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Ronald Weasley's Strategies	By : AidaLily Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 19723 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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A/N: Well here is the next chapter.   It is slightly serious and unbeta'd. My beta has been sick or this would have been out faster. I will edit this chapter when they are able to get to it, but I wanted to get this out. :) Thank you to everyone reading and reviewing this story. I really appreciate it. Characters are OOC in some aspects or it wouldn't be fanfiction. :) Enjoy.   I answered the reviews at the bottom.   Beta'd 9/10/14

Warnings: Um... a kiss. Yep. You read that right.

Ron stared at Blaise waiting for an answer. Of course, it may have helped if he had actually voiced the question, but he couldn’t. For some reason, Ron felt a bit more betrayed the longer Blaise seemed to be searching for an answer or perhaps there was another reason he couldn’t say anything. Was Draco already engaged to someone? Would he need to extend his plan to include the breaking up of an engagement anyway?
Blaise looked at Ron, feeling strangely upset that the other thought he would betray him so easily. He wasn’t faithfully working on this project and their assignments just to up and ruin them by telling Draco what they were doing. “Really Ron? You just…” Blaise blew out an exaggerated puff of air. “I guess we will both just have to serve detention then.”
“What do you me- AH!” Ron cried out, lightly surprised as he was taken to an empty classroom and Blaise warded the door closed and made sure that no one could hear what was being said.
“I can’t believe you think I told Draco about the plan. Don’t even say you weren’t thinking that, because you were. I told Draco nothing and what you just saw was a glimpse into Draco. He usually doesn’t care to say anything like that or speak about his views on particular subjects. He prefers just to keep his most personal thoughts to himself because it wouldn’t benefit him in our house.” Blaise said leaning against one of the walls.
Ron was sitting up on a table as he looked at Blaise. “I suppose I could understand that. I mean I don’t quite show most of my critical thinking side in my own house for similar reasons. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have thought you told Draco about it because honestly, when would you have had time? You’ve spent most of your free time with me under the guise of ‘making sure you keep up your grade in Potions’. How did Draco know to give that advice then?”
“Pansy…” Blaise said and then pushed off the wall going over to sit by Ron. “She was head over heels crazy for Draco. I won’t say love because I don’t think she knows Draco as much as she thinks she does. I once asked her if she knew his favorite color…”
“Which is?” Ron asked figuring he might as well get some information as well since they skipped class together.
Blaise looked at him and smirked. “Now look whose trying to be a sexy Slytherin.” he said with a light chuckle at Ron’s bright red blush. “His favorite colors are crimson and silver. The crimson is probably a slightly darker color than the Gryffindor red.   Anyway, I asked her if she knew and she said no, but that it didn’t matter.   Her heart was set on marrying Draco and becoming Lady Malfoy. She felt that Draco might tell her more or be even happier with her if they were married.”
“She and Ginny could have definitely been best friends with those mindsets.” Ron said, wondering if anyone would ever unlock the secret of the female mind. Apparently, it was a very scary and highly irrational place.   How on earth could the solution to not knowing a guy well enough be to marry them?
“Oh yes they could have been friends, at least with the mindset that Pansy had at the time. So Pansy had this fantastic idea to set up this highly romantic date in order to propose. She had gone over the proposal in her mind and never once did she question if she loved him or if he loved her. She managed to get everyone to clear the common room as she knew that Draco was getting back late that evening. Before you start speculating, he likes to go out and relax with no distractions and think about his life.” Blaise said before shifting a bit and stretching before looking at Ron again.
“I was keeping an eye out in case Draco needed a quick escape like any best friend would do. Draco comes back and Pansy is waiting there with a soft smile, wearing her best dress robes, and some odd candle set up to give the room ‘feeling’ as she called it. The first thing she does is use her wand to play this soft music that would have put Professor Binns to sleep before going over and proposing to Draco. He was stunned to say the least and I thought he’d just agree to marry her or something.”
“However, that isn’t what happened at all. He asked her why she wanted to get married. Sounding confused, Pansy asked him if he loved her and then stated that they would be closer and could talk more. She figured Draco wanted everything that his parents did. A perfectly respectable arranged marriage in which they may or may not fall in love much later. Pansy thought he wanted to be a political leader who had a wife he would just show off at home. The war had changed a lot of things for Draco, or at least he chooses to say it was the war.”
“If you ask me, he just grew up and matured like many people did after the conflict. So he gave Pansy similar advice stating that if he hadn’t talked to her much up to that moment, then marrying her would only make the situation worse. She would always second guess him and wonder where on earth he was. He said that if marriage was the only way to bring them closer, then they would be divorced not long after and may have unfortunately had a child in that dysfunction. Lastly, he mentioned that she sounded confused about his feelings but not hurt. When that happens, he stated that usually the person is more in love with the idea of being with their obsession than actually being in love with the person. Do you understand it now?” Blaise asked looking at Ron. He didn’t want to be pushed away as the red-head was still very intriguing to him, but he didn’t want to constantly feel as though he wasn’t trusted either.
Ron sat there for a moment just thinking about the story and the information that he learned from Blaise about Draco. Blaise had intentionally told him more than he needed to know about the situation as a way for him to realize he could trust the Slytherin. Blaise could have simply told him that Draco gave the same message to Pansy when she tried to propose and that would have been the end of it. After all, it was such a plausible explanation that Ron would not have needed to analyze it even further. Instead, he spent time analyzing the words aware of the fact that Blaise had stopped watching him to lie partially on the desk. They had spent a lot of time together this past week or so and Ron wouldn’t be surprised at all if Blaise knew exactly what he was doing right now. It would only make sense that a person spends time analyzing new information.
If everything happened exactly the way Blaise stated, and he had no other reason to believe any differently, then simply getting them to interact wouldn’t be enough for his plan. It wasn’t as if he believed that one kiss or hug or action would have them declaring their undying love for one another, but trying to speed up the relationship too quickly would do more damage than good. Based on the information, Draco didn’t believe in rushing into a relationship without a strong foundation like love. The whole thing was actually quite admirable and Ron felt more confident that putting Draco with Harry was the best choice.
Another piece of information included that Draco liked to be alone to get his thoughts in order. He didn’t just talk with people in Slytherin and his maturity had been well proven when he talked his sister out of her ill-timed proposal. This wasn’t the Draco he was used to, but he would be the Draco that was best for Harry. He’d ask himself why he started calling Malfoy by his first name, but that didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
“This is definitely going to take a bit of re-strategizing. Not that I had many thoughts of them instantly declaring an attraction to each other and falling into wedded bliss, living in Malfoy Manor, and having like six kids or something, but I am going to have to think some of the more pressing interactions out a bit more. It is more the spacing of when they happen, then the acts happening. I was working on getting potential feelings of lust to arise, but I think I should add contemplation to that. It needs to sit with them and interactions of the talking variety like today need to become a bit more common. Based on what you just told me though, Draco is not one to share his thoughts more often than not. Harry won’t do it either unless he is prompted.” Ron said staring at the floor with a pensive expression on his face.
Blaise sat up a bit. “Continue on with the trinket plan. Right now, that needs to be at the forefront of everything. The thought still needs to be planted and you can thank your sister for planting the thought of possible friendship and completely moving past rivalries. From what I saw, Harry seems intrigued by Draco’s ease in handling the situation. Draco may be feeling as if there is someone else who shares a bit of what he is going through. Overall, it is a win-win situation from today and the kiss will plant the thought of more.”
Ron closed his eyes a moment and imagined this as a game of wizard’s chess against an all-time champion. He had to make another move after the kiss that wouldn’t scare the two away from one another, but closer together. He had to - “I got it. We have to make them fight again after the kiss. Nothing large, but playing to different sides of their project may produce the required results. If that works, then it should cause them both to be annoyed with one another and what happens when people get annoyed with one another?”
“All of our planning goes up in flames?” Blaise asked not quite sure where Ron was going with this one. First, he wanted them to love one another and now he wanted them annoyed by one another. What sense did that make?
Ron rolled his eyes. “No dear partner of mine, it makes them start thinking about every last little detail of the person that annoyed them. Draco will either talk to you or go off and think on his own about everything. Harry, on the other hand, will probably rant my ear off in hopes that I will ‘set him straight’ or tell him not to worry about it. The idea will be planted but the annoyance will stop them from going too fast. It’s perfect.”
“Did I ever tell you that you are a few cards short of a whole deck and yet somehow brilliant?” Blaise asked sitting up and looking highly amused. He could admit the plan had a lot of merit to it since people tended to focus on what annoyed them or upset them.
Ron smiled at Blaise and placed a hand on his shoulder. “No, but I love hearing it.” he said grinning before he grabbed his bag. “I think we should go see about detention tonight. It figures that I just get out of detention with Snape and you get me in trouble all over again.”
Blaise laughed. “Oh you know you are enjoying this.” he said undoing the spells on the door as they went to go see Professor Lupin.
Surprisingly, they didn’t get detentions as apparently both Harry and Draco stated that they went to comfort Ginny about her proposal being declined.   Lupin stated that it was a very mature thing for them to do and that it promoted house unity with them working together. Needless to say, they both were shocked by their teacher’s reaction even though their reactions didn’t show. They left in silence and went on with the rest of their day.
The Next Day
It was time. Unfortunately, Potions class would be missed, but it was for a good cause. This was the day where Harry and Draco would finally kiss! Ron had barely been able to sleep due to his excitement about today.   If he had a calendar, then he would be marking this day down as a day of celebration. He had the heart shaped trinket in his bag already and planned to activate it much later as he sat next to Harry at breakfast.
He compared the feeling to finding out he just made seeker for his favorite Quidditch team or even becoming Minister of Magic. Ron double checked to make sure that he had everything he needed for Potions class, just in case, and then met Harry and Hermione down in the common room. It finally hit him that he hadn’t accounted for Hermione possibly seeing what he slipped into Harry’s bag and warning Harry about it before they left for class. If only…
The fates had to be shining on him today, or they just wanted to see Draco kiss Harry as much as he did. Ginny had come up to Hermione asking if they could talk. Ron could almost guarantee that it was in some way, shape, or form about Harry. He was once again thanking every force out there for getting rid of Hermione for him that he had forgotten he was holding the trinket to slip into Harry’s bag. A nice push forward in which he accidentally dropped the trinket in Harry’s bag was very welcomed. He turned to see who had pushed him and had caught the eyes of Blaise. The bit of a smile on his face was more than he had wanted to show and promptly looked in another direction.
He had to focus on the plan and deal with his strangely odd and growing attraction to Blaise later. The meal couldn’t go fast enough and just as people were filing out to go to different classes, he activated the charm. As partners in two classes, he tended to walk to them with Blaise.
Everyone had gotten over the strangeness of it all at some point during the last week, and just went about their day. Hermione had left earlier to go have more ‘girl-talk’ with Ginny and so there were few left in the Great Hall when the charm trapped Harry and Draco in its shield.
“What on earth?” Harry asked as he pushed on the blue walls of the shield looking for a weakness.
Draco blinked and tapped at the walls with his wand. There was not a lot of space in this circle, but enough that they could move around brushing the corners of each other’s shoulders as they did. “It is rather odd.”
If you wish to leave this circle, I wish to see a kiss as shared by lovers.
A frown appeared on Draco’s face as he looked up at the trinket. “It seems we were caught in some sort of prank.”
“Of course we were.” Harry grumbled as he pushed again on the walls with his magic. “It seems to be rather decent spell work. I don’t quite remember something like this in all the training I’ve had.”
“Indeed, and neither do I.” Draco stated as he began searching for weaknesses once more. If he could find no weakness, then it seemed that he was just going to have to kiss Potter. It could be worse. He could be stuck in here with someone who’d try to use it as a means of a proposal or pushing him into a relationship before he even got to know the person.
Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape were still in the Great Hall and had come over to see the strange occurrence. Each teacher took their time assessing and casting spells at the trinket in hopes of getting it down. Of course, Ron and Blaise were both whispering charms to make sure the trinket didn’t collapse under so much power.
“I have never seen something quite like it either. It looks like a simple mistletoe charm, but this one seems to need its requirements filled first.” Dumbledore stated as he cast another spell at the trinket.

“Surely, you are not suggesting Headmaster, that the only way for them to escape this is to kiss one another.” McGonagall said. It wasn’t that she was against those types of relationships, but she didn’t think that students should be forced into anything.
Professor Snape had not said a thing and kept casting spells at the heart trinket. It was frustrating that no matter what he used, the trinket didn’t come down at all. The next spell he cast was a mere diagnostic spell that would determine the spells that were used. A frown appeared on his face as the spell did its work. “It would seem that we will have to come back and deal with this in a bit. There is a lot of surprisingly complex spell work here for such a simple prank. I also can’t seem to find whose magical signature is on this trinket, but I am sure I can analyze it more once we get it down.”
Dumbledore nodded slightly and then looked at Ron and Blaise. “Well it seems they will be trapped here for a little while. I am entrusting you two to make sure that no one comes in here. We shall be back once we have had time to analyze these spells and prepared counter curses for each of them.” With those words, the teachers left the four of them in the Great Hall.
Everything was quiet for fifteen minutes.
“This, Potter, is a perfect example of Light spells being used for Dark.” Draco said after leaning against part of the blue wall.
Harry blinked. “We are trapped in an assortment of spells and you somehow manage to talk about school projects?” How on earth could Draco be thinking of their project at a time like this? They were literally stuck with one another until someone could undo the spells on that weird heart trinket above them.
Draco just shrugged and went back to waiting. There wasn’t enough room for either one of them to sit down and so they were stuck standing in here unless they did as the trinket asked. No one was in here except for their two best friends and they could just hex them both until it was never mentioned.
“Ok. Screw this.” Harry said and gave Draco a quick peck on the lips. “There… we kissed.”
I said I wished to see a kiss between lovers, not a kiss you would give a friend or grandparent.
“How does that damn thing even know how we kissed?” Harry said more frustrated than he had been a few moments ago. This was ridiculous. He had cast the spell that defeated the Dark Lord only to be stuck in a prank with his admittedly not-that-bad DADA partner.
Another fifteen minutes later…
Draco was going to lose it if he had to deal with the constant fidgeting any longer. The war had changed him and allowed him to truly contemplate his life. The things he had valued were nothing more than mere annoyances and childish when it came to the big picture. Blood purity was something he had once held so dear to his heart, but after thinking about it logically, it made no sense.   After a while, the purebloods would either run into problems with the constant intermixing or they would die out.   You can't keep a flourishing society if only ten families are having children. There would be no challenge or marriages that could fully last beyond the sharing of wealth. The purebloods would probably go somewhere else to satisfy their desires as opposed to having a faithful relationship with the one they loved.
If the war taught him anything, it would be that life is short and fragile. Why spend the time marrying someone and having children, if you were never going to spend time together in a more relaxed way? Relationships and marriages should be built on strong foundations. It didn’t have to start out that way, since friendship was the best, but it should have that foundation if things went further than that.
“Alright. I give up. I will give the stupid thing what it wants. There is no point in sitting here all day waiting for the teachers when we could just kiss. The only ones here are Blaise and Weasley and they are probably so into each other that they won’t notice.” Draco said to Harry.
“Hey! We are not!” Both Blaise and Ron had answered the taunt from Draco before looking everywhere but each other to try and prove their point.
Harry looked at Draco. “Oh no. You are not kissing me.” he said moving away as much as he could when Draco came a bit closer. “I-I have a girlfriend you know.”
“Yes, a girlfriend that wanted to marry you because you will not talk to her. The same girlfriend who tried to fix everything by proposing when she doesn’t even think you love her. Am I right?” Draco said to him and Harry stopped moving.
There was nothing in Draco’s words that amounted to anything negative. He just pointed out all of the issues that were quite apparent in his relationship with Ginny. It wasn’t even that he didn’t love Ginny, but they had known each other forever. There was just not a relationship spark there and they already in a way felt like family. Harry just wasn’t sure what to make of what he was feeling. He had thought maybe they needed to find a way to spark up their relationship, but he wasn’t the type to sleep with someone he wasn’t sure about. Everything was just confusing and after yesterday, it seemed Draco knew more about the whole relationship process or at least valued it. If they became friends, he could ask Draco about it and perhaps get more advice than he got from Ron or Hermione.
“I still don’t think this is a good idea.” Harry said glaring at Draco.
Draco sighed. “And I still don’t see how we have any other choice unless you want to be stuck in here for lunch.” he said and then watched Harry’s reactions. The other seemed as if he’d rather do anything but that. “I am not planning to run around school screaming ‘I just kissed Harry Potter’. As fun as that would have been for me, perhaps in fourth year, it would not be fun for me now. It would just seem completely juvenile in the long run. This is our seventh year and right now we are preparing for our futures. Why waste time complaining about who kissed who when there is so much to be done?”
Harry opened his mouth to say something, but realized that there was nothing more to say to it. Draco was right.   They were all preparing for their futures and trying to figure out what they wanted to do with their lives. In fifth year, Harry had wanted to be an Auror, but now he didn’t care to see so much fighting and death. He wanted to do something else, like maybe, open a jewelry shop or perhaps find a way to own a nice amusement park for wizards. He wanted to do something that brought joy to other people’s lives instead of a constant reminder of what doesn’t.
He leaned back against the shield a bit and whispered, “OK.”
Draco took a deep breath and pressed lightly against Harry. The trinket said it wanted a kiss as shared by lovers and he would give it that. He doubted the trinket would realize they were not in love, but it seemed to know a good kiss from a bad kiss. His hand gently brushed Harry’s cheek as it slid back and found its place on the back of Harry’s neck. The other hand settled on the small of Harry’s back.
Harry had moved his arms and slid them up and around Draco’s neck. If they had to do this, then they might as well do it right. He didn’t fancy staying in the trinket because the damn thing thought they missed something. He looked into Draco’s eyes and they stared at each other for a moment and then his eyes slowly slid closed.
Draco looked at Harry for just a few moments more before he lowered his head and kissed the slightly shorter male beneath him. Harry could have been taller, but the angle at which he was leaning might have had something to do with it. The kiss was sweet and chaste for at least a minute until they realized the shield was still there.   This caused Draco to press a bit harder into the kiss and Harry to gasp underneath Draco’s lips.
It was an opening and Draco took it. His tongue slowly slipped into Harry’s mouth almost teasingly before meeting the slightly shy tongue of Harry’s. The shield was flickering, but both of them had yet to notice it.   Draco explored Harry’s mouth and then invited Harry to do the same with his tongue. They both found themselves enjoying the light tastes of pumpkin juice from their breakfasts since they allowed themselves to enjoy the kiss just a bit. Finally, the shield flickered and disappeared completely, but the kiss didn’t stop in a rush. They slowly pulled back and gave each other a soft smile before looking up and noticing the trinket disappeared.
Ron was ecstatic. There had never been a more perfectly executed plan in all of Hogwarts. Both he and Blaise had minor bits of conversation as they watched the two trapped ones. For a moment, Ron thought he might actually have to use the fail safe and let them out of the trap, but they had worked out their differences enough to leave the trinket. It was almost sad that the next part of the plan involved them being annoyed with one another, but it had to be done. Thankfully, only the screaming, squealing ‘fangirl’ in Ron’s mind fainted from that hot display while Blaise was thinking….
I wonder….

staar: Thank you so much for reviewing! I could totally put Ginny with Dean. Ron is attracted to Blaise, but doesn't quite realize he is flirting. Blaise knows though ;) I am glad you like the story.
Tommy-Lane: Thank you so much for reviewing! You were quite right! As Blaise said "He wasn’t faithfully working on this project and their assignments just to up and ruin them by telling Draco what they were doing." I hope you like the blue shield thingy part. Lol. Yeah I don't even know what to call it and I wrote it. :)
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