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Firework	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 29682 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 12
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Title: Firework

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairings: LuciusxSeverus, mentions of past/unrequited NarcissaxRegulus, one-sided HarryxDraco?, mentions of TedxAndromeda

Summary: A little AU after the First Task for all his apparent forgiveness of Ron for abandoning him, he's incapable of forgetting. The Triwizard Tournament forced Harry to grow up and changed the way he looked and things as well as what he focused on. Complete AU from the day of the Third Task. Harry doesn't want to participate in the Tournament; he has said he has no wish to win. What happens when he refuses to search for the Triwizard Cup?

A/N: The title is in reference to the song by Katy Perry. If fit the story so well when it came on the radio after I took a dinner break while writing. Prior to that son play this fic had no name. Its just a random story idea that I couldn't shake but it seems to be shaping into a nice storyline.

Chapter 10 - Severus' stubbornness, Lily's temper

Harry woke, his eyes opening slowly.

"You're awake."

Harry blinked sleepily but all he could see was a black blob.

His spectacles were placed in his hand.

"Are you hungry?"

Harry put on his glasses and leaned up on his elbow just to see who was talking.

Snape…

Just behind him curled up on the next bed was Draco.

Why?

"No. I'm not." He turned away, intent on drifting away again.

XoooooX

"You're just as stubborn as Lily. If something happened that she didn't like she did her best to ignore it. She didn't like that I hung out with Muggle-hating Slytherins. She lectured me once and then proceeded to ignore my so-called friends. That is until the day your father and grandfather decided to bully me because they were bored. I was minding my own business and studying. Before I could react I was hanging upside down, they were using a spell I created." Severus said quietly, he hated racking up painful memories but he was trying to get through to the boy.

"Who cares?"

Severus resisted the urge to shake him, "I would have thought you'd like to hear stories of your parents. I can't tell you fairy tales like Albus or Sirius. I can't gloss over the truth like Remus. All I can offer is the truth. Merlin I wish you would pay attention!" he ran a hand through his hair, "Lily did what any sister or best friend would do, she told them to stop and called James a toerag. Of course James dropped me at once, as if he'd forgotten me and was more interested in your mother. Sirius wasn't pleased with the end to his fun. He accused me of liking Lily as more then a friend, he accused me of being less of a man because I had to be defended by a girl."

A yawn sounded behind his back.

"What happened?"

Severus winced, "I lost my temper at Sirius, I forgot I wasn't addressing his mad cousin Bellatrix or something. I yelled that I didn't need a Mudblood girl to defend me."

Harry snorted, "Good going. I'm sure she was pleased her best friend called her that."

Severus cursed under his breath in Gaelic before continuing, "Of course she was mad. She wouldn't speak to me and I was too cowardly to apologize."

His godson was sitting up; he could hear the sheets rustle.

"What happened?"

Severus sighed, "I ended up seeing Lucius. James' mother died and Lily helped him through it. They fell in love. I never apologized. I should have but I didn't. Sirius tricked me into following Remus into the Whomping Willow. James saved me from being attacked and Remus from being expelled or put down for attacking another student by stopping me before either could happen. James apologized and swore he had nothing to do with it, that if anything happened to me Lily wouldn't forgive him. He seemed honest; I had to promise to keep it a secret. I hated owing him of all people a life debt. I blamed Remus and Sirius instead. Sirius would laugh and Remus swore he knew nothing but how was I to know?

As for your mother, she ignored me until her father told her to walk me in. I had little love for my parents, I probably feel as much for them as you do regarding Petunia and her ox of a husband. We found my parents dead. I did cry, embarrassing for a sixteen year old soon to be Sixth Year. Her parents wouldn't hear of me living in that house alone, I was moved into their guest bedroom. The shock of seeing my parents' dead brought us back together as friends. It was like nothing changed, like I had never called her a Mudblood. I was still sneaking off for dates with Lucius. He sent a house elf to fetch me."

"Then what?" Draco asked, sounding curious.

"We graduated. Lily was engaged to James. Your parents were Bonded in October Draco, Lily and James had a church wedding to satisfy her parents the next month and then were Bonded before Christmas. By my nineteenth birthday both Narcissa and Lily revealed they were pregnant. They'd conceived on their respective honeymoons. Lily ended up working until her seventh month before going on maternity leave from the Department of Experimental Charms."

Severus sighed, "By then not only was the Dark Lord on his usual rampage he'd heard the prophecy and had decided it was regarding you. When he decided that I ran to Lily and told her. Lily called James' family home pretentious and refused to live there. Albus' mother had rented a cottage from the Potters ages ago and continued renting it. He heard Lily insist she wouldn't live at the Abbey and offered to stop renting the cottage. Lily fell in love with it, never knowing the tragedy it had known. She spent hours fixing it up, she was puttering around the nursery when I told her that the Dark Lord wanted to kill you. At first she scoffed and then realized I was serious. Immediately, she ordered James home. She told him that Voldemort wanted you dead. He believed her, trust me brother I may have been but Lily was like an avenging goddess that day, beautiful and terrible to behold."

XoooooX

Harry wanted them both to just go away! He didn't want to hear about his parents. How his mother was an angel and his father was like Dudley.

He tried to shut Snape out but he couldn't…

XoooooX

"They went into hiding after that. It would have been too dangerous for me to be their secret keeper. James and I had a somewhat amicable relationship. I would secretly pass on what little I knew of the Dark Lord's plans. James knew everything I passed on to the Dark Lord regarding Albus." Severus said, almost talking to himself. "You could say I was playing both sides. Actually," he cast a privacy charm around the three of them, "it was James' idea for me to become a Death Eater. Considering that I had hung out with them in school my joining their ranks would have been believable. He made a joke that he save me for a reason and it was to do my part to protect the Wizarding world. He became an Auror and I was his informant. Lucius knew that I was too soft to be a real Death Eater whether he knew I was a spy for anyone he never said. When the Dark Lord decided you were the babe of prophecy I begged him for months to reconsider. He laughed at me, finally he promised if Lily didn't fight him that she could live."

"You said when she heard that the Dark Lord wanted Harry dead she was like an avenging goddess…" Draco said sound almost confused.

"She was, she would never have stood aside and let anyone hurt her baby. Not even when she…" Severus balled his fists, discussing the baby was too painful and not what Harry needed to hear, "The Dark Lord wouldn't spare her. I couldn't stand against the Dark Lord. The Ministry was stretched too thin and of course the Potters were in hiding. Plus there was a spy or many in the Ministry camp. It wasn't James, he'd been asked to join the Dark Lord, and his Bonding to a Muggleborn would be 'forgiven'. He of course refused. Lily told the Dark Lord to go and not to let the wards hit him on the way out."

Harry finally seemed to speak, "What does that phrase mean? 'Don't let the wards hit you on the way out'?"

Severus laughed, "Think of it as the Wizarding equivalent of 'Don't let the door hit you on the way out.' However, if you were expelled from a home or a place of business, the wards could be tuned to lock you out. It's a polite after a fashion warning to leave before the wards throw you out."

"Oh." And Harry became silent once more.

Severus sighed, "Draco, got to the Owlry and bring me Harry's owl."

Harry bolted up, "You leave Hedwig alone!"

Severus snorted, "I'm not going to hurt her. Bring a Hogwarts owl as well."

Harry glared at him, "What do you want with my owl?"

Severus sighed, "I don't want them. You're going to use them."

"Why? Whom would I be writing to?"

Severus restrained himself from rolling his eyes; Harry was going to give him a headache. "To my least favourite people in the world. The Ministry won't deal with the Dark Lord or Pettigrew until they are forced to. Sirius needs to return. He should contact Rita Skeeter and tell his side of the story of what happened the night your parents were killed. Then he turns himself over to his cousin Andromeda's daughter who is an Auror. Remus needs to come look after you."

Harry glared, "I'm just fine on my own thank you."

"No you're not. Godfather or not, Sirius is in no shape to take care of you. He maybe a decent Auror but he was and probably still is completely clueless with children of any age. I'd take you in but I don't think you'd like that." Severus closed his eyes, "Only a blind person wouldn't realize you've already formed a Bond with Remus." Remus, one of his least liked persons and yet who he would have been joint godfather to Harry's unborn sister. Had he been faster and could have stopped the Dark Lord, everything might have been different.

"I'm not writing so there!" Harry said stubbornly. "I don't need anyone."

Severus snorted, "I thought that too. When I realized my parents hated me. My mother ran away from the Wizarding World for reasons I still don't understand. She ended up with my unemployed drunk of a father. I suppose she hated me because my being a wizard made her a freak or at least the mother of one. My father hated us and used any means to show his displeasure. It wasn't until I met your mother and her parents that I learned that people need people. I found a family and a best friend without looking for one. They took me in and with the exception of your aunt treated me like family. Your grandparents were wary about Lily going away to Hogwarts but were comforted that I would be with her."

"I don't care what you or anyone else thinks! I don't need anyone but my books." Harry said viciously. "I don't need or want any friends. No one is going to hurt or betray me again."

There was a loud crash and then squawks.

Harry turned to see Hermione standing there stricken. Beside her was Draco with an owl perched on either shoulder.

Harry crossed his arms, "I'm not writing Sirius or Remus. I don't need either of them."

"Either you will or I will. I'll do it if I have to forge your handwriting. Do you want Sirius to be on the run forever? Accused of a crime he might not of committed?" Severus said harshly. "I might be able to convince the defense instructor to leave his post early. What better opportunity for Remus then to be already here?"

Hermione scoffed, "You help them? You wanted them both arrested."

Severus glared at her, "I'm allowed to make mistakes. I allowed my hatred to override my good judgement. I wasn't talking to you. I'd sooner die then let Harry go back to Petunia's."

Hermione snorted, "It's not your place to decide where he goes. He has to go there. They are his family."

Harry rolled his eyes, "Have you forgotten already that Ron said they lock me up? That they starve me? You want me to return there? One of these days I'll overstay my welcome and I'll end up dead. Then everyone will be happy."

Severus stared at him in horror, "You think they would kill you?"

XoooooX

"They've threatened to abandon me. To send me to an orphanage. Marge said they should have drowned me like unwanted puppies."

Draco was clearly horrified, "You wouldn't fight back?"

Harry laughed, "What for? To prolong the inevitable? If I'd defended myself against Ron it would have been my fault we fought."

"That's not true! Ron's in big trouble. Some of us snuck up to McGonagall's office and listened. Ginny was worried. Dennis and Colin went with her. I think Dean, Lee and Seamus did too. Ron's been sent home for a while. Although its not against the rules for persons of age to have liquor by not hiding it or having proper precautions Fred and George have two nights of detention, Ron's suspended for an unwarranted attack on you and also for clearly violating the no harassment policy." Hermione said quietly. "If McGonagall hadn't sent for Mr. and Mrs. Weasley I'm sure Ron would have gotten a Howler again."

"I don't care if he gets a dozen howlers. Ron's no friend of mine." Harry said woodenly, "I don't need friends or pity."

"I'm not your friend out of pity!" Hermione said indignantly.

"No you're my 'friend' out of a desire to escape your Muggleborn background. Being my friend gives you political clout so you can rewrite Wizarding society according to your whims." Harry said cruelly, "If it weren't for me no one would have joined your pathetic little free the elves movement. You saw what being freed did to Winky. I wouldn't wish that on everyone. The other House elves treat you and Dobby like you've got a disease or something."

XoooooX

Knowing that Harry was working up to saying something he'd regret as surely as he regretted calling Lily a Muggleborn he cast a nonverbal silencing spell on Harry. Severus sighed, "I will not let you sabotage your relationship with Granger. I may not like her but she didn't abandon you during the Triwizard Tournament. She stuck by you when no one else did. Why? Because she didn't have any friends before you, I know because I was sent to retrieve her previous school records. She is brilliant, straight fives every quarter in her Muggle School. Her parents worked long hours as dentists. Instead of having a real babysitter she was looked after by a woman studying to be a teacher. Instead of playing at the park or learning to swim Granger was taught a variety of subjects from a young age. She was a research project, a created genius is what the woman called her."

Granger turned red, "That has nothing to do with anything. Ms. Sinclair didn't make me a witch. She may have encouraged my reading and study about my age level but I was already capable of it."

Severus ignored her, "Unless she's being paid to be your friend, you're the only one she's ever had. I don't see her abandoning you. I won't let you push her or Draco away. You're being childish and lashing out at everyone, especially those who care about you. You lost Ronald, who cares? You've got Draco. He hasn't left your side since he found out you were hurt. Ronald is lucky he was removed from the castle. Otherwise I'm sure Draco might have caused him an injury."

"Of course I would!" Draco said taking a seat beside Harry, even though the younger teen's body language was clear that he wasn't welcome.

Harry glared at him.

Draco shrugged, "Just because I want to make him pay for hurting doesn't mean I won't do it. It doesn't mean I will. He can't get away with hurting you."

Severus glared at Harry, "Now are you going to write to them or should I tell Granger to? I'm sure they'd listen if she wrote them that you needed them."

Harry's expression was murderous.

Granger seemed to swallow, "I'd write them if I thought it was the right things to do."

Harry held out his hand stiffly.

Severus handed him parchment and a quill, setting the inkpot on the small table next to the bed Harry and Draco were sitting on.

XoooooX

Furious that the choice was being taken away from him, Harry scrawled two notes, one to Sirius begging him to come back. That he had to turn himself in now that Wormtail was in custody so he could have a fair trial. Then he reluctantly asked Remus to come to Hogwarts because Professor Snape had gone crazy and insisted he needed a real guardian and who better then a friend of his parents that he already had a relationship with.

He shoved the letters at Snape.

XoooooX

Severus glanced at them and then gave the letter to Sirius to Harry's owl and the letter to Remus to the school owl. "Take them directly to the recipients. Wait for replies."

The owls glared at him and then took off.

Severus glanced at Granger, "Do Harry a favour. Go down to the kitchens and ask for breakfast for the four of us. We have to talk." Then he turned his attention to Harry, "and you will listen.

Granger left in a manner that was clearly reluctant.

Severus sighed, "I'm trying to look after you."

Harry opened his mouth forgetting the silencing charm cast on him.

Severus held out a hand, "I left you in Petunia's care knowing she hated our kind. That was a mistake. So was treating you like a young James, I didn't want to remember any of it. Not that it was James' idea for me to spy. Not that Lily was my friend. Especially not that…" he'd held Lily's lifeless body in his arms and knowing he'd failed both Lily and her daughter… "It was wrong of me, to want to forget my first and best friend so much that I practically traumatised her son. Not only that I firmly told Draco to leave you alone. I…didn't want you two to be friends."

Draco stared at him as if he hadn't seen him before.

"I hate honesty but I hate lies more. Someone once said that love makes liars of us all."

Harry recoiled as if he'd been struck.

Severus ignored them both, "I won't let Petunia hurt you again."

Granger ran back in, gasping, "Breakfast will be here in a few minutes. Winky and Dobby are bringing it."

Severus went on, "I know you feel like you can't trust anyone. I can understand that. Perhaps, not for the same reasons but I stopped trusting anyone after your mother died. I hated the world. I blamed everyone including myself for her death. If I hadn't been with Lucius. If only I'd been there, I could have stopped him. Now it's, if I'd guessed that Pettigrew was the spy Sirius was looking for. I hated Sirius so much already it was easy to blame him for Lily's death. I wanted him punished. I wanted him dead. When the person I was really angry with was myself."

Breakfast arrived and everyone began to eat.

Severus summoned two potions, "here. This one is a nutrition potion and this one would be a vitamin one. It will help you recover from Petunia's starving."

Harry started to eat, ignoring him.

Severus shook his head, "And Lily said I was the most stubborn person she knew." Then he laughed, "We must have been siblings, because you have my stubbornness and her temper but James' Quidditch skills. Because Merlin knows neither Lily or I could fly."

XoooooX

Harry was sick of crying, he was not going to be taken in. It didn't matter how nice any of them were, he wouldn't trust them farther then he could hit a Bludger.

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