When Harry got back to the common room with Daphne and Tracy,
the former still holding onto his arm, they found Draco Malfoy sitting
there. When he saw the trio he immediately jumped to his feet.
"Greengrass!" He shouted, attracting the attention of the whole
common room "what do you think you're doing?"
"Wondering why I haven't chopped off your tongue yet" Daphne
answered
"Don't disrespect me!" Draco demanded "Why are you holding
Potters arm?"
"Because I like holding it" Daphne answered with a straight face "it's
really strong but feels comfortable in my hands."
"You know my father is making a marriage contract between me and
you" Draco replied "you shouldn't be hanging on Potter, I'm your
future husband!"
"That's where you're wrong Malfoy, or at least one more thing which
you're wrong about, we should probably add it to the list" Daphne
replied.
"Tracy" Harry whispered to Tracy "she's gotten sassy, I think I've
been a bad influence on her"
"True, but with that being said I am not letting you get away from us
two now" Tracy whispered back
"You see Malfoy" Daphne continued "I'm already in a marriage
contract with someone else, I just found out earlier today. Right
before we went to potions class and Harry punched you in the face,
do you remember that?"
"Who?!" Malfoy turned bright red in anger
"That'd be me" Harry spoke up "I only just found out today as well,
funny how that works"
"Potter! You stole my girl!" Malfoy shouted
"I don't see your name on her" Harry looked at Daphne "a good thing
too, it'd be a shame to taint such perfection with your name"
"Watch it Potter!" Draco warned
"Or what?" Harry scoffed "You can't beat me in a duel, as evidenced
by the redness of your face from when I punched you. If you like, we
can have another duel thought I should warn you that if we do I will
punch a lot harder than last time"
"You think you're so brilliant?!" Malfoy growled "You're just a pathetic
loser who shouldn't be in this house"
"Says the boy throwing a tantrum like a five year old" Harry retorted
"I see no reason why I can't be in Slytherin house."
"You're a half-blood!" Malfoy shouted
"Slytherin has had many half-bloods over the years" Harry
responded "some have even made prefect and head boy"
"You're a Potter, you should be in Gryffindor!"
"The Potters are an ancient and most noble house Malfoy, can you
say the same about yours? No, because unlike my family, the only
thing that has made your family important was money. Besides,
there have been plenty of Potters in Slytherin, though the majority go
to Gryffindor, we have had the occasional Slytherin in the family."
"Plus Harry here has acted way more Slytherin than you ever have"
Tracy added
"What?! That's preposterous!" Malfoy shouted
"Says the boy screaming like a child" Daphne looked at Malfoy with
disgust "ever since coming here Harry has excelled in classes and
made allies in pretty much every house, all you have done is shout,
rely on your fathers name and made things more difficult for the rest
of us."
"How have I made things more difficult?!" Malfoy demanded
"You're constantly making enemies in the other houses, a prime
example would be Longbottom"
"That pathetic squib?" Malfoy scoffed
"Malfoy he is clearly not a squib if he has been accepted into
Hogwarts" Tracy pointed out "besides, you think he is weak because
of his lack of magical strength but I'd like to remind you that the
Longbottoms are also an ancient and most noble house. Besides,
he's only in his first year so you don't really know what he's capable
of. He has the potential to become a stronger wizard than you"
"Defending your boyfriend?" Malfoy sneered
"Thank you for proving our point Malfoy" Harry sneered right back
"you're childish and arrogant, people like you are why the rest of
Hogwarts looks down on us Slytherin's. Instead of gathering allies
you are creating enemies, you may think you're at the top but unlike
the rest of us, you'd be screwed in the real world."
"It's true" Daphne agreed "without your daddy, you're nothing"
"How dare you insult me?!" Malfoy drew his wand but then he found
it flying out of his hand and landing in Potters left hand whilst his
right hand had his own wand.
"No, go on, you were saying" Harry said as he absent mindedly
tossed Malfoys wand up and down in the air.
"Give me back my wand!" Malfoy demanded
"What wand?" Harry asked as he dropped the wand in question on
the floor
"You'll pay for this Potter"
"You'll pay in blood if you threaten me again" Harry warned "be
appreciative I haven't snapped it yet, now Draco, you're a bit thick so
I'll say this slowly. Stay away from me and my friends if you want to
keep what little is left of your dignity, Daphne is my fiancée so if you
bother her than you bother me and that is a bad idea if you want
your face to stay to not be covered in blood."
"Are you threatening me?!"
"No, it was a greeting" Harry said sarcastically "what the hell did you
think it was?"
"One day Potter" Malfoy said slowly "one day I will make you suffer"
"That day is every day I have to see your ugly mug" Harry responded
as he picked up Draco's wand "now, unless you have anything else
to say, take your pathetic twig back and stop bothering me"
Harry tossed Malfoy his wand but kept his own prepared, and it was
a good thing he did so, as Malfoy immediately tried to hex him but
failed as Harry quickly stunned him. Malfoy dropped like a sack of
potatoes, Harry looked to Crabbe and Goyle.
"Boys" Harry said "would you mind taking this idiot upstairs?" The
two nodded and carried the unconscious Malfoy up to his room.
"Our hero" Tracy sighed dramatically, the three took a seat as
everyone else went back to minding their own business "so you two
are engaged to be married?"
"Kind of" Harry answered "we really did just find out today,
apparently the contract was made between our two families. But I
don't want to force Daphne into a marriage so I will cancel it on my
fourteenth birthday"
"Really?" Tracy looked at Daphne who was still holding on to his arm
"I'm sure she wouldn't mind"
"Well I did at first" Daphne admitted "But I figured that if we're
contracted we could get to know each other, I mean the contract
doesn't officially take place until we're out of school so we might as
well use the time productively."
"Is that your way of asking if you can be my girlfriend?" Harry asked
with an amused expression
"Well, it definitely wasn't her way of asking if she could be my
girlfriend" Tracy joked
"Well..." Daphne fidgeted in her seat "yeah it is"
"You want Tracy to be your girlfriend?" Harry raised an eyebrow
"No!" Daphne turned red "it's my way of asking, if I could be your
girlfriend?"
"Hell yeah!" Harry exclaimed in joy
"Wow, he didn't even pause" Tracy commented
"Well I got to accept before some other idiot takes her" Harry
explained
"Yeah, now she only has to deal with one idiot" Tracy remarked
"Yeah but I'm her idiot" Harry grinned and Daphne blushed.
"I'm going to regret this, aren't I?"
"Yes but no take backs, you're stuck with me Daph"
"Oh Merlin" Daphne sighed
"Oh don't start calling him, he can't help you now" Harry smiled
"It's going to be a long stay at Hogwarts" Daphne looked at Harry
with an amused expression
"A memorable one though" Harry stared back at her.
Tomorrow came quickly and Harry was in Snape's office, right on
time. The two of them flood over to St Mungo's, Snape led him to the
ward where his parents were staying.
"Harry" Snape stopped him before they entered "I will leave you
alone here, how long would you like to stay?"
"Do you not want to come in sir?" Harry asked "I don't mind if you
do"
"No thank you" Snape refused, Harry could see the man was trying
to hide his emotions so he decided not to press.
"About, an hour, please sir" Harry answered "I can take less if that's
a problem for you"
"No" Snape shook his head "it's not a problem, I will return in an
hour." Snape turned around and left, his cape billowing as he did.
Harry took a deep breath before he entered through the door, he
made his way to two beds at the far right corner of the room.
Opposite the two beds were two other beds, Harry read the names
and saw that they were the Longbottoms, his sympathy went out to
them and Neville, he should probably talk to him later.
He made his way to where his parents were resting, and looked at
his parents, who were both under stasis charms, taking them both in.
His father was a tall man, he had brown hair, and he looked
remarkably like Harry, or Harry looked remarkably like him if you
wanted to be accurate.
He then looked at his mother, she was a beautiful woman with red
hair. A little shorter in height than his father, but she looked like a
sleeping angel in Harry's opinion. Harry took a chair and sat inbetween the beds.
"Hi mum, hi dad" Harry said softly "it's good to see you. I'm Harry,
your son, I don't know if you remember. I don't even know if you can
hear me, but if you can then know that I love and miss the both of
you.
Let's see, I suppose I should tell you a little bit about me, I'm in
Hogwarts in my first year. I'm also a Slytherin, I hope that's not a
problem. My twin brother is a Gryffindor but he's also an idiot, I'd
rather not talk about him if we're being honest.
I'm top in my class, all of my classes, except Herbology but the top
of Herbology is Neville Longbottom, your godson mum. He's alright,
a bit shy and for some reason he's not as strong as I thought he'd be
but he's alright.
There's this one girl in my class called Hermione Granger, and she's
really annoying. Like, she's made it her life mission to beat me and
when she doesn't she calls me a cheat, as if I don't have the right to
be smarter than her.
Oh and there's this prat called Malfoy, he thinks he's Merlin's gift to
wizard kind. He mouths off but I put him in his place every time, in
fact one time I punched him and he fell down some stairs. I know
you'd probably disapprove of that but I maintain that it was well
deserved and worth it, especially as I didn't get in trouble. Apart from
those two and a couple of other people, I really enjoy Hogwarts.
McGonagall and Flitwick are still there, they're really nice and know
their stuff. Did you know Severus Snape is the potions teacher and
head of Slytherin house? He seems alright to me, my brother annoys
the hell out of him though, understandable in my opinion.
Oh and good news, as of yesterday, I have got a girlfriend. Her name
is Daphne Greengrass, best looking Slytherin in the school, scratch
that, best looking girl in the school. Anyway, apparently we're both
under a marriage contract and we decided to give it a go and see if it
works. She won't admit it but I think she's falling for me, can't really
blame her, I've got the legendary Potter charm on my side.
You'd like her, she's blonde and has lovely blue eyes and is really
pretty. She's also pretty funny and nice once you get past the ice
queen mask that she puts on, though I think I've been a bit of a bad
influence on her, thanks to me she's discovered sass and sarcasm.
Merlin help us all.
I suppose I probably should talk about my brother, the wizarding
world sees him as a hero. They're calling him the boy-who-lived, a
stupid name and I'd like to point out that I also lived. Anyway,
everyone says that he's responsible for defeating Voldemort. But
that's not the part that irritates me, he's become spoilt and arrogant.
I know I probably sound like a whining child but it's true, he doesn't
put effort into anything and thinks he can get through life just by
saying he's the boy-who-lived. Dumbledore is ridiculously biased in
his favor so he thinks that he can do whatever he wants, he treats
everyone else like they should be lucky to be in his presence.
I don't have much hope for him to be honest, I hope you can wake
up and sort him out, but enough about him. Let's see, what else
should I tell you, oh I'm on the quidditch team. Youngest seeker in a
century, youngest player in a century actually. I hope your proud dad,
oh and mum, my favorite subject so far is charms. Professor Flitwick
makes it so enjoyable, I can see why you like him."
Harry lost count of how long he talked to his parents, he told them
about school and his friends, he also told them everything he did so
far at school. He checked his watch and saw he had about two
minutes left.
"Shoot" Harry exclaimed, he stood up and looked around.
Fortunately nobody was there, apart from the Longbottoms but they
weren't really in a state to recall anything. Harry removed a vial from
his pocket and walked up to his father "sorry about this dad"
Harry removed a needle and pricked his father's fingers, causing a
little bit of blood to drip out, Harry caught it in the vial. He corked the
vial, then took out a different vial and did the same to his mother.
"Sorry" Harry said as he out the vials in his pockets and wiped the
blood off of their fingers "I'll be back to visit you again, not sure
when, but I will. Love you guys"
Harry wiped his eyes and exited the room, he found Snape waiting
outside for him. With a nod, thw two started walking to the nearest
floo exit. Soon they returned back to Hogwarts, and into Snape's
office.
"Thank you sir" Harry said as he made his way to the door
"Mr Potter" Snape's silky voice stopped him just as he opened the
door "did you enjoy your time today?"
"Yes sir" Harry nodded
"May I ask, what did you do in there?"
"I talked" Harry answered "some studies have shown that coma
victims can hear and understand everything that is going on around
them, so I talked and hoped that they listened."
"Hmm, I assume you would like to go again" Snape responded
"Yes, but I do not wish to bother you if you are busy" Harry
responded "I plan to visit them during the holidays"
"Very well" Snape replied, he was in no hurry to go back there.
"Thank you again sir" Harry said as he made his way out, he walked
over to the great hall and sat at the Slytherin table with Daphne and
Tracy.
"Hi Harry" Both girls greeted him
"Hi guys" Harry replied, he gave Daphne a quick kiss on the cheek
as well.
"Where were you?" Tracy asked
"Went to see my parents" Harry answered, with a look and tone of
voice that said 'move on'
"Do you have any plans today?" Daphne took the hint and to Harry's
delight changed the subject
"Not really" Harry shrugged "unless you have something you'd like to
do"
"Well, I was thinking of quickly doing homework then spending the
rest of the day relaxing" Daphne replied
"Yuck, homework" Tracy groaned
"Seems like a good idea to me" Harry interrupted before the two
could start arguing "I'd rather get it out of the way now."
"You see" Daphne looked smugly at Tracy "another person who
agrees with me"
"He is your boyfriend" Tracy responded "of course he is going to
agree with you"
"Doesn't change the fact that he does" Daphne pointed out.
"I hate you two" Tracy groaned
"No you don't" Harry and Daphne said at the same time, they looked
at each other before bursting out laughing.
"Oh good god, there's two of them" Tracy placed her hand in her
heads
"And what's wrong with that?" Harry smirked
Later, after breakfast, Harry and Daphne made their way to the
library to do their homework. They had just gotten finished with their
potions assignments when Hermione Granger entered. She made
her way over to a nearby book shelf, then she looked at Harry and
Daphne.
"What are you two doing here?" She asked, clearly just noticing the
two
"Making passionate love on top of a flying white saber-toothed tiger
that is soaring above a rainbow in Ireland whilst consuming large
quantities of fire whisky" Harry gestured to his homework "we're in a
library with homework on our desk, what do you think we're doing?"
"Wait" Daphne said "who's drinking the fire whiskey? You, me or the
tiger?"
"Why not all three? We have plenty" Harry replied
"You don't have to be so rude" Hermione huffed
"True" Harry shrugged "but I don't have to make love on a flying
white saber-toothed tiger that is soaring above a rainbow in Ireland
whilst consuming large quantities of fire whisky either"
"Do you ever stop making jokes?" Hermione looked at him with
disapproval
"Yes, I do need to sleep every now and then" Harry responded
before he continued with his homework, Daphne just laughed and
continued on as well.
"By the way, I want to know, how do you keep doing better than me
in class?" Hermione asked
"I study and put in the effort" Harry answered whilst not looking up
from his homework
"There has to be more to it than that" Hermione replied "there's no
way you could beat me by just studying"
"Are you really that arrogant Granger?" Daphne asked "You really
think nobody else can beat you just by studying?"
"I'm the smartest witch of my age" Hermione claimed "I've been
studying nonstop since I got my Hogwarts letter"
"And I congratulate you for that" Harry said dryly
"So, how did you do it?" Hermione persisted "Have you been
cheating?"
"No Granger" Harry sighed "I don't cheat, at least not in something
as trivial as school classes"
"Trivial?!" Hermione looked at him like he said something
blasphemous
"Admittedly they're teaching us important things but do you really
think I would put in the effort of cheating for Herbology? No offense
to the subject or the teacher, but I have better things to do. Besides,
admittedly transfigurations, charms and potions have important
things to teach but if I cheated on them then I'd be screwing myself
out of something that could be important later. Still, despite all that,
they are just first year lessons."
"They're still lessons!" Hermione objected "You..."
"Either way" Harry interrupted "I don't cheat. Now if you'll excuse me,
I'd like to finish my homework as I have better things to do with my
time than chat to you or wasting time doing homework"
"Like what?" Hermione scoffed and crossed her arms
"Like talking with my girlfriend" Harry gestured to Daphne
"Girlfriend? You're too young to have a girlfriend" Hermione said as if
she was his mother
"In that case you'll probably not like the fact that I'm his fiancée"
Daphne added with a smirk
"Fiancée?!" Hermione shrieked, the girl was fortunate that the
librarian wasn't there at the moment or she'd be kicked out
"Yes" Harry said just as an idea came to his head "she's my fiancée,
do you have one yet, who is yours?"
"My fiancée?!"
"Yes" Harry nudged Daphne from under the table "Daphne's mine,
who is yours? You do realize that everyone gets a fiancée
eventually"
"They wouldn't do that! That's barbaric!" Hermione protested.
"It's true" Daphne who realized what Harry was doing had decided to
play along "I heard rumors that Ronald Weasley had wanted to
chose you as his wife"
"What?!" Hermione demanded
"Congratulations on being the future Mrs Weasley" Daphne smiled
sweetly at her.
Hermione paled at the very idea and stormed off, forgetting to do her
homework and went straight for Ronald Weasley. How dare that boy
just decide that she will be his wife?! She was going to give him a
good talking to.
Once she left Harry and Daphne looked at each other, it took them
all of ten seconds to burst out laughing. Daphne was actually
slamming her fist on her desk from how much she was laughing,
Harry even had tears in his eyes.
Of course the librarian chose that moment to come in and kicked the
both of them out for causing a disturbance, not that it dampened
their moods at all. In fact they were still laughing all the way back to
the common room where they told Tracy what had happened and the
girl ended up clutching her sides form laughing too much.
Later at lunch, Harry sat with Daphne and Tracy as usual. He and
Tracy were chatting about quidditch, both appreciated Daphne's
attempt to try and join in but it's clear that she didn't like quidditch.
"Mr Potter" A smooth voice brought his attention out of his
conversation
"Yes Professor Snape?" Harry asked politely
"You and Miss Greengrass will accompany me, right now" Snape
ordered
Harry and Daphne stood up, they waved goodbye to Tracy and
followed their head of houses orders, they followed him all the way to
Professor McGonagall's office. When they entered they found,
Hermione Granger standing next to the deputy head teacher who
was sitting at her desk with a stern expression.
"Mr Potter and Miss Greengrass" McGonagall spoke "Miss Granger
has made a complaint against you, according to her you have been
rude and have tricked her into thinking she was going to be forced to
marry Mr Weasley. What do you have to say for yourselves?"
"Didn't do it" Harry responded
"Mr Potter" McGonagall looked at him
"I apologies, I meant I did not do it" Harry replied "and neither did
Daphne"
"Professor" Daphne spoke "perhaps we could give you our version of
what happened?"
"Very well" McGonagall nodded "let's hear it"
"Well Professor" Harry spoke "me and Daphne were in the library,
we had just completed our potions assignment and had just started
our transfigurations assignment when Miss Granger entered the
library. She then asked us what we were doing there, I thought that
two students in a library with homework was self-explanatory"
"Miss Granger said you were rude when she asked" McGonagall
pointed out
"She asked what we were doing and I sarcastically said we were
'making passionate love on top of a flying white saber-toothed tiger
that is soaring above a rainbow in Ireland whilst consuming large
quantities of fire whisky'. I admit I was sarcastic but you can't deny
me that, I was tired and she had just asked what I was doing in a
library with homework. Sarcasm is all I have at this point, do not take
that away from me."
"Very well" McGonagall sighed "what happened next?"
"Granger accused Harry of cheating in class" Daphne said "she said
he must be if he's doing better than her"
"Well he must be" Hermione argued "he always beats me, he must
be cheating!"
"Miss Granger, control yourself" Snape snapped "ten points from
Gryffindor"
"Yes" McGonagall agreed "control yourself, if Mr Potter is doing
better you that does not mean he is cheating."
"Anyway" Daphne continued "Harry mentioned that I'm his girlfriend
and she then told him off for having a girlfriend, she was acting like
she had a right to tell him what to do. Harry then mentioned that I'm
also his fiancée"
"Miss Granger did mention that" McGonagall spoke
"It's true" Harry said "our families have made a marriage contract so
we will have to marry once we're of age unless the contract is
cancelled, so until then she is my fiancée and we have decided to
make the most of it. Not that I'm complaining, I'm with the prettiest
girl in school"
"Then" Daphne continued despite her blush "we asked her who her
fiancée was, we never told her she was forced to have one"
"Yes you did" Hermione interrupted "you said everyone had to have
a fiancée"
"Well it's true" Harry responded "everyone gets married at some
point, or at least most people do. It's not my fault that you took my
words to mean right now."
"You said I had to marry Ron Weasley" Hermione accused the two
"No, I said that there was a rumour going around that Ron Weasley
wanted to marry you" Daphne replied "again, I said rumour. I never
said it was true"
"And pray tell, who started this rumour?" McGonagall asked
"Wasn't me" Harry shook his head
"Professor" Daphne spoke "this is Hogwarts, there is a new rumour
started nearly every week."
"True" Harry agreed "I remember one rumour that said I was the next
dark lord, I remember a different one that said Adrian Potter is a
direct descendent of Merlin and the founders and there are also a
few about teacher romance."
"I beg your pardon?" Snape raised an eyebrow
"Well it's just students guessing who you lot are in love with. You've
been paired with Professor Trelawney so far while Professor
McGonagall has been paired with the headmaster" Both teachers
adopted a look of disgust.
"Our point is" Daphne continued "you can't trust rumours and we
can't be held accountable for Granger misinterpreting our words and
believing them"
"Oh that is ridiculous!" Hermione exclaimed
"I know" Harry said "the headmaster is definitely not Professor
McGonagall's type"
"Wait, you're saying Trelawney is my type?!" Snape demanded
"I've never met Professor Trelawney" Harry pointed out "for all I
know she could be a twenty year old brunette who used to be a
French model, how am I supposed to know if she's your type?"
"He makes a good point" McGonagall said, her thin lips were coming
dangerously close to a smile
"No, he does not" Snape had realised that he now had a headache
"now let's cut away with all this nonsense, Miss Granger had
misinterpreted their words and therefore they do not deserve
punishment"
"Yes" McGonagall sighed "very well, the two of you may go now but
I'd advise you to choose your words more carefully in the future"
"Yes Professor" The two chorused before Professor Snape lead
them out.
"Is that really it?" Hermione asked "He's not getting punished?"
"I'm sorry Miss Granger" McGonagall apologized "but you have no
proof of your claims and those two have provided a valid reason for
their actions, you misinterpreted their words"
"But Professor they did it on purpose! They knew I'd misinterpret it"
"That's as maybe but I cannot punish them for that, they likely did
know but I cannot prove that they did know you'd misinterpret it. I'm
sorry Miss Granger, but there's nothing I can do"
"Yes Professor" Hermione grabbed her stuff and sulked as she made
her way out.
"Sweet Merlin" McGonagall said out loud once Hermione had left "a
fine prank, James Potter would be proud"