Everything seemed to run smoothly after that. Thankfully all the other wedding arrangements and preparations he had to help with rarely involved Narcissa, though he knew he would have to talk to the woman again—she was Severus' friend after all—but for now he would carry out the rest of his school days in bliss.

Harry came out of the exam room with a crick to his neck. He'd spent the whole night studying to cram everything he had yet to learn into his brain. Of course, this annoyed Severus to no end, telling him off. 'If you haven't learned it by now, you're not going to do so in one night.' He'd said, but Harry kept it up. He only managed to crawl into bed at around three in the morning and Severus, without complaint pulled him close into his arms and held him there, waking him up promptly at seven to get ready for the gruelling exam day ahead.

Now the theory side of it was over. Tomorrow would be practical day. He was nervous about it, but Severus told him he might as well just do wandless magic since whenever Harry grabbed hold of the elder wand he lost control slightly. He wasn't necessarily more powerful with the elder wand, but because he didn't trust it his magic became a little more volatile.

He marched straight to the great hall for a much deserved dinner. He'd been such a wreck this morning and during lunch time that he hardly ate. It was on the way there that he heard two distinct voices. Harry paused and glanced around the corner seeing Severus and Narcissa talking.

"I don't care what your thoughts on marriage are I—"

"Come on, Severus. You have to admit my points are valid. You've lived alone long enough, you deserve to settle down and have a family now, not when it suits that… boy." She said. Harry felt his heart clench painfully. The more he heard her say it the more reasonable it sounded. He was holding Severus back wasn't he?

"I have plenty of time, I'll wait for Harry as long as is necessary."

"But it doesn't have to be necessary, I have a friend—"

"No, Narcissa. I love him. I'm not having any more of this conversation."

Harry felt his blood run cold as he leaned against the wall. The words 'I love him' echoing in his head. Severus loved him. So why was he so terrified? Did he love Severus back?

And there was the problem. Harry had no idea. And it just brought everything Narcissa said into perspective. He really was just a boy. Severus was an adult, whilst Harry –who had barely had a childhood—had barely been legally an adult for a couple of years. He wanted to go places, meet people and look for a calmer enemy free adventure.

But… what was there to say that Severus wouldn't want to go with him? That's what they needed, Harry realised. They needed to get out of here, out of people forcing them apart or together. They needed to leave the wizarding world for a little while, just so they can both figure out what they want from each other. Otherwise, with all these doubts people were trying to plant in them… they might drift too far apart, and Harry didn't want that. He didn't want to lose Severus.

Harry nodded, with newly-found determination and marched straight to dinner, plans already forming in his mind.

-o-O-o-

Harry took a deep breath as he handed the examiners his exam form for the practicals. On the front, showing clearly for all to see, the 'wandless' box was ticked. Harry had already been told by Severus how this would bring attention to him. How there were only a handful of wizards to have passed a wandless N.E.W.T.s in the last century and all the other half a dozen or so that had tried, had subsequently failed.

The external examiner glanced up and down at him before nodding and assigning his tasks. Besides potions, which he somehow managed to finish, with a little encouragement from Severus' connection. He accomplished the rest of the exams with relative ease.

He recalled how uncomfortable he had felt the moment he was tested for Transfiguration, which was such a precise art. The examiners had all but to roll their eyes at him, probably thinking how full of himself he was to try the exam wandless, and then as he accomplished the tasks perfectly, the awe in their faces made Harry feel sick.

But, knowing he passed the exam at least was a good thing.

"I know you're probably tired mister Potter, but it's the last exam left. Just one final push." The examiner said sweetly. She reminded Harry of Umbridge, though he was pretty sure this woman was just trying to get on the good side of the-boy-who-lived-twice. Harry was actually proud of himself for keeping such good control of these powers. The dummy attacking him blasted a final curse and Harry threw his hands forward, a shield rising up and stopping the attack. With a wave of his left hand he blasted the dummy's wand away and his right came forward to do a full-body bind on the dummy that dropped on its side.

Saying a quick goodbye to the examiners he walked out, taking a deep breath. At least he did well on the practical sides of the exams.

He looked up at the blue sky, the warm summer breeze hitting his face. This was it, only a week left of school and he would graduate.

"Harry!" Harry turned to the voice of a smiling Hermione rushing over with the rest of their friends. Who knew after eight years he'd include Draco Malfoy as a friend.

"Done with the exams then?" he smiled at her, hugging her as she came at him with open arms.

"Can you believe there's only a week left of school?" Ron said looking around just as Harry had been doing a couple of minutes ago.

-o-O-o-

Severus watched the group walk off together to the lake, the more steps that Harry took further away from the castle, the more it started dawning on him that Narcissa had been right. Harry was still so young. Severus knew the other didn't want to get married yet, and he still had so many other things he wanted to do. Wasn't the other muttering something about travelling the day he was considering that they would have five kids? Severus couldn't just get up and leave his post.

Narcissa was right. Even if she'd focused her worries on the wrong person.