Chapter Six
Both boys stood together and said nothing while the adults went over the load of old rituals before Lucius said "Draco and Harry, you both know why you are here?" both boys nodded too nervous to speak. "It has been agreed by both families that you two are allegeable to wed. Do you both accept this?" Harry replied as soon as the words left Lucius mouth "I do" Draco smiled and added "as do I" "then all that is left is for the two of you to place the engagement bracelets on each other's wrists and it is complete" James announced. Draco went first and placed the Dragon bracelet on Harry's left wrist before Harry placed a Griffin bracelet on Draco's left wrist. Both families smiled as the two boys kissed and went back to Grimmauld Place.
When they landed Dumbledore said "welcome back" Harry smiled and Draco said "he has gone all soppy again sir" Dumbledore laughed and Harry replied "it is my greatest strength Draco" that brought the room to laughter and Draco said "ok you win, but I can now tell all those fans to back off when I want you to myself" Harry blushed and said "I don't want the fans. I want the normal life that Voldermort doesn't have a say in" Draco hugged him and said "I need some one on one time with Harry" no one argued and the two boys went back to the secret room and Harry let all the tears Draco had felt coming out and they stayed there until they were called to lunch. Mrs Black told them where a bathroom was so they could fix themselves up before going down.
When they entered Harry sat down in between Draco's legs and enjoyed the meal. Everyone knew Harry had been crying but stayed out of it, as they knew Draco had saved Harry's day. In the end Sirius asked "are you alright Harry?" Harry nodded and relaxed further into Draco's chest and fell asleep. Everyone smiled when they noticed before Sirius and Draco carried Harry up to the room and laid him down to sleep.
Draco stayed in the room in case Harry woke up. He kept himself occupied by reading some of the books.
Harry awoke as Draco was talking to Mrs Black and smiled as he watched Draco laugh. In the end Harry said in thought "can I get some attention?" before Draco noticed he was awake. Well Draco was in his arms in a second and hugging him. Harry smiled and whispered "I am glad I saw the real you Draco" Draco looked at Harry and asked "why is that?" Harry then explained "Draco you are the one person I turned to when my heart broke the most. I mean I lost the closest thing to a family and you saw me at my lowest and brought me back to what I am now. Like before when you felt my tears you brought me here to cry without anyone witnessing and just held me and made me feel like a king" Draco smiled and replied "Harry, you saved my life without caring what it would do to you and yet think I am better then you" both boys hugged again and just enjoyed the closeness. They only broke when Lily walked in and said "we would like you two to come down for tea" they both nodded and got themselves fixed up before joining everyone in the kitchen. Sirius smiled when he saw Harry walk in with his arms around Draco and smiling. Both boys again shared a chair and Draco said "I know you almost lost me Harry but do you think I can eat with you next to me please?" Harry laughed and replied "nope as then I wouldn't have a comfortable chair" Draco laughed and in thought replied "I was joking my love. I enjoy the closeness too. Now I know they are hiding something" "I know my love. But lets pretend we don't notice" Draco nodded and Harry felt it and both boys started eating.
When everyone was finished Albus said "Harry and Draco, I know you can tell we are hiding something as I notice you pretend you don't. But we decided to get you a present for the engagement. You two really made me think though as usually we get something so you can communicate whenever you need each other but you two do that telepathically. So we decided to that we would do the next best thing" with that he passed both boys a box. Inside each was a locket. Harry laughed and said "that's now three necklaces I have" Dumbledore smiled and said "that one you wear as a broach on your robes" Harry smiled and noticed that inside it was a picture of him and Draco from that morning sitting together happily. Draco was speechless so Harry said for both of them "we both thank you all very much. Draco is speechless which we all know doesn't happen often but I know for certain that mine will be seen over my chest every single day" Draco hugged Harry then and both boys went for a walk so that this time Draco could cry. Harry smiled and said "they better be tears of happiness sexy?" Draco nodded and replied in thought "what else could they be my love. They made your birthday so much better for the both of us" Harry hugged him and whispered "well at least we can never forget the day" Draco laughed then and kissed Harry and Harry replied "why do I always get kissed when people are crying?" Draco asked "did you kiss Cho Harry?" Harry nodded and replied "it was an infatuation that extinguished after that kiss and then valentine's day" Draco smiled and replied "all the better" Harry laughed and they found a bathroom and Harry cleaned Draco up before going back downstairs where Dumbledore passed Harry a present. Dumbledore said "everyone knows you are special to me Harry so please take this present" Harry nodded and inside was a beautiful snake that was asleep. Harry smiled and said "thank you headmaster" Dumbledore said "that is the rarest snake around Harry. She is due to lay eggs in a fortnight so you better set up a box for her to do so and we can take them with us to school" Harry nodded and the snake woke up. Harry looked at the snake and said "hello" the snake replied "hello young one. You must be the boy the snake that was freed by a wizard was talking about" Harry nodded and replied "I was the one that freed him. It was an accident as I didn't know I had magic at the time" the snake nodded and went back to sleep. Harry ran the snake back upstairs before going into the kitchen and for a change sitting on Sirius and saying "so Padfoot what did I miss today when I was asleep?" Sirius laughed and said "not much Harry. We were just sorting out all the bedrooms and making tea" Harry touched his skin and replied in thought "you know I can tell there is more Sirius" "I know Harry. But I promised I wouldn't say" Harry nodded and got off Sirius and sat on Draco. Draco laughed and said "you don't miss a thing do you Harry?" Harry replied "of course not Draco. That is why I know they are hiding something. I know you don't know as you never left the room. I sensed you were there and was able to sleep peacefully" Draco laughed and replied "I was with you the whole time. Just because I knew you would be happier if I was there when you awoke" Harry snuggled into him and said "I love you so much my fiancé" Draco smiled and said "you aren't letting me forget that are you?" Harry shook his head and said "how can you do that Draco when you wear the bracelet always" Draco laughed and said "I wouldn't anyway. I guess the school will have a fit when they find out that the captain of Gryffindor and the Slytherin seeker are engaged" Harry smiled and replied "I may be the captain and your fiancé but when we play quidditch you will still lose" Draco said "I have had all that practice when you haven't Harry" Harry replied "remember when you took Neville's rememball and I flew up to you?" Draco nodded so Harry replied "that was the first time I ever flew on a broom" Draco laughed and said "so your telling me that you didn't need the practice as you're a natural?" Harry shook his head and replied "no I have been practicing as I have a snitch in my possession and have been flying daily since I got here" Draco laughed.
When the boys were settled Lily said "ok so we couldn't stop Harry from knowing something was up but he doesn't know so here we go" and with that she brought out a huge birthday cake that on one side had an Owl and on the other side was a model firebolt flying around. Harry and Luke smiled and enjoyed the scene.
When the cake was all eaten Dumbledore passed out the school letters saying "no point sending them by Owl when you are all here with me" Luke was in fifth year classes with Ginny seeing as he hadn't done his Owl's yet. Harry laughed and quickly filled out his class selections. He kept all but divination and added advanced defence advanced charms healing ancient runes and duelling instead. Dumbledore knew Harry would but wasn't surprised to see that all four of them did advanced defence. Draco had all the same except he did extra potions instead of care of magical creatures. Hermione did the mostly the same but had Arithmancy as well so was one class off having to use a time turner again. Ron did mainly the same as Harry but instead of continuing potions he took advanced Herbology. Severus arrived then and noticed all three that had potions had placed potions first. He then said "Albus I see we predicted all four of our sixth years classes down to the exact class" Albus laughed and said "well when we watch these bloody four the most we begin to notice their strengths" the four of the laughed. Ginny said "I am surprised that Harry continued potions but I guess he must have it down for a reason other then being with Draco" Harry and Draco blushed before laughing along with everyone else.
When they were all settled Harry replied "Ginny I find that potions may be my weakest subject but I know that it is important and the potion Neville and I created is an example of that" Severus replied "Harry I have reviewed the potion and it is on the market with the money being added to your personal vault" Harry smiled and Draco asked "are you going to try and find one to help Gilderoy Harry?" "No, I think it is better if he doesn't go back to claiming to have done this amazing stuff that others did" Ginny laughed and Molly said "you mean he was a fraud?" Harry nodded and said "his strength was the forgetting spell" this continued until they were all tired and headed to bed
The next couple of weeks went quickly and soon it was time to go and get their schoolbooks. Harry needed new robes as he had a huge growth spurt over the summer and he old robes no longer fitted him. While they were doing that Lily went and bought Harry some new muggle clothes so that he wore better ones then Dudley's hand-me-downs.
When they were nearly finished all the teenagers went to the quidditch shop (under Hermione's protests) and saw that there was a new nimbus out, but the firebolt was still the best broom available.
While the others were still in the quidditch shop Harry went to the Magical Menagerie where a Phoenix sitting on the edge of the stand landed on his shoulder. The man said "I think he has chosen you as his owner Mr Potter" Harry smiled and paid for the Phoenix before joining the others as they were walking out of the shop. Draco laughed when he saw Harry and said "well I see why you went walkabouts" Harry replied "I felt a need to go there and went. He was on my shoulder the moment I entered so I had to buy him" they all laughed while heading to WWW.
James said as the teenagers joined them at WWW (Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes) "well I guess we should finally see these two" Harry laughed and replied "I told them we would see them last so that we could spend the most time here. They told me that they have some paper work I need to fill out" everyone laughed before walking into their amazing joke shop. Fred welcomed them all before dragging Harry out the back to do the paper work.
Once out the back George said to Harry "we organised this so you can prank everyone at Grimmauld Place besides us" Harry smirked and said "what do I need to do oh prankster geniuses?" they both laughed before handing Harry a box that read 'experimental' Harry smiled and asked "can I have the instructions or will you two help me set it up back at Grimmauld Place?" Fred grinned and handed Harry a set of instructions that were two lines long they said "place this under a meal table and no one but the inventors and person placing it will see the food. Lasts up to three weeks' Harry grinned and replied "can't wait to use it guys" they laughed and got Harry to fill out the two forms they had.
When Harry rejoined the group he smiled and said "that's all taken care of" Draco smiled at him and then they had a good look around the store. George came out a minute later and explained what everything did and when no one was looking he winked at Harry.
When they returned home Harry placed the box under the table and went off to spend time alone with Draco. He found him flying in the drawing room flying so Harry grabbed his broom and the snitch.
The two boys were there for an hour before Lily yelled "tea is being served" Harry smiled and went into the kitchen with Draco and watched Lily and Molly place the food on the table and gasp as it vanished. Fred and George walked in then and laughed when they saw the surprised looks on Lily and their mother's faces. Lily asked "what did you two do?" Fred replied "nothing Mrs Potter. I solemnly swear that neither Fred or I did this" Molly replied "you may not have done it but I am sure you created the tool that did this" Harry smiled and started eating. Fred and George joined him and everyone stared until Lily said "Harry what did you do?" all Harry replied was "just put a present in place that I was given" Sirius laughed and said "so how do we eat Fred and George?" George replied "I am shocked that you blame us" that caused the hungry people to laugh but Sirius had moved his foot around under the table and knocked the box which allowed him to see the food and joined Harry and the twins in eating. Draco connected his mind to Harry's and saw the food so he started eating also.
In the end Molly and Lily took the dishes away which made the food reappear and they all served themselves and ate with the plates on their laps.
After tea Harry Draco the twins Ron and Ginny returned to the drawing room and engaged in a free for all game of chaser and seeker quidditch. Harry caught the snitch four seconds into the game but didn't tell Draco and enjoyed the fly. When James and Sirius joined in the game became all out war, with Sirius James Harry and Draco against the Weasley's. In the end Harry's team were crowned the winners and all of them went in search of a shower. Harry and Draco used the one in the special room and let the others use the other ones.