HERE COMES THE ANGST AHAHAHAHAHAHA but still hopeful ending? ambiguous ending? happy ending? hm
i just realised that there are 2 to 3 more chapters before it reaches 150 and i close the book officially 😂
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There was something niggling at the back of Draco's mind as if something was not right but he just didn't know what it was as he went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
As usual, Sunday was appointed as Hogsmeade weekly trip but this time, instead of going out, Draco decided that he would stay indoors. He had nothing to buy from Hogsmeade anyways. Even if there was, he could always purchase them next week anyway.
He spent his day in the library as he usually would in his spare time, trying to catch up with his homework while doing a little light reading about the Grindelwald era on how he came to be and the countless list of his crimes. Even at that moment, he still felt unsettled but he couldn't understand why, and the feeling stayed within his heart and his mind even when he tried Occlumence to get rid of it. It was like something was wrong.
But what was?
At lunch, he tried searching for Harry amongst the tiny crowd of Gryffindor Juniors but was disappointed when he couldn't find the light and love of his life. Draco reassured himself that perhaps he was with his friends, Granger and Weasley, and that helped settle his worried mind but his heart was still at unease.
The rest of the day was spent in the Common Room, where Draco draped himself over the sofa, reading his day away, living in the fantasy of his stories.
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"Hey, Malfoy. Have you by any chance seen Harry today?" Weasley approached him with Granger next to him looking worried. The Slytherin paused his conversation with his friends with a confused look. "Uh, no? I thought he was with the two of you? I hadn't seen him for the entire day. What makes you think he was with me, to begin with?" he blinked.
Hermione's eyes widened comically. "But I thought you had a date with him to Muggle London today? That's the only thing he had been talking about all week."
That had Draco confused out of his mind. When did he even plan to go on a date with his Sunshine today?
"Date?" he repeated the word instead. "What date, Granger? What are you talking about?" Draco furrowed his eyebrows, trying to remember anything of the sort the entire week but came up with none, confident enough with himself that he hadn't done such a thing in the past few weeks. "I... I don't remember ever having that conversation with Harry though. I remember him being excited about something but I don't remember telling him about any date-"
"... Heh, serves him right." A pair of giggling Sixth Year Slytherins passed by. Draco paused his sentence to look at them with scrutiny. "Let him wait there. That's what you get for trying to piss me off. The Great Harry Potter fooled into a date by who he thought was his boyfriend. I bet that's going to break them up," the one with long light brown hair stated, flipping her hair behind her shoulder. The other girl with shorter hair of the same colour snickered, smirking cockily.
Elena Grant and Emily Grant, Draco realised.
"What's going on?" Ginevra, Blaise, Longbottom and Luna walked towards them with curiosity, seeing as they stood in the middle of the corridor with no intentions of heading into the Great Hall.
Luna eyed the giggling girls before turning towards them, eyes hardened. The dreamy look that was constantly on her face missing. And that sent them all into a state of alarm. Draco dreaded to think what that look meant. "They gave Harry a note saying that it was from Draco to prank him. He told me about it just yesterday in passing. I didn't get the chance to stop him before he rushed away," she turned to look at them. "Just about a few days ago Harry stopped them from bullying this Hufflepuff First Year. Harry told Neville and I about the bullying. They weren't happy with him and now, I guess Harry is still waiting under that lamp post."
