s dra moment bef. “if the oasion arose where you found someone whom you deemed worthy of e to yourself, as yodfather, i ily give you permission to propose to that person. however, as your autor, i would only allow you to marry someone whom you not ohy of yourself, but also deem worthy your very heart and soul er your veriae blood.”
drao urning to leave. “dodfather. if i do say the vows, they will meahan just words do.”
harry ould breakfast, just pushed his food around on his pte for a few minutes before finally giving up all hope of eating any of it and exusihe table. hermione and ron wathed him leave the great hall worriedly, but they had o ask him what was on his mind today. they already koday was monday.
drao was just leaving the bedroom whehe portrait. the blond was dressed in lothing that harry awkwardly realized were probably three times more than all his lothing put together. he had agaihe hogwarts uniform to appear in lothing simir to what harry had first seen him wearing in diagon ally before he had started his first year at hogwarts.
“i notied you were,” harry muttered.
“i nning on having any,” was the risp reply.
harry shrugged. now that he was in their rooms and in drao’s presene, he had o fous his ay.
“harry.” harry looked up at drao’s almost hesitant tone. “how serious were you on wednesday?”
there was a question in the blonde’s silver eyes, o harry was not sure he uood. “i wouldn’t have said anything if i wasn’t serious.” somehow he hoped that he’d said the right answer.
wordlessly, drao rossed the room to where harry iking up a small, box from the mantle as he did so. he stopped in front of harry for a moment, looking dowhat separated their heights, as if searhing for some truth in harry’s owly, drao dropped to one knee, his hand holdioward harry.
“where i am gaius, there yaia?”
harry’s breath aught in his throat and he blio. “where i am gaia, there yaius,” he mao say, using his oen the box.
tws sat side by side on a white pillow ihey were goldeed in diamonds and opals ahe malfoy family rest. ehe inside of oraditional ws, “ubi tu gaius”, aher “ubi tu gaia”. as drao slipped the first er, it shifted i; the same with the ring that harry ped er.
drao stood agaihere for a moment, both u to do.
“er—i suppose we should kiss now,” harry muttered, suddenly finding his sh.
drao did not respond, but a mers rested under harry’s hin, pushile. drao’s mouth dese his owen silver on magma drao’s lips ed over his own. drao’s arms enirled harry’s ull him loser, and harry groahe kiss beame more needful.
drao, harry ahrough the door that harry himself had walked through the summer before, when he had beeh viotion of the deree for the reasoion e sorery and the iional statute of serey.
the room had hale sine harry’s st visit. ihe fifty or so members of the wizengamot there were seven, inluding one elius fudge who frowly at harry’s presehat he had sat in the year befoanding almost exatly in it’s pe was a short and hubby man. his fae was round like a bowling ball, his hair salt and pepper gray, and he smiled broadly at drao as the blohe room towards him. drao o him, his eyes foused o of the room, as if wary of her very presene.
narissa bk stally off to the side of the room, dressed in lothing as rih as drao’s. she smiled oldly at her son, whesture ompletely exept to mark her presehreat in the room. her smile seemed to wane ed up to drao, as if she was uhe reason of his presehe room.
&lemen,” fudge’s smile oozed of fored politeness. “shall we begin?”
“by all means,” drao replied, o the members of the wizeed before him.
“minister, if may ask ohi i would like it made lear otter is prese mee ex-husband’s will and is not a part of the family. his presene here is ompletely irrelevant.” narissa’s voie was low and lilted, as if it was beh her to evehe otter” iene.
“harry potter is family. he is my veriae bonded a to be here,” drao drawled.
&ht of fudge, a shallow, stik-like woman with graying auburn hair oked ahat deration. “theo believe that you are indeed a veraie, mr. malfoy?”
“i am.”
“and a magial reature annot i in a wizard’s will,” narissa stated primly.
“miss bk, let us begin by statily what is at stake,” fudge smiled at her ily. “and then y up suh motions.”
the hubby mahroat and unrolled a parhment that he had been holding. “this is the test will of the deeased luius sergius malfoy. it was sighree days before his death.”
the mahe parhment to fudge who bega as he ontinued speaking.
“proper authentiity harms have bee as you will see. in