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ITWASHERLASTDAYATHOGWARTSFORFIFTHYEAR, Sowon walks to the Hufflepuff common room right after packing all her belongings and putting it on the shuttle to the train station to be loaded. Leaning on the wall next to the common room door was Draco, he looks over at her with a dull face, Sowon just looks at him with the same expression.
Walking past him, he takes her by the hand softly and pulls her next to him, "I'm sorry."
"About what?" Sowon asks, folding her arms, waiting for him to tell her why he's sorry, she already knows why but she wants to hear him say it aloud.
Draco puts his hand on his neck, rubbing it lightly, "For helping Umbridge."
"I forgive you," Sowon says, turning her frown into a smile, before leaning onto the wall next to him. His dull expression goes softer once he saw her smile.
He leans his arm on the wall, "did you get hurt at the Ministry. If someone did hurt you, please tell what the person looked like."
Sowon chuckles and puts her hand on his shoulder, patting it softly, "I didn't, i'm fine."
"That's good then," He says, taking a deep breath, before continuing speaking, "I'll write to you this summer."
Sowon smile brightens, "Okay. I'll write back too. I know this is weird to ask but can I have a photo of you?"
Draco looks at her and found her asking sincere, he nods. Sowon smiles at him happily.
Suddenly Crabble and Goyle comes over and waves Draco over, which he nods back at them, and then turns to Sowon. For the first time, he tells her goodbye which she returns and the two went their separate ways.
WALKING to the Hogwarts Express with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville, Sowon looks at each one of them individual. Remembering Cedric, she secretly thanks him for helping her find good friends. Draco secretly walks past her, holding her hand for a mere second, putting a tiny square photo in her palm, before heading forward.
Turning her attention back to Harry, he smiles at her which she returns back. He seems more like himself, she thinks. After Sirius's death, she thought, he was going to become a hermit.
"I've been thinking about what Dumbledore's said to me," Harry tells them. Hermione and Sowon exchanges glances, before Hermione connects arms with her.
"What's that?" Sowon asks, leaning towards Hermione.
"That even though we have a fight ahead of us. We got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have." Harry continues, still walking with the group.
"Something worth fighting for," Harry says, smiling. Sowon smiles back him and leans her head on Hermione's shoulder.
In the a compartment on the train, Sowon leans her head on the window while Hermione reads her book. The two decides to spend their own time together before the boys come back and joins them. Sowon pulls out the photo Draco gave her, it was him in front of the London bridge, actually smiling. She smiles and touches it softly, before clipping it in her heart shape necklace.
Hermione stares at her friend curiously, "So."
Sowon takes her attention from the necklace to her friend, "So, what?"
"Malfoy."
"What about him?" Sowon asks, fully not understand where this was going. Hermione closes her book shut and places it next to her, "I saw him put the necklace around your neck in front of the Great Hall."
"Oh! He just wanted to help me," Sowon tells her.
"Yeah. But I also see the way he looks at you. It's different. A good different. I've never seen him stare at someone or something like that," Hermione tells her, confidentiality.
"What do you mean? Differently?"
"He likes you, Sowon. That's where I'm going with that and I know you like him," Hermione tells her. Sowon stares at her, "We're just friends."
"You know, Sowon, if you like him. You can tell me, I'll be fine with it."
"Well I don't like him. He's good friend," Sowon lies. Which Hermione knew she was but just nods and goes back to reading. Biting her fingernails, she looks backside the window, when Ron and Harry comes to join them in the compartment.
The day after the Ministry event, Sowon finally allowed herself to think about her feelings. She indeed liked him more than a friend. But she knew he didn't feel the same way, plus she felt that her feelings for him were wrong as he treats everyone like he's above them in some sort. And her friends wouldn't approve. Even if they said they would. She knew them, they wouldn't.
But after all it was her feelings and she knew how to handle them.
