If we can figure out this thing with the potion, then maybe we can be more than friends. Hey, if one little kiss like that can turn me into a pile of mush, even if it's the potion, I wonder how good you are at sex."
Harry blushed and looked down at his shoes.
"Well, what are we going to tell people?"
Draco contemplated the question for a minute before answering, "I think we should tell a limited amount of people, even though when people keep these things a secret, it gets out anyway and it runes things. So only tell the people you can trust not to tell anyone else. What do you say?"
Harry grinned and said, "Shall we?" and gestured towards the door.
Draco nodded and put his hand on the door handle but didn't open it.
"Let's tell them during breakfast and hope they don't have a big reaction to it. It might be easier that way. We can do it right now and then meet back up in potions."
"Sure," Harry replied.
The door swung open and the two boys went their separate ways, all eyes on them.
When Harry got to the Gryffindor table, Hermione and Ron were both giving him looks saying that he better tell them what's going on or else.
"First, I want you both to know that I'm gay," Harry started. "I have been for a while now and I didn't really know how to tell you it so I kept it to myself."
His two best friends looked at him in a shocked manner at first but nodded their heads in approval. Harry was astonished that they accepted it that quickly and went on with the rest of his story hoping they would feel that way when he finished.
"Second," Harry said in a whisper, ignoring Ron's question, "Second, I'm under some kind of lust potion and when we got the antidote, we kind of started to snog again and were about to rip each others clothes off if Snape didn't stop us."
"Ur Harry. you said us." Hermione trailed off.
"Yeah, the person I'm lusting after, who is also lusting after me, is Draco Malfoy."
Screams of, "You're what?" came from the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables at the same time. Harry tried to get a glance of Draco and when he did the blonde boy was smiling at him and shaking his head. Harry grinned back and repeated his sentence to his friends again making sure he said it slowly so they would get the full impact of it.
"But Harry," Hermione said. "This is Malfoy we're talking about! How can you be lusting after that slimy Slytherin? He's been mean to you your whole entire life at Hogwarts! Snape probably gave you the wrong antidote or something and it made the potion come back again. It is just not possible that you are lusting after someone so stuck up and conceded!"
"Look, we took the real antidote for the potion and it didn't work. Snape is going to do some research on it and find out what went wrong. He gave us some anti-lust potions, which should last us for the rest of the day if we take it every three hours. I don't like the idea of lusting after someone I used to dislike but I kind of like the feeling of it. I never wanted anyone to get close to me because of the war and since it's over now, maybe the potion isn't such a bad thing. At least I'll be happy.
"I've had this feeling since last year that I was missing something. I felt that I wasn't happy even though I was with both of you. That feeling is gone now, filled with a feeling of hope and want. I think I'm finally happy you guys, even if it is potion induced. Can you be happy for me?"
"Of course Harry."
"Ron?"
"Of course I can mate."
The whole Gryffindor table burst into applause as they had been listening to the whole conversation. Harry didn't realize that he had been talking so loud because after the Gryffindors quieted down, the whole great hall was silent and was staring at him and Draco.
Hermione reminded him that they had potions in ten minutes and better leave before they were late. Everyone at the Gryffindor table that was in the N.E.W.Ts potions class left the room and went to class all of them asking Harry question about him, Draco and the potion. He refused to answer any of the more personal questions, as he hadn't really discussed with Draco what they were going to tell people.
They all sat down at their usual seats, Harry in the middle of the room, saving a seat for Draco as he told Ron and Hermione when they asked why he wasn't sitting with them.
The Slytherins came in a minute or so later, Draco sitting in the empty chair next to Harry. They both blushed as people around them started whispering things, obviously about them as their names were heard more than once.
Snape got up from his desk and announced the class.
"Quiet down everyone. Would anyone like to share what the results of their potions were?"
A Slytherin boy in the back named Blaise raised his hand.
"Yes Zabini?"
"Mine was a confidence potion," he said.
"Anyone else?" Snape asked.
Neville was the next person to raise his hand.
"Mine was a remembrance potion," he said blushing.
Everyone in the class had their hands raised except for Harry and Draco. Snape smirked at them, clearly knowing what the affect of their potion was.
Someone from the back of the class said, "Mine was a sobriety potion," and Harry figured it was Seamus as he heard an Irish accent.
The whole class laughed and Harry swore he saw Snape's lips curl up into a smile before he turned around and got the tray of the antidote off of the shelf.
"If any of you the antidote, raise your hand and I will bring it to you," Snape said.
Hermione was the first person to raise her hand.
Snape grabbed one of the vials and brought it over to Hermione.
"Before I give this to you, tell us what the affects the potion had on you."
"I think that it was a really strong tranquility potion because I didn't want to do anything last night except sit around and do nothing. It took me three hours to do one homework assignment that was only six inches of parchment. I kept spacing out. It keeps coming on and off and it is getting in the way of my schoolwork.
"Why do you think you ended up with such a potion?"
"I think it was because I just needed a night off of studying. I've been so wrapped up in getting all of my work done and preparing for the N.E.W.Ts at the end of the year that I haven't had any time to just relax."
"Very good Miss Granger. Five points to Gryffindor."
He handed the potion over to her, which she drank down.
Many other people got the potion and Snape went through similar questions with them as well. Class flew by so fast that people were surprised when the bell rang signaling the end of class.
Harry and Draco walked to the door together and before they went their separate ways Draco asked him to him out by the lake during lunch. Harry agreed and gave Draco's hand a squeeze before heading up the stairs to Transfiguration.
*~*~*
Harry barely registered what McGonagall was saying. All he could think about is he and Draco and what the wizarding press would have to say about their lusting potion experiment.
'Hopefully they will understand that is not real. I just hope neither of us gets any howlers,' Harry thought.
Hermione nudged him in the ribs with her elbow and he quickly looked up from his thoughts. She raised her eyebrows at him and gestured towards the doors with her eyes. He followed her eyes and saw that the class was leaving.
'Time flies when you're thinking of yourself,' Harry thought, highly amused he zoned out of the whole class.
"Lets go get some lunch," Hermione said to him. "I'm hungry."
"I can't, I'm meeting Draco by the lake. I'll get something on my way back though if it makes you feel better," Harry said with a smirk.
When they got to the entrance hall Hermione stopped him and told him to be careful. Harry said he would and left through the main doors.
As he reached the lake, he saw a lone figure sitting on the shore throwing stones into the water.
"So what do you want to do?" Draco asked from his seat, not moving.
"Well you said you wanted to be friends. Let's get to know each other better," Harry answered sitting down next to him.
"Okay. We'll start out like we're just meeting each other. I'm Draco Lucius Malfoy, son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, born on the twenty-third of January."
"And I'm Harry James Potter, son of James and Lily Potter, born on the thirty-first on July."
They went on talking about random things al throughout their life up to the recent war.
"I turned against my father and had him placed in Azkaban. My mother went psycho on me and now she's in Saint Mungos; right where she belongs," Draco said.
"Well at least you had parents. Mine died when I was a year old."
"Yeah they may have died when you were young, but at least they loved you. I can't say that about my parents. All they cared about was money and Voldemort."
Draco gave him a small smile and looked down at his watch. His eyes went wide and he looked back up at Harry and said, "We missed our afternoon classes and are about halfway through dinner right now."
"We better get back."
They both headed back up to the castle and started laughing as their stomachs grumbled at the same time. When they got to the front doors Draco suggested that they go in at different times or people would think that they were off snogging each other in a broom closet somewhere.
Harry went in first, striding over to his seat at the Gryffindor table. Hermione and Ron asked him where he was the whole time but he ignored them and piled his plate up with food and started to eat.
Draco came in a couple minutes later and Harry could see that the Slytherins were questioning him of his whereabouts. Draco just shook his head and grabbed some food, talking with some of the younger students.
As Harry was watching him, he felt the urge to go over to the blonde and kiss him soundly. He shuddered and went back to eating, trying to get the dirty thoughts out of his head. Draco looked up sensing eyes on him and caught his stare. The Slytherin's eyes were heavy lidded and lust filled.
Harry's eyes went wide and he reached in his pocket and drew out of vile and drank the contents in one gulp. The feeling of desire in him ebbed away but he could still feel it in the back of his head.
Draco did the same as Harry when he saw the want in the Gryffindor's eyes.
'No ravishing Gryffindors in the great hall when there are other students around,' Draco told himself.
A tap on his shoulder brought Draco out of his thoughts. He turned around and greeted his head of house.
"I think that this will get rid of the effects quite nicely, Draco. If it doesn't work, then I don't think that there is anything that we can do," Snape said.
"Thank you sir, I'm sure it will work fine."
Draco took the steaming goblet from the potions master and drank it.
"Good it worked," Snape concluded.
"Why do you say that? I don't feel any different," Draco asked.
"Well, if the potion doesn't work, it makes the persons hair pink."
Draco nodded and watched as Snape walked up to the high table to eat. He looked over to Harry who was drinking something from a goblet that McGonagall had given him. He looked at the boy's hair, which stayed its normal black colour.
'Now that the affect of the lust potion is gone, I wonder what our feelings are towards each other,' Draco mentally asked himself.
He was ranting to himself in his head when he heard Harry's voice loud and clear.
*I like him a lot; but enough to be in a relationship?*
Draco looked around him but couldn't see Harry anywhere. He was surprised to see him sitting at the Gryffindor table not talking to anyone. He looked like he was trying to figure something out.
He could hear Harry's voice again, but his lips weren't moving.
*I wish I could just tell him that I like him. Its not a big deal or anything.*
'Harry, is that you?'
*Draco?*
'We can speak telepathically!'
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As Harry was sitting at the table in the great hall for breakfast, he realized that he was nervous. When you find out you have some potion induced sexual bond with the person you love to hate can bring out those kinds of responses in a person.
Ron and Hermione both asked Harry why he was so nervous, but he just grinned and shook his head telling them he had an odd dream. Hermione immediately asked if it was about Voldemort but all he told her was he got to snog someone. Ron bugged him for a while about who it was and Harry didn't say so he gave up and started talking to Dean about Quidditch.
Harry felt eyes on him and he looked around the hall before his eyes fell onto the Slytherin table. Draco was looking at him weird then looked at the doors leading to the entrance hall and held up two fingers. Harry gave a slight nod and went back to eating his breakfast. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Draco get up and leave.
He excused himself from the table telling Hermione and Ron he had to go up and get his homework assignment for potions that he left in the common room. In truth it was in his bag, but they didn't have to know that.
He walked out of the room and looked around for Draco. A hand grabbed him and pulled him into a broom closet off of the hall that Harry never knew existed. He was about to yell out except a strong hand covered his mouth and turned him around to face them.
Draco was standing there in his black school robes, looking smug as he always did. He looked a little embarrassed and afraid to be alone with him.
"I don't know about you, but I had a very odd dream last night about the two of us," Draco said.
"If it was about us the prefect's bathroom doing. things, then I had the same dream," Harry said answering the questioning look in Draco's eyes.
"Well I'm not sure if the. feelings were real or just the potion playing tricks on our minds. We need to go to Snape and get the antidote just in case it is the potion. Although it felt. well, real, I don't want some spell controlling me and I don't think you do either. The question is, if they are real, what then?"
Harry thought about it for a moment before answering, "I like the feeling. I've never really had any kind of real relationship with anyone because I figured I would be putting him or her in danger. But now that the war is over, I think it's time I dated someone. I realized that I was gay last year and I'm surprised I haven't thought of you as a possibility. Tell me, do you like boys or girls?"
"Boys. I have ever since I can remember. My father always nagged me about being with Pansy so I stayed with her for the time before the war, but I could never understand why I never liked her liked her. She pretty and quite a few guys from all four houses wanted to go out with her too. When the war was over I told her I didn't want to be her boyfriend and I think that she guessed I was gay.
"I thought about you a couple times before and I figured since we hated each other that we would never be anything so I kind of just put you out of my mind."
"I've never hated you. Disliked you immensely maybe, but never hate. Hate is to strong of a word for anyone," Harry told him.
"Well, we ought to go and get the antidote potion from Snape before everyone gets out of the hall and goes to their first classes," Draco suggested.
Harry agreed and they quietly made their way out of the closet checking to make sure no one would see them. The walked down to the potions classroom silently, hoping that Snape would be there as he wasn't in the great hall.
They knocked on the door and we glad to hear a voice tell them to enter.
Draco opened the door and motioned for Harry to go in front of him. Harry smiled and walked into the room greeting their professor.
"Good morning Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy. Is there anything I can help you with this morning?" Snape asked in a cool voice.
"We'd like the antidote potion please," Harry said in his best neutral voice he had. He may dislike the professor, but he tried his hardest not to show it.
"Ah, I was wondering when the two of you would be in here. Here you are," he said, handing them each a vile that he pulled off of the shelf.
They both uncorked them and drank the blue potion. A tingling feeling went through them and then went away.
"Thank you professor," they both said.
All of a sudden a wave of lust took hold of both the boys and they launched themselves at each other hungrily devouring the others mouth. Snape gasped and stepped back away from the snogging pair and pulled out his wand. He said a few words and they were torn apart from each other.
Draco tried lunging back to Harry but there were invisible bonds keeping him away. Snape laid a hand on his shoulder and gave him a vial with a pink liquid in it. He handed one to Harry too, who in turn gave him a dirty look.
"It's an anti-lust potion. It should last for about three to four hours I believe. I'll give you some more of it now in case something happens before class which I highly doubt will happen, but you never know with these kinds of potions. For some reason the antidote didn't work but this should. I'll do a little research after class today and find out what went wrong and tell you what I find.
"There is still another twenty minutes until class starts so why don't the two of you go back to breakfast and come back down with the rest of your classmates."
Harry and Draco nodded their head and took the bottles from Snape as they were leaving the classroom on their way back to the great hall. Draco stopped and Harry looked back at him with a questioning look.
"How are we supposed to know if it's going to work for three to four hours? What if it only worked right then and then we get to the great hall and end up jumping each others bones?" Draco asked.
Harry shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, there is really only one way to find out."
He walked forward and stopped inches away from Draco's face, silently asking permission. They both leaned forward and let their lips touch. It was a sweet kiss, nothing like any of the heated ones they had shared before.
Harry's heart clenched in his chest and felt like his whole body was going to explode. Draco on the other hand wasn't too different. His eyes fluttered shut and his head was swimming in unfulfilled fantasies. They both reluctantly pulled away and looked down at their pants exclaiming "still there" at the same time. They laughed and headed up the stairs into the entrance hall.
"Where does this leave us?" Harry asked.
"Well if I were positive these feelings were real then I would want us to be together but I don't really know if they are or not. I think that we should just start out with being friends and then see where that leads. If we can figure out this thing with the potion, then maybe we can be more than friends. Hey, if one little kiss like that can turn me into a pile of mush, even if it's the potion, I wonder how good you are at sex."
Harry blushed and looked down at his shoes.
"Well, what are we going to tell people?"
Draco contemplated the question for a minute before answering, "I think we should tell a limited amount of people, even though when people keep these things a secret, it gets out anyway and it runes things. So only tell the people you can trust not to tell anyone else. What do you say?"
Harry grinned and said, "Shall we?" and gestured towards the door.
Draco nodded and put his hand on the door handle but didn't open it.
"Let's tell them during breakfast and hope they don't have a big reaction to it. It might be easier that way. We can do it right now and then meet back up in potions."
"Sure," Harry replied.
The door swung open and the two boys went their separate ways, all eyes on them.
When Harry got to the Gryffindor table, Hermione and Ron were both giving him looks saying that he better tell them what's going on or else.
"First, I want you both to know that I'm gay," Harry started. "I have been for a while now and I didn't really know how to tell you it so I kept it to myself."
His two best friends looked at him in a shocked manner at first but nodded their heads in approval. Harry was astonished that they accepted it that quickly and went on with the rest of his story hoping they would feel that way when he finished.
"Second," Harry said in a whisper, ignoring Ron's question, "Second, I'm under some kind of lust potion and when we got the antidote, we kind of started to snog again and were about to rip each others clothes off if Snape didn't stop us."
"Ur Harry. you said us." Hermione trailed off.
"Yeah, the person I'm lusting after, who is also lusting after me, is Draco Malfoy."
Screams of, "You're what?" came from the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables at the same time. Harry tried to get a glance of Draco and when he did the blonde boy was smiling at him and shaking his head. Harry grinned back and repeated his sentence to his friends again making sure he said it slowly so they would get the full impact of it.
"But Harry," Hermione said. "This is Malfoy we're talking about! How can you be lusting after that slimy Slytherin? He's been mean to you your whole entire life at Hogwarts! Snape probably gave you the wrong antidote or something and it made the potion come back again. It is just not possible that you are lusting after someone so stuck up and conceded!"
"Look, we took the real antidote for the potion and it didn't work. Snape is going to do some research on it and find out what went wrong. He gave us some anti-lust potions, which should last us for the rest of the day if we take it every three hours. I don't like the idea of lusting after someone I used to dislike but I kind of like the feeling of it. I never wanted anyone to get close to me because of the war and since it's over now, maybe the potion isn't such a bad thing. At least I'll be happy.
"I've had this feeling since last year that I was missing something. I felt that I wasn't happy even though I was with both of you. That feeling is gone now, filled with a feeling of hope and want. I think I'm finally happy you guys, even if it is potion induced. Can you be happy for me?"
"Of course Harry."
"Ron?"
"Of course I can mate."
The whole Gryffindor table burst into applause as they had been listening to the whole conversation. Harry didn't realize that he had been talking so loud because after the Gryffindors quieted down, the whole great hall was silent and was staring at him and Draco.
Hermione reminded him that they had potions in ten minutes and better leave before they were late. Everyone at the Gryffindor table that was in the N.E.W.Ts potions class left the room and went to class all of them asking Harry question about him, Draco and the potion. He refused to answer any of the more personal questions, as he hadn't really discussed with Draco what they were going to tell people.
They all sat down at their usual seats, Harry in the middle of the room, saving a seat for Draco as he told Ron and Hermione when they asked why he wasn't sitting with them.
The Slytherins came in a minute or so later, Draco sitting in the empty chair next to Harry. They both blushed as people around them started whispering things, obviously about them as their names were heard more than once.
Snape got up from his desk and announced the class.
"Quiet down everyone. Would anyone like to share what the results of their potions were?"
A Slytherin boy in the back named Blaise raised his hand.
"Yes Zabini?"
"Mine was a confidence potion," he said.
"Anyone else?" Snape asked.
Neville was the next person to raise his hand.
"Mine was a remembrance potion," he said blushing.
Everyone in the class had their hands raised except for Harry and Draco. Snape smirked at them, clearly knowing what the affect of their potion was.
Someone from the back of the class said, "Mine was a sobriety potion," and Harry figured it was Seamus as he heard an Irish accent.
The whole class laughed and Harry swore he saw Snape's lips curl up into a smile before he turned around and got the tray of the antidote off of the shelf.
"If any of you the antidote, raise your hand and I will bring it to you," Snape said.
Hermione was the first person to raise her hand.
Snape grabbed one of the vials and brought it over to Hermione.
"Before I give this to you, tell us what the affects the potion had on you."
"I think that it was a really strong tranquility potion because I didn't want to do anything last night except sit around and do nothing. It took me three hours to do one homework assignment that was only six inches of parchment. I kept spacing out. It keeps coming on and off and it is getting in the way of my schoolwork.
"Why do you think you ended up with such a potion?"
"I think it was because I just needed a night off of studying. I've been so wrapped up in getting all of my work done and preparing for the N.E.W.Ts at the end of the year that I haven't had any time to just relax."
"Very good Miss Granger. Five points to Gryffindor."
He handed the potion over to her, which she drank down.
Many other people got the potion and Snape went through similar questions with them as well. Class flew by so fast that people were surprised when the bell rang signaling the end of class.
Harry and Draco walked to the door together and before they went their separate ways Draco asked him to him out by the lake during lunch. Harry agreed and gave Draco's hand a squeeze before heading up the stairs to Transfiguration.
*~*~*
Harry barely registered what McGonagall was saying. All he could think about is he and Draco and what the wizarding press would have to say about their lusting potion experiment.
'Hopefully they will understand that is not real. I just hope neither of us gets any howlers,' Harry thought.
Hermione nudged him in the ribs with her elbow and he quickly looked up from his thoughts. She raised her eyebrows at him and gestured towards the doors with her eyes. He followed her eyes and saw that the class was leaving.
'Time flies when you're thinking of yourself,' Harry thought, highly amused he zoned out of the whole class.
"Lets go get some lunch," Hermione said to him. "I'm hungry."
"I can't, I'm meeting Draco by the lake. I'll get something on my way back though if it makes you feel better," Harry said with a smirk.
When they got to the entrance hall Hermione stopped him and told him to be careful. Harry said he would and left through the main doors.
As he reached the lake, he saw a lone figure sitting on the shore throwing stones into the water.
"So what do you want to do?" Draco asked from his seat, not moving.
"Well you said you wanted to be friends. Let's get to know each other better," Harry answered sitting down next to him.
"Okay. We'll start out like we're just meeting each other. I'm Draco Lucius Malfoy, son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, born on the twenty-third of January."
"And I'm Harry James Potter, son of James and Lily Potter, born on the thirty-first on July."
They went on talking about random things al throughout their life up to the recent war.
"I turned against my father and had him placed in Azkaban. My mother went psycho on me and now she's in Saint Mungos; right where she belongs," Draco said.
"Well at least you had parents. Mine died when I was a year old."
"Yeah they may have died when you were young, but at least they loved you. I can't say that about my parents. All they cared about was money and Voldemort."
Draco gave him a small smile and looked down at his watch. His eyes went wide and he looked back up at Harry and said, "We missed our afternoon classes and are about halfway through dinner right now."
"We better get back."
They both headed back up to the castle and started laughing as their stomachs grumbled at the same time. When they got to the front doors Draco suggested that they go in at different times or people would think that they were off snogging each other in a broom closet somewhere.
Harry went in first, striding over to his seat at the Gryffindor table. Hermione and Ron asked him where he was the whole time but he ignored them and piled his plate up with food and started to eat.
Draco came in a couple minutes later and Harry could see that the Slytherins were questioning him of his whereabouts. Draco just shook his head and grabbed some food, talking with some of the younger students.
As Harry was watching him, he felt the urge to go over to the blonde and kiss him soundly. He shuddered and went back to eating, trying to get the dirty thoughts out of his head. Draco looked up sensing eyes on him and caught his stare. The Slytherin's eyes were heavy lidded and lust filled.
Harry's eyes went wide and he reached in his pocket and drew out of vile and drank the contents in one gulp. The feeling of desire in him ebbed away but he could still feel it in the back of his head.
Draco did the same as Harry when he saw the want in the Gryffindor's eyes.
'No ravishing Gryffindors in the great hall when there are other students around,' Draco told himself.
A tap on his shoulder brought Draco out of his thoughts. He turned around and greeted his head of house.
"I think that this will get rid of the effects quite nicely, Draco. If it doesn't work, then I don't think that there is anything that we can do," Snape said.
"Thank you sir, I'm sure it will work fine."
Draco took the steaming goblet from the potions master and drank it.
"Good it worked," Snape concluded.
"Why do you say that? I don't feel any different," Draco asked.
"Well, if the potion doesn't work, it makes the persons hair pink."
Draco nodded and watched as Snape walked up to the high table to eat. He looked over to Harry who was drinking something from a goblet that McGonagall had given him. He looked at the boy's hair, which stayed its normal black colour.
'Now that the affect of the lust potion is gone, I wonder what our feelings are towards each other,' Draco mentally asked himself.
He was ranting to himself in his head when he heard Harry's voice loud and clear.
*I like him a lot; but enough to be in a relationship?*
Draco looked around him but couldn't see Harry anywhere. He was surprised to see him sitting at the Gryffindor table not talking to anyone. He looked like he was trying to figure something out.
He could hear Harry's voice again, but his lips weren't moving.
*I wish I could just tell him that I like him. Its not a big deal or anything.*
'Harry, is that you?'
*Draco?*
'We can speak telepathically!'
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