Chapter 3: Coming Out
A/N: I know at the beginning I made it seem like Draco is very submissive and everything, he is. But I still think he would find it hard to let go of his mask...even in front of Harry.
"Is it working Harry?" Draco asked one night during their "tutoring" sessions
"Is what working love?" asked Harry, even though he obviously knew what Draco was talking about
Draco sighed, "Making Weasel and mud...Granger see the obvious"
"Don't call him weasel and DONT call Hermione mudblood! And yes I think it is well for Ron anyway which is very surprising" Harry informed his love
"Sorry Harry old habits die hard and all. But anyway what is phase 3?" inquired the Slytherin
"Oh don't worry about the next part babe, I don't need you, or rather you can't help...it's something I need to do for myself, I don't want to do it but to make them realise the truth I have to" replied the raven haired boy
"What are you going to do?"
"My you are full of questions tonight" teased Harry "don't worry Dray, you'll see soon I'm sure all will be revealed in the great hall"
"wh..." Draco started to say
"shhhhhhh go to sleep baby" Harry ordered
And so the two spent another night in the room of requirements sleeping silently and holding each other.
N/A: it's Saturday morning by the way XD
After parting from Draco, Harry made his way up to Gryffindor tower everyone should be at breakfast he thought I can go in get changed then go to breakfast and I'll tell Ron and Mione at lunch...in the room of requirement yeah that's a good plan...ha-ha I wonder what will go wrong. I mean after all I am Harry Potter non of my plans EVER go right he chuckled to himself all the way back to the tower.
"Password?" asked the Fat Lady
"Erm...oh damn what is it...oh yeah... coluberbri" Harry chuckled again
The portrait swung open to reveal to rather irritated looking people, who you may ask, Why Ron and Hermione of course. Harry didn't look at them, he just headed up to the sixth year boys dormitory. He could feel the pair glaring at his back though. When he got to the dormitory he proceeded to change very quickly knowing he was going to have to commence with the whole telling Ron and Mione think much sooner than he had wanted to. He headed back down to the common room, Ron and Hermione had not moved an inch. Harry thought about just heading to the great hall but thought better of it. Instead, he stopped in front of the pair and simply looked at them having decided he wasn't going to say anything until he was asked a direct question. They stood like that for almost ten minutes until...
"So..." Said Hermione irritation ringing through out her voice
"..."
"Harry" said Ron "where have you been all night?" asked Ron trying to keep very calm despite having a Weasley temper.
Damn thought Harry A direct question "well, I have been in the room of requirements all night" Harry prayed that that would be enough for them he didn't want them to know everything right away after all.
"erm...why?" Asked Hermione
I was with Draco all night having sex "I was too tired to come up all the stairs last night so I crashed in the R.O.M" Harry Paused now or never "Listen guys I...erm...need to tell you something"
Ron and Hermione looked at each other then at Harry who looked worried... He had a right to he had been trying to avoid telling them this since third year.
"What is it Harry?" Asked Hermione
"yeah come on mate , you can tell us" encouraged Ron
"Well...I'm erm...I...like...I mean, I have...that is to say I'm...well you see" Harry Stuttered
"Spit it out" said both Ron and Hermione
"Ok sorry ha-ha well I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm well you see I'm gay" Harry finished looking at his feet.
Hermione and Ron were both shocked. It was Ron who recovered first
"So you like guys" Harry nodded "have you ever checked me out when I'm getting changed?"
"Urgh no offence Ron but your not my type...I mean your my best friend, your like, my brother it would just be wrong." Harry told him
"Well then I'm ok with it...I mean I have to be ok with gays don't I, Charlie's gay you know."
Yes Harry knew this, Harry happened to have a very good gaydar so when he first met Charlie he knew he was gay from the word go, it was actually Charlie who he confided in about his crush on Draco and how he didn't know what to do.
"Really Ron, I never knew" lied Harry
"Yeah well you wouldn't, I only know because I found him making out with some random muggle," revealed Ron.
Harry blushed, that muggle wasn't as random as Ron thought. Harry had set the pair up. John - the muggle was Harry's neighbour's son, he had always been nice to Harry and he was the same age as Charlie so he had set them up.
"Hermione?" Harry looked at the girl in question
Hermione looked up at him tears threatening to spill out from here eyes. She ran past Harry and down the stairs, Ron and Harry flew after her.
"Hermione" the pair shouted after her, Hermione ran straight into the great hall. When Ron and Harry finally caught up to her, Harry grabbed her hand and whispered
"Hermione please talk to me" he looked around everyone including the teachers where watching "in private" he finished.
"NO" roared Hermione "GET OFF ME YOU...YOU QUEER"
Harry let her go instantly; he looked at Ron who looked ready to kill Hermione. Harry looked at Dumbledore, who had a twinkle in his eye. Damn twinkle thought Harry. Before running out of the hall, he looked over to Draco, who was just sitting on the Slytherin table looking stunned. Harry ran as fast as he could, he ran all the way to the room of requirements.
I need a place to be alone, I need a place to be alone, I need a place to be alone Harry thought as he paced in front of the tapestry three times. A small door appeared he entered and just sat on the small seat provided and burst in to tears. His best friend of six years had just completely humiliated him and outed him to the entire school. At least he thought Ron has accepted you, he is the one you worried about most. It was still hard though, after all he had just lost a friend he had never really thought that Hermione would be homophobic but then again she had always been a little off with Seamus and Dean. Harry was too involved in his thoughts and tears to hear the door being opened and footsteps coming behind him. Draco wrapped his arms around Harry and held him sometimes saying, "It'll be ok Harry" or "don't worry" or even "Just forget, her she's just a mudblood" that one received a halfhearted slap and a "Draco just because I hate her right now doesn't mean you can call her a mudblood" Draco just rolled his eyes.
Ron's POV
I watched as Malfoy, Hogwarts resident poof, oh no sorry cant think that anymore...anyway Hogwarts resident erm...idiot, yeah that works, walked in to the room of Requirements. Ok I'll admit I was puzzled, I was almost certain Harry had ran here after Hermione's outburst, almost hell it was a fact, he always came here when he was upset. But why would Malfoy be going to Harry when he was crying, normally I would say it was to taunt him but...if he is gay too he would not want to taunt him because he would be skitting him self. Oh well maybe Harry didn't come here...I went to the common room, Hermione - the she devil, was there
"Hey Ron" she called to me. I glared at her "what?" she questioned.
"What you did in the great hall was uncalled for Hermione, Harry is supposed to be your friend and you, and you were horrible!" I yelled
"Oh whatever Ron, he's gay, two men together it's just wrong, you can't tell me you accept him." Shouted Hermione
"I can, because I do! He's my best friend and I accept him no matter what. I'd accept him even if he was going out with Malfoy!" I roared, I had never been so mad at her since I'd known her
"Oh god don't make me sick, and not even a poof like Harry would sink as low as going out with Malfoy!" it was at this moment I heard someone break down crying, I turned round and saw Harry standing there. He looked at me and then ran into the dormitory crying. I ran after him to see what was wrong, other than her of course. Just as I, left I heard Hermione say
"Don't waste your time with the likes of him Ron. You'll become one" then she laughed, well I say laughed it was more like a mad cackle.
Normal POV
Ron entered the boy's dorm; Harry sat on his bed in tears. Ron went over to him, sat next to him and said, "Harry what's wrong?"
"Everything Ron, I know the whole school won't hate me but still," sobbed Harry
"Harry, mate ignore Hermione, she obviously isn't a very good friend and if she can hate you so much for being gay then you don't want her as a friend do you?" Ron asked
"No...I guess not, but still she never really seemed like the type of person it be so against gays," Harry answered whilst drying his eyes
"I know but she doesn't matter mate. On the Brightside, you'll always have me!" smiled Ron
"Damn!" joked Harry
"Oh ha-ha. So you gunna be ok?" Ron asked, slightly worried
"Me? Aint I always?" Harry replied soothing Ron's worries
"Yeah, yeah you are" laughed Ron before he left the dormitory.
Harry just sat there for the rest of the day, not crying but just thinking, so Hermione would hate it if I was with Draco...ha-ha good thing she already hates me, but Ron he said he'd except me! That's got to be good, right? I mean he doesn't care who I'm with he'll accept me no matter what! I guess I know who my real friends are. This was Harry's last thought as he drifted off into the land of sleep, that night he dreamt of Draco.
A/N: right just wanted to clear something's up...I have nothing against Hermione but most stories I have read always seem to make Ron the homophobic one so I thought I'd make it Hermione. Speaking of homophobic. I don't know if I portrayed that well what do you think???
BTW: for any of you who don't know coluberbri means snake in Latin, that's why harry chuckled...I thought Dumbledore would use it as a way of promoting interhouse unity so yeah...that' it I think
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Harry has lots of pet names for Draco e.g. Dray, babe baby and love but i can't think of what Draco would call Harry...can you help. Give me a few suggestions and I'll pick my favourite thanks. Also what do you think of Ron and Blaise getting together??
Sorry I go after this...I am kind of stuck on where I want to take this story so I don't know how many chapters there will be :S. I have no clue how many phases of the plan there is going to be so I'm kind of writing as I go along which is really annoying for me because normally I plan what I write before I write it so bear with me...thanks bye x