A/N- Okay, I think this is going to be the last chapter. So, let's see what happens!

By- FawkesSP

Chapter Six- The Result

The next few days alone with Draco was one of the happiest in his life. A few nights, they even stayed in the Room of Requirement. They would stay up all night, laying in front of the fire, laughing about all the times they fought. Eventually they would fall asleep, Harry wrapped tightly in Draco's arms.

On Christmas Eve, Harry and Draco went back to the room. This time when Harry opened the door, he stood there for a moment looking at the room. In one corner, a magnificent Christmas tree stood, brilliantly decorated in gold and silver. There was a couch facing the tree, and a coffee table in front of it with a pitcher of egg nog and holiday cookies.

"Wow," said Harry. "This is brilliant."

Draco held Harry's hand and they made their way over to sit on the couch. They laid there again for many hours, talking, drinking glasses of egg nog, holding each other, and looking at the handsome Christmas tree.

"Are you nervous?" Harry asked him. "I mean, about when everyone comes back."

"Harry, I have never had such a good time with anyone before, and I never had so many feelings towards one person. I am completely happy with you, and I don't care what anyone says." Draco said.

Harry and Draco again fell asleep with each other, the Christmas tree glowing slightly with the dimming fire. When they awoke, they found two small heaps of gifts under the tree, and opened them together and comparing what they got, and they had a very good time.

But too soon did it come that it was time for the rest of the school to return with a considerable amount more than they left with. Harry thought he should tell Ron and Hermione about Draco before they saw them together. He sat in the Gryffindor common room and waited for them to climb through the portrait hole. And finally, in they came.

"Hey Harry! Did you have a nice holiday?" Ron asked, and him and Hermione sat opposite him.

"Yeah, I had a very nice time." he said.

Harry was glad that everyone was just getting back and they were to busy talking about what they did on their time off than to listen to what Harry was about to tell them.

"How was your holiday, Hermione?" Ron asked, before Harry could speak.

"Oh me and my family had a really nice time." she said. "So Harry, what did you do while we were gone?"

This was it, he should tell them now. Harry's heart was starting to beat very fast, and his palms were starting to sweat. This was going to be more difficult to tell them than he thought. But he couldn't keep it from them forever, and he wanted to be the one to let them know.

"Oh, well, um.. Listen there is something I have to tell you guys." Harry said.

"Okay?" Ron and Hermione said together, looking slightly confused.

"Well, I have been seeing someone, a lot. I really like this person, and I wanted to tell you." said Harry.

"Oh please Harry don't tell me its Luna!" Ron said with an odd look on his face.

If that's what Ron thought about him seeing Luna, what was he going to think when he told him about Draco?

"Oh Ron, seriously, I told you Luna is a very nice girl. Harry, I am happy for you." said Hermione.

Oh great, thought Harry, now Hermione thinks its Luna too…

"Um, well, its not Luna." he told them. He was finding it very hard to say this.

"Oh good. Then who is it?" Ron asked.

"Draco. I have been seeing Draco Malfoy for almost 3 weeks." Harry said.

"Very funny. I don't care, really, if you're dating Luna." said Ron, laughing. Hermione said nothing as though she was contemplating this situation.

"I'm serious." he said simply.

The looks on their faces were almost funny, if it hadn't been such a nerve racking experience. It must had been a fairly large shock to both of them, its one thing saying that your homosexual, but then to be saying that, and that you had a boyfriend (if that's what Draco was, thought Harry) must have just been a real blow.

"Ron, are you okay? I know this must be really weird but-"

"Really weird? Really weird? Harry, you have been rivals since you first came to school, and now all of the sudden your saying that you're dating him? I'm sorry Harry, this is to weird." and with that, he walked off, leaving Harry feeling really hurt.

"I cant help it, Ron!" he called after him, but he continued walking.

Hermione walked over and sat on the arm to his chair and put an arm around him. This made him feel a little better, that she was not flipping out.

"I know you cant help the way you feel, Harry. But you have to give Ron time to adjust. You are, after all, his best friend, so its going to take him some time." said Hermione.

"Its just that I am so happy with him, and I thought he would understand that. He is not the same person that he was. He is really nice and we have a good time together." Harry told her.

"Well, personally Harry, I think its good that you guys are together. And I think its cute." Hermione said.

Harry had expected that she would be okay with their being together, and he was very grateful. The rest of the time before he went upstairs, he was talking to Hermione about how it all started. How Harry had noticed something different about him, and followed him into the bathroom, and the whole situation with Luna (as she still had questioned the whole thing him meeting her).

"Well, you could have talked to me about it." she said to him.

"Well I was really nervous, and I wasn't really sure on how you were going to react. Plus, I didn't really know if Draco wanted me to tell anyone, and seeing as Luna already knew…" he said.

"Yes, I suppose." said Hermione

There was a moments pause, in where Harry's mind drifted off to Draco. Harry wondered if he had told anyone yet. But then he thought about Ron. Was he ever going to accept them? Would he ever get over it and just have things be the way they were?

"Harry, what about the rest of the school, I mean surely they are going to see-" she said.

"I know, we both agreed that its what we want. We want to be together, and it was next to impossible when we had to meet without anyone knowing." he said. "Why, how do you think they are all going to react?"

"Well, I am sure that some people will not support it. It might be a little different if he was from Gryffindor, but seeing as he is from Slytherin…" said Hermione.

"Well, Draco said he didn't care as long as we were happy." said Harry.

Hermione looked for a moment as though she doubted Draco would ever say something like that. She apparently rethought it, and went back to talking about her holiday as though nothing had changed, and Harry felt loads better.

After awhile of talking, he said goodnight to Hermione, and made his way up to the dormitory. He wanted to at least say something to Ron, but his curtains were closed. Since there was an absence of his snores, Harry knew he was still awake. So Harry just didn't bother trying to say anything to him, and he got into his pajamas and went to sleep.

When Harry woke up this morning, Ron was not there. He sat in his bed for a few minutes, thinking about what was going to happen today with Draco. And after getting dressed, started off to the common room. When he got downstairs, he saw Ron and Hermione sitting on a couch, more than likely talking about him.

When he walked in Ron looked as though he had the same face as when he told him, but Hermione smiled, and waved.

"Good morning Harry!" said Hermione.

"Morning, Hermione… Ron..." Harry said.

"Hi. I'm going down to breakfast." he said, hardly looking at Harry. He left quickly out of the portrait hole.

"Don't worry, Harry. I said, give him some time. I'm sure he will come to his senses soon." she said.

They walked down to the Great Hall together, not talking much. When they entered, the Great Hall was more noisy than ever, people walking over to other house tables and telling them stories about their vacation. Harry looked at the Slytherin table, Draco wasn't there. So, Harry went and sat down between Hermione and Ginny, seeing as he didn't think Ron wanted him next to him.

He started to fill his plate with food, and then he realized he wasn't really that hungry. He kept thinking about Draco. Just then, someone tapped him on his shoulder. Harry turned around and saw Draco standing there, smiling. Harry got up and stood in front of him. He guessed this was it. If they were going to do it, might as well do in front of the whole school to avoid the rumors, and everyone would know it was true.

"Harry, I missed you." Draco said.

The people who were in ear shot of them were looking like this was some kind of joke.

"I missed you too, Draco." said Harry.

Draco leaned in, gave Harry a kiss, and hugged him. The atmosphere in the Great Hall changed almost instantly. The happy chattering became whispering and pointing. Some girls stifled a little "aww", but mostly people were just shocked. The Slytherin and Gryffindor tables were just staring at them. Draco and Harry let go of each other.

"Well, there we go," said Draco "Everyone now knows there is something between us." he said, smiling. "I think I should go back to my table now, meet me after breakfast."

"Okay." said Harry, and with another quick kiss, Draco went back over to his table.

"What was that all about, Harry?" asked Ginny.

"Well, me and Draco, are going out." said Harry. It was a lot easier to tell people when the whole school had seen them kiss.

"Oh… well that's… that's nice." she said.

"You're really dating Draco?" said a fourth year girl, Harry never spoke to before. Harry guessed everyone did know about the two of them.

"Yes. I am." Harry said, looking over at Draco and smiling. It wasn't as bad as he thought, it was actually kind of funny seeing everyone confused. Pansy, although, looked as though she was going to cry at any moment. Harry sort of felt bad for her. Ron looked as though he wasn't hungry either, he was just playing with his food.

When breakfast was over, Harry got up and started walking to the end of the hall. People were still pointing at him and whispering, like he didn't know what they were talking about. Harry saw Draco standing against the wall, and Harry walked over to him and put his arms around his waist.

"Well, that wasn't so hard was it? At least people didn't over react." Harry said.

"Yeah, I expected all the pointing and whispering, I'm sure they will get over it." said Draco.

He leaned in and kissed Harry. More whispering and pointing followed. Harry and Draco turned around, and walked hand in hand down the corridor. Draco had said that people would get over it, but what about Ron?

Harry had Transfiguration, and Draco had Charms. Draco walked Harry to his class, kissed him goodbye, and continued his class. Harry walked in, and he sat next to Ron, like usual. Harry was a little surprised he didn't change his seat. But, he showed no sign that Harry was even there.

"Hello, Ron." Harry said.

"Hi" said Ron, quickly.

"Listen, Ron, I know this is probably really weird, but its not like I had a choice! It is something that just happened! Now, you're my best mate, and I don't want that to change!" he said, in a slight whisper. He didn't want people to listen to their fight.

Again, Ron didn't say anything, he just looked as though he was not feeling well. Then the class had started, and they really had no chance to continue the conversation.

The rest of the day, Draco would come up to meet Harry between classes and they would laugh about how all the people were staring and whispering about them. Every now and then they would add a little extra kiss when they knew people were watching.

At the end of the day, when he was back in the common room, people would come up to him to see if him and Draco were going out. After about the twelfth person, he was getting a little tired of saying that they were.

"Everyone is talking about you two." Hermione said. "Even in the girls toilet, that's all people were talking about."

"Good. But I wish Ron would just stop being such a prat about all of this." said Harry.

Just then, Ron came in and walked over to them both, and sat next to Hermione.

"Hi. Um… I guess I haven't really been a very good friend about this whole thing. I thought about what you said in class today, and if you cant help it, there is no point on me being weird around you. Its apparently not going to change anything. Just… lets just not talk about it a lot, deal?" Ron said to Harry.

He thought that he was being a little insensitive, asking him to not talk about it. That's who he was. But if this was the only way that he could be friends with him, then he wasn't about to pass up the chance.

And over the next few weeks, Ron was becoming better on accepting him and Draco. When they would be walking in the halls, and Draco would come up and give him a hug or kiss, Ron would see how happy he made Harry. He was realizing that Draco wasn't such a bad guy after all. Ron actually one day said hi to him, and Draco returned the greeting.

The rest of the school, also, became more comfortable with their relationship. After they had more gossip to talk about, the pointing and whispering that usually followed them died down, and people became used to them dating.

Harry had never been more happy to be with someone in his life, and he was grateful that he had Draco. They made regular trips to the Room of Requirement. After all, that was where they spent most of their time together when they first starting seeing eachother.

And then, here they were, sitting on the to-familiar love seat in front of the fire. Draco's arms were wrapped tightly around Harry.

"Harry… I'm glad I'm with you." Draco said.

This gave Harry a feeling he had not felt with Draco before. His body was tingling all over, and as he looked up into Draco's eyes, his heart leapt again.

A/N- Okay, that's it! I was having trouble with Ron, that's why I didn't update as fast as I have been. Oh and when I was getting to the point where Harry had to tell them both, I kept getting nervous! I was thinking about writing a sort of sequel about what happens to them both after Hogwarts. What do you guys think?