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Changing Faces	By : WynterRose Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 7087 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Just so everyone knows, this chapter may still change. It is still in with all my lovely betas (I love you guys). I have gone through for basic spelling/grammar. I just feel so bad because it has taken so long to put this chapter up...please forgive me!! As always, lyrics to White Flag, by Dido, can be found on my LJ.
"Yes, Lucius, I am here,” Arthur called out as he walked into the room, dusting soot from his clothing. “Now that we are all here I believe we can start with the explanations."
Harry looked over at Arthur and then to Lucius. He nodded to both of them and walked into the room only to be surrounded by the upset Weasleys.
No matter what he said or did, Harry knew this was going to hurt his friends. They were already hurt as it was. He looked around the room taking in their appearances, from Ron and Hermione huddled together with a confused, slightly betrayed expression to Mr. Weasley supporting his wife with a gentle hand.
They were going to be angry and hurt, with good reason of course, and he didn't want to do it, but there was no recourse. Harry took a deep breath before he started. "I'm sorry. I have to say that first because I am so incredibly sorry. I didn't know that two days ago my entire world would begin to crumble."
He gazed around the room, locking eyes with everyone at least for a second, including Lucius, who was quickly becoming his most trusted confidant. He reached inside of himself for a boost of courage to begin the explanations. "There have been so many things that have happened and come to light in just the last couple of days. I don't know all of the facts, but I am going to try to explain it…"
"Bloody hell, Harry. What kind of explanation can you come up with on how the Daily Fucking Prophet knew about my best friend's marriage, to Draco Fucking Malfoy no less, before me?" Ron yelled at him.
"How could you do that to us, Harry?" Hermione added in.
Harry closed his eyes. "I'm sorry. I had no idea that it was going to be in the Daily Prophet today. In fact, until this morning I had no idea about the marriage either," he replied trying to maintain control of his temper.
"This morning? Right, good one, mate. So, was it a private ceremony in front of the Death Eaters?" Ron snapped.
"Ronald!" his mother exclaimed.
"Well, it's true, Mum. Harry didn't even tell you or Dad that he was married. Dad knew about him getting the scum out of prison, but he didn't understand why Harry would care. Why do I have to sit here calmly when we need to question whether or not he has been cursed?" Ron blew up at his mother.
"Ronald Bilius Weasley, you will not talk to your mother that way. You will listen to Harry's explanation or I shall place a silencing spell on you," his father said angrily.
Ron glared at Harry, who felt even more miserable than he had felt that morning. He lowered his head and began to twist the ring on his finger.
"So it is true?" Hermione asked a bit more calmly. "You managed to marry him, without telling a single person. I'm hurt. I am your friend, Harry, or at least I thought I was. Ginny was your girlfriend. Your girlfriend, Harry! How could you?"
"I'm sorry!" he yelled. "I'm sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry I can't be the person you think I am. I am trying to explain it, but I don't even know how to do that. All I know is that I left Hogwarts with every intention of destroying Voldemort. Now I am dealing with a ton of other problems, the least of which is somehow redesigning a fucking prison system that kills innocent people." Harry shook his head. "I can't do this. I can't deal with this. I will be back later when I might be able to talk to someone."
Harry made eye contact with Ginny. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know about the marriage. Bloody hell, I found out sometime around three this morning that I am married. Right now all I'm concerned with is getting it annulled. There should be some law that allows it for when you do it unconsciously..."
"Harry, I already told you that you can't get out of this. It is magically binding. There is nothing that can come between the two of you," Lucius said quietly watching the boy trying to maintain his sanity.
"Lucius, it just isn't fair. I don't even remember it. There has to be some way out of something you only know from dreams! DREAMS! How the hell can I be married to someone and not even remember the ceremony?"
"Harry, I looked into it today for you. Sadly, Lucius is right about this. The bonding that you have done is permanent. It is even stronger than what most marriages are based upon. This bonding is very rare and has never been able to be undone," Arthur said, walking over to Harry and putting his hands on his shoulders.
Harry slumped down. "I'm so sorry I let everyone down."
Tonks and Remus moved over to Harry as well. "I don't understand this, but I am here to support you. You are the only family I have left," Remus said.
Tonks looked at him. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this and if I have to kill that cousin of mine, so that you can be happy, I just might do it." She ruffled his hair in a friendly manner. "You know, I love you, kid."
Harry gazed into her face with tears ready to fall from his eyes. He put his hand on her check and whispered mostly to himself, "If only it were true, I would be the happiest man alive."
This earned him two very strange looks from Remus and Tonks. He turned to the others. "I can't do this." Harry turned quickly and walked out of the room, leaving questioning stares behind him.
"Harry!" Hermione yelled. She stood up to go after him. Something strange had happened to her best friend and she wanted to know what it was. Remus stopped her at the door. He solemnly shook his head at her as he Lucius pushed past them and followed Harry.
"Hermione, give him a minute. There is something going on and I would like to know more about it. Harry looks just as confused as the rest of us and all he is getting is accusations."
Hermione looked up at her former professor and nodded. "I'm sorry, Professor."
"Just sit still and we will all have some answers in a minute." Remus looked toward the closed kitchen door through which Harry had gone. With his heightened hearing he could hear strains of what Harry was saying to Lucius. What he was hearing didn't quite make sense. Being his unofficial godfather, he decided he should be in there as well as Lucius so he followed with Arthur at his side. "Don't anyone else leave this room," he said as they walked out.
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"Lucius, I can't do this! I can't go in there and lie. I can't tell them the truth," Harry cried as he sat in a chair with his head on his knees.
"Harry, you need to calm down. This is your family, right?" Lucius paused while Harry nodded into his legs. "If they truly are your family, they will support you no matter what. Haven't you learned that yet?"
"When have I ever had the chance? I haven’t exactly had a normal family."
"Pull yourself together, Harry. You just said that the Weasleys and the other two were your family. Haven't the last six years shown you anything? Your family will not turn their backs on you, and if they did then they do not deserve your loyalty. They might not like the circumstances, but they will stand beside you," Lucius said, trying to reason with the boy. He knew his young friend was under a great deal of strain, but Harry needed to calm down.
"He's right, Harry," Remus said from the doorway. "I was one of your father's closest friends. I couldn't love you more if you were my own son. I don't know what happened, but I'm here to support you. If it means that I have to accept this De…Lucius into your life, then I will." Remus walked over to Harry, put his hand on the boy’s head, and knelt down beside him. "I don't know what happened, but I will sit calmly and listen to what you have done this week."
"For that matter, Harry, I know everything, and despite it all, you are still a Weasley. You may have changed your last name to Malfoy, but you will always remain one of us. He will be welcomed into the house as well, providing of course he does not end up in Azkaban," Arthur said sincerely as Lucius sent him an evil glare.
"Now, now, Lucius, I have a point to make. Draco was the reason that Dumbledore died. Snape may have performed the spell, as I'm sure you know by now, but it was Draco's task to fulfill. I gave the copies of the paper to Dobby just to make sure you knew what was going on. I just didn't have today's paper at that point. For some reason it was being held," he said with a wry grin.
Lucius glanced at Harry. "Trust me, Arthur, I plan on getting to the bottom of this. My son is not a killer and I cannot see Severus killing the Headmaster by choice. This much I know. That is unimportant. Right now we need to focus on Harry."
Harry looked at the three other men in the room. His eyes were bloodshot with crying. He looked over as Tonks opened the door to the kitchen. "Is everything going alright in here?"
"Yes, Tonks, it is," Harry said softly. He then looked at Lucius. "I can't tell them the truth. The truth is not my secret to reveal. It is bad enough that I keep getting it in bits and pieces. I don't think anyone can truly handle the truth. I'm still having issues with it."
Lucius gazed at the boy sitting in front of him. He had seen courage in this boy. He had watched this boy fight against Voldemort at fifteen. This boy had already faced so many challenges, yet he was afraid of the truth. He was afraid that it would not only hurt his family, but his husband as well. Harry’s depth of compassion amazed Lucius. He saw it when Harry ordered him released from prison. It wasn't until this moment that he truly realized how loyal and faithful this boy, no, make that young man, before him was.
"Harry," he began, "I know that in the end you will be fair. I have already sworn my allegiance to you. You, not the Order. You are the one who will be in the final battle. If you feel the need to expose this secret, to save my son, then I will support you completely. Even if you are not able to save him from the choices that he has made, I will be behind you."
Harry's stared into the older man's face. "Even if this secret could be what ultimately destroys him?"
"The bonding ceremony can never be severed. With the ceremony, you became my son. As my son, I am honor bound to keep you protected. Hopefully the secret will not leave this house, but we will cross that bridge when we arrive at it."
Harry nodded and looked at the other occupants of the kitchen. They were all curious as to what was being kept secret. "If you don't mind, I don't want to repeat this more than I have to. I would also like an oath that none shall talk of this. It will endanger lives." The other three nodded.
Harry stood up and walked into the other room where the rest of his family was waiting. He had walked into the kitchen a broken boy, but he walked out a strong man. His head, now, was held high and he walked as if he owned the world. He knew the others would be shocked when he revealed the truth to them, possibly even hate him. It needed to be done; there was no other choice.
He stood in the center of the room. A single glance silenced the room as Lucius and the others flanked him. Lifting his head into the air just a bit more, Harry spoke the spell clearly. "Specialis votum loquor nullus." He looked around at the shocked faces. They had essentially been sworn to secrecy. Hermione and Ron looked at each other knowing that this was definitely larger than they had originally thought.
"I'm sorry I had to do that, but what I'm going to talk about cannot leave this room. There are many lives at stake now, not just mine." Harry looked everyone in the face before he continued, "I cannot risk anything I say being spoken of outside this room. I refuse to have more deaths on my hands that could have been prevented."
Arthur walked over to Molly and she clutched his hand. She just knew that Harry was already in trouble. She knew she should have convinced him to stay at the Burrow longer.
"It begins with a tale of love, a love so pure that it should never have been hidden." He looked over at Tonks who just looked at him, confused before she sat in a chair near him. "Sadly, I'm still affected by this vision of love."
Ginny was about to say something when Harry looked at her. "I'm sorry, Ginny, but you will be hurt. I'm sorry that I am not able to take the pain away, but everyone is insistent upon the truth. Just know that I never meant for you to be hurt. I do love you, but someone else claimed my heart." Ginny began to cry again silently.
"Ron and Hermione, I love you both dearly, and I know this will hurt you as well. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't be more open and honest about what I was going through, but I tried. I just couldn't tell you everything. There were reasons why I was so 'obsessed' with Draco and they had nothing to do with him." He closed his eyes and thought back. "Well, actually it had everything to do with him, but as you both know I first tried to find out what he was doing in the Room of Requirement. I knew that he was planning something, but I couldn't find out what."
He gazed around the room again; even the twins were silent. "It was during the times I was trying to spy on Draco that I fell in love. She was wonderful and beautiful and completely knocked me off my feet." Harry looked down at Tonks, letting emotion actually show in his eyes. "I loved her deeply; she became my heart and soul. I would do anything for her."
Harry knelt down in front of Tonks, pouring his heart out to her as he had longed to do for so long. Remus was looking between the two, trying to figure out their connection. "I don't know what it was that made me fall in love with her. I admit, the year before when we met I had a crush on her, but I knew that she was older than me. She wouldn't be allowed to be with me."
"Harry…" she said, looking into his eyes, seeing his heart breaking as he focused on her.
"I don't know if it was the purple hair or the spirit she always had when she was around." Harry heard the gasps behind him as he described Tonks. "She attracted me like a moth to a candle. Our romance began very quickly and passion sparked out of control. She was everything I needed and so much more."
"Nymphadora, is there something I need to know?" Remus asked with a growl.
"Harry, I don't know what you are talking about," she said, looking into his face, confused. "I have never led you to believe…"

"No, Remus," Harry answered for her. He looked at his adoptive godparent and shook his head. "Sadly, she doesn't need to tell you anything." Harry closed his eyes as a tear fell from one of them. Tonks reached up and wiped it away.
"What happened next?" she asked quietly trying to get him to finish the story.
"I can't say when exactly it was that we started seeing each other. The first time I remember seeing her was on the train the day we arrived at Hogwarts. She found me in a compartment on the train with a broken nose. She said that it was the only compartment with the light on, so she went to check it out."
"Harry, I didn't see you that night." Tonks was really beginning to get worried. "Whoever it was is going to be arrested for impersonating an Auror."
"No, Tonks, you can't arrest her. That is all a part of the secret."
"Harry, someone pretended to be me and started some kind of relationship with you. I am going to kill the person. I have never thought of you that way," she stressed.
He looked down at her as if his heart were breaking again. "I realized that something was wrong last week when you professed your undying love to Remus. It took me quite a few days to discover the truth. So, please don't say that you never thought of me that way. I'm asking this for my sanity. I am having a hard enough time separating reality from fantasy as it is."
"I'm sorry," she whispered.
"I guess that does clear something up: it wasn't you that came back for me on the train. I think I already knew that. I think that it was just a test to see if the person could fool me and it worked."
Harry looked away from Tonks. Gazing at Ginny, he continued. "I'm not sure of exactly when my feelings changed for her. I had an enormous crush on Ginny the entire year. She was the only person I could think of, until I started spying. It was a dream come true when she became my girlfriend. I didn't realize I was falling in love with someone else at the same time.
"It was very magical and overwhelming. Some nights I felt as if I were being drugged. I'm not sure if it was from the incense that was in the room or if I was actually drugged with something. The first night we met outside of the Room of Requirements she kissed me. She pulled me into the room and we had sex. She claimed my body in a way I didn't think was possible." Harry blushed slightly as he continued the story. He hated watching the silent tears fall from Ginny's eyes. He wanted to wipe them all away, but he knew that he couldn't. He would be lucky if his "family" still wanted to associate with him after this.
"The next time it was just as passionate. She became very possessive of me. She hated any time that I spent with Ginny. She kept telling me that I needed to get rid of her. She didn't listen when I told her it wasn't that simple. She would get mad and get forceful in bed taking out her frustration on me.
"She would also spend a few hours just talking to me; talking like we had never talked before. She wanted to know about my family. I told her about the Dursleys, thinking that it was strange, since she had been to their house before. I shrugged it off. We talked of our love of flying and different things. She really came to know me as a person, the way no one else ever had. It more than made up for her possessive streak.
"Everything changed the night before Dumbledore died. That is a night that I didn't remember happening until just last night. Apparently, we performed an ancient spell together. I was quite willing to do anything she asked of me. We both cut our arms and repeated sacred words. A timing spell was obviously placed upon the document that needed to go to the Ministry. It was not sent until I remembered the dream."
"Polyjuice!" Hermione yelled, "The fucking bastard used Polyjuice to convince you that you were with Tonks."
Harry smiled sadly at his friend. "If only that were the case, Hermione. We were together for longer than an hour at a time. In fact, if I remember correctly I even woke up in her arms one morning, neither of us going back to our dorms."
"Bloody hell, Harry! You had sex with Draco fucking Malfoy and you didn't know it?" Ron yelled and then looked at his sister, "Behind my sister's back at that! I'm going to pound you." Ron jumped up but Ginny held him back.
"No, Ron. I'm not saying that I forgive him yet, but can't you look at him and see how this has torn him apart? Letting him live is torture. Letting him see how he tore apart your friendship is so much worse than actually hurting him physically," she said vengefully, no longer silently crying but ready for him to hurt.
"Ronald and Ginevra, both of you will settle down this instant. Harry is suffering quite enough without the two of you trying to begin something. He apologized to everyone with a specific one to both of you. Harry is a part of our family no matter what has happened, and I won't have either of you turning him away!" Mrs. Weasley began. She wasn't that thrilled with Harry now either, but she could tell that he was suffering. The poor dear thought he was in love with Tonks!
"Thank you, Mrs. Weasley. I knew they would not take this well. That is why I didn't plan to tell anyone. Mr. Weasley knows most of what has happened this week, as does Lucius."
"Harry," Hermione said slowly. She had been controlling her temper as well. She could see that her friend had been tempted away; it wasn't entirely his fault. "If it wasn't Polyjuice Potion then what did Draco use?"
He closed his eyes and then felt Lucius' hands on his shoulders. "Go on, son. I'm right here behind you." He was shaken by what Harry had revealed. He had no idea that Draco had been that strong.
"Well, it seems that there is another Metamorphmagus in the Black family. It was closely guarded secret. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one knew how powerful he really is."
Tonks looked at him, visibly shaken, "Draco?"
Harry nodded his head. "Somewhere in the few months we were together I fell madly in love with him. He would willingly show me the many transformations he could do, just as you did. He loved to torment me with his actual face. I should have figured it out, but I didn't."
"This explains why you barely said two words to me after the funeral. I was with the woman you loved," Remus said softly before standing up. He wrapped his arms around Harry, "I'm so sorry, cub. I'm so sorry you have to hurt this way. I wish I could take the pain for you."
Harry leaned into the hug and let his anger leave him. He pulled back and looked around the room at everyone. He could see mixed emotions as they all stared at him.
"As for the other explanation I know you all want, I'm sure Mr. Weasley can inform you of why I now trust Lucius. The two of us have seen things that should never have occurred. Right now, I don't think I feel up to talking to anyone. If you will all excuse me, I am going to lie down. I do not wish to be disturbed with questions about what I have just told you. I will talk about it with you when I am ready. I have only told you this much because I love each of you and you needed to know."
"Hey, Harry," Fred said.
"When is the bachelor party?" George asked, continuing Fred's thought. The twins fell against the wall in laughter.
Harry grinned then turned around and walked out of the door. He didn't look back, but he knew that everyone was watching him. He walked up the stairs to his room. After putting up silencing and locking charms, he finally threw himself onto the bed and cried.
"Harry."
"Go away, Draco. Just go away. I need to be alone."
"Harry, we need to talk. I need to see you."
Harry groaned as he heard the words in his subconscious. "Dammit, can't I even get a nap?"
He could hear the smirk in the voice. "Yes, you can take a nap. You can also become a widower faster than you became a husband."
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