Disclaimer: As I have said in the past chapters, I do not own anything but
the plot, and a few OCs you might encounter here and there.
A/N: First of all, I would like to address Brenna8, thanks for enlightening me on the plot holes. Your review was the first piece of constructive criticism that I have received for this story, Blood Magic. I will say, however, that I am not aware of the plot holes, OOCness, etc, that may be in my fic because I do not currently have a beta and I am yet to recive an offer. I had noted on my first chapter that I need one, and I am still waiting. Anyway, I will try my best to fill in the plot holes for the following chapters, but as of right now, I will not correct chapter two of this story. As they said, what's done is done, and I'm pretty sure that I have done writing the second chapter. But don't despair (I just love using that word!)! I probably also made the characters more OOC and can we say, calmer, when they found out, but I guess it was the shock factor that acted as a calming draught. Anyway, thanks again for reviewing! Oh, and what else can I say, I'm not that much of an experienced writer.
To those who reviewed for both chapters, I would like to thank you as I err, was not able to say thanks on both chapters.
Please enjoy reading my fic! REVIEW!
Notice: To all readers of my veela fic, Do I Really Have to Love You, I have good news for you! I shall be removing the story and rewriting it. Yes, rewriting it! From the start, to correct all OOCness, errors, plot holes, whatsoever to be in the fic. After that, I will be CONTINUING said story. Excited? I am too! I'll start rewriting once I have posted the third chapter of this story. To all I'M WHAT fans, don't worry, I'll be continuing it sometime. Another thing is that I am considering writing another story, but I am currently still in the 'should I should I not phase.'
One last thing: I know, all these notices might be a bother, so sorry. Here's what it is. I REALLY NEED A BETAREADER. I would really appreciate it if you offer to betaread for me, so please e-mail me with the subject 'betareader,' and include in your e-mail your err, let's say credentials. I wouldn't actually reject any offers, but if you have any stories or if you have written any literature, please let me read?
Ok, here it is! CHAPTER 3: Why Harry, I didn't know you swung that way!
"POTTER! WAKE UP! You'll be late!" Draco Malfoy said, knocking, no, banging, on Harry Potter's door.
"No, I don't want to!" A muffled yell was heard from Harry, as his head was buried under a mass of pillows and blankets.
"Potter, I'm telling you, YOU'LL BE LATE!" He yelled, finally sighing in defeat after a few repeats. "YOU KNOW WHAT!? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M DOING BY LOOKING OUT FOR YOU!" He yelled, turning to leave.
Harry had simply shrugged off all attempts from Draco to rouse him out of bed. He simply did not want to see the world that day.
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"What do you reckon happened to Harry, 'Mione? I mean, he's still not here!" He said, staring down at his breakfast.
"Ron, I don't know, okay? Harry might be moping or something, so we'll come by his dorm and check after breakfast." Hermione said, rolling her eyes at Ron's, she really didn't want to think this, stupidity.
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"Harry! Are you there?! Wake up! It's us, Ron and Hermione!" Hermione said, knocking on Harry's door. The boy did not do anything to acknowledge his presence.
"Hey! Mate! Wake up!" Ron yelled, knocking harder than Hermione. They still heard no reply.
Harry did not want to face anybody. Especially Hermione, and Ron, for the matter.
Hermione took out her wand and opened the door with magic. They entered the room, and spotting Harry on the bed, they ran and jumped onto the bed, causing him to groan and hide himself deeper under the sheets.
"Wake up now, love!" Hermione said, pulling the blankets off of Harry's face and kissing his forehead. "You have a day ahead of you." She added.
Harry didn't budge.
"Harry! You can wake up now!" Ron said, shaking the boy gently. "C'mon mate! You'll miss quidditch practice later!" Ron added.
"No, I don't want to go anywhere today, thank you. Now if you would just let me sleep!" He complained, pulling the covers over his head.
"Harry, is there a problem?" Hermione asked, frowning in worry. "You can tell us, Harry! Especially me!" She added, just in case he needed persuasion, per se.
Harry gulped
"Harry!?" Hermione asked, shaking the boy over the covers.
"No, Hermione, I do NOT have anything to say!" He yelled angrily, putting his head under his pillow. Sure he wanted to tell Hermione about the blood curse and his marriage with Draco, but he wanted to wait for a while, and break it to her gently.
"Fine." Hermione said, her eyes tearing up. "Well, if you need us," She said, trying to keep a straight face and her voice steady, "We'll be right here."
Ron took one last look at Harry, actually, more of the bed, before he and Hermione turned to leave.
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For that same day and the next, Harry stayed in bed, until Albus Dumbledore himself came to tell him to attend his classes.
"Go to your classes, my boy, this situation is no reason for you to miss out on any lesson." Harry remembered him say.
//Good for him, he isn't in this position right now. If he was, he'd die of a heart attack// Harry thought, glaring at everyone who passed him in the hallway.
He bumped into a person but kept walking on.
"Watch out Potter! Why are you so pissed, anyway?!" The person yelled, glaring. Harry ignored him.
He entered the great hall for lunch, banging the doors open before he marched over to the Gryffindor table, sitting beside Ron, in front of Hermione.
"Harry, I –"
"Shush, Hermione! I'd appreciate some silence right now?" Harry asked, letting out an exasperated breath.
Hermione looked shocked and dumbfounded, which was really saying something, as she was never dumbfounded. Ron looked as clueless as ever.
//Why'd it have to be Malfoy? Why not Hermione? Or at least someone I can live with! Just because Malfoy's rich and good looking doesn't mean that he's everything! I mean, how can a person be married to Draco Malfoy, and survive to tell the tale?! Why is it me who has to be married to him?!// Harry thought.
"Argh, damn it! Stop. Thinking. Of. Him. As. Your. Betrothed!" Harry exclaimed angrily, banging his head on the table with every word.
The whole hall suddenly turned silent.
Harry looked up, seeing a sea of curious and confused faces, and Hermione's shocked one. Ron was confused. And, not to mention, clueless.
He turned to face Draco, followed by the whole student body's gaze, and mouthed, 'A little help here, please?'
Draco chuckled and walked over to the Gryffindor table. The students expected Draco to taunt Harry, but imagine their surprise when, "Better think of it as fiancée, Harry?" Was heard from him as he hugged Harry from behind. Said boy cringed, and Hermione burst suddenly into tears.
"By the way, love," Draco put an emphasis on the word 'love,' "This came for us in the mail. It's from father." He said, taking a pouch out of his pocket.
Harry sat in his position, fuming in anger.
Draco took two elegant platinum rings, each spelling the other's initials in emeralds, as if to show ownership. Draco placed his ring on his finger, which spelled HP for Harry's initials. He took Harry's ring and slipped it on Harry's finger. Almost instantly, both of them were engulfed in a green glow, and a dragon seemed to come out of their rings. Everyone dropped what they were holding, their mouths wide open. The dragon circled a shocked Harry's and a smirking Draco's head, circling around the two of them, before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Harry looked on, dumbfounded, just as the other students. Draco sat down beside Harry.
The headmaster of Hogwarts smiled at the display, his eyes twinkling even more so than usual. Severus Snape had stood up, thrown his table napkin onto his chair, and marched off, perhaps to share such event to Lucius.
Harry looked around the silent hall, where most everyone was silent, shocked, or disbelieving. Hermione was crying her eyes out, and Ron was comforting her, while glaring at Harry.
Harry tried his best not to scream his lungs out and lose his sanity. Pretty much he was going bonkers, due to his getting married to Malfoy, and the news that Hermione now knows all too well.
"I... I..." He stammered, not entirely knowing what to say. Draco simply smirked and rolled his eyes.
"How... How could you, Harry? Why'd you keep this from me?" Hermione asked, sobbing.
"I was... I... I was afraid, 'Mione! I might break your heart! I mean, all our plans had gone to waste." He said, flicking an imaginary speck from his robe.
"You could've just come out right to the point and said it to me, Harry!" She said, getting up and running off out of the great hall crying, Ron following her, glaring at both Draco and Harry.
"Hermione!" Harry called out unsuccessfully, as the girl ignored him. He sighed and banged his head on the table.
"Whoa, don't freak out on me, Potter." Draco said, rolling his eyes. Harry simply glared.
The doors to the great hall burst open, catching everyone's attention. A blonde-haired man entered, holding a cane. He was intimidating, and most recognized him immediately. The hall was silent as the man approached his son and his son-in-law to be, with a livid yet curious look on his face.
"I was told that the crest appeared?" He asked, glancing expectantly at Draco.
"Yes it did, father." Draco replied simply, staring down at his food. He expected his father to explode with anger.
"I see. Well, this situation might be quite less complicated. I shall explain to you when you get to the manor. I shall have you picked up on Sunday." Lucius said simply.
"That's in a week's time!" Harry protested. He didn't want to go immediately, and besides, he had to explain and apologize to his friends still.
"You're quite perceptive, aren't you?" Lucius mocked and headed off, probably to wait for Albus in his office.
Harry sighed and kept banging his head on the table.
----CHAPTER END----
I know, it took a lil long for me to update. Sorry!
A/N: First of all, I would like to address Brenna8, thanks for enlightening me on the plot holes. Your review was the first piece of constructive criticism that I have received for this story, Blood Magic. I will say, however, that I am not aware of the plot holes, OOCness, etc, that may be in my fic because I do not currently have a beta and I am yet to recive an offer. I had noted on my first chapter that I need one, and I am still waiting. Anyway, I will try my best to fill in the plot holes for the following chapters, but as of right now, I will not correct chapter two of this story. As they said, what's done is done, and I'm pretty sure that I have done writing the second chapter. But don't despair (I just love using that word!)! I probably also made the characters more OOC and can we say, calmer, when they found out, but I guess it was the shock factor that acted as a calming draught. Anyway, thanks again for reviewing! Oh, and what else can I say, I'm not that much of an experienced writer.
To those who reviewed for both chapters, I would like to thank you as I err, was not able to say thanks on both chapters.
Please enjoy reading my fic! REVIEW!
Notice: To all readers of my veela fic, Do I Really Have to Love You, I have good news for you! I shall be removing the story and rewriting it. Yes, rewriting it! From the start, to correct all OOCness, errors, plot holes, whatsoever to be in the fic. After that, I will be CONTINUING said story. Excited? I am too! I'll start rewriting once I have posted the third chapter of this story. To all I'M WHAT fans, don't worry, I'll be continuing it sometime. Another thing is that I am considering writing another story, but I am currently still in the 'should I should I not phase.'
One last thing: I know, all these notices might be a bother, so sorry. Here's what it is. I REALLY NEED A BETAREADER. I would really appreciate it if you offer to betaread for me, so please e-mail me with the subject 'betareader,' and include in your e-mail your err, let's say credentials. I wouldn't actually reject any offers, but if you have any stories or if you have written any literature, please let me read?
Ok, here it is! CHAPTER 3: Why Harry, I didn't know you swung that way!
"POTTER! WAKE UP! You'll be late!" Draco Malfoy said, knocking, no, banging, on Harry Potter's door.
"No, I don't want to!" A muffled yell was heard from Harry, as his head was buried under a mass of pillows and blankets.
"Potter, I'm telling you, YOU'LL BE LATE!" He yelled, finally sighing in defeat after a few repeats. "YOU KNOW WHAT!? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M DOING BY LOOKING OUT FOR YOU!" He yelled, turning to leave.
Harry had simply shrugged off all attempts from Draco to rouse him out of bed. He simply did not want to see the world that day.
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"What do you reckon happened to Harry, 'Mione? I mean, he's still not here!" He said, staring down at his breakfast.
"Ron, I don't know, okay? Harry might be moping or something, so we'll come by his dorm and check after breakfast." Hermione said, rolling her eyes at Ron's, she really didn't want to think this, stupidity.
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"Harry! Are you there?! Wake up! It's us, Ron and Hermione!" Hermione said, knocking on Harry's door. The boy did not do anything to acknowledge his presence.
"Hey! Mate! Wake up!" Ron yelled, knocking harder than Hermione. They still heard no reply.
Harry did not want to face anybody. Especially Hermione, and Ron, for the matter.
Hermione took out her wand and opened the door with magic. They entered the room, and spotting Harry on the bed, they ran and jumped onto the bed, causing him to groan and hide himself deeper under the sheets.
"Wake up now, love!" Hermione said, pulling the blankets off of Harry's face and kissing his forehead. "You have a day ahead of you." She added.
Harry didn't budge.
"Harry! You can wake up now!" Ron said, shaking the boy gently. "C'mon mate! You'll miss quidditch practice later!" Ron added.
"No, I don't want to go anywhere today, thank you. Now if you would just let me sleep!" He complained, pulling the covers over his head.
"Harry, is there a problem?" Hermione asked, frowning in worry. "You can tell us, Harry! Especially me!" She added, just in case he needed persuasion, per se.
Harry gulped
"Harry!?" Hermione asked, shaking the boy over the covers.
"No, Hermione, I do NOT have anything to say!" He yelled angrily, putting his head under his pillow. Sure he wanted to tell Hermione about the blood curse and his marriage with Draco, but he wanted to wait for a while, and break it to her gently.
"Fine." Hermione said, her eyes tearing up. "Well, if you need us," She said, trying to keep a straight face and her voice steady, "We'll be right here."
Ron took one last look at Harry, actually, more of the bed, before he and Hermione turned to leave.
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For that same day and the next, Harry stayed in bed, until Albus Dumbledore himself came to tell him to attend his classes.
"Go to your classes, my boy, this situation is no reason for you to miss out on any lesson." Harry remembered him say.
//Good for him, he isn't in this position right now. If he was, he'd die of a heart attack// Harry thought, glaring at everyone who passed him in the hallway.
He bumped into a person but kept walking on.
"Watch out Potter! Why are you so pissed, anyway?!" The person yelled, glaring. Harry ignored him.
He entered the great hall for lunch, banging the doors open before he marched over to the Gryffindor table, sitting beside Ron, in front of Hermione.
"Harry, I –"
"Shush, Hermione! I'd appreciate some silence right now?" Harry asked, letting out an exasperated breath.
Hermione looked shocked and dumbfounded, which was really saying something, as she was never dumbfounded. Ron looked as clueless as ever.
//Why'd it have to be Malfoy? Why not Hermione? Or at least someone I can live with! Just because Malfoy's rich and good looking doesn't mean that he's everything! I mean, how can a person be married to Draco Malfoy, and survive to tell the tale?! Why is it me who has to be married to him?!// Harry thought.
"Argh, damn it! Stop. Thinking. Of. Him. As. Your. Betrothed!" Harry exclaimed angrily, banging his head on the table with every word.
The whole hall suddenly turned silent.
Harry looked up, seeing a sea of curious and confused faces, and Hermione's shocked one. Ron was confused. And, not to mention, clueless.
He turned to face Draco, followed by the whole student body's gaze, and mouthed, 'A little help here, please?'
Draco chuckled and walked over to the Gryffindor table. The students expected Draco to taunt Harry, but imagine their surprise when, "Better think of it as fiancée, Harry?" Was heard from him as he hugged Harry from behind. Said boy cringed, and Hermione burst suddenly into tears.
"By the way, love," Draco put an emphasis on the word 'love,' "This came for us in the mail. It's from father." He said, taking a pouch out of his pocket.
Harry sat in his position, fuming in anger.
Draco took two elegant platinum rings, each spelling the other's initials in emeralds, as if to show ownership. Draco placed his ring on his finger, which spelled HP for Harry's initials. He took Harry's ring and slipped it on Harry's finger. Almost instantly, both of them were engulfed in a green glow, and a dragon seemed to come out of their rings. Everyone dropped what they were holding, their mouths wide open. The dragon circled a shocked Harry's and a smirking Draco's head, circling around the two of them, before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. Harry looked on, dumbfounded, just as the other students. Draco sat down beside Harry.
The headmaster of Hogwarts smiled at the display, his eyes twinkling even more so than usual. Severus Snape had stood up, thrown his table napkin onto his chair, and marched off, perhaps to share such event to Lucius.
Harry looked around the silent hall, where most everyone was silent, shocked, or disbelieving. Hermione was crying her eyes out, and Ron was comforting her, while glaring at Harry.
Harry tried his best not to scream his lungs out and lose his sanity. Pretty much he was going bonkers, due to his getting married to Malfoy, and the news that Hermione now knows all too well.
"I... I..." He stammered, not entirely knowing what to say. Draco simply smirked and rolled his eyes.
"How... How could you, Harry? Why'd you keep this from me?" Hermione asked, sobbing.
"I was... I... I was afraid, 'Mione! I might break your heart! I mean, all our plans had gone to waste." He said, flicking an imaginary speck from his robe.
"You could've just come out right to the point and said it to me, Harry!" She said, getting up and running off out of the great hall crying, Ron following her, glaring at both Draco and Harry.
"Hermione!" Harry called out unsuccessfully, as the girl ignored him. He sighed and banged his head on the table.
"Whoa, don't freak out on me, Potter." Draco said, rolling his eyes. Harry simply glared.
The doors to the great hall burst open, catching everyone's attention. A blonde-haired man entered, holding a cane. He was intimidating, and most recognized him immediately. The hall was silent as the man approached his son and his son-in-law to be, with a livid yet curious look on his face.
"I was told that the crest appeared?" He asked, glancing expectantly at Draco.
"Yes it did, father." Draco replied simply, staring down at his food. He expected his father to explode with anger.
"I see. Well, this situation might be quite less complicated. I shall explain to you when you get to the manor. I shall have you picked up on Sunday." Lucius said simply.
"That's in a week's time!" Harry protested. He didn't want to go immediately, and besides, he had to explain and apologize to his friends still.
"You're quite perceptive, aren't you?" Lucius mocked and headed off, probably to wait for Albus in his office.
Harry sighed and kept banging his head on the table.
----CHAPTER END----
I know, it took a lil long for me to update. Sorry!