His saviour | By : Kruemel Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 16367 -:- Recommendations : 5 -:- Currently Reading : 6 |
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I catch you while I fall
Harry was excited when they landed in Bulgaria. It was the second country he got to visit in only a few weeks. Victor Krum had sent them a portkey that brought them right into his living room. Hermione smiled brightly and hurried to give her boyfriend a big hug. After they spent a few minutes catching up, Krum looked at Harry and smiled.
“It is good to see you again. I wasn´t expecting just you three. Where is your friend?”
“He stayed behind with his girlfriend and sister to keep an eye on everything. You remember Draco?”
“Yes, I think we talked a few times.”
“Good to see you again Victor.” Draco said and shook his hand.
“So, What´s the plan?”
“We will meet with Stefan tomorrow. We will floo right to his office.”
“I´m afraid that won´t be possible.” Hermione said.
“Why?”
“I can´t tell you. Just know that there is a good reason.”
“Why can´t you tell me?”
“Because…” She gave Harry a quick glance.
“It´s alright Mione, you can tell them.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, it´s fine. They would find out at some point anyways. Just promise me that you won’t tell anyone else.” Draco and Krum agreed, and Hermione went on and told them about Harry´s pregnancy. Draco starred at him for a few minutes, trying to comprehend what was going on.
“Why?” He asked finally.
“Why what?”
“Why would you keep it?”
“Draco!!” Hermione cried.
“What? You can´t tell me you´re happy about this? We are at war! You know how dangerous this is? There is nooo way for him to hide this!”
“Of course, there is. Do you think I wanted this to happen? I didn´t even finish school yet, but it did, and I will never EVER kill my baby. Do you hear me? Besides do you really think Severus would let me? Don´t you ever suggest something like that again!” Harry spat.
“Of course, he would if it would be what you want, and I never heard him say anything about wanting to have children. Don´t get me wrong, it´s your decision but think about it. Do you know what the dark lord would do if he were to find out? Or Dumbledore? What if he reads something from Severus mind? If he ever finds out that you two are together and expecting a baby, he will stop at nothing to get to you. The dark lord doesn´t take betrayal lightly. If he gets his hands on Severus, he will destroy him before he kills him, don´t you care about him at all?”
“He always was at risk to be found out, even long before we got together and of course I care, what do you think? I love him. I am worried sick every time that psychopath calls him to his site. I don´t want him to continue going but it is HIS decision. He thinks that he can still be useful. He started feeding Riddle information so that his loyalty won´t be questioned and he will continue to do so. Trust me I´m doing everything I can to make sure that nothing happens to him, and I would do anything to get him back should something happen.”
“I know there always was a risk, but you think being with you won´t make it a hundred times worse? He got together with his biggest enemy. That is a whole other scale of betrayal. And how would you know if something happens?”
“Because my mind and Riddle´s are somehow connected. You remember teasing me about extra potion lessons back in fifth year? I actually tried to learn occlumency to keep him out of my head. Of course, we know now that it doesn´t work. I can keep everyone out but him. I have visions of him, and they get clearer when he has a strong emotion. They are the clearest when he´s angry which is, well… almost every time. If he finds out that Sev is a spy he won’t be able to control his temper and I will know immediately. Listen Draco I know you are afraid, and I know that you care about him very much, but you have to believe that I do as well. I love Severus and I could never live with myself should something happen to him. We already talked about him walking away from all that but he wasn´t ready. I will talk to him again I promise. Maybe this baby is what he needs to realise that he can´t go on like that. Okay?”
“I didn´t know all that. I´m sorry I know you love him. It´s rather obvious actually. I still don´t like this but we will see how it plays out.”
“Alright guys. So, we will have to make a portkey. Is there anything else we should know?” Hermione asked Krum.
“Not that I know of. We should make sure that no one at school see´s Harry. Durmstrang has a few students that are death eaters, and they would recognise him as soon as they see him. Stefan knows of at least six, but he thinks there are a lot more.”
“That will be no problem. Harry has an invisibility cloak so he can just wear that.”
“Very good. My mother invited you all for dinner so we should get going. It´s just a few streets from here so we can walk. Maybe you should wear that cloak now, just to be on the safe site.” Harry nodded and pulled his cloak form his backpack. It was cold but they only walked for a few minutes before Krum let them up to a nice-looking house. He unlocked the door and let them in. Harry pulled of his cloak and rubbed his hands together. They followed Victor into the living room and waited while he went to get his mother. When they came back, she greeted them warmly and asked them to follow her into the dining room.
“Your moms English is really good.”
“Yes, she started learning the language when I was scouted for my first professional team. The trainer told her that I would have a big future playing internationally so she thought it would be nice. She is the best, she goes to every game I have.”
“What about your father?” Draco asked.
“He passed away when I was thirteen, but his brother comes to see us a lot. He kind of took over and helped us with stuff my mum couldn´t”
“That´s nice.”
“Yeah, especially for my little sister. She was much closer with dad then she is with mum. They always understood each other on another level and I´m glad that she has someone who reminds her of him.” They reached the dining room and Harry was overwhelmed by the delicious smelling food. It tasted even better, and Harry tried a little from everything.
“So, Victor, when are you moving.”
“After new year’s. I want to settle in before we start the training. We are looking for good editions for the team now but so far we weren´t impressed with anyone.”
“You should consider Oliver Wood for the keeper. He was the best keeper we had at Hogwarts for a long time. I don´t think that he plays at the moment. His team didn´t extend his contract so he should be free. You can look at him and see for yourself.”
“Great, I will do that.”
“So, did you find a place you like?”
“Yes, I found a very nice apartment in London, I haven’t made an offer yet but it should do for a while.”
“Is your family coming too?”
“Not right away. I will find them a nice house somewhere and will set everything up for them.”
“Hey Harry, maybe you could help with that. We looked at a few houses when we looked for headquarters. We could fix up one of them. I would feel much better when they move somewhere safe.” Hermione said giving him a pleading look.
“Sure thing, I can have the house elves do them all and you can choose the one you like most. I would like to have Molly and Arthur move in in one as well. So that the entire family has a place where they are safe and come together. I love the burrow but it´s not secure there.”
“You should talk with Ron, Gin and the twins as soon as we are back. They will be able to convince them. Can Kreacher and Dobby get it done until then?”
“I don´t think so but I will tell them to take a few of the Hogwarts elves with them. We are away so the four I assigned to you two will be free to help. I will call them later and tell them to get started.” They finished eating and after they thanked Mrs. Krum for the great meal they went back to Victor´s place. Harry told Dobby what to do and after went straight to bed. He was exhausted. Before he fell asleep though Hermione came to see him. They talked for a little while and she left when Harry fell asleep.
Harry was in aw when Victor led them to Durmstrang on their way to meet with his friend. The school castle was much smaller than Hogwarts but the schoolground was huge. You had a clear view for miles in each direction and you could see the mountains and lakes that twinkled beautifully in the morning sun.
“It´s just like you told me at the yule ball. It´s beautiful.” Hermione whispered and Krum smiled at her. Harry too remembered the conversation they´d had and was excited to see the school. They walked up to the building and Harry was pleasantly surprised when they entered through a big wooden door. They weren´t standing in an entry hall like he was expecting but directly entered the “great hall” were the students sat having breakfast. All eyes were directed at them when they entered, and Harry heard a few girls squeal Victors name. Krum quickly led them to the other side of the room where three doors led to what Harry presumed was the rest of the school. They followed him through the door in the middle and came into a bright lit corridor.
“It´s not far now. The door you saw on the left takes you to the classrooms and the one on the right to another corridor that leads to the different dorms and the teachers live there as well. This is the only way to the headmaster’s office.”
“It´s definitely smaller but I think it´s kind of nice.” Draco said and Harry couldn´t help but agree. He couldn´t count how many times he got lost before the twins had given him his father’s map. Soon they came to a stop in front of another door.
“Are you ready?” Krum asked and waited for Harry to confirm before he knocked on the door. After a few seconds the door opened, and a young man let them in. Harry thought he looked familiar and was sure he had seen him around back in fourth year but he couldn´t place him exactly.
“Victor it is so nice to see you again.” He said and shook Krum´s hand. He then looked at Hermione and Draco to welcome them as well.
“You must be Hermione, I´ve heard so much about you that it feels like I´ve known you for a long time. I think I remember you as well but I´m afraid I´ve forgotten your name.” He said and took a hold of Malfoy´s hand.
“Draco Malfoy. Nice to see you again.”
“Where is Harry? I thought he would come?” Stefan asked. Harry pulled of his invisibility cloak and giggled when the young headmaster flinched in surprise.
“Sorry, I forgot you couldn´t see me. I´m Harry Potter but I think you know that since you invited us here.” He said smiling and shook the others hand.
“Stefan Pavlov, it´s nice to meet you officially. I hope there are no hard feelings for me steeling your date.”
“Excuse me?” Harry asked.
“Back at your school at the ball. I danced with your date.”
“Oh that, don´t worry I didn´t want to take her anyways but I needed a partner for the dance and the girl I liked already went with someone else.”
“Well, your welcome then. How is Parvati? She was such a nice girl.”
“She´s great. We grown a little closer in the last few weeks. You should write her a letter. I bet she would like to hear from you again.”
“Maybe I will. So, did you get the girl you liked?”
“No, she´s dating my best friend actually but that´s just fine. I found someone who I am really happy with.”
“That´s good to hear. How have you been holding up. I heard a little here and there from what Victor told me but from what I heard the past few years have been rough.”
“Yeah, everything went bad after the final task. Not that it wasn´t bad before but it got a lot worse. After Voldemort came back the papers slaughtered my name because they didn´t want to believe it, and I lost my god father the same year. It got worse from there on, but it also motivated me like nothing else could have. I trained the entire sixth year and studied as hard as I could to become better and I can finally say now that I feel more confident that we will end this conflict for good.”
“You trained to become better? From what I remember you were quite talented even back then. You won the tournament when you were fourteen.”
“Yes well, I had a lot of help. Hagrid who is our care of magical creatures’ teacher is a good friend and told me about the dragons beforehand. I guess Karkaroff and Maxime found out sooner as well and I told Cedric as soon as I saw him the next day so at least no one was at disadvantage but another teacher, who was a death eater in disguise almost told me exactly what to do.
The second task that same teacher told Cedric how to figure out the egg because he knew he would help me as I helped him. And I was only able to participate because a house elf I freed from his abusive family two years prior, stole the gilly weed I used from one of our teachers.
And for the third task I had Hermione who drilled dozens of spells into my head and she and Ron practiced with me day and night. I think Ron had a small concussion because I stunned him so often and he kept falling next to the pillows we laid out. Plus, while we were in the maze the death eater spelled everything he could out of my way, so I had little to deal with. I won´t say that I was completely useless but most of the time I had sheer dumb luck.”
“Wow there was a lot more going on behind the scenes then anyone realized wasn´t there.”
“Yes, there was, but it doesn´t matter now, it´s in the past and to be honest I try not to think about it too hard anymore.”
“I get that, the whole thing with Diggory was tragic. He was a nice guy.”
“Yeah, that he was.”
“So, I heard you formed your own organization. Victor couldn´t tell me anything but that there is a new one. It wasn´t hard to figure out who was behind it. Can you tell me more?”
“I can… but you will have to take an unbreakable vow so we can be sure nothing we say will leave this room until we want it to. We are dealing with classified information, and we can´t risk a leak. I hope you understand.”
“I don´t, but I´m sure I will when I know what´s going on.”
“So, you´ll do it?” Harry asked and after Stefan confirmed he made the vow. Harry looked at Hermione who smiled at him and started to explain.
“We won´t be able to tell you everything. Some of the information is too valuable so we decided to only relay it to people who joined the DA. Before you ask the DA was a group, we formed in our fifth year at school. We had a ministry official at school who refused to teach us defence against the dark arts because the ministry feared that Dumbledore was building an army to overthrow the ministry because no one believed that Voldemort was back.
Harry, Ron and I got a few people together and Harry taught us himself. Back then we named it DA for Dumbledore´s army but we changed the name to Diggory when we found out that the headmaster can´t be trusted. Harry and one of our teachers stumbled over some pretty horrific evidence concerning the headmaster after Harry had a bad feeling about him for some time. I figure you know Harry´s story but what you don´t know is that Dumbledore did everything he could to send Harry to an abusive family, actually paying them to hit, starve and belittle Harry because he needed him to be obedient and broken so he could manipulate him to his liking. We discovered a lot more since then, but this information was enough for us to start up the DA again only for another purpose this time.”
Hermione went on in detail to explain their plans to not only take down Riddle but Dumbledore as well. All about their plans for the ministry and the wizarding world as a whole and so on and so on. When she finally finished Stefan sat there dumbfounded. Draco who hadn´t said a word since they first came in could understand him only too well. It was like a crime/fiction/horror novel but in real life. Hermione suggested taking a break for lunch and Stefan had a house elf bring up food for them. They ate mostly in silence until Stefan declared that he wanted to join them to fight for what´s right.
“You should really think about setting up a meeting with your new minister. Try and get him on your site. You could offer to support things he deems important, or you could raise money to donate to the ministry for him to use as he sees fit. Anything really to get him on your site. In return he will be open to a mandatory man search within the ministry to sort out who is marked. If you work together, you can achieve great things. He can also put you into contact with not only all the other ministers of magic but also with all the muggle heads of each country. I think that it us crucial that we build as many wards around muggle houses as we can. Voldemort is already targeting them and when you speak to the ones in charge and explain that we want to help prevent hundreds of deaths they will be begging for your help. It sounds like you already have great political power in England, but you need it everywhere because Voldemort has followers everywhere in the world.”
“I think he´s right Harry. We have to get the death eaters out of the ministry and with Fudge gone we will actually have a chance to get somewhere. That is of course if Dumbledore doesn´t have his claws in him already. But if he´s controlling him as he did Fudge, we could try to break the spell or give him the antidote to the potion.”
“I will think about it, and we will see. But you gave me a great idea. When we figure out how to get rid of Dumbledore, we will check every student for the mark. Anyone who bears it will be expelled immediately so we have no one on the inside.”
“Tell me when it´s time and I will do the same here.” Stefan offered with a smile.
“Very well, I think the only thing left is for you to sign up. You will receive a few things after together with your instructions on your next steps.” Hermione handed him the contract and Stefan read it carefully before he signed his name. He was pleased to see how many people were already in play and he even recognised a few names.
“You have Fleur? So, you already have someone inside Beauxbaton.”
“Yes, her boyfriend is my best friends’ eldest brother. They´ve been together for quite some time and they´re actually engaged to be married next summer.”
“That´s great.” Stefan said as Hermione handed him the portkey to headquarters and explained him how to send a message if need be. She went on to explain how he should approach recruiting and suggested to start with the teachers and go form there. After they said their goodbyes, they used a portkey to get back to Krum´s apartment. Harry was ready to get home and hurried Hermione along. He promised Victor that he and his family could come at any time and that Victor needn´t rent the apartment because he could stay in one of Harry´s houses.
He sighed when they arrived at Hogwarts, and they hurried down to the Dungeons. Severus´s office was empty his quarters as well, so they went straight for the trunk. Harry stopped dead in his track when he saw what was going on down there. Ginny was sobbing uncontrollably clinging to Ron who was white as a ghost and his entire body was shaking. Cho sat on the couch holding one of Ron´s hands tightly. She had a scrambled piece of paper in her other hand and her eyes showed a great sadness. Severus sat in front of the fire. He had his face in his hands and Harry´s blood freezed in his veins.
“What happened?” Hermione asked hysterically, while running towards Ginny who threw herself at her, wailing and crying like Harry had never heard anyone before. Draco hurried over to help Hermione navigate Ginny to the couch and then ran to the lab to get a strong calming draught. It destroyed him to see his girlfriend like this and he was terrified at what might have happened to bring her to such a mental state. For Harry it felt like time had come to a stand but when Draco came back into the room he was ripped out of his trance, and he quickly made his way to his best friend who looked like he was in shock.
“Ron?” Harry said carefully.
“Ron what´s going on? What happened?” Ron moved his head to look him in the eyes and Harry shuddered at the torture and pain that was so clearly written on his best friend’s face.
“He´s dead.” Ron whispered.
“What? Who?” Harry asked and he felt like his heart was about to stop. Ron Didn´t answer him.
“Ron? Please tell me.” He begged.
“They killed him, someone killed him!” Ron yelled the last part and everyone in the room looked at them.
“Who Ron? Who´s dead?” Ron stumbled towards him, and Harry quickly grabbed his arms to hold him up. He saw a single tear slip Ron´s eyes and it broke his heart.
“Dad. Someone killed Dad Harry.” Ron said in a dead voice before he fainted. All Harry could do was catch him while he himself felt like he was falling and falling, afraid he would never find the ground again.
***Sorry I had whriters blockage but I think I´m over it now. I hope you enjoyed this chapter :)***
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