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Second Time Around	By : gypsysue Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 16156 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 13
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Moving Forward

Remus carried Harry with him as he walked over to where Sirius was and wrapped his free arm around the man and held the two most important people in his life to him. "I can not apologise enough, Siri, for ever thinking you would betray James and Lily."

"Remus," Sirius breathed out as he wrapped his arms around his friend, "you're here now, that's all that matters. I have so much to tell you."

Remus pulled back and looked at his friend, "yes indeed, like why you are in Potter manor with a Death Eater for starters?"

Severus actually laughed as Harry started singing, "def eater, def eater," while clapping loudly.

"Dobby, could you take Harry for a nap please," Severus said as he stopped his chuckles and realised that they needed to get serious. Dobby took Harry for his nap, after getting hugs from all in the room.

Sirius lead Remus to a chair and then sat himself followed by Severus, who was looking none too pleased at being in the same room at the two Marauders. Sirius shot him a look before focusing back on Remus.

"I think you would understand better, if you actually saw, don't you think so Severus?" Sirius asked Snape, and Remus actually looked horrified that his friend was asking a Death Eater's advice. Severus saw the look on the wolve's face and decided to put the mongrel out of his misery by lifting the left sleeve of his shirt and showing off his unmarked skin. Remus sucked in a breath as he realised that Snape was not marked and slumped back in his seat.

"What the hell is going on," he muttered.

Severus stood and walked over to the pensive, motioning the wolf to follow him, and indicated he should look. Remus turned to Sirius, who nodded his head and with that, Remus Lupin went into the past.

"Are you sure about showing him, Sirius?" Sirius looked offended, so Severus quickly added, "I just meant with the full moon coming the wolf will be very close to the surface."

"Oh, I didn't think of that. Which reminds me, can you start making Remus his wolfsbane potion?"

"And why exactly would I make a potion that would poison the man and make him weak?" Severus sneered. It was something he had learnt this time around, when he researched the potion. He had never questioned it before, when the headmaster had wanted him to brew it, and never really paid attention to other werewolves, since his mishap with Remus. But this time around he had done the research, and realised that while the potion made the man aware, it also made him weak and would kill him before his time.

He had looked at others and compared the ones taking the potion to the ones living wild, and discovered that the wild wolves were strong, healthy and full of life, while the others receiving the potion were weak, and dying slow and painful deaths. "So you wont help him then?" Sirius said, and the defeat in his voice was obvious.

"Of course I will help him, he is very important to Harry, and as you know, I will do what ever it takes to give Harry a good life." Severus sneered. Sirius was confused and it showed, which caused Severus' lip to twitch as he tried to keep from chuckling. "The wolfsbane potion was killing him Sirius, and I will not continue to slowly kill Harry's Uncle Mooney," Severus' face twisted slightly at the nickname. "I have, of course, researched the issues and the best thing for Remus to do, is to embrace the wolf, become one with it. If he continues to fight the wolf, he will only hurt himself and others. If he embraces who he is, learns to become one with the wolf inside, he will find that, like thousands of others out there, he will gain control over himself and the wolf. And I suppose another plus would be that eventually the transformation will cease to hurt."

"It is like many things in nature, when you try to deny the essence of yourself, you only harm yourself, when you embrace who or what you are, you learn to become one and master the demon inside." Severus finished and smiled slightly at the gob smacked expression on Sirius' face.

"What can we do to help?" Sirius asked.

"I have already looked into it and have a pack that are willing to teach Remus what he needs to know to become one with the wolf inside, once he does that, he will be able to transform in front of Harry and I would have no problem with it, as all he would do would be to protect his cub from any danger. If he were non magical, it would be a problem, as the non magical werewolves do not have the magic involved to intertwine the two parts of themselves. But for a wizard or witch, it is all just about control, occlumency, and practice, slowly blending the two without force."

They were interrupted by a snarling sound, and both turned to see Remus, eyes golden as the wolf fought feverishly for control, to exact revenge for his cub. "I will kill him," the wolf growled as he stalked towards the door. Severus was prepared for this also and stunned the man, smirking as the wolf hit the floor, hard.

"Was that really necessary, Severus?" Sirius snapped as he went over to his friend and levitated him to the couch.

"Yes," Severus replied with a grin, causing Sirius to blink a few times at the man, he had seen Severus do many things, smirk, sneer, even a small smile, just a quick twitch of the lips, but he had never seen him grin, and he found it slightly unnerving. He turned his attention back to Remus and watched as he slowly took control of himself, the wolf receding and his eyes going back the their usual blue colour. Sirius cancelled the spell and watched his friend as he struggled to come to terms with everything he had just witnessed.

"It's okay Moony, it's going to be okay now." Sirius soothed, as he watched his friend shake, the colour drained from his face.

Remus' mind was running a mile a minute, he was furious at the lengths Dumbledore would have, and did, go to, to turn his little cub into some kind of weapon. "I wonder how he dealt with the fact he had allowed Harry to die back them?" Remus mused out loud as he tried to come to terms with it all. Sirius watched as Lupin's eyes went wide and he sat up quickly. "Harry, he had some kind of bubble around him when Voldermort shot the killing curse at him, he, he, oh God, he watched as his mother, as Lily, was killed by that monster, and then while he was crying for his mother, that bastard shot the curse at a defenceless baby. But a shield came up around Harry, out of his tiny little hand and surrounded himself. How did he do that? And if he could do that, how come it could not protect him from the Dursleys?" Remus rambled.

"Because we believe, Dumbledore bound his powers," Severus said, almost matter-of-factly.

"How can you be so cavalier about all this," Remus snarled.

"Simple, because I fixed it. Narcissa, Lucius and I came back to change the past. Those things will no longer happen to Harry, and his powers will not be bound this time either."

"Draco," Remus breathed out, "all this for Draco." He realised that if Draco Malfoy had not been mated to Harry Potter, then they would not have lifted a finger to help Harry.

"I know what you are thinking wolf and you are wrong. Well partly. I'm not sure the Malfoy's would have done anything to help Harry, though now they are thoroughly enchanted with the little boy and Narcissa will soon come to love him like her own, if she doesn't already. But I can assure you, I would have done anything to fix it." With that, Severus turned and stalked out of the room, slamming the heavy oak door behind him, magically.

"Oh Remus," Sirius said, shaking his head, "don't you remember how much he loved Lily, he would do anything for her, and the only thing she ever asked him to do was to protect Harry." He smiled sadly at his friend who hung his head.

"I will apologise later, Sirius, it's just a lot to take in.

The two old friends spent the rest of the day talking amongst themselves about what had happened and what they could do to help Harry. It was only when Sirius had tried to talk Remus into moving in and Remus had refused to put Harry in danger, that Sirius told him about all of Severus' research.

"I could, you mean, never hurt anyone again, and never be in pain." Remus choked out, the emotion thick in his voice as he tried to convey how much that would mean to him.

"Yes," Sirius said as he hugged his friend, "Severus said it would take a while, maybe a couple of months, but knowing you, and your massive brain, you could do it in one," Sirius said laughing.

Time moved forward for the residence of Potter Manor, and things were going very well indeed. Lucius had managed to sort out all of Harry's investments. It had been a good move, transferring all of the accounts over to his own people, as the people running the Potter fortune were indeed loyal to Dumbledore and were funnelling money to the old man. Lucius put a quick stop to that, recovered the lost funds and had the accountants thrown into Azkaban. There was little he could do to the old coot, as they had taken to calling Albus, but it was another black mark against his name. Lucius made sure that Rita Skeeter heard all about it and ran another article, this one titled, Albus Dumbledore steals from The Boy Who Lived. It was a wonderful little piece about how Albus was apparently taking money from the Potter estate through the accountants, and how could anybody steal from an innocent baby, let alone the Saviour of the Wizarding World. That article had letters come in from all over, giving their support to Harry. Even, much to everyone's surprise, Molly and Arthur Weasley. Lucius himself was not sure how he felt about that, he had seen the memories where they had done nothing to help the boy, and all of them were certain that they did not want Harry to befriend Ronald Weasley, the boy had treated Harry terribly in the past with his jealousies.

As much as it pained Lucius though, the muggleborn seemed to be a good friend to Harry, after she learnt that teachers did not know everything and that you could not learn life experience from books. But they had a plan to get to the girl early, and fix those issues before Hogwarts. Lucius was almost gleeful as he talked about getting the muggleborn Granger into Slytherin. How could anyone say that Slytherins were all evil and about blood supremacy when they had a halfblood and a muggleborn in their ranks. Severus commented often that Lucius was taking too much pleasure in the new future. But how could the man not be smug when he would be the father-in-law of the Saviour.

But Lucius was most proud of his ability to boost the profiles of all the families. The Blacks, Potters and Malfoys were now the three wealthiest families in the wizarding world. Lucius was not even the little bit upset that the Potters were number one. They would all meld into one family eventually and his son and son-in-law would be the richest most powerful wizards in the world, and not just financially. So it was no surprise to anyone that Lucius could be found staring off into space, a huge smile on his face, while rubbing his hands together, quite often lately. It only added to the praise he received from his father, Abraxas, a man he had never been able to please in the past, was now a solid supporter of the light and one hundred percent behind his son, smiling all the while. Abraxas Malfoy was about one thing and one thing only, Power, and his son had solidified the Malfoy name.

Remus had finally moved in with the Black-Snape-Potter clan and could be found patrolling the grounds on the night of a full moon. He had never been stronger or healthier, and now he looked forward the the full moon and his painless transformation. Sirius joined him on occasion as Padfoot and even Severus would occasionally make an appearance. Though three year old Harry had yet to meet the wolf, they wanted to wait until he was older, little did they know that the howling would sometimes wake Harry up and Dobby would take little Harry to the balcony to watch the wolf and the dog running around playing in the yard, before falling back to sleep and being levitated by the elf back to bed.

Draco was a semi permanent guest at the Manor as well, visiting Harry often, and as they grew their bond grew with them. Narcissa had explained to Sirius and Remus that when Veela found their mates at a young age and were raised together, the bond solidified quickly, and though the two would not understand what that meant until later in life, they would always be close and defend one another. When she was asked why they were so combative the first time around, Narcissa explained, "When a young Veela comes across his mate at a young age, but close to puberty, it confuses him, and as he tried to impress the person, with no real reason why they want to, they can become somewhat," she paused for a moment and looked lovingly at her son, "overbearing. Of course in this case, Harry did not like the way young Draco acted and refused his friendship. This of course would have subconsciously made the Veela reel, but since it was still dormant, Draco could not decipher what he was feeling and turned his confusion and pain into a rivalry. This time around they do not have that issue, since they have been together since they were toddlers, so their transition will be quite easy to go from best friends to partners, when the time comes." Everyone saw the flash of pain that Narcissa tried to hide, even after all this time, the image of the two boy's bodies still haunted them all.

Harry's accidental magic flared quite often, and caused regular chaos. It was all Dobby could do to manage the fallout. Even this young, Harry was proving just how powerful he was going to be, and Lucius could not be happier, especially when Harry turned Severus' hair Weasley red and his robes a bright purple. He was even happier when Sirius had showed him the picture he had captured of the moment.

Sirius had done some of his own family cleansing, and had disowned Bellatrix LeStrange from the Black family, and had reinstated Andromada and Nymphdora Tonks, much to Andies delight. But the most important thing about disowning Bellatrix was they had access to her vault, through the Goblins, to remove all Black property. It was during that visit that Lucius felt the same thing from Harry in the vault. He focused until it lead him to a golden cup, he recognised as Hufflepuff's Cup.

That in turn lead to them researching all the founders belongings, and coming up with a list of possible Horcruxes. Slytherin's locket, Ravenclaw's Diadem and Gryffindor's sword were all on the list. As well as personal items that meant something to Tom Riddle. Lists of possibilities were made. But the group were celebrating the small victory of discovering another Horcrux already. They had rid the one from Harry, had the Diary they had seen in Harry's memory from the Chamber of Secrets and now they had the Cup.

Things were moving along nicely, but they could not rest, until they had all of them, since they knew there were seven from Harry's memory of Slughorns memory. They had hoped to have them all, before Harry started Hogwarts.
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