Song of the Sea

chapter elwven

Harry was sitting in silence, his mind going over all the information Draco had just given him about Dean's Neko status. Apparently he had Cat-like features and abilities, like he could jump from heights and land on his feet, see well in the dark, and had a great sense of smell. He told the couple that he had come into his inheritance last summer and had decided to keep it a secret since being a creature was still taboo. Most people preferred to shun those with creature blood, since they were seen as impure. f*****g pureblood wizerding society.Harry felt sorry for Dean, for having to deal with it all, but he worried about Draco. He had grown up a pureblood wizard, respect had always fallen at his feet, but when his creature status eventually got out, he would be ruined in the eyes of the wizard community. Harry could only stand by him and hope that it wouldn't destroy him.

"Harry, are you listening?" Draco asked, his eyebrow raised and a smirk on his face, telling Harry he knew he had not been.

"Sorry, I was thinking," Harry said, attempting and failing to smile at him. Draco's face fell and he sat down next to Harry.

"I'll be fine, you know. when news gets out. My mother gave me one of her Black vaults when it first happened, and I don't care about anyone's opinion but yours. You are all I need in this life now. I don't need money, fame or even my father. He unofficially disowned me as soon as he found out about my inheritance anyway. it's gonna be fine." Harry smiled half-heartedly at Draco and stood taking his hand and pulling him towards the door. "We should probably go to breakfast."

Down in the Great Hall Harry and Draco separated ways outside the doors and then walked to their respective house tables. Harry took a seat next to Hermione and she smiled at him knowingly. He grinned sheepishly and started piling eggs, bacon and sausages on his plate. He could see Ron and Seamus glaring at him from the corner of his eye, but he did his best to ignore him. He scooted over to make room when Neville and Dean came to sit with him, shooting grins at the two glaring boys, who looked away in disgust. Harry chuckled, but was cut off when the mail started coming in and Ron was looking a little too pleased with himself. His stomach gave a painful squeeze and he had a bad feeling as a daily profit dropped in front of him and Hedwig landed on his shoulder, grooming his hair in an effort to calm her distressed master. Harry gave her a sausage and then picked the paper. his heart clenched when he read what was on the first page. right there on the first page was a picture, taken from a memory of a student from Hogwarts, of Draco in the bathtub, fully transformed.

Harry's fury engulfed him as Rons laughter rang in his ears. He looked up at the slytherin table and into the face of his siren lover. Draco looked calm, but he could see the underlayer of panic in his eyes. he just didn't know that the panic was for what Harry would do and not for what he read in the paper. he had been telling the truth when he spoke to Harry about not caring about being found out. he knew it would happen, granted he had hoped it would be on a few years and not in a few months but still he had been prepared. He quickly stood up when Harry flew from his seat and launched himself at Ronald. he had straddled the boy and was landing blow after blow as the weasel desperately tried to shield himself, but Harry was furius and nothing was going to stop him, he knew. he pushed his way through and knelt down next to his mate and put a hand on his shoulder. that halted his blows and Harry looked at him, his face softening as Raco pulled him to his feet and caressed his face. Once he could see his mate visibly calming down he motioned to his head of house and guided Harry down to the dungeons and Snape's personal quarters, Severus close behind. Draco could sense his godfather's fury and could only hope that it wasn't aimed at Harry.

"What in the name of Merlin was going on out there?" Snape roared as soon as the doors to his rooms closed and were warded. He rounded on the boys and his posture immediately relaxed when he found Draco with his arms around Harry, whispering words of comfort in his ears.

"what happened?" he rephrased. Draco just silently handed him his copy of the daily profit and pointed. Snapes blood boiled as he read, how DRaco was a 'Freak' and Harry was his 'freak mate' and the question of if draco was a girl now since ninety five percent of documented sirens have been female in origin, and how was Harry going to be with him if he had to spen d most of his time in the water. he sneered at the paper. people couldn't even pick up a book these days.

If anyone had done even the slightest bit of research they would know exactly how a siren's mate would be able to be around them all the time. Once a siren found their mate that wizard would come into the same inheritance either on their 17th birthday or a month after consummation of their mating. Snape wasn't sure which was closest for Harry, but he had no doubt that the mating had already been dealt with, he knew what both boys felt for the other. He could help but be pleased for these children that were like his own.

HPDM

Ron Weasley was pissed. He had pleased as punch to see the article him and seamus had sent in the paper, and the look on potters face had been exactly what he had been looking forward to, he just hadn't counted on the pratt to physically attack him, it was very unlike the boy and he blamed the ferrett, though Harry was off the walls, always was. he knew he needed to up their game and he knew exactly how to do it too. he grabbed finnigan, and dragged him into a classroom to tell him his plan, but it seemed the boy had other plans. he quickly shot a warding and silencing spell on the door before he sank to his knees infront of ron and undid his zipper, pulling out his hardened c**k and wrapping his lips around it. ron grabbed handful of finnigans hair and flung his head back as he moaned. damn Harry for doing this in the public eye! didnt he know the consequences of his actions? he silently cursed the other boy as he made sounds of encouragement for the boy on his knees. he'd have to tell him of his plans later, right after he pounded him into the table….

HPDM

Harry walked down to the lake hand in hand with Draco, Hermione, Neville and Blaise, slightly in front of them, all with their own bundle of gillyweed, ready to enjoy a day of swimming in the lake, and enjoying each other's company and new found friendship. They climb down in an area of shore that has rocks big enough to hide Dracos transformation from the rest of the school. whether the wizarding worlds knew about him or not, he wanted his privacy. WHat he, and the others hadn't been expecting, was to be ambushed by both Ronald Weasley and Seamus finnigan, flanked by Cormac Mclaggen, who everyone knew had a thing for Hermione, theodore nott, whom Draco had fooled around with in his younger years, and pansy parkinson, who he had also fooled around with when he was younger, and confused. But the person whose presence surprised him the most was Dean Thomas. He and Harry had thought they had an ally in the boy.

"What can we do for you today, lady and gentleman?" Draco asked, not letting his unease show in his voice. He took a slight step forward and to the side, just subtle enough to put himself between Harry and the trouble in front of them.

"we came because we all agreed that what you are doing here, the creature blood, the mate thing, all of it is disgraceful, and we plan to put an end to it and make an example" pansy sneered. Before Draco could even register the movement in his peripheral vision as dangerous, Harry was ripped from his arms, spells were thrown around and he was pinned against Ron's body, a wand at his throat. directly in front of him was Harry, pinned up against Pansy, a wand also at his throat. She grinned predatorily at Draco and ran her tongue from Harry's chin to his eyebrow, and no matter how hard he struggled he just couldn't break the grip holding him. Neville and Blaise were thrown on the hard dirt and bound while Cormac had Hermione in his grip, rolling his hips against her bottom. She bit the hand covering her mouth and he struck her across the face with his knuckles, and held her tighter to his chest. She stopped struggling and turned terrified eyes to Draco. He didn't have a clue what was going to happen, but he knew it wouldn't be pleasant, particularly for him.

Ron started backing up slowly, pulling Draco with him to the water's edge. He threw him down and then shot a binding spell at him once he was fully transformed. The only thing he could move was his mouth, which, he assumed, was so that he could scream, because what he saw next told him he would be doing a lot of that in the next few minutes. Ron was holding a fish scaler in his hand and finally Draco understood at least part of his plan. He turned terrified eyes to Harry and saw the confusion, fear and worry in his mates gaze and he wished he could tell him to turn away, but he couldn't speak any words, and anyway, pansy had his face in a firm grip, forcing him to look at Draco and Ron. Dracos blood ran cold as he tried to move. He tried to sing, to call the mermaids in the lake, or better yet the giant squid, but nothing would come out. He began to shake when Ronald knelt down next to him and placed the blade at the bottom of his tale, by the fin. He pushed down and forced it up, scraping Dracos beautiful scales right off of his body, forcing a horrible gut wrenching scream from Draco's lips…..

HPDM

Harry stared in horror as Ron continued to rip the scales from his lover's body, pausing once in a while to look up and make sure that Harry and his friends were watching. Pansy kept cooing in his ear about how they were going to kill Draco and make him watch, and how they wouldn't be punished because he was tainted by creature blood. Harry ignored the tears streaming down his face and tried to focus, to think of something he could do to get them out of this situation. He glanced at Hermione, hoping she would have something up her sleeve, but she was trying to fend away the hands and mouth that were traveling all over her body.

He let out a strangled hiss, wanting nothing more than to rip off the hands molesting his friend. his eyes traveled over to blaise and neville, shocked to see that seamus was beating the snot out of Neville, in front of blaise. he growled low in his chest and he could feel his body tingling strangely. he felt like he was going to burst out of his skin, and he could see red. He started thrashing in Pansy's grip and she tried desperately to hold on, but Harry was growing stronger and he had fury on his side. He broke free from her, turning to face her and ripping the claws he had suddenly sprouted across her face, leaving her screaming in pain and outrage as she dropped to the ground clutching at her wounds. He spun around again to face a stunned Ron and crouched down to striking position. Harry was running on instinct now and he opened his mouth and his voice rang across the lake creating ripples in the water. He was singing a siren song, and it was going to summon Draco's favorite pet.