! The Consequences of Boredom !
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888Chapter Eleven – Explanations and Outcomes888
That afternoon after they had all said their fair wells, the group split, Harry and Draco left through the back entrance of the kitchen, and Hermione, Ron, Percy and Pansy flooed their way to The Burrow. Ron and Hermione had talked Percy into going and explaining to his family what had happened, and Pansy had decided to stick by her husband and Anamchara in this endeavor into the unknown.
Ron had assured Harry that he would call him once it had blown over some what to tell him of what happened. With this reassurance, Harry teleported back to Grimmauld Place with Draco to find it silent, Tonks and Remus were out working, either with the order or for the ministry. They walked into the house, deep in conversation yet with the only noise being there footsteps and breathing.
Harry walked into the Lounge room, his arm rapped around Draco's waist and Draco's arm around his. They continued talking as they sat on the couch, "That was interesting." Draco said with a smirk.
"One of the most interesting lunches I've ever had." Harry said, matching the smirk. "So what do you think about the whole Anamchara thing?"
"I'm not sure, I'm not sure I completely understood what they were saying. They said that they were a fair way into the stages of becoming full Anamcharas, and they tried to split, since according to the books they had read made it sound like they could if they wished and they would only go through a small amount of pain, only a little more then a normal break up with some one you love ,and they thought it was too soon for them to be in love and every thing, and they weren't sure what would happen if other people found out and they had to keep up their reputations. But in truth it was like almost dying, slow and painful" Draco answered, neither realizing that they were speaking through their Anamchara connection.
They both looked up as the fire suddenly roared and turned green. Lupin stepped out, soon followed by Tonks and a few other order members. The group stepped out of the threshold of the fireplace. "Hey guys." Harry and Draco said at the same moment.
Tonks said hi and excused herself to start with dinner. One of the order members left with her to help. "Hey Harry, How was lunch?" Remus asked.
Harry and Draco ignored the questioning looks they were receiving from the Order members at the way they were sitting, Harry had his left arm around Draco's shoulders on the back of the lounge, and Draco was leaning in to his side, his left hand wrapped around Harry's right hand and they just answered, simultaneously, "It went well, Hermione and Ron were fairly shocked but they got over it, we met up with some people and ended up having them join us for lunch, oh and we found out we are Anamcharas." They said this speaking as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world.
Remus and the three Order members stared at the pair on the lounge, all wearing looks of shock, and one of the order members, Rodger if Harry's memory was right, with a slight look of disgust, obviously one of those homophobic freaks out there. Remus was the first to speak, "What do you mean Harry? How do you know this? And how come you keep speaking at the same time?"
Harry and Draco smiled identical smiles, 'Told you it would be fun to do that' Draco said to Harry, 'Okay I admit that was pretty cool, but let's stop freaking them out so much, it may be fun, but I would rather not get on Remus' nerves' Harry answered back reasonably. "Okay Remus, We'll stop, and we will explain once Tonks gets back in here, we are definitely not in the mood to explain this twice." Harry said, trying to stop himself from laughing as Remus walked out of the room, heading towards the kitchen.
The three order members stood there, not knowing what to do, here they were, standing in the same room as the savior of the world, who they just found out was not only gay, and going out with Draco Malfoy, but also Draco Malfoy's soul mate. Harry lifted his right hand off Draco's shoulder and gave it a little wave before returning it to where it had been, conjuring three new armchairs, matching those already in the room and moving the other lounges backwards to give room for the new ones. He then said "Please sit down and make your self comfortable, Remus and Tonks will be back soon."
The three obediently sat and waited, Rodger sitting in the chair furthest from the teenage boys. Harry looked at the other two, trying to recognize them. There were two men and a woman, the woman sat in the chair nearest Harry and Draco, she was about twenty five, with a plain but pretty face, her hair was long and a fairly vibrant red, her eyes were an aquamarine. She wore a deep blue robe and her nails were painted a baby blue, she wore no make-up that they could see, except a small amount of blue eye shadow.
The man in the middle was very tall and quite big across the shoulders; he looked to be about thirty years old. His hair was short-ish and dark brown, his eyes were blue and his face was very angular and strong. His robes were very tight and strained a bit against his muscles; they were a deep almost black red.
The third man, Rodger, had short graying hair and his eyes were small and black, he looked about fifty, but overly worked, causing aging. His robes hung loosely and the dull grey that they were made him look even older. He looked slightly shiftily around the room.
Harry thought as hard as he could and could not remember the other two, the woman was familiar, but the man was a loss to him. "Do you know who they are love?" Harry asked Draco, trying to look like he was just thinking, to not let on that he was talking to Draco.
"Not a clue." Draco answered looking just as nonchalant. He decided he did not like not knowing who he was about to tell about his relation with Harry to, and so he stood up and walked over to the woman first, she looked the most approachable, "Hi, I'm Draco Malfoy, who may I ask are you?" he asked, putting his hand out to be shaken by the woman.
"I know full well who you are, as for me, I am Lucy Jean." She answered sweetly shaking his hand. Draco talked with her for a bit before turning to the next man, "Hello sir, as you know I am Draco Malfoy." He then put his hand out for a hand shake and said, "And you are?"
The man took Draco's hand and shook it and answered, "I am Ben Grafton." They too started to talk. Again after a few minutes of chatting, Draco moved on and walked to Rodger and asked, "And you sir, who may I ask are you?" He extended his hand.
"No you may not ask, go sit down and mind your own business, brat."
Draco looked shocked and then angry and was about to say some thing scathing but Harry got in first, "Could you be any ruder! You ignorant man, who the fuck do you think you are, talking to any one like that? Let alone some one who had asked you politely for your name, for fucks sake, you apologize right now you insufferable pig!" Harry hissed. Draco looked shocked at Harry, seeing his protective side for the first time and not being on the receiving end.
The man sat there, shocked that a 'child' would speak to him in that manner. "You look here sonny; you do not speak to an elder like that…"
"Well you shouldn't have been going off at Draco like that! He does not deserve to be treated like a three year old, all he did was ask what your name was, why does that give you any reason to be so rude and undermining? Now you apologize before …"
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888In the Kitchen888
Remus walked into the kitchen, still shaking slightly, he walked over to the sink where Tonks was standing with the other order member, peeling potatoes and carrots over the sink with magic, while talking to her friend. "Hey Remus, what's wrong Hon? You look really pale, are you okay?" Tonks asked with concern.
"Um, I think you should go into the lounge room, Harry... Harry has some thing to tell us…" Remus answered shakily.
"Not before you tell us what has shaken you up so much." Tonks said pulling a chair out and pushing Remus down into it. Once he was sitting she summoned a glass and walked over to the tap and filled it with water. She then put it into his hand and leaned against the table and waited for him to talk.
"Harry just said... he just said… that he and Draco were Anamcharas."
"Oh…" Was all Tonks said before squealing along with her friend and fellow order member. "But I thought they were really rare, and they took a long while to form…" She giggled and said, "Isn't that so sweet though, they look so cute together!"
Her friend soon began talking along the same lines as her and they were both absorbed back into the girl talk they had been talking about before, leaving poor Remus to lay his head on the table and groan, Why did he have to fall in love with a woman like Tonks?
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After a few minutes, they could hear heated voices coming from the lounge room and remembered that they had to get back to find out what was going on with Harry and Draco and what happened at the lunch and how they found out about this new information.
The three entered the room to see Rodger cowering on a newly conjured chair, with Harry standing over him, wand pointing at his throat, glaring with all his might, Draco standing next to Harry unsure of what he should do, whether to protect the man who insulted him or to let Harry hurt some one... oh the decisions a Slytherin must make.
So instead he decided to stand and watch what happened. The other Order members on the other hand had gotten out of their chairs and were edging along the wall towards the doorway. Tonks began giggling, this unsuspected noise snapped Harry out of his rage, and he looked around the room and noticed the many lights and windows which had cracked or smashed, the fire was going back down to a normal height and colour, and the curtains settled again from the flapping they had been doing in the non-existent wind.
"Harry what's going on? And please lower your wand, you know how much stronger your magic is when you use it, and if what you say is true it will be even stronger." Remus said. "Tonks, could you please stop laughing? And please summon a table and a jug of water with some glasses."
Tonks did as he asked straight away and set the table in the middle of the circle formed by the chairs. Harry on the other hand lowered his wand, a little grudgingly and went and sat back down on the lounge, soon followed by Draco, both continued glaring at the shaking man. Remus sat down on one of the arm chairs; Tonks sat on the arm of the chair and gestured to the other members to sit back down again. Helena (Tonks friend) sat down with out any problem, but the other two sat down a little more hesitant.
"So, Harry, what happened just then? Why were you threatening Rodger in such a manner?" Remus asked reasonably.
"Well, it started out because he called Draco a brat, then I told him to apologize, but he didn't and he continued to insult me and Draco so then I warned him again to apologize, and he still didn't, that was just before you walked in." Harry explained, matching Remus' voice.
Remus nodded then turned to Rodger and asked, "Is this true Rodger, did you insult the Anamchara of Harry Potter?"
Rodger began to shift uncomfortably at this, "Um… yeah I suppose so…"
Remus shook his head with a smile on his face and Tonks began to giggle again "Could you be any stupider? You insulted the most powerful wizard of all times loved one." Here Helena and Lucy soon began laughing too, while Ben grunted in amusement. Draco and Harry looked at each other, bewildered at the fact that the adults were finding Harry's protectiveness and Rodger's stupidity humorous.
"So do you think we should stop the humiliation they are putting on Rodger, or have him be humiliated some more?" Harry asked Draco mischievously.
"I think we should let him suffer." Draco answered with an evil glint in his eye and the two boys then started to chuckle too.
After a couple of minutes of laughter at the stupidity of Rodger's, Remus decided the poor man had suffered enough. "Okay, so Harry please tell, what were you saying before about you and Draco being Anamcharas?"
Harry and Draco looked to each other, "I'd rather not go through with Rodger the homophobic bastard about our relationship" Harry said, still fuming slightly.
"Neither, I'd rather he left." Draco said, also angry with the aged man.
Harry looked to Remus and said, "We would both rather that Mr Ignorant-Prat was not here to hear about our relationship."
Remus looked unsure of how he should react to this statement, but he didn't end up having to do any thing, for after a few moments Rodger stood up, nodded to the group, except Harry and Draco, and said, "I'll be back at…" looks at watch and sees it's around four o'clock , "Around six." And with that he walked out of the room and after a few minutes they heard a door close and a bang as he apperated away.
"Oh, well do you all understand what an Anamchara is?" There were several nods from around the group, "Well, do you all know the different abilities that happen when two people become soul mates?" Most nodded, although Helena and Ben shook there heads.
Harry went through with them what happens and every thing that he had learnt earlier that day, with help from Draco, with what he knew on the subject. It was a good three quarters of an hour before they had gone through it all, it was then that Draco realized that they hadn't asked the other group what they were doing there.
"So, we've answered all your questions, I've got one for you, why are these four people here, when we don't even know them, except their faces?" Draco asked reasonably.
"Oh, right, well Ben, Lucy and Rodger are here to talk with me and Tonks about Auror and Order work, we were going to do it before dinner and have dinner after wards, and Helena was just dropping though for a bit, to talk to Tonks for a while, so we invited her around for dinner as well." Remus answered.
"Are you two going to be here for dinner? Or are you going home Draco? Or are you going out?" Tonks inquired, needing to know how many people she had to cook for.
"Not sure…"
"Do you want to have dinner here?" Harry asked Draco.
"I'm not sure, I mean, these people are going to be here too, so it's going to be crowded, what do you want to do?"
"What if we go to the Weasleys'? We would be able to find out more, and Mrs Weasley won't mind, there would only be Ginny, Ron and maybe Percy and Pansy, possibly the twins, so not too crowded, and they won't be judging." Harry suggested.
"Well they will be just settling in, if it went alright, I mean they would want to be with family tonight, how about since I've been with your friends and family all day, we go to one of my friends? Like Crabbe's or some thing, you'd be surprised at his place, he got it through inheritance, but it had been pretty run down when he first got there, but over the past year he has been fixing it up. It looks really good." Draco suggested, having had enough of all the Gryffindors, and he thought his friends needed to know about his new relationship with Harry.
Harry sat with a pensive look on his face, contemplating going to dinner with at Slytherin at another Slytherins house, hmmm… interesting results can come from this and he was pretty curious about the house that had Draco impressed.
He looked to Tonks and said, "No it's alright, we'll go out for dinner."
"Thank you, this should be good." Draco said to Harry. Harry just grinned and ran a hand through Draco's hair. Tonks looked like she was about to start cooing again but from the three looks from Harry, Draco and Remus, saying some thing along the lines of, 'do and die'. But obviously Helena and Lucy didn't get the message because they soon began cooing. The glares soon changed recipients, causing the women to soon stop cooing again.
"So would it be alright if I use your phone for a minute, I just have to give someone a call." Draco asked.
Remus nodded, "The phone is out in the hall." Draco stood up and walked out of the room, Harry looked like he was about to follow when Remus put a hand out and pushed him back down.
"Hang on we need to talk."
Draco faltered for a moment, but Harry just said to his, 'Don't worry, I'll be out in a minute" Draco continued out the door, and Harry sat back down, "Helena, Lucy, Ben could we please be excused for a minute?" The three looked confused and with slight nods walked out of the room.
"Harry, I know that you are a teenager and you like to go out with friends, just remember that school starts up again and you still have to get all your supplies, don't let your social life get in the way of academics." Remus paused for a moment, Harry just sat there shocked, Remus was talking to him like a father would to a son.
"Remy, don't worry, Draco and I were planning to go tomorrow, we are meeting up with some friends, we had arranged it with Ron, Hermione and Pansy today at lunch, don't worry, I'm not going to ignore my responsibilities, I'm not going to turn Celebrity. Just trust me. So, can I go and help Draco with the phone, he hasn't really used one that often, you know how full-blooded wizards can be with muggle items." Harry sat and waited to see if Remus had any thing else to say, when all he did was give him a nod, he stood and left the room.
As he entered the room he looked over to where Draco was standing, 'Hey love, Crabbe said to that we can go to his place at five-thirty, that will give us time for a quick look around the house, some talking and organizing where to go for dinner before we would have to go.' Harry smirked, he knew that Draco was fully capable of using the telephone, but he wanted some time alone with his boyfriend, since he hadn't really been alone with him all day.
'Simple enough then, oh and we have time to be out of here before Rodger gets back.' Harry said with satisfaction as he walked over to his boyfriend and rapped his arms around Draco's waist and gave him a kiss, 'Come on we need to get ready.' Harry smiled at this, god his boyfriend could be so girly.
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