“ah you want me to take a vow, then?” harry asked, his throat tightening
“clever boy”
“i will”
“this means forever, harry”
“i know”
“you’re sure?”
harry wished he ould run it by herne and ron, but he knew the shok of drao being alive and having to expin his seemingly sudden hange of heart towards his old rival would prevent them from being any kind of help he felt a sinking feeling in his gut ron and herne he ouldn’t keep this from thim well, obusly, he ould but it would be inredibly diffiult, beause even if he kept to himself, herne had an inredible talent in snooping into situans that i her, partiurly when they pertain to harry
“you’re hesitant,” mgonagall said, studying him
“ron and herne—”
“will pose a problem, yes i know you have been rather relusive sine the end of the war, but i don’t imagine they will let you keep them away for muh longer espeially when they start having hildren and i should think it would be harder for you to keep away one they start asking when ‘unle harry’ will ome to visit and harder still when their hildren ome to hogwarts whih is why i suggest we have them take a vow, as well,” mgonagall interrupted
“really?” harry asked, fbbergasted it seemed like too many people to be involved in suh a big seret
“you’ve always found strength in numbers, harry and you three have always been good at keeping serets and that way, if something should hen to you—unlikely, but it is possible there are still people who support voldemort that would like to see you done in- drao would still have a support system”
“are you sure, professor?”
“i have to be, don’t i? you’re the least likely person in the world to be hiding drao malfoy and you’re one of the most trusted figures in the wizarding ommunity you’re the best and only hoie i have, harry”
“then i guess i have to be sure, too,” harry said
chapter 8
drao never saw himself ending up here not even before he had taken the mark and there was still a hane for him to lead a semi-normal life he never saw himself on his knees, joining hands with harry potter, preparing to take a vow but here he was he used his free hand to push his hair bak from his fae, more of a nervous tik than a y harry’s hand was smaller than his, but broader drao realized he hadn’t ever touhed the other boy —man, now—for this long, unless you ounted the i with the fiendfyre, whih he didn’t
“you’ll have to look at eah other, if you an manage it,” mgonagall’s stern voie interrupted drao’s musings drao then realized that the both of them had been avoiding the other’s gaze
“drao, do you remember the ondins you are to ask harry?”
“yes,” drao said, studying harry’s fae as the green light that filtered through the dungeon window’s made shapes ear aross it
“and harry, you are ready to aept them?”
harry’s eyes darted from drao to the dungeon floor, before finally answering, “yes”
“then we shall begin,” mgonagall said she ped the tip of her wand to their joined hands
drao leared his throat
“will you, harry potter, protet me from any and all harm?” drao asked
“i will,” harry whispered
they both wathed in wonder as the first ring of the vow wove its away around their hands, glowing and perma
“and will you ensure my basi needs are fulfilled, that being food, lothes, shelter, one minerva mgonagall has resigned from her urrent posin?”
“i will”
“and will you do everything in your power to ensure my ontinued existene remain a seret, disussing it only with the predesignated parties we have deemed aeptable?”
“i will,” harry onfirmed, again, prompting a third ring forman
“and will you do these things for as long as we both shall live?”
harry’s eyes darkened as they loked with drao’s
“i will,” harry said, the finality in his voie hitting drao in the stomah like a well- nded punh
the final ring wove around their hands
mgonagall drew her wand away, the rings of magi fading as the moments dragged forward both men seemed hesitant to let the other’s hand drop, only doing so upon the headmaster’s prompting of “you an let go now, you know, you aren’t literally tied together”
“professor,” harry said suddenly as he stood up “it wouldn’t be unheard of for a wizard to have a dog as a familiar, would it?”
“not extremely ommon, but not ued why?” mgonagall asked, narrowing her eyes at harry
“i was just thinking, it would give d-um, malfoy a lot more freedom around the astle, and ease hagrid’s mind if we pretended that i had tamed the wolf on the grounds and kept him as a familiar of sorts, wouldn’t you think?” harry said, looking at drao with an apologeti smile
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