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"Sick with knowing England doesn't need me, or anyone like me, as much as I need you."

DRACO IS TOO PURE

"I know it must come as a shock to you that I am no less imperfect than your father. I suppose I'd hoped to keep that from you, selfishly, because I have been so very, very fond of being your hero." […] "The greatest thing I have ever been is whatever I was to you," Abraxas said.”

Oh Abraxas. That’s kind of sad

"I feel as if you leaving is a bit like losing some very crucial bit of myself.”

Ah, ouch

“She thought my god, I love you so powerfully, so consumingly, that it doesn't even matter if I never mean anything to anyone but you.”

"If you say their names three times you'll conjure them up from the netherworlds."
"Really?" asked Will, delighted, and before either of them could stop him, "HORTENSE AND THIBAUT, HORTENSE AND THIBAUT, HORTENSE A-"
"PEEVES," barked a voice from the corridor, followed by the swanning form of Hortense herself (much to Will's obvious glee). "I thought I felt a disturbance just now. Was it you?" she demanded.”

DEDDDD

I don’t WANT a Percy chapter, I want a DRACO chapter

“She tried mindfulness and immediately abandoned it, finding her mind uninhabitable.”

Oof. That’s a mood, fer sure

"As I said, he isn't happy," Draco repeated, and then paused with his fingertips on her jaw. "But I," he murmured, "am very proud."

SO CUTE

“Tracey told me I'd forever be impossible to love because my heart's already been split into pieces," he commented. "I can't give all of it to anyone because so much of it already belongs to that sweet summer prince upstairs."
"And me," was Hermione's juvenile protest, to which Blaise's smile broadened.
"And you," he agreed.”

Ugh. I love well written friendships

"Where are *any* of the men, now that you mention it?" [Daphne] remarked, as if she'd only recently noticed her husband had disappeared into thin air. "Nott keeps insisting he's not part of the shrubbery but in fairness to me, it's unclear."

I’m dead