the boys who loved ~ drarry

xlii. the burrow

the day arrived when the dursleys had to leave. they packed their bags or rather harry packed vernon's bags and assisted petunia and dudley with the rest. "why can't we get the aurors to take us?" oh my merlin, thought harry. "do you want to die?! how many times must i tell you that the ministry is infiltrated? if we ask for aurors, chances are voldemort will find out, we can only trust people in the order! for fuck sake!" vernon waddled back to his room while muttering something about a 'waste of space'. dudley and aunt petunia came downstairs with their bags and harry smiled at them. the doorbell rung and harry went to open the door. "dedalus! pleasure to meet you again!" he looked behind dedalus and saw hestia jones and emmeline vance "nice to see you too hestia, emmeline," they nodded in return while dedalus shook his hand rather vigorously. 

the minutes passed and it was time for them to leave. petunia pulled harry aside and said "remember harry, the day you lost a mother, i lost a sister," and then she did the unexpected. she hugged harry like how he always thought he'd liked to be hugged by her. she left the room with tears in her eyes and he was left alone with dudley and uncle vernon. dudley had tears glistening his eyes and so harry walked up to him and extended his hand. dudley completely ignored it and launched towards harry, engulfing him in a hug. harry hugged back and then he and dudley let their tears out, knowing that this could well enough be the last time they met. they untangled each other and harry nodded at uncle vernon who just glared back. 

they left, leaving harry alone, with hedwig and sadie. an hour passed. during that hour, he practiced manipulating different objects around the house, he practiced his powers endlessly and mastered making stones into arrows for stabbing and stuff. he knew that if he had to win this war, he couldn't hold back. he would have to gruesome, but control himself. he listened to some music and sat in his room and then he saw some disillusionment charms lifting. he went outside to open the door and before he could reach there, he heard two loud knocks which he rightfully assumed were hagrid's. he opened the door and was immediately tackled into a hug by ron and soon enough hermione joined in. 

they let go and the first thing hermione asked him was "are you a complete ella?" harry smiled and said "yeah," then came remus and tonks. and he hugged remus tightly and after him entered bill and fleur and then came hagrid alongside fred, george, mundungus, kingsley and mr. weasley. the second moody pushed through, he began talking business. oy vey, thought harry. they got down to business. "we don't know what to expect out ther-" "actually i do," that caught everyone's attention. george said "what are we meant to expect?" harry sighed and said "death eaters, in the sky waiting for us," mr. weasley asked him "and how are you so sure about this?" remus got in here to save harry's arse and said "does it matter? all we need to know is that they'll be waiting and we're ready." he gave harry a knowing look which said 'we'll talk later' all over it. he nodded and moody said "i believe you're familiar with this particular brew?" harry recognized that as polyjuice potion and said "no. absolutely not." hermione smirked and said "told you he'd take it well," and fred and george started talking, but harry tuned it out while he was thinking about the consequences if, if  he agreed. 

then again, whatever happens, he asked himself does he have a choice? nope nope nopity nope, he answers himself every time he asks himself this question. hermione just walked ahead and ripped off a chunk of his hair and put it in the container of polyjuice and harry sighed and re-answered his question. just before ron could take some, harry pulled him aside and said "i have a 'message' for you." ron had suspicions as to who it would be from and said "shoot," harry took a deep breath and said "blaise asked me to tell you, and i'm not paraphrasing here, he asked me to tell you," just thinking about what blaise said brought tears to harry's eyes. he took a deep breath and tried to ignore ron's concerned face and continued "he asked me to tell you that he'd walk through fire to make sure you're safe and to see you happy and smiling, and that he's never loved anyone even close to the amount that he love you. also, and that he'll wait for 58 years if that's what it takes to have you completely to himself" harry finished and nodded at ron who looked like he wanted to weep his heart out. harry hugged him and let ron cry as much as he could on his shoulder. he heard moody clear his throat and so he lifted ron's head from his shoulder and raised his hand in front of ron's eyes and collected his tears and soaked it into his hands. he saw ron smile bleakly and mutter a 'cool'. they smiled at each other and went back. everyone had seen ron crying and harry tell him what he did, but ron didn't have a problem crying in front of people. like harry told him, crying only makes you stronger and helps you accept yourself and as harry styles said crying is manly.