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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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I would like to apologies for all the times I wrote pensive instead of Pensieve, lol I actually didn't notice it until I did a reread. I shall try not to make that mistake again, but I'm too damn lazy to go back and fix it in all the other chapters. Lol

Pensieve Grangers

Harry giggled as Draco pushed him behind himself, to block Harry from Hermione. Draco's face had a sour look on it, which Harry knew was his attempt to look like Lucius. They went through this every time a new child was introduced to the group. After the fifth time Harry had gotten use to it. "Draco, stop it," Harry laughed while trying to push past the blond.

"But Harry," Draco whined, "we don't know her."

"Draco," Harry said, using the soft voice he used often to calm his best friend down, "Your mother and Uncle Sev, would not have let us come here, if we were not safe." Harry ended the statement with a peck to Draco's cheek, causing the blond to smile widely while blushing.

By the time Draco had composed himself, Harry and Hermione where sitting down by some toys playing. "Hey no fair, Harry," Draco groused. Harry grinned up at him, while Hermione looked on curiously.

"What did you do to him?" she asked.

"Draco is a Veela, and I'm going to be his mate when we grow up, but his Veela side still responds to me now. Aunty Cissa says it's 'cause we were raised together."

"But what if you don't wanna be his mate?" Hermione asked, her head cocked to the side in curiosity. Draco growled lowly in his throat, a strange sound to come out of a five year old, but it was loud enough to get the attention of the adults.

"What's going on Severus asked, walking over to the children and noting Draco's murderous look.

"That girl," Draco spat out pointing to Hermione, "said that Harry didn't want to be my mate." A sharp intake of breath from two people let Severus know that Filius and Narcissa were behind him.

"Mate? What does that mean?" Mr Granger asked, while Harry had gotten up and was hugging Draco to him, whispering in his ear. Everybody could see the tenseness slowly decreasing from the small Veela's body.

The next hour and a half was spent discussing Veela, their mates, magical creatures and magic. Hermione had turned a nice shade of green at the thought of causing so much pain to the blond little boy she had just met. She berated herself, and with a painful stabbing to her heart, thought, 'I'm going to have no friends in this new world either, unless I make some changes. Maybe Harry can teach me how to not put my foot in my mouth again.' With that plan in mind, Hermione switched back to listening to the adults.

By the time the group left the Granger's, Severus had become Hermione's magical guardian and a Floo network had been set up so that the Grangers and Hermione could travel between their home, Malfoy Manor and Potter Manor. Thanks to a very helpful Minister, it was done in total secrecy and off the books. Wards had also been set around the Granger home, much to Elizabeth and Edward's relief.

Beth and Ed, as the Grangers had become known as, spent most weekends at Potter Manor, getting to know all the children and their parents, plus the adults who would be teaching Hermione. The more they learned about magic and its politics the more they wanted to know, and to help change some of the things they thought were barbaric in nature. Beth had become entrenched in the equal rights of all magical creatures, which caused Severus and Sirius to smirk, reminded of the memory of Hermione and S.P.E.W.

As the weeks turned into months and the relationship between Beth and Narcissa grew, Narcissa became obsessed with letting the Grangers see what had happened in the past. Beth could see the sadness that would cross her friends face from time to time, and Narcissa felt the need to open up to her new friend. It was a friendship no-one expected to form, and the closeness of the two women surprised everyone. Narcissa was fierce in her defence of Beth, and woe betide anyone who said a bad word about the woman. Narcissa even asked if Severus could come up with a way to make them magical, which they all knew was impossible.

Lucius and Narcissa where in the tea room at Potter Manor discussing the training of the boys with Severus, Sirius and Remus, when Narcissa brought it up again. Harry and Draco were playing in the playroom upstairs.

"I just don't see why they can't see. We know muggles can view pensieve memories, it's been done before, with muggleborn parents." Narcissa was not far off a whine as she tried to plead her case for the hundredth time, or so it seemed to everyone in the room.

"They can not protect their minds, Narcissa. We have been through this before." Severus said. His voice held a touch of annoyance at being made to discuss this again.

"What about a po..." Narcissa started but was cut off by Severus.

"You know there is no such thing, and it would take years for me to develop one, with all the other work that needs to be done to protect Harry and Draco's futures. I'm sorry Narcissa, maybe after it is all over you can share the memories with your friend." Severus wore a sympathetic expression, he understood Narcissa's need for her friend to know, for another mother, who would understand perfectly what Narcissa felt, to talk to. It just was not possible without endangering them all.

"I know," Narcissa whispered, "I just wish it could be different." She and everyone else in the room jumped slightly, when Dobby popped into the room.

"I is being sorry for listening to Madam and Sirs talking, but Dobby has a solutions to yous problem."

"What is it Dobby," Narcissa asked as she leaned forward towards the elf.

"Wizards and Witches are always overlookings magical creatures, they is. Stupid wizards and witches," Dobby muttered the last part under his breath, but the room heard, and couldn't help but smirk, even thought they were slightly insulted, they could not disagree. "Many many years ago, the Goblins hads to come up with a ways to protect the muggleborns non-magical parents. Theys were told to move all the accounts to muggle banks that dealt with Gringotts, and in doing so, could easily access galleon for their children without having a magical person take them to a magical area to access the Goblin bank. The Goblins soon found that some bads wizards were using Legilimency to gain access to bank codes and the location of keys and taking all the muggle's moneys. Goblins hate many things, but the top of the list is thieves, so they developed a way to protect the muggles minds from Wizards and Witches to protect theirs moneys." Dobby paused and took a deep breath after rushing all that information out before starting again. "So wes just have to talks to the Goblins, theys can be helping the Grangys so they can be tolds all the secrets you wants to tell." Dobby looked at them all very seriously before adding, "as long as nos secrets hurts Master Harry Potter." He waggled a finger in all their faces, before standing back and smiling at them all.

"We should get the Goblins to re-enforce their wards as well, like they did for all the Black, Malfoy and Potter properties." Severus mused out loud.

Three days later, the Granger's minds and property were protected so tightly, no wizard or witch would ever be able to breech them. The adults had the children's minds protected too, just to be on the safe side. Since Dumbledore had no trouble using children they way he did, the adults had no doubt he would damage a child's mind to get what he wanted. It was the following weekend that Beth and Ed were invited to spend the night at Potter Manor, and after the children were tucked in for the night, they Grangers were shown the Pensieve memory.

It was a daunting experience for the Grangers, they were drained of all colour and shaking badly as they exited the memories. Beth was clutching tightly to Ed, her mouth moving rapidly but no sound escaping. It took over two hours and muggle safe calming draughts to get the woman to calm slightly, to the point that she could form words. It took another hour before she could form coherent sentences. Ed had downed half a bottle of whiskey by the time his wife was talking properly.

"Little Harry, that sweet, sweet little boy, had to endure...it's unimaginable. That a human being could do something like that, but worse, his own blood relatives. And that poor excuse for a man, to encourage that behaviour and treat that child so badly. I wish to take a gun and shoot him in the head, no magic could recover from a shot gun blast that took half is face off." Beth said, her voice raising in level during her rant.

"Harry has our full support, whatever we can do to help, just name it. We can talk to other muggleborn parents and tell them to watch out for Dumbledore, explain about the Goblins willing to protect their minds, and their homes." Edward said and shot to his feet before he exclaimed loudly, "WE CAN START THE MUGGLE RESISTANCE." He looked around, and blushed slightly, "I seemed to have got carried away there, what exactly is in this whiskey you call fire?"

While her husband was being taught the finer art of Fire Whiskey, Beth took Narcissa into a corner to talk. "Now I understand everything, Cissa, and I'm so sorry. To have to see your son like that, to have to endure it, even for a moment. Even though you had the miracle of Time Travel, to be haunted with those images. Oh Cissa," Beth finished as tears fell freely down her friend's face.

"It's so hard, Beth. We don't talk about it, we just try to forget it happened, but a part of me is still stuck there, standing over my dead son's body as he cradles his mate." Narcissa said no more as her friend held her tight while she grieved properly for the very first time. It was cathartic and Narcissa felt a cleansing as she cried out her pain. When she finally stopped, she squeezed her friend one more time before letting go, "thank you Beth, thank you."

It was viewing that moment, that the men finally understood completely, why Narcissa was so insistent of Beth being told the truth.

When the women rejoined the men, Beth suddenly said, "our Hermione is to have nothing to do with that Ronald Weasely," which caused everyone in the room to chuckle and giggle. Beth smiled and squeezed Narcissa's hand, winking at her. They talked about other things to take their mind off of the horrible images that was sure to be playing in every mind of every person in that room.

Out of the blue, Beth sat up straight and glared at Sirius, "Mr Black," she said her voice ice cold, "I just had a thought, and could use clarification on the matter, Could you explain to me, why exactly you left your Godson, in the hands of the giant, instead of doing what you were asked to do, what you were expected to do and take care of that precious child." Before Sirius could speak she raised her hand and continued, "and you might like to explain to me, why you went to make the same mistake a second time around, can you do that Mr Black? Cause I, for the life of me, can not understand how revenge is more important than an innocent child's life."

Sirius bowed his head in shame, and Narcissa squeezed her friends hand and shook her head. They all knew Sirius still dealt the with guilt and grief of what he had done, daily and it would be excruciating for him to have someone point out, yet again, how completely and utterly stupid and reckless he had been. Lucius handed Sirius a shot, as Narcissa lead Beth out of the room, to explain exactly how much Sirius suffered, tormenting himself everyday about the mistakes he made the first time and almost made again. It was a subdued Beth that walked back into the room, walked right up to Sirius and pulled him in to a hug. "I'm so sorry, Sirius, I had no idea," she whispered in his ear.

"It''s okay," he answered gruffly, "it's the least I deserve." That sentence, and more importantly the tone, told Beth that everything Narcissa had said, had been more than true, and the man before her was still suffering and trying to make penance for his mistakes. She felt awful for jumping to conclusions, but could not help herself when it came to the safety of children, and let's face it, she was still extremely shook up by that memory.

"No, Sirius, I am so so sorry. I should have spoken to Narcissa before I berated you, it was a terrible mistake. I should get all the facts before I jump to conclusions, it won't happen again, and please accept my apology." Sirius tried to smile, but it was half hearted, and everyone could see it.

"Apology accepted, Beth. Thank you for looking out for Harry."

"Hey," Remus said, trying to defuse the situation, "it's a full moon tomorrow night, who wants to run with a werewolf?" Everyone laughed as Beth and Ed grew excited and Beth actually squealed. Sirius turned to Remus and mouthed "thank you, old friend."
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