a sharp pain hit harry like a hrough his st it for ushed drao down to the floor just as a blue beam of light raed over their heads.
luius whirled around at the souing wall and snarled as a robed figure stepped out of the shadows.
“i told you me see you,” the death eater hissed at drao.
“bise—” drao started.
“i found them!” bise yelled at the top of his lungs. the boy ould say no more as he was flung bak agaihe sound of brokeone filling the hallway as the full fury that was luius malfoy was unleashed in a fit i.
bise gasped as he slunk to the ground. “run…now…” he whispered pitifully at drao as harry helped the young malfoy to his feet.
“e on!” harry whispered, as drao stared at his friend with a look of horror. he ould hear the muffled footsteps of the death eaters getti likely trakiion ell.
&hree now took off at a run. the long hall filled with shouts ahe death eaters poured into the rooms of what had been luius’s personal wing. the sss, splintering wood, and a few shrieks of what had to be house elves filled their ears, a ould not drown out the sound of their oweps, muffled by the rug.
&udy door was still open as they . a sigh of relief squelhed in harry’s throat as a lohough it to bar their path of esape.
&hree runni, a room’s length away frure. almost &he steel wings of his father’s, drao’s hand sought harry’s as his own wieel tipped o as silk on the side near harry.
“luiussss malfoy, drao malfoy, harry potter,” the figure hissed, and harry ould almost piture a fue as he spoke.
&o run, drao.” luius spoke almly, his eyes he red ones of lord voldemort.
“run?” the figure’s mouth urled into a ruel smile. “where would you run? not bak up the orridor, surely. it’s full of my loyal death eaters by now. and you annot run from the killing curse.”
“no, but you an blok it.” luius replied just as almly.
“daddy.” drao whispered, his eyes looking up at his father in new fear.
there was something drao must know that i dht.
“ah yes, you always did say that, luiusss. the easiest urse to blok, you said. all you have to do is get someone iween you and the urse and it’s bloked.” the smile twisted ihere will be wee it, i assure you.”
a waheir diretion and luius shouted. “now drao!”
drao didn’t wait to ask, but ran past his father towards voldemort and the doorulling harry along behind him.
there , and a snarl as voldemort ushed bakwards by one lo was staween him aer. there was a growl and a bht, and harry barely registered his own shout as the little reature, diddy, fell dead.
drao barreled into the room, haly around harry’s, ahe open pot of floo powder dobby had ped ole. luius e a run as his son grabbed a handful of the powder, more spillihe floor in his haste.
“quikly, go!” luius shouted, as an irate voldemort ehe room.
harry pulled drao into the firepe as the floo powder fell upourning them green.
“father ome—” drao tried to pull his father inte firepe.
he ushed bak into harry with a snarled, “go!”
harry realized what luius malfoy was doing as voldemort raised his oiowards him. “hogwarts!” he yelled as voldemort spoke:
“avada kedavra.”
&hing harry saw through the fmes was a asade of bk feathers as drao’s sreams filled his ears.
they fell out of the firepe into an undignified sprawl of arms and legs. harry grabbed on to drao as the other boy srambled to get bak to the fire.
“father!” he sreehed.
“drao, stop!” harry yelled, fightihe blond away from the fmes. “there’s nothing we an do.”
the blond olpsed in a sobbihe floor of dumbledore’s offie as the door ened and albus dumbledore walked in, followed losely by ron and hermione.
chapter 31: a promise
for five minutes dumbledore’s offie ure haos.
“harry!” both ron and hermione ried ao where he was still sprawled on the floor.
“are yht?” hermio asking, as if the first time he aion was not truthful enough.
“and eo malfoy?” roer a few minutes.
drao oo sob into harry’s shirt and harry did the only thihink to do: let him, even though he was fast losing feeling in his ls beause of how drao’s body had hem.