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Adventures In Life Drawing	By : Davenrood Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 3984 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Five: Dinner and a Boggart
"That's it for drawing time today. Clean up your areas."
There were several utterances of 'scourgify' around the room, and Hermione looked down with a sigh at her charcoal covered blouse. Lupin started to put out the lights he'd placed around the platform.
"Remember that we start foreshortening next week. I want two inches on why foreshortening is important to understand and the spells that can help us with this.
"Thank you, again, Severus," he added as the other man pulled on his robe. Snape nodded curtly and stalked to the dressing area. When Lupin finished, he walked over to Harry.
"You'll excuse me, Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy. Mr. Potter, could I have a word?"
"Certainly," Harry replied. He let himself be led a few feet away from his friends. "What is it, Professor?"
"Harry, your Godfather and I were wondering if you'd like to join us for dinner tonight. The school year gets so busy, and it's so hard to find the time to see those you care about. I thought we could have a little pre-Halloween party, like a mini-family gathering."
"I'd love to," Harry said with a big grin at Lupin's use of 'family.' "The three of us haven't been able to sit down to a proper dinner since... well, never. It would be great."
"Excellent," Lupin said, clapping his hands together. "How about six o'clock? You know where our chamber is, yes?"
Harry nodded. Lupin gave his shoulder a light squeeze and Harry returned to Hermione and Draco who were standing rather awkwardly, not talking.
"What was that about," Hermione asked immediately, glad to have him back. Draco also seemed extremely relieved.
"Remus and Sirius want me to have dinner with them," he explained. Draco smirked.
"Dinner with the loving couple? Tell, me, Nancy, which one is the wife?"
Harry frowned and punched Draco in the shoulder. "Shut it, Linda. No one pays you to talk."
Draco put up his hands, knowing he had gone a bit far. "Sorry, sorry. I take it back. Except it seems as if their condition runs in the family."
He winked and dodged another punch. Taking a quick bow, Draco grabbed his things and dashed out the door. Harry crossed his arms but a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"That Draco Malfoy is the most insufferable, little-"
"I'd watch my mouth, if I were you, Miss Granger," said a familiar voice. The two turned around to see a fully clothed Professor Snape standing behind them. "It isn't nice to talk about people behind their back."
Hermione and Harry blushed, albeit for two completely different reasons. Snape darted his eyes from Hermione to Harry, narrowed them, and then strode away without another word.
Hermione let out a sigh. "At least he didn't deduct house points."
"And minus five points from Gryffindor, by the way," Snape called out casually as he walked out the door.
Ron rolled from his back to his stomach and blew the hair out of his face.
"What are you getting all spruced up for," he asked. Harry was buttoning up a black dress shirt as he looked in the mirror. There was a moment of silence in the dormitory as Harry searched for the right tie.
"Ah, here it is," he exclaimed, pulling out an orange tie. He threw it around his neck and started tying it. Seamus looked up from his quidditch magazine.
"He has a date with some hot stud, don't you Potter." Harry just waggled his eyebrow at Seamus before replying.
"Remus asked me to come have dinner with him and Sirius tonight. A family pre-Halloween party."
Harry couldn't help but grin again at the word family. It sounded so nice. Ron adjusted himself again and tapped his huge feet against the floor.
"That's nice. But that still doesn't explain the getup. Is it a formal affair?"
Harry bit his lip. "No...well, he didn't say so. I just want to look my best. This is really important to me."
Ron got up off the bed and turned Harry to face him. "Then you may want to tie that tie properly. Allow me."
"That's right, mummy Ron," Seamus said with an evil smile. "Fuss over the wee Potter lad."
Harry laughed at Seamus and let Ron fix it, who was trying to ignore Seamus. Even though he'd known both his godfather and his... godfather-in-law?... for years, he was still nervous, so he didn't mind Ron fussing over him. Remus had called him family!
"Thanks, Ron."
"No worries, mate."
Harry forced himself to maintain a steady stroll as he neared Remus' and Sirius' chamber. When he reached the painting, a lovely young lady with a pearl necklace, he stopped and tried to flatten his unruly hair.
"I don't think you can do much with that," the painting told him, giggling. "I'll let them know you're here."
She disappeared, returning a moment later with a smile.
"Welcome, Harry," she said, and the portrait swung open. Harry stepped into the entry way and it closed behind him. Before he knew what hit him, he was engulfed in a big, bear hug.
"Right on time," Sirius said, pressing Harry to his chest.
"Mfffhamphaat."
"What's that?" Sirius held out the boy at arms length.
"Nice coat rack," he said, pointing to the coat rack that looked suspiciously similar to the womping willow. As if proving itself, the arms of the coat rack swayed back and forth.
"Thanks," Sirius replied. "Nice tie. Come with me to the sitting room and we'll have a cuppa."
Harry followed his godfather into a comfortable room with a blazing fire. Sirius sat down in one of the two arm chairs and indicated the other to Harry. A few moments later, Remus entered with a tray of tea.
"Do you take sugar, Harry?"
Harry shook his head, and Remus sat the tray down on the coffee table, pouring the tea through a strainer into each cup. Suddenly Sirius stood up.
"Here, Rem. You have my seat and I'll get another."
Remus put up his hands. "No, please, I'll just transfigure the desk chair."
"I insist-"
"Sit down, love. I mean it."
Sirius sat down, and Harry almost laughed at his godfather's doggy behaviour. Lupin placed the desk chair next to Harry's and transfigured it into a large red armchair. After doing so, he picked a cup of tea from the tray and settled into the chair.
"Ahh... it's actually more comfortable this way, Harry." He winked and Harry chuckled at the miffed look on Sirius' face.
"Well, I was only offering," he said with a pout. Remus smiled at his partner.
"And I thank you for that."
Harry felt warm, not only from the fire but with contentment. They were bickering like an old married couple and he was enjoying every good-hearted moment of it.
"What are we having for dinner," Harry asked. Lupin was about to reply when a loud thump sounded from somewhere in the room. Harry jumped and wheeled around in his chair. "What was that!"
Sirius put a hand on Harry's.
"It's alright, it's just a boggart in that trunk."
Harry looked into the corner by the desk and saw an old, large trunk that was shaking oddly. He breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why do you have a boggart in your chambers," he asked curiously.
"It popped out of the good silver drawer earlier this evening," Remus told him. "We didn't have time to get rid of it, so we put him in that old trunk for now. Although I'm not quite sure it will hold him all night. We may want to move him again, don't you think, Sirius?"
The other nodded and stood up.
"I'll check on the roast and then we can think of where else he'd like to be thrown into." Sirius moved out of the room and into the kitchen.
As Harry hadn't been in their chamber before, he got up to look at the photos on the wall. Various people -some he knew: his mum and dad, Mad Eye Moody, Dumbledore, Tonks; some he didn't: an old looking wizard with a kind face, a blond man holding a pint of beer- were all waving and smiling at him. As he moved down the wall, Remus came to stand behind him.
"That's my old painting master from Italy," he said pointing to the old man. "He was very good to me all those years ago, when I had no one. He has lycanthropy, as well. Brews the wolfsbane potion nearly as well as Severus Snape."
"And him," Harry asked, pointing to the blond man.
"That," Sirius said, having just returned from the other room, "Is Rem's old boyfriend."
"He is not, Sirius. Don't tell lies." He shot Sirius a look as the man stood next to him and draped an arm over his shoulder. "That is a model I knew in Greece who happened to become my friend... but just that, and nothing more." With that he elbowed Sirius softly in the ribs. Harry was about to ask about another picture when the trunk thumped again, even louder than before. Harry was standing right next to it, and took a step backwards as the lid popped open. Much to the surprise of Remus and Sirius, a human hand thrust upwards and grabbed onto the side.
"I thought Harry's boggart takes the shape of a dementor," Remus said quietly to Sirius. Sirius was about to confirm that thought when the hand was used to pull up the rest of the human. It was none other than Snape, and he was very naked. Harry stepped back with a horrified look on his face as Sirius stepped out in front of him. There was a pop, and the naked Snape transformed into the shape of a rat.
"Riddikulus!" Sirius pointed at the rat with his wand and it turned into a hamster running on a large wheel. He floated the wheel through the door and into another room, closing it after him. Harry sat down in his chair and lowered his head with embarrassment. Remus returned to his own seat, unsure of what to say. After a moment, he cleared his throat.
"You don't have to explain that to us if you don't want to, Harry. You're nearly an adult and we aren't going to interrogate you on every-"
"Just what was that," Sirius said as he burst into the sitting room. "Why did I just have a naked Snape crawling out of my antique trunk?"
Harry's face went bright red and he shrugged his shoulders. Sirius wasn't angry, but he was very confused. He sat down and leaned toward his godson.
"Harry, how is it that you've gone from being afraid of dementors, the soul sucking demons from who-knows-where, to a naked Snape?"
Remus snorted. "I don't see much difference now that you put it that way, love." Sirius scrunched up his face, torn between amusement and confusion.
"I'm serious," he said. "I don't get it."
"I'm having a lot of trouble in drawing class," Harry muttered, hoping that this would explain away the problem. "I guess the thought of being bad at something scares me."
Sirius looked over Harry's head to Remus, who shook his head and mouthed, "Let him be." Sirius sighed and nodded, although he wasn't happy with Harry's explanation.
"Alright, don't worry about it, Harry. Supper is ready and it's going to get cold, so let's just have a nice evening, shall we?"
Harry got to his feet quickly, eager to get out of the room. He, too, was confused. When had the idea of Snape's naked body been more frightening than an encounter with a dementor?
Remus rolled over in bed and looked at Sirius, who was laying awake on his back. Remus propped himself up on an elbow and put his free arm across Sirius's chest.
"Can't sleep?"
"No."
"Me neither."
Sirius sighed. "I'm still confused about that boggart."
Remus laid down again and snuggled closer. "Well, let's think about a few things. Number one, Harry is a teenage boy, number two, Harry is gay. One plus two equals..."
"Acute sexual frustration," Sirius finished. "Understandable. I was thinking of that as well. And that's where the confusion begins."
"Well, sometimes the things we lust after can be pretty daunting," Remus said. "People have been afraid of stranger things. If I lusted after Snape and he was my snarky potions professor, I'd be afraid, too."
Sirius was grumbling under his breath.
"What's that?"
"Why not someone else though," he lamented. "Why couldn't a naked Draco Malfoy pop up, the way those two act around each other? Not that I want a naked student in my chambers, even if it is a boggart," he added, coughing uncomfortably at the thought.
"That's alright, love, I know what you mean. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Hopefully, Harry will find someone that he can have a relationship with and he'll soon forget all about Severus Snape."
Sirius turned to look at Remus, moved his face closer, and kissed him softly.
"Thanks, Rem. I would never get any sleep for worrying half the time if you weren't around."
Remus smiled in reply and closed his eyes.
"Night, love."
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