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Not Everything Is As It Seems
They got to the end of the tunnel and Harry tried everything but couldn't get the stupid thing to open up.
They sat there for about ten minutes when the statue shifted and Sirius slid in.
"Harry?" he said before lighting up his wand and walking over to the boys.
"Hey, Si--," he was cut off by the bear hug Sirius enveloped him in.
"Er...you might want to back off a bit, Harry is turning blue," said Draco worried for Harry.
Sirius lightened the hug but didn't let go until James pried his arms off.
Draco just stood there awkwardly with Sirius glaring at him.
"Harry, your mother is so sorry for what she said. She didn't mean a word, okay?" he whispered into Harry's hair.
Harry only nodded.
"That still does not give you the right to do this, especially in a time like this. We told you about the danger you were in and for you to completely disregard that tells me we need to do some serious talking," James said this very fast and without letting go of Harry.
"I'm sorry, dad," said Harry softly.
"I love you Harry, you know that, right?" said James holding Harry at arms- length and looking into his eyes.
Harry just started crying, he felt so bad for making his father feel like he didn't love him enough or something.
James didn't know what to do so he just took Harry in his arms and carried him up and out of the passage.
Draco was about to walk in the other direction when he felt someone grabbing his arm, pulling him back.
"Where are you going?" asked Sirius still holding unto the blonde's arm.
"I think Harry needs to talk with his family, alone. He doesn't have a problem with me, actually things are going great between us," said Draco with a bit of a dreamy smile.
"Did something happen between you?" asked Sirius tightening his hold on Draco.
"None of you business, cousin," said Draco shrugging the hold and leaving Sirius glaring after him.
James carried Harry right into their private quarters.
"Harry! Is he okay, what's wrong with him?!?" Lily screamed and ran to James, kissed Harry's forehead and started checking him for injuries.
"He is fine," said James not feeling too sure about the answer.
James sat down with Harry on his lap who was now sniffing every few seconds.
"Harry, are you okay?" asked James rubbing his back soothingly.
"I'm sorry, dad. I know you love me, but...I...sometimes I feel like you have lost all this years because of me, you know? You had to go into hiding because of me and I know you gave up a lot but it's not my fault...I didn't ask to be born and I didn't ask for this...curse," he finished gesturing to the famous lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead.
"Harry, we do not regret giving up those things because of you. God you don't know how happy we were to do it if it meant that you would be safe and...happy," finished James softly.
"Dad, I am happy. It's just...sometimes I'm going to mess up and I don't need to be called a disappointment. I feel like I have to be this perfect person because I have to feel lucky that I didn't die...I know this makes no sense to you." said Harry getting up.
"Please Harry, we need to talk. Please seat," pleaded Lily.
Harry sat back but he opted for the spot beside him instead of his father's lap this time.
"Harry, we don't expect you to be perfect. You weren't in class and I gave you the opportunity to tell me why and you lied. I don't like you lying to me not because I want to be nosey and bug you but because I feel hurt that I don't know if there is something wrong with you I have to hear it from your friends, teachers, brother...I don't want to be the overbearing mother but sometimes I feel like I have no choice. We talked about this before and I thought we were doing okay, I asked to meet your boyfriend because I thought that taking an interest in something you thought important would help me understand what you're going through," she looked very tired.
Harry felt like the biggest jerk. Here was his mother looking like she had been put through hell
When did I become the bad guy? Harry asked himself.
"I'm sorry I lied. I didn't think you'd understand why I cut class," said Harry looking at his hands.
"But you didn't even try," said Lily getting closer to her son.
"I was upset because this boy Dean had been acting really weird and I thought I had done something wrong so I asked him and he told me that he was mean to me because he was tired of being nice to me just because I was ''the-boy-who-lived,'' so then I thought all my friends felt like that and it made me feel lousy but then I found out he is just jealous because he had this huge crush on Seamus who fancies m--. You think this is stupid, don't you?" Harry interrupted himself after looking into his mother's smiling face.
"No I don't. This is exactly the sort of thing I thought had happened before you lied to me making me worried." She said with a huge smile.
"Really?" asked Harry with disbelief.
"Yes, things like this happened all the time when I was in school. Harry this may be hard for you to understand but I was fifteen once." She said winking at him.
Harry hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry I lied to you mum," mumbled Harry looking very much like a five year old.
"Apology accepted. I'm sorry I called you disappointment because nothing could be farther from the truth," Harry tried to wave her apology off but she just grabbed his hand and kissed it.
"No, Harry I'm very proud of you," she said making him blush.
James yawned loudly making Harry and Lily turn around and notice him.
"What, I haven't slept, my son was missing, my wife was going crazy and now they fixed it without me...I'm tired," he said feeling very nervous with those pairs of emerald eyes looking at him like that.
Lily and Harry stared at him for a few seconds before bursting into laughter.
They talked for a long time and then fell asleep together on the couch.
Jeremy walked in on them like this and cleared his throat loudly.
"I am feeling very left out right now, I know Harry is the baby but come on you could have called me," he said in a fake hurt voice. He knew Harry and his mum needed to talk.
Harry threw a pillow at him which started a furious pillow fight between the Potters.
Sirius and Remus went to the Potters quarters expecting to take roles as referees and keep the peace but what they found was Lily hitting James over the head with a throw pillow and Harry on top of Jeremy wrestling him to the ground.
Sirius sighed in relief, he wasn't looking forward to his role in the emotional mess he was expecting so, he just grabbed a pillow and started to help Lily beat up James.
Remus just sat there looking at the scene with barely concealed amusement.
"Sirius, when did you get here?" asked Harry confused getting too distracted and allowing Jeremy to pin him down.
"Yes, you seemed preoccupied," said Remus smiling at Lily's embarrassed face. She was always, like Remus, keeping James and Sirius from acting like kids and this time she had joined the former troublemakers.
"Oh, well...we were just...er..--," Remus interrupted her with a hand. "Whatever works to get the family together," said Remus pointing at Jeremy and Harry who were still rolling on the floor.
Sirius pulled Harry off of Jeremy.
"Hey, I was winning!" exclaimed Harry indignantly.
Sirius laughed at his Godson's pouting face.
"We should go out to eat, maybe somewhere in Hogsmeade," said Lily suddenly.
"NO!" shouted Harry making everyone turn to stare at him.
"Er…Hogsmeade is a stupid place and I don't like it," said Harry trying and failing to look nonchalant.
"Harry, what's wrong?" asked James.
"Well I kind of had an...encounter with a stranger," said Harry shrugging.
"What kind of encounter?" asked James looking unusually stern.
"Well, this creep cursed me," said Harry trying to escape and failing again.
"What?!?" James said grabbing him, successfully stopping him from leaving the room.
"Well, Draco and I were walking and this cloaked person was following us, I couldn't see the face but I saw him taking out his wand so I put up a protective shield and then came straight here," said Harry trying to sound responsible.
"Did you recognize anything about him?" asked Sirius.
"No, if I had I would've told you," said Harry rolling his eyes.
"Hey, have a little respect and don't roll your eyes at your Godfather," James scolded Harry.
"Dad, are you feeling alright?" asked Harry in disbelief.
"What--," he was interrupted by Harry. "You just told me off," he said smiling a little.
"I could also spank you if you'd prefer...maybe in front of your friends and Draco," said James
Harry turned bright red and began stuttering making everyone laugh.
"I was merely pointing out your change of character, father. Not that I think is amusing or anything," he said holding back a smile.
"Good because I was thinking about asking Draco to dinner tonight during the dueling club meeting," said James with a big grin.
"That's funny," said Harry laughing nervously.
"So, does Draco have any food allergies we should know about?" asked James.
"You weren't serious about that dinner thing, right?" asked Harry looking to his mum for help.
She just smiled and Harry gulped.
"Fine but I'll ask him," said Harry firmly.
"That's alright, I just really need to speak to Draco," said James making Harry look at him scared.
"Why...why...what do you need to talk about?" asked Harry almost hyperventilating.
"Relax, I just want to know if he recognized something about this stranger or the curse used against you," said James barely holding his amusement at Harry's discomfort.
"So, I guess you and Draco are back together?" Remus said trying to get Harry's mind to more pleasant things.
"Yes, it was brilliant we found out so much about each other last night and he looks really good with his shirt off," said Harry without thinking. His eyes widened when he realized what he had said and he blushed tomato red.
"Err...I...I meant that um...er…," Harry was just turning redder and sputtering incoherently.
Lily, James and Sirius were wearing the same angry expressions. Remus tried to stand in front of Harry afraid someone would lose control.
"Don't worry he is still a virgin," said Jeremy trying to take the heat off of Harry making all the adults look at him.
"He may have been groped a little but he is still pure," said Jeremy enjoying his little brother's squirming.
"I was not groped!" said Harry indignantly.
"No…? Something else...you didn't put anything in your mouth, did you?" Jeremy thought Harry would pass out from the amount of blood rushing to his face.
Remus smacked him round the head.
"What?" Jeremy said while rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't talk about your brother like that," said Lily disapprovingly. Harry was looking very smug after seeing his brother being hit and scolded.
"So, what happened last night then?" he said wiping the smile off of Harry's face.
"Nothing," said Harry quickly.
"Harry, I'm not going to be mad or yell at you I just want the truth okay?" said Lily and he could tell that staying this calm was taking a lot out of her. He stayed silent.
"Were you safe?" she asked in a squeaky voice.
"MUM! Nothing happened; we slept in the same bed, with our clothes on, well mine anyway. That's the whole truth I swear...well we snogged a little but that's no crime." he said the last three words in a high-pitched voice.
"You promise?" said Lily who had some color coming back to her face.
"Yes, mum. I promise." said Harry looking at her straight in the eye.
"Okay but when you do, will you tell me?" she asked.
"Probably not," said Harry smiling.
"Jeremy, how did you know I didn't sleep with Draco?" asked Harry curiously.
"Harry, you're my brother, I can tell...that and Draco didn't look like he got any last night." he added just to make his little brother blush.
"It's too easy," he said hugging his brother. Harry pushed him off.
"Let's go to the Great Hall it's time for dinner," said Remus after looking at his watch. Everyone agreed.
When they got to the Great Hall the adults headed for the head table but before they all said good-bye to Jeremy and kissed Harry much to his embarrassment. They decided he deserved it for scaring them last night.
Harry made his way to the Gryffindor table.
"Hi, guys," he said sliding in between Ron's twin brother who had seen him coming and made space for him.
"Where were you?" asked Ron, getting Hermione’s left elbow in his ribs.
"What?" Ron said stupidly.
"It's fine. I just needed some time alone," said Harry.
"Yes because being smothered in care and love can be deathly," said Dean coldly.
"How would you know?" said Harry nastily.
Dean looked hurt for about a second before he got up and left the table.
"Wow, Harry what was that about?" asked Jeremy who Harry hadn't notice was sitting in the Gryffindor table next to his boyfriend.
"None of your business," said Harry sticking his tongue out when James made a rude gesture with his hand.
"You know, you should never stick out your tongue if you don't plan on using it," said Roger coming over making the Weasley twins groan.
"I was so worried Harry," he said hugging him tightly. Harry felt very uncomfortable.
"Well I'm here now," said Harry trying to get Roger to back off but not wanting to hurt his feelings.
"Yes, is good to have you back. If you need to talk about anything just let me know," he said rubbing Harry's lower back dangerously close to areas Harry didn't want rubbed...or at least not by Roger and definitely not in the Great Hall.
Draco saw Roger and made his way to the Gryffindor table to see him groping his boyfriend.
Roger had seen the Slytherin seeker coming and smirked before grabbing Harry's face in his hands and giving him a quick kiss on the lips before leaving through the big, oak, double doors.
Harry was wiping his lips angrily when he saw Draco. He ran to him.
"Draco, I'm sorry I didn't want him to kis--," Draco put a finger to his lips.
"It's okay Harry I know you didn't want him to kiss you," he said moving the finger from Harry's mouth to his cheeks and along his jawline then back to the lips.
Harry was holding his breath while Draco explored his face with his fingers.
"Are you mad at me?" said Harry after coming to his senses a little.
"No, but I would appreciate it if you stayed away from him. I trust you but he just really gets on my nerves," the last part was said through gritted teeth.
"I can do that if...youhavedinnerwithmeandmyparentsthissaturday," said Harry very fast.
Draco gave him a really weird look, half confused and half worried for his sanity.
"My parents want to have you for dinner this Saturday," he said looking at his shoes.
"As long as there is no cursing or any bodily harm in it for me its okay," he said smiling when Harry looked up, his eyes sparkling with happiness.
"You would sacrifice a Saturday to have dinner with my completely mad family?" said Harry with disbelief.
"Heh, nothing better to do anyway," he said before he almost fell backwards from the attack the Gryffindor launched on him.
Harry was so glad Draco was doing this for him he forgot he was in the Great Hall and that everyone had stop talking to look at them.
"Ahem!" Harry and Draco broke apart to the loud clearing of a throat.
They looked at the head table to see the headmaster looking at them with those twinkling blue eyes.
"I understand young love but there is a time and place," he said making both boys blush.
"Yes, sir," they said in unison.
Harry looked around to see all kinds of reactions. The Slytherins were disgusted, including Snape who was looking at Draco with a ''you-could-do- so-much-better'' look, to most of the girls who where either sulking because both boys were taken or were sighing dreamily because they found the public display of affection incredibly sweet.
The next day at breakfast people were still talking about Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy's relationship, there was so much gossip both of them were getting hit with questions about how they got together and for long they have being seeing each other.
Draco was glaring at everyone, he was so sick of girls continually asking if that night they both were missing was a special occasion, and where had he taken Harry to.
He sat at the table and started picking at his breakfast when the mail arrived; he recognized the Malfoy eagle owl immediately.
"What you've got there?" he said to the owl when it extended its leg to let him remove the parchment attached to it.
Dear Draco,
I hope you're well my son. I'm writing because some rumors have come to my attention, which I’ll give no credibility to until I’ve heard from you. The Manager at the Hog's Head Inn said he recognized the familiar Malfoy watch on a patron two nights ago. Seems they rented a room, and the Manager claimed that he couldn't recognize the face, but that it was definitely male and sounded very like me. You can imagine my surprise. I'd like to inquire where you were two nights ago and whether or not your watch is missing.
I’ve also heard from a few...colleagues that you were walking around Hogsmeade the following day with that Harry Potter. I'm just conjecturing because as far as I know Hogwarts does not allow visits to the village during week days, especially during class hours. I'll be very interested in finding out if that were indeed you, and if so, why you were breaking the rules to take a stroll with none other than ''The-boy-who-lived'' himself.
Additionally, I received a very interesting letter from one of your classmates telling me about this very touching moment you had with Potter in the middle of the Great Hall.
Draco, you know how much I despise to hear messages of this sort concerning my family from strangers. I'm waiting for an explanation.
Your mother sends her love.
LM
Draco was expecting this but he still wasn't looking forward to informing his parents of his relationship with Harry.
He noticed the owl looking at him which meant his father was waiting for an instant reply. Must be angry he thought.
Dear Father:
I'm doing well, thanks. I'm very sorry that you had to hear this rumor from strangers, and I do have to confirm that everything you’ve heard is true, including the recently developed relationship with Harry Potter and myself, which I will explain, just not in this letter. It is my hope that you will trust me when I tell you that you won't be disappointed. I plan on letting you in on my intentions with him next time we see each other.
Love, your son, Draco
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Not Everything Is As It Seems
They got to the end of the tunnel and Harry tried everything but couldn't get the stupid thing to open up.
They sat there for about ten minutes when the statue shifted and Sirius slid in.
"Harry?" he said before lighting up his wand and walking over to the boys.
"Hey, Si--," he was cut off by the bear hug Sirius enveloped him in.
"Er...you might want to back off a bit, Harry is turning blue," said Draco worried for Harry.
Sirius lightened the hug but didn't let go until James pried his arms off.
Draco just stood there awkwardly with Sirius glaring at him.
"Harry, your mother is so sorry for what she said. She didn't mean a word, okay?" he whispered into Harry's hair.
Harry only nodded.
"That still does not give you the right to do this, especially in a time like this. We told you about the danger you were in and for you to completely disregard that tells me we need to do some serious talking," James said this very fast and without letting go of Harry.
"I'm sorry, dad," said Harry softly.
"I love you Harry, you know that, right?" said James holding Harry at arms- length and looking into his eyes.
Harry just started crying, he felt so bad for making his father feel like he didn't love him enough or something.
James didn't know what to do so he just took Harry in his arms and carried him up and out of the passage.
Draco was about to walk in the other direction when he felt someone grabbing his arm, pulling him back.
"Where are you going?" asked Sirius still holding unto the blonde's arm.
"I think Harry needs to talk with his family, alone. He doesn't have a problem with me, actually things are going great between us," said Draco with a bit of a dreamy smile.
"Did something happen between you?" asked Sirius tightening his hold on Draco.
"None of you business, cousin," said Draco shrugging the hold and leaving Sirius glaring after him.
James carried Harry right into their private quarters.
"Harry! Is he okay, what's wrong with him?!?" Lily screamed and ran to James, kissed Harry's forehead and started checking him for injuries.
"He is fine," said James not feeling too sure about the answer.
James sat down with Harry on his lap who was now sniffing every few seconds.
"Harry, are you okay?" asked James rubbing his back soothingly.
"I'm sorry, dad. I know you love me, but...I...sometimes I feel like you have lost all this years because of me, you know? You had to go into hiding because of me and I know you gave up a lot but it's not my fault...I didn't ask to be born and I didn't ask for this...curse," he finished gesturing to the famous lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead.
"Harry, we do not regret giving up those things because of you. God you don't know how happy we were to do it if it meant that you would be safe and...happy," finished James softly.
"Dad, I am happy. It's just...sometimes I'm going to mess up and I don't need to be called a disappointment. I feel like I have to be this perfect person because I have to feel lucky that I didn't die...I know this makes no sense to you." said Harry getting up.
"Please Harry, we need to talk. Please seat," pleaded Lily.
Harry sat back but he opted for the spot beside him instead of his father's lap this time.
"Harry, we don't expect you to be perfect. You weren't in class and I gave you the opportunity to tell me why and you lied. I don't like you lying to me not because I want to be nosey and bug you but because I feel hurt that I don't know if there is something wrong with you I have to hear it from your friends, teachers, brother...I don't want to be the overbearing mother but sometimes I feel like I have no choice. We talked about this before and I thought we were doing okay, I asked to meet your boyfriend because I thought that taking an interest in something you thought important would help me understand what you're going through," she looked very tired.
Harry felt like the biggest jerk. Here was his mother looking like she had been put through hell
When did I become the bad guy? Harry asked himself.
"I'm sorry I lied. I didn't think you'd understand why I cut class," said Harry looking at his hands.
"But you didn't even try," said Lily getting closer to her son.
"I was upset because this boy Dean had been acting really weird and I thought I had done something wrong so I asked him and he told me that he was mean to me because he was tired of being nice to me just because I was ''the-boy-who-lived,'' so then I thought all my friends felt like that and it made me feel lousy but then I found out he is just jealous because he had this huge crush on Seamus who fancies m--. You think this is stupid, don't you?" Harry interrupted himself after looking into his mother's smiling face.
"No I don't. This is exactly the sort of thing I thought had happened before you lied to me making me worried." She said with a huge smile.
"Really?" asked Harry with disbelief.
"Yes, things like this happened all the time when I was in school. Harry this may be hard for you to understand but I was fifteen once." She said winking at him.
Harry hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry I lied to you mum," mumbled Harry looking very much like a five year old.
"Apology accepted. I'm sorry I called you disappointment because nothing could be farther from the truth," Harry tried to wave her apology off but she just grabbed his hand and kissed it.
"No, Harry I'm very proud of you," she said making him blush.
James yawned loudly making Harry and Lily turn around and notice him.
"What, I haven't slept, my son was missing, my wife was going crazy and now they fixed it without me...I'm tired," he said feeling very nervous with those pairs of emerald eyes looking at him like that.
Lily and Harry stared at him for a few seconds before bursting into laughter.
They talked for a long time and then fell asleep together on the couch.
Jeremy walked in on them like this and cleared his throat loudly.
"I am feeling very left out right now, I know Harry is the baby but come on you could have called me," he said in a fake hurt voice. He knew Harry and his mum needed to talk.
Harry threw a pillow at him which started a furious pillow fight between the Potters.
Sirius and Remus went to the Potters quarters expecting to take roles as referees and keep the peace but what they found was Lily hitting James over the head with a throw pillow and Harry on top of Jeremy wrestling him to the ground.
Sirius sighed in relief, he wasn't looking forward to his role in the emotional mess he was expecting so, he just grabbed a pillow and started to help Lily beat up James.
Remus just sat there looking at the scene with barely concealed amusement.
"Sirius, when did you get here?" asked Harry confused getting too distracted and allowing Jeremy to pin him down.
"Yes, you seemed preoccupied," said Remus smiling at Lily's embarrassed face. She was always, like Remus, keeping James and Sirius from acting like kids and this time she had joined the former troublemakers.
"Oh, well...we were just...er..--," Remus interrupted her with a hand. "Whatever works to get the family together," said Remus pointing at Jeremy and Harry who were still rolling on the floor.
Sirius pulled Harry off of Jeremy.
"Hey, I was winning!" exclaimed Harry indignantly.
Sirius laughed at his Godson's pouting face.
"We should go out to eat, maybe somewhere in Hogsmeade," said Lily suddenly.
"NO!" shouted Harry making everyone turn to stare at him.
"Er…Hogsmeade is a stupid place and I don't like it," said Harry trying and failing to look nonchalant.
"Harry, what's wrong?" asked James.
"Well I kind of had an...encounter with a stranger," said Harry shrugging.
"What kind of encounter?" asked James looking unusually stern.
"Well, this creep cursed me," said Harry trying to escape and failing again.
"What?!?" James said grabbing him, successfully stopping him from leaving the room.
"Well, Draco and I were walking and this cloaked person was following us, I couldn't see the face but I saw him taking out his wand so I put up a protective shield and then came straight here," said Harry trying to sound responsible.
"Did you recognize anything about him?" asked Sirius.
"No, if I had I would've told you," said Harry rolling his eyes.
"Hey, have a little respect and don't roll your eyes at your Godfather," James scolded Harry.
"Dad, are you feeling alright?" asked Harry in disbelief.
"What--," he was interrupted by Harry. "You just told me off," he said smiling a little.
"I could also spank you if you'd prefer...maybe in front of your friends and Draco," said James
Harry turned bright red and began stuttering making everyone laugh.
"I was merely pointing out your change of character, father. Not that I think is amusing or anything," he said holding back a smile.
"Good because I was thinking about asking Draco to dinner tonight during the dueling club meeting," said James with a big grin.
"That's funny," said Harry laughing nervously.
"So, does Draco have any food allergies we should know about?" asked James.
"You weren't serious about that dinner thing, right?" asked Harry looking to his mum for help.
She just smiled and Harry gulped.
"Fine but I'll ask him," said Harry firmly.
"That's alright, I just really need to speak to Draco," said James making Harry look at him scared.
"Why...why...what do you need to talk about?" asked Harry almost hyperventilating.
"Relax, I just want to know if he recognized something about this stranger or the curse used against you," said James barely holding his amusement at Harry's discomfort.
"So, I guess you and Draco are back together?" Remus said trying to get Harry's mind to more pleasant things.
"Yes, it was brilliant we found out so much about each other last night and he looks really good with his shirt off," said Harry without thinking. His eyes widened when he realized what he had said and he blushed tomato red.
"Err...I...I meant that um...er…," Harry was just turning redder and sputtering incoherently.
Lily, James and Sirius were wearing the same angry expressions. Remus tried to stand in front of Harry afraid someone would lose control.
"Don't worry he is still a virgin," said Jeremy trying to take the heat off of Harry making all the adults look at him.
"He may have been groped a little but he is still pure," said Jeremy enjoying his little brother's squirming.
"I was not groped!" said Harry indignantly.
"No…? Something else...you didn't put anything in your mouth, did you?" Jeremy thought Harry would pass out from the amount of blood rushing to his face.
Remus smacked him round the head.
"What?" Jeremy said while rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't talk about your brother like that," said Lily disapprovingly. Harry was looking very smug after seeing his brother being hit and scolded.
"So, what happened last night then?" he said wiping the smile off of Harry's face.
"Nothing," said Harry quickly.
"Harry, I'm not going to be mad or yell at you I just want the truth okay?" said Lily and he could tell that staying this calm was taking a lot out of her. He stayed silent.
"Were you safe?" she asked in a squeaky voice.
"MUM! Nothing happened; we slept in the same bed, with our clothes on, well mine anyway. That's the whole truth I swear...well we snogged a little but that's no crime." he said the last three words in a high-pitched voice.
"You promise?" said Lily who had some color coming back to her face.
"Yes, mum. I promise." said Harry looking at her straight in the eye.
"Okay but when you do, will you tell me?" she asked.
"Probably not," said Harry smiling.
"Jeremy, how did you know I didn't sleep with Draco?" asked Harry curiously.
"Harry, you're my brother, I can tell...that and Draco didn't look like he got any last night." he added just to make his little brother blush.
"It's too easy," he said hugging his brother. Harry pushed him off.
"Let's go to the Great Hall it's time for dinner," said Remus after looking at his watch. Everyone agreed.
When they got to the Great Hall the adults headed for the head table but before they all said good-bye to Jeremy and kissed Harry much to his embarrassment. They decided he deserved it for scaring them last night.
Harry made his way to the Gryffindor table.
"Hi, guys," he said sliding in between Ron's twin brother who had seen him coming and made space for him.
"Where were you?" asked Ron, getting Hermione’s left elbow in his ribs.
"What?" Ron said stupidly.
"It's fine. I just needed some time alone," said Harry.
"Yes because being smothered in care and love can be deathly," said Dean coldly.
"How would you know?" said Harry nastily.
Dean looked hurt for about a second before he got up and left the table.
"Wow, Harry what was that about?" asked Jeremy who Harry hadn't notice was sitting in the Gryffindor table next to his boyfriend.
"None of your business," said Harry sticking his tongue out when James made a rude gesture with his hand.
"You know, you should never stick out your tongue if you don't plan on using it," said Roger coming over making the Weasley twins groan.
"I was so worried Harry," he said hugging him tightly. Harry felt very uncomfortable.
"Well I'm here now," said Harry trying to get Roger to back off but not wanting to hurt his feelings.
"Yes, is good to have you back. If you need to talk about anything just let me know," he said rubbing Harry's lower back dangerously close to areas Harry didn't want rubbed...or at least not by Roger and definitely not in the Great Hall.
Draco saw Roger and made his way to the Gryffindor table to see him groping his boyfriend.
Roger had seen the Slytherin seeker coming and smirked before grabbing Harry's face in his hands and giving him a quick kiss on the lips before leaving through the big, oak, double doors.
Harry was wiping his lips angrily when he saw Draco. He ran to him.
"Draco, I'm sorry I didn't want him to kis--," Draco put a finger to his lips.
"It's okay Harry I know you didn't want him to kiss you," he said moving the finger from Harry's mouth to his cheeks and along his jawline then back to the lips.
Harry was holding his breath while Draco explored his face with his fingers.
"Are you mad at me?" said Harry after coming to his senses a little.
"No, but I would appreciate it if you stayed away from him. I trust you but he just really gets on my nerves," the last part was said through gritted teeth.
"I can do that if...youhavedinnerwithmeandmyparentsthissaturday," said Harry very fast.
Draco gave him a really weird look, half confused and half worried for his sanity.
"My parents want to have you for dinner this Saturday," he said looking at his shoes.
"As long as there is no cursing or any bodily harm in it for me its okay," he said smiling when Harry looked up, his eyes sparkling with happiness.
"You would sacrifice a Saturday to have dinner with my completely mad family?" said Harry with disbelief.
"Heh, nothing better to do anyway," he said before he almost fell backwards from the attack the Gryffindor launched on him.
Harry was so glad Draco was doing this for him he forgot he was in the Great Hall and that everyone had stop talking to look at them.
"Ahem!" Harry and Draco broke apart to the loud clearing of a throat.
They looked at the head table to see the headmaster looking at them with those twinkling blue eyes.
"I understand young love but there is a time and place," he said making both boys blush.
"Yes, sir," they said in unison.
Harry looked around to see all kinds of reactions. The Slytherins were disgusted, including Snape who was looking at Draco with a ''you-could-do- so-much-better'' look, to most of the girls who where either sulking because both boys were taken or were sighing dreamily because they found the public display of affection incredibly sweet.
The next day at breakfast people were still talking about Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy's relationship, there was so much gossip both of them were getting hit with questions about how they got together and for long they have being seeing each other.
Draco was glaring at everyone, he was so sick of girls continually asking if that night they both were missing was a special occasion, and where had he taken Harry to.
He sat at the table and started picking at his breakfast when the mail arrived; he recognized the Malfoy eagle owl immediately.
"What you've got there?" he said to the owl when it extended its leg to let him remove the parchment attached to it.
Dear Draco,
I hope you're well my son. I'm writing because some rumors have come to my attention, which I’ll give no credibility to until I’ve heard from you. The Manager at the Hog's Head Inn said he recognized the familiar Malfoy watch on a patron two nights ago. Seems they rented a room, and the Manager claimed that he couldn't recognize the face, but that it was definitely male and sounded very like me. You can imagine my surprise. I'd like to inquire where you were two nights ago and whether or not your watch is missing.
I’ve also heard from a few...colleagues that you were walking around Hogsmeade the following day with that Harry Potter. I'm just conjecturing because as far as I know Hogwarts does not allow visits to the village during week days, especially during class hours. I'll be very interested in finding out if that were indeed you, and if so, why you were breaking the rules to take a stroll with none other than ''The-boy-who-lived'' himself.
Additionally, I received a very interesting letter from one of your classmates telling me about this very touching moment you had with Potter in the middle of the Great Hall.
Draco, you know how much I despise to hear messages of this sort concerning my family from strangers. I'm waiting for an explanation.
Your mother sends her love.
LM
Draco was expecting this but he still wasn't looking forward to informing his parents of his relationship with Harry.
He noticed the owl looking at him which meant his father was waiting for an instant reply. Must be angry he thought.
Dear Father:
I'm doing well, thanks. I'm very sorry that you had to hear this rumor from strangers, and I do have to confirm that everything you’ve heard is true, including the recently developed relationship with Harry Potter and myself, which I will explain, just not in this letter. It is my hope that you will trust me when I tell you that you won't be disappointed. I plan on letting you in on my intentions with him next time we see each other.
Love, your son, Draco
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