Hello hello! I am sooooooo sorry that it has taken me this long to post! I have had so much shit to deal with in my life it's insane! I'll try to get on more often and write more!
Thank you for waiting for so long! I love you all! Especially Willow! My amazing beta and even more amazing friend! I love you to death Fredalgo!.. sorry Captain Fredalgo!
Read on!
-Katie
Chapter 11
"Snape had sex with WHOM!" Harry's voice echoed off the walls as he stared at Draco with eyes wide as saucers, walking through the door of the staff room to sit on the couch.
The blonde smiled and laughed at the shocked boy sitting next to him.
"Yes, Harry. Professor Snape had a hot, steamy one night stand with Lockheart. I walked into Snape's office and saw them on the floor pounding away at each other. Later, he told me that it was revenge for the love potion thing on Valentine's Day."
Harry walked to the window and felt Draco come up behind him and snake his arms around him, whilst nibbling on his boyfriend's ear. Draco began caressing down the brunette's waist, and the moment Draco touched Harry's pants they vanished.
"What the hell!" he yelled.
"Harry, for once, shut up," Draco admonished, grinning at him.
The blonde turned him around and pushed him against the wall, crushing his lips against Harry's and forcing his tongue inside Harry's mouth. He rubbed his hands across Harry's back while grinding his pelvic bone against Harry's.
Harry's head was swimming in ecstasy as he felt Draco's clothed erection rubbing against his bare crotch. He quickly unbuttoned said blonde's shirt as their tongues engaged in a fierce duel for dominance. After what seemed like an hour, Harry was finally able to get the incriminating piece of clothing off his lover's body. He threw it carelessly to the floor and, upon doing so, realized that his chest was bare also. Harry paused for a moment, wondering when his shirt had come off, when he felt Draco nip his tongue.
The two pulled apart for some much needed air and Harry looked at the blonde.
"What? Don't want the rest off?" Draco said with a seductive smirk.
"Well, you seem to have the 'removing of clothes' part down. So, I thought you would do the honors," Harry said teasingly while rubbing his nude body against Draco's half clothed one.
Draco groaned softly and began pulling his pants off. As soon as they were on the floor, he took Harry's mouth again in another lust-filled kiss.
Harry moaned within Draco's mouth. The blonde mentally smirked and pulled his mouth away from Harry's, and started moving lower, licking his way down Harry's chest. Draco closed his mouth over one of Harry's nipples tasting the sweat and a flavor that was uniquely Harry.
The blonde slowly reached down and took Harry's erection in his hand and started massaging it. Said boy whimpered as his lover began to move his hand faster and faster. Harry was about to reach his peak, when Draco pulled his hand away.
"Damn it, Malfoy! Stop teasing me!" Harry cried out.
"Shut the fuck UP, Harry!" Ron yelled.
Harry opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a tangled heap of sheets on the floor next to his bed.
"What the hell is he going on about?" Dean yelled from across the room.
"Nothing, just another wet dream of him fucking the ferret," Ron replied in a sleepy voice.
Harry jumped up, beet red. He grabbed the clothes on top of his trunk and threw them on over his boxers. After grabbing a pair of shoes, Harry ran out of the room.
Seamus sat up in bed and looked around the room in a confused stupor.
"Wha'? What did I miss?"
Harry walked down the hall glaring at the floor. Not only was he completely humiliated, he was also mad that he hadn't gotten to finish the dream.
The brunette hadn't been able to stay with Draco for very long the night before due to some "urgent business" that his date had to attend to.
The young wizard looked up just in time to see himself collide with an overburdened Luna. Harry's lightning fast reflexes from his many years of playing Quidditch caused his arm to shoot out and grab hold of Luna before she hit the ground.
"Thanks," she said looking up at Harry.
Harry shrugged and helped her steady herself. Suddenly it dawned on him that Luna wasn't carrying school supplies. Her arms were full of what looked like trapping gear.
"Uh, Luna? Why are you carrying all those nets and cages?"
Luna jumped and looked at Harry like she had forgotten he was there.
"Oh, these? Well you see, I am on my way to capture a kwaptar. They've recently migrated to this part of the country, and I would love to see one."
Harry stared at her, "Ah…"
"You're more than welcome to come with me, Harry. It would be lovely to have company."
He thought it over for a moment, and finally his mind came up with the answer 'why not'.
"I'll come along with you Luna. I've never seen a kwaptar before, and it would definitely be interesting to see one."
-SMACK-
"Dammit!" Harry seethed as he was slapped in the face for the fourth time by yet another low-hanging branch.
Luna stopped and looked back at Harry, "Shhh, you're going to scare them."
She turned back around and continued her questionable quest. Harry rolled his eyes, sighed, and slowly continued after her.
Harry was starting to wonder if the girl he was following was truly looking for something, or if she was just lost.
He pondered this due to the fact that Luna would occasionally stop, look around, sprint a few feet ahead, swing the net, and then continue walking. At one point she swung one of the nets around so wildly that it hit branches and make leaves fly around her in a miniature whirlwind.
His mind was so caught up in pondering this that he didn't notice she had stopped, and plowed into her.
"Look! There's one now!" She whispered and pointed in front of her.
Luna quietly reached into a pouch on her side and pulled out a perfume bottle. She proceeded to spray whatever it was in the air and everything around her, which included Harry's face. He gagged from the horrifically foul odor and was about to yell at the girl, when she leaped forward onto the ground with her net waggling about in front of her.
"I CAUGHT IT, HARRY!"
Harry, who was still partially blinded from the 'perfume', choked out, "What? I don't see anything!"
Luna held up the net close to Harry's face. He blinked, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the net.
"What the-?" Harry rubbed his eyes again and looked back at the net.
Trapped inside was a small rodent looking creature. It had large blue eyes with fluffy green fur. Two small, pointy teeth poked out from underneath its upper lip. It had a long furry tail, almost like a cat's. The feet were small, covered in a dark blue fur, and had sharp claws. On the thing's back were a pair of blue dragon-like wings.
"This, Harry, is a kwaptar."
Harry could do nothing but stare at the moving object held within Luna's net.
"Harry?"
"It's all been true?"
Luna quirked an eyebrow, "What's been true, Harry?"
"All the things you've always told us about. All the strange animals and such. Everything. It's all true."
The small girl giggled. "Of course it's true, silly. I wouldn't go about spreading lies."
Harry looked at her. "And the Quibbler?"
"Everything printed in it is one hundred percent true. Especially the things about Tom and Dumbledore. God knows we could never print anything false about that issue. Tom would kill us!"
"Tom?"
"Yes Harry, Tom, a.k.a. Voldemort, the Dark Lord… your father."
Harry's heart leaped. "You know about my father!"
"Yeeeaah… mostly everyone knows about your father. Dumby doesn't have as many followers as he thinks."
Harry slumped to the ground and sat.
"Are you ok?"
Harry looked at hands and shook his head. "How?"
Luna kneeled down in front of him.
"How what, Harry?"
He looked up at her face. "How does everyone know?"
Luna smirked. "The Quibbler."
Harry's face took on a look of confusion.
"What? That doesn't say anything about him. It only talks about weird, random things."
"Honestly Harry, I don't know how you've made it in the world all these years. You're so clueless," she said pulling out a copy of the Quibbler from her pouch.
He gave her a questioning look.
"I always keep one of these on me. You never know when you'll come upon a carnavogorian, and everyone knows you would never want to be caught by one of those without some sort of reading material."
Harry shrugged and took it from her hand. He thumbed through it, but didn't see anything relatively even close to his father.
"There's nothing in here about him," he said with a slight tone of disappointment.
Luna smiled and waved her hand over the open magazine. The words on the pages floated out of the book along with all the pictures and page numbers. They gathered above, then slowly fell back onto the pages.
Harry watched this happen in amazement, then looked down at the magazine. Apart from the colors and layout, nothing about it was the same. The words that he had just read moments earlier had reformed into new ones. The pictures had morphed into completely different scenes and people. Also, the page numbers were backwards.
"This is amazing! This information isn't supposed to be known by anyone!"
"Why do you think the Quibbler sells so well?"
Harry looked down at the magazine, then back at Luna.
"How does this work? I mean, if Dumbledore had one of these, couldn't he just wave his hand over this and see everything?"
Luna shook her head.
"You see, it's very complicated, yet very simple."
She sat on the ground and spread her legs out in front of her.
"In order to get a copy of the Quibbler with all the hidden bits, you have to subscribe. To do this, you send us a request and we send you a contract. The contract is to be signed, in blood, and sent back."
"Wait," Harry interrupted, "It has to be signed in blood? What does this contract say?"
"Nothing really, just a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo."
"So, after they sign the contract, the people send it to you and then they get a special copy and all they have to do is wave their hand over it to see everything?"
Luna shook her head, "No, we have a representative that goes to each recipient's house and gives the person a small tattoo on the palm of his or her hand."
Luna held up her hand. Harry leaned forward to get a closer look and saw a small 'Q' directly under her pointer finger.
"This tattoo enables the person to read the secret print hidden on the pages."
Harry was slightly confused.
"How was I able to read it? I don't have a tattoo."
Luna smiled and pointed to his forehead. "You don't need one. You're special."
It took Harry a moment to realize what she was talking about. Then it hit him.
"Oh."
Luna stood and grabbed her net with the still-struggling kwaptar in it.
"So Harry, I hear Dumby's keeping an eye on you to make sure you don't go talking to Snape anymore."
Harry stood and nodded while brushing himself off.
"I have a proposition for you, Harry."
He looked at her.
"I'll go to Snape twice a week and ask him any questions you want answered. This way Dumbledore won't know you know more than he thinks you know."
"But, what happens if he asks you why you're going down to see Snape all the time?"
"I'll just say I'm getting tutored and he's only doing it because my father promises to send him any newly discovered potions before they're printed in the magazine."
Harry smiled and hugged Luna.
"Thank you so much."
She smiled and squirmed out of his arms.
"Hold on there, I haven't told you what I want you to do for me."
Harry's heart sunk. His mind started to go through all the things that a person could possibly want for this huge of a favor.
"I want you to talk to someone for me."
Harry's whirling mind stopped. "What?"
"I want you to talk to someone for me."
"Who and why?"
Luna blushed and looked away, "A… a boy."
Harry smiled. "Which boy?"
"…. longbtm.."
"Who?"
"Neville Longbottom!"
Harry laughed and held out his hand, "It's a deal then. I'll talk to Neville for you."
Luna smiled and grabbed hold of Harry's hand shaking it, "And I'll talk to Snape."
Luna bent down and picked up all her 'gear' and started walking back towards the castle, dropping an item every once in a while. Harry followed behind her, picking up the dropped things. The two talked about Draco, Tom, Neville, and Hermione's sudden change in personality.
The pair reached the castle just as the sun was starting to set. Harry held open the door for Luna as she struggled to make it inside without dropping anything else.
They made their way through the halls until it came time for them to part ways.
Luna smiled at Harry and started to walk away towards the Ravenclaw dorms. "Oh, Luna! One more thing before you go," Harry yelled to her.
She turned and looked at him. "Yes?"
"How will you get me the info from you-know-who?"
Luna smiled again and started walking away calling back, "You'll see!"
I hope you liked it! Sorry again for the long wait!
