#also feat. the unbridled melodrama of one D Malfoy

[blorger]

“That was a good meal. Fancy a walk after the coffee’s been brought in, Potter?” “Er, no, thanks. I thought I’d—” “It’s a nice night,” Zabini continues. “I thought we could—” “Sit uncomfortably and coldly on the Quidditch pitch stands, and have an awkward conversation?” Harry asks, which seems to throw Zabini. “I already did that today. With Parkinson.” “I see,” Zabini says, grinning. “Maybe I don’t need to bother, then. Did you do a good job, Pans?” Pansy considers this, a spoonful of fruit salad halfway to her mouth. “Adequate,” she says, and takes a bite. “I didn’t make Potter cry, but I think he suffered.” “Did you tell him that if that thing we were discussing becomes common knowledge, we’ll band together and destroy him?” “No,” Pansy says. Zabini turns to Harry. “Potter, if that thing we were discussing becomes common knowledge, we will band together and destroy you.” “Also, castration,” Millicent adds. And when everyone turns to look at her, she shrugs. “Just saying.” “All right, we’ll add that to the list,” Zabini says. “I mean, technically ‘we’ll destroy you’ already covers that, but I suppose it does no harm to be specific.” “You do know you’re having this conversation in public,” Harry says tetchily, pushing his untouched dessert plate away and refusing coffee from the house-elf by his ear. “This top-secret and frankly alarming conversation.”

from Written on the Heart by who_la_hoop