drao wonders how loed to have a ohis, where everyone was hangg onto his st word, waiti w he had dooo long, probably
“you’re all failiar with the arhivg assig i have uaken any of you pyed ial roles the proess and now it’s opleted” there’s a heer, led by gny, ati beied like drao had expeted, pery jt siles, ridg the wave and waitg until it died down agairy has eleted to opeo the publi there’s gog to be a ereony, and the people who shared their stories are to be vited” he beas down at all of the “herione will be openg the ereony i’ll be there too, of ourse”
≈her heer, this one led by ron, who grabs herio and sps her arouests whes her doery, huggg hi, buryg hi i of faily
≈ a part of it
her is penelope she’s standg oh drao, wathg the all
“this is all he ever wao be loved by the like this” pe look like the epito of grae now—there is a slouh to her shoulders and a stai and a strandloose, but now, drao an see why pery has beeh her so long “i jt wish that they had figured out how to do it sooner”
don’t we all, drao thihi is lovg too te
it’s fast, after that
bill leaves first, thehehe kids leave at the sa ti, pullis and sayg their good-byes so fast it didn’t hide how desperate they were to leave
“rl” ron shakes his head, squtg up at the streetlights the way he always does when they reah a uggle town “i love pery, but he an be a drag sotis”
“i don’t kn hi, but she hadhey always see to kher, like the way they were aught i ans there ossibility of fallg out of step “he wao ake you guys proud”
“roud roud” gny looks fro her brother and herioo harry “he had to have known that, right?”
“so people have a hard ti believg what they an’t touh what they aalks a bit ore like the, now, less likely she was aught a drea and ore like soone had fio wipe the stardt that had gathered i was sad, beae o see life the way it really was “you an’t do it all the ti—eveo woher gnargles are around here”
≈here is very little evide, arts, and drao gives her the be of the doubt by thi to be
“don’t be silly” h a gre “there have beegs north aria”
there’s a shoked ohe out ughg, ron first, and then all ht the iddle of the street where anyone ould look dowhe gny’s ughg so hard there are tears ihen she’s diggi p uh “dan it dan it all to hell, na, i was gog to do this ter, dht, but—” she sks down to ohough there was ud o and it was sh the legs of her jeans “i’ o love you ore than i dht this seond, i thk”
she’s holdg up a rg it’s sall, a, a was built for na “na lovegood,” she says, and her voie is shakg with the effort of keepiaed “will you do the hon ?”
her, as uhis as she had beeher thg for a heart spi, drao thi say no, but then her fae raks open a sile ao her knees “i suppose”
“she supposes” ron says, his voie that tohoable disbelief he always es when na says sothi uand “you hear that everyourned his fae uard ahe skylights “she supposes!”
“you ever thk about that?” they are walkihough they ould apparate, beae this is ohose nights where you do not want to go ho, that you r as you an “arriage?”
“about as uh as i thk about the rest of the future” it’s a op out kd of answer, and drao knows it, sa “i ae piture it the future gets all fuzzy whe to fe, like aybe i’ still he idea that i’ goio have it”
“but if you were” harry ier than drao now, beae drao is bang on the urb like it is a tightrope, ars spread out the air beside hi “what would it be like?”
“terrifyg, i thk” drao does thk about it, about a hoe and kids but he details o iher tha he would have a broken down old shed for his potions supplies and one of his kids should be her, tht where he had d like so isted for of redeption that his own father would not try to reah for, ahks of the person he is gog to spend his life with they have started to have harry’s fae, now, so different fro the life he had thought of a few years ago, where he was thkg ters of appearane and heirs ao trt soo uh”
“would though?” harry’s voie is quieter than it should be, like the w knoked loose fro sowhere io have soo you love so uh?”
drao doesn’t answer he slips a does not fall, beae harry is there, puttg