ORIGINAL: The Amour | By : Manhattan Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 3813 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Disclaimer: All characters & setting belong to JK Rowling.
[Chapter Five]
The next morning, Monday, Harry a to to see an empty chair.
No Draco, no nothing. Not even any signs of their actions from the night were visible. The sheets were stark clean.
It was a dream. Harry though, feeling disappointment weighing down in his chest. Of course it was a dream Something like that wasnt even plausible anyways. It was crazy. Just like dreams were supposed to be.
The pain in his chest was completely gone and he sat up easily.
Oh good. Youre awake dear.
Harry looked to his right and saw Madam Pomfrey bustling out of her
office toward him.
How are you feeling this morning?
Fine. Harry said.
Yes, well then, I suppose you can return to your classes today. Youve missed half of Potions already but you should go anyways. The Headmaster wouldnt want you to purposely miss a class.
Harry regretted immediately that he hadnt lied about a pain. Not only would he have to endure Snapes cruel point-docking speech about being late, hed have to face Malfoy. Even though it had all been surreal, he didnt think he would be able to look at him.
Madam Pomfrey unwrapped his bandages and he changed into his school robes which had conveniently been brought to the hospital wing for him. Probably Hermiones doings. He thought with a smile.
He grabbed his boo and and with a quick thanks to Madam Pomfrey, he hastily made his way down to the Potions dungeon.
He halted outside the door and took a deep breath. Hed be all right. As long as he kept his eyes lowered. Hed be fine.
He pushed the door open quietly and tried to sneak into a seat beside Hermione but Snape, who seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, caught him before his bottom touched the chair.
Mr. Potter. How kind of you to join us. But I supposed you intended to be fashionably late? Snape leered unpleasantly.
Harry, still keeping his gaze to the floor, chose not to say anything.
Potter! Snape snapped. What, may I ask is so intriguing about the
floor that you cannot have the decent courtesy to look at your Professor when he is speaking?
Harrys inside fumed with embarrassment. He forced himself to look up but he turned his body so that he couldnt see the Slytherins on the other side of the room.
Twenty-five points from Gryffindor Potter and if you dont manage to copy all these notes down by the end of class, Ill double it.
Harry slumped down into his chair and pulled out his quill and parchment. He began jotting down what Snape had written on the board. He didnt even feel like talking back to the greasy-gi-a-t-a-teacher today. All he wanted was to get through the dang class in a hurry and leave.
The hands on the clock seemed to be moving very very slowly. Harrys arms felt as if they would fall off at any second.
He felt a touch on his shoulder and looked up to see Hermione giving him a sympathetic smile. He returned the smile weakly and with a sigh, resumed his writing.
Hermione leaned close to his ear and nudged him again.
Why is Malfoy looking at you all weird?
Harry felt an uncomfortable jolt when he heard this but he couldnt make himself lift his head.
Probably just pondering about a good hex to use on me as usual. he replied. Hoping to sound unconcerned.
Hmm... was all Hermione said.
The longest ninety minutes he had ever had to endure finally passed and Harry was first out the door. As usual, Ron had been ignoring him and so he hardly felt it was g tog to proceed to Divination without him.
He climbed the long sets of winding and moving staircases without rush. His feet seemed to be doing the navigation for him for his mind was a jumble and busy with hundreds of involuntary thoughts.
Most all of them consisting of a certain blonde.
He felt like ripping his hair out in irritation with himself. he hated the fact that he was so weak to these new emotions... he was supposed to be happy with Cho. But no. There hed had to go and ruin himself. Hed never be the same again.
Im not in love. he said aloud. Its just my bloody insane hormones.
He repeated it over and over to his mind until he was beginning to actually convince himself pretty well.
Five minutes later, he found himsescenscending the rope ladder into the stuffy tea shop of a classroom.
It wasnt long after hed seated himself that the echoing of students voices and the thundering of footsteps was heard from below. One by one, his fellow classmates appeared through the trapdoor and seated themselves in the overstuffed poufs and chairs.
Professor Trelawny emerged out of her usual shadowy corner and walked towards them with a ridiculously solemn expression.
Good Morning my dear students. Today, we will be studying the magic of Divination ugh ugh art. she paused, as if waiting to hear students gasping or exclaiming excitedly, but since the room remained quite silent, she went on. To read someones inner most, one must n ton to express themselves in some shape. And that is where the beauty of Art takes us!
The students retrieved their books at her bidding and read for a few minutes about the unintruiging subject.
Although Harry did not wholey believe in any type of Divination taught by the old bug-eyed fraud, he felt a bit uneasy about expressing his rmosrmost so openly. What if someone found out about the dream? He couldnt bear to think of the reaction the rest of the Gryffindors would give.
The Art, as it turned out, was something quite simpler then anyone would have expected. It was painting. Or rather, blobbing the paper with random colors and seeing what you got in the end.
They were each given a large sheet of canvas paper and a set of magical divination paint, as Trelawny called it.
Harry watched as people around him began to unscrew the pain bottles and dipping their thick brushes in them. With a sigh, Harry did so too. He lifted the dripping brush and flicked it so that the paper was now covered in green blots and flecks.
He studied it for a second, and thinking that it looked like a mess of nothing, he concluded that he was definitely in no immediate danger and s continued on.
Next he took a deep red and splattered it across the paper. After that came silver, gold, black, and blue.
He smiled at his work of art and felt calmed by it somehow.
Maybe painting is a good stress-reliever. He chuckled to himself.
All right dear divinators. Well begin the analysis now... Professor Trelawny peered out over he wide rimmed glasses expectantly. Switch with anyone that is of the opposite gender and analyze each others carey. Wy. Write down anything and everything you see and I will go over what they mean later. Please begin!
There was a storm of scraping chairs as students got up to find a partner. Harry was spared the embarrassment of searching for one himself as Parvati plopped herself into the chair next to him.
Harry looked up and saw her glaring at him. It seemed that she still upset about the way hed ignored her during the Yule Ball in their fourth year. Girls and grudges. He thought.
He sighed wearily. Why did you pick me if all you came to do was sit and glare at me?
Parvati pursed her lips and smirked. I wanted to analyze you Harry. Maybe Ill be able to see something good thatll pay you back for treating me so awfuat tat the Dance.
Oh great. he mumbled.
Now hand you paper over. she snapped.
Harry reluctantly gave her his paper and watched her carefully as her eyes bore into it. Enough to burn a whole right through it.
A lump formed in his throat as Parvati let out a soft gasp and her lip curled. She began scribbling furiously onto a sheet of parchment and her smile widened even more.
45;S45;Shes probably just predicting my death again. he reassured himself. Nothing more...
Oh my... she murmured delightedly.
What? he asked.
Nothing.
Right.
This is even better than I thought... Parvatis eyes gleamed mischievously and she finally brought her quill to a stop. Professor! Ive finished! she called out sweetly to Trelawny.
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