When Darkness Rises

Shrooms

"Harry, wake up." Draco's voice  brought Harry out of his dreams.

"I don' wanna."

"If you don't get up, you will miss breakfast."

Harry sits up and looks around. His ears are flicking, trying to pick up different sounds. He notices that the room is empty beside an already dressed Draco.

"I thought so. Get dressed. I will be in the common room." He walks out of the room.

Quickly, Harry dresses after a shower and runs into the room. His hair is still a little damp but his ears are dry.

"As beautiful as always." Draco kisses Harry chastely on the corner of his mouth. "Come on." They run out of the room hand in hand.

When they walk into the great hall, they notice that the students are drowsy, but it don't take them long to notice Harry's ears, which lay back slightly in embarrassment.

"Don't worry about them." Draco puts an arm around his mate's waist, pulling him to the Slytherin table.

Breakfast was quite noisy. The Slytherin house protected their own by sneering at the other houses that gave a strange look to the back of the hybrid's head.  Right as they were leaving is the problem.

"Harry, I don't know what your game is, but it is tiring. I do not see how you can allow these snakes to touch you. Nonetheless, you need to be back with us, especially if you came into a creature inheritance. Your parents would be disappointed."

When Ginny first started to talk, Harry and his group of Slytherins just stared at her. When that last line popped out, Draco wrapped his arms around Harry to keep him from bending. Pike, Pansy, Blaise, and several others pulled their wands. Ron, who was standing with Ginny,  pulled his and so did his sister, many other Gryffindors stood with them. Hermione, the twins, Neville, and Luna, who happened to be walking by, stood with the Slytherins.

"How DARE you speak about my parents in such a manner! You have NO right to speak about them at all. You piece of whore trash! When were you going to tell Dean that you only using him? Huh? When you crushed his life like you helped crush mine?!" Harry's screaming got the teachers' attention.

"Break this up now. You all have class to get to." Dumbledore steps in. People not central in the feud drifts away.

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, if you would come with me. Ms. Weasley, you too." Snape comes in and whisks them away. Down in the dungeon, the professor shuts the door to his office. Draco sits down in a chair, pulling Harry down on his lap.

"What do you think you were doing Ms. Weasley?" The two are standing at opposite sides of the desk.

"I was just messing with him, joking around..." She tries to claw her way out.

"Just joking? If my calculations were correct, close to fifty people did not believe you were 'just joking'. And if I heard Mr. Potter right, you spoke of his parents which was out of order. I do not want this to happen again. Detention at the end of the day, in here. You are dismissed." Ginny storms out of the room.

"Come here son," Snape opens his arms to have the small teen jump into them. "It's okay. Do not fret."

While Snape is consoling his boy, outside the classroom and down the hall, something else happens. "Bitch." Hermione has punched Ginny in the face when she came close. "Do not go near Harry again." After scrambling to her feet, Ginny runs off down the hall, holding her cheek.

"You have my respect," Blaise says as he walks by the Gryffindor and to the classroom. She follows a second later, shaking her hand to try to relieve some of the soreness.

Three minutes later, Severus is standing in front of his class. "Quieten down. Today you all will brew a Wideeye potion. Turn to page four and go to work." Everyone works silently, except for a few whispers. At the end of the class, potions are jarred, and turned in for grading.

"I really like your ears Harry, they are cute." Hermione says as they leave class. He blushes.

"Don't be coming onto my man," Draco smirks.

"I wouldn't think of it," Hermione smiles.

"Thank you 'Mione. I thought you may leave me." Harry whispers.

"Never."

They walk upstairs, and split for their next class. "I hate this teacher," Harry mutters to Draco as they head to the astronomy tower.

And so a couple hours past, and now, Harry is outside with Blaise, waiting for Hagrid to start teaching.

"Oh look, a creature we can learn about!" A voice says from behind the two. They look behind them to see Ron snickering with a few of his buddies.

"Ignore them." Blaise murmurs to the neko. A couple other Slytherins subtly step behind Harry to block him.

"Alrigh' today we goin' to be huntin' fer special shrooms in the Dark Forest." Hagrid speaks and shows a shroom. "We need to fin' more of 'em."

As they go into the forest, Hagrid tells them to look on the trees. Ten minutes later, someone calls out that they found some. "Its a good ways up the tree." A Gryffindor says.

Another pipes up. "It's even out of your reach Professor."

"Aligh'  who can climb? These need to be hand picked." Cautiously, Harry steps forward. "Tha' a boy ."

He puts his hand on the tree and quickly climbs up it. He grabs the blue shrooms and drops to the ground. Landing on the balls of his feet, he stands up. After handing the things over to Hagrid, Harry stands by Blaise.

"Continue lookin," the big man said, and they all spread out. The hybrid had to climb up five other trees before the end of class. While walking back to the castle, Blaise gave his buddy a piggy back ride.

During lunch, Harry told about his tree climbing with excitement. The rest of the day passed without incident. That night, Harry fell asleep listening to Draco's heartbeat.