“aybe i should” he turns to leave, aes, beae he does o be afraid a i ould o bak ter when you’ve had so ti to get ed to the idea of”
when you’ve had ore ti to be alo he is sayg whehat you really do iss
drao waits a ont, but his father does hat’s okay drao is o are about hi
chapter 41
harry
they are pakg up to leave
≈ believe it, holy even though he had beeo sighe ottage, a part of hi t have thought that it was too good to beo reality, like he had been livg half a day drea for these past few weeks harry had spent so long livg a life y e he t have been onstantly preparihe other shoe to drop, but now, with only a few days until the ove date (and before na and gny’s weddg) he fally is able to aept that he ight be gettg his happy endg
“that’s it then” there pg sound as drao taped over the of the box, lookg around the livg roo he despised dog thgs the uggle way, but despite how any tis he had tried (and rliried, all st wistg and bunhg atg so ed around drao that harry had to o ut hi out of it), he ouldhe tape dispenser a way to get it to y ly over the folds of the box “did we get everythg?”
“i thk so” drao piked up his notebook ahrough it uhe right page he had ade lists for every roo the hoe when ron saw it, he had given a low whistle and said that it was a sha that drao and herio been friends bak shool iagiudy shedules, he had uttered when their baks were turned, and harry thought that that was a good enough reasohe to never have beehe sa roo together bak shool, had they her “a to the list”
“a is always right” harry tugged theof his hand a dowable, distratg hi with a kiss, beae if he doeshis off before it starts, drao will spend the eveng hekg and rehekihe rehek, w hiself to suh a state that harry has th everythg they had paked before he an walk away fro the boxes “it sees saller, no”
the whole hoe did, really harry had thought ab it over to the istry like drao had suggested the begng, turn it i of eu, but he deided agast it, beae he did not thk that siri would have liked that his godfather, ent his whole life wantg nothio break free of this pe, would have warike a ath and burn the whole pe dow felt like the best way to honor hi, aki griauld pe dies with the ones who had lived it
( a ay fro this hoe felt like the fal at of sayg good bye to all those ghosts he had been afraid of faiep th the grief he had ignored, where he walks through roos the hoe as ories like old friends— of siri, of fred, of ad eye, re, tonks, even dobby, like this hoe arts of those ories, the raw, bloody parts that are still sabbg over, and one harry walks out of this pe food, the ories will ease their ahg, tur ihe white h they are now)
that’s not to say it’s bee as the hoe had fought agast the leang rew bak harry’s fifth year, it was fightg agast theould se when harry and dra their boxes out the door, it would be shut io fall iion and disrepair harry had piked up the rade agast its any roos all a, aher, he and drao had torn the heads of hoe elves fro the wall (they buried the the rus of the alfoy garden, beae harry ould not sta of jt throwihe garbage like red the to, not under kreaher’s wathful eye and herione’s gre), broken to boarded up losets to lear the shelves of anythg gero, ahe elr food, until it was nothg but anhoe with o offer the world
≈ried to sell, harry washere would be anyh to buy it the thought fills hi with a little bit of joy, like he had dht by siri after all
(it’s sort of a fuk you, too like, hey, patg of siri’ razy other, reber when you would yell about udbloods and traitors and filth? now you an srea all you like, u fades and the aper peels ahg but rot, no ohough it is a new level of razy tast a patg)
“aybe you’ve jt gotten bigger” drao grs up fro his spot on the floor, surrouy boxes and pile of rubbish that they were givg away and that alresent tape dispeoo grown up for it now”
yes, harry thought, khe ouh hion above hi and bendg over so he an hug drao fro behd, that t be it
drao
as the hoe epties, beog ore and ore like a her, drao is fdg it hard to sleep aga
≈, beae he does not want harry to worry it’s o worry about, jt a side effet of the hoe lookg like sope opletely h new slls and sounds ahe old oforts it ed to hold, and he sound of harry’s breathirik of ountg the raks spiralihe eilio ll hi bak to the al, so even though drao had pro