H P Boy who lives Year 7- Summer
Chapter 10
Four hearts
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Now that they have finally got Quidditch out-of-the-way the fun continues, this time by the pool. Hermione finally sets Harry straight about something.
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"I haven't had that much fun ever!" Draco was laughing so hard that he was holding onto a goal post so as not to become unseated from his broom.
"I couldn't catch the snitch until they reached 80, so it's their fault for setting that condition." Harry's stomach growled he was famished. "Let's go eat. I didn't eat breakfast this morning." He glanced over at Hermione who even though still smiling over her first victory was starting to wilt.
"I think that four hours is long enough for our genius." Draco could also see that Hermione was losing the battle with the fatigue that was setting in.
"Angel?" Harry caught her in his arms, now completely wiped out Hermione lost her hold on the broom.
The Nimbus hovered next to Draco, who grabbed the handle with his hand. "It's nap time for her."
Wills was not happy at what was going on up there. "Hey! It's time to go home kids!" He shouted up at them. "It's past two!"
They said good-bye to Seamus, Colin, and Dean. Then packed up their stuff into the SUV and headed for home.
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Harry was shooed out of Hermione's room, while Mattie tucked her into bed. "Go downstairs and eat something. Let her be for a while." He was ordered off the third floor.
Draco was digging into his hero sandwich when Harry walked into the kitchen. "She all tucked in?"
"Yeah, but aspirins not gonna help her when she wakes up." Harry picked up his own sandwich and took a bite.
"Well, you could make her a potion that relieves pain and soreness. Madame Pomfrey gives them out for pain." Draco mused.
"That pink potion that tastes strange?"
"That would be the one." Draco nodded.
"Is that N.E.W.T level or above?"
"I would say that we get to make it this year and it should be in our new books." Draco was all for this plan.
:Crack:
"Are you two about to do something stupid?" Severus appeared in the kitchen.
"No Uncle. We were just trying to think of how the school nurse makes her pain cure potion." Draco was being honest with his Uncle.
"That would not be possible, first you need the right ingredients, then it has to cure for two days, and then you have to have perfect timing." He lectured the two boys. "Or did you want to cause her even more pain?"
They shook their heads.
"Well then here is the potion. She has to drink the whole vial when she wakes up and then this other one when she goes to bed. Do you think you can follow those instructions or should I write them down?" He wasn't in a good mood.
"Nope we got it. Once when she wakes up, then once before bed." Harry echoed.
"Good." He handed him both vials. "Now if you two will excuse me I have to get back to what I was doing."
"Uncle Severus we beat Puddlemere United 420 to 80." Draco grinned.
"Yes I know." With that said he disapparated with a crack.
"Did he seem a little grouchy to you?" Draco frowned.
"Grouchy? Snape? How can you tell?" Harry grinned.
"No he seemed annoyed. Something must be up." Draco finished his sandwich. "I think I'll go out and get some sun."
"Wear some lotion Draco or you'll fry." Harry warned.
"I saw some in my bathroom." With that said, he left the kitchen.
"Order of the Phoenix," Harry spotted the hardcover book on the counter. "I have to read them sometime might as well start with this one." He took a last bite of sandwich, picked up the book, and headed up to check on his angel.
Wills was standing in the entryway snarling at someone on the phone. "I don't give a bloody rip whose birthday it is! I am not attending their party! No I'm not going to go to the brat's press conference either! I don't care if it was a harmless dare to get into a clique! He did the crime he can bloody well deal with the fallout that comes with it! Look father I am twenty-two and can hang out wherever I wish to! Right now, I wish to spend time with family that doesn't just see me as a way to get in good with the subjects, so he can get on the throne! Let me tell you something when the time comes I will take that job and there will be some major ass changes in the monarchy! I tire of this conversation father! No that's the final say from my lips to your enormously large ears! I'm my mother's son and I'm damn well going to start showing that to the world! Good day to you!" He shoved his phone into his pocket and it was then that he noticed Harry standing there. "Sorry about that Harry I was just dealing with my father. He was whining again. Is it all right if I take Beaky for a flight? I need to clear my head for a while."
"Just stick around Godric's Hollow, and since you're in a mood keep eye contact as you bow." Harry nodded then gave him instructions about handling Beak.
"I fed him twelve cooking chickens this morning, so I think we might be on speaking terms." Wills headed towards the back of the manor.
"I just know that what he snarled at his father is gonna come back and bite him in the ass." Harry headed up the stairs to the third floor.
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Ginny looked out at the pool from the terrace, where she was sitting in a lounge reading book one of Harry's series, and saw that Draco was sound asleep on his stomach in the sun. She looked at her watch it was nearly four and he had been out there for a little under an hour. "I'll grab my lotion and go join him." She was in her new turquoise blue bikini and matching cover up.
Harry was standing dressed in his swim trunks, further along the full-length terrace with a book clutched in his hands. He did not look at all happy.
"Harry! I'll be down with Draco by the pool!" She called over to him.
He turned to look at her staring at her for a few minutes before snapping out of his mood. "What oh...uh wear lotion or you'll fry and then Aunt Molly will strangle me."
"Harry?" Ginny walked over to him and saw which book he was reading. "Oh Harry..."
"I was stupid back then...a smart ass that didn't care...didn't listen...was just so angry. I had the mirror and never once thought about it not once. It really was my fault that Uncle Sirius died. My stupidity. No my attitude and stubbornness killed him...I can't believe that Ron and Hermione even wanted to talk to me..." He felt lower than low at that moment.
"You were fifteen Harry and had been through so much by then that you were just through with it all. Voldemort would have gotten you there another way and it all would have happened. Maybe not Sirius going through the veil, but I think that Bella got him with the Avada Kedavra curse before he fell in... Therefore, nothing could have prevented that. Sirius wasn't ready to battle and would have done it anyway." Ginny placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm gonna use this new title and do good things with it. I'm gonna think of others instead of just me. I will make all of their deaths matter." He was crying but he didn't care. "I will make them proud of me." He had his hands clinched at his sides. "I did it again today. Thought about nothing but the team, what would make us win, and look at what I did to the girl that I love! I knew that she wasn't ready to play all-out games and yet I went and did it anyway!"
"Stop it!" Hermione limped outside dressed to go down to the pool. "I did this to myself, Harry James, no one not even you, can make me do anything that I don't wish to do!"
"Hermione you're supposed to stay put for the rest of the day." He went to scoop her into his arms, but she pushed him away.
"I'm not going to convalesce in bed for the rest of the day when I wish to be doing something else." She narrowed her eyes at him. "I took the potion and am feeling much better thanks." She crossed her arms and glared at the book in his hand. "You chose that one out of all five?! The one where you are a prat?! Where I wanted to triple, hex you so many times that I had to vent it out on the first years or Ron. I don't think that you should be reading any of these, all it does it put you in a brooding mood, or make you want to have a pity party all by yourself!"
"I'll be down by the pool!" Ginny exited the terrace.
"Back the hell off Granger!" Harry was not in the mood to be flamed by her.
"No I will not back off! What is done is done! You can't change it! There was nothing you could have done!!"
"I could have listened to everyone around me!"
"You listen!? Not a chance in hell you were too angry to listen and too stubborn not to go off and be the hero!!"
"Stop it!"
"No I will not stop it! You started it and now you are going to hear me out! I told you repeatedly to go to Dumbledore! Did I not!? But no you were HARRY POTTER you can handle anything that comes your way! You learned your lesson that year by losing SIRIUS and almost losing ME! Did you know that I wanted to strangle you when I woke up in HOSPITAL WING, because there you were off brooding again!! I was positive that DUMBLEDORE had told you something that was going to get you KILLED SIXTH YEAR! Why do you think that I was your SHADOW?" Hermione was getting out all her frustration.
"Hermione..." Harry stared at the furious girl with so much love and frustration shining in her eyes for him.
"BUTTON IT!!" She screamed at him in fury tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"Did you know that I cornered DUMBLEDORE and demanded that he tell me what was in that BLOODY PREDICTION!? I wanted to scream when I heard the final line, because I knew there was a huge possibility that you were going to DIE! I researched that ring found out that it was powerful! I begged you to wear it, but no as usual you didn't LISTEN!" She was pacing the terrace now like an angry lioness.
"Baby you don't..."
"I SAID BUTTON IT, POTTER!" Potted plants all along the terrace shattered with the force of her fury the glass in the windows rattled.
Harry wisely shut up.
"I can read runes you know! I asked Firenze! I talked to the centaurs and they told me that it all would come during the final full moon of term that was the night of the end of the year feast! I was on my way to keep an eye on you when Ron ruined everything and asked me out! You took one look at the two of us and headed down to the feast! I couldn't just brush off my brother, so I had to let him down easy! Hell yes I cried!! I was so frustrated because I knew what was coming! I raced down secret passageways to beat you to the hall doors!"
"So that's how you did that? I thought you had the Time Turner again. Sorry shutting up again." He sat down in a chair as if she had shoved him into it.
"We ate and nothing happened. I was so relieved, but I could see you looking at Dumbledore every five minutes and you had your fist clutched around your wand. I knew that it was time that something was about to come full circle. Ron and Luna were so lost in each other now and didn't even sense the coming storm. Ginny chased after Luna because she forgot her hat...then she screamed and ran back in to tell us what had happened. Luna was the first casualty. Ron half out of his mind was single-handedly keeping Bellatrix and Lucius at bay! You and I sprang into action, as did the senior DA members! Ginny was too shaky she could not handle it, so she helped get the students to safety. Just as the windows in the Great Hall shattered and the Deatheaters poured in..." She closed her eyes as the memory of that awful night hit her again.
"They didn't know the Order was all over the castle. That their deaths were imminent and certain...The centaurs with Grawp's help were battling outside. The house elves were defending their home with Dobby as the leader. I had you in my sights until Bella zeroed me out and we started to duel. I got her good a few times, but someone I'm not sure who, I think it was Lucius got me with Crucio right between my shoulders; she stunned me, and used Imperio. Ron gave him what for, but he also ended up hit with Crucio and then Imperio." Hermione was crying so hard now that she was sobbing out the words.
"Don't say anymore you don't have to..."
Hermione glared at him.
"Okay you do." He wanted to take her in his arms and hold her, but he knew she wasn't ready for that yet.
"I knew what she was going to use me for and I begged her to kill me. I pleaded with her to just kill me, because I would die before being the cause of your death. She laughed that sickening evil laugh of hers and dragged me into the stairway. We stood there as you and Voldemort burst through the doors. I knew if you looked up and saw his trap that you would be finished, but I was helpless and could only watch. You took one horrified look up at us and then as I feared gave up. You let him hit you with curse after curse. I wanted to scream but I couldn't...you just stood there and took them. Bella was bored and wanted to take that boredom out on me, so she raised her wand to use Crucio and suddenly I heard you...No felt something change in you...you shouted my name as if you felt something for me. Then hit her with Avada Kedavra and she lost her hold on me. That was the only thing that was keeping me standing and I fell down the staircases. I just laid there like I was a lifeless doll, because I knew that if he thought that I was dead that I wouldn't be used as a pawn in his game anymore. I listened as you stunned Lucius with energy so powerful that you could feel it vibrating on the landing. Then I heard Voldemort say those dreaded words and you crying in agony when Ron was hit with it. I lay there helpless to do anything knowing that if I moved that you would be the one to die. I let you fulfill your destiny. All alone like it was meant to be and when I heard you say the words and knew that it was over, I fell into that blissful darkness that was calling me." She stared down at him tears flowing like rivers down her cheeks.
"I woke up two weeks later and they told me..." She sobbed out in agony. "They told me that you might never wake up! I screamed at them that they were lying and that they hadn't tried everything! I shouted at Dumbledore and McGonagall! I threw things at Fred and George when they pulled me kicking and screaming out of your room. I told them there was no way that you, after surviving all of that, would just give up! I was not going to live without you and that was all there was to it! I stayed with you every chance I got, but nearly two weeks had gone by and you didn't so much as twitch or squeeze my hand. I got so angry and frustrated with you that I finally shouted at you until my voice was hoarse and you finally woke up! Well you know what happened after that..." She sat down in his lap her anger and frustration totally spent and laid her head against his shoulder.
"I saw you lying there lifeless. I thought that you were dead. I didn't have a reason to wake up my job was done. I didn't feel like living without you...no that isn't right I couldn't live without you in my life. Then it was as if someone was screaming at me to wake up. So that was you?" Harry rested his chin on her head and held her. "In case I forgot to say it thanks again for saving my life. I plan on repaying you by making sure that you're happy and loved for the rest of our lives and even then that won't be long enough."
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Ginny walked out by the pool her heart ached after hearing Hermione pour her heart out to Harry. "You okay Draco." She sat down in the lounge next to his.
"I'm scum...no scratch that I'm lower than scum. I really need to read those books." He sulked from his spot on the lounge.
"What you need to do is put some decent lotion on before you turn into a lobster." Ginny noticed that he was getting a little pink.
"I put that lotion on." He pointed to the suntan oil beside him.
"That's not lotion that's oil. You put that on if you want your tan to really get dark." She picked up the bottle and read the label. "I'll put some of my lotion on you, so you won't do anymore damage. It'll give you the golden tone without the pain."
"I'll do it." Draco went to sit up, but she pushed him back down.
"Don't be a baby now lie still." She poured the lotion down his back it was cool, but he did as he was told.
"Gin this really isn't a good idea." Draco squeezed his eyes shut as she massaged the cool lotion onto his hot skin.
"You're way too tense. Relax I'm not going to hurt you." She kneaded the muscles along his shoulder blades.
It felt like his skin was on fire, but in a good way. Her touch was magic he had to admit that, but it was having a not so good affect on him. She had moved to lotion his legs and that was torture in itself. He fisted his hands in his towel and recited potion ingredients in his head. He was going to behave even if it killed him. "Thanks Gin I'll handle the rest." He took the bottle out of her hands and did the rest of his body with lightning speed. "Thanks." He tossed it back to her.
Ginny sat down on her lounge and peeled off her cover up.
Draco's heart stopped she was to his delight and horror wearing not a one-piece, but a bikini.
"Thanks I need to put some on before I go into the water." She poured some into her hands and smoothed it over her peaches and cream skin.
Draco thought about Quidditch. That didn't even work and that always worked with other girls. He knew then that he was in trouble she was trying to lotion her back now. Go on his mind screamed at him after all we wouldn't want that beautiful skin to fry now would we? He got up and took the lotion out of her hands. "Here Gin let me help you with that."
Ginny looked up at him and noticed a change in his silver-grey eyes. What are you up to now? She wondered but lay down on her stomach, so he could lotion where she couldn't reach.
Draco poured some lotion in his palms and warmed the lotion in his hands before gently smoothing it over her, alabaster sun kissed skin. "You know it means a lot to me that you believe in me like you do." He tried to be good; it was just so bloody hard now that he knew just how drop-dead beautiful she was, and what was under those robes.
"Well after the past month or two I have gotten to see a side of you that..." She paused to gather her thoughts what he was doing felt heavenly. This wasn't the first time that a boy had put lotion on her, but she had never felt like this. "Um...no one else has seen and I really began to care for what I was discovering about the true Draco." She was so content with what he was doing that she felt like purring.
Draco's heart skipped a beat as reality hit home. She loved him before Harry and he had ever thought about a truce? He felt alive really alive and aware of his feelings because he felt the same way about her. "I feel the same way about you and have for a while now." He was lotioning her calves and her feet. In a way, he was giving her a rub down as she had him.
Ginny turned so she could look up at him. "Really," Her heart was beating rapidly in her chest.
He was kneeling in front of her now. "I think that I'm in love with you Ginny Molly Weasley." He put his heart out on the line.
"I think I'm in love with you Draco Sirius Black." She smiled at him.
"In that case come here." He pulled her down into his arms and kissed her.
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Harry's eyes shot open, something had changed down by the pool. "Angel, I think what you need is a nice long soak in the spa." He didn't want to move, but something was up at the pool.
Hermione opened her eyes to look up at him. "Those two have a right to get to know each other and you aren't going to ruin it."
"I know the two of them are in love with each other. I just thought that I could you know stand by unless I need to use Glacius on them." Harry pouted.
"You know I hate it when you do that." She sighed in defeat.
He stood up with her in his arms and they headed down the terrace steps.
"You know it just melts me. It's like looking at a little boy who lost his favorite toy."
He ignored the couple kissing beside one of the lounges and set her down next to the spa. "So how does this thing work?"
Hermione flipped open a false tile with her toe. "I have to turn it on first." She knelt down and turned on the spa. "We might have to wait a few minutes to let it really get going.
Harry had the bottle of lotion in his hands. "That and I wouldn't want you to burn that flawless skin of yours."
Hermione peeled off her cover up that revealed that sapphire blue bikini that he loved so much. "That's a good idea handsome could you put some on my back for me?"
Harry warmed the lotion in his palms and then smoothed it over her skin. Not once did he try anything.
"Thanks." She put lotion on the rest of her exposed skin. "Now turn around and I'll get your back."
Harry turned around and let her lotion his back. They were just too tired emotionally to even care what the action was doing to either of them. "Thanks angel." He finished off putting on the protective lotion.
Hermione walked over and positioned the umbrella near the lounges over the kissing couple. "There that's better." She walked back over to the spa and walked down into it. "Oh now this is heaven."
Harry walked down into it, this was his first time in a spa, and it was like heaven on his aching muscles. "You said it angel." He settled contently beside her.
"Our house has to have one of these." Hermione sighed.
Harry's eyes shot open and he looked over at her. "Did you just say our house?"
Hermione opened one eye to look up over at him. "Do you have a problem with that Potter?"
"No there's no problem. I just didn't ...I mean...never mind." He closed his eyes and enjoyed the spa.
"Face it my lion you're stuck with me." She purred into his ear.
"Damn it to hell Hermione are you trying to kill me!" He shot out of the spa and dove into the cool water of the pool.
Hermione was in a playful mood now. "What's the matter lion did I scare you?" She got out of the spa and looked down at him. He was doing laps.
"Stay in the spa Hermione Anne." Harry ordered.
"Or what?" Hermione walked over to stand on the diving board and looked down at his frustrated face.
"You know damn well what happens when you look at me like that so just stay out of here!" He resumed swimming laps.
"I'm not afraid of your James side." She dove into the pool and began swimming on her back beside him. "I trust you completely."
Harry dove under the water and to the other side of the pool. "Well I don't trust myself not at this moment anyway."
Hermione swam up to him and pouted. "You're no fun."
Harry pulled her to him for a nice long kiss and they sank underwater. When they had to surface for air he got a brilliant idea. He was never without his wand, so he used it to place a huge bubble around their heads, and they sank back under water to kiss some more.
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Later that evening
Draco and Ginny were enjoying the spa and Harry and Hermione were lounging in a double lounger in the pool. It was nearing dusk now.
"I am not choosing which branch of the service that I'm going to enter! I'm still going to university! The hell if you can make me do anything!! I'm twenty-two Grams and that makes me a legal adult! You leave Katie out of this! I know where my place is and unless you decide to step down this very minute, I'm going to remain where I am! Father can't always have his way! I talked to the brat and he understands what is what! I bloody well am not my father's son! We are our mother's sons and the sooner all of you get that into your thick royal skulls the better it will be for all of you! That's right and no I'm not changing my mind! I'm not afraid of the goon squad! I've my own goon squad that can handle them if you send the Men in Grey on my ass. Yes Grams I'm exactly where you think I am and that is where I'm staying put!" He hung up on the Queen and threw the mobile into the pool.
"Did your father go running to his mum?" Harry looked over at him.
"Yeah, but what's new!" Wills grumbled. "They will not control my life and that is all there is to it!"
"If Katie cares for you she'll take your side." Hermione was content lying there in Harry's arms.
"Katie can't really stand my family and that's one of the things that I love about her." Wills dove into the pool. "Although, I'm not ready to get serious or anything like that. Can you imagine what the family would do? She isn't a royal and is on scholarship to the university and she's one of my flatmates."
"Hmm sounds like the two of you are close." Hermione looked down at her cousin, who was treading water beside them.
"I like her a whole lot...and that's the end of this subject." He tipped the lounge and the two lovebirds spilled into the cool blue water.
"You're toast Wills!" Hermione came sputtering back up to the surface and dove to get him.
Wills caught her first and dunked her. "Oh I'm so scared Ducky!" He swam away.
"Ducky?" Draco frowned at Ginny.
"It's his nickname for her. It goes with the duckling that became a beautiful swan nursery tale." Ginny answered as Wills plucked her out of the spa and into the pool. "Oh you're going to get it for that William!" She and Hermione double-teamed him.
"So Draco, how are you enjoying your first day as a good guy?" Harry let the girls attack Wills and swam over by Draco.
"I think that this good guy thing has some really interesting rewards and I really haven't ever had this much fun in my life." Draco smiled.
"I half expected to see something happening by now, it's getting dark, and after The Prophet today I imagine the Wizarding World is dying to celebrate." Harry glanced up at the darkening sky.
Draco looked over towards the lake and chuckled. "You are so gonna regret that you said those words."
A giant Love Bang was being shot off right above the lake, followed by showers of shooting stars.
"Oh those two are so dead when I get my hands on them!" Harry watched as more and more fireworks exploded in the sky.
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Chapter 11
Lupin's Prayer
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I do not claim any of JKR's characters only that I love being able to create my own kind of mischief with her beloved characters. I do not claim any other things that are owned by other companies that I may mention once and a while in the stories...Although the original characters and ideas are mine and I loved creating them. So please review if you wish but try not to flame me too badly.
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