Falling For The Ravenclaw Girl - A Draco Malfoy Fanfic

Ch-37- The gap in year

Building Hogwarts was hard but in terms of the structuring and built of the castle, not the fun they had, after the two gory years that had preceded the war, this was like camping and living together for everyone. The boundaries of the houses had melted away, everyone lived in harmony and togetherness.
Building the castle again took almost 4 months, just around the time of the new year starting.

"So I guess, we all can distribute these parts of castle among ourselves and do in a final check.", Hermione suggested explaining the final work to everyone sitting in the great hall.
"Ron and myself will go to the, grounds and courtyard.", she began.
"Neville and Luna, go check the third floor and the astronomy tower.", she said.
Then she toppled over the activities to most of the students, comprising on different places in and around castle.
"Ginny and Harry, go ahead with room of requirement.", she ticked off on the parchment and turned to Mayrah, "Raj, at last you go and see the owlery and the storage basement room.", she said smiling.
"Perfect.", Mayrah said advancing to her chores.
"Wait up! Room of requirement is not two people's work, I can handle it alone. I suggest Harry can go and help Mayrah.", Ginny pitched in.
"Sure that works.", Harry said as they all parted to different directions.

In the Owlery, the things, food, owl panels, their safety and well being all was checked.
Harry was looking at a particular empty perch on the owl shelves.
"Belonged to Hedwig?", Mayrah asked keeping a hand on his shoulder.
"Yes. Miss her sometimes. She was a great companion.", he said looking grim. He shook his head next minute attempting to clear up his headspace and said, "Off to basement then?", to which Mayrah nodded with a little smile.

"God, this room stinks!", she exclaimed as soon as they entered an unknown room in the basement.
"Yeah. Its ghastly.", Harry said keeping a hand on his nose.
They looked around mostly, futile stuff kept for storage, old Quidditch uniforms, brooms, and a few potion equipments. Harry was just checking some of the potions equipments when he heard her.
"What does this do?", Mayrah said as she removed a silky cloth from a huge decorated mirror with gold plating and stood in front of it.
"Mirror of Erised.", he said.
Mayrah looked right in the mirror to see something rather weird.
It was her with Alyla and her guardians, the peculiar thing was, She was standing with a smile, hand in hand with Draco.
"What do you see?", Harry asked.
"I think this mirror is associated with some dark magic, I suggest McGonagall to see it.", she said still looking at the image, something her heart ached to see.
"No its not. I came across this once", Harry said and then went onto explain what happened.
"So you say this mirror shows you, your desires? Something yourself aches or longs for?", she asked with her mouth half open, staring at her desired reflection.
"Are you okay? What do you see?", he asked.
"My family. My people. The ones I shouldn't have given up on.", she said smiling with tears brimming to her eyes.
"Hey! You are going to be fine. Besides, we have 2 weeks before the new term starts, why don't you go and find your guardians?", he suggested.
"Yes. I guess I will go meet them.", she said with a small smile.
"Lets go?", he asked with an assuring smile.
"Yeah."
"Mayrah, not to be intruding but can I ask you something?", he said as they walked back to the great hall for lunch and were joined by Ginny on the way, as she and Harry walked hand in hand.
"Yeah sure."
"What have you thought with Malfoy?", he asked straight without any indirect indications or sugarcoat.
"I don't know.", she replied blankly looking ahead.
She had no conversation, no news from him in these four months, she didn't know if he was coming back for the optional year, and she didn't even know what were they? Friends? Lovers? Heartbreakers? Toxic for each other? She didn't know.

"Mayrah, are you okay? I know with all of us into these new found relationships and dating, building castle, changing lives, we haven't really spoken to each other so much. But you can talk to me if you want to.", Ginny offered, knowing that with even Luna and Neville spending more time together, perhaps Mayrah would be lonely and might need someone to talk to.