priori incantatem~ a harry potter fanfic.

eleven. hogwarts

The next day, the Daily Prophet flew in, Harry and Draco were on the front page. Draco's arms around Harry's waist, his chin propped on Harry's shoulder. Everyone aw'ed at the picture as James read out loud. "Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter in a relationship! At the young Lord Potter's fifteenth birthday ball, he and Draco Malfoy revealed their relationship, both of them admitted that they had been in a long relationship but rudely refused to admit how long exactly," everyone rolled their eyes and James continued "Lord Potter also had his first dance with Lord Malfoy instead of his mother as tradition until he found someone," James stopped reading and said "but, he had someone, so having his first dance with Lily would be dumb and rude to Draco," and Harry added "I didn't even know that I had to dance with mum," she blushed and said "because none of us told you so that you'd dance with Draco without feeling bad," Harry nodded and said "I owe you a dance, Ma," she waved him off and said "you don't owe me anything, hun," he smiled and said "fine, but on your birthday, I will dance with you," she nodded as she beamed at him.

*timeskip to the first day at Hogwarts*

They were sitting in the Great Hall, placing bets on which house Ivy would be in as the dumb first years took too long. "Potter, Ivy," said Professor Flitwick. Harry caught his breath as she tentatively walked towards the Hat. Flitwick was standing on a platform and he placed the Hat on her head. She waited there calmly as did everyone, although with baited breath. He looked at his parents and godparents and saw them also, holding each other's hands and held Ron and Hermione's as well. The Hat took an unnecessarily long time and so he waited, as did everyone else.

He looked at Professor McGonagall and saw her wide-eyed and then around ten minutes later, the Hat yelled into the Great Hall "Slytherin!" Harry had never whooped this loudly or anything and he got off his seat and yelled "go Ivy! That's my sister, y'all!" completely ignoring everyone looking at him like he was crazy. He watched her as she walked towards the Slytherin Table, smiling at him. He scarfed down his meal and rushed to the Slytherin Table. He pulled her up and hugged her and said "I'm so proud of you!" she was squashed in his arm, but she hugged back. He said "come to our Common Rooms anytime you want, okay?" she nodded and he whispered in her ear "Ron and Hermione told me the password was 'Mermaid', so come anytime you want," he rounded on Draco and said "you better take care of my sister," he smiled and said "you underestimate me, love," Harry kissed him for a second and went back to his Table and collected his money from Fred, George, Dean and Seamus, who bet that she'd be in Gryffindor.

The next day, everyone at Hogwarts was talking about Draco and Harry. The first day of school, draco walked in, kissed Harry's cheek and sat next to him, pouring him some hot chocolate. Everyone secretly aw'ed but chose to ignore it. They had Potions together and they walked hand-in-hand, as both of them beamed, knowing that both of them were tired of hiding. Harry, Blaise and Pansy sat together, while Draco, Ron and Hermione sat together, startling everyone as they engaged in conversation and Draco said something that made Ron snort so loud, it inadvertently competed with that of a pig. Professor Lily Potter, walked out of the Stock Room and said "good morning, class, I'm Lily Potter, you're new Potions Professor and from what I've heard over the summer, a total upgrade compared to that shampoo-hating bastard," she smiled as everyone gasped at her use of language.

"Swearing is allowed in class, you're fifth years, and by first year Rem and I swore like Welsh sailors, so... anywho, we're going to be theoretically revising everything so far, but first everyone tell me your names and preferred pronouns so that I don't mess that up," everyone stood up and then it came to the seats in front of them. "Dean Thomas, they/them," Harry didn't know that, and he always referred to Dean as 'he', so he promised himself to never, ever call Dean 'they' or 'them'. His mum smiled and said "Mark's son? He was a nice man," Dean huffed and said "he ran away," Lily gasped, knowing that he didn't know the truth. She walked towards him and said "you're father was a brave man, he left to protect you and died fighting off three well-seasoned Death Eaters," Dean gasped and said "I didn't know," everyone stayed silent and then Seamus said "me name's Semaus Finnigan and he/him is perfect," she smiled and said "Nadia's son?" Seamus nodded and said "yeah,"