Erase and Rewrite (Dramione)

Extricate and Experience

Two weeks is what they get.
Two weeks in the spring sunlight.
Those days will probably always be a memory that glisters in gold in his mind.

It's almost like being back to Hogwarts and Slytherin dorms in their better days.
For a brief moment they are just four young adults,
living life like it's supposed to be lived at their age.

No one is looking for them,
and even if someone is they don't know how to find them.

He doesn't have to wake up every morning,
fearing this might be the day someone is going to attack him,
or take her away.

And she,
she's on her element,
going through the books in the library,
looking for useful information.

It takes two days for Blaise and Theo to get used to her presence.
After that it's like they never doubted they'd all get along,
like they never despised the likes of her,
like she never felt she needed to prove herself to them.

They read books of memory loss,
of dying and afterlife,
secret documents about the studies of the veil in the department of mysteries,
of wandlore,
and the histories of dark wizards.

Follow the tracks of Ravenclaw's diadem,
and of the Elder Wand.
Try to separate fact from fiction and truth from wild rumors.
Mostly it's nearly impossible.

She loves it!
He can see it in the way her eyes sparkle.

Her enthusiasm amuses Blaise and Theo.
The three of them are used to study.
They did study in their time at Hogwarts!
They wanted to do good!
Or maybe it was partly because their parents wanted,
demanded,
them to do good
and partly because they wanted to beat her.

Now, he realizes that was never even possible,
because the way she dives into her books,
the way she skims through the pages,
the rapid movement of her eyes as she reads.

She is the brightest witch of their age
and there is no doubt she earned the title!

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She loves it!
The smell of old books,
the secrets they tell her,
the way information stitches together.

Of course it is partly because her study partners are fast and witty too.
They catch up with her in ways,
she thinks,
probably no one ever had.

Their notes make sense!
They can take in new information and not be completely thrown off the trail.
And the laid-back way they do it makes all of this feel like free time activity.

She knows Draco looks at her when she sits in the library reading.
Sometimes,she lifts her eyes to meet him
and they share a secret smile.

The days in the Zabini manor,
each happier than the last,
feel almost too good to be true.

Everyone is at ease.
Even with the war looming in the background.

Dipsy and Bunny spy on both sides of the war and inform them if something changed.
It's almost as if the war can't touch them here.

All too good,
but she is not going to worry about it!
They are doing what she had promised Harry and Ron she'd do!
And that is all she needs to care about.

And this careless attitude is what they live in now.

It almost feels like she'd always known them.
When they sit in the kitchen in the evenings and debate about something stupid,
or talk about serious things,
spice their comments with sarcasm,
or joke about everything,