harry didly how to respond to that, but he dido as hermione ahe pub, learly looking for someone.
“they’re looking for you.” drao’s alromi smirk was bak on his fae.
“see you bak at hogwarts then?” harry asked.
drao nodded. “hopefully we’ll end up i, we’ve been in yours for three days straight.”
harry realized how that would sound to someone who didn’t kion they were in, and ughed.
harry dra on monday m, as the mail was delivered. he thehe oerhed on drao’s shoulder aer in his hands. drao sribbled somethiom of the letter and put it bak in the envelope, handihe o up into the rowd of other owls all bearing mail and harry was very surprised when it dropped a letter in his p a few mier.
curiously harry opeo fiile ihe top of the artile drao had writteher one.
harry looked up to see drao wathing him aely. drao smirked ao what his year mates were saying. harry quikly got out addressed the letter to lu in his bag f t to her ter.
chapter 25: snithes and kisses
& ss of the day ended, hermio ron’s look from aross the room aly. ron fshed her a smile ahe door. hermio a few rows in front of harry and ruration, so they were loser to the door than she was. she smiled slightly whehe small argument they’d had about seati week of shool, how she’d been adamant that they should take their owead of always omier all, whe hogwarts, they wouldo ome to her with every little problem. seretly, hermiohey would still ome to her with their problems. but they still o be somewhat self suffiient. and so, i big argument of the year, hermione had moved her seat up three rows from theirs in transfiguration. they’d dropped the subjet, hermiohought that ron had dropped the subjet beause he didn’t set her and that harry hadn’t really been part of that deisioh, and suration was the only ss in whih hermio far away from her two best friends.
ron was, as he had asked i exhaihe doorway ahem begao the room of requirement.
“harry went ahead.” ron said awkwardly. he’d bee awkward around her ever sine he’d asked her out. if they were alone for a while, he would eve iimes that they had alone he ard, there was no other word for it.
“that’s fi mind walking with you.” hermiohe redhead, who was fighting bak a blush. “in fat, we ould do this more often.”
&ered the room of requirement to find dra in what had beome “drao’s er”, talking about something in low voies. drao’s only akheir presehe room was to end whatever oion he’d been having with harry. this was the routine. whenever harry was with ron or hermione, drao made himself eher leaving the r, the only time hermione ould remember drao talking in their prese oime when harry’d been stuk oio and drao had told him what to look for as he left the room. while suh behavior around them ould be oing, hermiohat drao did it so as nhts with them, and thus upset harry. ron still muttered under his breath whenever drao purposefully ig hermio mind bei, she didn’t know if drao realized why he was staying away from harry’s friends, but she khe reasoning. any fights that, say draot into would ause harry to hoose a side. so drao kept his distahey allowed him to.
&onight?” harry asked as he joihey had deided to work on an advaned healihis da meeting. it was rather basi, but if you orated on it, it rotet y a battle or duel. little things like srapes and uts ould be healed instantly if you got good at it.
“yes.” hermione replied.
& she?” ron asked, earning a small shirl to him. “so, harry,” ron asked, shoving hermione bak “when are you going to tell me what made you almost te for divination?”
&uro harry and he ould see a leture beginning to form. “i wasn’t te, hermione, i was almost te. there’s a differene. a a good reason for it.”
“you had better, mr. potter.” hermione solded, sounding straain transfiguration teaher when she did so.
and san to expin.
&ing had progressed to the duelih all of the members tryiinuous healing spell iing. beause everyory out the spell, the staged duels were shorter than normal, timed and without a true vitor.
from his setion of the room, drao looked up from his potions studying to see harry asendifhing slightly, drao rested the open book on his p ahe duel. his extra pair of eyes.
i few weeks that drao had been sittihere had been a lot of speution about his prese oher da members figured out that he wasn’t going to do anythi him alo, most fot about his presehe meetings. whih suited him just fine.
&hed as the duel progressed. it was obvious that this