Tale As Old As Time

Chapter Seven

Harry and Draco were on their way to King's Cross. They had rented a Muggle taxi, because Draco had suggested that it was not safe to leave his or Harry's car at the railway station.

The blond was very nervous and got on Harry's nerves, because he couldn't sit still and asked Harry every minute if his clothes looked good or if his hair was messy.

As a matter of fact, they both looked really handsome. Draco wore a green silk shirt with black leather pants and a dark denim jacket and Harry wore the same type of shirt and pants but with the colours vice versa.

"Really, Draco. You look beautiful. Why are you so anxious?" Harry sighed.

"Because we haven't seen our mates for three years."

"We see Ron and Herm nearly every day, but you never ask me if you look good enough for them."

"You know, what I mean," Draco said and looked out of the window. "We're here!"

They quickly went in, straight to platform nine. They leaned against the barrier between platforms nine and ten and finally got to platform nine and three quarters where the Hogwarts Express waited.

They were a little late, but didn't have to search for an empty compartment. They sat down and looked out the window, at the empty platform.

"How many get to Hogwarts by train?" Draco asked.

"I don't know, but Dumbledore said that most of them arrive with Floo powder."

"Then are we the only ones who arrive like school boys?"

"No, I don't think so," Harry answered. "I heard there would be a workshop for Medi-Wizards at Hogwarts soon, so probably some of them get there by train.

"And not to forget Ron and Hermione. I'm wondering where they are," Harry muttered and looked out of the window again.

"Don't worry, I'm sure they'll come soon. Come sit down. I need someone to tell me how beautiful I am," Draco smiled.

Harry sighed and sat down on the comfortable bench. He laid an arm round Draco's shoulders and the blond nuzzled against Harry's neck.

"You are the most beautiful and sexiest man I know and the others will be eaten up with envy when they see me together with you."

Draco chuckled and kissed Harry's neck. "Thank you," he breathed and started to trail kisses from Harry's neck, over his jaw to his mouth.

He curled the hair of Harry's neck between the fingers of his left hand and went trough the raven silky hair with his other. Draco grasped a handful of Harry's hair and tugged at it slightly.

Harry moaned and rubbed his hands up and down Draco's back. He went under Draco's shirt and stroked his skin. Soft fingertip touches over the grey-eyed man's back.

Draco kissed Harry fiercely. "Are you not afraid that your clothes could mess up?" Harry muttered.

"I don't care!"

The blond licked Harry's jaw and started sucking and nibbling at Harry's neck, making him moan and gasp.

"I think we've found them!" They jumped apart and looked at the door.

Both blushed like two fifteen-year old boys and Hermione laughed.

"We could take an other compartment, if you two want to be alone," Ron grinned.

"N-No, I-it's ok. Sit down!" Draco stuttered and straightened his clothes.

Harry suddenly noticed Hermione's appearance and gasped, "Wow, Herm! You look beautiful! If I would be straight and you not married, I would take you here and now!"

"Thank you," she whispered and blushed. "You two look great too."

Hermione had put her hair up and wore a long, red velvet gown. She remembered the men of the Yule Ball in their fourth year.

"Is there anyone else on the train?" she asked and sat down across from Harry and Draco.

"I haven't seen anybody, but we'll meet them at Hogwarts anyway," Draco answered.

They spent the journey talking and playing Exploding Snap, with a deck of cards, which had been forgotten by some Hogwarts students.

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When the four arrived at Hogsmeade, a horseless carriage was already waiting for them. They were obviously the only ones who had travelled by train.

Harry wondered why Dumbledore had sent the train only for them.

The carriage stopped in front of the castle and the four were nonplussed by the wonderful decoration.

Hundreds of hovering candles bordered the way to the entrance and garlands with little fairies in them were draped all around the entrance.

They saw some wizards and witches arriving on brooms and some arrived with flying cars, which had been legalized two years before.

The four got into the castle and heard the laughing and talking of their friends and fastened their steps.

They stopped and went quiet of seeing the Great Hall again after three years, filled with their former classmates, many easily recognizable, but also some different-looking people.

There were not only their classmates, Harry saw the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan and Hermione discovered Percy.

"I'll go and greet Perce," she said. "See you later then!"

Ron also went off, to see Lavender Brown and her husband and left Harry and Draco at the entrance.

"Let's go!" Draco smiled and took Harry's hand.

They saw Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas standing at the buffet.

"Hey guys. Nice to see you!" Harry said.

Seamus turned round, squeaked, "Harry!" and hugged him effusively.

Dean smiled and shook hands with Draco. "Nice to see you, Draco. Hey Seam, let Harry go or I'll get jealous," he said jokingly to his boyfriend.

"You two are together?" Harry asked curiously and they nodded happily.

"Congratulations!" Harry hugged Dean as well.

"What have you been doing all the time? I never heard of you after graduation!"

"Yeah, we travelled a bit. But then we decided to become serious and searched for jobs. Seamus helps Mr. Ollivander making wands and he's very good at his work," Dean smiled and gave Seamus a peck on the cheek.

"And what's your job, Dean?" Draco asked.

"He's an Unspeakable," Seamus whispered. "So, shh..."

They laughed and suddenly Seamus discovered Justin Finch-Fletchley and pulled Dean away, who just had a chance to call "See you later!" before they where gone.

"Should I get us something to drink?" Harry asked.

Draco nodded and the ex-Gryffindor went off to the bowl of Butterbeer.

When he got back, Draco was talking with Pansy Parkinson.

'That's not good!' Harry thought.

When Pansy saw him, she smiled and said, "Hi Harry! How are you? Nice to see you!"

What was that? Pansy Parkinson, nice to Harry Potter, the man who stole her boyfriend?

"I-I'm fine, thanks. And you?" Harry stuttered and forgot completely about the two glasses in his hands.

"Me too. I just talked with Draco about my husband. After you took my sweetheart, I had to search for somebody else. Harry, are you alright? You look sick," Pansy asked worried.

"I'm fine. I just wondered, why are you... so... uhm..."

"Nice to you? I can't be angry with you forever. And I can say that my Draco, sorry, is in really good hands. And if you wouldn't have, I would have probably never met my husband, Roy Plumpton."

"Roy Plumpton?" Harry looked startled. "The Roy Plumpton? The inventor of the new Firebolt series and heir of Roderick Plumpton, the best Quidditch Seeker imaginable?"

"Yes," Pansy smiled. "You two should visit us at our castle in Athlone. We have nice guestrooms."

"You live in Ireland, Pansy?" Draco asked.

"Yeah, Roy's family has been living there for about 200 years. Feel free to visit us at Plumpton Manor, but please owl before.

"I'll leave you for now, but we'll see each other later, when Roy arrives. He had something to work on. Bye!" Pansy she said with her velvety voice and went over to Millicent Bulstrode, who wore a pink dress, which was really not large enough for her.

"What happened to Pansy?" Harry asked his boyfriend puzzled and finally handed him his drink.

"I don't know! I'm as surprised as you are. Maybe the marriage and her husband changed her. There are also rumours that she's pregnant!

"Maybe that drew the acid out of her veins," Draco said and shrugged. "That, or somebody deleted her mind."

Then he kissed Harry on the cheek and told him that he wanted to talk a little with Crabbe and Goyle.

They were Death Eaters, but had been under the Imperius Curse and after Voldemort's defeat they had awoken from their enslavement and become really nice men.

They now worked in the Ministry in the Department for Magical Creatures.

Harry went over and joined Hermione's chat with Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil.

"Harry! Nice to see you again after three years, how have you been?" They kissed his cheeks.

"Great. Thanks!"

"Where are you working? I heard you were a Quidditch Seeker!" Lavender asked.

"Yeah, I played two years for the Montrose Magpies. But I gave it up."

"Why?"

"Because a Bludger hit my head twice and cracked it. I found it too dangerous and Draco was scared every time I was on the field."

"Aww... we heard that you two live together. What is he doing?"

"He designs new robes for Madam Malkins and she tailors them."

"You didn't know that?" Parvati interrupted. "I bought two, but they're quite expensive. But they're worth it. They're beautiful!"

"I'll tell Draco," Harry smiled, but was suddenly drawn away by two redheads.

"Hey Harry!" George said. "It's an honor to meeting you at last." He hugged him.

"Such a pleasure, lost brother!" Fred agreed and hugged him also.

Harry freed from their embrace and rubbed his chest. The twins were really strong!

"Thanks!" he gasped.

"We wanted to rescue you," Fred said.

"From what?" Harry asked.

"From Hermione. She must have bored you to death!" George answered.

"No. We just chatted a little."

"Oh. Because she talked for half an hour about her work in the Ministry, she is really proud of it," Fred sighed.

"I know, but she is on holidays now," Harry said.

"Really?" the twins gasped startled.

"Yeah and I have to go now, Draco looks lonely," The ex-Gryffindor said and hurried over to his boyfriend, who stood alone in the middle of the Hall.

Draco stood there, looking for Harry, when two arms curled around his waist and a voice purred in his ear, "Miss me?"

"Of course, where have you been?" the blond muttered and leaned into the embrace.

"I was kidnapped by Fred and George, who wanted to rescue me from Hermione."

Draco chuckled and turned round. "My poor baby," he said and brushed a strand of Harry's hair out of his emerald eyes.

Harry pulled Draco closer and murmured, "But now, I'm with you," and bent forward to kiss Draco on the lips.

The silver-grey eyed man wrapped his arms round Harry's neck and leaned more into the kiss.

"May I have your attention too, Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy?"

They parted and saw everybody staring at them.

The two men blushed and turned round to listen to what Dumbledore wanted to say.

"Thank you. Welcome to our class reunion. Maybe you have noticed that not only your classmates are here, but also special guests like the Weasleys and Mr. Wood.

"I invited the persons who I liked and remembered most, for a little chat or something more.

"I want to thank you all for coming and I also want to thank Mrs. Ron Weasley for her help with the organisation."

Everybody applauded and the Weasley twins cheered. Hermione blushed until her face was almost the same colour as her gown.

"And I want to wish you lots of fun tonight and I hope you enjoy the Weird Sisters!"

The band started playing and they broke up into pairs and started dancing. The music was great, it was the same band they had at the Yule Ball in their fourth year.

Draco wanted to dance, but Harry led him off the dance floor.

"I... I, uhm, wanted to tell you something," Harry said nervously.

Draco looked curious, but said nothing.

"Draco, you know, we've been together for five years, but I've loved you since I first met you at Madam Malkin's. But I never had the courage to show you my feelings, until our fifth year."

Draco didn't know what to expect. What was Harry on about?

"I love you. I love the way you make me laugh, I love the way you say my name and how you smell when I wake up in the morning."

The blond smiled.

"I love your silver-grey eyes and your blond hair. I love the way you complain about your figure and how you get upset, when your hair is messy.

"But what I really want to say is-," he got down and took Draco's hand, "That you would make me to the happiest man alive, if you'd marry me!"

With those words he took a velvet box out of his jacket, opened it and slid a silver ring with on emerald on it on Draco's ring finger.

Draco smiled at Harry kneeling before him and pulled him up to his level.

"Of course, my mushy hero!" he said grinning and kissed his now-fiance softly on the lips.

Hermione came over to the two of them and asked curious, "Hey, what's up? Why are you grinning like mad, Draco? And Harry, why are your trousers so dusty?"

Draco showed her his ring.

"Aww!" she squeaked. "You finally got over it, Harry!

"We were betting how much longer it'd take you! For defeating You-Know-Who that often, you're a coward!"

She grinned at them and leaned closer, "Now I'll tell you a secret, which Ron doesn't even know: I'm expecting a baby!"

"Really?" the two men shouted and hugged her. "That's great!"

"Yes, it is. Okay, I'll leave you now," she said and went back to Ron.

"Wanna dance now?" Draco asked.

"Of course, fiance!" Harry smiled.

On the dance floor, Harry put his arms round Draco's waist and the blond nuzzled against his chest.

They moved slowly to the music, when they both thought, "I'm the happiest man alive."

~Fin~