drao oing. the silehed for a few minutes, broken only by the sound of drao’s quill srathi.
“drao?”
“hm?”
“how muh are you sending him?”
drao grinned devilishly, ripping e srap of parhment and sribbling a figure ohe normal prie f into the malfoy family is this.” he dropped the parhment to harry.
harry gaped. “what?” had he really ouhht? “y!”
“of ourse,” drao drawled thoughtfully. “sidering that you’re the-boy-who- lived and all, deorum would state that i double it.”
“double it?” harry was instarying to alute hure that was. he ouldn’t. “that’s razy! how many vaults are you goiy for that?”
drao frowhink it’ll take about a sixteehe minor vaults. yeah, that’s abht. maybe ohat’s not taking into aou has added up siime i heked the value.”
harry stared at him, mouth agape. “drao. with that muh money, remus ould live like a ki of his life.”
drao grinned. “are you implying that you won’t? y to be a malfoy, harry.” he leaned forward to whisper, “we live better than kiuring harry’s mouth in a brief kiss.
chapter 39: preparations
& whistled, breaking remus lupin out of his train of thought. without setting down the neer lipping he was readiood ahe shth of the kitheook the kettle off the small fme ahe ouly.
&uro the headliile aed author belrao the table of tea, lupiile to two others. hermioile had appeared the day before i. an artile by ronald eared in the quibbler. ao him by mrs. weasley, authinny eared in with weekly. all three artiles were oopi: harry potter’s e to drao malfoy. lupin had to smile lightly at the skill behihree writers. they had obviously olborated and split all the fats evehree artiles so that eah one would preseails.
but it i that uzzling lupi he knew, drao malfoy and harry were of terms to put things lightly. aed that hermiiing falsities about harry. of ourse, oo wohe three were writing about harry at all. but then he remembered albus had mentioher strailes had appeared about harry i a while ago. maybe this was to make sure that if things had to be pri detrimental to harry.
there was a srathing at the hih aused lupin to look up from the artiles. tere seated there, waiti inside. nized as hedwig, the other he did not knoroud-looking eagle owl, whose feathers were so dark they were almost bk. lupihe ehe two owls fly in.
the eagle owl dropped its letter oable a hedwig remaiable, in.
lupin took harry’s letter from her, ope, ao read.
dear professor lupin,
as you’ve probably already seen what hermiie bother to repeat what they’ve said beause it’s true. i’m eo drao malfoy and the weddi for a few weeks after shool. but iion weddihere’s no way that drao would agree to a muggle oo be aompanied by my losest male guardian. i ouldn’t mind being my familial guardian now that sirius is dead, but as drao has already sent his owo you i’m a little te in asking but i figured i should ask anylease send your reply bak with hedwig.
harry
lupihe table to where his own quills a and srawled:
dear harry,
i would be hoo be your familial guardian.
remus lupin
as hedwig soared ihe letter that was, as harry stated, bearing the malfoy rest.
dear professor lupin,
in following with traditioed gringotts to pe the amount listed below in your vault in honor of the upe between myself and harry potter. i look forward to seeing you at the wedding.
drao luius malfoy
lupihe ed after the sripted name a was a lot of galleons.
as the weeks passed, more teahers started to begih “beause exams are oming up in a few weeks” or “io prepare you for your exams”. the amou harry reeived was almost doubled as “review” assigs were added tur homework. and harry still had to deal with the omments about the wedding oming from different ssmates.
of ourse, they oo remind him that it was he who had to buy both his and drao’s robes for the wedding. the of the robes was standard. both he and drao would have to wear the olors that represeheir families, with a white bao signify that the robes were for a wedding. but harry hadn’t known there were so mahese “offiial robes” until a rather rge book of designs had been fored on him by a group of bashful ravenw girls.
“hoosed to hrumbled to ron. “i ahe differewo!”
hermione peered over his shoulder ahe olr of the robes. “this set has e aher doesn’t.”
“and that makes a differene?” harry moaned.
“just pik oh it