A/N: By the time this chapter gets out, I probably won't have updated for about a month. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm sure I'll have a perfectly good reason. Anyway, since I'm feeling kind of depressed and tired and I don't really want to talk, onto the chapter! Hope you enjoy. ;-).

-CatJetRat

Chapter 7

A Weasley Sister's Wrath

Harry's POV

Harry woke up to the sharp beams of early morning sunlight piercing his eyelids. He groaned and rolled over in his bed, wishing that he had closed the bed hangings before he had gone to sleep. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, only to be greeted by the worst headache he had ever felt in his life.

"Oh, gods," he moaned. "Why the bloody hell did I let Draco talk me into drinking?"

"What, mate?" asked Seamus Finnigan, pulling a shirt over his head and walking over to Harry.

"Oh, nothing," Harry said hastily, putting his glasses on.

Seamus shook his head. "How many times, Harry?" he asked, rolling his eyes and looking irritated.

"What?" Harry asked innocently.

"Don't wear those," Seamus said impatiently.

"Why not?"

"Because," Seamus said, removing Harry's glasses. "It obscures those beautiful green eyes you have, and when you don't wear them, more girls drool over you, which is rather amusing for me to watch. Besides, didn't I teach you that vision-correcting spell?" "Yeah," said Harry grudgingly. "But it feels so permanent, and I feel weird without my glasses."

"That's because it is permanent, and as for feeling weird, well, you'll just have to get used to it. Here, if you don't want to do it yourself, I will," Seamus snapped, and, pointing his wand at Harry's eyes, said softly, "Visión Reparo."

"Thanks," Harry muttered, and removed his glasses. Seeing properly without his glasses was probably one of the weirdest experiences Harry had had since he had joined the wizarding world. "So…" he said, shaking his head to try and clear it. "Why is it so amusing to watch girls drool over me?"

"Because you're gay," Seamus said lightly.

Harry's head shot up. "What?!" he exclaimed. "How do you know? Did Ron…?"

Seamus laughed. "Chill. I only know because I'm gay too, and I could tell, 'cause I have gaydar."

"Oh," Harry said, relaxing. "You haven't told anyone, have you?" he asked, slightly worried.

"No, of course not," Seamus said, holding up his hands in surrender. He frowned. "I don't even really get why Ron would know."

Harry sighed. "Well, I just realized that I'm gay last night," Harry sighed, running his fingers through his hair. "And the first person I decided to tell was Ron."

"Guess it didn't go over very well, huh?" Seamus said softly.

Harry shook his head. "No, it didn't. Ron told me that his family was one of those old-fashioned Christian families that follow the bible very strictly."

"What?" said a voice. Harry and Seamus looked up. It was Dean and Neville, though Neville was the one who had spoken.

"Hey guys," said Harry lightly.

"So you're gay?" Dean asked, smirking.

Harry nodded rather nervously.

"I knew it!" Dean said, punching the air with his fist. "I mean, it was kind of obvious," he added apologetically.

"How?" Harry asked curiously. It seemed that everyone knew he was gay except for him.

"Well, you just never drooled over girls very much like the rest of us were, not including Seamus, of course. But then again, everyone knew he was gay."

"Did they?" Harry asked, bemused.

"Yeah! Blimey, Harry, where you been?"

Harry shook his head. "I dunno," he muttered. He looked back up at the three boys who were so much more accepting of his sexuality than Ron. "How else was it obvious?" he asked.

"Well," Neville took over this time. "There was also the fact that when you got your first kiss, you didn't enjoy it very much."

Harry moaned and looked up at the ceiling. "How is it that everyone knows about that?" he asked miserably.

Neville shrugged. "Chang told everyone; I didn't know it was some secret."

"Yes, but one would expect her to have a little decency, right?" Harry looked at the other three boys imploringly, but they all had blank looks on their faces, and Seamus even said, "What's decency?"

Harry sighed. "Never mind," he muttered.

"Anyway," Seamus continued. "Do you want to know what made it really obvious to us that you're gay?"

Harry nodded.

"Well, it had a little something to do with the fact that you and Draco Malfoy were always flirting with each other," Seamus said, that evil little smirk on his face just growing bigger and bigger with each passing second.

"WHAT?!" Harry exclaimed, almost falling off the bed. "I never—are you crazy? We were never, what do mean, flirting?!"

The three boys fell all over themselves laughing. "Well, it was just so sweet," Seamus choked out. "'Come on, Harry,'" he mimicked. "'Do you want the Remembrall? Well then come up here and get it.'"

Neville was next. "'Oooh, Harry,'" he squealed. "'I'm so scared. It's the forbidden forest, and there are creepy crawl things. Oooh, protect me, Harry!'"

And then came Dean. "'Come on, Potter,'" he mimicked. "'You'll never defeat me at Quidditch, so why don't you just chase me around the Quidditch pitch on a broomstick and try to catch me?'"

Harry had gone pure white. A little growling noise escaped his throat as he watched the three boys, on the ground, laughing their heads off. "Seamus, Dean, Neville," he hissed. "If you value your pathetic lives you will run, now."

The boys looked up, and seeing the glint in Harry's eyes, well, they didn't stay sitting there much longer. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" They screamed, and tried to run out of the room, tripping all over themselves in the process, seeing as how they had all gotten a bit tangled. Harry grabbed his wand off of his bedside table and ran after them, shouting curses and swear words. When they reached the common room, however, all four boys stopped dead at the evil look from one Hermione Granger.

Harry blushed, and, muttering a goodbye to the others, went to give Hermione a much-needed apology. "Hermione," he muttered.

"Hello, Harry," she said, rather coolly.

"Look, Hermione, I'm sorry," Harry said.

"Okay, I'm listening," she said, now actually looking at him,

"I just got frustrated, and I should have talked with you about it when I didn't like being constantly reminded of Sirius' death."

"Yes, you should have," she said.

"And now I feel bad about it, because Draco told me about how you and Ron stood up for me when Chang started telling everyone about us."

Hermione looked at him strangely. "Draco, as in Draco Malfoy?"

Harry, realizing his slip, blushed, and then nodded.

"Alright, Harry, what's going on?" she asked him, sighing and putting down her book.

"Can you keep a secret?" Harry asked her. She nodded. Then Ginny made an appearance. "Oooh," she said excitably. "I can keep a secret. Tell me. Please? I love secrets."

Harry stared at her uncertainly. While he trusted her, from what Ron had told him last night, if he revealed this secret to Ginny, she'd never talk to him again. "Only if you promise that you won't tell anyone and you'll still speak to me after I tell you."

She nodded quickly. "But what—" And then her eyes got really big. "Did you kill someone, Harry?" she gasped. "That's it, isn't it," she said. "You killed someone!" Harry could tell that she was really wishing that he had killed someone. And in this display of cute childishness and immaturity that was only allowed to pass because Harry knew how intelligent she really was, Harry could sense something. This sweet girl would never reject him because of his sexuality. He wasn't sure how he knew this, he just knew it. However, the only problem was, Ginny's voice was rather loud and was beginning to attract attention. Harry quickly put a hand over her mouth and hissed, "Bloody hell, Ginny, shut up. I did not kill anyone, despite how much you might wish for that to be what happened."

"Well, what did happen, then?" She asked simply. At this, Harry began to recite the events of the previous night, starting with what had happened in the common room.

"And then Ron said that your family was Christian and that that was why he couldn't be friends with me. Basically that homosexuality was a sin."

"Are you serious, Harry?" Ginny said in a low voice. "Ron told you we're Christian?"

Harry nodded. "Yes, and he told me that your family followed the bible rather strictly."

"That bastard," she hissed, and, standing up, she whirled around to face where Ron was sitting with Seamus and Dean.

"RONALD WEASLEY!"

Ron jumped about a foot in the air as the whole common room went silent. Ginny was facing him, murder in her eyes and her wand rose to where it was pointing right between Ron's eyes. "You foul, cowardly little weasel!" she shrieked

Ron fell over the couch in his haste to get away from his sister. "What did I do?" he asked weakly.

"So clearly it's not enough that you have to be a scared little homophobe and insult our family by being a part of it, but you also have to insult everyone in the family by calling us Christian," she said, spitting the last word like it was poison.

"Oh," Ron said, his voice getting, if possible, even weaker.

"You nasty little liar," Ginny hissed. "I ought to wring you up from your spineless neck. If you're going to be a homophobe, at least have the courage to admit to it."

"But I—" Ron began, before Ginny cut him off.

"Don't even speak!" Ginny snapped. "Everything that comes out of your mouth is now to be considered lies, you ass. I can't even believe you would abandon Harry like that. Get up!" she spat, and Ron scrambled to his feet. "You're coming with me."

Ron began whimpering, before Ginny kicked him in the shins. "Stop whining! Now go!" Ginny said, and she marched Ron out of the room.

Harry felt greatly curious as to what Ginny was going to do to Ron, and he began to follow her, but Hermione grabbed his arm and held him back. "Where do you think you're going? I need still need to finish my conversation with you."

Harry glanced back at her, frowning. "What more is there to say?" he asked.

"You'd be surprised," Hermione said grimly.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked, sitting back down.

"What's wrong Harry, is that you're associating yourself with Draco Malfoy," Hermione said anxiously, looking deeply into Harry's eyes.

"What's so wrong with Draco?" Harry asked defensively.

"Harry, where have you been the past six years?" Hermione exclaimed. "Draco Malfoy is the one who made our lives miserable since we stepped foot on that Hogwarts train. Are you really so dense that you'd trust him? Harry, he's going to become a Death Eater! What makes you so sure that he won't hand you over to Voldemort?"

Harry shrugged. "I dunno," he muttered.

"I just want you to be careful," Hermione said sweetly, trying to comfort him.

Harry nodded. "I will be," he said.

Draco's POV, first person

"Are you crazy?!" Pansy shouted.

I winced at her angry tone. "What's so wrong with Harry?" I asked defensively. I had just told Pansy and Blaise, my two best friends, what had happened between Harry and me. They weren't taking it too well.

"Draco, where have you been the past six years?" Pansy exclaimed. "Harry Potter is the one who's made our lives miserable since we came to Hogwarts. Are you really so think that you'd trust him? Draco, he's going to become an Auror! What makes you so sure that he won't hand you over to Dumbledore?"

Draco shrugged. "I'm not sure," he murmured.

"Dray, I just want you to be careful," Pansy said in an unusually kind voice, trying to be understanding.

Draco nodded. "Yeah, I know. You don't need to worry. I will be."

Blaise frowned. "I still don't understand why it had to be Potter," he said grumpily. "I don't care that you're gay, I just don't really like the fact that you're seeing Potter. Why does it have to be him?"

"Cause I like him," Draco said stubbornly.

"And besides, everyone agrees that since he ditched his glasses, he's the hottest guy in school besides Draco," Pansy added, winking at Malfoy.

Draco blushed, and muttered, "Pansy, shut it."

"Why? You know it's true. Maybe I could hold a beauty contest!" she said, beginning to get excited.

"Down, Pansy," Blaise said in a bored voice.

"Actually, I'm more interested in what's going on between you and Granger," Draco said.

Pansy choked on a chocolate she had just popped in her mouth. "What?" she squeaked out, swallowing.

"Yeah," Draco said lightly, examining his fingernails. "According to Millicent, you and Granger have been seen getting very cozy in your bed."

Pansy went from red to white faster than the eye could see. "That bitch," she hissed. "I told Bulstrode not to say anything. She is so dead."

"I actually kind of tortured it out of her," Draco corrected Pansy.

"Oh," Pansy said, looking slightly disappointed that she couldn't torture Millicent.

"So," Draco prompted. "What's going on?"

Pansy then got a silly, ecstatic expression on her face. "Well, she's kind of my girlfriend," she said, sounding dreamy.

Draco snorted. "And you were getting angry with me. I thought Granger was supposed to be intelligent. It amazes me that she doesn't remember all those times that you were mean and cruel to her."

Pansy shrugged. "I apologized," she said simply.

"Ah," Draco said, smirking slightly. "The ever-powerful 'I'm sorry'. So she forgave you, and you two started snogging?"

"No, of course not!" Pansy said, looking scandalized. "It happened right after she and the weasel had a fight. Last night, actually. She was lying by the lake, sobbing her heart out."

"What time was this?" Draco asked curiously.

"Around seven," Pansy said dismissively. "Anyway, I asked her what was wrong, and she told me to go away, but I didn't, and said that the weasel was being a jerk to her, and that she was going to break up with him. I comforted her, and one thing led to another and, well…" she said, getting that silly look on her face again. "She broke up with Weasley that night, and then she came to my dorm room, crying again, saying something about Potter yelling at her. I comforted her again, and we snogged rather thoroughly. It was wonderful," she finished dreamily.

Draco snorted. "I'm sure," he said dryly.

Harry's POV

"It was wonderful," Hermione finished dreamily.

Harry snorted. "I'm sure," he said dryly.

The common room door opened, and in came Ginny with a smug look on her face, followed by an extremely disheveled, and freaked out looking Ron. Ron spotted Harry, and made a beeline straight for him.

"Harry," he said. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry and I don't have a problem with your sexual preference." With that Ron headed over to the fire and sat really close to it, shivering.

Ginny sat down next to Harry, an extremely pleased look on her face. "What did you do to him?" Harry asked warily.

"I locked him in a dark room with a bunch of spiders," Ginny said, beaming.

Harry burst out laughing, and Hermione looked like she was torn between disapproval and amusement. She chose disapproval. "Ginny," she said sternly.

"What?" Ginny asked innocently.

"You shouldn't have done that; Ron could have been seriously hurt; those spiders could have been poisonous," Hermione said.

Ginny shook her head. "Don't worry, Hermione. The most those spiders could have done was crawl all over Ron and freak him out completely. Which they did," she added, smirking.

At this, Hermione allowed herself a smile and a shake of her head.

A/N: What do ya'll think? I like certain parts of it, others not so much. I know it isn't as long as the last chapter, but I wanted to get it up. Sorry about the delay. I've been suffering a bad case of writer's laziness. Lol. But really, sorry about the delay. Here's the teaser:

Teaser:

"Harry, you understand that what you're asking of me is impossible," Dumbledore said, sadly watching the boy pace back and forth in front of him

"Why?" Harry burst out. "Draco's not like his father! He doesn't want to be a death-eater, and his father's going to make him become one. You can't just stand by and watch that happen."

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Dumbledore asked patiently.

"Take him in," Harry urged, sinking into the chair in front of Dumbledore. "Keep him here at Hogwarts, keep him at Sirius' place, I don't care, just keep him away from his father so that he can work for the light."

"I don't see why," Dumbledore said. "If his father wants him to become a death eater, like you say, then why not just have Draco become a spy?"

A/N: Hmm…what will Harry think of this idea? More importantly, what will Draco think of this idea? Anyway, onto reviewer responses! I love you all! This time ya'll get pie!

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A/N: WAH! I'm getting fewer reviews! Review! Please! It makes me so very happy! Hmm…I wonder if colors will show up on fanfic. Here, let me try. Well, they show up on my screen, I'm just not sure if they will download. I hope they do, though. Well, you'll know if they do. Anyway, R&R, please, especially the review part! Adios!

-CatJetRat