Muggle Mondays

Harry grabbed Draco’s hand and pulled the group towards the entrance. His exuberance was contagious and the group was starting to get into the spirit of the adventure. Remus was still slightly upset but he hid it quickly every time Harry looked his way. Hermione paid for the entrance fee and the group entered the zoo.

They went to the large map in the front of the park. A lively discussion broke out when they tried to decide where to go after the snake display. Harry and Hermione were reduced to a fit of giggles before the argument ended.

“Lions!” argued Remus, ever the Gryffindor.

“Tigers!” countered Draco. He had seen pictures and wanted to see a white one.

“Bears!” was Pansy’s desired destination. She was imagining cute cuddly teddy bears.

“OH MY!” exclaimed Harry and Hermione before clinging to each other in laughter. The others looked at them like they had lost their minds.

After they caught their breath, Hermione proceeded to try and explain The Wizard of Oz to the group while Harry led the way to the snakes. There was a petting display going on when they got there. Harry let out what could almost be a squeal, causing several people to look over at them. He tugged Draco’s hand and ran the two of them up to the display. There, in the center of the group of snakes was a large Brazilian python. The one he had set free years earlier.

It hissed a greeting to Harry, obviously remembering him.

“I see you didn’t get to Brazil. I’m sorry,” Harry said.

“Don’t be. I got away for a while but it was cold. And food was hard to find. They give me all sorts of food, barely have to hunt for it. So I came back,” the snake was rather chatty.

“I thought you wanted to go to Brazil?” Harry was a bit confused.

“I was. But that was too hard. I couldn’t really even get out of the zoo. Everyone was looking for me,” the snake was explaining patiently. He slithered towards Harry. “I have been hoping you would come back here. I never get to talk to anyone.”

Harry smiled at the snake. “It isn’t a common ability. I only know one other person that was able to do it and he, er…died a year ago.”

The two continued to talk for a bit and Harry reached into the petting pen. The snake slid up Harry’s arm as he reached down to pet him. Harry smiled and looked up at his friends. He paused at the looks on their faces. Hermione and Remus were both looking at him in amused amazement. The three Slytherians however had a much different look. Pansy and Severus were filled with envy and something Harry couldn’t identify. Draco looked…well, like he wanted to drag Harry off to the nearest wall and take him right there. Harry drew in a shaky breath and started to pull his arm away when he heard a voice.

“I am amazed young man. I don’t believe I have ever seen Bran respond to anyone like that,” Harry looked at the speaker. It was a man dressed in a zoo uniform, looked like an animal handler.

“Um…Bran?” he was a bit uncertain what was going on. Everyone was looking at him strange.

“The snake, that’s his name,” Harry smiled to himself at that. The snake had already introduced himself as Siash. “You have a real talent with snakes it would appear.”

He wasn’t sure how to respond to that comment. As he was trying to figure out what to say, Hermione chimed in. “Yeah, Harry gets along with most snakes. It is almost like they can talk. Really strange. Always been like that.”

She grinned at Harry. He felt himself turning red. Especially since Draco still looked like he was going to drag him off at any second.

“Hmm,” the trainer was giving Harry another look. “Would you mind…I normally wouldn’t ask, but I do have another snake that is giving us some trouble. It isn’t a poisonous snake, just a constrictor, but we can’t seem to get her to eat. The vet has been in and can’t find a problem. Since you have a natural talent for these animals, can you find something?” Harry looked at the man in shock.

“M..me? Um, I guess.” He was very confused. Severus and Pansy were still looking at him strange and Remus just seemed greatly amused. Harry convinced Siash to go back to his cage and followed the other man to a small building. His friends were trailing behind him.

In the back of the building was a rather large cage with a large white snake. The snake looked miserable. It was huddled in a corner and barely looked up when the group came in.

“What’s wrong?” Harry hissed at her. The snake looked straight at him in surprise.

“My name is Harry,” he introduced himself. “You look very unhappy. Why is that?”

“You don’t smell like a snake.” the creature commented.

Harry nodded. “May I approach you? We can talk, but the people need to think that I am examining you.” Slowly the snake’s head nodded to Harry. He gave a sigh of relief. Slowly he entered the large pen and moved towards the snake. The handler made a move to stop him but was stopped by Hermione who just laid a hand on him and shook her head.

Harry heard her whisper “Just watch.”

The snake started hissing at Harry, speaking rapidly. She was listing off several complaints, including the food. She did not want rats, mice or rabbits (too much fur). She wanted a chicken, or a pigeon, something with feathers. Fur just didn’t digest well for her. She was too cold. She wanted a bigger rock. Something in the sun. The sand was too coarse. Her list of complaints seemed endless.

Finally Harry rolled his eyes and informed her that he might be able to get some of the things, but wasn’t sure about all of them. He reached down and slowly stroked her. She did seem to relax a bit at the warmth of his touch and finally moved to wrap herself partially around his leg. He smiled and told her he had to go and see about the changes.

When he left the pen he was very uneasy at the looks he was getting. The trainer seemed impressed. When Harry told him to bring some type of poultry in to feed the snake he gave Harry a startled look.

“We always feed them rabbits. They can‘t harm the snakes, chickens can peck them and injure them.” Harry just smiled. He told him if they gave the snake a chicken for food, she should show improvement. Finally the trainer left them there to get a hen for the snake. When he threw the bird into the pen, the snake hissed a quick thank you before diving towards her new meal.

“That’s amazing!” the man exclaimed. “She hasn’t eaten since we brought her here. What else is wrong with her?” he queried Harry.

Harry pondered how much he could tell the man without making him suspicious. “She needs more direct sunlight and some larger rocks. Those are too small for her to fit comfortably on.” He decided to leave it at just those couple of things and hope that it would be enough.

The trainer was giving him a rather strange look. Harry was more interested in the unbridled lust in Draco’s eyes. The zoo worker was saying something about a job if Harry was interested, once a month or so just to work with the snakes.

Harry was just about to turn him down, but paused to look at Draco, for whom the entire conversation did not even seem to be registering. Harry felt a slow grin spread across his face as he realized that this could make for some really interesting torture for Draco. With a smirk worthy of any Malfoy, Harry turned to the employee and smiled.

“That would be great, but not full time. Just a couple times a month,” he smiled at the relieved expression on the other guy’s face.

“No problem. Someone with your skills would be a great help around here. My name is Mike by the way,” Harry shook the other man’s hand and smiled. He wondered when Draco would realize that Harry had a job. Okay, only once in a while, but still, a job.

“If you will follow me, I can get you the paperwork. Just fill it out and bring it with you when you come back. Two weeks?” Harry barely heard what the zookeeper was saying, he hoped Hermione caught all of it. He was too lost in the lust filled eyes of his boyfriend.

They trailed along behind the zookeeper, Harry wasn’t really paying attention to where they were going. The guy went into a building and came out with some papers. Harry took them from him and Hermione promptly took them from Harry, putting them in a bag.

They said good bye to Mike and Draco grabbed Harry’s hand. He pulled Harry into a small corner of the area that was shaded and relatively secluded. He pushed Harry roughly up against a tree and devoured Harry’s lips. Harry moaned into his mouth. The world was quickly disappearing as his hand slide up and around Draco’s shoulders. His fingers wrapped into the long blond locks.

He felt Draco’s hand slide down his chest then finally back up. Harry moaned into Draco’s mouth at the feel of his hand against his chest. The hand made its way to Harry’s extremely sensitive nipples, passing back and fourth between them. He thrust up against Draco’s thigh that had worked itself between Harry’s legs.

It was the sound of muffled laughter and coughing the finally broke apart the pair. Harry’s face turned scarlet and he buried his face in Draco’s neck.

“Don’t you guys have anything better to do than watch us for pointers?” Draco growled.

“Who says we are looking for pointers? Perhaps I’m looking to see if Potter is better at this than he ever was at Potions,” was the silky voice of Snape.

Harry gave an embarrassed squeak into Draco’s neck as the others started laughing. Draco took a deep breath and tried to pull back, only to be anchored in place by Harry’s embarrassment.

“Don’t you dare move you prat!” he muttered against Draco’s neck. “Not until this goes away.” He moved slightly against Draco reminding him of the erection that the actions from moments ago had caused.

Draco snickered and whispered into Harry’s ear “Umbridge and Trelawny getting it on in Hagrid’s hut.”

“Oh EWWW. You are a sick bastard Draco Malfoy,” Harry practically shrieked his disgust as he pushed Draco away his erection very effectively taken care of.

Everyone was now looking at the two of them with interest. So Harry shared the statement with the group. He snickered at the equally revolted looks they shared and the glares that all of them gave to Draco.

He and Hermione decided they wanted to visit the lions as well, effectively overruling the others by numbers alone. The small group made their way to the lions pen, the Gryffindors happily ignoring the mutterings of the others.

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Sorry for the delay. We bought a house, moved and my computer didn't like the move. It lost my modem. Took a week for it to find it again. *sigh* Anyhow, I'm back, here is the next part.