| i don't blame you for being you... ( @ 2009-01-07 22:45:00 |
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| Entry tags: | hp fic: harry/draco. hp fic |
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight (3/3)
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco.
Rating: NC-17. All characters are over the age of 18.
Disclaimer: This story/artwork is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros. Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Beta(s):
leela_cat and
lettiehatter.
“Harry!” Hermione gasped.
Harry shook his head in despair. “I know, Hermione, I know…”
A minute of silence lapsed. “What are you going to do, Harry?” she asked him.
“I have no idea,” he groaned sadly.
Hermione’s head sat in the grate for a couple of minutes as she bit her lip and began to think. “You need to show him you care about him without pissing him off,” she told him thoughtfully.
“OK,” Harry said. “How do I do that?”
Hermione tutted. “Use your imagination, Harry. Try being romantic.”
Harry laughed. “This is Draco Malfoy we’re talking about here. I don’t think he does romantic to be honest. I think he would sooner be laughing in my face than accept a bunch of flowers.”
Hermione frowned at him. “That’s not the only way to be romantic, Harry. Flowers and chocolates… they’re so generic. Be personal. Appeal to the Draco Malfoy that you’ve got to know. If it was Ron, you’d know that Chudley Cannon tickets would have him professing his love for you. What is Draco’s Chudley Cannons?”
Sighing, Harry said, “OK. I get you. I can’t think of anything though…”
“Don’t be silly,” she admonished. “Of course you can. You’ve just spent half an hour telling me you’re in love with this man, you need to know someone as intimately as that to be in love with them.”
“I didn’t say I was in love with him,” Harry said weakly.
“You may as well have,” Hermione said dismissively.
Harry groaned. “Oh, God. Well… potions?”
“That’s his day job, Harry,” Hermione said. “You wouldn’t consider a Dark Arts book romantic, would you?”
“No,” Harry admitted.
“What is he passionate about?” Hermione asked. “What’s the one thing in the world he would do if it was his last day on earth? What would he save from Fiendfyre?”
The two of them sat in silence for a couple more minutes before Harry said out of the blue, “Hermione… are you still in contact with Dean Thomas?”