“i ahk, had thgs goly,” harry rabled, his w off he sthter, phihe wall “you would have ade a bloody good potions aster, alfoy i thk i would have rather liked that it does, beihout you telliotter’s voie quavered as he fished
drao let hiself sp agast the ed a hand over his outh to keep any noise fro esapg he was dreaio be, beae if athih, he ould he ouldo knootter, the aer of alht that orbited his d, issed hi issed hi enough to talk to a loked door a seeiy hallway, a do anythg to help hi
jt when drao thought he ouldn’t take uh ore of it, potter overed his eyes with his hand
“fuk,” potter said, turng so his bak was agast the doorway, slidg dow on the ground drao ould see even the di light the other an had tears runng down his heeks “i don’t know how to get past you i didn’t even know you were soo”
potter fell silent, apart frur breathg and oasional s there for what felt like a t have only beees, theo ollet hiself, liftg his gsses to wipe his eyes with his sleeve he stood quietly, lookiryway one ore, shakg his head and began walkg towards drao
≈hg that way that anyone ed anyore, ued a really round about way of gettiheairsto the kithen, or—that was it snape’s offie gonagall had given hi snape’s offie
drao stood still, barely breathg, u see or hear p away ahe after that jt to be sure he hurried to the door, whisperg the password as quikly as he ould and steppg side, willio lose up behd hi ore quikly
he olpsed agast the door sothg about the whole ordeal ade hi want to ugh potter had been bak for less than a day ahihe way they were potterto sothg and drao was takial notes on hi shool, he never would have owo it, but with o fool, he would adit noent ost of his ti otter whehought he washed he ed tell hiself it was beae ratiot hi a long way with his father, but he hadn’t even onvihat oly beae he spei fabriatg ration for his father ag away the real thgs he saw beae he liked the better when they beloo hi deep down at the ore of his beg, there had always been a longio harry, to uand hi further than they ways his faily had taught hi to
hg potter, siply beae it was what he had always done drao had issed it his voie had ha, deeper tha, but still harry drao hukled to hiself, leang his head bak agaione all ed a bit his hair was still a ss, ssier, if possible, and still jt as addeng as it had been shool he still wore those ridiulo irur wire rid gsses that drao doubted had ever really been fashion, but they were a bit ore expensive-lookg now his lothes fit better than they ever had shool, a fat drao ouldn’t ategorize as better or worse beae he ould see jt how fit potter as very he was still short, or at least shorter than drao the st ti he had seen harry, he had only had about half an h on hi, but he had growhree ihe year he “died,” athg his father’s six foot stature he k would have bothered harry, if he ould have seen
≈ed harry to see see that drao was taller tha he had ha he was sorry that he issed hi, too ore than anythg he shook his head, feelg a sudden sk his gut what was gonagall thkg, puttg potter so lose to hi? he was goio be better about hidg with potter ile beae, as gonagall had expeted, his penhant f had not diih age what she hadn’t fatored , a expeted, was how hard it would be for hi to hide, beae it see his snoopg would be alfoy-e know how any tis he ould fd harry iside his door before he revealed hiself he had a feelg it wouldn’t be uh longer
chapter 4
it id the whole thg id harry th the door of snape’s—his —study ahe bak suite, whih hoed his bathroo and bedroo, yankg off his gsses haphazardly as he did so
≈ he hadn’t
but he had he ran his hand over his fae and to his hair he had felt sothg, soone
no, you hope you felt sothg you wanted so badly to feel sothg that you did, he thought to hiself i sounded oddly like herione’s
hogwarts’ hauntgs were so fboyant that the i ould hardly have bee had alrised hi abhost he had ehey seed so uh like real people, only…lessiies nonsense uggles seed so keen on but this had felt like sothg of thateyes o a sik, prikly feelg, alost like eletriity ihe way he felt when soone so badly wao ask you sothitention, but was waitg for you to ake the first ove he felt it, but he had seen nothg he supposed it was entirely pible that ghosts ould ake theselves as visible or ihey wis