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Black Roses	By : BlackDawnRose Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 16093 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Look at this, another chapter, already :) I am currently typing this while simultaneously keeping a nearly one year old from falling backwards off a couch. That's a skill let me tell you. So onto the chapter. This one is dedicated to POTTERPHILE and The Selvage Fairy from ff.net as the first reviewers of the last chapter, I hope you guys love the update.
Here we go, let me know what you think
Kayla
The Morning After
“Harry, Harry wake up you’re gonna miss breakfast.”
Harry awoke to Ron shaking him and he opened his eyes to look up at the other boy. “What time is it?” he asked.
“It’s ten o’clock mate, we’re supposed to be meeting Hermione in the library in like 20 minutes, we’ve got to go,” Ron replied urgently, pulling at his arm.
“Okay, Ron I’m coming,” Harry agreed grumpily, dragging himself out of bed and over to his trunk to retrieve something to wear. He found some clothes and headed for the bathroom to shower quickly, telling Ron to go ahead without him. He stripped off his clothes and turned on the water, jumping under the spray as soon as it was warm enough. Sighing he hung his head wishing he was still in bed. Today was going to be a long day and he was utterly exhausted.
Thinking back to why he was so tired he felt himself smile.
It was so worth it.
XX
He arrived at breakfast just in time to grab some food before it all disappeared back to the kitchen. He filled his plate and managed to fill his glass with pumpkin juice which he was grateful for. Before he started on his food he chanced a look up at the head table, a small smile tugging at his lips when he saw Severus talking to Dumbledore. As if sensing his gaze Severus chose that moment to look his way and for a moment their gazes locked across the large hall. Their moment didn’t last long as Dumbledore demanded Severus’ attention once more and Hermione demanded Harry’s, but in that small moment Harry felt a strong desire to cross the room, jump on the potions master and kiss him into oblivion.
That was one strong, efficient spell; Harry would really have to be on his guard. Another thing he noticed in the small moment they’d shared, and something that made him exceptionally happy, was that the potions master had smiled at him. It was only small but it was a smile none the less.
As pathetic as it sounded, Harry was pretty sure he’d spend the rest of the day floating on a happy cloud because of it. He was a lucky, lucky man.
XX
Harry and his friends arrived in the library right on time and immediately set out in search of somewhere to study. It seemed to be the day for it and the library was thoroughly packed with students from every grade. As the trio and Luna, who’d decided to join them on their way to the library, were searching for a table Harry heard a voice calling his name and he looked over to see Draco approaching them. He felt Ron tense beside him, no doubt waiting for a fight, Harry however smiled at the Slytherin as he approached.
They’d discussed this the other day; if they were going to be friends they were going to have to get their other friends used to the idea somehow and that meant finding a way to start off a friendship that didn’t look too suspect. They’d both decided that they’d look for a moment where one of them could be courteous to the other and begin from there. It seemed Draco may have found that moment because he wasn’t looking at Harry with any hostility.
“Malfoy,” Harry greeted him amicably.
“Potter,” Draco returned the greeting just as amicably, “It’s quite a mad house in here today.”
“You’re not wrong there,” Harry agreed. “We were just looking for somewhere to study, although it seems our options are limited,” he noted looking around.
“In fact they are, I just took a walk around the library to look for a book and there are no empty tables anywhere. It seems everyone’s decided today’s a good day to study,” Draco informed them.
“Wonderful,” Harry all but groaned, hearing Hermione sigh unhappily behind him.
“Well I guess we could go and study in the common room, although it’s never overly quiet in there,” the girl said sadly.
“Well that’s actually why I came over. Pansy, Theo, Blaise and I got here a bit earlier and we managed to snag a table to ourselves. It’s just the four of us and there’s plenty of room if you wanted to join us,” the Slytherin offered.
Harry smiled. Yep, this was a good way to start. He turned to his friends who were staring at the Slytherin in shock.
“What?” Ron asked.
“That’s really lovely of you, Malfoy,” Luna replied, with a friendly smile for the other blonde.
“What?” Ron asked again.
“I’m okay with that, are you guys?” Harry asked.
“What?” Ron asked again.
“Sure, that would be good,” Hermione agreed, sounding incredibly surprised but not one to turn down a study space. “Thank you, Malfoy,” she accepted for them and Draco led the way over to the table, the others in tow.
“What?” Ron asked again.
Blaise and Theo were completely absorbed in books when they reached the table while Pansy was filing her nails. Draco slid in beside Pansy so the Slytherins were taking up one side of the table and offered the Gryffindors the other side which they accepted. Hermione sat down first across from Blaise, Ron sat beside her putting him across from Pansy, Luna sat across from Theo and Harry sat across from Draco.
“You all know each other,” Draco said, giving Harry a secret grin when no one was looking.
Pansy looked up for a moment and gave the group a smile and a wave before turning her attention back to her nails. Blaise waved without taking his eyes off the book he was reading and Theo looked up with a polite smile and a quiet hello before turning back to his book.
“Good. Time to study,” Draco announced before heading off to find a book and motioning with his eyes for Harry to follow him.
“I’m just going to the bathroom, I’ll be back in a sec. Is there anything you want me to grab for you on my way?” Harry asked Hermione. The girl handed him a list of books with a grateful smile and he headed off. It wasn’t long before he found Draco in one of the aisles and headed in to join him. “Thanks for the offer,” Harry said, in case anyone else was listening.
“You’re welcome,” Draco replied, searching the shelves for a book. “The war’s over after all, I see no reason to carry on pointless, childish feuds any longer.”
“No, I agree.” Harry turned his attention to the shelf Draco was studying. “What are you looking for?” As the sentence was leaving Harry’s mouth Draco seemed to find the book he wanted and pulled it out of the shelf.
“Now, nothing,” he replied with a victorious grin. “What have you got there?” he asked, his gaze falling on the piece of paper in Harry’s hand.
“Hermione’s request list, I figured I’d come over here and get them for her so she can set Ron up while I’m gone,” Harry explained, looking down at the list.
“May I?” Draco asked and Harry handed over the list. Draco scanned it for a moment before saying, “I’m pretty sure we have these four over at the table already and that one there is the one I just found, so it’s just the other two you want. They’re over this way,” Draco pointed in a direction and Harry followed him over to an empty aisle right at the back. As soon as they were alone Draco caste a privacy charm and turned to Harry with a smile. “So, how was that?” he asked.
“Very good, I almost believed you,” Harry replied with a grin of his own. “How was I?”
“Oh marvellous,” Draco replied in a voice that made Harry chuckle. “So how did it go last night?” Draco asked.
“It was brilliant,” Harry said with a grin.
Draco grinned back. “Good, I’m glad,” he said happily.
“Yeah so am I,” Harry agreed, knowing he probably sounded incredibly love sick, but not really caring.
Draco’s smile became warm. “Maybe it’s just this spell that’s going around but I’m really glad this is happening,” he said quietly.
“Me too,” Harry agreed. “It’s weird isn’t it? I’ve spent so long fighting with you and Severus, and even though I never really hated either of you and I always kind of liked Severus I thought it would take a while for any interaction between us to be even the least bit comfortable. It really hasn’t though,” he said puzzled.
“I know,” Draco replied thoughtfully. “Do you think it’s the spell?” he asked.
“I don’t know, but it’s not just you and me; Severus was a lot more accepting of everything last night than I expected him to be. He even let me kiss him to get the rest of the school off his back,” Harry confided.
Draco nodded. “I thought things felt a bit different around here, I figured that must have been the case. To be honest I don’t think anyone else has noticed the difference; but then I don’t think they even realised there was anything wrong to begin with,” he said.
“Neither do I, otherwise I’m pretty sure they’d all be quite mortified right now,” Harry suggested, causing Draco to chuckle. “It was nice … last night, it was … comfortable, you know, like I was finally home. I don’t know it probably sounds crazy.”
“Maybe not as much as you think,” Draco replied, looking thoughtful.
“What do you mean?” Harry asked.
“Well..” Draco began before closing his mouth and looking as though he was struggling to think of how to say something. “Remember when you told me about you liking Sev and I said I didn’t mind?”
Harry nodded.
“Well I really didn’t, and I wasn’t surprised when he mentioned his feelings for you either. It was kind of like I had expected it, like I’d known all along that that was how things were supposed to be. I don’t know, Harry, it’s like we were always supposed to be with Sev, in different ways of course, but like we were always supposed to be … I don’t know family. Does that make any sense to you?” Draco asked.
“Yeah, yeah it does.” And now that Draco mentioned it, it did. It was exactly how Harry had been feeling, even toward Draco, he’d never felt like that with anyone … well not quite the same anyway. Now that he thought about it there were a couple of people he’d felt similar feelings toward, but none quite as strong as what he was currently feeling toward Draco and Severus. Wasn’t that weird?!! “So you think we were always supposed to end up together, the three of us, in one way or another?” Harry asked
“Well, you were supposed to be a Slytherin,” Draco reminded him. “It makes sense doesn’t it?”
“Yeah, I suppose it does,” Harry agreed. Did that mean by asking the hat not to sort him into Slytherin that he’d missed out on finding his family until now? No, he didn’t think so. Until the battle with Voldemort was done none of them were ready for this, it would have been opposed by all of them as well as those around them. No, it had to happen now, there was no other way. “So after all of that I really belong with the serpents.”
“I guess you do, odd isn’t it?” Draco asked.
“Very,” Harry agreed.
“Anyway we’d better get back, Granger doesn’t seem like the sort to let you escape her too long,” Draco suggested.
“No she’s certainly not,” Harry agreed and the boys set about looking for the books on their list.
When they returned to their table it was to find Pansy, Ron and the rest of the library’s occupants watching on in confusion as Blaise and Hermione had an animated discussion about … something. Harry exchanged a curious glance with Draco before they took their seats at the table once more.
“And then the article said they were going to continue testing after all of that!” Hermione stated in exasperation.
“Yes because apparently 1000 people weren’t enough to prove the theory,” Blaise replied, just as exasperated.
“Um guys, I don’t mean to interrupt but we are in the library remember,” Harry reminded the pair who immediately blushed and looked around the room apologetically.
“Sorry,” the two said in tandem before burying their heads in books once more.
“What was that about?” Harry mouthed to Ron who shrugged.
“Some journal article they both read,” Pansy explained.
“Ah, right,” Harry replied with a nod. “Hey, who would have imagined those two having a discussion about anything that didn’t involve insults.”
“I guess we’re all growing up aren’t we?” Draco asked with a smile.
Harry smiled back; this was definitely a step in the right direction. He passed Hermione the books she’d asked for before pulling out the ones he needed and opening his potions text book. It immediately had him thinking about Severus, and for once, not about how much the potions professor hated him.
XX
The studying travelled along quite smoothly until lunch time with even Ron and Pansy managing to be civil and get some studying done. Hermione and Blaise wanted to stay in the library to study so the rest of the group headed to the hall for lunch, promising to return with food for them. The six of them headed in that direction, garnering quite a few odd looks from those they passed. Harry didn’t care; they’d get over it eventually.
“So Blaise is a book worm hey? I never would have guessed that,” Harry stated looking over at the Slytherins.
Pansy nodded. “Yeah, he’s always liked to study. Unfortunately until the war ended he didn’t have the luxury of studying anything that wouldn’t help further the cause,” she explained with a sad smile.
“What does he want to be?” Harry asked.
“A medi-wizard,” Draco replied, with a proud smile for his friend. “He’ll get there too now that the war’s over and his parents are gone. It’s sad to say it, but they were the ones who supported Voldemort not Blaise himself and they were more interested in him becoming a death eater than a medi-wizard. Now that they’re out of the picture he’s free to do what he really wants.”
“That’s nice,” Harry replied with a smile of his own. “He should be able to do what he wants. It’s sad that his parents had to die for him to get the chance though.”
The Slytherins nodded sadly.
“Hermione wants to be a medi-witch too, that’s probably why they’ve been reading the same journals,” Harry suggested with a smile. “I have to say coming back to the table and seeing them in a discussion like that was quite surreal.”
Pansy, Theo and Draco chuckled.
“It was kind of nice to see though,” Pansy said, looking somewhat sad. “There’s not many among our own house who are interested in healing craft so he hasn’t really had a lot of people he can talk to about his interest. Even if I were that smart healing’s not my thing.”
“So what do you want to be?” Harry asked the girl.
“A lawyer,” Pansy replied with an evil grin, causing Harry to laugh.
“Somehow I think if you looked at your competition like that you’d win every case,” he said causing the other two to laugh.
“I’ll give it a shot shall I?” Pansy asked drawing more laughter from those around her. The group reached the great hall and separated to head to their own tables, still grinning; at least most of them were. As soon as Draco, Theo, Luna and Pansy weren’t looking Ron grabbed Harry’s arm and dragged him out into the corridor.
“Harry what the hell are we doing?” he demanded.
“What do you mean?” Harry asked, confused by the sudden outburst.
“I mean what are we doing chumming up to Malfoy?” the redhead demanded.
“We’re not chumming up with anyone,” Harry replied, annoyed with his friend, and tried to pull his arm out of the other boy’s grip. “We’re being civil with each other which I hardly think is a bad thing.”
Ron gripped his arm tighter. “Don’t give me that crap. You weren’t being civil you were being friendly, acting like those Slytherins are our friends which they’re certainly not. They’re the enemy, we’re not supposed to pal around with our enemies,” Ron growled.
“They’re not our enemies, Ron, the war is over now, we’re all just people and there’s nothing left for us to fight over so why shouldn’t we get along? Now, let my bloody arm go!” Harry growled.
“Harry-” Ron started to snarl, only to be interrupted by a voice beside them.
“Is there a problem over here?”
Both boys turned to see Severus looking down at them, a rather displeased look in his eyes.
“No,” Ron replied immediately, although from his tone Harry could tell he wanted to snap at the professor.
“No what, Mr Weasley?” Snape demanded.
“No, Sir, there’s no problem here,” Ron replied once more, in the same insolent tone.
“Then perhaps you’d like to release Mr Potter’s arm, Mr Weasley,” the potions master said in a tone that was supposed to imply suggestion, although only an idiot would confuse it for anything other than on order.
Ron reluctantly released Harry’s arm and Snape raised an eyebrow at the redhead before turning to address Harry. “Mr Potter, a word,” he said before gliding off down the corridor without waiting for Harry to reply. “And detention this afternoon for manhandling your fellow students, Mr Weasley,” He called over his shoulder as he went.
Harry spared Ron another annoyed glare before following after the potions master. They walked in silence until they reached a classroom and Severus opened the door before motioning for Harry to proceed him inside. As soon as they were both inside and the door was shut Severus turned concerned eyes on Harry.
“What in the world was that about?” he demanded. “I was waiting for him to curse you, or throw a punch.”
Harry shook his head. “I have no idea,” he replied truthfully. He explained the events of the morning leading up to Severus’ timely entrance and when he was finished Severus studied him thoughtfully.
“That is all that has happened?” he asked.
Before Harry could answer there was a knock on the class room door and when Severus called for whoever it was to enter Draco’s head poked around the door.
“Hey, is everything all right?” he asked. Severus motioned for him to come in and he did so, closing the door behind him. “I saw Weasley stomp into the great hall, by himself, in a huff. When I mentioned that I thought it was weird one of the first years who’d just arrived at lunch mentioned that she’d seen you two walking into a class room. Since I know your main aim isn’t to bother Harry any more I thought something might be up,” he explained.
“Something is most certainly up,” Severus explained. “We are currently in the process of trying to figure out exactly what. It appears Mr Weasley has quite an issue with you and Harry behaving civilly toward each other. I will admit it surprised me to hear of it also.”
Harry and Draco exchanged a look. “Well, we talked about it yesterday,” Harry explained. “We figured with the war being over and all there was nothing left for us to fight about and we may as well try our hands at friendship. We thought that us getting along would make things a little easier for you and that was why this originally began but now, well, we seem to be getting along quite well without any incentive,” Harry finished, looking up at Severus who had a surprised look on his face.
“The two of you chose to willingly put your pasts behind you and get along, just to make things easier for me?” he asked, looking from Harry to Draco, the surprise still very evident on his face.
“Yeah, of course we did. We want you to be happy, Sev,” Draco explained and Harry nodded in agreement.
Severus looked down, a small smile appearing on his face. “Thank you,” he said quietly.
“You’re welcome,” Harry and Draco replied in synch, sharing a smile. They knew Severus wasn’t good at expressing his feelings and how shy he could be about thing like that. They also knew how much he appreciated their gesture, which made Harry feel really good and he could tell Draco felt the same.
“I’d hug you both, but there are too many windows in this room,” Severus said, finally looking up.
Harry and Draco chuckled at that. “We’re hugging you mentally as we speak,” Harry told him jokingly, garnering another chuckle from Draco as well as a small smile from Severus.
“So what are you going to do about Weasley?” Draco asked.
“I’m going to find out what his issue is,” Harry replied. “And if his only problem is that I’m getting along with you he can get over it.”
“I like your way of thinking,” Draco said with a grin.
“Very well, but be careful, Harry,” Severus cautioned. “Weasley looked most upset earlier, I’d not like to see him hex you.”
It was said rather casually, but Harry could tell the DADA professor was concerned for him. “I’ll be careful I promise,” he said with a soft smile.
“You too, Draco,” Severus cautioned the blonde as well. “Weasley is most protective of his friendship with Harry, I have no doubt he’d go to great lengths to keep it.”
“I will,” Draco replied, flashing the potions master a smile of his own.
“When you return to the hall you may inform your class mates that I have spoken to you about your extra lessons, should they wonder where you’ve been,” Severus told Harry.
“Extra lessons?” Draco asked curiously.
“Since fifth year Dumbledore had me going to Severus for extra lessons during the week, to help me prepare for fighting Voldemort. Last night we were wondering how we were going to get to spend any time together without arousing suspicion and we decided to tell everyone I was taking extra lessons with Severus again,” Harry explained.
“That’s a good idea,” Draco replied with a smile. “Would you mind if I tagged along for a night or two a week?” he asked the pair. “Give me a chance to spend time with you too.”
Severus looked at Harry.
“I don’t see why not. You may as well come along for most of them, there’s nothing we’re going to be doing that you can’t be present for since our relationship can’t actually start properly until I finish Hogwarts,” Harry replied, looking at Severus questioningly.
The potions master shook his head. “I am not opposed to the idea either,” he replied. “I’ll be having Harry for “lessons” Monday, Thursday and Friday nights whenever possible, you may attend any of those you wish, Draco, you know I always enjoy spending time with you,” Severus replied.
Draco smiled, “Good, I like that idea. Anyway we’d better get back to lunch before all the food is gone. I know Pansy will pack something up for Blaise, but with the mood Weasley’s in he might not remember anything for Granger.”
“Good point,” Harry agreed, “We should head back. Thanks for the help earlier,” he said to Severus, “I have no idea what’s gotten into him but I’ll find out. I’ll see you tomorrow after dinner?” he asked.
Severus nodded, “You will indeed. Draco if you could show Harry the secret entrance to my chambers tomorrow after dinner, I believe that would be the best place to spend our evenings away from prying eyes,” he suggested
Draco nodded. “Will do,” he agreed. “I’ll see you later, Sev. Harry, I’ll see you back in the library,” he said before slipping out of the room.
Harry turned to Severus. “And now I really need to go before I do something I shouldn’t. I’ll see you tomorrow,” he said quietly, shooting Severus an adoring smile before slipping out behind Draco. The last thing he saw before he left the room was a smirk on Severus’ face.
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End of chapter.
So there we go, I hope you liked the update. Not a lot of Harry Sev but a little bit of cuteness for you all. What do you think of the Harry/Draco interaction? Interested to hear what you think.
What's up with Ron? Is he mad about Harry or something else?? Find out soon :) .
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