but now it was all different now, they were both transition, with drao beg a free ahis whereabouts to the istry and harry lookg to leave everythg about the war behd, nen and new boyfriend and ’s not a bad thihe fat that enty utes before, harry didhk about askg drao if he was og with hi to the here was never any need for dission
no, drao was free to stay this ho buy hiself a new o live with his e or e to the other side of the world ao ahere ; of the route, no guara drao would want to go with hi at all
(and of ourse, that akes harry oion of how uh of this was by hoie and how uh was by obligation, like, yes, harry, let’s look at a hoe to build our future ihese speifis and i’ g, but i’ ihe one who deides where we go ale piee of paper the wizengaot judge filled out onths ago sists that i have to follow, like it or not lois harder whe fro a ell azkaban, after all)
“i jt talked to herione she said she and rohe leakyat eight, whih gives you a an hour to elebrate, ti that i ahankg you properly for all the work that you did to get —” draht the iddle of his sehe sile slips off his fae at the sight of harry he doesn’t look upset, jt onfed, like he annot iage why harry would not be jupg for joy and akg his own round of ans, though whht he would be allg when all was avaible was the uggle pho know aybe dudley, but harry ell hi drao was tehnially a riihg alright?”
≈here’s a voie iellg hi that hoy is the best option that ouniation is key iionships, ahey should sit down so harry an talk about his feelgs it sounds a bit like heriohere’s also a voie that sounds a bit like sea, of all people, ehoiheir sixth year, sayg that now was o id thi “everythi”
chapter 35
drao
it’s a strahg, beog okay aga
at the ti, drao hadn’t notied how uh ti and energy go to not beg okay, where he puts all his eai oed his head and phg past road bloks that were only his way beae he had beeo pe hi there for the past ht fro the ont his father was sent to jail, all he had been thkg about uttg the piees of his life bak together, thkg only of what he had tet hiself to the pot where he ould look the irror ahe pers bak at hi atually seed like they had tur alright
as a whole, the people whh the ent a lot of ti t to reah the pot where drao is urrently at the only thg was,to tell hi how hard it would be, walkg through life like you need soone’s perissiohy and whole aga, always waiti where the ground ight be pulled out fro under your feet
(it’s like, there were these holes, i and his d and his body, and drao had spe onths givihio fillg the bak up, ah all his taphorial potholes pathed over with bra his head he knows it is a good thg, but it is alse thg, to have all this ti, to keep expetg to fall bak to old patterns and bad habits, to have t hiself it was okay to be okay)
“you’re happier, right?” harry had asked hi, ohose nights where he aught dra at hiself the irr at a satterg of sars and pokarks that trail down his side “now? with ?”
“this is the happiest i’ve ever been,” drao had said, a eveo lie, and his sile was notup any old ghosts wheo hi he’d be fe, really all he had to doovg, keep by, jt enough that the past doeshe spae to squeeze bak to drao’s life
it’s this, ore than a akes hi vny g about theaount of work that had to be dohe weddg
≈’s al! who thought up with this stuff?” they were at the burrow, her obat boot overed feet thrown up oable and a steag up of tea her hand “you have to thk about food, and the people, and the olor she, and flowers, a everyone, so i’ goi a pe beae i a here otherwise everyone will jt opare it to fleur and bill’s, and rl’s beard, do you have any idea how uh a weddis? awo of the!”
“well,” herioively, reasonably “it’s y, you doo have all that if you don’t want it”
“oh, i want it” gny’s eyes widened ar “it’s jt that it’s all so bloody hard toy head around”
gny was good at a lot of thgs she was good at fightg, and at quiddith, and alg gee down she was good at healg, even if her spells hurt ore than hey rept over your sk she was a good ook and a good friend a she was not good at anizihis ky for her, drao was
“i ould help” both girls looked over at her fro her seat the ar hair, na siled vaguely, like she reog he had said so