Harry Potter: Only you always and forever

Harry potter only you always and forever.
Chapter 3: Vertiaserum


Half an hour later when the cloud had cleared and everyone was dressed they all sat around the table eating breakfast. Mr. Weasley asked Dumbledore when Draco would be given the Vertiaserum. Dumbledore replied “After everyone has finished eating.”

After everyone had finished eating and the dishes had been cleared away from the table, everyone remained seated around the kitchen table. Harry pulled a small bottle out of his pocket and passed it to Dumbledore. The bottle contained a clear mixture that looked like water, only water wouldn't have the desired affect of preventing you from lying.

Dumbledore removed the cork from the bottle and tilted it over Draco's open mouth he dropped three small drops onto the tip of his tongue. Hermione cleared her throat and asked Dumbledore. "How long will it take before the Vertiaserum will take effect" Dumbledore had replied "Round about now, so who would like to ask the first question?"

Ron asked "Can we ask him anything?" Dumbledore smiled slightly and replied "Within reason of course, yes you can." Hermione turned to look around the whole table and suggested "Seeing as Harry will be the one who will have to spend the most and closest time with Draco, I think it only makes sense if Harry was the one who asked the first question."

Everyone agreed so Harry went first and asked "Malfoy why did you treat me and Ron, the way you did, on the very first day on the train on the way to Hogwarts?" Draco replied "Because you refused my offer of friendship and Ron had your friendship and I didn't, and that really hurt."

Harry thought he saw something flicker in Draco's eyes but it was gone as quickly as it had appeared. Harry wasn't the only one who thought they had seen something flicker in Draco's eyes. Hermione swore she saw a faint glimmer of sadness pain and longing in Draco's eyes when he had looked at Harry, when Harry had asked him that question.

Hermione turned to look at Draco and asked "Draco do you see Harry as a friend or something much more then a friend?" Everyone around the table gave Hermione a strange look, but turned to Draco expectantly.

Draco took a deep breath and replied "I see Harry as so much more then a friend." Ron was Grinning broadly he had a plan, here suddenly released there was more to Draco's feeling's for Harry then he had first realised. Ron said "Draco, are you in love with Harry, and if you are, then for how long have you been?"

Harry went indescribably pale and said "For Merlin’s sake, what is the idea of that? Why ask him something like that?" Ron ignored Harry as if he hadn't even interrupted him. He continued "Well are you and since when?" Draco replied "Yes
I am in love with Harry, and I have been since our fourth year."

Harry nearly fell backwards in his chair and was only prevented from doing so because of Draco's quick reflexes, as Harry had been sitting between Him and Ron. When Harry had recovered he turned to Ron and asked "Now would you care to explain why you had to ask him that?"

Ron replied "Well, I asked him that because of the answers he gave to yours and Hermione's questions. Like for starters he told you when you refused his offer of friendship he said it hurt him. Well, if your friendship didn't mean anything to him in the first place he wouldn't have been hurt he would have been just pissed from an inflated and bruised ego.”

He added “And there was the answer he gave to Hermione's question when she asked him if he saw you as a friend or as more then a friend. He said he saw you as so much more then a friend. If I'm not mistaken, I would say the evidence speaks for it's self, wouldn't you?"

Ron concluded "I just thought if I was right, which I undoubtedly am, I thought you had the right to know someone was in love with you, and someone wanted you for who you really were, and not just because your Harry Potter “The Boy Who Lived".

Ron then turned back to Draco and asked "Do Parkinson, Goyle, Crabbe and Lester know about you refusing to receive the dark mark and how did they react to that piece of information?" Draco sighed and replied "They all know and have turned against me, saying I'm a traitor fraternizing with the enemy."

Ron added “Professor Dumbledore what is going to happen to Draco now all his house mates have turned against him, especially those main four?" Dumbledore replied "Mr. Malfoy will be removed from the dungeons for his own safety. The classes he shared with his own house will be taken with the Gryffindor's instead, and lesson such as potions and care of magical creatures.”

He added with a hopeful tone to his voice “I was hoping that the three of you will stay close to him" he gestured towards Harry, Ron and Hermione. "And as for dinner times, Mr. Malfoy will be removed from the Slytherin’s table to the Gryffindor table."

The trio agreed they would stay close to Draco during lessons and meal times, knowing the Slytherin's weren’t to be trusted. And that they would surely try to do serious physical harm to Draco for not becoming a death eater and serving Voldemort. They were all relieved that they had one less Malfoy among the death eater ranks to deal with.