Twist of Fate

Chapter 28

April, 2000

Draco looked up from his sketchpad as Harry walked into the room. "How did it go?" Harry had been to St. Mungo's for an evaluation. They were taking a couple of weeks break from the memories to give them both a chance to rest and to prepare mentally for the memories that were coming. The next memories would take them through the final task of the Triwizard and Cedric's death. Neither of them wanted to relive it in the detail that they would see in the memories. Draco had suggested skipping them but the healers were adamant that to heal Harry's fabric they needed as many memories as possible.

Harry shrugged and sat down on the arm of Draco's armchair. "They think it looks the same, which is to say it looks good."

"So we are still a go to start next week?"

"Mmmhh," Harry was studying the sketch that Draco had been working on. It was of Charlie standing in the middle of the main corral in dragon camp, "Can I look?"

Draco hesitated and then handed Harry the sketchbook. Harry studied the drawing carefully, "This is really incredible. The details are right on."

"The Pensieve memories that Simon brought back with him were what I needed to get the details right."

Harry flipped to the previous drawing of one of the Horntail dragons flying with just the treetops showing. Draco reached down and grabbed the knife in his art box to sharpen the point of the pencil he was using. Harry flipped the page again and sucked his breath in a little and Draco knew which page he was looking at. He dared to look at Harry. He was studying the page carefully.

"I didn't realize...I should have," Harry said slowly. He held the page out to Draco, "I guess I didn't think about you having to draw him out."

"Pretty hard to avoid since he is the main character in the book," Draco said dryly. He glanced at the page. It was his reference page for Charlie Weasley. He had sketched out a dozen or so different Charlie's with different expressions so that he could be consistent throughout the whole book.

"Yeah, but I was thinking more about the drawing of dragons, I..." Harry looked at Draco and then back at the sketchbook. "Should we skip it? We can just say we don't want to do it."

Draco shook his head, "Not on my account, I know you are here with me. That is all that matters."

"You're sure?"

Draco nodded, "I'm sure. I couldn't have done it three months ago. Doing the mural was murder when it came to painting him in. But now, it's okay." He leaned over to kiss Harry, "Besides, when I'm in a bad mood I just draw him with boils and horns."

Harry broke away from the kiss, "No! You don't!"

"I don't? Flip through that book a little more."

Taking back the book Harry started flipping the pages until he came to a sketch of Charlie that took up the whole page, he had horns, pointy ears and large pockmarks covering his face. He cracked up laughing, "You are evil."

"I know, that's why you like me," Draco smirked and took it back, "Be nice, I haven't started to draw Hank yet. If you want him to look good you better behave." By mutual decision they decided to leave Harry out of the book, instead the secondary character would be Hank Black. The publicity surrounding him had all mentioned that he had worked at the dragon camps so they thought it would be funny to include him in the story.

"Oh, I plan to be very, very nice to you." Harry said with a smile as he tossed the sketchbook on the floor.

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Harry moved quickly down the stairs into the kitchen. Teddy and Andromeda were already having breakfast. Harry kissed him on the top of his head, "Good morning, what do you two have on your schedule today?"