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Author: dementordementor ( on ao3)

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Nobody had agreed on Draco Malfoy becoming part of the DA reunions. Not even Hermione, who thought that the more the better, was comfortable with having Draco Malfoy training with them but she had decided it be good if they had someone from "the other side" join them. So Hermione had made Malfoy sign another different parchment than the rest of the group when he joined.

Malfoy was advised that if he tried to talk about the DA with anyone he would feel his tongue burning fervently, his lips would stick together and he wouldn't be able to talk for the next 24 hours. Harry was surprised at how he decided to take the risk and sign anyway. He was curious about why Malfoy would want to be in the DA, it didn't make sense to him but Hermione told him to just ignore it and meanwhile Malfoy didn't cause trouble everything was going to be fine.

Every time they trained in couples, nobody wanted to be Malfoy's partner and Harry couldn't put Neville to train with him, it would be too cruel. So Neville took turns training with Ron and Hermione and Harry had no other choice but to be Malfoy's partner. When he had to go and check on the others, Hermione had offered to train with him for a short period of time.

Harry had to admit Malfoy was really good, only being defeated by Hermione. When they practice dueling in couples in the middle of the room and the others observed, Harry had been defeated by Malfoy a couple of times. He remembered the first time Malfoy had managed to throw Harry across the room. He then proceeded to walk towards Harry, and placed his legs at each side of Harry's body, leaving Harry between his legs and pointed his wand at Harry's neck making him lookup. When he did, he could devise a slight blush on Malfoy's cheeks but his eyes looked confident and sharp.

Right now they were just about to finish the last lesson before they went on holiday's vacation. When the lesson finished, the room emptied quickly only leaving Harry, Cho and her friend, and Malfoy; who for some reason liked to stay at the end of the reunions and help Harry, Hermione and Ron to clean the mess everyone left. They usually didn't talk in those minutes and he would just leave silently without saying a word to the trio, he was usually quiet in the reunions as well. But today Ron and Hermione left before he did; he hung back a little, because Cho and her friend, and Malfoy were still there and Harry was hoping to receive a 'Merry Christmas' from Cho.

"No, you go on," he heard her say to her friend and his heart gave a jolt. He was cursing Malfoy mentally, he appreciated that the boy wanted to help but right now he wanted to be alone with Cho.

And as if reading his mind, the boy walked through the door and he muttered so softly that Harry could barely hear his "Merry Christmas, Potter," he didn't respond and just continued to pretend he was straightening the cushion pile Malfoy had just straightened a couple of minutes ago. He was alone with the girl now.

He then turned to face Cho and saw tears pouring down her face.

"Wha-" he really didn't know what to do. "What's up?" he said.

"I'm- sorry. I suppose... it's just... learning all this stuff makes me wonder if he'd know it all if he'd still be alive." Harry's heart sank right back past its usual spot and settled somewhere around his navel. Of course. She wanted to talk about Cedric.

"He did," Harry said heavily. "He was really good at it. But if Voldemort really wants to kill you, you don't stand a chance."

She hiccoughed at Voldemort's name. Harry was ready to leave but Cho stopped him.

"Don't go... please. I didn't mean to... upset you like this." Harry would have been so pleased with just a 'Merry Christmas'. "I know it must be horrible. Me mentioning Cedric when you well... saw him die. I suppose you just want to forget about it?" Harry didn't say anything because it was true but he felt heartless saying it.

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