fifteen books ter, drao found the spell he was lookihe book out of the library and made his way down treetih the password and an inquiry about her ontinued good health.
harry was o be found. good. he ould do the spell no;& befot bak, a. carefully, drao removed the mirror from its asihe table he firepe. he thehe book ahrough the passage about the spell a few times to make sure he uood the informatiohen he began.
his wand urved up in an arh and down to touh the middle of the mirror’s refletive surfae as he spoke:
“homo dignitatis animatus vivae pituratus morti videre. ”
chapter 21: the name of a malfoy
harry finished foldi shool robes aop of drao’s ed present. that should be enough paddi, as he losed the lid of his trunk. this was it. he’d already bee ss before christmas break, and had finished paking. tomorrow he would leave hogwarts with everyone who normally left and would ride the train bak to london from where he and drao, and probably luius malfoy as well, would all be going to malfoy manor. it risi made a lot of fuss, but that robably beause no one really khe only people who k he aher”, if one ould all them that, were his frie hogwarts, luius malfoy, drao, and himself of ourse.
it was amazi it a seret f so why was he so surprised that no one made a big ommotion about his living arras for christmas break? after all, it wasn’t as if he had muh of a real hoie ier. he’d likely in malfoy manor with drao eveo sleep in hogwarts. and it wasn’t like he would be turo voldemort upoo the house beause of the whole veriae bond thing…so why was it suh a big deal to him? why was he so nervous about this?
&o say, sleep did o harry that night, although it did eventually overtake him.
the day letely as harry had e. he rode with ron and hermione, whoi their families, oraio lohen hung bak while the rest of the studeirain, and saw that while drao was walkih his slytherin ronies (or were they his friends? harry didn’t know.), luius seemed to be taking his owo leave the station. fd that the malfoys reditable slytheriely followed the two malfoys to a…limo…
its ihat it only looked like a limo harmed to look like a vish streth limo, but in truth it was a arriage like the o hogwarts. the ride to malfoy manor was another few hours and her malfoy seemed ialk, yet the silene was more ompahan fored or harsh. when harry got out e, the first thiied were the four, tra, white horses ulled the arriage. he would have to find out eies they were…maybe ask hagrid whe bak.
the thiied was the house. and he wondered why he didhe house first whe the full view of it.
desribe any fairy-tale astle and you have malfoy manor harry was remihe astle that he’d seen one in a muggle disney movie when he was very young. he’d beehe upboard for a few days but he’d thought it was worth it to see “beauty a” eve of it, whe had let dudley wath it. a the doorway to a rereatio’s ele before the spell was brokehere were some differenes harry ould see.
the arriage stopped at the middle of a driveway of sorts…but made of a white sto pavement. to walk to the front door you passed by four statues, twod mars and twoddess athe te bk iro was ehe image of saturo what looked like a huge garden, overed in snow, and harry ould o looked like in spriinued forward to the front door and harry looked up ihe better view of the house from its front step. gargoyles leered down at him from its heights and owlery (if harry’s guesses were any good). thi just over the eves of the door ao hold a ressiohat expression that harry wohey were truly wathing him.
the doors were ebony aeel and iron and as luius approahed them they opehemselves, as if knowiheir master. a house elf immediately appeared at luius’ side that he igely exept to let it take his outer loak.
“i trust you an situate harry in y, drao.” luius said, “aour of the manor. i have a few things to look after.”
&her.”
and luius left, leaving harry and drao alohe foyer.
harry was too busy looking around to he foyer was built oal, with statues of venus hewn from a violet rystal oher side of the doorway.
“my grao roman ideals.” drao mused, seeing where harry was lookio redo the foyer and front hall, as well as some of the outside of the ma i wings of the manor, you’ll see differeo who spent most of their time there.”
drao spoke as if that was what harry had been thinking of, but harry had simply been admirihe foyer opeo the great hall whih lead to one of four ballrooms, aing rooms, a breakfast re dinin