Draw The Line

Realized feelings: Chapter 20.1

Harry and Draco had decided to go to Hogsmeade again on Saturday and were now bundled up in warm clothes as they made their way to Hogsmeade. Harry had plans to stay with Draco for the two hours of their punishment and then he was going to meet Ron and Hermione.

"Okay what's first on your long list of stores you want to shop at this time?" Harry said with a bit of a teasing tone to his voice. Draco scowled back at him, but it didn't hold the same amount of venom as it would have held a week ago.

"I don't shop everytime I go to Hogsmeade, you know," Draco replied.

"Mmmhmm, and that's why you carried back several bags every Hogsmeade weekend for the last several years here?"

"How would you know I carried back bags every time? Were you spying on me? I think that says more about you than me," Draco said back, trying to act nonchalant, but inside he was freaking out a bit. He didn't know why, but the idea that Harry had been paying so close attention to him all those years filled him with a feeling of unexplainable giddiness.

Harry, meanwhile, was trying to find a way to hide his embarrassment as he was called out.

"So where did you want to go today?" Harry said after coughing uncomfortably.

"I don't have a specific place I want to go, though I'd like to go to Honeydukes."

"Alright, let's go there first then," Harry said as they arrived in the outskirts of Hogsmeade.

"What's your favorite candy?" Harry asked as soon as they entered the shop.

"I like Liquorice wands and chocolate cauldrons," Draco responded, running his hand over a selection of Fizzing Wizzbees. "What about you?"

"Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans." Harry reached out to a shelf and grabbed a package of Fizzing Wizzbees for Ron.

"Blaise really likes Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans too. Blaise once bought one of those packs filled with only the bad ones for Pansy as a gag gift; she gagged at a few really bad ones and then refused to ever eat them again. It was so funny we never told her," Draco let out a light laugh as he related the story to Harry.

Harry watched the way Draco's eyes lit up as he talked about it, the corner of Draco's mouth twitching up into a small smile as he laughed. Harry really liked his smile and wished he would do it more often.

"She's really never eaten them since?"

"Nope, absolutely refuses." Harry laughed and picked up a package of the candies as well.

"Do you have a candy hoard in your trunk or something?"

"What?" Harry asked, turning from the shelf where he'd just picked up a handful of chocolate frogs.

Draco gestured to Harry's armful of candy, "Every time we've come here you've gotten an arm-load of candy."

"Always good to stay stocked up," Harry joked and Draco shook his head and reached to grab a chocolate frog to buy as well. "But yes, I do have a stash of candy. But I'm not telling you where it is, ever." Draco raised an eyebrow at him. "Not even Ron knows where my stash is."

"Is that so?" Draco and Harry had gotten in line to pay for the candies and people were starting to take notice of them together. Draco tried to ignore the stares and whispers.

"Yep, you're the first to know about my stash. Don't tell anyone or Ron will look for it and steal some," Harry joked.

"Don't worry, your candy addiction is safe with me."