“i love you,” gny is sayi of the all, hokg bak tears, ois that drao had ever seen her ry “i love you, i love you, i love you, and that, na lovegood, is hat i was goihe ability to stand with these people a so long fightg s” it’s like her w out to the r everyone, io this irle of love that she has i, harry ost of all “and now it’s over there are so days—a lot of days— and look around and don’t know what to do with yself, beae there are so ay pes where the people i love should be standg, so any thgs that i an do now that had seed ipossible ohs ago—and i don’t know how to ha then i look at you and i know that it’s okay, beae i kly what i’ gog to do i’ gog to love you, na for the rest of y life, i’ gog to love you”
drao squeezes his hand aga, and when harry looks over, there are tears shg his eyes
“i love you, too” na is not o like gny, but she looks radiahe happess p off of her ihe rest of the rowd “i love you with everythg i have f as i an reber”
there’s a ohks she is gog to ry, but then she shakes her hair bak fro her fae a beautiful, watery, radiant sile ahrough it not that it would have attered she wants, whes, a her vows, there was n with that weddihe oears are always a good thg
his head, he an hear dra hi not always, he would have said, if harry had hought out loud, and then he would have so story about so faily ber or aheir isted love affair and harry would s listeng half way through jt to wath hi, to see the way he talks and looks at the world a he looks bak at hi, like harry is the best thg iire world
it’s rude, to do this at a weddg, butall the ti that gny had to waste listeng to harry pihks he’ll be fiven
“it’s okay if you have to stik with aybe’s” harry has leaht to drao’s ear, ahan a raised eyebrow fro fleur, who sees to have appoihe guardiae, ie “if you a beae i know i know that you love , and i know that i love you with every ahg h of y soul, do you uand drao alfoy? for the rest of y life i’ gog to love you, ahg you an do about it now”
drao doesn’t answer
≈ have to
like harry had said—tears at a weddg are always a good thg
drao
≈he whirlwiions, drao fig aross fro ron’s aunt uriel
everyone had warned hi about her about how an she was, how she doespeople’s feelgs, how there is(no atter how unofortable) that she will let go unsaid her one joy io gee, is rug an otherwise pleasant oasion by akg people squir
“so you’re the potter’s boyfriend?” she wrkles up her nose drao a about—hi or harry or the fat that they are together, or if she jt didn’t like his ologne so any thgs about hi ould be uak nothihan a seo even know what hit hi “i knew your father”
this, at least, was hat he would have seen oi any people here wh up a death eater at a weddg, espeially wheer was a faily ber rottg away azkaban but those people aren’t aunt uriel
“and your other and your au her away the first ti” she’s taken hihat akes her shoulders heave and beo the table, wed fgers urlg arouable loth th it drao is already oh a gss of aves hi away, starg aross the table aga, her beady eyes steag fro the effort of athihey had o oittee”
drao didn’t know what to say it’swas uh of a feat, seo azkaban ed that she was guilty “are you still?”
wroio fro the way she holds herself, her phteng “no”
“why not?”
“i got old got sik got eless” her voie raises to reah the table aross fro the, a heap of redheads all tend on ign her prese shut up ihis lot dido deal with ”
it t be a bitter life that she leads drao would have alost thought that this war was a blessg for her, if only for the fat that it drove people to her hoe everyohe aarve for a little bit of huan ontat it’s the ohat draws the together
≈ was a rge hoe,” he says fairly, ostly to draw the attention bak iers and also beae he felt bad for her, jt a bit
“yes yes, it is you ed te hoe, too” her wai a uard so a gss of hapags fro the hands of one of her any nephews and fds its way there, hat her nearly full gss was right front of her “and now you have a ottage”
“i like it better there”
“so i’ve been told” she tilts her head “you’re he, you know”
≈ off guard the entire oion was givg hi whip sh “who?”
“your parents, your aunt, all the rest they walk through a roo like they’re arved fro sto everyoo pay hoage and a lo