As The Plot Thickens

Dean couldn’t believe it. He was in a state of utter shock, but when he snapped out of it he could tell it wasn’t going to be pretty.


“What! What do you mean you want to see other people!”

“Mr. Thomas I must ask you to be quite, before I take points.”

“That isn’t fair, she’d take points from Slytherin without a warning.” Harry mumbled to Hermione, who was nodding in agreement, although she didn’t see why he brought it up, Slytherins and Gryffindors have been fighting for over 500 years.

“Can we talk about this later?” Seamus said trying, for once, to not draw attention to himself

“No, we cannot talk about this later?”

“Listen, we're in two different places.”

“WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?”

“It means that you are a loser, compared to the true love of my life.”

“Which is who?”

“Ten points from Gryffindor, if you feel the need to carry on this discussion then you can do it when my class has ended.

“You’ll find out soon enough wont you?” Seamus whispered back to Dean.

“Is it Harry? Because you know he’s seriously in love with Snape, and always will be.” As soon as he mentioned Harry being in love with Snape Professor McGonagall gasped and the rest of the class was either stunned into silence or gossiping like there was no tomorrow. Harry however began banging his head loudly on his desk, which caused Ron and Hermione to stop defending him and check to see if he was ok.

“It’s ok Harry after they get done making crazy rumors for a week or so then life will go on as normal, like it usually does when a new rumor is started about you.”

“Yeah mate listen to Hermione, don’t worry Harry I know it seems bad but eventually everyone will come to their since and realize that you will always hate the Greasy Git, then when they do it will be fine.

“He’s not greasy for your information he’s takes two showers a day.” Harry said defensively but then quickly covered his mouth.

“Harry please tell me you're not sleeping with a teacher, I know your potions grades are low but this is wrong on so many levels, I’m sure if we study harder-”

“It's not about grades, if it was don't you think my results would be getting better not worse? Besides Professor Dumbledore marks my assignments now. Now that we're together he doesn’t want to show any favoritism. I love him with all of my heart and soul, and I will fight for him as long or hard as need be.”

Ron just sat back and watched everything play out, with a look of shock on his face.

“Another ten points from Gryffindor.” But no one heard as they were all two busy fighting to pay their transfiguration Professor any notice

“Two men being together is just wrong. There's a certain balance that heterosexual relationships have that a homosexual one can never have. I don’t understand, what happen to make you think that you're gay?” she whispered the word gay like it was the dirtiest word she had ever uttered. “ I know things with you-know-who are really rough but this isn’t the answer. Those People don’t have loving caring relationships, despite what you’ve been told.” Harry’s eyes were full of tears,. If it had been anyone else he would have said go to hell and probably beat them up, but this was Hermione the one who he told everything, well except that he was gay. "I know that you’ve been experimenting lately, but even men who are completely straight do that at our age, but when you go professing your love, then its gone too far Harry. When other people do it it’s one thing, but I really care about you and can’t let you go through the self destructive faze.”

“That’s enough, Hermione in case you haven’t noticed in the six years that you’ve been in the wizarding world, let me inform you that it’s normal and almost expected for two men or women of proper age to ‘experiment’ as you call it.”

“Thank you Ron.” Harry said sounding genuinely grateful.

“Don’t’ thank me yet, I’m still angry with you, for not telling me. When I’m not so angry we’ll talk about this.” Ron said trying to be calm although his voice sounded as it was full of anger and hurt.

“Ok.” Well today was definitely a much worse day than the one he woke up to. The one thing Harry couldn’t handle was everyone falling apart on him. As long as Severus stayed with him he knew he would be fine, but with things so up in the air, Harry was seriously wondering. While he and Severus made love last hour which was a first for not only their relationship, but for Harry, he was worried about Severus’ hot/cold attitude. He just wasn’t sure if he could be good enough to keep Severus with him now that he had him. And the news of their relationship getting out, probably isn’t going to help anything.

“Harry you know it might...” Hermione started but Harry cut her off.

“For being such a know it all you don’t know anything in this matter. Severus has such a strong powerful love that every relationship you ever have, combined would seem small in comparison. You have no idea because you’ve never seen us together and you’ve never seen the Severus I fell in love with.”

“Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Finnegan, please go see the headmaster to sort this out.” She said handing Harry the note looking quite angry with her lips pressed in a thin, firm. white line. She received a yes ma’am from each of them, before they silently got up to visit the headmaster. The walk there was silent but everyone was furious at someone else. And were just inches away from attacking each other.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here? A band of Gryffindor skipping class, I see.”

“Actually we're on our way to the headmasters office but it’s not like you would punished us even if we were skipping, because your precious boy toy is here with us.” Severus looked absolutely scandalized, while Harry momentarily hid his face, before he mouthed I’m sorry to Severus, then put his head back into his hands.

“That will be quite enough Ms. Granger. I believe we should go to the headmasters office together, but do not believe that you will get away with that, Ms. Granger, that’s defamation of character, and it will not be tolerated.”

“But having sexual relations with a student is alright?”

“Ms. Granger you are dangerously close to expulsion.” lucky for everyone, that kept her quite for the time being. Severus was in a very difficult spot, while he was a teacher and had responsibilities their he also had responsibilities to Harry and angering one of his friends would cause their break up for sure, and Severus was quite sure that he couldn’t be away from Harry for any long measures of time. Thankfully everyone was quiet until Ron broke the silence by asking what the password was when they were mere feet away form the headmasters office.

“Super All Day Lollie” Severus told the statue disdainfully.

As they went up the stairs they found that the headmasters door was already open. And the headmaster was calmly waiting for them eating his stupid lemon drops, with a more serious than usual look on his face, but not overly serious. Harry handed the headmaster the note.

“This is not the way that a school week should start.”

“I’ll tell you sir.” Hermione said politely “Seamus broke up with dean because he thinks he’s in love with Harry, and Harry is supposedly in love with Professor Snape. And Professor Snape is a pervert and has Harry brainwashed into thinking that he’s a dirty homo.”

“Ms Granger, Hogwarts does not allow use of derogatory remarks or racism I’m afraid I’m going to have to suspend you from classes for seven days and you’ll be missing the next two Hogsmade trips. I am extraordinarily disappointed in you, I thought that you were more mature than that.” Severus had never heard such a serious tone come from the headmasters lips before.

“Furthermore I’m taking ten points from each of you for disrupting class, I suggest that you all work this out on your own.”

‘I’m sure things will work out just fine.’ Seamus thought looking at his hated potions professor. Harry and Severus walked out of the room together but didn’t talk until they got to the privacy of Severus’ rooms.

“I’m sorry things went so badly, for you with your friends. I know how much they mean to you.”

“It’s not too bad, Ron’s only upset that the I didn’t tell him. Besides I’m more worried about you,” Severus raised an eyebrow “I know that you don’t like attention being drawn to you. I just didn’t know how you’d take it, so how are you feeling about this?” Severus stayed very quiet.

“Please Severus, after everything we're going through we need to talk to each other, I know you didn’t want anyone to know yet but, they do and we’ll do the best we can to deal with it. I need you to tell me how you're feeling. I want to make if better if I can.”

“I’m worried.” Severus said. Harry just waited through the long pause hoping that Severus would continue. Severus took a seat on the chair that was next to the fireplace, and Harry sat on his lap, placing his arms loosely around Severus’ neck.

“I’m worried that you’ll be mocked or ridiculed or feel less than you are. I know how that feels because I went through it when I was young. I’m worried that things will be more difficult for you and you don’t deserve that. I’m worried that you will see that I don’t deserve you. Or that once you get to know me you’ll see me as weak.” Severus said turning his head away from Harry, not wanting him to see his face. He couldn’t say anymore to Harry if he tried. That was the most he’s bared his soul to anyone since he traded sides in the war.

“How could you think that, you're not weak, your one of the strongest people I know. And if you have weak moments then I’ll be there for you as you're always their for me. That’s what a relationship is, that’s what I want our relationship to be.”

Seamus was sneaking about in the dungeons looking for the potions lab, this would be a sure fire way to fix things and put Harry back on track. Seamus was happier now more than ever that his grandmother had been a potions master, and for her passing down all of her knowledge, books and ingredients.