King of Hearts ~ Drarry

𝕕𝕖𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥

𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥: 𝟛𝕜
𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕕: 𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕪 𝟚𝟚𝕟𝕕, 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟘
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The next few days were something of an outré concatenation of the most epoch-making events that Harry could have imagined, thought his creative power was admittedly a lot less artistic he would have liked.

Without much forewarning, Parvati and Malfoy had split ways.

It was sudden and quick; the news spread in the same manner.

And that wasn't all.

Parvati, immediately after her separation from Malfoy, had come out as a lesbian.

Most people had felt bad for Malfoy; they had given him apologies that meant nothing, and they had given him more sympathy than Harry felt necessary for any mortal being.

Because Harry hated sympathy.

The thing that was confusing most people - but not Harry, because he didn't actually care about Malfoy and his drama. At least, not that much - was that Malfoy didn't seem upset at all.

Routinely after a split Malfoy would pretend to be sad, presumably for his own reputation's sake. Though this time he looked just as he had the day before, and the day before that, and the day before that. It was almost as if he was unfazed at all, by the loss of someone that he had seemed so obsessed with the day before.

Harry, who, though he was daft, wasn't daft enough to ignore the signs, thought that he had figured out what had been so different about this one of Malfoy's relationships.

Malfoy was covering for Parvati. He knew about her sexuality, and had covered for her. That was why she had been so defensive over the relationship, and why he had had absolutely no way to get out of being her little sidekick for a while.

Harry thought that this was funny.

It was, for the most part.

But it was also ironic.

Malfoy was someone who had sworn to break hearts since the beginning of the year, and now he was sparing them? He promised never to stick around after the first declaration of love, but he had stayed for this one? There was no other alibi.

They had barely lasted two weeks.

It was a record, Harry supposed, because Malfoy had never been so successful in preventing someone from loving him more.

Parvati, who had seemed genuinely embarrassed throughout the whole ending to the charade, was sporting a new girlfriend at her side; Pansy Parkinson.

It was odd to see the two together, but Harry guessed that they worked well together. Parvati was dramatic, and Parkinson was devious. Parvati created problems, and Parkinson found creative ways to patch them up. They were truly terrifying together.

Thought Parvati was happily with her new girlfriend, she was also terribly shy now, which was very unlooked-for. Harry deduced that it was her own paucity of aplomb that was causing her to be so farouche. She was typically the type to gloat extensively and to attempt to make others feel subpar to her prowess. It was the difference between her and Padma.

Padma was the type to keep things under wraps more than Parvati was, so she was more tolerable. It was why Padma tended to spend more time with Lavender now, and, consequently, why she tended to spend more time with Harry as well.

Hermione spoke to Harry about it once, after she had finished complaining about "all of the things that Ronald was doing wrong" for forty consecutive minutes.