Title: Already Gone

Author: Isidoria

Rating: R

Genre: Romance

Summary: A sweet romance between an innocent Harry and a loving Draco. What trials will the pair face? DMHP

Chapter 3

The next day, Draco was happier that he and Harry now had every class together than he had ever been before. After their OWLS last year, both had gotten accepted into the advanced classes.

Yesterday he approached Harry during Spell Writing, the only class in Hogwarts that took place in the library. The class was an advanced one, taking up a lot of their time as it was required of them to take Magical Theory as well. It had been a Wednesday the day he spoke with Harry, and after looking at his timetable for Thursday Draco headed to Transfigurations and sat waiting at the back of the room.

He was waiting for Harry to show up. Harry was the last student to show before the bell rang. As he walked down the main aisle to sit somewhere the empty desks were filled by book bags, sprawling limbs and sneers. Harry seemed to curl further in on himself and around his Transfiguration's text that was clutched to his chest with each step he took, passing the now filled rows.

Draco caught his eye and smiled slightly, gesturing to the empty desk beside himself at the very back of the classroom.

Harry was just sitting down when their professor walked into the room.

"Today class, we will be attempting something very difficult. If you are able to do the spells correctly, the rest of the year shall be no problem for you, but if you struggle you will have to work very hard to pass the course. Your first round of exams will be in four weeks, and after the Yule break you will be writing your mid-term exams."

Draco jotted a note to Harry on a scrap of parchment and slid it over without looking at him.

Are you alright love? You look ill…

Harry stared at it in shock.

Love?

He wrote back.

You didn't gather that from yesterday?

Harry glanced at Draco out of the corner of his eye and saw the boy smirking.

I'm sorry I kissed you.

Draco's brow furrowed as he read the note.

First, I kissed you.
Second, are you sorry we did?

Harry thought for a moment.

Well, if you aren't upset with me then no I'm not sorry.

Draco smiled again.

Good, because I'd like to do it again.

Draco was grinning as he passed the note over. Harry blushed sweetly as he read it and tucked it neatly into his textbook.

"First class, we will practice transfiguring our large animals into inanimate objects of the same size. If you successfully do that, I will assign the second step. Please get an animal from the back of the room.

Draco stood quickly and gathered two enormous parrots and brought them back to the table, placing them on the perches in front of Harry and himself.

"Hello Nigel." He said happy to his large parrot, giving him a pat.

Harry stroked the head of his own parrot with a finger.

"You may cast you spells, please turn your animals into something the same size.

"Inanime transfiguri."

Harry muttered with a small wave of his wand. The green bird turned into a purple satin pillow with a fringe around the outside and a button in the middle.

Draco cast the spell on his own bright yellow parrot creating a blue glass statue of an elephant.

Professor McGonagall made her way to their table on her rounds of the classroom.

"Impressive, what were your animals?"

"Finte Incantatum." The birds reappeared on the desk.

"Most impressive! You both managed a full colour reversal. Mr. Potter you added such little details and changed the density of your bird, Mr. Malfoy you also changed the density and the physical state. The transparency is flawless. Excellent job, five points to each of you and you may move on to step two."

She went to the front of the room.

"Now try to transfigure your animal into an inanimate object that is smaller then your animal, but only if I gave you permission to move onto the next step, if not try step one again. Remember, the smaller the better.

"Inanime reducio transfiguri."

Draco said, watching his bird shrink to become a small diamond ring

He grinned suggestively at Harry and nudged his foot.

Harry rolled his eyes with another blush and turned his bird into a little bronze Knut.

He inspected it before returning it to the desk.

When Professor McGonagall came around again, she smiled and awarded them five more points each.

For step three, they were required to do something extremely difficult. Turn their parrots, living animals, into small inanimate objects that had a function. They were to turn their animals into working pocket watches. To prepare for this final step they had been studying the theory for the past two classes.

They took a pocket watch apart and looked at all the inner pieces. To transfigure something you had to intimately know the item you were transfiguring into.

When they were ready, they cast their spells.

"Inanime anime reducio transfiguri."

Harry and Draco both smiled as their birds became quietly ticking wizarding pocket watches.

The professor came around again.

"Amazing! Such detail, both of you. 10 points each."

They packed up their books and returned their birds to their cages and waited the last two minuets for class to end.

When the class ended the students cleared out instantly.

Harry left quickly as well and went in the direction opposite of the crowd. Draco followed him as he went down a small back corridor.

"Hey, you always show up to class before the bell and Professor Sprout always gives us an extra five to get to the greenhouses. I think I have a minute to convince you to take part in the proposition I offered to you earlier."

Draco pulled Harry with him into a little alcove behind a statue. He pulled the smaller boy flush against him and kissed him fiercely.

Harry's shoulder bag slipped off his shoulder and from his hand to thump onto the ground as he raised his arms to wrap them around Draco's neck.

The taller boy was leaning up against the wall holding Harry to him gently. It didn't take long before he swept his tongue along Harry's bottom lip. The boy under him opened slowly and allowed Draco's tongue to languidly sweep against his own.

Then, he began kissing back slightly, gaining confidence.

Draco slowly pulled away and smiled down at Harry.

"I like it when you do that." Harry said in a dazed tone of voice.

"Do what? Kiss you?"

"Well there's that, but I like it when you smile." Harry then smiled.

Draco blushed slightly and stopped smiling.

"Oh don't stop, I wouldn't have said anything if I knew you would."

Harry kissed him just once quickly on the lips, and picked up his bag from the floor. He looped it over his neck, adjusting it on his shoulder.

"We should get to class."

Draco and Harry left the alcove after checking that the coast was clear.

Harry was walking a bit closer to Draco now. The bigger boy gathered his courage as they left the castle through a hidden exit and headed to the greenhouses. Slowly he slipped his hand into Harry's smaller one.

The dark haired boy looked up at him and smiled, gripping Draco's hand comfortably. He walked very to Draco, leaning on his shoulder smiling happily.

TBC