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“Harry, yinny fouh as soon as they walked through the d the presehree of them wheled towards them, throwing an arm around both of their neks and pulliht. Drao aught ahe he retty sure it was o. “I an’t believe you got the Weird Sisters to py at my party!”
“It’s Luna’s party, too,” trilled Hermione from somewhere near Drao’s elbow, a down at a booth already te of heesy fries in froher giggly and pink in the fae. Ron rolled his eyes at Drao, then shrugged. Hermione’s an iweight. And tely, always inredibly hungry.
Ginny ignored her, whih Drao thought was best.
“ a favrinning. “Thought you might like it.”
Drao snorted. a favor, more like, alled them up and told them eakihe Weird Sisters had mysteriously leared their shedule for the month and a half, at your servie Mr. Potter, anything you like. They ould have pyed during Molly’s Sunday night dinner, for all they ared.
“Still, thank you. And you,” She turned on Dra her eyes, ahe stra suspiion that she knew somehow, about the house as aays up te at night trying to memorize what it feels like t beside him, just iry to have fun tonight, won’t you? Luna’s worried about you.”
Drao squirmed unomfortably, beause if Ginny had a how ahe past few weeks, then Luna knew for sure, would have beeell ith just o him.
“I’ll be fio smile onviningly, but then he looks over and finds that Harry has disappeared from his side, s by the rowd that was Dean and Seamus and Neville. Drao would here, even if they all smiled ae small talk. There is a differeween fiveness and belonging, he’s finding, and it’s more of a hasm than a fine line.
Ginny reahed over, squeezed his elbow. “He loves you.” Her words are iing him like a stuhe hest. “Trust me. I know what it looks like.”
He finds his way to the bar, expeting to find old, gap-toothed Tom, but finds Gee Weasley ihrowing drinks to the people who ome to him without waiting for a request and sowling dowop whe alone again, like he is readiiurly offehat a previous patro. Drao heks, but nothing is there.
“Oh. It’s you.” Gee looks surprised for a moment, but then his expression sours. “You want anything?”
“Thought you were just throwing things out there?” He had beehrowio hands and p liquid into giant margarita gsses without heking the bels, a had to be a dht disgusting ombination, no o oughed and spluttered and drank it all the same.
“Well, normally, but seeing as it’s you, I’ll make aion. So I’ll repeat myself.” He was blunt, tonight. Drao supposes it must be hard for everyoo have gone from a friendly and heerful Gee to this, but not for Drao, beause to him this was the Weasley he had always known—a little sharp, a little brusque, the kihat was just a shade shy of ruel. “What do you want?”
“Just a beer, thanks,” Drao said, settling down onto a stool, w why they had stuk him bak here, of all people, ahat it might have been the ki pe fee had told him o every oion was just a remihe li never would be said, where people automatially look to his left for the eho of his jokes only to fiy air, that he a. He might have had aime bak here, where he is away from the jumbled mass of limbs and people only wanting the persoo be, safe from small talk and idle hands.
“So b,” Gee griped, but he passed the bottle along all the same, eveing a grin.
Drao doesn’t want to ask. He wants to sit and sulk, take part in enough small talk to pass the night away without seeming like an arse, maybe searh out Hermiohen duk in to pass on another round of ongratutions with Luna, then go home, iming a migrai’s a pusible exuse and a doable pn, a iing here and pyio Gee, but he was his friend, and that omes with a ertain amount of responsibility.
“Yht, mate? You seem…” He paused, beause there’s no way to give aion without being offensive. “Down.”
“Yeah, I’m fine.” Gee says, and Drao a where he hanges his miell the truth, an atual ripple aross his fae. “No, I’m not. I’m shit, atually.”
He swears, a l of it just to make himself feel better, and the people losest to them stare, a huddle of Ravenws that Drao an only vaguely remember.
“Want to talk about it?”
“It’s just that he’s not here.” Drao dido ask who he was. “He’s not here, and he would have loved this, to be with her, tot this lihe father daughter e, oh eah of us brothers, ahere’s ohere should be six.” He is gripping oop so hard that Drao is half afraid that he is going to rip a piee off. “It’s like he’s being fotte me.”
“That’s not true,” Draee uts him off just as fast.
“I know it is’s not fair, beause it’s like when he died, he ripped aart of me that I’m o get bak, this whole huge hunk of my life that I’m o be able to fill, no