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7th year at Hogwarts

CATEGORY: humor/romance

RATING: R

WARNING: This will be slash. Yeh be warned. Also language!

PAIRING: HP/DM, RW/HG, SB/SS, RL/NT

SUMMARY:He could have been anything. A Goblin. An Orc. A Mountain Troll. Hell, he could have been the King of Dwarves, for all Harry cared. But NO, of all the magical creatures, Draco Malfoy had to be a VAMPIRE.

Short A/N: This fic is dedicated to Kat-chan, my poor comrade lost in a godforsaken town of England. Cheer up. The rain will stop. Er. One day.

Short A/N 2: THIS IS THE REVISED VERSION!! Enjoy!

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He's a WHAT?

"A vampire. You know, Nosferatu. Bloodsucker." repeated Hermione patiently.

Ron cupped his chin in his right hand, pretending to think.

"Well, he is a sucker, so I guess we just have to figure out the 'blood' part."

"But – how would you know this, 'Mione" asked a bewildered Harry, while Ron was rubbing his head where Hermione had smacked him mercilessly.

"You know, being the Brain of the Golden Trio helps. Besides, everybody knows I know everything." came her short retort.

"But – there has to be some mistake!" the Boy Who Lived insisted, while Hermione absently smacked Ron again for his less than pleasant comment about her monstruous brain.

"But– I mean– haven't you seen him? He's a freakin' blonde –"

"I didn't know you had that kind of prejudices, mate." Ron chimed in.

"–and he's got grey eyes, for anything's sake!"

Hermione was looking at him suspiciously now.

"Harry. Have you by any chance noticed that each and every one of your sentences started with 'butt' ?" There was a pause. "Are you sexually frustrated?" she asked very seriously.

Ron emitted a strangled noise. Since when had their innocent bookwormish friend turned into a gay sex advisor? Umm, maybe ever since she had attacked that part of the library. Whatever.

"Ha bloody ha, 'Mione". Harry safely chose to ignore where the bushy brown-haired girl had found this kind of knowledge. Hell, he wasn't sure he wanted to know why. Poor, poor Ronniekins. He won't know what hit him.

Harry sighed.

Ron wouldn't understand love if it bit him in the ass, so poor 'Mione would...

Er...

Note to self: never associate "Ron", "'Mione" and "bite in the ass" in the same sentence. Ever. True, he liked his two best friends but he didn't need the mental images. Ew. That was just... Ew.

Harry decided to get back to the matter at hand.

"Geez, I'm not bloody frustrated," he sighed "what I mean is, he's not the Dark type–"

"Well, it depends on the way you define the concept of Dark, really." began Hermione.

Ron frowned. "Mate, as much as it pains me to say, the git is the Ice Prince of Slytherin after all, with the Wicked Dark Reputation that comes with it."

The Boy-Who-Lived-To-Kick-You-Know-Who's-Ass was getting more and more annoyed.

"But– I mean– er– oh, hell, it's just a matter of logics! How by Hades can you be a vampire when you look like a bloody elf? Well, except for the pointy ears and dreamy looks" he added thoughtfully. "The story has got it all wrong, if Draco Look-At-Me-And-Drool-To-Death Malfoy is anything, it has to be a veela, VEE-LA, not a vampire!"

"Harry." Hermione warned.

"There's no way he can be a vampire, he's just–"

"Harry." said Ron looking worried.

"I can't believe that freak–"

"HARRY!" Ron and Hermione yelled.

"What?" he snapped.

"You wouldn't happen to be..." Hermione slowly began.

"See, it's just that you sound definitely..." Ron began as well.

"...jealous." they ended together, wearing an identical horrified look.

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It was official. Harry Potter was Pissed Off.

How dare they think that– that–

ACK! He felt like going to the Lake and yell there like a madman. He might as well drag the Malfoy heir and drown him there while he was at it. He pondered over the thought for a while. That would certainly help.

Anyway, he was furious that his best pals would think that he, Harry Potter, was jealous of Malfoy.

Hell, their very names were an oxymoron.

Talking about morons...

The insufferable git had yet to prove that his face wasn't stuck in a sneer while he was bloody sleeping. Satan would be making snowmen in Hell the day that Draco Malfoy would actually smile.

The Great Git actually thought the whole world owed him a life-debt for having deigned to be born. AAACK! Harry definitely needed to break something now. Not that he hadn't, already...

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Earlier that day...

The Great Hall was full of the usual packs; the first years had been a bit more difficult to unglue from one another than last term but they were now happily digging in the delicious food provided by the House Elves.

The Headmaster was his usual twinkling self. Snape looked ready to hex the far-too-noisily-happy first years into next century. For a change. Flitwick and McGonagall were absorbed in a discussion about the pronunciation of some obscure spell – "I assure you Minerva, there is no way the second 'i' is stressed; you would end up conjuring a bunch of crazy ghouls that would start taking you for a goddess." "No, no, what I am trying to say is, in order to get the spell to last longer, you have to pronounce it very slowly..." – Hagrid had to be thinking of Madame Maxime since he was currently trying to feed his right ear, Remus Lupin was back as the DADA teacher.

The Slytherins were already plotting their ultimate revenge against a certain Savior of the Light. It did not matter that they had been on the same side during the war, victorious Gryffindorks would always remain Gryffindorks. The Ravenclaws were no more visible, hidden behind a huge barricade of books. The Hufflepuffs were chatting about the next Hogsmead weekend – "And then I'm going to kneel down in front of her and read my poem." "Oh my God! Don't you think that's being a bit too bold?" – and the Gryffindors...

Well, our dear Gryffindors were now dealing with a furious Harry Potter who was positively scandalized at the news that his best worse enemy – now that the other was a bit... let's say... dead – had dared to be a vampire. That was unfair. Did he mention that it was not possible? Anyway, he was having great difficulties behaving himself when his two best friends had had the most ludicrous, preposterous idea. He – jealous of Malfoy being a vampire – of all people!

It had been too much to take at the same time. To say that few breakable things at the Gryffindor's table had survived Harry's wrath would be the understatement of the century.

So while Dumbledore distractedly cast a quick 'Reparo', he took a mental note to keep the irritable teenager away from his secret storage room of lemon drops jars. Too many little pieces to assemble back, really. Wouldn't want to waste them now, would we?

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So here Harry was, stomping down the corridor to the Gryffindor Tower. He had stormed off the Great Hall without looking at the mess he had created, deciding that enough was enough. To Hell with the Feast, he would not tolerate this anymore.

Such were the rambling thoughts of the Great Harry Potter when he looked up to see the very object of his jeal– er– rage walking his way.

Draco Malfoy was indeed coming from the opposite direction, accompanied by Blaise Zabini. Crabbe and Goyle were nice enough but Draco feared that hanging too much with people whose lives depend on the next dessert might be contagious. Blaise had a theory about this kind of behavior being related to the Pansyist Compulsive Syndrom of purchasing everything that looked even remotely pink, fluffy and/or sequined. "There must be a common gene." he had concluded.

When he saw The Savior of the Cowarding World – how could all those people think that a mere boy had to save their sorry asses? – Draco realized it was already too late to attempt a subtle retreat. Not that he was afraid of his Nemesis. He was actually rather disappointed in the new turn his relationship with the Gryffindor had taken. After all they had gone through – among others five years of hatred, and a War against what had to be the Darkest – and Ugliest – Lord Ever – Harry had just gone from hatred to a dull indifference. Draco sighed mentally and came back to reality with a start when Blaise elbowed him in the ribs. What could happen to him, anyway? Potter wouldn't even notice him.

Draco was already turning back to Blaise to continue their previous conversation about the Quidditch trials when he felt Harry's furious gaze on him. What was going on?

In a few quick strides, Harry was next to the Slytherins, not even stopping when he snarled at Draco.

"You couldn't have been a Veela, could you?"

Draco blinked once. Twice. He turned to say something to the offending boy but Harry had already disappeared around the corner, stomping so hard it made the paintings tremble.

"What's wrong with him? Time of the month or what?" asked Blaise, annoyed. Draco just shrugged but couldn't help wondering as well. Everybody knew that Draco was a vampire. Well, it was kind of implicit since he hadn't bothered announcing the whole school of the changes he had gone through the day of his sixteenth birthday. Suffice to say that baring his fangs to keep the others at bay was a lot more explicit – if not credible – than any kind of declaration. So why did Potter seem to have just learned about this?

The two Slytherins resumed their walk towards the Great Hall, the first one muttering darkly something that sounded suspiciously like 'temperamental' and 'bloody Gryffindorks' while the other wondered if he should take the Veela thing as a compliment or not. What was this all about, anyway?

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Harry was certainly not sulking in the dorms, thank you very much. He was just righteously depriving his friends from his presence since all they seemed to do was insult him. There. He lay sprawled on his bed, curtains closed.

Snapping at Malfoy had helped to calm him down. But still. How could he do this to him? They had been enemies for so long and yet Harry had failed to see such a huge part of Malfoy. Closing his eyes, Harry let all his barriers crash down. If he wanted to be honest with himself, he had to admit that he was indeed jealous of Draco Malfoy. But he would never tell this a single soul. No. Over his dead body. 'Cause you see, it was one thing to be the Hero of the wizarding community. And it was another to have dreams and impossible wishes.

Like wanting to be a vampire.

Harry would always remember how the last months before the war made him ache to be free to roam the country as he pleased, having no responsibility whatsoever towards anybody but himself, since he had never asked for anything, especially NOT for an ugly scar left by a psycho-maniac that would more or less directly influence the rest of his life.

Sheesh. Sometimes Harry couldn't help but compare himself with that poor bloke in the Muggle book who had to carry a bloody ring at the expense of his own life, being brought down by a burden he hadn't asked for. Well, Big Bad Baldiemort was now keeping company to Hades' Hounds, which was definitely an improvement.

When he had been a child at the Dursleys', the boy had stumbled upon a book about vampires. Of course, it had been the Muggle vision of things, which was a very simplified version of reality. Nevertheless, Harry recalled perfectly well how he had wished so hard to be able to fade away in the shadows, to escape Dudley's beatings thanks to his inhuman speed and to scare the shit out of the Great Whale by just flashing a bright set of pointy fangs. Sure, he would have had to find some blood to sustain him but at that time, simply being a vampire had meant freedom to the imprisoned child.

Harry sighed for the umpteenth time. He shouldn't dream about this anymore.

After the end of the war, Sirius Black had been cleared of Lily and James' murders and Harry had finally been able to move to his Godfather's house.

Pettigrew had finally paid the price of his foul actions; a Dementor had taken the liberty of kissing him right before the end of the battle.

Bellatrix Lestrange had been last heard to talk to her bunny slippers at the psychatric hospital: one of her awful curses had backfired.

As for Lucius Malfoy, he had been kicked out of his own house by his furious wife who had recently discovered that, despite everything he had told her, he had still been crawling at the feet of a demented snake-faced psycho, him, a Malfoy. And that's how the Aurors that had come to drag Lucius Malfoy before justice found him: sobbing and sniffling like a child, wearing a kicked puppy look on the very step of the closed door of Malfoy Manor. His now ex-wife had cursed him with a de-aging spell to "punish the capricious brat he had been all his adult life".

Yes, Harry's life had definitely improved now. So why had he kept his stupid dreams of being a vampire? Harry sighed deeply. He knew why. There was this something that was missing, like a habit he used to have but he had now forgotten. Like something important he was trying to remember but couldn't quite pinpoint.

Whatever. What was lost, was lost. He'd better go to sleep anyway. Tomorrow would be the first day of his seventh and last year at Hogwarts and he had promised Sirius to enjoy it as much as he could.

And so he would.

End of chapter 1

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey guys! First, thanks for reading until here. Congratulations. You are definitely impervious to bad puns and to my lame humor. Haha. Anyway. I just wanted to make things clear:

English is not my native language...French is. Same goes for my most precious beta-reader Ash of Mine. If you want to know more, go check our profiles.

This is my very first fiction hence the horrible structure, and all the awkward things and mistakes you'll find.

Conclusion: DON'T FLAME! However, constructive criticism is most welcome...Just let me know.

Thanks again!