Only You Can Set Me Free

Chapter 8
One Hell of a Feast

“The train will be arriving at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in precisely 10 minutes, so gather your belongings and be ready to depart.” A voice called over an intercom as the train started to slow down.

Harry glanced over at Luna in their compartment and stood up to pull on his robes. Luna stood up to pull her robes on too. They walked out of their compartment side by side, Helios perched on Harry’s shoulder.

Harry knew that Remus was most likely sweating bullets right about now.

‘Poor Remus,’ Harry smiled as he thought of the difficult task that lay before his god father. He knew Remus would do just fine.

The two walked down the train to the storage compartment to get their possessions. They saw that Remus was already in there, levitating his belongings toward the door they had just entered.

“Harry, hello. Are you going to introduce me to your lovely new friend?” Lupin smiled warmly at Harry’s companion.

Luna blushed deeply and bowed her head to show respect to the new Head Master of Hogwarts.

“Remus, I would like you to meet Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw and my new friend,” Harry said as he pulled Luna forward and placed her in front of the older man.

“It is a pleasure to meet you Luna. I hope you have a high tolerance for random acts of bravery. Being Harry’s friend, you are bound to see a lot of that.” Lupin said teasingly.

“Ha ha, very funny Head Master….” Harry said as he rolled his eyes good naturedly.

Luna smiled at the two and walked over to Lupin.

“It is really nice to meet you sir.” Luna shyly shook his hand then excused herself to go and gather her things.

The train suddenly came to a stop and the announcer proclaimed that they had arrived at Hogwarts.

“Well, I had better get a move on Harry, I have to set my office up and prepare for the feast. I will see you in a while.” Lupin said as he walked out of the storage compartment with his belonging’s in front of him.

“Ok, see you later,” Harry called after the older man as he turned to get his things.

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The two friends walked off of the train and toward the threshal-pulled carriages. Draco was standing near the carriage closet to Harry and Luna. He was chatting animatedly to a fellow seventh year slytherin. He glanced out of the corner of his eye to make sure the griffindor was watching him. He was.

Harry narrowed his eyes angrily as he saw Draco smirk at him pointedly. The ebony haired youth then turned his glare to the other boy and bunched his fists.

“Oh, he is pushing his luck. He will learn soon enough though.” Harry smirked evilly at Draco, who frowned quickly before turning back to the other slytherin.

“Ummm, Harry, would it be ok if I went with a few of the Ravenclaws in their carriage?”

Harry was startled out of his thoughts of the blond at Luna’s comment.

“Sure. I will catch up with you later on, ok?” Harry smiled at Luna as she nodded and walked off to meet up with some Ravenclaw girls.

‘Great, now I can take care of business,’ Harry thought happily as he strutted over to Draco and his friend.

Helios seemed to sense Harry’s need for privacy and flew off to the owlery to find something to eat.

Draco backed up a little when he saw Harry walking over to him and his smirk was replaced with a confused expression. Blaise, the boy Draco had been talking to, looked at him strangely. His eyes widened when he realized what was going on.

Draco had come out to the whole school last year on the last day of term. The blond was arrogant, knowing that no one would dare make one a single rude comment about his sexuality. And he was right, not a single person mentioned his coming out. They had all pretty much figured it out already and he just confirmed their suspicions.

Blaise had not, however, known that Potter was gay as well. He smirked at the two boys and decided to give Draco a hard time, hell, the arrogant boy had it coming.

“Well, it looks as if you two want some time alone, I will join the others and let you two get better acquainted.” Blaise chuckled softly as he looked over at a stunned Draco. The latter’s jaw dropped when Blaise had said that.

“You bloody well better be joking Blaise.” The slytherin prince said, shocked at his friends' comment.

“No joke Drake, I want you two to get to know each other better.” Blaise winked slyly at the distressed boy, then he turned to Harry.

“Good luck Potter, this guy likes to play hard to get,” Blaise said, motioning to Draco. He then turned to leave the boys alone.

Draco stood rooted to his spot, confused beyond all reason.

“Thanks Blaise, this is really decent of you.” Harry called after the boy, who saluted by raising his arm without looking back.

‘This is going to be good…’ Blaise thought as he walked off.

“Well, after you Draky poo,” Harry smirked as he bowed before the carriage door for Draco to go ahead of him.

“If you think for one second that I will be sharing a carriage with you to the castle, you have another thing coming Potter. You just want an excuse to put your grimy hands all over me. Well, not this time, you can go and find yourself another person to bother. What about the Weasel and Mudblood, go annoy the hell out of them.” Draco knew he would get some kind of reaction to that comment. He was not, however, expecting Harry to burst out laughing.

‘What the bloody hell??’

“Ah, to hell with those prats, I would much rather share a ride with you, sweet thing.” Harry laughed as he looked at Draco’s expression go from confident to just plain confused.

Draco eyed at Harry suspiciously. He then turned to walk away.

“Where are you going??” Harry called after the slytherin.

“If you wont leave me alone, then I will just try my best to ignore you. Farewell Potter.’ Draco then jumped into another carriage. The thresals started to move toward the castle at a fast pace.

Harry sighed and jumped into his carriage.

“Ignore me, huh? We shall see about that…..”

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Harry sat at the Griffindor table as far away from Ron and Hermione as he could possibly get without sitting at another table. Ron and Hermione glared at him from down the table and then acted as if he were not there. Many people noticed the distance between the friends and the glares they were shooting at each other. They decided to stay out of it, Harry did have a temper after all. They did not want to be on the receiving end of Harry’s bad mood.

The first years were ushered into the great hall in a line. All of them looked pretty much like they were going to piss themselves any moment. Harry felt kind of bad for them.

The sorting went by fast, with most of the first years being sorted either into Griffindor or Slytherin. Sixteen to Griffindor, thirteen to Slytherin, twelve to Ravenclaw, and 9 to Hufflepuff. After the cheering died down, people started to talk amongst themselves again.

Harry looked up to Head Masters' desk to see his god father chatting with Professor Sprout. He smiled as he looked down the table to smirk at the face Professor Snape was wearing.

Snape was seething at the end of the table, glaring at Lupin through slitted eyes.

Harry almost burst out in laughter.

‘That face…priceless!!’ Harry thought as he took a mental picture of Snape’s scowling face. He then heard Remus clearing his throat from the front of the hall and all became silent.

“Hello students, welcome to all newcomers and welcome back to all those who are returning. I am the new Head Master of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin. I am very happy to have acquired this position after my dismal third year experience teaching DADA, Defense Against the Dark Arts. I hope that all of our experiences together will help you to shape who you are going to be in the future. I hope we can all work together to make this year a memorable one. Now, I know most of you know about my condition. And for those of you who don’t, I will just say it. I am a werewolf.”

There was a sudden wave of gasps in the crowd, mostly from the first and second year students. Lupin smiled and continued.

“I should say that I was a werewolf. You see, I am now a semi-lycan, meaning that I am only a full werewolf for exactly one day of the year. And I get to choose what day it is to fit my schedule. So you need not fear me.”

There was a collective sigh from the students as they all calmed down and continued to look up at Lupin.

Harry smiled proudly up at Remus, who in turn smiled back at him.

“Now I think I have said enough for now. Let the feast begin.”

An uproar or applause chorused through the hall. Mostly from the Griffindors. The rest of the houses clapped civilly. Ron and Hermione, however, did not even look at the new Head Master. Harry glared daggers at them. Their attitude toward Remus was uncalled for. He decided to drop it for now.

‘No point in making a scene.’ Harry thought.

The tables were suddenly piled with food and drink and everybody started to dig in to the delicious looking platters. Harry didn’t feel too hungry, not for food, anyway. He looked over to the Slytherin table to see that Draco was glaring at him.

Harry smiled and blew a kiss to the young Malfoy.

Draco sneered at Harry before turning to talk to Pansy. Harry looked at the other boy smugly before getting up and walking over to the Slytherin table.

A few people looked up from their food to watch The Boy Who Lived walk over to his most hated enemy. They believed all hell was going to break loose.

Lupin had noticed Harry’s arrival at the Slytherin table and smirked. He knew Harry’s intentions, and that he was going to have to cover for him, again. He sighed inwardly.

Harry had told him about his being gay the first day he had moved in with him. Lupin was completely understanding and supportive of his god son.

Draco looked up to see Harry go slowly around his chair. He was becoming suspicious. He turned his head to tell Potter off but was cut off as Harry crashed his lips against his hungrily. Draco was beyond shocked as Harry kissed him in front of the entire school.

Every single student and teacher gasped at Harry’s behavior. Ron’s eyes went wide as he started to choke on a piece of chicken. Hermione spit out her pumpkin juice, which sprayed Ron and a few others. Everybody stood silent as Harry continued to ravish Draco’s mouth.

Harry slid his tongue over Draco’s bottom lip slowly. The Slytherin gasped and Harry took the opportunity to slide his tongue into the other boys’ warm mouth.

‘Damn, Potter is a bloody good kisser.’ Draco thought, as he tried to appear disgusted.

Harry slowly ended the passionate kiss and pulled away from the other.

All the students were still speechless after witnessing Harry snog his enemy. They kept looking between Harry and Draco, thinking this had to be some kind of weird joke.

Lupin rolled his eyes and continued to eat his meal. Snape looked murderous at the end of the table.

Draco sat dazed for a few seconds, staring at Harry as though he went absolutely mad. His fellow Slytherins were all smiling at him knowingly.

Harry smiled down at the shocked boy. Draco shook his head and looked around at all the people who had just witnessed the heinous act that just transpired. He blushed furiously and lowered his head. He was not going to storm out of the hall and cry in his dorm like he wanted to do. No, he was a Malfoy, and Malfoy’s don’t storm out or cry like weaklings. So, he settled for lowering his head and mumbling under his breath.

‘What the fuck was that all about?? Is he absolutely insane?? I will never hear the end of this….. I was kissed by Harry bloody Potter. Oh sweet Merlin no!!!’ Draco thought angrily, but at the same time, he was the happiest he had ever been. Weird, to be angry and happy at the same time….

‘Victory,’ Harry thought as he turned to walk back to his table.


Draco glared after him and wiped his mouth off, as if he was totally repulsed by Harry’s kiss.

Harry turned around once more to address his crush. His smile never leaving his face.

“Draco……..ignore that.”

Harry walked back to his table and sat down. His house mates stared at him in awe and admiration. Never did they think that Harry could be so bold, so brazen.

Down the table, Ron looked disgustedly at his former friend and decided that Harry needed to learn his place once and for all.

Well, there was chapter 8, I hope you enjoyed this one.