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23 pages, ebook
First published January 25, 2014
"I hate beans. They're Gryffindor sweets."
His hand on the doorknob, Weasley paused and cocked his head at Draco. "Gryffindor sweets?" he repeated and adopted a thoughtful look that simply didn't become him. "I suppose it is," he decided. "It takes guts to eat them."
"It has nothing to do with bravery, you single-minded idiot. Why buy a bag full of sweets if you know in advance that half of them are rotten? That's sheer lunacy."
"To see how lucky you are," Weasley answered promptly. His eyes narrowed, and he gave Draco an uncharacteristically shrewd look. "What's the matter, Malfoy? Afraid that if you do something daring, you'll be left with a bad aftertaste? You'll miss all the good stuff that way, too."
"Weasley, stop trying. You're not convincing me —"Their antics had me laughing aloud while I breezed through the story. Getting to see Draco's perspective and follow him on the journey toward realization had me smiling throughout the fic.
"Malfoy, you devised a potion that stuns trolls after Harry's run-in with them. You invented protective gloves after Harry injured his arm. You've been working on Auror protective gear every since Robards told Harry that if he keeps collecting scars, he'll end up looking like Mad-Eye Moody. So no, I don't hate you." The corners of Weasley's mouth turned downwards. He rubbed his eyes and sniffed. "I love you, mate." He threw himself on Draco and crushed him in a bear hug.
"Goddammit." Draco pushed him off in horror.
"I'm actually brave, but no one sees it?" Draco suggested with a laugh, but the moment he said it he realised — it wasn't just that others couldn't see him; he couldn't see himself, either.Minor editing errors (ex: the big quote paragraph above shows one) and, personally, I could have done without Harry using the sex toy (dildo? vibrator?) on himself since I have a major preference for HPDM over Drarry and that was almost too much for me and I nearly skipped the sex scene, but thankfully it was in keeping with Draco's earlier thoughts and it is indeed an HPDM fic.