The Secret Author

9. PottAH WHATTT?

14th November 1998

POV: Harry
I was walking through the halls to the Great Hall when I heard a group of Slytherin and Hufflepuff 5th years talking in hushed tones towards the corridor, but they all shushed one another when I walked pass. It wasn't that I wasn't used to whispers but it hadn't really happened since Gin and I broke up. I continued my day as normal, not giving the earlier incident any thought until I was walking through the portrait, and the common room went quiet and there was a rather loud rustle of paper. Pretty much everyone in the room turned their heads, looking at me. Me, unsure of how to react to this random act of attention, gave everyone in the room a thumbs up:
A thumbs up- Merlin's beard I'm an idiot sometimes.
"Hello, you guys good?" I smiled and a murmur of yeahs and grunts filled the common room. I nodded and ran up the stairs to my dorm knowing if I didn't leave then, I would embarrass myself more then I already had, and would probably want to die. Again.
When I opened the dorm door, I was shocked to see Neville leaning over a second person snogging the life out them. They both heard the door open and sat up quite abruptly, the second person, I discovered, was Blaise Zabini.
"Harry, I....I... look urm!" Neville stuttered.
"Nev, how the fuck did you manage to sneak bloody Zabini in our room?"
"He's my boyfriend Harry!" Neville said with a sudden certainty. He nodded at Zabini who just smiled and nodded awkwardly.
"Oh Neville, I'm so happy for you! Now I'm just gonna grab my transfiguration textbook, some quills and parchment then I'll pop the sock on the door so the others don't come in and you two can get back to your snog fest without any more interruptions." I say, grabbing everything I mentioned, picking up a sock, which I think is Seamus' based on the 4 leaf clovers on it. I pulled the door shut yelling about silencing charms and then I smile as I hear the two of them giggling and telling one another they love each other. I walk back down the stairs and the common room quietened again,
"Alright, anyone gonna tell me why you guys lose your voices when I walk into a room?" Silence. "Alright then!" I almost growled, leaving the common room, and heading to the RoR, where I stayed until ten minutes before curfew when I walked back to our dorm.

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15th November 1998

POV: REMUS
I was sitting on the sofa of our living room reading, Sirius' head in my lap, when we saw an owl swoop down onto our windowsill. Sirius looked and smiled at me as he got up to collect the letter whilst I continued reading. He fed the owl, and it flew away. Opening the letter, I heard a gasp followed by a quiet,
"What the fuck?" I looked up and saw a rather red, flustered, and confused Sirius. I stood up, crossing the room to my husband so I was in front of him.
"Siri, are you okay, is Harry okay? Why do you look so flustered?"
"Moony you won't believe this! Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas, you know the war couple, Hogwarts new resident gays," we chuckled at that, that familiar phrase reminding me and Sirius of our days at Hogwarts, "just sent us a letter!"
He passed me the letter:

Mr and Mr Black-Lupin,
Hello, I know we have never communicated before, but we are Seamus and Dean, from Harry's dorm. Please don't worry, nothing bad has happened unless you count a fellow anonymous student writing a 'sexual novel' about him for Headmistress McGonagall's writing competitions.
We understand you probably wonder why we have written to you? Well Harry doesn't know- he can be oblivious sometimes! - and we decided you might want to know about this especially if Harry won't tell you. We attached a copy of the story in case you want to see for yourself! Ron and Hermione have also been sent a copy but please don't tell Harry, it will make him really uncomfortable and he really has become his own person this year!
We hope you are both well!
Dean T. And Seamus F.
(Hogwarts Resident Gays!)

To say we were shocked would be an understatement! A sexual novel about our pup? So, Pads and I did the only thing two responsible guardians would do.

We read it!

We read the story. Well Pads made me read it out to the both of us. After it was finished, we sat in silence, in shock at what we had just read!
"Well that was an... experience! I wonder how Lily and James would have reacted to this!"
"I reckon they would have a bet about who wrote it after storming to lovely Minnie demanding it to be taken down!" Sirius started, "I reckon it was Ginny!"
"Alright Sirius you know I love you but you are dumb sometimes, not only did they break up, she is dating Luna and the book is Harry, dare I say it, fucking another boy! Now let's actually get a good bet going, I bet 10 galleons that it was Narcissa's kid!" I said.
"What Draco, no way is he gay, come on Moony!"
"Okay one, how do you know and two, I strongly remember overhearing with my wolfyness you saying that to James about me yet here we are!"
"Okay, okay you say Draco and if it's not him, Then I get the 10 galleons, deal!"
"Deal!"
We shook hands, kissed and then sat for the rest of the evening talking about everything and anything like we use to in Hogwarts, sharing small loving kisses. The situation with Harry and the anonymous author, being a reoccurring conversation point throughout the evening. Neither of us could believe someone could write that about a real person!

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18th November 1998

POV: HARRY
The next four days passed rather slowly, especially with all the gossiping and giggles being directed at me from pretty much everyone at this point. The only person who hasn't spoken to me or laughed at me since this all happened was Malfoy of all people. The blonde boy just walked past me like nothing had happened. I found myself watching him a lot but not like I did in 6th year. This time, we share what could be classed as lingering stares across the Great Hall instead of murderous glares!
Even Remus and Sirius seem to know what's going on. They sounded rather suspicious in their letters. By the fourth day, I was fed up of everything so I cornered Dean and Seamus in the dorm, locked the door so they couldn't get out and threatened them until the they told me.
"Alright, alright Harry we'll tell you, just please let us go and not kill us!"
"Seamus, you have a deal, just tell me now!"
"Harry" Dean began, "please remember we aren't involved in this except for knowing about it and reading it!"
"Reading what?" I asked.
"Potter x reader. It's a story someone entered into the competition. No one knows who wrote it but literally everyone has read it!"
"Why, why has everyone read it?"
"Well Harry, in all honestly, it is kinky as fuck!" Seamus bluntly replies.
"Yeah, everyone is shocked because no one ever thought that Harry would be a kinky bastard." Dean continues. I splutter, not expecting that for an answer.
"What? Where is it? Seamus, give it to me, I have a right to read it if it's about me don't you think!"
Seamus sheepishly retrieved the book from his shared trunk with Dean and passed the story over to me.
I sat and read it.
Once,
Twice,
Three times before it really sunk in that someone had written this about me.

"Do you have a Daddy kink Harry!" Seamus blurts out after a while. Dean whacks him around the head.
"No, of bloody course not. I don't know who thought this was true or funny because it's really not!" To say I was mad was an understatement. But I was also intrigued to know who wrote this about me, who had actually taken time to write and imagine me fucking them. It had to be some crazy fan surely, not someone I knew on a personal level, right?
That evening I wrote to Remus and Sirius and Ron and Hermione to tell them about everything, only for them both to reply that they had read it.
That night, I went to sleep after setting aside the story and all the weird things that happened today, completely unaware of an event tomorrow that would change everything.