“i fell.” drao got up rather stiffly and brushed a few bk feathers off him. “i didn’t know i had that mao begin with.” he seemed mildly impressed.
harry dropped out of drao’s bed oher side ahe bk feathers him as well. but what was that taste in the bak of his mouth? with oraed the bak of his tongue ao dislodge…a feather.
“should i even ask how a feather got in my mouth?” harry muttered.
drao looked mildly disgusted. “that would be a no.”
harry dido drao’s a he hadn’t eve drao after that first time this m. seeing drao was still too onfusing…ht up onfusing thoughts. and it was too early io deal with onfusing issues.
harry made his way dow hall for breakfast to find that, for one, he had arrived before ron and hermione. he was halfway through his seo whewo arrived.
“oh, harry, you should have told us y to be here early.” hermioold him as they sat down.
“mate, are you feeling okay? it’s a sunday; oe on sundays.” ron reminded him, oblivious to the look of exasperatio his way.
&s begao breakfast, but harry here was no sign of drao. that was rather odd. drao was normally at breakfast around this time every day of the week. but pushi out of his mio the oion that ening around him.
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the house-elves, drao thought, ould be really annoyile buggers had been in his bedroom when he’d emerged from his sh up feathers. they refused to leave, even to allet some lothing on, until they were finished. drao almost ihem of how muh time they were wasting. it was muh easier for the veriae himself to pik up his owhey were still keyed to him after all. so if ao do so, as the house-elves were doiook a long time. so drao started w the reord for lo time wearing nothing but a towel.
&hey were fi of his room, drao set about getting on s and theo do about the rest of his day. shoolwork eventually woomorrow was monday, and he ould always ount on his gn some long essay (whih he had finished and in truth had enjoyed doi as well finish the homework he o hand in on tuesday. arithmany. drao’s eyes saopi of the essay, aely resolved to just look up the answer in a book instead of doira wure it out. that roblem with arithmany. during his first years takiually dohe wurio the essays himself, thehey were all in the book, just he ss was urrently studying.
book? let’s see. the st time he’d used it, he was doing those analogy things (stupid teaher was ih analogies, he was ertain). he’d beeiked by the time he’d fi o of one hundred), so he probably put the book somepe out of the way with the help of the magial urrents that drifted through hogwarts. this, of ourse, meant that he had was now. for all he knew, he had bahe fourth floor orridor and merlin knew who might have found it. but as he ast his eyes around the room he saw that this was was just baop of his bookshelves…whih were about twie as tall as drao himself was.
oh, wouldn’t this be fun. drao looked at the book as he sensed around for a might be hat was the thing he dungeon inside a buildis, o rely oure urreside they were everywhere and anywhere. no, io rely o ame from those wh magi at the moment in time or from older spells that were ehe rok walls of the astle. as stairs proved, these eramental. so, of ourse, there were no magial urrents for drao to find and all to his aid whehem.
so drao did what aeenager would do. he gred at the bookshelves ahmany book as if it was all their fault.
“so harry,” rohey fi. “have you finished your essay yet?”
& even started,” harry answered easily.
“same here.”
“what? it was assig monday!” hermione yelped as she tried to omprehend what must have been gh their mi at least start on the essay.
“so?” ro beause it was assig mean we would do it on monday.”
harry nodded. “we have today to do it, hermio’s he world.”
hermio shook her head at the k of responsibility those two had wheo shool. quiddith was a whole other story, but wheo shool work…just fet about pnning f. “well, then you two should go get started ohem.
“will you help us?” ron asked.
“absolutely not. you had ao do it.”
ron frowned. “okay then. shall we just get this over with, harry?”
“sure. i have to go get my book though.”
“then i will meet you two in the library,” hermione said and took aairway towards the library’s orridor.
“you ah if you want,” harry said. “i’m sure malfoy has leared out by now.”
rohe two set off dowairway.
harry deided that medusa was o see him. eveold her the password she wouldhe door until she’d given