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For The Sake Of A Name	By : Bickymonster Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 52498 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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AN: I present to you all, chapter 11, enjoy.

Warnings and disclaimers apply as always.

I am also looking for a new beta for this story (and maybe some of the others, apart from Erotes), if you are interested, please let me know.

Previously:

"We will keep our child, no-one will take it from us, I won't let them." Harry glared at the witch before looking back at Draco was nodding as she smiled up at him.

"Okay, well it looks like it's a boy and he is in excellent health from what I can tell. Congratulations to the both of you" Madam Pomfrey looked like she wanted to say a lot more but when she noticed the stern expression Dumbledore was wearing she held her tongue.

"I would really like to take Draco back to our rooms, this is clearly a lot to process." Harry looked pleadingly at the Headmaster, who nodded his consent despite the quiet protests the healer was spluttering out.

-#-

Draco only fought against Harry, when he picked her up, for a few seconds before she gave in and wrapped her arms around his neck, resting her head on his shoulder; she was already asleep by the time they reached their rooms, Dumbledore with them knowing they needed to discuss a plan now that other people knew about the pregnancy.

Harry took a seat on their sofa, Draco curled up asleep on his lap, Dumbledore sitting in the chair next to him.

"Are you okay, Harry?"

"I think so, anxious and worried about Draco more than anything."

The old man smiled kindly at the young couple; hoping that he could help Harry keep the promises he had made to his wife, that he could convince the ministry to allow them to become parents despite their age. Hopefully that it was a son would help their case as he would be the Potter heir.

"It has to appear that we acted as soon as we were aware of the pregnancy which will have to be now given that Mr Finnigan, Mr Thomas, Mr Zabini and Madam Pomfrey are all aware. I will submit a request for a hearing with the ministry this evening. " He peered over his glasses at the boy in front of him.

Harry nodded his understanding, careful to not wake his wife. He thought for a moment before asking quietly as he could manage without whispering. "What do you think our chances are? Honestly."

Dumbledore smiled, "With my backing and the child being a boy, I am fairly sure this will be okay. I promise you we will do everything in our power and if all else fails I will move you both to somewhere where they cannot find you."

Harry looked momentarily alarmed at the idea, not wanting either of them to live on the run with their child, like criminals.

"That is the worst case scenario and it is probably best you don't alarm Draco with that prospect until we are completely out of other options."

Still too mentally exhausted to speak, Harry once again nodded and huddled Draco closer to him, who mumbled in her sleep at the disturbance, grabbing a fist full of Harry's shirt.

"This will probably hit the papers tomorrow, Harry. Are you and Draco ready for the fallout from this? Many people will have things to say to you both, I am sure not all of it will be pleasant."

"We know, I am pretty sure most of our friends will stick with us and we have each other, we will be okay. Of course I will always worry about Draco, this is going to be most difficult for her, she will not being leaving my sight for a while whether she likes it or not." Harry sighed, "What do I do? I know someone is bound to say something which will make my wife cry in the next few weeks, she is going to be hurt and there is nothing I can do to stop it."

Dumbledore smiled at him, "Just be you Harry, be there to pick her up and make her smile again. We will talk tomorrow when I know more about what is happening with the ministry but please try not to worry." The old man got to his feet and put a hand on Harry's shoulder as he walked passed.

"Thank you." Harry said quietly as Dumbledore left them alone in their room.

-#-

Hermione had her head buried in a book as she sat in the common room; Ron, Seamus and Dean sharing occasional looks and trying to get the brunettes attention without alerting anyone else. Sadly they were about as subtle as Peeves and Neville, who was sitting in a chair just a few feet away losing a game of chess to Colin Creevey, was watching them all curiously.

"Whatever it is you want to talk to Hermione about, can you just do so already; your combined twitchiness is starting to get annoying." Neville told them as he moved to sit next to Hermione.

All four of the Gryffindors turned to look at him in surprise, Hermione soon turning her gaze to glare at the other three boys.

"Neville will find out soon anyways." Ron reasoned, "Besides, Harry would probably tell him himself if he didn't have other priorities at the moment."

Hermione got to her feet and walked the few paces till she was towering over the red head, "Ronald, I strongly suggest you shut up right now." She hissed at him, getting a firm grip on his arm and dragging him off towards the boys dormitory.

If they were going to have this conversation she would be damned if they were going to be overheard. Realising her logic Ron twisted enough to gesture to the others to follow using his free arm.

Hermione sat Ron down on his own bed before sitting cross legged on the end of Harry's facing him; it was less than a minute before the other three boys had taken seats on the beds next to them and she had cast the best silencing spell she knew.

"So is someone going to tell me what the hell you all know?" Neville asked and all three of the other boys turned to Hermione expectantly.

"Fine; Neville, you saw Draco collapse earlier right?" She waited for him to nod despite the confused expression on his face, it was going to be best if she didn't beat around the bush on this one. "Well turns out she's about four and a half months pregnant."

Neville was staring open mouthed, "Pregnant?" he asked as he turned to face Ron next to him who nodded, "For real?" He asked Seamus who was also nodding. "Well I didn't see that coming."

"From Draco and Harry's reactions, I don't think they did either." Seamus told him.

Hermione and Ron shared a knowing look, glad that the Gryffindors had at least bought the Potters' clueless act.

"This is going to be so weird, Harry and Draco as parents; I am still getting used to there being a Harry and Draco." Dean told the others.

"Wait, but they are only fifteen, there is no way the ministry will allow them to keep the baby, the law says you have to be seventeen."

"I am sure Dumbledore will help them out, Neville, he was with them when we left." Ron explained.

"I hope your right Ron, they have both lost enough family without losing their child as well." Hermione didn't have to fake the concern she was feeling, this was unlikely to be a straight forward year.

-#-

Harry was watching over Draco as she slept on their sofa when she suddenly sat up with a hand on her belly.

"You okay, Love?"

"Yeah, I felt him move... just like a really weird fluttering." Draco was staring at where her hand still was, in awe. "What time is it?"

"Not sure, mid-afternoon I think. I thought you could do with the rest." Harry gave her a gentle smile.

Draco stretched as she sat up, wrapping the blanket that was over her around her shoulders. "I guess this was all going to come out pretty soon anyways. I can't imagine it will be more than a few weeks before I start showing, I can already see a slight bump. I still feel mentally exhausted though, how long do you think we have before the whole school knows?"

"Dumbledore is submitting papers tonight to get us a hearing to have an exception made on the age limit, which means it is possible that the Prophet might have news of this by tomorrow morning, Love." Harry worried his bottom lip, waiting to see how Draco would take this news.

"Oh... okay." Draco looked nervous, so Harry got off the chair and moved to sit next to her. "You aren't going to let me go anywhere without you now are you?"

"See, I knew you were smart, Love." Harry kissed her temple and laughed as she moved around to lean into his side, glaring at him. "People are going to be mean, Love, and I will be damned if I am going to let anyone hurt you."

Draco rolled her eyes, "I know... thank you."

"Want to play some exploding snap or would you rather kick my arse at chess again?"

"Can we do both?" Draco asked with a smirk.

"Of course, chess first?"

"Sounds good."

-#-

"Morning Pansy." Blaise said as he sat into the empty seat next to her at breakfast the next morning.

"Morning Blaise." He could hear the smugness in her voice and looked up to see her grinning at him.

"What?" He asked and in response she simply slid a copy of the daily prophet along the table till it was in front of him.

Looking down, he sighed; there was a large picture of Harry and Draco which looked as though it had been taken at the Hogsmead station, the day they had caught the Hogwarts express back to school after Christmas; a large headline reading 'Boy-who-lived and teenage wife in pregnancy scandal'.

'Harry Potter, who shocked the wizarding world when he married his former school rival at the beginning of August last year in secret, submitted a formal request, via Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore, for a hearing at the ministry to discuss the guardianship of the child his wife is currently pregnant with.

'The couple got together following a potions accident when Draco Malfoy (Now Potter) was changed into a female and then disowned by his/her father, renowned business man Lucius Malfoy. Both teens remained at Hogwarts school during the summer holiday period due to neither having parental homes to return to and there is very little known about what led them to make such a quick decision to marry.

'Ministry marriage documents quote Mr Potter as saying "I love her and I knew how much she wanted a family" and that he "wasn't about to wait around for someone else to beat [him] to it.". Draco reportedly said " I lost everything I ever knew, I wanted a family. I love Harry very much and he is that family to me now.".

'Generally there has been approval of the pair with many expressing their happiness for the couple, that witnesses say to be obviously in love with each other, however The Daily Prophet suspects that the young couple's unexpected pregnancy will be considered, by most, as outrageous, irresponsible and scandalous.

'The Daily Prophet has not been able to get any information on just how far along the pregnancy is but it is likely to be safe to assume that they will have submitted the hearing request as soon as they became aware of the situation.

'The laws at the ministry state that no-one under the age of seventeen is allowed to become a parental guardian and in the case of children born to teenage parents the child is normally given to other family members or another appropriate family to raise. However the Potter case will have to be looked into a discussed for several reasons.

'Firstly there are no grandparents to take full guardianship of this child and therefore if Mr and Mrs Potter are to be denied parental rights their child would have to be given to a more distant relative and secondly it is rare for teenage parents to have conceived their child legitimately.

'There have been several prior cases where a married couple have been awarded guardianship of a child despite being under seventeen years of age, on the basis that the child born is a legitimate heir. It is suspected this is the argument that Dumbledore, young Potter couple and their supporters will be making.

'All here at The Daily Prophet will be actively following this story as it progresses and will do our best to keep all our readers informed; in the mean time we wish Mr and Mrs Potter the best of luck.'

Blaise finished reading and looked up at a still grinning Pansy, noticing that people all around the hall were reading the paper and whispering to each other. The hall wasn't very full given that it was a Sunday morning but there were still over fifty percent of the students.

"I told you." Pansy said and Blaise was surprised it had taken that long for her to say it.

"Apparently." Blaise stated simply, "You're not going to give them hell over this are you?"

Pansy thought for a few moments, "Well I won't go out of my way to do so, if that is what you mean, but I am not going to pass up any great opportunities or be nice or anything."

Blaise rolled his eyes but was glad that Pansy seemed more pleased with having been proven right than feeling the need to cause trouble for Draco.

-#-

"You sure you don't want to see a paper before we go down, Draco." Harry asked as they left their room, Hermione and Ron had come to their room to walk down with them. "At least so we know what other people think they know."

"Harry, I told you, right now I am just hungry and if I think if I actually read whatever it says then I am going to not have the courage to go down and face everyone." Draco explained again, Harry had been asking her similar questions for the last ten minutes.

"Come on, I am so hungry now," Ron complained as they waited for Harry to put his other shoe on, "You shouldn't keep your friends waiting for food, let alone your pregnant wife."

"Don't you dare try to use me to manipulate my husband, Ronald Weasley." Draco snarled making Ron looked distinctly nervous and Hermione and Harry both laugh.

"Okay, let's go." Harry slid his hand into Draco's as they left their rooms, loving that he could feel her wedding ring against his palm.

It was a few seconds after they entered the great hall, to find breakfast, that the silence started to spread, everyone stopping to look at them; Harry felt Draco's grip tighten and picked up the pace with which they were walking to the Gryffindor table. Ron and Hermione sat facing the room with Harry and Draco opposite them, in the space that Dean and Neville had just made between them.

"You okay, Love." Harry asked quietly getting a small nod and a tight squeeze to his hand, before Draco started to help herself to toast and scrambled egg. Seeing that she was relatively okay, the other three also started to serve themselves breakfast.

-#-

Blaise watched as Draco entered the hall with her now usual guard of the three Gryffindors; she looked to be okay, at worst maybe somewhat disconcerted by the silence which was spreading through the hall and the eyes had turned to watch them.

"The nerve to show their faces as if they have done nothing wrong, they have ruined Draco's life, stupid Gryffindors." Pansy bitched.

"I am fairly sure Draco had a hell of a lot more to do with the conception of her own child, than either Granger or Weasley did." Blaise told her indignantly, whilst trying for the life of him to remember why he still put up with her crap. "The last thing Draco needs is your brattish attitude, and to be honest, I don't need it either; So I am going to go over there and actually be supportive."

Leaving a gaping Pansy, Blaise got up from his seat and walked, watched by many eyes, across the hall.

-#-

"I don't mean to alarm either of you, but Blaise Zabini seems to have just said something that Parkinson didn't think too highly of and is now making his way over this way." Hermione told those around her.

Harry and Draco wore comically similar expressions of surprise at her words and turned just as the tall dark Slytherin reached them.

"I just want to say... Well I don't really know what I was just going to say, but I guess I am around if you need a friend, Draco. I don't think badly for you because of all this, I know you just followed your heart, which is an incredibly stupid Gryffindor-ish thing to do, but well, I guess I have missed you. See you around some time, okay." Blaise seemed to be done because he gave a small awkward wave before he turned and left the hall.

"That was weird." Seamus commented when everyone else was apparently too stunned to speak.

Slowly though a grin broke on Draco's face and Harry smirked at the sight, apparently Draco had missed Blaise too and Harry was pro-anything that made Draco grin happily like she was right now.

"A second Slytherin that isn't a complete bastard, will wonders ever cease?" Ron commented taking a large bite out of an apple.

They made quick work of breakfast, as the mutterings around the hall were starting to annoy all of them and so as a group they got up to leave, making their way towards the door, trying to ignore the eyes that followed them; Hermione pocketing a copy of the Daily Prophet for them to read when they got somewhere more private.

"Hello, Draco." The harsh false sweetness of the voice and the sight of the tall blonde man froze them in their tracks.

"You have no business here, Malfoy." Harry spat at him, pushing Draco gently behind him, Ron stepping up next to him, so that the small blonde was all but hidden from sight.

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Delia Cerrano - Glad to hear the update system works. :) Yes, now the secret is out of the bag, at least they can now they can work on making sure they can keep the baby, after all being married in itself isn't enough to guarantee anything, they still need permission from the ministry. Madam Pomfrey's attitude is mostly from surprise and concern, she was raised in the wizarding world and so has always been taught that such young pregnancies were unacceptable; she has not done the reading about past cases where parents have been allowed to keep their child and of course these are not cases the ministry would want to advertise.

ChaosLady - Thank you.

DB1 - Thank you. :) I update every sunday.

Nari-chan - Madam Pomfrey won't be much of a problem, not really, she just disapproves as she was raised in the wizarding world; that said she has definitely shaken Draco and Harry's faith in her, they will think twice before trusting her with the life of their child.
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