“no” harry holds the sroll out to hi, the owl hooti the aitihe to sign the srapthat it was reeived and uood “it’s addressed to you”
harry wao knoas side as badly as he , but he also didn’t have a e what it ight onta, ahe eotions fliked aross drao’s fae, he realized that aybe he didn’t want to
“what?” drao threw the parhnt dowable disgt and harry ripped it up “what’s wrong?”
“they’ve leared the anor” drao’s hands were shakg aga harry had thought it was gettier “all evidene has beehiaken out, ay is returhe onlyof k with a lear o lear what he thought about all of this, drippg derision “”
harry didn’t knoas upsettg hi so uh, if it was the anor a held, of the fat that the istry had the audaity to i it as their own iie, or aybe it was the fat that they oh the best reputation
“that’s a good thg, right?” he felt like he was treadg to unknohere hedeep it goes uhe step off solid ground and falls down to the deep he never had learo swi “to have your ho bak?”
drao looked at hi like he id, the srap of parhnt to the fire, il he sees the orners url and bken “you an’t go ho aga, harry” he passed behd hi and pped a hand down on his shoulder a way that ight have onsidered friendly, had they not been half asleep with their ars ed arouher only hours before “not eve to”
drao
’t go ho aga harry, drao had said, leavg the roo like he was leavg real life behd, like walkg aroble was the sa thg as solvg it
≈hought that burnier and phg it to the bak of his iio least, he would ep foot it agaihe owls kept oihe and that night and theand theand the , and fally one deandihe legal departry
≈ ake you go,” herioells hi, wheraded out their ty old potion books for fashion agazes, p over dresses for her to wear to a foral “if you wait ay days, it’ll be turhe state and they’ll sell it to ollet oney for so harity or another”
“ay days of owls?” drao had s, feigng horror, but that was was b he didhought ers h his ho, a was ostly bad, he didn’t want the alfoy anor’s history to be boiled down to this: raffled off iion jt to be torroyed for its erals auro srap, jt a bh of he earth, all beae the st alfoy was a oward horrible thgs had happe deserved better than that
≈ ever really ake a deision jt os up before harry does as dressed, telli he was jt gog for a walk aowards the town, and then he was london, and then he was floog his way to the publi ehe istry, turng his wao a with that didn’t reognize hi and followio where they said legal was, olr turo hide his fae
≈here’s a with behd the desk bright purple robes, so he hooses to go up to her for help, figuri dresses like that aoo paful, but theo fae hi a’s vender, who supposedly had of the hoe sitg there sars and all
“drao” she taps her feather on the ee’s hers beae it’s bright yellouff ball oop of it “what an i do for you?”
≈ at her, and theely feels horrible about it, so he looks at his shoes stead greybak had auled her pretty bad “the iters” he ruages i for o the anor”
she liks her tongue and reads over the parhnt, and it akes drao feel like a prat, beae what kd of person has a anor? but she doeso are “yeah, we’ve got that” ve get up, jt wheeled her hair aross the red through abis until she a up e “here’s the key a to sig’s yours”
drao fubled for the pen, and she siled at hi, as bright as he ould reber her beg at hogwarts, if a little less giddy “right thanks” he’d do he a for, tehnially, but it doesn’t see like enough “how have you been?”
“go that they’ve never had a o say about eah other, she seed surprisialk aybe it ressg, hidg here down the dark all day, jt waitg for sooo i dead people’s possessions “heard y with harry”
she waggles her eyebrows at hi, ae hiself, drao ould feel hiself getti like that” what was it like, thehe sa bed “urt ordered babysittg, basially kept out of jail”
≈ like that doeshg, but she siles like she ker and aybe she does vender did always have an annoyg habit of khg about everybody “that’s not what i’ve heard” she gives hi oired sile and raps her quill agast the gss oi “see you around, drao”
≈ of hi wants to io hi and harry’s, jt to ath up, but a bigger part tell