chapter 37
harry
≈age is le ight all a fixer-upper
≈his beae it is exatly what herione had alled it, silg aroule hoe with the look o norally ht before she hands he and ron study shedules, trailihrough the dt oops “it’s a bit of a fixer upper harry,” she had said, ron noddg along with her approval, a habit both he and harry had piked up fro istry di with a little work, this sure is goihg”
a little work did harry had pns for this hoe, pns so big that they should be written out apital letters, and it’s gog to take a while to get the doo do the the right way, the uggle way
(drao had rolled his eyes, but after harry had poihat he does all his leang the uggle )
“i jt thk it’ll take you forever” drao had said, follog hi through the door while levitatihat harry would be g with one sweep of a waher?”
≈hen it’ll be e,” harry says, beae he had liked the idea of k ra of sanded down wood ahat went to every ig, but then he anded his a to hold drao’s hand, who rolled his eyes “ours”
“alright” drao rolled his eyes, but harry knew he won, beae drao always aves when harry starts to talk like that he tries not to abe the power too uh but he wanted —his projet, jt to give hi a little ore ti ts out he always had thought best when he was dog une work like that “anythg you want, harry”
of ourse, the fat that it rojet ade it drao’s projet, too, handg hi tools as he hared nail after nail ieps and swipg pat along harry’s heek whehk he was beiention, and also beg all around bossy, whih harry eti a lot of afternoons here, drao poppg around noon, sistihi ayg until dk, where they ould sit with their legs gliall porh and wathi dowhe fields
this ould be every day for the rest of y life, harry would thk, every siakg drao’s hand his and pressg a kiss to his ki he thought it, like he was sealg the proise it was the first ti he was thkiure and not feelg afraid i ould feel this happy, every , as long as i live
it was a , a good thought and a strange o for the past seven years before hand, he had always beeep away fro dyg ahree years, he thought that death ahe only paths his life ould travel down, and sohow, no atter whih ohe lived, he would ehe fight was done
(that’s the thg, isn’t it, about her ahe other survives—it soes the other way, too, like they o for eah other, beae of eah other, beae what is hero without a vil to fight agast?)
(harry knows the answer now: nothg jt a person the only proble is he didn’t know how to be that, he’s hopg this hoe will help hi figure it out)
today was ohose days, where dras nh and ritiques harry’s work while he eats a way that should be naggg but was ostly jt fond, auk arouoday harry was learihat drao was gog to e for his potioo ake sure it was dht and it was harry had ade sure of that, srubbg it fro to botto before he did anythiiside and puttihe side, even libg up oo path up the hiney a was over, they wereo leave, yet, so drao sohow ao ake a al out of the renants of their nh a to the deayg greenhoe for a pi
“it’s sort of beautiful like this,” drao said, wavg his wand zily to gesture at the greenhoe bubbles stread out of the tip and harry aught the on his hands, wathi “all broken down”
≈iful disasters drao likes those, harry is lear hopes that has nothg to do with how uh drao sees to love hi
“we ould leave it like this, if you want” harry wouldn’t d he had always loved when thile ore haoti, probably beae so uh of his early life at the dursley’s had been oifled he likes to olor outside the liis, jt to red hiself he an ps, the only real proble was the holes the roof, and they ould get herioo y doell that fixes that “ohio do”
≈ ipratial though,” drao ed, aybe to be diffiult or aybe beae he was atuallyit “a broken down greenhoe”
“her of are uh f though,” harry poi, a like the idea of this fallg to disarray it would be a herihough, if he brought out so ables, aybe put a pool auunia would have killed for a party spae like that, if it had been a little er
“we ould be,” dra onto his stoah “here”
here here was different fro their other lives, likeelse they were, all the thi they had to be, it evaporated the oepped foot this little hoe and all its sprawlg grounds it was like other people, wheled down here
harry reahed out to e his fihrough drao’s and then gave up, rolliead, the of his head nudgg his shoulder “