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Harry was out of breath, his lungs hurt and his legs ached. He was too old for this. They had been chasing him for what felt like hours but he didn't care. He needed to survive. Not for very long. Just long enough to take some of the bastards with him. He was almost there. Not long now.

The muggles had decided to hold a party in the AWA (Anti Wizarding Association) building today to celebrate the destruction of Hogwarts, and the death of thousands of wixen who had taken refuge there, most of them children. The death count had included Ron, Luna, and Draco. They were all he had left and now they were gone.

Hermione had been one of the first to go after the statute of secrecy had fallen. She had been shot in the head while on her way to the peace talks. Ginny had been next. She was in diagon when the first lot of bombs were dropped. Neville and Hannah passed together while protecting some of the children and getting them to safety. Ron, Luna, and Draco were all that was left when the bombs dropped on Hogwarts. 

Harry had been called away at the time helping a camp of magicals that asked for sanctuary. It had been a trap and now Harry was running away from those same muggles. They had been tracking him for around two weeks now and they had finally caught up to him. He was almost there, he could see the building. As he got closer he started pulling on his magic drawing it all to the surface, feeling it rushing through him. There was no holding back he would use every drop he had.

Harry could see the lights and signs of celebration in the windows towards the top of the building. They had killed hundreds of children and were celebrating it. He felt himself burning up as his body struggled to handle all the magic he was drawing. It was starting to get really painful like his body was boiling from the inside but it didn't matter, he was close enough. He drew his wand and yelled at the top of his lungs. 

"Bombarda maxima!" He felt his magic rush through him, before it was gone with a loud bang. He fell limp to the floor, his eyes closing but not before he was able to see the bottom three floors of the AWA building shatter and crumble. 

Harry opened his eyes to a white expanse. One that he was familiar with. Unlike the last time he was here, there were a cluster of people talking a little ways away from him. He saw the platinum blond hair of his husband and ran over, pulling him into a deep kiss. Harry heard Ron's sarcastic 'love you too, mate,' From behind him and flipped him off, not pausing in kissing Draco.

Eventually they pulled apart and he got a good look at who was here. Ron, Hermione, Neville, Hannah, Ginny, and Luna were with them, but why were they here? This wasn't death. It was the crossroads, the in-between. If they weren't dead what was going on. 

"You're finally all here. We can begin." They all turned to the voice to see a woman. She was small, maybe about five feet. Her hair was the darkest black Harry had ever seen and her eyes were green. A very familiar green. 

"Death, I thought for sure I would die this time." She smiled at him.

"You were never fated to die, and you never will. These children however." She sighed. "This wasn't supposed to happen. Though it can not be undone." They all looked between each other, looking confused. “Harry Potter, owner of the hallows and master of death. You would have never dyed, master. However, even though we are beings of higher power we are not all knowing. We were unaware that you would receive one of the founder's magics. The founder's family magic is different to most. it is connected in a way that no other magic is. It is also mildly sentient and does not choose the Heirs to the houses through bloodline. You are aware of the titles four of you hold.” they all nodded.

It had been a shock. After the battle of Hogwarts they had gone to Gringotts to settle their debts and had found that he and Hermione were the Heirs to Slytherin and Hufflepuff respectively. Later they had sensed something in Neville and Luna who they found out were the Heirs to Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Their combined magic went a long way in repairing the castle after the battle. 

“Well your magic is connected, and your magic is an integral part of your soul. They are one in the same. Then all of you decided that a normal bonding ceremony wasn't enough. You all went and did the traditional bonding ceremonies with your partners, interlinking your souls together. That brings us to you all being here.” Hermione raised her hand like they were back in school. 

“Your telling us that Harry soul is immortal, then because of his link with me, Neville, and Luna, we are immortal. Then we soul bonded with our partners, making all of us immortal?”

“Essentially, yes.”it was silent for a moment before Ron yelled.

“Are you saying I'm married to my own sister and the ferret!” he sounded completely appalled.

“Apparently, me and you are fair game, Nev.” Harry said, smiling over to the blond. He smirked back.

“Don't forget Lu.” Harry cackled. 

“You are all taking this far better than expected.” That voice was new and they all looked towards it. Instead of just death, there was now a group of entities standing there. It was weird, he just innately knew who each one was. On the left was Love, Fate, Life, then mother magic in the middle and Death, Time, Chaos, and Discord, on her right. In unison all of his friends pointed at him and Draco spoke.

“We gave up trying to understand the sheer ridiculousness of his life.” Harry felt slightly affronted but couldn't exactly disagree with it. “Being immortal is one more thing to add to the Potter bingo.”

“Damn it. I had that one.” He turned to look incredulously at Hannah. “What? You survived two killing curses. Immortal seemed like a good bet.”

“So we’re immortal. What now? You just send us back to the shit hole we came from?” Hermione slapped Ron upside the head and whispered shouted at him.

“You don't just talk to Lady magic like that.” Ron grumbled a little but remained mostly silent. 

“We can send you back, but there are other options. Reincarnation, time travel, or going back to the world you came from.” It was time who spoke, their voice mellow and smooth. They were tall and androgynous looking with chocolate brown hair, tied back into a braid and piercing purple eyes.

“Reincarnation? Like we will be born as someone else?” Ginny didn't sound too thrilled at the idea and nor was Harry if he were honest.

“Yeah, no. Hard pass.” Hannah wasn't on board either and looking around no one seemed to like the idea. Hermione raised her hand again. 

“What happens when we die again?”

“You will come back here but unlike this time you can choose to wait for the others or go back into your body.”

“So this is like an endless loop of either going back in time to when we were younger or reincarnating into an all new person every time we die? And you were going to make Harry go through this alone? What the hell is wrong with you?” Everyone's jaw dropped, Hermione was shouting at mother magic and she looked pissed. “Have you ever thought of the emotional drain that would have on someone, being stuck in an endless cycle of living, completely alone and with no way out!”

“We did not choose this, it is just how it is. There must be a master of death if there wasn't, the other timelines wouldn't exist and the world would have ended long ago. Your main timeline is at an end. The world you came from won't last another two years. If there was no master of death that would be it. Time is linear for even us. Currently we are young, we have not seen what the other timelines hold, we only know of their existence. We had to intervene twice in this timeline before the master of death was found. Once around fifteen hundred years before your time. The other, one thousand years before your time. We bestowed blessings to those eight people in order to keep the timeline going so the master of death could be found.”

“You're saying this is the original timeline? Without us none of the branching timelines exist?” Hermione, Harry, and Luna were the only ones understanding this conversation. Hermione and Harry because they were exposed to muggle media and Luna because she's Luna. “you would have ceased to exist along with us if the master of death had not been found.” all the entities nodded.

“So we can go back to when we were at Hogwarts and and fuck around for all you care? Just our mere presents is enough to keep the timeline going and you alive?” the entities nodded cautiously at Hannah who had been the one to ask the question.

“We would appreciate you trying to elongate the life of your world also.” Neville clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.

“Okay, so hear me out. What if we joined Voldemort this time.” he continued before anyone could protest. “We all know about the research we did after the second wizarding war. Originally he never wanted any of the stuff that happened. He was trying to protect magic from exactly what happened in the future. Yes, he went insane but we know that was from only having less than two percent of a soul. what if we were able to make him take back some of those soul pieces.”

“And how pray tell do you expect us to make an insane monster do something like that.” Dracos tone was cold. He hadn't forgotten the fear that coursed through him when he had met him. Nevile ignored the tone and just shrugged.

“Get harry to yeet a few horcruxes in to the cauldron at the end of fourth year. at the worst it fucks up the ritual and destroys whatever horcrux we use and at best it uses the soul pisces in the ritual. We have as many times as we want to get it right. Personally I want to go back and enjoy my years at Hogwarts instead of constantly fearing for my life. We didn't get one good year" Ginny spoke up next, grinning maliciously.

“So your real suggestion is go back to hogwarts and fuck with everyone. Especially Dumbledore and mum for all the shit they did.” Hannah looked gleeful 

“I have an idea. What if we all went back to before hogwarts and got the sorting hat to send us all to slytherin. It would cause an uproar.” 

“As fun as that would be, we would all have to act like children, as in not kissing or being couples until a more appropriate age. After the last ten years I don't feel like doing that.” Luna was eyeing Ginny in a way that made several people blush. Not including the girl in question who was suddenly bouncing on the spot.

“How about third year? It will be brilliant.” Ron scrunched his nose at his sister.

“Why? Third year was one of the most boring years we had.” Ginny smacked him hard. 

“Not your third year dipshit, mine. The triwizard tournament. We could go right back to when Harry's name comes out of the cup." Harry noticed Draco was grinning maniacally and was slightly concerned.

“I agree to this. We can all be in slytherin next time after we have had a little more time to ourselves. But if we go back.” he turned to look directly at Harry. “We’re still enemies, Potter. Until the yule ball that is.”

“That means we can’t involve you with anything publicly. You understand that, right?” Before Draco could speak, Hannah did.

“Don't ruin this for me Potter, I want to see it. There will be pandemonium.” she had been spending way too much time with George.

“Has it been decided then?” they all looked back forgetting they had an audience. “There are a few more things. It was decided that the ones with the founder's magic will receive our blessings, and all of you will receive Mother Magic's blessing. This should help you to ensure magic survives. It will be hard for people to ignore the four Dukes of magic and Mother Magic’s chosen." They all gaped at them before Death, Life, Time, and Fate stepped forward placing their hands on top of Harry, Neville, Hermione, and Lunas heads respectively.

“You are now the children of my children and I wish you all well until we meet again.”

Suddenly Harry was no longer looking at death's hand but rather a piece of parchment fluttering down into the waiting hand of Dumbledore.

“Harry Potter.”

Harry just sat there staring for a good minute before he was nudged out of his stupor and he stood. Instead of walking forward he took out his wand and placed the tip over his heart before speaking in a loud clear voice.

“I, Harry James Potter, hereby swear on my magic that I did not put my name in the goblet of fire, nor did I ask someone to do it for me. So mote it be.” the tip of his wand flashed gold and he cast a lumos showing that he still had magic and was not lying. He walked forward and took the parchment from Dumbledore and made his way to the side room where the other champions were. They all looked at him in confusion when he entered and he held up the piece of parchment.

“Someone thought it would be funny to enter my name, and apparently I am now the fourth champion because that makes sense.” no one was able to say anything to that as the door was flung open and all the teachers walked in, led by Dumbledore. He walked straight to Harry and spoke loudly.

“Harry , my boy, did you put your name in the goblet?” Harry raised a single eyebrow at the older man.

“What kind of stupid question is that?” Dumbledore flinched like he had been struck. “I made an oath on my magic that I didn't, if I were lying I would no longer have my magic. so either you have gone deaf in your old age or senile, which is it?”

“Harry, my boy…” Harry cut him off.”

“You know I find the way you address me rather odd, headmaster. Every other person is Miss or Mr except me. I don't know whether that is preferential treatment or just disrespect toward me. You act like I'm supposed to know you and don't get me wrong, I kind of do, now. But you have called me that since the first time you have met me in first year and I don’t really appreciate it." Dumbledore couldn't get his words out but Snape could. 

“What do you mean you met him in your first year? Surely you saw him before that?” Harry grinned in victory.

“Nope. I never met him. Though I have heard he is my guardian, something I was unaware of until this year. I thought my guardians were my aunt and uncle. I believe you know her professor. Petunia, my mothers sister.'' Harry saw Snape's face darken and decided his work was done then made his way to the door.

“Mr Potter, we need to go through the first task with you before you go anywhere.” Harry sighed and turned back towards them.

“Let me guess, you're testing our daring or some shit and aren't actually going to tell us anything.” he looked at them, daring them to tell him he was wrong. Barty pursed his lips, before turning to address everyone.

“The first task is designed to test your daring, so we are not going to be telling you what it is. Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard.”

“Or witch.” Harry added at the end, seeing Fleur smile at him slightly. “So are we done now?” Harry didn't wait for an answer before walking back through the door that led to the great hall. When he stepped through he was shocked to see the entire student body still there staring at the door. As soon as the door closed behind him he heard Snape's voice.

“You sent him to Petunia! That hateful bitch is the last person who should be taking care of a magical child, Albus." Harry turned back to the door and realized someone had cast an eavesdropping charm on it, as well as an altered sonorous so everyone could hear it. He turned to the Gryffindor table seeing hermione looking anywhere but at him and he cackled. He walked over to the table and addressed them.

“We going? ROR or Gryffindor tower?” They got up and headed for the door and Harry turned. “Lovegood, Abbott, you coming? I'm thinking ROR.” he flicked his eyes to Draco, extending the invitation nonverbally. Luna was already skipping over to lace her fingers with Ginnys. Abbott rolled her eyes before getting up and slotting herself under Nevilles arm. They all walked through the doors making their way to the ROR. Harry had seen Draco shake his head saying he wouldn't be able to go and Harry was a little sad about that. They finally made it and Luna, Neville, Hermione, and Harry all placed their hands on the wall, calling forward the shared house quarters. It was something that only the Heirs could do and unless you were given proper permission you couldn't enter. 

They all got comfy in the seating area and Ginny spoke. “So when's Draco getting here?” Harry shook his head.

“He indicated that he didn't think he would be able to.”

“Oh. we should hold off on planning until he’s with us.” they all nodded and Luna stood from her seat, dragging Ginny with her.

“Well if he isn't coming tonight, I will be making sure that I do.” She winked at the group and pushed Ginny into the Ravenclaw room. Ron was bright red when he pulled Hermione up saying he hadn't seen her properly in twenty years and dragging her to the Hufflepuff rooms. Harry just stared at Neville and Hannah waiting. 

“We died at the same time and everyone arrived in the white space, what felt like, a minute apart from each other. It's been a long time for you guys but not for us.”

“Fine im just going to meditate and see if i'm still in touch with my animagus.” he closed his eyes feeling the pulsing of his magic circulating through him. He continued focusing for a minute then cracked one eye open. Neville and Hannah were gone. He closed his eyes again and dove into his mindscape, searching through the forest where he kept his animagus. It wasn't long before he spotted the black wolf running through the trees but what caught his attention was something flying above it. The black wolf bounded over to him sitting at his feet as the bird that was flying overhead, swooped down, landing on his outstretched arm. He got a good look at it and was surprised it was a magical creature. An Umbra owl. It was pure black just like his wolf but umbra owls had the ability to move through shadows.

He reached for it allowing his body to shrink and morph. When he opened his eyes he was small, very small. He tried to fly. He was a bit wobbly but he could do it, he didn't have a lot of space though. He then reached out with his magic to the shadows around him he could feel all the shadows throughout the castle, as well as hear through them and suddenly got an idea. 

He turned back into human form, wrote a proper looking letter and spelled it so that only the recipient could read it. He turned back into his owl form and shadowed directly into the Slytherin common room. He glided over to Draco and perched on his shoulder, dropping the letter in his lap. He picked up the letter and opened it, curious at its contents. It simply read, ‘how do you like my new animagus form?’ Draco had dropped the letter quickly and gently picked him off his shoulder, settling him in his lap. He smiled and scratched the top of Harry's head. 

“You're beautiful.” Harry preened then bit at Zabini's hand who was trying to stroke him. He looked the boy in the eyes and glared at him. Draco tried to physically turn him away but forgot how far owls could rotate their heads so wasn't able to. Pansy cut through the silence.

“What does the letter say?” Draco waved his hand dismissively.

“Nothing important.” Harry finally stopped glaring at Zabini and stared at Draco. He fluffed up his feathers and Draco smoothed them down with a chuckle. “okay. it was very important.” Harry nodded. He heard an aww come from behind him and Zabini spoke.

“If you want to keep your fingers, I suggest you not touch him.” Harry looked at Zabini and nodded, making Draco laugh loudly. He scooped Harry off his lap and made his way to the exit. 

“I'm going to the owlery, don't wait up.” They made their way to the ROR and walked straight to the Slytherin rooms.

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Harry was warm and comfortable when he woke up, but that made no sense. The muggles had been chasing him for weeks. He hadn't been warm while he slept in that whole time. He blinked open his eyes seeing… fuck all. Everything was blurry as shit. 

"What the hell!" He felt something move and he stiffened.

"Wha' times it?" The sleepy voice of his husband made him relax as his mind slowly remembered the events of yesterday. He grabbed his glasses off the side table and put them on.

"I am brewing the eye sight correction potions today whether I have to skip classes or not." He muttered to himself while waving his hand casting a wandless nonverbal tempus and blinked at the time. Once. twice. "SHIT!" He jumped up. "We're late for breakfast." He heard Draco hum groggily, as he pulled on his uniform. “We have thirty minutes to get down there and eat.” He pulled on his tie, knotted it quickly and looked back to see Draco half changed, looking back at Harry with a smirk. “What?” he questioned.

“Nothing. You should go first. Us arriving together will only raise more suspicion.” Harry sighed. He's not the one who wanted to keep their relationship secret. He moved closer to Draco pressing a light kiss to his cheek.

“We could always just drop the game entirely and I could kiss you in front of the great hall?” the blond pouted.

“But that's not as fun.” he said, straightening Harry's tie with a smirk. “Now since your reddy to go. why don't you head to the great hall?” He sighed, deciding he wouldn't win this. using his new shadow abilities he shadowed directly to a corridor right by the doors. He walked in and sat with the others who were already there. Hannah and Luna had joined them at the Gryffindor table for breakfast. 

“Little worn out, are we mate?” Ron smirked at him and Harry raised an eyebrow. “All of us tried to wake you up this morning but you know we can't enter the room without permission.” Harry just scowled at him. 

“Harry, I thought you said that Dr… ahem. That they wouldn't be able to…” a squeal came from part way down the table and all heads turned to Lavender, who was staring at Harry, both hands covering her mouth. What the hell was that reaction? Next to her Parvati's eyes widened as she looked at Harry. It took less than a few seconds for half of the hall to be whispering and standing from their seats trying to get a look at harry.

He turned to his friends, perplexed but they seemed just as confused as him. Hermione was scrutinizing him trying to see what everyone else clearly saw. She had looked over him about three times when her eyes widened and she facepalmed. She pointedly looked down to Harry's coller and he looked down too, not seeing anything wrong. He looked back at her, expression still confused.

“Harry .” she hissed in a low whisper that got the attention of their group of friends. “Is your tie supposed to be green?” That was a stupid question. He always wore green; it suited him best and Draco never let him forget it. Not to mention he liked seeing Harry in his old... House... colors… Bollocks. He was most definitely not meant to be in green. Harry remembered the smug smirk on Draco's face as he straightened his tie, Before he left. The little shit knew what he was doing. 

Harry glared over to the table of green and silver. All of them were staring at him in open shock. He locked eyes for a split second with molten silver before looking away. Draco was being a possessive little shit. He pulled off the tie, stuffing it into his pocket, forgoing the tie for his first two classes till he could go get his at break. Ron stifled a chuckle as the whispers picked up again.

“Mate. You're not helping yourself.”

“Damn Potter. Did they just use you as a chew toy?” He raised an eyebrow at hannah.

“I can cancel your glamor if you would like? We’ll see who looks worse, because I know it's not me.” Hanna and Neville blushed while Ginny giggled. “Gin yours is currently the worst here i dont think you should be giggling.” she immediately stopped and slapped a hand to her neck.

“I hate that you can see through glamours.” she muttered.

***

By lunchtime Draco had officially regretted his decision to allow Harry to go out with his tie on. At first he was happy to show that Harry was taken but now not so much. There was a betting pool as to who Harry was with and Draco was NOT on it anywhere. He supposes it was a good thing it would make the reveal that much more dramatic but Merlin, he was pissed. Even Marcus bloody Flint was on there, as well as Zabini and Nott. they were the only males on there at this point. Every single one of the slytherin girls that were third year and above were on that list. Most popular guesses were Daphney at the top then Pansy, Zabini, Tracey, and Nott. Draco wanted to rip their throats out especially when Zabini started playing into it.

By dinner he was snapping at anyone and everyone who was on that list. That included every one of his year mates. Every, single, one of them. Also why the fuck was pretty boy Diggory on there he wasnt even a slytherin.

“Dray i know you aren't happy about all the attention Potter is getting but lighten up a little yeah. You’ve been grumpy all day.”

“Pans don't bother, we're all on that list. He thinks that one of us is a traitor to Slytherin house. He’s not going to lighten up till the person has been found and he can blame them directly.” Draco stabbed at his dinner hoping for all of them to shut the fuck up. He looked over to the Gryffindor table watching the others laughing and joking around. Why the hell did he decide to do this? Lavender moved to Harry's side, hugging his arm to her chest and Draco’s magic lashed out, smashing one of the jugs. He looked away stabbing at his plate again ignoring the smashed jug like it didn't happen.

He heard a breathed ‘oh’ and he looked to see Pansie's eyes boring into him, alight with mischief. She raised from the bench and walked over to the Gryffindor table, much to Dracos horror.

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As it turned out, Harry did have to skip classes as well as lunch to brew eyesight correction potions. They were extremely delicate to brew and took a fair amount of time as well as patience. He also brewed a few hair care potions mostly for him and Mione. In the last timeline he had longer hair, nothing major, just an inch or two past his shoulders and he wanted it back.

Harry had also noticed Dracos declining mood throughout the day. Observed through his shadows, but he had brought this upon himself. Harry had told him several times that he didn't need to keep up the act but Draco had ignored him, much to his annoyance. 

Now Draco was glaring over at them like he was trying to set them on fire. It didn't work. A hush fell over the great hall and he looked up to find pansy smiling like a shark that smelt blood in the water. She pried Lavender away from his arm and sat herself next to him. She leaned into his personal space and whispered into his ear.

“You know Draco has been grumpy all day, why not just let him tell people. You're the one who made the mistake this morning wearing the wrong tie.” Harry grinned at her as she pulled back. He placed his hand on her shoulder and leaned his head into her neck.

“He’s the one who won't tell. I have told him so many times we don't need to be a secret. Also the tie was his fault. He's a possessive little shit. How do you feel about helping me torture him into breaking?” He pulled away, finding a truly malicious grin spread across her face. She then leaned in to his side, making direct eye contact with the livid blond and Harry draped his arm over her shoulder sending a wink to his furious husband. 

“No. Harry, don't do this, please. You're not the only one this will affect.” Neville pleaded next to him and he smirked.

“Get them to stop being a dramatic little shit and it won't be a problem.”

“Oh merlin. We’re all doomed.” He kissed Pansy’s temple and Neville let out a small whimper not daring to look over to the Slytherin table. He leaned down to whisper into Pansie's ear.

“If I do something that's making you uncomfortable, squeeze my arm three times.” she nodded minutely.

“You too. This is meant to be some fun teasing. Neither of us should be uncomfortable.” Harry nodded. They continued eating, playing up the lovey dovey stuff for their audience which was the entire hall. Almost no one was eating. They were just staring at the interaction between the group of friends, Pansy comfortably slotting herself into the group's conversation. They were all familiar with Pansy. With her being one of Draco's best friends they had grown close in the last timeline after the war.

Eventually dinner was over and they all made their way towards the rooms. Not before he told the twins not to hand out the money and that the bet hadn't been confirmed. Once there he pulled out the potions and dumped them on the coffee table.

"I made an eyesight correction potion as well as a hair lengthener. Mione, would you do my hair while my eyes get fixed?" It took a good half an hour after putting the drops in for your eyes to fix themselves and for the whole time you have to keep your eyes shut. She picked up the vials, inspecting each one.

"So this is where you’ve been all day. You could’ve at least told us.” she shook her head. “Yeah I can do your hair, you just want it the same as it was before?" He nodded, moving to a stand alone chair and sitting down. After a few minutes of confirming everything was good, he put the drops in and closed his eyes, feeling Mione threading her fingers through his hair.

Half an hour later the feeling of ants stuck behind his eyelids lessened and he let out a sigh of relief. The potion was uncomfortable as hell to go through but worth it in the end. He hadn’t yet opened his eyes when there was a bang that shook the room. Immediately his eyes snapped open and every single person in the room drew their wands and pointed them towards the door. They all relaxed as they saw Draco striding across the room towards Harry. Harry grinned at his clearly angry husband.

“Hello love. Did you come so we could all discuss…” Harry was cut off as he was pulled into a rough kiss. It was short but extremely dominating and Harry felt a little breathless. 

“You will NOT do that again. Got it?” the blond growled, still holding the back of Harry's head. Harry just smirked.

“Feel free to stop me.” Draco growled again and Harry moved out of his grip.

“Now that we are all together we should discuss plans and such.” Hermione cut in making her way to the sitting area. Harry made his way over only to be grabbed and pulled down into Draco's lap. He was clearly feeling possessive after his dinner with Pansy. He just chuckled, placing a kiss on his jawline not bothering to move away.

“First I want to bring something up.” It was Hannah who spoke and everyone looked to her to continue. “Has anyone else noticed their magic being kinda wonky? like a lot stronger. We were doing the aguamenti charm today and I almost flooded the bloody classroom. It's not supposed to do that.” Ginny nodded.

“Yeah, I get that it was the same for me.” Neville spoke up at that. 

“They said that they were granting the four of us.” He pointed to himself, Harry, Hermione, and Luna. “their powers and that the rest of you would be given mother magic's blessing. It probably came from that.” they all nodded and Harry cut in.

“That reminds me. I looked into my animagus form yesterday and I have a new one. I’m an umbra owl.” he transformed and received head scratches from Draco. 

“So our animagus forms have changed? I don't understand why that would be, though." Harry turned back to being a human and quickly corrected their assumptions.

“No, I still have my wolf form. I just also have this form. There's two. Honestly I like the owl form. I can fly with Draco now.” To Harry's utter joy and delight Dracos form had been a snowy owl. The first time he transformed, Harry cried for a good few minutes. Draco kissed his temple and Hermione hummed.

“I think it would be best if we all took a minute to check our form.” they all nodded and one by one they closed their eyes. Harry extricated himself from Draco's lap and went over to the mirror to take a look at his hair. He wasn't able to see it before Draco came storming in. He walked to the large mirror that hung between the doors to the Hufflepuff and Slytherin rooms. Looking himself over he got a distinct feeling of wrong. It was odd, he couldnt put his finger on it. It must be from being aged down. He definitely looked different from when he was older but even then it didn't feel quite right. He dismissed it for now and focused on pulling his hair back into a half up half down style. The shorter pieces from the front not quite making it into the tie. He ran his pointer finger along his jaw. It seemed softer, not as angled as before.

Strong arms wrapped softly around him as a kiss was pressed to his neck. “What are you concentrating so much on for you to ignore all of us calling you. Normally I would be happy that you’re finally taking an interest in how you look but you seem a little distracted." Harry squinted at himself one last time before turning in Dracos hold, kissing his nose and making his way back to the seating area.

“Anyone else looked in a mirror and gone, Nope, something's off.” he flopped onto the couch only to be lifted and placed back in his husband's lap. “You really didn't like me having dinner with pansy, did you?” he didn't receive an answer from Draco but Hermione cut in with a cough.

“I would normally say that you just look different because you're younger now than you're used to, but.” she paused chewing at her lip. “I get it. I was doing my hair this morning and something was just… not right." Neville nodded and Luna giggled.

“It's normal for your appearance to reflect your parents is it not?” They all stared at her as she braided a piece of gin’s hair. Everyone collectively decided not to touch that with a ten foot pole and Draco quickly diverted the conversation.

“Back to our animagus forms. I'm now a snowy owl and…” he pushed Harry off of him and transformed. Harry couldn't help but coo over the fluffy snow leopard that was now having its face smooshed and ears thumbed at by him. 

“You are so fluffy and soft.” he received a soft lick to his jaw and cheek before he pulled away.

“It seems like we were all gifted with either an avian creature of some kind or a land creature depending on what we already had.” Harry instantly turned to Neville. His original animagus was a grizzly bear and he kinda hoped this next one was something interesting too. Nev’s cheeks dusted pink as he crossed his arms over his chest.

“I got a harpy eagle.” out of all of them Neville seemed to get the most intimidating animals. Luna spoke next.

“I'm a white mountain hare as well as my original Bat form.” Nev looked at Hannah prompting her to go next. She side eyed Harry and bit her lip slightly before speaking.

“I still have my starling form, but I also got a doe now.” Harry smiled at her. When he had first gotten his form he had hoped to be a deer like his parents. He had long since gotten over it but Hannah clearly still felt a little guilty about it, like it was something she could controle. They moved on to Ron who was looking particularly grumpy.

“I'm sticking with my kite form thanks.” Hermione nudged him and he sunk into his seat further before grumbling something unintelligible. Another jab to the ribs courtesy of Hermione had him speaking again. “I'm a red panda.” Ginny awwed at her brother poking at him asking to change since she loved the creatures. He refused and Hermione saved him.

“As you all know I'm a pallas cat. But I now have a Kestrel form." Ginny was the last to go.

“Honestly I was a little surprised by my new form. I mean, Fox, I feel makes some sense, but I'm a magpie.” Ron barked a laugh.

“It's because you're a little klepto who likes shiny things.” Ginny squawked but didn’t contradict the statement.