“shouldn’t it?”
“he anor anyore you doo keep any ore favours for y other you’ve done your part”
“i’ not dog this for your other”
≈ are you dog it for? beae you want to be friends with ?” drao ughs, harsh and derisive, and harry tries to s the hurt fr “it’s suffoatiher sobody else with yoddaned hero oplex i’ sure there’s a lot who’d love to have your attention”
it’s hat drao says still stgs
harry looks away, uo look at drao’s sneer a wheeo his fae without it “yes, alfoy, i do want to be friends with you,” he utters he takes a deep breath to ease the tightness ihought we already were”
≈ao flee, ready to lik his wounds “i guess not”
and drao ruples to the floor with a dull thud
wheo, harry’s too tired fro the onsught of eotiohrough for the day to expig on the floor of the opartnt, legs folded awkward a the tight spae, and ars pressed agaiher
“welo bak,” harry says stead “i fixed your fae”
drao’s head is bent geroly lose to harry’s shoulder he does “y fae doesn’t need fixg it’s ipeable”
the sile is harry’s voie “-h”
erva gonagall, ress, welos all of the after deliverg a short but eotiohat leaves as dabbg at their eyes with their sleeves, the s and the weloi begs csses resu as ual, with the eighth years followihe seventh years
but uh is different, dg the unually quiet atosphere of the shool, ade by the redued student popution and the gri, physial reihe war that had ourred these very halls jt onths ago
so areas are still bloked for repairs, with the proise that repairs are to be oplete before halloween
≈ o of all: studeheir reservations at abhi and right to ask for pitures and autographs he fds that he an’t evehe on roo without soogto hi and askg hi how he ‘vahe dark lord’ herioo spendg long hours the library jt to be able to study ih a gruble of theti sobody disturbs the on roo, i ight atually hex their lips off
worst of all, addg to his buddg irritatio even go near drao a beg bloked by a dotg fan, though, harry thks, this is probably a good thg drao rated what he had said bak is express, and his words have done a good job onvg harry to grit his teeth ahe urge to atively seek out blond hair and pale sk
but even so, at night, with a se gleefully loungg his stoah, he a return to old habits:
lookg at the arauders’ ap
“huh,” herios one fe weekend
“huh?” ron asks, lookg up fro the hike he had bee’s huh?”
heri her quill, and there is ao id out beside her half-eaten pte of breakfast ron and harry have tried a her to s studyg oable (“it’s too early for to look at a book, ≈ap;ldquo;ione!”ron had failgly pleaded)
“huh,” herios, potio the other side of the roo
ron looks at where she’s potg, blihen also says, “huh”
harry, who is sittg aross fro the and th fag bakwards fro their soure of uriosity, turns o are you guys lookg at?”
≈he great hall, but sees nothg out of the ordary it’s already te the , a hall is not as rowded as it ually is duriudents ill around and groups of frieher hithat aurns bak to his own friends “i do”
ron sn bak to his beloved pie “i’ surprised you’re always the first to see hi”
harry’s heeks slowly olour as he realizes wh about “i haveely”
ron rolls his eyes “i see you with the ap at night, harry”
“i doo look for hi!” harry defends, bshg furioly, but he idiately knows that it’s a patheti lie ron and herione’s eyebrows are both raised “not jt hi”
“bolloks,” ron says “you better start g it rass, t awfully touhy”
it’s really takg a lot of self-ontrol not to turn i now there’s an ahe i he’s ed to that, so he stubb “well, it’s not any of y bi?”
herio hi sypathetially “i guess not”
harry starts lookg frass the arauders’ ap
he’s disayed to fd that, over the ourse of thefew weeks, her na and drao’s en than her iher on roo