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Can You Keep a Secret?	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 28185 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 6
Disclaimer: The Harry Potter francise does not belong to me. I own only the plot and I make no money off of this.

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Title: Can you keep a Secret?
Authors: kusanobabe05 [kusanosakura] and socia0307
Pairing: DracoxHarry, implied RonxHermione,
Fandom: HP
Notes: Compatible up to the bathroom scene between Draco and Harry in Half-blood Prince- minus the Ginny interest. After that is completely AU…
Warning: drarry gets rather aggressive so be warned.

Chapter 25

Harry and Draco were working on their studies when Dobby appeared.

“Masters, Dobby be needed in Diagon Alley!”

Draco frowned, “Why?”

“Master Harry Potter sir’s friends be in danger! There is to be an attack there.”

“Is the Manor empty?

“It should be soon old master Draco.” Dobby bowed.

Draco finally summoned an actual Malfoy elf, “Dippy!”

His replacement elf scowled at him, “Dippy been waiting for Master to call. Mistress is worried out of her mind.”

“The moment the manor is the staging point for this attack on Diagon, Dippy not surprised that Dobby know about it. Dobby have big ears.” Dippy said snidely.

“The moment mother is alone remove her from the Manor and bring her here. I will be sealing it.”

Dippy bowed, “Yes master, of couse.”

Harry spoke up abruptly, “Dobby go to Diagon Alley and help George and Fred. Take Remus with you.”

Remus blinked from his grading essays, “Why?”

“Defence, the Death Eaters will try to destroy as much as possible. They will set George and Fred back years if their inventory is destroyed.” Harry said quietly.

“Very well, since Sirius and I helped get them started; I suppose it makes sense to help save them.” Remus said rising and holding his arm out to Dobby.

Dobby immediately disappeared taking Remus with him.

Draco summoned Kreacher.

“Yes great Master Draco?” Kreacher said in his oily voice.

“Today is the day Kreacher for a two-prong attack. Let me know when Grimmauld is emptied. There will be an attack on Diagon Alley today and I suspect that the ‘Order’ will turn out in force.” Draco smirked.

Harry called for Winky.

“Yes Master Harry?”

“Have Fred and George’s rooms cleaned and prepared for them please.”

“Yes Master Harry.” Winky said bowing before she vanished with a soft pop.

Draco kissed him, “I’ll let you greet our house guests I have houses to seal.”

Harry snogged him back, “Be safe.”

Then Draco left the library leaving Harry alone to wring his hands.

XoooooX

Fred was playing salesman while George was in the lab as usual it was only during peak sales that both were on the floor.

“George? Can you look over my work?”

One thing George hadn’t mentioned when he visited Harry, was that since he left Hogwarts he’d helped Theo keep his sister away from Lord Nott…

Actually they’d hidden her a few times in the Room of Requirement last year for large stretches of a time sometimes.

She also sometime hid out in the Gryffindor Head Boy’s apartments, the location George knew from when Percy was Head Boy. Since Gryffindor hadn’t had a Head Boy since Percy, they were empty. It had got harder to keep her safe with Ned and Theo at Hogwarts. Luckily, George and Theo had become close that year so they worked together…

Theo was practically invisible in Slytherin House so he passed on information like Inquisitorial Squad rounds last year.

Gracie was a lovely girl, so much more loveable then Ginny and for the life of him George couldn’t understand why anyone

Much to Theo’s annoyance, his father hadn’t been among those captured in the Department of Mysteries so they were still seeing one another hopefully in secret…

“Let me finish this and then we’ll go up and make lunch. I’ll look over them then.” George said barely look up from his potion when a knocking came from the door.

“Master George Weezy sir? It be Dobby.”

George groaned, “Open the door Gracie would you?”

Gracie bounced up and pulled the door open.

George placed his potion under stasis. “What is the matter Dobby?” he said turning towards the door.

“Master Harry Potter be sending Dobby to fetch Master George Wheezy. Death Eaters be coming to Diagon Alley to attack. Master Remus be helping Master Fred Wheezy pack product and cast defensive spells to give you more time.”

George swallowed, “Take Gracie upstairs. Gracie dear tell Dobby what to pack alright? We’ll send Dobby with a note for Theo to let him know alright? I’ve got to pack the lab and I’ll have to scrap this experiment.”

Gracie shivered, “Father’s coming because I’m here isn’t he?”

“There now pet, he won’t find you where we’re going and Harry will look after you. Hrry up now we probably don’t have much time.”

Her face pinched and white, Gracie led Dobby up the back stairs to her room.

It had formerly been a closet that they’d enlarged when it became far too difficult to hide her at Mansfield or at Hogwarts.

Thankfully George was exceptional with the packing portkey charm as well as the vanishing charm.

He had his entire lab packed in a trice…

That just left his bedroom and the office…

XoooooX

Fred was surprised to see Remus of all people walking out of the stockroom.

“I’m afraid there is an emergency stockholder’s meeting at the main shareholder’s location.”

Fred frowned, “Really?”

Remus turned to Verity, “I suggest that you go to your grandfathers’ place in Ross. Take the floo.”

Verity flinched and glanced at Fred, “Sir?”

“Best do as he says.” Fred sighed.

Verity herded the few straggling customers out of the shop before scurrying off to the back of the shop.

Fred closed and locked the front door only to frown when Remus threw a ton of spells on it as well as the windows.

“What is the matter?”

Remus scowled, “Dobby says that the Death Eaters are coming to attack Diagon Alley, Harry has offered his home as a sanctuary and sent me to help you pack. He doesn’t want to have your dreams crushed because of this. Come on lets pack everything quickly.”

Fred nodded and they started packing immediately.

XoooooX

Harry was surprised when Dobby showed up with a young girl about ten or eleven and a battered trunk.

Clutched in her hand was a battered, clearly very loved stuffed rabbit.

Harry frowned, “Hello and you are?”

The girl shivered, “Gracie Nott? Theo is my big brother?”

Harry beamed, “Were you staying with Fred and George?”

Gracie nodded, “My father is a very scary man and he is going to do bad things in Diagon Alley because I was there. George promised I could stay and I’d be safe here, is that true?”

Harry nodded, “I’m hiding her because of bad men too. So you’re welcome here as long as you need to stay.”

Gracie smiled at still clutching her rabbit, “Thank you.”

Harry held out his hand, “Why don’t we go pick out a bedroom for you? You can even chose the colours for your room if you like?”

Gracie beamed, “Really? I got to do that at George’s…”

It took so little to make this girl happy that Harry wondered if her home life had been anything like his…

Harry pushed the unhappy thought away and returned to escorting the girl up to the same wing that Fred and George had rooms in. remembering Remus’ comment about wanting a room far from his own so not to be disturbed by the sounds of their lovemaking, Harry opened a door opposite George’s room, “How about this one?”

Inside it was surprisingly a girl’s room…

The wood was silver lime much like Draco’s bed in Slytherin but it also had a sky blue canopy, it looked like one that the Muggle Telly would call a grown-up princess bed.

The furniture was silver as well and the curtains were a darker shade of blue silk under a layer of sky blue velvet.

Gracie beamed at him, “Is it really mine?”

Harry smiled, “For as long as you stay and every time you stay.”

“I like it just as it is!”

Her trunk was clearly waiting for them and Harry tapped it, it opened and so did the drawers.

Harry cast the unpacking spell that Tonks would have failed at and Gracie’s clothes soared into drawers.

“Now what would you like to do?”

“George promised to go over my homework after lunch, but before then we’d make lunch together.” Gracie said quietly.

“You know what? Why don’t we go make lunch together? I think that everyone would be very happy if they came back and it was ready.”

Gracie clapped her hands, bounding her toes, “Really?”

Harry nodded, “Of course,” then he frowned, “But you’ll have to help me. I only know how to cook the Muggle way.”

Gracie grinned, “I’ve watched George cook lots of times!”

Harry used the point-me spell to lead him to Ivy Hall’s kitchen; which was very similar to Hogwarts only much smaller.

Gracie was very helpful in showing him how to use the stove and the oven; which were like Mrs. Weasley’s.

Harry wondered why Mrs. Weasley hadn’t mentioned Gracie, unless she didn’t know about George and Theo anymore then she had know about Bill being bonded…

XoooooX

George had cast the duplication charm on his old Hogwarts trunk and had packed both the office and the items in his room as well as those from the shared upstairs bathroom into his Hogwarts trunk.

All of which were just in time…

They could hear screams and running footsteps as well as the crash of Dark spells coming from where Knockturn Alley met Diagon Alley…

Dobby appeared immediately and grabbed George; dumping him in the room he’d met Harry in prior before disappearing.

Soon after the weird little elf appeared with Fred and Remus.

“Where can we store these?” George asked tapping the office trunk.

“And the product, is there an empty cellar?”

“Dobby take Dobby put with rest of Wheezy’s things.” The elf took all of the product and the office trunk in three trips.

When the elf returned and stayed Remus asked, “Where is Harry?”

Dobby tilted his head, “Master Harry Potter is being in the kitchen cooking.”

George groaned, “I promised to let Gracie help me with Lunch.”

“That be what Master Harry Potter be doing Master George Wheezy.”

Fred patted his shoulder, “Why don’t you write a note for Theo to let him know that you and Gracie are safe before he hears about the Attack on Diagon Alley.”

George blushed, “Sometimes you have very wise moments.”

Fred puffed up, “We are identical twins, some times I can borrow that skill.”

George scurried off to write that note…

XoooooX

The moment Dippy returned with his mother, Draco winced slightly at her physical state, and then he summoned Winky to send for his Aunt Andromeda because he knew somehow that she was a healer before he had Dippy take him to the Manor.

It was empty and he felt it…

Draco walked out to the front stoop of the Manor and summoned the family ritual knife, slicing his palm he swore the words in Latin to lock down the Manor and sink it into the earth from which it was risen.

“Blood consecrated earth defend me now. I, Lord Malfoy speak with the power of my ancestors behind me, our sacred home is in danger and I call upon the elements to defend us. Earth hide us now, Air vanish our scent, Water cleanse the air and earth of our magic, Fire burn those that come and share not our blood. This I humbly request!”

The earth immediately opened up and the Manor sunk into the ground.

Draco could feel ancient wild magic rising as his father had told him, as Lord Malfoy the earth, air, fire and water of this place were his to command. His father could not revoke the command of the true Head of the House of Malfoy.

Lucius was now useless to the Dark Lord…

His father had said that everything to the Anti-Apparition wards would vanish as if it had never been even if someone knew the apparition coordinants of the Manor.

Draco summoned Stria, “Inform those closest in blood to father, his cousins that the Family seat has been locked to blood and that they should take all precautions to seal their own residences in case of revenge by the Death Eaters.”

Stria bowed, “Stria pleased to see that back of those persons and Miss Cissy is safe?”

Draco nodded, “As safe as she possibly can be.”

XoooooX

Andromeda was surprised when an elf appeared in her private office at St. Mungos’, she raised an eyebrow, “Yes?”

“Lord Draco Malfoy be asking for healer Annie to come tend to his mother whom he had rescued from Malfoy Manor.” The elf bowed.

“Cissa? She’s safe? Thank Salazar!” Andromeda said clenching her left hand, “Take me to her at once.”

The elf wrapped their long spindly fingers on Andromeda’s robe covered arm and they popped from her office to an unfamiliar room.

Andromeda felt to her knees and cast spells to ascertain her baby sister’s condition, she was weak, tired, starved, dehydrated and had been subjected to the Cruciatus courtesy of Bella.

The mad witch, how she’d enjoy ‘pruning’ the family tree and removing that branch of the Black Family…

Bella would pay for hurting Narcissa…

XoooooX

Draco exploited a loophole in their brilliant lets try using the Fidelius charm strategy…

He was half Black and thus would be admitted to the House of Black…

“The son of a Black and consort of Lord Black I am, with a sacrifice of blood shared I lock the Ancient House of Black and remove it hence. From whence you came, whence shall you return. Only to receive the Lord of the Ancient House of Black or his consort shall you. Repel all those aside from these.” Draco intoned in Latin.

The house’s walls echoed with magic and it shuddered, twisted and moved like that of a portkey.

His mother had told him from the cradle that the rightful heir to the House of Black could remove it from Muggle London and return it to its former place…

With her cousin Regulus dead and his brother imprisoned, Aunt Andromeda had a daughter and Bella presumably barren; that left Draco the supposed heir to the House of Black.

‘Take that Dumbledore!’ Draco thought with a vindictive snigger, ‘Your weapon lost and independent, your Order’s home stolen and the Dark Lord has resumed his public reign of terror. How will you deal with this?’

He sealed all the floos with a charm and then ordered Kreacher to return him to Ivy Hall.

XoooooX

Andromeda sent her personal elf Gina to fetch potions from her private store to treat Narcissa as well as sending the elf who fetched her for Severus Snape. Surely, a brewer of his caliber had created a potion for those subjected to the Cruciatus…

Narcissa might wish to disappear into quiet retirement far from Wizarding Britain after this outrage.

Whatever her choice, Andromeda would be there for her…

XoooooX

Draco sent his patronus to Uncle Severus to let him know that a decisive blow had been made against Dumbledore and the Dark Lord.

Both had lost their main base…

Then Draco went to lockdown Grimsby Hall which according Gringotts; Dumbledore had hid out after being ‘chased’ from Hogwarts last year. It had been renamed by Harry’s godfather Sirius to Baskerville Hall and had been his inheritance from Draco’s great uncle Alphard for his godson.

Dumbledore had also ‘rented’ the cottage for some time prior to when the Potters had hidden back in 1981…

Dumbledore wasn’t going to set foot in any property of Harry’s if Draco had anything to do with it…

Smug Draco had Kreacher finally take him home to Ivy Hall…

Draco arrived in his office and summoned all Potter, Black and Malfoy elves who were not currently under the authority of a master or in his aunt’s case mistress.

They arrived promptly

“Black Elves you answer only to Narcissa Malfoy, Andromeda Tonks, my gracious self or to Lord Black. Malfoy Elves respond only to orders from myself, mother, my consort, or my Malfoy relations who live in France. Father has been cut off due to his arrest and he is not to be treated as a Malfoy or to be responded to if summoned. Potter elves are to respond to myself or Harry.”

“What about Master Remus?” an unfamiliar elf asked.

Draco frowned at the interruption, “What about Professor Lupin?”

“His grandfather same as Master James’ were Lord Potter…sure he be a Lupin and Master Lyall still be around…”

Draco scowled, “Remus doesn’t seem aware he has family.”

The elf shrugged, “His father and grandfather had a falling out but his grandfather paid for his apprenticeship. He be living at Potter Hall alone when he be home. He still be chasing after Boggarts when the Ministry call.”

“Well I’ll inform Harry that he has a living great-grandfather and Remus of his grandfather, he might be contacted. That is if his silence is deemed forgivable on their part.” Draco snorted; Harry was extremely forgiving if himself was any indication.

Given that all of Harry’s known family were his abusive Muggle relations, then he might enjoy have magical relations he actually liked…

XoooooX

Back to back Severus had notes delivered during class and he was furious!

He snapped at the elves and shoved them in his pocket and returned to ‘tormenting’ his Sixth Grade Defence class.

XoooooX

Hermione missed Harry like crazy…

With Ron following Lavender Brown around like her worshipful puppy and Harry vanished with Draco Malfoy that left Hermione alone again.

Just as much alone as she was back in Third Year after Ron determined that the Crookshanks had killed his distasteful ‘rat’…

Crookshanks had good taste and knew that Ron and ‘Pettigrew’…

Hermione buried herself in her books, only emerging for Prefect Rounds which Luna had gotten herself assigned as Hermione’s prefect partner.

She might be considered well-looked after between Luna and Charity but it wasn’t the same as having Harry…

As long as Harry believed that Dumbledore was after his daughter, he wouldn’t come back, which left her alone…

Ron ignored her in classes and danced attendance on Lavender as if their ‘romance’ had meant nothing to him…

She shouldn’t have caved so easily to his persuasion after he was poisoned…

Her parents would be so disappointed in her…

To find out from Luna that Ron hadn’t been her soulmate or the person who truly loved her hurt far worse then having Ron dump her as both lover and friend without even bothering to tell her. All he had done was destroy her gift for Harry…

Even if his happiness with Lavender pained her, Hermione would give neither the satisfaction of seeing her crying so she did her best to put up an indifferent front but she was so lonely…

Hermione almost hoped that she’d be Head Girl next year just so she’d have a private room away from the other girls…

She was nervous that Harry wouldn’t let her be his child’s godmother, and it worried her more than his silence…

delia cerrano- Dear I have no idea why you haven't read this yet but I am pleased you like my characterizations lol! As for Hermione I have yet to decide a partner for her so Luna knows more then I do but the way Blaise was flirting with Fred I have my doubts about Hermione being the right one for him? Then again I haven't decided who Fred is with lol but I doubt it's Angelina?

Sorry for the late update but what do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
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