Chapter twelve

The following day after shocking the rest of their friends with the news he was now gay and living with Draco Malfoy. Harry packed his stuff then walked over to Mrs. Weasley and hugged her.

'You have always been here for me Mrs. Weasley and you don't realise how much that meant to me. I'm sure my mother would be happy I had someone like you.'

'Oh Harry dear,' Molly said as she felt tears fall down her face, then she hugged Harry again, 'You're family, and even though you're about to have your own place and your own adult life, remember, this will always be your home and family.'

'I know Mrs. Weasley,' Harry gave her a smile then turned and hugged Mr. Weasley, 'I couldn't have found anyone better to show a young man what he needed. You have given me a lot of advice over the years and treated me like I was your son, I can't thank you enough for that.'

'Even though we both know you aren't my son, that is how I think of you Harry. All we want for you is to be happy.'

'I am and you'll see that for yourselves tomorrow,' Harry turned to Ron, 'You'll see Ron, trust me just like you have for years,' Harry hugged his friend.

'I do trust you Harry, always will. I just want to make sure he's for real.'

'He is, you'll see,' Harry smiled then hugged Hermione, 'Thanks for everything Hermione, for sticking by me, for your advice but most importantly, for being my friend.'

'I'll always be your friend, nothing will ever change that,' Hermione hugged Harry tighter then kissed his cheek.

'Um, Ginny, I am really sorry about all this. If I knew earlier I would have told you. Just know that you are one of the best girls out there. Your funny, great company, won't take shit from anyone, no matter who they are and you are a gorgeous young woman who will make some bloke very happy, it just can't be me.'

Ginny stared up at Harry then stood up and hugged him, 'I know Harry, if it was another girl I would have fought, but being gay, that's not something I can fight. So I'll be okay and thank you for what you said. Just tell him to treat you right or he'll find out what my bat bogeys are like.'

Harry smiled, 'I'll tell him Ginny, and thanks for understanding,' Harry picked up his bags then looked at everyone, 'I'll see you all in the morning and don't forget your swimming costumes,' Harry stepped over to the fireplace but turned once more, 'I love you,' Harry looked at every face then stepped into the fireplace, vanishing from his old life, and stepping out into his new life.

'Hey, what's up babe?' Draco pulled Harry into his arms.

'Nothing, it's just leaving. It was like leaving my family Dray because that's what they are to me.'

'It's not like you won't see them again Harry.'

'I know, it's just that I spent all my time with Hermione and Ron. This is the first time we've been apart in over a year. It's just a lot to take in.'

'So apart from moving away, how did everyone take the news?'

'Well being gay was nothing, Charlie's gay. When I said it, Ron asked what the big deal with. He'd seen Charlie shove his tongue down some bloke's throat. So that's all fine, with you, I know their worried and it's just they want to make sure you're not up to anything. All of them have been very protective of me for years, so they just want to make sure everything is alright. They said as long as I was happy and you treated me right, their fine, but they do want to meet you properly. So their all coming here tomorrow, I also told Neville, Seamus, Luna and Dean, is that alright?'

'It's your home now as well Harry, so it's fine and they can visit whenever you want them to. I contacted Blaise and Hamlin, their busy at the moment, but definitely want to meet you properly as well and said to tell you that they never were like what you saw, same as me. Being kids of death eater they had to act that they hated you and what you stood for.'

'I get that Dray, I saw a few looks from some other Slytherin's that made me think they never wanted Voldemort to win. Anyway, that's all behind us, so I should put my stuff away.'

'I've made room for you, but is that small bag hold everything you own?'

'I only own clothes, my cloak and a few other personal items, like my photo album Hagrid gave me. I never had a place, a home even if I lived with the Weasley's a lot. So I never bothered getting anything for myself. I don't even know what type of things to buy since I never had the chance before. When I bought all these clothes after the battle, that was the first time I'd bought anything personal apart from our Hogwarts stuff.'

'Well you have a home now and you'll work out what you like, what you're style is. It's good this place is so big. If say you like a living room that's different than what I like, then there's others you can decorate to your style.'

'At the moment I like everything the way it is. I always thought you had good taste. Some of the clothes you wore were really nice. So maybe you could help me with clothes, help me work out what looks good on me since I never had the chance before and why I live in jeans.'

'Well I like you're jeans, especially with how tight they are over your cute arse.'

Harry laughed, 'As long as you like them, then I'm happy. Let's go put my stuff away and I do have a few books in here and more clothes than you think though. It has an undetectable expansion charm on it.'

Harry and Draco walked hand in hand up to their room. Harry pulled his wand and magically put his clothes away, his cloak and also put his photo album on the bedside cabinet.

'Well you have enough clothes, but nothing really nice Harry. It's all jeans, t-shirts, jumpers and jackets, but basic jackets. Two nice shirts and pants, but that's it.'

'I bought those shirts and pants for the funerals, but yeah, as you can see, jeans.'

'Maybe in a few days we can go shopping. I know a few nice men's stores and some of their clothes would look nice on you. But don't buy anything that you're not comfortable with. You need to be comfortable and like what you're wearing. So even if that means jeans, that's you. I just would suggest a few more shirts and pants for when we go anywhere nice, like the ball.'

'I think why I'm so into jeans is because of what was going on in my life. Their easy to fight in, I don't have to worry about them getting damaged to easy and I don't need to worry about, oh what am I going to wear today, I never had time to think of that. So jeans, t-shirt and jumper and I'm done, racing after something without having wasted any time.'

'I get that babe, so we'll go look and if you stay with your jeans, then that's you. Like I said, you're cute in your jeans,' Draco stepped over to the wardrobe, 'So this was your father's cloak, the one that caused me so much trouble over the years.'

'Yeah, that was dads, but the trouble you mentioned, like seeing my head floating in mid-air and snow balls hitting you and your thugs,' Harry chuckled.

'Yeah, after I heard about the cloak I knew it was you and you snuck out. But there's something I've always been curious about.'

'What's that love?'

'Well our first year, when I told McGonagall you had a dragon. Was there really a dragon or did you set me up?'

'There was really a dragon, a baby Norwegian Ridgeback. See a bloke, we know now it was Quirrell with Voldemort on the back of his head, he let Hagrid win it so he could get information out of him about what type of enchantments had been placed around the philosophers stone. But you saw the letter to Ron from Charlie. So that night, Hermione and I used the cloak and took the dragon up to the astronomy tower to meet some of his friends who were going to take the dragon to the reserve where Charlie worked. We were so relieved to be shot of it, we forgot the cloak and got caught by Filch.'

'Then how did you get your cloak back?'

'Dumbledore put it back on my bed. It was him that gave it to me my first year at Hogwarts. I never knew who left it for me, it just had a note saying it belonged to my father and it was time it was returned to me, use it well, that's it. Dumbledore explained later that he borrowed the cloak off my father and that was not long before my parents died. Sirius told me how often dad and him would use that cloak to get around Hogwarts at night and to stay with Remus when he changed.'

'But if they went with him, wouldn't he have killed them?'

'My dad, Sirius and Pettigrew were all animagi. Dad and Sirius changed into large animals so they could control Remus. Sirius was a large black dog called Padfoot and my dad was a stag called Prongs,' Harry grinned when he saw Draco's eyes widen because he realised why Harry's patronus was a stag. So they were learning more things about each other, but now the two young men lived together, they would learn a lot more and had the time to do just that.