he fores a tublr full of the potion to harry’s hands it is old, and the olor of vender, so uhe alg droughts that gnyto hi at night duri days after the war
≈o say thank you, but what he says stead is “heers” a is enough
chapter 4
harry
ihgs really only start to fall ihey start yellg about dobby
harry’s not sure whose fault it is he had i everythiay i up the tis that drao taunted hi over his faily or alled herione a udblood, or ay thg, beae he’s sure that drao lenty to throw bak at hi but aybe that was, beae it all jt sort of stayed bht uhe surfae, a took was an offha ≈o his owo have harry standg up and sreag
≈old he ed to shut his ears the oven” harry said, grippg his spoon so tight that his kurhg drao looked like he had jt beehe fae he had been aught so off guard, and aybe he had, beae he had spent all day preparg dner and harry jt walked here a he k, k he was bei he was burnihan he was ake all over the kithen and srubbg for hours to lean it up, you shall not hurt harry p with drao for his wand while dobby got the out, suh a beautiful pe to be with frie ouldn’t s hiself “i ed to have to s hi fro punishg hiself, ya of his hands or fore hi away fro the fire beae it was so graed hi”
“that wasn’t beae of how we treated hi” drao said, desperately “that’s jt a hoe elf, any hoe elf, even kreaher, he does it too”
“i asked hi if you would notie he was gone” harry said, and now he really was angry, and he set all aihe onfion of the war aher people that had died, he had sort of jt loked this part of his pa up side hi, beae despite all of gonagall’s talk that they died for the ae and not for hi, harry khis ohis one i beg, died only beae of hi he ouldn’t stand that, so it was uh easier to b drao for his past istakes “he told you wouldn’t, beae you eo do extra p and wouldn’t ra bandages”
“that wasn’t ” drao said, and now he was angry, too harry ould alost ry at that, beae it looked like they were fally gog to s walkg on eggshells arouher “that wasn’t y father, i would old hi that, i liked dobby! he was y friend!”
“a frie s his head iwie a week?”
“i was a kid!” drao yelled, and this was the whole heart of the atter, wasn’t it, that they were both hildreo grow up too fast, ahey eandg o sides of the sa awful divider? “osed to do, let hi take it out on ?”
“i was a kid, too!” he’s gotten tired of havi as aheir istakes, like harry wasn’t a kid that should have grown up to be awful, like he didn’tsreai he was fored to do like he hadoo uh, too fast, and still ade the right hoies “only i was fightg for people like dobby! i atually sale whtg for! what did you fight for, drao? your own sk”
“it wasn’t jt ” drao an stant, now, hands shakg, and harry is very, very grateful they had left their waer “it wasn’t jt and you know it, you said that you were there that night, it was do what they asked or wath y other be tortured call yourself a savior, sure, but you’ve o hoose beeen the people you love ahi , it gets a whole lot harder after she’s beeened by greybak”
≈tg, that’s how ad he was, atually treblg ere friends, harry thought, wathg drao’s fireble agaiable but we aren’t, really aybe it’s not possible, after everythihrough
drao was the first to ove a so fast his hair falls to the floor with a bang, leavg harry alohen with kreaher, feelg sikengly like he had beeo do sothg wrong
drao
he had been y friend
that was the truth, about dobby a hoe where his other was always out eag and his father had little patiene for hi, dobby was the one yed as little, was the oaught hi to tie his shoes and ride a broo, the o drao went to when he had nightares aher rove but then one day he a ho and dobby wasn’t there, leavg drao evehan he had been, and the oion he had beehat he hose potter over the
it was only ao hate harry
but aybe the o beee a o at all, when harry treated dobby with kdness, when dobby no longer had i tellg hi to shut his ears i didhen, that dobby had one ared for drao at so pot, harry, we all look out for ourselves and ourselves aloer what we tell ourselves
when ≈he, drao ouldn’t see how differehey ould have been friends, if only drao hadn’t sohow srewed it up that first day, if harry had been put ahan gryffdor, if he hadn’t thrown his lra first year and aybe drao really ould have helped hi, and then he would have had a reason not to turn towards the dark side, would have had s