Harry opened the compact and couldn't believe what he saw.
His dark, unruly hair was still dark, but now it lay in soft curls all over his head. His one striking green eyes were now the icy blue that belonged to Sirius. He seemed to look like Remus in every other way though, and it turned him into an amazingly handsome mix of his fathers.
"Harry," Hermione interrupted his thoughts, "Can I try something?"
"Uh. Sure," he said, unsure of what she wanted to do.
Pointing her wand at him, Harry felt Hermione begin to grow his hair. When it got to shoulder length she lowered her wand and said "There, you look much older now. You looked a bit like a child for a moment there."
Harry looked back into the mirror and found that he did look a bit older, and the dark hair around his face brought out the blue of his eyes even more.
"Ready to reintroduce yourself to your dads?" Hermione asked, once again interrupting his thoughts.
Harry swallowed the nervous lump in his throat and nodded. This time, Hermione grabbed his hand and they walked back out to the waiting room.
Remus had his arm around Sirius and both men's heads turned to the door when they heard it open. Sirius' eyes grew large, and Remus looked to have tears in his eyes when they saw their son. Sixteen years had gone by since either man had looked into the piercing blue eyes of their son, and now he was standing before them, like he'd never left.
Both men stood as Harry and Hermione walked up to them, and Harry handed them his paperwork, to be put into their vaults for safekeeping.
Sirius looked down at the papers and read, "Harry David Black," he looked up at his son and smiled. "I really like that."
Remus nodded in agreement. "It fits you well, because even if you'd changed your first name, it would have been hard, even for us, to stop calling you Harry, and you know how much we love David, and it was James' middle name as well, so you kept them with you, and we'll all be Blacks once Sirius and I marry."
"When are you two going to get married anyway?" Harry asked with a grin.
"We haven't really thought about it to be honest," Sirius said.
"With us getting you back, getting everything taken care of, we haven't had time to. It's only been legal for a few days now," Remus continued for his mate.
Harry nodded, accepting their answer and the foursome exited the ministry as quickly as they could manage.
Sirius and Remus elected to head home and leave Hermione and Harry at The Three Broomsticks to spend the afternoon shopping for their school supplies for the year. Sirius gave Harry their vault card, and told him not to worry about spending too much, and gave Hermione instructions to make sure that Harry spent enough, knowing that his son didn't like spending much money.
Hermione headed straight for the bookstore where Harry picked up their school books while she browsed for her own personal reading. They met at the counter and Hermione's pile was twice the size of Harry's and he had a dozen school books. They paid for their purchases, shrunk them and headed back outside. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her into Quality Quidditch Supplies before she could protest.
After looking over the new racing brooms and not being able to find anything that he needed, Hermione was finally able to pull Harry from the shop, and back out into Diagon Alley.
The street was fairly quiet as the two made their way down it, peeking into shops here and there. "Oi! Hermione," they heard a familiar voice call from across the street.
"Hi Dean! Hi Seamus!" Hermione called.
Harry and Hermione made their way across the street and greeted their school friends. "Who's this?" Dean asked, looking at Harry.
Both Harry and Hermione grinned. "Don't you recognize someone who's been sharing a dorm with you for the last 5 years?" Harry asked.
Dean and Seamus both looked confused until Seamus recognized Harry's voice and looked at Dean. "Harry?" the Irish boy asked slowly.
"That'd be me," Harry said with a grin.
"But you look different." Dean pointed out.
Harry explained the past few weeks to his dorm mates and they were both impressed and happy that Harry had found his family, and assured him that they were still his friends, no matter what.
Harry and Hermione parted ways with Dean and Seamus and decided to go to Fortescue's for ice cream before they headed to Madame Malkins for Hermione's robes.
They sat, laughing, talking and eating ice cream for a while and then Harry noticed something. "Hermione," he said, "You've got a bit of ice cream on your face."
Hermione picked up her napkin and dabbed at her mouth, completely missing the spot just in the right corner of her mouth where the speck of ice cream sat.
"Here, let me." Harry leaned in, intending to wipe the ice cream away with his thumb, but when he got close he couldn't quite resist. His head dipped down and kissed away the ice cream, lingering only for a second before he was back in his seat, a slight blush staining both of their cheeks.
"I...uh..." Harry began, but didn't know what to say.
"I didn't mind," Hermione said quietly.
"Would you like to take a walk out on the grounds before you have to go home? After we get back to the manor I mean?" Harry asked.
"That sounds lovely," Hermione said with a smile.
Harry paid for the ice cream and the young couple took their leave. They walked slowly, hand in hand, back to The Leaky Cauldron where they used the floo to go back to Black Manor.
Arriving in the living room and seeing no one, Harry and Hermione continued through the house and out the back door to the grounds were Harry had been flying earlier that day.
They walked around the small pond and ended up sitting together under a willow tree.
"So, uh..." Harry started, not sure of what to say.
"Don't make it more complicated than it has to be, Harry." Hermione said.
"I just don't know where this puts us," he said defensively.
"It puts us wherever you'd like it to put us." Hermione said simply. "I'd love to have a deeper relationship with you. I liked it when you kissed me."
Taking that as an invitation, Harry leaned in and kissed her again, lingering this time. "I'd love to be your boyfriend," he said with a smile as he pulled back.
"Harry! Hermione!" They heard Sirius call out. "It's almost four! Time for Hermione to go home, her parents will be waiting."
The couple stood and walked out from under the willow tree and up to the house.
Sirius saw them walked up the path, hand in hand, and grinned, making a mental note to tell Moony when they were alone.