A Mother's Love

5 H A R R Y

A few weeks earlier...

I had just gotten home from Christmas Shopping when an owl flew up to my window and began screeching. So I didn't disturb my neighbors, I quickly opened the window and gave Narcissa's owl some treats before reading the letter.

Harry,

Remember how you told me you'd like to redo your Godfather's old home? Well, I'm free to help you work on it whenever you'd like.

I know a person that specializes in that type of work that has potions for polishing wood and enchanted objects to help you clean the house. If you'd like, I can meet you at 12 Grimmauld Place tomorrow at 15:00 and bring you some supplies.

Take care,
Narcissa Black-Malfoy

I thought this was great, it would give me something to do and I'd finally start working on the place! If Sirius could see me now...

After owling Narcissa back confirming the time, I fixed up dinner and made a list of what I needed to do to fix the house.

---------------------------

Present day...

I woke up that morning and, after being confused for a moment about where I was, headed downstairs. I walked past Draco's rooms to get there and remembered waking him up last night after I heard him whimpering and muttering. I hoped he wouldn't make thing awkward this morning. Or, more awkward than they already would be.

"Good morning Harry, how did you sleep?" Narcissa asked.

"I slept great!" I responded.

"Bet you did," muttered Draco, lazily walking in to the room.

"Oh come off it Draco, I am not in a relationship with him," Narcissa said, rolling her eyes. But Draco and I exchanged a quick glance, knowing that not what he was talking about. "I mean, you're more likely to be in a relationship with Harry than I am," she added.

Both of our heads shot up, wide awake.

Draco quickly went from stunned to his usual sarcastic self while I stood there, floundering for something to say.

"Thanks mum, I definitely needed him to know I'm gay," he said, rolling his eyes and quickly going to the coffee pot.

"He already knew. I told him a few weeks ago when he told me he's gay, too," Narcissa said. Then she looked at me, eyebrows raised to see if it was okay to tell him that and I nodded. It's not like I'm ashamed or need to hide it.

Draco and I were silent as Narcissa changed the topic.

"Harry, dear, since we can't go back to Grimmauld Place today, you're welcome to stay here any explore the place. Our home is your home."

"Except for my room. My room is strictly off limits," Draco said, glaring daggers at me behind his mother's back.

"Yes, please don't go into our bedrooms. But you're welcome to go everywhere other than that!"

"Thank you, I may do that later, but I'd agreed to hang out with Ginny, Ron and Hermione this morning. I'm going to go get ready!"

"Alright!"

---------------------------------------

I met up with Hermione, Ron and Ginny at the Three Broomsticks. We all had to catch up and apparently Ron had something very important to tell us.

"Harry! Over here!" I heard Ron call. Once I sat down with them, Ron got right to the point.

"Okay. Remember how Harry had something big to tell us? And then he came out as gay? Well, we still love and support him." After a moment of silence, he confirmed, "We do, right?" Everyone nodded their head in agreement, looks of confusion on our faces.

"Well... so I have a girlfriend-" at that we all interrupted.

"Congrats mate! Who's the lucky girl?" I said.

"See that's the thing. You... you can't get mad at us..."

"Oh dear. Is it Lavendar Brown? I swear Ronald I can support you being with ANYONE but her. I mean, you could be dating Bellatrix Lestrange herself and I'd be more okay with it," Ginny burst out.

"God no. That bitch couldn't pry Ron from my cold dead arms," Hermione muttered, then looked up and put her hands over her mouth.

"You're dating Hermione?!" Ginny and I exclaimed at the same time, huge smiles on our faces.

Ron teasingly glared at his girlfriend for announcing it before he could, but she apologized and they kissed.

"Yeah, we're dating. In all honesty, we've kinda been on-and-off dating since the battle of Hogwarts... we just didn't know how anyone would react. We weren't quite sure how we were reacting ourselves!" Hermione said.

"Ha! I told you they'd be dating by the end of this year!! You owe me 20 sickles!" I exclaimed triumphantly.

"Ah ah ah! I said they'd be dating by the end of last year and technically they were. Which means you owe me 20 sickles," Ginny said with a smirk.

"Damn you, Ginny!" We were all laughing as I handed her 20 sickles.

"I can't believe you two bet on us!" Hermione said playfully.

The rest of the morning went well, and after lunch we all walked around Hogsmeade just to hang out. It was so much fun, just catching up with them. But the afternoon had to come to an end, so I said goodbye to them all and left to go back to Narcissa's house.

Apparently though, luck was not in my favor that day.