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Harry slumped in his chair at Gringotts in front of Thanulu and Odbert.
His parents had a will, Dumbledore could’ve proven Sirius was innocent so his adopted godfather could have raised him.
He didn’t have to spend his childhood with the Dursleys.
He had a small block on his magic and more money than he could spend in his lifetime between his Potter and Black vaults.
Dumbledore had even made a marriage contract between him and Ginny. It seemed quite basic but they were to have their magic bonded permanently and she’d have quite a bit of control over his accounts.
Accounts he hadn't known about but THEY had.
Her signature had been a wet signature with ink, but his signature had appeared because Dumbledore used a drop of his blood.
When did Dumbledore even take a sample of his blood?
He had so many questions and so few answers.
“Well Lord Potter-Black, I can’t answer any questions as to why this has happened but I can offer a few solutions to your other problems.”
Harry looked up, he was so overwhelmed. Any help he could get would be welcomed.
“First we can have Thanulu’s wife, she’s a healer for the goblin nation successfully remove the small block placed on your magic. I believe Dumbledore thought it would help protect you as a magical child staying in the muggle world, perhaps draw less attention to you. I’m unsure why he wouldn’t remove it later. Second, we can help fix your eyesight. It'll help with the headaches you spoke of since the final battle. You won't need to go looking for an apothecary to supply you with headache medicine. We can slowly begin dealing with the rest later.”
Harry got up and followed Thanulu to his private office to call his wife in.
6 Hours later Harry was eating a meal with Thanulu, Odbert and Takizny and wondering what to do next. He wasn’t sure he wanted to marry Ginny. While on the run he saw the way Hermoine and Ron looked at each other. He never quite felt that for Ginny, even when they had kissed after the final battle it felt more like a comforting goodbye.
Harry groaned.
"is everything okay?" asked Takizny
"yes, I'm just trying to sort through everything that's come to light today and I'm pretty sure I don't want to marry Ginny. Also I've been having second thoughts about wanting to be an auror. it was one of the things I wanted to do today, go to Flourish and Blotts and do some research to see what other options there were."
Thanulu stood and sat down on the chair next to Harry.
“Well we’ll first look into diversifying your portfolio to begin generating an income for you while you figure out what you want to do with your life. You have more than enough money to take some time off and just figure out what it is you want to do.”
Harry looked up, “thank you, I can’t tell you how much your help means to me. I am both tired of life and completely overwhelmed by what has come to light today. I came in just to pick up some money and see if I had enough to take a quick solo vacation and suddenly I find out so much has been hidden from me.”
Harry ran his hands through his hair, messing it up even more.
"I had just wanted a minute before I went back to real life. Real life for me has always been one thing after another. Surviving my abusive aunt and uncle, surviving Voldemort and his cronies, helping Dumbledore, killing Voldemort, saving the world. Now I have to figure out a career and get married and make sense of all that has been kept from me in 6 short months? It's just too much"
“I’m sorry” Takizny was significantly gentler than both her husband Thanulu and Odbert, but Harry was sure that was because as a healer she probably needed to have good bedside manner. He hoped she’d stay on as his healer because he felt at peace with her. “Harry, what else is on your mind?”
“Well I’m overwhelmed at the idea that I’ll need to be getting married to Ginny, a girl that I might see as a sister, but definitely don’t see as a lover so soon…” Harry sighed and took another bite of his lunch “I don’t even know who I am yet, how can I be expected to marry? Also, clearly Ginny signed this contract and so did her mother - nobody told me. Dumbledore obviously was keeping secrets from me but so was everyone else. Even if I had wanted to be with Ginny, this would’ve sealed the fate of that relationship. I do not want anything to start with this kind of betrayal of trust.”
Odbert sighed, “well technically Sirius was your father at this time, but he was also a wanted fugitive in the eyes of the law which means that Dumbledore was your legal magical guardian when this was signed. Meaning you will have to get married whether you want to or not.”
Harry began to panic.
“Now don’t worry Lord Potter-Black. Luckily Sirius IS still technically your other parent and lots of old wizarding families have marriage contracts created just in case something unbecoming were to happen and they were in need of one at a pivotal time.”
Harry nodded, perhaps this could be a good way out. If he had to get married at least he could marry someone of his choosing. Kind of. If there were enough contracts he could look through a few.
“We’re going to contact a few of our colleagues. We’ll be back”
Harry put his head down in his hands.
“Lord Potter-Black -”
“Harry, please”
“Harry, why don’t you lay down after you’re done eating. I’m sure they’ll figure something out.”
Harry took a quick hour-long nap and then was reading a quidditch magazine when Thanulu and Odbert walked back in with another one of their colleagues.
“Lord Potter-Black-”
“Again, please call me Harry.” he smiled at them “I’m just Harry, also thank you in advance for whatever you’re going to be doing to help me”
Thanulu gave Harry what he thinks might have been a smile. “Yes, Harry, as I was saying. This is our colleague Nagnok. Now we have found a few old marriage contracts in the Black Family portfolios although this one” he held up a golden colored piece of paper “seems to be the most promising and suited to your needs. Lord Orion Black had created a contract in the 1970s for a Black to be married to a Pucey.”
Harry sat back. There had been a Pucey at Hogwarts with him.
“There was a Pucey at Hogwarts with me. He was on the Slytherin quidditch team I’ve genuinely never spoken to him but I do remember that he and this other guy, Higgs, were never as violent as the other players” Harry sighed “I don’t even remember their first names”
“Both of those families remained neutral in the last war. The Pucey family is a family of healers and takes their oath to serve very seriously. Adrian gave up a lucrative position as a professional quidditch player to follow in both his mother and father’s steps to become a healer. He’s currently in his final year of training, I'm unsure if he has chosen a specialty”
He sat back, he didn’t remember Pucey being part of the inquisitorial squad either. Maybe this wouldn’t be terrible.
“Wait, so I'd be married to a man? Is Adrian even interested in men?”
Am I interested in men Harry thought to himself?
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Exactly two weeks later (after a few trips to various muggle gay bars in London with Luna and Neville by his side) Harry had concluded that he definitely liked men. He found women attractive, but men were where it was at for him. It also explained a lot about how poorly things had gone with Cho and why he didn’t feel romantic or sexual feelings for Ginny.
So he was seated in a large conference room with Thanulu, Odbert, and Dowager Longbottom on his side of the table and Nagnok along with the Pucey family on the other side.
Adrian sat on the other side of the table from him. He was tall, probably around 185 centimeters to Harry’s mediocre 172cm. He had dark hair like Harry’s but his was cut short and even shorter on the sides. He had an olive skin tone and literally the smoothest face he’d ever seen. He was pretty sure Adrian had never had a pimple in his life because his skin looked like butter. His eyes were an icy blue and he had sharp cheekbones and a strong jaw. He was literally the most perfect mix of his parents.
This Adonis was supposed to agree to marry Harry? Adrian was tall, gorgeous, he could’ve been a professional athlete but was now a healer in training and his family held multiple patents that they kept open so that they would be available to all wizardkind without unnecessary expense. He was pretty sure he was about to sweat through his robes when he remembered he was a wizard, a powerful one at that, and cast a discreet cooling charm on himself. A small calming drought also appeared on his lap and he whispered a quick thank you to Thanulu.
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A week after negotiating a yet to be signed but very thorough marriage contract with the Puceys, Harry found himself on his first date with Adrian.
They settled into a table in the corner of the small muggle restaurant Harry had picked. It had been one of Sirius’ favorites and he was so excited to take Harry there after the war.
Harry didn’t know what to say or how to start so he smiled nervously at Adrian and then gave the room a few look overs. Noting faces and exits and trying to get comfortable.
“Feeling alright today Harry?”
“Sorry, it still sometimes feels like I’m hallucinating considering everything that has come to light. I mean the final battle was on the 2nd of May. I took a week to recuperate at Hogwarts under some of your parents' colleagues' care. I began cleaning up Grimmauld place, putting off auror training. First week of June I went to Gringotts and now here we are on June 27th on our first date to possibly be married by the end of the year so I don’t have to marry Ginny.”
Harry sighed “it’s been weird. Really fucking weird. Literally my life has just been one thing after another.”
“Wow, that’s a lot. I’m really sorry, I do wish this was starting under different circumstances. But I’m more than willing to give this a shot. I always admired your strength and defiance especially against Umbridge. You actually made me want to openly show allegiance during my time at Hogwarts. My parents' safety at St Mungo's was the only thing stopping me. Lots of death eaters amongst the ranks, surprisingly.”
Harry looked at him, “you remember me from Hogwarts?”
His eyes glittered “of course I do, youngest seeker in a century. You played us during your first quidditch match and I suddenly gave a shit about “the boy who lived”” he said using quotations.
Harry looked wary.
“Don’t worry I didn’t grow up with the strange hero worship others felt. My family was just hoping to stay neutral and continue practicing healing and research. We wanted to stay as neutral as possible so that we could be free to come up with new cures for various ailments no matter who came into power”
he shrugged, “but I can appreciate athletic talent when I see it.” Adrian winked and Harry laughed.
“I actually also remember you from the battle of Hogwarts, my parents and I were amongst the healers there on the ground tending to the wounded. My mom was the mystery healer that threw up the shield to save Arthur Weasley during that rogue bombarda. I was the junior healer that healed Padma Patil and Ernie Macmillan's cuts and bruises on the steps of Hogwart's right before you disappeared into the forest. Although to be honest I also healed a few death eaters at end for Minister Kingsley before he took them in partially because that’s part of my oath and partially so they wouldn’t bleed all over him” he winked at Harry again
Maybe this wouldn’t be so terrible Harry thought to himself.
They settled into easy conversation and spoke about what they remembered about their time at Hogwarts, with Adrian offering up lots of stories from the Slytherin common room about rumors about Harry and updates about various schoolmates. Harry told him a little more about his own exploits.
A bottle and a half of wine later they were one of the last couples still in the restaurant.
He and Adrian walked to the apparition point together and Adrian gave him a soft look and quick kiss on the cheek before they both apparated home separately.
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The Pucey family eagle owl greeted Harry with a letter from Adrian over his morning coffee arranging another date for that night. Harry wasn’t even going to pretend he wasn’t ecstatic to see him again.
This time they met outside of a casual bar in muggle London for some happy hour fun. They had a great time and ending up holding hands while walking to their 3rd bar of the night before they said goodbye. Harry was hoping Adrian would kiss him but no such luck.
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By mid July after countless snogging sessions Harry decided that despite having absolutely NO sexual experience he was ready for more. He was going to take things into his own hands today. He didn’t let go after their usual kiss goodbye and convinced Adrian to side-along him to Grimmauld.
“So this is your home, the ancestral Black family property”
“Yeah I’ve been working my ass off just to get it to look like this”
“It, uh, has a lot of personality. But the difference between the rooms you’ve already updated and the rooms that need to be updated is vast. At least from what I’ve seen.”
Harry shocked Adrian and climbed onto his lap, straddling him, “I’ll show you more of the house later, but right now I need more of this”
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Over the next few weeks they moved from rutting against each other, to hand jobs and finally blow jobs on Harry’s birthday after a wonderful dinner with Adrian’s parents, Dowager Longbottom plus Neville and Luna.
“ So what do you think you want to do after we get married Harry?”
Harry stiffened and Adrian seemed to hurry to his next words
“Not that you have to decide right now, or even start working right now. You’ve done more in 18 years than most people have done in an entire lifetime. You could just continue fixing up the house and diversifying our investment portfolios, you could teach, we could take a year off to travel after I finish training” Adrian shrugged and turned towards Harry “there’s no rush, no wrong answer, whatever you want babe”
“We’re getting married? You really want to marry me? I mean I know that I need to be married by the end of the year but I still feel weird forcing you into marrying me”
“Harry! Who’s being forced? We’ve been dating for almost 2 months, we’ve barely spent more than 48 hours apart in the last 3 weeks. We have a contract pending. I’m pretty sure this is it for me.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, you’re funny, kind, intelligent…your resilience is astounding I am more in awe of you every single day, you’re athletic and incredibly fucking sexy”
“I’ve been called all those things before except maybe intelligent but definitely never sexy”
“You just haven’t been listening Harry…your green eyes and long eyelashes combined with your pouty pink lips have been driving me crazy since our first date. Now that I’ve seen you naked I can add in your muscular back and thighs to the long list of things I love about the way you look. Plus I love how well you fit in my lap”
Adrian waggled his eyebrows at Harry with that and gave him some wet kisses before he licked down to his throat and sucked onto his neck.
Harry couldn’t believe that this beautiful man in front of him would be his husband soon.
“Fucking hell babe” Harry breathed to himself as he climbed on top of Adrian.
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All hell broke loose when news of their engagement broke in Witch Weekly.
Harry was receiving angry letters almost daily from Ginny and the amount of witches that wrote into witch weekly tearfully expressing their heartbreak had him concerned.
After a joint interview with the quibbler to be published first, and then separate interviews with the daily prophet and witch weekly (which Luna's reporter sat in on) Harry was hoping that they’d done enough to set things straight before Ginny really went off the rails.
It was easy to fall in love with Adrian and somehow Adrian was in love with Harry too. Anyone who saw the pictures from their interviews could see it plain as day. These two men admired and loved each other. Harry was surprised by how well Adrian seemed to know and understand him.
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Their bonding was set for December 19th so that they’d be free to spend Yule however they’d like before leaving for their honeymoon. They’d leave for their honeymoon on New Years because that was apparently symbolic of something or another according to Lady Pucey. Harry quickly agreed. This was the start of something new, something fresh, something just for him and he’d love to bring in the new year doing something for himself. Well really he’d like to bring in the new year doing his husband.
But also traveling and such etc. etc.
He went shopping for wedding robes with Dowager Longbottom, Luna and Lavender Brown. They’d become friends because Lavender was training at St. Mungo's as well. She had grown up a lot since the time she dated Ron and Harry was thinking about introducing her to Terence Higgs.
After Dowager Longbottom left, she was exhausted, the girls dragged him to some shops off the main part of Diagon Alley for new underclothes.
“I am not wearing lace panties guys, this is ridiculous”
Harry was sure he was going to die of embarrassment as the girls held up various undergarments and something that looked suspiciously like a bra to wear to bed during their honeymoon.
Lavender put her hands on her hips, “Harry Potter, I want you to listen to what I’m about to say closely. There’s a symbology to going on your honeymoon during the new years right? Think about using that same concept on your wedding night. Doing something new just for you and your husband. Trust me, it’ll be good for you two and he’ll LOVE it…besides-” she shrugged “you’ll feel sexy wearing it, I promise your confidence will rise 100% wearing this under your robes on your wedding day”
“She’s right harry” Luna nodded “you’ll feel powerful and sexy all at the same time”
She handed him a lacy tank top and a matching g-string. “The nargles told me that this would be perfect for your wedding night”
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Their bonding was small but perfect.
They pledged their love, loyalty, fidelity and hearts to one another and Adrian even shed a few tears while saying his vows, which in turn led to both Harry and Lavender breaking down into tears when it was Harry’s turn.
That night Adrian carried Harry bridal style into their room and laid him down carefully. He looked at Harry like he was the most precious thing in the world and kissed him.
He gently kissed down Harry's neck, removing his robes slowly.
His eyes seemed to light up as Harry's green lace get-up came into view and he suddenly ripped off the rest of his clothes.
You were wearing lingerie under your robes the entire time? Lingerie and nothing else? Adrian growled and suddenly turned rough,
“you little minx, you look fucking amazing”
He roughly bit into the sweet spot on Harry’s neck and then took one of Harry’s nipples in his mouth over the lace.
Harry quickly ripped off Adrian's clothes as they kissed roughly...they were both suddenly overcome with lust.
Once Adrian was down to just his muggle boxers he climbed on top of Harry and started nipping at his collarbone.
Harry arched his back.
“Fuck fuck fuck Harry you’re incredible”
Harry just mewled under his touch because at the moment Adrian had one of his nipples in his hand, his other nipple in his mouth and his right hand on Harry’s cock. He was on sensory overload and loving it.
After 3 orgasms, the best of Harry’s short life, he fell asleep fully sated and feeling at peace. They’d be spending Yule with Adrian’s family and then leaving for Fiji for their honeymoon.
Harry had no plans for a future beyond loving Adrian, expanding their investment portfolios and continuing renovating Grimmauld for the two of them with some help from Kreacher and Adrian’s elf Linsy.
The future had never looked so good.
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And they lived happily ever after ;)