"And school..." Hermoine asked in a meek voice "seriously Hermoine" Ron said "what, school is important and if there is going to be a change I want to know, Harry said you want to change the schooling process" she said looking a Tom "yes I was thinking about that, students don't know about things that is important in our culture and that is specially true for muggle born and muggle raised students, pureblood students on the other hand knows all about our customs and rituals as wizards and witches because they have been taught all of the important rituals and customs since childhood by there parents or guardians" Tom answered.
"What kind of rituals" Hermoine asked "many of the rituals are now forgotten or are being practised by very few, to make the muggle born feel more welcoming in our world people started to celebrate festivals brought by them and forgot about our celebrations like yule or Samhain or summer solstice, those were the celebrations that connected us from our ancestors and magic" he told her, he have heard from Harry that she was always eager for information so he was expecting the questions and he was happy to see that everyone was listening to him eagerly "I'm sorry I am asking so many questions but what do you mean by connecting to our magic" she asked "witches and wizards get there magic from there ancestors and nature and these rituals were use to keep us connected to that magic but since these rituals have become less frequent and only very few people does it the magic has becoming weaker as the time goes by and if this goes on the barrier that keeps the muggle world from finding out about us will lose it's powers" he answered.
"You said witches and wizards where does magical creatures get there magic from" she ask almost absently "all the magical creatures get there magic from there blood" he answered surprised that the girl has noticed "and we these rituals, we can't do them when ever we like, like we do other magic" it was a rhetorical question "no Mrs. Granger most of the rituals are suppose to be done at a certain time of the year like the longest night of year as we also call winter solstice or the longest day of the year or as we call summer solstice and many more for various reasons, if you would like I can send you a book about it" he offered "thank you for explaining everything and I would very much like that book" she said.
With that they turned to other light hearted topics and after sometime it was time to go "thank you for coming here tonight even if my friends were a little annoying" Harry said when they reach the front door "they were better then I expected and there are not many people I can say that about" he said caressing Harry's cheeks "you have not been sleeping well" he continued and saw a blush creeping up Harry's cheeks "I keep having nightmares" he confessed "but you didn't have any when you were at the manor except for the first night" Tom asked confused as Harry hugged him hiding his face in his chest "that's because you keep them away" Harry said, for a moment Tom couldn't understand but then he realised what his lover was saying "is that why you didn't appose to sleeping in my room" he asked and Harry nodded "I'm sorry" he said and after some hesitation added "it's just that I have never slept through the night without the nightmares, they have always been there and when I was with you they never come so..." he trailed of waiting for Tom to tell him how pathetic he was not the gentleness he heard in his voice.
"Harry look at me" Tom said holding his chin making him look up and kissed him softly "I'm not angry at you and if it makes you feel any better there is a reason why I let you stay as well" he said, Harry was not expecting the kiss nor the answer but he could feel that Tom wanted to say more so he kept quiet and tighten his hold on him urging him on, Tom took a deep breath and continued "You know I don't ask for anything if I want it I will have it, it has always been that simple even in the school I could take anything as long as I wanted it but with you" Tom stopped looking at him as if debating whether to continue or not but Harry just lean back enough to look him in the eye silently asking him to continue "I couldn't because you were suppose to be the enemy and when I could I didn't wanted to ask something you could not give..." he trailed of holding Harry tighter "in the beginning I didn't thought that I would want something like this I didn't think that I had such needs I thought I left them behind long time ago but then you came along and after spending the first night with you in my bed and sleeping through the whole night in years I started to desire for more to crave such a mundane thing as sleep or food or just having those conversations with you, you help me see things differently and it's refreshing" Tom continued.
Just as he was about to continue the front door opened and Snape came out looking at both of them before raising his eyebrow "and why are you two still here" he asked in his monotone voice "we haven't met since Halloween Snape can't we even talk a little" Harry said annoyed "if you miss him so much you should go with him and I have already told everybody inside that you will be going with him, so be gone brat" he said and before Harry could say anything Tom apperated them to his manor, Severus just shook his head and apperated away as well.
