Ronald Weasley's Strategies | By : AidaLily Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 19723 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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A/N: Thank you to everyone reading and reviewing this story. I really appreciate it. Characters are OOC in some aspects or it wouldn't be fanfiction. :) Enjoy. I answered reviews at the bottom.
Warnings: Not much this chapter.
A week had passed since Hermione had asked out Blaise. The whole situation was honestly confusing for her, and so she enlisted Pansy’s help to figure out who had captured Blaise’s attentions. During this time, Harry and Draco enjoyed their twenty minutes of random chatter during the project meetings and Ginny was still trying to figure a way to keep Harry. Ron, on the other hand, was quite enjoying being in the company of Blaise.
Blaise just so happened to always be there to walk Ron to Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts. People had chocked it up to them being partners in class, and as such tended to miss the smile Ron would give Blaise when their eyes met. Ron was enjoying the sweet stolen moments between him and his… wait… what the hell were they? In truth, they kissed quite a bit and only had eyes for each other, but they hadn’t made anything official.
Blaise knew that Ron would eventually settle on the fact that they hadn’t made anything official, but he had a plan for that. As far as Blaise was concerned, Ron was his and only his. When Ron would finally decide to mention it, Blaise would give him the small, silver promise ring that he carried around to signify their exclusivity to each other. The ring would be invisible to anyone but him and Ron until they came out as a couple. In the meantime though, he had to report to him on Draco’s slowly shifting attitude towards Potter.
It was currently Lupin’s special “no-class” time and he had left strict instructions that he wanted the rough draft of their papers by next week. Blaise and Ron went to the usual abandoned classroom to wait for Harry and Draco from the library. The four of them had gotten used to working together even under the strange pretense it started. It was a welcomed advantage to Ron’s plan to get the other two together though. The moment they entered the classroom, Blaise pulled Ron into a light kiss before pulling away and setting up a table for them.
Ron smiled and went to set his things up as well. There was no reason to dwell on a simple kiss and act in the same manner that he wanted Harry to respond to Draco. The question from earlier was on his mind though. “Blaise… are we…”
Blaise cut off Ron’s sentence with a kiss as he slipped the ring on to his finger. “Yes we are.”
Ron smiled a bit more then and hugged the other before opening up his books. “Do you have anything to report on the plan? Harry has been spending less time with my sister and more time talking about how Draco truly isn’t the world’s worst person.”
“Draco has been talking about enjoying his twenty minute sessions of just idle chatter with Harry. I think they are on the road to becoming friends which means your plan of getting them annoyed with each other will be back on in full force. I’ve even caught Draco smiling more which is a definite change from the more seriousness he has shown of late. He has also talked of how Harry is picking up on and taking his advice on things.” Blaise stated as he separated some of his notes into piles based on importance.
“Harry is a quick learner when he wants to be. I believe we can safely assume that Harry notices the positive affect that Draco is having on him. The same can be said for Draco noticing the positive affect Harry is having on him as well. There is a Hogsmeade weekend coming up and maybe if we can dedicate part of it to the plan, the rest could be used for a date?” Ron asked sounding a tad bit hopeful on both accounts.
A chuckle came from Blaise’s lips. “You are a fantastic strategist from what I am witnessing and yet you managed to sound absolutely, adorably hopeful when asking your boyfriend for a date.” It was obvious the dark-skinned male found it quite endearing, but also quite amusing. “Yes, we can split up the day the way you mentioned. In fact, you take care of the plan for the day and let me set up the date.”
Ron smiled and nodded as he finished splitting up the notes that he had. He would have a nice little date on Saturday and he’d be the perfect student until then. It wouldn’t do to have detention that day or well any distractions minus the plan. Maybe he could help along the Hogsmeade part of the plan before the weekend, but the question was how. “What if I suggest they spend the Hogsmeade trip together?”
Blaise thought about it as he flipped through his book to find the notes he had written in it. “I would say that the plan would fall apart faster than you could blink.” he stated before putting a small book marker on the page he found and looked for others. “It would seem ridiculously suspicious if you just stated ‘Hey! I think you two should spend the Hogsmeade trip together’”.
Ron both hated and cared for his Slytherin boyfriend. “I would have thought we’d established that I have a brain and do know how to use it Zabini.”
“Mhm. Just like I realized that you call me Zabini when you are annoyed with me. It kind of makes me imagine you as an annoyed little housewife with your hands on your hips. Admittedly, it is kind of amusingly cute in a way.” Blaise said without looking up from his book as he marked another page to come back to for information.
It was silent in the classroom as Blaise patiently waited for that tidbit of information to catch up with his scheming Gryffindor. Blaise reflected briefly on their strange, and yet completely peaceful relationship. They were almost complete opposites and yet they had so many different similarities that it made everything worth it. He had truly never been this intrigued by anyone in his life and he planned to spend the rest of his life with the redhead.
Of course, Ron didn’t need to know that just yet. In fact, he was pretty sure it would send the other into a blushing, screaming fit into which Blaise might just have to use a love potion on him. He was not above using sneaky, underhanded tactics to keep Ron with him considering his growing interest and, dare he say, growing feelings for the redhead. Speaking of his speechless boyfriend, he should be hearing an outburst in about 3…2… 1…
“I would not be a housewife!” Ron exclaimed glaring at Blaise. Why was it that Blaise got to him so much? The obvious answer was the attraction, but there had to be something else unless he was always subconsciously attracted to Blaise. He shook his head and visibly calmed down before speaking again. “Now that I got that out of the way, I was thinking using Harry’s crumbling relationship with my sister in order to get them to spend the day together. Just follow along whenever they get in here. At this rate, Draco’s going to request Harry tied up in Slytherin colors for graduation. It is going to be bloody fantastic!”
Now usually Blaise would say something about someone having a crazy obsession complete with thoughts, but he had been working with Ron for quite some time. He could even see why the redhead would want to see Harry and Draco together. What he couldn’t fully understand was why he wanted Harry as submissive as possible to Draco? Oh yes. The moment they had begun seeing each other and stealing kisses between planning, he had asked Ron about what he saw for the two once he got them together. It was normal-like at first. A few dates here and perhaps them moving in together, but then it got a little strange.
It wasn’t ridiculously strange, and admittedly kind of hot, but he would hate to be Ron’s best friend. The words ‘Harry’ and ‘dominate’ didn’t seem to be part of Ron’s overall, surprisingly impressive vocabulary. He had been witness to quite a few of Ron’s fan-girl fantasies. The last fantasy involved Draco whipping Harry in a dungeon until Harry apologized for being a poor half-blood. For a Gryffindor that felt pureblood superiority was inherently stupid, he sure loved Harry in some slightly degrading and yet somehow sexy situations with Draco.
The half-blood one wasn’t a normal one of course. Oh no. Blaise witnessed Ron going on and on about how Draco would stake his claim on Harry in the middle of the Great Hall. That fantasy was one that Blaise was keeping for himself and maybe doing part of it to claim Ron in front of everyone. He was sure that Hermione would have tried asking Pansy who caught his attention. If only she looked a bit closer, she would have found it was her friend and former crush, Ron.
The particular fantasy in mind was that Draco would go over to the Gryffindor table. No words were spoken as he went over to Harry and then sat next to him after moving some other poor Gryffindor out of the way. Harry was about to protest about the treatment of his associate when Draco just shut him up with one hell of a kiss. Ron had imagined and told every tiny detail of the kiss, the passion, and the words spoken afterwards. Blaise would be more than happy to reenact that fantasy substituting him and Ron for Draco and Harry.
Even then, that fantasy was relatively normal. The other ones were somewhere in the middle and definitely more intimate than he wanted to imagine. The only conclusion he could draw from it was that he would hate being Harry. Of course, he was planning to help them get together, but it wasn’t anyone else’s business who topped and who did not. Ron was set on Harry being the submissive though and Blaise could admit that Draco would probably be happier with that arrangement than anything else they could come up with. He was still quite interested in knowing how far Ron would go to get them together and then what he would do to keep them together. His musings were cut short, by the entrance of Harry and Draco into the classroom.
“….and so we can write up two pages each day for the next two to three days and put them together for the paper.” Draco was saying as they walked into the classroom.
Harry, for his part, just nodded and agreed on that course of action. “Hey you two. Sorry, it took so long for us to meet up with you. We got sidetracked adding some information to our paper. Draco is a perfectionist.” he said with a light roll of his eyes. It was said in jest though and so Draco didn’t even look offended.
“Of course I am. I do plan to work for a living.” he said laughing as he set up his and Harry’s information on another table.
Ron saw his opening and took it quickly. “So Harry, are you planning to go to Hogsmeade next weekend? I figured it would be a good for you to spend a bit of time with Ginny.”
Harry bit his lip trying to figure out if he could say anything to get out of it. The truth was that he hadn’t wanted to deal with Ginny after her proposal and insistence on being together. He hadn’t broken up with her, because he felt there still might be something there and wanted to be sure that there wasn’t. Ron would be upset though if he didn’t ask out Ginny for the weekend. “I… I am going to a-“
“He is spending the day in Hogsmeade with me.” Draco answered without looking up. He had talked to Harry more about his relationship with Ginny and the other seemed to be quite uncomfortable with the situation. This should give him an out of having to explain anything to Ron at the moment, as he could understand not wanting to tell a friend that his sister was positively insane.
Blaise would probably be getting lap dance right now, if Ron thought that Harry wouldn’t think he’d gone mad. Their friendship seemed to progress a lot faster than he had thought or Draco really did care about people not rushing into relationships like that. It was most certainly the latter, but Ron had hopes that it would be the former. The thought of Draco tying up Harry and covering him in honey and chocolate was enough to make him spasm from the sweetness. Draco would be slowly licking it off and whispering sweet things to Harry like Come on baby. Beg me to lick you all over. Harry, of course, would respond with Please master. Please give me the honor of having you lick me clean. Draco would proceed to lick him all clean and then tell Harry that if he wants any more then he needs to service him like a good little slut. Ron could fan himself just thinking about it.
Ron knew that Blaise probably realized he was off in another one of his fantasies, but he wouldn’t be called on that fact. No. He blinked and shook his head as if he was trying to figure out if Harry was still Harry. “You two are spending the day together?! Even without the needing to? What the hell Harry? What about Gin?” he asked seeming as if he couldn’t understand the concept.
Harry looked at Ron with an almost apologetic look. “I’m sorry Ron, but I need to do some shopping for the project with Draco. I had forgotten about it until Draco mentioned we’d be spending the day together. I am sure Ginny will understand. She is so supportive of my wanting to become an Auror and so she knows I need to do really well at this class.” he said silently thanking the time he had spent with Draco.
A sigh escaped Ron’s lips. “I suppose you are right. I guess I should meet up with Blaise at some point that day to go over the project. I don’t want to know what mum would say if she knew I was slacking off in my last year and Hermione would be even worse. Fine. Want to meet up on the weekend Blaise and we can talk more about our projects? I suppose we can even pick up the extra Potions stuff while we’re there.” Ron knew his voice sounded like he hated the idea of school on the weekend, but he felt it went pretty well.
“I didn’t plan on doing anything this weekend. The Potions ingredients we need aren’t here at school so getting them this weekend will mean not failing Professor Snape’s class.” Blaise said as if it didn’t matter. He flipped through his notes some more, but he couldn’t help being impressed with Ron’s skills. Blaise had been worried about not being able to escape for their date due to needing to keep up appearances, but who would question it now. They would meet up, go to the apothecary, and then just so happen to have a nice lunch together after all the project shopping. Under this same pretense, they could leave early to come back to the castle and then he could have Ron against the wall moaning like the sexy Gryffindor slut, Ron wished Harry was.
Harry smiled at Ron. “See? Everything worked out. I will do my best to make more time for Ginny later. Promise?” Harry said. Next time he made time for her, it might be to break up with the girl. Draco wouldn’t be able to save him every weekend, but for a few weekends or so he had an excuse.
He also had another reason to smile. Draco and he had been becoming friends over the past week and typically set aside twenty minutes just to talk about their lives. Harry found out that Draco loved the colors crimson and silver and that he planned to invest in wizarding entertainment. He stated that it would be great to have theatre shows in the wizarding world where people danced, sang, and acted live on stage to help people escape for a while. Most wizards were too uptight to visit a muggle theatre and so Draco thought about bringing it there.
Harry had told Draco about his plans to open an amusement park for wizards, and their normal twenty minutes extended into the next hour about the different research and attractions they could incorporate. It was this conversation that continued solidifying the fact that Ginny wasn’t the right one for him. How could he expect a future with her when he never shared those plans, and yet he shared them with Draco? It was a bit strange, but they did have a good amount in common with one another.
Apparently, Draco never gelled his hair back, he just got used to combing it wrong. His hair just dried that way after he got out of the shower. The conversation had been about their hair because they were trying to disprove each other on that random aspect. Harry admitted that if he spent more time on his hair, then it would probably be manageable and he learned that about Draco. Maybe during the Hogsmeade visit they could learn more about each other. With Hermione seemingly more interested in Ron’s partner, Ginny losing her mind, and Ron being a bit more quiet than usual; it was nice to have someone to talk to about random things like that.
How could he break things off without saying it was her fault? Harry knew some of it was his fault, but mostly it was the odd way she thought of helping along their relationship. The insistence that she should know everything about him made him feel as open and vulnerable as the reporters did. Was he not allowed to have a few secrets to himself? Did he have to leave himself so open? Harry heard a question in the back of his mind. If that’s how you feel, why did you share so much more with Draco?
So he answered it in his mind, Because I feel closer as a friend to Draco, then I’ve ever felt while dating Ginny.
In the Library
Ginerva Weasley didn’t always admit to being confused on a situation, but Harry truly confused her. The advice she got from both Ron and Draco confused her. The fact that she was confused when it came to Harry confused her. Her days were spent trying to figure out if everything she believed about her relationship was a lie. It just didn’t make sense. They were happy before now right?
Perhaps it was simply that they didn’t have enough time to talk while in school. She could ask Harry to go to Hogsmeade with her on the weekend, but she didn’t think that Harry would be up to being in public. Actually, while they ate together and sat together in the common room, they were not in public together too often. She wasn’t looking for his fame, but his heart or at least that is what she thought it was. This shouldn’t be confusing! Did she not date enough people to test the waters? Or perhaps it was because they hadn’t had done sex?
Living in a house with nothing but brothers, she bet this was the reason that Harry didn’t want to spend as much time with her. Or maybe he wanted a more of a connection before they took their relationship to the next level? The connection would be best because then they would hold no secrets from one another when they finally shared themselves completely with one another. The question was how to get Harry to open up.
It was an obvious mistake to ask for Harry’s hand in marriage before they understood one another. Harry had basically seen her since she was ten and she had been more open about her family. It helped that he was friends with Ron as well, which meant that Harry knew her more than she knew him. A groan left Ginny’s lips as she pushed another book away from her. She had been looking through books, spells, and even magazines on the off chance that something would give her a clue as to what she could do.
She had gone over everything from sharing secret journals to using truth serum for them to be honest with one another for at least an hour. However, she knew Harry would never consent to that. He probably wanted to tell her things but was afraid she wouldn’t understand. There were things that she would probably be confused on, but she was willing to try. Of course, she didn’t think he’d want to share anything too bad with her.
It felt like everyone was seeing something that she was missing. Other girls in her year were just jealous that she was dating Harry Potter, the Boy Who Defeated Voldemort. Some of them told her that she needed to find a way to dress sexier to get his attention. Then there were those that thought Harry was cheating on her because the lack of intimacy suggested that. Harry did come back into the Gryffindor common room like a week or so ago with that smile on his face that made her curious. There had been a subtle touch to the lips, but she doubted Harry would have cheated on her or anything. He was much too sweet for that.
What did she know about Harry? He didn’t seem to trust people easily even if he was suddenly friends with Draco Malfoy. It was probably because he had to work with the other and it was most certainly easier to work for a friend than an enemy. Ginny shook her head in amusement. It wasn’t like she’d ever have to worry about Harry sharing more about himself with Draco over her. Friends or not, she had known Harry much longer.
Harry also liked Quidditch considering he played on the Gryffindor team as a reserve seeker. He was an only child and so he’d definitely want children one day. Harry was great at defensive spells and teaching them, but closed up about personal details. He seemed to like sweets and loved presents, but who didn’t. If only she could think of a way for him to open up, but still not have to talk. Wait! There was a way that she had over looked. She would just need to ask him, but he’d agree. He loved her, right? She still wasn’t sure, but she knew this plan was perfect.
staar: Thank you so much for reviewing! Yes Ron and Blaise are all cute and exclusively together. :) Harry and Draco are getting there slowly but surely.
Tommy-Lane: Thank you so mcuh for reviewing! They won't let anyone in just yet. That will be slightly closer to Harry and Draco getting together. Ron's fantasies get a bit worse once they are together though. After all, he has to keep them together through any doubts they have.... by ANY means necessary. ;) It wouldn't help if Harry knew just yet, but he may let Harry in on having a "crush" on Blaise so far. Hermione will realize someone else works for her... and Ginny... well... let's say Harry and her really don't last much longer with that plan she has.
Jan: Thank you so much for reviewing! I hope you continue to read and enjoy the story.
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