Author's Note: Well, I just had a shower and now I'm clean and inspired!
(Don't ask?) so I hope you like where this story is going!! (don't say no
where coz this is one of those story that does have a cool arse plot!
Kinda!) Anyhoo, I shall write some of dis shit now! My love goes out to all
who are reading this, Love Jade.
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Chapter 2- BABIES!
"Ron! You need these extra credit points and I need a partner! AND it would be good to see how you would react!" said Hermione as she looked down on her boyfriend who was sitting in front of her.
"Oh 'Mione I hate little kids! Can't you just do it with someone else?" moaned Ron.
It had been almost a week since the start of term, and Hermione was trying to convince Ron to help her out in her Human Development extra credit homework.
"YOU HATE LITTLE KIDS? FINE! It's that's how you feel Ron! I'll go and work with someone else! Merlin forbid I'd want to look after a child with MY BOYFRIEND!!" she said, and she stormed out of the tower.
"What the hell was that?" asked a very bewildered Ron.
Harry just laughed, "You know what mate? I think you need to work that out for yourself." he said, standing up and following the path that Hermione had taken.
He walked out along the halls and tried to imagine where Hermione would go to calm down after her fight with Ron. He needed to speak with her and it had to be when Ron wasn't around, if they were fighting then this was his best chance to get her alone.
Finally he spotted her, out by the lake with her head in her hands.
"Hey stranger." he called out and she spun in shock.
"Hey Harry." she said with a small smile. She patted the ground next to her in invitation for him to sit down; he sat down next to her and leant his head on her warm shoulder.
"Don't worry about Ron, he'll come round." Said Harry, smiling lightly.
"Yeah, I know he will, but what worries me is deep down I don't really want him to! I think I would rather do it with someone who really cared for the child." She sighed, looking up at Harry.
"Well, have fun finding a boy that will care Hermione! Guys are not into looking after children, especially while they're still at school." He really pitied Hermione.
"You like kids don't you, Harry? You could do it with me!" she said, suddenly brightening up.
"I don't do that class 'Mione, I cant! I'm sorry." He said, running his hand through her soft hair.
"Oh yeah. Oh well, I'm sure I'll find someone." she sighed, "So what's new with you Harry?" she asked, leaning into Harry.
"Well, there is something I would really like to discuss with you Hermione. It's about the 'Friend' I met on the holidays, you know the one I wrote to you about?" he said, sitting up and smiling.
"Ooh! Yeah, give us all the goss Harry! Who is she?" discussing Harry's love life might cheer her up.
"Umm...he's a he..." Harry mumbled, looking down and playing with his fingers. Hermione looked confused.
"What Harry? I can't hear you!" she said, getting closer to him to hear him properly.
"His name is Alex..." said Harry, only a little more loudly.
"Oh Harry!" breathed Hermione, "HE? It's a boy? Oh Harry, why didn't you tell me sooner? When did you know? Oh God! You know you just fulfilled my typical girl dream?" cried Hermione, clasping her hands together.
"Shh will you!" hushed Harry, "I found out at the start of the holidays when I first met Alex. He's just beautiful. I couldn't tell you because I didn't know how you would react, and I couldn't get you alone to tell you without Ron hanging around." He said, then he looked at her confused. "What do you mean, I've fulfilled your 'Typical girl dream'?" he asked skeptically.
"Well you must know that every girl wants a gay guy best friend! You are my best friend, and now as an added bonus, you're gay!" she said, laughing at Harry's incredulous expression.
Then, Harry heard something that sent shivers down his spine and his face flushed up in anger and shame. From behind them came a very familiar, very Malfoy-ish snigger.
Harry and Hermione span around in sync and saw their worst nightmare. Draco Malfoy was standing with his wand at his side, looking like the cat that got the canary.
"POTTER'S A FAGGOT?" he roared, laughing like crazy. Harry already had his wand in his hand, but he threw it to Hermione now and lunged at Draco.
Draco was unprepared for the larger boy jumping at him, and when Harry's weight collided with his body they fell to the ground. They began to roll around, punching and strangling each other.
Harry rolled them over so that he was on top and began to punch the blonde haired boy repetitively in the face, breaking his nose and cheekbones with a shattering crunch.
Both boys were only vaguely aware of Hermione screaming at them to stop, and barely felt the hexes that she was throwing at them trying to get them off each other. Neither of them noticed when she began to cry and scream about them getting expelled.
Finally, when she saw McGonagall coming over to them, she knelt down and used all her strength to pull them apart, each time she got them apart so that they couldn't reach each other, Draco would snigger and they'd be at it again.
Giving up, she stood up and brushed herself off and then yelled at them some more to get McGonagall's attention. She knew they wouldn't expel Harry, the wizarding world needed him, and if they were lucky they would expel Draco and at least McGonagall would be able to spilt them up.
"BOYS!" came the strict teachers' shriek as she noticed the boys rolling on the ground. She ran over to them and threw a spell at them that separated them instantly.
"WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU TWO DOING? FIGHTING? AGAIN! BARELY A WEEK AFTER DUMBLEDORE GAVE YOU BOTH DETENTIONS! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!" she yelled, pulling them both up by the back of their shirts and looking at their wounds.
Harry's face was covered with blood that seemed to be seeping from his nose and a cut on his cheekbone. His hair was messed up even worse and it was matted with blood, sweat and dirt.
Draco had blood pouring from his nose and cuts under both eyes, his blonde hair was now had deep red streaks through it and it was full of knots and dirt.
Both boys were sweating and panting and Harry glasses were shattered. They both now hung their heads in shame, realising that they had been caught.
"Come with me right now!" she fumed, pulling the boys towards the school, "I'd be in my right mind to take you to Professor Dumbledore before you see Madam Pomfrey, just to leave you in pain for a while. But I wont, because it would probably sadden your headmaster to see what two of his best students have resorted to." She pulled the boys along into the school and towards the hospital wing.
"Come on, Miss Granger, you were witness to this barbarity; you can come too!" she called to Hermione, who was already dutifully following.
When they reached the medical wing, Hermione waited in the foyer with Professor McGonagall, telling the teacher her account of what happened, leaving out what Malfoy had said to upset Harry.
Half an hour later, Malfoy and Harry came out looking much better but rather ashamed. Hermione could only imagine what Madam Pomfrey had said to them.
McGonagall ushered them down the hall to Dumbledore's office, glaring at the boys sternly.
When they reached an office, McGonagall told Hermione to go back to the Gryffindor Tower and she lead the two boys up the stairs, they both hung their heads and looked like lambs being lead to the slaughter.
Harry and Draco walked into the office and sat down in two of the three chairs set up on one side of the headmaster's desk.
"Back again so soon boys?" came Dumbledore's voice as he entered the room, he sounded disappointed but he still had the humourous twinkle in his eye.
The boys just looked up at the headmaster and nodded, looking very sorry for themselves.
"What am I going to do with you two?" he sighed, "Minerva, can you please get Severus, I believe he needs to be included in this meeting." The transfiguration teacher nodded and stood up, leaving Draco and Harry alone in the room with Dumbledore.
"Now boys," said the kind headmaster "Do not look so scared, you're not going to be expelled and I have seen that detention isn't working so I am taking an alternative course of action to stop the fighting between the two of you." He smiled at the boys who were considerably brighter knowing that they wouldn't be expelled.
"But, I need to know exactly what happened this time, because judging by what Professor McGonagall told me about your injuries this wasn't just a random fight. So what happened before you started to punch each other up?" smiled Dumbledore.
Both boys looked down, neither of them wanted to speak.
"Harry?" asked Dumbledore quietly, "Tell me what happened?"
Harry looked up at his headmaster and swallowed hard. "Malfoy, snuck up on Hermione and I when we were having a private discussion." Harry looked down at his hands, "He overheard something very private that I was telling Hermione and began to laugh and taunt me. He had his wand at his side like he was ready to fight me; I got really angry and leapt on him and punched him in the face. He wasn't ready for a full-blown battle, not like that and so he fell to the ground and that's when we really started to fight." he finished, looking down so he didn't look his headmaster in the eyes.
"Indeed?" said Dumbledore, "Well, unless Draco has anything to say?" he looked at Draco who shook his head, "Then we will wait until professor Snape and Professor McGonagall come back before I tell you what your punishment shall be." He smiled at the boys and leant back in his chair.
Soon enough, a very infuriated Snape burst through the door into the headmasters office followed by McGonagall who was trying to calm him.
"Slow down Severus! Please!" she cried as they came through the door. But Snape walked right up to where Harry was seated, much to Malfoy's delight.
"Please Severus, sit down." Said Dumbledore calmly, looking at his Potions Master.
"I hope you've packed your bags Potter!" Snape sneered, before he sat down in the chair that Dumbledore had drawn up.
"Now, now Severus, calm down. The boys will pack their bags when our meeting is over, but first we have to discuss this punishment." Said Dumbledore.
"What? Potter viciously attacked one of my students! Draco only fought back in self-defense, you can't send them both home!" cried Snape, standing up.
"Sit down Severus!" bellowed Dumbledore in a slightly stern voice, "Neither of these boys are going home, now if you would all just hear me out it will all become much clearer, keep your questions until the end." He looked at the two young boys and two teachers proudly as they all nodded.
"We have all tried our best to keep your tempers under control, but no matter how many detentions we give you or points we take off, the message doesn't seem to get through. Now, I understand that you two have very conflicting personalities, and most of the time you just get under one another's skin. But in times like these I believe it is important that you two especially get over these differences for the good of the world." At this, all four other occupants of the room looked confused.
"I believe that it would be easier if I began at the beginning, because that is often the best place to start. This summer, I was dining with a Seer-friend of mine, and as we were finishing our meals she told me of a dream she'd had the night before. As she finished showing the me the dream, her eyes rolled back into her head and she had a prediction." At this point he pulled out his pensieve and touched the tip of his wand to some of the whirling substance. The swirling figure of a young lady that couldn't have been older then 30 rose out of the mist. She ran a hand through her long blonde hair and straightened her robes before she suddenly looked pale and her eyes rolled back in her head. She began to speak in a deep, dark voice.
"When the son of good and the son of evil unite as one, only then can evil be defeated. Dark must meet light in a neutral zone to help defeat the darkest of all."
Then the girls' eyes focused and she shook her head in a confused way, then the imaged dissipated.
"What the hell does that mean?" asked Draco, standing up with his hands on the desk.
"Calm down Mr. Malfoy." Said Dumbledore quietly. "Now if I am correct, then this as well as the visions Andrea saw in her dream bring me to the conclusion that the dark and light, the sons of good and evil are the two of you." he said, looking at Draco and Harry. "Do you see how you two fighting will never help the fate of the world? Draco you have told me that you don't want to be a Deatheater, and you want to fight for us, so this is your chance. The only way for Harry to defeat Voldemort is for you two to come together and for you to help him." He looked at both young boys and they nodded.
"So your punishment, as we shall call it, is as follows: You two will be taken to a special wing that has been set up. This room has wards around it so that neither of you can use magic inside it. The wing will consist of a bedroom for each of you, a shared bathroom, a common room and a small kitchenette. You will have to help each other with washing the dishes the muggle way if you choose to eat in your room. And you will have a small study where you can use magic but you will only be allowed to be in that room one at a time so that you cannot harm each other. I will place a force field around each of you, so that if either of you tries to hit the other, they will be repelled back. The force field will stay up until you stop feeling such hatred for each other. Do you understand?"
Harry and Draco nodded, inside they were both seething but they knew there would be no way to talk Dumbledore around.
"Headmaster if I may, I don't believe that giving these boys their own private room, where they can easily kill each other is such a good punishment. I personally do not want Potter on his own around Draco, who knows how he might try and sabotage my best student!" said Snape, looking murderous.
"Now, now Severus, I understand your objections, but this is a done thing and I have taken every precaution to keep both boys away from harm. Now, if there isn't anything else I will dismiss you two boys to pack your bags and leave them at the ends of your beds. Then we will meet outside the great Hall in 45 minutes. Minerva and Severus if you could please stay, I have some logistics to discuss with you. Good luck boys!" he said cheerily as the boys stood up and left the room. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
A/n: I hope you are enjoying this, now as soon as I see Sarah I can send this to her and hopefully get my first chapter back! Please review! Love Jade xxx
{Jade is a bad, bad person. – Sarah ramblings}
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Chapter 2- BABIES!
"Ron! You need these extra credit points and I need a partner! AND it would be good to see how you would react!" said Hermione as she looked down on her boyfriend who was sitting in front of her.
"Oh 'Mione I hate little kids! Can't you just do it with someone else?" moaned Ron.
It had been almost a week since the start of term, and Hermione was trying to convince Ron to help her out in her Human Development extra credit homework.
"YOU HATE LITTLE KIDS? FINE! It's that's how you feel Ron! I'll go and work with someone else! Merlin forbid I'd want to look after a child with MY BOYFRIEND!!" she said, and she stormed out of the tower.
"What the hell was that?" asked a very bewildered Ron.
Harry just laughed, "You know what mate? I think you need to work that out for yourself." he said, standing up and following the path that Hermione had taken.
He walked out along the halls and tried to imagine where Hermione would go to calm down after her fight with Ron. He needed to speak with her and it had to be when Ron wasn't around, if they were fighting then this was his best chance to get her alone.
Finally he spotted her, out by the lake with her head in her hands.
"Hey stranger." he called out and she spun in shock.
"Hey Harry." she said with a small smile. She patted the ground next to her in invitation for him to sit down; he sat down next to her and leant his head on her warm shoulder.
"Don't worry about Ron, he'll come round." Said Harry, smiling lightly.
"Yeah, I know he will, but what worries me is deep down I don't really want him to! I think I would rather do it with someone who really cared for the child." She sighed, looking up at Harry.
"Well, have fun finding a boy that will care Hermione! Guys are not into looking after children, especially while they're still at school." He really pitied Hermione.
"You like kids don't you, Harry? You could do it with me!" she said, suddenly brightening up.
"I don't do that class 'Mione, I cant! I'm sorry." He said, running his hand through her soft hair.
"Oh yeah. Oh well, I'm sure I'll find someone." she sighed, "So what's new with you Harry?" she asked, leaning into Harry.
"Well, there is something I would really like to discuss with you Hermione. It's about the 'Friend' I met on the holidays, you know the one I wrote to you about?" he said, sitting up and smiling.
"Ooh! Yeah, give us all the goss Harry! Who is she?" discussing Harry's love life might cheer her up.
"Umm...he's a he..." Harry mumbled, looking down and playing with his fingers. Hermione looked confused.
"What Harry? I can't hear you!" she said, getting closer to him to hear him properly.
"His name is Alex..." said Harry, only a little more loudly.
"Oh Harry!" breathed Hermione, "HE? It's a boy? Oh Harry, why didn't you tell me sooner? When did you know? Oh God! You know you just fulfilled my typical girl dream?" cried Hermione, clasping her hands together.
"Shh will you!" hushed Harry, "I found out at the start of the holidays when I first met Alex. He's just beautiful. I couldn't tell you because I didn't know how you would react, and I couldn't get you alone to tell you without Ron hanging around." He said, then he looked at her confused. "What do you mean, I've fulfilled your 'Typical girl dream'?" he asked skeptically.
"Well you must know that every girl wants a gay guy best friend! You are my best friend, and now as an added bonus, you're gay!" she said, laughing at Harry's incredulous expression.
Then, Harry heard something that sent shivers down his spine and his face flushed up in anger and shame. From behind them came a very familiar, very Malfoy-ish snigger.
Harry and Hermione span around in sync and saw their worst nightmare. Draco Malfoy was standing with his wand at his side, looking like the cat that got the canary.
"POTTER'S A FAGGOT?" he roared, laughing like crazy. Harry already had his wand in his hand, but he threw it to Hermione now and lunged at Draco.
Draco was unprepared for the larger boy jumping at him, and when Harry's weight collided with his body they fell to the ground. They began to roll around, punching and strangling each other.
Harry rolled them over so that he was on top and began to punch the blonde haired boy repetitively in the face, breaking his nose and cheekbones with a shattering crunch.
Both boys were only vaguely aware of Hermione screaming at them to stop, and barely felt the hexes that she was throwing at them trying to get them off each other. Neither of them noticed when she began to cry and scream about them getting expelled.
Finally, when she saw McGonagall coming over to them, she knelt down and used all her strength to pull them apart, each time she got them apart so that they couldn't reach each other, Draco would snigger and they'd be at it again.
Giving up, she stood up and brushed herself off and then yelled at them some more to get McGonagall's attention. She knew they wouldn't expel Harry, the wizarding world needed him, and if they were lucky they would expel Draco and at least McGonagall would be able to spilt them up.
"BOYS!" came the strict teachers' shriek as she noticed the boys rolling on the ground. She ran over to them and threw a spell at them that separated them instantly.
"WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU TWO DOING? FIGHTING? AGAIN! BARELY A WEEK AFTER DUMBLEDORE GAVE YOU BOTH DETENTIONS! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!" she yelled, pulling them both up by the back of their shirts and looking at their wounds.
Harry's face was covered with blood that seemed to be seeping from his nose and a cut on his cheekbone. His hair was messed up even worse and it was matted with blood, sweat and dirt.
Draco had blood pouring from his nose and cuts under both eyes, his blonde hair was now had deep red streaks through it and it was full of knots and dirt.
Both boys were sweating and panting and Harry glasses were shattered. They both now hung their heads in shame, realising that they had been caught.
"Come with me right now!" she fumed, pulling the boys towards the school, "I'd be in my right mind to take you to Professor Dumbledore before you see Madam Pomfrey, just to leave you in pain for a while. But I wont, because it would probably sadden your headmaster to see what two of his best students have resorted to." She pulled the boys along into the school and towards the hospital wing.
"Come on, Miss Granger, you were witness to this barbarity; you can come too!" she called to Hermione, who was already dutifully following.
When they reached the medical wing, Hermione waited in the foyer with Professor McGonagall, telling the teacher her account of what happened, leaving out what Malfoy had said to upset Harry.
Half an hour later, Malfoy and Harry came out looking much better but rather ashamed. Hermione could only imagine what Madam Pomfrey had said to them.
McGonagall ushered them down the hall to Dumbledore's office, glaring at the boys sternly.
When they reached an office, McGonagall told Hermione to go back to the Gryffindor Tower and she lead the two boys up the stairs, they both hung their heads and looked like lambs being lead to the slaughter.
Harry and Draco walked into the office and sat down in two of the three chairs set up on one side of the headmaster's desk.
"Back again so soon boys?" came Dumbledore's voice as he entered the room, he sounded disappointed but he still had the humourous twinkle in his eye.
The boys just looked up at the headmaster and nodded, looking very sorry for themselves.
"What am I going to do with you two?" he sighed, "Minerva, can you please get Severus, I believe he needs to be included in this meeting." The transfiguration teacher nodded and stood up, leaving Draco and Harry alone in the room with Dumbledore.
"Now boys," said the kind headmaster "Do not look so scared, you're not going to be expelled and I have seen that detention isn't working so I am taking an alternative course of action to stop the fighting between the two of you." He smiled at the boys who were considerably brighter knowing that they wouldn't be expelled.
"But, I need to know exactly what happened this time, because judging by what Professor McGonagall told me about your injuries this wasn't just a random fight. So what happened before you started to punch each other up?" smiled Dumbledore.
Both boys looked down, neither of them wanted to speak.
"Harry?" asked Dumbledore quietly, "Tell me what happened?"
Harry looked up at his headmaster and swallowed hard. "Malfoy, snuck up on Hermione and I when we were having a private discussion." Harry looked down at his hands, "He overheard something very private that I was telling Hermione and began to laugh and taunt me. He had his wand at his side like he was ready to fight me; I got really angry and leapt on him and punched him in the face. He wasn't ready for a full-blown battle, not like that and so he fell to the ground and that's when we really started to fight." he finished, looking down so he didn't look his headmaster in the eyes.
"Indeed?" said Dumbledore, "Well, unless Draco has anything to say?" he looked at Draco who shook his head, "Then we will wait until professor Snape and Professor McGonagall come back before I tell you what your punishment shall be." He smiled at the boys and leant back in his chair.
Soon enough, a very infuriated Snape burst through the door into the headmasters office followed by McGonagall who was trying to calm him.
"Slow down Severus! Please!" she cried as they came through the door. But Snape walked right up to where Harry was seated, much to Malfoy's delight.
"Please Severus, sit down." Said Dumbledore calmly, looking at his Potions Master.
"I hope you've packed your bags Potter!" Snape sneered, before he sat down in the chair that Dumbledore had drawn up.
"Now, now Severus, calm down. The boys will pack their bags when our meeting is over, but first we have to discuss this punishment." Said Dumbledore.
"What? Potter viciously attacked one of my students! Draco only fought back in self-defense, you can't send them both home!" cried Snape, standing up.
"Sit down Severus!" bellowed Dumbledore in a slightly stern voice, "Neither of these boys are going home, now if you would all just hear me out it will all become much clearer, keep your questions until the end." He looked at the two young boys and two teachers proudly as they all nodded.
"We have all tried our best to keep your tempers under control, but no matter how many detentions we give you or points we take off, the message doesn't seem to get through. Now, I understand that you two have very conflicting personalities, and most of the time you just get under one another's skin. But in times like these I believe it is important that you two especially get over these differences for the good of the world." At this, all four other occupants of the room looked confused.
"I believe that it would be easier if I began at the beginning, because that is often the best place to start. This summer, I was dining with a Seer-friend of mine, and as we were finishing our meals she told me of a dream she'd had the night before. As she finished showing the me the dream, her eyes rolled back into her head and she had a prediction." At this point he pulled out his pensieve and touched the tip of his wand to some of the whirling substance. The swirling figure of a young lady that couldn't have been older then 30 rose out of the mist. She ran a hand through her long blonde hair and straightened her robes before she suddenly looked pale and her eyes rolled back in her head. She began to speak in a deep, dark voice.
"When the son of good and the son of evil unite as one, only then can evil be defeated. Dark must meet light in a neutral zone to help defeat the darkest of all."
Then the girls' eyes focused and she shook her head in a confused way, then the imaged dissipated.
"What the hell does that mean?" asked Draco, standing up with his hands on the desk.
"Calm down Mr. Malfoy." Said Dumbledore quietly. "Now if I am correct, then this as well as the visions Andrea saw in her dream bring me to the conclusion that the dark and light, the sons of good and evil are the two of you." he said, looking at Draco and Harry. "Do you see how you two fighting will never help the fate of the world? Draco you have told me that you don't want to be a Deatheater, and you want to fight for us, so this is your chance. The only way for Harry to defeat Voldemort is for you two to come together and for you to help him." He looked at both young boys and they nodded.
"So your punishment, as we shall call it, is as follows: You two will be taken to a special wing that has been set up. This room has wards around it so that neither of you can use magic inside it. The wing will consist of a bedroom for each of you, a shared bathroom, a common room and a small kitchenette. You will have to help each other with washing the dishes the muggle way if you choose to eat in your room. And you will have a small study where you can use magic but you will only be allowed to be in that room one at a time so that you cannot harm each other. I will place a force field around each of you, so that if either of you tries to hit the other, they will be repelled back. The force field will stay up until you stop feeling such hatred for each other. Do you understand?"
Harry and Draco nodded, inside they were both seething but they knew there would be no way to talk Dumbledore around.
"Headmaster if I may, I don't believe that giving these boys their own private room, where they can easily kill each other is such a good punishment. I personally do not want Potter on his own around Draco, who knows how he might try and sabotage my best student!" said Snape, looking murderous.
"Now, now Severus, I understand your objections, but this is a done thing and I have taken every precaution to keep both boys away from harm. Now, if there isn't anything else I will dismiss you two boys to pack your bags and leave them at the ends of your beds. Then we will meet outside the great Hall in 45 minutes. Minerva and Severus if you could please stay, I have some logistics to discuss with you. Good luck boys!" he said cheerily as the boys stood up and left the room. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
A/n: I hope you are enjoying this, now as soon as I see Sarah I can send this to her and hopefully get my first chapter back! Please review! Love Jade xxx
{Jade is a bad, bad person. – Sarah ramblings}