Harry Potter and what happened after part 2

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If somebody had told Draco a few years ago that he would be sitting in the leaky cauldron having a rather pleasant late luncheon with Harry Potter he would have had them immediately admitted to St Mungos for evaluation and yet here he was. Harry had changed greatly since school. He had filled out and although he wouldn’t be winning tallest man there was something altogether rather pleasant about his new appearance.

“So, Potter, I heard that you went to China”

“I went to a lot of places Draco, I admittedly spent a lot of time travelling between China and Japan. The Chinese breed of dragon is more serpentine than the western…”

“And you could understand it?” Draco gasped clutching at his whisky glass and staring in shock. Even now he could remember Voldemort talking to that hideous snake of his. He shuddered just for a moment before assuring himself that Harry was in no way like that man.

“After awhile, it’s like learning a language that you sort of already know but don’t. But in the end, I managed it” Harry shrugged as though he was merely saying he had picked up on the Midlands dialect over the southern one he had since childhood sipping a butterbeer. The childish drink should have irritated Draco, his former self would have been horrified at being caught with somebody, an adult, that drank the stuff but some how, when the drink left a foamy moustache behind Draco couldn’t help but give a little smile. “I heard you married Astoria Greengrass”

“I don’t know your source Potter, but they were greatly misinformed. I was engaged to Miss Greengrass, but we decided quite early on that it wasn’t what either of us wanted. And you and the Weaslette…” Draco tried but he really couldn’t stop himself from wrinkling his nose at that. He had never understood the appeal of the freckled girl though he had known that a lot of boys in his Hogwarts days had thought her beautiful. For his part she had reminded him too much of Harry’s mother and that would have been a rather disturbing coupling.

“We broke up, about a month or two after I left, I guess you could say we wanted different things”

“Oh, such as?” Draco hummed waving for another whiskey while studying Potter finding it amusing that his new confidence seemed to fade just a little making him look like his school hood rival once again. There was something oddly comforting in that. Harry looked a little sheepishly at his drink before draining the last of it in a swill as though he was downing a brandy for some Dutch courage. It was extremely amusing to watch and Draco found his inner Slytherin delighted that maybe he had something over Harry once and for all.

“She wanted to marry and have children I wanted…Well something else…” Harry motioned vaguely with his hands before rather clumsily changing the subject. “And how are your parents?”

“Mother is fine, father…Well father is father…He learnt his lesson but once an idiot always an idiot…What’s so funny?” Draco asked as Harry started laughing and all at once he was worried that maybe this had been some ploy, a way of tormenting him. He was used to people spitting on him wherever he went but he didn’t want to believe that Harry could possibly be like that.

“Sorry, I wasn’t laughing at you…Rather more at what you said…I remember you at school and how you idolised your father, to hear you call him an idiot…”

“Yes, well, I can call a spade a spade and he will always be an idiot. He is however my father and, although I know you might not believe it, he was a good father to me…” Draco hummed softly, and Harry murmured in agreement. The understanding in his eyes was unfathomable and Draco wanted to lose himself in them.

“I believe it, I saw how he was at the battle of Hogwarts, the way he looked for you. Even an idiot like me could see that he cared for you, it was the reason I spoke for him at his trial” Harry hummed, and Draco felt his mouth snap close. He had always wondered why Harry had spoken for his father that time, it wasn’t as though Lucius had done anything to deserve mercy and yet he had gotten it from both Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood…Or Luna Scamander as she was now. In fact, her testimony had been far more important in getting his father a reduced sentence then Harry’s had. She had stated in her happy dreamy way that Lucius had tried to stop most of the ill treatment of her while she was in their dungeons. Draco could only hope that was true though he did remember Lucius berating his aunt for harming children. “I heard you tore down your mansion?”

“The manor could never be cleaned…”

“Surely…Your house elves…”

“The dark lord killed all of the House Elves, Potter, Nagini made short work of them I believe” Draco shuddered violently at the thought. He had never really thought of the elves as anything other than the weird little creatures that served wizards but the thought of them being eaten alive by Voldemort’s serpent was enough to cause a lot of nightmares until he was a very old man.

“…I found out that I liked having sex with men…” Harry hummed quietly, and Draco almost choked on the whiskey he had been drinking. His eyes bulged out of his head as he stared at the saviour of the wizarding and muggle world.

“Excuse me?”

“That’s why me and Ginny didn’t work out. I was in Romania and ended up in a gay bar one night. This bloke came up to me and started buying me drinks. The next morning, I woke up bollock naked next to a blonde Adonis with an aching backside…” Harry’s cheeks were on fire as he spoke his green eyes looking determinedly down at the table as he traced the grain of the wood with his finger tip. Draco had absolutely no idea how he was meant to respond to this, and he just burst out laughing slowly.

“You…Um…You never suspected before, that you were…Queer?” Draco watched Harry flinch at the word or perhaps the question, but he shrugged slowly and pulled at his long hair saying;

“I had other things on my mind”

“Well at least now I know why you were stalking me throughout school…”

“Stalking you? You were stalking me! Every time I turned around you were there…” Harry huffed indignantly, and Draco let out another laugh saying drily;

“Yes, because that’s what happens when you were following me, well…I wish I had known this information back in school”

“Oh? So, you could blackmail me?” Harry threw out the question casually, but Draco could see that he was only joking and didn’t take the words to heart. Instead he rolled his eyes hummed softly;

“Have some faith, Potter, I would never use your confused sexuality as a weapon against you, however I might have tried to seduce you”

TBC:

A/N: I hope that this is okay >.<