“not that that wasn’t a fasinating , but would you mind sharily what that was for, harry?” drao asked as one eyebrow rose iion.
drao never did find out what harry found so amusing about that question before harry answered, “no reaso like it.”
drao oii and not thinking about e m whe of his ompatriots made their way i hall. he immediately regretted not leavihe haer all, he should have beehe humahed itself on tht arm-whih was uhe arm that he was using his fork with auk staring at his eggs with an almost forlorn air as all movement of that arm ed.
“draaaooo. we haven’t seen you in so long.”
drao wished for a silening harm…or for someo make that ermaly mute. aialking. merlin, haded the english nguage enough by now by using it in suh a way? and she really dido e arou like that. there as goismead, today of all days. drao a present today and that had to take preedene.
“pansy, i already told bise that i any him to hogsmead.” drao fshed a sike smile at the girl. “perhaps &hen with pratie-honed skill, he detangled himself frrasp ahe slytherin on room.
& walking out into the hallway when drao found him.
“zabio hogsmead today.”
“pansy again?”
“do i o dignify that with an answer?”
& y me with potiohen.”
drao ihe hidden door to the slytherin on room to his own rooms. he would able lothing fsmead.
harry travelled through hogsmead, surprisingly by himself, w what oh ould one buy for drao malfoy…espeially that aruly wanted he would have already bought a month ago…
harry ointedly avoiding as of hogwarts so as to ed from this goal of his. eve fi for drao here, he would ome up with at least ahis day was over or…well harry ouldn’t really ome up with a reaso for what ehis self-imposed quest…but hopefully he wouldo ome up with something.
all of the gift shops were deked out in all their splendor as he meahe road. christmas was just around the orer all, a mere week and a half away, and like any shoppier hogsmead was full of st-minute sh for just the right christmas gift. it was easy to lose yourself in suh a rowd, ling as the one in diagon ally but lose.
it was alse, in suh rowds, who you atually saw. and as harry iurly…expensive looking shop, he saw han drao malfoy and bise zambini standing nearby. bise was looking around and disussihey should go . drao was only half payiion, his eyes seemio something in the middle of the window dispy.
harry hung bak, areful not to be seeher boy, wathing as drao’s perusal of this objet turahen a look of more i. but surprisingly drao made o buy whatever it was that he obviously waead he mh the rowd with his fellow slytherin when said slytheriedly began urging drao along to look at something or other.
as they moved off, harry went to look in the as a jewelry shop that also sold small, experis. harry had seen this kind of store before but had ually beehe item that drao had been looking at was…well, harry had to admit it retty.
&em iioal himes, edged irailing fl arouop, also in silver. harry had seen suh flowers; his aunt had wahem pnted a year before. the pnt was gree was live, and grew in a bush although it spread out in a vine-like mahe flowers it reated ink olor, shaped like upside-dow were broken in the middle, thus earning it the he “bleedi flower”. harry ould noouldn’t want to buy this in front of other people. a malfoy and bleedi flowers didn’t mix. it was the ki one would have to be able to say, “oh, that was a gift from so and so”, or ohose things that husba around simply beause it was a gift from their wives…hey really felt about it.
harry looked over at the ard to the himes to see exatly what the item did. it was harmed to hime the hh it was not atually a lok, with eah h a differehese were all set to a default hime but o a differehey wao.
with a set smile on his fae harry walked into the shop ahe himes in the window, asking if they ould be gift ed as well.
chapter 2h the looking gss
when oirely truthful, there were ohings in life o on, and drao beame ever firmer in his resolve of this statement as he passed by gift after gift that he ould have bought for harry but…didn’t. it was rather sad really, all the glitter of ommerialism everywhere, but just glitter. not that drao hadn’t seriously o of the gifts (all i prie range e that would have made most people flinh); there were sood ahey just weren’t right and there was ing around it.