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Harry sat across from the Daily Prophet reporter, his wings fully exposed for the on going cameras. The spot light used to bother him when he was a child, but this time he welcomed it. Everyone wanted to know the true story and who better to tell it?
"Mr. Potter is truly a pleasure to speak with you and get your story. I'm honored to be able to run it."
"Make it good and I'll see you more often." Harry joked, but he was being serious and he wanted people to overhear it. If there was a better writer in the room that was willing to write about Harry the way Harry wanted, then so be it. "You can call me Harry."
"Harry, so we understand you've been in hiding for the last few years. Where have you been and what brought you back?"
"Well I've been roaming around quite a bit since I never stayed put, I was pretty hard to find. I stopped using wizard magic all together since I came to my inheritance. As for why I came back? My mate is here. I had to make the world better for him."
"That's beautiful. Have you and your mate been together long?"
"About a month, been but when it's fate - it's hard to remember what life was like before him."
"A demon in love. There is little known about demons in our world, should we be scared?"
Harry grinned for the cameras, "If anyone comes in trying to be the next Dumbledore, then they should be. This is my mates' world, I won't let anyone ruin it." The demon was allowing the world to see him as someone trying to keep them safe - he was their golden boy after all. But it was a warning for the Order members or anyone else who stood in his way. "With Dumbledore gone, an alliance between me and Tom Riddle - a wizard who is undergoing so much healing because of Dumbledore. There will be no more torture for those with mixed blood, there will be education. I'm excited to see the future, aren't you?"
"I am excited to see what you do, Harry. The whole world is watching and we all feel in your debt for exposing Dumbledore for what he was. He fooled so many of us, I'm embarrassed to say I supported him."
"I'm embarrassed to say I supported him. He got my parents killed and Tom Riddle lost his mind. My mate was under his control for too long."
"Harry, if I may ask the question frankly that we are thinking."
"That's why I'm here." Harry encouraged, because he could tell she was intimidated by him and she didn't want to spook him away by offending him.
"Why didn't you just take care of Dumbledore yourself? You allowed the Ministry to process him, if I undressed your abilities - you had the power to vanquish Dumbledore. Why didn't you?"
"I thought about it. I thought about it every day, I still do sometimes if I'm honest. But I owe the wizarding at least this much, Dumbledore didn't just hurt me. He hurt everyone. I felt everyone deserved to feel justice."
"Doesn't that go against your nature?"
"My nature is to protect what's mine, the wizarding world is my home. I'd like to live here in peace, I think we all deserve it."
"Perfectly said, thank you for all you have done. I couldn't imagine being alone all those years. You have mentioned your mate, when will you be introducing them to the world?"
"Severus will be returning to Hogwarts as the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor and my heir will be starting school in the coming fall, so I think soon you'll be seeing us out in the public again."
"An heir in school?"
Harry laughed, "It's a super weird demon story, but to summarize I met his mother in time travel. He was raised with her until I came to the present, she passed away a few years ago. Colin Potter, he's 20 and starting law school with my mates godson, Draco Malfoy. They are still deciding on schools, so I truly have no idea where they are leaning so don't ask. I've stopped asking when the school kept changing."
"Well, it sounds like you've got yourself a full life. A mate, an heir, what are you going to do in your free time?"
"Breathe for the first time in a long time. I'm going to go to bed and no one is going to try and kill me. I'm going to travel the world with my mate. I'm going to hang around Hogwarts and help the muggle-adaptive programs."
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The next day Severus read the article for the eighth time, he couldn't believe it was real. Harry told the whole world that they were mated, even though technically they weren't. Harry had always treated him with love, even in trying times. Minerva was the headmistress at Hogwarts, Harry didn't stop it from happening - giving her a chance to live up something more than Dumbledore after his confessions. Dumbledore was never going to get out of Azkaban, Harry himself had paid a visit to make sure that there was no way for the ex-headmaster to escape.
Harry appeared through the shadows, sitting across from his mate. "How are you feeling?"
He slid the Daily Prophet over to Harry, who glanced down at it amused. "I think she did a good job. Didn't twist my words at all, didn't take out anything important. I think the shot of my wings though..is sexy." The demon was just happy to have them out full time, he wasn't hiding anything anymore. "What did you think?"
"You keep calling me your mate, you haven't talked about us mating for real in awhile."
Awhile? Harry disagreed with that completely, but he didn't argue. He felt he brought it up all the time, but he let Severus have his segway. "We aren't bonded, but you are my mate."
"I want to bond with you. I know I've asked you in the past, but I know more now. You respect me, you love me. I love you. I trust you. I'll give you all my submission, be it private or for the world."