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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 11- Wolf versus Grim

Remus stormed into Hogwarts making his way to the infirmary. His amber eyes falling on the boy curled up on the only occupied bed. He stalked over to it.

"Remus?"

He turned frowning at the familiar voice.

There was Madam Pomfrey.

"I don't know what to do with that boy. He won't leave that bed. He won't talk and only eats if Severus bullies him into it."

Remus sighed, "What happened? His letter didn't explain." He tugged the crumpled piece of parchment out of the pocket of his ragged robe.

"He's been suffering from terrible nightmares since Cedric's murder." Nurse Pomfrey said quietly.

Remus nodded, he'd read about Cedric Diggory's murder in the Daily Prophet.

"He returned changed. He refuses to be an Auror. He changed his options, dropping Divination and taking up Ancient Runes. He's two years behind those who took it sooner like Ms. Granger or Mr. Malfoy. He spends most of his time in the library. Potter even quit his House Quidditch team."

Remus blinked, "He did what?" Harry loved Quidditch just like James, "Why did he give it up?"

"There was a verbal altercation between Potter, Ronald Weasley and Mr Malfoy before the match. Potter didn't want to fly. He said some things were more important than Quidditch. Malfoy said that was true but all things in moderation or something like that. Weasley was furious he'd want to quit. Harry flew because the Gryffindor Team didn't have a reserve. He wasn't paying attention and didn't want to play. Mr. Malfoy challenged him for the Snitch. The loser had to quit the team. Mr. Malfoy spotted the snitch and went into a dangerous dive that might have killed him. Mr. Potter ended up saving him but declared he was too much of a liability to remain on the team and quit. Now strangely enough they're friends. Severus has been in here often. He even spent the night in here in one of my terribly uncomfortable wooden chairs. Mr. Malfoy wouldn't leave either."

Remus blinked, "Harry and Draco Malfoy are…friends?"

Nurse Pomfrey nodded, "Odd isn't it? Ms. Granger comes in between classes to check on him but he ignores her or tell her to go away."

"I thought they were inseparatable." Remus said more to himself then to her.

"So did everyone else. It got rocky after Potter's name came out of the cup. Most people thought he cheated."

Remus snorted, "Harry? Cheat? That's laughable."

Nurse Pomfrey shrugged, "It's happened before. When the Chamber of Secrets was opened during his second year it was revealed that he was a Parselmouth. Students around here started believing he was the Heir of Slytherin despite being a Gryffindor and best friends with a Muggleborn."

"So Cedric's murder made him turn over a new leaf? He's studying more and doesn't want to waste time playing Quidditch?"

Nurse Pomfrey shrugged, "It seems so. Well Ronald Weasley hated him for it. Severus was experimenting teaching his students to make various sleeping potions and then testing them. Using dream orbs to see if nightmares affected them during naps. Apparently he's working with Lord Malfoy to convince the Board of Governors that they need a group of Mind Healers to help the students who were present during the Third Task deal with the trauma of watching Cedric's murder. Harry had a nightmare; even casting a spell that forced one to wake from a potion-induced sleep Harry wouldn't wake. Draco noticed something was wrong and woke him."

Remus was stunned, Ron was furious Harry wanted to study? Neither of his friends noticed he was having a nightmare in class? "Then what happened?"

"Harry was overwrought. Draco took him to Severus' office and Severus excused the class early. They called him down. He drifted off to sleep. However Ronald showed up drunk and demanded to see Harry. It sparked another nightmare and Draco turned him off. They ate lunch, went to class and Harry spent his free period in the library. He went up to the Tower to drop of his books before dinner. Apparently Ronald was drunker, tried to pick a fight. He started yelling about Harry's relatives making him live in a room with bars on the windows and starving him. Then Ronald accused him of being bent. Bent for Mr. Malfoy of all people"

"You've got to be joking."

Remus turned, "Hi Sirius."

Nurse Pomfrey let out a small scream, "Sirius Black!"

Remus sighed, "Harry owl you too?"

Sirius growled, "Like I wouldn't come if Harry was in trouble I was here for most of the tournament."

Nurse Pomfrey looked like she would faint from terror.

Remus patted her shoulder, "He's a bear at times but he's an innocent one. Why don't you go tell Severus we're here? I'm sure we have a lot to talk about."

Sirius scowled, "Why would I want to talk to Snivellius? He tried to have me Kissed."

Remus glared, "And you tried to use me to kill him. He still hates me. I was never less then nice to him. All though I should have done as Lily said told you and James to leave him the fuck alone."

Sirius sneered, "Does Moony have a crush on Snivellius?"

Remus snorted, "As if. You've known I was bent for years. Now you care because you think I've got the hots for Snape? You're mad. He'd never look my way anyway. I'm so not his type. Nor is he mine for your information. Give it a rest."

"You better not have turned Harry bent." Sirius growled.

Remus sniffed, "That is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard you say. I couldn't make him gay and I certainly wouldn't come on to James and Lily's son. Are you crazy? He's the right age to be my son."

Sirius sneered, "Who would have kids with a werewolf?"

Remus reeled back as if he'd been hit, "You don't mind I'm bent because that means all the more girls for you. Now you're nasty because you walk in halfway through a conversation regarding Ron's theory Harry's bent for Draco? So what if he is? James and Lily accepted me. Why wouldn't they have accepted Harry?"

"Lily accepted I was as well. Nice to see you both." Came the dry tones of Severus Snape, Hogwarts' resident Potions Master and Head of Slytherin.

Sirius sneered, "If it isn't Snivellius."

Severus winced, "Its Professor Snape now. We're not here about me. We're here about Harry. He's shutting down emotionally and that's going to destroy him."

"Why would you care?"

Remus sighed, "He's being a right git. He's mad because Pomfrey said Harry was accused of being bent. Siri thinks it's my fault. I'm no monster. If Harry is bent that won't change how proud I am of him. Is it true he's studying a lot and gave up Quidditch?"

Severus nodded, "Draco's trying to talk him back onto the team."

"You can tell that Dark Arts loving twit to stay the hell away from my godson." Sirius snarled.

Severus laughed, "I'll be telling Draco no such thing. He wouldn't listen to me if I did. Harry's refusing to go to classes. He says he doesn't need friends and he only owled you two because I forced him." His tone turned serious, "He's emotionally shutting down. He hopes Petunia will kill him. Your precious godson has a death wish. Does that get through your head Black? He wants to die. I for one am not going to let him give up. He wanted to be a healer. He wanted to help people. Now he's given up. Pettigrew's in custody but the Ministry is stalling. They've got the Dark Lord too because I handed him off. Now if you want to actually help Harry you're going to do as I say."

Sirius snorted, "I'll let you lead me around when the sun dies."

Remus punched him, with a clean left hook. "You will listen or so help me I'll hand you over to the Ministry myself."

Sirius was silent as he rubbed his jaw.

Severus nodded, "You will invited Rita Skeeter for an interview on what really happened the night James and Lily died. Then you'll allow Andromeda's daughter to escort you to the Ministry. Lucius will push for a trial. He's already trying to push for the ministry to stop stalling and deal with the Dark Lord and Wormtail. We need to prove that Petunia been abusing Harry. Right now, Black you are person non grata with the Ministry. Even if they declare you free, there is no way someone just released from Azkaban after a twelve-year sentence and over two years on the run is going to be allowed to have custody of their precious saviour. So you can either whinge or play ball."

The problem was Sirius was a Black and the one thing they hated most was to play ball. Severus knew that. Andromeda ran off and Bonded to the most unsuitable person according to her family. Narcissa loved Sirius' younger brother only to be forced to Bond to her eldest sister's former betrothed. Now she spent most of her days in bed. The Mad Bellatrix had Bonded to Rodolphus but she followed the Dark Lord around sighing like a love sick teen.

"So," Remus asked quietly, "Who gets Harry?"

Severus shrugged, "Not sure yet. Andromeda said never to trust her cousin with kids."

Sirius groaned, "She'll hold the broom incident over me forever."

Remus was curious, "Broom incident?"

Severus snorted, "He had to watch Nymphadora for an hour. Annie got called into to St. Mungos and Ted wasn't off yet. Their daughter got a hold of Sirius' broom and tried to fly it. She was two. Ended up with a shattered arm and a concussion."

"She still changing her face and hair all the time?" Sirius seemed…curious?

Severus sighed, "That has nothing to do with Harry."

Remus waved his hand, "ignore him. He'll figure out what's important eventually."

"Stop talking like I'm not here. I can here you and you're giving me a headache. Just go away all of you. I didn't want you to come anyway."

Remus turned towards Harry, the boy clearly hadn't moved since he entered the infirmary. Harry hadn't even opened his eyes. "What's wrong pup?"

Severus was not surprised Harry'd been eavesdropping as it were. "How long have you been listening?"

A snort came from the bed, "Long enough to known my own godfather hates me and blames Remus for my being a poof."

Sirius growled, "So you are one?"

Harry's only visible hand clenched, "So what if I am? You going to try to beat it out of me too? Go ahead. Maybe you'll do my Aunt and Uncle a favour and remove me so they don't have to bother."

Remus stared at the kid in horror; "You don't think it's wrong to like another guy do you?"

"Don't care." Harry mumbled, "Not letting anyone in again. Go away and let me sleep."

"No!" Severus said quietly but firmly, "You're leaving the infirmary. The only injuries you still have are emotional scars. There is a family apartment near mine. Until you start dealing with issues you're going to stay there. Trust me, Remus is a former prefect and professor. If he says get up you will. Get up. You already have one day of make up homework."

"Severus are you in there?"

Remus turned half shocked at the voice.

Severus glanced at the doorway. "Ted? Thank Merlin. Mind Healing is not my field. Yet I'm afraid since we talked Harry's condition has worsened. He was attacked by someone he thought was a friend."

"What kind of attack?"

"Physical and emotional."

"Oh hell."

Sirius growled, "My godson is not seeing a quack."

"Nice to see you too Sirius. I'll be sure to let Annie know you think I'm a quack." Ted said in an annoyed tone.

"Annie? Wait you're the one who Bonded to her."

Remus groaned, "Took you that long? If Harry needs to see him, he needs to see him. I'll do anything to help."

Ted grinned, "That settles it. Harry's guardian should be the one who is willing to fight for Harry. Even against Harry himself. Sirius isn't mature enough to handle a child of any age. It was either Remus or Severus, Annie and I discussed it."

Sirius said scornfully, "Go ahead, give Remus Harry. It's the only cub he's likely to have."

Harry said up and glared,, "This is why I don't have friends. They turn on you."

Severus shrugged, "Sometimes you find that a former enemy can make a good friend. When Lily and I were young, there were two boys who couldn't stand each other. They would circle each other on the playground yelling terrible things. Then one day they just launched at each other. The fought for like six minutes before the teachers noticed and separated them. While waiting to be seen by the principal they shook hands and became fast friends. Trust me, a Slytherin's loyalty is hard to gain but if you win it they'll be as protective as a cobra familiar."

"I forbid Harry to be friends with a Malfoy." Sirius snarled.

Harry shrugged, "I don't need any friends."

"Pah! Everyone needs friends. How about that brilliant Muggleborn?"

"Better with books than people."

"She stood by you were no one else would." Severus reminded him gently.

"So?" Harry spat, "She's probably just my friend for the fame too."

There was the sound of someone bursting into tears.

Then strong sure strides crossed the room.

Harry looked up.

Draco stood there shaking with anger, his hand coming up and crashing against the younger teen's cheek. "I'm sorry but you needed it. I may not like Granger but you've got no right to hurt her because you're hurting. I care about you Harry. I'm furious that Weasel attacked you. You're not acting like the Harry I because friends with. You're lashing out at everyone who cares for you and that is going to stop."

Harry glared at him, "Why do you care?"

Draco turned pink, "Because…because after five years you finally accepted my hand. We're friends. You're the only competition I've got in the air. Salazar's Cauldron! You saved my life. There is no way I'm turning my back on you and letting you destroy your own."

Sirius wheezed, "You're barking mad. A Malfoy, friends with a Potter? Don't make me laugh."

Draco spun on him, "Shut your mouth! If all you're family have knives for tongues no wonder mother didn't want to see them again. If your brother was anything like you she must be crazy to mourn him like she does."

"You're acting like he's your lover."

Draco glared, "He's my friend. That's all. Either shut up or contribute something useful." He turned to his godfather, "If you let this useless excuse for a human being become guardian to Harry, I shan't forgive you. I would almost prefer you take him in. Though Professor Lupin can't afford decent robes he probably would make an excellent parent."

Sirius snorted, "Who knows."

"Lily did."

Every face turned towards Severus.

The potion master looked as if he'd been deflated, "Lily chose us to be godparents to Harry's sister. She trusted us. She knew that having another baby while in hiding was dangerous and yet she wanted her. It didn't matter that Remus and I were away on separate fact-finding missions; she wanted us to give the magic that would protect her daughter and to be her guardians if anything happened to her and James."

Sirius growled, "You're insane. James wouldn't have trusted you with his child. He hated you."

Remus spoke up, "No he didn't. I'd come over to find them closeted in James' office. Lily would smile and say that seeing her best friend and her Bondmate getting along so well was wonderful."

A sound of hyperventilating came from the bed, "I…had…a…sister…?"

Severus reached out to reassure him only for him to visibly flinch, "She wasn't born yet. Lily was only three or four months."

"Yet…another…person…dead…because…of…me..."

Draco scoffed, "Don't be so melodramatic. Did you make the prophecy? Did you decide it revolved around you? Were you the one who cast the Killing Curse? No of course not! It sounds like she wasn't even born yet. Stop acting like you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders. Yes it's sad you're an orphan, that you lost your parents and a sister in the same hour. Feeling sorry for yourself doesn't change anything. I don't know what it's like to be an orphan, but I do know what it's like to have a mother who won't look at you and a father who is never around. Uncle Sev sees more of father then I do."

Severus coughed, "Draco, that's enough."

Harry sighed, 'I told him being rich doesn't mean your life is perfect."

"Told who?" Remus asked softly.

Hermione Granger answered before Harry did, "Ron, he told Ron."

"I see." Ted said quietly.

Draco held out his hand, "Please? Wouldn't you rather sleep in a more comfortable bed? There is no reason for you to stay here."

Harry muttered, "sleep on a cot in a cupboard or an old convertible child's bed you don't pay attention."

Severus stared at him, "You mean those cribs that turn into a toddler bed? Petunia makes you sleep on that?"

Harry shrugged, "it's not so bad. It's better then the cot in the cupboard."

Draco took Harry's hand, "Not so bad? They made you sleep in a cupboard! That's heinous. Its all kinds of wrong. You'll never sleep in those conditions again." Something flashed in his eyes as he tugged on Harry's hand, "Come on."

Harry didn't move.

Draco sighed, "You've got two options; either stand up and come with us or I pick you up and carry you like a girl."

Harry glared, "I maybe a whinging crybaby poof but I'm not a girl! I won't be carried."

Draco glared right back; "You're leaving the infirmary if I have to carry you. I'm not going to let you curl up in a bed and hide like mother. You've got more fire in you then she does. I can't reach her but I'll be a penniless Muggleborn before I let you become just like her."

Harry tried to rip his hand away, "You can't tell me what to do!"

Draco laughed, "I'm a Malfoy, you're a Potter. I'm a rich pureblood heir to a title. You're a rich Halfblood who is heir to two titles. I'm a Slytherin and you're a Gryffindor. We may not be equals but we're damn close. Except in the air where you hand me my arse but you quit leaving me to rule the sky. That decision lacking in solid judgment may have pushed me ahead. In at least six generations no Potter has let a Malfoy be better then they are. You saved my life, something no other Potter has done. You decided to be my friend another choice that makes you different."

Severus snorted, "It makes him an Evans."

"A what?" Ted asked.

"No Black has been a Hufflepuff but two Tonks were Sorted there. An Evans would be friends with a Slytherin which isn't that different from being friends with a Malfoy." Severus said with a barely restrained smirk.

Ted laughed, "Lily was a friend of a Malfoy by proxy."

Severus flushed, "Ted!"

"It's true," the former Hufflepuff protested, "You're very friendly with a certain Malfoy as well as practically a brother to Lily Evans. That would make her practically family to a Malfoy."

Severus coughed, "You're ridiculous."

Remus chuckled, "I said I wasn't your type. I knew you were bent…"

"Oh shut up Lupin!" Severus grumbled.

Sirius looked ill, "You're all disgusting. Snivellius is getting stuffed by Princess Lucy. Remus has the hots for some poor bloke. Now Harry thinks he's got the hots for Princess Lucy's son."

Harry was red faced, "I never said I liked Draco like that!"

Draco looked at him oddly, "You didn't say you didn't either and you admitted you were bent."

Harry scoffed, "You're a Slytherin and a Malfoy at that. No way you'd be interested in someone like me."

Severus coughed, "Why not? His father won't leave me alone and it's been over seventeen years. I'm not half Muggleborn, I'm half Muggle."

Sirius said scornfully, "Like that's worth bragging about? Being Princess Lucy's catamite?"

Draco didn't let go of Harry's hand, his shoulders shaking with tension, "You insult my father or my godfather again I will cut you into pieces and feed you to the Thestrals. My father is no princess and his name is Lucius not Lucy. You are a homophobic git who wouldn't know love if it bit you in the arse. I don't know what Harry's father was thinking making you his godfather. My father loved Severus I know that. He made him part of the family, asking him to share his magic to protect me. Father and mother were forced to Bond they never had a choice. My godfather is no catamite. If father were free I'm certain he would ask Uncle Sev to Bond with him."

Ted was smirking and punched Severus playfully.

Severus sighed, having already been called a catamite recently by Annie, it didn't hurt as much coming from Sirius Black. "Technically Draco it's what I am. Your father is bonded to your mother and he has me on the side."

Draco scoffed, "A Bonding that is in name only. If it wasn't against the Malfoy code he would have severe the bond years ago."

Remus growled at Sirius, "Padfoot?

Sirius raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"You're going back to the Ministry posthaste. If that's how you're going to treat Harry I don't want you anywhere near him." Remus moved closer menacingly. "I'll protect him with my life."

"Even from me?"

Remus snarled, "Especially from you. Harry's got enough issues without having to deal with you and your verbal cruelty."

Severus glared at him, "I think you should leave. Return your old house. Stay there until you have your interview with Skeeter and then you're turning yourself in. After that I don't care what you do. I had hoped you'd grown up some. I see you're still the dangerous, cruel bully you've always been. Some friend you are using Remus as a weapon to hurt me."

Remus winced, "So finally you believe me that I wasn't involved?"

Severus shrugged, "I was angry, I was saved by someone I couldn't stand. I knew that James was innocent. You were merely complacent in their bullying by not stopping it. You were guilt of other acts and all of the rage I felt boiled over and I had a hard time believing that you were neither involved or knew I was there at all. So I've got temper issues. I was made at James and Black and took it out on Lily. She eventually forgave me."

Draco seemed to ignore the bickering adults; he tugged on Harry's hand again, "You coming?"

Harry looked up at him, torn between wanting him to go and wanting to hear Draco say he wanted to be more then friends. He was being stupid, no one other then that creepy Ginny would want him and she was in love with a name.

"Come on." Draco tugged on Harry's hand harder, pulling him up on his feet. I think you forgot something important."

"What would that be?" Harry mumbled.

Draco grinned, "Who you really are."

Harry snorted.

Draco shrugged, "I'll make you remember even if you don't want to. You'll see. I'm not going to turn my back on you and let you curl up at die."

Somehow Harry seemed to have a hard time not believing him.

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