A Lion and a Snake

Chapter 27

Harry's POV

I led Ron and Hermione up to the seventh floor and into the Room of Requirement. It seemed like one of the best places to talk about this because while a lot of students knew about it now, most of them were at breakfast.

"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked, biting her lip slightly and glancing at Ron nervously.

"Yeah, this seems like when you told us you were bi." Ron added.

"Very similar, yeah." I said, running a hand through my hair. "I-well, I have a crush. I think I've had it for a while now, but I've denied it-you see, I don't think you'll like it."

"Well, just spit it out, mate. No reason for us to guess." Ron shrugged.

"You'll have our full support no matter who it is, Harry." Hermione said.

"Right, I don't doubt that, but-well, it's hard to explain, because-well, we only recently became friends, and-I don't know, but..." I trailed off, suddenly feeling quite awkward.

"Come on, Harry. Don't worry about it. We'll be fine with it, even if it's Malfoy, for Merlin's sake." Ron said.

"Funny you should say that, Ron, cause, well, you see-"

"Wait, it's actually Malfoy?" Ron inturupted. I nodded. "Oh. Well, isn't that a coincidence-pay up Hermione."

Hermione rolled her eyes and handed Ron three galleons.

"Wait-what just happened?" I asked, watching as Ron gleefully put the gold in his pocket.

"We made a bet! Hermione said you wouldn't tell us you liked Malfoy until after asking him out, but I said you would tell us first-you haven't asked him out yet, have you?"

"No-you made a bet? On me and Draco?" I asked.

Hermione shrugged. "Well, it was only a matter of time, really. Love and hate aren't quite so different. Once you two agreed that you didn't hate each other..." Hermione trailed off, probably to allow me to think about it.

"Love? I didn't say-"

"Oh, Harry, I know." Hermione inturupted. "Don't get all worked up."

"I-oh, whatever, will you help me? Find a way to, you know-"

"Ask him out?" Ron suggested. "Yeah, I would say we can. And we happen to have a friend who's dating Malfoy's best friend, so..."

"Oh, right! Neville!" I smiled and followed Ron and Hermione out of the RoR.

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Draco's POV

"Draco, what's wrong?" Pansy asked, slipping her arm over my shoulders and moving my hair away from my face. What Neville has said scared me more than I cared to admit, I mean,he said they don't 'fall in love with the Chosen One.' I wasn't in love with Harry, was I? What was love, anyway? I mean, a crush I could get by with, I could deal with that, they were the feelings of longing that went away after a little while-

"Draco, talk to me, I can listen to you and I will listen to you, no matter what it's about-please, Draco, just talk to me." Pansy inturupted my thoughts, but that was alright because I knew, I knew, what the truth was.

I cleared my throat. "I-I-Pans, promise you won't tell anyone. No one. Not even-not even Blaise." I said, my voice stronger than I expected it to be.

"Yeah, Ok. I won't tell." Pansy said, frowning a little. I had never asked her not to tell Blaise anything.

"I-I'm in love, Pans. I'm in love with Harry Potter."

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Haha haha!!!! You guys don't get to see what happens next and I'm leaving you with this!!!

Sorry about how long the chapter took, I was having a lot of difficulty with this chapter.

Also, I can no longer continue putting the quotes up-it takes way too long to find them, I've been forced to look through so many-I'll probably put something up there, but not funny (well, I find them funny) quotes. Sorry if you liked them.

Chão for now, fellow Drarry shippers!! (Chão means bye in Portuguese and a few other languages for all of you who didn't know that.)