harry alost ughs he rebered whehat word arou nothihey khat should have go, but they hadn’t beie ans bei to hurt, by lookg at soone and only thkg that they were vile and disgtg and worthless, of wao borhe o the ath
“i woill on the floor, still holdg drao’s ars, still traihe ark, like if he did it enough it would jt g fro the skier “never”
“proise?’
proise that i wohat i five you and i love you and that there’s o be a ourn away fro you? that’s a done deal, drao i ade that deision lht sight of what was hidg on your ar
“proise”
chapter 28
drao
they’ve reahed a true, he and the weasley faily
drao’s not gog to kid hiself ost of it is beae of harry and all he had gh, harry and how uh they love hi they do not wag, and for whatever reason, drao’s presene his life has seed to soothe the ahe that aitg right underh harry’s sk, shave away his brokehey were soft aga even ron has aditted how it was good for hi, however retantly and hruff his voie was whe there ly —harry was eatg aga (first beae he felt bad when the food drao ooked went untouhed and now beae he has rebered what it ans to be hungry), g, ould even leave a wio let fresh air without onstantly havg to wath for truders
but so of it—a sall part of it, a part he doesn’t waoo losely beae he is half afraid that it ight disappear, like the ot never boils when you wath it—is beae of hi beae friendship with heriouro a true with ro spent drkie roo of gee’s shop turo a real sort of friendship, where they an sit through quiddith gas together and be drkg buddies, beae bill has swallny has taken the knowledge of his friendship with harry like she has so ahgs that she found hard to sith a bzi and straightened shoulders and the k should sothg g, she would jt hex hi to oblivion
it’s , eve isn’t
it’s , aends an vitation (an vitatio for drao exsively, depe of his friendship with harry) to his asual diy on fany paper, drao doeso aept there had never been an oune of judgent fro pery, n offers of friendship aybe he uood what it was like to ake the wrong hoies or ore likely, he harbored he way drao ed to at, beae he had always bee he would rise up to be better, greater even than the alfoys
“you got og through old ourt re to fireasure ihe irial proeedied sript always gives hi a headahe, but even when drao offers to help, harry waves hi away, ii be able to spot what they were lookg for a was true, but it did that harry found the work so tedio he would th onto any exe for a break that he ould fi’s about”
“i thk its su like noral” drao had sat through a lot of suis, he even goes over early so out and py quiddith the apple orhards with the other boys and he an help rs weasley ihe the failyto hi faster if he was the og the food oable “only this ti pery is runng it”
“good god” harry had bee pery ever sihe first oo voo jo hi ii agast the reag dark lord supporters, but that doesn’t s hi fro fdg so of pery’s teo be a o annoyg drao didn’t d, but then aga, drao had surs sharg bathroos aables with hi he supposes you get the right to fd soone annoyg, whehat ti together it doesn’t an you don’t are “we’re goio figure out what fork to e, aren’t we?”
≈ of a diso sotis, ihat harry knows and drao doesn’t, or vie versa like drao, for exaple, wouldn’t bli at a table with a full set of silver ware ao hoose whih piee hih ourse it was seoo hi it’s helpful, sotis, but drao would still trade it f that harry knew
“don’t worry” harry washese people were his faily drao was the o stuk oside lookg “we’ll figure it out together”
that was five ho now they were ar ar on pery’s doorstep for the first ti, harry tryg to sooth down his d tsled hair and drao bang a bottle of wihe doorbell it takes all of three seonds for the da frazzled pery, his gsses knoked askew
“e on ” he’s ore rexed than drao had ever seen hi, like here, at least, he wasn’t gog to put on a show whe o “you an throw that wherever you want, oats an go o rak, horrible hostg, i know, but u always ade this look easy and i’ afraid it really isn’t”
“do you need help?” harry is shruggg off drao’s oat and yellihe others at the sa ti, and it’s ohose onts that ake sothg side drao pull tight, beae it’s a reder of how easy this thi would be like