#hppridemonth

Part 2 of Scorpius’ coming out experience. Draco is a great man and an even better dad.

Drarry pride 🏳️‍🌈

this is for @girlwithacrown‘s hp pride month! prompt one: coming out

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The music from Sirius’ old records filled the room - as well as the clatter of forks against plates. This was just like any other thursday, any other family dinner, except… it wasn’t. 

“Hey, Harry,” Remus said, putting down his knife and fork. “You had something you wanted to tell us, didn’t you.”

Crap. To be honest, Harry had almost hoped they would’ve forgotten. He quickly stabbed a potato with his fork and put it in his mouth, making sure to chew extra slowly. It only made it more awkward, though, Remus and Sirius both watching him as he swallowed the potato.

“Right,” he finally said. “Uhm… It’s not a big deal or anything, but…” He trailed off. Why was he so nervous to tell Remus and Sirius? It’s not like they wouldn’t accept it. That would be incredibly hypocritical. 

“Oi, don’t say that!” Sirius said. “Clearly whatever it is, it’s important to you.”

Harry nodded, looking down at this plate. “Yeah, I suppose it is,” he muttered.

“Well, spit it out then,” Sirius urged him, reaching over the table to give him a playful nudge.

Harry took a deep breath. Of course. It would be okay. He just had to say it. 

“I’m bisexual,” he muttered quickly and quietly, still not looking at either of them.

“Sorry? Harry, you’re gonna have to speak clearer for us to hear you,” Remus said.

Right. He could do this. Harry cleared his throat and tried again, this time actually looking up at Remus and Sirius: “I’m bisexual,” he told them. “Uhm, there’s someone i sort of fancy, actually… A boy. But I don’t just like boys. I know I like girls too.” 

“Oh!” Both Remus and Sirius looked surprised, but pleasantly so. 

“Harry, that’s amazing!” Sirius told him excitedly. “Or, I mean… Thank you for telling us! That’s great!”

Remus rolled his eyes at Sirius’ excitement, smiling at Harry. “I think what he’s trying to say is we’re very proud of you. And I think it’s quite obvious, and maybe it goes without saying but we support you one hundred percent.”

“One thousand percent!” Sirius added.

That earned him another eye roll from Remus. “This is why we need math lessons at Hogwarts,” he muttered under his breath. 

Harry knew he was supposed to feel happy, relieved, validated… Yet something was still on his mind. 

“Hey, what’s wrong, kiddo?” Sirius asked. Somehow, Sirius always knew when something was wrong. Harry didn’t know how he did it. 

“It’s just…” Harry muttered. “What if my parents wouldn’t have been… Okay with it?”

“Of course they would’ve!” Sirius hurried to assure him. 

Harry glanced up at him. “How can you be so sure?”

Remus and Sirius exchanged a puzzled look. “Wait,” Remus said. “Does he not know...?”

“What don’t I know?” Harry asked, looking between the two. 

“I… don’t think we’ve ever told him,” Sirius muttered. “Huh.”

Harry was growing impatient. “Come on!” he said. “What is it?”

“Well.” Remus turned to face him. “Honestly’ I don’t know why we haven’t told you this before - I guess it’s just never come up in conversation, but… Your dad was bisexual, too.” 

“He- he was?” Harry asked, looking at Sirius for confirmation that this was true.

Sirius nodded, leaning back in his chair. “Yep,” he said. 

“But… He was with my mum,” Harry said.

“Uh-huh,” Sirius agreed. “And Remus is married to me. Does that make him any less bi?”

Harry shook his head. “I can’t believe I never knew about this,” he muttered.

“Yeah, sorry we never told you that,” Sirius said. “I promise we didn’t mean to keep it from you.”

“And Harry,” Remus said, reaching over the table to grab his attention. “Your dad would’ve been so proud of you. They both would’ve.”

Sirius nodded in agreement. “And we’re proud of you too, kiddo.” he said. “You know, actually, I think this calls for a group hug.”

Harry made a weak attempt to protest the group hug, but Sirius was already out of his chair and around the table, bending down to pull him into a hug. 

“Moony, come join us!” Sirius said. “It’s not a group hug if it’s just me and Harry.”

Remus chuckled as he got up and joined the hug.

Harry looked down. He didn’t want either of them to see the tears forming in his eyes. They weren’t unhappy tears, not in the slightest, but… He wasn’t sure why he was getting so emotional. After all, he had expected a positive reaction, but there was just something about this that made him tear up. 

Perhaps it was the sincere look on Remus and Sirius’ faces when they told him how proud they were, or the knowledge that his mum and dad, too, would’ve been proud. Or perhaps it was knowing that his own dad was just like him. He looked up at the photo on the wall, the one of his parents on their wedding day. 

My art for #hppridemonth week 3: family

You can also find this fic on my ao3!

“Padfoot, for the love of god, stay still!” The dog responded by wriggling out of Remus’s grasp, and Remus cursed loudly.

“Padfoot!” He shouted. But Padfoot ignored him in favour of running in circles around the dog park, wagging his tail enthusiastically. Remus sat down on a bench and decided to wait until Padfoot calmed down before making another attempt at leaving.

On the other side of the park, Padfoot had stopped to sniff at a small boy holding a dog treat. Remus watched, ready to call Padfoot back if the child seemed scared of the massive dog, but he just giggled and held out the treat. Padfoot licked it out of his palm, and the boy patted the dog’s head. A man called out from another bench near the boy, and he gave Padfoot one last pet before running back to his father. Padfoot made his way back to Remus, and this time Remus managed to get his leash hooked up to the collar, and they left the park.

Remus opened the door, unclipped Padfoot’s leash, and shouted, “I’m home!”, loud enough that not only could his roommate hear him, but the neighbors almost certainly could as well. Peter shouted from the kitchen—not words, just a vague noise to let Remus know where he was—and Remus headed in that direction, Padfoot following close behind.

Peter was sitting at the table eating lunch, and when Remus came in, he looked up with a smile. He patted his leg to call Padfoot over, and then frowned.

“Remus?”

“Mhm?” Remus was digging through the fridge, looking for the leftover lasagna.

“I think Padfoot’s limping.”

“What?” Remus emerged from the fridge, alarmed, and watched as Padfoot walked—no, limped, definitely limped—over to his food dish.

“We have to get him to lie down.” Peter stood up from the table, abandoning his food (that’s where the lasagna went, Remus thought, then gave his head a quick shake. Now was not the time). He gently convinced Padfoot to lie down, always better with animals than Remus ever had been, and examined his paw.

“There’s a big gash in this paw,” he said, “and it’s already bleeding a lot. He must have stepped on a sharp rock or something?” Peter looked at Remus questioningly. Remus shrugged.

“I don’t know. That’s the only thing I can think of though. Should we take him to the vet?”

“Probably. I’m sure it’ll heal on its own, but you never know.”

Remus nodded. “I can take him. You seem….busy.”

Peter rolled his eyes. “Sorry about the lasagna, but it’s first come, first served in this house, Lupin. We’ll both go. You drive, I’ll keep him company in the back.”

And that’s how they ended up in front of the hottest vet Remus had ever seen.

To be fair, he hadn’t seen that many vets, but really, no one else could compete with this guy. His long dark hair was pulled into a bun, and his sharp cheekbones, straight nose, and full lips would have made for an absolutely breathtaking face had he not been making kissy faces and little cooing noises at Padfoot. It was adorable. Remus was so caught up in staring that Peter had to elbow him in the ribs to get him to tune in to the conversation.

“Sorry, what?”

The vet laughed, a deep bark that Remus actively didn’t think about because you can’t do this right now, Lupin. You can be thirsty later, but right now you need to focus. “I said, do you know how it happened?”

“No. Well, not for sure. I took him out for a walk to the dog park about an hour and a half ago? And when we got home Pete noticed he was limping.”

The vet nodded. “And Pete is your...?”

“Roommate.” Remus said, ignoring Peter’s snort and wondering what the hell that had to do with anything.

“Excellent,” the vet said, then added, “I’m Sirius. Black. Doctor Black, really, but I prefer Sirius.”

“Lupin,” Remus said, “Remus. Er, no, Remus Lupin.” He could feel his face burning, and fought the urge to kick Peter, who was sniggering next to him. Sirius’s eyes stayed fixed on Remus for a moment before he shook his head and turned his attention back to Padfoot.

“So, uh, there’s not much I can do with something like this. I’ll disinfect it, and you guys should keep doing that as it’s healing, but the best you can do is try not to let him walk too much over the next few days.” Peter nodded, and asked a few more questions that Remus didn’t hear even a little bit of, because he was too busy trying very hard not to be disappointed that he wouldn’t have an excuse to come see Sirius again. As if reading his mind, Sirius pulled a business card out of his pocket, scribbled something down on it, and passed it to Remus. “My personal number. If you need any help with….the dog.”

Remus blushed bright red and took the card. He thought he thanked Sirius before leaving, but honestly, everything was a blur until he found himself back in the car, with Peter at the wheel this time.

“Remus!” Peter jabbed Remus in the ribs, “Mate, he was absolutely hitting on you! Text him right now!”

“He said it was for the dog.”

Peter rolled his eyes. “He was looking at you like he wanted to eat you up. It wasn’t for the dog.”

Remus looked at the number on the card, looked at his phone, and sighed.

were you hitting on me or did I just make that up?

this is remus, by the way

lupin

With the dog

He got an answer in seconds.

Hello, Remus Lupin with the dog

I was hitting on you, don’t worry

How do you feel about sushi?

i feel great about sushi

Excellent

How do you feel about sushi with me? ;)

even better

Want to go out for dinner tonight?

I’ll pay

well, if you’re paying

absolutely :)

The whole wizarding world was celebrating the defeat of He-who-must-not-be-named. Glasses were risen high all around “to Harry Potter, the boy who lived”. But not many of them actually knew the Potters in person.

But those few that knew them knew instantly that they had to go to Godric's Hollow. Albus and Aberforth Dumbledor, Alastor Moody, Alice and Frank Longbottom, Arabella Figg, Dedalus Diggle, Edgar Bones, Elphias Doge, Emmeline Vance, Mundungus Fletcher, Rubeus Hagrid and Sturgis Podmore arrived at about the same time in front of the destroyed house of the Potters. “Where are Remus, Sirius and Peter?” asked Alice but before anyone could answer her they heard a noise from inside the ruins. “Homenum Revelio” Albus muttered and to their all astonishment there were three living beings in the ruin. With their wands at the ready they slowly walked forwards. There in the middle of the ruins were Lilly and James Potter lying dead on the floor crying over them was Sirius and Remus with a baby boy in his arms. They all put their wands away again except Albus: “Where is Peter?” Remus looked at him, Harry was sleeping in his arms: “He betrayed them. He betrayed us all.” It looked like Albus was the only one who understood what he meant so he explained it for the others shortly: “Peter Pettigrew was the Potter’s secret keeper.” A lot of them gasped and Emmeline said: “We need to find him!” Albus stayed calm and ordered them all to go looking for him. One by one they Disapparated to different  locations all over Britain to cover as much land as possible. Before Albus disappeared himself he strictly ordered: “Sirius Remus, you two go home now and don’t go looking for Peter. We will find him, but you have to be here for Harry now. I’ll take care of Lilly and James.” Remus took Sirius' hand and they both vanished just to appear back in their little flat in Muggle London. Remus lay Harry on the bed. But it was not enough for Sirius, he wanted to go after Peter, he was already going towards the door.  Remus dashed to the door before Sirius could reach it and stood cross armed in front of the door. “You heard Dumbledore, they will find him.” But Sirius did not want to listen: “HE BETRAYED THEM!” Of course Remus wanted to go after him as well but what would happen to Harry if anything would happen to them. In exactly that moment Harry started to cry loudly. Sirius's loud voice must have woke him up. The two men couldn’t move, they just listened to the cries. Sirius's facial expression softened again and tears were rolling silently down his handsome face. Remus embraced him and whispered: “Harry needs us now.” After they had let go of each other again they hurried to their bedroom to look after Harry. He must have felt alone because he stopped crying almost immediately after he saw Remus and Sirius on either side of him. With the worries pushed on the side for the moment the three of them fell into dreamless sleeps. 

Rather early in the morning a patronus in the form of a large phoenix woke them up. Albus Dumbledore's voice echoed through it: “Alice and Frank caught Peter near Blackpool. He is on his way to Azkaban as we speak.” Only moments after the patronus vanished in thin air. Those were great news but they still won’t bring back their best friends. Harry has woken up by the noise as well and was babelling happily.

A week later…

After Lilly and James’ funeral Sirius and Remus decided it was better for Harry to grow up in a house and not a two bedroom apartment in the middle of Muggle London. They looked for the right place for quite some time but then they finally found a nice little cottage in Ottery St. Catchpole. A few wizarding families were living nearby, with the Weasley family the closest to them. Remus and Sirius knew about them as Molly Weasley's brothers, Fabian and Gideon Prewett, were in the Order with them. Arthur helped them move and Molly looked after the children. Not only that they already had five children at the age of 10, 8, 5 and 3 they also had a baby boy the same age as Harry and a baby girl but she was just a few months old and Harry rather played with Ron anyway. Ron's older brothers played with them sometimes, too. Molly invited them over almost everyday and any day Harry wasn’t in the Burrow, Ron was in the Lupin-Black-Potter household.