Misguided Intentions

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"Harry. Harry? HARRY WAKE UP!" a very irate voice said inside Harry's head, and he felt himself being prodded by unseen hands.

"Mmm...wha'...no...go 'way...I got th' snitc'...." Harry grumpily muttered from underneath the duvets.

"You are the worst morning person I've ever met Harry James Potter. Now get up, we'll miss the train back to Hogwarts! It's already 8 am!" Draco said with a chagrined grimace and pulled the duvet off Harry finally.

"Cripes Draco, it's freezing!" Harry said now as he sat up rubbing his eyes and shivered in the cold room.

"Heat's not come up yet, Alemni said the pipes are frozen or something. Come on Harry get up, Quidditch will just have to wait for another day." Draco said smirking now at Harry.

"Quidditch?" Harry said yawning and stretching as he finally began to wake up. "Oh right...Quidditch..." Harry said mumbling a bit now.

Draco laughed. "You really even dream bout it dont you. Oi, what team do you want to play for anyway?" he said giving Harry a good morning kiss, though he dared not linger for too long.

Harry grinned however and grabbed him back by the wrist pulling him into the bed with him. "Was the Cannon's in this dream. Now you were saying...?" he said huskily and pulled Draco into a long drawn out snog this time.

"Harry we cant, we'll miss the train....Harry..." Draco said breathlessly and tried to pull away, not that he wanted to.

"Mmm...nice way to wake up though....nice way to go to sleep too for that matter..." Harry said giving Draco a coy look and chuckled.

To say last night had been beyond perfection couldn't cover half of what they had felt on their possible last night together for a while. The fact that both boys had pleaded tiredness early didn't fool Alemni and Aelana, nor the fact that they woke up only 3 hours after they finally had fallen asleep. Who knew when they were going to get the opportunities to be like this again, and they had certainly taken every full advantage of things.

Draco just shook his head now and grinned, giving Harry a last kiss on the lips before finally taking himself off the bed. "Much as I wish we didn't have to leave...we do. It'll take atleast an hour you know to get back to King's Cross from here, and we still have to have breakfast."

Harry grumbled but got himself out of the bed finally as well. "Good thing we packed last night. We better eat cause we wont have anything to eat again till the trolley comes round on the train. I admit though, I cant wait to see everyone!" Harry said as the pipes suddenly made a hissing sound.

"Looks like Alemni got the pipes fixed, should warm up now. Let's get breakfast eh?" Draco said heading out the door towards the kitchen, Harry following suit.

"Morning boys! Last meal's on the dinette, anyone up for kippers or just want the normal things?" Aelana said cheerily as the boys sat down at the dinette.

"Ugg no, I'll pass on the kippers. Bacon, bangers and eggs for me please. And dont forget the..." Harry started.

"Pancakes!" Draco finished up with a laugh. "I swear you'll turn into one of those one day as many as you eat. Either that or a giant bowl of molasses." Draco said with a grin and shook his head.

"Hey nothing wrong with pancakes Draco. Beat's kippers!" Harry said making a gagging noise.

"Just leaves more for me then." Draco said happily, and moments later the boys were diving into their breakfast.

"We'll leave at quarter past 9, that should give us plenty of time to get to the station if we take the M40. Should be quicker than taking the backroads this time." Aelana said sitting down with her cup of coffee. The Harroby's had acquired the taste for coffee after a trip to Ceylon many years ago, and found it enjoyable in the morning over brewed tea, leaving that for afternoons.

The backdoor opened just then and Alemni came in wrapped in his old Gryffindor scarf, wellies and the rest of him all covered in snow. "Had to really dig this time to get to those bloody pipes. Sorry bout that boys, ah good it's warming up already." he said brightly though Aelana was giving him a glare.

"Into the den with those snowdrenched things man! Come on, get a move on!" she said to a sheepish Alemni now as he quickly half sprinted out of the room in fear of his wife's tongue. "Honestly! You'd think by now he'd know better." she said shaking her head after he'd gone and sipped another bit of her coffee.

Draco and Harry tried not to grin but failed. It was commonly known already by them that Aelana had quite the words when she got angered. She didn't need to scream, yell or anything like that, but she could give you the lashing of the century with those words alone, and Alemni was often at the end of them.

Alemni came back in moments later now changed and dry. "Well then, plan's all set? The M40 is light, we'll be there in no time. Probably have time to spare even, but we dont want you to miss your train now do we. I bet you cant wait to see all your friends again eh?" he said smiling now and pouring a cup of coffee for himself now.

"Yeah...I guess...I mean it will be nice to see everyone again that is.." Harry said sighing a bit.

Alemni and Aelana passed a look between them, and Alemni came over and put a hand on Harry's shoulder. "I know this is hard on you m'boy. To have all this knowledge of the future and no able to do a thing about it. Though you have never told Aelana and myself what that future holds, it's obvious it's troubling you."

Harry wanted to break down right there and then and tell them everything. About his parents, Peter, the betrayals and lies that were soon to commence, but he knew he couldn't. "I just wish we could go home now honestly. It's getting too hard to be here, especially now. I miss my friends back home...I just miss home period." Harry said sighing very deeply now.

"We will get home Harry...somehow...atleast you have me though right?" Draco said worriedly for a moment. Harry could get very mauldin when he thought about his friends 19 years from now.

Harry sniffed as if holding back tears and turned to gaze Draco in the eyes, giving him a small yet much assured smile and nodded. "Right Dray. You're right...I have you now...so I guess it's not all that bad being here."

Draco smiled back then, for some reason he still was a touch bit insecure bout Harry and himself. There was no reason really why he still felt that way, maybe it was just preapprehension for when they would return home. Not to mention just going back to the school in the 'now'.

"Well, much as we can sit like this all day, I fear it's moving onto the hour. We leave in half hour boys, so do go finish up what you have to and get dressed allright?" Aelana said getting up now and breaking the tensed mood.

"Oh, sorry...right." Harry said feeling guilty that he had dragged the Harroby's down into his own depressions. "Come on Dray, let's go." he said and the boys got up and went back to their room.

They spent the next 10 minutes just thinking, not speaking, and packing last minute things. Harry's mind wandered for a moment to the issue he had been thinking bout for a few days now, and checking his rucksack made sure something he would possibly need remained safe and secured. After they had finished doing what they needed, and gotten dressed finally in their muggle clothing, Draco turned to Harry and gave him a questioning look.

"You're not worried about what the others will say are you Harry?" he asked.

Harry looked thoughtful for a moment then shook his head. "No Draco, not really. I think they'll actually be happy for us, Lily probably even suspects it if I know her. What I am going to miss however is..." Harry said walking over to Draco now who was leaning against the wardrobe, his arms crossed over his chest.

"Is what?" Draco said.

"Is this..." Harry whispered and pulled his lover into another long, passionate snog which Draco returned just as passionately.

A cough from the doorway a little while later alerted them that someone was trying to get their attention and with a long sigh they drew apart. "Sorry boys didn't mean to ahh...disturb you but...it's time to go..." Alemni said giving them both a smile.

Harry and Draco blushed a bit but nodded. This was the first time they'd actually gotten 'caught in the act' so to speak. "Sorry Alemni...we ah...err..." Harry said stammering.

Alemni chuckled and waved his hand. "Not a problem. Aelana and I were young once too you know. I remember one time when I stayed at her parents house during 7th year Yule hols....I believe we spent nearly 2 hours saying 'goodbye' to our freedom." he grinned. Stepping into the room he leaned in and in a low voice said, "A word of advice...check out the 4th portrait from the right on the 3rd floor of Middle Tower...you might find something useful there." And with that he gave them both a wink and headed back out the room.

Harry and Draco didn't know what to make of that just yet, but both of them stored that info away for later use. They gathered the rest of their things and headed out to the lounge where Aelana was waiting for them. "Alemni's warming up the car. Put on your jackets and scarfs and I'll meet you out there. Just have to lock up." she said.

The boys did as they were told and Alemni helped them get all their things into the magically enhanced car. With relatively little setbacks, not more then 10 minutes later they were heading towards the M40 which would take them back to London, and Platform 9 3/4's.

In total the trip took round 50 minutes, and at approximately 10:30 they arrived at the King's Cross Station. Aelana quickly jumped out and secured two trolleys for the boys luggage, and headed for the now routinely familiar area between platforms 9 and 10.

"Well this is it boys, we're not going to go past the barrier with you, you're old enough to get on the train yourselves. It was a pleasure having you, and maybe we'll see each other again one day eh?" Aelana said making sure only muggles were in hearing range so they wouldn't danger the boys since they were supposed to be Draco's parents in this time. Then she hugged both boys, though she looked like she was holding back tears.

"Now now Aelana, it's not like we haven't sent off lads to the school afore now. She always get's like this when we had to send our own little ones off. Motherly instinct." Alemni said giving the boys a smile and patted Aelana on the shoulder. "Take care of yourselves though, and remember what I told you." he said winking again.

"You too. Thank you for everything, we had a great time!" Harry said smiling back and shook hands with Alemni, and gave Aelana another quick hug goodbye.

"Who knows, maybe we will see you again...if not now maybe...other times..." Draco said grinning and did the same thing Harry had just done.

"If you two ever do go...er....home...that is to say..." Aelana started but was hushed by her husband.

"We'll look you up, we promise. Bye now!" Harry said waving at them both, who waved back, and both he and Draco headed through the barrier to Platform 9 3/4's.

"I'd like to see them again actually, they're very nice." Draco said glancing back at the barrier.

"Yeah, me too. Come on, let's get the stuff on the train, we've only got 20 more minutes now and I want to see if anyone else is here yet." Harry said also glancing back at the barrier and then headed his trolley towards the train, Draco next to him.

Just as they were bout to get on the train however a voice they knew all too well stopped them. "Oi Flyer, Dray!" and seconds later they were half throw back into the train by a not so small redheaded girl hugging them both.

"Lils gerroff!" Harry said in a half laugh as she nearly knocked him out cold on the stairs. Harry and Draco hugged her back and Harry said, "Wow you look great Lily! You do something to your hair?"

"She tried to dye it, go figure. Said she was tired of the strawberry look, whatever that means." James said with a chuckle whilst coming up the rear and hugged Harry and Draco as well. "Good to see you guys. Looks like you had a good holiday, anything interesting happen?" he said giving them both scrutenizing looks now.

Harry blushed a bit but Draco stood his ground and had a little smirk on his face. "Only if you count Harry and I falling in love as interesting..." Draco said semi mockingly, but a grin was now replacing the smirk.

Lily beamed, James looked flabbergasted. "And you didn't owl us immediately? How could you! You know I was so hopeful!" Lily said half mockingly and hugged the boys again. "Honestly though, that's fantastic! Guess I wont need my black book now after all eh Harry?" she grinned giving him a wink.

"Come on Lily stop it, you're embarrassing him!" James said in mock disgust. "Well that's great that you finally saw what we saw months ago. Took you long enough." he said teasingly.

"Oh come on, it hasn't been months....has it?" Harry finally said now after the embarrassment finally wore off.

"Well weeks atleast. Definitely weeks. Anyway, you seen the rest of everyone? Remus said they'd be here at 10:30, it's almost 10:50 and nothing. And has anyone heard from Peter and Sirius? They haven't owled us since...oh a week ago now." James said frowning and scanning over the platform now.

"I"m sure they'll be here...they wouldn't miss the train James." Lily said worried herself now.

Suddenly Draco pointed to the barrier. "There's Remus and Severus now!" he said and Lily let out a whoop of joy.

"Over here! Remmy! Severus! This way!" she said waving her hands now to get their attention. Unlike James and Sirius's first reactions on finding out bout Remus and Severus, Lily took their relationship in good form. She certainly didn't care as long as her friend was happy, and he definitely was happy.

After putting their things on the train they finally did come over and there were hugs all round, even from Severus surprizingly, though James's hug was a bit stiff. Not more then 5 minutes later, and 5 minutes before the train was leaving, Sirius and Peter finally showed up together.

"Thought you'd miss the train mates!" James said giving Sirius a crushing hug. "What'd I do without my co-troublemaker eh?" he said grinning broadly.

"What, and give up a chance to humiliate Malfoy in potions the rest of the year? No way!" Sirius said mockingly and everyone erupted in laughter.

They made their way onto the train and like when they had come down, they took up 2 different compartments. James, Lily, Sirius and Peter in one, Harry, Draco, Remus and Severus in the second. And in Harry's point of view, this was exactly what he wanted, now he could go head and tell them what he was thinking during the hols.

They settled in, storing their rucksack's in the luggage racks underneath, and just had normal chitchats for a bit.

"So, how'd it go over the hols?" Remus said glancing at Harry and Draco now with a questioning look.

"Fine...you two?" Harry said avoiding the issue of Draco and himself.

"Fine as always, but that's not what I meant and you know it Harry. Have you two finally realized how much you love each other?" Remus said in a piercing glance at both boys, and grinned when saw the flush creep up both their necks. "Hah! Thought so! Bout bloody time eh Sev?" he said putting his arm round Severus now and grinned.

Severus nodded and grinned too. "Yeah, we thought you'd never figure it out!"

"Just great, did everyone know but us?" Harry said a bit sarcastically.

"No, everyone knew but you Harry...there's a difference." Draco said grinning sweetly and Harry just sighed in exasperation.

Remus chuckled. "Come on Harry, not the end of the world. Peter even saw you and Draco needed each other, for what that's worth, but don't be so hard on yourself mate. Sides it doesn't matter now right? You two look like everything's out in the open now so who cares!" he said grinning.

"Yeah, you're right." Harry said smiling now and wrapped his arm round Draco who leaned into his lovers arms gratefully. "Besides, we're not the only ones who apparently had a change of heart this holiday." he said chuckling.

"Oh really? And who praytell also has had this so called 'change of heart'?" Remus said puzzled.

"Sirius and Peter that's who." Draco said smugly. "Seems they've progressed a bit.."

"No really? Padfoot and Wormtail? Oi Merlin help us all now!" Remus said laughing. "Honestly though I'm glad. Peter needs someone like Sirius, though I cant say the same in reverse. If Peter would lose a bit of weight maybe he'd be smashing...."

"That implying something Remus?" Severus said suddenly then and turned to look at Remus fully.

Remus looked startled, "No Sev, of course not. What I mean is..."

"I"m not exactly the best looking person in the world Remus, I know that." Severus said in a flat tone, though voided of any sort of malice. More like just acceptance of this fact.

"Oh luv, I love you for you...all of you not just part of you. Wish you would do something bout your hair now and then but...I still love you dont I?" he said softly and gazed deeply into Severus's eyes.

Remus held his golden brown eyes fixed to Severus's coal black eyes. To everyone else those black eyes held aloofness, coldness, but to Remus they were warm as lit charcoals, and he knew all to well how hot those eyes could smoulder when it involved intimacy. Now those eyes held something Remus always hated to see in them, fear, and a slight touch of anger. "Severus..."

Severus didn't say anything, just gazed intently on Remus's eyes for a few more moments. Finally he sighed deeply and nodded, snuggling back into his lovers arms. "I know you do Remy, I just get so scared is all. If you ever left me I...I dont know what I'd do."

"I wont leave you..not now, not ever got that? You're mine...mine alone...and I wont let anyone, especially some prat like Lucius Malfoy...take you away from me." Remus said clenching his jaw and sparks were flying in his eyes at the thought even of that.

Harry chose that moment to cut in. "Which is something I have to talk to you both about, I have an idea if you'll listen." he said looking from Severus to Remus to Draco.

Remus's temper cooled a bit at that and he raised an eyebrow at Harry. "Oh? And what would that be?"

"We all know that Malfoy wont take no for an answer, if we even make it back to Hogwart's without a visit from him I'd be surprized. Severus, I know you're not going to like this but...you have to accept his 'offer'..." Harry said and was met by audible gasps from all three of his compartment mates.

"What? Are you nutters Harry? I wont let him...do you hear me, I wont!" Remus said pulling Severus closer to him now. His eyes were flowing with sparks of anger.

"No, listen to me Remus, you have to listen....I know this going to sound strange to both of you but..." and here Harry wavered for a moment. What he was about to do was going to wasn't going to be easy, but it was needed. He'd pay the consequences later for this.

Almost as if Draco was suspecting something however he said in a warning tone of voice, "Harry...dont you dare...dont even think bout it...."

"Draco he has to know. It's the only way...I cant do anything bout the other things, but this I can...trust me, I know what I'm doing." Harry said and turned to face Draco, a pleading look in his eyes.

Draco searched those eyes for a moment, then turned to look over at Severus and Remus, the former looking completely scared now, the latter completely angered. Harry was right though, somehow he knew that, so he nodded softly. "Allright Harry, do what you have to. We'll muddle it through somehow..."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief and nodded back at Draco. Turning his gaze back to Remus and Severus now he inhaled sharply and let his breath out slowly, preparing himself for what he was bout to do.

"I know this is going to sound strange, and honestly I beg you not to ask too many questions because I cant answer them...but....but I just know that you, Severus...you have to join Vol..er...You-Know-Who. Without you, who knows how many innocent people are going to die..muggle and wizards alike." Harry said keeping his eyes trained on Severus's reaction.

Severus at the moment was completely startled by this. "I-I dont understand Harry. What do I have to do with all this? How can I be responsible for saving anyone, I cant even fight off Lucius!" he said cringing even at the thought of Lucius Malfoy.

"Sev I know right now it doesn't seem possible that you could do this, but trust me, you can and will. What I'm suggesting isn't as bad as it sounds, please believe me." Harry said.

"Joining that..that...evil prat isn't as bad as it sounds? You have gone daft Harry if you believe that!" Remus said completely angry now, and stood up towering over Harry.

"Remus please! I have not gone daft I know what I'm saying! I can prove it!" Harry said desperately trying to get a hold on the situation, though little was working. Harry knew this was the only way, they had to know the truth.

"Prove it then, show me one good reason that Severus and I should even listen to this!" Remus said clenching his fists. Whoever said moon cycles influenced a werewolf hadn't met Remus Lupin. Though normally a bit reserved, when he got angry he got angry. He didn't need any lunar phase to show that anger either.

Harry wasn't going to back down though. He'd fought and beaten Voldemort back in his own time, so a werewolf, even an angry one, wasn't going to get in his way. "Hand me my rucksack Draco." was all he said now, though he didn't take his eyes off Remus.

Draco looked surprized but did as he was asked, and seconds later the rucksack was in Harry's hands. Harry broke his gaze from Remus long enough to search through his bag, and finally he found what he was looking for. Unknown to anyone, including Dumbledore and Draco, Harry had brought something through the mirror with him all those months ago. Something he always had in his robe pocket, something that never left his side..that was until he'd gotten here. Here he had to keep it hidden, but now it didn't matter, it was the proof he needed.

"You want proof, here's your proof." Harry said flinging something at Remus now who caught it midair.

Remus looked at the object for about a second, then back at Harry. "It's a photograph Harry, so what. I have tons of them, it means nothing." Remus said scathingly.

"It does mean something, just look at it Remus. Really look at it..." Harry said keeping his eyes on Remus.

"Fine, whatever you want Harry, if only to prove all this is nonsense..." Remus said muttering but he did look down at the picture. And looked again. Then he slowly sat back down holding the picture, his hand shaking and he looked back up at Harry then Draco. And then again at the picture. "Is this a joke?" he said with a shaky voice.

"No. It's not a joke Remus. I wish it was, but it isn't." Harry said sitting down himself now and sighing deeply.

"Remus what is it?" Severus said curious now, and peered over Remus's shoulder to see the picture as well. His face went ashen then, almost sickly even. "Harry?" he said also in a shaky voice and turned to stare at Harry.

"Oh for Merlin's sake, what is everyone looking at?" Draco said perturbed now at being left out and grabbed the photograph from Remus's hand. As he looked at it he too went a bit pale and hissed in a sharp intake of air. "Harry?" he said now turning to his lover.

"I couldn't tell you Draco, I'm sorry. I always carried it in my robes you see, so when...when we got here I still had it with me, just like our wands came with us. I've been hiding it for months afraid someone might see it but luckily noone ever bothers with my trunk." Harry said softly and took the photo back now gazing down at it.

"But what does it all mean Harry? I'm not sure I do understand all this..." Remus said regaining a bit of composer now.

Harry hung his head down and a deep sigh came from him. "Honestly I dont know. This...this is my proof that you're going to do what I know you have to do Severus. Because you see....that is...this isn't the original photograph....I mean it is but...yet it's not..."

"Harry, it's a photo, a wizarding one true but just a photo. Photographs cant change." Draco said quietly.

"You're wrong. This one did..has...will change..somewhere not too far off into the future. Dont ask me how but it's like it's reading the memories of the event from the future, while it's still here in the past. That's why I'm convinced that you'll hear me out Severus, and do what you have to do to make this happen...." Harry said softly and turned his gaze to Severus now.

In just those few moments something inside Severus Snape seemed to alter as well. He wasn't afraid now, cautious perhaps, but not afraid. He seemed more resolute, determined, confident than he probably had ever felt in his whole life up till now. And he was beginning to believe in something that was beyond his, or perhaps even all of their control. If this was what was meant to be, then he would not deny the fates. Nodding at Harry he said in a strong voice, "What do you want me to do?"

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