The next few days went by pretty well. The Shrieking Shack had been improved a great deal. With the students working together as a team it didn't take very long for the job to be finished. The surprising thing was that even Draco was impressed with the way things had turned out.
"Wow, the decorations for this place is amazing." Commented Draco to everyone looking around with a rather impressed expression plastered on his face.
"We even put charms on the outside so that when we're chilling and laughing and stuff the people outside hear either very scary haunted noises or nothing at all. Depends on the mood of the shack." Said a Gryffindor
"We even charmed it to be different for each person. So if two people come up here and one hears wailing the other may not." Added the Slytherin standing beside the Griffindor who just commented.
Draco smiled. "A lot of work was put in here. I like it."
There was a group of smiled from everyone around.
"But what do we call this place?" asked a Griffindor
Draco turned to look at Harry who smiled back. "You decide."
"I wanted Dungeon." Said Draco
The Griffindor moaned.
"I was kidding." Said Draco smiling with the Slytherin snickering.
Harry glared at Draco and the dragon smiled back, "How about Under Tower."
Harry raised an eyebrow, "And why would we call it that?"
"It can be made short with UT. It would be much easier to place on items we're giving the others and I wanted Under Tower because the dungeons are underground and I wanted tower for us to remember the Griffindor's being in the towers."
"I like it." Said a Griffindor somewhere in the crowd.
There was a scatter of nods.
"Alright," shouted Harry, "Who things UT would be a good name?"
There was an uproar of applause and Harry turned to Draco.
"I'm not just a bloody git for nothing you know." Said the blonde.
Harry smiled and placed a kiss on the blonde's cheek.
"So we give it to them today?" asked Harry when he parted.
Draco nodded and looked at the crowd in before him whom all turned their heads up at him in confusion.
Draco took out a bag from his pocket and opened it. He reached his hand in the bag and took out one single shiny gold chain with a little golden broomstick as the pendant.
Everyone under looked up in awe.
Draco handed Harry the chain and Harry used his wand to engrave the letters 'UT' on the handle of the brooms and handed it to a Slytherin beside him.
Everyone expected the Slytherin to put it on but he didn't. Instead he passed it to the Griffindor next to him to passed it along until it reached the back somewhere and Harry lost sight of the chain.
Harry smiled down at the Slytherin boy who smiled back at him and nodded.
Draco and Harry were hard at work. Soon some of the older students caught onto the spell Harry was casting and helped out with the work at hand. It took a while for all the chains to be distributed to everyone.
"Well," said Draco once everything was handed out and he just finished clasping Harry's chain. "I guess it will be easier for us to see who's a supporter and who's not even when we're not in here. Don't go talking about this to everyone but I'm guessing that many of you would like to include a few Ravenclaw and perhaps a few Hufflepuff's in here. That could be arranged but the name of this place does on change. They didn't put effort into fixing up this place as we did so we deserve at least some credit. Any questions come to us." he pointed at Harry and himself. "If anything changes, like we make more people in charge you will know. They will be the ones with the silver coloured chains instead of gold."
"It's been a long night." Shouted Harry, "Lets go. Oh and I forgot, when there will be a gathering the broomstick will start shifting in. A time and date will be unscripted on the broomstick, which only the owner of the chain can see. Got the little idea from Hermione. She'll be thrilled if she ever finds out about this that we used her brains in all this."
There was a scatter of laughter, "Well, lets get going before Filch catches us." Shouted Harry and the crowd started to move back through the tunnel.
The members of UT had to once again sneak back to their dorms. The Griffindor on brooms which the Slytherin's waited assisting in anyway they could.
Harry stood back a moment after bringing up a 4th year Griffindor girl who refused to get on the broom of anyone who wasn't the Golden Boy himself. He looked at the scene. It was amazing. Red and gold mixed in friendship with green and silver. It made Harry's heart leap faster than his firebolt could take him.
"You know, this is because you and I were both brave enough to come out." said a certain blonde Slytherin who had been watching the Golden Boy intently.
Harry sighed, "I know. It's a beautiful sight isn't it? I mean, this is quite the amazing sight. Two rival teams working together as one."
Draco averted his eyes to follow his lover's gaze, "I agree. Who would have thought that the two most hated houses would work together in such a way."
"Hey Harry, we need you here to help. Stop chatting. That's for certain UT nights." Shouted Ron who had just landed looking rather exhausted.
Harry nodded and smiled at the red haired boy before turning back to face the blonde. "Good night Draco."
"I love you Harry."
"More than anything in the world." Returned Harry.
They kissed for a bit before Harry took off with another Griffindor towards the tower above.
"He really is beautiful isn't he?" asked Pansy
"Hey, you have your own Griffindor stay away from mine." Retorted a jealous looking Draco.
Pansy laughed, "Well, I have to get him to keep you on your toes don't I? But seriously Draco. It's not like he's not beautiful. There will be others after him. Just be careful. I've seen the way some boys and girls look at him."
"Pansy, I went through that already. Remember with that blasted professor?"
"Yes, but you may not be able to get someone with as much power as Dumbledore to back you up the next time."
"There wont be a next time Pansy."
"I certainly hope not Draco. Just be careful alright?"
Draco nodded and watched as Harry once again landed and picked up another Griffindor boy and flew him up to the tower.
The next morning Harry awoke with a rather loudly yawning Ron beside him. The glare from the sun caught a glint of something shiny that slipped out of Ron's shirt. Harry smiled and pushed himself off the bed. Just thinking about UT made him feel great. Now it was not just the exclusive DA group. Now Draco and him had made up something totally new and this was going to bring inter-house unity around Hogwarts.
Harry smiled even more as he thought about Draco. The beautiful blonde boy who made Harry's stomach flip in so many ways that Quidditch seemed like a simple walk in the park even when playing against Slytherin. Though when that happened Harry would be playing against Draco which didn't help ease the gigantic butterflies in his tummy much.
"Hey Harry uh, do you think I can hand in the essay tomorrow?" asked Ron.
Harry smiled, "Absolutely. If you want to fail Defense then sure."
Ron glared at his best friend then smiled, "Only kidding. You make the class fun. Even the essay was fun to write. Instead of being an eight parchment essay I made it nine. And I didn't even need to write really big either."
Harry rolled his eyes, "Are you aware of how much marking I have to do? And your making me mark MORE? How considerate 'oh best friend of mine'."
Ron smiled, "I think I did rather well on it actually."
"Well, I'll read it and we'll see."
Ron nodded. "Hurry up. I'm hungry."
"You shouldn't speak to your professor's that way Ron."
Ron's mouth fell, "Your so evil."
"I'm only kidding Ronnikins." Said Harry as he raced out of the dorm with a rather angry looking Ron trailing behind him.
The Griffindor Golden Boy had returned to his dorm after, and only after, Draco had made Ron and Neville learn a few new spells and passed them both. The blonde was not about to let his love just go back to his dorm with the probability of being attacked by his own housemates.
It was Tuesday. Over a week had passed since they started clearing up the shrieking shack for UT to open.
Their second lesson with Harry in Defense class was going to be later tonight. The first lesson however was quite intriguing. Many of the members of UT were surprised that Hermione hadn't said anything about Harry's performance. Harry was sure that Hermione would have drilled him down with the mistakes he was making or anything like that. Instead she hadn't said anything. Though it was partially the fact that Harry really was a good teacher and that he hadn't said anything wrong that she would be able to pinpoint but she refused to admit it until Harry got rid of Draco.
Harry spent his first period spare marking some papers. Although Draco was helping Harry in class the blonde was not allowed to help mark the assignments of other students. The blonde was allowed to mark tests and quizzes though.
This was when Harry realized how much work Marking essays were. He would have to make the students do different types of homework assignments in the future.
Harry was currently in the potions classroom with professor Snape though. He told his friends that he was asking about essays. What else could he say? It's not like he could tell them that Severus was involved in the relationship between Draco and himself. It just didn't seem fair to ruin the potion master's reputation for being an uncaring git after so much work having been placed into it. God forbid the students find out that Severus actually liked affection and liked spending long nights just talking about happiness and a future.
"So, how are you two doing?" asked Severus
"We're fine. Great actually." Replied Harry not looking up from his frantic marking.
"What have you been doing to him at night?" asked Severus with a raised eyebrow.
That got Harry's attention. He stopped abruptly and looked up at the potions master, "We-er-"
Severus laughed, "I was kidding. I know where you both have been. I would like it if you would take me there some time though."
Harry raised an eyebrow, "But-but why?"
"Well, seeing as how my entire house is there during the night, I think I have the right to see what type of evil the Golden Boy has cooked up for my sweet innocent group of Slytherin."
Harry rolled his eyes while they both broke out in laughter.
Harry and Severus were still laughing when Draco entered. Giving the potions master another glare. "AGAIN? How many times have I caught the sight before me?"
Harry and Severus both smiled at the mock glare the blonde was trying to kill them with.
Harry smiled to the blonde but then jumped up as he remembered, "I have class now!"
Draco smiled, "Yes you do. I thought I'd have to come remind you after I passed Ron coming down from the old bat's attic and he told me you'd been very stressed out with marking essays."
Harry had hurriedly shoved everything back into his bag and dragged Draco out of the room waving to Severus who had a class outside waiting for him.
"Professor Potter, I would hope you would mark your essays on your own time and not bother me with silly questions again." Shouted Severus after Harry and Draco who rolled their eyes at the potion master who was smiling before the students entered.
That night when the seventh year students filled into the Great Hall for their second Defense Against Dark Arts lesson it contained the same semi weary atmosphere. Some of the students were still uncomfortable with the relationship between their professor and the assistant. They were the one's who went through school with the two. They were closer involved than many of the other years. This was still awkward and new although there were only a few left who disagreed with them. Basically it was just a few Hufflepuff's who didn't know what to do and the three Griffindor from the beginning that caused the greatest amount of problem. The younger years had been able to get the other Griffindor's to lighten up to the idea of the two rivals being in love.
The UT group had expanded a great deal and pretty soon Draco and Harry would have to do something about it. It would be a bit too obvious if everyone fell asleep during classes and everyone disappeared during the night.
"Okay could every bring up their essays and place them on the desk. If you had any problems please come to either Professor Malfoy or myself at the end of class. Now lets continue with our lesson last week. Not everyone got it last week and I wanted to make sure no one was left out for this is a rather important lesson. It draws a great connection to the future chapters we will be dealing with soon. Although I am not too sure with what goes on in the NEWTS I think this is rather important myself."
The class went by rather smoothly. Nothing seemed out of place or rather difficult to deal with.
This was what made Draco suspicious. Maybe it was just the Slytherin way but he just felt that something was out of place. Something was wrong and he didn't like it. He had to make sure nothing happened to Harry. He could feel something was wrong. With that warning from Pansy the night before didn't help either.
It was after class when a first year Hufflepuff ran into the room and took Draco to the side to talk.
"Professor, I have something very important to tell you." said the Hufflepuff looking around the room nervously.
Draco looked at the boy before him, "Well? What is it?"
"I-er-I was in the hall and I over heard something this afternoon during lunch."
"What was it about?"
"It was about you."
"Me?"
"Yes. You and professor Potter."
"What about us?"
"Someone's going to do something."
"Who?"
"I-I'm not sure. I couldn't recognize the voice but it said something about the two of you not getting away with what your doing."
"What? This is absurd. Here, come with professor Potter and myself after he is done talking to that student and we'll go to the Headmaster's office."
The boy's eyes widened, "No, no I can't. No." the boy shouted and took off out of the room.
Harry looked over at his love and raised an eyebrow.
Draco mouthed, 'Later' and Harry nodded and returned his attention to the troubled student.
Draco sighed. This was bad. He really had to start learning the names of the students he deals with.