“you’re te potter,” drao muttered as harry got lose enough to hear him with his voie.
& get this over with,” harry muttered.
“fine by me,” drao shot bak, turhe way ihat he was quite used to by now. thank you father, he thought silently as harry followed lose behind him, obviously not havi where he was going.
&wo of the i fairly easily. drao led, harry followed w slightly why he wasn’t disturbed that drao kneas going ao think about that ter. but when they approahed the spot where drao khere was a gan tree, harry sudde. drao ontinued walking for a few steps ahat harry wasn’t with him. he turhe b ahead at the doe of the ground that was overed in a root anopy.
“i’ve been here before. we don’t want to be going in there.”
&er, we do want to be goi is the fastest and most diret route to the st i we need and i for oo get to bed.”
“drao, you don’t uahousands, millions even, of giant—”
“spiders? yes i know.”
“they eing flesh—did you know that?”
“i had assumed so. they doh a veriae, so i heory.”
harry looked poi drao, ahat he had overlooked the slight problem of harry not being a veriae. he rolled his eyes, only slightly visible in the darkhe wood.
&ay here. i’ll go get the gan’s hair.” drao spoke as if he was very ahe ihis. “but you have to arry everything bak.”
harry didn’t poi he already was arryiwo is, ahiorat disappear into the ave-like struture ahead of him.
harry waited and waited…and finally figured that time was relevant. he was sure that he was ounting the seonds whe heard the sounds, like wheezing only in a very regur breathihehe somewhat silent sound towards him. ahat he had fored himself to memorize for s liked in his head.
wyvern! his mind sreamed. winged, legless dragons that breathed a yellow fog whih gave humans a nasty ough that wouldn’t go away for years, aheir eyes burn and blur. damn. and what’s more is that their hide repelled magi of all sorts. double damn.
&wisted to see three pairs of eyes wathing him. bloody. hell.
&ures sled from the brush, speakiher in the nguage ons. it arseltoed from and harry ould ath a feords that by themselves formed a very dis piture. uionally, harry began to bak towards the ave whih would lead to the spiders’ .
draed from the ave to just av into harry, t bak to avoid the fog of three ere they doihe wi rustled through the trees and told him. drao saw red.
they.
wanted.
to.
harm.
his.
harry.
drao did . all. somethihe bak of his mind that told him that he shouldhe wyverns hurt harry…but that nagging disappeared whe a glimpse of the emotion boiling in harry’s eyes.
helplessness.
nothing.
hurts.
his.
harry.
&hing inside of drao snapped. wings unfurled, sparkling in the dim light. harry half turanding there, ao bak away frhtly. drao shoved the st io his hands ahe first wyvern never saw what hit it as wio around its b the skin and spilling ritial amounts of blood. it fell to the grouhin seonds.
&wo wyver drao suspiiously, theo look at harry with a strange expressio ossible foo show surprise. harry frooke to eah other.
“luky—hiss—too bad—growl—intended—snarl—veriae.”
&, obviously not wanting to ihe already angry veriae, and harry didhem, but what had they been talking about? harry suddeo find a eak drago ossible to uand it with a bit of studying, just a ue after all.
drao stood in shok after he had entered his rooms ahe door. what had he done? why had he doeted harry? he had willied harry? he had been angry that harry-bloody-potter had been attaked by wyverns. why should he even are?
beause harry’s aura mathed his— know that. he only thought that, only had the slightest suspiion of thinking that maybe that ould have the slightest hahe ase…
&. and if drao malfoy hadn’t resighe fat that harry potter was his ihe veriae malfoy ertainly ining. ihings magial…why him? why ouldn’t it have been someone—anyone—else?
drao groahrew himself down on his bed in a very unmalfoyish bout of depression (beause one, malfoys never beome depressed, and two, malfoys do not throw themselves onto their beds while, three, wearihey wore into the forbidde). was there even a bright side of this problem? oh yeah, if he ever wao ommit suiide for some reason he ould just go have a little hat otter.