still, it was differe was jt drao, where he ould ake as any istakes as he wa ahiake up the whole kithen, and didraurnio a warbek when harry was here, it was like he athg drao felt his eyes on hi, like a tikle right beeen his shoulder bdes
≈ ask hi why he was here clearly, the oion of st night had not been dru sothg that he had been ullg over for a while and drao had aold hi that aybe it was ti he lear was like to be jt harry he wasn’t about to hase hi out of his own kitheopped it fro happeng
≈ail drao is satisfied that the panakes are dohe doles the out og down aross the table fro hi he’s alost nervo, sittg there, aell that harry is too
≈ y resignation out with post” harry talks around a outhful of food, hidihe paper, like that ould ake this less iportant, less life alterg “should have got it by now”
drao didn’t really know what to do with that, but the sik part of hi the bak of his head that wao keep harry all to hiself ade his breathg ath ho safe ihat’s wasn’t right harry would his pe would not be a ho no atter how uh drao lea, and harry w to hi would o belong to hi
“good” itdrao says is a respoh all these revetions harry keeps dupg on hi “have another panake”
harry
≈ feel guilty about it, exatly
≈he thought of not wantg to be an auror ourred to hi a while ago, before drao eveay, ohe nights where he g through his own ho, lookihat weren’t possible he had heked the loks three tis, had kreaher se awie and ouldn’t stoah the thought of askg aga ahat if this kept gog, he was gog to turn to the person ad-eye oody was before the seond war, the kihought was razy beae he ouldthe fight
harry didn’t want that he wao fd so peae, if jt for a little while
≈hg he does feel guilty about is leavg ron behiold sent hi an owl st he drkielli be to work toorrow then he asked if he would et for ed to talk about so thgs but it turns out that drao took are of all the talkg and w through thgs, and all that was left for harry to o
ron’sbeehihe war ended, beae herione had one been onsoble whe o ho on ti she had thought that he had been take at the end of thgs ron didn’t b her, so ual
for one, harry hates hi there’s half a ont as ron says hi and unds the sarf fro hisharry waurn and run when ron has his bak turo pe his order but he doesn’t
“so ?” ron looks ohey’ve all learle with o ron is still ore likely to throunh for you then be a shoulder to ry on
(holy, ronald, you’re a wizard, herioold hi, the st ti she was ndg his broke’d go better for you if you’d reber your wand)
it’s the uts harry they had been this together, frihey sat dowhe sa traihey started this lether, and now harry was tryi off early but he had to “i’ve got sothg to tell yot his eyebrows raised, and harry knows that whatever he thks he will hear , it will his “i quit the aurra”
≈ion is not as loud as harry had beei as a good sign that ron leans aross the table to whisper-yell to his fae stead of flippiable aybe it was the shok “what?” a blk, and then a sile, like he g that harry was jokg “why?”
“i don’t know” he raises his hahat ight draw attentiohe ft oable “i he hao hoose, you know? none of did we jt got thrt i”
ron did he was all ahis was the only thg he knew “so?”
“so, aybe i don’t want to fight”
“what do you want to do stead?”
ron isn’t angry he l, like he khis was only a atter of ti it validates harry’s deisiohihat ron did hk that this was a bad idea “nothg i don’t wahg rightso lohe e, that i o figure out what i would have wao do, give was fight or die” he swallowed, hard, beae this was brgihat he would rather not thk about about a basilisk, about quirrel’s sreas, about the first ti he ever ruiio’d soone he was a warrior, and he was a good owas do wa”
≈” they’re food has gohe has eaten, and it is already ti for r bak to the offie “i do, harry and i’ gd that y to ake yourself happy” a pae “but i’ not quittg this really is what i want to do”
harry k but he had to ask, to put the option out there “doired of the fight?”
ron ughs, shakes his head, and the, and his ow of sarred letters shi harry, bright ug of the der i will
“it’s a