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"Ron tell me what the hell is going on with Harry and Malfoy?" Hermione glared at Ron who gulped. He didn't like it when Hermione got this mad or inquisitive it was rather scary. As soon as they were allowed back into the hospital wing they had gone to visit Harry but had been told that he had left already. After that Hermione dragged Ron upstairs with her to the boy's dormitory sat him down on his bed and started asking questions.
"Nothing, nothing's going on Hermione." He lied, but he didn't think it was convincing as Hermione raised her eyebrows at him in a knowing way.
"Ron I know that you know something so tell me what it is."
Ron bit his lip, he had told Harry he wouldn't but still he was sure that Hermione would know soon or work it out. He could tell her some if not all... "Malfoy and Harry are friends; he spent Christmas round Harry's and ours."
"Really!" Hermione said surprised.
"Yeah."
"But why was Draco not on the train he was already at Hogwarts when we arrived."
"He went back to school after Christmas and not back to Harry's house."
"Why, did something happen?"
Lie, lie, and lie some more! Ron's head screamed at him. "No nothing he just wanted to come back."
"Right..." Hermione said slowly. "So this is how it's going to be then you tell me a bit but not everything and leave me to worry about my best friend?"
"Harry told me not to tell you anything not until he knows what's going on himself." Ron tried to reason with her not wanting to betray his friends trust.
"Okay fine." Hermione walked out of the boy's dormitory determined to get some answers.
"Hermione where are you going, come back!" He called after her running after her. He knew that look and it worried him a lot. "Hermione don't go up there, come back please!" He called after her as she walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitory where he could not follow her.
"Ginny." Hermione said entering her dormitory.
"Yeah?" She said looking up from her book that she was reading.
"Tell me what's going on with Malfoy and Harry." Ginny bit her lip, marked her place and placed her book on her side table.
"Is Ron keeping quite?"
"Yeah, not telling me much just that they are friends and Malfoy stayed around Harry's." Ginny nodded.
"Malfoy also spent a few days at Harry's aunt and uncles; his uncle was I'll so Harry went to see them and Malfoy tagged along." Hermione blinked in surprise and sat at the end of Ginny's bed.
"Is he okay?"
"Yeah all better just has to keep of the fat if he can." Hermione smiled.
"So what happened after that? Was Malfoy okay with the muggles?"
"As far as I know. Anyway Harry and Malfoy shared the twins old room as mum didn't want to make Malfoy stay on his own and didn't want to put Malfoy and Ron together either."
"So?"
"Well I don't know when it started but Malfoy and Harry are a lot closer than people think."
"What do you – oh!" Hermione said realisation hitting her. "Oh! Harry and Malfoy! Really since when is Harry gay?"
"Since he kissed Malfoy." Ginny said shrugging and both girls fell about laughing.
"That is hilarious, who would have guessed!"
"I know, I walked into their room right Harry had just had a shower and Malfoy was hanging around in there, before I didn't expect a thing but then when I walked in the room both Harry and Malfoy looked rather startled. Malfoy was leaning against the bed post looking rather rumpled and his lips slightly red, and Harry was clinging on to his towel his hair even messier than usual looking as if he had just jumped back." Hermione laughed as Ginny giggled. "Then on Christmas Eve Ron opened the door to their room and he walked in on Malfoy pinned to the floor by Harry." Both Hermione and Ginny burst out laughing again. "Ron just stood there and then George came along complaining about Ron blocking up the corridor, he saw Harry and Malfoy on the floor and had to drag Ron off." Ginny said just managing to get her words out between laughs.
"Are you okay about this all?" Hermione asked her realising for the first time that Ginny was Harry's ex and not just their friend.
"I'm fine, it wasn't going to work out by the end. I still loved him, but like a brother and him me like a sister, there was nothing else there." Ginny explained and Hermione nodded. "What about you, how do you feel about this?"
"Confused. So what was that argument about last night?"
"No idea. All that I know is that Malfoy went back to Hogwarts to think things over between them and then they had this argument I'm assuming it was about deciding if they should be together or not. I just want to know the answer."
"Me too. I wonder what's going to happen if they do get together and everyone finds out."
"I know it will make wizarding press history!" the girls laughed again.
"Well I better go down and make sure Ron doesn't lose his head worrying about what you are telling me."
"I don't know he might have already lost his head I think he's a bit stressed out because of this situation already."
"Yeah he would be; he hates Malfoy."
"What about you?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"He's better than you think; a lot nicer and quite funny at times, and he and Harry get on really well."
"I'm sure he is nicer that he was; it's just a bit strange Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy."
"I know it takes a while to get used to it." Hermione got up and walked to the doorway of the room; she turned shared one last amused look with Ginny and walked out laughing down the corridor as she went.
"Hermione there you are." Ron said jumping up from his seat on the sofa staring at the girl's dormitory wringing his hands together in worry. "What did Ginny tell you?" He whispered coming closer to her.
"Only what I needed to know Ron." She said stiffly.
"Look I'm sorry Harry promised me that I wouldn't tell you anything till he worked everything out with ferret face." Hermione laughed.
"Ferret face?" she asked raising an eye brow at him.
"Yeah, ferret face."
"Ron I know your upset about it but its Harry he will be fine."
"Malfoy almost killed him!"
"He saved him as well, plunged head first into a freezing lake to retrieve him when a simple spell would be good enough to drag him out."
"That just shows he's stupid." Ron muttered.
"Yeah but when you like someone you do stupid things." Ron rolled his eyes.
"I guess."
"Good now we are going to sit here and wait for Harry to come back to see what he has to say."
"Fine." Ron gave in knowing that he was never going to get his way with her when she was this determined.
Harry walked back up to Gryffindor tower in a slight daze he was now going out with a guy, and not just any guy Draco Malfoy. Harry sighed, how strange was that? If you had told him that a few months ago he would think that you were nearly as good as Trelawney at predicting the future. But he was happy, happier than he had been for a while. He walked though the portrait hole and there waiting for him as he had expected would be was Hermione and Ron sitting by the fire.
"Harry." Hermione said sanding up as he entered ignoring the other interested people around the common room who turned around at Harry's entrance. "You look bad." She said bluntly making Harry laugh.
"I noticed thanks."
Harry walked over and sat down in an empty arm chair. "I didn't tell her mate." Ron assured him, Harry waved Ron off.
"I know, Ginny did didn't she?" Hermione nodded. "Ah well, I was going to tell you later anyway."
"So?" Inquired Ron after a long pause.
"We sang and made up." Harry said smiling at the memory, causing his other two friends to share confused looks. "And I think McGonagall knows about Draco and me."
There was another long stretch of silence. "What?"
"Draco and I were in the hospital wing and we were talking, the one thing led to another and we were kissing and Professor McGonagall kind of noticed."
"How?" Hermione asked stunned.
"Well it was kind of hard not to as she came up there to talk to us and we were on the bed in front of her." Ron paled, and Hermione blinked. "So if you don't mind I think I will go up to bed now I'm rather tired with the drowning, embarrassing moments and stage show that happened today." Harry got up. As if as an afterthought he leaned down between his two friend's heads from the other side of the sofa. "And now I'm dating Draco Malfoy, busy day huh." Harry walked up to bed leaving his two friends in a shocked silence in the common room, his face breaking into another wide grin. Well what were they expecting really?
"Do you mind if I walk with you?" A silky voice said from the right of Harry as he exited the great hall on Monday morning closely followed by Hermione, Ron and Ginny.
"Malfoy can't you find someone else to stalk?" Ron groaned as Harry grinned at Draco.
"Weasley I was not asking you, I was asking my boyfriend here." He looked back at Harry a smirk on his face.
"You guys go ahead I'm going to walk with Draco." Ron scowled and walked off muttering under his breath followed by Hermione who rolled her eyes at her boyfriend.
"Don't be too late Harry." Ginny said winking at Draco and Harry before running off catching up her boyfriend Clive who she gave a swift kiss to before entwining their hands together and walking towards Transfiguration.
"That girl worries me sometimes."Draco said shaking his head at Ginny's retreating back.
"I know what you mean." Harry agreed. The two boys started walking to Transfiguration hands skimming each other as they walked talking lightly. The students in the busy corridors gave them shocked looks as they saw the two previous rivals having a civil conversation and enjoying each other's company.
When they reached the transfiguration classroom they were the only ones left in the corridor. Harry caught Draco's hand before he walked into the classroom and dragged him a few meters away from the door so as they were no overheard.
"Draco what are we going to say to people, are we going to tell them or are we just going to let them find out?"
Draco thought for a moment. "Let them find out." Draco concluded still holding Harry's hand his back leaning against the stone wall.
"You sure?"
"Sure." Draco lifted their hands to face level and entwined their fingers together, bringing his free hand to the back of Harry's neck and pulling him gently forward. Harry responded willing forgetting that there were in the middle of a public corridor, he placed his free hand against the wall next to Draco's face and moved forward slightly so there was not an inch left between their bodies.
"Hum." A clearing throat sound issued from behind them. Harry and Draco drew apart and turned round to see an amused looking Hermione behind them. "McGonagall will be starting class soon you might want to join us."
Harry ran his hand through his hair drawing further away from Draco. "Yeah, coming." Hermione left them turning back into the classroom. "If we keep going like this everyone will know by dinner." Harry commented going slightly red.
"So, what's so bad about that?" Draco grinned wickedly before dragging Harry into another quick kiss which left him breathless before entering the transfiguration class room closely followed by a blushing Harry.
"What are you doing this weekend?" Ginny whispered to Harry as they sat in Defence Against the Dark Arts later on that week.
"Quidditch practice on Sunday afternoon."
"That all?"
"Yeah what else would I be doing?" Harry asked confused turning towards his friend
"You could ask Malfoy out on a date you know."
"A date?"
"Yes like the ones we used to go on, just with Malfoy. It is normal practice for people to go on dates when they are dating."
"Where would we go?" Harry asked lowering his voice a bit more and turning further away from the blonde who was sitting on his right.
"Anywhere you want, anywhere he wants."
"What if he says no?" Harry asked looking like a lost puppy with pleading eyes.
Ginny rolled her eyes. "Harry you and him are together, I doubt he would say no. Just ask." The bell rang signalling the end of the lesson. They exited the classroom together, by now the rest of the students had become used to the idea of Draco Malfoy hanging round with the Gryffindor trio and co. They still received a few strange looks sometimes from students and the Slytherins hadn't become any friendlier towards Draco but the students had seemed to accept the new friendship.
Draco was used to spending time with the Gryffindors by now; he and Ron had a mutual agreement not to talk to one another unless they really had to. Hermione and Draco were polite to one another and mainly talked about academics more than anything else and Ginny, when she was around, got on with Draco as if they had been friends for ages rather than half a week.
"Draco do you want to go to the library now we have a free period." Harry asked as he and Draco lagged behind the others slightly in what had become usual practice for them.
"Yeah I have an essay that I need to finish for Ancient Runes."
"Hermione, Ron, Ginny, we are going to the library see you at lunch." The others nodded and told Harry that they would save him a place at the Gryffindor table before they walked off to their other classes, or in Ron's case to the Gryffindor common room to spend some time with Seamus playing wizard chess much to Hermione's distaste as they were not using their free time to do productive studying.
Draco and Harry sat down next to one another at a secluded table in a shadowed corner of the library. Draco opened his books, pulled out a length of parchment and a quill and started writing ever now and again squinting at the text book page before him. Harry copied this opting to spend some time on his potions essay which was going much better than he thought it would, with both Hermione and sometimes Draco helping him he was actually starting to understand more about potion making. Harry moved his hand over slightly accidently bumping it into Draco's.
"Sorry." Harry muttered blushing taking his hand away and letting it rest on his leg away from Draco's hand. Draco looked up and sighed before going back to his studies, Harry went back to his work still blushing slightly, he still felt a bit awkward about his relationship with Draco not knowing if he liked holding hands in public and all the other relationship stuff. Harry suddenly felt a hand take his, lacing their fingers together still resting on his leg. Harry looked up in surprise and looked over at Draco who had a small smile on his face before meeting Harry's gaze with raised eyebrows.
"What is it Potter?" He asked drawling coming slightly close to Harry across the table leaning on his elbow.
"Erm..." Harry was lost for words as Draco moved closer to him letting go of his hand running a light finger up his thigh and back down again, causing Harry to blush deeply. "Draco." Harry muttered when he was finally able to recover from his surprise. "We are in the library."
"I know." Draco said seductively coming a little bit closer to Harry and running his hand up and down again.
"Madame Pince, and people."
"Again, I know." Draco lent forward, tilting his head slightly eyes dropping down to Harry's red kissable lips.
"Hey, what you up to?" Ron asked sitting down on the free seat across from them.
Draco dropped his head on top of his heavy Ancient Runes book making a loud bang, he did this twice more before glaring darkly at Ron who was looking between an angry Draco and a very red Harry.
"Weasley!" Draco growled. "What are you doing here?"
"Seamus got bored of loosing and I thought Harry could help me on my potions essay. What's with you Malfoy?"
"Nothing, Weasley, I was just wondering why it is every time I get five minutes alone with Harry one of you Gryffindors always turns up and ruins it."
"What's to ruin Malfoy its homework." Ron stated waving his parchment. Draco glared at the redhead again rounded up his books, pointed his wand at the parchment Ron was still waving and muttered a quick flame spell before walking out of the library.
"OW!" Ron shouted as he dropped the flaming parchment and put out the remainder with his wand. "What's his problem?"
"Draco and I, we were." Harry shook his head thinking better of telling Ron exactly what he and Draco were doing. "We haven't had much time alone since we have got back to school."
"Go on a bloody date then."
"You think we should?" Harry asked taken aback.
"Yeah! Your dating aren't you"
"Okay I'll ask him tonight after we finish practicing."
"Good, now you can help me with my potions essay, I guess I have to start again. Damn that ferret!" Harry laughed at Ron's frustration as he handed him over an extra bit of parchment and moved his text book so that both could see it.
Draco swooped down in a dive feeling the wind fly past him gave him exhilaration, there it was the snitch, he was so close, then. 'Potter!' Draco's mind moaned as the raven haired boy came out of nowhere and caught the snitch that was flying just in front of Draco.
"Yes." Harry rejoiced holding Draco's snitch above his head celebrating his third catch in a row. Draco glared at the boy hovering above him; he had only managed to catch the snitch once in the time since they had moved on from hitting bludgers and dodging them.
"Potter you want to shut up and get your ass down from there before we get caught for being out after curfew?" Draco shouted up at Harry from where he had landed on the pitch below.
"Yeah, sorry." Harry shot downwards towards Draco and landed smoothly. "Good game huh."
"Yeah for some."
"Cheer up, it's just a game."
"Yeah but I never win!" Draco moaned.
"You win all the time what are you talking about."
"I mean against you!" Draco huffed frustrated. He hated being second best and now he was torn between being glad that Harry was a brilliant seeker and hating the fact that he could never win.
"Oh. Sorry." Harry muttered rather startled.
"Don't be sorry Harry."
"I think I can make it up to you."
Draco chuckled. "How do you suggest you do that?" he managed to say before he found himself with his back against the Quidditch hut at the side of the pitch with Harry's lips on his.
"I don't know, I might have a few tricks up my sleeve." Harry suggested before plunging his tongue into Draco's welcoming mouth.
"I think I'm starting to feel better." Draco muttered before he moaned as Harry nipped his neck lightly.
"Good." Harry smiled into his neck breaking the line of kisses he was leaving opting for leaning his head into Draco's neck and taking in his sent.
"What is it?"
"Nothing. I was wondering what you were doing this Saturday."
"Oh I don't know, spending time with annoying Gryffindors and being ignored by Slytherins." Draco joked lightly. "Why?"
"I wanted to know if you wanted to go out, like on a date." Harry looked hopefully up at Draco biting his lip slightly.
"Of course." Harry smiled before kissing Draco softly again and letting go. "Come on, we need to get back before curfew." He took Draco's hand as they walked through the remainders of the snow that clung to the ground underneath them.
