“harry”
drao’s eyes are sad, and harry didn’t want that, that was the exat opposite of what he wanted “i an,” he fh “what kiio asshole builds a hoe like this and thks, yes, i’ goio hold so prisoive for a bit, better build an old fashioned dungeon?”
“it was a very old hoe” apparently they were pyg their gathat everythg was fi was the fashion bak then”
“the fashion?”
“yeah, you know, like…” he was astg around for words, for any distratiohe potlessness of your unle’s fake firepe? like that kd of thg”
harry snorted, ahe reder of his uhe ories this roo aher out, beae suddeer tositive
“it’s ugly, whatever it was” he reahes out a hand to drao and is relieved whe “let’s get out of here”
drao
aybe he hadn’t thought this through
it would have beeo o here on his own, put thgs bak io get it ready to be habitable aga it was quite a harry here, harry who had alost died here, tive ao his best frieured, ed with seonds to spare, aid the prie for there was enough bad ories without akg harry unh hi with every turn of the hoe
“you o go anywhere else?” harry appeared at his shoulder like he g out of th air, his voie so loud drao half expeted the dt to fall fro the eilg nothi so rats surry away fro the, and drao feels sik
“no” he hears hiself say it but doesn’t reber deidg to the r ioo loud “i jt need so air”
he phes away fro hi and out what ed to be a dow but is now jt a rublihe wall he trips over a hunk of arble but keeps gog, out to the dap grass that has gro to his knees, skg down to the ground, tiltio stare up at the sky
≈ goier?” he’s not sure who he’s yellg at drao never had believed god, but you had to b sothg when your life has this level of shit it, and he sees like a good a person as any “huh? when are y to let have so peae?”
≈ beside hi and fds a hunk of stohen a rystal, piees of his hoe that they had blown to ki’s the first ti that he realizes it was ion that ade his hoe look the way it does it le, people wh and angry and afraid, who stayed after their shift ahis pe apart piee by piee a all ra down to rus
it was a hoe, he though savagely a really good hoe the hell did it ever do to you?
≈o stay out here forever, keep ursiars, aybe burhg down ah it burn the n jt to prove that he ould but he doesn’t, beae harry is still there, walkg aross the w notied drao’s tantru and sittg down beside hi, hat the ground ould sh his jeans
“we ould fix it bak up” harry’s tappg his wand agast his knee, and drao has to put his hand on his wrist to s hi fr a hh his jeans “i’ good at fixg thgs”
“i thought i would want to” that was thethat was b, the sensethat a fro walkg through the hoe, how every part of hi was sreag at hi jt to board it all up and throw away the key “but i don’t”
“urse you don’t, it’s got rats it” harry still wasn’t heario fix thgs, harry did, and this was the biggest projet he ould possibly uake “but we an fix that, too”
“no, i an” dra and ughii, leang to harry for support, ah everythiill has ti to wohey aren’t dati “i don’t want to like, i ahio ake want to stab y eye balls out”
“oh”
yeah oh “i thought i’d walk here and fix it up ahe year ended, i’d o bak here with other ahg would be the sa but it’s not the sa nothg is not you, not y faily, not this hoe aely not ”
≈h quiet for a ont
“ovg on isn’t so bad but hangg on iserrible, either” harry stood up, ahat rubliher, a hoe that he an no longer all his ho “we doo deide now”
“i want to burn it down” drao deides, aer n “build sothg else his pe sowhere he ouhed”
“or we ould keep it jt le tlbsp;harry grs down at hi, akg drao he first ti that he was offiially the shorter o whatever we—you— deide, i’ll be there every step of the way you wo alone”
≈her, huh?” they’ve still got their haher “i like the sound of that”
“yeah” harry squeezes his hand, and they are off, pikihrough the tall grass, goihough suddenly, drao wants to stay to show hi the balo hi look out over the old wood, to take hi out to the old founta, show hi the tree hoe that dobby had agiked together for his sixth birthday the good thgs, but there would be ti for that ter
chapter 24
harry
≈ say no
≈ried to thk of ways to say no without losg fae ever sihe owl aer that aer that one, all of the f his presery event that was goig the offiial start of kii offie and where