In a hunger for house unity, the administration for Hogwarts decide on alphabetically ordering all returning "eighth" years into dorms - despite their original houses. There's odd arrangements, of course, but somehow Theodore Nott got stuck with Draco Malfoy, and Harry Potter. A tale of friendship, humour, acceptance...
the boy scratched at the skin on his wrist so hard it bled. he'd been doing it all summer. so much so that the skin on his left arm was nothing but scabs and irritated skin. it itched. it constantly fucking itched and it hurt. but the subtle pain was a decent daily distraction from his mind. and harry liked that. ther...
"𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙖 𝙇𝙄𝙁𝙀, 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙛𝙤𝙮?!" 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙮𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙙. "𝙉𝙤," 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙮, "𝙄'𝙢 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙." He hadn't been happy to hear of the death of Draco Malfoy, but at least Harry had assumed that any problems he'd ever had with Malfoy would...
"𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞," 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝, "𝐢 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞." 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥. "𝐢'𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲," 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝. "𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨...