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Gorgon Curse	By : TransientTemptation Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 28962 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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A/N: Oh my gward Lily is too adorable in this...

“Hey, Lil,” James said as he came through the door. “Is Dad here?”
The little redhead shook her head as she brushed the fur of her new pet niffler, which she had named ‘Blackie’. “He said he had to do something and he’d be back in an hour so we could play before dinner,” she told her brothers as they sat on the various couches in the main living area of the apartment.
“Man, where is he always disappearing to?” James asked as he flopped back against the couch. “Every time I try and find him lately he’s nowhere.”
“Maybe he’s getting Christmas presents,” Albus suggested.
Lily looked up instantly. “But Santa’s supposed to get those!” she declared in horror.
Her brothers exchanged quick glances. “Uh, well, yeah, but Dad gets us presents too, Lily,” James said quickly. “He’s probably trying to find the perfect thing to get you.”
The redhead glanced between her brothers unsure for a moment before nodding. “Oh, alright. As long as Santa get’s the most of them.” Her brothers sighed some at the crisis they’d adverted. Neither wanted to be the one to tell Lily that Santa wasn’t real.
“Anyway, he has been disappearing a lot lately,” James muttered. “It’s kinda weird. I figured he’d be on my case all year. I haven’t even seen him outside of class and meals for a couple weeks now.”
“Is he leaving notes on your homework too?” Albus asked his older brother. “Last time he told me that he knows I didn’t read the chapter so he was only giving me half credit for making my essay up.”
James chuckled some. “He’s left me a couple. I guess we’re just going to have to get used to not being able to slack in his class and get away with it. Kinda stinks actually but at least he’s not as bad as some. He doesn’t give over five feet usually.”
“Still too much,” Albus said with a disgusted look on his face. “He told me to stop writing so big because he knew I didn’t write like that normally and was trying to waste space…”
“Man, he’s hard on you,” James said with a grin. “But then you are a first year. You’re still learning all the tricks. You’ll get it down, don’t worry, Al.”
“School sounds hard,” Lily commented where she was still brushing her niffler. The little animal had curled up in her lap and looked fast asleep. Harry had already locked up everything shiny in the rooms so that the little critter wouldn’t go wild every second. It was a lot more docile without sparkles to get it going. It was the only way he would agree to let Lily keep the little thing. That and he felt bad for getting rid of Lily’s security blanket of Draco’s old coat.
Just then the door opened and their father came into the room. He blinked a little, apparently surprised. “Shouldn’t you two be doing your homework?” he asked his sons though his smile told them he was just teasing.
“Can you not be a teacher for two seconds, dad?” James asked, his face wrinkled in disgust. “I mean, jeeze… homework, bleh…”
Harry laughed and crossed the room to sit down between his sons. “So what are you three doing?” he asked as he reached out and brushed a hand over his daughter’s silky red hair. She looked up and gave him a grin that made him love her all over again.
“We were talking about Santa!” she told him.
“Oh?” Harry asked, not really believing his sons were talking about that but he wasn’t about to argue with his daughter about something like that.
She nodded. “Yeah, Christmas is next week!” she said excitedly. “I can’t wait to see what we get! Do you think Mommy will send something?”
Harry felt himself freeze at the question and his sons visibly stiffened. Harry forced himself to smile. “What would you want her to get you, princess?” he asked, ignoring her question for the moment. It didn’t exactly have an answer he could give her after all. He didn’t want to crush her hopes but he didn’t want to lie to her either.
“A snake!”
Harry’s eyes widened behind his glasses and he sat up a bit straighter. “W-what? Why a snake?” he asked, not entirely sure how to take that sort of a statement from his youngest. Both his boys were glancing between him and Lily questioningly; obviously they were equally surprised by the request.
“Because they’re pretty and cool and they say funny things!” Lily supplied cheerfully.
The boy-who-lived let that settled for a moment in his mind. They said funny things? Wait a minute. Lily said that the man that fished her out of the river said a bad word. Draco admitted he’d pulled her out but he couldn’t speak English right now. Harry’s eyes widened and he slid off the couch to sit beside Lily. “Lily, sweetheart… can you talk to snakes?” he asked.
Lily must have picked up on his apprehension because she glanced between her father and brothers and pulled Blackie into her arms a little. The niffler blinked up at her but just hung there passively. “I-is that bad?” she asked. “I didn’t mean to be bad. I heard you talking to snakes before!”
Harry quickly wrapped her in a hug. “No, baby, it’s not bad,” he assured her quickly. “It’s not bad at all. I just didn’t know you could. You surprised me. You could never be bad for something like that. I promise.” His daughter had caught him very much off guard by that was all. He didn’t want her thinking she’d done something bad for knowing how to do something she couldn’t help. If it was anyone’s fault it was Harry’s for passing it down to her in the first place.
Albus cleared his throat some. “Why do you want a snake if you have Blackie anyway, Lily?” he asked his sister, trying to keep her from being upset because none of the family really liked it when the girl was upset. It didn’t suit her.
Lily rubbed her eyes and looked over at her brother. “Can’t I have both?” she asked curiously.
James chuckled some. “Our Lily loves animals. No wonder Hagrid likes you so much, Lil. You’re his favorite kind of person,” he told her with a grin.
“R-really?” Lily asked.
“Absolutely, princess,” Harry said before kissing the top of her head. “There’s nothing wrong with liking to have pets. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting a snake. But we don’t have a lot of space here, sweetheart, so we might want to keep the number of pets down a bit, alright?”
Lily pouted a little but nodded. “Alright. I still wanna snake though!”
Harry couldn’t help but chuckle some. “We’ll see, sweetheart.”
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