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15. Military Council

For a while, nothing was heard. Everyone was staring at either the door Harry had just stormed or at Luna. The still dreamily smiling sat there and Hedwig scratched, as if everything was in the best order.
Remus was the first to recover.
"Well, I never dreamed of being outed this way. Does anyone still have the feeling that they have been overrun by the Traveling Knight? Hands up."
Astonishingly, almost everyone responded to this demand, and soon the room was more like a classroom with overzealous students. Snape restricted himself to lifting only one eyebrow, causing Luna to make another giggling attack.
Ron looked questioningly at Hermione.
"Tell me, do you know what a gaydar is?"
"Yes, it's a term that Muggles use to describe their sense of homosexuality."
"So does that mean that Harry is gay?"
"That's what I'm going to say, he probably will not have said it just for fun."
Ginny, who, like everyone else, had listened intently to Hermione's statement, made gestures that were reminiscent of a carp. Harry was gay! Does that mean she never really had a chance with her dream prince? Merlin, and in recent years she had literally quarreled with "The Boy Who Lived," thinking of her first year at Hogwarts, how embarrassing.
Snape, recovering from his fright, began to think. it was not so much the fact that Harry was gay, who had surprised him. After all, homosexuality was a problem only among muggles, in the wizarding world it was as normal as breathing. No, it was something else that had shaken him.
"Say, did you notice that Harry only looked at some of us during his tirade?"
And already the undivided attention turned to the gloomy jailer. Tonks was the first to understand.
"Severus is right, Harry, when he talked about having a lousy gaydar, only looked at five of us."
Now you could really watch how it rattled in the mind. This time it was Sirius who broke the silence.
"Well, if I remember correctly, then Harry first looked at me and then at Remus, but who else, I do not know."
He looked questioningly around the room.
Luna, who had been amused until now, thought it was time to take revenge for her little brother. In addition, adults would eventually come to a reasonable marriage outcome.
"After you two, he saw Tonks, then Professor Snape and then the director."
Silence.
This time it lasted even longer, while everyone thought about what they had just heard. In the end, it was Snape who said what they all thought.
"Seems like the boy, a really good one, has Gaydar '."
And that broke the spell, everyone started talking wildly. From some corners, new marriage proposals were also loud.
The Potions Master was still sitting there as if slain. as I said, it did not bother him that anyone knew he was into men, he just could not explain how the boy could have noticed that. Because Snape was really not a human being who peddled his sexuality, as well as Dumbledore, by the way. The little one's sensitivity was truly amazing, as was his little friend's just looking at him.
"I think I'll check on Harry before he falls over in anger."
"Do you really think that's a good idea? he thought nobody should run after him. "
Luna just smiled at him before she continued, as if she had not heard her professor:
"Please come to  "Buckbeak room in twenty minutes. Otherwise I'll have to send Toby to get you. "
She stood up, caressed her hair, and left a rather stunned Potions Master behind.
Before Luna left the room for good, she went to Harry's bag and took out his brush. Then she hopped out of the room, followed by Fawkes and Hedwig.

Harry had snuggled up to the body of the big beast, after feeding two beaks to Buckbeak, and waited. He knew that his little sister would soon be looking for him. She was also the only person he could stand at the moment.
Of course, Harry knew that it was not fair to publicly expose anyone. But in his anger he just could not think rationally anymore. On the other hand, they wanted to marry him to Tonks and that would not have been fair to the young woman either. even though she might have done it to protect Harry. But just because he had no chance for love, it did not have to be another way.
Harry was torn from his thoughts by a gentle knock. the next moment the door opened and a beaming Luna came in, flushed with two feathered satellites.
After greeting her beak, she settled down next to the green-eyed one without comment. The two birds also made themselves comfortable and immediately started a conversation with the Hippogryph.
"What does it look like out there?"
"Funny." Luna did not seem to be the least bit worried. On the contrary, it looked more like everything was going perfectly to plan.
Harry already knew that from his girlfriend and did not ask further. He knew he would only get cryptic answers, if any. Although his little dream dancer, contrary to his teacher in fortune telling, was clairvoyant, but the pictures were often only fragmentary. and besides, she seemed to like Harry sometimes in the dark. It did not bother the Gryffindor, he knew that Luna would never deny him anything of importance.
Now the girl pulled Harry's brush out and turned to this very:
"Turn around, you can not watch this."
The boy merely raised his eyebrow in the best snap version, but then did as he said. Luna opened his hair and immediately set about unraveling it.
For a while there was silence between the teenagers, only interrupted by the babbling of the three animals.
At some point, however, Harry remembered that he still wanted to talk to Luna about something.
"Snape has lent me a book about angels, vengeance angels, and white vampires, detailing these three beings. Sometimes more detailed than I would have liked. The name of the writer is Laura Lovegood. "
Luna interrupted her movements only briefly before continuing in her actions.
"I told you that my mother was an extraordinary witch with many skills. I knew that she also wrote books, but I had no idea about this. Did it help you? "
"Yes very. And while reading, I also got to know your mother a bit better. She really seems to love magical beings and wrote the book for that as well. Maybe Professor Snape will lend it to me even longer, then I can show it to you. He did not say it, but it is clearly his. "
"Yes, the professor hides far more behind his robe than just his body."
This statement made Harry blush, fortunately he still sat with his back to Luna so she could not see it. The chuckle of the saucy Ravenclaw, however, made it clear that she knew exactly how Harry felt right now.
"But you do not have to show me the book. Daddy kept all of Mum's stuff in Gringotts, there's sure to be a copy here. "
Now the boy was listening, was it possible ...?
"Tell me, sister, did your mother have more records on this subject? I really want to learn as much as possible about it, after all, after all, I soon belong to one of these beings. "
"That can be good. I'll ask Daddy once he's back. It will certainly be exciting to browse with you a little bit, little bookworm. "Luna giggled again and hugged Harry from behind, who just wanted to drop. He loved it when Luna did that.
when she broke away and continued working on Harry's bird's nest, she continued:
"However, Daddy is currently traveling for the Order, so it will be some time before he comes back."
Harry tensed briefly. he did not like to imagine how this gentle man put himself in danger. His sister had already lost her mother, he did not want her father to die too. Luna always seemed to know exactly what her brother was thinking.
"Do not worry, Daddy is just freshening up some old contacts in Prague who also want to stand up to Riddle. After all, he studied there and he really knows many powerful wizards. and while he's there, he wants to go look for an Odradek and bring him with me. "
"Yes, Prague seems to me to be the right place."
Harry loved how much the two Lovegoods were excited about this kind of creature. Mrlovegood even invited him to go somewhere with him and his daughter and Harry had agreed enthusiastically. he did not care so much about whether they really found something, but to spend time with these two people, who were so different from everyone else, he simply loved.
In the meantime, Luna had won the fight against Harry's hair, the tumultuous mob had turned into a lithe mane. However, she refused to spoil her work with this ugly piece of string. she leaned back against the beak of the bill, pointing accusingly at the thread in her hand.
"You need, along with many others, urgently decent hairbands."
"Since I've always hid behind an illusion, I did not need that, but of course you're right. I promise to do that on our next visit to Diagon Alley. "
"Good, I'll remind you."
Harry smiled, resting his head on Luna's right shoulder and closing his eyes. The blonde Ravenclaw cuddled up to the hippogryph a little more comfortably and watched the green-eyed.
Buckbeak, noticing the altered posture of the two humans, closed a wing around the children so that it lay like a blanket over them.