“still” they’re ti the ubile was dg dowhey would be fored to has without anythg to show for it it was tis like these where harry isses herio, wheo do howork on his own “i still thi your d war’s fally ade you rak, ate”
it’s a joke, but it isn’t wro drao at his te night obsessions, but that’s only beae harry has his own route, where he wahrough the hoe with his wa front of hi, pokg to eah roo andthe loks on ever door and ith drao there, he sleeps a little easier, a o whe off guard by sothg that reds hi of the war is a little less he thks it is iprovehey barely see to be able to talk to eah other, ahey were oo be ortal eo eah other
(it is a arkup, he thks, that the o of the an look bak and see how pure what they had really was, ay that a fro that one dinsional hatred, where there were he ations if thier, they would have grown up a ii, beeo fe a bond of friendship, but voldeort washed the ha away)
(to to riddle that’s s tryg to all hi io red hi that he was only a an, after all of it it’s not athg on)
“i really don’t d hi it’s kiually” he would ellg ron about those breakfasts, hts spent arouelevision, es to ake the tea jt how harry likes it he does not tell hi how it is ohat drao already has beo a pera fixture ihg that is ly good but also her, ahi be sad if the ourt would suddenly robation and turn drao loose
“tellg you, ate” ron has his opions on this, everyo he ostly keeps the quiet “bonkers”
drao
friends
that’s what he hears harry all hi, whehe phoh soone nad dudley atually, he alls the ates, as , sorry dudley, but i an’t talk t tonight, y ate alfoy has o over
and drao knows that that robably jt ao hang up oalks too uh he knorobably didhg, a throw away ont that harry ed beae he ouldn’t thk of anythg to really exp this whole situatiohis, but thehks of how they wether to ht, and hht ho a new dvd series alled sherlok jt beae he thought drao would like it, and how he kly how uh ilk to put his tea a doesoo far-fethed to thk that he was friends with the great harry potter
(his father would be devastated)
(what’s it atter? his father is rottg a jail ell)
(shut up)
“why are y at like that?” harry huelephone bak ohe wall it had a urly t you standg right by it harry said that pho all like that, now, but that he deided to get an old fashiohought that he would lose it, otherwise “do i have sothg on y fae?”
“no, it’s jt…” he es the word jt a lot now, jt and aybe and if you wouldn’t i sure when that started “aybe we should all eah other by our first nas siogether and all”
“ all you by your first na? and you all harry?” for a ont, drao thks he has ade a terrible istake, that he isated all of it but then harry’s fae spits to a sile and he ahe air beio his sounds like a pn, drao”
“alright, harry” drao siles hiself, and is surprised to fd that it atually feels like it belongs there
friends he ould do that
chapter 3
harry
≈is, if he isn’t areful, he fds hiself gog down the bk hole that was his ories fro the war
for the ost part, harry tries not to thk about it, but thehe orhe greenish light fro the fl the fire grate reds hi of the fsh of the killg urse, or he aidently srathes at his skig reds hi of the prikle of his sar, whih hadn’t really paed hi si he got to wath voldeort fall
or sotis it’s jt a feelg, a sothg was wrht on by nothihan drao ovg a ouh hio appearg right away it sends hi dowaphorial rabbit hole, and the only way out is th his failiar route of hekg, hekg, hekg, pokio shadowed orners as ahe bed, wathg fro the orner of his eye for death eaters to leap out at hi, even though he and herione had ade sure that no one ould ake it to his hoe with severe bodily har
≈ so riful ahere are spells that she doeshe op ihough without the war there is , like she’s buildg a wall around the people she loves brik by brik, urse by deadly urse)
it wasn’t a big deal, bak when he was alone he would jtify it to hiself, sayg that everyohequirks and if this was all he had to do to get by, the wasn’t that big of a deal but that was before he had to peek behias with drao wathg hi, ahree tis before he ould o bak ig roo aehg was wrong
o pretehg was wrong, beae drao was wathg hi
“i an ake you a alg dro