chapter 13
harry
≈ a projet
≈o the over a drk at the hog’s head, standg froh his eyes shg, glisteears glisteng with the ghosts of his pasts, rita had wrote one, and now lookg at pery he had a that osed to look like
“this was a horrible, horrible thg the ery swallowed hard, and harry dra of his beer jt to give hiself sothg to do beside hi, drao’s hand found his wayuable, f it to stay still a go “but it was history the akg aell it, to ake sure the people who o after know how it started, so they ahe ≈ for what he is—jt a an”
≈ene was al of the thg that harry had been tryg to onve hiself of sihe fal battle how io riddle was only to, and when he died he did not go out a bze of glory or for a ae, he only fell hard and fal on the old grou whs had been ut like he really was only a an
“there eople who did good thgs durg that ti and there were people who did bad thgs whe rose to power ao have beeried to shove all the ories uhe rug, and none of khg about it but this ti we’re not akihere were heroes this war, so of the this very roo” he raises his gss ioast, and the people around harry were noddg gee pounded his gss dowable, and there was a answerihey looked arouher everyohis roo had fought, everyone was frieve “we should know their nas”
harry k all of the had gotten a little obsessed with sothihe ery, it was reolletion,all the stettg the down as fast as he ould, the right way, with the biases he didn’t want anyohe ae to be giveo oblivion, their nas erased and with o reber the a wahe ss of those who foughtside
“i don’t want anroup of kids to grow up like we did” the ont, with pery standg front of the, reds harry fierely of the ti wheood front of the all aart dubledore’s ary it akes a p rise his throat and he s her fight like this so please, help ?”
there is silene, where pery looks uhe first ti durg this whole speeh a as harry knew he would be, he akes hiself be the first oand
his hair srapes oone, akg everyo he wors his way through the juble of legs and hairs ahe front of the roo pery siles and ps hi on the bak, like he had dohg speial harry siles bak “where do i sign?”
the end, hiso
drao’s is seond
it starts idiately
pery has shedule drawn up for the, aake slots harry, ron, and herione would have to dether “we an jt have you et at the burrow” he looks exited, but also pale and drawn “it’ll be a long night”
harry doesn’t want to talk about it if he talks about it, he ight have to talk about how it started, with his pareake about basilisk fang his ar and the burears, about a an who lived as a rat for thirteen years and was killed by a olten hand beae he ade the istake of ry, about dobby, about siri disappearg i e forest he doesn’t want to thk about it, so he phes the prospet of the terview away a for a knot his stoah, and when drao asks hi if he’s alright he always says yes, ense a ay sound
≈o et ron at a uggle pub they always et at uggle pes now, both so they are nnized and beae roaste f fried it works, to be able to sit ao be noral
“i still an’t believe we’re dog this,” harry says, talkg about theday, how they will let everyoo to what they alked about
“it’s iportaonks, ad-eye, fred—they deserve to be rebered, don’t you thk?” then, as a, “so do we, for that atter”
“still, it sees…” private? speial? wrong, to talk about what they have kept lose to their hest f? “odd”
“aybe” rs, drai of his beer “but if it keeps y kids fro beg taught about gobl wars history ss, the”
harry ughs sohow, aybe beae it was so b, history ss and professor bihe war uh nothg to taiernoon sses “he’ll still ake the fall asleep”
rougs o, and ys a heavy hand on harry’s shoulders “and so it goes”
drao
≈he burrow
drao had sworn that no atter how lose he got with harry, no atter how uh herioo like hi, even if he was friends with gee, he wouldhere he did not iture the pe where ron had grown up, did not wao feel the holes that fred weasley’s death had left this hoe but whehat that’s where he’s doierview, and asks if drao would like to o along, jt for support, he ouldn’t fd it io say no
so now he’s here, driea fro a hipped ug ahe story sps out harry, ron, and herione were squeezed onto theaross fro the r and rs weasley (all olly and arthur, dear, no need for foralities) were wathg it all